spp, FUPNO REBELS AGA HOSILE INSURGENTS REORGANIZED. Aguinaldo Refuses to Accept Amnesty Offered by Uncle Sam—Many American Cas- ualties Reported for Last Week. Telegrams Manila, dated Sun- day, say: Senor Buencamino has re- ceived from Aguinaldo an answer re- from declines to consider them and declares | that he is unwilling to agree to a com- promise. The amnesty expired September 21, and the conditions that existed previous- ly have been resumed. The insurgent demonstrations last week prove to have been more extend- ed than was at first reported. From Cagayan and Isabela provinces and the northwestern districts of Luzon come accounts of insurgent operations and American precautionary measures. Merchants in the province of Albay are getting their hemp to Manila as rapid- ly as possible, fearing that otherwise it will be burned by the insurgents. At Iloilo there was considerable an xiety lest an uprising should occur; but the insurgents there are ceas sing their to the garrisoned towns of the district. As a resumption of insurgent op is considered quite probable the cans there are taking the necessary steps. The American casualties in killed, wounded or missing during the last ten days approach 100, including those at Siniloan, at the east end of Laguna de Bay, where the insurgents, after the engagement, delivered ten bodies of our dead. Documents captured in Manila show that the insurgent activity in this vi- cinity was ordered by rebels here, fol lowing instructions from the Hongkong junta. LONG FlGuy ENDED. Iron Scale Signed Stnday.. Many Mills to Resume Operations. At 6:30 o'clock Sunday morning the conference committees of the Amalga mated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and of the manufacturers signed the wage scale for the bar iron and puddling mills, which will remain effective until July 1, 1901. This was ac complished after an all-night session of the two committees, and at its conclu sion all who had taken part were well nigh exhausted. The agreement reach ed was a compromise between the dc mand of the workers and the offer of the manufacturers. The conclusion of this conference ends one of the most important wage contests that has ever been peaccably settled be- | tween the iron workers and manufac- turers of this country. As soon as the scale was signed, tele grams were sent in every direction ord- ering fires to be built at once and pre parations made for a resumption of the mills that have been in enforced idle ness for ncarly three months. About 20,000 men will be given work as : sult of this settlement The mills affected are located princi- pally in Western Pennsylvania, East- ern Ohio and Indiana. Association of DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. Nevada Bank Mulicted of $13,000 Gold by Bandits in a Sensational Manner. The first National bank of Winne- mucca, Nev, was robbed of about $13,- 000 Wednesday by three men who en- tered the front door and with revolvers made all present throw up their Jands There were five people in the bank : the time. One robber, at the wr of a pistol, made Nixon open the safe and take from it three sacks of gol coin. They threw this in an ore sack, together with all the gold coin re the drawer. The robbers then marched the five men out through a back door to an alley, where three horses were wait- ing. The men were kept covered with guns until the desperadoes mounted thelr horses and escaped. The whole affair occurred in but five minutes. An alarm was quickly given and several shots were fired at the des- sped through town, piiadnes as they ut without effect. The robbers return- ed shots, but no one was hit. Office and armed citizens started in pursuit of the robbers, who took a course up the river. A posse also started from Gold Conda to head them off. VICTORY AT HEAVY LOSS. Allles Have Captured the Pei Tang and Lu Tai Forts. Shanghai telegrams, dated Thursday, say: The allies to-day captured the Pei Tang and Lu Tai forts with great los These ports are about 25 miles north of Taku at the entrance of the Pei Tang o river. The shryendey of the forts was demanded at 2 o'clock on Tuesday, the Germans and Russians in the event | of refusal. Two thousand. st hundred Germans left Tien Tsin Wednesday to join a force forming in the neighborhood of Taku, already composed of 4,000 Russians, 1,500 Germans and other foreign troops, the intention being to attack the Pei Tang forts Thursday at daybreak. Peculiar Drouth in Pennsylvania. Fayette county, Pa.. is suffering from a prolonged drouth and in many sec- tions the farmers are hauling water from streams to keep their stock alive. A peculiarity of the dry spell is that a narrow strip from Brownsville to the Somerset county line, passing through Uniontown, has had frequent drenching rains, while both sides of it have had no rain for several months. Farmers are unable to do their fall plowing and planting. The second crop of clover is a comparative ure, and the corn is dried up and will only make fodder in many place Proclamation to the Boers. A proclamation has nouncing that the tarily surrender will not be sent out of the country, but will be detained at camps at Bloemfontein or This proclamation gives great tion to those who the war concluded : it will give n been issued an- burghers who volun C satisfac- nxious to see de grace to the oer resis I s been repeated stated n urghers would oy down the re assur- that they be sent to St. Helena or C > Bri tish. Jameson Biter Blinded. While working in a mine north of Lead, S. D., Capt. Grant Tod. of Lead was accidentally struck on the : of the neck by a mining hammer blow shattered way that total bli man, and it is feared that permanent. Tod was a James er. Foreign Orders for Locomotives. An order has been received by th Baldwin locomotive works at Philadel phia, for 22 heavy freight locomotives for use on the government railroads of New Zealand. Another order, on which work has just been begun, is for locomotives for the Rio Tinto Mini Company of Spain. The price of broom corn was advanc- i ed at Arcola, Iil, from $80 to $100 a ton. F. B. Clark, a real estate man, mur- deredghis wife and committed sui icide in Chicago. garding his peace proposals. Aduiinldc | activity and returning in white clothing | : | Virginia, with the threat of immediate attack by | ' | Christian Endeavor society, | | 1 | | i . | O., have let the contract for about a | LATEST NEWS NOTES. Stokes’ planing mill at Altoona, Pa, burned. Loss, $5.00 Titusville, Pa. will have free rural mail delivery October 1 Washington county (Pa.) farmers are suffering from a water famine. The war department reports healt h conditions at Cape Nome much improv- -d ed. Pittsburg, Pa. contributions for the | Galveston relief fund have reached $49.