Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — HOLY WAR DECLARED [ARTICLE]

HOLY WAR DECLARED

DERVISHES GALLED TO ARMS AGAINST EGYPT. Osman Digna to Join Them at Dongola Threatens a EnrOpean Convulsion—Thawed the Gunpowder and Died—Landslide Causes Death. Egypt. A diispatc¥ to the London Globe from Cairo says that the khalifa has proclaim-, ed jehad (holy war) against Egypt and has called all the dervishes capable of bearing arms to enroll under his banners. The dispatch adds that it is said that Osman Digna is to* leave Cassala and join the dervishes now mustering at Dongola. The under secretary of state for foreign affairs, George N. Curzon, answering a question in the House of Commons Friday afternoon, Said that the decision of the Government to send BritishEgyptian‘troops to Dongola was considerably influenced by a communication from Italy relative to the prospects of a dervish attack on Cassala and the effect it might have upon Egyptian interests. Whole Family Wiped Out. The people of Hindman, Ky., are verymuch exercised over the report that a large mass, of stone and cinder-looking substance has fallen on the side of Pine Mountain, about twenty-six miles distant. Persons living'in the vicinity say they were startled by a whirring sound and then a crash. Large stones and chunks of black substance came rolling down the side of the mountain, scattering in every direction for hundreds of yards along the valley. The house of Mrs. Hester Yfjtes, on the mountain side, was demolished and the logs scattered in every direction. Mrs. Yates and family, consisting of several small children, are buried beneath the debris. '"The hard substance"" was over half-buried, in the mountain side, but struck a solid rock and burst into hundreds of pieces. People for miles around have turned out and are flow searching for the bodies of Mrs. Yates and her children.

Four Killed-and Two Hurt, A terrible explosion occurred at the gold mines at Roseland, Man., in the remote Northwest country. As a result four men are dead and two others so seriTwo boxes of gunpowder were being thawed out in hot water. The only man who knows how it became ignited lies at the point of death in the hospital. He came running out of the tunnel crying; “The powder is oh fire!” bnt before he could reach a place of safety , the explosion occurred. Eight men were working in the mine and only two escaped death or serious injury. Vote of Censure. The House Friday, after three days of debate, adopted a resolution censuring Thomas F. Bayard, ex-Secretary of State and now ambassador to the court of St. James, for utterances delivered in an address to the Boston (England) Grammar School and in an address before the Edinburgh (Scotland) Philosophical. Institution last fall. The vote stood 180 to 71 in favor of the first resolution and 191 to 59 in favor of the second.