Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — Page 7

TALMAGES SERMON

FOR the first tin* Dr. Talmage in this discourse tells in what way his sermons have come to a multiplicity ■of publication such as has never in any other case been known since the art of printing was invented; text, Nahum ii., A, “They shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.” Express, rail train and telegraphic communication are suggested, if not foretold, in this text, and from it I stnrt to preach a sermon in gratitude to God and the newspaper press for the fact that I have had the opportunity of delivering through the newspaper press 2,000 sermons or religious addresses, so that I have for many lyears been allowed the privilege ot preaching the gospel every week to every neighborhood in Christendom and in many lands outside of Christendom. Many have wondered at the process by which it has •come to pas?, and for the first time in public place I state the three causes. Many years ago a young man who has since become eminent in his profession was then studying law in a distant city. He came to me and said that for lack of funds he mugt stop his studying unless through stenography I would give him sketches of sermons, that he might by the sale of them secure means for the completion of his education. I positively declined, because it seemed to me an impossibility, but after some month.) had passed, and I had redacted upon tie great sadness for such a brilliant young man to be defeated in his ambition for the. legal profession, I undertook to serve him, of course free of charge. Within three weeks there came a request for those stenographic reports from many parts of the continent. Time passed on, and some gentlemen of my own profession, evidently thinking that there was hardly room for them and for myself in this continent, began to assail me, and became so violent in their assault that the chief newspapers of America put special correspondents in my church Sabbath by Sabbath to take down such reply as I might make. I never made reply, ..except once for about three minutes, but those correspondents could not waste their time, and so they telegraphed the sermons to their particular papers. After awhile Dr. Louis Klopsch of New York systematized the work into a syndicate until through that and other syndicates he has put the discourses week by week before more than 20,000,000 people on both sides the sea. There have been so many guesses on this subject, many of them inaccurate, that I now tell the true story. I have not improved the opportunity as I ought, but I feel the time has come when as a matter of common justice to the newspaper press I should make this statement in a sermon commemorative of the two thousandth full publication of sermons and religious addresses, saying nothing of fragmentary reports, which would run up into mauy thousands more.

Nothing bnt Points. There was one incident that I might mention in this connection, showing how an insignificant event might influence us for a lifetime. Many years ago on a Sabbath morning on my way to church in Brooklyn a representative of a prominent newspaper met me and said, “Are you going to give us any points to-day?” I said, “What do you mean by ‘points?’ ” He replied, “Anything wo can remember.” 1 snid to myself, “We ought to lie making ‘points’ all the time in our pulpits and no* deal in platitudes and inanities.” That one interrogation put to me that morning started in me the desire of making points all the time and nothing but points And now how can I more appropriately commemorate the two thousandth publication than by sinking of the newspaper press as an ally of the pulpit and mentioning some of the trials u.' newspaper men? The newspaper is the great e locator of the nineteenth century. There , no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, forum, all in one. A .d there is not an interest—religious, literary, commercial, scientific, agricultural or mechanical —that is not-within its grasp. All our churches and schools and colleges and asylums and art gnlleries feel the quuking of the (printing press. It is remarkable that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, also wrote these words, “If I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspni>crs without a government, I would prefer the lutter.” Two Kinds of Newspapers. There are two kinds of newspuperß—the one good, very good, the other bad, very bad. A newspaper may be started with an undecided character, but after it has been going on for years everybody finds out just what it is and it is very good or it is yery bad. The one paper is the embodiment of news, the ally of virtue, the foe of crime, the delectation of elevated taste, the mightiest agency on enrth for making the world better. The other pnper is a brigand among mornl forces; it is a beslimer of reputation, it is the right arm of death and hell, it is the mightiest agency in the universe for making the world worse and battling ngninst the cause of God, the one an angel of intelligence and mercy, the other a fiend of darkness. Between this archangel nnd this fury is to lie fought the great battle which is to decile the fate of the world. If you have any doubt as to which is to be victor, ask the prophecies, ask God; Iho chief batteries with which he would vindicate the right and thunder down the wrong are now unlimbered. The great Armageddon of the nations is not to be fought with swords, but with steel pens; not with bullets, but with type; not with oatmon, but with lightning perfecting presses; and -the Suintors, and the Moultries, and the Pulaskis, nnd the Gibrnltnrs of that conflict will be the editorial and reportorial rooms of our great newspaper establishments. Men of the press, God has put a more stupendous responsibility

