Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 21, Number 22, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 August 1899 — Page 2

CHRISTS TEACHINGS. Dr. Talmage Depict3 Triumphs of the GospeL Vlet*rtn or (he Christian Rrlldoi —Oroiknrdi Are Reclaimed' a nd Thieve* Mode RiffMeon*. (CoDJTlrbt. 1899, by Louis Klopsch.) Washington, Aug. 6. The antagonists of the Christian religion are in this 6ermon of Ur. Talmage met in a very unusual way. aud the triumphs of the Gospel are depicted. The text is Ezekiel 21:21: “He made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, be looked in the liver.” Two modes of divinotion by which the king of Babylon proposed to find out the will of God. He took a bundle of arrows, put them together, mixed them up„then pulled forth one, and by the inscription on it decided what city he should first assault. Then an animal was slain, and by the lighter or darker color of the liver the brighter or darker prospect of success was inferred. That is the meaning of the. text: “He made his arrows bright, lie consulted with indages. lie looked in the liver.” Stupid delusion.! And yet all the ages have been filled with delusions. It seems as if the world loves to be hoodwinked, the delusion of the text only a specimen of a vast number of deceits practiced upon the human race. In the latter part of the last century Johanna. SoutUcote came forfch pretending to have Divine power, made prophecies, had chapels built in her honor, and 100,000 disciples came forward to follow her. About five years before the birth of Christ Apollonius was born, and he came forth, and nfter five yenrs being speechless, according to the tradition, he healed the sick, and raised the dead, and preached virtue, and, according to the myth, having deceased, was brought to resurrection. ■t Tbfr Delphic oracle deceived —vast multitudes of people; the Pythoness seated in the temple of Apollo uttering a craz.7 jargon from which the people guessed their individual or national fortunes or misfortunes." The utterances were of such a'nature that you could read them any way you wanted to read them. So the undent auguries deceived the '' people. The priests of those auguries by the flight of birds or by the intonation of slain animals told the fortunes or misfortunes of individuals and of nations. The sibyls deceived the people. The sibyls were supposed to be inspired women who lived in caves and who wrote the sibylline books afterward purchased by Tnrquin the Proud. So late ns the year 1820 a man,arose in New York, pretending- to be a Divine being, and played his part so well that wealthy merchants became his disciplel and threw their fortunes into his keeping. And so in. all ages there have been necromancies, incantations, witchcrafts, sorceries, magical arts, enchantments, divinations and delusions. The one of the text was only a specimen of that which has been oc* , cwrring in nil ages of the world. None of these delusions accomplished any good. They deceived, they pauperized the people, they were as cruel as they, were absurd. They opened no hospitals, they healed no wounds, they wiped away no tears, they emancipated no aerfdom. But - there are those who say that all these delusions combined are as nothing compared with the delusion now abroad in the world—the delusion of the Christian religion. That delusion lias to-dny 400,1)00,000 dupes. It proposes to encircle the earth with its girdle. That which has been called a delusion has already overshadowed the Appalachian rarige on this side of the aea, and it has overshadowed the Balkan and Caucasian ranges on the other aide' of the sea. Jt hns conquered England nnd the United States. This champion delusion, this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as it has been called, lias gone forth to conquer the islands of the Pacific, and Melanesia .nnd Micronesia and Malayan Polynesia have already surrendered to the delusion. Yen, it has conquered the Indian archipelago, and Borneo and Sumatra and (Vlelies and Java have fallen under its wiles. Jn the Fiji islands, where there are 120,000 people, 105,000 have already become the dupes of this Christian religion, and if things go on as they arc now goiifg on and if the influence of litis great hallucination of the ages cannot he stopped jt \\ ill swallow the globe. ‘Supposing, tjicn, thut Christianity is thedelusion of the centuries, us some have pronounced it, I propose to show you what has been accomplished by this chimera, this fallacy, this hoax, this swindle of the ages. And, in the first place, I remark that this delusion of the ChristianCreligion lias made wonderful transformations