Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 52, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 March 1895 — Page 2

‘A SERAPHIC DIET” Rev. Dr. Talmage Talks About th® Isarelites’ Food. The Manna Sent from Heaven Likened to the Continual Feast to he Found in the Practice of True Christianity. The following discourse by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage was delivered in the Academy of music, New York city, on the subject: “A Seraphic Diet,” being Ini sed on-the fce'xt: - — _ --= Man did eat angels food —Psalms lxxviii. 25 Somewhat risky would be the undertaking to tell just what was the manna that fell to the Israelites in the wilderness; of what it was made, how it was made, and who made it. The manna was called angels’ food, but why so called? Was it because it came from the place where angels live; or because angels compounded it; or be-' cause angels did eat it; or because it was good enough for angels? On what crv.ital platter was it carried to the door of Heaven, and then thrown out? How did it taste? m* are told there was in it something like honey, if the saccharine taste in it had strong, many would not have Juiced it, and so it may have had a commiugling of flavors—this delicacy of the skies. It must have been nutritious, for a nation lived upon it for forty years. It must have been healthful, for it is so inspiring!;- applauded. It must have been abundant, because it dismissed the necessity of a sutler for a great army. Each person had a ration of three quarts a day allowed to him, and so fifteen million pounds were necessary every week. Those were the times of which my text speaks, when “men did eat angels’ food.” If the good Lord who has helped me so often, will help me no\V, 1 will first tell you what is angels' food, and then how we can get some of it for ourselves. In our mortal state we must have for mastication, and digestion,and assimilation, the products of the earth. Corporeity, as well as mentality, and spirituality, characterizes us. The style of diet has much to do with our well-being. Light and frothy food taken exclusively results in weak muscle and serai-invalid-ism. The taking of too much animal food produces sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reasonable*selection of the farinaceous and the solid ordinarily produces physical stamina. Rut we have all occasionally been in an ecstatic state where we forgot the necessity of earthly food. We were fed by joys, by anticipations, by discoveries, by companionships that dwindled the dining hour into insignificance, and made the pleasures of the table stupid and uninviting. There have beeu cases where from seemingly invisible sources the human body has been maintained, as in the remarkable case of our invalid and Christian neighbor, Mollie Fanclier, known throughout the medical and Christian world for that she seven weeks without earthly food, fed and sustained on heavenly visions. Our beloved Dr. ireuaeus Prime, editor and theologiap, recorded the wonders concerning this girl. Prof. West, the great scientist, marveled over it, and Willard Parker, of world-wide fame in surgery, threw Tip his hands in amazement at it. There are times in all our lives when the soul asserts itself, and says to the body: ' “Hush!. Stand back! Stand down! I am at a banquet where no chalices gleam, and no viands smoke, and no •culinary implements clatter. I am feeding on that which no human hand has mixed,and no earthly hand ever baked. lam eating angels’ food.” If you have never been in such an exalted state, I commissetate your leaden temperament, and I dismiss you from this service as incompetent to understand the thrilling and glorious suggestiveness of ray text when it says: “Man did eat angels’ food.” . Now, what do the supernaturals live on? They experience none of the demands of corporeity, and have no hindrance or environment in the shape of bone, and muscle, and flesh, and hence that uelectate our palate, or invigorate our poor, dyiilg frames would be of no use to them. Hut they have a food of their own. My text says so. There may be other courses of food in the heavenly menu that I am not aware of, but I know of five or six styles of food always on celestial tables when cherubim and seraphim, and archangel gather for heavenly repast; the mystery of redemption; celestialized music; the heavenly picturesque; sublime colloquy; eternal enterprises; saintly association; Divine companionship; celebrative jubilance. There is one subject that excites the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all those angels. St. Peter says: “Which thing the angels desire to look into.” That is, why did Christ exchange a palace for a barn? Why did He drop a scepter from His right hand to take a spear into His left side? Why quit the •anthem of the worshiping heavens to hear the crooning of a weary mother’s voice? Was a straw better than a garland? “Could it not have been done in some