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i t PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD' 1.00 lr Yt&r in advmce. . . 1 VOL- VI. DUNN. N., C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 189(5. NO.l. i i OMTY THE SHAH ASSASSINATED Persia's Despot Shot by a Fanatic at Teheran. Mi'rlDERED IN A MOSQUE. A.-.sir. A',n Vas Sore and the Mon h is Head It Kis Palace Tragic End ,: : Lar.tr Tiei.ijn and a Idfo Filled W illi StlniR?: Incident IH Sucses f ri is Muzanpr-rd-TMn. Tr.HF.RAV. Persia, Hay 2. Nasr-ed-Deen, f h :"i of Persia, was entering a shrine near hir v-sierday, when an assassin, disguised a ..rri.n. dre-.v arifol and fired at him, near the heart. The - !ii onea conveyed to his -i v.-t'a all speed to the i" 1 two hours later. The It is believed that WVH!- el n'- carriage n.- 1 pala-- V - V' V" T : V.-.Kl- riJ": "AS th!5 Shah WOS r ir.r.-r curt of the shrine of Ar.m. t;r assassin, who is said . . . . 1 fro.ii n n. nnraed Mollah '"v..--! th fatal shot. The Shah was '. i y r- .--.-Af physician, Dr. Tholo .:'. . ....'ans. The as?as ; I much a'arm. Prince -' i!: :'i the third son of the . j L..- to.race at the request of -.r heir to the throns, -- :-.);i. i at Tabriz. H-iwillleave :.'.v.i as m as p-o-sibl. A posi- :i f-.r Vs Time is tliat there has i m U; ::ni''nt for some time owing :-.-.:i:".-s oT provisions, partly caused .'-ive U o copper coin3." o r: - m . ; -v. ' S -.i' -Kill.'. . t"? 71 ..' f- r !ii U r- : t; bv tL " Thi its at VWsliiTixtoTj. Wism.-toros, May 2: Secretary Olney at 3 p. aj. y -:- r lay r.-c;-iv.d tbc following cable rr.-5-1 ij--r:i United States Minister to Per sia A' kr H-D-naUl at -Teheran. sh vi-.;uu surinn near city for devo tion, :-le:vj inner sanctuary was shot by it--.-.-in 0.' ;.-;;i:;-e I ns a womau. bullet en iering legion rf hart. Expired in a few uiUiutes. J-J.;o!d: revolutionary fanatic. Gr?; fl'.iifivsv.'vu fity quiet." Fa i.'t?r l-Tf eivinar -this news Secretary Olr.o Fort a c?Ma messasrH to Minister Mc Do:a".i, "ajin that the President directed that suxcere co a Jolencs ba offered and ab toren?e of the crime r-xpn5ssd to tha Gov erntaeut oi Pei-sin and tlia family of the 1 tfi of the Shah's Lire. ' - JTsar-tfj-Uin, the Shah, ascended the throes of Persia in 1848, and has bnen mere Irea from the attempts of assnssinsthan some of bis predecessors. He was well known in Europti, whore he had the reputation of bsinsc a . shrewd and shifty politician and a vigorous ruier. In 1836 he signed a treaty permitting the establishment of telegraphic . communications be tween Europe and India throuzh Persia. Hisflrt viMr to Europe was in 1S73 and nl. . though hc was absent from his kingdom from May to September there was no sign of rebellion. On that trip visited Moscow, fit. Ptersburjr, Brussels, riris. London, Vienna, Constant inopi-i n&d many other cities, in which ho aud hi? r?tinue eicited a -gtt'ot deal of attentkm. Ha kept a diary r his observations, rhirh is a literary curiosity in its way. Ho made a sec ond European tour iu 1SS9. Of lute years he had exhibitea an In clination to be friendly to England. The heir of the Shah is his second son. who was born in 1S53.J and is n.imed f Huzaper-ed-Din Mirra. The eldest son, Massud, is a man of great ambition and of some capacity, but with a most unenviable reDUtation for cold blooded cruelty. Tho younger son is said to ce wea both in intellect ard character, an I ' trouble about the succession is not at all im- probahle. Thus the death of the Shah may : prove the rereursor of imDortant riolitical eronts " f ILLINOIS FOR M'KINLEY. Thr Pe'e-ates Instructed to Present His Name at St. .Louis. i Fr.r"(3riELD, 111., May 2. The Kepubli cacs oi Illinois, at tho second day's session of their State Convention, declared emphat ically that William McKinley is their choice for Tr-ai lent of toe United States. The T jH'ents of the Ohioan'a Presiden tial aspirati'-us capitulated before a terrific oa-laucat jf bis friends. By a majority oi 821) in a total vote oi 1335 a majority as un-eip-te.t to the supporters of the Ohioan as it was 5ta-f-erinvr to Senator Cullom and his frier, is rh llepublican State Convention Etrj -te l their .ielegates-at-large from Illin ci?ti the St. Louis Convention, not merely to vo:e for an-1 support the Ohio candidate, fcllt it'tl:ilv ill t-ir.-cftrf Vita nomA t-rt tlinf body a? the can lidate and choice of Illinois for tt e i'rc .