of human character. I will go down the aisle of any' church in Christendom, and 1 will find on cither side that aisle 'those who were once profligate, profane, unclean of speech uml unclean of action, drunken and lost* But by the power of this delusion of the Christian religion they have been "completely transformed, and now they! ,j re and amiable aud loving am] useful. £verybody sees the change. Under the ,power of this great hallucination they have quit their former associates, and, whereas they once found their chief delight among those who gambled aud •wore and raced horses, now they find their chief joy among those who go to prayer meetings and churches, so complete is this delusion. Yen, their own families have noticed it—the wife has noticed It, the children Lave noticed it. The money that went for rum now goes for books and for clothes and for education. lie is anew man. AH who know him say there has been a wonderful change. \Yhnt is the cause of this change? This great hallucination •I the Christian religion. There is as

much difference between what he Is now and what he once was as between a rose and a nettle, as between n dove and a vulture, as between day and night. Tremendous delusion! Admiral Farragut, one of the most admired men of the American"navy, tarly became a victim of this Cbrisrian delusioa, and, seated not long before his death at Long Branch, he was giving some friends an account of his early life. He said: “My father went down in behalf of the United .States government to put an end to Aaron llurr’s rebellion. 1 was a cabin boy and went along with him. 1 could swear like an old salt. 1 could gamble in every style of gambling. 1 knew all the wickedness there was at that time abroad. One day my father cleared everybody outof thecabinexceptmyselfand locked the door. He said: ‘David, what are you going to do? What are you going to be?’ ’Well,’ 1 said, ‘father, I am going to follow the sea.’ ‘Follow the sea and be a poor, miserable, drunken sailor, kicned and cuffed about the world, and die of a fever in a foreign hospital?’ ‘Oh, no!’ 1 said. ‘Father, 1 will not be that; 1 will tread the quarter deck and command, as you do.’ ‘No,.David,’ my father said; ‘no, David, a person that has your principles andyour bad habits will never tread the quarter deck or command.’ My father went out and shut the door after him, und l said then: ‘1 will change. I will never swear, again, I will never drink again, I will never gamble again,’ and, gentlemen, by the help of God I have kept those three vows to this' time. 1 soon after thru became•a-Chrrst'ian,"and that de* elded my fate for time and for eternity." . Another captive of this great Christian delusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus on horsebuek- at full gallop. Where is he going? To destroy Christians. He wants no better play spell than to stand and watch the hats and coats of the murderers who are massacring God’s children. There goes the same man. This time he is nfoot. Where is lie going notv? Going on the road to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried to whip it out of him, they tried to scare it out of him, they thought they would give him enough of it by putting him on small diet, and denying him a cloak, and condemning him as a criminal, and howling at him through the streets; but they could not freeze it out of him, und they could not sweat it out of him, aud they could not pound it out of him, so they tried the surgery of the sword, undone summer day in 66 lie was decapitated. Perhaps the mightiest intellect of the 0,000 years of the world’s existence hoodwinked. Cheated, cajoled, duped by the Christian religion. Ah, that is the remarkable thing about this delusion of Christianity! It overpowers the strongest intellects. Gather the critics, secular and religious, of this century together and put a vote to them as to which is the greatest, book ever written, and by a large majority they will say “Paradise Lost.” Who wrote “Paradise Lost?” One of the fools who believed in this Bible, John Milton. llenjtfmin Franklin surrendered to this delusion, if you may judge from the letter thut he wrote to Thomas Paine, begging him to destroy “The Age of Beeson” in manuscript and never let it go into type, and writing afterward, in his old days; “Os this Jesus of Nazareth I have to say of the system of morals lie left and the religion He lmsgiven us are the best things the world has ever seen or is likely to see.”' Patrick Henry, the electric champ’ion of liberty, euslaved by tills delusion, so that he says: “The book worth all other books put together is the Bible.” Benjamin Bush, the