——— THE MINERS shag 15 AT IN HD DEMANDS NDS GRANTED. The Reading Company Concedes and Others Foliow—An Early Resumption of Work Expected—The Miners Jubilant. The great strike of the anthracite mine | works at Irwin, Pa. has been sold at workers of Pennsyivania, which began jauction. September 17, practically ended Night schools have been opened at Wednesday. When the Philadelphia Manila to teach Enelish to Filipino and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the Lehigh Valley Coal Company agreed to abolish the sliding ‘scale in their respectiv regions and to grant an advance in wages of 10 per cent. net the advance to remain in operation until Aprii 1, 1¢01, or thereaiter. This action meets the demands of the Scranton niiners’ convention. The decision was arrived at after a conference held in Philadelphia between representatives of the individual coal operators and the large coal carrying companies. It is conceded. that the result of th conference is a complete victory for the men. All the demands of their conven- tion are acceded to, and the operators go a little further in agreeing to main- tain the wage advance after April 1 : The news from Philadelphia spread through the entire region with al lightning rapidity. Everywhere faction +1 the was expressed by the st miners and others. It is confide lieved that the strike will be ally declared off this week, and that al the men will have a chance to return to work by Monday. President Mitchell informed all inquirers that the strike would be declared off by no one but the United Mine Workers™ officials, and added that no mine workers should re turn to the mines until a notice to th effect is issued from labor headquarters The advance of 10 per cent. means an increased disbursement of $20,000 eve ry month in Shenandoah alone. Telegrams from Scranton, Pa., date Thurs sa Representatives of al the big coal mining companies met here this afternoon and decided to insist on the decrease in the price of powder be- ing computed as part of the increase 'n wages to contract miners. 1 District President Nichols, of the United Mine Workers, says the mine 8 Is were directed to get a advance, and that another! necessary be even convention will be strike can be declared off, miners’ fore the LATEST NEWS NOTES. a town run and owned a receiver. Waynesburg, brewery pro- Lincoln, N. J, by women, has asked for Temperance people of Pa., are fighting the new ject. In a fire at St. Paul, Minn., five fire- men were killed and $100,000 damage done. The property oi the Penn plate glass students. Alabama's population is 1.828,697, an increase of 315.580, nearly 21 per cent, since 1800. Understead’s more, Pa. Avon- night. factory at Thursday keg burned Loss, $10.0c0. Careless hunters set fire to the woods in East Finley township, Washington county, Pa. Survivors of the Thirteenth Pennsyl- vania cavalry held a reunion at Tyrone Vednesday. The Kentucky Legislature has pass- ed an election law to take the place of the Goebel law. All the and the subscribed capital has been Jutler (Pa.) site secured for the f : Tannery Company, $30.000, has » Spring Md. capital rporated fever has so increased in Ha- vana that every block in the city has joss 1 10 17 Ck | | he Bradf (Pa) Steel Works ie ae any has raised $40.000 capital, and will be incorporated. | The town of Laurel, Neb., has been [visited by a disastrous fire. A large portion of the town was destroyed. The Princeton university on Saturday contested the degree of doctor of laws upon Secretary of State John Hay I'he rubber hose as an instrument of | punishment will be abolished in the | ngton, Pa., public schools. | deperate class fight at Alle fe colle ge, Meadville, Pa., sopho- | freshmen’s | failed to lower the Fwin sisters who married twin broth-{ ers near Hunting “a., almost! simultaneously became mothers of trips j sts. The s0 students suspended from will take their | Wooster (0.) university, AMERICA GREATEST I WORLD'S POWER! HEADS TH THEM ALL. Sir Robert Griffin, the Celebrated English Statistical Expert Bestows This Title Upon the United States. One of the most siotable speeches of last week was delivered by Sir Robert Giffen, the noted statistician and form- cr president of the Statistical society, before the Manchester Statistical ety, upon the European population of the world. He declared the growth of the United States compelled her recog- nition as the most powerful state m the world so far as population and re- sources were concerned. He pointed out that the United States really had greater European population than any European state, for Great Britain's strength might be considered to®be di- minished rather than increased by the possession of large territories, while the units of the Russian population were so inferior that the pre-eminence of the United States 1s not questioned. Ac- cording to Sir Robert, there are now cnly four great world powers. the Unit cd ates, Great Britain, Russia and Germany, with France a doubtful fif SOC1- He expressed the et that the “Yel low peril” would vanish, as the yellow | races were quickly being outnumbered hy the European, which, in another cen y. should number nearly two thou- sand millions. AGUINALDO HAS PLANS. Throws Out Mysterious Hints to Rebels in Manila That Something is About to Happen. Senor Buencamino has received what purports to be a letter from Aguinaldo, crdering the former leaders of the revo- lution now in Manila to desist from the formation of political parties, and to cease all attempts at pacification. The letter mysteriously hints that plans are maturing among the armed rebels in | the field and describes these as ‘best tor the country. Juencamino declares that the letter is genuine. The military situation tively quiet last week. The commission the military authorities, the Filipinos and the foreigners are awaiting the re- sult of the was compara- medicine. The faculty refused to rein-| presidential election in the though the officers were disposed to ac-| state them, | United States. Many persons assert cede to the conditions that powder Lloyd's quarter report shows that the f the at whatever this may be it will have should figure in the present negotia- |; ti. Siates has next to Great Britain je immediate effect upon the armed sit- tions the large st tonnage in shipping under {uation in the Philippines, and that dis- The operators’ meeting this afternoon straation orders and guerrilla attacks will con- ecd to post notices extending the of tinue of 10 per cent. to April 1. INTO A CROWDED CAR. An Indianapolis Switch Engine Causes In- jury and Perhaps Death. John Demlin. treasurer of the Galves- t relief fund, gave out a statement sho wing that the $1,005,202. date are At Indianapolis, Ind., a Lake Erie & | rushing out ne life. Western railroad switch engine struck I'he Cambria Iron Company is nego- a street car at 10:25 o'clock Friday |tiating for the purchase of extensive night. There were 21 passengers in the | coal fields in St. Clair township, West- cars, and of this number 15 of them |moreland county, Pa. were more or less injured, some Thirteen hundred acres of coal land of them perhaps fat lly. in the vicinity of Womelsdorf, W. Va, The engine struck the front end of [Lave been purchased by the Junior Coal the car, carried it 20 feet, and finally | Company, for $50.000. threw it against a freight car standing on a side-track. The passengers wert pinioned down by the broken timbers The doors could not be opened and the least injured people, in their rush to escape, trampled over those un able to help themselves. general confusion the steam from the engine enveloped the wrecked car, it was with great difficulty the rescuing them was car ied forward. least half the passengers were women, and their screams and the crash awoke people living within two blocks of the At scene of the accident. ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED. Kentucky Citizens Take Fratus Warfield From Jail and Hang Him. Shortly morning, after 12 o'clock Fratus Warfield, a Thursday jail by a mob and hanged at mad To add to the and work of At | the international negro, 23 years of age, was taken from the county Elkton, | [he English admiralty is about to er- ganize an additional reserve squadron, under Rear Admiral Sir Gerard Henry Noel, for home waters. The steamer Empress of Japan brings news of great loss of life and property on sea and land during the September gales in the Japan group. Count Waldersee, troops in he considered the campaign expected to be recalled soon. Kingston, Jamaica, Employes of the electric railway, owned by Ameri- can and nadian capitalists, are on strike. They want more pay. Business men of the towns in the In- dian territory are organizing leagues to resist the payment of the tribal tax. They will fight it in the courts. The American Linseed Oil Company has marked the price of linseed oil up to 70 cents, or the highest figure known since the infancy of the industry. commanding China, said over and von Ky. Tuesday the negro went to the An attempt was made to destroy the home of a young. white farmer, about |jine of the Citizens’ Telephone Company three miles from Elkton, and finding nod at Ellwood, Pa. Two men one at home but the wife and her little babe, attempted to frighten her into let- ting him into the house. He did not succeed in getting in, and after trying to break in the door and threatening to kill her, he w ent away. Warfield s captured Wednesday and placed in jail. During the night a mob of about 150 men overpowered the jailor and getting the keys quietly took the prisoner to a grove near town, where he was found hanging to a limb in the morning. ‘g MEXICAN TOWN DESTROYED. Guadalupe Washed Away—Three Lives Are Known to be Lost. News of the destruction of the town of Guadalupe, Mexico. 40 miles below El Paso, Tex., in the Rio Grande basin, by a cloudburst, reached Juarez Friday y a runner, who was sent to beg assist- ance for the starving inhabitants. Guadalupe was a village of 500 peo- ple. The inhabitants were only dble (o save their lives by fleeing to the foot- hills. One old man and two children, besides cattle and horses, were lost. Growth of American China Trade. According to a report of the treasury bureau of statistics, American trade with | China shows that of any of the European countries In 1899 imports from ‘this country to China amounted to 22,283,745 taels. A | tael is valued at 72 cents. crease of 5,000,000 taels over the of imports in 1898. The value in was 5,003,182 taels. The imports from Great Britain show an increase of 18 per cent. from 1895 to 1899, and those from Europe show an increase of 35 per cent, while those from the United States show an increase of 337 per cent. value 1805 Gon J. W. Fisher Deal. Gen. J. W. Fisher, one of the heroes of the battle of Gettysburg dead at} Cheyenne, Wyo., aged 8 years. Gen. Fisher entered the war of the rebellion as a private and was discharged a ma- jor general. At the battle of Gettysburg, Fisher, | then a colonel, noted a large force of southern troops intrenching Little Roundtop. Without waiting for orders, he commanded his regiment to charge | and captured the position, the gallant move turning what seemed to be “defeat | into victory. He was praised and pro- moted. For 10 years Gen. Fisher serv- ed as chief justice of the Wyoming ter- ritorial court, Smith Pleaded Guilty. Colonel Harold A. Smith, sistant auartermaster ate of Michigan. who was indicted | by the grand jury for alleged fraud and | embezzlement in connection with the | military clothing frauds, has ch: his plea in the Ingham county court from not guilty to guilty. Judge West imposed a fine of $1,200, to be paid on or before Octobe default of payment of the fine is to serve two years in the county jaf formerly | Snin Pritts Found Guilty. “Bill” Pritts, the famous mountain- eer, was found guilty in the United; States district court at Pittsbur Wednesday “®f making “moonshine whisky up in the mountains of Fayette county, Pa., but recommended to the mercy of the court. The jury was out less than two hours. Application will he made for a new trial. | a more rapid growth than | This is an in- | Hh x vy night. general of the | | 22 | Ingham | started to cut the wires, but were scared away. The library building of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, which has been under construction for the past three years at Madison, has been dedicated. The sale of 25.000 acres of coal in Center, Conemaugh and Blacklick townships, Indiana county, Pa., has been accomplished by Col. John McGaughey. A schooner, in which eleven workmen were returning from Gloucester county to their home in Maryland, capsized in Chesapeake bay and all were drowned. The abbatoir of the West Philadel- phia stockyards was partly destroyed by a fire of unknown origin Sunday, caus- ing a loss of about $50,000, fully insur- “he battleship Kentucky, which sail- ed for China Saturday, was compelled to return to this port on account of the disarrangement of her turret mechan- ism. Judge Charlton, of the intermediate court at Fairmont, W. Va., has been served with a writ of prohibition and restricting him from naturalizing for- cigners. The transport L ogan has ; Manila for San Francisco, carrying 273 sick, 10 insane and 39 prisoners. The | horse transport Conemaugh is about to sail also. The shaviplan murderer and brigand, Musolino, of Italy, who is still at large, has killed all the members of his band, and has marked several persons for slaughter sailed from were injured in a collision of street cars on the line be- tween Seattle and Renton, Wash A dense fog prevented the motorman see | mg At Fresno, Cal, | | | | | Fourteen persons the county hos oe was destroyed by fire. Loss, $80,000. One hundred and fiity patients, 80 of "whom are seriously ill, were left with- [out a reluge | A bronze statue of Gen. Logan, just completed by Sculptor Franklin Sim- | mons. of Rome, has been accepted by the United States consul in behalf of | the government. The first snowstorm of the season wept over the Adirondacks Wednes- At Dannemora and at Chazy lake the ground was covered to the | depth of two inches. l #'At Nyack. N.Y the ground on [nich stands the Cyrus W. Field monu- ment to Major Andre was sold for | taxes to George Dickey, who says he will remove the stone. Dr. Claude Beck and William ton, of Greensburg, Ind., fought a duel, lin