UL RIGHTS WAVE BEEK SECURED . TREATY SIGNED. Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia Clear the Way for Is hmizan Canal Measure. Details Await the Senate. Secretary Hay for the government « the United States and Senor Correa, the Nicaraguan minister, for his own government, have signed a treaty where- by the latter government concedes 0 the government of the United States the necessary rights and privileges with- in her bestowal for the construction of the Nicaraguan canal. Pending the submission of the treaty to the Senate which body must ranty the agreement, its terms will not be made public. It is understood, how- ever, that generally Nicaraguan grants to the United States government the exclusive rights to construct and ope: ate the canal between the Atlantic anl Pacific across Nicaragua, including the free use of the San Juan river and of Lake Managua as part of the water course. Nicaragua is also to free hei- self of any outstanding treaties that would tend in any way to abridge th privileges to be acquired by the Unit 2] States. It is understood that Nica- ragua concedes to the United States full authority to police the canal. N ragua is to receive in compensati certain amount of the sccurities of canal construction company and though it is not possible now to learn the figure set down in the treaty, it believed to approximate $5.000,000. GERMAN TRADE NOT FALLING. American Exports and Imports Show an Increase for the Year. A good deal of anxiety seems to have been wasted with reference to the trade relations between the United States and Fear was expressed some de restrictions pro Germany. months ago that tr posed to Germany might seriously terrupt the commercial relations be- tween that country and the United States. and especially decrease our ex ports in agricultural products. Figures just issued by the Treasury show that our exports to. Germany in the 10 months ending with October, 1000, were $27,000,000 greater than those in the correspondi months of last year, an increase of about 20 per cent., and that our imports from Germany show an increase of $8.000.000, a gain of over 10 per cent. Of the 40 great artic which compose the bulk of our exports to Germany more than two-thirds show an increase in 1900 as compared with 1800. Copper shows than $3,000,000, tobacco and a increase of more eral oils $2,000,000, ultural implements cotton over $28,000,000, while in the de crease there are but two cases in whic the falling off is as much as $1,000,000 corn showing a reduction of a little more than $1,000,000, and wheat a lit tle more than $2,000,000. CAPE DUTCH VERY ACTIVE. Farmars Throughout the Colony Buying Arms and Ammunition in Large Quantities. Reports from all the Dutch districts throughout Cape Colony - fect that the farmers are securing arms re to the ef and ammunition, the latter in unusual quantities. .In Cape Town the dealers have almost exhausted their supplies and are ordering more. No reason is given- for these purchases except that game is plenty and that the farmers afraid of a rising of the blacks. who have ire solent, especially toward the Dutch. The authorities have not succeeded in tracing any connection between th Boers of the Transvaal, now in arms, and the Dutch agitators in Cape Colony, but no doubt is entertained that such connection exists, and that the forme are encouraged to resistance by hope that the latter will rise against English rule. Advices from Pretoria show that the Boers are more active than for a long time past. The British forces exercise no authority beyond their own lines, and any small force apart {rom ‘he main armies is at once attacked. The destruction of farms goes on, but only seems to excite the enemy to greater activity. There is no sign of relief jor the British trcops and a rebellion in Cape Colony would call for double the present number, or about half a million men, AGAINST THE EMPEROR. Prince Tuan, With a Large Force. Reported to be in Rebellion. Telegrams from Shanghai say: A mis- sionary in the Province of Kansu rec- ports that 10,000 of the troops of Gen- eral Tung-Fu-Hsiang entered that prov- ince and joined Prince Tuan’s rebellion against the emperor$t General Tung has been obtai viceroy of FF «ten, The go¥.zcr oi Shansi has wired a requesr to the Wu-Chang viceroy to setid him, without delay, eight quick-fir- “ing guns, and the viceroy has ordered the guns to be sent. It is reported that Hsu-Tung, guardian of the heir appar- ent, is still alive and in hiding Peking. Newest Proposed State. The first step toward organizing Ok- lahoma and Indian Territory into one delegates from each Territory. It is be- lieved that all the delegates will fav single Statehood. The promoters of the convention h no well-defined plans, but hope that means will be found by which repre sentative citizens can convince Con- gress at its next session that the Te tories should have Statehood. Riot Leader Sentenced. Judge J. A Fernando Kempff, better “The Kentucki ed to have been mob during the August 22 last, itentiary at | Kohler has sentenced known as who is suppos ringleader of the Akron (O.) riot of to 18 months in the pen- d labor. Kempff had pleaded guilty to shooting with intent to kill. He is a typical Southerner and professes to be a cousin to Jesse and Frank James. the outlaws Eolomen Surrender. Twelve hundred bolomen entered Wigan, island of Luzon, Saturday af- terncon and surrendered to Captain Green, of the Thirty-third infantry. This is the largest number of men who have yet surrendered in Luzon at one time. General Tinio has been keepi: a swarm of belomen along the mow tains, and they have impoverished the food supply. Filipinos {0 be Hanged. Gen. MacArthur, at Mani has con- cember 31 d upon four cently convic of murder yenr The condenined were membe the “Guardia 4° Honor, band of sassins whose victims were kidnaped and boloed. Fifteen Hundred Lives Lost A dispatch from Hongkong reporis a typhoon at 1 destroying the + ne lasting 48 hours, ges, rice fields ¢ and buildings and laying the harbor dare. It is imated that 1,500 to 1,600 peg- sons perished, and the remaining popu {ation of 4,630 are without provisions, trite eto nearly $1,00.000 each. and manufactured | lately been much bolder and even in- | FilozsaPPies from the near | government will be taken on December | LATEST NEWS NOTES. Uruguay threatens to sever friendly relations with Brazil Twenty buiness houses were destroyed by fire Saturday at Fulton, Ky. One man dead and two wounded is the result of a family feud in Georgia. Caleb Baldwin, of Newark, N. J, celebrated his 1o1st birthday Thursday. Thanksgiving day was celebrated by American colonies in London and Ber- ressman James Mosgrove, Kittanning (Pa.) millionaire, 1s Fifty students of Waynesburg (Pa.