AMERICANS CAPTURE A FORTRESS FOUGHT UP HILL. One Thousand Took Geronimo’s Stronghold and Lost Four Men—-Three Hours Under Fire—Many Rebels Were Killed. Particuars have just been received from Iloilo of the battle at Bugason, Island of Panay, when 200 bolomen ani so riflemen attacked the Americans, who lost three killed—Lieut. H. M. Koop, Sergt. Kitchen and Corporal 7 rns, all oi Company F., Forty-fourth Be ntry. hen the garrison in force attacked the rebels, 49 of the latter were killed. None of the other parties of attacking natives made much of a stand and the insurgents lost 103 killed all told. The fortress of the insurgent chief, Geronimo, at Pinaurau, which the surgents boasted was impregnable, was taken and destroyed by a picked force of the Forty-second and Twenty-seventh Infantry and Troep G. of the Fourth avalry, under Col. Thompson. Ger- onimo and most of the rebels escaped. The leader has long harassed the Twen- ty-seventh regiment, operating in the vicinity of San Mateo, Montalban, and Novaliches. The attack was made upon four sides. The ascents were steep, and the men climbed them by grasping the shrubbery. The enemy's force, numbering several hundred, fled before the attackers reached the top. The Americans ‘le- stroyed buildings, and large quantities of supplies and seized a barrel full of documents. Private Hart of the Twenty-seventh, and Private Koppner, of the Forty-scc- ond, and two native scouts were killed and 12. of the attacking force were wounded. The insugent casualitiss could not be ascertained. NEW ERA FOR FILIPINOS. An Attempt Made to Install Self-Government in One Province. The Philippine commission has enact- ed the first legislation establishing pro- vincial civil government n the Philip- pines, an act for the government of the province of Benguet. It co- ordinates phis on the Southern railroad, ette county, not a church is left stand- ing except the Episcopal. ed buildings, merchandise, and telephone wires and poles. persons are dead and wounded. over Northern Missi it is feared that when full details ened. DYNAMITE WAS FREELY USED. Daring Held- Up in Arkansas by Five Bandits. Express Car Blown to Pieces. Northbound passenger train on the St. Louis, D. Avery, of St. Louis, injured by flying timbers. tempts were made to blow open safe. Their supply o i f dxpami exhausted the robbers left with only to about to roo any of the passengers. $500. robbers secured several sacks containing $190. OIL REGION HAVOC. Wind Storm in Pennsylvania. Telegrams from Franklin, Pa, sands of dollars’ worth of oil property tion. ent time, but it will amount to many thousand dollars. nections destroyed. attained a velocity of 64 miles an hour did $50,000 damage in that section of the State. Windows were blown out, Latest Census Returns. 3,426, or 7.4 per cent. 050, as against 1,042,300 in 1890, an i: crease of 147.600, or 14.1 per cent. 184, as against 1,665,080 in 1,470,405, as against 1,427,090 in 1890, an increase ¢ 43,3¢9, or 3 per cent. Mad Cattle King. W. F. Mellick, former president of the National bank at Pocatello, Io., and “cattle king” of the Snake river, that State, is now a raving lunatic, the re- sult, it is thought, of being sandbagged in Chicago a week ago. He was taken to Morristown, N. J., heavily ironed Thursday and was committed as a pri- the Insane at Morris Plains. mills. The loss will exceed $100,000, partially insured. One hundred and twenty-five hands are thrown out of em- ployment. The plant was fiurce fonths behind in orders. At Lagrange, 49 miles east of Mem- in Fay- The streets are littered with the debris of destroy- telegraph Several Dispatches received indicate that the loss of life in the tornado that swept ssippi and Central and Western Tennessee was 75 and that over 50 persons were injured. Tele- graphic communication to the regions struck by the cyclone is suspended, and are known the list of dead will be length- No. 356 Iron Mountain & Southern railway was held up Wednes- day night near Gifford station, 40 miles was seriously Five at- the ite being the contents of th¢ way safe, amounting $500. No attempt was made The trainmen says the small box car- ried off by the robbers contained about It is positively known that the of silver Hundreds of Derricks Leveled by Wednesday's say: One death and the destruction of thou- are the results of one of the most vio- lent storms that ever visited this scc- The extent of the damage to oil property cannot be stated at the pres- Derricks were blown down by the hundreds and pumping con- At Erie, Pa., a northwest gale, which trees The population of Nevada is 42,333, as against 45,761 in 1800, a decrease of The population of Maryland is 1,100,- The population of Virginia is 1,854,- 1890, an in- vate patient to the State hospital for LATEST NEWS NOTES. General Roberts asks for 20,000 fresh troops but request is refused Youngstown (O.) capitalists will build a $1,000,000 iron plant The high' license locs 11 option bill was defeated in the Vermont Li eqiflacres No less than 10 underg rround railwav systems are now being planned for Lon- don. Farmers in the mington, Pa., are moving delivery. It is said the deal for the Danish West Indies to States is off A project has been put on foot to build a model industrial town near Phil- adelphia, Pa. Frank Speasmaker, postmaster Ot London, O., a pro yminent business man, committed suicide. Two men are in jail at Indiana, charged with swindling soldiers ows, pension applicants. The receipts from war revenue for the first four months of the present fis- cal year were $38.398.856. A mysterious epidemic in Manchester, Eng., was traced to the use of arsenic in the manufacture of beer. The Venezuelan Government has re- ceived from Germany 10,000 Mauser rifles and 3,000,000 cartridges. At Beatrice, Neb., fire destroyed gen- eral merchandise together with involving a total loss of $85,000. ably reported that the notori- ous Apache Kid h-s been killed in a raid at Colonia Pacheco, Mexico. Official news from Si-Ngan-Fu con- firmed the report that the Empress Dowager of China is seriously ill. Oil men have confidence in the Elk Valley section of West Virginia becom- ing a great oil producing country. Several young people of both sexes at Martinsburg, a, have been prosecuted for giggling in church. Republican ways and means commit- teemen at Washington decided upon a $30,000,000 reduction in war taxes. Farmer A. H. McGregor, of Geneva has inherited his late brother's $1,000.c00 inf Cleveland and vicinity. A. Sciffert & Co.. wholesale tobace dealers in Detroit, Mich., assigned wit h liabilities of $104.000 and assets of $35,- 000. With vicinity of New Wil- for free mail sale of the the United Pa, wid- stocks It is re arrival of reinforcements in the 1915 POWER POWERS 10 WORK 10 WORK TOGETHER! ANOTHER STAR START MADE. Identical Notes Sent to the Powers by United States—Appeals for Negotiations on Business- Like Lines. The secretary of state has addressed an identical note to the powers interest- ed in the