dated Wednesday, says: : | for vice president -
“Gen. Hamilton met with considera-{ por fear of receiving a whipping a
ble success and drove the enemy out Ol} ,4 vear old boy of Philadelphia, suicid
Saturday on the transport Meade.
Several Massillon, O., miners
among the victims of the Utah
Britith Have 50,000 Men in Motion Along a | disaster. g :
tront of 40 Miles but Find a The Trinity river in Texas has over
Stubborn Enemy. flowed its banks and destroyed much
property.
Minnesota Populists have d
Roberts’ latest dispatch, which is| Bryan for President and C. A. Towne
BOERS RESIST.
are
mine
endorsed
the strong position they had taken up |
at Houtnek with comparatively small |
loss tc us. The Boers dispersed in sev
eral directions, mainly to the east an
north, leaving 26 prisoners in our hands, Py
including one commandant, and 16 oth- | drazi Te
er. wounded men, Gen. Hamilton is jmony celebrating the I oa
now in camp at Jacobsrust. As the |of the discovery ot that land.
men needed rest after fighting seven out}
of the last 10 days, I ordered them 10
ed by drowning
| Fire destroyed the plant of the Reed
{ | Fertilizer Company at Syracuse, X
vith a loss of $50,000 |
is with great pomp and cere- |
fourth centennary |
The laying of the German American
begun at the island
antic cable was
halt for the day. Gen. 3roadwood’s | oi Borkum, in the North sea.
brigade of cavalry arzived oon the | A tornado did much harm at W Hson:
scene in time to afford valuable assist-{ py." Nop A. Tower, his wie ane
ance by threatening the enemy n Ye ar | daughter were seriously injured.
1 af ze an Ham i : ie
During the DiteInoon Gen, Yen Hamil- | Queen Victoria has contributed 506
ton was Joined by Gen. Bruce Har 1v | guineas and the Prince of Wales 230
ton’s brigade of infantry. The enemy jo : Re PE icles id
admit having 12 killed and 40 wounded | guineas to the awe ]
e former was | Secret service agents were in Lan-
yesterday. Among the former was | 3 SONS Were Ol ie
1 3 3 cer : caste ng s at
l.ieut. Gunther. a German oihcer D¢ | caster trying to secure
i i i i i ve 1 2 -ounterieit $20 bill.
longing to the Fiity-fiith regiment, and ative to the new counterie Ra
among the latter was Maximoff, the The nomination of Saniord B. ole
Russian commander of the foreign I¢- {to be governor of Hawaii has been sent
gion. Twenty out of 52 of the enemy's | by President McKinley to the Senate.
casualties occurring among the members i 1, 4,ries connected with the build-
of that legion. Two Frenchmen Wer€ ii, grades in Philadelphia are idle, ow-
among the killed. o ling to a strike. Over 4,000 men are
3 e. Wi he Eighth division, |
Gen. Rundle, with the Fig 3 3 {out
is posted on the right of the Brush | Testimony has closed in the Coeur
advance and is facing a Boer position
strongly defended by heavy guns. Gen.
Jan Hamilton is pressing northward
with his mounted infantry. : he cand) |
i rreater numbers O 1 d
i a from com: | pany’s cane cutting factory, 8 W she
pleting the movement that was intended field, Mass., was damaged $100,000 by
to encircle the Boers on the march to} fire Friday.
Brandfort and the enemy are now pre The chief portion of the mining town
pared to offer stubborn opposition on an | of Sandon, in the silver lead district of
| 3 rot P
d'Alene mining trouble investigation at
| Washington, and counsel will make ar-
| guments.
Heywood Bros. and Wakefield Com-
entrenched hill to the southeast of | East Kootenai, B. C., was destroy ed by
Kroonstad. 1 Fri- | fire Friday.
Telegrams from Brandfort, datec |W. C. Endicott, secretary of war un-
say: 3 infantry with ; t Aly o! ¥ 1
day, Sev: The motnted Te the | der President Cleveland's first admin-
ers, 2 | i : nas av
Low Rober . sons 3 toir horses| istration, died at Boston, Mass., Sunday,
“anadians, have picketed ti Jorses [IRR ens
on the south bank of the Vet river, 18 ged 73 3 . rl Ne
miles north oi Brandiort. The head of I'he resolutions adoptec 23 Ney
Lord Roberts’ column has thus advanc- Hampshire Republicans endorse % he
ed 32 miles irom Karee Siding in two | Chicago platiorm and declare emphati-
> ’ i BI : allv { 3 rv
days, or 53 miles north of Bloemton- cally for Bryan. |
tein, > latte Canyon, Col, the roadbed
In
Little powder was spent. The Brit- [of the Colorado and Southern Railroad
ish work was hard marching, the 30ers | has been damaged to the extent of
retiring out of reach of the British §200000 by floods.
shells. David Malafon, wife and child, set-
The Boer flag was flving over Brand- | gers near Crivitz, Mich., are missing,
fort as the British entered the town.
Several British wounded were found in
the hospital. The Boer postmaster gave
up the keys of the public business to
apt. Rass.
A British’ six-inch wire gun opened
unexpectedly on the Boer laager Thurs-
day, at a distance of seven and a half
miles, throwing 1oo-pound shells with
wonderful accuracy and causing a hasty
retreat of the burghers.
The bombardment continued Friday
at all points by howitzers and field
guns, supported by two companies of
the Munster regiment, the Boers being
driven from shelter and their guns being
put out of action.
and it is feared that they perished in the
recent fires.
An unknown negro, charged with as-
saulting a white child at Hartiord, Ala.
\ ken by a mob from officers at
Geneva, Ala, and lynched.
The Baldwin locomotive works have
received an order from the Egyptian
government for 20 locomotives to be
used on the Egyptian railway.
Daniel Shaw, the originator of the
toilet supply system for offices, despond-
ent over ill health, committed suicide in
Chicago Sunday by shooting himself.
Dr. Edward Everett Vincent, who was
surgeon of Lieutenant Peary’s '93 Arc-
tic exploration, was run over by a
street car and instantly killed in Detroit.
Cardinal Richard dedicated the chapel
erected in Paris by the Count and
Countess Castellane in memory of the
victims of the fire in the charity bazar.
The Senate committee on public
buildings has reported favorably a bill
providing for a Government building
to cost $1,250,000, to be located in New
Orleans.
forest
GARCIA A CAPTIVE.
Mcmbars of Funston’s Staff Made the Capture.
Ranks Nex! After Agninaldo.
Gen. Pantelon Garcia, the highest in-
surgent officer, except Aguinaldo, ‘was
inday by Lieut. E. V. Smith,
. Funston’s staff, in the town of
Jaen, three miles north of San Isai-
dro, province of New Ecija.