leading pin siologist and anatomist of his day. the great medical scientist - what did) lie say? "The only true and perfect religion is Christianity,” Isaac Newton, the leading philosopher of his time—what dHd ho say ? That man surrendering to this delusion of the Christian religion, crying out: ‘‘The sublimest philosophy on earth is the philosophy of the Gospel." Duvld Brew ster, at the pronunciation of whoso name every Scientist the world over uncovers his head, David lirfwster saying: "Oli, this religiVn ha* been a great light to me, a very grout light nil mv days!" President Thiers, the great French' statesman, acknowledging that he prayed when he said: "I invoke the Lord God, in whom 1 am glad to believe.” David Livingstone, able to conquer the lion, able to conquer the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this delusion, this hallucination, this great swindle of the ages, so w hen they find him dead they find him on his knees. William K. Gladstone, the strongest intellect in England, unable to resist this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion of the Christian religion, went to the house of God uvery Sabbath, pud often, at the invitation of the rector, read the prayers to the people, if those mighty intellects arc overborne by this delusion, what chance is there for you nnd me? Besides that, I have noticed that first rate infidels cannot be depended on for steadfast ness in the proclamation of their sentiments. Goethe, a leading skeptic, was so wrought upon by this Christianity that in a weak moment lie cried out: "My belief in the Bible hns saved me in my literary und moral life.” Bosseuu, one of the most eloquent champions of infidelity, spending hia whole life warring against Christianity, cries out: “The majesty of the /Scriptures amazes me.'’ Altoinont, the notorious infidel, one would think he would have been safe against this delusion of the Christian religion. Oh, no! After talking against Christianity all his days, in his last hours he cried out: "Oh, Thou bluspheined but most indulgent Lord God, lu ll itself is a refuge If it hide me from Thy frown!” Voltaire, the most talented infidel the'world ever saw,writipg 250 publications, and the most o f them spiteful agaiUst Christianity, himself the most notorious libertine of the cen-

tury—one would have thought Le .sculd have been depended upon foj steadfastness in the advocacy of infidelity and in the war against this terrible chimera, this delusion, of the Gospel. But no; in his last hour be asks for Christian burial and asks that they give him the sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why, you cannot depend upon these first rate infidels; you cannot depend upon their power to resist this great delusion of Christianity. Thomas Paine, the of modem skeptics, his birthday celebrated in New York and Boston with great enthusiasm—Thomas Paine, the paragon of Bible haters—Thomas Paine, about 'whom his brother infidel, William Carver, wrote in a letter which S I have at my house, saying that he drank • quart of rum a day and was too mean aftd too dishonest to pay for it—Thomas Paine, the adored of modern infidelity’—Thomas Paine, who stole another man’s wife in England and brought her to this country—Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and so loathsome and so drunken and ligate and so beastly in his habits, sometimes picked out of the ditch, sometimes too filthy to be picked’out— Thomas Paine, one would have thought that he could have been depended on for steadfastness against this great delusion. But no. In his dying hour he begs the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy. Powerful delusion, all conquering delusior, earthquaking delusion of the Christian religion. Yea, it goes on. It 1b so impertinent, and it is so overbearing, this CffiMera' 6f the Gospel, that, having conquered the great picture galleries of the world, the old masters and the young masters, it is not satisfied until it has conquered the music of the world. Look over the programme of any magnificent musical festival and see what are the great performances and learn that the greatest of all the subjects are religious subjects. Yes, this chimera of the Gospel is not satisfied until it goes on and builds itIself into the: most phtananenfrarchitecture, so it seems as if the world is never to get rid of it. What are some of the finest buildings in the world? St. Paul’s, St. Peter’s and the churches and cathedrals of all Christendom. Yes, this impertinence of the Gospel, this vast delusion, is not satisfied until it projects itself, and in one year gives, contributes, $6,250,000 to foreign missions, the work of which is to make dunces and fools on the other side of the world —people we have never seen. Deluded doctors —220 physicians meeting week by week in London in the Union Medical prayer circle to worship God. Deluded doctors —Lord Cairns, the highest legal authority in England, the ox-adviser of the throne, spending his vacation in preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the poor people,of Scotland. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, onee secretary of state, an old fashioned Evangelical Christian, elder in the Reformed church. John Bright, a deluded Quaker.; Henry Wil- a son, the vice president of the United States, dying a deluded Methodist or Congregationalist. Earl of Kintort dying u deluded Presbyterian. v The cannibals in South sea, the buslimen of Ticrra del Fuego, the wild men of Australia, putting down the knives of their cruelty and clothing themselves in decent apparel—all under the power of tills delusion. Judson and Doty nnd Abeel nnd Cuinpbell and Williams and the 3,000 missionaries of the cross turning their backs on home and civilization and comfort and going out amid squnlor of heathenism to relieve it, to save it, to Help it, toiling until they dropped into their graves, dying with no earthly comfort about them, and going into graves with noappropriate epitaph, when they might have lived in this country nnd lived for themselves and lived luxuriously and been at last put into brilliant sepulchers. What a delusion! Yes, this delusion of the Christian religion shows itself in the fact that it goes to those who are in trouble. Now, it is bad enough to cheat a man when he is well and when he is prosperous, but this religion comes to a man when he is sick aud says: “You will do well again after awhile. You are going into a land where there urc no coughs, and no pleurisies, and no consumptions, and no languishing. Thke courage and bear up.” Yen, this awful chimera of the 'Gospel comes to the poor, and it says to them: "You are ou your vvny to vast estates and.to dividends always declarable.” This delusion of Christianity conies to the bereft, and it talks of reunion before the throne and of the cessation of all sorrow. Aud then, to show that this delusiou will stop at absolutely nothing, it goes to the dying bed and tills the man with anticipations. llow much better it would bo. to have him die without any more hope than'swjne and ruts and snakes! Shovel him under! That is all. Nothing more left of him. He will never know anything again. Shovel-him under! The soul is only a superior part of the body, and when the body disintegrates the soul disintegrates. Annihilation, vacancy, everlasting blank obliteration. Why not present all that beautiful doctrine to the dying instead of coming with this hoax, this swindle of the Christinn religion, and filliug the dying man with anticipations of another life until some in the last hour have clapped their hands, and sonic have shouted, and some hare sung, and some have been so overwrought with joy that they could only look ecstatic?* Palace gates opening, they thought—diamond coronets flashing, hands beckouing, orchestras sounding. Little children dying actually believing they saw their departed parents, so that although the little children had been sq weak and feeble nr I sick for weeks they could not turn on their dying pillow at tha last, in a paroxysm of rapture uncontrollable they sprang to their feet and shouted: "Mother, catch me; lam coaiing.”

HARVEST FOB DEATH. Disasters in the East Cause Loss of Many Lives. Trailer Car Planar* from a Tre*tl* la Connection! Thirty-Six Killed Cana Plank* Break In Maine and a Score Perlab. Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 7. —Nearly 40 persons were killed by an accident on the Stratford extension of the Shelton Street Railway company at four o’clock Sunday afternoon when a loaded trolley ear went off the trestle over Peck’s millpond at Oronoque, about six miles north of Bridgeport, and sank in the tints 40 feet below. Thus far 36 people are known to be dead and several more In jured. Only Two Escape. Only two persons are known to have escaped unharmed. It is believed that there were 43 passengers on the car, but the indicator was removed by a conductor of another car and spirited away, so that at present it is impossible to state accurately' the number aboard. The scene of the accident is midway between Shelton and Bridgeport. The car was north-bound, running toward Shelton. It was in charge of Conductor John Carroll, of Bridgeport, who was among.the killed, and Motorinan Hamilton, of Bridgeport, who escaped by. jumping. -*-• Plunged from the Trestle. The trestle isf 4s(Cfeet long', "made of Iron, with stone foundations, and was not protected by guard rails,.