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- | ;T . 3 *“’:‘ z : | QAR )2D E : AR — ; | XA O-DAY thenationbows | e {¥as 7|B ~ her head, | o/ \ And many hands are » filled with flowers !As coronets to crown the dead— : These clay-cold comragdes brave of ours. Here 'neath thesé mounds of sacred dust, | Here 'neath this wilderness of bloom; Here liesra nation’s sacred trust Within a soldier’s honored tomb. A natlion bows with tear-wet eyes i In benedictions o’er their graves, "Who gave themselves a sacritice Their country and her flag to save. Breathe blessings on the martyred throng Of those who did so nobly dare To sing & noble patriot’s song, And breathe a dying Soldier’s prayer. Come North and South with clasping hands, A tribute to your martyrs pay, ‘And Flowers shall be the lovely bands, To bind in Love the Blue and Gray. So let our starry banner wave, Our nation’s feuds have passed away, ‘And on the bosom of the brave Heap Flowers o'er the Blue and Gray. —George N. Mac Lean, in Chicago RecordHerald. be — - - :m\ NoBoDY'S -=: i = ey - S . / A _AA Roe & B Dizdoelfh Staar( Prelps—=3 <_;:%@‘, zZ|l T was one of NGy T those crossings ‘ ‘:@W such as you see G > . L anywhere in wellsettled parts of New England, with gates- like long, white arms, which swing up and down to warn the public of danger. The railroad wasa suburban route, a short, busy, bustling line that sent out 40 trains a day over a “circuit of 16 miles. It ran by a dozen little stations, each representing a pretty suburb with homes as happy as can be found in the country. The subwirb of which we speak bore the beantiful name of Sunshine. : The arms of the gates were raised high in the air, pointing steadily, straight to the skies. No train was expected for 13 minutes. The gate tender had gone into the gate house and sat down alone; he was not allowed to entertain company in the gate house, and he looked enviously across the track at some men who were hanging about the grocery; he would have liked to hear the story they were laughing at, but a gate tender cannot be frivolous. These men were leaning against the - wall—two customers and the depot cab driver. One of the customers was hugging an impressive order of salt pork and sugar and kerosene to his breast. The other was affectionately cherishing a paper package of butter. One man was lounging on the steps. He sprawled at full length. He had his hat over his eyes for the May sun was hot. He was smoking. He usually was. It could not be said that he was usually doing anything else, unless, perhaps, he were occupied in getting drunk. He was a marked man in Sunshine—an idle fellow in a busy place, a scapegrace in a decorous comwmunity. “What did those plaguy railroad <commissioners do about grade crossings?” .

One of the customers (the butter customer) put this question in a heavily injured tone. “They recommended ‘em,” replied the sugar and salt pork customer, soothingly. : : ; “They’d bétter!” snarled the butter customer. : “We'’ve only killed 11 folks come next July,” urged the cab driver, cheerfully. “Fourteen,” said the man on the step. He did not remove his pipe from his mouth, and his tone was muffied accordingly. . “Well,” said the first customer, “Tim knows. He picked up the pieces of most of ’em. My butter’s busted,” added the speaker, gloomily. “It’s runnin’ up my sleeve. I give 25 cents a pound for i, tool” . - Tim laughed. He was always ready to laugh. He had the merry, cordial mature common to some children and many drunkards, and the curly hair that often goes with it. _ Nobody’s Tim was one of the ruins of the great civil war; the remains of what had once been a brave and splendid fellow. He was one of the men who had done fine deeds in war, that flashed out the best of his character, and then had been beaten in peace by the worst. There was, indeed, a story about a wound at Gettysburg, and Tim used to -say that something was wrong with his heart when he tried to work. But few believed it and no one cared for "Tim’s aches and ails. | “There’s the colonel,” said the cab driver, suddenly, “comin’ down the “boulevard with his auto-go-but-don’t. I can’t say when I've seen the colonel come home so early. Say, Tim, there’s Yyour colonel. Do set up, can’t ye?” But Nobody’s Tim was already on his feet. He had seen the colonel before any one else had. Who knew what Nobody’s Tim did not see under shelter of that old brown felt hat? ‘Tim stood silently. He followed the automobile with his sad .and snnke? eyes. The colonel’s wife was riding with him—a young wife. He had not been married many years.: = The automobile dashed wup and rushed by. Timstood atattention. He straightened his shoulders. Drink and poverty and misery and ‘sickness and advancing age had never quite taken the military look out of Tim’s figure. He jammed the old brown felt hat ‘into position bn his head. All that was soldierly in the loafer awakened at sight of his colonel. Asthe carriage pw%edb?, Nobody’s Tim saluted reepeettully. " : ~ The colonel, glancing under his ‘wife’s lace sunshade, saluted flr drunkard gravely in return. Aftef“ward he was glad to remember that s A R e S e G e e . Nobody’s Tim flushed with joy at

