OER VICTORY WON BY MLE] , | “7% Yi LLG TAGE FMD rou mors {FATIH RAY SCMONL IN BFRER 0b HLMRGES SUNDRY sgn | re ENSTOE SRE EHS COMERS YANG TSUN CAPTURED. The Place Was the Objective Point of the First Advance — August 15, 50,000 Men Will Press Forward. This dispatch from Minister Conger, dated at Tsi-Nan-Yamen, Tuesday, was received late Tuesday night by the state department at Washington: “Still be- sieged. Situation more precarious. Chinese government insisting upon our leaving Peking, which would be certain death. Rifle firing upon us daily by im- perial troops. Have abundant courage, but little ammunition or provisions. Two progressive yamen ministers be- headed. All connected with the legation of the United States well at the present moment. onger.” In the capture of Yangtsun, the losses of the allies, according to* a dispatch from Chefu, dated Wednesday, purport- ing to give an account of the engage- ment, were 200, the majority of these be- ing killed. The position, held by 1,500 Chinese, was well entrenched to the east of the river. After four hours’ heavy fighting the Chinese were driven from their defense works. A dispatch received in London from the war office in Japan announces that General Terauchi informs his govern- ment that the international army would total 50.000 men on August 15. The present movement of some 16,000 men doubtless is viewed in the light of a re- connoissance in force, the main move- ment of the army of 50,000 to follow on the 15th. The flooded country beyond Peitsang adds immeasurably to the difficulty of the progress of the allies toward Pekin. This news reaches the Shanghai corre- spondents from Tien Tsin with state- ments that the situation at Tien Tsin is again perilous owing to the assem- bling of Chinese troops within striking distance. The losses of the allies in the recent operations are now said to be 1,130 men, of which the Russians lost 600, the Japanese 410 and the British 120. Telegrams from Shanghai, dated Fri- day, say: An imperial decree names Li Hung Chang as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate peace. The London morning papers express satisfaction at the latest developments in China. The average comment is that China is now genuinely suing for peace through Li Hung Chang. St. Petersburg dispatch says the Chinese minister there, Yang Yu, has received a telegram announcing that Li Hung Chang is dangerously ill and con- fined to his bed, and that he has been granted a month's leave. The United States Government Sun- day refused to enter into negotiations looking toward peace with China until the demand made by President McKin- ley respecting the Peking Ministers has been complied with. This step was the result of an imperial edict announcing Li-Hung-Chang’s appointment as En. voy Plenipotentiary. The situation at Peking is regarded as clearing, and another message from Minister Conger was received annotnc- ing the determination of the legations to hold out until the relief expedition arrived. NEW KING TAKES THE OATH. Victor Emmanuel Pledges Himself to Labor for the Welfare of Italy. King Victor Emmanuel IIIT took the oath on Saturday in the presence of both houses of Parliament. He made an address, in which he said his first thought of love and gratitude was for the people. He said Italy would be an efficient instrument for maintaining peace, and must have internal peace and the good will of all men to develop iis intellectual forces and economic ener- gies. “I mount,” said he, “the throne without fear and quietly, with knowl- edge of my rights and duties as king. shall never be lacking in confidence in our liberal institutions and will never default in initiative energy when action should be taken to defend vigorously the glorious institutions of our country and the precious heritages of our ancestors. Reared in love of religion and of coun- try, I take God as witness of my prom- ise that from to-day I will work always with all my heart for the greatness and prosperity of my country.” — ENGLAND KICKS ON LOAN. Britons Angry Because Americans Took Up Most of the War Bonds. The aliotment of such a large por- tion of the war loan to America has not been well received in many quarters. The Daily Chronicle, in its financial ar- ticle, says: “The people are so angry that they have not time to consider to what hu- miliation we have been brought in hav- ing to appeal at all to foreign money markets for assistance.” The Daily Express says: a chance, if the bonds go to a high premium, that the Americans may promptly sell them back and so defeat the object our bankers have in view; but there is a well-founded belief that the demand for investments of a class by insurance companies and others in the United States is so great that the bonds wiil be retained for the sake of their yield.” “There is Fifty Seamen Drowned. During maneuvers of the French fleet off Cape St. Vincent Saturday night a collision occurred between the first-class battleship Brennus, flying the flag of Vice Admiral Fournier, commander of the fleet, and the torpedo boat destroyer Framee. The Framee sank immediately. The accident was due to the fact that the Framee turned to the right when or- dered to the left. Details thus far received are very meagre. Only a small portion of the crew, consisting of four officers and 38 men, were saved. It is said that no few- er than 50 were lost and great anxiety is felt here. The Framece, which was of 313 tons displacement, was a recent addition to the French navy. $5,000,000 to Help Bryan. A copy of the Manila Freedom, re- ceived by the transport Sherman, con- tains the following: The city remnant of the Filipino junta in Hongkong is jubi- lant over the nomination of William Jennings Bryan at the head of the Dem- ocratic ticket and has offered to sub- scribe $5,000,000 to the Democratic cam- paign fund to aid in securing his elec- tion. Fiestas have been in order since the news arrived, and there was no hesi- high stroyed 16 buildings. The navy department decided to reject all the recent bids for armor plate. Sunday a wind storm damaged big New Kensington, Pa., industries $100,- 000. An Erle county, Pa, farmer was mur- dered and probably robbed in his wagon, Jealousy over a woman caused the latest Klondike murder in F ette county, Pa. Explosion of a jar of vitriol at the York (Pa.) chemical works fatally burned two men. Secret agents of the Italian govern- ment are to keep watch on Italian anar- chists in Pittsburg, Pa. The Prohibitionist Committee of North Dak in the field a full ticket. Tyrone, ™a., borough council granted a iranchise to the Tyrone E tric Railv Company. A strange disease somewhat resemb- ling cholera, is prevalent in parts of Westmoreland county, P The Lancaster (Pa.) pany has been absorl Consideration, $1,000,000 The city council of Ravenna, O., has granted a trolley franchise to the Port- age Lakes Transportation Company. Samuel Beck, an old man near Cin- cinnati, killed himself because the car- rier ceased to deliver his daily paper to him. An unknown man undertook to assas- sinate Lotta Gardner at Pleasant Unity, Pa., by firing through a bedroom win ow. A charter was granted at Harrisburg Friday to the Standard Water Company, Westmoreland