ONES HS DER OF INDEMNITY SECRETARY HAY'S VIEW. Thinks China Should Pay About Two Hundred Million Dollars—Oniy on This Ques- tion is Friction Expected. Two hundred million dollars is the least China can expect to be called upon to pay for her reign of terror. That is the sum arrived at by Secretary Hay, who has been figuring on the cost of military operations by _the Pewers while waiting for answers to his suggestions that the terms in the protocol about to be signed be so modified as to make them possible of execution. It is considered more likely, how- ever, that the sum demanded will be about $300,000,000, because it is evident that several of the European Powers are preparing to place fancy prices on the cost of their expeditions to the Celestial Kingdom. Germany's idea some time ago, before she raised the pay of her officers, was $50,000,000. Ii every Power should charge in that proportion Rus- sia, Great Britain and Japan alone would charge more than $200,000.02, without any payment for property and lives destroyed. Secretary Hay believes e has convinced the foreign offices that there can be no settlement unless the spirit of fairness and moderation dic- tates such terms as China can meet, hence his belief that there will be bat little trouble in agreeing upon the treaty. INSURGENTS RETREATING. rican So! diers Capture Much Ammunition and Take Prisoners. Telegrams irom Manila, dated Sunday say: While the captures of supplies and the occupation of new points are quite numerous those involving actual fi ing are comparatively few. Api rently the insurgents are falling back at all contested points, sacrificing their pos sessions in most cases and satisfied tc save themselves. A detachment oi the Forty-seventh United States volunteer infantry the island of Catanduanes, off the soni east coast of Luzon, relinquished an at- tempt to land near Pandan. On anchor- ing the Americans were fired upon by 60 riflemen and after a short engage ment they cut the anchor chain sailed St Catanduanes with two and two wounded. names hav yet been received here Capt. Richard T. Ellis of the Thirty third volunteer infantry, captured in the mountains near Bargar a large quantity of Krag. Mauser and Remington am- munition, together with a signal outfit; a printing press and other equipment. All of this was destroyed. Thirty rifles and several hundred cartridges were se cured at Victoria. Ki BRANDED WITH HOT POKER. Horrible Treatment of a Colored Boy by Drunken Miners. At Currysville, Ind. a a tramp colored boy was the savage torture at the hands of a party of drunken miners Saturday night. He was given several mock trials, prior to which he was branded with a red hot poker on his head, face and all parts of his body. He was sentenced to be burned in a red hot stove and in his struggles burned his hands almost to a crisp. ther modes of torture were sug- gested. One, that he be thrown down the coal shaft; another that he be hang- ed. Sober heads saved the boy fron further punishment. mining town, victim of Crisis in Germany. The winter session of the German Reichstag, recently inaugurated, marks the beginning of what perhaps will be the most important legislative campaign since the beginning of the empire, ac- cording to Consul General Mason. at Berlin, in a report to the state dep ment at Washington. Besides the dis- cussion of Germany’ icy in respect to China, he says, is expected that there will be introduced during the year not only a new schedule of import duties, but the issue as to whether the several commercial treaties with other nations which expire by limitation in 103, shall be re-enacted, with modifi- cations, or abandoned with the demand of the extreme protectionists, or A rian party. Postal Work of the Year. The report of Postmaster General Smith for the fiscal year ended June 30 last, shows that the total receipts of the department were $102,354.570 and ex- penditures $107,740,267. He estimates the revenue for the current fiscal year at $110,021,172 and for the year ending June 30, 1902, "at $116,633.042, and the deficiency on the latter date at $4,634.- 307. The deficiency for last year was less than for any vear since 1893. N STANDARD OiL. The, .$100,000,000 Capital is Now Valued ~ at Eight Times as Much. Concerning the advance in the price of Standard Oil certificates, it is noticed that the company’s capital of $100,000,- 000 now has a market value of over ,000,000. The rise this year has been phenomenal. Last January it sold at 475. By the middle of October it had reached the $600,000,000 mark. A gain of over $200 a share has been made since then, with the last 100 points ad- vance occupying less than a fortnight. When it is considered that John D. Rockefeller owns 43 per cent. of the total capital of the company, the amount of the increase of his fortune within a year is tremendous. In the company his investments are worth at least $350,- 000,000. The company has paid about $45,000,000 in dividends the past year. Apportionment of Representatives. The first bill of the session introduc- ed in the House of Representatives was by Representative Crumpacker, Repub lican, Indiana, making an apportionment of Representatives in Congress under the twelfth census. It provides an in- crease of membership from to 363. The following States gain in representa- tion: - Arkansas, 1; Colorado, 1; Caii- fornia, 1; Connecticut, 1; Florida, 1: Ilinois, 2s Agassachuselts 1; Minneso- ta, 2; Missouri, New Jersey. 2; New York, 3; North ‘Dakota, 1: Pennsyl- vania, 2; Texas, 2; W ashington, 1 West Virginia, 1. The following Ha, lose: Kansas, 1; Louisiana. 