Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — Page 3

BRANCHES OF PALM.

Yalm Trees are Garden and Store House and Wardrobe. o gamething Must Suffer for Every Worthy Triumph—Dr. Talmage’s Sunday Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text: John xii, 13: ‘‘They took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him.” He said: How was that possible? How could palm branches be east in the way of Christ as He approached Jerusalem? There are scarcely any Slim trees in Central Palestine. ven the one that was carefully guarded for many years at Jericho has gone. I went over the road by which Christ approached Jerusalem, and there are plenty of olivetrees., and fig trees, but no palm trees that I could see. You must remember that the climate has changed; ~~ The palm Jree likes water, but by the cutting down of the forests, which are leafy prayers for rain, the land has become unfriendly to the palm tree. Jericho once stood in seven miles of palm grove,. was crowned with calms. The Dead Sea has on its banks the trunks of palm trees that floated down from some old-time palm grove and are preserved from decay by the salt which ; they received from the Dead ‘‘Sea. Let woodmen spare the trees of America, if they would not ruinously change the climate and bring to the soil barrenness instead of Thanks to God and the Legislatures for Arbor day, which plants trees, trying to atone for the ruthlessness Which has destroyed them.' Yes, my text is in harmony with the condition ofd;hat country on the morning of Palm Sunday. ~ About 3,000,000 people have come to Jerusalem to attend the religious festivities. Great news! Jesus will enter Jerusalem ■ to-day. The sky is red with the j morning, and the people are flocking ! to the foot of Olivet, and up and over the southern shoulder of the mountain, and the procession coming out from the city meets the procession escorting Christ, as he comes toward the city. There is a turn in the road, where Jerusalem suddenly bursts upon the vision. We had ridden that day all the way from Jericho, and had visited the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, and were somewhat weary »f sight-seeing, when there suddenly arose before our vision Jerusalem, the religious Capital of all Christiap ages. That was the point of obserA ration where my text comes in. Alexander rode Bucephalus. Duke Elie rode, his famous Marchegay. Bit Henry Lawrence rode the high mettled Conrad. Wellington rode his proud Copenhagen, but the conqueror of earth and heaven rides a eolt, one that had been tied at the road-side. It was broken, and I have no doubt fractious at the vociferation of the populace. An extemporized saddle made out of the gar-, ments of the people was put on the beast. While some people gripped the bridle of the colt, bthers reverently waited upon Christ at the mounting. The two processions of people now became one —those who came out of the city and those who came over the hill. The Orientals are more demonstrative than we of the Western world, their voices louder, their gesticulations more violent, and the symbols by which they express their emotions more significant. The people who left Phocea in the far East, wishing to make impressive that they would never return, took a red hot ball of iron and threw it into the sea, and said they would never return to Phocea until that ball rose and floated on the surface. Be not surprised, therefore, at the demonstration in the text. As the colt with it’s rider descends the slope of Olivet, the palm trees lining the road are called upon to render their contribution to the scene of welcome and rejoicing. The,, branches of these trees are high up, and some must needs climb the trees and tear off the leaves and throw them down, and others make of these leaves an emerald pavement for the colt to tread on. Oh, the glorious palm! Amarasigna, the Hindoo scholar,calls it “the king among the grasses.” Linnaeus calls it “theprinceof vegetation.” Among all the trees that ever cast a shadow or yielded fruit or lifted their arms toward heaven, it has no equal for multitudinous uses. Dp you want flowers? One palm tree will put forth a hanging garden of them, one cluster counted by a scientist containing 207,000 blooms. Do you want food? It is the chief diet of whole nations. One palm in Chili will*yield ninety gallons of honey. In Polynesia it is the chief food of the inhabitants. In India thqre are multitudes of people dependent upon jt for sustenance. Do you want cable to hold ships or cords to hold wild beast? It is wound into ropes unbreakable. Do you want articles of house furniture? It is twisted into mats and woven into baskets and shaped into drinking cups and swung into hammocks. Do you want medicine? Its nut is the chief preventative of disease and the chief cure for vast populations. Do you want houses? Its wood fur-* ntshes the wall for the homes, and its leaves thatch them. Do you need a supply for the pantry? It yields sugar and stareffand oil and sago and milk and salt and wax and vinegar and candles. Oh, the palm! It has a variety of endowments, such as no other growth that ever rooted the earth or kissed the heavens. To the willow God says: "Stand by the water courses

