RENEWED ACTIVITY. General Grant Invades Their Defenses in Northern Luzon — Oue Hundred Killed in a Battle in Panay. 5 Last week witnessed a very consider- able increase in rebel and American ac- tivity in the field. Many skirmishes oc- curred, and several small engagements in northern and southern Luzon. The termination of the rains permits a re- sumption of operations on both sides. The Americans are undertaking a se- ries of aggressive measures against the insurgents, notably upon the island of mar, against Gen. Lukban, whose forces hold the entire island, with the exception of three coast towns, each of which is garrisoned by two companies of the Twenty-ninth infantry and a pla- toon of artillery. The rebels are con- tinuually shooting into the garrisoned towns, and our forces have not been suffiicient to retaliate effectively. Gen. Wheaton, commanding the .le- partment of Northern Luzon, i reinforcements to Gen. Young pro- vinces, where the natives, under Gens Tinio and Aglipay, the ex-communi- cated Filipino priest, are showing 18 of restlessness, deserting the domi they have occupied season, and joining under compulsion of fear the insurgents in the mountains. Notable among the week's engage- ments was Gen. Grant's advance, with Macabebe and American scouts upon a rebel stronghold 35 miles north of Manila, which was defended by 200 in- surgents armed with rifles. After skir- mishing and fighting for the greater part of a day and night, the enemy was dislodged from the mountain fastness, and immense quantities of rice and con- siderable ammunition destroyed. Fifty Filipinos were killed and many wound- ed. The Filipinos carried off their deal. The American losses were 11 privates and one officer wounded, and one Maca- bebe killed. BOXERS BEING PUNISHED. Imperial Troops Are Active Against the Rebels. Are Afraid of the Allied Troops. Reports from all directions in Chih-Li province indicate that the Imperial troops are at least making a show of punishing and dispersing the “Boxers.” It is said in reliable Chinese circles that this movement, which was promised by Li-Hung-Chang on his return from the South, would assume larger and more general proportions if the authorities were sure of security from attacks on Imperial troops by the called forces. Advices from Ping-Tu state that 5.000 men of Yuan's force have killed a large number of “Boxers” and there is scarce- ly a market town but whose walls are adorned with the ghastly evidence «cf punishment. Yuan's troops have also been active in Southwest Wu-Tin-Fu, where, it is said, that early in the sum- mer an entire community of native Christians, numbering about 120 per- sons, were ma cred by “Boxers.” Yuan dispatched a force to that region recently and it is reported they found the perpetrators of the outrage, killing 70 of them. TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC. Over Half the Residents of a Pennsylvania Town Quarantined—Families Prostrated. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging in the town of Cementon, Lehigh coun- ty, Pa. Out of 200 families, 118 are quarantined. In 22 families every mem ber is prostrated with the disease, There _arg but two physicians in the town and they are exhausted. he town gets its water supply from the Lehigh river which, owing to the protracted drought, is believed to have become a stream of contagion. Cemen- ton is in danger of decimation. Com- unities south of there, securing water rom the same source, are seriously men- aced. BOGUS COLLEGE OUSTED. Mt. Hope, Ohio, Institution Declared a Busi- ness Enterprise. _ The Ohio supreme court has handed down a decision in the suit brought on behalf of the State of Ohio by the at- torney general against the officials of t. Hope college, at Rogers, Columbi- ana county, O. The charges against the officials were that they were con- ducting a business enterprise rather than an educational institution, and thar their diplomas were on the market and purchaseable at all times by men whose schooling and mental attainments de- barred them as legitimate recipients. The decision of the court sustains the charges against the officials, and de- clares a judgment of ouster against the institution. Cotton King of Exports. Cotton is king again and its export record for the month just passed makes all former records look insignificant. The movement of cotton itself was not only unprecedentedly heavy, but price, was phenomenal. During Octo- ber, 1,312,574 bales of a total of 6;78,000,- 000 pounds was sold abroad at an aver- 391,107, as against 790,8 000,000 pounds. in October, at only 7 cents $28,348,118. The average gain in price was 40 per cent. and the total gain in cash was $32,042,680, or 113 per cent. 1899, sold per pound or a total of Reassignment of Troops. The troops which will return from Puerto Rico as a result of the abandon- ment, have been assigned to stations of the Eleventh infantry will go to the Washington barracks, while two other companies of the same regiment will be sent to Fort McPherson, Ga. Two troops of the Fifth cavalry will be as- signed to Jefferson barracks, Missouri, and two other troops of the same regi- ment will go to Fort Ethan Allan, Ver- mont. ’ Potitical Riots in Bohemia. of desperate political riots, in socialists, czechs and nationalists partic- ipated. There were over 6,000 comb: ants, and the ting lasted 12 hours. lubs, knives, revolvers and pick axes! were used as weapons, Touses were | sacked; tramways robbed: w cut and | a large part of the town laid in ruins, | Troops finally suppressed the riot. | The casualties are unknown. Held Over a Hot Stove. Three masked men broke into the home of aged Joseph Kane at Sugar Notch, Pa, and because he divulge the whereabouts of mo they held him over a red-hot stove 1 he was terribly burned. While he w being tortured Kane insisted he had money. His tormentors then placed him on the floor, where he was found later by a neighbor. Disastrous Hotel Fire. Seven men were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the McGonigzl house, a three-story frame building at Oswayo, Potter county, Pa., at 5 a. m. Sunday, the hotel barn and the opera house. The three buildings were burn- ed to the ground in half an hour from the time the fire started. Fire in the Detroit (Mich.) bridge and iron works threw 500 men out of employment and caused $65,000 loss, sending during the rainy | the | age price of 0.8 per pound, total $60,- | i 55 bales, 407,- | ment of the island as a military depart- | this country as follows: Two companies | Piizen, in Bohemia, has been the scene | been sent to the gover | C which | Diphtheria has cl Braeburn, Pa. Canal Dover may consol lent in J: It is alleged that records have bee: Jerome D. } committed suicide The Tyler Cot sociation has paid 3 dend. The Ohio ) C worth, O., wil et plant. Fire destroved the the 1 2 W. Va, 0,000 C( was for LATEST NEWS NOTES. IMMENSE EXPORT TRADE. SLAVERY EXISTS IN THE SOUTH NEGROES IN BONDAGE. October Figures Have Broken all