2; Mississippi, 3: Nebraska, 1; North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 3; Virginia, 1. Famous Guerrilla Insane. William Halley, for many years dur- ing the civil war the chief licutenant of Quantrel, the guerrilla, has been sen: to the insane asylum at St. Joseph, Mo. He is a physical wreck and it is probable he can survive but a short time. Halley was born and reared at Inde- pendence, Mo., where his father, at the breaking out of the war, was a wealthy resident. He was hanged for disloyal acts, after his son had engaged with Quantrel in some of his bloodiest deeds, including the sacking of Lawrence, Kas, An Ex-Consul Dead. Hon. John W. Coppinger, ex-United States Consul at Toronto, Can., and prominent Democratic politician of Southern Illinois, died Saturday even- ing at his home in Alton, after an illness of eight days with a carbuncle on his neck LATEST NEWS NOTES. Boers are declared by Chamberlain to be no longer a nation. Prospect of trouble between Holland and Portugal caused rise in wheat. United mine workers have begun a campaign to organize West Virginia. A number of big deals for all the coal mines in Eastern Ohio are under way. barge Charles Foster with her crew of The ore-laden foundered off Erie eight. According to the official bulletins, the cazor of Russia continues to convalesce rapidly. (O.) capitalists are or- Youngstown : to manufacture ganizing a company shovels. The smelter at Helveti been totally destroyed by $100,000. \ United Miné Workers’ convention has been called to meet at Massillon, O., December 18. Preparations are being made to start three more blast furnaces in Sharon and Sharpsville, Pa. Arizona, has fire. loss P. A. Manyhan, a grocer of De For- est, O., formerly of Bennett, Pa, com- mitted suicide. The White coal mines at Canonsburg, Pa., have been purchased by the Pitts- burg Coal Company. Miners at the Simpson coal mines in .afayette, Col, 160 in number, have struck for higher pay. The experiment of heating buildings in Washington, Pa., by steam from d central plant, has begun. Eastern heirs of Millionaire Rice al- lege crooked work on the part of bene- fictaries of the first will. The Ridgewood power house of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was destroyed by fire; loss, $150,000. Brownsville, Pa., has decided by a vote of 118 to 81 to issue bonds for $33 000 for street paving and sewers. Henry J. Hayden, second vice presi- dent of the New York Central railroad, was killed by a fall from a window. The net cost of rural iree mail delivery for the entire country is estimated by the Attorney General at $14,000,000. homas Kerr, of Pittsburg, with cap- italists of Youngstown, O.. will erect a large plate glass plant in that city. The Citizens’ Gas Company, of Waynesburg, Pa., has brought in an im- mense gasser just north of that place. French stockholders in the Panama Canal are still hoping against hope that the United States will choose that route. By the explosian of a locomotive boil- in the Delaware, Lackawanna & ern shops five men were hurt bad- At Hamilton, Ont., George Arthur Pearson was hanged for the murder of s sweetheart, Annie Griffin, September A riot between striking miners and Latrobe, Pa., resulted in als and a full lock- deputies at three wounded offi up. Work has been commenced on an as- tronomical observatory at the = West Virginia university at Morgantown, W. a. John Black, Toronto, O., ing laudanum. life. — a prominent farmer near attempted suicide by tak- Prompt action saved his The Missouri Guarantee Savings and Building Association, of St. Louis, has made an assignment in the sum of $100.- 000, The Sand Fork development, in Lewis county, W. Va., produces another gush- cr. which starts off at 300 barrels an hot Fire destroyed the mainsbuilding cf the Jowa State Agricultural College at Ames. Estimated loss, $100,000; unin- «ured. The republic found by the Russian troops in Manchuria has 100,000 inhabi- tants. is called Tcha Pigou, and is 30 years ol. A. G. Gillogly, a Greene county (Pa.) farmer at Halbrook, is dead from blood poisoning caused by a horse stepping vpon his foot. John C. Allen has been elected stew- ard of the Mercer county (Pa.) poor farm, succeeding J. S. Wallace, whose term has expired. Less than a buckdul of the remains of Oil Shooter Charles Ford were gath- ered up after a nitro-glycerin explosion near Marietta, O. Reformer Kang Yu Wei has appealed to the foreigner envoys at Peking to treat with the emperor and ignore the empress dowager. At Portland, Ore. six masked men held up the oifice of the Western Lum- ber Company, securing $6,000, sand es- ganed in the darkness. layor Harrison, of Chicago, has re- in the liquor licenses of 14 notori- ous saloons, as a part of the anti-vice crusade in that city. England is back oi the trouble be- tween Portugal and Holland, and the vic of the channel squadron to Lisbon is looked upon as ne to the Dutch that they must yiel Constable Northcraft, near Altoona, Pa., shot and perhaps mortally wounded Edmund L. Miller, a sawmill owner, who was resisting arrest. Twenty persons were injured in an ac- cident on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road at Grays Ferry sta- tion in West Philadelphia. John Baines was burned to death at Dallas, Tex. Two arrests have been made. James Ellsworth is in jail at Kittan- ning, Pa., charged with the murder of Elmer McDonald, at the new town out of order. Gen. Mercier si The British na is powerful, but it has many coasts to defend. France is numerically Eng- land’s equal at certain points, and is even her superior in the instruments of destruction. History furnishes many in stances of mutiny in the English navy at the moment of battle. A landing in Shad is, therefore, not beyond real- | At Tn point protests were raised, and ‘allieres asked Gen. Mercier not to enter into the details of the scheme. Gen. Mer replied that the scheme could “be held over the head of Eng- land like the swor rd of Damocles.” Nine Workman Killed. very During a heavy fog morning a westbound f ided with a w an engine, g¢ Tuesday ight train col- rk train of five cars and cast in a deep cut about 600 « beyond Vanden sta- tion, Cal., causing the death of nine workmen and injuries to about 20 oth- ers. The victims of the disaster were asleep in their bunks in one of the cars of the we train when the trains came together. Youth’s Desperate Deed. William Seaton, aged 22, at South Park. nine miles from Seattle, Wash., killed his uncle, Daniel Richards, fatally wounded Myrtle Hapgood, aged 10, and seriously wounded his sister, Mrs. Roy