St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 October 1892 — Page 6

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - . _ INDIANA DEATH COMES TO MANY, TWO DISASTROUS RAILROAD WRECKS. Uho Nation Mourns with President Harrison — Bridge Collapses, Killing Seven Men — German Balloon Project — Novel Cure for Indigestion—Corbett Arrested. Death Has Come. Mrs. Harbison is no more. The end came at 1:40 a. m. Tuesday. For the second time in the history of the White House a President’s wife has died within its walls. Mrs. Harrison met death with the patience and resignation o' a devout Christian, and her last days were comparatively free from pain. The President was beside his dying wife, as he had been for nine hours continuously, and his was the last of the loved features her 1 eyes had dwelt upon. Her breath was labored and slow. As the hands of the clock crept toward the next hour it grew fainter yet and less frequent, and ’is the timepiece marked the hour of 1:40 o’clock there was an interruption of the feeble breath, a resumption, and then a stop, this time to bo eternal, and ihe life cf Caroline Scott Harrison had gone out peacefully and quietly and without pain. All of the family in Washington were present at the deathbed except the three little grandchildren and the venerable Dr. Scott, the father of Mrs. Harrison. They were: President Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. McKee, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison, Lieut, and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Dimmick, and Mrs. Newcomer. In addition Mrs. Harrison’s faithful maid. Josephine, and Miss Davis, the trained nurse, were in the room. Ten Killed Outright. A Philadelphia dispatch says: A [ passenger train and a locomotive on the i Philadelphia and Reading Railroad col- } lided at Flat Rock, near Manayunk. | Ten persons were killed and fifteen in- | jured. The wreck took fire and the : fire department of Manayunk was ! called upon. All of the dead and | injured have been removed from the | scene. Both tracks are blockexl and j all trans are being dispatched via the ’ Germantown and Non i ntown bianch. The accident was caused by the engineer of tne north-bound locom< tive disobeying orders. The south-bound track being occupied, the engineer was ordered to wait at Pen oyd until the south-bound express from Shamokin, due at Broad and Callowhill streets, Philadelphia, at 9:30 a. m., had passed. Disregarding this he moved northwaid and just north of Manayunk tunnel met the express. A fearful crash followed. The dead and wounded have been taken to St. Timothy Hospital, Roxborough. Seven Men Killed at a Bridge. An accident occurred on the construction line of the Great Northern Road, resulting in Un.Aieath- of seven men. —'..ring ffve more and" seriously injuring six olhets. x.... track-laying crew had fin shed work up to the Wenatchee River, and started to lay rails across that stream. The east approach and first span were crossed safely. When the middle, at the second span, was reached, the false work under the bridge collapsed and the track machine, together with tw o carloads of ties and three cars loaded with rails, fell into the river sixty feet below. The men were thrown in every direction and some buried under ties. NEWS NUGGETS. Pugilist Jim Corbett has been arrested at Cincinnati for participating in a Sunday theatrical performance. A colored boy in the New Jersey reform school is fasting for fifty-five days in order to cure himself of indigestion. He has already gone without food for forty-seven days. Rev. A. W. Ringland, one of the directors of the McCorn i k Theological Seminary at Chicago, has resigned the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church at Duluth to a cept the presidency of McAllister College, Minneapolis. Oliver Curtis Perry, the desperado who made an attempt to hold up a New York Central Railway train after the Western fashion, tried to escape from Auburn Penitentiary and was knocked senseless by a guard. His recovery is doubtful. A collision between a freight and a work train on-the northern division of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Road, between Elkhart and Plymouth, Wis., Monday morn’ng, resulte 1 in the death of two employes and the injury of eight others. The officials of the navigation company o .vning the pleasure steamship Mont Blanc, on which twenty-six persons were killed by an explos'on on the Ouchy pier on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, last July, were tried on charges of criminal negligence. They were found not guilty. The Aeronautic Society of Berlin has decided that the gift of 50,0 0 marks made by the Emperor William shall bo devoted to the construction of a colossal balloon for scientific purposes. It is to be fitted out with the finest obtainable scientific apparatus, and is to make fifty ascents per annum. J. Hazleton Cooke Jr., a lawyer of Clinton, Conn., has brought suit against L. B. Morris of New Haven, executor of the will of the late Daniel Hand of Guilford, the millionaTe philanthropist. Mr. Cooke claims that he tutored a nephew of Hand’s, and the latter promised to remember him in his will and failed to do so. Wilson G. Hunt, the New York millionaire, is under the treatment for senile dementia. The engagement of the Russian Emperor’s eldest son and heir to Princess Marie, of Greece, is announced. The couple are first cousins. Transatlantic steamers now arriving at British ports report encountering .unusually rough weather. Five villages in the Kcotenai district of Russia have been destroyed by an earthquake.