which Barton received a probably fatal wound. Barton prohibited Beck's | attentions to his daughter. Two hundred Uintah Indians from Utah have invaded Northwestern Colo- rado on their annual hunting expedition, and as usual on such occasions the set- tlers are greatly alarmed. | The mutiny in Turkey among the Al- | banians is growing stronger. The in- surgents announce that they desire full autonomy under foreign princes, and will be satisfied with nothing less. ! | More Bar- than 1,000 horses have died of -spinal meningitis, which pre- vails in Southern Maryland for the sec- iond time this year. Five counties are | affected, and the animals are dying six to eight a day. The demand of the United States for the payment of an indemnity of $9,000 for the murder of an American, who was lately killed by a mob in Morocco, has been presented in such terms as to total contributions to | ft of insanity. Mrs. Geb- | . of Cleveland, dash- s-weeks-old infant to the floor, [15a The P hilippine commission has a bi 1 appropriating $475,000, gold, for the | payment of expenses incurred for the {benefit of the insular government dur- mg October. TORNADO IN TEXAS. Six Persons Are Known to Have Been Killed. Others Are Missing. A tornado struck about half a mile west of LLodi and 15 miles west of At- lanta, Tex., Sunday. The path of the tornado was 200 yards wide, and the wind swept everything before it. One house in the center of its path, by negroes, was destroyed, six people being killed outright. ~ Three others are missing and are supposed to be dead. The cyclone traveled from the south- west to the northeast, crossing the Tex- s & Pacific railroad at Campbellsville ur, a lumber-loading station, two es north of Lodi. The lumber was carried away in all directions. It is fear- cd further loss of life has resulted in the country. A hard rain fell in the morn- ing, commencing about 7 o’clo®& with light hail. The result will be consider- able damage to the cotton crop remain- ing ungathered in this section. occupied WAX DREW OUT HIS EYE. Sufferer Can See Though His Optic Lies On His Cheek. John Williams, a Donegal township, shoemaker of Jutler county, Pa., xcruciating pain from a sty on the left eye. He applied some shoe wax with a bandage to his eye before retiring. During the night his screams awakened other members of the family. It was found that the wax 1ad drawn the eyeball clear out of the socket upon the chee k. Physicians were hastily summoned. They were afraid to heat he wax to re- move it, for fear of injuring the sight. After hours of work the wax was re- moved, but the eyeball refused to again go to its place. He could see out of the eye that lay upon his cheek when the other was closed. The unfortunate man has to be kept under the influence of morphine continually. was suffering Insane Convicts Revolt. At Newburg, N. Y., a most desperate Fort to escape confinement was made inmates of the Mattewan State Bors al for the Insane Criminals at 7 o'clock Sunday evening. A body of the convicts attacked eight guards and beat them down one by one, taking their keys and some of them eventually escaping from the yard which surrounds the hospital. In the encounter in the building the convicts had the advantage of numbers, but in the battle in the open the keepers rallied and finally retrieved much that had been lost, securing all but seven of the desperate fellows. These have not been caught. Akren Police Censured. wroner Leberman has filed the ver- dict in the inquest cver the Rhoda Davidson and Glen children killed in the Akron He says the fatal shoté were fired from within the city bt 1g, but does not mere definitely fix the responsibility The police are blamed for not dis- remains of Waid, the (O.) riot. i pe rsing the mob in the beginning and for firing haphazard into the crowd in stead of giving warning and then shoot- at the leaders of the rioters with careful aim to kill. A Eig Canal Contemplated. The latest and most important project on foot in England is the construction of a canal from Southampton to Lon- don. The surmise as to the far-reach ing consequences such a step would en- tail is scarcely less interesting than the fact that ,if it is accomplished, it is ly to be through the instrumentality of AmeWMcan capital. Coming on top of London’s adoption of the American transit systems and the utilization of American money and brains, this latest project may well be said to cap the cli- max. Indians Starving in Canada. A special from Agassiz, B. C, that 200 Indians are in a starving condi- tion at Humberton Meadows, 150 miles rorth of Agassiz. An Indian rider brought the news that fifty Indian fam- ilies are dying and that it is doubtful if supplies can be sent to them quickly enough to save their lives. Supplies are being rush from V ancouver. Eig Gold Dust Robbery. The steamer Lane brings from Nome the news that $20,000 in gold dust was stolen from the Alaska Commercial Company’ s warehouse. It was the en- tire output of claim No. 7 on Anvil creek and belonged to Dr. A. N. Kit- tleson. It was in five boxes, weighing 105 pounds. There are sixty cases of smallpox at Calumet, Lake Linden, Hancock and Houghton, Wis., and the various boards of health will endeavor to secure a gen- eral vaccination. The disease is of mild type, and so far but one death has re- admit of no reply save payment, sulted — 4 — says { WILLIAM L. WILSON DEAD. Author of the Wilson Tarifi Measure Expires Suddenly at His Home in Lex- ington, Virginia. Ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson died suddenly Wednesday morn- ing at 10 o'clock, at Lexington, Va. Hon. William Lyne Wilson was presi- dent of W ashington and Lee unive He represented the Second West V ginia district in Congress for 12 years and was best known for his advocacy of the free trade theory. which finally led to his defeat by Congressma in Dayton in 1804, after a memorable political bat- tle. After his defeat for Congress he was appointed postmaster general by President Cleveland, and after the ex- piration of his term in that office he was elected to the pre sidency of Washington and Lee Mr. Wilson was 0 ray, W. Va., on May 3, 1843." He was educated at Columbian college, Washington, where he was graduated in 1860. He then entered the University of Virginia, but left it at the outbreak of the civil war to serve in the confederate army. After the war was over he became professor of ancient languages in Columbian college, his alma mater, and studied law. He was professor of Latin from 1867 to 1371, and studied political economy and pc tics. In 1871 he entered upon the pr: tice of law. He was president of the West Virginia Senate in 1882, and w elected to Congress in that year, serv- ing continuously until 1894. As chair- man of the ways and means committee he prepared the tariff bill of 1894, which bore his name. President Cleveland made him postmaster general to suc- ceed Wilson S. Bissell CLEANED DOWIE OUT. Medical Students Drove Him From His Lon- don Lecture Hall Three hundred students from the Lon- don hospitals created a riot in John Alexander Dowie’s meeting in St. Mar- tin’s town hall W ednesday afternoon. The speaker took refuge in flight in or- der