-i.leatial nomination. It v. :- after 50 o'clock a. ra. when Chair cau l;-rry .Ho j ttie convention to order. Th- hail wh t aeked. as it was on the first day Nominations for Secretarv of State were in order. The balloting resulted in the Ec.M L-tion cf Jarr.f A.: Kose. J. R. McCui louh was nominated for Auditor and Henry L. H-r.z la- Tr" is irer. E. C. Aiken was ncainatod. for Atiorney-Generai. At this point ?L lun!?y"s name was mentioned and a rear cf avplausa and cheers broke out, lastiu faliy five minutes. Delegates and ViSlt'M "in i i r ("i !!ar:ue rrt unftn Ahoira tarew their hats in the air and yelled like Cainien. 'h.iirman Berry then said that the next order on the regular programme was the Porisi deration of resolutions instructing the aekifates to the National Convention. He wired to offer the following resolutions: Resolved. That the delegates elected by tais convention to the National Convention a St. Loais be instructed to present and sup port the Hon. Shelby M. Cullom for Presi dent." : When it had been read "Soi? Bethea, of 'e arC'i and moved that the name of Will lam McKinlev. Jr..-of Ohio, be substituted lor that of Shelby M. Cullom. At this the peering broke out even more furiously than je.ore. By actual time the applause lasted "r four minutes. .: potion to table the resolution was lost, arid Delegate Calhoun demanded a vote on Tae arr.end:nont substituting McKlnley's tam? forCulIom's. The amendment was earned amid ereat enthusiasm, and on Mr. u-t s motion tho resolution was made oaniraou?. ten the cheering ceased the Committee on Donates made their report, and B. W. T?yIi0c' editor of the Chicago Tribune; nnani Nixon, editor of the Inter-Ocean; erne r E. J. Olesbv. of Elkhart, ai .7 r"; '--rncr Joseph Y. Flfer were selected "s ce.e-ues-at-larce to the National Con- J?11 the Patfarm, which declare? for wwia money, the gold standard, protection ain r,e?irrocity wa red and unanimously aiofted the convention adjourned sine -die. Killea by His Own Invention. hiip.m Herbert Coulson, an amateur oermst. was ; almost instantly killed at his Bhf ?eTV York Citv- Tho affftIr was notrft ffiystery but the mystery did lav,.,. t0 t!l8 tragedy so much as to an lDff !2n uPn hiQh Mr. Coulson was work- 8 Wl.Il tA n5l!n i . T ot1a4.I -" v.- flfty-one Political Prisoners Deported. iity-one Cuban -political prisoners were Ported from Havana by the Spanish mail Thev nr V. cotV in tVi a nniiTlit '"'"uawt.tOeutt.Atriia. .... METHODIST CONFERENCE. The Quadrennial Session of a Month Be gun at Cleveland, Ohio. The General Conference ol the Methodist Episcopal Church, which will bo in cession for one month, was called to order in the Central Armory -at Cleveland, Ohio, by Bishop Bowman. . There are four accredited SISHOP THOMAS BOWHAS, D. D., St. Louis (Mo.) Senior Eishop of Methodist Episcopal Church. women delegates to the Conference, and the question as to their admission carr.e up im mediately after the appointment of the com mittees. . When the name of Lydia A. Tumble was called on the roll the opponents of the admis sion of women moved that the name betaken from the rolls until it was ascertained whether siw was rightfully a member of the Confer- fn!?. Bishop Bowman refused to entertain the motion on the ground that the Confer ence was not yet organized. The announce ment i was greeted with applause by the champions of the women's cause. ' A series of resolutions reciting the fact th.at the lay delegates were not being given their full privileges, and demanding that the lay delegates be given, the right to choose their own members on the committees, was adopted. The debate on the .woman question was flnai:y precipitated by the Rev'. Dr. Buckley, of Ne"w York, who read a challenge signed by prominent opponents of women, which gave twelve reasons why women should not be recognized, prominent among them being the refusal of previous conferences to recog nize them. BISHOP EDWAED O. AKDHEWS, New- York. It was moved that a Committee on Eligibil ity be appointed to determine the eligibility of the four women delegates and that the committee report immediately. J. B. Grow, in a fervid speech, attempted to amend the motion by inserting a clause providing that the women should not parti cipate in the Conference until their eligibil ity had been decided. The amendment was defeated and the original motion adopted. CRIPPLE CREEK ALMOST WIPED