Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 23, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 January 1902 — Page 3

‘THE IRON DID SWIM” * „ Sermon, of Dr. Talmage from a Lit-tle-Used Text. leiion Drawn from Story of the Student and His Lost Ax Head and its Recovery—Wonders of v Divine Power. fCopyrlght, 1902, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.] Washington, Jan. 19. In this discourse Dr. Talmage makes practical use of an occurrence in the orient which has seldom attracted particular attention. Text, 2 Kings 6:6: “The iron did swim.” A theological seminary in the valley of palms, near the river Jordan, had become so popular in the time •of Elisha, the prophet, that more accommodations were needed for the students. The classrooms and the dormitories must be enlarged or an entirely new building constructed. What will they do? Will they send up to Jerusalem and solicit contributions for this undertaking? Will they send out agents to raise the money for anew theological seminary? Having raised the.money, will they send for cedars of Lebanon and marble from the quarries where Ahab got the stone for the pillars and walls of his palace? No; the students propose to build it themselves. They were rugged boys who had been brought up in the country and who had never been weakened by the luxuries of city life. All they ask is that Elisha, their professor and prophet, go along with them to the woods and boss the job. They start for the work, Elisha and his students. Plenty o£ lumber in those regions along the Jordan. The sycamore is a stout, strong tree and good for timber. Mr. Gladstone asked me if I had seen in Palestine any sycamore tree more beautiful than the one we stood under at Hawarden. I told him I had not. The sycamores near the Jordan are now attacked by Elisha’s students, for they must have lumber for the new theological seminary. I suppose some of the students made an awkward stroke, and they were extemporized axmen. Stand from under! Crash goes one of the trees, and another and another. But something now happens so wonderful that the occurrence will tax the credulity of the ages, so wonderful that many still think it never happened at all. One of the students, not able to own an ax, had borrowed one. You must remember that while the ax of olden time was much like our modern ax, it differed in the fact that instead of the helve or handle being thrust into a socket in the iron head the head of the ax was fastened on the handle by a leathern thong, and so it might slip the helve. A student of the seminary was swinging his ax against one of those trees, and whether it was at the moment he made his first stroke and the chips flew or was after he had cut the tree from all sides so deep that it was ready to fall we are not told, but the ax head and the handle parted. Being near the river aide, the ax head dropped into the river and sank to the muddy bottom. Great was the student’s dismay. If it had been his own ax it would have been bad enough, but the ax did not belong to him. He had no means to buy another for the kind man who had loaned it to him, but God helps the helpless, and He generally helps through some good and sympathetic soul, and in this case it was Elisha, who was in the woods and on the river bank at the time. He did not see the ax head fly off, and so he asked the student where it dropped. He was shown the place where it went down into the river. Then Elisha broke off a branch of a tree and threw it into the water, and the ax head rose and floated to the bank, so that the student had just to stoop down and take up the restored property. Now you see the meaning of my text: "The iron did swim.” Suppose a hundred years ago some one had told people that the time would come when hundreds of thousands of tons of iron would float on the Atlantic and Pacific —iron ships from New York to Southampton, from London i/i Calcutta, from San Francisco to Canton. The man making such a prophecy would have been sent to an asylum or carefully watched as incompetent to go alone. We have all in our day seen iron swim. Now, if man can make hundreds of tons of metal float, I am disposed to think that the Almighty could make an ax head float. “What,” says someone, “would be the use of such a miracle?” Os vast, of infinite, of eternal importance. Those students were preparing for the ministry. They had joined the • theological seminary to get all its advantages. They needed to have their faith strengthened; they needed to be persuaded that God can do everything; they needed to learn that God takes notice of little things; that there is no emergency of life where He is not willing to help. Standing on the banks of that Jordan, those students of that day of the recalled ax head had their faith reenforced, and nothing that they had found out in the classrooms of that learned institution had ever done more in the way of fitting them for their coming profession. I hear from different sources that there is a great deal of infidelity in some of the theological seminaries of our day. They think that the garden of Eden is* an allegory, and that Moses did not write the Pentateuch, and that tho book, of Job is only a drama, and that the book of Jonah is an unreliable fish story, and that water was not turned into wine, although the bartender now by large dilution turns wine into water, and