the Previous Records—Amounted in Value to $163,- 093,597—A Great Year. One Hundred Persons on a Mississippi Plan- tation Not Yet Heard of Their Emanci- pation — A Startling Story. October exports have broken all monthly records in the history of the commerce of the United States, and the Rev. J. H. Magee, a’ well-known | 10 months of 1900 ending with October colored leader, of “Chicago, Ill, is|also break the record of exports for the corresponding period of preceding years and give assurance that the calendar year 1900 will show the largest exports in the history ot our foreign commerce. The total exports during October were $163,063,597, or practically double the exports of October, 1894, when these were $83,653,121. The total for the 10 months ending with October, 1900, is $1,104,775,205, or practically double that of the 10 months ending with October, 1894. Exports exceeded imports during the 10 months ending with October by $499,667,036, while in the corresponding 10 months of 1894 imports exceeded ~x- 10rity for the statement that slavery still exists in the south. Dr. Magz=e - {says that he can tell specifiically where the slaves are held, and even produce > negroes who only a few days learned that they had been freed, escaped from bondage, and his arful charges demand the most re- spectiul attention. Wade Crowder, his wife and child, a little girl, are the three negroes who have just achieved their freedom, and t I 1at only after a series of incredible and sufferings. They are - a at Joliet, Ill, in the care of sym- ports by $96,663,360. The year 1300 Lip Yueck, the f Chi athetic friends, and everything possible | will for the first time in our history >olice Main, of Steveston, B. C., w Sis being done to ameliorate their [show an export of more than $100,000, - hanged Friday. | wretched condition. 000 value in every month of the year, The Connellsville school board burne 1] The place from which they made | while in the first time a single month — 181.000 worth of school bonds over which | their escape, and where he has lived October, 1000—passes the $150,000,000 ithere was a legal fight I worked as a slave, ignorant of the |line, against the highest preceding rec- | Lackawanna county civil war veter-|emancipation proclamation, ignorant of [Ord of $134,157,225, which was made in [ans unveiled at Scranton, Pa, a $30,- the Civil war, and ignorant of the four- March, 1900. To: 00 Soldiars onteacat {teenth amendment, is situated about ' Agriculture, mining and manufactures L oer. of the Transvaal [Sighty ‘miles northwest of Grenada, iave jointly coatributed to this enor- { Srugen of th Yio, issippi river, with no railroad |Mous increase. The details for the nine will arrive in Paris Friday and be giver nearer than Grenada. Tallahatchee is |months ending with September show minense demon rauon, 3 [the name of the county, and Pascilla, a |that agricultural exports are $50,000,000 The island of Curacao, W est Toes little hamlet ten miles away, is the | greater in 1000 than in 1800. manul: c- | was aken up by an earthquake, but nearest town. According to the es-|tures $60,000,000 greater, products of rht damage eves looted the show S. Loeb, an Erie, Pa, about $1,600 worth of « the union okin, Pa., is ended, ing back disc Virgi ege, was destroyed by fire, the girl students | property of their white masters. They a co mg. zona. has sailed for \ t Sulphur, W was Huntington. Samuel Sheppard, the |W. Va, wiie murderer, March 1, next. { was done. jeweler, amonds. - - 5 el, The Colbert colliery strike near Sha company men. { at Roanoke, 3 : lare co He Tr escaping with nothing but their cloth- jare compelled to yield Hunters found a skeleton believed to be the remains of Burt Alvord, former ? Pe di i of train robbers in A +i. | guarded by armed patrols in order to cade I ¢ d a i pe SAL The United States transport Sheridan i fi anila with 210 recruits. a large number of ci- d Dick, aged 45 years, proprie- or of the Blue Sulphur inn, at § found Wirt county, was trial, and sentenced to be hanged | Nation That 8tops to Fight Will Get Left Be- the mine $7,000,000 in excess of the cor- responding months of the preceding year, and products of the forest $5,000,- 000 greater than in the nine months -f 1899. caped slave, there are on the plantation ol lone hundred or more negro slaves, and and stole | owners of adjacent plantations have {forty or fifty apiece. m On all these plantations the old-time tak- methods are rigidly enforced. The aves have been taught to believe and 0 believe that they are absolutely the window of KENTUCKY BANK CLOSED. Va, A Trusted Employe is Said to Have Em- bezzled $201,000. United States Bank Examiner Tuck- er has taken possession of the German National Bank, at Newport, Ky., anc posted a notice that the bank would re- main closed pending an examination. implicit obed- command, no matte they receive no wages, troughs like pigs, are jlence to every {how tyrannical; tare fed from oh | prevent their escape; are compelled to do work from 4 o’clock in the morning | M ¢ J until sundown, and for the slightest re. Examiner Tucker also announced un- missions, beaten with the most officially that Frank M. Brown, the in- fiendish brutality. Crowder says if |dividual bookkeeper and assistant properly protectéd he will go back and cashier, was missing, and that a partial prove all that he has said, and show the | investigation showed that Brown was tves, how they live, and how the law | short about $201,000. is defied, Brown had been with the bank 18 -_— years, was one of the most trusted men AMBASSADOR CHOATE’S PROPHECY. ever connected with this old bank, and a a — is stated by the experts that his operations extended back as far as 10 years. The capital stock of the bank is Blue dead in refused | hind in Peaceful Arts. 1 L wr only $100,000. Brown's alleged short- | rshaven, Fla., two children | : y : 3 S “f S t | iy » honhaven, Bt vere locked | Mr. Choate, the United States am-|age is double that amount, and more of Mrs. Myra Gaines, ke ; 5, ol fted A double . and mo in the house by their mother, were |bassador to England, distributed prizes | than the reserve and all the assets, in- burned to death. cided to organiz endeavor to n all. the about coal mines Sampson She Moines, Ia, brot Sherman, is pr workers, and b turned at once. Brig. Gen. James F. Smit of customs of Manila. John P. Holland, submarine boat, intends and the West Indies. avas temporarily insane. She brought 27,000 bone and oil from volver and blew The Isthmian canal The United Mine Workers have de- bring into their employes in and ‘rman, residing at Des |be disturbed. of the late John] dying > board of inquiry has decided that Iz imported y Zionist John Dowie, should |}, bid, Information has been -received tl x ’. Smith, Ss Francisco, has been appointed collector inventor of 1 boats in March on voyages to Europe P. W. Hunt, a farmer near Wheel- | Rich was in the United States District ing, W. Va., cut his throat with a razor Court