OUT An Explosion Kills Pour 3Ien and In jures Seventeen. Practically all of Cripple-Creek, CoL, that was not destroyed by the big fire of a few davs ago. has just been burned. Thousands p.re homeless. Four persons were killed and seventeen injured, several fatally, by a boiler explosion In the Palace Hotel. The flames started in the kitchen of tho Portland Hotel and communicated to a big lumber yard in the rear of the hotel. The flames spread rapidly and the firemen tried vainly to save the remainder of the town by blowing up buildings with dynamite. In response to a request for help a spe cial train carrying Are engines and a squad of police and deputy sheriffs left Den ver for Cripple Creek at 6-SO p. m. At 6 p. in. the fire hd burned itself out, and Mayor Steele telejrraphed Chairman Webber, of the Eire and Police Board of Denver, that the firemen and policemen were not needed. A special policemen shot and killed an un known man found carrying away valuables from a burning building. Mayor Steele tele graphed Mayor Murray, of Denver, as fol lows: "Thousands homeless. Send tents." There is not a building left standing In the business section of the city, and the loss Is probably about $2,000,000. Only a few resi- dences on the outskirts remain. The wires in the town are all down and the telegraph office is rigged up in a freight car. VICTORY FOR REBELS. Cnbam Said to Have Routed a Spanish Column. News of a bloody battle near Zanja, Cuba has been received. General Munez tried to prevent General Calixto Garcia from cross ing the Canto River. Munez organized a strong land column, and, ordering gunboats to proceed up the river to co-operate, left Manzanillo to intercept Garcia. The latter, with Rabi's column, .made a junction with the forces ot Maria Rodriguez from Uam- agueyr The combined insurgent forces at tacked Munoz as he was advancing and de feated him, Munez lost over 203 killed and 400 wounded. But for the gunboats Munez's column would have been destroyed. Munez retreated -to Manzanillo, and Garcia is now operating without opposition. Suicide of a Yonne Bride. 3Irs. Mary, wife of James B. Clark, com mitted suicide by hanging, at Lynn., Mass. She was twenty-nine years old. newly mar ried, and despondent from ill health. She liTed in the same house with William E. Pierce, a bridegroom of a week, who had just attempted suicide by jumping from a train at Bevere. StrUclnr Servants Win. The strike of the servant girls of Superior, Wig., which had teeo n several days. Is now over, as nearly every employer has gjTW to tojfce dwrfisa, for ?i5 1 cwattj. (lifihx HmW THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. Tho House hae passed te bill giving a pension of $75 a month to Brigadier-General William Grosse, of Indiana. Senator Hill introduced a bill amending laws relating to contempt of court. The bill allows appeals to the Supremn Court. Congress passed a bill appropriating f 60, P00 to improve the New York Postofflce building and furnish certain rooms therein. In Congress the General Deficiency bill, tho last Of the crftAt ftnnronrinJinn hilla Vina j DeQ passed, showing a very unusual rec- -'tu ui promptness. Speaker Reed has announced the appoint ment of Representatives Payne (Rep., N. Y.,) and Sayers (Dem., Texas,) as Trustees of the National Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Under the special order adopted the vote on the passage of the Pickler Pension bill was taken in the House immediately after the reading of the journaL The bill passed by a vote of 187 to 54. Senator Poller's resolution for "an investi gation of the bond issues was opposed by Senator Hill, of New York, on the ground that it is not the method of issuing bonds, but the policy, that the Populists really op pos The appropriation for fortifications is ?11,3S4,613. of which the sum of $5,842,237 i3 for expenditures during the next fiscal year and contracts are authorized to the ex tent of $5,543,276. The Naval bill appropri ated $31,500,000. r House a bill appropriating $100,000 to pro- vide for the purchase of the birthplace oi juiiinium sou ine erection inereon of a home for disabled soldiers, to be known as the Lincoln National Home. Senator Vest offered an amendment in the Senate to the Sundry Civil bill, which was adopted without division, directing the Sec retary of the Treasury to oonsider and re port to Congress upon the best plan for