- | | 135-67. | Short water supply forced the closing | down of several Cambria mills at Johns- } town, Pa. | » at Lonacon- Owing to a water fami ing, Md. trains are hauling water 1nto the town. Colored Baptists of Butler, Pa., laid the cornerstone for their new church edifice Sunday. is stirred up by Butler county, Pa. auditors and over- conflicting claims of seers of the poor. Grasshoppers are destroying the crops over the Captain Generalcy of Es- tremadura, Spain. A fire in the Hass Keui district, Tuz- kev. has destroyed 150 houses, 40 shops and a synagogue. The nd jury at Steubenville, 0. found nearly 70 indictments for alle ged | illegal liquor selling. It is acknowledged in England that the Conservatives will be victorious in the coming election. Connellsville (Pa.) region operators anticipate a coke boom in consequence of the anthracite strike. James Radcliffe, fire boss at the Braz nell (Pa.) mine when the explosion oc- curred, has been arrested. Two steamers and six lives were lost in a collision at entrance to Lake St. Clair, Michigan, Friday. An cffort to smuggle 1,400 kilos of opium into Havana was frustrated by the authorities Saturday. Mrs. George Smith was death at Huntingdon, Pa, while making grape butter. Efforts of the Portuguese to disarm Boers entering Portuguese territory has resulted in several clashes. IL.ord Methuen routed a Boer convoy and captured a gun lost at Colenso, many cattle and much ammunition. Belle Archer, the actress, who died at Warren, Pa., left a fortune of about $10,000, which will go to her parents. The Argentine Republic has appro- priated $30,000 for a building d ex- hibit at the Pan-American exposition. Anthracite operators are raising prices and taking other means to dis- courage the panicky demand for coal. Fire Saturday destroyed the grain warehouses and elevators on the Atlan tic dock, Brooklyn. Loss, $100,000. | The Presbytery of Buffalo, N Y has vote > to 19 in favor of a change in the Westminster confession of faith. Mrs. Almira Bruden, of Ashtabula, i died from hydrophobia caused by the bite 5 a dog received two weeks ago. Texarkana, Ark., the plant of the Ut in Compress Company burned, with 2,000 bales of cotton. Loss, $150,- 000. The South Danvers bank, of Peabody, Mass., has closed its doors, being un able to meet its outstanding obliga tions. burned tc Saturday. The presidents of two great anthra- cite companies have agreed to conf with Archbishop Ryan on the strike sit- nation, Father Ducey, of New York, who in- vestigated the strike on the spot, de- fends the miners and declares their quar- rel just. Two burglars at Punxsutawney, Pa., held up Father Weinker, Catholic priest, in his bed, securing a gold watch and $30 cash. President Mitchell proposes the bi- tuminous method of settling labor trou- bles, and does not insist upon recogni- tion of union. Fire destroyed the main plant of the Independent Lakeside oatmeal mills Joliet, Ill. Estimated loss, $50,000; in- surance, $41,000. { The story of the massacre by Rus- | sians of the entire Chinese population of Blagovestchensk, 5,000 in all, seems to be confirmed. | Two more regiments of the national guard are on waiting orders. Troops patrolled thoroughfares in and around Shenandoah, Pa. At Canal Dover, O., Laura Baxter, an heiress about to obtain her majority, has been abducted from the home of her foster parents. An edict issued by the Chinese im- perial government shows that Prince Tuan, the anti-foreign leader, is again in the ascendant. | The St. Louis presbytery, compos churches of Eastern lof the Missou decided, by a vote of 32 to 1, against re- | vision of the creed. West Virginia and Tenncs- {see will celebrate the revolutionary bat- {tle of Kings Mountain at Sycamore | Shoals, Tenn., Sept. 25. | The matinees given by all the thea- ters in Washington, D for the bene- i fit of the Galveston victims resulted in tire total receipts of $2,084. { have { astrous rain and , | perienced in years. COUDBURST DEVASTATES TEs! ~~ sevemww wien HEAVY LOSSES. The Nueces River Country Under Many Feet of Water—Death List So Far Numbers Eighteen. Nueces river west of the resulting in a A cloud burst in the country, Tex 00 miles Southern Pacific road, terrific flood and reported. It is a much loss of life, is claimed that from 30 ito go Italians employed on the sheep ranches were drowned and all the ranches swamped. Extensive damages been inflicted on the upper Colo rado and the Concho river valleys, par- - at and near Brownwood, Blan- ket and San Angelo. Wire communica- tion with all these places is cut off. It is feared many lives have been lost. The last telegram from 3rownwood, Sunday morning, stated that the town was flooded and entirely surrounded by water, and that people and goods were being removed to places of safety in rowboats and rafts. Bulletins from Temple state that the tracks of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad are un- der water to the depth of 15 feet south of Brownwood, and that nothing can be card from places up the line. It is raining hard for approximately 100 miles in all directions from Brownwood, and as the streams in that part of Texas are now very treacherous in the matter of sudden rises, a disaster is feared. FOUR NEGROES LYNCHED. Louisiana Mob Invaded a Tangipoa Parish Jail—Reign of Terror. Friday night four negroes were hanged after the jail in the village of Pontchatoula has been broken open and the prisoners, accused of robbing the family of Henry Holfel- ter, had been taken from their cells. Mrs. Louise Holfelter, who resisted the colored men, was choked and beaten so unmercifully that she lost her mind. There were 14 colored suspects in the Pontchatoula accused of various robberies. Friday night at 9 o'clock a committee of white citizens called on Sheriff Nix and demanded the keys to the jail. The sheriff refused to produce il In Tangipoa parish, La., them. Axes were brought and the jz was immediately broken open. Four suspects were hanged to a tree about two blocks away, after being made to confess to having rticipated in the burglary of Holfelter 's house. Not until 7 o'clock next morning were the bodies ‘cut down. Meantime the coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by “unknown hands.” Citizens scoured the parish throughout the night, arresting all the negroes they could get their hands on. These were crowded into the jail at Pontchatoula. Me yor Jackson