Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 March 1896 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. YEAR'S NATAL XOTES. THE GREAT PROGRESS MADE IN EQUIPPING WARSHIPS. Only a Limited Number of a Very Important Volume Printed by the Cot eminent Holme' Sentence of Death Sustained. Digest of the Volume. Tho Navy Department has issued its annual volume of note? on the year's naval progress. Owing to one of the restriction imposed by the last printing act, it lias not been possible to print more than J .t M m i copies of this valuable work, notwithsta ruling the fa ft that this number is less than the number of naval otlicers on the active lists, who are supposed to be Mipplie.l with the work in furtherance of their technical education. So the department has been obliged to cut off not only the press and foreign legations, heretofore Mipp'ied as a oiirtesy. but also all of the junior otlicer of the service, the very persuiis who .vuiiM most benefit by the study o-f the volume. The leading feature of ihis number is a set of preliminary notes on the Japan-Chinese war. compiled by Lieut-. M. .M. Witzel and L. Karmany, who were present in Chines,, waters during tie' late war. A chapter en suiall anus shows the l'uropean powers have found a caliber as small as .17 entirely feasible for a title, arid, in fact, are looking forward to still smaller calibers. The boiler of the future, thai of the tubular type, is thoroughly discussed and illustrated, and its merits compared with the present style of boilers, and there is the usual list of new vessels under construction by all of the naval powers, with descriptions of their novel features. Technically, the chapter of greatest interest to naval students i that telling of the naval maneuvers conducted lat year by the powers of Europe. It may surprise the American public to learn that during the Rritiöh maneuvers no less than forty-eight ships broke down in some more or less important portion of the machinery, requiring in auost cas.M to be put out of action for repairs. One lesson derived by the British from the experience was that the maintenance of a high rate of speed is one of the best safeguards for a ship while in waters supposed to be infested by torpedo boats. WEYLER'S COVERT THREAT. Will Not Protect Americans If Recognition Is Granted the Insurgents. ('apt. Oen. Weyler. the commander-in-chief of the Spanih army in Cuba said: "1 have no information from the Government at Madrid upon its views, and I will not. therefore, discuss a subject of such extremely delicate diplomatic importance. I will say. however, that a nation which J always' supjose.l to be friendly to Spain Jias taken .steps through its Congress to recognize as honorable enemies people who burn, steal, and destroy; who hang a peaceful citizen for attempting to pursue his lawful business, and who tight by destroying the property of noncombatants. 1 cannot, understand the sentiments which Jed the I'nited States Congress to do what -it has .lone. If recognition of belligerency is formally declared American property will lose the legal rights of protection by my soldiers it now enjoys. There are extensive American interests here, and if the United States recognizes the rebels they relieve my Government and myself from responsibility." BURN AN AMERICAN FLAG. Incendiary Act Causes the Universities at Madrid to Be Closed. There were renewed disturbances at M:idrid Wednesday ami demonstration!? of popular anger against the United States Government. The students seem to have been the offenders or the leaders in the demonstration. In spite of the special juvarbitioti directed against them by the Government, the students and toher inhabitants indulged in renewed manifestationn of thir unfriendly sentiments against th United States. They assembled before the Madrid University and there publicly burned an American flag. Tiie police dispersed the meeting after making several arrests. As a result, the abinet council decided temporarily to close the universities. It is also decided to create a special budget fr naval armaments. H. H. HOLMES MUST HANG. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Sustain the Death Sentence. The Supreme Court of IVnusylvaai.i. in a decision by Justice Williams, oerrulcd all assignments of error in the ease of II. II. Holmes, sentenced to death for murdering Renamin 1 Piud and continued the judgment of the court below. The opinhm says no substantial error ha been pointed out and the evidence fully sustained the verdict. The papers in the case are in the hands of Gov. Hastings, who. it is Indieved, will fix an early day for the execution of the notorious criminal. Holmes has lately been making preparations for the gallo. v. To Get Big Game for Fitld Museum. Prof. Oani.l Oiraude Llliott. 1 K. S. 11.. the author of "North American Shore Kirds." sailed from New York via the Xew York on a hunting expedition to the inferior of Africa, to secure big game for lhe Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, lie will ban. under him s l.. oomi. One Million for His Sight. "I will pive $1.hnmhn to any man who irill restore to me my eyesight." So said Charles Rn.ad.vay Roiiss, a New York iiinlti millionaire. He is paying the penalty of twenty years of overwork. His forUim; is roughly estimated at $lMi"0,Andrea Will Start in July. Henry ,und, consul of Norway and Sweden at Sail Francisco, has received jiji oflici.il communication from tin Sued jsh minister at Washington calling his attention to the fact that Professor Andrew will start in bis balloon next .Inly to attempt to reach the north pole. Hundred Men in Peril. Fire broke out in the Cloopbas coal mine at Kattowitz, Prussian Silesia. The bodies of twenty-one victims have been recovered, but the fate of the miners enttouibed, about 10", is still uncertain.