other way?” says angel the first. “Was the human race worth uch a sacrifice?” says_ angel the second. “How could Heaven get along without Him for thirty-three years?” says angel the third. “Through that assassination may sinful man rise into our eternal ■‘companionship!” says .angel the fourth. Apd then they ail bend toward each other and talk about it, and guess about* it, and try to fathom it, and prophesy concerning it. But the subject is too big* and they only nibble at it. They only break off a piece of it! They only taste it. They just dip into it. And then •one angel cries: “Worthy is the lamb that was slain!” And another says: “Unsearchable!” And another says: “Past finding out!” And another says: ■“Hallelujah!” And then they all fill “their cups of gold with the “new wine of the kingdom.” Unlike the beakers of earth, which poison, these glow with immortal health, the wine pressed

from the grapes of the heavenly Eshcol, and they all drink to the memory of inanger and cross, shattered sepulcher and Olivetic ascension. Oh, that rap turous, inspiring, transporting theme of the world’s ransom! That makes angels’ food. The taking of that food gives stronger pulse to their gladness; adds several mornings of radiance to their foreheads; gives vaster circle to the sweep of their wings on mission interconstellatiou. Some of the crumbs of that angels’ food fall all around our wilderness camp to-day, and we feel like crying with Paul: “Oil, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God J .” or with expiring Stephen: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” or with many an enraptured soul: “None but Christ! None but Christ!” Pass an and this angels’ food. Carry it through all these aisles. Climb with it through all these galleries. Take it among all the hovels, as well as among all the palaces of the great town. Give all nations a taste of this angels’ food. Now, in the emerald palace of Heaven, let the cup-bearers and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels’ food, which is celestialized music. You and I have seen at some concert or oratorio a whole assemblage to whom the music was a feast. Never anything that they took in at the lips of the mouth was so delightful to their taste as that which they took in at the lips of the ear. I have seen, and yon have seen, people actually intoxic.ated with sweet sounds. Oratorios which are always too protracted for those of us who have not had our faculties cultivated in that direction, were never long enough for them. As at eleven o’clock at night the leader of the orchestra gave the three taps of his baton to again start the music, they were as fresh and as alert as when three hours before, at eight o'clock, the curtain first lifted. Music to them is food-for body, food for mind and food for soul. From what I read in my Riblecjl think celestialized music will make up a large part of angels’ food. Why do I say “celestialized music?” Becafise, though music may have been born in Heaven, it had not all its charms until it came to earth and took a baptism of tears. Since then it has had a pathos and a tenderness that it could not otherwise have possessed. It had to pass under the shadows, and over stormy fjpas, and weep at sepulchers, and to be hummed as a lullaby over the cradle of sick children, before it could mount to its present altitudes of heavenly power. No organ on earth would be complete without the “Tremolo” and the stop “Vox Humana.” And no music of Heaven would be complete without the “Trenrolo” of earthly sorrow comforted and the “Vox Humana” of earthly sympathies glorified. Just take up the New Testament and find it a note book of celestialized music. Jt says .Jesus sang a hymn before He went to the Mount of Olives, and if He could sing on earth with Bethlehem humiliation close behind him, and sworn enemies close on both sides of Him, and the torments of Golgotha just before Him, do you not suppose lie sings in Heaven? Paul and Silas sang in midnight dungeon, tfnd do you not suppose that now they sing on the delectable summits? What do the harps, and trumpets, and choirs of revelation suggest, if not music? What would the millions of good singers and players upon instruments who took part in earthly worship do in Heaven without music? Why, the mansions ring with it. The great halls of eternity echo with it. The worship of unnumbered hosts is enwrapped with it. It will be only art of eartli that will have enough elasticity and strength to leap the grave and take possession of Heaven. Sculpture will halt this side of the grave, because it chiefly commemorates the forms of those who in heaven will be reconstructed, and what would we want of the sculptured imitation when we stand in the presence of the resurrected original? Painting will halt this side the grave, because the colors of earth would be too tame for heaven, and what use to have pictured on canvas the scenes which shall be described to us by those who were the participants? One of the disciples will tell us about the “Last Supper” better than Titian, with .mighty touch set it up in the art gallery. The plainest saint by ,tongue will describe the Last Judgment better than Michael Angelo, with his pencil, put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Now, in the emerald palace of .Heaven, let the cup-bearers and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet, and bring in another course of angel’s food, 0 whicli is, Laying Out of Mighty Enterprise. The Bible lets us know positively that the angels have our world’s affairs on their heart. They afford the rapid transit from world to world. Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defending spirits, guardian spirits. Yea, -they have all worlds on their thought. We are told they sang together at the Creation, and that implied not only the creation of our Wprld, but of other Worlds. Shall they, plan only for our little planet, and be unconcerned for a planet three hundred times larger? No. They have all the galaxies under tlieir_observation; piighty schemes of helpfulness to be laid out and executed; shipwrecked worlds to be towed in; planetary fires to be phi out; demoniac hosts riding up tp be hurled back and down. These angels of light unhorse an Apollyon with one stroke of battle ax celestial. They talk these matters all over. They bend toward each other in sublimest colloquy. They have cabinet meetings of winged immortals. They assemble the mightiest^? f them in holy consultation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar, constellated achievement. They vie with each other as to who shall do the grandest thing for the eternities. They compose doxologies for the Temple of the Sun. They preside over coronations. If in the great organ of the universe if one key gets out of tune, they plan for its retuning. No undertaking is so difficult; no post of

duty is so distant; no mission is so stupendous, but at God’s command they are gladly obedient. When they sit together in the heavenly places, Gabriel, and Michael, the archangel; and the angel that pointed It agar to the fountain in the desert; and the angel that swung open the prison door of delivered Peter; and the angels who are to be the reapers at the end of the world; and the angel that stood by Paul to encourage him on the foundering corn-ship of Alexandria; and th two angels that sentineled the tomb of Christ; and the four angels that St. John saw in Apocalypse at the four corners of the earth; and the twelve angels that guard the twelve swinging pearls; and the twenty thousand charioted angels that the psalmist described; and more radiant than all of them put together, and mightier than all, and lovelier than all: “The Angel of the Covenant;” the cadences of His voice, the.best music that ever entranced mortal or^iminortal ears; His smile another rroon risen at midnoon; His presence enough to make a heaven if there were no other attraction—l say, when they meet together in the council chambers close to the throne—Ah! that will be regalement infinite. That will be a repast supernal. That will be angels’ food. And one of my exciting anticipations of Ileavemis the prospect of seeing and talking-with some of them. Why not? What did they come out for on the balcony on that Christmas night and sing for our world, if they djd not want to be put in communication with us? I know the serenade was in Greek, but they knew that their words would be translated in all languages. If they thought themselves too good to have anything ; to do with us, would they have dropped Christmas carols upon the shepherds, j some of them as bad as any of us have ; ever been? Aye! If they sang for mor* j tals, will they not sing for us when 1 we become immortals? Now, in the emerald palace of lleav- j eu, let the cup-bearers and servants of j the king remove this course from the j banquet, and bring on another course of angels’ food —the last course, and ' the best; the dessert; the culmination I of the feast, which is, Celebrative Ju- \ bilance. You and 1 have known peo- j pie who prided themselves on never getting excited. They have cultivated | the phlegmatic. You never sa!\v them I cry; you never heyd them in a j burst of laughter. They are mo- \ notonous, and to me intolerable, j I am afraid of a man or a woman that ; can not cry; I am afraid of a man or i a*,woman who can not laugh. Christ says in the book of Revelation that such people are to Ilim nauseating, and cause regurgitation. (Revelation j iii, 10.) Because thou art lukewarm, • and neither cold nor hot, I will spew : thee out of my mouth.” But the angels in Heaven have no stolidity or unresponsiveness. There is one thing that agitates them into holy mirth. When that hap- ! pens if their harp be hung up they take it down, and with deft fingers pull from among the strings a canticle, j They run into their neighbors on the same golden street and tell the