and the sheriff are using ery means to restore order, but are EL slow progress. The better ele- ment among he colored population is flecing to the churches where the time is being hot in prayer. FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA. Boers Fire and Loot a Town, Also Damage Locomotives. Telegrams from Lorenzo Marques, dated Tuesday, say: A pitched battle has been fought midway between Kaap Muiden and Hectorspruit, resulting in heavy Boer losses. The Boers removed and threat- en to destroy the cogwheels of locomo- tives used between Watervalboven and Watervalonder, without which the rail- way cannot be worked. They have blocked and damaged the railway for six miles on the Crocodile Poort sec- tion, have destroyed the culverts and the Hectorspruit bridge and looted and burned Komatipoort. The British are now at Komatipoort, and heavy fighting is proceeding. It is rumored that Mr. Steyn has arrived here. sen. Pole Carew has occupied Kaap Muiden, about 20 miles east of Nelspruit, where he captured a number of locomo- tives and a considerable quantity of rolling stock. ANOTHER TEXAS DISASTER. Trinity River Rises to High Flood Tide. Three Persons Drowned. Trinity river rose 20 feet during the night on account of 12 hours’ rain. Three persons are reported drowned. Hundreds of families were driven from their houses in the lower portion of Fort Worth, Tex. A relief corps was organized and as- sisted mz families to places of safety. The storm of Friday night over north- western xas was one of the most dis- electrical storms ex- 10 per cent. The Trinity river, las, has risen nearly 30 feet Thursday night and overflowed banks Friday. since valley to move out. Li Takes a Strong Guard. Li Hung Chang, At the banquet in Berlin Saturday ev- ening in ar of the laying of the At- lantic cable the American and German national anthems were played. Jim Howard, on trial in Kentucky for the murder of William Goebel, will like- ly be acquitted if he can prove that he | was clean shaven on January 30. Capt. S. B. Paxton, of California, Pa., has been appointed fireman in the State | treasury department to succeed Capt. J. D. Patty, of Westmoreland county. two well-known Butler oil drillers. will | where work has been secured for them. Peking. Allies captured Peitang and Lu-Tai forts. An Anglo-American ex- pedition against Boxers has started. David Lewis Shepherd and his wife | were found murdered in their beds at Foxboro, Mass., and their insane son, who was suspected, committed suicide. Gov. Stone has fixed November 20 for the execution of James Jones, of ashington, and November 22 for the execution of John Sadler, of Greens- burg, Pa. The battleship Kentucky, Albany and four smaller warships were ordered to the Asiatic station to rein- force the already powerful American squadron there. A receiv has been appointed for the Pennsylvania Germania Building and Loan / ociation, J. T. Hopple De ing selected by the Dauphin county court. A brother of John D. Rockefeller has organized an anti-cattle thief associa- tion in Kansas, > and is engaged in run- ning down thieves who raided his droves. The executive committee of the has decid=d {to hold the convention of 1901 in Cin- Ici i, providing that satisfactory rail- rates and local arrangements are The commissioners of Jefferson coun- nd a quarter of brick pavement in ice of pike, as an experiment. The cost is a little more than double a pike. Demand on Turkish Porte. Lloyd Griscom, United bal representa ple porte, de- in Armenian, States charge ires, has mad {tions to the Const manding the release who, it is claimed, is naturalized American citizen, and who was arrest- ed upon the charge of belonging to the Armenian revolutionary committee, Hostilities have been resumed around | the cruiser | : Crise ; the city, hai dispatches, viceroyalty of Chi Li Friday. men and A veterans now encamped at Yang Chow bodyguard. It is reported that Liu Kun Yi, i roy of nkin, a i of the German flect | Tse Kiang, is cending he Yang Kiang Su for fear the Germa | Fu. Cuban Blacks Victorious. Telegrams from say: The elections for dc Santiago de constitutional convention have resultec province, and the e themselves to be this entire now openly decla nexationists. on tho who had worked thems to a frenzy taining a skull and crosshones, ing death to the Republi raded throug ind negroe signify the principal streets carrying tallow candles of torches. A mock funeral of the Repu lican party was held and was attendéd by about 1,000 negroes. | Enterprising Highwayman. A reward of $2,000 has for the capture of the lone highwayma who held up the west-hound Northen Pacific passenge rain near Athol, Idg ho, Saturday midnight, and secured $5¢ cash and a quantity of waiches and je clry from the passengers. Sheriff Brag burn and a large posse are in pursui The robber has been traced to a poi three miles south of Athol, where 1 held up a ranchman and 10rse. stole hf Arrested for Petty Theits. Isaac Shulman, a drayman, rested at Youngstown, O., and on t} police sec arching his residence near 31.000 worth of fine goods stolen fro yres was unearthed. While cartir waste paper irom the basemen stores he would throw in good cover m over and cart them hom| He confessed. | was a Instigators Discovered. | Germany is said to have that the real in outrages are high unsuspected. discover ators of the Box mandarins hither sia and France, each side cour adhesion of the United States. gt Farmers declare that the injury to the cotton crop will reach at Dal- according to Shang- umed the seals of the ! His offi- {cers are busy raising 8,000 foreign drill- who , and will proceed to Tien Tsin as Earl Li's vice- armed at the prospects placing obstructions in ! the channel below the Kiang Yin forts, James S. Burchfield and N. J. Purdy. | and sending troops to the northeast of 1S may go to the Los Anceles (Cal) oil fields, {land troops there to attack Tsing Kian Cuba, legates to the in favor of the black party throughout Ives up almost | and who wore badges con- an party, pa- been offerd . | relatives. Germany and Great Bri | ain seem to be lining up against Rul on Sheriff's Deputies Fired Into a Mob of Miners With Telling Effect—State Troops Ordered Out. Riots broke out at Shenandoah, Pa. and the sheriff of Schuylkill county, Pa., was hastily summoned from Allentown. After he arrived he gave his deputies the order to fire, and they obeyed, kill- ing a Hungarian and a little girl. Adjt. Gen. Stewart issued an order at midnight, Friday, after a conference with Gov. Stone and Gen. Gobin, ord- ering the Fourth, Eig ghth and