smoking he began to hum below his breath: : ““Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com- . ing of the Lord!"” ; A little girl tried to stand still while the nurse was getting her white arms into pink sleeves. This was a difficult procedure—no one could understand how difficult, unless one were a baby girl of three, and in a hurry to go out to walk, She was all pink and white, this dainty Ilittle lady—white dress, rose ribbons, little pink broadcloth coat, and a hat of silk mull with rosebuds. Her long stockings were of dark, dull green, with tiny boots to match. Her father said she looked like a rose with two stems. Her name was Rosamond as a matter of course. Everybody knew how her father felt about that baby—the child of his middle life and early age—his only one. He came to bid her good-by that day before he went out on the automobile with her mother. He folded the little girl’s arms about his neck and laid his dark cheek to hers, and kissed her more softly than her mother did, and not so many times but each kiss seemed to count for more, for some reason. “Rose shall ride withh papa mnext time,” he said, to comfort her. “And Jane will be careful—very -careful, Jane,” added the colonel, with his military manner. “Remember all that we have told you about the lake, and the cars, and the crossings—” |“And big dogs,” interrupted the cixild’s mother. . ““And the electric cars,” added the father. ' ' _“And cows,” suggested the mother. - “And if you should meet a fire engine—" finished the father. And Jane said yes, sir, she would remember them all. And wasn’t she always careful of the child? with anair not military in her manner. Theydid not meet a fire engine. Jane held the child’s hand tight as they passed the lake. They made the crossings without any trouble. There were no cows. And theonly bigdog they met was a particular friend and neighbor of Rose’s, who offered to escort her and take care of her. But Jane told him it was against her orders; so he turned away and stayed at home. Quite safe, happy, laughing, lovely, pink and white, the little girl walked sedately by the nurse’s side—as little girls sometimes do, aslittle boys never do—and so came out into the square. In the square—so fate had willed it—they met the only danger .against which the nurse had not. been warned. This was the grocer’s boy. He was Jane’s very particular grocer boy, and she stopped to speak to him. ‘““Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com- : ing of the Lord.” Nobody’s Tim was still singing in his wasted tenor, muffled and interrupted

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by the pipe, which had not left his lips, except for a moment when the colonel passed. But fully 60 seconds before any other man saw anything, Tim had seen everything. It was then that the pipe came out of his mouth. It covered the sidewalk with splinters. © “God A’mighty!” groaned Tim. “The colonel’s baby!” - The long, lean arms of the gates had dropped, and stretched themselves mightily across the street. A grown person could not pass their strong barricade unless by deliberately stooping under, and so evading it; but to the baby girl there was no barricade at all. The arms of the gate escaped the topmost rosebud on her rose-white, rose-pink hat by several inches. And the child—something scornful of the nurse, something disdainful of the grocer’s boy—had continued her walk in a pretty, solitary dignity which comes at times on little maids like her. When Tim’s pipe came out of his mouth the colonel’s Rose had stepped under the arms of the railway gate. And the train— Afterward, the gate tender swore that the train was 40 feet away. But ‘what are 40 feet? And the baby girl, ~suddenly seeing the monster, bewildered by the roar and smoke and steam, confused by the horror that she could not understand, put up her lips and began to cry, and stood still upon the track. ; G . It was then that a man leaped the gate and dashed into the throat of death with a cry whose joyousness rings to this day in the ears of every soul who heard it. As he hurled himself upon the child, his old, faded felt hat fell off, and the May sunlight brought out the gold in the brown of hig curly hair. i He flung the baby girl high into the air. A dozen arms were outstretched