and was found dead by his wife. The steam whaler Gramptis has rived at San Francisco from Un: pounds 13 whales. {divorce from him for cruelty. Then to Frank Alderman, a wealthy real es i tate dealer, walked into a store at Fort Wayne, Ind., bought and loaded a re- his brains out. The report is again heard that the I Nationalist party intends to force Max- [10 other imo Gomez into the presidency when the republic of Cuba is established. commission will : recommend the Nicaragua route in its | 4nd deserve punishment. report, which will be ready for Con- | Self upon the mercy of the Court. E — . Sa cluding their real estate. to students of the mechanics institution g mer real esate at Burnley. Replying to an address from the mayor and corporation of Burnley he reciprocated the wish that Anglo-American friendship might never [ARRESTED IN TURKEY. Four New York Americans Charged With Revolutionary Plotting. “I venture to express the belief,” he from a |said, “that future national conflicts will | be in the fields Five Armenians, by name Bedros, Hufenun, Daragogly, Gghulfhamian and ol f a of industry and com- stroke of paralysis. c J x . 3 s 2 Je Zork : : : fi . Favette | merce rather than the field of battle and | Garhassan, said to be from New York, A young woman of Jimtown, Fayette } that any nation which overindal es in | were arrested recently at Dianbekir, county had the lower part of her|', ** 81y naj ch Sy G4 ges nn Turkey, for alleged complicity in a rev. ne Mio lu Her brother was the destructive luxury of war will fall luttoraty of cg All ! re § Ie ace > a 5 ear {sadly behind in the peaceful arts.” o SE plot. / ¢ oo the men pos- gq iver. | Mr. Choate added that it would not |S¢ssed document of American citizen- x {do to rely too much upon Anglo-Saxon from | supremacy, as Germany was making a The United States, however, {had no intention, he declared, of being hat {left behind ship which the local officials confiscat- -d In an eoffrt to extort confessions from the Armenians, they were crucified as a mockery on their Christianity, ropes be- oi San —_— ing used instead of nails. They hung | AGED PREACHER SENTENCED. for three hours, then, when they coa- tinued silent, wore cut down and thrown : : 5 into prison. heir friends are prepar- | Unsas Developments ina Missouri Pension ing a protest to the Turkish tar Case—-Perjury Admitted. ment and further developments in the At Kansas City, Mo., Rev. case are expected. the o start his Alonzo GREAT EXPENSES IN CUBA. sentenced to two years impris-y 7 SUT W onment and fined $100 for perjury in a pension claim. Rich formerly lived {in Michigan, where he was a traveling a. [preacher. He married the widow of an of whale- | Towa soldier, who afterward secured a He | come of Over $21,000.000. Senate committee on The relations with Cuba Friday held a session in com- pliance. with the Senate resolutions au- pension Rich per- |thorizing the committee to investig swearing that their | aff irs in Cuba on account of the N v al, asserting that he |defalcation. Col. Edwards, chief of the insular division of the war department, said that it had been found impossibl |help her obtain a {jured himself by In age was illeg {already had a wife. { In his trial it was proved that he had c wife. When sentence was |10 prepare a full statement for this about to be passed Rich said: “I am meeting. He presented a statement [an old man, 63 years of age, broken in | Showing receipts of over $21,000,000 imind and body. I know I have sinned | from the date of the military occupation ! I throw my-|©of Cuba to April 30, 1900. Of this > amount only $432,075 was from the pos- tal service, while there was over $20,- Tes first day of the session. Wi : gress on the first day of the cession | PORTO RICO NEEDS SCHOOLS. 000,000 from customs. The expendi- The Royyone a Monel fod] fiitres amounted to $17,564,993, and of was wrecked by dynamite. 1¢ club | iss] . a this sum only $605,661 was on account recently expelled some members and Commissioner Brambaugh Says 300,000 i rumors connect the two oc I saulted Jose Major lintent to rob. tand Quinones is | | | | | | According to ion Ritchie, in this country at the { rived [ per day | last. | An international assoc i furtherance of the explor Itral Asia is being formed. seat will be at St. jane vy dan i day morning. | : j convicted of mu {and smiled at the j sentenced to be | next. At Geneva, Ill, { farm machinery mz: [the Appleton M | Loss, $100,000; pa | | surance. from all countries The princi- I Petersburg, Rus- In Puerto Rico Antonio Quinones : letter carrier, w Ia; will probably held in $10,000 bail. | v when he ws: January 1 tu “turing Compa covered by royed of the postal service. CABLE FLASHES. Thé bodies of 50 victims of the cent typhoon in China Children Need Educational Facilities. nces. M. G. Brumbaugh, comm#sioner cf education for Puerto Rico, says the school system there includes 800 teach- ers and 38,000 pupils, but there are 300 - IC- have been recov- no Im- 000 children of school age with school | ered: 1AVE ar-| i. litna 7 . . i Tu i ties, most of whom would enroll Bubonic plague has broken out in 0 Of : on ~ teal : : Tac Tule {if they could. Commissioner Brum- the interior of Cape Colony, South since i iC I 3 i baugh says the hope of the island is in ithe public schools and that the great {illiteracy in Puerto Rico must be reduc- led {° Africa. King Oscar, of Sweden, is a victim of quick consumption and his death is Thousands of children are half cloth- | not far olf. cd, half fed and half housed. At least A legal separation has been decreed {80 per cent. of all the people are illit- between the Prince and Princess Ari- of the crate, and the crying need is schools to | bert, of Anhalt, Germany. versity, the appalling illiteracy. irly Tue at $ In a railway collision near Gellivz Sweden, a conductor and six passen- gers were severely wounded. DODGED THE LYNCHERS. N. J. | . | When Taken From Jail the Accused Negro | Princes Tuan and Yu Hsien, two of , bowed Escapes From Mob. the guilty Chinese anti-foreign leaders, ro an were arrested while preparing for flight. 