county, Pa., capital $10,- 000. Marine hospital service advices from Manila just received report that the number of plague cases there is dimin- ishing. England is said to have categorically refused to treat for peace with China until communication with its minister is restored. Silas Shoemaker was killed and Frank Marshall and James German were badly injured in a mine explosion near Allen- town, Pa. By a break in the line of the Buck- eye Pipe Line Company near Findlay, O., many thousands of gallons of oil were lost. The United States transport McPher- son with nine officers and 412 men of the Fifth infantry on board has arrived at New York. At Claysville, Pa., the thirty-fifth an- nual session of the Panhandle Baptist Association will be held from August 30 to September 3. The Riverside Coal and Coke Com- pany, of Nicholson township, Fayette county, Pa, capital $50,000, was incor- porated Thursday. One child was burned to death and two others perhaps fatally injured in the burning of a house at Hughesville, Ly- coming county, Pa. Gen. MacArthur is negotiating for the surrender of Aguinaldo and it is believ- ed the Filipino leader will surrender within the next week. Mrs. Ollie Reinold, who is endeavor- ing to starve herself in the asylum at Sharon, Pa., is failing rapidly and her death is expected-soon. The Union Metallic Cartridge Com- pany, of Bridgeport, Conn., is working night and day to fill orders from several governments for ammunition. Sergeant Major Burnard Goss, Thirty- fifth volunteer infantry, now in the Philippines, has been appointed a sec- ond lieutenant in that regiment. When Thomas Graham, of Massillon, O., donned a woman’s dress and did a skirt dance on the street he was at- tacked by citizens with horse whips. The introduction of an organ has rent the congregation of the Union United Congregational church at Sardis, Pa. and the presbytery will be appealed to. A $400,000 fire at Beaver Falls, Pa, destroyed the manufacturing plants of the Shelby Tube Company and the Bos- ton Conduit Company, Wednesday night. The marine hospital service has re- ceived a cablegram from Past Assistant Surgeon J. B. Greene officially announc- ing the existence of the plague at Ham- burg. The plant of the Huntington (W. Va.) Glass Company, idle for five years, was purchased by Arion Zilman, of Cumber- and, Md. who will employ 200 men making bottles. H. L. Gilchin, in charge of the public works of the Yukon, announces that he will have telegraphic communication es- tablished between Atlin and the outside world by October 1. The State of Nebraska has begun cuit for $633,000 against the Union Pa- cific railroad for violation of the maxi- mum freight law in 27 cases. Testimony was begun at Omaha. The government has bestowed upon M. Oliver Taigny, of the embassy at Washington, the cross of the Legion of Honor, with the red ribbon symbolic of this famous order. Dr. Michael M. Regent and Mrs. ME A. Mahone wu € si tanced inhi cago to the penitentiary for fraudulently securing insurance money from the Knights and Ladies of Security. Johnnie Dew, an aeronaut, was kill- ed at Racine, Wis., while making a bal- loon ascension. He was dashed to death in the lake below, every bone in his body being broken by the fall. A call has been issued from the head- quarters of the Afro-American council for a National convention of that organ- ization to meet in the Senate chamber at Indianapolis, on Tuesday, August 28. Frederick Merrick has been arrested in Elbert county, Colo, and taken to Hugo on suspicion of being one of the camp ecutive 1s placed State ota he % Com- trust. mel the men who robbed the Union Pacific e press and killed W. J. Fay, of Cali- fornia. The United States authorities have de- cided to secure the extradition of Charles W. F. Neely to Cuba by dis- continuing the es against him in this country, in accordance with Judge La combe’s decision. Reports from Australia, by steamer to the Vancouver, indicate abatement of plague. They are having winter at pr ent in the Antipodes, and the cold wr ther has tended toward diminishing the scourge in a great degree. Mr. A. T. Huntington, chief of the division of loans and currency, in the treasury department, has prepared an 8 page circular concerning United States bonds, paper currency, coin, the produc- tion of precious metals, etc. President McKinley has forwarded to China a demand amounting to an uli tancy in voting the money at the first meeting. Mine Gas Explosion. Electricity which was turned into the mouth of the old Jefferson coal shaft, near Steubenville, 0. caused an explosion of firedamp Friday that blew timbers from the mouth of the shaft and 300 feet in the air and destroyed the der- rick. Workmen around the mouth of the shaft had narrow escapes from death and injury. The explosion shook the lower end of the city as if by earth- quake. Accepts Von Waldersee. Great Britain, the United States and Japan have now approved the appoint- ment of Field Marshal Count von Wal- dersee as commander-in-chief of the al- lied forces in China; the United States and Japan unr-servedly and Great Britain conditionally, on all the other Powers agreeing to the appointment. This condition has practically been ful- fille matum for free communication wit] Minister Conger. Minister Wu submit ted an imperial edict, promising all the | powers free communication with their legations, but no results are yet appar- ent. CABLE FLASHES. Anti-foreigners are again in power at Peking, and Li Hung Chang is pre- pared for flight. A French warship has furnished fire- men for the French liner La Bretagne, which has been tied up at Havre by strikers. France takes the appointment of Count Von Waldersee as generalissimo of the forces in China with ill grace, inasmuch as the Frenchmen cannot forget the time when German troops marched on the Champs de Elysees. Eight Americans, students of the Uni. versity of Michigan, were arres ] ted in the gardens of a brewery at Loewen, Ger- many, because they had created dis- er, who is seriously injured. | i turbances and roughly handled the wait- | i | MURDER AND ROBBERY. Charles R. H. Farrell Arrested Sunday and Confesses That He Killed His Friend. Money Recovered. The passenger train on the Pennsyl- vania lines, due to arrive at Columbus, O., from the west at midnight, was rob- bed at some point between there and Cincinnati Friday night, and Messenger Charles Lane, of that city, killed. The robbery was not discovered until the train pulled into the station and the messenger was found cold in death, with his revolver, several chambers of which had been emptied, lying by his The contents of the safe had been stolen, the door having been blown open. The dead man’s keys were taken ont of his pocket, together with his knife and what valuables he may have had. The keys were used to open the strong box. The keys and knife were then laid on the body and the revolver placed in the safe. The car was deserted at one of two points, either at Marble Cliff or at the viaduct at the entrance to the Co- lumbus Union station Charles R. H. Ferrell, a former em- ploye of the Adams Express Company, was arrested Sunday afternoon in Co- lumbus and has confessed to the killing of Messenger Charles Lane and the rob- bery