Clark, and Hazel Hapgood. aged 10, with an ax, and shot a man named Ken- nedy in the back. He was shot twice by Deputy Sheriff Kelly before surrender- ing. New Lands Thrown Open. Agricultural lands in four ceded townships on the White Earth reserva- tion, in Minnesota, were thrown open to settlement at 9 o'clock Tuesday and by noon nearly every available piece of land had been filled upon. Men were in line before the United States land office several hours before it opened. Ev eiything passed off quiet- ly. Some of thy claims are rich in pine, SERMON STARTS TROUBLE. Rev. John W. Wohl Killed by Hon. S. Davis Stokes at Williamson—Stokes Was Mortally Wounded. from wounds inflicted by his antagonist, Attorney S. Davis Stokes, of Williamson, W. Va., Wednesday af- ternoon shgt and instantly killed Rev. John W. Wohl, after the most sensa- tional duel this end of the State has ever seen. Stokes himseli is dangerously wounded and may yet die. 2 Stokes is one of the most prominent lawyers of Mingo county; he is referee in bankruptcy, and in the last cam- paign was a candidate for State Senate in the Fiith district. Wohl was a high- ly respected clergyman of the Presby- terian church south, while both moved in the highest circles of society. Back of the quarrel which brought about the latter's death, is a sermon which Rev. Mr. Wohl preached more than a month ago. in which he took occasion to score unmercifully the pas- times of the social set in which the at- torney moved. High words came at a meeting between the two men Wednes- day afternoon, and before bystanders could realize what was coming the in- terchange of shots had begun, Stokes falling first, and from his side firing the ball that pierced the minister's brain. Prostrate AN AGREEMENT AT PEKIN. The Views of the United States Have Pre- vailed in the Issues. The State department has been in- formed that the foreign ministers at Pekin have reached an agreement which was submitted to the home offices, Sec- retary Hay cabled Mr. Conger authoriz- ation to sign the agreement on behalf of the United States. In the issues relating to punishment and indemnity the views of the United States have prevailed. Punishments are to be the severest that can be inflicted by the Chinese government. As to in- demnity, the Chinese government is to formally admit its lability and the ma ter is to be leit for future negotiation. It was understood that on the other points the French proposition has form- ed the basis of the agreement. Telegrams from Berlin say: The Chi- nese minister there has handed the for- eign office a telegram from Li Hung Chang that Sih Liang. new governor of Shan Li. has publicly executed upward of Bo rebel leaders and asserting that he is otherwise acting with the greatest severity in the suppression of the Box- ers and energetically protecting the missionaries. The telegram conveys the thanks of Emperor Kwang Hsu and the empress dowager for the moderation of the de- mands of the powers and says that their majesties are anxious to return to Pekin as soon as circumstances will permit, and are eager to arrive at an understanding with the powers. Persia to Adopt Russian Policy. A Russian correspondent at Theran says that it is believed there that the Shah’s journey in Europe and especially his splendid reception at St. Petersburg, have produced a strong impression up- on him and paved the way for the Rus- sofication of Persia. A new loan of £1.000,000 has been effected for forti- ficating the harbors in the Persian gulf, purchasing arms and reorganizing the army under Rt S n instructions. Now that Russia's influence in that country has been thoroughly establish- ed, she wishes Persia to be strong enough to resist any attack on the part of England, from the sides of India, in the event of a conflict between Russia and English interests on the shores of the Persian gulf. Insanity Among Indians. A Papago Indian woman has been taken to the territorial insane asylum at Phoenix, Ariz. She became insane sev- eral weeks ago over the religious teach- ings of a woman, a so-called divine heal- er. who lives at Phoenix and whose strange delusions have been impressed cn the Papagos to such an extent that many more of the Indians are partially demented. The Indians have been contributing all their money to the alleged heale It is believed she has emissaries among other tribes and the authorities are searching for them. Dotch Talking War. Dispatches from the Hague represent the feeling there as one of alarm at the prospect of an Anglo-German-Portu- guese combination, which might snatch the Dutch seaboard or seize Java. It is reported at the Dutch capital that the possibility of a war with England has even been discussed by the cabinet council. Bridge Collapsed. Several Killed. A bridge at Differdingen, in the grand duchy of Luxemburg, collapsed as an express train was, passing over it and the train plunged into the stream. Five persons were killed and eight were bad- ly injured. Bought West Virginia Land. It is understood that Wilson Ice Camden, of Baltimore, has negotiated the sale to ex-Senator Henry G. Davis and Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, of 14,000 acres in Bar- bour and Upshur counties, West Vi ginia. It is said that the property con- tains extensive coal devosits and that the purchasers will open the min The Baltimore and Ohio railroad ex- tends through a portion of the field, but it is said that the West Virginia Central railroad will be extended from Belington when operations are begun. The tract adjoins the property of the Century Co® Company. Pardons for Two. Gov. Pingree Tuesday announced that he had pardoned both Gen. W. White, ex-quartermaster general, Gen. A. P. Marsh, ex-inspector general, of the Michigan National Guard, who were convicted of complicity in the State military clothing frauds, upon the payment of $5.000 fine by each. One thousand dollars of the fire is to be paid January 1, 1901, and a like sum on the first day of January, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1003 In a railroad tech in Spain seven persons