that most of the so-called miracles of the Old and the New Testaments were wrought by natural causes. When those infidels graduate from the theological seminary and take the pulpits of America as expounders of the Holy Scriptures, what advocates they will be of that Gospel for the truth of which the martyrs died! Hail the Polycarps and Hugh Latimers and John Knoxes of the twentieth century, believing the Bible is true in spots! Would to God that some great revival of religion might sweep through all the theological seminaries of this land, confirming the faith of the coming expounders of an entire Bible! Furthermore, in that scene of the text God sanctions borrowing and sets forth the importance of returning. I do not think there would have been any miracle performed if the young man had owned the ax that slipped the helve. The young man cried out in the hearing of the prophet: “Alas, master, for it is borrowed!” He had a right to borrow. There are times when we have not only a right to borrow, but it is a duty to borrow. Thkre are times when we ought to lend, for Christ in His sermon on the Mount declared: “From him that would borrow of thee turn thou not away.” It is right that one borrow' the means of getting an education, as the young student of my text borrowed the ax. It is right to borrow means for the forwarding of commercial ends. If in any assembly it were requested that those who had never borrowed hold up their hands, none would be lifted, or if here and there a hand were lifted we would know that it was a case of inveracity. Borrow! Why, we are borrowing all the time. We borrow from the Lord the sunlight that shows us the way, our water that slakes our thirst, the food that refreshes us three times a day, the pillow on which we slumber. We borrow gladness from our friends; we borrow all elevated surroundings. The church borrows all its beauty from the Christ who founded it. In oUr songs and sermons we borrow from the raptures of Heaven. , We borrow time; we will borrow eternity^and that constant borrowing implies a return, "t'or what we borrow from God we must pay back in hearty thanks and Christian service, in improvement of ourselves and helpfulness for others. For what we borrow in the shape of protection from good government we must pay back in patriotic devotion. For what we borrow from our parents in their good example and their hard work wrought for us in our journey from cradle to manhood and womanhood for all the ages to come we ought to be paying back. Haydon, the painter, said his ruin began the day he began to borrow money, and he wrote in his diary: “Here began debt and obligation, out of which I haye never been and never shall be extricated as long as I live.” Dr. Johnson said: “Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.” We have a right to borrow for the absolute necessities, expecting to pay back again, but we ought never to borrow' for the luxuries. In the summer watering places north, south, east and west, in the great hotels, serving at table and in baggage room, are theologioal studen tiP who are in preparation for the ministry, earning in July and August the means by which they may study the other months of the year. I hail them; I cheer them; I bless them. They will be the Herschels in the observatories, the Dr. Motts in yourmedicla colleges, the Rufus Choates in your courtrooms, the Bishop Mcllvaines in your pulpits. Let them not now be ashamed of the ax with which they hew the beam for Elisha’s seminary. Let all those who toil for their education remember that they are especially favored, and if things go against them and the ax head should fly the helve that every hinderment may some time turn out advantageously, as the accident by the river Jordan, which seemed to finish (the young student’s capacity to help build the new seminary, resulted in a splendid demonstration of the power of Elisha’s God to help anyone who .helped himself. ‘ No ax that was ever wielded has wrought so well as that ax, the handle and head of which parted. Notice, also, how Gqd is superior to every law that He has made, even the strongest law of nature, the law of gravitation. The stick that Elisha threw into the Jordan floated, but the ax head sank. By inexorable law it must go down into the depths of the Jordan, yet without so jnuch as a touch the hard, heavy metal sought the surface. There it is, the floating ax head. What a rebuke to those who reject miracles on the ground that they are contrary to nature, as though the law were stronger than the God who made the law! Again and again in Bible times was that law revoked! Witness the scene on the banks of the same Jordan, where, in after time, the ax head sank and rose. Elijah stood there, wearing cape of sheepskin, when there was a mighty stir in the air and a flashing equipage descended. Elijah stepped into it, and on wheels of fire, drawn by horsey of fire, he rose. Fifty men for three days searched the mountains to see ff the body of Elijah had not been dropped among the rocks and picked at by birds of prey, but the search was in vain. The law of gravitation had been defeated. Do not .feel lonely because your nearest neighbor may be miles away, because the Width of the continent may separate you from the place where your cradle was rocked and your father’s grave was dug. Wakened though you may be by lion’s roar or panther’s scream, God will help you, whether, at the time the forest around you raves in the midnight hurricane or you suffer from something quite