and weep.” To the cedar he says: “Gather the hurricanes into your bosom.” To the fig tree he says: “Bear fruit and put it within the reach of all the people.” But to the palm tree he says: "Be garden and storehouse and wardrobe and ropewalk and chandlery and bread and banquet and manufactory, and, then, be type of what I meant when I inspired David, my servant, to say: ‘The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree. ’ ” Oh, Lord God, give us more palm trees —men. and women made for nothing but to be useful; dispositions all abloom; branches of influence laden with fruit, people good for everything, as the palm tree. If kind words are wanted, they are ready to utter them. If helpful deeds are needed, they are ready to perform them. If plans of usefulness are to be laid out. they are ready to project them. If enterprises are to be forwarded, they are ready to lift them. -People who say, “Yes! yes!” when they are asked for assistance by word or deed, instead of “No! no!” Most of the mysteries that bother others do not bother me, because I adjourn them,' but the mystery that really bothers ,me is why God made so many people who amount to nothing so far as the world's betterment is concerned. They stand in the way. They object. They discuss hindrances. They suggest possibilities of failure. . Over the road of life, instead of pulling in the traces, they are laying back in the breechings. They are the everlasting No. a They are bramble trees; they are willows, always mourning, or wild cherry trees, yielding only the bitter, or crab apple trees, producing only the sour, while God would have us flourish.like the palm tree. Plant-) ed in the Bible that tree always means usefulness- But how little any or all of us accomplish in that direction! We take twenty or thirty' years to get fully ready for Christian work, and in the after part of life we take ten or twenty years for the gradual closing of active work, and ’ that leaves only so little time between opening and closing work that all we accomplish is so little an angel of God needs to exert himself to see it at all, Nearly everything I see around, beneath and above in the natural world suggests some useful service. Notice that it was a beautiful and lawful robbery of the palm tree that helped make up Christ’s triumph on the road to Jerusalem that Palm Sunday. The long, broad, green leaves that were strewn under the feet of the colt and in the way of Christ were torn**off from the trees. What a pity, some one might say, that those stately and graceful trees should be despoiled. The sap oozed out at the places where the branches broke The glory of the palm tree was appropriately sacrificed for the Savior’s triumphal procession- So it always was, so it always will be in this world—no worthy triumph of any sort without the tearing down of something else. Brooklyn bridge, the glory of our’ continent, must have two architects prostrated, the one slain by his toils and the other a life-time invalid. The greatest pictures of the world had, in their richest coloring, the blood of the artists who made them. The mightiest oratories that ever rolled through the churches had, in their pathos, the sighs and groans of tjie composers Avho wore their lives out in writing the harmony. American independence was triumphant, but it moved on over the lifeless forms of tens of thousands of men who fell at Bunker Hill and Yorktown and the battles between, which were the ’ hemorrhages of the Nation. The Kingdom of God advances in all the earth, but it must be over the lives of missionaries who die of malaria ip the jungles, or Christian workers who preach and pray and toil and die in the service The Savior triumphs in all directions,but beauty and strength must be torn down from the palm trees of Christian heroism and consecration and thrown in his pathway. To what better use could those palm trees on the southern shoulder of Mount Olivet and clear down into the Valley of Gethsemane puttheir branches than to surrender them for the making of Christ’s journey toward Jerusalem the more memorable and the more triumphant? And to what better use could we put our lives than into the sacrifice of Christ and His cause and the happiness of our fellow creatures. Shall we not be willing to be torn down that righteousness shall have triumphant wav? Christ was torn down for us. dan we not afford to be torn down for Him? If Christ could suffer so much for us can we not suffer a little for Christ? If he can afford on Palm Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to carry a cross, can we not afford a few leaves from our branches to make emerald His way? , How much are we willing to sacrifice forothers? Christ is again on the march, not from Bethpage to Jerusalem, but for the conquest of the world. He will surely take it, but who wilP furnish the palm branches for the triumphant way? Self-sacrifice is the word. There is more money paid to destroy the world),,.than to savejpt. There are more buildings put up to yuin the race than churches to evangelize it. There is more depraved literature to blast men than good literature to elevate them. Oh, for a power to descend upon us all like that which overwhelmed Charles G. Finney with mercy, when, kneeling in his law Office, apd before he entered upon his apdstolic career of evangelization, he said: “The Holy Ghost descended on me in manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul, I could feel the impression like a wave