were killed and twelve injured. The census returns show Berlin has a population of 1,384.345, compared with 1.677.301 in 1803. President Kruger, of the Transvaal, was received in audience by Queen Wil- helmina, of Holland. Holland and Portugal sever diplo- matic relations as result of the dispute consulate at Lourenzo Marquez. Fighting continues at Buena Ventura, Colombia. which is still held by the in- surgents agaist the government army. Through carelessness eight persons at Sandviken, Sweden, have been poisoned by drinking tea. Three of them are dead. Official statistics just published show a decrease during 1899-1000 in both the customs and internal revenue receipts of Norway. A fire at Borlaenge. near Faiun, Swe- den, rendered 130 persons homeless and caused damage to the amount of half a million kroner. NM. Schnaebel, whose imprisonment by the Germans at Metz in 1887 nearly led to war between France and Germany, died Wednesday of apoplexy The railroad between Christiana and Gjovik, Sweden, will be opened on De- cember 15. The line is 125 kilometers long, and is at an altitude of 1,100 feet above the sea. HIS ASSAILANTS WERE 100 SLON A BLOODY FRAY. West Virginia Merchant Shot Cown Two Men to Defend Himself —Exonerated by the Coroner. Telegrams irom Panther, W. Va., say: Dr. Thompson, of Williamsport, Pa., and Adam Bailey, of this place, were shot and instantly killed by James H. Chambers, a prominent local merchant, Wednesday night. _ Dr. Thompson came here from Will- 1lamsport several months ago, where he took a position as surgeon ior the Pan- ther Lumber Company, which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the State. Recently he decided to leave town, and return to Williamsport. His airs were settled and his family leit for their former home in Pennsylvania two weeks ago. The doctor remained behind to dispose of some of his office furniture. He sold a portion of his furniture to Mr. Chambers, and this caused the trouble that led to his death. When settling the deal the men came to blows. Then Chambers ordered the doctor to leave his store. The latter did so, but returned soon afterwards, carry- ing a revolver in his hand. He told Chambers that one of the two must die, and that right speedily. Thompson nn sooner entered than Chambers, without rising from _ his chair. fired. His aim was good. The doctor fell, shot through the breast. Adam Bailey, a former business part- ner of Chambers, was coming up the street, heard the shots and saw the doc- tor fall. He was an intimate friend of the Pennsylvanian. Rushing into the store, boiling with rage, Bailey pulled his revolver. He leaped over the corpse of Dr. Thompson to get into the store. “That was a cowardly murder,” cried Bailey to Chambers, “and vou will have ill me or T will kill you. o sooner were the words uttered by Bailey than Chambers raised his weapon and fired. The contents entered Bailey's breast, passing through his body and making a hole large enough to drop an egg through. He fell in the store, hut Chambers dragged the body outside and laid it beside that of Dr. Thompson, where he left them. Both corpses lay in the street until aiter midnight, when the coroner's in- quest was held. At his preliminary hearing Chambers was exonerated. He is a brother of Judge Chambers, of this judicial district. and is one of the best known men of this county. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS. Secretary Gage Reporis a Surplus of $79.- 527.060 for the Year. The report of Secretary of the Treas- ury Gage, which was sent to Congress Tuesday, that the receipts of the Government for the year June 30, were $660,505.481, and the expendi- tures $500,068,371, showing a surplus of $70.5 527,000. As compared with the pre- vious fis ear, the receipts increased and expenditures decreased Mr. Gage es stimates the ended 3 233, oe the ex- penditures at Sn leaving a sur- plus of $80,000,000. For the ye end- ing June 30, 1902, his estimate is for $716,633,042 of revenue and $690,324.804 of expenditure. In the year ended Sep- tember 30, notes and certificates of the value of $323.102.000 were impressed ty the seal of the department and pre- pared for issue, as against $362.412,000 in the 12 months preceding. A largely increased share of the new currency was of the denominations of $20 and un- BAD NEWS FROM KITCHENER. Cables That Boers Captured a Convoy—Used Fire and Sword. The London war office has received a dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Bloemfontein, announcing that General Delarey, with 500 Boers, attacked a convoy, proceeding from Pretoria to Rustenberg, at Buffelspoort, burned half the convoy and killed 15 men and wounded 23, including Lieutenant Bak- cr. The Boers, the dispatch adds, sni- red considerable loss, some of them es killed with case shot at 30 yards. Assistance was sent from Rustenburg and Commando Nek and the Boers were driven off. The advices also say General DeWet crossed the Caledon at Kareepont Driit, making for Odendal. General Knox was following him, the drift was held by a detachment of the guards and the riv- er was flooded. Standard Oil Company Out. According to a dispatch from Buchar- est, the Roumanian Government has broken off the negotiations with the Standard Oil Company for a lease of the petroleum fields. FUNSTON WHIPPED REBELS. Took His Cavalry ‘Across a River and Drove Cff Insurgents. More activity is shown in the opera- tions in northern and southern Luzon. Gen. Funston, with Troop A. of the Fourth cavalry, and a score of scouts, encountered 100 insurgents posted on the opposite bank of the Nehico river. The Americans charged across the stream and the enemy retreated, firing from cover. They left four dead on tl who field. A native was captured re- ported that Fagin, a deserter from 2 Twenty-fourth infantry, who has be: active with the Filipinos ah a party of two cavalrymen, had been wounded. Lieut. Morrow. with 50 men irom the Forty-seventh regiment, attacked and occupied Bule an. While returning these troops encountered Col. V ictoris, occupying an entrenched position, with 30 