Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 February 1896 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYKOGIil, INDIANA. JLOIilJOIt IN FOKMOSA. CANNIBALISM PRACTICED BY THE CHINESE. Most Kevoltiiitf Talc of SnamryJ'earl Itrjaii Did Not Die by l'oinon San I'ramiHO Murderer Strives to Imitate "Jack the Kipper." Ate 1 heir Prisoners. Victoria. I. C. dispatch: Dreadful stories ('tun- from Yokohama of the treatiit nt of .Japanese ly Formosa rebels. ..me correspondents going no I'm r as to say that the Chinese pra.tico cannibalism. Fatly in January the rebels t.ok posses;,u nf tli' village of Keluug. A detachment of .Japanese was s.-iit t at!:n-k the place, and : 1 1 t i- 1 1 1 Til opposition Mi.-.K-'li'il in driving 1 1 1 " rebels off :uil entering the village. uli. ii was afterward Jin-d. The i-.n r-poM'l.-iit f the .lapaii Mail in speaking of the arrival of tinJapanese troops in the village, says; "The troops were horrijiod at the ghastly fjui-ta' l" of nineteen loi;( s o! their countrymen beheaded and fright fully mangled. Tliey were railway werkne-n who Imd met death at lli hards "1" the fiend. Many of your readers may not 1- a wari wie ca nn oa i;ui inni e.visis ;hh'mi neChinese, although i Imto probably not j it foreigner in Formosa 'out knows of lit" j fating of portions of ; Ti bodies ot sav-i siges. or are unaware f tin markets in j Formosa settlements containing human j llesh of savages for sale. During the out-1 break of 1V.M so great was the loss of lilt- j that siv;i;'f llesh was brought in and so. I ! ihe sann as pork in tin markets. I In l Illtltl alcd ooi ;es ot .Japanese weie 4Uii:. ... ,. , , . . .., I several ot them h nioow ele.t ami witui their liearts eat ut: also minus their limbs. Some were found who had. been biirnedat tlieiake. Charred bodies w it-li liand-5 aild feet still fastened were M'Uie tf the p'ctac!cs the soldiers saw." SHE WAS BUTCHERED. Searching Post Mortem; Reveal that Pearl Bryan Was Not Killed by Poison. The tory of Lulu I lollinusworth seeing IVarl ltryan. tlo murdered Ctreeiicatle irirl. in Indianapolis on .Ian. -S is exjdodij by the established fact that vhe was Su Cincinnati on both the L'Tth and "JMh. Two careful post-mortem absolutely ex clude the theory of criminal operation ;utual or attempted, as well as death by jmüjonin.ir. The knife cuts on the r "irl'v thand, made w hile st niirKnic for life w ith Iier murderers, and the pool of Mood where she lav set at rest the theory that he Wi first killed hy anaestlieth-s and then taken out and beheaded. The Inliauaiolis p. dice have released Lulu May Jlollinsworth. and it is generally believthat the sensational stories she told were sheer fabrications. It is believed the whole scheme, was one between the mnrlerors on one side md tho girl on the other, to save their necks. A cheek which Khe had indorsed was found, and a cmjKirisoti of the handwriting with lh.it of ihe letter received by Man-hal Ktarr. notifying him that the girl was in possession ( important facts, .shows such a close pnemblance that theotlicers new think .-he wrote it and thus put them on the trail lierself. NEW USE FOR CATHODE RAYS. May Reveal Defects in Cannon and Steamer Shafts. The possible uses of Tlie new- process of photography involving the application of the cathode rays in determining the existence of secret Haws in metals are mnv ilout to be tested thoroughly at the Carnegie works, whore a large amount of naval construction is under way. If this au be done the importance of ihe procostf from an industrial standpoint -an scarcely be over-estimated. It will be Mssibit' to secure an exact knowledge of the nature of the metal of the great guns without running the rik of explosions; defects in the shafts of ocean steamers can 1k developed before the shafts break, ami thereby cause loss of life and property, ami steel easting used for structural purjNtses can be accurately tested before heilig put in place. 