upon you than upon any other class of persons. What long strides your profession has made in influence and since the day when Peter Sheffer invented cast metal type, and because two books were found just alike they wore ascribed to the work of the devil, and books were printed on strips of bamboo, and Rev. Jesse Glover originated the first American printing press, and the Common Council of New York, in solemn resolution, offered S2OO to any printer who would come there and live, apd when the speaker of the House of Parliament in England announced with indignation that the public prints had recognized some of their doings, until in this day, when we have in this country many newspapers sending out copies by the billion. The press and the telegraph have gone down into the same great harvest field to reap, and the telegraph says to the newspaper, “PH rake, while you bind,” and the iron teeth of the telegraph are set down at one end of, the harvest field and drawn clean across, and the newspaper gathers up the sheaves, setting down one sheaf on the breakfast table in the shape of a morning newspaper, and putting down another sheaf on the ten table in the shape of an evening newspaper, and that man who neither reads nor takes a newspaper would be a curiosity. What.vast progress since the days when Cardinal Wolsey declared that either the printing press must go down or the church of God mu'st go down to this time, when the printing press and the pulpit are in hundreds of glorious combination and alliance. Trials of the Editor. One of the great trials of this newspaper profession is the fact that they are compelled to see more of the shams of the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day by day, go the weakness of the world, the vanities that want to bo puffed, the revenges that want to be wreaked, all the mistakes that want to be corrected, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis in the editorial columns in order to save the tax of the advertising column, all the men who want to be set right who never were right, all the crack, brained philosophers, with story as long as their hair and as gloomy as their finger nails, all the itinerant bores who come to- stay five minutes and stop an hour. From the editorial and reportorinl rooms all the follies and shams of the world are seen day by day, and the temptation is to believe neither in God, man nor woman. It is no surprise to me that in your profession there are some skeptical men. I only wonder that you believe anything. Unless an editor or a reporter has in his present or in his early home-a mbdel of earnest character, or he throw himself upon the upholding grace of God, he may make temporal and eternal shipwreck. Another great trial of the newspaper profession is inadequate compensation. The world seems to have a grudge against a man who, as they say, gets his living by his wits, and the day laborer says to the man of literary toil, “you come down here and shove a plane and hammer a shoe last and break eoblostones and earn an honest living ns I do instead of sitting there in idleness scribbling!” But there are no harder woj-ked men in all the earth than the newspaper people of this country. It is not a matter of hard times; it is characteristic at all times, Men have a better appreciation for that which appeals to the stomach than for that Which appeals to the brain. They have no idea of the immense financial and intellectual exhaustion of the newspaper press. Oh, men of the press, it will be a great help to you, if when you get home late at night, fagged out and nervous with your work, you would just kneel down and commend your case to God, who has watched all the fatigues of the day and the night, and who has promised to be your God and the God of your children forever!