rifles and 300 bolomen. Lieut. Mor- row's force charged and drove the ene- my from their position, with heavy loss. Preceding the fight. the expedition had captured Maj. Flores and several of his followers. An engagement is reported to ha occurred near San Ton in which, uc cording to natives, 50 rebels were kill- ed. Several minor encounters and cap- tures are reported. Will Sue Webster Davis. Theilkuhl, * of Colorado Springs, will sue Webster Davis for $3,- 000 for services rendered in connection with the Boer war propaganda in the United States. Theilkuhl, who is a photographer, was employed in the patent office at Washington when Davis, then assistant secretary of the interior. induced him to give up job and advertise for re- Gustav cruits. About 30,000 answers were re- ceived. Davis took these in person to President Kruger. His failure to re imburse Theilkuh! led to the Cale Had Fatal Results, Another southern storm has swept over New England. The results ara: Five Glouce ishermen drowned: six coasting s ers complete wrecks: nine vessels sunk; eight schooners ashere and 10 Tih injur I Brown was wrecked and all her crew of schooner Marv on Hampton be: it . five were drowned. The steamer Rossgue foundered in the English channel. Only 11 people out of the 40 on board were saved. A boat with seven blue jackets from a tor- pedo boat cis missing At New Pa, Mrs. a child irom the Eagle, near Monongahela, Haddock stooped to pick up floor, and her clothes catching fire, she was burned to death AN OLD MINE CAVES iN. | Brave Foreman Saves Many Lives—The! Men Were Imprisoned One Thousand i Feet From Mine Entrance. Thirty-two men employed at the Nay Aug colliery, in Dunmore, Pa., were entombed by a cave-in Wednesday morning, but thanks to a simple fortu- nate circumstance a repetition of the terrible Turn shaft disaster was averted. The men were at work about a thou- sand feet from the bottom of the slope and 400 feet below the surface when two acres of the roof between them and the slope went down with a terrible crash, crushing the pillars beneath it and caus- ing a rush of air that hurled the roof from off the fanhouse and almost blew the men {rom their feet. Their lamps were extinguished, but finding that the air was still pure, they lighted them and began to cast about for a way of escaping. Foreman John Gibbons, who chanced to be with the men at the time, bade them keep cool and quiet. and he wouid try to find a way out. After a difficult and dangerous journey they reached the point where the fall blocked their way. This was attacked with bars, picks and shovels, and after an hour's work a passage was cleared to the air- way, which, as they had counted upon, was open. As fast as they could run they made their way to the second opening, and thence to the surface, where they were greeted with wild hur- rahs from the thousands who had gath- ered expecting to see them brought out crushed and mangled corpses, if they wele brought out at all. he Nay Aug colliery is an old work- ing that was opened 30 years ago. It is nearly worked out and comparatively few men were employed in it in it. PLACARDS POSED. Anli- Foreign Agitation is Tet Cas Soldiers Killed in a Battle—Boxers Routed hy Waldersea. It is reported in Tien-tsin that the Germans lost 20 killed and many wounded west of Pao-Ting-Fu where they were attacked by 2,500 Boxers. A quantity of loose powder exploded in the last arsenal occupied by the Rus- sians. It is sunposea the explosion was caused by two Chinese smoking. Both Chinamen were killed. The shock was felt at Tien-tsin, four miles dis- tant, Tang-Weng- Hosen, the gute of ‘he upon the Pao-Ting-Fu mi sionaries, arrived, > was paraded through the Victoria road in a cart un- der a strong German guard, previous 10 being handed over to the provisional government for decapitation. The Tien-tsin correspondent sends a watning of impending trouble similar to that recently given by Mr. Ragsdale, the American consul. He says that placards threatening f{oreigne have again been posted about the ¢ He adds that he learns from a Chinese source in which he has confidence that the volunteer movement in China is growing more active and that the gov ernment is providing the volunteers eit arms mad ammunition. It is the policy of the allies to concentrate their forces during the winter for defensive pur- poses. Field Marshal Count Von Waldersze commander of the allied forces in Chi- na, reports that the expedition recent- ly dispatched to Kalgan was most suc- cessful. Several thousand regular Chi- nese troops under two gener: were driven in wild fight from the province of Chi-Li into the province of Shan-S BUTCHERED BY CHINESE. Catholic Eist op and His Coadjutors Stabbed to Death in Shan Si. A dispatch from China reports a fear- ful mission slaughter in the province of Shan Si. The first victims were a Catholic bishop and his coadjutors and four European priests. The governor invited them to his house, pretending to give them better protection, hut, when they arrived, their hands were tied. Then the governor pionarded them and also a number of Chinese priests, 36 Chinese sisters and 200 oprhans, from three to 16 y old. Next the gov- ernor sent to the bishop's residence with soldiers and seized six Marseilles sis ters. He promised them money and distinguished husbands if they would renounce Christianity, which offer they unanimously rejected. Thereupon the governor poinarded then. Mr. and Mrs. Atwater and their two little chil- dren; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Price their son, all of the Mr. and Mrs. Lagron, and Miss Eldred, an English woman, were butchered. The story of these murders directly implicated Yu Hsien, then governor of Shan Si. Members of 1.i Hung Chang's staff say the Chinese emperor will probably send Yu Hsien a silk cord. which is an intimation that he must hang himself. and American board; of the Swedish, BANDED AGAINST HORSE THIEVES. Ohio Farmers Organize a League to Run Down Law Breakers. A permanent organization, incorpor- ated under the laws of the State, and representing about 30 