'FRISCO HAS A FIEND. Young Girl Strangled and Several Other Women Beaten and Stabbed. The Kan Francisco police are inclined 1o believe that there is a stranger in that city whise mania i to eptal. or possibly vclipse. the record of London's notorious Jack the Hipper, who within the course ,,f n year or iwo murdered thirteen women. It SH'in! as if such were the case, for wrthiu the last few days a young girl itt Morton treet has been strangled to death by an unknown assassin and several women in the same vicinity have le-en In aten, stabbed, and strangled, in each of the Jailer oases the assailant escaping without leaving a trace by which he coidd be detected. Tremendous Snowfall. A snow storm swept over Indiana. Illinois and lb' Western States for thirty-six hours, commencing Wednesday morning. High winds accompanied, and great obMructioi) to Ira Hie ensued. The cold w:v Hot severe. Chicago got tin worst of it. Twelve inchi's fell there, and the city was I nbsolut ly i-.tonnlM.uiid. Fierce Gale at Cleveland, A howling gale which commenced blowing from the west early Monday evening continued at Cleveland, Ohio, with unabated flirv. At the local Weather olli. e the wind instruments recorded a maximum velocity of sixty-four miles. Much damage of a minor character has been aused by the storm. Gladstone 1 Aroused. The Herald of JJIasgow says it learns that Mr. CiJadtotio is givally inclined to stand again for parliament in order to support the Armenians. Mr. filadstoiie does not conceal his conviction that both Kditi al parlies in Sreat. l.ritaiii have b"trayed Armenia. Judge Lynch at Sullivan, III. t.rant Atterbiiry. charged wit h assaulting Mrs. Itoxy Atterbiiry, his sister-in law, was taken from the Sullivan, 111., jail at midnight Tuesday and hanged to u tree by a mob.

THE STA RTING POINT.

HOW REV. DR.tSLMAGE WOULD EVANGELIZE AMERICA. vVnnts tin Outpouring of tlie Holy tSptrit at the National CapitalWould lie of Incalculable Value to Christianity A New Awakening. Sermon at the Capital. The aiitliftnv of Dr. Talmago in Washington is thronged with the chief men of tho nation ami people from all parts, making this sermon most timely. An hour tth'l a halt" before the doors open the people, gather in the street, ami policemen keep tin- way open for the pew hoMers. The text chosen for lat Sumlay's discourse was I.uke xxiv., 47, I S-ii n n in v: at Jerusalem." "There it is." said the driver, ami we nil instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to eat- h the Sirst glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, eoioiii ted with temple and palace and radiant, wiietlnr looked i:p at from the valley of .leln-saphat ..r gazed at from adjoining hills, was the capital of a ureal nation. Clouds of iuet use had t hovereil over it. Chariots of kins had rolled ilifntiirii it. Pattering rams of enemvs had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied, ami Jeremiah lamented, ami David ivigned. and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most interesting city ever built since masonry riiir,' its Jirst trow; I. or plumb line measured its first wall. r royalty swim;' its fn-t scepter. What Jerusalem was to tin' Jewish kiu-dom Washington is to our own count ry - t he capital, the place to w hich nil the tribes come up, the threat national heart whose throb semis lif r death through the body politic clear out to the geographical ext reinitics. What the resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples when he ordered them to start on the work of gospcIi.at:o:i, he.i?inii" if 1 . . i .j . 1 1 it notii j ti. mi , . ,. .. . (lot! sa vs now in his providence to tens ot , f ,. .- . v..... ui'iiraiMi oi . iiiiii. ill in iiii . ii' . eiiiu for tho evangelization of America, "heginninu at Washington." America is U'inu to be taken for C,(,d. If you do pot believe it, take your hat now and hai und jrive i ni to some loan or woina'i win dots lielieve it. As surely as (!od live-', and lie is jib'e to do as h says he wiil. this country will be evangelized from tlie mouth of the rotomae to the mouth of the Oregon, from the Iliclilands of the Navesink to t lie Colden Horn, from llaflin's Hay to the jrulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk every lake, whothcr bestonned or placid, and be transfigured on every mountain, and the niu'ht skies, whether they hover over jrmvos of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier, shall be tilled with anpdie overture of "glory to Cod and good will to imn." For God or for Apollyon. Again and ajrain does the old book announce that all the earth shall see the salvation of (Jod. ami as the greater includes the lesser that taken America gloriously In. Can you not see that if America is not taken for Ciod by his consecrated people it will be taken for AioliyonV The forces engaged