of the way safe of the Adams E ress Com on the Pennsylwania railroad eas ind train which arrived in this ¢ at midnight Friday. One thousand dollars of the money which he had stolen was recovered. LORD RUSSELL DEAD. The Distinguished Chief Justice of England Passes Away. Baron Russell, of Killowen, lord chief justice of England, died Friday morn- ing from gastric catarrh. Charles Russell was born at Newry, Ireland, in 1833. He studied law and in 1851 moved to London, where he was admitted to the bar in 1850. He soon became prominent as an advocate and in 1872 was appointed queen's counsel. In 1880 he entered parliament and became in turn, solicitor general ane attorney general, under Mr. Glad- stone. He was concerned in many famous cases and won international reputation as a lawyer and orator. He was knighted in 1886. In 1894 he was appointed a lord of appeal in ordinary and in July of the same year was made lord chief justice of England. In 1806 he visited the United States and delivered an address on “International Arbitration” before the Bar Association of America, at Saratoga Springs. He presided over the trial of Dr. Jameson and his fellow raiders of the Transvaal. BRITISH SLAY NATIVES. Flying Columns Wreak Vengeance Upon the Ashantis. Telegrams from Bakwai say a column of 700 men, under Colonel Burroughs, has returned from Kumassi, having re- mforced and re-rationed the fort for two months. The force attacked and de- stroyed three old stockades after a des- perate bayonet charge, in which four of- ficers and 34 native soldiers were wound- ed, and three killed. On the night of August 7 Colonel Burroughs attacked an Ashanti war camp near Kumassi, sut- prising the camp and bayoneting the en- emy. Gr a gun being fired. A lieutenant was killed and two men wounded. last time I went abroad, several Other flying columns are going out, |! and it is believed that the punishment |t inflicted will not soon be forgotten, though several defeats are still needed to clear the country south of Kumassi|¢ of the rebe ANARCHISTS AND POLICE. Malatesta Talks of the Cost of Buying Detec- tives—Program for Italy. Malatesta, the anarchist, who is con- sidered the leader of the regicide con- spiracy, has been interviewed in London. He is represented as having said: “Signor Sarraco, the Italian premier, is our best friend. He pays the detec- tives such small salaries that we can buy them cheaply. A few francs and a handful of cigarets and you can buy an Italian detective. The Spanish police are the cheapest; the Italians come next, and then the Russian, American, French and English in that order. The German detectives are the dearest, because they are the most stupid. With all the ar- rests, they have not arrested any real revolutionist. We shall shortly estab- lish in Italy economic equality and so- cial brotherhood. Then the whole world will follow the example of Italy.” HIGHEST IN HISTORY. Present Condition of Banks Unprecedented in the National System. A summary of the condition of all the national banks in the United States at the close of business June 20, 1900, has just been completed by the comptroller of the curréncy. The aggregate assets of the banks is shown to be $4.944,965,- 623, the highest ever reached in the his- of the national system. The larg- cst amount recently reported was on June 30, 1809, since which date there has been an increase of $233,331,719. The number of banks reporting to the ! comptroller on June 30, 1890, was 3.58 as against 3,732 on June 29, last, show- ing an increase of 149 banks since the former date. The increase in assets is shown to be in loans and discounts, the increase being about one-half of the total amount, the remainder consisting of United States bonds and cash held by the b Fifteen People Killed. ifteen persons were instantly killed and 11 others, several of whom will die. were seriously injured Sunday night in a grade crossing accident three miles ft of Si: on, P: assenger .ehigh England ad crashing into an omnibus con- All the dead and in- ed were in the omnibus and but three njured. The occupants were all directions, bruised and ans and a special train and the injured were uth Bethlehem. No watchman is employed to warn {teams or pedestrians and those living in | i Bp ; | the vicinity state it is impossible to hear | jan approaching train. A peculiar fea- ture of the accident was that the horses drawing the 'bus escaped unhurt, It develops that at least some of the recent gloomy reports touching the | wheat crops of the Northwest were ov- !erdrawn. In the southern part of | | South Dakota harvesting is about com- pleted, and, so far from the yield fall- ing below the average, as has been pre- dicted, it really turns out to be con- i siderably above the average. Moreov- | er, it is ed that the yield of the | entire State will exceed the average by liberal figures Many districts have | i Wheat Crop Turns Out Well. | Dividends Poured Out by the Stand. ard Qil Company. Wall street is simply aghast at the fabulous profits of the Standard Oil Company. The declaration of a dividend of $8 a share on the $97,500,000 outstand- ing stocks of the king of corporations, which means 38 per cent. in dividends so far this year, has set the financial in- terests of the world talking. March 15 last the company de- clared a dividend of $20 a share or about $20,000,000 which was probably the larg- est interest disbursement ever made by a corporation in this country. This dividend was followed on June 15 by a payment of $10 a share, and now comes an additional $8 per share. Thus $38,- 000,000 or about that amount, is requi ed for the payment of the three divi- dends. In the past 18 years, exclusive of the current year, the Standard Company has paid something like $221,250,000 in dividends. A comparative table is inter- esting. It shows: From 1882 to 1891 the company paid dividends at 54 per cent., $47,250,000; 1891 to 1893, dividen.s at 12 per cent., $48,000,000; 1896, divi- dends at 31 per cent., $31,000,000; 1807, dividends at 33 per cent. $33,000,000; 1898, dividends at 30 per cent., $30,000, - 000; 1809, dividends at 33 per cent., $33,- 000,000; estimated this year 48 per cent., or $48,000,000. John D. Rockefeller, president of the company, is popularly credited with owning about one-third of the million shares of the corporation. On that basis his check for his share of the present Gividend would be approximately y 666,000, and should the dividend pay- ments continue only at this rate Rocke- feller would draw annually about $10,- 606,000 from his Standard holdings alone, “A NEELY TO BE EXTRADITED. Judge Lacombe Asks for a Discontinuance of Other Suits. Judge Lacombe, of the United States circuit court, at New York, Wednesday rendered an opinion which indicates that an order for the extradition of Charles EF. W. Neely to the Cuban authorities will be signed on August 13. The latter part of the document says: “The evidence shows probable cause to believe that the prisoner is guilty of an offense defined in the act of June 6, 1900, and which is also a violation of the criminal laws in force in Cuba and upon sucti evidence he will be held for ex- tradition. Two obstacles to his extradi- tion now exist. He has been