- South of the trestle is an incline, down which the car ran at a high rate of speed. After it ran Onto the trestle for about ten feet the trucks left the rails and then the car continued on the ties for about 75 feet, when it went off the trestle and dropped into the pond below, overturning completely' and upending,When the car struck the fourton motor and the heavy trucks crushed Into it. instantly killing many of the passengers. The Stratford town hall, where the bodies were taken, was soon besieged by more than 1,000 persons, some of whom had relatives or friends among the dead, and the deputy sheriffs in charge had much difficulty in handling the crowd of weeping women and anxious men. All the bodies of the Bridgeport dead and th* few unidentified were taken to the morgue at Bridgeport. It has been ascertained that 40 fares were registered, and these with the young children that did not have to pay, the motorman and conductor and an extra motorman who was being taught, make the probable number on the ear 47. THROWN INTO THE WATER. A Score of Person* Perlah nt Mount De*ert Ferry, Me. Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 7. —A score of persons were killed Sunday by the collapse of the gang plank of the .Mount Desert Ferry. Seventeen were drowned and three died from the terrible experience of immersion in the water and injuries while struggling for life. The Maine"’ Central railroad ran excursions to liar Harbor from all sections of its line in Maine, the attraction being the warships which were expected Sunday. All the morning long trains packed with excursionists were rushing to Bar Harbor. The train which left llangor at 8:25 consisted of 12 cars jammed with people. At Mount Desert Ferry, the terminus of the line, the train is left for the boat, for an eight-mile sail to Bar Harbor. From the wharf a slip or gang plank 40 feet long and ten feet wide, led np to the boat. The slip was hinged at the inner end, and was raised or lowered to suit the tide. The wharf extends on both sides of the lusli with the end of the wooden gang plank.' Five timbers, four by twelve inches, set vertically, ran the length of the plank, and these were crossed by two-inch planking. It is said that there was no supjort for the plank between the hinges at the outer end. Cana Plank (live* Away. When the excursion train from Bangor arrived at the ferry there was a rush for the steamer Sapphet. The first few passengers had crossed the gangplank safely, and it is estimated that 200 people were massed upon the plauk. Suddenly they felt the plank give way beneath thenr. The long timber supporting the plank broke in the middle. The hinges held up one end and the chain the other,*while the broken ends of the plank dropped,,and a struggling, screaming mass of humanity wus plunged into the water, 15 feet below the wharf. A few clung to the inclined sides of the plank, but at least 150 were struggling in theyvater. The piling of the wharf partially penned them in on three sides and the boat lying at the wharf closed the other end of thy opening. 1 Twenty Dead. By noon 17 had been recovered. Three other portions were taken on board the Sappho anil died on the way to Bar Harbor. The exact number of dead will not be known for some time yet, ns a strong tide sweeps under the pier nnd some bodies may have been carried away by It. A diver, who was set to work without delay, was engaged in his search until five o'clock, but only 17 bodies were found. Swlumlit Teacher Drowned. New York, Aug. 7. —Davis Dalton, a well-known swimming instructor who has been stopping at Far Booknwny, was drowned near Hog island, near Boekaway, Sunday. He was in the wa?ter, giving an exhibition of swimming, when he suddenly disappeared from sight, lie did not immediately rise, and it was supposed he was showing how long he could remain under water. After the longest possible time for a pernon to remain had passed beats were sent out and the body was recovered. It was found that death resulted from apoplexy. ~