LIKE SHEEP ASTRAY.

AND REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT MEANS EVERYBODY. The First Uilf of the Text Is an Indictment, but the Last Opens the Door Widely to Heaven A Glad Gospel Sound at the Nation's Capital. Sermon from the Capital. The gospel sends out its gladdest sound In this sermon from the nation's capital. Immense throngs pack and overflow the church to which lr. Talmage preaches twice each Sabbath. His text this morning was Isaiah liii.. i: "All we. like sleep, have gone astray. We have turned every one to Iiis own way. and the Lord hath laid on him the Iniquity of us all." Once more I ring the old gospel bell. The first half of my next text is an indict- j meat, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." Someone says: "(.'a n't you drop that tirst word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a circle." Some man rises in the audience, and lie looks over on the opposite side of the house and says; "There is a blasphemer, and I understand how lie has gone astray, and there in another part of the house is a defaulter, an 1 lie has gone astray, and there is an impure J . , . . ' person, ami lie has gone :iit:i. rsi down, my brother, ami look at home. My text takes us all i:i. It star's behind tin pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room and j conies back to the point where it staned. ! when it says, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray.'' j I can very easily understand why Martin Luther threw up his hands after he! hail found the ltible and cried out. "Oh. j my si:i, my sins!" and why the publican, j according to the custom to this day in the! east, when tiny have any great grief, be pan to beat himself ami cry as he niot. upon his breast, "God be merciful to nie. j a sinner." I was. like many of you. brought up in the country, and I know fiotne of the habits of sheep, and how they get astray, and what my text means w hen ; it says. "All we. like sheep, have gone astray.' Sheep get astrav in two ways 1 1 i either by trying to get into other pasture j or from being scared by the dogs, in the! former way some of us got astray. We j thought the religion of Jesus Chris put j us on short commons. We thought there j was better pasturage somewhere else. We j thought if we could only lie down on the banks of a distant stream or under great oaks on the other side of some hill w e j might be better fed. Wo wanted other pasturage than that which (Jod, through Jesus Christ, gave our soul, and we wandered on, and we wandered on. and we Were lot. We wanted bread, and we found garbage. The farther we wandered j instead of finding rich pasturage we found blasted heath anJ sharper rocks and more j stinging nettles. .u pasture. How was it in the club house when you lost your child? Did they come around and help you very much? Iid your worldly associates console you very much? Did not the plain Christian man who came inio your! house and sat up with your darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associates? Did all the convivial songs you ever heard comfort you in that day of bereavement so much r.s the song they pang to you perhaps the very song that was sung by your little chiM the las; Sabbath afternoon of her life? There is a happy land Far, far away. Where saints immortal reign Ilrighr, bright as day. A Man. a Soul. Did your business associates in that day of darkness and troub:e give yuii any especial condolence? Rusiness exasperated you, business wore you out, business left you limp as a rag. but you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to comfort hi in! The world afforded you no luxuiant pastur-I age. A famous Luglish actor stood on the tage impersonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thonga? it was the proudest moment of all his life, but there was a man asleep just in front of him. and the fact that that man was indifferent and somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him, and lie cried: "Wake up! Wake up!" So one little annoyance in life has been more invading to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations and success. Poor pasturage for your soul you lind in this world. The world has cheated you, the world has belied you. the world has misinterpreted you, the world has persecuted you. It never comforted you. Oh, this world is a good rack from which a horse may pick his food; it is a good trough from which the swine may crunch their mess, but it gives but little fool to a soul blood bought and immortal! What is a soul? Jt is a hope high as the throne of (Jod. What is a man? You ay, "It is only a man." It is only a man gone overboard in sin. It is only a man gone overboard in business life. What is a man? The battleground of three worlds, with his hands taking hold of destinies of light or darkness. A man: No line can measure him. No limit an bound him. The archangel before the throne cannot outlive him. The stars Khali die, but he will watch tbir extinguishment. The world will burn, but he will gaze at the conflagration. landless ages will march on. He will watch the procession. A man! The masterpiece of God Almighty. Yet you say, "It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed un husks of the wilderness? Substantial comfort will not grow On nature's barren noil; All we can boast till Christ we know Is vanity and toil. Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage, others by being scared by the dogs. The hound gets over into the pasture field. The poor things fly in every direction. In a few moments they are torn of the hedges, and they nre plashed of the ditch, and the lost sheep never gets home unless the farmer goes after it. There is nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It may have been in 1S"7, during the financial panic, or during the financial stress in the fall of IST.'l, when you got astray. You almost became an atheist. You said, "Where is God that honest men go dow n and thieves prosper?" You were dogged of creditors, you were dogged of the banks, you were (fogged of worldly disaster, and some of you went into misanthropy , and some of you took to trong drink, and others of you fled out of Christian association, and you got nsray. Oh. man, that was the last time when you ought to have forsaken God! Standing amid the foundering of your carl lily failures, how could you get along without a God to comfort you, ami a find to deliver you, and a (Jod to lu lp you. and a (Jod to Mtt you? You tell me you hove been

through tnoujrh business trouble almost to kill' you. I know it. 1 cannot understand how the boat vuld live one hour in that chopped sea. Hut 1 do not know by what process you got astray, some hi one way and some in another, and if you could really see the position some of you occupy before God your soul would burst into an agony of t-ars, and you would pelt the heavens with the cry. "God have mercy 1" Sinai's batteries have lteen uidimbered above your soul, and at times you have heard it thunder: "The wages of sin is death." "All have sinned and cotne short of the glory of God." "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. and so death passed upon all men. for that all have sinned." "'1 he soul that sinneth, it shall die." When Sevastopol was being bombarded, two Russian frigates burned

all night in the harbor, throwing a glare upon the trembling fortress, and some of you, from what y..u have told me yourselves, some of you are standing in the night of your soul's trouble, the cannonade, and the conflagration, and the multiplication, and the multitude of your sorrows and troubles-, 1 think, must make the wings of God's hovering angels shiver to the tip. A Debt Payer. Hut the List part of my text opens a door wide enough to let us all out and to let all heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all the stops out. Thrum it on the Itarps with all the strings atune. With all j the melody possible let the heavens s ind it to tic earth and let the earth tell it to the heavens. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity -if us all." 1 am glad that the prophet did :;oT stop to explain whom he meant by "him." Him of the manger, him of the blcedy sweat, him of tie : arrection throne, him of the enn-'ü v i., agony. "On him the Lord halh laid the inhpiity of us all." "Oh." says some man. "that isn't generous, that isn't fair: let every man carry his own burden and pay Iiis own debts." That sounds reasonable. If I have an obligation, and I have the means to meet it, and I come t you and ask you to settle that obligation, you rightly say. "Fay your own debts." If you and I are walking down the street, both hale, lo-arty and well, and 1 ak yon to carry me. you say rightly, "Walk on your own fe.-t." Hut suppose you and I were in a regiment, and I was wounded in the battle juid I fell unconscious at your feet with gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? You would all to your comrades, saving: "Com. and help! This man is helpless. Bring the ambulance. Let us take him 1o the hospital." And I would be a dead lift in your arms, and you would lift me from the ground where I had fallen and put me in the ambulance and take me : the hospital and have all kindness shown no. Would there 1m anything benieaning in my accepting that kindness? oh. no. You would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ does. If we could pay our debts, then it would bo better to go up and pay them, saying: "Here. lrd. here is my obligation; hen- are the means with which I mean to settle that obligation. Now give me a receipt. Cross it all out." The debt is paid. Hut the fact is, we have fallen in the battle; we hate gone down under the hot fire of our transgressions; we have been wounded by the sabers of sin ; w e are helpless; we are undone. Christ comes. The loud clang heard in the sky on that Christmas night was only the bell, the resounding bell of the ambulance. Clear the war f.r the Son of God. He comes down :.' bind up the wounds and to scatter the darkness and to save the lost. Clear the way for the Son of God. Christ comes down to tis. and we are a d;ad lift. He di es not lift us with the tips of his fingers. He docs not lift us with one arm. He comes down upon his knees, and then with a dead lift he raises us to honor and glory and immortality. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Why, then, will a man carry Iiis sins? You cannot carry successfully the smallest sin you ever committed. You might as well put the Apennines on one shoulder and the Alps on the other. How much less can you carry all the sins of your lifetime? Christ conies and looks down in your face and says: "1 have come through all the lacerations of these, days and through all the tempests of these nights; I have come to bear your burdens and to pardon your sins and to pay your debts. I'ut them on my shoulder, put them on my heart." "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Sin has almost pestered the life out of some of you. At times it has made you cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled the brightness of your days and the peace of your nights. There are men who have been riddled of sin. The world gives them no solace. Gossamery and volatile the world, while eternity, as they look forward to it, is black as midnight. They writhe under the stings of a conscience which proposes to give no rest here and no rest hereafter, and yet they do not repent; they do not pray; they do not weep. They do not realize that just the isition they occupy is the position occupied by scores, hundreds and thousands of men who never found any hope. A Letter. If this meeting should be thrown open, and the people who are here could give their testimony, what thrilling experiences we should hear on all sides! There is a man who would say: "L had brilliant surroundings, 1 bad the best education that one of the best collegiate institutions of this country could give, and I observed all the moralities of life, and 1 was selfrighteous, and I thought I was all right before Cod as I am all right before man, but the Holy Spirit came to me one day and said, 'You are a sinner.' The Holy Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While I had escaped the sins .against the law of the land I had really committed the worst sin a man ever commifs -the driving back of the Son of God from my heart's affections-and I saw that my hands wore red with the blood of the Sou of God, and I Ix'gan to pray, and peace came to my heart, and J know by experience that what you say is true." "Dn him the Ird hath laid the iniquity of us all!" Yonder is a man who would say: "I was the worst drunkard in the oily; I went from bad to worse; I destroyed myself; 1 destroyed my home; my children cowered when 1 entered the house; when they put up their lips to be kissed, I struck them; when my wife protested against the maltreatment, I kicked her into the street. I know all the bruises and all the terrors of a drunkard's woe. I went on farther and farther from God, until one day I got a letter, saying: "My Dear Husband -I have tried everyway, done veiything and prayed earnestly and fervently for your reformation, but it eeuis of no avail. Jjtinee our little Henry died, with the exception f those few happy week when you remained trubcr, my lifo had beta we of sorrow.

Many of the nights 1 have set by tb tv!b dow, with my face bathed in tears, watching for your coming. I am broken heart

ed, I am sick. Mother and father have been here frequently and begged me to come home, but my love for you and my hope for brighter days have always made me refuse them. That hope seems now beyond realization, and 1 have returned to them. It is hard, and 1 battled long before doing it. May God bless and preserve you and take from you that accursed appetite, and hasten the day when we shall be again living happily together. This will bo my daily prayer, knowing that he has said, 'Come unto n:e, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' From your loving wife, "MAHY. "And so I wandered on and wandered on," says that man. "until one night I passed a Methodist meeting house, and I said to myself, 'I'll go in and see what they are doing.' and 1 got to the door, and they were singing: "All may come, whoever will This man receives poor sinners still. "And I dropped right there where I was, and I said, 'God. have mercy V and he had mercy on me. My home is restored, my wife sings all day long during work, my children come out a long way to greet me home, and my household is a little heaven. I will tell you what did all this for me. It was the truth that this lay you proclaim, 'Da him the Lord bath laid the iniquity of us all.' " loader is a woman who would say: "I wandered off from my fither's house; 1 heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul; my feet were blisiere l on tin hot rocks; 1 went on and on. thinking that no one cared for my soul, w hen one night Jesus met me. and he said: 'Poor thing, go home! Your father is waiting for you; your mother is waiting for you. (Jo home, poor thing!" An 1. sir, I was too weak to pray, and 1 was too weak to repent, but I jut cried out I ' sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on the j shoulders of him of whom it is said, 'The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us ali.'" A Christian Grip. There is a young man who would say: "I had a Christian bringing up; I camo ffoiu the country to city life; I started well; I had a good position a good commercial position but one night at the thealer I met some young men who did me no good. They dragged me all through he sewers of iniquity, and I lost my morals, and I lost my position, and I was shabby and wretched. I was going down the street thinking that no one cared for nie when a young man tapped me on the shoulder and said. 