to escape bodily injuries. A free- for-all fight took place between the students and Dowie's followers, and many were severely injured. attacked the many arrests. The pol rioters in force and made rush the platform. They threw chairs at Dowie, who called upon the police and fled by a side door. The police fought their way in and endeavored to expel the rioters, arresting a number. Fighting was then resumed, sticks and chairs being used as weapons. The stu- dents tried to rescue those under arrest. Ultimately more police were summoned and the hall was eed The commit- tee of Martin's town hall will con- sult with a police representative as to the advisability of allowing further meetings. : CAUGHT A REBEL CHIEF. Gen. Alvarez and His Staff Made Prisoners by the Americans. Under cover of a stormy night Capt. iot, of the Fortieth infantry, surpris- ed the rebel near Oro- quieta, island of Mindanao, and captured without fighting Gen. Alvarez, with his staff and 25 soldiers. The capture is important and will tend to pacify the strict. Alvarez had for a long time been provoking hostilities in Mindanao. It was he who effected the disastrous attack on Oroquieta some time ago, and he was preparing another when he was captured Detachments of the Twenty-sixth and Eighteenth regiments engaged the rebels near Tubuagan, in Southern Panay, routing them, killing 20 and wounding many. headquarters KILLED BY BANK ROBBERS. Town Marshal Shot and a Strong Force Pursuing the Murderers. The safe of the Farmers Bank at 3ronaugh, this county, was blown open with nitro-glycerine Friday night. All the money in the bank, $1,625, was tak- en, “own Marshal William Moran heard the heavy explosion and stepped out of his door. Just as he did so, one of the robbers shot the marshal in the center of his head, killing him instantly. Shortly after the shooting two men in a wagon were seen to drive rapidly out of town. Citizens wired Sheriff Ewing, who sent them a message to deputize every man possible to pursue the rob- bers. This was done. If the robbers are captured they will probably be lynched. Oppose General Porter's Treaty. Harjo Fixico, a representative of the ull-blood Creek Indians, who are op- posing any change in their tribal ai- fairs, has left the Indian Territory for Washington, where he hopes to have an interview with President McKinley and present the grievances of his peo- pie. Through an anterpreter Fixico said he was going to tell the ‘great father” that the Creeks will never agree to allotment and that they have sworn by their sacred council fire ashes Lrought from Alabama, to oppose Gen- 1 Porter and defeat the ratification of any new treaty. They will stand by the aty of 1866 and all the old treatie "> India’s Famine Record. The viceroy, Lord Curzon, says that the famine had affected a quarter of the population of India, and that 2,000,000 were still receiving relief. He express- ¢d the hope that in a month these would return to their homes. He said that 500,000 deaths were traceable to the mine, and that the loss of crops was #£ 50,000,000, plus some millions for loss of cattle. It would never be how many were affected by the calamity among the hill peoples and w andering tribes, while the alms distributed were unprecedented. He said the cotton crop was worth £13,000000 on the ground. known Boers Bother the British. The Boers are daily tearing up por- tions of the railroad and cutting tele- graph and telephone wires ‘he re- pairing linemen cannot leave the gar- risoned points without considerable es- corts. The only remedy seems to be to corral all the burghers and deport them, as apparently none «an be trust- d. In a speech at Pietermaritzburg Gen. Buller said that he knew that he'would lose the supreme command in South Af- rica when he failed to relieve Lady- smith, but he had taken on the task and was bound to see it to a conclusion. Filipino Students for America. A. R. Taylor. oresident of the Kansas State No school, has received a letter from Fred W. Atkinson, superin- tendent of -public instruction in the Philippine islands, asking what terms the State Normal school of Kansas will give students from the Philippines. The department of education in the Philippines has decided to place some ratives in the United States schools so that they may come in contact with American social and political usages. The first lot of students probably will not be sent over until next summer. NEWS Freed From Mexican Prison. The State department has received a dispatch from Vi Consul Carroll at Monterey, Mex., saying that Hunter E. Golding, an Americ 1 citizen, who was recently sentenced to a term of eight years’ imprisonment in a Mexican peni- tentiary, has been released from custody. Golding is of a well-known Virginia family, and Senator Martin, of that State, has evinced a warm interest in his case. In the evening the students tried to | 10 MAINTAIN HOES OPER DOOR ANGLO-GERMAN AGREZMENY. The Compact is an Outcome of the Policy Outlined by the United States—Dip- lcmats Are Highly Pleased. Great surprise was created in foreign aiplomatic circles when the announce- ment was made that Engiand and Ger- many had formed an alliance to main- tain the open door in China and pre- vent the dismemberment of the great canpire. It is generally admitted that Lord Salisbury, who has hitherto taken little part openly in the Chinese ques- tion, was instrumental in bringing about the agreement. On every hand the move is admit- ted to be rational and helpful. It is ex- pected to clear away the cloud of inter- national suspicion which has hindered a clear view of the exigencies of the Chinese situation and threatened a peaceful settlement of difficultie 3er- many, by the agreement, comes in for an equal share of good intent in China. There has been no attem pt to dis- guise the fact that the alliance is direct- ed against Russia, whose actions in the continued occupation of Manchuria have aroused suspicion. The United States first the preservation of the Chinese empire as an entity. One after another of the powers has come to our position. The Japanese legation approves of the step and Minister Wu is enthusiastic. He : “This is a most important move- ment, and I hope it will lead to a com- plete settlement. The agreement is ex- actly in line with the American position, to which all of the governments gave their adherence. But coming at this time from two such powerful nations, the agreement ought to exert a strong influence toward a settlement. declared for AMBUSHED IN THE E HILLS. How Captain Shields and His Men Were Caplured—Their Rescue. Full details are now at hand as to the capture of Captain Devereaux Shields and his party by the insurgents in the Island of Marinduque last month and their experiences prior to their rescue by General Luther R. Hare. Captain Shields and his party, while operating north of Torrijos, were taken in ambush in the steep hills. They at- tempted to cut their way to the coast, but became subjected to the enemy's four-sided fire, Captain Shields being shot twice and badly wounded. After four had been killed and five wounded. being out of ammunition, the command surrendered through a mis- understanding of themselves