} college have formed a mihitary cadet COPS. Samuel Merrill, third secretary of the United States emba at Berlin, 1s very ili. Aguinaldo's agent is in this country endeavoring to enlist sympathy for the INOS. ili The French chamber of deputies pass- ed a resolution of sympathy for Presi- T dent Kruger. A vigorous effort will be made to or- ganize all the coal miners employed in West Virginia. J. M. Henaker was crushed to death | at Hinton, W. Va., by a pile of lumber | falling on him. Herr Spinola, Director of the erlin, 1s dead. Prof. Tycho Mommsen, brother of the | Councilor ani Hospital at Privy Charity Jle¢ was born in 1810. Accounts of a Cincinnati board of education oificial, who died recently, are short at least $100,000. Eichels' hosiery mills and Ramsey's shoe factory at Miiflin, Pa., burned, causing a loss of $15,000. Oscar I. Booz, of Bristol, Pa, is dying as a result of a hazing received while a West Point cadet. The American transport Kilpatrick, carrying 800 recruits to the Philippines, ived Friday with all well. As a result of a boiler explosion at Davenport, la. two men were killed an 1 five others seriously injured. Cholera has broken out among the hogs on the Beaver county (Pa) Poor farm and a number have died. Emperor William's traveling arrange- ments will prevent his receiving Mr. Kruger at Berlin or elsewhere. French and German vandals are loot- {ing the famous Peking observatory and sending the instruments to Europe. Telegrams say the schooner Czar has { been wrecked off the Mexican coast and her entire crew oi nine men drowned. | The tannery at Parsons. W. Va, is be improved by the addition of new | ma jinery, which will double the out- | 1 t I'he deaths resulting from the collapse of a roof filled with spectators of a 100t- ball game at San Francisco now num- bers 18. 1 and the | be (Pa) miners decided to strike | | Westmoreland sheriff is trying | | with slim success to raise a small army | of deputies. | CH { been granted a franchise to erect water | works, gas and electric light plants at | Struthers, O. | Five men were burned by an explo- | i the \ Company, at | sion of gasoline at the works of Vestinghouse Airbrake Allegheny, Pa. N Ellen Lease, the Kansas female politician, is about to apply for a di- [vorce. She pleads incompatibility and [3elivze to provide. { At Grand Rapids, Mich., by the blow- [ing up of a steam tank in a pulp mill, ne man was killed and several others | were badly injured. The Penn Shovel Company has been | organized by former Sharon and | Youngstown men and will manufacture | shovels at Corry, Pa. | The Wheeling Steel and Iron Com- Lp: ny, of Wheeling, will build a plant at Benwood, W. Va. to cost $500,000 | and employ 1,000 men. Wesley Beatty, slayer of his brother- { in-law, David Nine, at Kingwood, W. | Va. was compelled by flood and storm to surrender to officers. By the upsetting of a rait on the Spo- kane river, Wash., twenty men were thrown into the water, three, and possi- bly more, being drowned. A granite monument, to cost $10.000, is to be erected in Woodlawn cemetery, Titusville, Pa., to the memory of Col, Drake. the pioneer oil operator. Recent rains caused heavy slips on the new C. & I. R. R. at Elkins, W. Va. The tunnel has fallen in and will take all winter to remove the debris. Count von Goetzen, former military attache of the German embassy in Washington, will be appointed govern- or-general of German East Africa. Advices from Australia state that the volcano on Beach island in the New Jritain group has again become active. A score of natives have been killed. Beer drinkers in England are in a panic over the death of 60 persons and Aillness of 1,000 in Manchester, traced to the presence of arsenic in cheap beers. National Good Government league opened its fourth annual convention in Allegheny, Pa., Thursday but ends it the first day, on account of small at- tendance. Winston Spencer Churchill, who has just sailed for America, said before leaving that England would at once send 20,000 additional troops into South Africa. November was a record-breaking month upon the Pittsburg, Pa., stock exchange. Over 200.000 i shares cof and $674,000 worth of bonds | | stock, 10 at a convention composed of 300! changed hands. A dispatch from Naples says that the i | i f steamer St. Mare, running between Na- | ples and Marseilles, has been wreckad > | with the loss of 45 passengers and sev- eral of the crew. The Canadian railway employes have the importation of United States labor | while they are debarred irom entering the United S Armor, Swift and other Chicago packers and dealers have cornered the {egg mar They have already made about half a million dollars and their profits have only begun. A start has been made at Natrona, "a. for $400,000 bar and sheet mills, and Chicago capitalists plan to erect big tin plate plant, nearly all to operate in- dependent of the combines. In the Pan-American beauty contest the awards were made to Maud Cole- man Wood, of Charlottesville, Va., a blonde, and Maxine Elliott-Goodwin, the actress, who is a brunette. The Stark county, O., commissioners have granted a franchise to Thomas L. Childs to build an electric line from Canton to Akron. The road is to be in operation by October 1, 1901. Charles Swann, while carrying a steel rod umbrella at East Liverpool, ne in contact with a live wire. Swann was thrown ten feet by the shock and was severely burned. { _ | complained to the government against | 4 3 ates. Six young men and three young wo- men were tried on the charge of gig- oling in church at Bethesda, near New Kensington, Pa. They ware discharged and the costs placed upon the county. United States Senator Cushman Kel- logg Davis, chairman of the committee on joreign relations of the Senate, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn, at 8:48 Tuesday evening. after an illness of two months. Rear Admiral Remey reported that the typhoon which devasted Guam was the worst in 40 years, that it laid the palace and Government buildings in ruins, and that dopations of food are needed, as all crops were dsstioyed. \ 28% od a FORCED BRITISH 10 SURRENDER] Faaveisco caLawry. Germon Historian Mommsen, 1s dead. ! mention of the surrender of 400 British of the United States, but 1s held against . = ART outstanding Struble, of Warren, O., has | aniount of less. Ie ee —————. op DEWETSDORP TAKEN. Four Hundred of Europe's Pride Gave Up After a Long and Bitter Battle. Great Britain Alarmed. Lord Roberts cables from Johannes- burg, under date of Wednesday: “The Dewetsdorp garrison, of two guns of the Sixty-eighth field battery, with de- tachments of the Gloucestershire regi- ment, the Highland Light infantry and Irish Rifles. 