Twe elfth infantry, Battery Phoenixville, and the Governor's troop of Harris- burg, Pa., all of the national guard, to proceed with the least possible delay to the Schuylkill region in command of Gen. Gobin, to the relief of Sheriff Toole. “Col. Richardson took charge of the movement of the troops and camp equipage, and it is expected all the troops will be at Shenandoah inside of eight hours. Gen. Gobin left on a special train for Shenandoah, where he will establish headquarters and will be joined by his staff. Maj. Gen. Miller has been noti- fied of the ordering out of the troops, and he is now on his way to Harris- burg from Franklin. Attorney Generali Elkin has also been summoned from In- diana, Pa., to consult with the govern- or. FAVORS A FIGHT. Father Phillips Issues a Statement in Favor of Striking Miners. Father Phillips, of St. Gabriel's Cath- olic Church, Hazleton, Pa., who has worked diligently for arbitration as a means of settling the strike, issues a statement in which he comes out flatly on the side of the strikers. In the statement he say “If the executive officials of the big coal-carrying com- panies have been correctly quoted by |€ the papers, arbitration is no longer a means to the end desired by the general public, namely, a discontinuance of the conflict between labor and capital. “There is now no alternative but fight to the finish between organized labor and organized capital. Honest efforts for peace have been throttled, and since reason and justice and mercy will not be heard the operator must either ar- rogate to himself the title of coal king and sway his scepter over unwilling subjects or the miners must meet the issue by renewed efforts to deplete the market by the complete prevention of production.” PHILIPPINE COMMISSION REPORTS. Guerrilla War Kept Up for Political Pur- poses—Many Want Peace. The Filipino insurrection, and maintained by the Tagalogs, assist- ed by the Ladrones, who are mainly ex-convicts and criminals of the worst character, will cease if the election con- firms the present policy. The leaders admit that their last hope is the elec- tion of Bryan, and that if he is defeat- ed they will surrender and their forces will lay down their arms. The Philippine commission, compos- ed of Republicans and Democrats, has made a preliminary report on the con- ditions in the islands. The most sig- nificant statement of the commission is that the insurgents are constantly en- deavoring to mass a sufficient force to crush one of the American garrisons for political effect in this country. The report was made at the request of the President, who desired the views of the commission on the general con- dition of the islands as to peace and industry, business and revenue condi- tions prevailing; progress of and op- portunity for education; disposition of the people toward the United States. A BLOODY FEUD. fostered Tennesseeans Make a Battlefield of Hotel Dining Room—Fatal Results. The Howard-McGee feud had a tragic climax Tuesday, in which one man was killed, two others fatally and one seriously wounded. At noon “harles Jones and his brother Joshua entered the Clew hotel dining room, at Madisonville, Tenn., which was fille with guests, and took seats at a table. A moment later Calvin and Tom How- ard entered the room and met the Jones brothers face to face. In an in- stant revolvers were drawn by the four men and about 30 shots were fired in quick succession, the terrified guests making their exit from the room by way of doors and windows. When the firing ceased Charles Jones was found dead on the floor with two bullet wounds in the heart and three in his head; Joshua Jones and Calvin Howard were mortally wounded and unconscious, and Tom Howard, the only one of the quartet left on his feet, had a number of bullet wounds in his its | body. Sheriff Hughes sent out mounted couriers from Dallas to notify farmers and other residents along the BESIEGED BY NEGRO STRIKERS. South Carolina Planter Has a Thrilling Ex- perience. The first strike of cotton field hands ever reported in South Carolina occur- red at Eastover, Richland county. The hands demanded an advance of 10 cents a hundred pounds for picking cotton. N. odge, as spokesman for the other planters, refused the demand. Hodge was pursued to his home by 400 negroes, who surrounded his home, in which were his wife and two small chil- dren. The Hodges barricaded them- selves. When the negroes advanced to break in Hodges shot the ringleader. He kept the men at bay for four hours with a shotgun his wife standing by with revolver in hand. Finally three mount- ed planters came to the rescue and the negroes fled. They are still threaten- ing the house. There are 20 negroes to one white man in the Eastover region. Big Gas Well at Du Bois. 1 A gas well gusher struck at was whites | Lanes Mills six miles from DuBois, =JPa., at a gepih of 3,000 feet. The well , | was drilled by a local company. Early Sunday morning the drill struck th: vain, the gas coming to the surface wit | terrific force, blowing tools and rocks j over 100 feet in | the air, it the “ home of r aunt, Mrs. § a new bar and of that ss Maud Dr. Ryle 3: spending a few weeks with friends and man. of Frostburg, is here J. leaves for Balti- his daughter 1d school with ] to her room with rl Mr. I] DOWIE ELDERS CONTED WITH TAR MEETING PREVENTED. Victims Disrobed, Daubed and Then Turned Over to the Police—They Are Sent Out of Town. Under instructions from Overseer at Large Piper, of Chicago, Elder Silas Moot, of Lima, who was forcibly de- ported from Mansfield, O., August 12, and Elder Ephriam Bassinger, of the Bluffton, O., Dowiete apostles, who had been deported by the authorities for the past four Sunday s, arrived in Mansfield Sunday morning at 6:35 o'clock, at- tempting to hold Zion services. hey were recognized by a small crowd at the depot, which refused to let them enter a cab, but followed them up the street and surrounded them near the center of the city. They were then taken by the mob, which by this time had been vastly increased, to the Rich- land buggy works, where Bassinger dis- robed, but the crowd tore Moot's cloth- ing from his body, as he refused to dis- robe himself. A paint bucket and a brush were then secured and a smoke- stack varnish, a tar-like substance, was daubed over them from head to foot. It was matted in their hair and beard, and no part of their bodies escaped but their faces. Their bodies were then partially cov- ered with their clothing, and the elders were marched to the home of E. H. Leiby, a local Zion follower, who was driven out of