'George, come with me, and I will do you good.' 1 looked at him to see whether he was joking or not. 1 saw he was in earnest, and 1 said, 'What do you mean, sir:' 'Well,' he replied. 'I mean that if you will come to the meeting to-night I will be very glad to introduce you. 1 will meet you at the dour. Will you come?' Said I. 'I will.' I went to the place where I was tarrying. 1 fixed myself up as well as I could. I buttoned my coat over a ragged vest, and I went To the door of the church, and the young man me; me, and we went in. and as I went in I heard an old man praying, and he looked so much like my father, I sobbed right out, and they were all around so kind and so sympathetic that 1 just there gave my heart to God. and I know that what you say is true; I know it in my own experience." "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Oh. my brother, without stopping to look whether your hand trembles or not. without stopping to look whether your hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand and let me give you one warm, brotherly, Christian grip and invite yon right up to the heart, to the compassion, to the sympathy, to the pardon of him on whom the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all. Throw away your sins. Carry them no longer. 1 proclaim emancipation to all who are bound, pardon for all sin aud eternal life for all the dead. A Michty Load. Some one comes here to-day, and I stand aside, lie comes up three steps. He comes to this place. I must stand aside. Taking that place, he spreads abroad his hands, and they were nailed. You see hia feet; they were bruised. He pulls aside the robe ami shows you his wounded heart. I say, "Art thou weary?" "Yes," he says, "weary with the world's woe." I say, "Whence comest thou?" He says, "I came from Calvary." I say, "Who comes with thee?" He says, "No one; I have trodden the wine press alone." I say. "Why comest thou here?" "Oh," he says, "I came here to carry all the sins and sorrows of the people." And he kneels. He says, "I'ut on my shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins." And, conscious of my own sins first, I take them and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God. 1 say, "Canst thou bear any more. O Christ?" lie says, "Yea; more." And I gather up the sins of 'all those who serve at these altars, the officers of the church of Jesus Christ. I gather up all their sins, and 1 put them on Christ's shoulders, an 1 I say, "Canst thou War any more?" He says, "Yes; more." Then I gather up all the sins of a hundred people in this house, and I put them on the Shoulder- of Christ, and I say, "Canst thou bear more?" He says. "Yea, more." And 1 gather up all the sins of this assembly and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God. and I say, "Canst thou bear them?" "Yea," he says; "more." Hut he is departing. Clear the way for him. tho Son of God! Open the door and let him pass out. He is carrying our sins and bearing them away. We shall never see them again. He throws them down into the abyss, and you hear the long, reverberating echo of their fall. "On him the Ird hath laid the iniquity of us all." Will-yon let him take your sins today, or do you say, "I will take charge of them myself, 1 will tight my own battles, 1 will risk eternity on my own account?" I know not how near some of you have come to crossing the line. In this day of merciful visitation while many are coming into the kingdom of God join the procession heavenward. Seated in my church was a man who came in who said. "I don't know that there is any (Sod." That was on Friday night. I said, "We will kneel down and find out whether there is any God." And in the second seat from the pulpit we knelt. He said: "I have found him. There is a Jod. a pardoning God. I feel him here." lie knelt in the darkness of sin. He arose two minutes afterward in the liberty of the gospel, w hile another sitting tinder the gallery on Friday night said: "My opportunity is gone. Last week I might have been saved; not now. The door is shut." "Heboid the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world." "Now is the accepted lime. Now is the day of salvation." "It is appointed unto all men once to die and after that Um Judgment,",

I II AVK A LUCID PERIOD