16] A negro accused of poisoning Dr. | Love, who died at Albermarle, N. C.. months ago, turned the tables on a mob which attempted to lynch him { Friday night. On being defused en- {trance to the jail, the mob battered a hole in the wall. They forced the door At Caracas, Venezuela, Senhor Ca- brera Malo, minister of the interior, was fired on by a man, receiving a slight wound. the plant of During a bull fight by women at Pedraguer, Spain, the benches collapsed The ational conve {of the negro’s cell, dragged him out and eight persons were killed and 200 ; 9 C en Temp and pushed him through the hole where | injured. men’s 1T1Sti 1P¢ g Or : i called to meet in Was 1 ax yond eared i ae NE8rO | Russian troops came upon a robber | November 30, which will also be a day thoi suardine the nll So republic, occupying a fortified city in lof prayer. n he aan B En Manchuria, and several engagements | Reports from the northwest show a ’L bullets, disappeared in they... fought. | general | in temperature of 15 to 20 | TT Russia has decided to send its won- | degrees with light falls of snow sev- | A Cabinet of Giants. derful iceboat, Yermack, next summer jeral points. This is the coldest we ther! 71074 Salisbury has at last finished his in an attempt to cut its way to the {of the season. : work of reconstruction, agd at least half | North Pole. | Thirteen insane soldiers from the Phil- lof the ca inet are veritable Sons of Captain Coblenz, of the French army, | ippines. who have be en cot fined in the k, well over six feet in height and as and M. Roger Luzarche Dalzey, fought { Presidio hospital in have | ul s they are tall. The cry of the a duel with swords, the Washington, D. Stephen Kozlowisk begun suit at Butler, Pittsburg & Western rai 000 damages for injuries r a railroad detective. A. Tyler, rier in i { | | 1 James letter c and after working in the since August 1, 1845. boar has Stat The Kentucky ent < 10n luati incinnati a hums the head of P a thicket a few headless body meeting of general York 10 incre off Kong, was recently on the West river, gers looted of money, clotl elry. The pirates also secu of specie valued at $32,000. 1 to be the olde world, 3rooklyn, N. Y., Friday, aged So yea postal ser the former being r 1s for younger men to grapple 1c newer tasks of empire. Well, there were 1,160 years wisdom in the cabinet, and there are 1,093 years an average of 61 years, as What more could one want of youth and vigor? thrice wounded. others injured seriously in a fire damp explosion in the Pluto coal mine at Wiosa, near Brux, Germany. Parliament will assemble December 3 to vote the expenses of the war in South Africa, which are now expected to amount to fully £ 100,000,000. 8 rec] >t A Deluge Prophesied. 2! "The 100 colored people of Evansville, z | Ind., are greatly excited over the pro- | phecies of Mrs. George Overby, a col- ored evangelist, who s the city of St. - | Louis and part of Evansville are to be X | swept off the earth by a great flood be- cause of the wickedness of the people. Many of the colored people here are fz and praying and hold meetings A train carrying a number of work- men as passengers was derailed near Brueggan, Germany. . men were killed and several were injured. At Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, so fresh cases of the bubonic plague have occurred on the island last week ‘aths have resulted from the : sliev- night. and 34 deat S11, hele ) - disease. ode a Three Killed, Several Injured. The government reports that $1,563.- of the 1g woman was first discover- missionar 1 the twenti fund to $ C ir g and jew- red 14 boxes 060 acres of land in New South Wales are under wheat cultivation and that the total yield ought to be 16,000,000 bush- els. The Chilean congress has voted an appropriation of half a million dollars to defray the expenses of the representa- tion of Chile at the exposition to he held at Buffalo, N. Y., next year. A great scandal has been caused in the Greek navy by the detection of the officers of a warship from Crete in the act of landing smuggted goods in a de- serted part of the pieraeus, the port cof Athens. The Lake Shore passenger train which leaves Franklin, Pa., for the [est at 7 o'clock in the evening collided with a Pennsylvania freight on the Lake Shore railroad between Polk and Ray- milton, 12 miles west of Franklin, about 7:30 o'clock Friday night. Four per- sons were killed and five seriously hurt. ir os Y co Will Oppose Partisan Legislation. The President Saturd for the first time expressed himsel on the pro- posed reduction of representation in the south. It was in a decided tone that he said he hoped the partisan measure would not be pushed. f Hong by pirates > passen-~ YOUNG EGR BURNED HE STAG MURDERED A GIRL. The Death of a Little Colorado Lass Avenged. Victim Dragged to Scene of His Crime. The Father App ied the Torch. Chained to a railroad rail set firmly in the ground on the exact spot where his crime was committed, Preston Por- ter, Jr., or, as he was familiarly known, John Porter, Friday evening paid a ter- rible penalty for assaulting and murder- ing little Louse Frost, aged 11, who was found a week ago at Limon, Col, with 14 stab wounds in her body. It was 6:23 o'clock when the father of the murdered girl touched the match to the fuel which had been piled around the negro, and 20 minutes later a last convulsive shudder told that life was ex- tinct. What agony the doomed 16-year- old boy suffered while the flames shriv- eled up his flesh could only be guessad from the terrible contortions of his face and the cries he gave from time to time. The executioners, who numbered about 300 citizens of Lincoln county, had not the least semblance of the ordinary mob. Their everv act was deliberate, and during all the preparations, as well as throughout the sufferings of the ne- gro, hardly an unnecessary word was spoken. Grimly they stood in a circle about the fire until the body was entire- ly consumed, and then quietly they took their way back to Limon, whence thay departed for their homes shortly after- ward. YIELD OF THE €ROPS. Secretary of Agriculture Says Corn and Potatoes Are Above Average. The preliminary estimate of the aver- age yield per acre of corn in 1900, :c- cording to the statistician of the J partment of agriculture, is 25.3 bushels, as compared with an average yield of 25.31 bushels in 1899 and a ten-year average of 24.1 bushels. The indicated yield per acre in Ohio is 37 bushels, in Indiana and Towa 38, in Illinois 37, in Missouri 28 in Kansas 19 and in braska 26. The average as to quality is 85.5 per cent. It is estimated that 4.4 per cent. of the corn crop of 1899 was still in the hands of farmers on Novem- ber 1. The preliminary estimate of the aver- age yield per acre of buckwheat is 15 bushels, against a ten-year average of 16.8 bushels. The average for New York and Pennsylvania, the two States of principal production, is 14 bushels. ‘he preliminary estimate of potatoes is 80.8 bushels per acre, against a ten- year average of 76.6 bushels. The esti- mate on hay is 1.28 tons, which is the ten-year average. GRAVEYARD GHOULS. Michigan Cemetery Furnishes Nine Bodies. Coffins Strewn Over the Ground. The authorities of Kalamazoo, Mich., have been informed of a horrible case of wholesale body-snatching which took place in the Springbrook ceme- tery in Newago county. The evidence at hand points to the fact that the work was done several days ago as the earth removed from the graves was frozen and the barren graves were half filled with snow. Nine bodies so far as known at present were exhumed and zl but one were those of persons who had died within the past year. The ninth victim of the ghouls was discovered in a hedge fence about a quarter of a mile from the cemetery. She died about ve years ago. The cemetery is in an isolated spot, and up to Wednesday there had not been a burial there for