ref]
——
“The ladder of fame” is out of
date. The young fellow of today can
get there quicker by the ele-
vator.
taking
Statistics published by the geolog-
ical survey show that the output of
coal in 1899 was an increase of 17 per
cent. over that of the preceding year,
or about 259,000,000 short tous. Along
with this increased produciion was a
rise in price which is unusual
With the aid of liquid air and a
vacuam pump Professor
the Royal Institution, Iondon, a few
days ago succeeded in solidifying hy-
drogen gas, which was until recently
counted among tue e'ements
were thought to be hopelessly
ous.
Dewar of
gase-
The English people think that the
proposed new
enable them to get the
French, it is will ae-
cept it as the equivalent of a
ninepenny coin
who, assumed,
franc.
At present British travelers in France |
frequently have to pay a shilling in
exchange for an
franc.
article valued at a
Bor hay who had charge of the |
Antarctic expedition outfitted by Siv
Georg» Newnes,
thest point made by
the southern hemisphere.
78 degrees and 50 minutes south lati-
tude, which is 4)
the lowest latitude reached
James Clark Ross in 1842.
has attained the far-
any explorer in
He reached
minutes south of
by Sir |
The necessities of modern times
have no respect for sentiment or tradi- |
fact
Lover
tion. As an iliustration of this
the great chalk healland at
known as Shakespeare's cliff,
the landmarks of the Inglish chan- |
nel, is to be leveled to
the field of the rapid-fire guns mount-
ed on the batteries erected for the de-
fense of Dover harbor.
one of
broaden
Automobile drivers are said already
to be given to scorching.
however,
Possibly,
the fault is not altegether
with them. The vehicle moves so
quietly and noiselessly as to render
the driver insensible to tle speed at
which he is going. A
that can be kept constantly in
must be attached, or
not fatal,
serious, if
the
sult of the so-callel scorching.
many
accidents will bo» re-
The venerable Jud:
the United States
Wheeling, W. Va., expressed a pessi-
Jackson of
cirenit cowrt at
mistic view of the state of the public
morals in charging the jury the other
day. ‘‘My experience on the bench,’
he said, one,
and I regret to say that crime in this
country is on the in
able to determine whether it is a re-
sult of increasing population or of the
“‘has not been a limited
wrease. I am nu-
lowering of the standard of public
morality.”
Penologists universally recojnize
that the use of violence as a punish-
ment is neither a deterrent nor a cor-
rective of crime, and nearly all forms
of punishment for offenders
law are now intended to be
tory. In the face of all
tonishing that such an influential pa-
per as the London
rate Parliament for
the barbarous methods of the past in
the treatment of any class of cr
nals. No doubt that offenders
against society richly deserve the ap-
plication of the cat, but its
against the spirit of the age and would
have the old-time effect if administered
of making criminals worse instead of
better. The civilized world
afford to reform backward.
against
reforma-
this it is as-
Times should be- |
not returning to
mi-
many
use is
cannot
The disappearance of the birds
would be an irreparable loss to agri-
culture. state en-
tomologist of Illinois, estimates that
at the end of 12 the
birds, the farm of that state
would be carpeted with i at the
rate of one for every square inch
of ground. Beal of the
¢ United States department of agricul-
ture calculates that in the
Towa alone the birds of a single spe-
the tree
tons of noxious
Professor Forbes,
years, without
lands
sects
Professor
state of
cies,
sparrow, destroy 875
weeds every year.
Hawks and owls help to keep the
wheat and corn free of rodents. In
many Southern communities the buz-
zards do more efficient work as scav-
engers than the men who get paid for
it. The woodpecker rids trees of in-
sects that
them, and many a peach orchard would
be unproductive but for the protection
of its growing fruit by insectivorous
birds. So that, even if it has accom-
plished nothing beyond reminding us
that the birds have a definite and im-
portant function to perform mm the
economy of agriculture, the agitation
against their destruction has served a
useful purpose.
would otherwise destroy
Two Musical Performers,
The late Dr. Spark, the Leeds Cor-
poration organist, was often engaged
for recitals and ‘‘openings’ of organs
in the east riding, and his blower fol-
lowed him about with a devotion which
would have been pathetic if it had not
been so amusing. The blower would
generally be first at the church, so
that he might be sure of displacing
the ordinary man, and when Spark ar-
rived he would remark with the
greatest sangfroid: “It’s all right,
Doctor, I'm here; and there’s sure to
be a good performance between us.”
—Longman’s.
Paderewski as a Vine Grower.
Paderewski is an enthusi
grower and produces not only
but even wine of his own. W
was in England a short time
was asked down to see some very ce
brated vines in the gardens of a ge
tleman at Roehampton, not very
from Richmond. He was immensely
struck by the magnificent growth, and
on returning to the house. without be-
ing asked, sat down to the piano and
played for over an hour as a kind of
courteous form of thanks for the pleas-
ure that had been afforded him.
that |
will |
better of the |
speed index |
sight |
GE. ROBERTS FINDS BOERS ACTIVE
SHARP FIGHTING. 3
Johannesburg is Resuming Business — One
Hundred Boers Captured at Gold Reef
City—Pretoria Not Yet Taken.
Dispatches were received Sunday
from Gen. Roberts, dated at Orang
Grove, as follows:
“Johannesburg is quiet. The people
Only
left in the fort,
are surrendering arms and ponies.
| three Boer guns were
the Queenslanders c¢ sph ured, May 30, a
Creusot, with 11 wa of stores and
ammunition. Co Botha. of
| Zoutspansberg, his field cornet and 100
prisoners, were taken in the fighting
round Johannesburg, some belonging to
| the foreign contingents and the Irish
brigade . .
| Owing to the interruption ot the
raph lines, 1 only reccived a report
Col. Sprigg that his battalion of
yeomanry was attacked be-
| tween Kroonstad and Lindley, May 20.
| Casualties to follow. The shops in Jo
nneshurg are being opened and
there seems to be a general feeling of
| relief at the peaceful occupation ot the
irom
imperial
town,
A dispatch from Winberg, dated
Thursday, says:
After considerable fighting, the
Joers, with two guns and several Max
m-Nordenfeld guns, are making a
[ plucky stand eight miles east of Sene
| kal Gen. Rundle has succeeded in
| driving off the federals, thus permit
| ting the re-occupation of Lindley.
| The Boers, according to a dispatch
from Lourenzo Marques, have re-enter-
1 hi northeastern territory of the
ree State and are engaged with the
fs h near Ventersburg and Harri-
ui
lady Georgiana Curzon has cabled
£17,000 to provide comforts and luxu-
ie
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IF
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i I
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<5
ries at Mafeking.