of electric going through and through me. Indeed it seemed to come in waves of liquid love. It seemed like the breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me like immense wings. L wept aloud with joy and iQve. These waves eame over me and over me one after another, and until, I recollect, I cried out: ‘I shall die if these waves continue to pass over me.’ I said: ‘Lord, I cannot bear any more.A-ndwhen a gentleman came into the Office and said: “Mr. Finney, you are in pain,” he replied: “No. but so happy that I can not live.” —r—— - ..

.My hearers, the time will come when upon the whole church of God will descend such an avalanche of blessing, and then the world to God will be a matter of a few years, perhaps a few days, or a few hours. Ride on, O Christ! for the evangelization of all nations. Thou Christ who didst ride on the unbroken colt down the sides of Olivet, on the white horse of eternal victory ride through all nations, and may we. by our players and our self-sacrifices, and our contributions and our consecration, throw palm branches in the way. I clap -my hands at the coming victory. I feel this morning as did the Israelites when on their their march to Canaan, they came not under the shadow of one palm tree, but of seventy palm trees, standing in an Oasis among a dozen gushing fountains, or, as the Book puts it; “Twelve wells of water and three score and ten palm trees. ” Surely there are more than seventy such great and glorious souls present today Indeed, it is a mighty grove of palm trees, and I feel something of the raptures which shall feel when our last battle fought and our last burden carried and our last tear wept, We shall become one of the multitudes St. John describes - , “clothed in white robes and palms in our hands.” Hail thou bright, thou swift-advancing, thou everlasting Palm Sunday of the skies! Victors over sin and sorrow and death and woe, from the hills and valleys of the heavenly Palestine, they have plucked the long, broad, green leaves, and all the ransomed some in gates of pearl, and some on battlements of amethyst, and some on streets of gold, and some on seas of sapphire, they shall stand in numbers like the morn, waving their palms!

ALLEGED WIT.

Dashaway—l have been up in the country two or three times in the last six months to see a girl, and now every one is talking about it. They say we are engaged. Old.man, I'll tell you honestly/it worries me. Cleverton —Pshaw! you know how peopie talk.' I wouldn’t worry over a thing like that. Why, there isn’t any truth in it, is there? Dashaway—No; that’s what worries me.—New York Sun. He —I should hate to be refused by any girl. She (meditating)—There is only one sure way. Don’t propose to any one,—New York Evening Sun. “John,” She said gently, “you are interested in temperance movements, are you not?” “Of course I am,” he answered. “Well, suppose you go and makea few of them jvith the pump handle. I need a pail of water right - away.” —Washington Star. Bride (just after the wedding)— Alfred, you promised to give me a surprise after we “were married. Say, what is it? Groom (a widower)—l’ve got six children, my pet.—Comic.