Chinese situation setting out tersely and afresh the object of the United States government as to China and pointing out how such objects as are common to the powers can best be secured. The note marks the initiation of fresh negotiations on our part on the arrangement of new bases to tide over the impossible situation created at the last meeting of the ministers in Peking. Some responses already are at hand and it is stated that generally our advances have been well received and th state department expresses satisfaction with the progress so far achieved. It is believed that the note is an ap- peal from the extreme course suggested by some of the powers as to the treat- ment of China, especially in the matter of punishments and indemnities to which the ministers at Peking seem inclined. The intent is to push the. negotiations on a more rational and business-like hasis, REPORT ON BANKRUPTCY. Voluntary Assignments to the Number of 20.128 Were Made. E. C. Brandenburg, in charge of bankruptcy matters, has made a report to the Attorney General on the opera- tion of the bankruptcy act of July 1, 1898. The report says, with reference to voluntary cases, that advantage is being taken of the law by men of all classes. The grand total of petitions filed in the United States for the period end- ing September 30, 1900, is 20,128. Of this number 809 were from Pennsyl- vania. The liabilities is 19,540 volun- tary cases reported by the referees amounted to $264.979.152, while the total amount of assets scheduled in these cases was $33,008,771. In involuntary cases were filed, of which 1,810 petitions Re was Of from erysipelas. The Sharon (Pa.) Ore Company has purchased additional ore property in the Mesaba region in Minnesota, at a cost of $300,000. Lord Kitchener is being severely c eri icised for his stern policy in South rica and it is belicved the fighting hi: last three years. A flock of wild turkeys was carried to Cumberland, Md., by the storm and several stragglers were caught uninjur- ed on the street. The British Liberals in paigns will use the cry of cation,” using the American system as an example. The Enterprise Road Roller Company of Columbiana, O., has an order from their cam- “Better edu- school use in the Philippines. The rebel forces at Buenaventura, Colombia, were completely crushed by government troops, who captured three cannon and two genera The two Montenegrins involved in the killing of Paymaster Hosler near 2,000 miners of Hopkins county, Ky., permission to strike for higher wages. Chairman Hopkins, of the census cominittee predicts that southern repre- sentation in Congress will not be dis- turbed on account of negro disfranchise- ment, Within a month trains will be running over the Great Northern railroad to Puget Sound, through Cascade tunnel, 1sh., on which work was started two years ago. Statistics show that since 1894 there have been massacred in Turkey 500,000 Christians while Christian property to the value of $515,000,000 has been dc- stroyed. Governor Brady, of Alaska, in his an- nual report says the white fortune hunters have introduced to the natives Gomorrah.” General Theodore F. years old, veteran of Civil War and member of the G. , sentenced to 6 months in jail for false affidavit in pen sion claim at Chicago. The American association at Shang- hai. in a manifesto addressed to Com- missioner Rockhill, predicts that the en- tire empire will aie to drive out for- eigners in the spring and leveled and a few small buildings col Several animals and an unknown oil lapsed. The damage to fruit trees js|man were bitten by a mad dog in enormous. Wayne township, Greene county, Pa a vi A cow has just gone mad and the neighborhood is uneasy. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has That a proposal brought forward by the Socialists to reduce army expendi- tures 100,000,000 francs and to cut down the army corps from 12 to & The plant of the Globe Refining Company, one of the largest in the south, was sold to a syndicate of Louis- ri Ky.) capitalists. The price was crease of 108,204, or 11.9 per cent. ville (Ky . The > oh of em as officially | between $250.000 and Sion announced rday. is At Charleston, Ill, T. Cofer, Jr., fl who has been prominent in Ne 1 politics, received by express a ma- chine, containing enough dynamite to blow up the town. It failed to go off. The plant of the Minnesota Stone- ware Company, at Red Wing, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $75000. The plant was one of the largest of its kind in the United States, employing 1,000 men. In London F. F. Hodgkinson, former British vice consul at Bremerhaven, was sentenced to 18 months’ penal ser- tude for trying to sell a foreign office Large Woolen Mills Burned. code-book to an agent of a foreign During a heavy gale Sunday night|°%" er. fire destroyed the Tiffin (O.) Woolen Hundreds of Indians on the Mesa Grande reservation in California, are reported to be on the verge of starva- tion because of the failure of their sup- plies of Manzanita berries and acorns, due to drouth last June. the government for 100 machines for “the arts and accomplishments of Sodom | Brown, 04] = with the act passed recently for the os- Philippines and the ending of the rainy | made in all except 285 cases. f the tablishment of township government in | season another Filipino chase has be- involuntary cases 50 compositions were the same province. The governor, who | gun. entered into by ‘the bankrupts and the 2 appointive, will receive a salary of| Grand Army men of Pittsburg, Pa. | creditors which were confirmed. The 1,500. He will pass upon the acts of | have started a movement to have the liabilities involved in 1,242 cases upon the town councils and will issue orders | National Encampment of 1901 held which reports were made were $27,179,- which will have the same effect as ordi- | there. oor, while the assets scheduled were nances’ whenever the councils fail to en-|{ The Maver Ppttery Company, i $13,433,200. There has been an increase act the necessary measures. he gov-| Beaver Falls, Pa’ is making arrange-|9! a little more than 300 petitions under ernor, who will also be he treasurer | ments to double the capacity of iis the involuntary feature of the law. and auditor, will be ex-officio, a pro-| plant. re ooo yincigl justice of ihe Peasy and Ni So I.conard Day, young millionaire of RIVERS OVERFLOW EANKS. trol the constabulary. Electors wi is. Minn. was Idlled th a mids : : z . required to affirm that they have had en whe wg ro. | Ohio and its Tributaries Are Doing Great six months’ residence and are at least porter, : / Damage in Kentucky. 18 years old, and declare their allegiance Youngstown, O., is to have a $100,000 | The heavy rains of the past few days to American authority. Three months P : : hospital, $60,000 of which will be con-| have caused the Ohio and its tributaries imprisonment will be imposed for a re- tril ‘1s 3 GC Wick, the manu ! 