on loth sides are so tremendous that it cannot be a drawn battle. It is coming, the Armageddon! Hither the American Sabbath will perish and this natjon be hamh-d over to Ilonds and Ilildebrands and Diocletians and Neros of baleful power, and Alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled up throne of beer barrels, his mouth foaming with domestic ami national eurse, and crime will lift its unhindered knife of assassination, and rattlo Leys of worst burglary, and wave torch of widest conflagration, and our cities be turned into Sodoms. waiting for Almighty tempests of lire ami brimstone, and one tidal wave of abomination will surge i across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take on more sanctity, and the newspapers will become apocalyptic wings of benediction, and penitentiaries will be abandoned for lack of occupants, and holiness and happiness, twin son and daughter of heaven, shall walk through the land, and Christ leign over this nation either in person or by agency so glorious that the whole country will be one clear, resounding echo of heaven. It wiil be one or the other, lly the throne of him who liveth forever and ever I declare it will be the latter. If the Lord will help me, as he always does -blessed be his glorious name I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun at Washington would have a tendency to bring the whole continent to (Jod and before this century closes. William the ( 'onpteror ordered the curfew, the custom of ringing the bell at midnight, at which all the fires on the hearths were to be banked, and all the lights extinguished, ami all the people retire to their pillows. I pray Iod that the curfew of this century may not be sounded, and the Jiros be banked, and the lights extinguished as the clock strikes the midnight hour that divides the nineteenth century from the twentieth century, until this beloved land, which was to most of us a radle, and which will be to most of lis a grave, shall come into the full possession of him who is so glorious that William the Conqueror could not be compared to him. even the One who rideth forth "conquering and to oompior." A Uattlc for Soul. Why would it be especially advantageous if a mighty work of grace started here, "beginning at Washington V" First, because this city is on the border between the north and the south. It is neither northern nor southern. It commingles the two climates. It brings together the two styles of population. It is not onlv right, but beautiful, that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and brought tin. With what loving accentuation the Alabamian speaks of his orange groves! And the man from Massachusetts is sure to let you know that he comes fi uu the land of the Adamses -Samuel and .lohn ami .lohn (tiincy. Did you ever know a Virginian or Ohioau wIknc fi'. e did not brighten when he announced himself from the southern or northern State of presidents? If a man does not like his native clime, it is because while he lived there he did not behave well. This capital stands where, by its locality, and its political intluence. It stretches forth one hand toward Ihe north and the other toward the sooth, and n mighty work of grace starting here would probably be a national awakening. Jeorgia would lasp the hand of New Hampshire, and Maine Ihe hamVof Louisiana, and California the hand of New York, and say, "Come, let us go up and worship the (Jod of nations, the Christ of (Jolgotlia, the Holy Joost of the Pentecostal fhree thousands. It has often been nid that the only way tho north and the south will be brought into complete accord is to have a war with some foreign

nation, in which bth sections, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be overcome. We!!, if you wait for such a foreign conflict, you w ill wail until all this generation is dead, and perhaps wait forever. The war that will make the sections forget past controversies is a war against unrighteousness, such as a universal religious awakening would declare. What we want is a battle for souls, in which about Io.imki.ihhi northerners and southerners shall be on the same side and shoulder to shoulder. In no oilier city on the continent can such a war be declared so appropriately, for all tlie other great cities are either northern or southern. This is neither, or rather it is both. One Soul Worth More than Another.