Jaen is the largest ungarrisoned town
in the province. Spies reported that |S
Garcia was sick and had been com-
pelled to hide there, and Lieut. Smith,
with Lieut. Day and 4o artillerymen,
surrounded the town. The spies led
them directly to the house where Garcia
was disguised as a peasant, only a major
and two servants being with him. These
also were captured.
Garcia personally directed the guer-
rilla operations, and Gen. Funston had
Judge McPherson, of the United
es district court in Philadelphia, has
denied the appeals of two dealers found
guilty of selling oleomargarine in old
packages
In Chicago, Mrs. Albert Holst invit-
ed Emma Stelz to her house and shot
and killed her because, as the Holst
woman said, Miss Stelz had broken up
her home.
While drilling for oil just inside the
spent weeks trying to corner him, sev- city limits of Tinley, _O., workmen
aor : : came across a vein of zinc ore goo teet
eral companies beating the whole coun- 11 0" 1 cirface and 30 feet thick.
at night. Often the Americans | : ;
try. of mgat . Seine Great excitement prevails.
caught messengers bearing Garcia's or- A miard lies i Chicano. Indicted
ders. The people protected him and ol gran ar 0 4 on SI
burned signal lights wherever the |€'8 it men for conspiracy ond perjury,
they having been interested in the at-
2 I) ; tempt to secure the release of William
‘He seldom slept twice in the same | 3%" ? : :
e Stel : Major, in connection with labor trou-
town. Recently Gen. Funston surpris- bl
ed him and his staff while dining at|>'¢% aa :
Arayat at dusk. The Filipinos leaped Preaching in the City Temple, Lon-
through the windows and escaped, leav- don, Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, referring to
ing their papers and everything except the alleged Christ-Agrippa manuscripts,
the clothing they wore. The strain of said he undertook to say | hrist had
being hunted finally exhausted their en- never written ‘such inconceivable non-
durance. sense.
Garcia commanded all the insurgents Indictments charsing George P. Gub-
in central Luzon, several generals, in-|bins, Anton Horne and Edward Will-
cluding Pio del Pilar and Mascardo, |iams, local labor leaders, with assault
and inciting riots, were tursaed into
being under hin.
EEE court in Chicago, and capias issued for
A UNITED EMPIRE. their arrest.
Forest fires between Cedarville and
Center Grove, N. J., Wednesday night,
drove snakes, rabbits and other wood
denizens to the highways in such num-
bers that one could hardly avoid step-
ping on them.
The panel of 30 jurors drawn in Lan-
sing, Mich., Thursday for the trial of the
case against Colonel Eli Sutton, charg-
ed with complicity in the State military
frauds, was exhausted at noon without
a jury being secured.
American soldiers appeared.
Roseberry Forecasted the Futura Imperial
Parliaments of Great Britain.
Earl Carrington presided at a banquet
given to the Australian Federation del-
egation at the National Liberal Club,
ondon, Lord Kimberley, Sir enry
Campbell-Bannerman and most of the
other Liberal leaders were present and
spoke.
The Earl of Rosebery spoke on “The
Parliame o Empire.” In the . : :
course AE, a LE : Convention hall managers at Phila-
“1 anticipate asa possibility of the |delphia run no risk of being cornered
va strike and therefore will not have
the hall painted until after the Republi-
can National convention.
A syndicate of New York men have
contracted to build a railroad from
Lopez, Sullivan county, to the extensive
deposits of fire clay. building and mon-
umental stone on Forkston mountain,
Wyoming county, Pa.
The Denver Water Company's dam
235 miles from Denver, broke Thursday
releasing a billion gallons of water,
which, it is reported, will do much dam-
age to ranchmen and railroads in the
eastern part of the State.
The Prince of Wales will leave Lon-
don May 8, and will visit the principal |
European courts, apparently with the |
semi-official purpose of strengthening |
the cordiality between the Mikado and |
the European sovereigns.
The Chilian minister to Bolivia has |
presented to the Bolivian government
mission of the delegates, such an 1in-
crease of the imperial spirit throughout
the empire as will lead to amalgamation
of the House of Lords and the privy
council as an imperial tribunal, leading
ultimately to the constitution of an im
perial Senate.
“The young countries of the empire!
have come to the assistance of the old
in rescuing a new country in South
Africa from an intolerable domination,
menacing its future peace and prosper-
ity. I decline to believe that the spirit
displayed during this crisis of the em-
pire will remain fruitless. I believe the
present chapter in British history will
not conclude without a result worthy
the sacrifices which all parts of the em-
pire have made.”
Sulu Sultan Protests.
The Sultan of Sulu, with a retinue in-
cluding several of his wives, has sailed
for Singapore, ostensibly on a religious |; quasi ultimatum to the effect that
mission. A Hong Kong dispatch says | Chile demands a settlement of pending
he has gone to Singapore in order to | questions without the cession of a port
protest to the British against the Ameri- | on the Pacific coast
cans establishing a tariff against im- Five additional bodies were brought
s, cla x the s a violatic this { N 3
ports, claiming that it is a violation of |. "Saturday out of No. 4 mine at Sco-
the treaty of 1877 between Spain, Great
Britain and Germany, Germany guaran-
teeing the Sulu nds free trade, where-
as the Ameri have established a
field, Utah, the scene oi the recent ex-
plosion. The bodies were horribly |
mutilated and burned. This brings the |
total up to 250. No others are known
to be missing.
cans
tariff nearly doubling the prices of to-
bacco, rice and the Sulu staples of life,
most of which are imported from Singa-
The Filipinos crew of the steamship
pore. Fscano recently mutinied in the chan-
Ce nel between Cebu and Leyt and killed
Kill :d by a Minister. e captain, the mate and the owner,
Rev. W. E. Johnson, pastor of enor Escano, and his son with knives
Baptist Church at Bamberg, S. C,, Fri after a desperate struggle. The muti-
day shot and killed W. T. Bellinger, | N€€rs then scuttled the ship and escaped
stenographer of this judicial district. to the Leyte mountains with $28.000.
The trouble arose over the painting of
a line fence between the premises of
John R. Bellinger, father of the deceas-
ed, and the Baptist parsonage. Belling-
er drew a pistol and fired twice at the
parson, whereupon the latter shot Bell-
inger dead. Johnson surrendered to the
Large Sale of Coal Lancs.
Six hundred acres of the Pittsburg
seam of Youghiogheny river coal, held
for nearly a year past by S. E. Frock
and Cyrus Echard, of Connellsville,
have just been sold to James Cochran’s
sheriff. Sons, of Dawson. The company is
: 2 composed of Henry T. Cochran, W. H.
Sibley is Ousted. Cochran and A. J. Cochran. The price
Democrats of the Twenty-seventh | paid was a little over $94,000. The coal
Congressional district have dumped | lies in one tract on Cedar creek in Ros-
Hon. Joseph C Sibley. His alleged |traver township, Westmoreland county.
un-Democratic actions during the last
session of Congress and his alleged sup-
port of M. S. Quay during the latter’s
attempts to succeed himself as United
States senator are given as the causes.