How He “Bugled”

Zagonyi, the commander of Gen. Fremont’s body-guard, was a Hungarain refugee, and a man of most gallant spirit, says the Youth’s Companion, not at all the man to overlook insubordination or the appearance of it He obeyed orders himself and exacted obedience from others. Just before the final charge at Fremont. Mo., Zagonyi directed oneofjthe buglers, a Frenchman, to sound a signal. The bugler seemingly paid no attention to the order,but darted off with Lieut Maythenyi. minutes afterward he was observed in another part of the field pursuing the flying infantry. Wnen the line was formed in the city squ re after the engagement Zagonyi noticed the bugler,and, approaching him, said: “In the midst of the battl& you disobeyed my order. Yow are unworthy to be a member of thi guard. I dismiss you.” For reply the bugler held up hi bugle and showed the mouth-piece she entirely away. “The mouth was shot off.” said he. “I could not bugle Viz mon bugle, an. so 1 bugle viz mon pistol and saber.' It is unnecessary lo add that the sen tance of dismissal was withdrawn.

He Could Use It.

*•1 think we shall have to try again,” remarked the photographer as he ■’Critically examined the negative. “The expression is,too stern and forbidding.” ' ” i " 9 “The negative is,all right,” said the customer, picking up his hat. “All 1 wanted was a portrait to send to my wife’s aunt She’s thinking of visiting us this summer.”—Chicago Tribune. A professor in the California State University is said to h ive discovered a method of tannin? leather that makea it impervious to water and so pliable as to be almost indestructible.

FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.

Tombigbee River Overflows and Causes Large Loss of Life and Property. Many Colored People Drowned and Hundreds of Cattle and Mules Swept Away —Farms in the Valley Abandoned. A special from Columbus, Miss., on the ISttr, says: The recent heavy rains have swollen all streams in this section of the country to a point never before known, and as aresult the destruction of life and property is frightful. All farms along the Tombigbee river valley have been abandoned. houses of all kinds washed away, all fencing is gone, and cattle and mules by hundreds have been drowsed. Many floating houses have passed down the river. Eve-y available craft here has been used day and night in relieving the sufferers, carrying out food and bringing in the destitute people. On one small mound there were forty persons, and as many more cattle and mules. On another there were seventy persons, and cattle by the hundreds.—The negroes nn■ pl 1 the low lands have lost everything on earth they had, and there are hundreds of them being fed by the city. The white people have been unable to get a negro to do any kind of work toward rescuing other negroes without payment in advance. Twelve negroes have been drowned within three miles of this city. At points on the river below here the loss of life is very large.

The railroads have abandoned all trains westward and there are many washouts.. Their trestles are swept away and all the railroads have large forces repairing damages, but it will be a week before trains will be running. ■ There has been no communication before to-day wi(h the outside world since last Wednesday. One’rescuing party was upset and three negro boys drowned three miles above town. All the others climbed trees and were found. An - other rescuing party was upset and spent twenty-three hours in the trees. - ‘ Another dispatch says the loss of life may reach one hundred, A spec'll from Mobile, Ala., says; The Tom blgbee river has not since 1347 ha 1 so ludden a gre flood as at present. The farmers on the river were wholly unprepared, and from Columbus, Miss,, to Fulton the loss of hogs, cattle, mules and cotton seed has been unprecedented; much fencing has been swept away and many persons rendered destitute. A great deal of land planted in oom and cotton is un!er water. Mules, horses and cattie are teen daily floating down the river. About Bighteen feet additional rise is expected. Reports of heavy loss of life come from Columbus, Miss,, on the Tombigbee, the number of drowned being placed at from twenty to fifty mostly negroes, The reports are thought to be exaggerated. There is nO doubt that several persons have become victims to the flood.