BRITAIN AND VENEZUELA COME TO THEIR SENSES. Will Arbit rate and Settle the Ynrnan I iictdent Nc w ami Important Pension Killing Italy Hay of Woe in Abyssinia The Sealing Oticstion. Get Their Heads Tocether. it na iM-eii ,earucii :mi; tn !;.::! ambassador in Washington. Sir .Lilian I'auneefute. and the Yenczueian minister. Seiiur Andrade. have entered into direet negotiations for a settlement of tie Vuruan iin-ident whieh involved the arrest of a llritish police ollicial in the territory in dispute between Vene u r la and Grent itritain. the hauling down of she lritih Hag and a subsetjuenr demand t'r an indemnity upon the par: of Great Itriiaiu. It is impossible i. Nam ! what stae this prospect i e i iotiien: ,,f tiie nio-t important incident ariin mit of the dispute over tho Vcuei;e'a i) b.cmd:try has advanced, but there ;'nn reason to believe sollle definite :t I! 1 1 o a 11 . -omen; onoeming the matter may be epeeied at an early day. CRUSHING BLOW FCR ITALY. Her Army Routed, 3,000 Troops Slain, ami Her Artillery and Stores Captured. haiy lias sustained a staggering blowin her operations in Abyssinia. Mne report has it i hat o.i h n l ..I' the Italian oIr.ers w .;(. killed, and that among them Were Gens. Albeit. me and 1 a rl H 11 id a . who comma tided two of the three columns. Atiotlm- rumor says that Gen. la rat ieri, when "no became aware of the full extent of the disaster, wrote a ietter to his su.i ess,.-. Gen. Italdissera. and tie-n committed suicide by shooting himself through the lnart with a revolver. The Italian force advanced in three columns under Gens. Alhertoiie. Ariniondi. and Jarbor - mida. with a brigade under Gen. Illlena. ::s a reserve. The Italians cap'ured the passes leading to Ad-.wa. the capital of Tigre. and Gen. Albert. .tie's cluum then advance. on Abbacarima. it was soon afterward attacked by the Shoan i.rmy and compelled to retreat. The other -..!- uiiins were unable to render him 4iny assistance, as they were diort'y afterward engaged in defending themselves against large numbers of the enemy and eventually retired from Ileliesa. According to the correspondent in Africa of the I'opo.. Kein a no half I lie Itfilian artillery and all ; in ammunition and pr.u ishms were lost. Other advices report that .'!.hm of tiie Italian s..:.r.crs engaged in the battle

were killed, and mat among tliem are';,,.,., I le r. fa.-,; the pro- ne i i Gen. Albertone and Iarbonuida. wh ' fr.,;n l.,-i:n.l t..:-.- :i:id struck li'::?

command.. two of the three columns, The number of wounded is not yet stated. Itome is jibhize with rage and indigintion. and i: is likely the ministry will resign. Government has ordered the mobilization of tin reserves, SM'Hi nu-ri. NO PENSION FOR A CONSCRIPT. Involuntary Service Held Not to Entitle a Soldier to Bounty. A number of new rulings in pension eases are made by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Reynolds in recent opinions. In disposing of a case of alleged disloyalty of a Tennesscan, the assistant secretary holds that involuntary service by a conscript does mt bring a claimant for pension within the provisions of section -171' of the revised statutes. Ail honorable discharge from ali service c.ititracted to be performed during the war of the rebellion is held to be a prerequisite to a pension under the second section of the aet of dune J7. IM, and the appellant's desertion from the Fnlted States service and failure to receive an honorable discharge bars his right to pension under that act. This, though rejecting the claim because of desertion, reverses the action of the pension bureau, which dropped the claimant from the rolls "on lhe ground of disloyalty, he having previously served in the Confederate arniv." REGULATION OF SEAL FISHERIES. Canada Declares Proposed Division Is Aimed at Dominion Vessels. From an oflicial document which has been laid before parliament it is evident that the Canadian authorities are resisting the pressure from the I'nited States Government for a revision of the l.ehring Sea regulations on the ground that the obvious intention of the reprisal is to destroy the Canadian industry of pelagic sealing. The whole matter is set forth in a rejvort from Hon. Costigan. minister of marine and fisheries, which shows from statistics that in spite of harassing regulations the sealing industry is not decreasing in importance. The Canadian yield for ls'.'ö was 1'5xni skins more than the average for the last seven years. The report concludes that as the seals are not becoming ex tiner the need for a revision of the regulations does uut exist. Dr. Palmer's Singular Death. lr. W. P. Palmer, of Richmond. Va.. and his rector were discussing the Venezuelan message and the doctor condemned the president's utterances in strong terms. He suddenly lost all power of speech and had to be removed to a hospital, w le-re he died. He never recovered his faculty of speech. Horror in Mesopotamia. Torrential rains have occurred in Mesopotamia, and as a consequence the River Tigris has overllowed. vast tracts of land being Hooded. In the Anna district a tioiuad tribe of '.: Arabs were drowned, .lid over ."O.iKM cattle perished in lhe Mood. The damage to property is enormous. Oklahoma Officials Indicted. The Grand Jury of Kay County. Oklahoma, besides returning indictments against county commissioners, have now indicted Han IS. Law head, registrar of deeds, and Virgil 11. ltrown. probate judge, charging them with malfeasance in utlice. and drunkenness. Piano Factory Burned. At Xew York, the live-story brick building occupied by Stuttz V I'.auer. piano manufacturers, was gulte.l by lire. Con tents, machinery and stock were completely destroved. Loss, about $ 1 1 M I. Probably Fatal Fire at Duluth. At Oululh. Minn., tire broke out at -o'clock Saturday morning in the O'RrienKuowltou RIock. A strong wind wablowing and nothing could save the struc ture. Jt is feared that several lives have bern lost. Several persons were injured by jumping.