branches, cover- ing all of Ohio, has been perfected at Columbus for the purpose of making life miserable for the horse-thief. The organization will be known as the Chie e Stock Protective association, an: is a combination of all the various far- mers’ mutual protection associations mm the State. Tt has a membership «cf about 6,000, each of whom will join ‘n the hunt for the thief that takes any of the horses of the members of the as- sociation. The plan is to notify each member whenever a theft is committed, whereupon he will watch for the thief in the locality in which he lives. The Resources of Siberia. Under government encouragement it is said that heria is gaining 200,000 farmers per vear. Among its exporis are cereals, butter, wool, leather and dried and preserved meats. Already this remote country, which the popular imagination is apt to picture as a vast vaste, the abode of frost and snow, and misery, is becoming talked of as a pos- ible competitor with the well-known real-producing countries of the world. A member of the French bureau of for- eign commerce estimates that, on the basis of the nt population of Rus- sia 1 : g beria can sustain 80,- £00,000 ants, although it now has not one-tenth of that number. It produces one-tenth of the world's yield of gold, but owing to climatic obstacl=s many of its mines are not worked, and its immense coal deposits have hardly been to ched. It is announced that the yield of wine - yrnia this year is 6,000,000 gi than last y Ww and Spirit aders’ society of the United States inaugurates a crusade on bogus brands of liquor. Cattle raised by students of agricul- tural colleges captured good prizes =t the Chicago live stock show. The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company has ordered 10,000 idle men back to work. Consul General Stowe is of the poin- ion that the war in South Africa will come to an end in four months. An oil well flowing 10 barrel an hour hs been struck on the McJunkin tarm, near New Kensingion, Pa. TI new ter ora George Clayton and Samuel Ellinger, boys aged about 12 years, have held for the grand jury at Augusta, W. Va., charged with torturing a woman | idiot by tying her to a bed and burning | her with hot irons, ~ | been i: OR, TALAACE'S SUNDAY SERHON AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. Bubject : A Way Over Jordan — The Lord Will Send a Boat — From the Other Shore It Will Come to Transport the Faithful to Eternal Life. 7 {Copyright 1490. 1 WASHINGTON, DD. C.—From an unnoticed incident of olden time Dr. Talmage in this discourse draws some comforting and rap- turous le The text is 1I Samuel xix, 18, “And oe went over a ferryboat to carry over the king's household. Which of the crowd is the king? That short jan, sunburnt and in fatigue dress 1t is d, the exiled king. He has de Liki pio enemies and is now going home to resume his ce. Good' I always like to see Davia come out ahead. But be- tween him and his Lome there is the cele- brord River Jordan, which has to be ed. The king is accompanied to the i of the river by an aristocratic old gentleman of eig hty vears, Barzillai by name, who ow ned a fine country seat at Rogelim. Besides that, David has his fam- with him. But how shall they get across the river? While they are stand- ing there 1 see a ferryboat coming from the other side, and as it cats through the water I see the faces of David and his household brighten up at the thought of so soon getting home. No sooner had the fy struck the shore than David and his family and his old friend Barzillai,- from Rogelim, get on board the boat. Sither with splashing cars at the side or with one oar sculling at the stern of the boat they leave the eastern bank of the Jordan and start for the western bank. That western bank is black with crowds of people, who are waving and shouting at the approach of the king and his family. The military are all out. Some of those who have been David’s worst enemies now shout until they are hoarre at his return. No sooner had the boat struck the shore on the western side than the earth quakes and the heavens ring with cheers of wel- come and congratulation. David and his family and Barzillai from Rogelim step ashore. King David asks his o 1d friend to go with him and live at the palace, but Ba ai apologizes and intimates that he ge and too deaf to appre- ciate the music, and has a delicate appe- tite that would soon be cloyed with luxu- rious living, and so he begs that David would let him go back to his country seat. once heard the father of a President of the United States say that he had just been to Washington to see his son in the White House, and he told me of the won- derful things that occurred there, and of what Daniel Webster said to him, but he declared: “I was glad to get home. There was too much going on there for me.” My father, an aged man, made his last visit at my house in Philadelphia, and after the shurch service was over and we went home some one in the house asked the By man how he enjoyed the service. ‘Well, T enjoyed the service, but there were too many people there for me. It troubled my head very much.” The fact is that old people do not like excit ment. 1f King David had asked Barzillai thirty years before to go to the palace, the prob- ability is that Barzillai would have gone, but not now. They kiss cach other good- bye, a custom among men Oriental, but in vogue yet where two brothers part or an aged father and a son go away from each other never to meet again. No won- der that their lips met as King David and old Barzillai, at the prow of the ferryboat, parted forever. ‘his River Jordan, in all ages and among all langua bas been the sym- bol of the boundary line between earth and heaven, yet when, on a former occa- gon i pr eached to you about the Jordanic ge I have no doubt that some of you oii) Che Lord might have divided Jordan for Sy but not for poor me.” Cheer up! I want to show you that there is a way over Jord: an as well as through it. My text says, “And there went ever a ferryboat to carry over the king’s household. All our cities are familiar with the fer boat. It goes from San Francisco to ( land, and from Liverpool to Birkenfiead, and twice every secular day of the week multitudes ar the ferryboats of our great cities, s that you will not need to hunt up a clas: 1 dictionary to find out what I mean while I am speaking to yol about the passage of David and his family $05 the River Jordan. My subject, in the first place, impresses me with the fact that when we cross over from this world to the next the boat will have to come from the other side. The nt this David and his tribe of Judah, we are iaformed, se ferryboat across to get r household. 