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ANNEXED HE FREE EE STATE.
The Ceremony Perlormed in Bloemfontein,
the Former Capital. on Tuesday.
Amid salutes and cheers and the sing-
“God Save the Queen,” the mili-
| tary governor, Maj. Gen. George Pret-
jroo, formally proclaimed the annexa-
| tion of the Free State under the des
| nation of the Orange River colony
| The ceremony was somewhat imposing
| and the scene in the Market square in-
ing of
| spiring. An immense concourse had
gathered and the town was gay with
| bunting. The balconies and windows
| surrounding the square we crowded
| with women, among them Lady Rob-
rts and the Misses Roberts, the Count
| ess of Airlie and Ladies Henry Ben
i and Settrington. The troops were
up under command of Gen
The governor, accompanied by
| Gen, Kelly-Kenny and their staffs, es-
| corted ly the Welsh yoemanry, was
greeted with a general salute, after
vhich Gen. Prettyman read Lord Rob-
rts’ proclamation annexing the Orange
e State as conauered by her ma-
jesty's forces, to the queen's domains
| and proclaiming that the state shall
henceforth be known as the Orange
| River colony. Lusty cheers greeted the
{ concluding words of the proclamation
and these were renewed with ever-in-
creasing volume as Lord Acheson un-
furled the royal standard and the bands
struck up “God Save the Queen’; al
| present joining in singing the national
hymn.
|
i 1
MORE DEFEATS OF REBELS.
American Scouts Killed Seventeen and Cap-
tured Twenty-Three.
Lieut. Jons E. Stedje, of Company
L, Forty-seventh volunteers, command-
ing a scouting party, in the southern
part of Albay province, had several en-
cagements with the insurgents, in which
17 of the enemy were killed and 23, in
cluding a captain, were captured. Six
explosive bombs and a number of valu-
able insurgent documents fell into the
hands of the Americans. The scouts
burned the town of Yubi, headquarters
of the rebels. Sergt. drickley was
| killed during a slight engagement near
Hann, province of Albay
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-fourth r
it have captured 32 rifles and :
| rounds of ammunition in Pangasinan
province.
Scouts of
00
May Lose Convention.
As the time of the convention draws
near Senator Jones, chairman of the
Democratic National committee, is re-
ceiving a number of vigorous com-
plaints from the members of the
tional committee and other Democrats
throughout the country, over the action
of the hotel people in Kansas City in
the matter of rates.
Many of the committeemen who
¢ to Chairman Jones on this sub-
ject are urgently requesting that a
meeting of the committee be called
with a view to reconsidering its action
in deciding to hold the convention in
that city and to change the location of
the convention from Kansas City {to
some other more desirable and attractive
place. No action has yet been taken
in the matter by Chairman Jones,
though he has it under serious consid-
eration.
Three Stages Held Up.
A dispatch from.Raymond, Cal, gives
an account of a bold holdup of three
Yosemite stages near there Saturday.
The highwaymen robbed the passen
gers of about $400. The bandits were
unav of the fact that troops of the
Sixth cavalry were enroute to Yosemite
following one hour behind the stages
sergeant and one trooper, who had
been sent ahead to select camping
site, showed fight, whereupon the ban-
dits took possession of their rifles fi
held them prisoners until after they had
robbed the stages. They then mounted
their horses and fled. As soon as the
cavalry came along they were notified
and they started in pursuit of the rob
who, if captured, may be severely
dealt with. ?
bers,
Largest o All Wheat Cronk,
The farmers of
next week
will begin
to harvest the largest wheat
history of the State. Sec
Coburn, of the State board of
Kansas
crop in the
Fetary
says:
rops this year will be the
r known. In 1802 Kansas had
3.800,00 acres of wheat and raised 7o0,-
000,000 bushels, an average of 18 bushels
to the acre. This year the winter wheat
acre: 4.685.810, as estimated by the
growe Pd the average yield will be
larger than that of 1802.
“If the yield per acre is the same as
in 1892, the aggregate yield will 3
000,000 bushel The crop in genera
was never in better condition.”
Fatally Tortured by Robbers.
James Finnegan, an aged and ecc
tric hermit living in an isolated
in Northern Perry county,
night, was fatally tortured by masked
robbers. That night a band of ma-
rauders tortured him unmercifully, heat-
ing a fire shovel red hot, burning his
cheeks and other portions of his body
and then assaulting him with a blud-
geon, cutting his head frightfully, in an
attempt to secure a large amount of
| money he was supposed to have in the
house.
cen-
spot
Tuesday
Postoffice Safe Blown Up.
A daring postoffice robbery was per-
petrated at New Cumberland, W, a.,
early Wednesday morning. The fe
was completely wrecked by dynamite
and the robbers secured $812 in cash and
stamps, of which $150 belonged to Post-
master J. B. Campbell. The neighbor-
ing people paid little attention to the
explosion, thinking that the boys were
having their annual Decoration day
celebration. The robbery was well
planned and no clue was left.
[ LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Near Reading, Pa., Obadiah Clark, a
farmer, was killed by a bolt of lightning.
Three new cases of the plague and
one death were reported at Port Said,
Egypt.
Companies
infantry,
Nome.
An agitation has been started in
Switzerland for annexation to the Unit-
1 States.
Fire in the
store in
$250,000.
At Richmond, Va., Rev.
y was consecrated Catholic
of Savannah.
James Cunyard fell from a bridge at
Wilkesbarre while witnessing a bal
game, and was killed.
Forest fires in the Rainy river district
A and K of the Seventh
sailed from Seattle for Cape
Pitts- Kimball department
Joston caused a loss of about
Benjamin J.
Bishop
of Canada have destroyed millions of
dollars worth of lumber.
The Chicago India famine relief com-
mittee- has cabled $5.000 to Lady Cur-
zon for the“fa ine district.
Immigration officers-at Tacoma re-
jected 50 out of 358 Japapese, who ar-
rived on the steamer Glenogle.
Three sailors were killed by light-
ning while working in the cabin of a
new boat at St. Clair, Mich.
Charles A. Naulty, aged 21, of N
ark, N. J., deliberately shot his
mother in the back of the head.
= “holera is raging in the famine camps
1 Bombay, India. In one district there
were 1,330 deaths in seven days.
The Senate has decided to take up
the Cuban extradition bill as soon as
the general deficiency bill is passed.
The mills of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company, at Springfield, Ill, clos-
ed Thursday for an indefinite period.
Heavy rains in Texas have caused
rivers to overflow and the cotton and
grain crops have been seriously hurt.
A fresh outbreak of bubonic Plague
has occurred at Alexandria, Egypt. 1 The
disease has appeared at Smyrna, Tur-
key.
New-
step-
Burglars blew to pieces the vault of
the Bank of New Lisbon, Wis., and es-
caped with several thousand dollars in
casi.
Warner Miller and John Mackay
have bought for $1.500,000 the Congress
gold mine, 60 miles north of Phoenix,
Ariz.
The next triennial meeting of the
Pan-American Medical Congress will
be held in Havana, beginning Dec. 26,
1000.
The Christian Church, which will ed-
ucate women for pastoral work, will
establish a school for pastoral helpers
at Cincinnati.
Latest reports show the condition of
William Rockefeller to be materially
improved from the appendicitis opera-
tion of Monday.
On July 9 the people of Connellsville,
Pa., will vote on a proposition to bond
the town for construct a
sewerage
$75,000 to
system.
Columbian University, at Washing-
tion, has conferred the degree of doc-
tor of laws on Naval Commander Rich-
ard Wainwright.
The Suffolk county Democratic con-
vention in New York State refused to
elect Perry Belmont a delegate to the
ate Tn
By an explosion of dynamite in the
house of William Broehm, at Forest
Junction, Wis., the six members of the
family were killed.
The new Northwestern elevated road,
which is to provide rapid transit for the
northside of Chicago, has been formally
opened to the public.
At the beginning of the second month
of the term of State Treasurer Barnett
the cash of the State of Pennsylvania
amounted to $4.728,865.60.
Julian B. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin
Arnold, has decided to fight against ex-
tradition from California to England
on a charge of embezzlement.
Masked robbers bound and gagged
the Shelly family at Grantham, near
Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday night and
all their money and valuables.
took
In opening the Chilean Congress the
president announced a financial surplus
and said new railroads
and other public works will be pushed.
The survivors of the First Pennsyl-
vania cavalry will hold a reunion at the
monument of the regiment on the Get-
tysburg battlefield on June 6, at 4 p. m.
The Eastman kodak works, near Ro-
chester, N. Y., were badly injured Fri-
day by an explosion of chemicals. Fore-
man Tracy was killed and several were
hurt.
At the annual meeting of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, in New
York, the profits of 1899 were reported
as $830,000. The directors were re-
elected.
Two girls at the Washington (Pa.)
seminary were sent home by the prin-
cipal because they ran away to attend
a dance with two students of W.
college.
Queen Wilhelmina has ratified The
Hague peace convention. Spain has
done likewise, and the adhesion of Ger-
many and Great Britain is expected im-
mediately.
The ninety-second anniversary of the
birth of Jefferson Davis was celebrated
in Louisville, as the closing exercises
to the reunion of the United Confederate
of $16,000,000
sub-
The
mitted to the Canadian government the
imperial authorities have
name of Colonel O'Grady Haley as
major general commanding the Domin-
ion militia.
The capital of the Times Company,
publishers of th: Philadelphia Times,
jas been increased from $10,000 to
$700,000. under the leadership of
Charles F. Kindred.
Maurice Brown, colored, of Hubbard,
).. who shot Alice Newman, was ac-
guitted under an indictment for shoot-
ing with intent to kill. Brown claimed
the shooting was accidental.
Under an order of the United States
district court the plant of the Herring-
Hall-Marvin safe works, at Cincinnati,
was sold to the reorganization commit-
tee of the company for $100,000.
The coroner's jury at West Chester,
Pa., has returned a verdict that Mrs.
Stella Morrison, found murdered in her
home some time ago, came to her death
at the hands of persons unknown.
Justice Gaynor, of Brook
the application of William F.
Franklin Siidieuts fame
denied
Miller, of
for a rehear-
ing, and Miller was taken to Sing Sing
prison ne to begin his sentence
of 10 years.
The Daughters of the American Rev-
olution have sent rival representatives
to the unveiling of the Lafayette monu-
ment in France, and both demand the
ivilege of reading an ode or putting
1 slab on the monument.
At Cleveland Thursda
Raub, a German newspaper worker,
shot and killed his niece, Bertha Yuck-
er, ag and then killed himself, de-
spondency over business affairs being
assigned as the cause of the deed.
The
Cramp §&
morning Carl
ed 25,
annue al meeting of the William
Son’s Ship and gine Build-
ing Company. in Pinca shows
the gross earnings for the year to be
$7.701.560, against $5,300,000 the previ-
ith $20,000,000 in
ous y
Cy contracts
on hand.
Boers Invited to Colorado.
Gov. given his indorse-
ment to a antic proposition, having
for i object the bring of the de-
feated Boers to the valley of the Platte,
in The Union Pacific Land
Company proposes to give 1,000,000
acres of land, to be taken up under the
Car land act, on the Julesburg and
There is to be no
charge for the gift, and the company
will undertake to transport the Boers
to Colorado, being repaid on the instal-
ment plan after the communities are es-
tablished and prosperow
[BOERS WOULD FIND WELCONE HERE
DESIRABLE SETTLERS.
Resolution Presented in the House for a Gen-
eral Invitation on Behalf of the Nation.
An Admirable Proposal.
Representative Fitzgerald, of Massa-
chusetts, offered in the House Saturday
a resolution inviting the Boers to come
to this country. It recites that it is the
chief glory of the Republic that it has
oye offered a refuge for the oppress-
ed, and that there are millions of acres
of the public domain of the United
States open to settlement under the
homestead act, and then extends a cor-
dial welcome to the inhabitants of the
two South African Republics to come
to the United States, become citizens
thereof and establish homes. The reso-
lution directs the President to commun-
icate the invitation to the presidents of
the South African Republic and the
Orange Free State.
Commissioner Bingham Hermann, of
the United States general land office,
gave out the following statement apro-
pos of the suggestion to invite the
Boers to locate on vacant public lands
in the United States:
“The suggestion is an admirable one.
The Boers are a patient and plodding
people, and perhaps have accompiis shed
more in bringing sterile soil under cul-
tivation and in use than any other peo-
ple of whom history makes a record.
One-half the effort put forth by the
Boers in the forbidding country of the
Transvaal will produce a hundredfold
more results on the public domain of
the United States, where both climate
and soil are far more conducive to good
results in an effort at reclamation.
“In my judgment any community of
the great West would esteem it a valua-
ble acquisition if any considerable body
of Boers should settle among them with
a bonafide intention of making future
homes.”
BENCH WARRANT FOR TAYLOR.
Recent Republican Governor Accused of Goe-
bel Murder— Sheriff in a Quandry.