insignificant, like the loss of an ax head. Take your Bible out under the trees, if the weather will permit, and after you have listened to the solo of a bird in the treetops or the long meter psalm of the thunder, read those words of the Bible, which must have been written out of doors: “The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He hath planted, where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies. Thou makest | darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. 0 Lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom has thou made them all. The ea/th is full of thy riches.” How do you like that sublime pastoral? My subject also reminds us of the importance of keeping our chief implement for work in good order. I think that young theological student on the banks of Jordan was to blame for not examining the ax before he lifted it that day against a tree. He could in a moment have found out whether the halve and the head were firmly fastened. The simple fact was the ax was not in good order or the strongest stroke that sent the edge into the hard sycamore would not have left the implement headless. So God has given every one of us an ax with which, to hew. Let us keep it in good order, having been sharpened by Bible study and strengthened by prayer. The reason we sometimes fail in our work is because we have a dull ax or we do not know how aright to swing it. The head is not aright on the handle. At the time we want the most skill for work and perfect equilibrium we lose our head. We expend in useless excitement the nervous energy that we ought to have employed in direct, straightforward work. Your ax may be a pen or a type or a yardstick or a scales or a tongue which in legislative haH or business circles or Sabbath class or pulpit is to speak for God and righteousness, but the ax will not be worth much until it has been sharpened on the grindstone of nflliction. Go right through the world, and go right through all the past ages, and show me one man or woman who has done anything for the world worth speaking of whose ax was not ground on the revolving wheel of mighty trouble. It was not David, for he was dethroned and hounded by unfilial Absalom. Surely it was not Paul, for he was shipwrecked and whipped with 39 stripes from rods of elm wood on his way to beheadment. Surely it was not Abraham Lincoln, called by every vile name that human and satnnic turpitude could invent and depicted by cartoonists with more meanness than any other man ever suffered, on the way to meet a bullet crashing through his temples. But I have come to the foot of the Alps, w'hich we must climb before we can see the wide reach of my subject. See in all this theme how the impossibilities may be turned into possibilities. That ax head was sunken in the muddiest river that could be found. The alarmed student of Elisha may know where it went down and may dive for it and perhaps fetch it up, but can the sunken ax head be lifted without a hand thrust deep into the mud at the bottom of the river? No; that is impossible. I admit, so far as human power is concerned, it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. After the tree branch was thrown upon the surface of Jordan “the iron did swim.” You have a wayward boy. Only God knows how you have cried over him. You have tried everything for his reformation. Where is he now —in this city, in this country, or has he crossed the sea? “Oh,” you say, “I do not know where he is. lie went away in the sulks and did not say where he was g>oing.” You have about.made up your mind that you will never hear from him again. Pretty hard pay he gives you for all your kindness and the nights you sat up with him when he was sick. Perhaps be struck you one day when you were trying to persuade him to do better. How different was the feeling of that hard fist against your face from his little hand in infancy patting your cheek! Father! Mother! That is an impossible that I would like to see God take hold of, the conversion of that boy, for he will never be anything but a boy to you, though you should live to see him 50 years of age. Did you say his heart is hard? How hard? Hard as stone? “Yes,” you say; “harder than that. Hard as iron.” But here is a God who can lift the soul that has been deepest down. Here is a God who can raise a soul out of the blackest depths of sin and wretchedness. Here is a God who can make iron swim, the God of Elisha, the God of the young student that stood in dismay on the banks of the Jordan at the time of the lost ax head. Lay hold of the Lord in a prayer that will take no denial. Alas, there are impossibilities before thousands of people—called to do work that it is impossible for them to do,/ called to bear burdens that it is impossible for them to bear, called to endure suffering .that it is impossible for them to endure. Read all the Gospel promises, rally all your faith, and. while you will always be called to worship the God of hope, to-day, with all the concentrated energies of my soul, I implore you to bow down and worship the God who can turn the impossibles into the possibles. It was no trivial purpose, but for grand and glorious uses I have spoken to , you to-day of the borrowed, the lost and the restored ax head.

FROM AL,L OVER THE STATE.