400 in all, have surrend ed to the Boers. Our losses were 15 men killed and 42 wounded, including Maj. Johnson and Capt. Digby. The enemy is said to be 2,500 strong. Four- teen hundred were dispatched from Ed- enburg to relieve Dewetsdorp, but did not succeed in reaching there in time=. Knox joined his force and found De- wetsdorp evacuated. Seventy-five sick and wounded had been leit there. Knox pursued and is reported to have suc- cessfully engaged Steyn and Dewet near Vaalbank. They retired west and south- west. Knox's messenoer failed to get through, so I have no details.” The disaster at Dewetsdorp has sent a thrill of alarm through Great Britain. Independent accounts of the subsequent recapture of Dewetsdorp give ample de- tails, not omitting to announce the cap- ture of two Boer wagons and a quantity of loot; but there is not the slightest troops and two guns, which were not even disabled, as the Boers were able to use them against the British relief forces. The ubiquitous Dewet seems again to have gotten away, and there 1s no news that the captured British have been liberated. Taking into consideration the enig- matical military situation north of the Orange river, the smoldering rebellion in Cape Colony, the rumors that France has promised Kruger to press arbitra- tion on England if he is able to obtain the support of Germany, and that Gen. Kitchener is not to be given the chief command in South Africa, the British government will meet the new parlia- ment next week at an exceedingly op- portune moment. No attempt is made to conceal the extreme irritation caused by the adoption of a resolution of sym- pathy with Kruger by the French cham- ber of deputies. The London morning papers are unanimous in declaring that ro intervention of any kind will be al- lowed to change the British policy. LARGE SUM OF GOLD. U.S. Treasury Ho!ds Nearly Five Hundred Millions in Yellow Metal. The largest stock of gold coin and bullion ever held in the United States is now accumulated in the treasury and its branches. The total has been ris- ing steadily during the whole of the present year, and is now $474.108,330, or about $76,000,000 greater than at the close of 189g. This gold is not all the direct property gold certificates. The | :5 the amount in the treasury and its branches, was $230,- 755.800 Wednesday. All the remaining | gold, amounting to about $243,000,000, belongs to the treasury as a part of the reserve fund of $150,000,000. The gold supply of the country on the last day of 1806 was estimated at $692,- 047,212. The estimated amount Ncvem ber 1. 1000, was $1,080,027.407, and it is probable that the report for December 7 will show at least $1,100,000,000. The treasury officials are confident that the round sum oi $475,000,000 in treasury gold holdings will soon be attained, and that even $500,000,000 is not beyond rea- sonable expectation. THRASHED BY WOMEN. Mormon Elders Roughly Treated in South Hungary by Irate Citizens. Advices received from Temesvar, South Hungary, record the rough treat- ment received there by two Mormon elders, emissaries from Salt Lake City, Utah. The two elders had hardly com- menced to enunciate their views on po- lygamy when the audience stormed the platform and ejected the men from the hall. One of them was compelled 10 run a gauntlet, being prodded with sticks and beaten with straps or knot: ted cords. He was afterward stripped to the waist and thrashed by half a dozen matrons of Temesvar. The sec- ond Mormon was ducked in a horse pond. The minister of the interior has pro- hibited further Mormon attempts to proselyte as being a danger to the well- being of the state. BAD RAILROAD WRECK. A Score of People Killed In Mexican Disaster. Americans Flee. A terrible wreck in which a score of persons were killed and about 60 hurt, occurred on the Mexican Central rail- way between Tamanacha and Symon, 30 miles south of Jumilico, in the valley at the foot of two immense hills. At the time both trains were running 30 miles an hour. One of the trains had on board a construction crew number- ing 130 men. The other was a freight train of 35 empty cars. Three engines and about 40 cars were piled up 30 feet high. Two American train employees were forced to flee to avoid being lynched. Mexicans and Jndlans Eattle. News oi a fierce battle between Mexi- can regulars and Yaqui Indians is told by two American miners, who were prospecting about 40 miles from Coy- apa, Mexico, when the Indians made them prisoners and ransacked their camp. Troops were dispatched in pur- suit of the Indians as soon as it became known that the Americans had been car- ried off. The Indians entrapped the Mexicans in a narrow defile of the mountains, and when the Mexicans fin- ally withdrew they leit 20 dead. The battle then continued at long range. While it was in progress the Americans escaped to El Paso, Tex. Six Indians were killed or wound Postal Depariment Statistics. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow shows in his report that the total number of apnointments of post- masters for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, was 15,142, and 3,600 new of- fices were established. A vigorous {ort has been made to suppress private postoffices. In June 30, 1900, there were 26,688 postoifices, divided as follows: First-class, 104; second-class, 852; third- class, 3,187; fourth-class, 72,455. The gross revenues of the department ior the year amounted to $102,354.579 Ambushed by Ladrones. A detachment of the Third United States infantry was ambushed on Sat- urday near Malolos. Two privates were killed and three were wounded. The in- surgents escaped into a swamp. Gen- eral Bates reports the capture of 33 in- surgents, six of whom murdered seven persons last spring. While returning by steamer a detachment of Americans landed at San Vincente and attacked a body of rebels. killing seven. A branch party attacked a band beyond Palestina, killing five and capturing I9. Tired of the Postal Service. After serving as postmaster and as- sistant postmaster continually for 38 years, John Pynn, of St. George, Utah, has resigned. e is 85 years old, and only a few postmasters have outranked him in point of service. Spectators at a Foot Ball Game Dumped Into Fiery Furnaces—Twenty-One Dead, One Hundrek Injured. Twenty-one people are known to have been killed by the collapse of the roof of the Pacific glass works Thursday afternoon while the roof was crowded with men and boys watching the game between the foot ball teams of the Uni- versity of California and Leland Stan- ford university at San Francisco. Two hundred men and boys had gath- ered on the sheet iron roof of the glass works to obtain a free view of the foot ball game. About 20 minutes after the game had commenced there was a crash, and a portion of the crowd on the roof went down. The fires in the furn had been started for the first time Thursday, and the vats were full of liquid glass. It was upon these that the victims il Some were killed instantly and otl were slowly roasted to death. T i who missed the furnaces rolled off, and together with the workmen in the glass works, saved the lives oi many by pull- ing them away from their horrible rest ing place. Eighty-two persons. more or less in- jured, were taken to the various hospi- tals or removed to their homes. Most of those killed or injured were boys between 9 and 16 years old. Nearly all of the victims had their skulls fractured or limbs broken, and sustained serious internal injuries. Only a few were actually burned to death. the majority being killed by the fall. Several of those injured are in a precarious condition, and the list of dead may be increased to a score within a day or two. aces TUNNEL UNDER THE SEA. French Engineer Proposes to Connect Spain and Africa—A Costly Scheme. The State Department at Washington has received a report conveying further information as to the proposed tunnel from Europe to Africa under the Strait of Gibralter from George H. Murphy, consular