good j news. If Miriam has there cymbals ■ anything like those with which she j performed on the banks of the Red j sea, she claps them in triumph, and there is a festal table spread, and the best of the angels’ food is set on j it. When is it? It is when a i man or woman down in the world i who was all wrong, by the grace ! of God, is made all right. (Luke 1 xv. 10}. There is joy \ji the presence of the angels of-God over one sinner that repente'lh.” Why are they so happily agitated? Because they know what a tremendous thing it is to turn clear around from the wrong road, and take ; the right road. It is because they j know the difference between swine’s j trough with nothing but husks, j and a Jrfng’s banquet with angels’ j food. It is because they know the in- j finite, the everlasting difference between down and up. And then, their | festivity is catching. If we near the j bells of a city ring, we say: “What is j that for?” If we hear rolling out from | an auditorium the sound of a full or- i chestra, we say: “What is happening j here?” And when the angels \ take on jubilance over a case of earth- j ly acceptance, your friends in Heaven ! will say: “What new thing has liap- j pened? Wliytfull diapason? Why the ‘ chime from the oldest towers of ■ eternity?” The fact is, my hear- | ers, there are people, in Heaven who ! would like to hear from you. Your | children there are wondering when j father and mother will come into the Kingdom, and with more glee than they ever danced in the hallway at your coming home at eventide, they will dance the floor of the heavenly mansion at the tidings of father and mothfer saved. Besides that, the old folks want to hear from you. They are standing at the head of the celestial stairs waiting for the news that their prayers have been answered, and that you are coming on to take from their lips a kiss better than that which they now throw you. Calling you by your first name, as they always did, they are talking about you and saying: “There is our son,” or, “There is our daughter down in that world of struggle, battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why can they not see that Christ is the only one who can help, and comfort, and save?” That is wliat they are saying about you. And if you will in this hour in one prayer of surrender that will not take more than a second to make, decide this, then, swifter than telegraphic dispatch, the news would reach them, and angels of God who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterers of Heaven .would do their best, and saints and seraphs side by side would take angels’ food. Glory be to God for such a possibility! Oh, that this moment there might be a rush for lleav6~h! The Spirit and the bride say: Come, Rejoicing saints re-echo. Come; Who faints, who thirsts, who will, may come; Thy Saviour bids t\oe como. —Life is not worth living unless w&, liVe it for somebody else.

FOUND GUILTY. Harry Hayward Convicted of Murder in the First Decree. The Jury Returns Its Verdict—Hayward Takes It Calmly—Witnesses for the Defense Arrested for Perjury. Minneapolis, Minn., March 11.— On the night of December 3 last Catherine Ging was murdered by Claus A. Blixt at the instigation of Harry T. Hayward, who at the moment the murder was committed was occupying, a seat at the Grand opera house. Friday the jury, after had settled down to rest after Vjinner, took one ballot and found Hayward guilty of mufSder in the degree. Two hours later it filed into court and the verdict was read. The jury retired at 11 o’clock Friday morning after listening to Attorney Erwin’s closing remarks and the judge’s charge. At 2:10 It reported an agreement and at 2:30 the verdict was rendered. When Hayward appeared he was as faultlessly dressed as usual and apparently as cool as ever, but he was somewhat out of humor for he threw his hat down on the attorney’s table with force enough to split it. His attorne3 r cautioned him not „to exhibit any temper and he subsided. The verdict presented, every eye was turned to Hayward as the clerk started to read the paper. . There was nothing in his face to indicate that he had heard a word of it. He threw his head back

CATHERINE GING. [The murdered woman.] as the word pronounced, but it was only to adjust his ; collar band.- He did not change color ! by a single shade. Then, looking ■ around at the crowd, he raised his eye- j brows inquiringly. During the polling | of the jury he listened to the answers | but the expression in his face was one j of indignation rather than any other sentiment. Monday, April 15, has been set as the j date of the trial of Claus Blixt. It is j learned from good authority that Judge i Pond will hear the case in accordance | with an agreement between the judges. Minneapolis, Minn., March 11.