to 25 insur- zent riflemen and 1,000 Bolomen. The rebels separated their prisoners into small parties and conveyed them, heavily guarded, to impassable volcanic moun- tains. General Hare gave the rebels one week to surrender the prisoners and the latters’ rifles. The rebels perceive that it was only a question of time when the release of their prisoners would be effected, and they opened up communications with General Hare which resulted in the handing over of the captives. SLAIN BY THE EMPRESS. Former Chinese Minister at Washington Has Been Beheaded. Confirmation has been received of the execution of Chang Yen Hoon, former Chinese minister to the United States. Chang was a loval adherent of the em- peror and a warm supporter of the lat- ter’s reform movements. When the empress dowager supplanted the emper- or two years ago he was banished to Nebradoo, but through the intervention of the American and British ministers his punishment was commuted to ban- ishment in the distant province of Kash- garia. The empress dowager, taking ad- vantage of the late reign of terror at Pekin and knowing Chang's influence with the emperor, ordered his execution by decapitation. Chang was one of the ablest men in China. He had been decorated by the queen of Great Brit- ain and the emperors of Russia and Germany. DISASTROUS EXPLOSIONS. Many Persons Killed as a Result of Acci- dent in Russia. Dispatches from St. Petersburg re- port two terrible accidents in Russian territory. The steamer Eugene, which was built in the United States, trans- ported to Russia in sections and re- launched in the Obi river, exploded while making a night trip. The entire engineeer staff, eight stokers and 18 passengers were killed or drewned and 40 of the passengers were injured. At Daghestan in the Caucasus, in the naptha works of the Vladikovski rail- road, the head engineer, while drunk, took a candle into the shaft, causing an explosion. The engineer and 13 others were instantly killed. Eig Mail Robbery. Forty thousand dollars is believed to be a conservative estimate of the amount of money, postoffice orders, ¢ ks and stamps stolen from postoffice ation H in the Grand Central Palace, New York, Monday night, or on its wu to the general postoffice. The missing money was in five mail pouches. Officials tried hard to keep secret not only the fact that the robbery had occurred, but the amount of money stolen. They ev- en went so far as to keep the matter from the New York police and the se- cret service agents. 0 om Mexican Brigands Cap'urcd. Telegrams from Orizaba, The foree of rurales that started in pur- suit of the notorious Cristobal Pedraza and his band of brigands several weeks Mexico, say: ago, encountered the outlaws in their motintain stronghold and succeeded in killing Pedraza and capturing the ten members of his band. The captives have been sentenced to be shot. This force of brigands had committed many murders in the vicinity of the Coatzingo Hacienda. Airship Navigates in 3 Satoly. Telegrams from Fredrichshaben, Germany, say: Another trial of Count Zeppelin’ Ss airship was made Sunday, re- sulting in a series of successful evolu- tions. The airship, with Count Zeppe- lin and Eugen Wolff on board, ascend- ed at 5 o'clock in the afternoon to an altitude of five-eighths of a mile, where various maneuvers were executed. It then descended slowly to the water, which it reached near the point of de- parture, at 5 Vice Consul Reed Dead. The State department has received a telegram, dated Thursday, from Mr. Lay, consul general of this government at Barcelona, advising it of the death of Mr. Dwight T. Reed, who was appoint- ed vice consul of the United States at Madrid May 26, 1899. Mr. Reed was appointed secretary of legation at Mad- rid in 1877 Monument to Lincoln’s Mother. of Indiana, has re- 16 acres of land Governor Mount, ceived a deed to the in Spencer county surrounding the grave of Nancy Hanks incoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Asso- ciation, of which the governor is presi- dent, has begun work on a monument and will have it completed this fall. The survey of the disputed boundary line between the United States and Brit- ish Columbia places all the important mines in the Mount Baker district on the American side. DOWIEITE IN JAIL. Trouble at Mansfield, Ohio, Again Assumes a Serious Aspect—Missionaries Being De- ported Every Night This Week. Ti NDowieites are determined to thwai fforts to keep them out of Mansfield, and the results may be seri- ous. An average of three have been deported every day since Sunday. Three are known to be hiding here now and have been holding secret meetings. Elder Edward Williams, of Benten Harbor, Mich., who was sent out of town on Monday, rode in Wednesday on a bicycle and gave the police a lively chase before they captured him. They sent him away on a train, but he said he would return every day, as he had been ordered to do so. Deacon Homer Kessler, of Chicago, Dowie’s advertising manager, arrived Wednesday and went to the court house to find his lawyers. The police took him to the railroad depot, and there he was rescued by three deputy sheriffs with a writ of habeas corpus. The deputies started for the jail with the elder and a crowd followed, throw- ing stones and clubs. Deputy Sheriff Bell and Kessler were struck by stonzs and severely injured. They reached the jail and Kessler was locked up and sev- i] deputies placed on guard. A crowd soon collected around the jail, while other crowds are scouring the city for the hidden elders, equipped with tar and feathers. PERIL IN CENTRAL CHINA. British Consul Warns Cfficers’ Wives Away. Reform Rebels Continue to Win Vic- tor.es From the Regulars. The British consul at Shanghai warns European women against coming north from Hongkong in The hope of joining their husbands, the situation in the Yang-tse vali being very serious. . Sun Yat Sen. the reformer, accord- ing to reports from Canton, has taken the town of Kiu-Shan, on st river, and is now investing the prefectoral city of Hui-Chou. A force of imperial troops from Canton was defeated by the reformers, 200 being killed. dvices say also that there is great activity i Canton in preparation for dispatching troops to the disturbed districts. The British column under Lord Campbell, which for part of the ex- pedition against Pao-Ting-Fu and is making a detour to the south of the Pao-Ting river, reached Tu-Lui, on the Grand canal. Since the Chinese court arrived at the new capital, Sian-Fu reactionary edicts removing the moderates irom high of- ices have been issued, showing that Prince Tuan holds the imperial seal. It is officiallly understood that if an international conference at The Hague, regarding the settlement of the Chinese indemnity question, is finally decided upon, it will not discuss with China the amount of compensation she must pay, but will confine its labors to fixhg and distributing the proportion of the in- demnity which shall go to the several countries interested. WAS Nov | EXAGGERATED. Governor Sayers Speaks of the Galveston Flood and the Loss. Gov. Joseph D. Sayres, of Texas, says: “The horror of Galveston has been in no way overestimated. The most conservative now put the loss of life at 6,000 and the estimates run all the way from this minimum to a maxi- mum of 12,000. The truth will never be known, for beyond auestion hundreds were swept away and their bodies sunk at sea. The property loss in is the mil- lions—in the tens of millions, indeed. A great part of the city was destroyed, and it was all damaged. The business section suffered the least, but here also large sums must be expended to restore the buildings and streets to their nor- mal condition. Thanks to the gener- osity of the people of all sections of the union, the people of Galveston are no longer in want. _ “I think that much can be done look- ing to the safety of the new city, but do not believe that there will be a rep- etition of the frightful hurricane that visited us.’ A TYPHOID EPIDEMIC. Nearly Every Family in Two Pennsylvania Towns Are Afflicted. Over 100 cases of typhoid fever, 11 deaths from the disease out of a popu- lation of 12,000 in the last two weeks and the epidemic daily increasing is the record of the town of Bolivar, West- moreland county, and Garfield, directly across the river in Indiana county, Pa. Nearly every home in the two towns 1as one or more of the family sick with the disease, and with no sign of abate- ment the situation is truly alarming. It is the opinion of the physicians that the typhoid scourge is caused by the use of well water, which the long con- tinued drought has made unfit for use, and from lack of sanitation. The State board of health have been notified, but as yet have done nothing. Sherman’s End is Near. Ex- Secretary of State John Sherman, of Ohio, lies in a very critical condition at his house in Washington, D. C., and although his physicians entertain the hope that he may pull through, it is doubtful, on account of his advanced age, if he will recover. The attack has taken the form of a general coliapse, in part due to the gen- eral Gebility incident to old age and io the iliness which he suffered while on a trip to the West Indies two years ago. Maine Survivor Suicides. After suffering intense pain for two years from a broken jaw, an injury he received while aboard the battleship Maine when she was blown up in Ha- vana harbor, in 1898, Nicholas Scalp, 47 y old, ended his misery by send- ing bullet through his brain at his boarding house i in Brook yn, N. CABLE E FLASHES. Lord Roberts eg bee been gazetted hon- orary colonel of the new regiment of | Irish guards. Earthquake shocks have been distinct- | ly felt in Wurtemburg and the southern | part of Baden. | Crown Prince Gustavus will assume | the government of Sweden during the! illness of King Oscar, his father. In Berlin reports are current to the | effect that Prince Hohenlohe's resig- | nation of the imperial chancellorship is pending. jm A monument emblematic of “The | } Battle of the Nation” was unveiled at! Leipsic, a choir of 1,000 voices partici- | pating in the ceremony. | The Parisian government is alarmed at the prospect of a popular ovation to President Kruger when he arrives there, and its possible political consequences, John J. Clancy, of Dublin, has given notice that he will move at the next mecting of the corporation that the | freedom of the city be conferred upon | ex-President Kruger. | Emperor William will be crowned king of Prussia on January 1 at Koen- | igsberg. The Prince of... Wales and Duke of Connaught will represent Eng- | land at the ceremony. Owing to the “failure to agree to a new commercial treaty, United States | goods will henceforth be subject to the Swiss general tariff, instead of the most favored nation treatment. Dr. Koch, who has arrived at Mar- seilles from New Guinea, where he studied malaria for 15 months, says he has succeeded in cultivating the malaria bacillus. He says mosquitoes are the principal propagators, 0. THARGES SINDRY SERMON AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. Subject : A Precions Burden-Scion of the House of David in Jehosheba’s Arms— A Lesson From the Slaughter of the Princes—Lead Children to Christ. fConvright 1800.1 D. C.—In this discourse on a neglected incident of the Bille : Image draws some comforting lessons, and s' ws that all around us are roval na- tures {hat we may Yeh deliver. The text WASHINGT! is osheba, the daughter ter of Aha- ziah, . the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain, and thev kid him, even him :~! his nurse. in the bedchamber from Atl ah. ¢ ‘“at he was not slain. And he was Reith her hid in the house of that word = Granimo re more lenient with their er children than thev were with their own. At forty vears of age if discipline be necessary chastisement is used. but at seventy the grandmother, king upon the niishehavior of the grand- disposed to sub- is ometic anc stitute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than childhood. Grandmother takes out her pockethand kerchief and wipes her spectacles an:l puts them on and looks down into the face of her mischievo s and rebellious descendant and say think Le meant to dn it. Tet him off this time. 171 he reson i- ble for his Lehavior in the future.” NI mother. with the second gencration: aroun her. .. boisterous crew, said one dav suppose they ousht to be disciplined. “but I can’t do it. Grandmotner: i not fit to bring up grandchildren.” But here in my text we have a grandmother of a dif- ferent tyne. 1 have been at Jerusalem, where the oc- currence ~ the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers of the king's palace. Tere in the test it is old Athaliah. the royal murderess. She ought to have heen honorable. Ier father a king. Ter hushand was a king. Her son was a king. And vet we find her plotting for the extermination of the i royal family, including her own grandchildren The ‘executioners’ knives ave sharpened. The palace i: red with the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides ave shricks and hands thrown up and stragele and death groan. No merc) Kill! kill! Bat while the ivory floors’ of the palace run with carnage - Jand is under the shadow of .a great horror a fleet footed woman. a clergvnaan’s wife, Jeho- stealthily approaches the sheba by mame, seizes upon the grand- imperial nursery, child that had somehow as yet escaped were, wraps it up tenderly. but in it against her, flies down palace ire, her heart in her {hkroat she be discovered in this compassion- abduction. Get her cut of the way as cuick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even young king. With this youthful prize she presses into the recom of the ancient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the young king and puts him down, sound asleep as he is and un- conscious of the peril that has been threat- ened, and there for six years lhe is secreted in that church patient, Meanwhile old Athaliah smac her lips with satisfaction and thinks that all the al family ave But the six years expire, and it is time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne and to push back into disgrace and death old Athalian. I'he arrangements are all made for po- litical revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loy alty to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense. See