Again, it would he especially advantage- i otts if a mighty Work of grace started here because more representative men are in Washington than in any other city between the oi 'cans. f course there are accidents in politics, and occasionally there an: men who get into the Senate and House of Representatives an 1 other important places who are titled for the positions in neither head mr heart, but this is exceptional and more exceptional now than in other days. There is mt a drunkard in the national legislature, although there were times when Kentucky. Virginia. Helaware. Illinois. New York and Massachusetts had men in Senate or 1 1 on so of Representatives who went maudlin or staggering drunk across those high places. Never nobler group of nu n sat in Senate or House of Representatives than sat there yesterday and will si; there to-niorrow, while th" hin st judiciary, without exception, has now upon its bench men beyond criticism for good morals and mental endowment. K in all departments of oüicial position, with here and there an exception, are to-day the brainiest men an 1 most honorable men of America. Now. suppose the I loly t Jhost power should fall upon this city, and these men from all parts of America should suddenly become pronounced for Christ? Io you say the effect Would be electrical'.' More than that. It would be omnipotent ! Io you say that such learned and potent men are not wrought upon by religious intluenceV That shows that you have not observed what has been going on. Commodore Foote. representing the navy: lien. tJrant and Rohort K. Lee. representing the northern and southern armies; Chief .fust ice Chase, representing the Supivmo Court; Use rivlingliuyseiis-, Theodore ami Frederick, representing the dated States Senat.; William IVnnington and scores of others, representing the Horse of Representatives, have surrendered to that gospel w hich. before this w inter is out. will in this capital of the American nation, if we are faithful in our prayers and exertions, turn into the kingdom of (!od men of national ami international power, their tongues of eloquence becoming the tongues of lire in another Pentecost. There are on yonder hill those who, by the grace of Hod. will become John Knoxes arid Chrysostoms and Fcnelons and Rourdeleaus when once regenerated. There is an illusion I have heard in prayer meetings and heard in pulpits that a soul is a soul one soul worth as much as another. 1 deny it. The soul of a man w ho can bring l.mo or lo.tMMf other souls into the kingdom of (Jod is worth l,(XMj or li,(HM) times more than the soul of a man who can bring no one into the kingdom. A great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this capital, reaching the chief men of America, would be of more value to earth and heaven than in any other part of the nation, because it would reach all the States, cities, towns and neighborhoods of the continent. (Mi. for the outstretched right arm of (Jod Almighty in the salvation of this capital! A Call to Kepcntancc. Some of us remember 1SÖ7, when, at the close of the worst monetary distress this country has ever felt, compared with which the hard times f the last three years were a boom of prosperity. ght on Ihe heels of that complete prostration came an awakening in which riOO.CMio people were converted in different States of the I "nioti. Do you know where one of its eiiiof powers was demonstrated? in Washington. Io you know on what street? This street. Do you know in what church? This church. I picked up an old lniok a few days ago and was startled and thrilled and enchanted to read some words, written at that time by the Washington correspondent of a New York paper. He wrote: The First Presbyterian Church can scarce contain the people. Requests are daily preferred for an interest in the prayers offers!, and the reading of these forms one of the tenderest and most effective features of the meetings. Particular pains are taken to disclaim ami exclude everything like sectarian feeling. (Jeneral astonishment is felt at the unexpected rapidity with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are Wginning to anticipate the necessitv of opening another church." Why, my hearers, not have that again, and more than that? There are many thousands more of inhabitants now than then. Resides that, since then are the telephone, with its seniioininpresenee, and the swift cable car. for assembling the pople. 1 believe that the mightiest revival of religion that this city has ever seen is yet to come, and the earth will tremble from Capitoline hill to the boundaries on all sides with the footsteps of (Jod as he comes to awaken and pardon and save these great populations. People of Washington, meet us next Thursday night at half past 7 o'clock to pray for this coming of the Holy (Jhost not for a pentocostal '.!,(), that I have referred to. but ::MKHl. Such a lire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crunching through the snows of Labrador to the Caribbean sea, where the whirl winds are born. Let our cry be that of Habakkuk, the blank verse lMet of the I'ihle: "O Lord, revive thy work in Ihe midst of the years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." Let the battle cry be Washington for (!od, the Tinted States for Cod. America for (Jod, the world for (Jod! We are all tired of skirmishing. Let us bring on a general engagement. We are tired of fishing with hook and line. With one sweep of the gospel net let us take in many thousands. This vast work must begin somewhere. Why not here? Some one must give Ihe rallying cry. Why may Hot I. nie of the Lord's servants? I!y providential arrangement I am every Week in yernionie communication with every city, town and neighborhood of (his country, ami 1 now give the watchword to north and south and east and west. Hear and see it. all people -this call to a forward movement, this call to repentance and faith, this call to a continental awakening! Work for the Nation Palvatinn. This generation will soon be out of sight. Where are the mighty men of the