nearly three weeks. It was when Isaac Dunton. ‘he sexton, went to dig a grave that the dis- covery was made. The remnants of the caskets, which seemed to have been knocked apart with an ax, were strewn about the graveyard. NICARAGUA MINISTER RETURNS. Has Received Instructions to Help Along the Inter-Oceanic Canal. The minister from Nicaragua, Senor Luis Corea, has arrived in Washington, after an absence of four months in Nica- ragua, during which he conferred with | President Zelaya concerning Nicaragua canal affairs. He says that the way is now clear of private concessions 2nd border misunderstandings, so that direct governmental consideration of the wat- erway may be taken up. He added: “President Zelaya and the whole country are enthusiastic on the future of the great waterway. They are hope- ful and confident that Congress will pass the bill authorizing the opening «f negotiations with the countries interest- ed in the canal, and the actual beginning of construction. I have the neces: Ty instructions to facilitate in every desira- ble way the co-operation between the governments. The difficulty between Costa Rica and Nicaragua has been en- tirely removed.’ Waldersee’s Fat Job. Telegrams from Berlin say: reichstag bill providing for a third plementary credit on account of China expedition fixes the salary of | Field Marshal Count von Waldersee at 50,000 marks annually, with large ex- tras. The division commanders will re- ceive 65,000 marks and extras, and low- The sup- the The above are five times the rates of the salaries paid at home. Three Negroes Lynched. Three negroes who had been arrested by Sheriff Haywood for waylaying and attempting to kill a Mr. Stallcup at Jei- {ferson, Tex. were taken from the jail { by unknown persons, and hanged to “he railroad bridge across Cypress Bayou. The negroes had confessed to the crime. The mob that did the hanging, overpowered the jailer and cut the tele- phone line so that the jailer could not communicate with the sheriff. Mexican Weavers Strike. Owing to a reduction in wagés in the cotton mills at Pueb Mexico, 3,000 operatives have struck and the authori- ties have taken measures to prevent | trouble, which is threatened. Some of | the cotton mill owners are not sorry to have a reason for closing their mills . tuntil they can dispose of their surplus | Thirteen persons were killed and 19} stock. Some mills have already shut down or were running on half time. Boers to Locate in Southwest Africa. The German government has official- ly informed the colonial council that it will gladly grant permission to 15,000 Transvaal Boers to trek through the Kalasari desert to territory in German Southwest Africa. Arrangements therefore are now Dbe- ing made to welcome the vanquished Boers as a rew and valuable element for the colony. American Troops Leave China. The transport Sumner sailed from Nagasaki Wednesday for Manila with four troops of the Sixth cavalry and four batteries of the Third artillery. Four companies of the Fifteenth infan- try left Taku Wednesday for Mar The only American troops now in China are the legation guards at Pekin in command of Gen. Chaffee. Englishman io Succeed Moody. Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, of Lon- don, it is announced in a cable dis- patch, has accepted an offer to come to this country as successor to Dwight L. Moody. Mr. Morgan, who is pastor =f the New Court Congregational chapel, of London, took part in the Northfield conference last summer. er officers will be paid proportionately. | ANNUAL REPORT. Has Been Exceeded Only Once in Governe ment’s History—Taxpayers Thanked for Their Prompt Settlements. The report of Commissioner of Intere nal Revenue Wilson for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900 shows a collection exceeded but once in the history of the bureau. The receipts were $25,316,107, | eing $10,316,107 in excess of the esti- | mated amount, and $21,831,534 more | than during the previous year. The | percentage of cost of collection was 1.58 as against 1.68 for last year, being :he smallest in the history of the internal revenue service. Mr. Wilson estimates that receipts from all sources of inter- nal revenue for the current fiscal year will approximate $205,000,000. € Says: “I deem it my duty to make a new departure by saying that for the successful and economical manner in which the internal revenue laws have been administered much credit is due to millions of taxpayers throughout the country for the generous, patriotic and prompt manner in which the taxes have been paid.” . The receipts from the various sources { during the year were: Spirits, $109,- 868,817, Increase $10,585,283; tobacco, $50,355,084, increase $6,861,876; ferment- ed liquors, $73,550,754. increase $4,006,- 196; oleomargarine, $2,543,785, increase $587,166; filled cheese, $17,064, decrease $1,033; mixed flour, $7,439, decreases, $401; other special taxes, including theaters, etc., $4.515,540, decrease $405,- 952; legacies and distributive shares of personal property, $2,884,491, increase $2,873,453; miscell - $2,073,453; miscellaneous, $2,921, de crease $1,795. OLD EMPRESS TO RETURN. Tsi An Decided to Return to the Capital. Russian Battle. Tt is reported at Tien-Tsin_ that an imperial edict has been issued announc- ing that Emperor Kwang Hsu and the Empress Dowager Tsi Au will return to Pekin. A Russian column of 330 men, with four guns, fought 2,000 Chinese troops, dispersing them and killing 200. The Russians had no casualties. Telegrams from Bruss say: In the Senate Wednesday the minister of for- eign affairs, M. de Faverau, said: “The government does not contemplate mili- tary operations in China, nor the for- mation of gendarmerie. We are seek- ng to acquire a piece of territory, but as a simple settlement only, and with- out political importance.” At the end of a conference of the for- eign. ministers in Pekin Wednes- day Mr. Conger said he was encouraged to believe that pro- positions would be submitted to the Chinese plenipotentiaries much sooner than he had heretofore hoped. Much progress was made toward reaching a settlement, and agreement was reached upon several questions. INCREASE IN CONGRESS. The Congressional Delegations of Four Sta'es Likely to be Reduced. . Director of the Census Merriam has informed the President that the figures on the population of the United States, the total of which already has been an- nounced, are in such shape that they will be at the disposal of Congress when it meets for any action it may desire to take in the direction of a reapportion- ment bill. The reapportionment fol- lowing the count of the twelfth census will become operative by law in 1003. There probably will be a considerable increase both in the ratio and the total number of representatives under the new apportionment. Starting with a ratio of one to every 30,000 inhabitants there were 05 representatives in the first Con- gress. Under the eleventh census in 18go, with a population of 62,622,250, tha ratio was 173,001 people to each repre- sentative and the Housé numbered 356 members. The ratio under the new cen- sus probably will reach 200,000. With an increase of 13,225,464 shown by the present census, and letting ma- jority fractions of the apportionment count for an additional member, as has been the custom, this would make an increase of 18 members in the nex House. Reapportionment on this basis would cause four States to lose one. representative each. They are Maine, /irginia, Kansas and Nebraska. Any ratio smaller than 200,000, which would save them their full representation, would cause a considerable addition to the membership of the House. eR - TO AID CATTLE RAISERS. Secretary Wilson Claims Live Stock Defic iency Causes High Prices in Meat. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says that his department is doing all in its power to improve conditions in the ca tle-producing States, and thereby pre- vent the threatened high rise in the price of meat. “We are importing grass from Trip- oli,” said he, “to replace the feed that is disappearing in the ranges. Thon- sands of wandering herds of sheep in Montana, Nevada, Wyoming have nearly destroyed the grass in these States. The grass we are getting from Tripoli is a wonderful producer ani grows readily in arid ground. I do not remember that meat was ever as high as it is now. But this condition is not caused by any trust or combination. The scarcity of cattle is to blame. Not half as many meat animals were raised dur- ing the last y as were raised 10 years ago, simply because they could not be ifed. The population of the country, on the other hand, has increased, and with the good times, which allow more peo- ple to adopt a meat diet, is it any wonder that the price of beef, pork and mutton has gone up?” OVERFLOWING TREASURY. Government Revenues in the Past Year the Largest Ever Known. The annual report of the treasurer -f the United States. Ellis Roberts, ’'s the growth and prosperity of the country and the general activity of business are reflected in the transactions on i of his office. The net ordinary reve- nues of the government for the fiscal year were 7,240,852, the largest in 7, the history of the country, exceeding those of 1866, the next highest, by $47,- 201,288. The increase of $51,230,232 lover the preceding year was contributed | chiefly from customs and internal reve- {nue. There was a net decrease in ex- penditures of $117,358.388 in comparison [with 1899, so that the deficiency of $89,- 111,560 for that year was converted into a surplus of $79,527,060 in 1900. The gross receipts under warrant, including those on account of the public debt, were $1,38/,200,262, and the disburse. ments $1,195.043,472, a large increase on oth sides over the previous year. Colombian Earthquake Severe. Mr. Russell, United States charge at Caracas, reports that the carthqualke in Colombia last month was very much more severe than at first described. The people deserted their houses and slept in the streets and between 12,000 and 15,000 buildings were destroyed or dam- aged. Dead Letter Cffice Report. The annual report of the superintend- ent of the dead letter office shows an in- crease of undelivered mail matter over the previous year of nearly 10 per cent. The number of pieces was 7,536,158, against 6,855,083 for the preceding year. In a fight over business affairs’ at Bonita, La.,, P. S. Batchelor killed his two partners, J. A. Williams and F. F. Welbourn. A bill to disfranchise the negro hag been introduced in the lower house of the Georgia Legislature by Representa- tive Hardwick. — | words to all OR. TALHAGES SUNDAY SERN AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. — Subject: The Fait. of Rahab—There is Mercy For All Sinners — Cheer For All Who Are Engaged in Life’s Battles— Meaning of the Sun’s Standing Still. [Copyright 1900.1 WASHINGTON, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage follows Joshua on his tri- umphal march and speaks encouraging ho are engaged in the bat- tles of this life; text, Joshua i, 5, “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” Moses was dead. A beautify] Sradision says the Lord kissed him and in that ac he the EET ist oi drew forth the soul of the dying lawgiver. aN i npusy be 1) = ava: He had been buried; only one person at “Joshua, we can do that without vou. It the funeral—the same One who kissed him. is soins to ¥e 7 very easy job. You must ut God never takes man away from stay here while we go and capture it.” any place of usefulness until He has some THEY march with a Small reghnent in one ready to replace him. The Lord does Trout of that cy. The nen of 31 oui ot not go looking around amid a great va- them and give one yell, and the Israelites riety of candidates to find some one especi- tor like vetidoor. ally fitted for the vacated position. He Took out Who a sood an Tialies the makes a man for that place. Moses has Youd his ally. Voslnz Foises his Ince; fa: passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, diant with prayer, and looks at the des- puts his foot on the platform of history cending sun over Gibeon, and at the faint so solidly that all the ages echo with the trescont of ithe Rioon for von new tho tread. He was a magnificent fighter, but orieet of the Tiahi Sometimes will Hinges he always fought on the right side, and he i the palaces of the day. Pointing never fought unless God told him to fight. one hand at the descending sun and the He got his military equipment from God, other at the faint crescent of the moon, who gave him the promise at the start, in the name of that God who shaped the “There shall not any man be able £9 | worlds and moves the worlds he cries, stand before thee all the days of thy life “Sun. stand thou still upon Gibeon, and God fulfilled this promise, although .Josh- thou, moon. in the vaiiey o. Ajalon. ‘They ua’s first battle was with the spring fresh- halted. Whether it was by refraction of et, the next with a stone wall, the next [1 "ong rave or by the stopping of the leading on a regiment of whipped cow- | 0} ro planetary system I do not know and ards and the next battling againsh darles | 550k oars. T leave it to the Christian ness, wheeling the sun and the moon into | goientists and the infidel scientists to set- his battalion and the last against the King | {jo tla question while I tell you I have of terrors. death—five great victories. seen the same thing. “What!” say vou. As a rule, when the general of an army “Not the sun standing still?” Yes. Th starts out in a war he would like to have same miracle is performed nowadays. a small battle in order that he may get The wicked do not live out half their js own courage up and rally his troops day, and their sun sets at noon. But let aird get them drilled for greater conflicts, | "1"; hart out in battle for God and the but the firs; nndertaking of Joshua was | {04h and against sin, and the day of his greater than the leveling of Fort Pulas usefulness is prolonged