a public building to be erected in Washington for the storage of public documents and un curront files. Mr. Payne, of New York, has prepared a report on the bill which amends Section 4216 of the Revised Statutes, which permits foreign yachts to enter United States ports without the payment of a tonnage tax. so that it shall not extend to any foreign built yacht owned, chartered or used by a oitizen of the United States. The retirement of Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, from the membership of the House, reduces the Democratic representation in that body to ninety-three, the lowest since the Forty third Congress, when they had but eighty eight. In the Fifty-second Congress the Democrats had a total membership of 230. The Republicans have reached their high water mark In this Congress, having 250 members. , -. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND. The Remarkable Career of an American . Mining Engineer. The health of John Hays Hammond, the American who was sentenced to death for complicity in the Transvaal raid, continues to cause uneasiness. He Is In prison at Pretoria. The Boer Progressist party appear to be unanimously in favor of clemency to ward the prisoners. They consider banish ment and a small fine sufficient punishment. Judge Gregorowski, who sentenced the prisoners, was hooted upon his arrival at Bloemfontein, on his return from the Trans vaal. John Hays Hammond, whose sentence ot death for htgh treason against the Transvaal Government was commuted by President Kruger. is forty years old, and Is the son of Mayor R. P. Hammond, of San Franclsoo. who wa3 formerly Vice-President ot the Southern Pacific Railway. He is a graduate of tho Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni versity. While in college he was the life ot every company he was in. He spent a vaca tion in the White House, the guest of Gen eral Grant. Having completed his course at Yale, Hammond went to Germany and studied mining engineering at Freiberg. Returning to the United States, the young engineer was placed in charge of the mining census survey for the census of 1880. Then JOHN HATS HASntOXD. he made a practical study of mining methods of Colorado, California and the other gold and silver producing States. Then he went to the Sonora mines in Mexico, and his fame, which had extended to the limits of his own country, spread to Europe. Hammond went to South Africa in the service of .Barney Barnato. He had a letter of introduction to Cecil Rhodes. When he called to present it Rhodes was giving a din ner party. As soon as the guests had gone Rhodes turned abruptly to the expert and said: "Mr. Hammond, I should like to have you make me a proposition." Mr. Hammond's salary up to that time had been 25,030 a year, but he raised the figure cheerfully to $60,000, and Rhodes saw the raise. He thereby became chief engineer of the Chartered English Company. As Ham mond became Rhodes's right-hand man rumor has it that the salary has been swelled to $100,000 a year. Mr. Hammond introduced American methods and really disclosed the marvelous wealth of the African gold fields. He has the reputation of being the first mining en gineer in the world. He refused some years ago a flattering offer from the Chinese Gov ernment. Mr. Hammond is a man of most agreeable address and has a host of friends. Senator Jones once declared he could neither be "bulldozed, bamboozled nor bought." He has traveled all over the world and done en gineering work wherever there are mines to be worked. His home is at Johannesberg. His wife was Miss Natalie Harris, whom he married at Hagerstown, Md., in 1830. They have two sons. Half a Million Fire In Paris, Texas. The entire south side of the business : part of Paris. Texas, was destroyed by fire. The flames were fanned by a high wind, and the fire department was unable to cope with- the conflagration. The estimated loss Is nearly half a million dollars, and is only partially covered by insurance. Among the buildings destroyed are the telegraph and post offices. A Cloudburst Causes a Train Wreck. A cloudburst at Raymond, Iowa, washed out the track and derailed the Dlinois Cen tral fast limited train for Chioago. Two coaches were overturned, and several pw eengen Injured, none, boirmr, 44WMl7.. NORTH STATE GULMNGS. Fife Meets Tillman. Evangelist Fife was in Washington Thursday and called npon Vice Presi dent Stevenson and Senator TillmaD, of South Carolina. He ehook Tillman's hand warmly, saying the people were with him, and adding, "God bless you !" Tillman said he was much obliged to Mr. 