DIED ON THE GALLOWS. John Rinkard Executed For the Murder of Hia Wife. Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 17. —John Rinkard, convicted of the murder of his wife at Marion in June, 1900, expiated his crime on the gallows a few minutes past midnight at the Northern Indiana prison. Although the doomed man attempted to preserve the same stoical demeanor that has characterized him since he attempted to take his own life after killing his wife IS months ago, he mounted the Bcaffold with a trend not of the firmest and declined to make a statement. The straps and noose were adjusted, the trap sprung at 12:11 a. m., and in five minutes Rinkard was pronounced dead by the prison physicians. Marlon, Ind., Jan. 18. —The remains of John Rinkard, the wife murderer hanged at Michigan City Friday morn ing, reached the city Friday afternoon. It Is estimated that nearly 2,500 people were at the station when the train pulled in. The coffin was opened and those who cared to do so were permitted to gaze on the face of the dead. A constant stream of people, many of whom had known Rinkard when ha lived here, passed the coffin. Late Friday evening the body was buried in the I. O. O. F; cemetery. It was followed to the grave by Rev. Con Shugart, the dead man’s only friend. NEW STATE COMMITTEE. Indiana Republicans Met at Indianapolis and Made Selections. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 16. —Republicans of ludiana met Wednesday In congressional district conventions and selected the following new state committee for the campaign: Ist, Geo. A. Cunningham, Evansville; 2d, John C. Btliheimer, Bedford; 3d r George W. {Self, Corydon; 4th, O. H. Montgomery, Seymour; sth, Julian D. Hogate, Danville; 6th, Miles K. Moffett, Connersville; 7th, Floyd A. Woods, Indianapolis; Bth, George Lilly, Anderson; 9th, Fred A. Sims, Frankfort; 10th, Thos. J. McCoy, Renssaeler; 11th, Adam Beck, Huntington; 12th, Elmer Leonard, Fort Wayne; 13th, Walter Brown, Elkhart. The new committee is friendly to Senator Fairbanks. Jas. P. Goodrich, of Winchester, will In all probaDility be re-elected chairman. NEW ELECTRIC LINE. Connecting Link of a System Between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 16. — Breed, G. A. H. Shideler, of Marlon, and Charles S. King, of Wabash, are at the head of anew company that proposes to build an electric line between Marion and Wabash that will be a connecting link in an interurban system between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. Mr. Breed said the new company win be known as the Indiana Northern, and will have a private right of way. A line is now building between Fort Wayne and Wabash and the Union Traction operates from Marion to Indianapolis so that the new project will complete the line from Fort Wayne to this city. A Tragedy at a Dance. Frankfort, Ind., Jan. 17. —Wm. Pittser, a farmer, residing five miles south of here, shot and killed Clem Pruitt. A dance was In progress at Pittser’s home, and because there were not enough ladies present to permit him to dance in each set, Pruitt knocked Plttser down. Then, aided by his brother, Cyrus Pruitt, they kicked down the doors and broke up all of the furniture. The shooting followed. Bhe Needs a Big Coffin. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 18. —Mrs. Liza Negley, a colored woman who died here Thursday night, weighed over 600 pounds, and a special coffin is being made for her. The casket will be three feet wide, two feet deep and seven feet long. Accidentally Bhot Himself. Rising Sun, Ind., Jan. 18.—W. W. North, a prominent citizen of this place, cashier and director of the Rising Sun deposit bank, accidentally shot himself. He was Instantly killed. In reaching for his shotgun the trigger caught and exploded. His Hair Turned White. Flora, Ind., Jan, 18. —The case of the state vs. Joseph Wolfe, charged with attempting to murder Oliver Glnther, went to the Jury Friday evening. Wolfe admits he shot Glnther, but pleads self-defense. Glnther’s hair has turned white since the tragedy. Buried Her Gold. Jeffersonville, Ind., Jan. 16. —Three thousand four hundred dollars in 20dollar gold pieces was unearthed Wednesday In a. coal shed on the place of Mrs. Roselin Wright, who died January 4, aged 84 years. , The Liability Law. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 16.—The Indiana supreme court held that an employer can not by any contract he may make'with his workmen relievo himself from duties and liabilities toward them which the law imposes on him. Oil Company Organized. Bloomlngtou, Ind., Jan. 16.—A company is being organized tn this city to develop oil near Monttcello, Ky. The company now owns 500 acres o£ land and options are being closed ut purchases made.