The issuance of a bench warrant for
the arrest of W. S. Taylor, former gov-
ernor of Kentucky, was the first offi-
cial notice that an indictment had been
returned naming Taylor as an accessory
to the murder of Goebel.
The indictment was filed and entered
on record April 19. It accuses Taylor
of being accessory before She fact. It
charges that Taylor, on January 30,
1900, “unlawfully, wilfully and feloni-
ously, and with intent to procure the
murder of William Goebel, did conspire
with Caleb Powers, F. Golden, John
1.. Powers, John Davis, Henry Youtsey
Charles Finley, W. H. Culton, and
others, and did counsel, advise, encour-
age, aid and procure Henry Youtsey,
James Howard, Berry Howard, Harlan
Whittaker, Richard Combs and other
persons to kill William Goebel.”
The bench warrant commands the
sheriff or other arresting officer to ar-
rest William S. Taylor and deliver him
to the jailer of Franklin county. On
the back of the indictment about 350
persons are named as witnesses for the
Commonwealth. The bench warrant
was placed in the hands of Deputy
Sheriff John Suter. When asked what
he would do with the warrant he said:
“What can I do with it? I would
serve it if I could do it. and if Gov-
ernor Mount, of Indiana, would help
me, but from all accounts I guess he
would not do it.’
SURPRISED WHILE LUNCHING.
How Capt. Roberts Was Caught by Filipinos.
Is Well Treated.
Capt. Roberts, of the Thirty-fifth reg-
iment, and his two missing companions,
captured at San Miguel de Mayumo,
province of Bulacan, island of Luzon,
May 29, are still in the hands of the
rebels, who have communicated to the
Americans their intention to treat the
prisoners well and in accordance with
the laws of war. During Thursday
night Capt. Roberts’ wife, who was at
San Miguel de Mayumo, received a note
announcing the capture of her husband.
The good treatment of the prisoners
continued, and Capt. Roberts believes
the rebels will exchange him and his
companions.
The first report of the capture of
Capt. Roberts and his companions was
erroncous. The captain, with six scouts,
was surprised while lunching. Three
of the party were killed and four were
captured, of whom one was wounded.
T he wounded man was liberated.
Capt. Abbott, of the Forty-second
regiment, recently met 250 Ladrones
near Sinalion. One American was kill-
ed and the Filipinos had eight men kill-
ed and four wounded.
WAR’S BITTER COST.
Reitz Declares Britain will Have to Tax the
Gold Mines.
Telegrams from London quote State
Secretary Reitz as follows: “The Brit-
ish government promised the British
nation that the cost of war would be de-
frayed by the Boers. But as the latter
will not be in a position to pay Great
Britain must obtain the money from the
gold mines, which will thereby be
mulcted of half the net profits, w hereas
the Transvaal never levied a special
tax on gold.
The instigators of the war, Rhodes,
Wernher, Beit and others, will suffer
most. In addition the British will have
to maintain a garrison of 50,000 men,
the cost of which the mines will also
have to pay. As soon as the British
troops are withdrawn wars and rebel-
lions will break out, not for years, but
for centuries. For England this means
a constant source of trouble, annoyance
and blooc 12
Took Aguinaldo’s Friend,
The following dispatch was received
Thursday from Gen. MacArthur at Ma-
nila:
“Small surrenders continue in the de-
partment of northern Luzon. Corino,
fugitive governor of Benguet, a rich
and active friend of Aguinaldo, was cap-
tured Wednesday near Kabayan; im-
portant. While scouting near San
Miguel de Mayumo, Luzon, May 29,
Capt. Charles D. Roberts and Privates
John A. McIntyre and Lyel A. Akens
were captured; Sergt. John Gallen;
Privates Joseph McCourt and John A.
Green, killed; George Kinger wounded,
thigh. All of Company I, Thirty- fifth
regiment.’
A number of rifles have been surrend-
ered at Cuyapo and more are expected.
Gens. Grant and Funston have sent de-
tachments in pursuit of the insurgents
who rushed the town of San Miguel de
Mayumo.
Rebels Near Panama.
Telegrams from Kingston,
: The steamer Orinoco,
ved Sunday from Colombia, reports
that on May 31, the rebels were within
six miles of Panama. The government
troops had prepared for action; the
British consul and others had leit with
their families for Tobago for safety and
all the Colombian soldiers had left Co-
lon to strengthen the Panama garr ;
The United States warship, Machias,
was at Colon under orders to land ma-
rines if the city were threatened by
the rebels. The Orinoco brings also a
report that a Colombian gunboat, the
Cordova, was sunk by the rebels be-
tween Carthagena and Colon.
Carthagena and Savanilla are quiet,
but the country is flooded with paper
money, the premium on gold being 1600
per cent.
Jamaica,
which ar-
Commissioner General Peck states he
will investigate the charges that mem-
bers of the American commission have
been guilty of improper conduct in al-
lotting space to exhibitors and sum-
marily dismiss any such as are guilty.
INSURGENTS ACTIVE.
Marines of Seven Nations Were Landed at
Tien Tsin—Besieged Missionaries
Reported Safe.
Telegrams from Tien Tsin, China,
dated Thursday, say: Heavy fighting
has taken place between the imperial
troops and the Boxers at Lai-Shin-Hi-
Sien, but the result is not known. Rail-
way traffic with pekin has been resum-
ed.» The foreign settlement is sufficient-
ly protected by the American and Jap-
anese troops, which ‘have been landed,
Sonseguently the excitement has abated.
The Chinese refuse to allow the Rus-
sian troops to pass the Taku forts.
The Chinese government issued an
edict prohibiting the Boxers organiza-
tion under penalty of death. The edict,
which was signed by the emperor, was
couched in equivocal terms and promul-
gated really more as an excuse than
in condemnation of the movement.
American, British, Japanese, German,
Italian, Russian and French marines, to
the number of 100 each, have been of-
dered to guard their respective legations
at Pekin, i the viceroy will not allow
them to proceed hence to Pekin on the
railway without the authority of the
Chinese foreign office. One hundred
and eight Americans, with a machine
gun and a field gun, landed Tuesday
night amidst great enthusiasm on the
part of the residents.
Three thousand Chinese troops from
Lu Tai are expected, en route to Fang
(ai. There is a disposition to believe
that the Boxers will disperse before the
foreign troops are ready to act. [ien
Tsin is in no danger.
The foreign men-of-war have arrived,
five Russian warships and two Russian
gunboats; one French warship; two
British warships, and one Italian war-
ship. They are all landing men.
The rescue party of Freshmen and
Germans returned from Chang-Hein-
Tien. hey confirm the report that the
besieged Belgians are now safe at Pekin.