the city last Sunday. There they promised not to return to Mansfield, but later they said they agreed not to return unless Overseer iper ordered them to come. Later, when the police gathered, the elders were turned over to them and taken to the city, prison, where the tar was removed from their bodies by appli- cations of lard and benzine, new cloth- ing was procured, and at noon they were placed upon a west bound Penn- sylvania train and sent out of the city. BURIAL IN UNITED STATES. The Government Will Bring Its Dead From China and Pacific Isles. Colonel William S. Patten, of the quartermaster’s department, has com- pleted arrangements for the free trans- portation to the United States of the remains of soldiers, sailors and civilians who lost their lives and were buried in the island possessions of the United States and in China. A burial corps will take passage on the transport Han- cock from San Francisco on October 1 in charge of D. H. Rhodes, inspector of national cemeteries. All the bodies are to receive honora- ble burial in the United States at places selected by the next of kin. Where not otherwise ordered the interments will be made in the national cemeteries. The approximate number of remains to be exhumed is 1,331, distributed in the following places: Honolulu, 36 en- listed men of the army and 1 marine; Guam, 8 men of the navy; China, 2 oifi- cers of the army, 58 enlisted men of the army and 37 men of the navy; Philip- vines, 17 officers of the army, 1,150 en- listed men of the army and 28 men of the navy. JR. 0. U. A. M. [SEPARATED Division at the State Mastin and the iIn- surgents Withdraw. The war between the two factions of the Pennsylvania State council of the Junior Order United American Me- chanics over the per capita tax resulted in the bodies holding separate meetings and nominating different sets of offi- cers at Philadelphia, Tuesday. The meeting was the one authorized by the National council, and that fac- tion which has been opposed to the body recognized by the National coun- cil and which Monday refused to join in a special meeting, was admitted to the session along with the “regulars.” The latter numbered 126 and the other fac- tion 269. Charles S. Crawl, of Monon- gahela, regular, presided over the meet- ing. All went harmoniously until a motion was put that all who indorsed the National council rulings stand up. All the “regulars” arose, but none of the opposing faction. The former then withdrew to another part of the room and separate sessions were held. DIRECTLY AGAINST HOWARD. Witness Swears That the Prisoner Admitted He Had Killed Goebel. In the trial of James Howard Mon- day at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of William Goebel, Bowman Gaines testified that Howard is the man he saw run out of the State house grounds and jump the fence immediately after the shooting of Goebel. James Stabblefield, who lost a leg and an arm in the Clay county feuds last year, testified that Howard stopped at his house in Febru- ary soon after the shooting and said. “I never sight down my gunbarrel but what I get meat or money, and this time I got both.” Witness said he put the direct ques- tion: “Jim, do you mean to say that you killed Goebel?” Howard, he said, re- sponded in the affirmative, and said he believed his mountain friends would stand by him and that 500 men could not take him to Frankfort for trial Stabblefield said he did not tell the story of Howard's confession to him until he heard that Howard and his friends were planning to kill him. Mississippi Steamers Burned. Fire Friday destroyed the steamers War Eagle of the Eagle Packet Com- pany, and the Carrier of the Calhoun Packet Company, at St. Louis, Mo, One man was burned to death, anothe is missing and a third severely ey Property valued at $100,000 was destroy- ed. The wharfboats were badly damaged. The Carrier, consisting of wheat, other produce, rgo of the apples and was destroyed. Sarcasm by Chinese Official. Ioan Chen, secretary of the Chinese legation in England, declares that the Chinese system of fighting devils and tiating gods by beer-botth “3 1 candidate it would have 1 ed the t the ished. 4th of July is to be abol- I' APER !—The miners | Cartridge P CARTRIDGE can get enot per for a few cents, at Tie Star oflice, to last Pittsburg Dai Tiines and | oth one year for only advance. Send all orders to | ok L teks 1 | | | — | | 2 | | agle and Illinois | PETROLEUM LAST YEAR. Production Ircreased and Price Advanced. Gain in Value Was $20,410,645. Ohio Takes the Lead. The United States geological survey has made public a report on the oil production in the United States for 1890. It shows that the total production of petroleum in 1899 was 57,070,850 bar- rels of 42 gallons each, as compared with 55,364,233 barrels in 1898. The devel- opment of the Scio, O., field in 1899 was a factor which made the production of Southeastern Ohio 4.764. 135 barrels in 1899, as compared with 2,147,610 bar- rels in 1898. The average price per barrel of all the oil produced in the United States during 1809 was $1.13 1-5, as compared with 70.8 in 1898. he production of 1899 was only 1, Jon017 barrels in excess of that of 1808, but owing to the advanced prices, the value of the product was $20,410,545 greater than in 1898. The average price O what is known as “Pennsylvania oil” was $1.2034 per barrels in 1899, as com- pered with 914 cents in 1898, an 1in- crease of 3874 cents per barrel or nearly 42 per cent. The total amount of pe- troleum exported from the United States in 1809 was 031,024,441 gallons, valued at $64.082,240, as compared with 986,480,610 gallons valued at $52,551,- 048 in 1808. A decrease of 33,450,169 gallons in amount was accompanied by a gain of $12,431,201 in value. While there was a decline of 314 per cent. in the amount of petroleum ex- ported the increase in value was over 23 per cent. The production of pe- troleum in Pennsylvania in 1809 was 13,053,603 barrels. a decrease of 1,689,611 from 1808 In West Virginia the pro- duction was 13,010,030 barrels in 1809, an increase of 295,520. Pennsylvania was the only State where a decrease was shown during the year. In West Virginia the gain was very slight dur- ing 1809. Since 1894 Ohio has produc- ed more petroleum than any othe State. During 1808 its two fields produced 40 per cent. of the combined production of the Appalachian and Lima- Indiana belts. West Virginia now stands next to Ohio in place of Pennsylvania in the production of petroleum. ennsyl- vania ranks third in the list of States. REBUILDING GALVESTON. Martial Law Has Ceased—Labor