It is on the Pittsburg, McKeesport &
Y oughiogheny railroad, but a branch
of three miles wiil be built up Cedar
creek to facilitate development and ship-
ment of coal.
| ments
FEARFUL SITUATION.
Ninety-thrce and a Half Millions of People
Perishing in india—Native States
Dotted With Heaps of Dead.
The report that cholera is strength-
ening its deadly hold on famine-stricken
India brings the pitiful condition of that
country more than ever to public view.
About 03.500,000 persons, for this is the
population of the districts affected, are
sweltering their squalid existences
away amid pestilence and misery that
show no signs of abating. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds in good British
gold, good German marks and Ameri-
can corn have been thrown into the
country, but, judging from the latest ad-
vices, all this charity is merely a drop
in the ocean
The famine
and its attendant compli-
cations appear to exceed in virulence
any two previous visitations. The
viceroy, Lord Curzon, of Kedleston,
and the government are making cease-
less exertions to meet the terrible emer-
gency, but the stupendous difficulties
confronting them prevent the present
supplying of reliefo more than 5,000,-
000.
In the meantime the native states are
dotted with heaps of dead and dying
and the roads are crowded with ghastly
bands seeking to escape from the
stricken territories, but who, for lack of
food and water, mostly succumb in the
attempt. One of the most hopeless fea-
tures of the whole affair is contained
the statement of a correspondent at
ila, who writes:
“Ten times the total relief could be
laid out in a single district without
fully relieving its distress. All we can
hope for is a succession of good years
to put the people on their legs again.’
"SWEPT BY WIND.
Ceniral Kansas Visited by Destructive Torna-
does— Many Counties Devastated.
No less than a dozen tornadoes of
more or less severity are reported to
have occurred Sunday afternoon in
Saline, Ellsworth and Barton counties
in Central Kansas, which join each oth-
er. At Ellinwood, Barton county,
three persons are reported killed. Other
storms are reported near Ellsworth and
Kanopolis, in Ellsworth county, an
near Brookville, in Saline county.
ear Kanopolis eight distinct funnel-
shaped clouds developed within a radius
of 20 miles, four of them large ones and
two of which are known to have trav-
eled over the earth for a space of 25
minutes. One of the storms tore down
all of the outbuildings, granaries and
windmills on the Waite farm, three
miles north of Kanopolis, and another
tore down the house and barn of a
farmer north of Ellsworth. Brookville
reports six tornadoes traversed the
country in as many different directions
from that town without touching it. In
no instance were details reported. The
destruction wrought has probably been
off the railroads, at inaccessible points.
MANY JAPANESE COMING.
Emigration to British Columbia and United
States Expected to be Enormous.
Oificers of the steamship Tacoma,
which arrived at Tacoma, Wash., Sat-
urday from Yokohama, speaking of the
great number of Japanese flocking to
the United States and British Columbia,
say it is current talk in Yokohama that
30,000 Japanese will leave their native
country this summer for British Colum-
bia, and it is believed that the number
coming to the United States will be
enormous.
The steamer Tosu Maru is now due
on the sound with 1,600 Japanese on
board, and the Dalnyvostock, one of
the Tacoma liners, will be there in a
few days with goo more.
Boy Killed for Three Dollars.
John Garrabrandt, a _ 19-year-old
youth, Saturday murdered Henry Mass,
a 16-year-old boy, in the cellar of a
tenement at Jersey City. Garrabrandt
arrested and confessed to the mur-
der. The boys had been chums. Gar-
rabrandt, who was out of work, says he
killed Mass to get his week's wages,
amounting to $3. so that he might take
it home to his family.
Garrabrandt led the 16-year-old boy
to the cellar, and, distracting his atten-
tion, struck him over the head with a
piece of lead to which was attached a
leather strap. He struck him two or
three times, and when the boy had lost
consciousness, he threw a noose around
his neck and strangled him.
Dangerous Counterfeit.
Chief Wilkie, of the United States
Secret Service, has received irom the
Penn National bank, of Philadelphia,
one of the most dangerous counterfeit
$20 notes that has appeared in a long
time, and second only to the ceebrated
$100 Monroe head siver certificates, the
character of which the treasury experts
were for some time unable to definitely
determine.
The note is of the series 1880, check
letter A, plate number 7, Tillman Regis-
ter, Morgan treasurer. It is a trifle
shorter than the genuine, but the most
notable defects are in the portrait of
Hamilton.
Desperate Fight in Panay.
A dispatch received Thursday from
Tloilo reports that a desperate fight took
place at Leamabnao, in the center of the
island of Pans: It appears that a re-
connoitering party of the Twenty-sixth
infantry was surrounded, and that four
of the Americans were killed and that
16 others severely wounded were leit
on the field. The remainder of the sol-
diers had a narrow escape.
The dispatch adds that
were sent from Iloilo as soon
news of the affair was received,
whereupon the Filipinos retreated to
their mountain stronghold.
reinforce-
1S
Texas Town Partially Razed.
One-third of the houses in Garza, a
town in Denton county, Tex., were de-
stroyed late Sunday afternoon by a
tornado. No one was hurt, for, warn-
ed by a big black cloud, the people
sought refuge in stormhouses before
the tornado reached them.
Reports from other sections of Den-
ton county show that several houses at
Little Elm were demolished and several
people injured. Wites to the north are
down.
fT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Frank Bergen, of Elizabeth, N. J
has declined an appointment as chief
justice of Puerto Rico.
The comptroller has authorized the
First National bank of Ockdale, Pa., to
commence business on $50,000 capital.
President McKinley has indicated
his intention of attending, if possible, the
reunion of the Army of the Potomac,
at Fredericksburg, on May 23.
Capt. Chadwick has delivered to Sec-
retary Long a formal statement concern-
ing the publications attributing to him
remarks derogatory to Admiral Schley.
The industrial commission has be-
gan consideration of its report on
transportation. On May 7 the report
on general labor conditions will be dis-
cussed.
Representative Sibley called upon the
President and Secretary Gage Thurs-
day and urged the appointment of E. C.
Jones, of Bradford, to be collector of
customs at Honolulu.
The bill restricting traffic in prison
made goods was discussed by the House
committee on labor and an informal
agreement was reached to make such
goods subject to the laws of the States
into which they were shipped.
Has Not Been Heard From for Four Months.