They found several thousand Boxers
about the ruins of Lu-Kow-Chiao and
Chang Hsin Tien stations. The bridges
have been damaged and the rolling
stock destroyed. At both places the
damage done is considerably greater
than at F ang-T: Tal.
VICTIMS ALL FARMERS.
Prominent Citizens of Washington County,
Ohio, Mangled While Witnessing the
ii of an 0i! Well.
Four men killed, four fatally
injured and three crippled for life
Wednesday night at Whiple, a short dis-
tance east of Marietta, O., by a prema-
ture explosion of 50 quarts of nitro-
glycerin, which was being used in
shocting an oil well on the Kelly farm.
The well was being shot by the Humes
Torpedo Company, which had lowered
50 quarts of nitroglycerin into the drill-
ing. When the devil” was sent
down it did not go off, as expected, and
then what is known as a “jack squib,”
composed oi heavy iron and dynamite,
with a protected fuse, was dropped in-
to the well. It was expected that when
they came together there would be the
usual blast that would shoot the well,
but it seems that the “jack squib” ex-
ploded first and then the crowd rushed
to sce the shooting of the gusher.
When the arrived at the derrick, the
first charge that was put down went off
with terrific force, wrecking everything
and blowing the men in every direc-
tion. The remains of two of these ‘had
to be picked up in pieces and those
who were fatally injured are mangled
in a horrible manner.
The employes of the driller and the
rietta Glycerin Company remained at
a safe distance from force of habit for
some time, although they had no ex-
pectation of another explosion. None
of them were hurt. They begged the
otiiers in vain not to rush up to the
derrick.
All of the victims are well known resi-
dents, and the calamity has spread dis-
tress throughout the neighborhood.
Every means of relief, so far as
nurses and physicians and supplies are
concerned, have been furnished from
Marietta and neighboring points, but
nothing can prevent the death list from
being less than eight killed, while the
extent of the injuries of John and Hen-
Stallar and Walter Daniels are not
yet known.
NATIONAL DEBT DECREASING.
were
Redemption of Bonds Reduced It Over Two
Millions in May.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business,
May 31, 1900, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $1,122,608811, a decrease
for the month of $2,193,274, which is
accounted for by the redemption of
bonds.
The debt is recapitulated as follows:
Interest-bearing debt, $1,026,482,000;
debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, $1,181,880; debt bearing no in-
terest, $390,772,470. Total, $1,418,392,-
340. This amount, howe ever, does not
include $720,584,179 in certificates and
treasury notes outstanding, which are
offset by an equal amount of cash on
hand.
The cash in the treasury is classified
as follows: Reserve fund, gold coin and
bullion, $150,000,000; trust funds, gold,
silver and United States notes, $729,-
584,179; general fund, $113,355 220; In
national bank depositories, to credit of
United States treasurer, $1035,226,525; to
credit of disbursing officer, $6,095,802;
total, $1,104,261,826, against "which there
are demand liabilities outstanding
amounting to $808.478,206, which leaves
ash balance in the treasury of
3:529.
monthly comparative statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the
United States shows that during May,
1900, the receipts aggregated $45,160,053,
and the expenditures $40,351,525, leav-
ing a surplus for the month of $4,814,
528. The receipts from the several
sources of Yevernne are given as fol-
lows: Customs, $17,306,573, decrease as
compared with May, 1899, $1,000,000;
internal revenue, $23,861, 6. increase,
$140,000; miscellaneous, $3,008,153, in-
crease, $1,200,000.
During the last eleven months of the
fiscal year the receipts exceeded the
expenditures by $6 ,000. One year
ago there was a deficit for the eleven
months of the fiscal year of $104,620,000.
CABLE FLASHES.
The English Zovernment is determin-
ed that President Kruger shall be ban-
ished from the Transvaal.
The forces of Methodism in England
intend to raise a ‘twentieth century
fund” of $5,200,000 this year.
“Boxers” in China surround a party
of foreigners, who were trying to escape
to Tein Tsin and killed four and wound-
ed as many more.
The people’s congress in Cape Colony
declared that England should restore
the independence of the Transvaal and
Orange Free State.
On the night of May 24, United
States Minister Merr box in the
postofifice at n Jose, Costa Rico, was
broken open and his letters stolen.
Cavalry fired upon the rioting strik-
ers at Chalons-sur-Saone, France, kill-
ing one and wounding 20. Fifteen gen-
dearmes and two soldiers were injured.
By a vote of 116 to 31 the British
House of Lords passed the second read-
ing of the bill allowing in the colonies
the marriage of a man to his deceased
wife's sister.
President T.oubet, of France, who,
when he attended the grand steeple-
chase at Auteuil last year was greeted
by a stormy outhurst, renewed the vi
Sunday and there was no sign of politi-
cal disturbance.
OR. TALMAGE'S SUNDRY SERMON
A GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Subject: The Roll of Honor—A Tribute to
Everyday Heroes—In the Final Read-
justment They Will Receive the
Ji sm of Valor,
[Copyright 1900.1
. WasnHingrox, D. C.—Dr. Talmage, who
is now preaching to large audiences in
the great cities of England and Scotlend,
sends this discourse, in which he shows
that many who in this world pass as of
little importance will in the day of nnal
readjustment be crowned with high honor;
text, 11 Timothy ii, 3, “Thou therefore
endure hardness,’
Historians are not slow to acknowledge
the merits of great military chieftains.
We have the full length portraits of the
Cromwells, the Washingtons, the Napo-
leons and the Wellingtons of the world.
History is not written in back ink, but
with red ink of human blood. The gods
of human ambition do not drink from
bowls made out of silver or gold or pre-
cious stones, but out of the bleached
skulls of the fallen. But I am now to une
roll before you a scroll of heroes that the
world has never acknowledged —those who
faced no guns, blew no bugle blast, con-
guered no cities, chained no captives to
their chariot wheels, and yet in the great
day of eternity will stand higher than
some of those whose names startled the
nations—and seraph and rapt-spirit and
archangel will tell their deeds to a listen-
ing umverse. mean the heroes of ccm-
mon, everyday life.