—Two of the most important witnesses for the defense in the Hayward case were on Friday night arrested for perjury upon complaints sworn out by R. R. O’Dell, attorney for C. A. Blixt, the real murderer. While the warrants were issued at the instance of O’Dell, it is the prevailing opinion that he is acting in accord with an agreement with the state’s attorney’s office. The witnesses arrested are G. A. Grindall and Miss Maggie Wachter, formerly a stenographer in the employ of Blixt’s attorney. The testimony upon which the warrant for Grindall is based is that relative to the mysterious “third man.” Grindall declared positively that on the night of the murder he saw a man enter the buggy which Miss Ging was driving, near the West hotel. His testimony was uncorroborated, while a number of other witnesses said he was a mile or more away from the West hotel at the time specified. Miss Wachter’s testimony was in regard to a statement claimed to have been made by Blixt to his attorney to the effect that A dry Hayward had instigated the murder and that the two bad planned to throw the crime upon Harry should they be arrested for it. Miss Wacliter had testified that Blixt had made the statement that Adry was the instigator of the murder, and had •been severely chided for so doing. The .arrests were totally unexpected, and Miss Wachter and Grindall were locked up in the Central police station early Friday evening. Several other witnesses are said to be on the state’s list, but some of them are known to have left town. FIVE WERE DROWNED. A Steamer Becomes Unmanageable In .a Fog—Crashes Into a Bridge. Cincinnati, March 9.— At C o’clock Friday morning the stern-wheel steamer Longfellow, of the Memphis & Cincinnati Packet company, left its landing at the foot of Main street and started for New Orleans. At 7 o'clock she struck the south pier of the C. & O. railroad bridge and sank in 40 feet of water. Five persons were drowned and one man is missing. He was undoubtedly drowned. The real cause of the accident, it is said, was the "fact that the boat, like the ill-fated steamer State of Missouri, was so unwieldy that she became unmanageable and the pilots were powerless to control her. Tars Have a Spantnh Town. Port ok Spain, Trinidad, March B. This city narrowly missed total destruction by Are. The loss will amount to nearly 84,000,000, the chief business section having been the center of the conflagration. - Nearly 20,000 people would have been houseless if it had not been for the assistance given by the United States north Atlantic squadron and H. M. S. lluzzard in extinguishing the flames. Commodore Elhridge T. Gerry was summarily ejected from the New York legislative floor for lobbying for a wbippinjr-post. ■ f

THE DAY SET. Henry Hayward Sentenced to Bn Hanged Jane 10. Minneapolis, Minn., March 12. Harry Hayward was brought into court Monday morning to receive his sentence for the murder of Miss Ging. Judge Smith, after the usual formalities, sentenced him to hang three months from Monday. This will make the day of execution Monday, June 10. “Hanged by the neck until you are dead.” The words fell heavily on the ears of the listeners as Judge Smith j pronounced the doom of Harry Hay- j ward. At 10:30 Judge Smith arose and motioned that tKe defendant be brought before him. “H&ve you anything to say,” asked 1 the judge, “why sentence should not now be pronounced?” Hayward cleared his throat, and i with an effort replied; “Nothing, sir, : except that I am innocent in spite -of the twelve jurors.” Juilge Smith then Ijegan his sentence: * “It Is the most painful duty that ever devolved upon me.’’ said he, “to pronounce the sentence of law upon „you at this time. You have had, in my judgment, a fair trial. You have hoen assisted in the defense by remarkable legal talent. “The jury have been carefully guarded and kept from the public, so that there was no possible chance that they should have been contaminated. I instructed them not to discuss among themselves the guilt or innocence'' or the testimony in the case of the final charge, and I am confident that they obeyed thfe order of the eoprt. They were twelve men carefully chosen and of upright honesty, and they have had each one ih his own mind Independent of the others an opinion that you are guilty. “In the judgment of this court this was a conscientious verdict of this jury. Although lam not favorable to capital punishment, as I told the jury in the charge. 