Demands of the Public. Another great trial of the newspaper profession is the diseased appetite for unhealthy intelligence. You blame the newspaper press for giving such prominence to murders and scandals. Do you suppose that so many papers would give prominence to these things if the people did not demand them? If Igo into the meat market of a foreign city, nnd I find that the butchers hang up ou the most conspicuous hooks meat that is tainted, while the meat that is fresh and savory is put away without any special care, I come to the conclusion that the people of that city love tainted meat. You know very well that if the great mass of people in this country get .hold of a new: paper and there are in it no runaway inat< lies, no broken up families, no defamation of men in high position, they pronounce thd pnper insipid. They euy, “It is shockingly dull to-night.” I believo it is one of the trials of the newspaper press that the [ample of this country demand moral slush instead of healthy and intellectual food. Now, you are a respectable man, an intelligent man, and a pa|K>t comes into your hand. You ojien it, nnd there are three columns of splendidly written editorial, recommending some u oral sentiment or evolving some scientific theory. In the next column there w u miserable, contemptible divorce ease. Which do you read first? You dip into the editorial long enough to say, “Well, that’s very ably written,” and you read tiu divorce case from the “long primer” type at the top to the “nonpareil" type at the 1 >ottom, nnd then you ask your wife if she him read it! Oil, it is only a case •of supply nnd demand! Newspaper men are not f-*>ls. They know what you want, nnd they give it to you. I lielicvo that if the cbure’jr nnd the world bought nothing but puro, honest, healthful newspapers, nothing cut pure, honest nnd healthful newspapers would he published. If yoil should gather nil the editors nnd the reporters of this country in one great convention, and nsk of them what kind of n paper the/ would prefer to publish, I ls>!iove they would unanimously say, “We would prefer to publish an elevating pn•jcr.” 8a long as there is an iniquitous demand there will be nil iniquitous supply. I make wo apology for a debauched newspnpor, but I nm snylng these things in order to divide the responsibility between those who print nnd those who rend. Temptations of Journalists. Another temptation of the newspaper profession is the great n I lure men t that surrounds them. Every occupation nnd profession has.temptations peculiar to itself, nnd the newspaper profession is not an exception. The great demand, os you know, Is on the nervous force, and the brain is racked. The blundering political

speech must read well for the sake of the party, and so the reporter or the editor lias to make it read well; although qvery sentence were a catastrophe to the English language. The reporter must hear all that an inaudible speaker, who thinks it is vulgar to speak out, says, and it must be right the next morning or the next night in the papers, though the night before the whole audience sat with its hand behind its ear iu vain trying to catch it. This man must go through killing night work. He must go into heated assemblages and into unveutilated audience rooms that are enough to take the life out of him. He must visit court rooms, which are almost always disgusting with rum and tobacco. He must expose himself at "tte fire. He must write in fetid alleyways. Added to all that, he must have hasty mastieatiou and irregular habits. To bear up under this tremendous nervous strain they are tempted to artificial stimulus, and how many thousands have gone down tincß*r their pressure God only knows. They must have something to counteract the wet, they must have something to keep out the chill, and after a scant night’s sleep they must have something to revive them for the morning’s work. This is what made Horace Greeley such a stout temperance man. I said to him, “Mr. Greeley, why "a re yon more eloquent on the subject of temperance than any.other subject?” He replied, “I have seen so many of my best friends in journalism go down under intemperance.” Oh, my dear brother of the newspaper profession, what you cannot do without artificial stimulus God does not want you to do! There is no half way ground for our literary people between teetotalism and dissipation. Your professional success, your domestic peace, your eternal salvation, will depend upon your theories in regard to artificial stimulus. I have had so many friends go down under the temptation, their brilliancy quenched, their homos blasted, that I cry out this morning in the words of another, “Look not upon the wine when it-4»- red, when it giveth its color" in the cup, when it moveth itself aright, for at the last it biteth like a serpeht and it stingeth like an adder.” F.'ght Corruption. Let me ask all men connected with the printing press that they help us more and more in the effort to make the world better. I charge you in the name of God, before whom you must account for the tremendous influence you hold in this country, to consecrate yourselves to higher endeavors. You are the men to fight back this invasion of coivrupt literature. Lift up your right hand and swear new alle-ginnee-to the cause of philanthropy and religion. And when at last, standing on the plains of judgment, you look out upon the unnumbered throngs over whom you. have had influence, may it be found that you were among the mightiest energies that lifted men upon the exalted pathway that leads to the renown of heaven. Better than to have sat in editorial chair, from •which, with the finger of type, you decided the destinies of empires, but decided them wrong, that you had been some dungeoned exile, who, by the light of window iron grated, on scraps of a New Testament leaf, picked up from the earth, spelled out the story of him who taketh away the sins of the world. In eternity Dives is the beggar. TVell, my friends, we will all soon get through writing and printing and proofreading and publishing. What then? Our life is a book. Our years are the chapters. Our months are .the paragraphs. Our daya are the sentences. Our doubts are tile interrogation poipts. Our imitation of others the quotation marks. Our attempts at display a dash. Death the period. Eternity the peroration. O God, where* will we spend it? Have you heard the news, more startling than any found in the journals of the last six weeks? It is the tidings that man is lost. Have you heard the news, the gladdest that was ever announced, coming this day from the throne of God, lightning couriers leaping from the palace gate? The news! The glorious news! That there is pardon for all guilt and comfort for nil trouble. Set it up in “double leaded” columns and direct it to the whole race.