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to catch her. She came down zgzainst somebody’s neck without a bruise. Nobody’s’ Tim—how, will never be known—whether he caught his foot, or whether there was anything in that story about his heart and the wound at Gettysburg—however it happened, Nobody’s Tim fell. He did not rise. They gathered his poor body tenderly, remembering, whenthey did so, how he had himself performed this pitiful service for so many other poor bodies on the railroad which waited for the commissioners to vote about grade crossings—and somebody picked up the old brown felt hat, and somebody else asked: Bt “What shall we do with him?” For Nobody’s Tim, you remember, had neither wife nor child, neither “own folks” nor home. v Then, out of the silent crowd which had thickened in the square, sudden voices rose: : “I’ll take him to my house.” ' 4 “And I “T will—" . iST “No! .We will—" 7' asg ™ “No, let us—" ' . ’ e And the voices strove with one another, till it seemed as if all Sunshine were competing to be “own folks” to Tim. o For, in the flashing of a noble deed, Nobody’s Tim had become Everybody’s Tim, and the whole town pressedto do him honor. ! : Now, at this moment, the silver trail of a distant steam carriage could be seen melting along the smoothroad. “Hold on!” said the 'cab driver. “That’s the colonel. He's got something to say about this.” Memorial day dawned clear, hot and shining, as it almost always is. 'No one in Sunshine went to the baseball games or cared for the bicycle races on the sacred national festival of that year; but all Sunshine followed the pathetic remnant of the Grand Army when the gray-haired group formed to escort their homeless, dead comrade from the colonel’s home.

i No one remembered on that morning that Tim used to drink; that he did 'not work; that he had neither place .nor name, nor character among his ’ neighbors. Everyone remembered rather how kind he was, and how generous of impulse, what good company he was, and what a pleasant smile he had—this hero who had lived among them in disguise, unregarded and neglected for so long. As they bore him down theé colonel’s granite steps and out into the street, the Grand Army veterans sangin their broken voices: : ' _*“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” A chorus of trained singers had started the 'battle hymn, as the colonel asked; but when the veterans tnok it up every other voice was hushed—

nobody else could sing—and the veterans finished the hymn alone. Then the beating, breaking heart of the military music throbbed in and claimed its own. ; Nobody’s Tim was buried as if he had been the general. Blotted outin flowers, he seemed to have no grave. The chaplain read the service as if the Christian faith wished she could have owned the hero. The flag folded him as if it were proud of him. But the colonel, with bared head, stood a little apart. Lifting his eyes, as if be per%eived what mno other did, tHe commanding officer of the old regiment saluted the unseen spirit of the dead private, as a soldier salutes his superior. Then the drum of the veterans sounded taps for Tim, and three volleys rang across his grave. : Now, after taps, an unexpected thing occurred. Some one led up the little girl, all in white, and her arms were heaped with pink roses. These she put delicately, one by one, upon the pyre of blossoms under which Everybody’s Tim was laid away. Rosamond kissed the roses before she put them down—it was her own idea. No one spoke or stirred while she did this, and afters ward no one added a flower. Then the child (this, too, was her own idea) quite naturally knelt down upon the flowers and shut her eyes and said aloud and distinctly, so that all the people heard her: “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pway ve Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake up—Amen.” “Well,” said one of the Grand Armi§ men, with the back of his hand at his eyes, “I guess she’s wuthit.” But the colonel, her father, caught her to his heart and hid his face upon her soft hair. He did not speak. The veterans saluted and turned away.— Youth’s Companion. :