clerk at Magdeburg, German M. Berlier, the French engineer, who has submitted the proposal of this pro- ject to the Governments—of Spain and Morccco, is said to have perfect con- fidence in the feasibility of the plan. The proposed length of the tunnel is 25 miles, 20 miles of this under the sea. Railway connection in Europe is planned by means of a line following the Spanish coast and passing through Tarifa and Algeciras into nce. In Morocco a line would be constructed from Tangier, connecting with the rail- way system at Tiemcen. The cost of | the tunnel is approximated at over $23. | coo,0c0, and of the entire connecting | line between Spain and Algiers at about $43.500.000. LIQUOR LAWS IN MANILA. SECRETARY ROOTS ARAY SCENE FOR REORGANIZATION. Would Have No Officer Above the Grade of Lieutenant General—To Abolish Staff Corps—Enlist 12,000 Filipinos. The bill prepared by Secretary Root for the reorganization of the army pro- vides for a lieutenant general, six major generals and 15 brigadier generals. The number of captains, first lieutenants and second lieutenants of the cavalry and infantry are increased from 12 to 15 for each regiment. Provision for the discontinuance of the present artillery arm is made by organizing an artillery cofps as coast artillery and Reld artil- lery. The corps will have a chief of ar- tillery detailed irom the colonels, and while serving in this capacity he will have the rank and pay of a brigadier gener There will be 13 colonels, 13 lieutenant colonels, 30 majors, 182 can- tains, 108 first lieutenants and 192 sec- ond lieutenants. The increases in the artillery shall be 20 per cent. each year for five years, until the maximum <f 18,020 men is reached. An important provision is that offi- cers below the grade of lieutenaat colonel, when detailed for duty in the Washington bureaus of the army. shall serve a vear in the line, but shall not lose their places in the staff corps. This amounts to ‘the abolition of the staff corps as a permanent institution in which officers serve throughout their military career. The full effect of it will not be worked out for several years, as it is not proposed to make the provi- sion. if it should be enacted into law, applicable to present members of the staff corps above the rank of lieutenaat colonel. The President is authorized to enlist natives of the Philippine islands in or- ganizations similar to the cavalry and infantry, to the number of 12,000, the officers to be selected from the regular army. The highest officers in command of the natives shall be majors. When natives. show fitness for command the President is authorized to make pro- | visional appointments in the grade of second and first lieutenants. A regiment of Puerto Ricans also is authorized. COMMISSIONER WILSON DEAD. The Head of the Internal Revenue Bureau Passes Away. George W. Wilson, commissioner of internal revenue, died Tuesday forenoon in Washington, D. C., of Brights dis- ease, complicated with asthma. He had been dangerously ill for several days past. There were with him at the time of his death Mrs. Wilson, his daughter, Mrs. Pardonner, and several of his as- | sociates of the treasury department. George Washington Wilson was 37 y s of age, and a native of Ohio. He entered the Union army when 18 years old as a private in the Fifty-fourth Ohio infantry, and served throughout American Authorities Reducing the Number of Saloons by High License. Regarding the liquor traffic in Ma- | al authori- | nila the war department statement that the American | ties have increased the license fee fre | $4 for each saloon to $600 for saloo of the first class, $250 for those of the | second class, $100 for the third class, and | o for the last class, ng only beer and light wine and located outside the business district. The sale of native drink “vino” has been forbidden to scldiers. There were only 135 li- censes outstanding on June 30 last, a decre { since the American li censes began. The bar rooms are more orderly and keepers more careful in sales to drunken persons. No discharg- ed American soldier holds Spaniards hold 66 licenses: 23: Filipinos 26: negroes two; Chinese eight; Japanese three, and persons of unknown nationality 27. publishes se of 69 PLOT AGAINST ROBERTS. Fear of an Uprising. London announce Roberts by Telegrams from that a plot to kill Lord blowing up a church has been discov- ered and that many of the alleged con- spirators, all foreigners, are under arrest at Johannesburg. This startling news has been confirmed by the war oifi The best information now obtainable that the plot was discovered on S urday and on Sunday the conspirators were taken red-handed. The anti-British feeling in Cape Colony is assuming dangerous propor- tions, owing to false stories of British barbarity in Orange River colony and the Transvaal. Loyalists fear that the Dutch congress next week will be the signal for a rising, and they demand that martial law be proclaimed through- out the colony. The situation is declar- ed to be graver than at any previous period during the war. Rats Three Feet Long. The expedition sent to Cuba by the Smithsonian Institution to collect strange animals and plants has returned loaded down with specimens and with tales of adventure more strange than the freaks they brought with them. Rats of an edible species—some 3 feet long, including the tail, and weigh- ing 18 pounds—were captured, but none were brought back to this country alive. All were caten by the hungry adventurers. These rats—and the snakes on the island. none of which is venomous—have nearly all been eaten by the famished Cubans and are very scarce. Kentucky Murderer Captured. William Gibson who is charged with | burning his two-year-old step-daughter to death with a poker, is undoubtedly captured, and the oificers have given up the chase. A messa from Rush, Ky., says he has been captured there and is being held for a reward. His captors are miners and have him se- creted in the mines. Governor Bec ham will offer a reward of $500, but his captors will not turn him over unless the reward is raised to $1,000. Turkey Signs ihe Contract. from Telegrams Constantinople, Turkey, say: Hassam Pasha, Otto- man minister of marine, and Gen. Wil- liams, representing the Cramp Ship- building Company. of Philadelphia, have signed a contract for the construc- tion of a cruiser for the Ottoman navy. The price to be paid is £350,000, which includes £23,000 as indemnity to the United States for losses sustained by Americans during the Armenian mas eres. President Favors Good Roads. The President Tuesday received a delegation from the Good Roads con- gress recently in session at Chicago. The delegation presented a memorial urging the President to recommend an appropriation of $150,000 for the con- struction of sample roads and the dif- fusion of information on road making. The President expressed his interest in the purpose of the congress and said he would be glad to further its aims. Live Stock Exposition. Ten thousand animals including hogs, sheep, cattle and horses, are on exhil tion at the International Live Stock position at Chicago, and the show promises