EASTERN. Bernard J. Green, a Philadelphia Councilman, fell from a train while on his way to attend the dedicatory exercises in Chicago,and was fatally injured. Attorney General Stockton, of New Jersey, has made a startling move iq the proceedings against the Reading combine by applying for a receiver for all roads concerned in the trust. Chief of Police O’Maba, of Pittsburg, has been indicted for kidnaping by a Neve Jersey grand jury for taking Frank Mollick out of the State on suspicion that he was an accomplice of the anarchist Bergman. One electric ear met another at Schneectady, N. Y., at a curve with such fopee that the recoil sent them fifty feet apart. Several of the passengers were hurt, and Mrs. A. M. Veddar and Mrs. Frank Murray may die. Jose Gomez, a Brazilian, and his wife, Minnis, al out 45 years old, were committed to the Tomis prison, New York, on the charge of swindling Mordecai Kauffman, a diamond broker, out of SIO,OOO worth of diamonds. The largest belt in the world has just been completed at Cincinnati for the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Belt Railway. It is six feet wide, 116 feet long, weighs one ton, exerts a force of 1,600-horse power, and will travel at the rate of a mile a minute. At Pittsburg, Pa., James Stevenson, aged 14 years, was stabbed to the heart by 10-year-old Stewart Rodgers. The boys quarreled over a eat, which is also dead, the young slayer and his victim killing it between them before they quarreled. Financial disaster has overtaken the Bristol, Pa., rolling mills with the result that an assignment is contemplated. The liabilities of the company are about SIIO,OOO and assets are estimated at $70,000. It is said a new company will soon be formed. ’Squire O’Donnell, a prominent Hazleton, Pa., politician and Justice of the Peace, was shot and killed by his constable, Isaac Phillips. The men entered into a political discusssion, when the constable drew his weapon and fired three times, each ball taking effect. The largest paper machine ever made in this country has been ordered by a Niagara Falls, N. Y., firm. This will be a 136-inch Foundrinier machine, and is to be set up before Feb. 1, 1893. The largest machine in England is said to be 150 inches in v idth. The previous largest one in this country is a 135-ineh machine.

Charles and John H. Burkhalter, compo ing the firm of C. Burkhalter & Co., wholesale grocers, New York, made an assignment to Charles Fancher, with preferences aggregating over $183,000. The firm sold, it is said, SIOO,OOO of its paper within thirty-six hours of making their assignment on the strength of the statement at New York that it had $340,000 of assets over and above' liabilities. It is believed that the t,.tal liabilities will be very large. At Norwich, Conn., the Coroner rendered his verdict in the railroa 1 caJqqiity aX^Harrison’s Station, near New London, when five men and four trot--ilutr horses were killed! He J. Carroll, the nignt opcruvax, i;uxxvy .77^ criminal negligence and has remanded him to custody that he may be prosecuted by a grand jury. He censures the Vermont Central Railroad Company for making Carroll act as telegrapher and switchman eleven hours a night for $1.50 a day. Father Edward Randall Knowles, of New York, who has been the leader of the Old Catholic movement in the United States and who obtained orders from the Syrian church under the patriorch of Antioch, announces that he has submitted to Rome. His reasons, he alleges, are absolute conviction as to the papal claims and the lack of consistency among the Old Catholic episcopate, besides the want of definite jurisdiction. Fat! er Knowles has married while at variance with the church and cannot officiate as a priest. WESTERN. Reports of trouble at Pine Ridge Indian Agency are denied. A vein of rich silver and lead ore has been found at Legas, I. T. Curtiss Hic .s, of Racine, who has been exhibited in museums as an ossified man, is dead. The trial of Rev Henry Preserved Smith, professor in Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, on the charge of heresy, will begin Nov. 14. Theodore Princely, of St. Louis, shot and killed his wife Alice, to whom he was married less than a year ago, because she refused to live with him on account of his dissolute habits. The murderer is still at liberty. At Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, fire destroyed twenty buildings, inflicting a property loss of $100,060. One man was burned to death in the bakery in which the fire originated, and one woman was killed by leaping from a third-story window. Clarence B. Kling, who was arrested at Chillicothe, Mo., Tuesday, charged with forgery ana embezzlement by his employers, Mandel Bros., of Chicago, was taken back by a Chicago officer. His peculations, it is sad, will reach $1,503, and ho has confessed everything. At Sardinia, Ohio, Stephen Feike, banker and merchant, was shot and killed by George Justice, a former tenant. Justice had been ejected from one of Mr. Feike’s farms, but claimed to own the corn. He was hauling away a load when Mr. Feike rode out and tried to stop him, when a quarrel arose and the shooting took place. During the last week a forger has successfully worked Winona, Minn., any surround ng cities. H. Choate & Co. have been defrauded out of S4O by cashing a check bearing the bogus signature of a prominent business firm. Accompanying the check was a note asking as a personal favor that the monef be paid the bearer. At Columbus. Ohio, a requisition was received from Illinois for C. M. Bishoff, wanted at Mount Carmel for alleged burglary, larceay, and receiving stolen goods. Bishoff was the leader of the Columbus switchmen’s strike which has j failed, and was arrested at the instance i of the Big Four officials. After his ar-