O ] MAY SOON END WAR. Peace Between Britain and South Africa Practically Secured. Every Indication That This Happy Result Has Been Reached—Pub- : lic Announcement May Be Made at Any Moment, London, May 24.—There is every reason to believe that peace in South Africa is practically secured. How soon it will be announced depends, apparently, more upon the convenience of the Boer leaders than uponthe inclination of the British government. The private and official advices received to-night in London from South Africa all point to the same conclusion. The delay is technical, and to end the long war seems to be the desire of both British and Boer leaders. The latter, however, are unable to convince all their followers of the wisdom of acquiescing to the terms of peace. Information as to what transpired at Friday’s meeting of the cabinet is closely guarded, but it is not likely that the cabinet transactions were of vital import. The surmise of one well informed person places the sum total of the deliberations of the cabinet ministers at a decision regarding points of the peace agreement of entirely minor importance. Another surmise is that the cabinet has merely sent a rather mock ultimatum to South Africa, which can be used by the Boer leaders in explanationj to their forces. :

Both these surmises probably contain an element of truth, but neither can in any way affect the widespread belief in the best informed quarters that the end of the war has come. In fact, those persons who are best acquainted with the actual details of the present negotiations only qualify this optimistic expression of opinion by guarded reservations concerning the extent of the personal control of the Boer leaders over their commands. Were the Boers a thoroughly disciplined force, dependent upon the action of their general officers, peace would probably be proclaimed at once, but Botha, De Wet and the other generals seem themselves unable to positively guarantee the degree to which their example will be followed. The delegates at Vereeniging, according to information in possession of the war office, are fairly evenly divided. Consequently extreme precautions are exercised both in London and Pretoria to prevent any premature action or report which might adversely influence the burghers. The most pessimistic forecast heard only admits that a few isolated bands of irreconcilables may be left in the field.

Thinks Terms Are Liberal. A member of the house of commons who is in close touch with the government said that he believed everything was settled, and that the British terms would be found unexpectedly liberal. The appearance of Mr. Broderick, the secretary of state for war, at the volunteer service dinner Friday night was watched eagerly in the hope of gaining an inkling of the government’s private frame of mind. But Mr. Broderick’s listeners had to be contented with one brief and adroitly turned reference to the present situation. Responding to the toast, “The imperial forces,” the war secretary said: “I would go beyond my duty should I enter into details of the communications which are now passing, and which prelude, as we all hope, the surrender of the Boers.” Mr. Broderick then proceeded to reiterate the oft-declared intention of the government not to be drawn into any compromise which would jeopardize future peace in South Afriea.

; Articles Ready to Be Signed. Berlin, May 24.—The foreign office here has been advised from Pretoria that peace in South Africa is practically concluded. The articles of surrender:are ready to be signed, with the exception that the approval of the British cabinet of the wording of the secondary provisions is awaited. The suspension of hostilities may be announced at any hour. This intelligence, it is understood, reaches Baron von Richthefen, the foreign secretary, through a privileged cipher cablegram from the German consul at Pretoria. TROLLEY CAR ACCIDENT. Two Men Killed and Many Injared by Car Getting Besyond Control .and Jumping Track, Easton, Pa., May 24—Two men were killed and many men and women injured in a trolley wreck a few miles beyond Easton at midnight. An Easton and Nazareth car left this city shortly before midnight ecarrying 89 passengers. On a steep hill in Palmer township, the brakes refused to work and the car ran away, descending the incline at a terrific rate of speed. At the foot of the hill there is a sharp curve. Here the etar jumped the track and tearing loose from the trucks fell on its side in the country road. The greatest excitement prevailed. : Veteran Journalist Dead, ' Columbus, Neb., May 24—M. K. Turner, for 32 years editor and one of the founders of the Columbus Journal, died at his residencein this city Thursday night. He was a member of the legislature from 1880 to 1884, and has twice been republican candidate for congress. : Says Peace Is Near. San Francisco, May 24.—Buencamino, former secretary of state under Aguinaldo, reached this city on his way ‘to Washington. He praises the work of the Americans in the Philippines and says peace is near, ; Stolen Collection Returned. - New York, May 24.—A collection of photographs, illustrative of German art, presented by Emperor William of Germany, through Prince Henry, to. Harvard university, and recently reported as having been stolen from the Fogg art museum in Cambridge, is reported to have been returned, . nfitbiwa&n ‘War Veteran Dend. Kew York, May 24.—Jacob Clute, a 'veteran of the Mexican war and wideIy knowng; “h{"mm&nfi e home in Brooklyn. Clute had lived practically in retirement during the NGk e s s ’ R RERINIR