The Angel's Wing. And now before I close this sermon, thankfully commemorative of the “Two Thousandth” publication, 1 wish more fully to acknowledge the services rendered by the secular press in the matter of evangelization. All the secular newspapers of the day—for I am not speaking this morning of the religious newspapers—all the secular newspapers of the dny discuss all the Questions of God, eternity and the dead, nnd all the questions of the past, present and future. There is not n single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ten years by the secular newspapers of the country; they gather up all the news of all the eurth bearing on religions subjects, and then they scatter the new* abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the Apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of the Christianized printing press will he the front wheel of the Lord’s chariot. I tnke the music of this day, and I do not murk it diminuendo —Lmnrk it crescendo. A pastor on a Sabbath preaches to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Mondny or during the week the printing press will take the same sermon and preach it to millions of people. God speed the printing press! God tjave the printing press! God Christianize the printing press! When I see the printing press standing with the electric telegraph on the one side gathering up material and the lightning express train ou the other side waiting for the tons of folded sheets of newspapers, I pronounce it the mightiest force in our civilization. 8o L, commend you to pray for all those who manage the newspapers of the land, for ull typesetters, for alt editors, for nil publishers, that, sitting or stumling in positions of such great influence, they may give all that Influence for God and the betterment of the human race. An aged woman making her living by knitting unwound the yarn from the bnlLuntil she found in the center of the bnll.lbcre was an old piece of newapnpor. She.. opened it and read an advertisement which announced that she had become heiress to a large property nnd that fragment of a uewspa|>cr lifted her up from pauperism to affluence. And I do not know hut as the thread of time unrolls and unwinds a little farther through the silent yet speaking newspnisrs may be found the vast inheritance of the world's redemption. w Copyright, 1808. * A German veterlunry surgeon him discovered a method by which horseshoes •can bo successfully manufactured from paper. It Is Impregnated with turpentine to make it waterproof. The Inventor claims that a horse wearing these shoes cannot slip on greasy roads.

A MECCA FOR CRANKS.

WHITE HOUSE SEEMS TO ATTRACT MEN WITH WHEELS. All Seek to Have Their Wrongps Right* ed-A Close Watch Is Kept, and They Do Not Often Get Across the Threshold. Cranks of All Kinds. Washington correspondence: ‘

■ W WHY the White House ■JL f should be the paraBWlf disc of cranks is nnj* known, unless it is m\\ the reason that ■Mil j when a man begins ■ft,;j{| to suffer from what W is vulgarly , spoken of ’ as “wheels in his n head’’ lie imagines v* that Ins alleged I wrongs can be remedied by the Frost 1 dent only. He thinks