the sharpened swords and the burnished shields! iverything is ready. Now Joash, half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, 8 at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. I'he scroll of author ity is put in his hands, the coronet ol gov ernment is put on his brow, and the peo ple clapped and waved and huzzaed anc trumpeted. “What is that?’ said Atha i “What is that sound over in the temple?” And she flies to see, way they mwz2et her and say: 3 haven't you heard? You thought you had slain’ cll the royal family. but has come to light.” en the royal mur deress, frantic with rage, grabbed her man tle and tore it to tatters and cried until she foamed at the mouth: “You have nc right to crown my grandson. You have no right to, take the government from my shoulders. treason! Vhile she AE ‘there er ing tha mili tary started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran through the ral stables, but the battleaxes of the military fell on her in the barnyard, and for many a day when the horses were Leing unloosened from the chariot after drawing out young Joash the fiery steeds would snort and rear nassing the place as they smell the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that ro extermination of right eousness is an mpc woman is good she is ant to be very good. and when she is bad she is apt to be very bad, and this Athaliah was one of the atter sort. She would exterminate the last scion of the house of David, through whom Testis was to come. There was t work for embalmers and under- She would clear the land of all God fearing and God loving people. She would put an end to everything that could in anywise interfere with her imperial criminality. She folds her hands and says “The work is done. completely done.” Is it? In the swaddling clothes of that church : partment are wrapped the cause of God and the cause of good gov- ernment. That is the scion of the house of David. It is Joash, the God-worshiping reformer. It is Joash, the friend ot God. t is Jpash, the demoralizer of Baalitish idolatry. Rock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah, you may kill all the other children, but you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman’s wife, .Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the palace nurs ery and will run down with him into the house of the lord, and there she will hide him for six years, and at the end of that time he will come forth for your de- thronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, just as poor a botch does the world alw make o guishing righteousne Superstition rises up an will just put an end to pure religion.” Domitian slew 40,000 Christians, Diocletian slew 844,000 Chris- tians. And the scythe of persecution has been swung through all the ages, and the flames hissed and the guillotine chopped, and the Bastile groaned, but did the foes of Christianity exterminate it? Did they exterminate Alban, the first Britsh sacri- fice, or Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, or John Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman, or Abdallah, the Arabian martyr, or Anne Askew or Sanders or Cranmer? Creat work of cxterniation they made of it. st at the time when they thought they had slain all the royal family of Jesus some Joash would spring up and out and take the throne of power and wield a very scepter of Christian dominion. Infidelity, says, “I will exterminate thie Bible,” and the Scriptures were thrown into the st#c. for the mob to ty: unple on, and they were piled up in the public squares and set on fire, and mov ts 5 of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the file out of existence. ''homas Paine said: “In my ‘Age of Reason’ 1 have annihilated the Sorintures, Your Washington is a pusil- lanimous Christian, but I am the Co of ibles and of churches.” Oh, how many | assaults unon that -vord: All the hostin- | ties that have ever been created on earth are not to be comnared with the hostilities | against that one book. Said one man in ye acs desperation ta his wife, [ou t not be reading that Bible.” and he iii it away from her. And thouch in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child—the only child that @od had ever given them—he pitched the book with ite content: into the fire and stirred it with the tone- and spat on it and cursed t and said, “Snsan. never have any more = that damnable atnff here.” ow many individual and organized at- tempts have heen made to exterminate that Bible? Have its enemies gone, it? Have thev exterminated the American the British and Foreirn RBihle Sorinty? Have they exterminated the thousands of Christian institutions whose only object it is to multinly copies of the Scriptures and spread them broadcast around the world? They have exterminated nntil in- stead of one or two conies of the Bib'e in onr houses we have eight or ten and we pile them up in the corners of our * Sabbath school rooms and send great 1 them everywhere. Tf they get on as wet as thev are now going on in the work of extermination, I do not know but that our childi-n mav live to see the millen- nium. Yea. if there shonld come a time of persecution in which all the known Bi- bles of the earth should he destroved. all these lamvs of life that blaze in our pul- pits and in our families extinguished, in the verv dav that infidelity ard sin should be holding jubilee over the universal ex- | tinction there would be in some clo-et of woods church a secreted conv of the Lg this Joash of eternal fiterntrre would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity an persecution would fly out the hack door ct the palace and drop her miserable careass under the hoofs of the horses of the kino's stables. You cannot exterminate Chr tianity! You cannot kill Joash! The second thought I hand vou my subject is that there are onnor Si in which you may save roval life hii know that prof-ne history is renleta with stories of stransled monarchs and of v ey (base heen pnt oul sav 9 How . wife, must have trem? Sed a= imperial nursery i Ee she hushed him lest hv his ery he hinder the escape! Piv with him, Jenosneha! yn hn in Yoru J cans» of (10? nd rood govern . Fall and he is slain. Sweceed. and you turn the tide of the world’s history in the richt ms tha dirscting, Tt seems as if hetween that voung kine and his assas eis noth- ing bo. the frail = of » Tat why shonld we spend our ime in proismg this bravery of expedition when Col asks the same thing of von an! A around us the imperiled ns great king. They are bora of parentage. and will eome to a turone or crown if permit fed. Put sin, the old Ath- aliah, goes forth to t ma r Ia derous “temptations are out for the assas- sination. Va'ens, the Kmp erov was to'd ymebody in his realm who and that the name that there would vsarp Tis throne. of the man £2} vild be the am would besin A 1s I D, and the 1b forth from Ly lom- perov’s throne, K v whosa name begins with I. H, ND.” And hundreds of thousands wer vn, hoping by that massacre to put an cud to that one usurper. But cin is more terrific in its denunciation. 