. SUPERSTITIOUS TERROR. ; & : e | Residents of Martinique Believe God Has Been Angered, and Will Com=plete Destruction of the Island. . Fort de France, Island of Martinique, May 28.—Streams of fright-< ened refugees have been pouring into Fort de France from all the surrounding country. These people are not destitute, but they are terrified. They want only one thing, and that is to be taken far away from this island, with which, they say, the gods are angry, and which they will destroy by fire before it sinks under the sea. The consuls here and the officers of the -war vessels in the harbor are waylaid by persons crazed with fear, and begging to be carried away. The weather is now calm and beautiful, ‘but the mountain is veiled in voleanie clouds, which often assume a very threatening aspect, and occasional rumblings are heard. Some heavy and very welcome rain fell Wednesday morning. The people are convinced that God is angry with the island, and means to scourge it with fire, and then 'sink it in the ocean. 'Utter and unreasoning fear possesses all souls. Even Fort de France is believed to be unsafe.. The presence of the relief ships, however, is helpful to thel people, who say “the American flag makes safety.” , 1 , “We want no food, but only to leave,” is the ery of rich and poor. The recent rains of ashes and vol-i canic rocks, weighing as much as 75 grammes, which have fallen here, caused so much consternation among the inhabitants of Fort de France that those who have not left the city are anxious to do so, and large numbers are emigrating to the island of Guadeloupe, where, it is now estimated here, 1,200 people from Martinique have already sought shelter. The French gunboat Joffroy took on board about 150 of the inhabitante of the neighborhood of Le Carbet. It is estimated that about 3,000 persons will, by to-day, have left Fort de France for the extreme southern part of the island. _ During her last exploring trip about the Island the French cruiser Suchet, which did not stop-at St. Pierre, noticed that all the formerly cultivated land between Grand Rievere and Marigot has been completely destroyed. The inhabitants of those two towns have suffered and are still suffering a great deal, but they have not yet determined to abandon those localities, and efforts are being made to supply them with provisions. Washington, May 23.—John M. Wilson, vice president of the American National Red Cross, has issued the following statement: Information having been Treceived, ‘through the department of state, from the American consulates at Martirque and St. Vincent, W. 1., that the supplies already furnished for the relief of sufferers from the recent volcanic disturbances in the islands are sufficient for present necessities, that adequate measures are being taken by the French, English and loeal guthorities for the supply of future needs, and that further contributions by the people of the TUnited States are unnecessary, the appeal of the American National Red .Cross for aid for the victims of the disaster is hereby withdrawn. Donations for the purpose of such relief already or hereafter received will be held for use in any emergency that may arise requiring action on the part of the organization.”

WOMEN LEAD RIOTS. Brookiyn Mob Attacks Butcher Shops ~Meat Carried Into the Street ; and Burned, New - York, May 23. — A mob of 1,000 people, with women in the lead, marched through the Jewish quarter of Williamsburg Thursday evening and wrecked haif a dozen butcher shops. Men and women ~ who were seen ; coming out of the shops with meat and chickens in their hands wereattacked. In the throng of women leaders of the mob theére were many who carried bottles of kerosene oil. The crowd attacked two butcher stores, carried the meat they found there into the street, poured oil upon the heap, and set fire to it, while the men and women yelled their approval and danced about the bonfire. When the reserves of the Stagg street station met the crowd there was a fierce encounter. The women threw bottles, stones and whatever they could place their hands on at the policemen. Women shook their fists in the faces of the policemen and tore off their shields and the buttons from their coats. There was a charge on the mob, and night sticks were used freely. All that the police could do was to arrest four women who were charged with being the ringleaders of the mob. Two policemen were badly injured about the face and hands, and it was some time before the crowd was dispersed. :