rest on the charge of incitement to riot he was released on a capias and put under a bond of s9oo>. Three Cleveland (Ohio) policemen, while fishing off the break water, discovered the body of a man in the water. A rope was twisted around the neck, and tied to the ends of it were two earcoupling links. A sachol strapped over one shoulder was ripped open. A chain from which a watch had been taken dangled from the vest, and there was no money in the pockets. The body was identified as that of F. G. Eldridge, of Chic, a former railroad man. It is apparently a case of robbery and murder. A THREE-YEAR-OLD daughter of Chas. Fattifer, of Elkhart, Ind., got hold of a bottle of peppermint oil and poured a spoonful of it down her baby brother’s throat, with the result that the child is not expected to live. Farmei Eller about the same time was coming into the city with $2,000 worth of peppermint oil in flasks in his wagon. His team ran away, tipped over the wagon, ran over Mr. Eller, and six of the flasks containing $1,500 worth of the oil were broken.

A terrific windstorm swept over the northern portion of Hamilton, Ohio, causing great destruction. It approached from the West, and first struck the pulp mill of the Louis Snider’s Sons Company. The entire west end of the building was blown in. The bricks and timbers fell on five men who were working in the pulp-room. The roof was torn io pieces and carried some distance. Two were fatal ly injured. The storm also struck Cincinnati, and two men were killed. At Chicago an unknown man, while riding on a Cottage Grove avenue cable car Thursday night met with a horrible death. A team belonging to J. F. Cody of 70th street and Calumet avenue collided with a grip car and the tongue of the wagon struck the unknown man, who was setting on the front scat of the car, in the stomach, passing entirely through him. Mr. Cody left the horses stand.ng while he went to transact some business and they ran away. The gripman tried to stop his car. but before he could do so the horses struck it. The civic parade, Thursday, at Chicago, was the most notable affair of the kind ever seen in this country. Eighty thousand men on foot and thousands more mounted and in carriages tramped over tho route between the densest masses of people on sidewalks. The spectators numbered over a millio i, and were so closely massed that for sou? hours men and women were as effectually Confined as if in prison. The buildings along the line of march were apparently bursting with humanity, and the decorations of the city were something wonderful. There were over 3b0,(L0 strangers in the city. The scene at tho dedication of the World’s Columbian Exposition was one that amazed the throng of nearly 200,000 people who attended, and it was one which has never before been paralleled in the history of the universe. In the vast I u lding devoted to manufactures there were fully 100,000 people, most of them seated, and twice that number would not have crowded the structure. The decorations were lavish in profusion, beautiful in design, and tho j ceremonies w^c ,of the most impressive _oiaer. Naturally, but a small proporoutside the build ug ^equaled that side, rhe firework ing at three parks simultaneously wW most elaborate, and was seen for many miles about. The little Esquimau colony at the World’s Fair grounds presented a very woe-begone appearance Tuesday. Rain does not agree with the natives of the frozen North. As soon as the drops began to fall the members of the colonj' left the open air and sought shelter in their tents. They huddled around the entrances of their temporary dwelling places and watched the rain drops pattering on the dead leaves on the ground. Even the dogs looked anything but comfortable. They were tied in ones or twos to the trees and the air seemed to b c too warm for them, as they were breathing quickly and their tongues were lolling out like those of dogs after a long chase. After the members of the colony had tired of looking at the falling rain they sat on the ground within their tents and spent the time industriously killing certain forms’ of small insect life that had evidently been giving them much discomfort. Judging by the way in which they whacked their thumb-nails together they were well rewarded for their occupation. In one of the tents four women could be seen assiduously engaged in relieving their clothing of the presence of troublesome insects. The boys seemed to feel more at home in their new quarters than the older members, and they went around fondling their dogs or threatening to whip them when the animals from time to time set up a dismal howling.