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Terrible Statt of Affairs- in remtt nti.iric of Indiana. Seercta r.v 15 '. : of Charities, re;-..: a (fairs with victs in tin- :!- are c.yjiliiied in :: oil otlicia 1 - .Me I'M, them. r to phi.-,. ,';, ..: tie- S-ate V-.i-'I : s ; pitiful e ci iiti :i of , : -o lie- i'is:iM.- -'. - .;th. :" ni;- of '. .'.il ;::s;itu'io:!. The ie.e to pr-cer:y ci.--- '.-t !. :i: -o thai .io'ir .' wi:i nt .rs: .:. - a :r le.jo.v c.if. ..-. Yhere are no i ad .! cells i'l the p.'. n. i and when Uc -t t;e couvi.'s he. im i ... j violent tiie . neii. selves again.-.". . .! " !ui Ai.'t irui oa fs a il l stone 1'oof. i.r : !;'. w t tiemseives up ' i -i :g neir fac - and . I reipient I in :i. -t gh.:;iy m ..r; be restrained Mil le'.igtii and :. Life in such a :. r than dealti. ? - streams, nigh 1 cars of tlh" The only way t l y stretehin;' them a Them ha n 1 and :' : I' ll IS Sr.lPi'iV " ; Willie tin -if ii'-ie.. day. keep p'c i con :cl s. ! '.i. lllofe !.'.: Mi' .in.! '. i '. r i.l -'.gat can be iiing1 o ; sa s sC' ret a ;-v 11. . kueli. "than he, g : i. i:i their dark. : '.g terrible though' : .m- is parlh "'.:; ii.is sad cMidi! . The loveruor - r r :.val to 1 he . - ( s.i in- . on h-; - : -.. ; 1 ee! ;s. 1 ; Iii!!- i . I ae ! her c. ci It is claimed a: faul! b.-.-aas,-i lie eon jei ; :. a power d : : ! iii.spi'a !. a..d made. As a : : manager a"c .-. patient, if "iii.i to es. c 1 ' i . lal fac'iliie. iei; friends .e he- ! he cuvc'l. ! '' removals ha v : .vever. ih. t: .. to rectivii:-, -ic use they are ;.' 'hey recover the::- "i: cause the re! 1 1 n- ' .i:.e patients o'a; . :i : ered lor : r'. im i.osp-tal.S of lhe :t iy li 1 1 i re now led. with :' a pp! lea ! io'i f. ' action. A ih' i : i a: ihff !' tic will permit the additi'nai path Iml-shin awnti'tg ale tiow 'ein ; a'e institution-1. -i.l-. on of 'oss:M . Fully th.i t r.) . p'-cple are now i : i T v poof '.tut! 'i 's v confined i-i th .1 ci. i l I'll I . if : in n it more. ! . various ja';'.ra zy ,1 . Violent ones i ; 1 .". . ui:h their condition very little '.et t " .i; i i t;1;ll ,,f uiie.j rv-. ; . r.hkne!! r.-!:-. ! MURDERED BY SALOONKEEPER, j Freeman I'ritclu tt In l.e.if'" .not J K icUul to Heath. A murder- ' night. Ma rix i cliarme ottte-ed nan Pritche? it-red at I'owI.m- ': the evening I'h.m.c . .h,i:i owned by 3 :..! pawned tiie hi" la 1 wat.-h for M. II' returned li: 1 I o'clock to fe.h-en. tiie pled vhe V hen refue.i ' i.-:iv r the v.-jti he had been paid a '.H).cent whisl; which he claimed D I' iianne 'W-d j j ,,,.;,., ..iu,. u.( , .ccred to hvivo ' j f.,,v knocking hin. e:,sJess. U yr;:. s ! interfere.!, but P.-'.-ch.-u broke iwr. a d again aan!"ed nis fallen victim by -.ia:."-Ing his foot in his ;.,, c. He til "U !"!