Honored by His Comrades, Des Moines, la., May 23.—John Lindt, of Council Bluffs, was chosen commander of the JTowa department of the G. A. R. Thursday morning. Lieut.Gov. John Herriott, of Stuart, was chosen representative to the national encampment. Suicides, Milwaukee, May R3.—A Journal special from Eau Claire, Wis., says: Dr. Frank R. Reynolds, a prominent specialist, committed suicide Thursday by hanging. His body was found suspended from the rafters in his barn. The causes which led to the deed-are said to be ill health and financial troubles. ' - ' Dr. Hillis Goes Abroad. ; New York, May 23.—Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor' of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, and his son, Richard, have sailed to Europe from Boston. = .‘ : Declines to Participate, Washington, May 23.—Cardinal Gib-, bons has declined to offer the invocation at the Rochambeau statue unveiling because Bishop Satterlee of the Reformed Episcopal church also will take part. The refusal is in accord with the pope’s order. P . Wiscomsin Homeopaths Adjourn, Milwaukee, May 23.—The Homeopathic Medical Society of Wisconsin adjourned sine die Thursday afternoon. Oshkosh was awarded the next convention, and Edward Everik, of Modleon, was closted presl

VICTIM OF MOB EURY. 7 Y% a P W, ,;,y";‘,_;‘ A Horrible Scene Is Enacted at : Lansing, Tex. A Negro Brute Tied to a Stake, His Eyes Burned Out, Other Tortures EAre Administered, and His Y 7 T Rody Fidafly BuFded ¢ %Long_view, Tex., May 23.—A man hunt which had been in progress since last Saturday ended Thursday in the burning at the stake of Dudley Morgan (colored), who assaulted Mrs. McKee, wife of a Texas & Pacific section foreman at Lansing, Tex. When it was learned that the negro hadbeen captured and was being taken to Lansing for! identification, the excitement of the people knew no bounds. By 11 o’clock Thursday morning great throngs had gathered at the Lansing switch, and arrangements were made to burfif the negro. Just before 11 ©’clock the train bearing the prisoner and his captors arrived in Marshall and wa:s met by a great crowd of people. Many more boarded the train at Hallville and when it arrived at Lansing every available place on it was occeupied., Waitingat Lansing was another crowd from Longview and the ;urrounding country. * . In the Mob’s Hands. . The negro was not taken from the train on-the side where the crowd was, and when the engineer started to pull out several Winchesters were leveled at him and others of the train erew. They were told if they moved the train an inch they would all be killed. = The prisoner was identified by Mrs. McKee;, and several negroes who worked on the section with Morgan. i[rs. McKee said they had the right man and the negro was escorted by about 200 men, armed with Winchesters, to the place of execution. y . Confesses His Crime, ' As he was chained to the stake he made a statement in which he implicated another negro named Franklin Heard, saying Heard was to get part of the money which was to be stolen.: Morgan confessed to having committed the crime, and after hs had been securely chained to the! stake, or rail, with his hands and legs free, the members of the mob began to take railroad ties from a fire already started and burn out his eyes. Then they held the red hot and burning timbers to his neck, and after burning his clothes off, to other ‘parts of his body. The mnegro screamed in agony. | Slowly Put to Death. } He was tortured in a slow and pain{ful manner, with the crowd clamoring continuously for a slow death ‘and the negro writhing and groaning, begged piteously to be shot. Mrs. McKee was brought to the scene lin .a ‘earriage, accompanied by four other women, and an effort was made to get the carriage close enough for her to see the negro. The crowd was so dense, however, that this was im‘possible. Persons held each other on their shoulders, taking turn about looking at the awful sight. The negro’s head finally dropped and the ties were piled around and over him. In half an hour only the trunk of his body remained. As soon as the heat would permit, the crowd with long sticks began a grewsome search for relics. Parts of his skull and body were gathered up by some and carried away. As the fire died down the crowd took the two men whaq , first caught the negro, and held them over their heads, while they held their ’ Winchesters in their hands, and were photographed. ; . ¢ Husband Applies Torch, Section Foreman McKee, husband. of the woman assaulted, applied the match to the faggots. Many women were present from the surrounding country, but owing to the great crush they had very little opportunity to see the negro umtil the heat forced the crowd to widen the circle and the [fiames leaped over him.