SOUTHERN. Frank Wilkinson, on trial at Rome, Ga., fo> murder, has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter. A man giving the name of John Woods has been arrested at Richmond, Va., on suspicion that he was in some way cc nnected with the Borden murder. Mrs. Edward Neunlist, of Louisville, Ky., was instantly killed by the discharge of a gun trap. Her son Ed had set the trap to kill a chicken thief, and as his mother opened the door of the coop the gun was discharged and the woman’s head almost blown off. FOREIGN. Pasteur, discoverer of the cure by inoculation for hydrophobia, is dangerously ill. By the wrecking of the steamship Bokhara in the China Sea 176 lives were lost. Earl Roseberry, English minister for foreign affairs, has been made knight of the order of the garter. By the caving in of a sewer at Hamburg, fourteen workmen were buried alive, and it is thought that all of them have perished. Notice has 1 een served by the master cotton spinners on the cotton operativeso' Darwen, Lancashire, of an intended reduction of wages. Emperor William has signed tho military bill an 1 empowered Chancellor Von Caprivi to dissolve the Reichstag in case it-refuses to pass the measure. The Pope ha s warned France that

unless its aggressive policy against the Vatican is abandoned the next batch of French Cardinals created will be the last. Advices from St. Petersburg announce that a train was derailed near Pensa. eight carriages being smashed into splinters and’ twentj- persons being killed. The rumor is current in Berlin that Prince Metternich has departed for the United States, where he is to marry an heiress. Suggestion is made that the Empeiormay forbid the marriage. The will of the late George Fowler, a very wealthy provision packer and merchant of Liverpool, contains bequests of £65,000 to the Salvation Army and £45,000 to other charities in England and Ireland. The will ot the late George Fowler, a very wealthy provision pacaer and merchant of Liverpool, which was probated, contains bequests of £65,000 to the Salvation Army and £45,030 to other charities in England ana Ireland. The “Reminiscences” of the in r ormer. Le Caron, have just been published. In treating of the Fenian movement the author declares that it had the sympathy of President Jchnsjn, who purposely delayed his proclamation to give the Fenians a chance. At Vienna snow fell Thursday, and the city and surrounding country had a wintry aspect. All ihe foliage has disappeared arm tho hills are capped with snow. It is snowing heavdy in the highlands of Bohemia. There was a heavy frost at Berlin. In central Germany the rivers and canals are covered with ice, A heavy snow storm prevails in the Hartz Mountains.

The heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, Archduke Karl Ludwig, and his wife have met with a serous accident. They were returning in a carriage from Wiener Neustadt. The night was very dark and the coachman missed the road. Suddenly the carriage fell into a ditch aud was turned completely over. Tho Archduke was stunned, and the lower limbs of the Archduchess were severely injured. The Prince of Montenegro is showing symptoms of mental troub'e. He suffers from intense nervous irritation, for which he finds expression in severe arbitrary acts of despotism against men of the highest position, resulting in the exodus of members of the Montenegrin nobility. Resentment of the Prince’s acts is growing daily, Two priests have been sent to St. Peterburg with a petition, bearing thousands of signatures, praying the Czar to try to induce the Prince t< jdicate. IN GENERAL Mrs. Harbison’s condition remains unchanged. Edwin Booth, the actor, has so far recovered that ho can walk about, but he is still very feeble. The schooner San Jose, which has been engaged in the trade of smuggling Chinese into the United States, has been seized near Victoria, B. C. The steamer City of Paris has arrived at New York from Queenstown, having made the quickest trip on record—s days 14 hours and 24 minutes. I The Mexican Government received an 11* 1111 to jhe Tnterhatk nal Monetary Conference Tit Brussels. The invitation was accepted. Chinamen are being smuggled into the United States from Windsor, Ont., via the new route. Formerly they were landed in Detroit, but now they are put aboard a steam yacht and taken down tho river and across the lake to Toledo and vicinity. Chilian Consul Delion returned to Tacoma, Wash., from Port Townsend, where the Chilian bark Augusta was fired upon and seized Sunday night by customs officials. He says Chili will demand from the local Government officials and tho United States Government an award for damages. City of Mexico dispatch: Tho Government publishes a, decree reforming the customs tariff by reducing the duties on cotton 20 per cent., on printing paper 30 per cent., and on hogs and cattle 33 per cent. The duties on Virginia tobacco, lard, iron, glass and articles necessary for numerous manufactures are also lowered. The decree sets forth the Treasury Department’s policy with reference to foreign commerce in tho direction of lowering some import duti: s and placing light, merely fiscal duties on various articles which heretofore have been free. MARKET REPORTS; CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... $3.50 @5.75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.50 @5.75 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 & 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 75 & .74 Corn—No. 2 4i)j@ .4214 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .2914 Eye—No. 2 65 @ .56 Bujteb—Choice Creamery 24 @ .26 Eggs—Fresh 19 @ .20 Potatoes—New, per bu 60 @ .70 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 @ 5.75 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ .70 Corn— No. 1 White 43 @ .43)4 Oats— No. 2 White 83 @ .83)4 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 @ .69 Corn—No. 2 40 @ .40)4 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .29)4 Rye— No. 2 53 @ .54 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.75 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 @ .72 Corn—No. 2 44 @ .44'4 Oats—No. 2 Mired 33 @ .34 Rye—No. 2 58 @ .58)4 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 3.00 @ 5.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 74’4@ .75’4 Corn —No. 2 Yellow 46 @ .47 Oats— No. 2 White. BU4@ .35)4 Toledo. Wheat—No. 2 74 @ .74’4 Corn—No. 2 White 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 White 82 @ .32 4 Rye 55 @ .57 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 5.25 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 86 & .87 Coen— No. 2 46 @ .47 MILWAUKEE. ■Wheat—No. 2 Spring 68 @ .68’4 Corn—No. 3 41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 White 32 & .E" Rye—No. 1 68 @ .59 Barley—No. 2 62 @ .63 I’o bk— Mess 11.25 @11.75 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 3.W @ 6.25 I Sheep s.oo @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 80 @ .81 Corn —No. 2 60 @ .51 Oats—Mixed Western 34 @ .36 • Butter—Creamery 21 @ .27 Pork— Nev/;ic4s is.w @13.50

BIG YIELD OF COTTON . TEXAS’ FIRST GOOD CROP IT FIVE YEARS. Columbus Invocation Four Hundred Yean Ago—Fleuro-Pneumonia in British Catth Exports—Left the Baby with a Cost!/ Wardrobe. Original Prayer of Columbus. At St. Augustine. Fla., at the school ceremonies for Columbus day Prof. Knibole read the following prayer, sa’c to be the original words offered up bj j Columbia when he landed on the Island of San Salvador. This prayer the Spanish Kings ordered to be used by Balboa, Cortez, and Bizarro when making new discoveries. It is said to be the ilr?t translation ever known to the American tongue, and was sent iron the old cathedral at Seville, Spain, by Miss A. M. Brooks, who is now engaged in compiling a Spanish history of America. It ।is as follows: "Lord God, eternal and i omnipotent, by thy sacred word thou 1 hast created the heavens and the earth [ and Ihe sea. Thy name be blessed and glorified. May thy name be praised, known, and proclaimed in this other part of the world.” Good Weather lor Texas Cotton. The last ten days have been favorable for the cotton crop in Southwest Texas so far as weather is concerned. The late yield is exceeding the exportation i : of its planters, and it is of an unusui ally good quality. In the Valley lof tho Rio Grande, however, there l has been much rain and tho worms in I some sections there are committing se- ; rious ravages. In the famous Laguna I district, State of Coahuila, Mexico, the I planters are preparing for the next season’s crop. Tho overflow of the Rio I Nonces, which waters that district, insures a bountiful yield for the first tiino in five years. Imports of Cattle by Great Britain. The report of the Director of the Veterinary Department of tho British Board ; of Agriculture contains some interesting ' 1 facts in regard to the American cattle trade, especially in view of tho present , renewal of excitement over alleged ! cases of pleuro-pneumon'a in recent ; consignments. Tho report s lys that ! out of three cargoes, consisting of 4,281 i cattle, forwarded from Baltimore, Bos- ' ton and New York, four animals were ' affected with pleuro-pneumonia. Tho j total imports of cattle lorthe year were: l From Canad/i. t 108,286, and from the 1 United States, 311,838. Abandoned a Babe lu a St. Paul Hotel. A richly attired woman about 35 years old, giving the name of Mme. G. L. Desseous any, and who is believed to be a wealthy St. Louis woman, arrived j in St. Paul Tuesday, bringing with her jan infant two months old. Sho disap- ! peared, abandoning the infant at the t Clarendon Hotel. A most elegant and I costly baby wardrobe was left with tho 1 child. _ Lighter Catch of Seals This Year. A dispatch from Victoria, B. C., places the seal catch of that province at | 45,000 skins, against 52,995 last year, i The average selling price has dropped i from sls to sll, as compared with 1891, j which will reduce the aggregate value of the total seal catch of British Colum- | bin this year about 37 percent, compared with last season. ■ During the pyrotechnic display at Washington Park, Chicago, George Conkling was suddenly taken with an ■ epileptic fit. When removed by the police ambulance he told the officers that ho had no friends there, was a stranger from New York visiting the celebration, and was subject to fits three times a week. They Oppose Resubmission. At Kansas City, Mo., the Lutheran Synod, of Kansas, adopted an address urging tho people of the State to op- ; pose at tho coming election all candi- | dates who favor tho resubmission to a 1 vote of tne people of the prohibitory ; amendment. BREVITIES. | A fierce forest fire is now raging near Biggsville, three miles south of j Pleasantville, N. J. Much timber has already bicn destroyed and the loss I will be heavy. During the bicyclo meet at Point j Breeze track, Philadelphia, William H. I Marriott, aged 56 years, dropped dead j from heart disease ten minutes after : finishing a race. At Bradford, Pa., tho dry house of I Blaisdell Bros.’ immense kindling wood , factory was burned. Loss, $35,060; I covered by insurance. Tho factory em- | ployed 200 persons. A passenger train on the Chicago ! and Western Indiana Railroad was wrecked at 47th street, Chicago. One woman was instantly killed and a great many were seriously injured. At Bellaire, Ohio, Sheriff W. H. Baldwick, of Niagara County, New York, placed John Anderson, colored, 1 a steel maker, under arrest for the j murder of a man in Niagara County, I Now’ York. The first long distance telephone ; message ever sent from Ch'cago to ' a daily newspaper was received Fri- : day by tho Brooklyn Standard Un- ! ion. Not only wore the words of the ! ■ correspondent distinctly heard, but his i ' voice was as clearly recognizable a® if ! ho stood in the office when tho message j i was receive 1. , At Huntington, Pa., two Italians I working in a stonequarry made an at- : 1 tack on two Russian quarrymen named i Michael Stone and I awrence Krutika. j j Krutika was shot through the heart and j instantly killed and Stone was stabbed | and is in a dangerous condition. The ; murderers escaped. The Stewart Iron Works at Wichita, ; Kan., were damaged $15,000 by fire. The Stewart Stucco and Cement Works at Colora lo City, Col., were de- ' stroyed by fire. The who.e plant was . valued at $75,003. The house of Michael Kansas, a mail । carrier at Manannah, Minn., was burned ’ and two of his children perished. The Tennessee congress of the M. E. Church South subscribed its quota, amounting to $7,680, of the general missionarv debt of the church.

! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL! 11 THOUGHTS WQRTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting’, and Instructive Lesson and Wliere It May He found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. Got Preached nt Antiocl The lesson for Sunday, Oct. 30, may be found in Acts 11, 19-30. introductory. “Sca'tered” is the word with which this lessons opens. Seeded is the literal significance of it. The enemies of Christ thought they were destroying the truth; they were advancing it, giving it new lodgment in hearts prepared for its reception. As well scatter firebrands in a dry field or grains of wheat in plowed ground, as to think to quench the truth by dispersion. These were men full of the Spirit; thej T could n it be silenced. God give us of such sort to- . day. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. Now they. Going back to previous exents. Acts 8: 1. Scattered abroad. First mean’ng, to sow seed, to plant a field. "The wicked work the righteous will of heaven.” Persecution. Signifying pressure, hence trial or affliction. So rendered at Matt. 24: 9. Phenice, or Phoenicia, possibly Ph nix, on the south coast of the Island o’ Crete, ^.cts 27: 12. Cyprus. An island south of Asia Minor. Cyrene. On the north coast of Africa. -Antioch in Syria. Unto the Grecians. Whose language was doubtless used. Preaching. Tho word for glad tidings, Evangel. \\ ith them. A strong expression, along with them. Number. From this comes our English word arithmetic. (Arithmos.) Turned or were converted. They sent. 1. e., the church, not some bishop or overseer of the church. It looks as though a church meeting had been called to discuss the tidings. ; That he shall go as far as. One word in the Greek, the preposition unto or until. Were glad. “Glad” and “qrace” aro from the same root. (Charin-chairo.) He caught the spirit of the bless ng. Cleave unto, or remain with. They had already accepted the Lord. He assured them that they were in the right path. Full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. Hence he was quick to apprehend a sp.ritual work. Added unto the Lord. Interpreting the “added” of Acts 2: 47, where church does not occur in tho Greek. To Taisus. Where Paul had been in spiritual training of the Lord. To seek Saul. The word refers to diligent search. Thus the Spirit leads. When he had found him. It would bo interesting to know what he was doing. Certainly he was prepared for the mission. A prepared man is generally sought out and found. Were called. A peculiar word, signifying, first, to transact business with, hence probably to get a mark of designation. They were set down as Christians. Probably tho word Christ was the one oftenest used. (Christianos ) Prophets. In the New Testament, those gifted in the interpretation cf Scripture. The gift of prediction was subordinate. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. And tho hand of the Lord was with Cg-iii i fear we have been forgetting the iwf^*** are we frustrated! with us—that makes all the difference in the world, in two worlds. It changed the whole aspect of affairs with the early disciples. I have just been rereading the life of Robert Moffat, tho South African missionary. His was an example of faith in God. Over and over again he did that whi h to the worldly intelligence was folly. But he was ' obeying God’s command and giving heaven a chance te come signally to his ad. And so God was glorified. Ah, if it were not for foreign missions, I fear sometimes the church woull forget what faith is like. Cleave unto the Lord. It is the secret of success in the life of heaven on earth. We must keep very close to God, or our celestial citizenship is a failure. This was the spirit of Caleb and Joshua who wholly followed the Lord their God. How unfortunate for Israel that the far-following spirit of the ten spies prevailed! Keep close to God. “Be ye followers of God, as dear children.” Adoniram Judson wrote down the resolution, "Resolve ! not to do anything which do is not appear at the time to be . well-pleasing to God.” He was making God his best friend, and what a friend God proved to him. When I read this motto I can understand this life. Judson was following close after God. Are we doing so to-day? Are we keeping so near to him that we see at once ihe doors of opportunity he throws open to us? I was reading it this morning from Thomas a Kempis: “As iron cast into fire losetli rust and is made altogether glowing, so the man who turneth himself unto God is freed from slothfulness and changed into a new man.” The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. A name perhaps given in deris on, tut God has made it the I noblest name in earth’s vocabulary. I I wonder when the people who are most accustomed to peruse these pages, and ! also the pages of tho Book, were first I called “Baptists." Doubtless it was a i derisive epithet. “Anabaptists!" “Bap- ! fists!” Is there any one ashamed of it i to-dav? Then let him seek some'hing better, if he can find it. My friend, the ' converted Hebrew has been telling me I that even the blessed word “Zion” was i once a term of reproach. It signifies j emptiness. Very well, “empty that he i may fill.” God takes the things that ! are not to bring to naught the things | that are. Let us make the name Christian mean more and more, as the years | of grace roll on. Next Lesson —“Peter Delivered from Prison.” —Acts 12:1-17. How They Died. Peter 111. of Russia was murdered by his svife, Catharine IL, and her para- | mour. Charles 11. of England died either of apoplexy caused by drinking or of poison. Os 113 Kings of Spain fifty-five died by poison and other metho is of assassination. Thomas Jefferson reached 83 and died of weakness indused by chronic diarrhea.