With a Few Soldiers he Fled
to the Wilderness. :
The belief is growing that Agu
was killed by the Ygorrotes. There is
no proof that he has been alive since
Major Peyton C. March, of the Thirty-
third regiment, abandoned the chase
after the Filipino leader in the Benquet
mountains, and an insurgent officer who
recently surrendered to Gen. Young says
that the insurgent general, Tinio, thinks
Aguinaldo is dead. Tinio held regular
communication with Aguinaldo until
Dec. 28, since when he has heard noth-
ing from him, and Tinio thinks Agui-
naldo would find means to communicate
with him if alive.
Maj. March's information was that
there were only half a dozen soldiers
with Aguinaldo when he fled beyond
the Bontoc wilderness, where the sav-
ages are hostile to all strangers.
Friends of Aguinaldo’s wife asserts that
she ha$ heard nothing from him since
they parted. She is in a delicate con-
dition and nearly prostrated with worry.
Therefore, she has not been informed
of the death of her child and thinks it
is with friends at Bacoor.
Gen. Funston has discovered a rebel
warehouse near Cabanutuan, province
of New Egija, containing all the arch-
ives of the Malolos government, Agui-
naldo's correspondence up to the time
of his flight and much valuable histori-
cal matter.
OQUARREL ENDS.
Miners’ Wage Scale Settled for Piltsburg—Men
Are Satisfiac.
Remaining differences regarding the
Pittsburg district coal mining wage
scale were settled Thursday at a com-
mittee meeting of representatives of the
United Mine Workers and the big coal
combines. The result is that from the
beginning of the new scale year, April
1. most of the outside day men, in fact,
all that are strictly outside day men,
get the advance of 20 per cent. demand-
ed by the miners’ leaders. The ad-
vance goes to dumpers, trimmers,
checkmen, slack haulers, greasers, coup-
lers, car cleaners, who clear cars’ bot-
toms for fresh loading, and car droppers-
out and car droppers-in. Blacksmiths,
carpenters, engineers, firemen and men
of the class usually paid on a monthly
scale will be advanced according to their
ability and to bring them up to the
standard of such craftsmen employed
elsewhere by the Pittsburg Coal Com-
pany, while the Monongahela River
Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
has already given these men, along with
the regular outside day men, an advance
of 25 cents a day. .
The coal companies are bringing
large numbers of new miners in to man
their plants, so as to get a record pro-
duction of coal, called for by tremen-
dous orders that have never before been
placed for Pittsburg coal. Two hundred
foreigners were sent to the vicinity of
Webster within the past few days and
this started a report that the men were
being brought in in anticipation of a
strike. Miners from other districts are
coming here, attracted by the higher
Pittsburg district wage.
Bank Robbers Busy.
The First National bank of East
Brady, Pa., was looted by burglars ear-
ly Saturday morning, the safe being
dynamited. The loss is estimated at
$15,000. All day Saturday the country
was scoured for the robbers and word
was received Sunday that three men,
Thomas. Carter, Michael Hagan and
Patrick Hennesey had been captured at
New Bethlehem, 21 miles away. They
will be taken to East Brady for identi-
fication.
The bank was entered between 1
o'clock and 3 o'clock, Saturday morn-
ing. The safe was used as a deposit
vault by many business men. Their
papers, all of the bank documents and
the money, even to the pennies, were
carried off. The robbers got more sil-
ver than two men could carry.
Nafional Finances.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
April 30, 1900, the debt, less cash in the
treasury, amounted to $1,124,802,085,
which is an increase of $12,545,727. This
increase is due to the decrease in the
cash on hand made necessary by the
worth of bonds now being extended at
2 per cent. interest.
The monthly comparative statement
of the government receipts and expendi-
tures show that during April the re-
ceipts aggregated $45,039,326 and the ex-
penditures $40,003,927, leaving a surplus
for the month of $4,136,000.
The receipts during the month show
an increase of $3,500,000 as compared
with April, 1809, and the expenditures
a decrease of $25,000,000.
Chio Bank Robbery.
At noon Sunday the finding of a lot
of pennies in an alley led to the dis-
covery that the bank of the Stebbins
Banking Company at Creston, Wayne
county, Ohio, had been robbed. En-
trance was gained by forcing an iron
door at the rear windows. The door to
the vault was blown from its fastenings,
but the strong box which, it is said,
holds $14,000, withstood the efforts of
powder and drills. About $100 in cash,
a lot of jewelry and valuable papers
were taken from the safety deposit
boxes. .
Senatorial Candidate Killed.
Oliver IL. Stewart, the Huntingdon
county Republican candidate for State
senator in the Huntingdon and Frank-
lin district. and secretary of the Laird
Malleable Iron Works, of Huntingdon,
Pa., was instantly killed in the com-
pany’s works Thursday afternoon by the
bursting of an emery wheel, a piece of
which penetrated his heart. He was the
Huntingdon county Republican choice
for State senator, the conference for the
selection of which candidates is to meet
at Harrisburg on the 28th instant.
A Great Oil Combine.
One of the largest oil combines in
the West filed articles of incorporation
at Cheyenne, Wyo., Tuesday, under the
name of the Superior Oil Company,
capital stock $10,500,000. It is a con-
solidation of several companies operat-
ing in Central Wyoming, in the vicin-
ity of Douglas and Casper. The stock-
holders and trustees are oil men and fi-
nanciers from Pittsburg, Philadelphia
and Birmingham, N. Y.
Sympathy for America.
The London Daily Telegraph, after
alluding editorially to the generous
sympathy and aid of Americans in con-
nection with the Ottawa fire and com-
menting at length upon the Scofield
disaster, concludes as follows:
“There will be deeper sympathy with
America in this awful catastrophe than
has been evoked by any event on the
other side of the Atlantic since the loss
of the Maine.”
Indlan Vengeanc?.
During a row at a dance near the
Ponca Indian agency, Nebraska, Peter
Birdhead, an Indian, was shot and kill-
ed by a hali-bred named Laurier. The
murderer gave himself up. The relatives
of the murdered man held a consulta-
tion and decided to kill Laurier. The
report is that his body was horribly
mutilated with an ax. Birdhead’s rela-
tives have fled.
Kansas Corn for India.
The Kansas India relief committee has
instructed Secretary Anderson to order
the purchase of 20,000 bushels of corn
in New York, to be loaded in a relief
ship which sails next weeek for Bom-
bay. Treasurer Coburn’s receipts to
date are $10,272.
heavy payments on account of present,
FILIPINOS SURRENDER.
Gen. Otis Says They Lost 1,721 During April,
Besides Artillery, Rifles, Ammunition and
Steres—American Losses Small.
Gen. Otis Friday cabled from Manila
as follows:
April captures from enemy 30 pieces
artillery, 1,209 rifles, considerable ammu-
nition and large stores property. Dur-
ing early portion of the month the ene-
my was active in extreme northern and
southern Luzon and some Viscayan isl-
ands. Our reported loss for the
month are 13 enlisted men killed, three
officers and 24 enlisted men wounded.