DESPERATE PRISONERB. Old Man and Hia Three Sons Fought All thKWay to the Jail. Anderson, Ind., Jan. 18, —Aged Wm. Parish and his three sons, all of Noblesville, Ind., were locked up Friday night after three desperate fights with Officers Pence and Hunter. The Parish men were fighting in Hettel’s saloon when Patrolman Pence placed them under arrest, but he had to use his club and fists to line them up toward police headquarters. They were remanded to jail, and near there Jesse and John Parish 'suddenly attacked the officers, and a bloody fight occurred. Tho officers finally reached tie jail office with their men, when another fierce battle took place. The furniture was broken, and one of the Parishes kicked over a stove and hurled a part of it at the officers. It was necessary to beat the Parishes into cells, and doctors were then called to sew up their wounds. Clarence Pariah, who escaped during a fight, ran until he fell unconscious tn the street, and was recaptured. Firemen assisted tho policemen, and the patrol wagon and city ambulance were also called Into use. Thb Parishes came to attend a trial of William Parlßh, Jr., charged with larceny. STRIKE AT JEFFERSONVILLE. Union Men In the American Car and foundry Co.’e Plant Walk Out. Jeffersonville, Ind., Jan. 17. —Practically the passenger department of the American Car and Foundry Co.’s plant is idle, the few machinists now at work being non-union men who are finishing up orders that have been left by the strikers. The freight car builders are uneasy and have expressed a willingness to walk out if called upon by the union. The hall where the union meets has been filled with the idle workmen all day and meetings were held Wednesday night and Thursday morning Conditions are favorable for the entire plant to be closed by the end of tho week. The car company has nearly 2,000 men on its pay-rolls and almost one-half of these are now out. BHE DIED FOR LOVE. Former Bweetheart of Charley Plttser Committed 3ulcide. Muncle, Ind., Jan. 18. —At midnight Miss Edna Cook committed suicide at the Commercial hotel, where she rented a room for the purpose. She left a note saying that she could not live without Charley Plttser, the man who shot his young bride to death Tuesday. Plttser a month ago tried to shoot this girl at a Yorktown dance. Marshal Leonard prevented tho murder. Miss Cook tried to see Plttser in Jail Thursday night. Confessed to Murder. Elkhart, Ind., Jan. 17. —JamoH Mather, formerly a well-known buslriess man here, has confessed to the murder of Peter Olson, near Mußkogon, Midi., 20 years ago. The murder was the result of a quarrel. Olson’s body was not found until tho fpllowlng spring. Mather Is a patient at the state hospital at Logansport. He declares he was driven mad by memory of tho crime. Finlay Gray Bulcldes. Miami, Fla., Jan. 18.—Finlay Gray, a prominent tourist, who was spending the winter In this city, shoL-hlmself with a revolver, killing hfmself instantly. He was In his room alone at tho time of the shooting. He left no message. His body was prepared for burial and shipped to Quincy, Ind., his former home. Mine Superintendent Btabbed. Sullivan, Ind. Jan. 18.—Henry .4. Butler, superintendent of the Caledonia mines, three miles cast of this city, was slabbed in the back by Frel Brooks, a driver. The weapon was an ordinary knife and penetrated through to the right lung, severing an Internal artery. Butler may die. Brooks is in custody. Indiana Lumber Dealers. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 17. —The Indiana Lumber Dealers’ association will meet In annual session in this city January 21. The business of tho association will occupy one day and the next day, January 22, the entire membership, with their families, will duplicate their trip to Cuba and Jamaica, which they made last year. Adopted New Conference Rules. Notre Dame, Ind., Jan. 17. —The faculty board met and adopted the new conference rules of the western colleges. Anew board of control was also elected. The rifles will be put in force at once and the track and baseball teams will be governed by them at the spring meeting. Went Through a Bridge. Indianapolis, Ind,, Jan. 17. —A work car went through the middle span of the White river bridge Thursday. No one was killed. Two were slightly Injured. The bridge had been condemned for some time, but recently had been repaired. Dick Berry Bold For $8,500. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 17-r-Mr. Reardon Thursday sold Dick Retry, a 5-year-old trotter with a mark below 2:10, to a Boston man for $8,500. The name of the purchaser could not bt learned. '