held to bail in this court upon a criminal charge of bringing into this district government funds embezzled in another district. He has also been arrested in a civil action brought in this court to recover $45,000, which, it is alleged, he has converted. When both of these proceedings shall have been discontinued the order in ex- tradition will be signed. This may be done on August 13.” ZION’S LEADER GOES ABROAD. Dowie Fears His Sacred Person May be Assaulted and Takes Guards. Surrounded by body guards, John Alexander Dowie, in Zion home at Chi- cago, bade farewell to the “divine heal- ers” and members of his church. He left for Europe on Saturday. During his trip abroad he will be accompanied by a former policeman, who will act as numbers were slain without |a body guard. In a recent address Dowie said: “The men voarded my steamer with the avowed urpose of killing me. I have no doubt that IT shall be followed by men with similar intentions on this trip. : I Howev- cr, I will have with me ten Zionites, who have pledged to protect me with their lives.” Dowie expects to return to Chicago next January, One object of the trip is said to be the completion of the trans- fer of Nottingham lace industries to the new Zion site at Waukegan, Ill. TOOK 4,000 BOER PRISONERS. British Lost 300 by the Enemy’s Capture of Elands River. Lord Roberts telegraphs from Pre- toria, under date of Thursday, as follows: “Kitchener was informed yesterday by an escaped British prisoner that De Wet's wagons had crossed the Vaal. Hunter reports that he made 4,140 pris- ones in the Bethlchem-Harrismith dis- trict, a majority of whom are now en route for Cape Town. Three guns and 4,000 horses were captured and 10 wagon loads of ammunition and 195,000 rounds of ammunition were destroyed. “The garrison of Elands river, which I fear has been captured, consisted of about 300 bushmen and Rhodesians. Methuen telegraphs that he engaged a part of De Wet's force Wednesday near Benterskroon. He drove the enemy off of a succession of hills which they held obstinately. Our casualties were seven men killed or wounded, including four officers.” TORTURED THREE PEOPLE. West Virginia Regulators Give Two Women and a Man a Thrashing. Some months ago the wife of James H. Smith, who lived at Cove, near Ma- thias, W. Va,, took sick and has since been confined to bed. Three weeks ago Smith installed Mrs. Edith Hartman and her daughter, Minnie, in his house, de- spite his wife's protests. Saturday night 20 men from the neighborhood took the two women from the house, applied 73 lashes with leather thongs to each, rub- bed the abrasions with turpentine and started them toward Mathias, naked. Later Smith was caught on the road, ridden home on a rail, and in his own front yard was given 150 lashes and the same application of turpentine as was given the women. The people in the Cove declare he must go to work at once or leave that section. Killed With a Hickory Club. The horribly mutilated body of Mrs. Annie Bunton, a widow, 35 years old, was found on the Cedar Grove road, near Brandenburg, Ky., Monday. Blood stains on the fingers of Mrs, Brunton’s nephew, Jesse Durnham, caused his arrest, and he later confess ed the murder and v hurried to Louis- ville by Sheriff Hagan, as a lynching seemed certain, Durnham killed Mrs. I hickory club while they from a church wedding, runton with a were returning Foreign Diplomats No Good. The Rev. Jonathan Lees, head of the London Missionary Society. arrived at Vancouver, B. C, Thursday from Tien Tsin on the steamship Empress of India. i He said that but for the Chinese con- verts many missionaries been killed. ing the siege. would have They were invaluable dur- Taey built all the barri- cades under a rain of bullets. He se- verely scored the foreign diplomats, who, he says are babies beside the wily Chinese. One in Four Dies. yielded as high as 35 to 40 bushels to the The quality reported to be very , the bulk of the grain being hard J heavy. Surrender of Rebels. The War department has received the | following dispatch from Gen. MacAr- dated at Manila Sunday: “Col. sa, in vicinity of Tayug, surren- dered command to Col. Freeman, Twen- { ty-fourth United States infantry, consist- ing of one major, six cay 18, six lieu- nts, 169 101 rifles and 30 thur, G n men, Fifty-two . cases of yellow fever are now under treatment in Havana. Of the victims 18 are Americans. The mor- tality rate has been about 25 per cent. of those attacked. Gov. Wood has returned from Matan- zas. He has been in that city in con- sultation with the civil government on political questions bearing on the forth- coming elections. At Logan, W. Va, Charles Conley has been found guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of John bolos.” Brumfield on the evening of July a. STARVING SOLDIERS. Men in South Africa Almost Too Weak to Walk or Fight—Said fo be Un- happy Wrecks. Telegrams from London say: The hospital scandal in South Africa is sup- plemented by an army scandal. Old- timers affirm that the scandals at the close of the Crimean war exceeded any- thing the Boer war can furnish, and re- gard the present evidence of misman- agement at trifling. However, the pres- ent generation is keenly affected by the shortcomings of the war office. It is asserted that the soldiers, who, at present, are doing the Free State, have been literally starved until the in- lantrymen are so weak that they can hardly stagger under the weight of their equipment. One pound of raw flour, which the soldiers themselves have to cook after a hard day's march, is served out to each man every alternate day. The following day he gets one pound of biscuits. One pound of raw meat is dis- tributed to each man daily, but nine times out of ten he cannot cook it. . Meanwhile, Lord Roberts’ staff are living in hotels, or comparatively com- fortable quarters, while huge stores of sugar, tea, cocoa and groceries are being stacked at railway sidings and dock warehouses to be forgotten. . The worst sufferers are the men act- ing under General Rundle. They are op- posed by an active enemy, who com- pels them to march rapidly and inces- santly. These men are now wrecks from exposure, starvation and overwork. The public in London is just beginning to realize that their military darlings have been guilty of either callous neglect or Incompetency. But for the chaos in the liberal party the result would be much more widely and deeply felt. HIS LEAP TO DEATH. West Virginian Committed Suicide by Jump- ing From Chio Capitol Building. J. H. Ronick, or Renick, of Falling Springs, Green Brier county, W. Va, committed suicide at Columbus, O., Thursday afternoon by leaping headlong from the roof of the Capitol to the flag- ging of the court between the attorney general’s office and the office of the court of the House of Representatives. The skull was crushed and death was immediate. Letters on Renick’s person indicate that he had long had the act in contem- plation. In this letter he says he had written his wife five times, and believes that his letters had been intercepted, and that suicide has been his one thought for a month; that he had tried five times with poisons and gas, and was prevent- ed from jumping from a “seven-story | building on High street.”” The distance Renick fell was about 65 feet. He went to the roof through one of the windows of the dome. TO TOUR THE COUNTRY. Prohibition Train Will Carry National Candi- dates Who Will Make Speeches. A Prohibition campaign train is to start early in October to tour the coun- try from Maine to California. The en- gineer is to be a Prohibitionist, and the conductor will be a man who drinks nothing stronger than water. The Sil- ver Lake quartet will furnish music dur- ing the tour. The special train will be decorated with prohibition mottoes, and every city or town which will pay $100 will be visited. John Woolley, Prohibition candidate for president, and Henry B. Metcalf, candidate for vice president, will be on the train. In cach State vis- ited the Prohibition nominees will make speeches from the rear platform. The cmblem adopted by the Prohibitionists is a picture of an army canteen inverted, RAS ERs REVENGED MAXINO’S CAPTURE. Desperadoes in Lisbon Butchered His Family. Troops Retaliated. Telegrams from Manila say: A re- port of a ghastly crime in revenge for | Major Maxino’s capture by the Ameri- | cans comes through official channels. | After Major Maxino was taken prisoner | by our troops at Unisan, a gang af des- peradoes killed his father-in-law, his | wife, four of his children and hig nephew, butchering and torturing them, | and robbing the ar of $11,000 in money and jewelry. A detachment of six men under Cap- tain C. M. Newbery, of the Thirtieth infantry, with Major Maxino as their guide, encountered the desperadoes, kill- ing nine and taking 13 prisoners, be- sides recovering a portion of the jew- elry and $1,200 of the monev, et 7 British in Strong Numbers. Telegrams from Simla, India, say: Excluding the Fourth brigade, the strength of the forces proceeding to China is 446 British officers, 1,064 non- commissioned and native officers, 13,970 men, 11,850 followers, 1,150 drivers, 2,- | 520 horses, 4.300 ponies and mules, 12 guns, 14 Maxims and 1,800 imperial ser- vice troops. It is expected that the en- tire force will have sailed before the middle of next month. Dispatches from Berlin say: The number of volunteers from the army reserves who have signified their will- ingness to go to China is said to be 120,000. From this number a corps | not exceeding 20,000 will be formed. | A portion of the corps will leave within | a fortnight, or as soon as the cabinet | meeting shall have given consent to the project. Consumptive’s Crime. Angry over his inability to live as he wished on the sum allowed him by his father, Joseph Rabiner, a consumptive, at Rockaway Beach, shot and instantly killed Isaac Stein, his brother-in-law, | badly wounded his father, Jacob Rabin- | er, and then turned the weapon upon | himself with what is said to be fatal ef- fect, | The shooting occurred on the piazza! of a hotel in full view of scores of per- | sons who had been attracted by the quairel which preceded the tragedy. All the parties to the shooting were from New York. Russians Join Boxers. Telegrams from Vancouver, B c.| dated Thursday, say: A remarl.able story was brought by the steamer Em- press of Japan to the effect that a num- ber of Russian ex-officers and privates from Siberia had joined the ranks of the | “Boxers,” and that having reason to suspect the fidelity of their Chinese | transport coolies the Russians had killed 200 of the Chinese, and then loaded their | bodies into a junk, which they set on fire and sent drifting down the Peiho. 7 More Soldiers for China. The Third battalion of the Fifth in- fantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan, Il, has been ordered to China to join Gen- cral Chaffee’s command. Twelve offi- cers, including Colonel Richard Comba, rill accompany the battalion. The Depot battalion of the Eighth in- fantry, stationed for several months at Fort Snelling, Minn., has been ordered to leave for the Far East with “all possi- ble speed.” Massacred by Turks. Advices from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, say that 200 men, women and children have been massacred in the Armenian | village of Spaghank, in the district of Sassun, by troops and Kurds under Ali Pasha, the commandant of Bitlis. He is, also said to have ordered the village to | be burned, i let holes, and lock with patriotic admira- A GOSPEL MESSAGE Subject: The Mission of Clties—Morally They Are No Worse Than the Country =Vice 1s More Apparent, But Not More Prevalent—A Plea For Honest Living. [Copyright 190, WasHINGTO . C.—From St. Peters- burg, the Russian capital, where he was cordially received by the Emperor und Empress and the Empr Dowager, Dr. Talmage sends this discourse, in which he shows the mighty good that may be done by the cities and also the vast evil they may de by their allurements to the unsus- peeting and the ungnarded. The text Zechariah i, 17: “My cities thre perity shall yet be spread abroad. The city is no worse th the count The vices of the metropolis are more e dent than the vices of the rural districts because there are more people to be bac if they wish to be. The merchant good as the farmer. , is as There is no more cheating in town than out of town—no worse cheating; it is only on a larger scale. The countryman sometimes preva- ricates about the age of the he that he sells, about the size of the bushel with which he measures the grain, about the peaches at the bottom of the sket as being as large as those at the top, about the quarter of beef as being tender when it is tough, and to as bad an extent as the citizen, the merchant, prevaricates about calicoes or silks or hardware. And as t) villages, 1 think that in some respects they are worse than the citi because they copy the vices of the in the meanest a and as to ge . its heaven is a country village! Everybody knows evervboc business better than he knows it himself. The grocery store or the blacksmith shop by day and night is the grand depot for masculine tittle tat- tle, and there are always in the village a half dozen women who have their sun- bonnets hanging near, so that at the first item of derogatory news they can fly out and cackle it all over the town. Country- men must not be too hard in their criti- cism of the citizen, nor must the plow run too sharply against the yardstick. Cain was the founder of the first city, and I suppose it took after him in morals. It takes a city a long while to escape from the character of the founder. Where the founders of a city are criminal exiles, the filth, the vice, the prisons, are the shadow of those founders. It v take centuries for New York to get over the good influ- ence of the pious founders of that city— the founders whose prayers went up in the streets where now banks S discount, and brokers bargain, and companies de- clare dividends, and smugglers swear cus- tom house lies, and above the roar of the wheels and the crack of the auctioneers mallet ascends the ascription, “We wor- ship thee, O thou almighty dollar!” ‘ities are not evil necessarily, as some have argued. They have been the birth- place of civilization. In them popular lib- erty has lifted its voice. ‘itness Ge HH Pisa and Venice. After the d Alexander the among his Great papers were found extensive