1 am not responsible for it. I am hero to obey the law in reference to it. It is with feelings that I wish I could avoid that I pron’oiincd this sentence. “It is-ordered that you, Harry T. Hayward, receive punishment for murder in the first degree, of which you have been convicted, ho taken from here to the county jail and after the lapse of a period of three calendar months from this day shall thereafter be taken to a place of execution fixed by the governor of Minnesota and at a time in his warrant set, and hanged by the neck until you are dead.” Harry sat down unmoved and was immediately taken back to the jail. As 11 ay ward left the courtroom for the jail “Hang him!” “Take him to the gallows!” “Yah-h-h-murderer!” and similar cries greeted him. There was no attempt at violence, though. All that had been well looked after, and there would have been prompt action in case anything of- the kind had been attempted. A moment later Harry Hayward was once more in his cell, with a deathwatch doing duty at the door. Hayward accepts the inevitable, and expects to be hanged. In conversation with a reporter the condemned man Biiid, with perfect cfoolness of manner: “Hanging is not the worst, by a good deal It is as nothing compared to the stigma that a hanged man leaves behind him. I am innocent, but 1 have been convicted. That tells the whole story, so far as I am concerned now. I shall be hanged beyond a doubt In my own mind, but I shall go to tho scaffold as I went to-day to my sentence. I have no faith in the result of anew trial. Tha evidence, as put in by the state, is too strong aghinst me. Oh. no, its all over but the final ceremony. I fully expect to be hanged.^* “Have you no hope at all In your own mind?’* “Well,' there is the shadow of "a-chance, but it is scarcely more than a shadow. The perpetrators of this crime concealed their tracks well, and I have but one hope that the truth will come out. If Blixt is sentenced to death he will confess to the truth and exonerate me. Os this, I feel that it is but the vaguest possibility., He miglit not do it, but I think he would. Oh, no, I have no confession to make, other than that I am tired of this acviling and parading. I expect no new trial; hope nothing from it if I get one, and expect to be executed according to law. . Good afternoon.” WORTH IS DEAD. Famous Man-Milliner and Designer of Fashions Passes Away. Paris, March 12.—Worth, the famous dressmaker of Paris, is dead. [Mr. Worth was born at Bourne, in Lincolnshire, in 1825. and the king of fashion was thereforo not, as is generally supposed, a Frenchman, but an Englishman. He was employed for some time with a well known firm in Oxford street, London, and thence proceeded to Paris. Worth has made dresses for all the queens of Europe, with tho single exception of Queen Victoria, and for women of fashion tho world over. His father was a solicitor, with a good private fortuno which he lost in speculation. At the age of 13 young Worth went to Swan and Edgars, in London, and regained there for seven years, during which time he did all the work of an ordinary apprentice. Having hoard much of. French fashions, he determined to go to Paris, hut on his arrival there was for some time out of a situation: ultimately, however, he succeeded in getting into Gagelin’s, where he remained twelve years. This firm was noted for silks, which were wpven by workmen in their own homes. There was at this time no house in Paris which sold material and made it up as well, and this combining of the two branches struck M. Worth as a good idea, and he obtained permission from his principals to try it. This he did, beginning with cloaks, and a train that he designed gained a medal in 1855. Tho firm refused to take him into partnership, although he had been the means of Introducing a profitable and novel feature into the business, so he dstermined to start for himself. This he did at his present premises, 7 Kuo de la Palx, in 1858. He began by employing fifty hands. At the preseut time his establishment employs about 1,200 persons, and turns out between 6.030 and 7,000 dresses and between 3,000 and 4,000 cloaks a year. M. Worth was assisted by his sons, M. Gaston Worth taking sole oharge of the counting house, and M. Jean Worth the technical part of the business, in which he bids fair to be a worthy successor of his clever father.] Taxes on Bonded Whisky Abated. Washington, March 12.—Acting Secretary Curtis has directed that 8840,794 of taxes due on 711,994 gallons of whipky destroyed by fire, the property of the Allen-liradley company of Louisville, Ky., be abated, as the origin of the Are has been satisfactorily shown to have been accidental. Wolves Numerous and Fierce. Colorado Springs, Col., March 13. Gray wolves and coyotes are becoming alarmingly numerous in the Turkey creek region, about 20 miles south of Colorado Springs. Ranchmen have offered a reward of 810 for each scalp. Cattle have been killed and the whole stock industry is in imminent peril unless the marauders can be exterminated. Many Vessel. Wrecked. Madrid, March 12. —Six large vessels, - ten smaller ones and fifteen smacks 1 were wrecked in the storm off tho coast I near Cadiz Sunday,