Rumored recent loss in Samar of 19
killed and number wounded not yet re-
ported. This is due to small detach-
ments scouting in mountains in the in-
terior of the island. The enemy losses
officially reported were 1,721 killed,
wounded and captured. Leading Fili-
pinos express confidence in the early
pacification of the islands. They say the
war has terminated. Leading insurgents
are surrendering.
Maj. Gen. Otis sailed Saturday for
San Francisco on the transport Meade.
Mazi Gen. MacArthur will succeed him
in command of the Philippines, and
Gen. Wheaton will succeed MacArthur
as commander of the department of
Soutfern Luzon.
The insurgent archives discovered by
Gen. Funston include papers implicating
prominent foreign firms at. Manila in
unlawful dealings. It is reported that
evidence has been obtained that some of
them furnished munitions of war to the
rebels, and that the American authori-
ties are in possession of a plan for at-
tacking the American forces, written
by Aguinaldo, in the Tagalog language,
January 9, 1899, and translated into
Spanish by Buencamino. No corre-
spondence from the so-called anti-im-
perialist party of the United States was
found.
GOOD FINANCIAL SHOWING.
The Government Has Saved $6,664,456 By
Refunding Bonds—National Bank Cir-
culation Increasing.
Representative Brosius. of Pennsyl-
vania, chairman of the House committee
on banking and currency made a state-
ment that the refunding provisions of
the new financial law are working out
an achievement unparalleled in the his-
tory of the world. He showed the fol-
lowing figures of refunding from March
14, when the law went into operation, to
May 1: Amount refunded, $260,020,750;
saving in interest, $32,600,225: premium
paid, $26,034,771; net saving, $6,604,454.
The operation of legal tender redemp-
fion exhibits a highly satisfactory con-
dition of public confidence in our gov-
ernment paper, and is a happy omen for
the success of that branch of our mone-
tary system in the future. The amount
of United States notes redeemed in
gold out of the reserve fund since the
new law went into operation is $5,133,-
2
Applications have been approved for
244 new National banks, with a capital of
$8,380,000. The total of applications on
file for authority to organize National
banks is 508 and the total of applications
for the conversion of old banks into Na-
tional banks 82. Mr. Brosius estimates
$121,788858 as the amount of currency
the National banks may issue in the near
future.
USED NITRO-GLYCERINE.
A St. Louis Street Car Blown from the Tracks.
Passengers Terrified.
A car on the St. Louis and Suburban
railway was blown from the track anc
twisted sideways by an explosion of
nitro-glycerine late Saturday night.
Seven of the passengers were slightly
injured by the flying glass, and broken
timbers, which came up from below.
Four were taken back to the city for
treatment.
There is a
explosive was
The
which
strike on the road.
nitro-glycerine,
distance. The car was filled with per-
sons returning from the Dewey celebra-
tion. It was raining hard at the time,
and lightning flashed continuously
across the car.
Many women were among the passen-
gers, and they screamed wildly. Every
person was hurled from the seats, and
fell pell-mell into the aisle. At first it
was thought that a bolt of lightning had
struck, but when the motorman and
conductor, after an examination, an-
nounced that the car had been blown
up by strikers, there was more confu-
sion, and the men prepared for an at-
tack. This was the signal for more
screams, and many of the passengers
got off the car and braved the terrible
downpour. No attack was made.
Turkey in no Haste to Pay.
A dispatch from Constantinople, Tur-
key, says: The porte has not replied
to the American note regarding the in-
demnity claims. The ambassadors met
yesterday and decided to reply to the
porte’s note of April 29 regarding the
increase of duties, as follows:
“The embassies note the porte’s decla-
ration that it does not intend to intro-
duce any unilateral measures and will
hasten to inform their governments of
this. The ambassadors have decided to
make their consent to an increase, con-
ditional on the removal of the abuses
in the matter of chemical analysis, the
suppression of warehouse duties and
the abolition of the stipulation whereby
articles not specified in the tariffs may
be interdicted, confiscated or destroyed.
The ambassadors have decided to make
the payment of indemnities to foreign-
ers a separate question, and to deal
therewith at a later date.”
ihe Rs,
Army at a Stands'ill.
General A. W. Greely, chief of the
signal service of the army, spoke of the
United States army as a military or-
ganization at the annual banquet of the
Worcester, Mass... board of trade
Wednesday He declared that the army
was a political organization, and that it
had not advanced during a period of 50
year i the system, which is now im-
perfect, is to be improved in future
vears it would be at the cost of tens of
thousands of lives and millions in treas-
ure.
Much Money for Paris.
New York bankers estimate that
American visitors to the Paris exposi-
tion wil spend abroad this year $40.-
000,000 more than is usually spent by
Americans in Europe during the vaca-
tion season. In 188g that about 120,000
people from the United States attended
the Paris exposition. The d of
the mint estimated that passeng
New York to Europe spent that
$92,771,950.
year
CABLE FLASHES.
The London lord mayor’s fund for the
Canada fire sufferers now amounts to
In the House of Commons, London,
Tuesday. Mr. Harbury. financial sc
tary of the treasury, said the cost of the
war up to March 31, was £23,250,000.
SECT
The archbishops of Canterbury
Y ork, igland, have decided ag:
the ‘reservation of the sacrament.”
which term means the preservation of the
bread and wine for adoration and for
use with the sick and prisoners.
Rioters in the environs of Rustchuk,
on the Danube, disarmed and m
ed the local police, who were unabie to
restore order. Two companics of
diers were dispatched to the scene and
were surrounded by the peasants.
had been spread on the track for some |
A GOSPEL MESSAGE
subject: Lift Up the Fallen—A Plea For
Welcome For the Prodigal—=Kindness
Would Reclaim Many Unfortunates
Who Have Dropped by the Way.
[Copyright 1900.1
WasuiNcTox, D. In this discourse Dr.
Talmage pleads for a hearty reception to
all those who have done wrong and want
to get back, while the unsympathetic and
self-righteous are excoriated; text, Luke
xv., 28, “And he was angry and would not
go in.”
Many times nave I been asked to preach
a sermon about the elder brother of the
parable. I received a letter from Canada
saying, “Is the elder son of the parable so
unsympathetic and so eold that he is not
worthy of recognition?” The fact is that
we ministers rursue the younger son. You
ean hear the flappings of his rags in many
a sermonic breeze and the cranching of
the pods for which he was an unsuccess-
ful contestant. I confess that it has been
difficult for me to train the camera ob-
seura upon the elder son of the parable. I
could not get a negative for a photograph.
There was not enough light in the gallery,
or the chemicals were poor, or the sitter
moved in the picture. But now I think I
have him; not a side faca or a three-quar-
ters or the mere bust, buat a full length
portrait as he appears to me, The father
in the parable of the prodigal had nothing
to brag of in his two sons. The one was a
rake and the other a churl. I find nothing
admirable in the dissoluteness of the one,
and I find nothing attractive in the acrid
sobriety of the other. The one goes down
over the larboard side, and the other goes
down over the starboard side, but they
both go down.