In this roll in the first place I find all
the heroes of the sick room. When Satan
had failed to overcome Job, he said to
God, “Put forth Toy hand and touch his
bones and his Heel, and he will curse
Thee to Thy face.” Satan had found out
that which we have all found out—that
sickness is the greatest test of one's char-
acter. A man who can stand that can
sland any thing. To be shut in a room as
fas® as though it were a bastile, to be so
nervous you cannct endure the tap of a
child’s foot, to have luscious fruit, which
tempts the appetite of the robust and
healthy, excite our loathing -nd disgust
when it first appears on the platter; to
have the rapier of pain strike id the
side or across the temple like a razor or
to put the foot into a vise or throw the
whole body into a blaze of fever. Yet
there have been men and women, but
more women than men, who have cheer-
fully endured this hardness. Through
y of exhausting rheumatisms and ex-
cruciating neuralgias they have gone and
through bodily distress that rasped the
nerves and tore the muscles and raled the
cheeks and stooped the shoulders. By
the dull light of the sick room taper they
saw on their wall the picture of that land
where the inhabitants are never sic
Through the dead silence of the night they
heard the.chorus of the angels.
The cancer ate away her life from week
to week and day to day, and she bec came
weaker and weaker and every “goo
night” was feebler than the “good night”
before, yet never sad. The children looked
up into her face and saw suffering trans-
formed into a heavenly smile. Those who
suffered on the battlefield amid shot and
shell were not more heroes and heroines
than those who, in e field hospital and
in the asylum, had fevers ha
could cool and no surgery cure. No shout
of a comrade to cheer them, but numbness
and aching and homesickness, yet willing
to suffer, confident in God, hopeful of
heaven. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes of
neuralgia, heroes of spinal complaint, he-
roes of sick headache, heroes of lifelong
invalidism, heroes and heroines! They
shall reign for ever and ever. Hark! I
catch just one note of the eternal gathen,
“There shall be no more pain!” Bles
God for that!
In this roll I also find the heroes of toil,
who do their work uncomplainingly. It
is comparatively easy to lead a regiment
into batte when you know that the whole
nation will applaud the victory, it is com-
paratively easy to doctor the "sick when
you know that your skill will be appre-
ciated by a large company of friends and
relatives, it is comparatively easy to ad-
dress an audience when in the gleaming
eyes and flushed cheeks you know that
your sentiments are adopted, but to do
sewing when you expect the employer will
come and thrust his thumb through the
work to show how imperfect it is or to
have the whole garment v.rown back om
you to be done over again; to build a
wall and know there will be no one to
say you did it well, but only a swearing
employer howling across the scaffold; to
work until your eyes are dim and your
back aches and your heart faints, and to
know that if you stop before night your
children will starve! Ah, the sword has
not slain so many as the needle! The
reat battlefields of our civil war were not
settysburg and Shiloh and South Mount-
ain. I'he great battlefields were in the
arsenals and in the shops and in the at-
ties, where women made army jackets for
a sixpence. 'L'hey toiled on until they
died. They had no funeral eulogium, but
in the name of my God, this day I enroll
their names among those of whom the
world was not worthy Heroes of the
needle! Heroes of the sewing machine!
Heroes of the attic! Heroes of the cel-
lar! Heroes and heroines! Bless God
for them!
In this voll I also find the heroes who
have uncomplainingly endurea domestic
pijpstioes They are hon who for their
anxiety have no sympathy in
their te une application tc
business ts them a livelihood, but an
unfrugal wife scatters it. He is fretted at
from the moment he enters the door until
he comes out o . The exasperations of
business life, Tonio by the exaspera-
tions of domestic life. Such men are
laughed at, but they have a heartbreaking
trouble, and they would have long ago
gone into appalling dissipation but for the
grace o
Society to-day 1s strewn with the
wrecks of men who, under the northeast
storms of domestic felicity, have been
driven on the rocks here are tens of
thousands of drunkards to-day, made such
by their wives. That is not poetry; that
is prose. But the wrong is generally in
the opposite direction. Yon would not
fre to go far to find a wife whose life
a perpetual martyrdom—something
Ea ier than a stroke of the fist, unkind
words, staggering nome at midnight and
constant maltreatment, which have left
her only a wreck of w hat she was on that
day when in the midst of a brilliant as-
semblage the vows were taken and full
organ play ed the wedding march and the
carriage rolled away with the benediction
of the people. What was the burning of
Latimer and Ridley at the stake com-
pared with this? Those men soon became
unconscious in the fire, but tnere is a
thirty years’ martyrdom, a fifty years’
jutting to death, yet uncomplaining, no
Phter words when ‘the rollicking compan-
jons at 2 o'clock in the morning pitch the
husband dead drunk into the front entry,
no bitter words when wiping from the
swollen brow the blood struck out in a
midnight carousal, bending over the bat-
tered and bruised form of him who when
he took Ler from her father's home prom-
ised love and kindness and protection, yet
nothing but sympathy and prayers "and
forgiveness before they are asked for;
no bitter words when the famil 3ible
goes for rum and the pawnbroker’ s shop
gets the last decent dres: Some day,
desiring to evoke y of her sor-
rows, you say, , how are you get-
ting along nov and, rallying her
trembling voice and quieting Jl quivering
ip, she s, “Pretty well, I thank you;
pretty well.” She never will tell you. In
the delirium of her last sickness s
tell all the other secrets of
but she will not tell that.
hooks of eternity are
throne of judgment will ever
what she has suffered
I find also in this roll the heroes
Christian charity. We all admire oe
reorge Peabody and the James Lenoxes
of the earth, who give tens and hundreds
of thousands of dollars to good objects.
But I am speaking now of those who, out
of their pinched poverty, en others—of
such men as those Christia sionaries
at the wes*, who a hE to tue
people, one of them, writing to the secre-
tary in New York, saying: “I thank you
for that $25. Until yesterday we have
had no meat in our house for three
months. \Ve have suffered terribly, My
children have no shoes this winter.” And
of those people who have only a half loaf
of bread, but give a piece of it to others
who are hungrier, and of those who have
only a scuttle .of coal, but help others
to fuel, and of those ‘who have only a
dollar in their pocket and give twenty-
five cents to somebody else, and of that
father who wears a shabby coat and of
that mother who wears a faded dress,
that their children may be well appar-
eled. You call them paupers or ragamuf-
fins or emigrants. 1 call them heroes and
heroines. You and I may not inow
where they live or what their name is.
God knows, and they have more angels
hovering over them than you and ve
and they will have a higher seat in heaven.
‘hey may have only a cup of cold water
to give a poor traveler or may have only
picked a splinter from the nail of a child's
finger or have put only two mites nto
the treasury, but the Lord knows them
1 .
Not until the
opened on the
be known
Considering what they had, they did
more than we have ever done, and their
faded dress will become a white robe,
and the small room will be an
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mansion and the old hat will be exchanged
for a coronet of victory and all the ap-
plause of earth and the shouting of heaven
will be drowned out when God rises up
to give His reward to those humble work-
ers in His kingdom and to say to them,
“Well done, g -u and faithful servant.
You have all seen or heard of the ruins
of Melrose Abbey suppose in sone
respects they are the most exquisite ruins
on carth, and yet, ‘ooking at it, was
not so impressed —vou may set it dow.
to bad taste, but I was not so deeply
stirred as I was at a tombstone at the
foot of that ay the tombstone placed
by Walter Scott over the grave of an
old man who had sefved him a good
many years in his house, the -scription
most significant, and defy any man to
stand there and read it ‘without tears
coming into his eves—the epitaph, “Well
done, good and faithful servant.” Oh,
when our work is over, will it be found.
because of anything we have done for
God or the charch or suffering humanity,
that such an inscription is approp: iate
for us? God grant it!
Who are those who were bravest and
deserved the greatest monument—ILord
Claverhouse and his burly soldiers or
John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, and
his wife? p tkins, the persecuted
minister of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was
secreted by John Brown and his wife,
and Claverhouse rode up one day with
his armed men and shouted in front of
the house. John Brow n’s little girl came
out. Ie said to_her, “Well, miss, is Mr.
Atking here?” She made no answer, for
she could not betray the minister of the
gospel. “Ha! averhouse said, “Then
you are a chip of the old block, are you?
have something in my pocket for you.
It is a nosegay. Some people call it a
thumbserew, but 1 call it a nosegay.
And he got off his horse, and Le put it
on the little girl's hand and began to turn
it until the bones cracked and she cried.
He said: “Don’t cry, don’t ery. This
isn’t a thumbscrew; this is a nosegay.
And they heard the child's ery, and the
father and mother came out, and Claver-
house said: “It ee that you three
have laid your h
termined to die like all the ee of your
hypocritical, canting, sniveling
Rather than give up good Mr.
pious Mr. Atkins, you would die.
a telescope with me that will imvrove
your vision, And he pulled out a pis
tol. “Now,” he said, ‘‘you old pragmatic,
lest you bond catch yd in this cold
morning of Sc a and for the honor
and safety of the king, to say nothing
of the glory of God and the good of onr
i will proceed simply and in the
neatest and most expedi tiots style to
blow your brains out.
John Brown fell upon his knees and
began to pr Ah!” said C laverhouse,
“look out if rou are going to prav. Steer
clear of the king, the council and Richard
Cameron. » “0 Lord,” said John Brown,
“since it seems to be Thy will that I should
leave this world for a world where 1
gen love Thee bet and serve Thee more,
yut this poor widow woman and these
LE, fatherless children into Thy
hands, We have been together in peace
2 good while, but now we must look Foy
to a better meeting in heaven. and as for
these poor creatures. bimdfolded and in-
fatuated, that stand before me, convert
them before it be too late, and may they
who have sat in judgment in this lonely
place on this blessed morning upon me;
a poor, defenseless fellow creature, may
they in the last judgment find that mercy
which they have refused to me, Thy most
unworthy but Tan servant. Amen.
He rose and said, “Isabel, the hour has
come of which I ha to vou on the
morniiig when 1 proposed hand and heart
to you, and are you willing now, for the
love of God to let me die?’ She put her
arms around him and said: “The Lord
gave, and the lord hath taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.” “Stop
that sniveling,” said A
have jad enough of it. Soldiers, do your
work! Take aim! Fire And the he i
of John Brown was scattered on the
ground. While the wife was gathering
up in her apron the fragment of her hus-
band’s head—gathering them up for bur-
ial—Claverhouse looked into her face and
said: “Now, my good woman, how do yon
»
feel now about you yonnie man? ‘Oh
she said, “ s thought weel of Lim.
He has been good to me. I had no
reason for thinking anything but weel of
him, and I think better of him now.’ Oh.
what a grand thing it will be in the last
day to see God pick out His heroes and
heroines! Who are those paupers of cter-
nity y tadnite off from the Ete
Who are they? he Lore 1c
and Herods and those who 1 RN
and crowns and thron=z, but they live
for their own aggrandizement, and they
broke the heart of nations. Heroes of |
earth, but panpers in eternity. I beat th
drums of their eternal des oe,
woe, woe!
What harm can the world do you when
the Lord Almighty with imsheathed Sw word
hghts tor you’ 1 preach this
comfort. Go home to the : i
where God has put you to play ee ee
or the heroine 0 not envy any man
his money or his apnlause or his social po-
sition. Do not envy any woman her ward-
robe or her exquisite 3p arance. Be the
hero or the heroine. 1f there be no flour
in the house and you do not know where
your children are to get bread, listen, and
vou will hear something tapping
the window pane. Go to the window, and
vou will find it is the beak of a raven, and
open the window. and there will ily in the
messenger that fed Knjan. Do you think
that the God who grows the cotion of the
south will let you freeze for lack of
clothes? Do you think that the God who
allowed His discinles on Sabbath morning
to go into the grainfield and then take
the grain and rub it in their hands and
eat—do you think God will let you st
ve
arve?
Did you ever hear of the experience of
that old man, “1 have been young and
now am ol have never seen the
righteous for or his seed begging
bread?’ Get up out of your discourage-
ment, O troubled soul, O sewing woman,
O man kicked and cuffed by unjust em-
lovers, O ye who are hard bese. in the
battle of life and know not which way to
turn, O bereft one, O vou sick cne with
complaints you have told to no one, come
and get the comfort of tl«: subject]
ten to our great Captain’s cheer, “I'o him
that overcometh will I zive to eat of the
fruit of the tree of which is in the
midst of the paradise of God.
Notes of the Crusade.
Out of 520 towns and plantations in
Maine, 437 effectually prohibit the saloon.
Out of a population of 661,085, there are
406,855 who never come in touch with a sa-
loon.
We license a saloon that makes a man
drunk; we pay policemen to remove the
drunken man to ; We pay the officers of
court high fees to try the prisoner; we y
a big salary to a judge to sentence him:
and if he commit crime, we pay tho e
penses of a penitentiary tosiut Nim up for
years,
Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, M.D, Prof
of Pathology in Cambridge Univers Ly,
says: “Itis now generally recognized thie
children should never take alcohol, which,
according to the highest authoriti Ss,
erts an exceedingly deleterious action on
rapidly-growing tissues, interfering with
their nutrition, and preventing the devel-
opment of their proper function.’
A Total Abstinence Society has been
Sib) in Vienna by 120 members. Its pro-
gramme includes abstinence from alcohol
in every form for the benefit of the health
and morals of the people, and to show the
absolute uselessness of alcohol.