CoOB Ing sto- ;‘X\“."e?jc?'“ Vienna, May 28.—A‘large party of Roumanian Jews, principally women, girls and young children, stopped at Vienna Thursday on their way to the United States. A majority of the emigrants intend to join relatives in Philadelphia and Milwaukee. All are pinched with hunger and are evidently wretchedly poor. They are enthusiastically confident, however, that in the United States their ‘condition will be bettered. This party is only the beginning of what promises to be an exodus of Roumanian Jews during the next three months, owing, it is said, to oppressive legislation. _ . Circus Spectators Hurt, Ridgeway, Pa., May 23.—During a severe rain and windstorm John Robinson’s circi¥"ténts weresbloWn dowh upon a: lange audiengey | fifitfly af@fifié@fglag‘e of thie g its the canvas caught fire from gasoline lights, and while the struggling people were trying to get out of the trap in which they found themselves fire, wind, rain and fright added to the prevailing confusion. Nearly everybody in the tent was bruised. Nobody was killed. Flies the Cuban Flag. New York, May 23.—The Ward line steamer Vigilancia, which sailed for Havana Thursday, is the first ship to leave this port flying the flag of the new Cuban republic at her fore. 'Herbert G. Squiers, the first United States minister to Cuba, accompanied by his wife and daughter, sailed o'fi the Vigilapely. " . . : : ’Nnmem'rerm. Sandusky, Ohio, May 23.—Congressman James ‘A:‘Norton, of Tiffin, was renominated for his fifth term by the Thirteenth district democrats at San-. dusky Thursday. ‘ : , ; i To Remove the Maine, - Washington, May 23.—A' bill was introduced by Senator Lodge Thursday providing for the removal of the battleship Maine from the harbor of Ha-’ vana and the recovery,of the bodies of the American sailors who sank with the vessel. The ' bill appropriates $1,000,000 for the purpose. . ... ... ‘' YWarm Day in Midhigan. ... _ Marquette, Mich., May 25.~The hot* test weather in May for many years was experienced in the Lake Superior district Thursday. At Marquette the mercury touched 90. At Ishpeming 100 wag the maxiouwm, . . o

RECEIVED AT WHITE HOUSE. Remaining Members of the Freneh Party Reach Washington for the Rochambeau Ceremonies. Washington, May 23.—Surrounded by the members of his cabinet, and by offigials high in all the branches of the government, President Roosevelt Thursday received as the guestsof the nation the distinguished Frenchmen ‘!sér"nfg by President Loubet to take part in the Rochambeau exercises. The arrival in the city of the brilliantly uniformed French army and navy offi= cers and their escort through Pennsylvania avenue by a troop of United States cavalry gave picturesque interest to the occasion, and to thiswas added theiinternational significance of an extremely cordial exchange of greetings between the representatives of ‘the two nations. Afterithe president’s reception at the white house, the French visitors exchanged calls with members of the cabinet and Lieut. Gen. Miles and Admiral Dewey. Inthe afternoon they journeyed to Mount Vernon, where Gen. Brugere, of the French army, placed a laurel wreath on the tomb of Washington, and Count de Rochambeau planted a tree taken from the battleground of Yorktown. At night President Roosevelt had the French party as his guests at dinner at the white house. During the dinner President Roosevelt proposed the toast: “To the President of the French Republic and to the People of France.” Ambassador Cambon gave as a toast, “The President of the United States,” and ‘made a short, graceful speech. See- ! retary Hay proposed the toast: “The ‘Members of the Rochambeau Mis'sion.” Gen. Brugere responded. The itoasts all were drunk standing.