plans of cities, some rope, some to be built in pe were to be cities in Asia to be built in sia. The cities 11 occupied by asiatics; were to be occupied, the according to lans, by Europeans, and so there should e a commingling and a fraternity and a his kindness and a good will between the con- tinents and between the cities. So there always ought to be. The strangest thing in my comprehension is that there should e bickerings and rivalries among our American cities. New York must stop caricaturing hiladelphia, and Philadel- phia must stop picking at New York, and certainly the continent is large enough or St. Paul and Minneapolis. What is good for one city is good for all the cities. Here is the great highway of our national prosperity. On that highway of national prosperity walk the cities. A city with large forehead and great brain—that is Boston; a city with delib- erate step and calm manner—that is Phil- adelphia; a city with its pocket full of change—that is New York; two cities going with a rush that astounds the con- tinent—they are St. Louis and Chicago; a city that takes its wife and children along with it—that is Brooklyn. Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburg, all the cities of the north, and all the cities of the south, some distinguished for one thing, some for another, one for professional ability, another for affluence, another for fashion, ut not one to be spared. What advan- tages one advantages all. What damages Boston Common damages Washington square. Laurel Hill, Mount Auburn, Greenwood, weep over the same grief. block, in the same business are Shylocks. Jhose men, to get the patronage of a one, will break all understandings with other merchants and will sell at ruinous | cost, putting their neighbors at great dis-1 advantage, expecting to make up the de- | ficit in something else. If an honest prin- | ciple could creep into that man’s soul it | would die of sheer loneliness! The man | twists about, trying to escape the penalty | of the law, and despises God, while he just a little anxious about the sheri The honest man looks about him and says: “Well, this rivalry is awful. Pe haps I am more scrupulous than I need be. This little bargain I am about to enter is | a little doubtful, but then I shall only do as the rest.” And so I had a friend who started in commercial life, and as a book | merchant, with a high resolve. He said, “In my store there ju be no books that I would not have my family read.” Time | passed on, and one day I went into his store and found some iniquitous books on the shelf, and I said to J “How is it ossible that you can consent to sell such | ooks as these?” “Oh,” he replied, “1 | have got over those Puritanical notions! A man cannot do business in this day unless he does it in the way other people | o it.” I'o make a long story short, he | lost his hope of heaven, and in a little | while he lost his morality, and then he | went into a madhouse. In other words, when a man casts off God, God casts him | off. cities every year through the pressure of | politics. | That man in the tear and love of God goes into politics with that idea and with | the resolution that he will come out un- | contaminated and as good as when he went in, but generally the case is, when a | man steps into politics, many of the news- | papers try to blacken his character and to | distort all his past history, and after a| little while has gone by, instead of con-| sidering himself an honorable citizen, he | is lost in contemplation and in admiration of the fact that he has so long been kept | out of jail! If a man should go into politics to re form politics, and with the right spirit | he can come out with the right spiri unhurt. That was Theodore Frelinghuy sen, of New Jersey. That was George | Briggs, of Massachusetts. That was | Judge McLean, of Ohio. | hen look around and see the allure: ments to dissipated life. Bad books, un- | known to father and mother, vile as the | reptiles of Egypt. crawling into some of | the best of families of the community, | who may read them while the teacher is looking the other way or at recess or on the corner of the street when the gun are gathered. These books are read late at night. Satan finds them a smooth | plank on which he can slide down into | peridition some of your sons and daugh- | ters. Reading bad books, one never gets over | it. The Ton may be burned, but there | is not enough power in all the apothe- | cary’s preparations to wash out the stain | from the soul. Iathers’ hands, Inothers | hands, sisters’ hands will not wash it out. | None but the hand of the Lord can wash | it out. And what is more perilous in regard to | some of these temptations we may not! mention them. While God in His Bible | from chapter to chapter thundered His denunciations against these crimes, people | expect the pulpit and the printing press | to be silent on the subject, and just in | proportion as people are impure are they | fastidious on this theme. They are so | full of decay and death they do not want | their sepulchers opened. God will turn | into destruction oh the unclean, and no | splendors of surrounding can make de- cent that which He has smitten. God | will not excuse sin merely because it has | costly array and beautiful tapestry 26a palatial residence any more than He will | excuse that which crawls, a blotch of | sores, through the lowest cellar. Ever and anon, through some lawsuit, there flashes upon the people of our great cities what is transpiring in seemingly respecta- | ble circles. You call it “high life,” you | call it “fast living,” you call it “people’s eccentricity,” and while we kick off the sidewalk the poor wretch who has not the means to garnish his iniquity, these lords and ladies, wrapped in purple and in linen, go unwhipped of public justice. Ah, the most dreadtal part of the whole thing is, that there are persons abroad whose | whole business it is to despoil the young. What an eternity such a man will have! As the door opens to receive him thou- sands of voices will cry out, “See here what you have done,” and the wretch will wrap himself with fiercer flame and Jub into deeper darkness, and the multi- The statue of Benjamin Franklin in New York greeting the bronze statue of Ed- ward Everett in Boston. All the cities a confraternity. I cannot understand how there should go on bickerir rival- ries. I plead for a higher style of brother- ood or sisterhood among the cities. Again, in all cities I ain impressed with the fact that all classes and conditions of society must commingle, We sometimes cultivate a wicked exclusiveness. ntel- lect despises ignorance. Refinement will have nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate the sunburned hand, and the high forehead despises the flat head, and the trim hedgerow will have nothing to do with the wild copsewood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. I like this democratic principle of the gos- el of Jesus Christ whicn recognizes the act that we stand before God on one and the same platform. Do not take on any airs. Whatever position you have gained in society, you are nothing but a man, born of the same Parent, regener- ated by the same Spirit, cleansed in the same