past wlm trod your Pennsylvania nvonti rnd spake in yon.h r national hfgislatun? a:rl decided the stupendous questions of the supreme judicatory ? .sk the sleepers in the 'ongressiyiial cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all over the land. Their tongues are speechless, their eyes dosed, their anus folded, their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed. How soon time prorogues parliaments, and adjourns senates, and disbands cabinets, and empties pulpits, and dismisses generations! What we would do we must do quickly ..r not do at all. 1 call upon people who cannot cine forth from their sickbeds to implore the heavens in our behalf from their midnight pillows, and I call upon the aged who cannot, even by the help of their stall", enter the churches to spend their last days on earth in supplicating the salvation of this nation, and I call upon all men and women who have been in furnaces of trouble, as was Shadrach. and among lions, Ms was Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as was .Jeremiah, to join i:i the prayer, and let tlie church of Cod everywhere lay h..M of tlie Almighty arm that moves nations. Then Senators of the Fnited States will announce to the State legislatures that

sent them lu re, and m 'tubers of the Ib uc ol Representatives will report to tne e..ngrossioiiui districts that clc-tcd them, and the many thousands of men and women now and here engaged in tlie many departments ,,f natioual service will write home, telling all sections of tlie eoitniry that the l.o.-d is her.-, and that ! is on the march for the redemption of America. Hallelujah, the Lird i; coming! J hoar the rumbling of Iiis chariot wh'-ds. I feel on my checks ihe breath of the white hoi-s-es that draw the Victor! 1 see the tia-Ii of his lanterns Ihrough ihe long n.ght of the world's sin and sorrow! A New A w a 1; ciii -.ig. We want in this ou.itry. only on a larger scale, ihat which other centuries ha e seen oi' ( ! od's workings, as in the reformation of the sixteenth century. w!-n Martin Luther and Philip Mehuichthou led on; as in the awakening of the seventeenth century, when I'.nnyan and Flavel and Ik-ixter led on; as in the awak hing of the eighteen (h century, when TYnmuit and L1 wards and the Weslcys led on; a in the awakening of 1S.7T, led on by Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist, and Rishop Macllvaine, the Apostolio Kpiscopalian, and Albert Ramos, the consecrated Presbyterian, and others, just as good, in all denominations. Oh, will not some of those glorious souls of tho past cot no down and help us? Come, down off your thrones, Nettletoii and Finney and Daniel Raker and IMwartl Payson and Truman Osborne and Karle and Knapp ami liiskip and Archibald Alexander--that Alexander the (Jreat of tho Christian churches. Come down! How can you rest up there when the world is dying for lack of the gospel? Come down and agonize with us in prayer. Coino down ami help us preach in our pulpits. Come down and inspire our courage ami faith. Heaven can get along without you better than we can. Rut more than all and overwhelmed with reverent emotion we ask it come, thou of the deeply dyed garments of Rozrah, traveling in the greatness of 1 by strength, mighty to save! Lord (Jod of Joshua! Let the sun of this century stand still alovo (Jibeon and tho nioou above the valley of Ajalon until we can whip out the live kings of hell, tumbling them down the precipices as the other live kings wtrtit over the rocks of Rethhorotn. Ha, ha! It will so surely be done that 1 cannot restrain the laugh of triumph. Washington Needs a Revival. From where the seaweed is tossed on the beach by the stormy Atlantic to the sands laved by the quiet Pacific, this country will be Fma unci's land, the work beginning at Washington, if we have tho faith and holy push and the consecration requisite. First of all, wo ministers must get right. That was a startling utterance, of Mr. Swiniiock when be said, "It is a doleful thing to fall into hell from under the pulpit; but, oh, how dreadful a thing 1o drop thither out of the pulpit." That was an all suggestive thing that Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Lest that by any means, when I have preached to others. 1 myself should be a castaway." That was an inspiring motto with which Whitetidd sealed all his letters, "We seek tho stars." Lord (Jod! Wake up all our pulpits, and then it will be as when Venn preached, and it was said that men fell be fori the word like slacked lime. Let us all. laymen and clergymen, to the work. What Washington wants most of all is an old-fashioned revival of religion, but on u vaster scale, so that the world w ill be compelled to say, as of old, "We never saw it on this fashion." Rut remember there is a human side as well as a divine side to a revival. Those of us brought up in tho country know what is called "a raising" ihe neighbors gathered together to lift the heavy frame for a new house after tho timbers are ready to be put into their places. It is dangerous work, and there are many accidents. The neighbors had gathered for such a raising, and the beams had all been fitted to their places except one, and that very heavy. That one, on the long pikes of the men, had almost reached its place, when something went wrong, and the men could hoist it no higher. Rut if it did not go in its place it would fall back upon the men who were lifting it. It had already begun to seltlo back. The boss carpenter shouted: "Lift, men. or die! All together! Yo heave!" With mightier push they tried to send tho beam to its place, but failed. Still they held on. all the time their strength lessening. The wives and mothers and daughters stood in horror looking on. Then the boss carpenter shouted to the women, "Come and help!" They came, and womanly arms became the arms of giants, for they wore lifting to save the lives of husbands and fathers and sons as well as their own. Then the boss carpenter mounted one of the beams and shouted: "Now! Altogether! Lift or die! Yo, heave!" And with a united effort that almost burst the blood vessels the great beam went to its pi a en, and a wild bu..a was heard. That is the way it sometimes seems in the churches. Temples of righteousness are to be reared, but there is a halt, a stop, a catch somewhere. A few are lifting all they can, but we want more hands at this raising and more hearts, more Christian men to h Hp aye, more Christian wotuen to re-enforce. If the work fail, it means the death of many souls. All togHher! Men and women of Hod! I lft r die! The top st me UNist come to its place "with shoutings of grace, grace unto it." (Jod is ready to do his part. Are we ready do our partV There is work not only for the knee of prayer, but for the shoulder of upheaval. The chief objection to the charity that begins at home is its extreme domesticity, which prevents It from calling on any of lis neighbors.