the President possesses sufficient power to do anything and everything. He might become dangerous should he learn that the President does not have the power lie imagines. But he never learns this, as no crank ever gets an opportunity* of seeing the President. The chief executive of the nation is surrounded by old, tried, experienced and true men. They can size up a crank as quickly as a detective can spot nn old criminal. President McKinley has been in the White House nearly a year, and during that time not over eight men have been arrested and taken away because their sanity was questioned. Not one of these cases has been of a dangerous character, although one man was disposed to use the vestibule of the mansion in which to preach a sermon. He spoke souiewhat loudly mid in a. broken accent. He was a German. Two of the cranks recently arrested were Germans. One of the officers at the White 'House is a German, and he has been able to get their stories from them without trouble. Both of the men had a form of religious mania. Met at the Door. Nearly all the cranks are arrested when they first enter the door of the White House. They do not understand the routine of reaching the President's office, and generally make their business known to the policeman who is stationed at the door or to the chief usher, who is a former policeman. Policeman Cisscl, who guards the main entrance of the White House, is an experienced man. He has held bis position for a number of years, and knows a criminal as quickly as a crank. Captain Dubois, the chief usher, is equally efficient iu this line. Between these two men the crank’s wandering mind soon unfolds, and then he is taken

A CRANK’S STORY.

away to a station house if he is considered badly deranged. If he is half-witted and absolutely harmless he is told to go home, and no attention is paid to him. Captain Dubois and Mr. Cissel scrutinize all callers ut the White House and shrewdly diagnose every case. In their years of service they have seen many men call at the executive mansion, and have learned, if any two men ever did, to read the humnu being without much trouble. Cranks frequently do not get ns far ns the front door of the White House. Some of them encounter the policeman who patrols the grounds in front of the executive mansion. They relate their stories to him nnd he nets without consultation with the other officials. Went Away Satisfied. Only once since the administration of President McKinley began has n crank reached the business part of the building. He wanted to set* the President, but if that could not be arranged. Secretary Porter would do. Ilis affliction was quickly seen, and lie was quietly watched by several employes, one of them a policeman, who is detailed to clerical work in the executive offices. lie was n Frenchman gnd had traveled much. He wanted some trivial matter regulated. An assistant clerk, representing Mr. Porter, heard the man's story and promised to attend to what he wanted. The man went away satisfied nnd has never returned. It would have been a difficult task for this man or any other to reach the President. Nearly every unofficial caller at the N\ bite House has to relate his business to some clerk or doorkeeper, If he wants to sop the President lie must talk with sonic one else. In this way his trouble is detected. Charles Loeffler, the fuithful old doorkeeper of the President’s room, has an eagle eye, and inis never failed to spot a man of suspicious character. Mr. Loeffler has little to sny at all times, hut he knows hit business, and is" ever alert. During the time when Mr. Cleveland kept himself so closely confined to his office Mr. Loeffler is said to have had some queer experiences. Both the former President and his secretary, Mr. Thurber, dreaded cranks, nml the heavy detail of policemen at the White House during the Inst administration of President Cleveland prevented trouble on many occasions. This force was reduced after President McKinley came in. President McKinley, unlike his*, predecessor, lias no fear of cranks. He goos”in nnd out of the White House when be see* fit, and is not accompanied by detectives, riding or walking nt a distance behind him. While the officials nt the White House prevent cranks from reaching him, it is ns much to prevent disturbance of his business ns anything else. The President lias ncVer been mobrated nt his tri-weekly public receptions, nnd there have been no unpleasant features at any of these. If there were cranks among the hundreds of people whom the President has shaken hnilds nt ench reception they have passed unnoticed. More trouble has been experienced from importuuiog office seek*

ers at these receptions than from any other source. These have been unable to see the President during his office hours, and wait in line with the throng of visitors to catch him at receptions. When they reach the President they stop to pour into his ears their woes. The officials wiio stand on each side of the President hustle thorn along, however. Once or twice there has been slight resistance to this, and the men had to be told very plainly to uipve on or take the consetiueucos. Disappointed Office Seekers. Tliis class of men often take a position at the end of the line of visitors, thinking by being the last the President will give them some time. He would probably..„be willing to do so if the officials did not interfere, following orders. This is The nearest approach to cranks the President has yet had. In point of desporatiop this class of men are regarded as worse than the genuine cranks. They have been disappointed in getting what they want, and are in a desperate mood when hustled on