TO HONOR M’KINLET. , Home Passes Resolution to Hold Memorial Exercises on February 2T. Washington, Jan. 16. —Mr. Grosvenor (O.) .Wednesday presented a resolution in the house of representatives for holding the McKinley memorial exercises in the hall of tho house February 27, and it was unanimously adopted. The resolution was as follows: “Whereas, The melancholy event of tha 1 violent and tragic death of William McKinley, late president of the United States, having occurred during the recess of congress and the two houses sharing In the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of the public bereavement; therefore “Resolved, By the house of representatives (the senate concurring) that the two houses of congress will assemble in the hall of the house of representatives on a day and hour fixed and announced by the Joint committee to-wlt, Thursday, February 27, 1902. and that In the presence of the two houses there, assembled an address upon the life and character of William McKinley, late president of the. United States, bb pronounced by Hon. John Hay, and that the president, pro tem. and the speaker of tho house be requested to Invite the president and ex-presidents of the United States; ex-vlce presidents, the heads of tho several departments, the judges of tho supreme court, the representatives of foreign governments, the governors of tho several states, the lieutenant general of tho army and the admiral of tb navy and such officers of the army and navy as have received the thanks of congrese who may then be at the seat of government, to bo present on the occasion and such others as may be suggested by the executive committee. Aud. be It further “Resolved, That the president of tho United States be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Ida S. McKinley and to assure her of the profound sympathy of the houses of congress for her personal affliction and of their sincere condolence foe the late national bereavement.” TRADE REVIEW. Comment of It. G. Dun & Cos., on the Situation In the llustnees World. New York, Jan. 18.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Trade Review says: “Readjustment of prices continued during the second week of January and the general average reached a much lower point than prevailed when the year opened. Manufactured products were scarcely disturbed, but both staples and sccnrltlea suffered. Business conditions are sound, liberal distribution and prompt payments being reported, except at a few southern cities. Cotton still falls to command a price proportioned to the estimated crop, and us a consequence the return to growers Is Insufficient to sustain business at the rate eßtnblishcd by the previous year, a most profitable yield. Transporting Interests are less behind with deliveries, and railway earnings for the first week of Junuary show gains of 7.4 per cent, over last year's phenomenal figures and 14.7 per cent, over 1900. Nothing has transpired to disturb the bright outlook In the Iron nnd steel Industry. Deliveries of fuel are less delayed and furnaces operated fully, while mills recelv* material with a fair degree of promptness. “Failures for the week numbered 834 In the United States, against 325 last year, and 40 In Canada, against 43 last year.” SEVEN MASKED ROBBERS. Hold lly Puareger Train ■ Kansas City Southern at Spiro, I. T. —Secure *2,1100. Fort Smith, Ark., Jun. 17.—Seven masked men held uj and robbed the south-bound Kansas City Southern passenger train near Spiro, I. TANARUS., Wednesday night at 11 o’clock. The train was flagged between Spiro and Redland, In a lonely spot, near where a former train, was robbed. Two of the bandits guarded the engineer and fireman while the others looted the mail and express oars. They were unable to break the express safe, hut stole a number of registered letters from the • mail. Post office officials deny that any registered mail was taken, and the express company says flint three dollurs will cover its loss. Three minera have been arrested on suspicion and taken to Poteau, T. T. Despite denials, It is said the robber* secured $2,000. lowa Senators Renominated. I>es Moines, la., Jan. 15. —Senator William B. Allison was nominated Tuesday evening for United States senator far the sixth consecutive term, nnd Senator Jonathan P. Dolllver was nominated to succeed himself at, the expiration of his appointed term. The, vote of the caucus was unanimous in both cases. Senators Allison nnd Dofliver appeared before tbecriueu* add briefly expressed their thanks for the honor bestowed. Troops to Cams Home. Washington, .Inn. !H. Orders been prepared at the war di.partmew—for the return to the United States of the Ninth infantry, which played such a gallant part in the siege of Peking and lias seen so iriueh fighting in the Philippines. These troops will be brought to Hun Francisco ns soon as the. necessary arrangements can be effected, but. it Is hardly likely the movement will liegin for several weeks yet. lowa’s Official Vote. Des Moines, la., Jan, 16. —A. B. Cummins ha* been officially declared elected governor and John Herriott lieutenant governor. The official vote as announced by the legislature Is: For governor—Cummins, 220,302; Phillips, 143,783; Coates, 15,659; Baxter, 3,453; Weller, 730; Conger, 1. For lieutenant governor—Herriott, 227,171; Ferguson, 142,588; Wray, 13,095; 3,291; Engle, 766. Phillips Foils Again. Chicago, Jan. 15.—George H. Phillips, known arthe “corn king,” ha* for the second time in seven months been wrecked on the financial reef# of the board of trade. His suspension was announced and his trades ordered closed out at his request when th* board opened Tuesday. - ■ Spread of Religion. Washington, Jan.'lT.—Religious statistics for 1901 show that the gain in church membership In the United States during the year w<a* 2.67 per cent., while the total gala in population was only $.lB per eeat.