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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
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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.
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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.
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Col, has been wiped out by
100 |
| old members of Company D and Com-
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The official journal at Rome, Italy, |
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| 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,
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on the
periodic rains are late, or are insufficient |
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ley and pulses in the north, and of rice |
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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.
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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
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