MET AT THE DOOR.

and fail to get to' say what they desire to the chief executive. These men do not get an opportunity to see the President during business hours because lie is generally busy receiving official caller's. None of the cranks arrested at the White House in the last year have had cunning enough to carry out any scheme they might have, mid it is doubtful if any of them intended n wrong toward anybody. They belonged to n class of men not bright or kcou when in full possession of their mental faculties. The dangerous crank is the man who lias sen/so enough left to eoneeni Iris intentions and who refuses to tell his business to nny but the proper person. Such n man, if presenting a proper appearance in dress and otherwise, might evade the lynx-eyed officers stationed at the executive mansion, but there are nine chances to one that some of them would find him out and end his game.

MUNITIONS FOR CUBA.

Big Cargo of War Material on the Way to the Rebels, One of the most colossal cargoes of war material ever sent to Cuba was stored Monday night on board of a steamer hove to off Montauk point, at the eastern end of Long Island. The number of rifles and cartridges loaded on this vdssel is said to reach into the millions. These munitions of war came from seven different tugs, which sped away from ns many different ports on the Atlantic coast just before the hour of midnight Saturday. But secretly ns the Cubnns worked the Spanish spies discovered their plana, and Sunday night Government tugs with armed men aboard started from lialf a dozen ports on Long Island sound and the Jersey coast in sen rob of the filibuster. The search was fruitless. Spanish spies were watching a tug in the Delaware river last Saturday night. The tug was rapidly loaded with war supplies and went to sea ns soon ns she had loaded. On that one tug alone there is said to have been 100,000 rounds of cartridges and more than 500 rifles. On reaching the mouth of the river she started straight out to sen, bound, it is said, for a point onitside the jurisdiction of the United States, where she would meet a stea mor.

DROPS DR. BROWN.

Erring Pastor Dismissed from thg Congregational Society, Rev. C. O. Brown, I). D., was turned out of the Chicago Association of Congregational Churches nt n called meeting Monday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. lecture room. The meeting was for the special purpose of considering the case of the pastor of the Green Street Church. The conference also passed a resolution

REV. C. O. BROWN.

expressing regret that it had been guilty of the irregular action of receiving Dr. Brown nfter he had been burred out of the Bay conference in California.

VESSEL BURNS AT SEA.

The Clara Nevada of the Alaskan Elect Is Reported l.ost. I( is reported at Union, B. C., that the steamer Clara Nevada is lost, . It is said she went down while on her return trip from Skagnay, uenr Seward City, and that all those aboard, about forty people in all, nre lost. It Is claimed that parties on shore heurd nn explosion on board, mid saw the vessel on fire. Passengers who made the trip up on the Nevada are very willing to believe the story, as ahe is said to have been on fire once while going up. and that her boiler bod to be repaired before making tbe return trlp, s _• The Northern Pacific has put on a fast train from Ht. Pool to Tucoma, shortening the time five hours. The change Is made to accommodate the Increased Alaska travel fruut Tacoma*