to be one of the most notable of the kind ever held in this country. Six hundred exhibitors, representing ; states of the Union, and including 45 exhibitors from Canada and four from England and Scotland, are there with their choice stock. Ee = of | have the ves 5 | the war. cominy ont a first lieutenant. In 1866 he took up the practice of law, and in 1869 entered the internal revenue service. He served in various caps: ties, rising from one position to another EXCITING SCENES. The Flood Causes an Embankment to Give Way Precipitating the Cleveland Fiyer Into the Water. The Cleveland night express on the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad, leav- ing Pittsburg at 11 o'clock, was derail- ed and wrecked at 12:15 o'clock Wednesday morning about a mile be- yond Beaver, Pa. At this point the track runs along the bank of the Ohio river, and the locomotive and plunged into the water. One man was drowned and four per- sons were seriously injured, all being trainmen. None of the passengers were badly hurt, but a number sustained min- or injuries. The wrecked train, which is known as the Cleveland flyer, makes few stops be- tween Pittsburg and Cleveland. It was running at top speed when the ac- cident occurred, and it is remarkable that more people were not killed. The train . was composed principally of sleeping cars, which were well filled with passengers. The rains of the past few days had nndermined the road bed and the bal- last had been washed out. When the train reached the point where the dis- aster occurred the engine and the whole train of cars were thrown into the riv- er. The wrecked cars luckily did not go much beyond the river bank, the im- pact of the train Jodging them in the soft mud. The cars, however, were on the edge of the swift current of the river, and were quickly half filled with water, PROSPECTS OF PHILIPPINES. They Are the Best Fossessions in the Orient for Trade—An Interesting Letter From Judge Taft. judge Taft, president oi the Philip- pine commission, in a letter, speaks of the resources and needs of the islands as follows: “With these islands com- pletely pacified they are far and away the best possessions in the Orient for pur- poses of trade and development. Their climate is better than the climate of any tropical country I know, and the capacity for agricultural, mineral and commercial development would seem to be unlimited. Even with the unsettled condition of the country as it is at pres- ent the tonnage of the vessels conling ito the harbor of Manila, excluding the government transports, is double what it ever was in Spanish times, and the same thing is true of the inter- island tonnage. With the construction of roads and railroads through these islands, the opportunities for develop- ment cannot be exaggerated. These people are a people who take to the luxuries of life, enjoy good clothes and comforts: and markets among them for cotton goods, for canned goods, for flour, for petroleum and for machinery can be created in a wnderfully short time. “One of the things that is needed there is the introduction of American business methods. The establishment of two or three large American business houses there (retail and wholesale) car- rying into business the same methods until he became the head of the bureau. Commissioner Wilson was regarded as the most thoroughly informed man on internal revenue subjects in the govern- | service, and was consulted on & 1 that | been before Congress for many Report of the Department of Agriculture—In- ment measures affecting the revenues FACTORY INSPECTOR’S REPORT. The Conditions of Child Labor Are Improving. Figures for the Year. The annual report of Janes a license. | bell, Pennsylvania State factory inspee- Americans | tor, for the year just ended will soon be submitted to Gov. Stone. The report for 1900 shows the total number of employes to be 773.443—35.- 140 hetween 13 and 16 years of age, or { | ess than 3 per cent. of the total num- le ber of employes being children. Many | Conspirators Proposed to Blow Up a Church. | caplishments will not cmploy children and others as the result of its investiga- count of the law requiring age certifi- cates and record books to be kept on file. < Two hundred and seventy-four illit- crate children. who were unable to eith- read or write, were dismissed. Most of them were provided with certificates sworn to before aldermen or notaries. These officials should be prohibited from issuing permits to children who are un- able to read and write. | There were 2,557 accidents. i them were due to carelessness. | hundred and thirteen were fatal, | sericus and 1.065 le rious yetween 13 and 16 years of age, on ac- | jer Most of One 479 Public Show of a Corpse. Spencer Williams, a negro gambler, vas shot to pieces near Lake City, Fla, bya mob. Williams, who recently ar- rived from Pensacola, shot and danger- ously wounded - City Marshal Strange and William Strictland, a business man of that city. The marshal was at- tempting to arrest the negro. Soon as the news of the shooting became known citizens formed a posse and overtook Williams in a swamp. Fully 200 bullet holes were found in his Dody, which was brought into town and placed in front of the court house gute. where it was surrounded by a crowd. Year Closed With a Surplus. The fiscal year oi the Commonwealth $4,000,000 in the general fund and more than $2,000,000 in the sinking fund Taking from the balance in the gene fund about $1.500,000 for the public schools still due, and $500,000 personal property tax returnable to the various counties and allowing a few thousands for moneys due the judges for the last quarter, there yet remains at least $2,- Explosion Killed Four. At Lazearville, W. Va., 20 miles above Wheeling, on the Ohio river, a crowd of 20 boys had built a fire on the river bank from driftwood and were watching the rising waters. In a lot of driftwood one of the boys threw on the fire was a can partially filled with nitro- glycerin. Immediately there was a ter- rific explosion, and four boys were kill- ed and sixteen wounded. An infant also died as a result of the accident. Three- Cornered Duel. At Parkdale, Ark, two Killan brothers, merchants of that place, hav- ing had a falling out with Station Agen Phillips about railroad business, went to the station, smashed every window, then went in search of Phillips, who was at his boarding house. They called him out, and after exchanging a few words with him, all drew pistols, and the three men were dead almost in- stantly. - Liverpoo! Grain Imports. The imports of wheat into Liverpool, Eng., last week were 55,000 quarters irom Atlantic ports, none from Pacific ports and 14,000 from other ports. The imports of American corn from Atlantic ports last week were 88,400 quarters. Standard Oil Co. in Roumania. The Standard Oil Company, for a con- sideration of $2,000,000, has obtained concessions for mining and erecting pipe lines on all the government tracts as well as almost a monopoly of sink- ing wells in Roumania. The population of Montana is 243,- 320, as against 132,159 in 1890, an in- crease of 111,170, or 84.1 per cent. The Indian massacre