1 fusal to accept municipal office when |i! vate DY Myron co 2 and all the small streams in Kentucky slected Ecclesiastics and soldiers ave |leciurer. to rise rapidly. Now many are over- debarred from office. Delinquent tax-| At Easton, Pa, Eugene Skinner pour- flowing their banks and numerous payers will be punished by being com- ed carbolic acid down the throats of his | (7 (ies are reported. Much damage pelled to do labor on the roads. sister and himself. He is dead and she}. yen done to farm property. ieee may die. i The worst effects of the storm is felt DISASTROUS WIND STORM. The Citizens Light and Power Com- iat Hopkinsville, where the river is the pany’s plant and the Washington Flour highest for years. Scores of families Seventy- Five Persons Killed and as Many Mille at Rochester, N. Y., were burned | have been driven from their homes and Injured in the South. oss 000. hundreds of people are unable to get to E sh manufacturers recognize the | their places of business. All the streets A tornado extending from a point | fact that they cannot face the growing }in the lower portion of the town are {hres amilies north of Tula> Miss, 40 La American competition, Be ne of the flooded. Warchouses and mills along dy en “| trades unions. the river were most severely damaged grange, Tenn, caused a heavy loss of Parents of defaulter Brown, of the |and the loss will be heavy. life and property Tuesday afternoon. it Newport (Ky.) German National ban, In the southern and eastern parts of appears that 19 lives were lost. It is|give up all their property to cover their the state, the loss to the farmers will believed that numerous farm houses and | son’s stealings. be great, crops being ruined, fences, interior communities were struck and,| Capt. Peter Everett, of Lexington, bridges, ang sell huis being car- ——, being cut off from the outside, were| Ky “who served under the confederate ood away hy the Hooded a In Sew ~~. unable to give notice of their distress. |f;o with Gen. John Morgan, is dead the mountain districts hundreds of logs far, but property will be enormous. HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD. Shocking Double Tragedy Enacted at Brad- ford, Pa., by a Railroader. trains of Rochester the Buffalo, Pittsburg rai railw ay, his own breast fired a his heart. Two bullets against through through her left breast. body of his v wife. Both were soon dead. on Immense Coal Deal. south of Little Rock, Ark, by five] Mt. Pleasant, Pa., were found guilty of Negotiations have been closed by masked robbers. murder in the fist degree. which 25,000 acres of coal land in Brax- The door of the express car was| President Mitchell, of the United |ton, Gilmer and Lewis counties, West blown open and Express Messenger L.|\jine Workers of America, has granted | Virginia, passed into the hands of New ‘ork and Pennsylvania parties connection with this the wha Parkersburg Parkersburg to Palestine, passes the hands of the same parties, becoming a part of the deal Twenty-six Lives Lost. The steamer St. Olaf was wrecked on the Seven islands in the lower St. Lawrence river. Capt. drowned. were The searching party has found only one body buried in the snow and ice. It is the general belief that all the passengers and crew succeeded in reaching Boule Island, and perished there of cold and starvation, and that their bodies will be found under the snow, which is three feet deep. Cattle Have Tuberculosis. | Ninety-five cattle out of the dairy herd of the Reedhurst stock farm, near f Erie, Pa wave been condemned by i State Inspector Irons, as suffering from it tuberculosis. They will be killed at once and have been appraised at $1,300, which the ate must pay. Milk from this herd was supplied to many of the most prominent families and brought a price higher than usual on account of its supposed excellence. An Island Dispute. A difficulty has arisen between Ger- many and Turkey. The Ottoman Gov- ernment objects to Germany using Far San Island, in the Red Sea, as a coal- ing station, and wishes to establish there a Turkish depot accessible to all the powers. Germany insists that she will not abandon the island. An Anii-Hail Congress. An international congress attended by 1,000 delegates assembled in Rome to discuss the use of cannon to prevent hail, which is so destructive to crops. ‘he theory is that firing cannon into the air would have the effect of breaking up rain clouds. Girl Shot by Hunters. year-old daughter of 1. S. Creed, of Burg Hill, near Sharon, Pa., was ac- cidentally shot by two Youngstown hunters and seriously injured. The oad of shot took effect in one of her hips while she was milking a cow. A 13 Thomas Farley, a tinsmith, and his wife, were found dead in their rooms in New York. Farley had shot the woman and then killed himself. have been carried off by the high tide. No loss of life has been reported so At Bradford, Pa., Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock John J. Keating, a brake- man employed on one of the passenger and fatally shot his wife and then turning the smoking weapoi bullet were fired at Mrs. Keating. The first entered her left temple and the second passed After the shoot- ing of the woman, Keating seemed to suddenly realize what he was doing. “My God, my God,” he shrieked, “what have I done?” Then he shot pias and fell forward against the dead s, and in Little Kana- railroad Company, projected from to Burnsville, and of which 31 miles is St and in operation, from into and in- sures the completion of the railroad to Burnsville, reaching the coal fields and The Braxton coal company has been form- ed with a subscribed capital of $2,000,- 000. Lemaistre and 18 men of the crew and seven passengers COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. Latin-American Congress Adopted it—Chile Alone is Obdurate. Dispatches from Madrid, received in official diplomatic quarters at Washing- ton, make the first announcement that in the debates before the Latin-Ameri- can Congress the principle of compul- sory arbitration, urged by the Peruvian delegates, has been adopted by almost a unanimous vote. Chile alone protestz=d ag: anst the action taken. "he decision not only favors compul- sory arbitration in disputes between the American Republics, but also pro- vides that guarantees shall be given for the faithinl performance of the conclu- sions reached by the arbitration tribunal. Aside from the immediate question i volved, the decision of the Congress regarded in South American quarters as significant of the alignment of the Southern Republics on the increasing differences which are threatening to bring about a general crisis involving most, if not all, of the South American countries. Chile appears to be the aggressor and has adopted the compulsory military system. This step has caused alarm among her powerful neighbors in the South, with which she has numerous boundary disputes. A united action by these on some of the pending contro- versies is looked for. CROPS IN FOREIGN LANDS. Latest Reporis Say Wheat Crop in Germany is Large, but Short in