blood, to lie down in the same dust, o get up in the same resurrection. It is high time that we all acknowledged not only the Tatherhood of God, but the brotherhood of man. Again, in all cities T am impressed with the fact that it is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and to get to heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon us from places of public concourse. Amid 80 much affluence, how much temptation to covetousness and to be discontented with our humble lot! Amid so many op- portunities for overreaching, what femp- tation to vanity! Amid so many saloons of strong drink, what allurements to dis- sipation! n the maelstroms and hell gates of the street, how many make quick and eternal shipwreck! If a kh comes back from a battle, and is towed into the navy vard, we go down to look av the splintered spars and count the bul- tion on the flag that floated in victory from the masthead. But that man is more of a curiosity who has gone through thirty f i f i and yet sails on, victor over the temptations of the street. Oh! how many have gone down under the pressure, leav- ing not so much patch of canvas to tell where they perished. Their dishones- ties kept tolling in their ears. Again, mm all these cities I am impressed with the fact that life 1s fuil of pretension and sham. What subterfuge, what dou- ble wealing, what » facedness! Do all the people who ike hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who inquire concerning it? Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does oll the world know half as much as it pretends to know? s there not many a wretched stock of goods with a brilliant store window? Passing up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you not impressed with the fact that society is hollow, and that there are sub- terfuges and pretensions? Oh, how many there are who sw and strut, and how few people who are natural and walk! While fops simper and fools snicker an rlmpletons gigoie, r+ lew pecple are nats iE and laugh! 1 « these things not to create in you incredulity or misanthropy, nor do I forget there are thousands o people a great deal better than they seem, but I do not think any man is pre- vared for the conflict of this life until he Ye this particu peril. Again, in all cities 1 am impressed with the. fact that great field for there Christian charity. and suffering and want ¢ Ss in the country, but these y con- gregate in our great cities. On every street crime prowls and drunkenness staggers, and shame wi out its hand : is most squalid, anc is most le: A Christian man ¢ ong a street i New York saw a poor lad, and he stopped aud pauperism thr F aln ore i merchant, with a high resolve. THe said, “In my store there shall be no books that would not have my family read.” Time passed on, and one day I went into his store and found some iniquitous hooks on the shelf, and I said to him, “How is it ssi can consent to sell such s 22. “Oh he replied, have got over those Puritanical notions! A man cannot do business in this day unless he does it in the way other pecple do it.” Lo make a long story short, he lost his hope of heaven, and in a little while he lost his morality, and then he went into a madhouse. In other words, leh a man casts ff God, God casts him o Hundreds of men going down in our tude he has destroyed will pursue him and | hurl at him the long, bitter, relentless, | everlasting curse of their own anguish. It there be one cup of eternal darkness more bitter than another, they will have to drink it to the dregs. If in all the ocean of the lost world that comes billowing up there be one wave more fierce than an- other, it will dash over them. But there is hope for all who will turn. I stood one day at Niagara Falls, and I : : | to Hundreds of men going down in out | PENSIONS GRANTED. Prohibitionists Nominate Their Ticket—Im- prisoned for Life—New Coal Company Incorporated — Other Items. Henry Pensions granted last week: M. Crist, dead, Steelton, $8; Jeremiah r- | Weibley, Port Royal, $i0; Addison Wil- son, New Brighton, $8; William Ben- nington, Monongahela, $12; Joseph Mc- Gregor, Manorville, $10; Martin S. Sherwood, Edinboro, $12; Julia A. Hoff- man, Beech Creek, $8; Joseph Good- man, Huntingdon, $8; Hezekiah H. Blair, Philipsburg, $10; Patrick Burk, Hollidaysburg, $8; Margaret Walker, Apollo, $8; Sabilia C. Lucas, Leechburg, Alderman Benjamin Leslie, Gontiasy | tor William Mitchell; William A. Hal and R. M. Alien, of New Castle, and Benjamin Klinordlinger, of Pittsburg, composed a party that went fishing out to Elliott's mills, in Slippery Rock town- ship, Lawrence county, last week. After wading through a swamp infested with | snakes they fell into a cave that appeared be 100 fect long and infested with snakes and bats. They cscaped by an old ladder and returning killed 189 rep- tiles. A certificate of incorporation has been issued by the secretary of state to the Tompkins Coal Co., of Clifton, Mason county, with $500,000 capital. The in- corporators are E. W. Tompkins, M. T. Dresback, F. J. Kropp, Lewis Janes and C. D. Honeywell, all of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The company is composed of ex- perienced coal producers, who have taken a big tract of coal land on the Ohio river, with the vicw cf opening mines and operating them for shipment vy boat to lower river markets. George M. Stanley, former treasurer of the Economy building association, was arrested and held in $4,000 bail on the charge of appropriating $3,285.08 belonging to the association. The ar- rest was made at the direction of George B. Woomer, who was appointed receiver of the association last April. The short- ages had developed since the annual statement on September 1, 1899, and do not include an alleged shortage prior to that date. Important books of the as- sociation, it is said, are missing and can- not be found. The faculty of the Indiana State nor- mal school has undergone* some changes. The vacancy left by Miss Mary MacMartin, the former musical instructress, has been supplied by the clection of Mrs. Sawyer, of Connells- ville. Mrs. Sawyer has been teaching at Carlisle. The vacancy left by Miss Peabody, who had charge of the Ger- man and French classes, has been filled by the election of Miss Sauvage, New- ark, N. J., a Vassar graduate. Prof. Robertson returns after a year’s absence to the natural science department. The Pennsylvania Oil Company has obtained a lease for the oil and gas on 7,000 acres of land in Lebanon. Oregon and Mount Pleasant townships, in Wayne county, in consideration of $20,- 000 and one-tenth of the oil. The com- pany has one year in which to begin operations. The lease will embrace a term of 30 years and as long thereafter as oil and gas shall be found in paying quantities. Experts believe it will prove to be one of the most valuable oil terri- tories in the State of Pennsylvania. A company of eastern capitalis taking options on extensive tracts of timber land running from Ohio Pyle back and including the Stewart estate, in Fayette county. The intention is to make an enormous game preserve and country club of it. The bidders are said to be Philadelphia business men and sportsmen. The tract includes the famous Meadow run, one