'Fife for his "God bless you," because most of the people about there had only "Damn you's" for him, but that he believed the great body of the . people were with him. Tillman spoke rather spicily of the people in Kentucky whence he has just returned, and said that some of the statesmen of that State had changed their views on the money .question for the office that wasx in it. Then he asked if the morals of the public men of Kentucky could be held up toyoung men as examples. Mr. Stevenson was very cordial to Mr. Fife and spoke with pleasant anticipation of his visit to the University commencement. He said he liked to go to North Carolina now and then so as to keep in touch with the people who were so dear to him and his. Not Afraid of Fertilizers. The State agricultural department has issued a bulletin stating that the sales of commercial fertilizers in North Carolina this season, nearly all for use on cotton, are 50 per cent greater than last year at this date and 30 per cent greater than ever before; that the total sales are over two and a half million of dollars and that it will require one third of last year's cotton crop to pay for this year's fertilizers. The de department deploree this immense in crease in cotton acreage and unpre cedented outlay for fertilizers. Failure of a Goal Company. The Cumnock Coal Company, for merly the Longdon, Hennesey Co., at Cumnock, Chatham County, has gone into receivers' hands. Judge Seymour, of the United States District Court, appointed Samuel Z. Hennesey re ceiver. The .company has been em barrassed ever since an explosion last December, in which forty persons were killed. ( The Negro Sanitarium. Dr. L. A. Scruggs has returned from Boston whither he went in the interest of the Negro Sanitarium, which he is trying to establish at Southern Pines. Dr. Scruggs says that he elicited the influence of a dozen or more promi nent men whose aid will be forthcom ing when plans are matured, and that he feels much encouraged in the work. Goldsboro's new bank will soon be ready for business. The following compose the board of directors: Geo. C. Roy all, K. E. Bizzell, M. J. Best, Thos. Edmundson, Geo. A. Norwood, Jr., and Dr. J. F. Miller, all of that city; E. J. -Elliots, of Smithfield; J. M. Norwood, of "Wilmington, and H. E. Newberry, of Magnolia. The officers are: Geo. A. Norwood, Jr., president; M. J. Best, vice-president, and Leslie C. Southland, cashier. Gov. Cart has issued requisition pa pers on Gov. Northen, of Georgia, for Arch Brabay, a fugitive from Robeson county, who is wanted there to answer to a charge of murdering a woman. A requisition was aleo made for John Hunter, a Buncombe county fugitive, who stands' charged with larceny. This latter order was made on the Governor of South Carolina. John Hallder, a farmer, aged about 45 yeara, living near Lewisville, while returning home, was killed by the Mocksville passenger train, three miles west of Winston. Hallder was in hfs wagon with his little son who was painfully but not seriously injured. The town of Henderson sends a dele gation to Portsmouth to offer 15 acres of land and $25,000 for the establish ment of the Seabord shops at that place. ' The Battery Park Hotel gave a ban quet to the Asheville Fire Department in recognition of their superb work when fire threatened to burn the hotel. The . Perry suit against the Seaboard Air-Line Bailroad has been settled by a compromise, the railroad paying the widow, Mrs. Perry $2,500. A company has been incorporated in Rockingham county to build a new cotton factory at the town of Spray. One life lost and immense damage to timber and agriculture lands by the recent forest fires in Tyrrell county. Louisburg is to have a new $10,000 roller mill. A $40,000 cotton mill is to be built it Alber'marle. An Attack on Bicycles. The Rev. Dr. Haydn, of the "Old Stont Church" in Cleveland, has made a bitter at tack on bicycling, but 'explains that he wa; induced to do so by the fact that many peo ple who used to go to church now give the time to wheeling. The Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones, of Chicago, HL, has provided a bicy cle checklag department in bis church and Sunday two hundred wheels were taken