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSEL V TOLD. Shot a Jonesville Politician- Riotous Miners Must Go Unarmed—Poisoning Case at Terre Haute-Child Killed by a Ram—Drunken Miner Shot. Kills His Political Enemy, John Williams, one of the best-known Democratic politicians in Bartholomew County, was shot and nlmost instantly killed by James Lewis at his home in Jonesville. The men had been engages! in political discussion over yie work of the Democratic primaries preparatory to the county convention. Lewis was arrested at once and hurried to Columbus as fast as possible, as the friends of Williams threatened violence. Riotous Miners Warned. The aetion of Gov. Mount in insisting that the imported negro miners at Washington, who, whenever they are paid their wages, get drunk and terrorize the people, shall not be allowed to carry arms, is the subject of much comment. The Governor said that the repeated presence of the armed negroes in the streets is not to be tolerated. The striking white miners are becoming less inclined to be peaceable ns the sentiment of the people grows in favor of driving the negroes out of the community. ■ Mysterious Poisoning Case. The mother of John Itomine, who with six other members of the family was poisoned the other night at Terre Haute, is dead. Romine nud one of his daughters nre still sick, hut the other members of the family are recovering. It is known now that the poison was in the water with which tea and coffee were made, and the authorities are convinced that it was placed there intentionally. —————— Drunken Miner Shot. Henry Gilfoy, the new postmaster at Lyford, shot and perhaps fatally wounded Joe Hoffman, one of the toughs of that town. The shooting was a climax of an old feud existing between the two men for the past three years. Gilfoy is not a drinking man, and from the facts so far known it appears that he shot in self-defense. A Ram Kills a Child. While playing among a herd of sheep, Henry Johnson, the 0-year-old son of Miltoil Johnson, a farmer three miles north of Ingalls, was butted in the stomach l>y a ram. At the time no serious damage seemed to he done to the boy, but a night or two later he was taken with severe pains and died in twenty minutes. t * Within Onr Borders. At Brazil, George France was stabbed by James Booth. - , Fire destroyed property at English to the amount of $2,500. jr Dr. J. 11. Raub, president of the First National Bank of Vincennes, is dead at the age of 09. South Bend bank officers think that Convict George West stole $15,000. lie is to be released soon. Ross Rudy, a runaway lad 1 from Hagerstown, wns killed by a train in tbe Big Four yards at Terre Hante. The C., H. & D. Railroad Conijiany is to move Blue River Park from the vicin-ity-of Morristown and locate it near Conners,ville. Mrs. Solomon Teague, agt*d GO, who lives four miles southeast of Martinsville, was Stricken with paralysis while working at the wnshtub. “Dode” Carrington shot and instantly killed Wesley Niece ami fatally wounded Hayless Niece, an uncle of the latter, in Martin's saloon at Grant. <-> Patrick S. O’Rourke, general agent of the Grand Rapids and Indiana at Fort Wayne, aged OS years, is dead. For the past year he had been suffering with Bright's disease. William Van Sell, an es-eonvict, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Snn Diego, Cal., for representing himself to be Banker Frank McKeon Of Terre Haute. George Pritchett fired several shots at William Neaville’s house in Montclair at 2 o’clock one recent morning. There was some feeling betwi on him and Neaville. None of the shots took effect. The freshmen and sophomores of I>o Pnnw University hav. been indulging in a series of class lights, which have beeu the most interesting aim sensational the university has witnessed in many years. The body of Mr Catherine Dcnoeii was stolen from a cemetery south of Ipdiaunpolis several nights ago, and relatives, armed with search warrants, found it at the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. The town of Andrews was greatly excited over the explosion of a number of bombs upon the streets during a recent, night. The first explosion took place in the vicinity of the railway depot as a train was passing. A large hole was torn in the earth by the force of the explosion. This was followed by a number of similar explosions in different parts of the town, shattering window glass some distance away and scattering glass and stones, with which the bombs were filled, in all directions. Many persons narrowly escaped injury. A murder was discovered in the Pratt mine at Lodi, when the dead body of John Peste, an Italian, was found in water under the cage, where the murderer had carried it, hoping the water would hide it. The murder had not been committed more than five minutes before the discovery, iik the lsidy was still warm. The neck was broken, which was probably caused by a blow from n miner’s pick. A hole four inches deep, made by such an instrument, was found back of the left ear. No outcry was heard, nnd who committed the deed nnd how he escaped from the mine is a mystery. Lttricii Wolff, a Pendleton merchant, with Frederick Goodrich, were returning home from the country at 8 o'clock in the evening, when they were stopped by masked men and rubbed. They were "held up” one mile west of town at a bridge. The terms on which State Labor Commissioner McCormick accomplished the settlement of the strike nt the Iromlsle tin piste mills, nt Middletown, were on a basis of wages paid at the American tin plate plant at Klwood. It was a reduction of about 00 to 70 cents per day, or littla over a cent a box on finished tin.