AVALLER TO 0 FItEK.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTED. l'nll Kcport Submitted to Congress Five Men Killed on the Illinois) Central at Dongola " UatM Shea. Murderer of Al Ross, Is F.xccutcd. Waller to Be Liberated. Ambassador Rustis has been instructed accept the offer of the Flench tJo eminent to release cx-l'nited Stati-s Consul Waller from further imprisonment and I .ii'lou his offense e.;i condition liiat i'ao affair be thereby terminated as between Franc,- and tho Fnited States and that tlie l.i;:er make no claim in behalf of the prisen. r based upon ii:s at rest, conviction or imprisonment. Waller, may. however, sue in the Frcm-h courts for damages for ili in atmcnt. These facts, showing the amicable termination of the Waller in.-: .! at. appear in the corre-'ponden.-e sent to both houses of Congress Tucs'iay by tin I'i'cs'-ien; in answer to r solutions of in-juiry upon the subject. LIVES CRU3HZD CUT. AwTuI Results of a Wreck on the Illinois Central Near Dono'.i. A disastrous wreck .e-.-urred near I-n-o'.!. on in.' Illinois Central Iiailro.id. ".! mi!. -s fr. ni Chi.-ago. at (:!"i o'clock Tuesday in .ruing, between a 'engc train hound for Cliicago and a s.ea.ih -bo'-:;-! freight train. Five of she passenger en w were hilled and three hurt. None of tie- passengers was killed, and. so far as known, none was injured. Tue '.u iage to ihe railroad property is cry bi'-ivv -iv ill.. I'l-.e"bt i-rirs Wel'e fitted 1IO 1U i i frightful confusion. Passenger i-c-Ik ;;! . were totally wrecked, and the track torn up f..r a great distance. The men killed had homes in Cent ralia. as did those who Wire Wolllu'.ed. that being the end of the division. It is said that I'.ngiTieer Huntington had ample time to escape had he jumped when the light of the freight tirst appeared. I'ut he seems to have stin k to his jM.st tmkI done all iossible to reduce the force of the collision. The result is that he lost Iiis life, though he undoubtedly saved the lives of his passengers. Had he abandoned his engine in time to secure his own safely, the shock must have been iutetisiiied to a tremendous degree, and. instead of slight injuries, sei, res of passengers must have been killed. SLAUGHTER OF HOVAS. Thrilling Story of Carnage Sent from Antananarivo by a French Correspondent. A French newspaper published on the Island of Iteunion publishes a message from its correspondent at Antananarivo, dated .Ian. Ü1. and declaring that a frrcat conspiracy has been disi-overed there. The correspondent asserts that -l.'MMl H.,vas attacked the French, but wer' repulsed with a loss of :'.mh kilhNl. Continuing, the correspondent says a rumor has reached him that a number of French otliccrs and soldiers have been murdered, ami that fourteen Hova chiefs have been condeninil to death. He adds that the French Itesideiit ordered them to be shot immediately. ?ind that several other chiefs were sentenced to transportation. The news is not ollicially continued. WIND CAUSES HAVOC. Life-Saver Are Looking for the Crew of the Steam Lighter Lester. The steam lighter Lester, during a tierce storm Tuesday, sank off Itockawny Inlet. A New York tug" went to tlie rescue of her crew of nine ineii. The men at the lifesaving station at Koekaway Ilea eh believe tiiey were, saved. A report from Coney Island says the life-savers there saw two men hanging; to u yawl, and before help ould be given they sank out of sight. They also say they saw the Two l'.rothers pick up one man and that was all. All three stations are looking for the men. The wind was blowing, seventy-eight miles' an 'hour. "Bat" Shea Killed. liartholomew Shea died in the electrical chair at Danneniora. N. Y.. Tuesday, paying the penally for the murder of Robert Ross at Troy