Studebaker JJros., of South Bend, have leased ground in the heart of San Francisjo, upon which to erect a large warehouse in which to exhibit their product. They tlso have in contemplation the building if a large manufacturing plant at San Francisco. At Wilhite. Ala., Monday, four negroes (n broad daylight attempted to break into a sealed freight car that was in transit in a freight train. The train crew interfered, when the negroes drew revolvers and defied arrest The train then pulled out. A posse of officers was soon formed and pursued the robbers. They were soon so v nd. and a fight occurred in which one of the robbers was killed and the others cap- : Monday John Carmon and Michael Callahan, aged inmates of the Delaware County Infirmary, called on County Judga Lotz and ’Squire John A. Keener for protection. saying that if the present state of affairs was suffered to continue, they feared that they would continue, that theywould be They charge John Watson, son of Superintendent Strahan Watson, with pounding them like brutes, and they assert that Mrs. Watson is no more generofls. They made other serious charges in,’Squire Keener’s court the nature of which has caused, a sensation. It is alleged that *itlie recent death of John Jack, an old blind man, was indiretly caused by the ill-treatment of John Watson.

In. the Senate Monday Mr. Morgan offered a resolution requiring the President to communicate to the Senate the items of taxation upon imports from the United States Im posed by the laws of Hayti, uppon which the President has based his finding proclamation that the tariff laws of Hayti are reciprocally unjust to the United States, as well as the correspondence on the subject. Also requesting the President to send to the Senate any agreement made by him with the imperial Government of Germany and the correspondencerelating to the subject of such agreement, in which it is proposed that sugar or any other German production or export shall be admitted into the United States free of duty, and that he inform the Senate what articles of American products he has proposed or demanded that Germany shall receive free of duty, or upon a sched - ule of reduced duties, as the reciprocal equivalent of permitting the import into the United States of Germrn sugar, hides, tea or coffee, and whether such proposals or demands made by the President have been accepted by the imperial Government of Germany. The resolution, at the suggestion of Mr. Halle, went over. In the trial of the Lavelle arson case at Petersburg, on a change of venue from Daviess countv. a queer point has been raised by the defense. It is alleged that the county has no title to the land in Washington on which the court bouse stands which Lavelle Is accused of trying to burn, and that the people do notown the court house. The records show that a court house was built on the presentsite in 1819. ■ In 1844 a new structure was erected, and in 1878 this was replaced by the building now used for county purposes. Vienna is much alarmed, over frequent incendiary fires.

DROWNED.

An Accident Near Boston Costing Nine Lives. Ap Instructor and Ten Pupils Capsized ' Two Only of Whom Reach Land. Sunday evening an instructor and ter. boys, connected with the Boston Farir School, at Thompson's Island, were capsized in.a sail boat and the instructor and eight of the-boys were drowned. The instructor had been to Boston during the day to attend -church, and the ten boys, constituting a regular crew of the school, left the Island at 6:30 to sail tc City point, to convey the instructor to the island. The trip is considered perfectly safe under ordinary circumstances.having been made for years, even during the winter months, without accident. As a precaution, however, in a i w of the breez , they took a single sail boat instead of a double sail craft, in which the trip is often made. The trip to the Point was made. -andLsoon after 7 p. m. the boat started oh the return trip. At. a point supposed to be between Specterlsland and Thompson Island, the boat was struck by a squall and capsized. The eleven occupants were; thrown into the ice cold water, but being accustomed to strict discipline and the exercise of heroism in the school, they all secured positions in which they could cling to the upturned craft, and then began a long wait for rescue, whiph to most of them was never to come. According to the testimony two survivors,they encouraged each other by words of cheer, occasionally shouting, *ln the hope that they might be heard by some one on shore. At one time a tug was seen in the distance, and they shouted with all their remaining strength, but could not attract attention. The night was cold, and shores and wharves were .abandoned. When the time for the boat to return to the island had passed,the Superintendent of the schoo],/jCh‘artes’ Bradley, went to the beach to scan the waters toward City Point to see if his boys were approaching. There was a fire on a neighboring island, and he got in the range of the firelight in the hope that it would aid his vision, but he saw nothing. The survivors say that they saw his form patrolling the beach, and felt sure that rescue would come, but it did not. . Finally the chill of the water and the exertion necessary to keep their heads above the Surface overcame the unfortunates, and one by- one they were compelled to release their hold. Theinstructor was thb first to go. Each offered a prayer or a word of farewell to the others as he gave up his hold on life. Some of them endured the unequal contest nearly four hours, and it was quite four hours, or about 11 o’clock, when the boat, with the two survivors clinging to it, but exhausted, drifted asfaqre, .