-- .! the lifeless b..d ;:.".. j he street .1.1.1 it leaning again: a t'e :.. Later I'n' friends ioad.d o..dv into a nggagc art an. We act 't .lie away when Nig.'it poih-eman M n v; s '- -se appeared at.d :ook charge '. :i tie meantime Prit het had been ass:::- i ,it of town, but he v:: arrested at Il.i-i P.i rk at daylight jus: : he was hoarding : i .i - ago tram. 1 1 - w;. given a pre!; i hearing and noiii.d .ver to awaP ;-h ! I r e.l of the grand jury investigation ' I ; W ill be x ll det. :. . . SIX PRISONERS ESCAPE. Hold Jail Delivery at South K -nd Rope- Made of IMaiiket-i. The boldest j.ih delivery in 'Ii" l:.: -r of northern heihu a occurred S- ; Rend the ..th.i- :'ght a tid wa covered untii the --eils were breakfast time ;: xt morning. I' i W.I I'l-I'l that "-uiiet hing was wrong ana i . : i ti the prisoners dn.wed six inis.sejg. escaped prisoners sawed thr."th of a cell, effecting an entrance on roof, ami then 1. ; thems.-lve 1 iw ropes made from blankets. rij. l'i! o' : lie . i : h a re Rert and Will A'ukrson. brothers, TV. Clark. John I lempeustall, Willi. im ''anl.i and Tim mas Mcll nry. The l rs.,:i brothers were awaiting trial ? ir vii . i sale robbery, and had they b ':i .".i:e,J would have been he'd for a-'em-r :t:' : murder Turnkey Charles Van I,.j!v . McIlenry is charged with cutting md -.no: murdering a man iu a Lake Sir - i.. car west of S u;h Rend a few vecis ago. t '.ill ill w as awaiting trial lor re .t ing stolen goods and i "lark for p,1tt 'a :.;! . 1 lempeiistall had recently served i t'-cir-lei ti ycar term iu tin Indiana pris t i .e.i 't and was held fr larceny. The m--; are srill at large and there is no ..i 'V 1. : hereabout. Minor State News. Sheriff Alexander arrived a 1 i ,m from Alexandria, ha ving iu -.: s n 'ha. P. Rcigg. who is charged w'rh ' -gv.g tc name of lldiry Iavis to a :: M.. which was sold jo Charles 1'. ' .:. . ii.i being arraigned he ph aded n g ii y a -id was sent to jaii in default t i 1 . I bond. Charles Rodger. ., Loga::; v." ;:.! William Holli ii.r S.'i.ihki f,,-- i ; ia.i::g his ife" affections. Roth ar i i":w-r. and a few da s ago had a ..'-. ' . il encounter in which each was w o;;i i-d in he hand while struggling for 'he ; -- sion of a rco!er. Mrs. Kodg: - . a -tor t. Mrs. Iloliis. who i det i Miss 1111a i '"in.atigiiton. ..' l'i;-,. :;. aged 17. had her I f I eye biri ';, ; t i; i s tcket and her nose lacerated ':,- ,t.: ciraged goose whieh slic caug!tr i :.: for" her parents" silver wedding y il Tin p!iy sit-ia lis hope to save the g;.-:'-. .-:. if fever of lhe p". ic !te;e doe- ;!..(. but her beauty is marred f : - Louis Oucnwcg. .f Terr.- Hi . been wishing that Iiis liainl.i::: residence a. Lake Mavink-n lv the other side of the lake, a::d had s , o yy t II c'ted the fact that the co.uitry surr.o .g the shore for llti'te miles was to i.i.'v : make removal possible. Wh.: - c.;( snap froze the ice to a thickness ' , :gliteen inches lie moved (lie house low u to the lake and then slid it on the ;.. From lli'ire across the lake it was .m .n-- ;,,!. C. J. Cobleigh. proprietor .:" h. p;an. case factory at Teile Haute, a-.j j .,:! signnienl. The li.i bid t ics a p.-cs t .. ;lt bUKMi and tiie properly assj..tk. . IHM, subjett to a mortgage j."',.ihhi. The crusade "lMaugiw.-i ted by ih:Utian working boJies of Anders:: ig.iinst the cigarette habit was alvnuoi from all pulpits Sunday. The Ovri ::! wiif enact an ordinance identical with ;.. l iw recently pascd til Lincoln. Neb , Instructing the police to make arrests Kid p;-c-rihing a lineoi iml less than S.V, i i any , " here a person under Is v.. ir ji ag ' -''tfJ,t siri-kmg a cigarette. .