and prolonged atl or the assault of Gibraltar or the over- prolonged. throw of the Bastille. It was the crossing Bat Joshua was. not quite of the Jordan at the time of the spring There was time for five fune freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had sun of that prolonged day s Who will just been melting, and they poured down preach. their funeral sermon? Massillon the valley, and the whole valiey was a preached the funeral sermon over Louis raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand XVI. Who will preach the funeral ser- on one bank. and they look across and see mon of those five dead kings—king of Joshua and the Israelites. and they laugh Jerusalem, king of Hebron. king of Jar- and say: “Aha! They cannot muth, king of Tachish. kinz of Eclon? us until the freshets fall. It is imposs ile | Tet it be hy Joshua. ‘What Is Lis text? for them to reach we.” But after awhile What shall be the epitaph put on the door they look across the water, and they see | of the tomb? “There shall not any man a movement in the army of Joshua. They | pq ape to stand before thee all the days say: “What is the matter now? Why, of thy life” there must be a panic among those troops. Before you fasten up the door I want y: five more kings beheaded and thrust in— and they are going to or perhaps they 2 King Alcohol, King Fraud, King Lust, ee ———— rescue. Mercy for the chief of smners. Put your trust in that God, and no dam- age shall befall you. a When our world shall be more {erribly surrounded than was Jericho, even by the trumpets of the judgment day, and the hills and the mountains, the metal bones and ribs of nature, shall break, they who have had Rahab’s faith shall have Rahab’s deliverance. When wrapped in fire the realms of ether or glow And heaven's last thunder shakes the earth below, _ Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile And light thy torch at nature’s funcral pile. But Joshua's troops may not halt here. The command is “Forward, march!” There ] : ) A 2 ithrouzh, s before the are going to march across the river Jor- an. Joshua is a lunatic.” : 1 ] But Joshua, King Superstitition, King Infidelity. Let the chieftain, looks at his army and cries, them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then “Forward, march!” and they start for the fasten up the door forever. bank of the Jordan. One mile ahead go What shall the inscription snd what two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than, by an Almighty fiat, Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on without gef- ting their feet wet over the hottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the ole- anders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank thirty or forty feet high, and, having gained the other banlk, they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing the pr s of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters begin to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. As the hand of the Lord God is taken away from the thus uplifted waters—waters perhaps uplifted half a mile—they rush down, and some of the unbelieving - Israelites say: “Alas, alas, what a misfortune! W y could not not those waters have staid parted, because, perhaps, we may want to go back? O Lord, we are engaged in a risky business! These Canaanites may eat us up. How if we want to go back? Would it not have been a more complete ntiracle if the Lord had parted the waters to let us come through and kept them parted to let us go back if we are de- feated ?” But this is no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command, “Ior- ward, arch!” In the distance there is a long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is a city. It is a city with arbors, a city with walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. 1: is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. 1 is Jericho. That city For all Christian ages are going shall the epitaph be? philanthropists of all to come and look at it. What shall the inscription be? “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But it is time for Joshua to go home. He is 110 years old. Washington went down the Potomac and at Mount Vernon closed his days. Vellington died peaceful- ly at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his greatest battle now. After 110 years he has to meet a king who has more sub- jects than all the present population of the earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre the graveyards and the ceme. teries of the world, his chariot the world’s hearse—the king of terrors. But if this is Joshua's greatest battle it is geing to be Joshua’s greatest victory. He gathers his friends around him and gives his vale- dictory, and it is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. And as you have heard a grandfather or great- grandfather seated by the evening fire tell of Monmouth or Yorktown and then lift the crutch or staff as though it were a musket to fight and show how the old battles were won. so Joshua gathers his friends around his dying couch, and he tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he lies there, his white locks snowing down on his wrinkled fore- head, I ask if God has kept promise all the way through. As he lies there he tells the story one, two or three timecs— you have heard old people tell a story two or three times over—and he answers, “1 go the way of all the earth, and not one word of the promise has failed, not one word thereof has failed; all has come = to pass, not one word thereof hk riled.” Was 5 AUT a 0. 7 > Sv ’ . . : Tes Her gard eaptared by 1 onpoy aud And then he turns to his family, as a dy- e Dy rierod the Great a 8? ing parent will, and says: “Choose now by the Mohammedans, but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram; there shall be only ong weapon of war, and that a ram’s horn: Thé horn of the slain ram was. sometimes taken, and holes were punctured in it, and then the musician would put tae instrument to his lips, an he would run his fingers over this rude musical instrument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That Ww the only kind of weapon. Seven oriests were to take these rude, rustic whom you will serve, the God of Israel or the God of the Amorites. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” A dying parent cfanot be reckless or thoughtless of his children. Consent to part with them forever at the door of the tomb we cannot. By the cradle in which their infancy was rocked, by the bosom cn which they first lay, by the blood of the covenant, by the Ghd of Joshua. it shall not be. We will not part, we cannot part. Jehovah-Jireh, we take Thee at Thy promise. “I will : . 