France. Reports to the Department of Agri- culture show that the conditions of fall wheat, spelt and rye in Germany, as officially reported by the German Sta- tistical Office, is considerably above medium. The preliminary official estimates of French cereal crops for 1900 show the production of 43,612,408 bushels of bar- ley, and 252.877,018 bushels of oats. The final csiimate for the 1809 crops is for 45,306,122 bushels of barley and 270,436,556 of oats 5. Comparison of the wheat, maslin, rye, barley and oats pro- duction in France for 10 years shows that each of these crops is below the decennial average. The final general memorandum of the Indian Government on the sugar cane crop for the season 1809-1900 shows that in both Northern and Southern India the season began well for this crop. and the area planted was larger than in 1898, being approximately equal to the average. Failure of rain, however, seriously injured the crop. A BIG LANDSLIDE. Five West Virginia €oal Mines Destroyed and a Creek Diverted. Details of the great landslide which occurred on Bingamon creek, W. Va., have been reported. Forniic. rumbling and reports were the first intimation the inhabitants of that section had of the great avalanche which followed. The whole side of the hill, earth, coal and stone was seen sliding toward the creek. The great fall destroyed five small coal mines. The strata of limestone ahove the coal has been rent and the bluff for half a mile and 20 feet deep was precipitated to the creek 100 feet below, forcing the creek out of its natu- ral course some distance. Some of the boulders were 10 feet thick and 30 feet long To Release Volunteers. It is the intention of the war depart- ment to bring home from the Philip- pines to the United States every one of the volunteers who care to come and discharge them here on or before July when, under the law, the volunteers must be mustered out. It is the ex- pectation of the war department that the coming Congress will, early in its ses- sion, enact legislation which will en- able the department to substitute the present volunteer force by a permanent force of soldiers. In that case, such of the men in the ranks as care to continue in the service will be re-enlisted as reg- ulars and any vacancies that may exist through the muster out of the volun- teers will be supplied by original enlist- ments in the United States. It is be- lieved that these enlistments can be made in time to replace all the retired Philippines volunteers before July 1. Rough on American Millers. The Russian government will, on Jan- uary 1, put a duty of 80 cents a barrel cn flour for Siberia. The object is to monopolize the rapidly growing trade for the Black sea millers. It will be a hard blow to the Pacific coast millers. who have been building up a big trade through Vladivostok with Siberia. The completion of the trans- Siberian line mav cut off most of the trans- Pacific tr trade with Russian ports. Filipinos Held as Prisoners. Brigadier General Hughes, command- ing the department of Visayas, Philip- pine islands, has issued an order direct- ing that all prisoners captured within the geographical limits of his depart- ment who are in armed insurrection against the United States, or who are aiding those in insurrection, be held in strict confinement as prisoners of war. CABLE FLASHES. A -house collapsed in Darmstadt, Ger- many, burying a score of workmen, of whom 12 are “dead. About 5,000 men are on strike in the Pen Rhyn, Wales, quarries because one of the overlookers was discharged. Nine Macedonians, engaged in a plot to kill King 1arles of Roumania, were sentenced to hard labor for life. Sir Thomas Lipton has been gazetted as honorary colonel of the Second vol- unteer battalion of the Highland Light infantry. Snow has fallen in many parts of Ger- many. It is knee deep in Alsace Silesia, in the Hartz region and on the Ba- varian Alps. The Yorkshire (England) college stu- dents stormed a meeting of the follow- ers of Joht 1 Alexander Dowie, the Zionist of Chicago. At Copenhagen the typhus epidemic assuming serious proportions. wens new and serious cases have been officially reported. F. Schultz, a Berlin cabinet maker, has been sentenced to three months’ impriso nment for criticising Emperor NVilliam’s ‘no pardon” speech. The Russian government, according to an Odessa correspondent, has order- ed all except three cruisers of the vol- unteer fleet to resume commercial func- tions. A law has just gone into operation in Norway permitting the conditional dis- charge of a convict for good behavior after he has served two-thirds of his sentence. The government reports that $1,563,- 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 Austrian government has lodged a strong protest at Berlin against the new meat exclusion law, which hits Austrian sausage in the Prussian fron- tier district. A band of Tugeri pirates in Dutch New Guinea raided the natives in the British possession there, killing 15 of the natives. The police attacked the Tugeris, and 30 of them were killed in the conflict. The Radical newspapers of Italy are making a campaign in favor of the withdrawal of the Italian troops from China, declaring that in the rescue of the members of the foreign legations at Pekin they accomplished théir sole task hin mel FRUGER DEHES BRITISH POWER NOT YET CONQUERED. Declares That the Boers Will Fight Until Exterminated—France Cave the Boer President a Rousing Reception. Ex-President Paul Kruger had hard- ly set foot upon French soil before he reiterated his defiance of Great Britain. in the speech that he made in response to the welcome, he said in part: “1 thank the president of the Mar- seilles committee and the president of the central committee of the independ- ence of the Boers for their welcome. am truly proud and happy at having chosen as my point of landing a port in ‘rance, to set foot on free soil and to be received by you as a free man. But my first duty is to thank your govern- ment for all the tokens of interest that again only recently it was pleased to give me. I believe England, had she been better informed, would never have consented to this war, and since the expedition of Jameson, who wished to seize the two republics without the ne- cessity of firing a rifle shot, I have nev- er ceased to demand a tribunal of arbi- tration which up to. now has always been refused. “The war waged on us in the two re- publics reached the last limits of bar- barism. During my life I have had to fight many times the savages of the tribes of Africa, but the barbarians we have to fight now are worse than the others. They even urge the Kaifirs against us. They burn the farms we worked so hard to construct and they drive out our women and children, whose husbands and brothers they have killed or taken prisoners, leaving them unprotected and roofless, and often without bread to eat. But, whatever they may do, we will never surrender. We will fight to the end. Our great, imperishable confidence reposes in the eternal, in our God. We know our cause is just and if the justice of men is wanting to us, He, the Eternal, who is master of all peoples, and to whom belongs the future, will never abandon us. I assure you that if the Transvaal and the Orange Free State must their independence it will be because all the Boer people have been destroyed, with their women and children. lose GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. National Convention Propose a Highway Commissioner in Each Stale. The National Good Roads convention at Chicago has adopted recommenda- tions that a highway commissioner be appointed by each State, to have charge of all roads and that a State road plan be adopted in all States, including the employment of convict labor in prepara- tion of material for roads. It was also recommended that wide tires should he specified for vehicles used for traffic on public roads. A permanent organization of the N: tional Good Roads association was cf- fected, headquarters to be in Chicago. “Oiled Roads” was the subject of a paper read by Mrs. Mary Lynde Craig, of Redlands, Cal. She told oi the ex- periments carried on at Redlands and Pasadena in the use of oil for the pre- vention of both dust and mud. 3 cess has resulted from our experimen she said. “We have some of the best roads in the country. We use the crude petroleum, between 150 and 200 barrels a mile, for the first application. The road requires two applications the first year and one application ay thereafter. The oil is applied during the hot weather, at a temperature of over 200 deg The cost is less than $150 per mil TEN SWAM THE RIVER. Captain Gulick and Men Fought at Binorougan. Telegrams from Manila, dated Thurs- day, say: A detachment of 100 from Companies I and M, Twenty-fifth United States infantry, colored, under Captain O'Neill, made a clever capture of 30 insurgents, with rifles, supplies and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, in a camp cast of San Marcelino, which the Amer- icans charged at daybreak. Among the rifles captured were a few Krag Jorgen- sens, which the insurgents had recently secured. wounded. Captain Gulick, with 16 men of the Forty-seventh infantry had a sharp en- counter with insurgents concealed in a block house near Binorongan. The in- surgents fired a volley from 30 rifles on the approach of the Americans, wound- ing two, one mortally. The firing soon became hot on both sides. With nine men Captain Gulick swam the river, gained the hillside. routed the enemy and incidentally killed several fleeing bolomen. The same, party, with a score of comrades, drove the insur- gents from Bulasan, where they were in- trenched. The detachment killed four and captured five in two days. Bravely men Several of the Filipinos were COLOMBIA SEEKING TROUBLE. The Government Seizes a British Steamship for War Purposes. The Colombian government has seiz- ed the British steamer Taboga, because her agent refused to sell or charter the which was besieged by the Liberals. After the seizure the governor placed troops and ammunition on the ship and sent her to Buenaventura. British Con- sul Mallet made an ineffectual protest and then sent the facts to his govern- ment. When the Taboga arrived at Buenaventura the Liberals retreated. The British warship Pheasant receiv- ed rush orders from the admiralty dis- patching her to Panama to protect British interests there. She sailed Thursday, at noon. CANAL MusT BE NEUTRAL. President Will Insist on Ratification of the Hay- Pauncefote Treaty. The administration and its friends are preparing to announce an ultimatum on the subject of Nicaragua canal legisia- tion. It is that the Hay-Pauncefore treaty must be ratified without amen.l- ment or there will be no progress to- ward the main question whether there shall be a waterway to connect the oceans. There is more firmness at the White House on this point than on any sub- ject in which Congress is interested. The President is so thoroughly con- vinced that the canal, to be of any use, believes it a waste of time to talk about a waterway fortified and controlled by the United States. Awringide Pursued by Filipinas. Gen. MacAbolus, the former Fili- pino chief, is prepared to start in pur- suit of Aguinaldo with 100 picked na- tives, supported by American troops. Other ex-rebel Filipinos will be used in campaigning in the country. Their offers have not been formally made yet but they are readv if the authorities wi accept their services. Aguinaldo, it is supposed, is in North- ern Luzon, according to statements made by ex-rebel leaders now in Ma- nila, confirmed from other sources. 1 Aguinaldo is Wounded. United States Consul Wildman, at Hong Kong, has information that re- cent correspondence between the junta and the insurrectionists is to the eff that Aguinaldo is still alive, but is suf- fering from a guntho: wound in his stomach. 2 ship to convey troops to Buenaventura, | VALUABLE RECORDS. 01 Ancient Discovery Found by Soldiers in the Archives at Pekin—Now Carefully Guarded at Washington. The archives of Peking have given up a secret that may lead to the solution dent of American archeology sine Western Hemisphere was first visi by Columbus. There have been found in p Eastern capital records that prove conclusively that a landing was made on this continent by ‘the Mongolians in the year 499 A. D., cen- turies before the Genoese admiral was theory that the earth isem globe led the wise men of Europe to seek a new world in the West. Students of early have found unmistakable evidence o Asiatic civilization among the forgot- ten inhabitants of the continent. They have found what they believed to be proof that this Asiatic influence came to America from the north successiveiy through what 7s now California aad Lower California, but beyond this there has been nothing but the yuest specu- lation, which has given rise to theories as many and as various as the number and the imagination of those engaged in the research. Not long ago it was announced in a dispatch from Peking that some of the officers of the army of the allies had dug up in the Sacred City records cf great historical value that had. been hidden away for ages by the Celestials. The direct “interest these discoveries have for America is brought out through communications just received at the State department at W ashingtoa, These come from Ma-Twah-Lin, a Chinese, and tell, in such a way that the information cannot be doubted, of the discovery of America by Chinese missionaries | more more than 1,500 years ago. GAS EXPLOSION. Heavy Blast Causes Much Damage Near Bentleyville, Pa.—One Dead— Bodies Were Eurned Back. A terrific gas explosion occurred at Ellsworth coal mine No. 1, near Mo- nongahela, Pa., at 11:30 o'clock Tues- dav forenoon. Five men were badly the bodies of several of them being literally charred. One of the victims has since died from his injuries, and one more is not expected to live. The others have some chance of recovering. The explosion was caused by the gas in the mine being ig- nited by a blast. The five victims large gang of men, most company brought to t week, and Tuesday was in the mine. About 200 men were entire mine when the explosion oc- d. The explosion was heard ughout the mine, and caused a 1t panic among the miners. A num- ber of the latter, howev started for the scene of the explosion, and soon succeeded in rescuing the injured min- ers. By the time the wounded men had been brought to the mouth of the mine a great crowd had collected there, the report of the explosion causing much consternation outside the mine. The escape of most of the men in the mine is due to the fact that the trap- door of the chamber in which the ex- plosion occurred prevented the fire from entering the main mine. For the same reason the mine, save where the explo- sion took place, was not damaged. Work will be resumed shortly. jured and burned, were members of a ly Austrians, the e mines last their first day at work in the WARSHIPS GO TO TURKEY. Battleship Kentucky Will Proceed to Smyrna to Emphasize Our Claims. Diplomacy having failed to accom- plish the settlement of the missionary claims pending against Turkey, the ad- ministration ha decided to support peaceful representations by a naval de- monstration. Two American men-of- war have received orders to proceed to Smyrna and a third is available for duty in Turkish waters if the department deems it expedient to augment the orce. The ships instructed to port of Smyrna are the battleship Kentucky, one of the most powerful battleships of the navy, and the train- ing ship Dixie. The gunboat Wilming- ton, now in the Mediterranean, may also be instructed to call at Smyrna, if it is thought her presence will have a beneficial effect. To Turkey, in fact to all Europe, the dispatch of the Kentucky to Smyrna can have but one meaning—that the United States is determined in its pur- pose to collect the claims which it has for six months been so carnestly press- ing for payment. enter the DESPERATE PANK BURGLARS. A Dozen Armed Out’aws Fail to Loot an Ohlo Bank—All Escape. A dozen professional bank robbers made a desperate but unsuccessful at- tempt to secure the contents of the money vault of Sperry & Warnstaff’'s Deposit bank at Ashley, O., Tuesday morning. While nine stood on guard, holding the citizens at bay with their guns, three operated the dynamite un- der the deposit vault of the brick build- ing. The bank's property is worth $50,- 000, and there was $15,000 in cash on hand The party left a Big Four train at Ma- rengo at 1 o'clock, stole the horses and reached Ashley shortly after 2 o'clock in the morning. They pried open the bank doors without being discovered, but the first explosion of dynamite aroused the town. The robbers fired as they fled, but no one was hurt. The men were masked and have not been captured. The damage to the bank building, vault and other property is about one- half its value. ALMOST A FAILURE. Pessimistic View of the Proceedings of the Spanish-American Congress. Even those who sympathize with the movement that led to the Hispano- American congress, says a special dis- patch from Madrid, “will not be satis- fied with the results of the congress. They are obliged regretfully to ac- must be a purely neutral affair, that he 2 knowledge that the congress did not ex- cite lively interest in the peninsula; that the spirit that once prompted Spain to cherish her old-time influence in the aden hemisphere does not now exist, nd that the present unfavorable to any attempt to develop it. “The delegates were not and the discourses consisted for the greater part of gener: instead of practical solutic Nevertheless, it is hoped that the work of the congress will not be altogether thrown away and that the ultimate result will be to draw closer together Spain and the South American repub » numerous lities obe, Pa., were Two peddlers near 1 beaten into unconsciousness and rob- bed by four negroes. The secretary of agriculture asks $4,~ 659,050 for the next fiscal year, an in- crease of 10 per cent. Michael Carney, who claimed to have een born in Ireland on August 9, 1797, died Tuesday at Batavia, N. Y. At Doylestown, Pa., John Boyd, alias John Sturn, sent to the peniten- tiary for 10 years for stealing a team of horses. = The National Grange decided to mest next year in Portland, Me., and set apart the third Sunday in June as grange memorial day. | i of a mystery that has balked every stu- | American history ! | born and before the acceptance of the | { of the | | | i DR. TALKAGES SUNDAY SERNON AN E'.OQUENT DISCOURSE. Subject: Spirit of Unrest — It is the Cause of Much Unbappiness—Need of the Church and the World is More Stability—Stop Gadding About. 3 [Copyright 1400} Ww ASHINGTON, D. C—From an unusual text Dr. Tal. age in this discourse rebukes the spirit of unrest which characterizes so many people, and shows them the hap- piness and usefulness to be found in sta- bility: text, Jeremiah ii, 36, “Why gad dest thou about so much to change thy way’ Homely is the illustration by which this prophet of tears deplores the vacillation nation to whom he wrote. Now they wi ol alliance with Egypt and now with A a and now with Babylon, and now they did not know what they wanted, and the behavior of the nation “reminded hepropheto nin or woman who, not sat- istied ome life, goes from "place to : p abst, as we say, never set- or in anything, and he cries out San, “Why gaddest ‘thou about so much to caange thy way? WL I, the Word has now as s many gada- that race of people is “nore numer- ous now than it ever was—gadabouts among occupations, among religious theo- ries, among churches, aming neighbor- hoods—and one of the greatest wants of the church and the world is more stead- fastness and more fixedness of purpose. It wa no small question that Pharaoh put ta Jace, and his sons w hen he «ke “What is your occupation?’ Getung into theri-' t occupation not only decides your temporal weltare, but may decide your cternal destiny. The reason so many men and women are dead failures is because instead of -<king God what they ought to be or do they, through some vain am- bition or whimsicality, decide what they ought to be. Let me say to all young men and young women in homes or in school ,or college, do not go gadding about among occ Mpations and professions to find what you are fitted for, but make humbl: and dir al to God for direction. W hile seeing divine guidance in your a of a lifetime sphere examine * own temperament. lhe phrenologist will tell you your mental proelivities. The oh siologist will tell you your physical temper “nent. Your enemies will tell you nesses. you are, as we say, not become a surgeon. If wardly, do not become an en- gineer. 1f you are hoping for a large and permanent income, do not scek a govern- ment position. If you are naturally quick tempered, do not become a minister of the _ospel, for while any one is disadvan- taged ungovernable disposition there any one who enacts such an in- a mad minister. Can ake a fine sketch of a ship or rock + face? Be an artist. Do you humming cadences, and dc le clef and the musical bars drop from your pen easily, and can you make a tune that charms those who hear it? Be Are you born with a fondness for argument! Be an attorney. Are a good nurse and especially in the relief of pain? Be § Are vou interested in all ques tions of traffic and in bargain making, are an by is hardly gruous part as you apt to be successful on a -mall or arge scale? Be a merchant. Do you pre- fer country life, and do you like the plow, 8 ou hear music in the hustle of a Je a farmer. Are you fond and are turning wheels to you a fi \scination, and can you follow with absorbing interest a new kind of thrash- ing machine hour after hour? Be a me chanic. If you enjoy analyzing the natural elements :nd a laboratory could entertain you all day and all night, be a chemist If you are inquisitive about other worlds field? and interested in all instruments that would bring them nearer for inspection, be an astronomer. If the grass under your feet and the foliage over your the flowers which “shake their the summer air are to you the belles let tres of the field, be a botanist. If you have no one faculty dominant and nothing in your make up seems to point to this or that occupation, shut yourself head and incense on up i: vour own room, get down on your knees and reverently ask God what He made :ou for and tell Him that you are willing to do anything He wishes you tc do. Before you leave that room you will find out. For the sake of your usefulness and happiness and your ‘temporal and eternal welfare do not join that crowd of people who go gadding about among busi- nesses and occupations, now trying this and now trying that and never accom- plishing anything. rere are many who exhibit this frail- ty in matters of religion. They are not sure about anything that pertains to their soul or their eternal destiny. Now they are Unitarians, and now they are Uni- versalists, and now they are Pres sbyteri- ans, and now they are nothing at all, They are not quite sure that the Bible vas in- spired or if inspired whether the words or the ideas were inspired or whether only part of the book was inspired. They think at one time that the story in Genesis about the garden of Eden is a history, and the month after they think it is an allegory. At one time they think the book of Job describes what really occurred, but the next time they speak of it they call it a drama. Now they believe all the miracles, ut at your next interview they try to show how these scenes had nothing in them supernatural, but can be accounted for by natural causes. Gadding about among religious theories and never satis- fied. All the evidence is put before them, and why do they not render a verdict? If they cannot make up their mind with all the data put before them, they never will. There are all the archaeological confirma- tions of the Bible brought to view by the “Palestine Exploration Society.” There are the bricks of Babylon, the letter “N”’ impressed upon them—“N” for Nebuchad- nezzar, showing that he was not a myth— and the farther the shovel of the anti- quarian goes down the more is revealed t most wonderful city of all time. r Heilprecht, of the University of ylvania, presents us tablets found far East ratifying and explaining ‘al passages which were before in mystery. As the builders in Jerusalem to- day dig for the foundation of new I uses they turn up, with their pickaxes the ashes of the animals that were used for burned offerings in the temple ages ago, demon- strating the truth of the Bible story about the sacrifices of lambs and heifers and pigeons. There is the history by Josephus describing on uninspired page scenes which the Bible depicts. On the banks of the Dead Fea there are pieces of the very brimstone that fell in the sulphurous storm that destroyed Sodom and Gomor- rah. Make up your mind whether the Bi- ble is a glorious revelation of God or the worst imposition of the centuries. Why go gadding about among infidels, atheists ro deists asking questions and surmising and guessing about the authority and value of a book which involves the infinities? It is either a good book or a bad book. If it e a book, you do not want it in your house nor have your children contaminat- ed with its teachings. If it is a good book, your eternal happiness depends upon the adoption of its teachings. Once and for- ever make un your mind whether it is the book of God or the book of villainous pretenders So, alk “there are those who gad about among particular churches. No pastor can depend on them for a single service. At some time when he has prepared a sermon after all praye and all research putting nerve and muscle and brain an soul into its very paragraph, these inter- jpittent attendants are not there to hear nt oh, how the gadabcuts injure the churches! Instead of staying in their own prayer meeting or Sunday school they af- flict other prayer meetings and Sunday schools. I meet them on the street going the wrong way on Sunday morning and evening, and I accost them in the words of the text, “Why gaddest thou about so much to change PL way?’ vy text also addresses those who in search of happiness are going hither and vonder looking for that which they find not. Their time is all taken up with “musicales” and “progressive euchres” and teas and yellow luncheons and ‘“‘at homes’ and dances and operas and theatres, and instead of finding happiness they get pale cheeks and insomnia and indigestion and neuralgia and exhaustion and an abbre- viated lifetime. There is more splendid womanhood sac- rificed in that way in our cities than in any other way. The judgment day can only reveal the awful holocaust of jangled nerves and the suicidal habits of much of our social life. The obituary of such reads well, for the story is suppressed about how they got their death while standing in at- tire of gauze waiting for the carriage on a raw night on the front steps. While in their lifetime they possessed all fhe ability for the relief of pain and , paintings. etc. impoverishment. yet they have mo time for visitation of ihe poor or to win the blessing of ‘such ac comes upon those who administer to 1hos + who are ready to per- ish. Enough flowers in their dining halls to bewitch a prince, but not one tuft of heliotrope to perfume the room of that rheumatic on the back street, to whom the breath of one flower would be like the opening of the front door of heaven. Find me one man or one woman who in all the rounds of pleasure and selfishness has found a piece of happiness as large as that half dollar which the benevolent and Christlike sol puts into the palm of the hand of th mothe: whose children are crying for L ead. Queen Victoria, riding in triumph through London at her jubi- not so sublime a figure as Queen in a hut near Balmoral Castle reading the New Testament to a poor dy- ing man. et all the gadabounts for happiness know that in Kindness and usefulne self abnegation are