From all the windows of tne old home-
stead bursts the minstrelsy. The floor
quakes with the feet of the rustics, whose
dance is always vigorous and resounding.
The neighbors have heard of the return of
the younger son from his wanderings, and
they have gathered together. The housgq
is full of congratulators. I suppose the
tables are loaded with luxuries; not only
the one kind of meat mentioned, but its
concomitants. “Clap!” go the cymbals,
“Thram!’” go the harps. “Click!” go the
chalices, up and down go the feet inside,
while outside is a most sorry spectacle.
The senior son stands at the corner of the
house, a frigid phlegmatic. He had just
come in from the fields in very substantial
apparel. Seeing some wild exhilarations
around the old mansion, he asks of a ser-
vant passing by with a goatskin of wine on |
his shoulder what all the fuss is about.
One would have thought that, on hearing
that his younger brother had got back, he |
would have gone into the house and re-
joiced and, if he were not conscientiously
opposed to dancing, that he would have
joined in the oriental sehottish. No. There
he stands. His brow lowers; his face dark-
ens; his lip curls with contempt; he stamps |
the ground with indignation; he sees noth-
ing at all to attriet. The odors of the feast
coming out on the air do not sharpen his
appetite; the lively music does not put any |
spring into his step. He is a terrible pout;
he criticises the expense, the injustice and |
the morals of the entertainment. The father
rushes out bareheaded and coaxes him to
come in. He will not go in; he scolds the
father; he goes into a pasquinade against
the younger brother, and he make the
most nncomely scene; he says, “Father, yon
put ©» premium on vagaboondism. I staid
at hom» and worked on the farm. You
never made a party for me; you didn’t so
mueh as kill a kid. That wouldn’t have
cost half as much as a calf. Butthis scape-
grace went off in fine clothes, and he comes
back not fit to be seen, and whatea time
you make over him! He breaks your heart,
and you pay him for it. That calf, to which
we have been giving extra feed during all
these weeks, wouldn’t be so fat and sleek
if I had known to what use you were going
to put it! That vagabond deserves to be
cowhided instead of banqueted. Veal is
too good for him!” That evening, while
the younger son sat telling his tather about
his adventures and asking about what had
occurred on the place since his departure,
the senior brother goes to bed disgusted
and slams the door after him. That senior
brother still lives. You can see him any
day of the week. At a meeting of minis-
ters in Germany some one asked the ques-
tion. “Who is that elder son?” and Krum-
macher answered: “I know him; I saw him
yesterdny.” And when they insisted upon
knowing whom he meant he said: “Myself, |
When I saw the account of the conversion
of a most obnoxious man, I was irritated.”
First, tbls senior brother of the text
stands for the self congratulatory, self sat-
istied, self worshipful man. With the same
breath in which he vituperates against his
younger brother he utters a panegyrie for |
himself. The self righteous man of my
text, like every other self righteous man,
was full of faults,
which he had all those years. He was dis-
obedient, for when the father told him to |
come in be staid out. He was a liar, for
he said that the recreant son had devoured
his father’s living when the father, so far
from being reduced to penury, had a home-
stead left, and instruments of musie, had |
jewels,had a mansion and instead of being a
pauper was a prince. This senior brother,
with so many faults of his own, was
merciless in his criticism of the younger
brother. ‘he only perfect people that I
have ever known were utterly obnoxious.
I was never so badly cheated in my life as
by a perfect man. He got so far up in his
devotions that he was clear up above ail
the rules of common honesty. Thess men
that go about prowling among prayer
| meetings and in places of business, telling
how good they are—Iicok out for them;
keep your hand on your pocketbook! 1
have noticed that just in proportion as a
man gets good he gets humble. The deep
Missiseippi does not make as much noise
as the brawling mountain rivulet. There
has been many a store that had more goods
in the show window than inside on the
shelves.
This self-righteous man of the text stood
at the corner of the house hugging himselt
in admiration. We hear a great dealin
our day about the higher life, Now, there
are two kinds of higher-life men. The one
fs admirable, and the other is repulsive.
The one kind of higher-life man is very
lenient in his criticism of others, does not
bore prayer meetings to death with long
harangues, does not talk a great deal
about himself, but mueh about Christ and
heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle and
more useful until one day his soul spreads
a-wing, and he flies away to eternal rest,
and everybody mourns his departure. The
other higher-life man goes around with a
Bible conspicuously under his arm, goes
from church to church, a sort of general
evangelist, is a nuisance to bis own pastor
when he is at home and a nuisance to other
pastors when he is away from home, runs
up to some man who is counting out a roll
of bank bills or running up a difficult line
of figures and asks him how his soul is,
makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha;
standing in a religious meeting making an
address, he has patronizing way, as
though ordinary Christians were clear
away down below him, so he had to talk at
the top of his voice in order to make them
hear, but at the same time encouraging
them to hope on that by climbing many |
years they may after a while come up with-
in sight of the place where he now stands.
Itell you plainly that a roaring, roister-
ing, bouncing sinner is not so repulsive to |
me as that higher life malformation, The
former may repent; the latter never gets
over his pharisaism. The younger brother
of the parable came back, but the senior
prother stands outside entirely oblivious
to his own delinquencies and defleits, pro-
nouncing his own sulogium. I, how
much easier it is to blame others than to
blame ourselves. Adam blamed Eve, Eve
plamed the serpent, the senior brother
blamed the younger brother, and none of
them blamed themselves.
Again, the senior prother of my text
stands for all those who are faithless
about the reformation of the dissipated
and the dissolute. In the very tones of his
voice you can hear the fact that he has no
faith that the reformation of the younger
son is genuine. His entize manner seems
to say: “That boy has come hack for more
money. He got a third of the property.
Now he has come back for another third.
He will never be contented to stay on the
farm. He will fall away. I would go In,
too, and rejoice with the othersif I thought
this thing was genuine, but it is a sham.
That boy is a conflrmed inebriate and de-
bauchee.,” Alas, my friends, for the in-
credulity in the church of Christ in regard
to the reclamation of the recreant! You
say a man has been a strong drinker. T
say, “Yes, but he has reformed,” On,”
you say, with a lagubrious faza, “I
hope you are not mistaken; I hope you
are not mistaken.” Youn say, “Don’t re-
joice too mueh over his conversion, for
soon he will ba unconverted, I fear.
Don’t make too big a party for that re-
turned prodigal or strike the timbrel too
loud, and if you kill a calf kill the one that
Is on the commons and not the one that
has been luxuriating in the paddock.”
That is the reason why mors prodigals do
not come home to their father’s house, It
Is the rank infidelity in the church of God
on this subject.
There is not a house on the streets ot
heaven that has not in it a prodigai that
returned and staid home, There could be
unrolled hefors you a scroll of 100,000
names—the names of prodizals who came
back forever reformed. Who was John
Bunyan? A returned prodigal. Who wus
He was un ingrate, for |
he did not appreciate the home blessings |
factory or through our regular
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Richard Baxter? A returned prodigal.
Who wadGeorge Whitefleld, the thunderer?
A returned prodigal.
| And I could go out in all the aisles of
| this church to-day and find on either side
those who, once far astray for many years,
| have been faithful, and their eternal salva-
| tion is ns sure as though they had been ten
| years in heaven. And yet some of you
| have not enough faith in their return!
| You do not know how to shake hands
| with a prodigal; you do not know how to
| ray for him; you do not know how to
| greet him. Hs waats to sail into the warm
| gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You
are the iceberz against which he strikes
| and shivers, You say he has been a prod-
| igal. I know it, but you are the sour, ua-
| responsive, censorious, aatarnine, cranky
| elder brother, and it you are going to
heaven ome would think some pecpla
would be tempted to go to perdition to get
| away from you.
Plenty of room for elegant sinners, for
| sinners in velvet or satin aud lace, for sin-
ners high salaried, for kid gloved and pat-
| ent jeatherad sinners, for sinners fixed up
by hairdresser, pomatumed and lavenderad
and cologned and frizzled and crimped and
“panged’’ sinners—plenty of room!
Such we meet elegantly at the door ot
our churches, and we invite them into the
best seats with Chesterfleldian gallantries;
weusher them into the house of God an
put soft ottomans under their feet and put
a gild edged prayer book in their hands
and pass the contribution box before them
with an air of apology, while they, the
generous souls,take out the equisite porte-
| monnaie and open it and with diamonded
| Anger push down beyond the $10 gold-
| pleces and delicately pick out as an ex-
| pression of gratitude their offering to the
| Lord—of one cent! For such sinners plenty
| of room, plenty ot room!
Again I remark that the senior brother of
| my text stands for the spirit of envy and
The senior brother thought that
did to the returned
brother was a wronz to him. He said, “1
have staid at home, and I ought to have
had the ring, and I ought to have had the
banquet, and I ought to have had the gar-
lands.”
|
| jenlousy.
1
|
Alas, for this spirit of envy and jealousy
|
|
all the honor they
coming down through the ages! Cain anl
| Abel, Esau and Jacob, Saul and David,
Haman and Mordezai, Orthello and Iago,
Orlando and Ange , Calignla and Tor-
| quatus, Cesar and Pompey, Columbus and
the Spanish courtiers, Cambyses and the
| brother he slew ause he was a better
| marksman, Dionysius aad Philoxenius,
whom he slew because he was a better
singer. Jealousy among painters —Clos-
} terman and Geoffrey Kneller, Hudson and
Reynolds, Francia, anxious to see a picture
of Raphael, Raphael ssuds him a pleture.
Francin, seeing it, falls in a fit of jsalousy
from which he djes.
Jealousy among authors, How seldom
contemporaries speak of each other, Xwsno-
phon and Plato living at the same tim,
| but from their writings you never would
| suppose they heard of sach other.
Religious jealousies. The Mohammedans
praying for rain dur a drought; no rain
coming. Tiren the Christians begin to pray
for rain, and the rain comes. 'I'hen the
| Mohammedans met together to account for
this, and they resolved that God was so
well pleased with their prayers he kept the
drought on so as to keep them praying,but
| that the Christians began to pray and the
Lord was so disgusted with their prayers
that He sent rain right away so He would
| not hear any more of their supplications.
Oh, this accursed spirit of envy and jeal-
ousy! Let us stamp it out from all our
hearts.
A wrestler was so envious of Theozanes,
the prince of wrestlers, that he could not
| be consoled in any way, and after Tiiwog-
enes died and a statue was lifted to him in
a public place his envious antagonist went
out every night and wrestled with the
| statue until one night he threw it, and it
fell on him and erushed him to death. Sc
jealousy is not only absurd, but it is
kiiling to the body, and itis killing to the
soul.
| How seldom it is you find one merchant
| speaking well of a merchant in the same
line of business. How seldom itis you hear
a physician speaking well of a physician on
| the same block.
Oh, my friends, the wor.d is large enough
for all of us! Let us rejoice at the success
of others. The next best thing to owning
a garden ourselves is to look over the fence
| and admire the flowers.
The next best thing to riding in fine
equipage is to stand on the streets and ad-
mire the prancing span. The next best
thing to having a banquet given to our-
selves is having a bauquet given to our
prodigal brother that has come home to
his father’s house.
Ab, the face of this pouting elder son is
put before us in order that we might
better see the radiant and forgiving face
of the Father. Contrasts nre mighty. The
artist in sketching the fleld of Waterloo
years after the battle put a dove in the
mouth of the cannon. Raphael in oneot
his cartoons beside the face of a wretch
put the face of a happy and innocent child.
And so the sour face of this irascible
and disgusted elder brother is brought
out in order that in the contrast we
might better understand the forgiving
and radiant face of God. That is the
meaning of it—tkat God is ready to take
back anybody that is sorry, to take him
clear back, to take him back forever and
forever and forever, to take him back with
a loving hug, to put a kiss on his parched
lip, a ring on his bloated hand, an easy
shoe on his chafed foot, a garland on his
bleeding temples and heaven in his soul.
Oh, I fall flat on that mercy! Come, my
brother, and let us get down into the dust,
resolved never to rise until the Father’s
forgiving hand shall lift us.
Oh, what 8 God we have!
doxologies.
8
-.
Bring your
Come, earth and heaven, and
join in the worship. Cry aloud. Lift the
palm branches, Do you not feel the
Father’s arm around your neck? Do you
not feel the warm breath of your Fathor
against your cheek? Surrender, younger
son! Surrender, elder son! Surrender,
| alll Go in to-day and sit down at the bana
quet. Take aslice of the fatted calf, and
afterward, when you are seaied, with one
| band in the hand of the returned brother
and the other hand in the hand of the re-
joicing father, let your heart beat time to
the clapping of the cymbal and the mollow
voiee of the flute. Itismeetthat we should
make merry and be glad, for this, thy
brother, was dead aud is alive again. He
was lost and is found.
The Crusade in Brief.
Health isthe workingman’s eapital. In-
oipensh in strong drink destroys this cap-
1.
One of theleading daily papersin France,
Le Temps, calls for a reduction in the num-
ber of saloons in that country,
The dozen policemen in South Bethle-
hem, Penn., are wearing total abstinence
buttons, that being one result of a temper-
auce revivahin the town.
A New Jersey man won a bet the other
day by drinking a quart of whisky without
stopping. Unfortunately, however, the
amount won was not large enough to pay
his funeral expenses.