WOUND UP IN A ROW. & Fisticuffs Embelish the Final® of the Indiana Legislature. Bffort to Strangle a Veto Cannes a Disgraceful Fight in the House In Which Many Memberss Are Hurt, One, Perhaps, Fatally. Indianapolis, Ind., March 13.—The Indiana legislature ended in a riot Monday night. It became noised about that the governor Would send in a message vetoing the bill ousting the custodian of the state house at—ll:s4—p. m.. inasmuch as tile session ended at midnight, hoping thereby that there would not be time enough to pass the bill over the veto. A few republican members captured Private Secretary King when- he entered the elevator with the veto message, and held him tight, the elevator then belag run at full speed up and down several times. King’s yells soon brought assistance and lie was liberated, five minutes before midnight. The central door was forced open, and then came a “rush” that resembled a riot, the republican members crowding about tlic door. For fully twenty minutes the state house was filled with a howling, surging mob. , Men who had been friends and sat side by side during the session became deadly enemies and made every effort to injure each other. Revolvers were drawn and many persons were seriously injured, Adams, of Park county, perhaps fatally. “Kill him!” “Kill him!” cried a hundred voices. The women who were in the galleries yelled and one or two fainted. All was confusion, and friends and enemies alike were lighting. The sole aim of the democrats was to get King through the crowd to the speaker’s desk with the governor’s veto, and the republicans were determined to hold him back until 12 o’clock, at which time the house would adjourn sine die Inch by inch the democrats gained ground. Many persons were knocked down and trampled under foot. Revolvers were flourished in tho air, but as fast as one was drawn the man holding it was knocked down. Doors leading to other rooms were shattered by persons in the corridors trying to effect an entrance to the chamber. The police wero powerless to check the inob, which seemed bent on destroying everything in 'tlnj room. At 11:57 the excitement was intense. Men were fighting in every part of the room and several of them were bleeding from numerous wounds. The democrats were gradually forcing King toward the speaker's desk, and the republicans were growing weaker on account of many of their number ljeing injured. A few seconds later King, with his clothing torn from his body, and his face bleeding, was pushed by main strength through the crowd and thrown heavily against the speaker’s desk. He still held the governor’s veto in his hand, but it never reached the speaker. Just as King was about to place it in his hands Speaker Adams kicked and beat back the crowd, and in a voice that could be heard above the liojfible din, cried: “The house has adjourned! The house has adjournedl” This raised a great cry from the crowd and everybody made a rush toward the The veto was torn fro-m King’s hands by a man who dashed out of the crowd with it and made good his escape. This practically ended the riot. Several small fights occurred, but the police and others finally succeeded in driving the men from the chamber. No less than two dozen persons were hurt. vNo arrests were made. The trouble originated over the hill to supplant Custodian Griffin, a democrat, with a republican. The governor has three days in which to consider all measures. The bill was delivered tottie governor two nights ago. It was his idea to hold it until the last minute and then the legislature could not pass it over his veto, as adjournment would take place at 12 o’clock. The governor’s secretary started with the bill with ten minutes’ time. The republicans attempted by force to prevent his reaching the legislative hall with the bill in time. Adams, who was injured, is the representative of Park county. He was kicked in the pit of the stomach and had to be carried from the hall. MINERS CLAIM VICTORY. Say They Have 5.000 Aten Working In the Pittsburgh District at 69-Cent Rate. Pittsburgh, Pa., March 12.— The strike of the miners of the Pittsburgh district has.reached that point where both sides are claiming the advantage. The miners say they now have over 5,000 men working at the sixty-nine-cent rate. The fourth pool operators, held a conference Saturday evening, at which they agreed to pay the sixty-nlne-cent rate, and most of the men returned to work Monday” morning. The remainder will be at their places to-day. Pittsburgh, Pa., March 12.— Eight thousand river coal miners in this district will start to work to-day, the operators having granted the sixty-nine-centsper ton demanded by the men. The operators claim, however, that the advance is not permanent, and that it would not have been granted but for the reason of the favorable condition of the river for shipping coal. RAN INTO AN OPEN SWITCH. The Fireman Literally Roasted to Death and the Engineer Injured. IDickinson, Tex., March 12.—The north-bound passenger train on the In-ter-natlonal & Great Northern railway, ran into an open switch Monday morning, fatally scalding Fireman Taylor and badly injuring Engineer Jake KiUen. The engine turned completely over, pinning the fireman to the ground and while in this position the steam literally roasted him alive. None of the passengers were hurt, although they received a severe shaking p. •