TORTURED THE VICTIMS.

The Inhuman Work of Burglars in Pennsylvania. < Pensioner Killed and a Lady Fatally ‘lnJnred/BecatSe Would Kot Give Up Their Money. Early Sunday morning .two masked burglars entered the house of John Daley! an old soldier at Holidaysburg, Pa., to steal his pension money. When he refused to give np thd cash they bound his hands and feet, tied him to a chair and began torturing him. They stabbed him in the leg with a knife and lheld a lamp under his ear, burning that organ to a erlsp. The old man still-refuaeAto diyulge the hiding place, and they knocked him senseless with the butt of his revolver. They then ransacked the house, tore up the floor with a hatchet, tore the plaster from the walls, but did not find the money. They vented their chagrin by killing their bound and senseless victim. The men then went to the house of Miss Olive McDowell, an aged woman, dragged her from the bed, bound her in a blanket, gaged her and tied her to a bedpost. They then began a systematic torture to tell where her money was. They Jabbed a knife into her head repeatedly, and one of the men struck her in the left eye with his revolver, destroying her sight In t hat eye. It is feared that she will die. The robberi got, n 6 plunder, and left no clue to their Itfeutity.

The following letter from Grover Clevealnd was received by a prominent Democrat in Chattanooga, Tenn., Monday: My DearSir-I desire to thank you for the * report of the Chattanooga meeting, which you so kindly sent me, and for the friendly words you spoke of me on that occasion. I am exceedingly anxious to see our party do exactly the right thing at the Chicago convention, and I hope the delegates will be guided by judgment, and actuated by true Democratic spirit and the single desire to succeed on principle. I should not be frank if I did not say to you,that I often fear I do nbt deserve the kind things such friends as you say of me, and. I have frequent misgivings as to the wisdom of again puttiug me in nomination. I therefore am anxious that sentiment and unmeasured personal devotion should be checked when the delegates to the convention reach the period of deliberation. In any event there will be no disappointment for me in,the result; Yours, very truly, Grovek Cleveland. Two inches of snow fell In Maryland Saturday. _____

HYDROPHOBIA IS EPIDEMIC.