Diogenes, being presented at a fe:
with a large goblet of wine, threw it onthe
ground. When blamed for wasting s
much good ues, 10 ds: ad I drunk
it there would have been on waste,
as well as the wine would have been lost.”
The King of Pondoland, a couniry ro-
cently annexed to Cape Colony, has until
recently been one of the most resolute op-
posers of Christianity in South Afriea. I'he
| ry & Sons,
occasion of the King’s change of mind w
the coaversion of his chict officer, who oon
been a great drunkard.
FEISTONE STE NEWS CORDERSE
PENSIONS GRA GRANTED.
State Treasurer Barneit’s First Report—Big
Ea'ance in General Fund—Blinded
by the Eclipse.
These pensions have been grantedg
Josephus A. Calvin, Hollidaysburg, $8;
Martin Getty, Houtzdale, $10; George
Lawson, Corry, $25; Samuel Silks,
McVeytown, $12; Joseph A. Corbin,
Eldersville, $12; Maggie T. Pontius,
$8; Margaret Bower, Big Run,
M. Grant, mother, Pleasant-
Tie “$12; John Uban, Leetsdale, $10;
Nicholas Ahles, Carrelltown, $10;
Amanuel Russell, Tyrone, $10; Jacob
Fomer, Webster, $10; Wilbur McCahan,
Miffiintown, $10; Joseph Bryant, Can-
onsburg, $12; Catherine Grief, Dunlo,
$ as Feathers, "Roaring
Springs, $8: Maria L. Doods, Indiana,
$8; minors of Daniel Crise, West New-
ton, $18; Annie Carroll, Pleasantville,
$8; minor of William Herrick, Litch-
field, $10.
In the wilds of Pike county, near
Kimbles, the authorities of Pike have
discovered an old shanty which for
ved 1a3 been used as a robbers’ re-
treat. Information was received that
the goods stolen from Rowland’s store,
at Stroudsburg, a few nights ago was
taken to this place. When officers ar+
rived there they found Harrison Spang-
burg, Joe Bell and two young girls, one
of them 13 y old, and a 12-year-old
boy in the on The property stolen
from Rowland’s store was recovered.
Since their arrest, the men have confess-
ed robbing Kipp's store at Wilsonville
and Pierson’s mill at Hawley.
Caterpillars by the millions have prov=
ed the most destructive to apple and
cherry trees in the upper end of Dau-
hin county this year than ever before,
and the crop, from all accounts, will be
almost a failure. The majority of the
Jpnes made a desperate effort to get
ahead of the pests, using all kinds of
methods, but all in vain. One man re-
marked that in two days he removed 12
bushels of caterpillars from his orchard
of 75 to 100 trees. He has men employ-
ed every day and may save a portion
of the trees. Whole orchards have
been entirely stripped.
The first monthly report of State
Treasurer Barnett at the close of busi-
ness May 31. shows a balance in the
general fund of $4,728,865.60. The
school appropriation for the current fis-
cal year because available on Monday,
and Col. Barnett will at once begin pay-
ing the districts. P hiladelphia, Pitts-
burg, Allegheny and other large dis-
paid in installments, while
the smaller districts will receive their
share in the order in which they file
their annual reports in the department
of public instruction.
Pittsburg and Philadelphia capitalists
have secured possession of the town o
Frugality, Cambridge county, and one
of the richest of coal lands in Central
Pennsylvania. The transac tion involves
the extensive holdings of Supreme Jus-
tice John Dean, heretofore operated un-
der the title of the Frugality Coz il and
Coke Company. The price is under-
stood to LA been something in the
neighborhood cf $1,000,000.
A charter has been issued to the Pitts-
burg, Binghampton & stern Railway
Company, with a capital of $300,000.
The road will be 30 miles in length and
will extend from the borough of Mon-
roe, in Bradford county, to the north-
ern he yundary of Susquehanna county.
said that a party of capitalists
gton arc cndeavoring to se-
for a brewery at Waynes-
citizens of the latter
tricts will be
site
and that
The large lumber mills of James Cur-
cure a
in Paint township. Somerset
county, about four miles south of
> indber, were totally destroyed by fire.
he loss is between $30,000 and $40,000;
insurance, $20.000. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The owners will re
{ build at once.
town are opposing the project.
Mrs. H. C. McAllister, of Conestoga
Centre, became blind in one eye as a
result of gazing too long at the eclipse
of the sun. She watched it closely for
a long time, both through smoked glass
and with the naked eve. Her sight be-
came dim the next day and grew stead-
ily worse until she is unable to see with
that eye.
John D. Archibold, of the Standard
Oil Company, has offered the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of Titusville, $10,000
toward a new church, and the offer has
been accepted. The pastor was in«
structed to appoint a committee to se-
cure additional subscriptions toward
the new edifice. which will cost $25,000.
The H. Frick Coke Company has
ordered the shutting down of 10 per
cent. of its ovens in the Connellsville
region this week. As the Frick com=
pany operate two-thirds of the ovens
in the region, this means a closing
down of over 1.000 ovens and the cur-
tailment of production of from 700 to
R00 tons of coke a day.
Grant Powell, of Bolivar, was sen-
tenced at Greenville, Monday, to the
penitentiary for one year and five
months for shooting his wife. He was
convicted at the February term of ag-
ated assault and battery upon his
v whom he shot in the head during
a drunken debaugs. After the trial
Mrs. Powers died.
Mrs. Frank Wilson,
man in Easton, and
State, died Sunday. She weighed fully
five hundred pounds. It required the
combined efforts of eleven men to carry
the down stairs. Mrs. Wilson
was 35 old. Death was due to
The jury in the case of the Bellever-
non Cemetery Association vs. the J.
I. Somers Coal Company to recover
damages for coal mined on the property
of the association, returned a verdict
of $1,000 for the plaintiff, at Greens-
burs.
John Wick, Jr,
the largest wo-
probably in the
corpse
years
president and chief
owner of the Ford China Company,
Ford City, and of the Wick China Com-
pany, Kittanning, which combined, are
the largest manufacturers of fine china
in the country. W. D. Keyes, formerly
secretary of the Ford China Company,
and others, are arranging to . staft a
large plate glass business at Ford City.
S. C. Dougherty, a Jeannette drug-
gist, was made to pay 50 damages
in a suit brought by McPher-
son, at Greensburg. The plaintiff
claimed damages for the serious illness
of a child which it was claimed resulted
from the negligent and improper filling
of a prescription at the defendants
pharmacy. :
Berlin postal authorit estimate that
no fewer than 160,000 pc cards with-
out any addresses at ail are mailed in
the German empire ¢very year.
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