BOER DELEGATES GATHER. Gens. De Wet and Delarey Take Apartments Next to Those of Gen. Kitchener at Pretoria. Pretoria, May 23.—1 n accordance with an agreement April 6, the Boer-delegates-who were chosen at the Veereninging conference arrived here May 18. They consist of four representatives from the Transvaal and Orange River governments, Gen. De Wet and Gen. Delarey, and are accompanied by eight secretaries. The party has been lodged in a house next door to the one occupied by Lord Kitchener. * . London, May 23.—The concensus of opinion here is that all the signs are propitious, but up to twe o'clock Thursday afternoon the British officials had given no indication of the course_ which the negotiations between Lord Kitchener and Lord Miiner and the Boer delegates at Pretoria were taking. That conferences are occurring Treégarding the Dbasis -upon which.peace shall be declared is the sum total -of the information which the war office has vouchsafed up to the present, though it is intimated that a definite announcement of the resmlt, __peaeeful or otherwise, ‘wmay speedily be expected. :

London, May 23.—While the government departments are discreetly silent, it is generally accepted that the summoning of the cabinet is directly connected with the South African peace conference. Most of the ministers are out of town for the Whitsuntide recess, though they left rather expecting to have their holiday broken : up by just such a summons. : g . ~ ADOPTS REVISED CREED. {'l‘he Presbyterian General Assemi»l; i Unanimously Agrees to Changes % in Confession of Faith, 2 ~ New York. May 23.—The general assembly of the Presbyterian church Thursday adopted the report of the committee on creed revision making changesinthe Confessionof Faith.Fhis action, which was practically unanimous; was taken with little or no debate. The change proposed will now go to the various presbyteries for rat= ification. When the report was presented last Friday a motion for its adoption was made at once, but the vote was deferred until Thursday. As was to be expected, the prospect of am interesting ,debate on creed revisiom ‘attracted a crowd which filled the gal+ leries solidly and when the doors of the ground floor were opened all the 'seats not reserved for the commissioners were occupied at once. .

MESSAGE 'FROM PALMA. President of Cuba _Sends Felicitous Cablegram to Seeretary of War Root. - Washington, May 23.—The secretary of war received the following message from the president of Cuba: “Havana, May 21, 1902.—Elihu Root, Secre~ tary of War, Washington: I am deeply moved by your heartfelt message of congratulation on the inauguration of the republic of Cuba, to the birth of which the people and the government of the United States have contributed with their blood and treasure. Rest assured that the Cuban people can never forget the debt of gratitude - they owe to the great republic with which we will always cultivate the closest relations of friendship and for the prosperity of which we pray to the Almighty. _ - (Signed) “7. ESTRADA PALMA.” | t L - Fatal Storm. 3 Toledo, May 23.—A terrific electrical and windstorm passed over northeastern Ohio Thursday afternoon. Two persops were killed, one fatally injured and many others less seriously, injured. Much damage was done in the oil fields. The dead are: Henry Juallman, a farm hand, at Danbury; Isadore Metzger, aged 25, oil man, at Delphos. Metzger and five companjons were in a barn which was struck by lightning. Marcus Suver was fatally injured and Lee Beckman, William Webber, Nicholas Sarber and Garreté Wienken were injured. : Man and Wife Killed, Newcastle, Ind., May 23. — A car riage containing Mr. and Mrs. Adam Shafter, wealthy people of this county, was struck by a Panhandle passenger train at a grade crossing near here;Th&rsday, and both of the oecupants instantly killed. The Shaf~ fers were octogenarians. 5 z Illinois Veterans, - o e "Z‘gt" - T CUCARBEREN ADR iay IR ‘fii‘*’ L@ Ry A department commander and selected ‘East St. Louis as the place for holding,