A WHITE GOVERNOR. General Oatllaa af tha Future Gatrerumeat af tha Samoan Island* a* Agreed Ta. San Francisco, Aug. 7.—The United States steamer Badger, with two qf the Samoan commissioners, arrived Suneight days from Honolulu and 19 days from Apia United States Commissioner Bartlett Tripp and the representative of Germany, Baron Sternberg, made the trip from Samoa without their conferree, C. H. E. Elliott, the commissioners for Great Britain, who sailed from Apia -to New Zealand, intending to proceed by way of Australia to London to report to his government, ■ot returning for the present. to the United States. Samoan Commissioner Tripp and Von Sternberg were landed before the Badger docked and proceeded at once to their hotel. Their voyage from Honolulu was uneventful. The commissioners will remain here unti to-night, when they will depart for Washington on the overland train. The latter days of the commission s stay in Samoa were devoted to evolving a political organism that would be satisfactory to the Samoans and would work satisfactorily to all parties concerned under the tripartite treaty. A scheme was adopted. The members of the commission decline to state its particulars until it has been referred to their respective governments, but they have given out that Samoa will in future be ruled by a white governor, appqjnjpd by the three powers, much as the chief justice is at present. There will be a native council, or legislature, but the governor will have the veto power and the chief justice will be the final authority in the land, from whom there will be no appeal. This arrangement met the approval of the Samoans. The day before the commission sailed delegations of 13 men from each faction met on the Badger and signed the articles, thus officially approving the arrangement in the name of their respective chiefs, Mataafa and Malietoa. DREYFUS TRIAL BEGINS. Great Crowd* Surround the Lycee at Kennei, But Are Held In Cheek by Soldier*. ——~- Rennes, France, Aug. 7, —The Dreyfus trial began at 7:10 a. m, Dreyfus, the prisoner, was safely taken to the courtroom, the passage from his prison being quickly effected shortly before six o’clock. The Immense crowd surrounding the Lycee ■was kept back by soldiers and mounted police, who were everywhere in large numbers. Former Ministers Hanotaux and Lebon, Gen. Mercier, and Paul Cavaignac entered the courtroom soon after the prisoner. They were followed soon after by other prominent witnesses. Every ticket holder was in his seat Jong before the opening of the trial. The government officers, without exception, exhibited the best of good humor. The scenes outside the Lycee were orderly, despite the largo crowd. There were no demonstrations. MAUNA LOA SUBSIDES. Eruption ot the Big Volcano Cen*c* a* Suddenly ns It Began—Earthquake* Shake the Inland. San Francisco, Aug. 7. —Mauna Loa, the big volcano on the Island of Hawaii, has subsided and the flow of lava has stopped. The cessation of the flow occurred almost as suddenly as the outbreak. Those who took their fast glance at Mauna Loa’s stream of fire on the evening of July 23 were astonished to observe on the morning of the 24tli that the eruptions had ceased. During that day the whole Island of Hawaii was shaken with earthquake of greater or less severity. There was no damage done, however. Many of the old Kamaainas say these disturbances are sure signs that Mine. Pole (the goddess of the volcano) is taking a rest, osily to break forth with renewed fury in a few days. NOT GUILTY. ‘ Gen*. Tori.l nnd Pnreja Acquitted of the Charge of Premnture Surrendering at Santiago. Madrid, Aug. 7,—The supreme couj-t----martial before which Gens. Toral and l’areja have been on trial, charged with surrendering Santiago de Cuba to the United States forces without having exhausted all means of defense, has acquitted both officers on the ground that they acted upon the orders of their superiors, and only surrendered when it was impossible to do otherwise. The judgment severely censures those in high command in the colonies and in Spain, as well as the governments responsible for the lack of resources for the defense of the colonies. It was rendered by, a majority of one vote only, and is not well received by the press and public, who wanted a clearer exposure of relative responsibility. Population of Kama*. Topeka, Kan., Aug. T Official figures show Kansas is making a steady, healthy advance in population. The enumerating made by assessors for March, 1890. compiled by the state board of agriculture, gives a total of 1,425,112 Inhabitants, which is a net increase over lh9B ei 34,143, or 2.5 per cent, ' ■ Last year the North German Llovd took in $4,141..!05, as compared with $2,779,730 in 1597 and $2,454,250 in 1896. The amount distributed in dividends was $1,050,000, while in 1597 it was $500,000 nnd in 1306. $400,000. The greater part of the increase came from the Atlantic trade. Secretary Hay, as is well known, is a devout Omar Khayyamitc. It is not, however, so well known thnt his collection of editions of the Rubaiyat is second only in this country to that of Nathan Haskell Dole.