The most terrible of al) afflictions, hydrophobia, Is reported to be alarmingly prevalent in Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. A large number of dogs that have been fonnd to be suffering from the malady have been killed, and it is feared that cattle and other stock have been bitten and will go mud. So alarming has the -condition become that Mayor Switzer, of Harrisonburg. his issued a proclamation requiring all dogs to be confined to the lots or property of their owners, and ail dog* found going at large are to he killed and their owners fined.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Seymour will play ball—some. Crawfordsville will have a law and ordej league. The whirr 6f electric cars will soon lx heard at Ft. Wayne. ... The Deans telephone from Madison i lial the peaches are safe. Tree planting is becoming a fad in many towns and villages of Indiana The census committee of the Hoti-e has decided not to investigate Mr. Porter's office, Windsor is piping gas from Park -r, and' Winchester will secure a supply ai Fairview. ‘ >- Two saloon keepers at, Ottu were fined 3500 each for violating t!><rpf<> hibitory law. -..Eight cases of smallpox were reported to the New York Health Bo'. rd from Saturday to Monday. Valparaiso has four municipal tickets in the field—Republican, Democratic, Citizens’ and Peoples'. Three hundred electric linemen struck at New York Monday on the refusal of the demand for higher wages. Fjurteen persons lost their lives in the vicinity of Columbus, Gu., in tlm high waters of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Anderson printers and pressmen have struck for u2> per cent, increase in wages. Other men will take their places if procurable. William Skelton, of Pas.oy county, while horseback riding, was thrown, and his horse falling upon him, he was crushed to death. After coughing up a lapge brass pin, John Haines, of Danville, 111., regained his voice, which had left him sometime previous. In Tillman-Turger family war in Tennessee a Turner was shot down, Mrs. Tillman was shot through the body and her boy flogged. Five hundred armed cowboys are after the “rustlers” (cattle thieves) near Miles City, Mont., and there is a probability of somebody being killed. Brig. Gen. Thos. • W. Sweeney, U. S. A.,' at New York, and Geu, Chas. W. Field, late of the C. S. A., at Washington, were deaths announced Monday. The fourteen insurance companies holding policies in the Central school building at Crawfqrdsvllle, which was destroyed by fire, have adjusted the loss at 322,700. Secretary of the State Harrity, of Pennsylvania, a close friend of Governor Pattison, says that the Governor will not consent to have the State convention indorse aim for President, and that he favors Mr. Cleveland. Chairman Dockery, of the sub-commit-ieeof the House that visited Chicago to investigate the management of the World’s Fair, expresses himself as fully satisfied with the progress and conduct of the work >f arrangement. A leading Roumanian organ, the Rounania. says rumors are circulated that. Roumanian circles anticipate the abdication of the King of Roumania in favor of the Crown Prince, No confirmation of the rumor Is obtainable. ./fhaddeus Hayes, aged eleven, of Rlchnond, lost an arm while trying to board a noving train. The day before his mother ostachlld by sickness. Two years ago bis brother was Killed by the cars, and ihree years ago his father died in an inlane asylum. Hon. J. N. Huston, of Connersville, &nd )ther parties Interested in the new process 'or casting wrought iron, are making an sffort to establish a large plant at Conlersville. It is claimed that this ifew process of producing iron will revolutionize ■be iron industry of the world. At Wheeling, W Va., Mrs. Sarah Ann Shoemaker, aged seventy-five, is suing for i divorce from her husband, who is eighty, md a prominent minister of Romney. She fliarges cruelty and neglect, and it is said hat ’another woman has Infatuated her Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker have ived together for" fifty years, and are great- parents. A family in Franklih has been molested lie past, two weeks with nightly-visita-iions by a ghost. Tliere formerly lived in ibis house a very quarrelsome family, one >f whom, it is said, committed mOrder,and tis her ghost t hat appears. The family .hat. has lieeu occupying the house are linking preparations to move out. Ralpii K. Paige, easliicr, qnd Horace Steele, president, of the wrecked Painesville. ().. bunk, were indicted by the grand jury for forgery. There are two indictments against Paige and one against Steele. The indictments are based on three notes Aggregating 312,000. Steele gave hail in 310,0C0. but Paige remains In jail, where he has been for two w<*eks. Ex-Senator Blau Monday presented a long memorial to the Senate, asking that in investigation be made of the causes which led to his resignation as minister to China. He claims that false representations were made to the Chinese government. while the resident embassador was absent. He asks that the whole, matter be thoroughly investigated. The memorial was referred to the committee on foreign relations. Patrick Donavan, aged seventy-three years, died in hospital at Boston Sunday night, and his wife Mary, aged seventy, and his daughter, aged thlrtf. are in a critical condition as a result of an assault by John Donavan in Charleston, Sunday night. The assailant, a dissipated fellow, was angered by reproaches of his sister, and when she was defended from his attacks by their aged parents he beat all three with a whisky bottle knocking them senseless, then escaped, but was arrested Monday morning. The mammoth central arch of the manufacturers’ building gt the World’s Fair grounds, Chicago, was completed late Monday. This immense steel span, which has a height of 212 feet and a width at its base of 375 feet, is the largest arch ever constructed for any building lu the world. It can be plainly se«n from the center of the city, over seven miles away, "To form some idea of its size," said the chief engineer of the World's Fair,"lf you could put the Rookery building, which Is one of the largest of Chicago's large build lugs, on a wheelbarrow and wheel it through the arch, it would not touch the- sides by several feet” .