is Now at a Premium — Work of Cleaning Away Debris Continues. Mayor Jones, of Galveston, Tex., proclaimed that mar- tial law would cease at noon to-mor- row, and the civil authorities would as- sume direction of municipal affairs. This was done at the suggestion of Gen. Scurry, who expressed the belief that conditions had reached such a stage that the civil authorities were able to cope with the situation. This, how- ever, does not mean the immediate withdrawal of the militia. They are to co-operate with the city officials in the enforcement of order, and will continue on duty as a part of the government. Labor in Galveston is at a premium. There is not an idle man in the city. Regardless of station or position a man must work. The merchant and his clerk are working side by side along with the man who has known nothing but hard work since the time of his childhood. The work of removing the dead from the debris still continues. pre- vailing method of disposition is crema- tion, and as each corpse is taken out it is thoroughly saturated with coal oil and thrown into a blazing fire. Funeral pyres are blazing throughout the city and in this way Galveston is ridding herself of the dead. <. Barton, a nephew of Clara Bar- ton, of the Red Cross society, suggests the raising of a fund of from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 to aid the people in re- building their homes. An appeal of this nature will be made to the people of the United States. Thursday evening MASSACRE OF CHINESE. Five Thousand Alleged to Have Been Mur- dered by Russians. A Moscow correspondent telegraphs that reports have been received there IK THARGES SIN SUNDRY SERMON. AN ELOQUENT DIS DISCOURSE. Subject: Christ’s Character—TIis Earthly Life Replete With Beautiful Exam- ples—Practice Self Sacrifice and Hu- mility and Help Bear Burdens of Others [Copyright 1900.1 WasHINGTON, D. C.—In this sermon, which Dr. Talmage sends from Paris, he analyzes the character of the Saviour, and urges all Christians to exercise the quali- ties which were conspicuous in Chr earthly life. The text is Romans viii, 9: “Now, if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is none of His.” There is nothing more desirable than a pleasant disposition. Without it we can- not be happy ourselves or make others happy. When we have lost our temper or become impatient under some light cross, we suddenly awaken to new appre- ciation of proper eauipoise of nature. We wish we had been born with self balance, we envy those pecple who bear themselves through life without anv perturbation. and we flatter ourselves that, however little self control we may now have, the time will come, under the process of years, when we will be mellowed and softened, and the wrong things which are in us ow will then be all right, forgetful of the fac that an evil habit in our nature will Si into larger proportions, and that an ini- quity not corrected will become the grand- father of a whole generation of migmities. So that people without the grace of God in the struggle and amid the annovances and exasperations of life are apt to be- come worse stead of better. Now, the trouble is that we have a the ory abroad in the world that a man’s dis position cannot be changed. “I am irascible in temper, help it.” Another man says. “I am re- vengeful naturally, and I can’t help it” A man says, “IT am fmprlvive, and I can’t help it.” "And he tells the trnth. No man can correct his disposition. I never knew a man by force of resolution to change his treatment, but bv His grace God can take away that which is wrong and put in that which is right. and IT know and vou know people who, since their con- version, are just the opposite of what they used to be. In other words. we may, by the spirit of God, have the disposition of Jesus Christ implanted in our disposition, and we must have it done or we will never see heaven. “If any man have not the Sipnsition of Jesus Christ, he is none of In the first place, the spirit of Christ was a spirit of gentleness. Sometimes He made wrathful utterance against Phari- sees and hypocrites, but the most of Is words were kind and gentle and loving and inoffensive and attractive. When we consider the fact that Ie was omnino- tent. and could have torn to pieces His assailants, the wonder is greater. We of- ten bear the persecution and abuse of the world because we cannot help it. Christ endured it when He could have helned it. Little children who alwavs shy off at a rough man rushed into His presence and clambered on Tim until the people begged the mothers to take them away. Invalids so sore with wounds that they could not bear to have any one come near them begged Christ just to put His hand upon the wound and soothe it. The mother with the sickest child was willing to put the little one in Christ's arms. Self-rightecus people rushed into His presence with iN woman of debased char- acter and said. “Now, annihilate her, blast her, kill her.” Jesus looked at her and saw she was sorry and repentant. and Ie looked at them, and He saw they were proul and arrogant and malignant, and Tle said, “Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her.” A blind man sat by the wavside making a great ado about his lack of vision. They told him to hush up and not bother the Master Christ stooped to him and said, “What wilt thou that I do unto thee?” Gentleness of voice, gentleness of manner, gentleness of life. Ve all admire it whether we have any of it or not. Just as the rough mountain bluff and the scarred crag love to look down into the calm lake at their feet and as the stormiest winter loves to merge into the sunshiny spring, so the most pre cipitate and impulsive and irascible nature loves to think of the gentleness of Chr How little we have of it! How little t tience 1m treating with enemies! have so hittle of the gentleness of Christ we are not fit for Christian work half the | time. We do not know how to comfort the bereft or to encourage the disheart- ened or to take care of the poor. e1 our voice of sympathy is on the wrong pitch. My sister had her arm put out of joint. and we were in the country, and the neighbors came in, and they were all sym pathetic, and they laid hold of the arm and pulled ind pulled mightily until the anguish was intolerable, but the arm did not go to its place. Then the old country doctor was sent for, and he came in, and with one touch it was all right He knew just where to put his finger and just how of a horrible massacre at Blagovest- chensk, i out under direct orders f sian authorities. tion of 5,000 souls was escorted