of the best trout streams in the country. Della Gaines, aged 18 years, oi Metz, Marion county, died at the home of Madame Schmalzer, Wheeling. Three physicians had attended her, and it is announced that she died from blood poi- soning caused by malpractice. She was brought to the Schmalzer house by a man who gave the name of J. M. Low- ry, of Pittsburg, and who is supposed to ¢ an oil man. The police are making a search for Lowry. The Prohibition party of Blair coun- ty, which numbers an exceptionally s Js saw what you may have seen there—six large voting part of the population, has rainbows bending over that tremendous | plunge. I never saw anything like it be- | fore or since. Six beautiful rainbows ! arching that great cataract! And so over | the rapids and angry precipices of sin, where so many have been dashed down, God's beautiful admonitions hover, a warning arching each peri x of them, | fifty of them, a thousand of them. Be- ware, beware, beware! “oung men, while you have time to re- | flect upon these things and before the duties of the office and the store and the shop come upon you again, look over this | whole subject, and after the day has | passed and you hear in the nightfall the | voices and footsteps of the city dying | from your ear, and it gets so silent that | you can hear distinctly your watch under | your pillow going “tick, tick,” then open ! your eves a look out upon the darkness | and see two pillars of light, one horizontal, the other perpendicular, but changing their direction until they come together, | and your enraptu(:d vision beholds it— ! the cross. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Dentists are scarce in Niagara. The czar has forbidden baccarat play- ing in Russia. . A British school of archaeology is to be opened at Rome, Italy. The new directory fixes the popula tion of Ottawa, Ont., at 68,550. ilman, a mining town in county, C fi Eagle re. Glanders has broken out among the horses at the Presidio, at San Francis- co. The fishing fleet on the Grand Banks, off New Foundland, is doing lately. The military road from Port Valdes, Alaska, has been completed for miles inland. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, officially recognized the E canal concession. has published a decree prohibiting exportation of arms to China. President McKinley has forty-eight enlisted men in the lar army as second lientenants. ton, has recommended an for forty New York city. South Dakota has an aggregate 11,5000,000 acres of vacant government qualified applicants. The California supreme court er quasi-public corporations non-asses- sable for taxation purposes. The Westfield. Mass., voted to stop all Sunday selling of ev- ery character. Even the drug In some of the large cities the Sal vation Army is selling ice in lumps. This proves a great boon the poor in the slums and crowded ten- ements. . Precarious Conditions in India. In a normal year India, as a whole, produces a little more food than is ac- tually necessary to support its people. But the crops are dependent monsoons—the southwest monsoon in the beginning of summer and the north- cast monsoon in the winter. If these in quantity, trouble comes, and spring and winter crops of wheat, bar- and millets in the south, begin to suf- fer. Young snakes are born with fangs and poison glands in full perfection, and cities every year through the pressure of politics. ire dangerous even before tasting food. | come out with an urgent address | | | charge of several farms belonging to the Col, has been wiped out by 100 | | old members of Company D and Com- has | pany efor ne Eyre-Cragin | In ¢ The official journal at Rome, Italy, | the 1 1 | ing in his sleep. appointed | regu- | county, surprised and The postal commission, at Washing- | allowance | additional letter carriers for | of | land which is now subject to entry by| has | declared the bonds of railways and oth. | selectmen have | stores | : ¢ : : i 10, in place of rivers and rolling prairie cannot dispense soda water on that day : : prams, t I : Ya great lake rippled in the sunlight. In penny | tc | on the periodic rains are late, or are insufficient | the | coins ley and pulses in the north, and of rice | phe visitors. re- questing all members of the party to support their own ticket and platform at the coming general election, and to | extend no aid whatsoever to any inde- pendent political movements. While making excavations for a sewer, west of Union station, at Pittsburg, the workmen came upon a large quantity of heavy sawed timber, put in place there years ago in building a canal lock. The timber was in almost a perfect state of preservation, though it must have been underground for fully 75 years. The remaining part of the old Clark farm, west of Washington, has been sold to T. G. Allison for $50,000. The real purchasers are Jonathan Allison, John W. Donnan and J. R. Kuntz, Jr., the largest shareholders in the Gordon Land Company. It is said the company will locate a number of mills on this plot. B. F. Ramage, a farmer near Edge- cliff, Westmoreland county, was fatally stabbed by John Shannon. Ramage has Oil Well Supply Company and Shannon was employed by him as a laborer. The I assailant escaped. Joseph Botts, of Wayne C. H., was shot and killed near Kenova by Bob Meck. The men aunarreled at a picnic lon July 4, and when they met Thursday night the trouble was renewed. The murderer attempted to escape, but was | soon captured. { poorly | ar¢ The Claysville school board balloted 72 times in the effort to elect a principal for the public schools, but failed. There three candidates. An new eompany, the Lawton troop, has been organized at Connellsville. It has 52 members, nearly all of whom are M. Thev will offer their services, e of war with China. William Fischer, an Altoona brewer driver, was perhaps fatally injured. bh, falling through a trap door while walk- Fish Warden Brown, of Venango arrested four of a party of Pittsburg campers who were dynamiting fish in French creek. William Beegle, 70 years old, at Dry Riage, near Greensburg, hanged himself kis barn. Cause unknown. The Earth’s Changes. Until December 18, 1811, the eastern part of Craighead county, Ark, w one of the most beautiful and fertile stretches of prairie imaginable, inter- | spersed with tracts of lovely woodland. Pretty rivers ran between high clay banks, and the country was rapidly set- tling. On the morning of December the night the whole region, 120 long and 60 wide, had sunk 20 to 40 feet. To-day the weird lakes of the Ar- kansas sunk lands offer the most beau- tifu! scenery and some of the best sport in all the Southern tes. miles A Ma:ket for Depreciated Coin. Paris is alive with Peruvian, Chilean, Bolivian and Mexican coins which look enough like s5-franc pieces to be readily j accepted as such by one who is unfa- | miliar with French money. These pieces are worth less than half of 3 francs. Spanish, Papal and Italian are also in circulation. This par- ticular form of roguery is a recognized industry of the city. The principal oper- ators are waiters, who buy up debased coins and palm them off on innocent “BISOPOYY Ul 3500 JO Woy surley pai2ye 3uldq ole BaWYSHY ueljELSNY sys x]> I 4 » : |= r= * ie nia