to be found a satisfac- tion which all the gayeties of the world ated cannot aftorc ay the race of gadabouts arc those who neglect their homes in order that they may attend to institutions that are really excellent and do not so much ask for help as demand it am acquainted, as you are, with wom- en who are members of so many boards of direction of benevolent institutions and have to stand at a booth in so many fairs and must collect funds for so many orphans ages and preside at so many philanthrop- ic meetings and are expected to be in so many different places at the same time that their children are left to the care of i rvants, and if the little ones waited to say ther prayers at Lhewr mother’s knee they would gev. er say their evening prayers at all. Such a wonmn makes her own home so unattractive that the husband Spebds his evening at the clubhouse or the tavern. The children of that house are as thoroughly orphan as any of the fatherless and motherless lit tle ones gathered in the orphanage for which that gadabout woman is toiling so industriously. By all mears let Christian women fos- ter charitable institutions and give then as much of their time as they e, but tue first duty of that mother is 4 duty she owes to her home. The book of Samuel gives a photograph of Mephibosheth lame in both feet. When we ste any one lame in one foot or re in both feet, we always wonder by what +-cident he was lamed. Perhaps it may have been in battle for his country, he may have been run over by some reck less driver or some explosion did the dam- age. So you wonder how Menifbosty th hens lame in both feet. The Bible for a good reason gives us the particulars. It tells us that when he was a child his nurse dropped him. She must have dropped him vei hard, for he never again got over the effect of that fall. Long af- ter the accident we find him at King David's table, but still our attention ig called to the fact that his feet were crip- pled, Hisugly 80 before his nurse ropped him. And mark you that to-day in all departments of life there are those crippled in habits, crippled in morals, erip- pled for all time. The accident happened in this way: Their mothers were gada- bouts and neglected their homes, and the work of training them was given over to incompetent nurses, and the nurses let them fall into bad habits, told them de- praving stories and gave them wrong no- tions of life and practically ruined them. But Mephibosheth was taken by King David into the palace and seated at the royal table, so by the gra»: of the heav- enly King these unfortunate ones may yet be seated at the King’s table in the King's palace, though the nurses did drop them so that morally they were lame in both feet. Now, what is the pr present discourse? I’ many have ruined themselves and ruined others by becoming gadabouts among oc. cupations, among religious theories, among churches, among neighborhoods, therefore resolved that we will concentrate upon what is right thought and right behavior and waste no time in vacillations and in- decisions and uncertainties, running about in places where we have no business to be. Life is so short we have no time to play with it the spendthrift. Find out whether the Bible is true and whether your nature is immortal and whether Christ is the divine and only Saviour, and whether you must have Him or be dis- comfited and whether there will probably ever he a more auspicious moment for your becoming His adherent, and then make this 12 o'clock at noon of November 25, the most illustrions minute that you will ever have passed since the day of your birth -ntil the ten millionth eycle of the coming eternity, because by complete surrender of thought and will and affee- tion and life to God, through Jesus Christ you became a new man, a new woman, a new soul, and God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost and all angeldom, Cherubim and Seraphim and archangel became your ale ies. Found among the papers of the learned Samuel Johnson was a prayer inscribed with the -vords, “When my eye was re- stored to its use,” and it is a great moe ment when we get over our moral blind. ness and gain spiritual eyesight. That ig a moment from which we may well date everything. All the glory of Henry II. of rance vanished when in a tournament a lance extinguished his eye, and the worst disaster that can happen to us is to have the vision of our soul put out. If you have gone wrong so far, now go right. If the morning and noon of your life have been a moral defeat, make the evening of your life a victory, The battle of Maren- go, lost at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, was gloriously won at 6, and in your life and mine it is not too late to achieve some- thing worthy of an immortal. Start right and keep on. Do not spend too much time in tacking ship. David felt the impor. tance of fixedness of purpose when he cried out, “uly heart is fised, O God, my heart is fixed!’ "tn use of the Vhereas so ical LABOR WORLD. The car strike at Lyons, assuming grave proportions. Hawaii needs 30.000 men to work on the plantations of the :slanc One-fourth of the laboring popula- tion of Colorado is said to Rs ia labor organizations. The retail clerks of the west side up- town district in New York city are agitating for shorter hours. France, “is he rival cigarmakers’ unions. af Tampa, Fla., have settled their differ ences, and the threatened strike is averted. The long strike among glass-blowers has been due fusal of the employers to non-union men. Because of an alleged cessive fining, te 200 weavers of Whitman mill, New Bediord! M have voted to - ke. President McKinley, it is has offered the directorshin of bureau of engraving and priming Frank P. Sargent. grand master the Brotherhood of Locomatiy men. Martin Irons. who was ance of the union labor organizatio the to the dischar Belgian re- tice of ex- the Teade oY who was director of the 1t souri Paci strike in the cig 5 with headauarters at St Louis, died at Bruceville, twenty miles south of Waco, Texas. In many of the censns returns the rural districts of the Sont number of children under of age are recorded as ha ten vy farm labor and under the proper headings it stated that they are so emplove de months. and attend school But te months in each vear. er We The per capita tax in Kansas for public charities is estimated by ‘he abor bureau of the J oe State to 1 1 tha - hanes n thirty-five cents. This 15 figure d en an estimate of the population: nrob ably exaggerated, hut not e h a to vary materially the aver eons puted. Among the black hunters of kanga- roos in Western Australia are 27 wo- men. It is a professional business and there are about 125 persons who make it their regular business to hunt and capture the animals The Chicago Historical Society has a fine new building that cost $130,000, and a library of over twenty-six thoi- sand bound volumes and G6o.0oo un bound volumes, besides many busts, ak fan . 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