* THE FLORIDA STORM. Only Nine Hoaae* Left la Carrabella —Train Blown from tha Traek —Skipping Solar*. River Junction, Fla., Aug. s.—Tha most disastrous cyclone that ever visIted this section of Florida completely annihilated Carrabelle, Mclntyre and Lanark Inn, south of here, Thursday. At Carrabelle only nine houses remain of a once beautiful and prosperous town. Communications from the mayor state that 200 families are without homes and shelter and many are completely destitute. Os Mclntyre only two mill boilers mark the place of the town. Lanark Inn, the famous summer resort, was blown into the gulf. The Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia railroad is washed away for a distance of 30 miles. A passenger train was blown from the track more than 100 yards. Many passengers were injured, but their names are unobtainable. Mary Williams (colored) was killed at Carrabelle. Numerous others had legs and arms broken. Daniel Neel, of Apalachicola, had his back broken and is not expected to recover. No fatalities • are reported from Mclntyre or Lanark. Fifteen ships lying at anchor in Dog island ccve and upper anchorage are now all ftigh and dry on St. George s and Dog island. Twelve were loaded with lumber and ready for sea. Nothing remains of them but a mass of wreckage. When the Italian bark Cortesia struck she split in two from stem to stern. Three pilot boats' and the steamers Oila and Capitol and 40 Boats of under 20 tons were lost. Six lumber lighters, loaded, are gone. Not one of the entire fleet can be saved. Five unidentified bodies were recovered Friday', supposed to be sailors. Tugboats have gone from here to the scene of the wreckage and all possible aid is being given. Fifty destitute sailors were brought here and are being cared for. A mass meeting of citizens was held here and all possible hid will be given the Carrabelle destitute. One million dollars will not cover the loss. —The" insurance was small. A MOTHER’S CRIME. Depondent Detroit Woman FoUon* Her Two Girls and Herself— All of Them Are Dead. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 2. —Mrs. Mary Stevenson Tuesday afternoon poisoned her two children, Emma, aged three, and Ella, aged six, with morphine, and took a dose of the drug herself. All are dead. Mrs. Stevenson was in straitened circumstances and despondency over this- is supposed to have been her reason for killing her babies and committing suicide. Her husband, who is a pattern maker', left her some time ago and went to Chicago to work. Since his absence she has been unsuccessfully trying to get work and living meanwhile at an uncle’s. Struck by a Train. Humboldt, la., Aug. 5. —A Northwestern passenger train ran into a wagon and team east of this city Friday, instantly killing two men who were in the wagon and injuring the third one so that he died in a short time. There was nothing on their persons or in the wagon to indicate who the men were or where they came from. From the outfit in the wagon it is inferred they Vvere on a hunting trip. They were all young men, none of them appearing to be over 25 years of age, and the y oungest about 17. Thousand* Are Idle. San Francisco, Aug. 4. —The steamer Charles Nelson arrived from St. Michaels via Dutch Harbor Thursday, 31% days from St. Michaels. The Nelson carried 111 passengers and the wealth of her passengers is estimated at about $150,000. The news from Dawson is not the most encouraging. Thousands of men are idle, loafing on every' street corner and in every saloon. The government has already sent mdny back to their former homes. Dr. Mllburn Stricken. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 4. —Dr. W. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the United States senate, was prostrated by sunstroke and fell unconscious Thursday afternoon while delivering a lecture at the Nebraska Epworth assembly at Lincoln park. He wus brought to the city and revived under care of a physician. He is much improved and doctors look for almost complete recovery in time. Heavy Lumber Shipment*. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 5. -- The Times prints an article showing that the shipments of lumber during July broke all previous records, amounting to more than 53,000,000 feet. The shipments for the past week also set a new mark for a week, being 13,875,003 feet. One day’s record was 187 cars, or 2,805,000 feet. The increase over last year was over ICO per cent. Deed ot nn Insane Fatber. Susquehanna, I’a., Aug. s.—Charles Yager, aged 40 years, of Brandt, a small manufacturing village four miles south of here, murdered bis three small children early in the morning by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means. There seems to be no doubt that the father had gone insane during the night. The Shamrock Sail*. Glasgow,Aug.4.—Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenger Shamrock, accompanied by the owner’s steam launch Erin, sailed from Fairlie at five o’clock Thursday evening, an enthusiastic crowd lining the shore and cheering as the vessel was cast off. A *wn*t*l Leap. New York. Aug. 4.—Henna Hauser, treasurer of the Herald Square theater, in this city, jumped from the middle span of the Brooklyn .bridge at •'clock Thursday afternoon. He was rescued from tbe water and will recover