1t matiers not how you spell your name, you come under its knife, under its sword, under its dom, unless there be some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is such a thing as delivering a royal soul. Who will snatch #yay J 7 How few of us aj te the fact that the cuhrch of God is a hiding place. There are many people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrudge it every- thing, even the few dollars they give to ward it. They make no sacrific They dole a little out of their surplus: ge. They pay their butcher's bill. and the [ar their doctor's bill, and they v their landlord, and they nay ev ervbody but the Lord, and they come in to pay the Lord in His church and frown as they say: ‘There, Lord, it is. Send me a receipt in full. and don’t het me £00 gait here is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what the church is. ere are the souls that put aside one-tenth for Christian institutions— one-tenth of their income? \Vhere are those who, having put aside that one-tenth draw upon it cheerfuliy? "hy, it is pull and drag ©. hold on and grab and clutch, and giving is an affliction to most people when it ought to be an exhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that God wouid remodel our on this subject and that we might ciate the house of God as the great ref uge! If your children are to come up to lives of virtue and happiness, they will come up under the shadow of the church. If the clued does not get them, the world wil Ah, _ on you souls appre ass away—and it will not be long before you do—when you pass away, it will be a satisfaction to see your children in Christian society. You want to have them sitting at the holy sac: raments. You war‘ them mingling in Christian associations. You would like to have them die in the sacred precincts. When you are on your dying bed and your little ones cor » up to take your last word, and you look into their bewildered faces, you will want to leave them under the church’s benediction. 1 do not care how hard you are, that is so. And so, «h Sugh you may have been wan- derers from God, and though you may have some times caricatured the churclf of is your great desire that your sons and daughters should be standing all their lives within this sacred inclosure. More than that. You yourself will want the church for a hiding place when the mortgage is foreclosed, “when your Caugh- ter, just blooming into womanhood, sud- denly clasps her hands in a slumber that knows no waking; when the gaunt t.-uble walks through the parlor and the sitting room and the dining hall and the nursery, you will want some shelter from the tem- pest. Ah, some of you have been run upon by misfortune and trial. Why do you not come into the shelter? I said to a widowed mother after she had buried her only son—months atter— 1 sai ‘How: do you get along now- he replied, “1 get along tolerably well 2 xcept when the sun shines.” I said, “\What do you mean by that?” when she said: “I can’t bes see the sun shine. My heart is so Li, that all the brightness of the natural world seems a mockery to me. O darkened soul! O broken hearted man, broken hearted woman! Why do you not come into the shelter? 1 swin it from wall to wall. Come in! Come in! ou wp place where your troubles shall be in.orpreted, wnere your burdens shall be unstrapped, where your tears shall be wiped away. Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people! Give them a seat where they cin rest their veary souls “lash some light from your chandeliers upon their darkness > ith some soothing hymn huch these Oh, ae of oh gate of heaven, let me go through it! All othor institutions are “hing ty Tall but the church of God— its foundation is the Rock of Ages, its charter 1s for everlasting years, its keys are held by the universal Proprieter, its dividend is heaven, its nresident is God! ur Thy truth s ast, Zion shall be aiven The highest glories earth can yield And brightest bliss of heaven.” Cod grant thac all this hudience, the youngest, the eldest, the worst, the best, may fin. their sife and glorious hiding place where Joash found it—in the temple. Bear Your Burdens Cheerfully. In one of Schiller’s poems is a beauti- ful story about the birds, that when they were first created they had no wings; and the story is, that God made e wings, put them down before the birds, and said, “Now, come and take the bur- dens up ‘and bear them.” The birds had beautiful plumage, but they took up their wings with their beaks and laid them upon their shoulders, seemed to be a heavy difficult to bear, but as they cheerfully and patiently bore them and folded them over their hearts, lo! the wings grew fast, and that which they once bore now bore them. The burdens became pin- ions, and the weights became wings. We are the wingless birds, and our du- ties are the pinions: and when at first we mie them they seem loads; but it we cr Tliy bear them, going after Jesus, the burdens change to pinions, and we, who once thought we were noth- ing but servants bearing loads, find that we are sons and heirs of God, free to mount up with wings as eagles, running without being weary, walking without being faint.—Arthur T. Pierson, D. D, Prayer for Sp'ritu 1 Strength, God of all patience, who in the fullness of time hast revealed Thyself to men in Jesus Christ our Lord, have mercy upon us in the uncertainty and discourage- ment of human life! When we wait in darkness, longing carnestly to see, and see not anything; when we grope in ig- norance, and knowledge comes not or comes too lat when we are eager to choose and act, and have no light upon decision; when the shadow of our own sin brings doubt upon our way, have pity upon us, O God! Help us to re- member the sure working of Thy will for good in all Thy children’s lives, the vost that remaineth, the assurance of eternal hope. Strengthen our hearts for earth’s endeavor, and may our restless- ness ‘he turned to peace as we remove or thoughts from the uncertainties of life to fix them upon Thee. And this we ask in the name of Him who suf- fered and overcame, Amen.—Closet and Altar. ——— Growth in Grace. When a plant grows naturally, it does not grow now and then, hy fits and starts, but continuously. It is either moving on in its daily march of continu- ous growth, or it is in danger of wov- ing in the direction of decay and death. So with those who are growing in grace, They grow continuously. The ey do not ot 5 a rapid growth one year or one month, and then suddenly cease growing till the following year “or the following month. Their growth, if healthy, is not intermittent, but steadily continued. Whilst they live they grow, and when they cease to grow there is danger that they no fonger live. When there is no spiritual growth, there is always the danger of spiritual declension, decay, death.—Rev. H. G. Youard. i heats EY Practic If, 1 or doe toral x lar for to you A— Hy der th people perpet paper. happy ernme sands lic pu nothir The stools have | they 1 in son they : have jailers ernor: gener them It ward ber th £100 keepe house the I: 20 ye some? guine becan Unite him t S The very er wh cost year with tems, versit less f schoc genes trust her she has in it but was wei squ and lies M tee tio par Pis for 0. hay ye: dar KE.
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