of the Stanford family in Center county, Pa., is to be commemojfated by a monument. | ial ; ison, in his annual report, declares his | aims to be to bring the department sci- | enti A. Camp- | ascertain what we import that they can of Pennsylvania closed Friday with over that prevail at home, would do wonders for the business standards of these islands.” CUR FARMING INTERESTS. crease of Exportations. Secretary of Agriculture James Wil- s to the help of the producers, 0 produce, with a view to encouraging its growth and to seek out new markets | for our surplus products. ! He says the department's appropria- [tions should be regarded as an invest- | ment, for the reason that it makes di- i rect returns ‘therefor by adding to the | wealth of the country, thus adding year- ly largely to the profits of the farmers | | a | trons. The study of markets abroad with special reference to extending the de- mands therein for the agricultural prod- ucts of the United tates has been prosecuted with zeal and intelligence. During the fiscal years 1897-1900 our total sales of domestic farm products to foreign countries aggregated the enor- mous sum of $3,186,000,000, an excess of $800,0000,000 over the preceding four-year period. The agricultural ex- ports of the United States for the past fiscal year amounted to $844,000,000. The rapid growth of our export trade to the Orient in recent years is most striking. Five years ago our total ship- ments of domestic merchandise to Asia and Oceanica were valued at $43,000,000, of which only $0.700.000 were agricul- tural. There has been a steady increase lin each succeeding year, until in 1900 our export trade with the Orient amounted to $107.000,000, of which $30,- 000.000 worth was farm produce. this great increase in the growth of our | agricultural exports to the quarter of the | globe, amounting to something over | $20,000,000. $11,500,000 consisted of cot- | ton, and $3.400,000 of wheat flour. Dur- ing the past fiscal year Cuba, Puerto { Rico, the Hawaiian islands and the | Philippines furnished a market for $45,- 1 000.000 worth of our domestic products. | Five years ago these islands took but | $13.000,000 worth. During the fiscal vear 1000 we sold to these islands $20,- | 000,000 worth of farm produce, an in- crease of $13,700,000 over 1806. NEW RAILROAD RUINED. Cu,andolte River in West Virginia on a Rampage. Continuous rains for the past 48 hours have produced unprecedented floods in Guyandotte valley. W. Va. Some 9,000 logs have gone out, taking with them the false works of the two new railroad bridges south of Barboursville. The loss is estimated at $20,000 to $25.000. The track of the nev, Guyandotte Val- ley railroad, just completed to Salt Rock, a distance of 18 miles, has been almost ruined. The river is rising above and still more damage is expect- ed. ” Methodists Distsessed. Prominent Methodists of Washing- ton, C., are much purturbed over persistent reports®coming from Paris that Mrs. Ella Root urst, wife of Bishop John F. Hurst, bishop of Mary- land, and chancellor of the American university, intends to go on the operatic stage. Mrs. Hurst separated from her husband about two years ago, and has since been living at the French capital. She has a beautifully cultivated soprano voice, and is passionately fond of mu- Sic. Legislation For Workingmen. The Philadelphia United Labor T.eague will have three bills at Harris- burg, Pa. One measure will hold em- ployers liable for an injury to an em- ploye, even if it has been caused by negligence of a fellow workman. An effort will also be made to secure the passage of a workingmen’s insurance t. An amendment to the factory law will be offered raising the age of chil- dren employed in workshops to 14 years. Miners Fight a Drawn Baitle. A fight between a Roman Catholic and a Greek at Wilkeson, Wash., devel- oped into a pitched battle with 200 Greeks against as many Roman Catho- lics, the fighters on both sides being coal miners. Clubs and iron bars were used and several heads were broken. Finally re- volvers were brought into use and bul- lets caused the mob to flee. No one was killed. train . 0. THMRGES SIDRY SERA AN E'.OQUENT DISCOURSE. amen Subject: Lack of Patience—Falin, Hope ana Charity Bloom in Many Hearts Where the Grace of Patience is Wanting-Pity Rather Than Condemn the Erring. {Copyright 1900.1 WASHINGTON, D. C.—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is a full length portrait of a virtue which all admire, and the lessons taught are very helpful; text, Hebrews x, 36, ~*Ye have need of patience.” Yes, we are in awful need of it. Some of us have a little of it, and some of us have none at all. There is less of this grace in the world than of almost any other. Faith, hope and charity are all abloom in hundreds of souls where you find one specimen of patience. Paul, the author of the tékt, on a conspicuous occa- sion lost his patience with a coworker, and from the way he urges this virtue upon the Hebrews, upon the Corinthians, upon the Thessalonians, upon the Ro- mans, upon the Colossians, upon the young theological student, Timothy, I conclude he was speaking out of his own need of more of this excellence. And I only wonder that Paul had any nerves left. Imprisonment, flagellation, Mediterranean cyclone, arrest for treason and conspir- the wear and tear of preaching te angry mobs, those at the door of a thea- tre and those on the rocks of Mars hill, left him emaciated and invalid and with a b i sore eyes and nerves a- jai . He gives us a snap shot of him- self when he describes his appearance and his sermonic delivery by saying, “In bodily presence weak and in speech contempti- ble,” and refers to his inflamed eyelids when, speaking of the ardent friendship of the Galatians, he says, “If it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.” We all admire most that which we have least of. Those of us with unimpressive visage most admire beauty; those of us with discordant voice most extol musical cadence; those of us with stammering speech most wonder at eloquence; those of us who get provoked at trifles and are naturally irascible appreciate in others the equopoise and the calm endurance of pa- tience. So Paul, with hands tremulous with the agitations of a lifetime, writes of the “God of patience” and of “ministers of God in much patience” and of “patience of hope” and tells them to “follow after patience,” and wants them to “run with patience,” and speaks of those “‘strength- ened with all might to all patience,” an looks us all full in the face as he makes the startling charge, “Ye have need of patience.” The recording angel, making a pen out of some plume of a bird of paradise, is not getting ready to write opposite your name anything applaudatory. All your sublime equilibrium of temperament is the result of worldly suce But suppose things mightily change with you, as they some- times do change. You begin to go down hill, and it is amazing how many there are to help you down when you begin to go in that direction. A great investment fails. The Colorado silver mine ceases to yield. You get land poor; your mills, that yield- ed marvels of