2 Le a God ta musical instruments, and they were to Sin A x EY = go around the city every day for six days— thee and hy aed i ter thee. 3 once a day for six days—and then on the ead, the, ol] chieftain must Le, laid seventh day they were to go arcund blove- 24 d Handle So el genie fiat ing these rude musical instruments seven Tare y er 4 Bhd ; nl Cl times, and then at the close of the seventh ont, en ol 1088 L Jeo RE walked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close x ST : : scene | those lips which helped blow the blast doy he Sooation a ae a at which ‘he walls of Jericho fell. Fold walls should tumble from capstone to b the arm that lifted the spear toward the The seven priests with the rude music gonmed city of Al Fold it right over the instruments pass all around the city w: Se that exulted when the five kings on the first day and score a failure. Not | fell: But where shall we get the burn so much as a piece of plaster broke loose phed granite = the headstone and the from the wall, not sec much as a loosened ae i) ling a 2 = Je 3 rn 3 ee , oY d a 1e & Sha rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost sun that stood still upon Gibeon and for from its place. “There,” say the unb a es lieving Israelites, “did I not tell you s et ie moon the ® stood still in the Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musi- cal instruments and expecting in that way to destroy it. Joshua has been spoiled. He thinks because he has overthrown und conquered the spring freshet he can over- blowing of the ram’s horn on the seventh al = INDUSTRIAL NOTES. A Weekly Review of the Happenings Throughe throw the stone wall. Why, it is not : y philosophic. Do. you not see there is no oui the World of Labor in This and relation between the blowing of these Other Countries. musical instruments and. the knocking 1 a . down of the wall? It is not philosophic.” The strike at the Oak Hill (Penn.) And [ suppose there were many wiseacres wlio stood with their brows knitted and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left hand, arguing it all out and showing that it was not pos sible that such a cause could produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of carica- ture, and if Joshua had been nominated for any high military position he would gi ! Z mot have received many votes. Joshua's The union printers of Millville, N. stock down. The second day the | J., have asked the city council there priests blowing the musical instruments | to pass an ordinance requiring the go around.the city, and again a failure. | union label on all the city’s printing. The third day, and a failure; the fourth A thousand American cigarmakers day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; in Tampa, Fl: find themselves sixth day, and a failure,” The seventh Ton Yo aang, themselves om day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua | © emp oyment because ol a strike of is up early inzthe morning and examines | Cubans in the trade agamst American the troops, walks all about and looks at | WOrkmen. the city wall. The priests start to make Nearly 1,000,000 women in the circuit of the city. They go all round | work in the field as day laborers; once, all around twice, three times, four | ooo women are wu times, five times, six times, seven times, vants—that is, and a failure. There is only one more and lodging. thing to do, and that is to utter a great anywhere else shout. I see the Tsraclitish army straight. | © Yyiiere e colliery has been declared off. The Cornwall Ore Company, of Leb- anon, Penn., has discharged all for- cigners, and is employing only married men. . Bridgeton (N. J.) shirt manufactur- ers cannot begin to get operators enough to fill the large orders that are coming m., Spain : 350,- registered as day ser- they work for their food There is no such class ening themselves up, filling their lungs for h Ine Ameri an Federation of Labor a vociferation such as never was heard be- nas chartered a union of women book- fore and never heard after. Joshua feels eepers in Chicago, and efforts are to that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host, “Shout, for the Lord hath giv- en you the city!” All together the troops shout: “Down, Jericho! Down, Jericho!” and the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! She falls! Cr go the be made to start similar organizations m other cities. The purpose is to se- cure the eight-hour day. he big cigarmakers” strike jn York city has now been for nearly forty weeks, and still about 2,000 persons < New in progress there are walls and temples, the towers, the pal- . : idle. They aces, the air blackened with dust. are being paid $5 a week each by the The huzza of the victorious Israelites | Cigarmakers International Union, and the groan of the conquered Canaan- The police department of Berlin, ites commingle, and Joshua, standing Germany, has undertaken Pe there in the debris of the walls, hears a cn a thorough revision of the bakeshops, the astonishment of the Master Bak- of thy life” ers Association there, which had be- Only one house spared. Who lives there? gun ridicule the bakeshop law. Some great king? No. Some woman dis- a meeting of the Board of Dele- tinguished for great, kindly deeds? No. gates of Typographical Union No, She had been conspicuous for her e New York voice saying, “There shall not any man much to be able to stand before thee all the days t , mes. city, it was decided to close t is the house of Rahab. Why was her | the farm for aged and unemployed house spared? Because she had heen a | printers, which the union has been great sinner? No, but because she re- supporting for the past -three vears = pented, demonstrating to all the aves » ee years at 3 ok J that there is mercy for the chief of sin- Bound Brook, N. I ners. TS The red cord of divine injunction reach- ing from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw the red cord they knew it was the divine indication that they should not disturb the prem- ises, making us think of the divine cord of a Saviour’s deliverance, the red cord Saviour’s kindness, the red cord of a Saviour’s mercy, the red cord of our Chicago is not only the greatest cattle, sheep and hog market in the world, but It now leads all creation as a horse market. During the nine full months of the present calendar year 147,000 horses were received and sold there, breaking all former records by nearly 30,000. - - - f » ec = — a -iy »y - - * pr gl mmm mea ” that frec are 4 stor you hb ] con > 4 liad SE ¢ «garch 2 LA A IfafMicted v weal eyes, sr Py In mode: known of 1 ward for t than the e 1860 to cat in October absolute vi Colonel A. day Evenin nestly con this city tl of dollars t the party w for nomina districts of posing fact S100.000. Under or leaders mal ward and i who live b give politic liberally pa attempt ma in the enti rare instanc service was great Nation, wa out pay as Rich A At the v close to th sarcophagus ly compose ers, animals sculptured, ent. The p longs is no manship is superior to Stamboul N sarcophagus The newly d 30 tons. «< Pretty soon replac attractive a surely is wl It is only ne that this mu G Real be woman whi Greene, the so, and sho to happiness ing to him a away your k
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers