Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Page 7

THE FIRST GUN.

Ballington Booth laaogaratae His \ Hew Movement An Imneau Hcetlnr at C*op«r Daloa la Wow York—Hr. Booth Makes a Statement of Hta Intentions. J:*' 1 J i ____ New York, March 9. —Mr. and Mrs. Ballington Booth addressed an iihmenqe audience at Cooper Union Sunday night. It was one of the largest gatherings ever held in the historic building. A few minutes after the doors were opened there was not an unoccupied seat in the hall and it is estimated that 3,000 men, women and children were turned away. At precisely eight o’clock Mr. and Mrs. Booth appeared on the stage, and the immense audience fairly went wild with enthusiasm, Hats, handkerchiefs, flags, eanes and bonnets were wared.

RALLINGTON BOOTH.

and those present cheered and shouted for fully 13 minutes without ceasing. During this time Mr. Booth stood with bowed head, while Mrs. Booth knelt jn. prayer. Some one shouted: “Three cheers for our American commanderl” The eheers were given, and for anothar interval of ten minutes the crowd went fairly wild with enthusiasm. Cheer nfter cheer was given for Mr. and Mrs. Sooth. AfHSr leadings wr prayer s 'Mr. Sooth addressed the audienceas follows: "Mrs. Booth and myself have n«t eom* to this fathering for the purpose of alluding to the recent sad events to our -experience. It is true that after deliberate thought, we have decided to Inaugurate .a new movement. Could It have been Avoided, It would not have been thought es. Mrs. Booth and 1 received assurances from ihetpeopte of the United States, lighting on behalf of Jesus Christ, that we had done a work for which they wore grateful and would not quietly submit that we should vetire to private life and relinquish a field which is the largest of any on the globe; Where there Is not only work for one Bal--vatlon Army but for a hundred. We have rt solved to the best of our ability to do something to bring over the middle or artisan classes to God. We do not intend to enter into any battle or. strife with the Salvation Army. We want no , fight, neither ritual nor verbal. We want to have a mission to reach the masses. We have resolved that the consecration we shall ,makeshall be lasting.” Mrs; Booth spoke briefly and was cheered enthusiastically. She made no reference to the troubles in the ranks of the army.

COREA’S CRUEL KING.

He Dlsmlesra llitt Ai misters .and Order* Klskt of Them ltoheadud. Sail Francisco, March 6.-—'The steani•et- China has arrived from Yokohama, bringing news of another coup d’etat -on an extensive scale at Seoul, Corea. On February 10 a detachment of Rus•.sian marines, numbering 127, arrived from Seoul for Jir.sen. The Corean king and the crown prince went into tho Russian legation and formed a new government, dismissing all former cabinet oflicers. Premier Kim Hong Tsuh -and seven other cabinet ministers, known as pro-Japanese statesmen, were beheaded and their corpses dragged the streets.

A Stay for Dunlop.

Washington, March 9.—Justice Brown, of the supreme court, at 11:30 -o'clock Saturday night issued an order in the case of Joseph R. Dunlop, of Chicago, convicted of sending obscene newspapers through the United States mails. Justice Brown’s order makes Judge Grosscup’s certification to Attorney Forrest’s bill of exceptions oper.ate as a supersedeas and Justice Brown commands Dunlop to appear before "him in 30 days to show cause why the supersedes should be made permanent .

Woman Foully Murdered.

Paterson, N. J., March C.—Mabel Sullivan, 28 years of age, was murdered in this place Wednesday night. She was a music teacher and had spent the evening with a married sister, whose house she left unaccompanied about '9:30 o’clock for her home. A little later she was found unconscious by the side of a fence, her head buttered and her clothing toy:. She died soon afterward. No arrests have been made.-

Wheat Is All Right.

Chicago, March ?.—departs to the Tribune from points in Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Ohio, Missouri and Kansas indicate the winter wheat is in generally good condition, with a decreased acreage. Indiana is the only striking exception, where it is reported the wheat has not wintered well.

Missouri Bank in Trouble.

St. Joseph, Mo., March 9. —The Farmers’ bank of King City, 30 miles east of this city, was taken in charge by State Bank Examiner Jones. The liabilities are about SOO,OOO, with assets of a little over half that amount.

Had Nine Wives.

Kansas City, Kan., March fl.—H. C. Wilmouth pleaded guilty here to bigamy,and said that in the last nine yearß he had married nine different women, all of whom were living.

Ninety Bodies Recovered.

Berlin, March 6. —Ninety bodies have thus far been taken from the Cleophaa mine at Kattowitz, Prussian Bilesia, the scene Wednesday of an explosion of Jlre damp.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the A .ek Ending March 8. The Glen knitting mills at Cohoes, N. Y„ were burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The will of E. W. Nye (BIU Nye) leaves an estate valued at $73,000 to his wife. ’ ' . A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Caldwell, Kan. Jso damage was throe.' til Rear Admiral Henry Walke died at his home in Brooklyn, JL Y, aged 88 years. After a session" lasting 54 days the South Carolina legislature adjourned sine die. A hew minister for Italy was formed, with Marquis di Rudini as premier and Geu. Ricotti as minister of war. A fire in warehouse No. 3 of the Union Warehouse company at Louisville, Ky., caused a loss of $200,000. W. A. Burleigh, who served two years in congress 30 years ago, died at h» home in Yankton, S. D„ aged 76 years. Andre Mondehare, Frenhh vice constil for Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, died at hie residence in Denver, aged 42 years. •' i Attacked by a mob of white caps in Peru, Fla., Bowen Sykes shot four men fatally and six others were dangerously wounded. Dispatches from Havana say that a majority of Cuban merchants have agreed to boycott the products of the United States. ■ George Edmund Fobs was' renominated by acclamation, as the republican candidate for congress in the Seventh Illinois district. Three children of John Hahn, a prosperous farmer of the ChoctawHa tehee valley, Geneva county, Ala., were burned to death. - Daniel Talmage’s Sons, rice merchants in New York, with branches at Charleston and New Orleans, assigned with liabilities of $200,000. The Northwestern Normal school, with an enrollment wt, 400 students from almost every state in the union, was burned at Stanbury, Mo. The G. W. Van Duzen & Co- elevator at Minneapolis was burned, entailing a loss on the structure of $200,000 ana $000,090 on the stored wheat. The TepuWioan *», Mississippi and Florida, elected delegates to the nation hi convention favorable to McKinley for presMent. Edward poek. a young barber at Oakland, Cal., shot and killed Diana Pacheco and thenktljjed hknseif. Objeetions to their getting married, was the cause. ■ Philip 4 & mSmber of the publishing firm of Harper Brothers, of New York city, died at his home in Hempstead, L. 1., aged 72 years. . ' The Providence hosiery mill wgs destroyed by firp at Bristol, Pn, The loss is estimated at thought to be fully covered by inimrance. About 300 hands are thrown but of work.

BROCKWAY SENTENCED.

Thq King;, of Counterfeiters and His -Pan” Sent Vo Prison. Trenton, N. J., March 9. —William E. Brockway, Abbie L. Smith and William K. Wagner, the counterfeiters, were arraigned for sentence Saturday morning before Judge Green, of the federal court. Biockway was sentenced to ten years in state prison and to pay a fine of SI,OOO. Mrs. Smith was sent to the Essex county penitentiary for four years and will have to pay a fine of $250. Wagner received the lightest punishment owing to the fact that the jury had recommended him to the mercy of the court. His sentence was one year in the Hudson county penitentiary and a fine of SIOO.

FATE OF A FAMILY.

A Wisconsin Carpenter, Ills Wife and Five Children Perish by Fire. Alma, Wis., March 7. —Fire Thursday night destroyed the house of G. Oldhouse, a carpenter, who lived about five miles from here, and the entire family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Oldhouse and five children, were burned to death. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is thought to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp.

Hanged Herself.

Marysville, Mo., March 9. —Mary McMahan, a novice with the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception here, who came from Shelbina, Mo., hanged herself here Saturday, on the Btand and threw a bedcord over the waterpipe. Tying it to her neck she jumped off. She left no message. She was young and beautiful. She had been a novice six months.

Farmer Cruelly Murdered.

Fond du Lac, Wis., March 6. —A coldblooded murder occurred Wednesday evening at n farmhouse about four miles southeast of thlß city, thS victlm being Fred Measmei*, Whose body was found ih the barn with the skull crushed. Tramps ore suspected. The victim was about 40 years of age and was prominent in Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties.

War on the Free Lunch.

Toledo, 0., March 9.—>Local brewers and saloonkeepers have started a move-, ment to, abolish the free lunch. It is proposed to Introduce a bill in the legislature making; it a misdemeanor for a saloonkeeper to serve free lunches. It is understood that saloonkeepers all over the state will take up the matter.

Nominated for Congress.

Columbus, 0., 1 March 7.—The following congressional nominations, all republicans, were mad ( e in this state Friday: First district, Charles P. Taft; Second, J. H. Bromwell; Eighth, Archibald Lyman; Thirteenth, Stephen R. Harris; Twenty-first, Theodore F. Burton (renominated).

Bank Doors Close.

Galena, 111., March 7.—At Apple River in Jo Daviess county, the.private bank closed its doors Friday morning. Malachi Maynard, the proprietor, made an assignment in the county court at Galena to John C. Spare, of this city. The total liabilities are about $37,000; assets, sso,ooo. s ■ • t ■ «». ■. - - —ia ■ «»-•*>-* ■

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

Another Vigorous Ring at the Old Gospel BelL Catlllß* Anew the Sheep Who Have Gone A• tray—The Lard Hath Laid 4s=fa=-r-v~S Upon One the lalqattp .= -- es Us AIL ■ ■ f ; ■ ’ f Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage delivered the following sermon to his Washington congregation, taking for his text: Ail we, like sheep.* have sons astray; we have turned every one to his own wav. and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Once more I ring the old Gospel belL The first half of my next text is an Indictment: All we, like sheep, have gone **tray. Some one aays: “Can’t you drop that first word? Tbat is too general; that sweeps too gyeat a circle.” Some man rises in the audience and lie looks over on the opposite side of the house, and says: “There is a blasphemer; and 1 understand how he has gone astray. And there Jn another part of the house Is a defaulter, and he has gone astray. And there is an impure person, and he has gone astray.” Sit down, my brother, and look at home. My text takes ns all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the roora, v and comes back to the point where it started, when it says: “All we, like sheep, have gone astray.” I can very easily understand why Martin Luther threw up-his bandar after he had found the Bible and cried out: “Oh! my sins, my sins!” and why the publican, according to the custom to this day in the east, When they have any great grief, began to beat and cry, as he smote upon his breast: “God be mercifu-l to me, a sinner.” I was, like many of you, brought up in the country, and I know some of the batata of sheep, and how they get astray, and what my text means when it says: “All we, like sheep, have gone astray.” * Sheep get astray in two ways; either by trying to get into other pasture, or from being scared by the dogs. In tbe former way some of ns got astray. We thought there was better pasturage somewhere else. We thought if we oould only lie down btt the banks of a distant stream, or under great oaks oh tbe ottpjr side of some hill, we might be better‘fed. We wanted other pasturage than that which Ujpd, through Jesus Christ, gave our soul, and we wandered on, and we were lost. We wanted bread, and we found garbage. The farther we wandered, instead of .finding rich pasturage, we found blasted health and sharper rocks and more stinging nettles. No pasture. How was it in the dub house when you lost your, qhild? Did they come around and help yon very much? Did join- worldly associates console, yott' much? Did; not the plain, Christian man who came into your house.and sat up with your darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associates? Did all the convivial songs you ever heard comfort you iu that day of bereavement so much as the song they sang to you—perhaps the very song that was sung by your little -child the last Sabbath afternoon of her life.

There is a happy land Far, far a wav. Where saints Immortal reljtn, ——r Bright, bright as day. Did your business associates in that day of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Business exasperated you, business wore you out, business left you limp as a racr, business made you mad; You got dollars, hut you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to comfort him! The world afforded you no luxuriant pasturage. A, famous English actor stood on the stage impersonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moment of his life: but there was a man asleep just in front of him, and the fact that that man war l’Mtf-" ferent and somnolent Bpoiled the occasion for him, and he cried: “Wake up, wake up!’” So one little annoyance in life has been more pervading to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations and success. Poor pasturage for your soul you find in this world. The world has cheated you, the world has belied you, the world has misinterpreted you, the world has persecuted you. Itr never comforted r&avu Oh! thi«-ecrrdd-< ie a good raefc* from which a horse may piek his food; it is a good trough from whltih "the swine may crunch their mess; but it gives but little food to a soul bloodbought and immortal. What is a soul? It is a hope high as the throne of God. What is a man? You say, “It is only a man.” It is only a mane gone overboard in sin. It is only a than gone overboard in business life. What is a man? The battle-ground of three worlds, with his hands taking hold of destinies ot light or darkness. A man! No line can measure him. No limit can bound him. The archangel before the throne can not outlive him. The Btars shall die, but ho Will watch their extinguishment. The world will burn, but he will gaze at the conflagration. Endless ages will march on; he will watch the procession. A man! The master pieoe of God Almighty. Yet you say: “It is only a man.” Can a nature like that be fed on husks of the wilderness? Substantial comforts will not grow On Nature's barren soil; All we oan boast tiU Christ we know Is vanity and toll v Sinai’s terrible batteries have been unlimbered above your soul, and at times you have heard it thunder: “The wages of sin is death-” “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” “By one man sin entered the world, and death by Bin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” “The soul thatsinneth, it shall die." When Sebastopol was being bombarded two Russian frigates burned all nlgjuhin the harbor, throwing a glare upon the trembling fortress; and some of yon, from wh&t you have told me’‘yourselves, soma of you are standing in the night of yonr soul’s

trouble, the cannonade, and the conflagration. and the mtaitij>lieatf6», and the multitude of' your sorrows and troubles, I think, must make the wings of God’s hovering angels shiver to the tip. But the last part of my text opens a door wide enorigh to let us all out and to let all Heaven In. Sound It on the organ with all the stops out. Turn it on the harps with all the strings atune. With all the melody possible let the heavens sound it to the earth and let the earth tell it to the heavens. “The Lord hath laid* on him the iniquity of us all.” lam glad that the prophet did not stop to explain whom he meant by “him.” Him of the manger, Him of the bloody sweat, Him of the resurrection throne. Him of the crucifixion agony. “On him tbe Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all.” “Oh!” says some man, “that' isn’t generous, that isn’t fair; let every man carry his own burden and pay his own debts.” That sounds reasonable. If I have an obligation and I have the means to meet it, and I come to you and ask yon to settle that obligation, you rightly say: “Pay your own debts.” If you and I, walking down the street—both hale, hearty and well—l ask you to carry me, you say, rightly: “Walk on your own feet! But suppose you and I were in a regiment and 1 was wounded in the battle and I fell unconscious at your feet with gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? You would call to your comrades, saying, “Come and help, this man is helpless; bring the ambulance; let us take him to the hospital!” and I would be a dead lift in your arms, and you lift me from the ground where I had fallen, and put me in the ambulance and take me to the hospital and have all kindness shown me. Would there be anything bemeaning in my accepting that kindness? Oh. nol Yon would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ does. If we could pay our debts then it would be betted to go up and pay them, saying, “Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here are the means with which I mean to settle that obligation; now give me a receipt; cross it all out.” The debt is paid, i Bat the fact is we have fallen in the battle; we have gone down under the hot fire of our transgessions; we have been wounded by the eabers of sin; we-* have been Wounded by the sabers of sin; we are helpless; we are undone. Christ comes. The loud cloud heard in the sky On that Christmas night was only the bell, the resounding bell of the ambulance. Clear the way for the Son of God. He comes down to bind up the wounds, and to scatter the darkness and to save the lost. Clear the way for the Son of God. Christ comes down to us, and we are a dead lift. He does not lift us with the tips of His fingers. He does not ! liffc-us with one -arm. 4 .He ooiaw upon His knee, and then, with a dead lift, He raises us to honor and glory and immortality. “The Lord hath laid on Him tbe iniquity of us all.” Why, then, will a man carry his sins?” You can not carry successfully the smallest shj you ever committed. You might as well put the Apennines on one shoulder and the Alps on the other. How much less can you carry all the sins of your lifetime? Christ comes and looks down in your face and says: “I have come through all the lacerations of these days, and through all the tempests of these nights; I have come to bear your burdens, and to pardon your sins, and to pay your debts; put them on my Shoulder; —ptft "them' on my heart.” “On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all.” Sin has almost pestered the life out of some of you. At times it has made you cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled the brightness of your days and the peace of your rights. There are men who have been riddled of siu. The world gives them no solace. Gossamery and volatile the world, while eternity, as they 1651 c" forward to it, is black as . midnight.. They . writhe, under, the stings of a conscience which proposes to give no rest here and no rest hereafter, and yet they do not repent, they do not pray, they do not weep. They do not realize that just the position they occupy is the position occupied by scores, hundreds and thousands of men who never found any hope.

If this meeting should be thrown open and the people who are here could give their testimony, what thrilling „ experiences should hear .*>r. , sides! There is a man who would say: •‘I had a brilliant surroundings; I had the bast education that one of the best collegiate institutions of this country could give, and I observed all the moralties of life, and I was self-righteous, and I thought I was all right before God as I am all right before man, but the Holy Spirit came to me one day and said: ‘You are a sinner;’ the Holy Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While I had escaped the sins against the law of the land, 1 had really committed the worst sin a man ever commits, the driving back of the Son of God from my heart’s affections, and I saw that my hands were red with the blood of the Son of God, and I Vegan to pray, and peace came to my heart, and I know by experience that what you say is true.” “On Him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all.” Yonder is a man who would say: “I was the worst drunkard in the city; I went from bad to worse; I destroyed myself; I destroyed my borne; my children cowered when I entered the house; when they put up their lips to be kissed I struck, them; when my wife protested against the maltreatment I kicked her into the street. I know all the bruises and all the terrors of a drunkard’s woe. I went further and further from God until one day I got a letter, saying; “ ‘My Dkah Husband: I have tried every way, done everything and prayed earnestly and fervently for your reformation, but it seems of no avail. Since our little Henry died, with the exception of those few happy weeks when you remained sober, my life had been one of sorrow. Many of the nights I have sat by the window, with my face bathed in tears, watching for

your coming. I km. broken-hearts*. I am siek. Mother and father have been here freqgMntiy and beTgged to come home; but my love for yon smi my hope for brighter days-have always made me refuse them. Thai hope seems now beyond realization, asd l have returned to them. « It is hard, and I battled long, before doing it. May God bless and> preserve you. and take from that accursed appetite, and hasten the day when we shall be-again living happily together. This will be my daily prayer, knowing that Hollas said, “Come unto me,all ye- that and are heavy laden, and 1 will gives yon rest.’ From your loving wife; “And so I wandered on; and wandered on,” says that man,, “until one night I passed a Methodist meeting house, and. I said to myself, “Fll go in and see what they are dblng;’ and I got to the door, and they were singing. All may come whoever will— This man reoeivee poor sinners still. And I dropped right there w&ere 1 was, and I said: ‘God have mercy !!hnd He had mercy on. me. My home b| restored, my wile sings all day long during work, my children comp out a long way to greet me home, and nriy household is a little heaven. I will tell you what did all this for me. It was the truth that this day you procliaixn: ‘On him the Lord hath laid the* iniquity of us all.’ Yonder is- % woman who would say: ‘I wanderetl off from my tether’s house. I heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul;, my feet werb blistered •on the- Kofi rocks. I went on and on, thinking- that no One cared for my soul, when; one night Jesus met me, and He said: ‘Poor thing, go home; yonr tetheri* waiting for you, your mother is waiting for you. Go home, poor thingl’ And, sir, I was too weak to pray, and I was too weak to repent, but I just cried out—l sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of Him of whom it is said ‘the Lord hath, laid on Him the iniquity of us all.’” Someone comes here to-day and I stand aside. He comes up three steps. He comes to this place. I must stand aside. Taking that place He spreads abroad his hands, and they Were hailed. Yon see His feet; they were bruised. He pulls aside the robe, and shows yon ' his wounded heart. I say: “Act thou weary?’” “Yes,” He says, “Weary with the world’s woe.” j say: “Whence eomest Thou?” Hd says:’ “I came froth - Calvary.” I say: “Who comes with Thee?” He says: “No one; I have, trodden the wine-press alone.” I sdy;: “Why contest thou here? 7 “Oh!” Ha says, “I came here to carry all! the sins and sorrows of the people.” And He kneels. He says: ‘‘■put, on my shoulders all the sorrows and. all the sins.” Aijd, conscious at my own sins first, I take them and put them on the shoulders of the Son pf Gdd. I say: v “danst , ’£hdu bear any - *&e- says:' “Yes/ more. ” And I gather'np thwsins of all those who serve at these altars, the officers of the Church of Jesus Christ— I gather up their sins and I put them on Christ’s shoulders; and I say; “Canst Thou bear any more?” He says: “Yes, more.” Then I gather up all the sips of a hundred people in this house, and I put them on the shoulders of Christ, and I say: “Canst Thou bear more?” He says: “Yes, more.” And I gather , up all the sins of the assembly, and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God, and I say: “Canst Thou bear them?” “Yes,” He says, “more.” But He is departing. Clear the way for Him, the Son of God. Open the door and let Him pass out. He is carrying our sins and bearing them away. We shall never see them again. He throws them down into the abyss, and you hear the long reverberating echo of their fall. “On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of ns all.” Will you let Him take your sins to-day? Or, did you say: “I will take charge of them myself, I will risk eternity on my own account?” I know not hoiv near some of you have come . fo*. orrtcfiln« .tlx** Vlra^—-:*- •-V ATy-fty-iTr ——i- ■

A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sabbath: “Before next Saturday night one of this audience will have passed out of life.” A gentleman said to another seated next to him: "I don’t believe it; I mean to watch, and if it doesn’t come true by next Saturday night, I shall tell that clergyman his falsehood.” The man seated next to him said: “Perhaps it will be yourself,” “Oh! no,” the other replied, “1 shall live old man. ” That nigkfe&sbreathed his last. To-day the Saviour calls. All may comb. God never pushes a man oft. God never destroys anybody. The man jumps oft, he jumps oft. It is suicide —soul suicide—if the man perishes, for the invitation is, “whosoever will, let him come;" whosoever, whosoever, whosoever! While God Invites, how blest the day. How sweet the Gospel’s charming sound! Como, sinner, haste, O! haste away While yet a pardoning God Is found. In this day of mercifnl visitation, while many are coming into the kipg* dom of God. join the procession Heavenward. Seated in my church was a man who came in who said: “I don’t know that there is any God.” That was on Friday night. I said: “We will kneel down and find ont whether there is any God.'’ And in the second seat from the) pulpit we knelt. He said: “I have found Him. There is a God, a pardoning God. I feel Him here.” He knelt m the darkness of sin. He arose two minutes afterward in the liberty of the Gospel; while another sitting under the gallery on Friday night, said: “My opportunity is gone;last week I might have been saved; not now —the door is shut." “Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world.” “Now is the accepted time. Nqw is the day of salvation.” “It is appointed unto all men once to die, and after that the judgment.!”

Religious Duty.

The three greatest things on earthto do are to save a man, or save a woman, or save a child.— Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, Presbyterian, Washington, D. 0, -

RIOTS IN SPAIN.