in March. IS'.U. When he was conducted into the death chamber he i-tarb'd as he came in sight of the electrical chair, but said nothing. The straps being adjusted, the priests in low tones read the service of the dead. While the priests read the first voltage was turned on. It was !:.,ii when Shea entered the nni and t:.N"i when he was pronounced dead. Package of Diamonds Seized. A package of cut diamonds, weighing ::.. carats and valued at .S.'t'MKlO. was seized by Special Treasury Agent lallen, of Philadelphia, on board the American Line steamship Rhyland front Liverpool. The package was in the possession of ('apt. Loeswitz and was addressed to the Herman Keehe Diamond Company. IM West Ith street. Cincinnati. The Captain den'uil any intent to smuggle the goods and said he had no know ledge of the contents of the package. Its Risks $930,000 and $50 on Hand. SuiM-rintendent of Insurance Halm, of Columbus. .. went to Toledo to investigate the Northwestern Fire Association. The company had .SWMMMI risks and only $.".0 on haml. Only ."1.."m was paid on losses amounting to .SIS.immi during Ihe year. The company asked for a receiver. PußS Knocked Out. President Cleveland signed the Catron anti-prize light bill Friday afternoon, making it a law in immediate effect. Chops His DaußMer to Pieces. At fAnlioeh, Miss.. Friday. T. W. Wood, agd .V years, murdered his daughter .Minnie, catching her in the back and striking In r no fewer than twehc times wit ii a hatchet, literally chopping 'her to pieces. Wood then lirod a ball into his heart, dying instantly. Bridge Collapse ut Ced.ord. Three temporary spans of a new tailroad bridge being erected across Tinkers Creek, south of 'h vcland. led. precipitating eight workmen into tiie reck. Five ,vei seriously hurt, one probably fatally. Houses Washed Away, l'arly Tuesday morning an immense water main burst with terrific force in Franklin avenue hill. Cleveland. Ohio, tiiid. with the great volume of water that poured out. several hundred feet of lite hill, on which were many small houses, was w.-'shed into the river.

MILES AND SITTING BULL.

An Interview Rctwce:.: the Two;.- 0c scribed by the (eiieral. M.ide insolent by recent -v Sitting Rull, in l?". sent v (nel L S. oiis. wl was s o:of Miles' supply !i;:ins. to g ; Ihe way. as ,e was se;ir;tg !! l:'.b. "If Mm don't." said t.; -s,'S, oinote. I will tight you again, to leave what voi have I W i '. I y..ii : and turn back. 1 mean all the f;i':..;;s you have got lid some powder." oloin l His. however, kept on. ti- !:!;. ms from time to tiii.e tiring tipo;i ii :i When Ceiieral Miles heard t i i s affair, he moved after Sitting It :!:. :.ml on the "Msi of U. tuber found h::M near the h.-ad of Cedar Creek. Ti:-' ''.,;i:i! niediciiie irati sent in a V.-'j: !' 'nice and an inlerviow w as held !! v -.t t i lines, umb r an agieeiin nt t!!V . - ':eral Miles should take si persons .::i h'.to and Silting ltull also six. "Sitting Lull." said the g-., a!, in telling the story to a write:', " .-:. a. I out a blanket atnl w.-mit d ; ; to ii down upon it. but I stood vi.;!.- he sal l wn. ,s we talked. ;f;ni another yeung Indian sauntered -in'il there were perhaps ten or .ii'e-! in a half eiivlo, i!!(. nf in v tiie'i . !'ed attent i !l to this. 1 said to Si' ' 'These Uli n ate Hot old council and um! s ymi s, n.j : : I'.. Til: :i f-r . '-:r-k ! we will stoi talking. Soow :;-d :,o; !- ii.ii a .toat. el e.. iim ':' e!l I i-';gh-0 n 1 1 g ::id.f 1 had 1 luluk 1 1n- im ii view i-aiiie to an en i -ing settled. I found on: 1, seout and interpreter n i ::. I .nigh ler. that one India: Km: j "W by don't vi.ji talk strong ' and that Sitting Jiiill jvp!';. 