wealth, are eclipsed by mills with newly invented machinery; you get under the feet of the bears of Wall street. For the first time in your life you need to borrow money, and no one is will- ing to lend. Under the harrowing worri- ment you get a distressful feeling at the base of your brain. Insomnia and nervous dyspepsia lay hold of you. Your health goes down with your fortune; your circle of acquaintances narrows, and where once you were oppressed by the fact that you had not time enough to return one-half of the social calls made upon you now the card basket in your hallway is empty, an your chief callers are your creditors and the family physician, who comes to learn the effect of the last prescription. N ow you understand how people can become pessimistic and cynical and despairful. You have reached that stage ygurself. Now you need something that you have not. But I know of a re-enforcement that you can have if you will accept it. Yon- der comes up the road or the sidewalk a messenger of God. Her attire is unpre- tending. She has no wings, for she is not an angel, but there is something in her countenance that implies rescue and deliv- erance. She comes up the steps that once were populous with the affluent and into | the hallway where the tapestry is getting faded and frayed, the place now all empty of worldly admirers. 1 will tell you her name if you would like to know it. Paul baptized her and gave her the right name. She is not brilliant, but strong. There is a deep quiethood in her manner and a firmness in her tread, and in her hand is a scroll revealing her mission. She comes from heaven. She was born in the throne room of the King. This is Patience. ‘Ye have need of patience.” First, patience with the faults of others. No one keeps the Ten Commandments equally well. One's temperament decides which commandments he shall come near- est to keeping. If we break some of the commandments ourselves, why be so hard on those who break others of the ten? If you and 1 run against one verse of the twentieth chapter of Exodus, why should we so severely excoriate those who run against another verse of the same chap- ter? Until we are periect ourselves we qught to be lenient with our neighbor's imperfections. Yet it is often the case that the man most vulnerable is the most hypeyeritical. Perhaps he is profane and yet has no tolerance for theft, when pro- fanity is worse than theft, for, while the latter is robbery of a man, the former is robbery of God. Perhaps he is given to defamation and detraction and yet feels himself better than some one who is guilty of manslaughter, not realizing that the assassination of character is the worst kind of assassination. The laver for wash- ing in ihe ancient tabernacle was at its side burnished like a looking glass, so that those that approached that laver might see their need of washing, and if by the gospel looking glass we discovered our own need of moral cleansing we would be more economic of denunciation. The most of those who go wrong are the victims of cur- cumstances, and if you and I had been rocked in the same iniquitous cradle, an been all our lives surrounded by the same baleful influences we would probably have done just as badly, perhaps worse. e also have need of patience with slow results of Christian work. We want to see our attempts to do good immediately successful. The world is improving, but improving at so deliberate a rate; why not more rapidity and momentum? Other wheels turn so swiftly; why not the gos- el chariot take electric speed? o not <now. I only know that 1t is God's way. We whose cradle and grave are so near to- gether have to hurry up, but God. who manages this world and the universe, is from everlasting to everlasting. He takes 500 years to do that which He could do in five minutes. His clock strikes once in a thousand years. While God took only a week to fit up the world for human resi- dence, geogolgy reveals that the founda- tions of the world were eons in being laid, and God watched the glaciers, and the fire, and the earthquakes, and the volcanoes as through cemturies and millenniums they were shaping the world before that last week that put on the arborescence. A few days ago my friend was talking with a geologist. As they stood near a pile of rocks my friend said to the scientist, “1 suppose these rocks were hundreds of thousands of years in construction?’ And the geologist replied, “¥Yes, and you ar £ say millions of years, for no one kau. but the Lord, and He won't tell.” If it took so long to make this world =% the start, be not surprised if it takes long while to make it over again now that it has been ruined. The Architect has promised to recon- struct it, and the plans are all made, and at just the right time it will be so com- plete that it will be fit for heaven to move in, if, according to the belief of some of my friends, this world is to be made the eternal abode of the righteous. The wa f that temple is going up, and my only anxiety is to have the one bric that I am trying to make for that wal turn out to be the right shape and smooth on all sides, so that the Master Mason will not reject it, or have much work with the trowel to get it into place. I am respon- sible for only that one brick, though you may be responsible for a panel of the door or a carved pillar or a glittering dome. So we are God’s workmen, and all we have to do is to manage our own hammer or ax or trowel until the night comes in which no man can work, and when the work is all completed we will have a right to say rejoicingly: “Thank God, I was privileged to help in the rearing of that temple! I had a part in the work of the world’s redemption.” Again, we have nced of patience under wrong inflicted, and who escapes it in some form? It comes to all people in pro- fessional life in the shape of being misun- erstood. Because of this, how many peo- ple fly to newspapers for an explanation. You see their card signed by their own name declaring they did not say this or did mbt do that. They fluster and worry, not gelizing that every man comes to be taken for what he is worth, and you can- not, by any newspaper puff, be taken for more than you are worth nor by any news paper depreciation be put down. There is a spirit of fairness abroad in the world, and if you are a public man you are classi- fied among the friends or foes of society. If you are a friend of society, you will find plenty of adherents, and if you are the foe of society you cannot escape reprehen- sion. Paul, you were right when you said, not more to the Hebrews than to us, “Ye have need of patience.” I adopted a rule years ago which has been of great service to me, and it may be of some service to you: Cheerfully consent to be misunder- stood. God knosvs whether we are right or wrong, whether we are trying to serve Him or damage His cause. When you can cheerfully consent to be misunderstood, many of the annoyances and vexations of life: will quit your heart, and you will come ingo calmer seas than you have ever sailed on. The most misunderstood being that ever trod the earth was the glorious Christ. The world misunderstood His cradle