1 Jiand on the eastern side of the River Jordan, and 1 find no shipping at all, but he I am standing there I might give out and that he boat might dashed on the ro sometimes boats were dashed in “Yordan, an then I could have i starting and rocking and t “Oh, we are going to be lost ing down!” Not so. The king board the boat, and those women a children and all "the household of the king knew that every care } to hawi RE we are goe an was tak \ the king, the head of the empire, pass in safety. Blessed be God that when we world we are not to have a of ao leave this great and oe only a fe gomething you ha unders tand. Yon very nervy 1 _ould be i uncxeited and placid last hour. The fact is, they were clear down on the bank, and they saw there was nothing to be frightened about, such a short distance—only a fer car they heard the funeral psa memory, and with the other ear heard the song of heaver The willows on this side the Jordan and the Lebanon cedars on the oth almost interlocked their branches—only a ferry. a My subject also suggests the fact that when we cross o at the last we shall find a solid landing. The ferryboat, as spoken of in my = , means a place to start from and a place to land. David and his people did ih find the tern shore of oe Jordan any more solid than the western shore where ho 1 and yor to a great many heaven is not a real pla 0 Tt 1s a iog bank in the pve tance. A rrection has come vou will have a resurrected foot and some- thing to tread on and a resur and colors to see with it and a resurrected ear and music to regale it. Smart men in this day we making a great deal of fun about St. John’s mate- rialistic descriptions oft heaven. Vell, now, my friends, if you will tell me what will be the use of a resurrected body in heaven with nothing to tread on and noth- ing to hear and nothing to handle and nothing to taste then I will laugh, too. Are you going to float about in ether forever, swinging about your hands and feet through the air indiscriminately, one moment sweltering in the centre of the sun and the next moment shivering in the mountains of the moon? "That is not my heaven. D atisfied with John's materialistic heaven, theologi- cal tinkers are trying to patch up a heav- en that will do for them at last. I never heard of any heaven 1 want to go to ex cept St, John’s heaven. I believe I shall hear Mr. vet and Isaac Watts ite hymns and Mozart play. “Oh,” you say, “where would yon get the organ The Lord will provide the argan. Don’t you bother about the organ. I-believe I shall yet see David with a harp, and I will < him to sing one of the songs of Zion believe after the resur they salutation. dec Toplady sing ion T shail ator, and I shall hear from his own lige how he felt on that day when he preached the king's funeral sermon and flung his whole audience into a paroxysm of grief and solemnity. And so you and I will be met at the landing. Our arvival will not be like steps ping ashore at Antwerp or Constan among a crowd of strangers. among friends, good friends, those wh are warm Sorts friends, and all theif friends. We know people whom we have never seen by hearing somebody talk about them very much. We know them almost as well as if we had seen them. And do you not suppose that our pa; ents and brothers and sisters and children in heaven have been king at us al these years and talking to their friends? So that, IT suppose, when We Cross the river at the last we shall not only be mek by all those Christi fri 3 knew on earth, but hy all their fri They will come down to the landing te meet us. Your departed friends love you now more than they ever did. “ou will be surprised at the how they know ahout ail the your life. Why, they are only ac ferry, and the boat is coming t | and the boat is going that wi know but they have already Lord the day, t our, the momer you are coming ac now, but I do know at the landing. 1e poet thought he should know heaven by the portrai him in London, and De. thought he would know the poet. in heaven had seen of him in know our departed k traits hung 1m the hearts On starlight nights you suppose it is with an ne who has friends in heav 1 Southey said he shop Heber i qd d by the por- throne room of our see a boat plowin throu igh the river, and as I hear the swirl of the waters, and the boat comes {o the eastern side of the Jordan, and David and his family and his old friend step on board that boat, T am mightily impressed with the fact when we next Te boat will have to come from the opposite shore. Every day I find people trying to ex- temporize a way from earth to heaven. They gather up their good works and some sentimental theories, and they make a raft, and they go down. The fact is that skepticism and infidelity never yet helped one man to die. 1 invite all the ship carpenters of worldly philosophy to come and build one be that can safely cross s river. 