1 I .1.. I . , i n.i i i a in going to k 111 n. i: b r ais told n.e i hat one a warriors slipped a carbine Sitting Pull's buffalo robe, in miml the fat., of Canby a stl'Uoted the Hoops oil the to keep the spot in range." The next day came :i s view. The general tried duee the Indians to obey ' bietit and to go to their ivpe vaiious. Sitting Mull's anv. plmlie: The i treat Spirit made diau. lie did tioj make in. - I . titef- : i - d . : ;t-;-..s-.--I s ellla'l tnige'iey "lie." is i.se.':i ; it ;-i " iiini ; v mo of ihe :i Indian and I do not intend Seeing that further parley b ss, Ueiieral Miles gave an :!'. through the interpreter: "Tell him that either I will dr: out of the country or he will i: out. I will take no advantage lla of trin e and will ive hi::; tittee'i minutes to get back to his lin . If wy terms are not accepted by tin ;':: I will open lite." Sitting Mull slatted up wi'h a grunt and rushed out in a fury, foil -ved I v his chiefs, not stopping to shad; ;am!. In a very short time the Indian lines; were all astir with yelling i ;o. nnd with ponies scurrying at an. nr.. I presently ihe grass was burning l,i :e and there to stop all advance ..i the tri nips. Miles had with him orly "MS rilles. while the Indians swarmed in lor greater numbers in front ami on t ue thinks, but his men went forward wir.i :s rush ;ind the hostiles or .It i-en two score miles to the Veil .'. -lone, leaving some of their dead ;:i '.' flight. - Mil 'lute's Magazine. Newspapers vs. Posters. 1 struck an inland Indian ; : -w n recently, and about Ihe first t'iing I noticed was flaring posters announcing; the appearance of a second-rat star" at the local opera house th r evening. In tin ev-arse of my business 1 found fr.iyself in n drug; store where ;ho advance sab of seats was held, and after selling n bill of goods, asked for a ticket to the evening's performance. "Oh." said the young man '.eliind tin counter, "those people ain't :,;i:ig. They busted last work." "Why don't you take dow n or c.er up the posters, then?" I a -keif. "Oh. everybody knows ;!'. ain't reining. Il was in tin papers." Sure enough. The iminageni-eit trusted to half a dozen lines in the 1 o.-al papers to counteract the inllncn.-e of several stands of red. black .i:i l voliow p stefs. And the papers did U. Pr-!ably I was the only person in the town who had asked for a lick(M after '. newspaper announcement. Can you think of any better i!Ii;-ira-tioti of the relative value of newspaper advertising, and the u h.v kind: Push. Is lnrriau a l-'aihire? The Marl of Stafford iiiari;-.: a; S;. tJerniain. Pl'dl. Ihe eldest daughter of the Count de C.rainniont; in his will he thus expressed himself: "I leave to the very worst of women, who is guilty of everything that is bad. the daughter of M. Jramtnoiit. a Frenchman, whom 2 have unfortunately married, forty-five brass halfpence with which to buy a pullet for supper, a g'reaior sum lhan Iier father can often givo her. lie being the worst of men and bis wife tl. worst of women. Had 1 only known their characters. 1 bad never married their daughter nor made luys 'If .so un happy." A Lover d' Pi'Cton Folklore. Le Yieointe Ileiisart de I i ille marque, who died the other day al the age of SO. bail done probably more than anyone in bis generation to popnk.fi.' the know ledge of P.reton folk hu e. folkpoetry and folk-music in France. His "Uai.a. Iltie." a collodion of the pop. ular songs of Prittany. with Iii. original melodic and critical excursus and iioles. is a slandatil work. Uo was ib.. first to pro ble a translation el" i'-.e I'd'eloU l;tlls of lllo earliest ej.o, hv. A llecdincnt ol' Plows, tine hundred and sixty plows st ir. in a row at a recent plowing madd at Ihulforil. Idiirlainl. Cwls like to talk about love, bei-.iusrt al' if thuMii know oejf verse I hey cuu yuQte about iu