and concluded that one so poorly born could never be of much importance. They charged Him with inebriety and called im a winebibber. The sanhedrin misun- derstood Him, and when it was put to the vote whether He was guilty or not of treason He got but one vote, while all the others voted “Aye, aye.” They misun- derstood His cross, and concluded that if He had divine power He would effect His own rescue. They misunderstood His grave, and declared that His body had becn stolen by infamous resurrectionists. He .so fully consented to be misunder- stood that. harried and slapped and sub- merged with scorn, He answered not a word. You cannot come up to that, but you can imitate in some small degree the patience of Christ. There are enough present woes in the world without the perpetual commemora- tion of past miseries. If you sing in your home or your church, do not always choose tunes in long meter. Far better to have your patience augmented by the considera- tion that the misfortunes of this 1ffe must soon terminate. This last summer I stood on Sparrow hill, four miles from Moscow. It was the place where Napoleon stood and looked upon the city which he was about to cap- ture. His army had been in long marches and awful fights and fearful exhaustions, and when they came to Sparrow hill the shout went up from tens of thousands of voices, “Moscow; Moscow!” do not wonder at the transport. A ridge of hills sweeps round the city. A river semicir- cles it with brilliance. It is a spectacle that you place in your memory as one of three or foir mdst beautiful scenes in all the earth. apoleon’s army marched on it in four divisions. four overwhelming tor- rents of valor and pomp, down Sparrow hill and through the beautiful valley and across the bridges and into the palaces, which surrendered without one shot resistance because the avalanche of troops was irresistible. There is the room in which Napoleon slept, and his pillow, which must have been very uneasy, » oh, how short his stay! Fires kindled in all parts of the city simultaneously drove out that army into the snowstorms under which 95,000 nien perished. soon did triumphal march turn into horrible demo- lition! To-day while I speak we come on a high hill, a glorious hill of Christian anticipa- tion. These hosts of God have had a long march and fearful batiles and defeats have again and again mingled with the victor ies, buf to-day w: coms in sight of the great city, the capital of the universe, the residence of the King and te home of those who are to reign wits Him for ever and ever. Look at the towers and hear them ring with eternal jubil Look at the house of many mansions, where many of our loved ones are. Be- hold the streets of burnished gold and hear the rumble of the chariots of those who are more than conquerors. So fa from being driven back, all the twelve gates are wide open for our entrance. We are marching on and marching on, and our every step brings us nearer to the city At what h... we shall enter we have no power to foretell, but once enlisted amid the blood washed host our entrance is cer- tain. It may be in the bright noonday or the dark midnight. It may be when the air is laden with springtime fragrance or chilled with falling snows. But enter we must and enter we will through the grace offered us as the chief of sinners. Higher hills than any I have spoken of will guard * that city. More radiant waters than saw in the Russian valley willp through that great metropolis. No raging confla- gration shall drive us forth, for the only fires kindled in that city wiil be the fires of a splendor that sha'l ever hoist and never die. Reaching that shining gate, there will be a parting, but no tears at the parting. There will be an eterhal farewell, but no sadness in the utterance. Then and there we will part with one of the best frienas we ever had. No place for her in heaven, for she needs no heaven. While love and joy and other graces enter heaven, she will stay out. Patience, beau- tiful Patience, long-suffering Patience, will at that gate say: “Good-bye. I helped you in the battle of life, but now that you have gained the triumph you need me no more. 1 bound up your wounds, but now they are all healed. I soothed your bereave- ments, but you pass now into the reun- ions of heaven. 1 can do no more for you, and there is nothing for me to do in a city where there are no burdens to carry. Good-bye. I go back into the wor | from which you came up to resume my tour among the hospitals and sick rooms and bereft ha and almshouses. The cry of the world’s sorrow reaches my ears, and I must descend. Up and down that poor suffering world I will go to assuage and comfort and sustain until the world itself expires and on all its mountains and in all its valleys and on all its plains there is not one soul left that has need of pa- tience.” a LABOR WORLD. Rod mill No. 2, of the Illinois Steel Company, at Joliet, 111, has resumed work, employing 3c0 men. Several glassblowers of N. 1. have 'n laid off odbury, a reity of orders just at pres Some 54,417 men were employed in the electrical industry of Germany in 1808, as compared with 26,321 in 1893. One thousand workmen in the mills of the American Steel and Wire Com- pany, at Newburg, Ohio, have been laid off. The Order of Railway Telegraphers pays its president and three vice-presi- dents respectively $3.000, $1,500, $1,300 and $1,200 2 year. 3 President Mitchell of the United Min Workers of America, granted 2000 miners of Hopkins county Ky., per- ssion to strike for higher wages. street railway system of Key \ Fla., is tied up by a strike. The cigar workers will give financial aid to the striking street employes. The com- pany threatens to withdraw from the city, the total number of people on Krupp's pay roll on the 1st of January, 1900, was 41.750, of whom 25.133 are at sen, Germany, the town which his grandfather established in 1810 The east side butchers in New York city have announced that they 3 T ef want to form a union. They work eighteen and twenty hours out of the twenty- four each day, and are preparing to demand a fifteen-hour workday. 4 are paid $5 a week and board. not ask for higher wages at ent. Women bookkeepers are being or- ganized by the Amer Federation of Labor. The object of the federa- tion is to form a national organization and to sceure the eight-hour work- day. It is that women clerks are Han compelled to work fourteen and fifteen hours a day witl Ear urs a day without Gata pay. . said ————— — i Charles Lehman, of Columbia, is in Lebanon hospital with broken ribs and an mjured spine, due to a football game and may not_recover D : The Sharon boiler works has received a request from Leeds, England, for prices on the erection of three large iron smokestacks at Buenos Ayres. Thomas Taylor, a McDonald negro for highway robbery of which John Pur- rill was the victim, got four years to the penitentiary. Harry Weiss, a pipe line laborer, n { Mt. Pleasant, was found dead with bullet in his heart. Supposed suicide, otf als le age PREETI RST £00 It’s gambl; cough chance ing of Th you k down lungs lost. 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