Martial Law Proclaimed intha Otty of Valencia. Mobs and Mom Clash—A Quadsnas Killed—Latest Reports of tbs titm tl oo -rrl.c«» Kalalla Maks* a Nlsa to Plata '] ' *r. ' * , ■ 1 > ‘ ,:’.4 *S, i 1 Madrid. March 8. —The action of the mob elemeut ia Valencia became so threatening Sunday that martial law; was proclaimed in that city. A crowd numbering fully 10,000 persons met out- , side the ball ring and attempted to enter that place for the purpose of holding a meeting to express anti-American sentiments. The authorities has issued an order forbidding the holding of such meetings, but no attention was paid to it. The gendarmes at the bull ring refused to allow the mob to enter and; were told that they were traitors to; Spain. Then several persons in the* crowd cried: “Long live the republic,’* 1 whereupon the gendarmes changed the; mob. Gendarass Killed. The crowd! answered with several rei volver shots, one of the gendarmes being seriobsly wounded in the chest. He has since died. The situation had assumed such a menacing aspect that erders were given to the gendarmes to fire upon the mob. A volley was fired from the carbines by the gendarmes and the crowd! scurried for shelter..,, It is not known- positively whether anybody was, shot or not. but it is that the volley was fired over the heacMf of the rioters. Later thecouragsoftba crowd returned and with numbers tbe mob marched through thestreets shouting “Long live Spain.” “Death to the Yankees.” The police and gendarmes repeatedly opposed the crowd, but their efforts to restore order were not of the slightest avail. Martlat Law Proclaims*!. The governor of the province then, proclai medf'naartial law, and any further rioting, will bo dealt with sternly by the military power. The sating under imperative orders from* Madrid; had concentrated a strong i florae around the American consulate. Tha crowd attempted to pan these, 'guards, but were unable to do so. Then thay hurled, insults Antesican government and the American people. The city is now quiet, the mob >o* hevfhf (the f foursge to feoe%e ; troops, who 1 safe awaiting ! with. rtateuK r : V - «-» ■ - 5 Offers of Help. |< Budsiotift demonstrations have 00-1 1 enured: throughout the country since { the action of the United States congress on the Cuban fUfotfou, :itnd Sfiahy wealthy Spaniards are offering money fc> the government. Several towns also haye sent messages offering goods and the lives of their citizens in defense of l tedsgeitetsL'K' i disposal of tbe government. In the basque province a subscription has been i opened to present a warship to the government.

Kuialla Prays for Pesos. New York, March 9. —The World publishes the following dispatch from Infanta Eulalia, of Spain: “Sweet remembrance of the affectionate reception given me by the people of the United States when I went to their country representing my own at the festivities In honor of Columbus lives and ever will live in my heart. During those festivities strong proofs of mutual esteem were given by both countries. 1 became convinced, and still am persuaded, that never, never should that traditional friendship ho' broken, much less should peace be disturbed. Being apart from affairs of state 1 can only pray tied fervently that cordial relations between the two countries may never cease. Kut-ai.ia.*' Universities Closed. Washington, March 9.— Minister Dupuy de Lome received an official dispa tcli Saturday. announcing that tbfr government had closed the universities at Mndrid, Barcelona. Valencia and Granada, the Cadiz medical school and the College pf Surgeons, at Madrid in the effort to prevent further outbreak* against the United States, all the disturbances hitherto having been confined to or led by young students. The government, he declares, is exerting its influence in all possible ways to prevent, any insults to this country, and harsh measures are necessary because of the strong feeling engendered by the speeches made in the United States senate. Nsrwi^iMMiatlsos In regard to the reports about Spanish naval preparations, It is said that If belligerency is to be recognized by the United States the additional duty will be forced upou Spain of maintaining a rigid and effective blockade of Cuba. The cabled reports in no instance convey the impression that vessels have been secured with any armament which would fit them for offensive use against the United States. They appear to be altogether merchant vessels, adapted only for blockade uses and for transportation of troop*

Found in a Barrel.

Chicago, March 9. —The body of • man chopped into pieces, together with an infant with its skull crushed, was found hi an. alley at tfafe rear of 4529 Prairie avenue Sunday afternoon, stuffed in a barrel. There is no clew to the identity of the remains, and It is the belief that a foul murder haa been 1 committed.

Russell Sago Loses Again.

New York, March 7. —The appellate division at the supreme court gave a decision Friday aflirming the order of; the lower court which gave a decision la favor of Laidlaw against Russell Sage fpr $40,000 damages and costs, amounting to about $3,000.

Lived Over a Century.

Black River Falls, Wia., March ftr— Louis Darwin died at his home near here, aged 107 years. His wife, to whom he had been married for 80 years, died on November 17 last, aged 101. Wealthy WlMconiCn Ufcikvr Dead. Rlpon, wit., March 6.—A. Miller, vica president of the First j-.utionel bank of Ripon, died Thursday, agril •- yearn. He leaves an estate of Si.invwq.