out of town to a spot five miles up the Amur and then, being led in batches of a few hundreds to the river bank, was order- ed to cross over to the Chinese side. No boats were provided and the river is a mile wide. The Chinese were flung alive into the stream and were stabbed or shot at the least resistance, while Russian volunteers, who lined the bank, clubbed or shot any who attempt- ed to land. Not one escaped alive. The river bank for miles was strewn with corpses. Common Delusions. Full nine out of ten persons plume which was undoubtedly carried | from the Rus- | The Chinese popula- | to touch the bone. “e go out to ow Christian work with too rough a hand and too unsympathetic a manner, and we fail in our work, while some Christian, in the gentleness of Christ, comes along, put his hand of sympathy on the sore spot, and the torn ligaments are healed, and the disturbed bones are rejoined Oh, for this gentleness of Christ! Th ew of one summer might will oo Ly, more good than fifty Caribbean whirlwinds. How important it is that in going forth to serve rst we have some- | thing of His gentleness! Ts that the way | we bear ourselves when we are assaulted? The rule is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, retort for retort, sarcasm for sar casm. Give him as much as he sends! After awhile you look up into the face of Christ, and you see His gentleness, an vou ts “Well, now, I must do different: ly Then your proud heart says: ‘Now you have your enemy m a corner. You will never get him mn a corner again. Chas- themselves on being different others, when their very belief in the notion is its own contradiction. ¢ complacently aver, “I have such a keen sense of the ridiculous,” when a true sense of humor would have pro- hibited the boast. But what we most plume ourselves upon—if we are the average man or woman—is our power to read character. ticularly clever,” we observe, guileless braggadocio ades as humility, “but of one thing I'm certain, and that is, I'm a good judge of human nature. I'm never deceived in a person,” when, if such perspicacity were really possessed, we'd say nothing about it before those capable of scenting our limitations. with that Advice to Sneezers. Never turn your head when you sneeze, or you may rupture a blood ves- sel in the brain and go off as did good Mr. Samuel Halped, of Derby. fo persons do their sneezing at the dinner table, after vigorously peppering their food. They should push back their chairs when they fes! ‘the emotion com- ing on and turn their bodies away with their heads. Te twist the head around is to compress certain muscles, veins and arteries. sneezi; " al 1 have known two men to die . In ancient days it was not un- healthy les drop dead 7 E ERizno SCOT Sat on ion is probably ri iq p; specic re fen. ‘Scientific American, YOrK ahr from | “I may not be par. | which masquer- | Juicy Roasts, tise him and then let him go.” So we postpone the gentleness of Christ. id you ever know any difficulty to be | healed by acerbity or hypercriticism? About forty-five years ago he Presbyte | rian Church was split into the new school | and the old school. The chasm got wider { and wider The most outrageous person- alities were indulged m. Good men on | one side anathematized good men on the | other side. ider and wider the chasm got until after awhile some good peuple tried another tack. and they began to ex- plain away the difficulties, and soon all the differences were healed, and at Pitts- burz they shook hands and are one now to be one forever You say to a man with whom vou had | | a falling out, “I despise you. He says, | “I can’t bear the sight of you.” You say to him, “I never want you to come to my house again.” He sa my house again, I'll kick say, “I'll put you dow : no, he says, “I'll put vou down’ But some dav the pirit of Christ comes into you and you go over and say ‘My brother, give me your hand; time is short and eternity is near, and we can’t afford to quarrel ow let bygones be bygones and let us act t is all settled How” “If you come to 2? You 2» like Christians.” drunkard re claimed by mimicry of his staggering steps, his thick tongue or his hiccough? No. You only madden his brain. But you go to him and let him know you appreciate what an awful struggle he has with the evil habit and you let him know that you pave a Ee with Joop le who AY ger who, by (ti SNE (lire . This place headquarters for Tender Steak, nues to be conti Choice Dressed Poultry, Sausage, Pudding and Fresh Fish in I aim to serve my patrons with the best in my ASO. the market aftords. the public for a lib- itronage, and solicit- continuance of I am the t : 1 stock *justire-) cived tf. 2 t mr = — chosen to go there: all safanie strength could not have hited Christ unon the ross if He had not elected 1limself to the sin and death + sorrows of this nity. How hig save our race fram and hell He faced all ti world and the sorrows oF ¢ much of that self sacrifice ay wi What is self sacrifice? It is mv walk mg a long journev to save vou from fa. tigue: it 1s my lifting a great number of | pounds to save vou from the awful stra; { it is a subtraction from my ~omfort and | prosperity so that there may be an addi: tion to your comfort and prosnerity. How [mg of that have we? Micht not 1 rather sav. “How little have we?” ! Two children. Lrother and sister, were | passing down the road. They were both | ve yv destitute. The Jad had hardly anv { garments at all. THis had a coal that she had outerown s | cold day She der this coat.” “Oh. coat isn’t large - -ourh 5 “it will stretch.” Ile comes "under the coat, but the coat would not stretch. Sq she took off the coat and put it on hmm. Self sacrifice, pure and simple. Chris§ taking off Hisrobe to clothe our nakedness: Self sacrifice! I have not any of 1t, not have you. compared with that. The saci rifice of the Son of Goa. ih sa Christ walked to Emmaus: Chris§ walked from Caperpanm to Bethanys Christ walked from Jerusalem to Gols How far have yon and T walked for Christ? His head “ached; His heart ached: His back ached How much have we ached for ¢ hrist? How much of that humhiy have we? If we get a few more dollars than cthen people or gam a little higher position, oh, how we strut! We go around wanting everybody to know iheir place and say, “Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the honor of my kingdom and by the might of my strength?’ Who hag anything of the humility of Christ? The disposition of Christ was also the spirit of prayer. on the mount ains, prayer on the sea, prayer among the sick—prayer everywhere. Prayer for lit: tle children. “Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast hidden these thincs from the wise and prudent and revealed them untc babes.” Pr: si his friends, “Father, I will that they be with Me where I am.” Prayer for His enemies, “Father, for ive them; they know not what they in? Prayer for all nations, “Thy kingdom come. How httle of that spit you and I have! How soon our knees get tired! Where ig the vial sul of odors which are the pray: ers of all the saints! Which of us can keep our mind ten minutes on rR without wandering? Not you, not that we might have the spirit of prayed which was tne spirit of Christ! We want more prayer in the family, more prayer in the church, more prayer in the legislative hall, more prayer amon the sick, more prayer among the aged, more prayer among the young. The grea advancement of the church is to be in that of Christ, I remark lastly} was a spirit of hard work. Not one lazy moment in all His life. Whether He was talking to the fishermen on the beach, or preaching to the sailors on the dock, or administering to the rustics amid the mountains, or spe nding an evenin in Bethanv, always Dany for others. it! hands, heart head, busy for others—hews ing in the Nazareth c arpenter shop, teach ing the lame how to walk without crutch es, curing the child's fits, providin tions for the hungry host. Busy, a y The hardy men who yulled the net out of the sea filled with Souter treasures, the shepherds who hunted up grassy plots for their flocks to nibble at, the shipwrights pounding away in the dockyards, the winemakers of KE ngedi dip ping tn: juices from the v 2 and pouring them into the goatskins, re not more busy than Christ. Busy, Tr for others! From the moment He went out of the car- avansary of Bethlehem to the moment when the cross plunged into the socket on the bloody mount busy for others. Does that remind you of yourself? It does not remind me of myseit. If we lift a bur- den it must be light; if we do work, if must be popular, if we sit in the pew, it must be safe; if we move in a sphere of usefulness, it must be brilliant; if we have to take hold of a load, give us the light end of the Jog. In this way to heaven fan s, sing us to sleep Lift us up ven on the tips of your fingers under a silken Stand out of all yon martyrs who breasted : stand out of the way and let this eS of tender footed modern Chris. tians come up and get their crowns! What has your Lord done to you, O Christian, that you should betray him? Who gave you so much riches that you can afford to despise the awards of the faiths ful? At this moment, when all the armied of heaven and earth and hell are plunging into the conflict, how can you desert the standard? Oh, backslidden Christian, is it not time for you to start anew for God and anew for heaven? Now, I have shown you that the dispo- sition of Christ was a spirit of gentleness, a spirit of self sacrifice, a spirit of humil- ity, a spirit of prayer. a spirit of hard work—five points. Will you remember them? Arve you ready now for the tre- mendous announcement of the text, “If any man has not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His?’ Are you ready for that statement? Can we “Yes; we have the spi one of us can make that answer to the full question, yet 1 am to declare to you there is no discouragement in this subject for Christian people. You have the seeds of this character planted in your soul. *It doth not yet appear what we shall be ” You might as well blame an acorn for not being an oak of a thousand years as to blame yourseif because you are not equal to Christ You have the implantar tion within you which will enlarge and develop into the grandest Christian char- acter, and there 15 no discouragement in this text for vou to try to love and serve the Lord. Aim high. Sheathe not your sword until you have gained the last vie- tory. Climb higher and higher until you veach the celestial hills Crowns bright and radiant for all the victors. but death to every deserter NEWSY GLEANINGS. A Russian geographer has ascended the Great Ararat. si Utah Democrats have nominated James H. Moyle for governor. . The dog population of Chicago 1s 40,206. The license on these is $80,502. The teaching of Spanish has been rogues in the schools in Santa Fe, A giving better has been passed A new copyright act, protection to authors, in Canada. Fighting between the French and the Beraber tribesmen has occurred in the French Sahara. A syndicate has been formed at Och- senfurt, Bavaria. to apply electricity in agricultur Ate lephone company in Tennessee has prohibited the smoking of cigar- ettes by its employes. Nashville, Tenn.. is dissatisfied with the census returns, and is to take a recomrnt at its own expense. London is following the example of New York city and is employing China- mcu to do its lanndry work. Francois S. Jones, secretary of the United States legation at Buenos Ayres, was drowned at Charlotteville, Va. An effigy of Miss Lilian Clayton Jewett, an anti-lynching enthusiast, of Boston, was hanged at Richmond, Va. Tax valua bon in Tennessee have been increased $25.000,000 by the oper- ation of a new law requiring assessment at cash value. According to the census returns the population of Butte, Mont.. is 30.470, as inst 10,723 in 180. That is an in- ase of 10.747. or 180.16 per cent. The population of Sacramento, Cal, announces the census bureau. is 29, 282, as against 26.355 in 18go. That shows an increase of 2.806. or 10.08 per cent. Splendor oh the Shas s Palace. j1eayg 23 ur SI ue 1943 J, Ie asered YI, of the town, and consists of several sep: arate buildings and pavilions, the cen: tral one of which is the actual Imperial dwelling. The Shah's private apart: ments are again in the center of the building, surrounded by those of his of- ficers and attendants. The grounds are vast and beautiful, and a stream, flow- ing clear and cool from the mountains, gives welcome refreshment during the heat of the Persian summer. Colored pieeinly tiles abound on the gateways and walls, but the greater part are mod- ern and of a rather gaudy description, the really beautiful old “faience,” al- though there are some very fine speci- mens, being in the minority. The pal- ace contains treasures of truly Oriental splendor.—London Illustrated News. f= } - ka fo a - ; i § i - | - » | 3} s - Be al The the me stitutic treatm ly, « cous su Send f Sold Hall’ Mor than i T! Fe CHILL & taste Hor larger Worms Oct Jersey Fits Poss a orve free. [ For cles w MEER veg nt mec par hur whi for: any
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