The Minnesota Legislature refused to an-
nul the law which prohibits opening a sa-
loon within 1500 feet of a schoolhouse.
Dane County, Wisconsin, recently held a
. temperance institute in which all forms of
| opinicn against the use of liquor and the
| liguor business had representation.
{ Tbrough the efforts of members of the
| Senior Loyal Temperance Legion, two sa-
| loon keepers of Ithaca, N.Y., have been
| Indicted and one of them convicted for vio-
| lation of the liquor tax law.
| Dr. Bucke, of the London (Canada) In-
sane Asylum, says: ‘‘As we havegmiven up
the use of alcohol we have needed and used
| less opium and chloral, and as we have dis-
| continued the use of these drugs we have
| needed and used less seclusion and ree
straint,”
Temperance Education Bill.
of the W. C. T. U. of Virginia
een successful in securing the
passage by the Logislature of a bill requir-
ing that the effects of alcohol and other
nareoties on the human system be taught
in every public school in the State.
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The following pensions were granted
last week: Jacob Fair, Turtle Creek,
$6; Henry A. Johnson, Cambridge
Springs, $6; John Zeh, Enon Valley, $8;
Willis Every, New Castle, $3; Joseph
McElwee, Dayton, $10; James M. Pat-
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W. Kinnear, Warren, $17; Thomas Re
Jamison, Horatio, $14; John H. Hill,
Claysville, §8§; Manassa Haw, Waynes-
burg. $12; W. A. Phillips, Leechburg,
$10; John Patterson, Taylorstown, $8;
William Goff, Alexandria, $8; William
Klingensmith, Indiana, $3; Robert
Ford, Grove City, $12; Henry Barnhart,
Braddock, $10; John Henley, Towanda,
$17; Christian Shi ;. Bellevue, $8;
John S. Trimble, New Castle, $12;
Thomas Maitland, New Castle, $8;
Henry W. Barkielt, Monongahela, 38;
obert Donaldson, Blairsville, $10;
iliiah T. Penrose, Bolivar, $17; Luther
Barnes, New Brighton, $17: James A.
Brown. Burgettstown, $30; William HH.
Marsh, Johnstown, $12; Uriah Marsh,
Johnstown, $8; Edwin W. Lawrence,
Carnegie, $6; Alexander Harbaugh, Mc-
Kees Rocks, $R.
The Armstrong Cork Company, of
Pittsburg has booked an order for 480,~
cod pounds of cork to be furnished to
the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company,
oi St. Louis... It is said to be the largest
order of the ad ever placed. The
cork is to be cut and prepared for use
in bottling pint and quart packages.
The order is worth about $4%,0c0 at the
Pittsburg factory, and delivery will cov=
er a period of two years. This tremen-
dous bulk of cork 11 cut upwards of
100,000,c00 bottle stoppers.
The election committee of the Penn-
sylvania grand lodge, I. O. O. F., has
decided in favor of these officers: Joe
Fleming, Shippensburg, patriarch;
Thomas TF. Gross, Philadelphia, high
priest; C. I... Milhouse, Pdtistown, sen-
tor warden: James B. Nicholson, Phil-
Henry Bertel, Phil-
: Howard R. Shep-
junior rden; Ed-
ton, representative.
The giuss bottle factories of the D. O.
Cunningham Glass Company, Cunning-
ham > limited, and Frederick
. have been closed
finitely. The carrying-in boys of
the three plants, numbering about 200,
are striking for an advance in wages.
The companies have so far been unable
to get boys to take the places of the
strikers, and it is stated operations may
be suspended for the season.
An attempt was made Thursday night
+0 blow up the home of Harry Pearsoll
with dynamite. Only Mrs. Pearsoll,
with two small children, was at home,
when there was a terrific explosion un-
ler one corner of the house. The floor
was upheaved and the plaster fell from
the walls. No one was injured. Mr.
Pearsoll is a glass worker who has lived
in New Castle for 18 years and does
not know of any, enemy.
A slab bearing the mysterious inscrip=
tion “RK. 1 00’ was found by workmen
while making excavations at River ave-
nue and Pine street, Allegheny, about
four feet below the surface. The mean-
ing of the inscription is a mystery, but
it is thought that the slab was placed by
county commissioners half a century
ago, to indicate the height of water of
some flood.
The Greensburg, Jeannette and Pitts-
burg electric road has been sold to John
B. Head, representing an Eastern syn-
dicate, for $25.000. The price paid rep-
resents about one-eighth of the cost of
building. The bonded indebtedness of
the road is $500,000. It is said the
Eastern capitalists will thoroughly equip
the road and extend the line to Irwin.
Operations have been suspended at
the East End hosiery factory, of Holli-
daysburg, and the proprietors, C. and
J. Gould, have announced their inten-
tion of removing their plant to Philadel-
phia. Scarcity of working girls is the
cause assigned for the removal. The
factory had a sufficient capacity for a
force of 150 girls.
It is announced that Andrew Cars
negie has promised the money for a fine
pipe organ for the chapel of the West-
ern Pennsylvania Institution for the
Blind, at Pittsburg. The appeal for the
organ was made by Col. William A.
Herron, president of the board of tius-
tees.
Proi. D. A
principal of the
Grove City Colley
,eeribzs
treasure
=
, who has been
department of
( I OVEr two years,
has resigned to accept an appointment
head coer of the department
of supplies and acco at the league
Island navy at Philadelphia.
Blies & MN hall, coke operators, of
Uniontown chased 1.000 acres
of coking land between the Cheat river
as VO (
vorde
yard
and the Mono river. back of
Point Marion ng the proposed Cheat
River railroad.
Levi E. Cohen. of Scranton, and Sar-
ah Sands were divorced 13 years ago.
Thursday they met bv accident in Jersey
. and were married by Justice
ity.
James H. Murphy.
Charles J Pedder, ot [itsburg, has
closed options on 5.000 acres of coking
coal property in Wharton and Stewart
townships, Fayette county, and is organ-
izing the Iron City Coal and Coke
Company to develop and convert the
coal.
Counterfeiters are believed to be at
work in Altoona, a number of spurious
dollars having recently heen put in cir-
culation.
The American Ax and Tool Company
has purchased 38 acres at Glassport and
will erect a $500,000 plant, the largest
aver built. It is intended to centralize
the plants of the conibine there.
The Inspiration of Faith.
Not much work is done or will be done,
without the inspiration of faith. We believe,
therefore, we speak, may be revised to read
We believe, therefore we do. In nota fe
flelds we have visited, there is everything t
invite a forward movement, here isn
such movement becanse there is no energizes
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and death is frequently a narrow span
a step.
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voices. But a hitherto silent man or inactive
woman has been musing on the situation,
has received an access of faith, has decided
to act.
comes over the scene.
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