1 invite them all to unite their , and Panghioke shall lift the stan- , and Tyndall shall shape the bow- and Spmoza shall make the main- and Renan shall go to sprit, topgallant braces, tacking and wearing and boxing the “ship. together in 10,000 years they will never be able to make a boat that can cross this Jordan. Why was it that Spinoza anc Blount and Shaftesbury lost their only? It was because they tried to cross th stream in a boat of their own construe- tion. What miserable work they made of dying! Diodorus died of mortification he- © that | cross over from this world to the | | look up, and you cann { those who have gone, anc i look down and cannot | us. But they have the ! We know not just wh t! v is. They know where we are. | But there is a thought that c | me like an electric shock. the 's household? text says, “And there w boat to carry over the g's house and none but the king's household I ask, Do I belong to the household? Do you? If you do not, come to-day and be adopted into that household. J some soul here, “I do not know whether the King wants me.” He does; He does. Hear the voice from the throne, “I will be a father to them, sons and daughters, saith mighty “Him that co: Christ says, “T will in nc e cast out.” Come into the King's household. Sit down at the King’s table. Come in and take your apparel from the Kinz's ward: robe, even the wedding garment of Christ's rightegusness. Come in and inherit the {ings wealth. Come in and cross in the ing’s ferryboat. What Yoa Do, Do Well. the Lord Al th unto Me,” cause he could not guess a conundrum which had been proposed to him at a! public dinner; Zeuxis, the philosopher died of mirth, laughing at a caricature of an aged woman, a caricature made by his own hand; while another of their | company and of their kind died sayi “Must eave all these beautiful pic- > and then asked that he might be | ered up in the bed in his last meo- ments and be aved and paint wd rouged. Of all the unbelievers of ali ages not one died well. me of them sneaked out of life, some b sabia and raved aud tore their bed cc o tatters. TI is the way its ho hel man to die. A guide at Niagara “Do you see the PY Falls said to me, < down in the rap 7 s ‘Yes “Well,” he said ome years ago a man got to the rap ids and floated down until he came to that rock, and he clutched that and held on. We sent five life at different times out to him, and they were all brok- en to splinters. After awhile we got him some food, but Le could not eat it. Ie | seemed to have no appetite. He wanted ! to get ashore, and the poor fellow held on | and held on, and, with a shriek louder | than the thunder of the cataract, went over.” When a man puts out from the shore of this wi ld ou the river of death in a boat of his own construction, he has wo disaster than that—ship- | eck, eternal shipwreck. | Ble essed be God, Shere is a boat coming | from the er ‘Lransporiation &t | last for oe on the other ily everything about this gospel from the oth | er shore; pardon from the other shore; ! mercy from the other shore; pity from the | other shore; ministry of angels from the other shore; power to work miracles from | the other sh Jesus Christ from the | other shore. is a faithful and worthy all “aceeptation that ( Jesus came into the world to save sin- ’ and fron 1 a foreign shore I see the 58 and it rolls with the ur’s suffering, but ae it th the mountain t their apparel so that ti ay be fit to come out. That boat touch the earth, and glorious Thom Walst gets into it i expiring moment ing: “He has c« tie beloved is and I am His : Sarah Wesley got into that boat, and she shoved off fro; m the shore “Open the gat bless G the boat came {r take David and his men across so when | we are about to die the boat will co from the same direction. God forbid tha I should ever st to anything that starts from thi Again, my subject sug ggests that when | we cross over at the last Ph HE be on board the boat. Si y imagine dren of the king been nervon g afraid that the a or on that boat, the helmsman “He'll do,” said a gentleman deci- sively, speaking of an office boy who had bee ‘nin his employ but a single “What makes you think so?” “B he gives himself up so entirely to the task in hand. 1 watched him while he vept the office, and although a proces- on with three or four brass bands in it went hy the oflice while he was at work, 1e paid no attention to it, but swept on as if the sweeping of that room was the { only thing of any consequence on this earth at that time. Then I set him to addres some envelopes, and A wugh there were a lot of picture papers and other papers on the desk at 145s ‘bh he it, he paid no attention to them, but kept right on addressing those envelopes until the last one of them was done. He'll do, because he is thorough ana in dead earnest about everything.” Jot may nator ally he a very smart person; you fed that you can do but all that you do will it you do not do it with all your heart and strength.— Christi Endeavor World lack a The grain is gathered in: The season's work is done; No more the hurrying din Of the stres 3ut beautiful and calm, And fall of healin The autumn rest is won. —BEundora S. Bumstead, Letting go the unworthy things that meet us—pretence, wo iscontent, and self-seeking—and taking loyal hold of time, work, present happiness, love, duty, frie udship, let us so live | as to and blessing touched hy ours, be an insj tion, strength, to those whose lives are —Anon. Give up embrace all. { content yourself, 1 thing and some de Th Ww be what yon are, and to learn to resign with a good grace all that vou are not, and to believe in your own individuality —Amie], oe Dare to Be it thy earnest care to improve the present hour. This is your own, and it is your all. The past is as nothing, as though it had never been. The future is not yours, perhaps it never will be. Therefore live today; lose not an hour.— John Wesley. » HAN Tuve is things a man an See wi in his hands.” B r than a’ the i cen or haud sec Massillon, the great French pulpit orf and they shall be My’ eres aon NS n e3t Lowell, Di Cures Cougs gripp Kas, 1 The R p e, it Dyoi use Po druggi The fc e prc drunke the re Carts 1 it. Ht ir itas ma by E. & One Engl G10 pe Fits p ness atte Nerve R free, Dr Brea costs vaoe, Head quickly ache Pc of herp AF Char one po beauty ; boast « him to heroes tions Alex ridiculg to be tory m ity H it. girl hac half o maltiea clinatio arian, plaintifl misden stopp in ing?" both ve he sen veil, ot her. Is A How man’s womar and pe Thos womer is not : To t sary t “inform given | ASN. mes sician. tell eve thousaz fiding t and wt ness an the Un Mrs. whose sufferir ham's i ham’s cured h and wo knowle to give ham’s a advice