care of while their riders listened to the gennan- We "would rather enlist in the army for three years, in time of war, than have a bacjc tooth pulled. ;' - I THE i FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both 1 Houses. i THE SENATE. I BOSDAY. The Senate committee Monday completed the? river and harbor appropriation bill and it as reported to the Senate. The com mittee reduced or struck out items to an ag grogte of $031,853, and Increased or inserted iteii3 aggregating $2,661,690 making a net increase of ?2.029,S32. the bill now carrying at6talof 12, 414,550. j TUESDAY. Tuesday the most of the time was occupied in the consideration of the naval appropria tion bill. . Senator Butler introduced a bill appropri ating 25,000 for additions to the public building at Greensboro. He filed a copy of the grand jury's indictment ot the present inadequate accommodations. Senator Pritch arf presented a petition of Newbern citizens praying for a clock tower, clock and illumi nated dial. I WEDNESDAY. The statue of Father Marquette, placed by thd State of Wisconsin in the National Hall of (Statuary in the capitol, was officially pre sented to, and accepted ly, the Senate. Af terjthis matter was disposed of tho Daval ap propriation bill was taken up aad the remainder of the day's session was given up to iolitical speeches. i THURSDAY. The Senate Thursday after the routine bus iness taken up the appropriation bill. The pending question being tho amendment of fered by Mr. Gorman reducing the number of Battleships provided for in the bill from four to two, and the amendment to that amendment offered by Mr. Quay to increase the) number to six. Tho naval bill had the undivided attention of theday. Allen, (Pop.) of Nebraska, predicted the collapse of the Democratic and Republican parties, the for mer within three months and the latter by the4th of March, 1901, and by Mr. Gorman, (lm.) of Maryland, in enforcement of his views as to the necessity of more economy n appropriations. FRIDAY. Friday's session of the Senate was enliven ed by two characteristic speeches a fiery and impetuous one from Mr. Tillman, Dem ocrat, of South Carolina, and a temperate an4 suggestive one from Mr: Hill, Democrat, of STew York. Mr. Tillman, wearing in his necjktie an emblem of his last speech in the Senate, a miniature gold pitchfork, strode up ant down in the rear of the back seats on thesDemocratic side of the chamber, gesticu lating forcibly and inveighing against the President, the Secretary oi the Treasury and thejbankers and morey-lenders of Wall street and threatening the withdrawal of his State from tho Democratic column if the Chieago contention should not declare in favor of free silver at the ratio of 1C to 1. Mr. Hill's re plytto him was dignified but sarcastic. He,too, spake of the Chicago convention 'declaring thai he did not believe that Mr. Cleve land was a candidate for the nomination; he said that he was not pledged to him or to any member of his cabinet; eulogized Mr. Carlisle for his public services, while crit icising him for his interference against the re-election of Senator Blackburn, and closed a long speech by declaring that thepolicy of the Democratic party should bejt"ln essentials, unity: in non-essentials, liberty, in all things, charity." Mr Gorman's motion to reduce the num bed of battleships provided for in the bill from four to two (a reduction of $7,500,000 in expenditure) and it was agreed to yeas 81; najs 27. Before the naval bill was taken up Mrj Butler, Populist, of North Carolina, in troduced a bill to make the Mexican dollar, thej Japanese yen and the trade dollar equal ill Sralue to the standard dollar of the United Stales and a full legal tender to any amount for all debts and demands, public and private and he made an argument in support of it I SATURDAY. The naval appropriation bill, which has be&i under consideration in the Senate dur ing! the entire week, was pasted Saturday and now It will be for a conference com mittee to reconcile the disagreement between the two houses. The chief of these is tho re duction of the number of battle-ships pro vided for. The House fixed the number at foiir, the Senate at two. . The ships are to cost $3,750,000 exclusive of armament i - f THE HOUSE. . MONDAY. The House on Monday passed a few pen sion bills, and others local to the District of Coumbia. Representatives Pearson and Tajbert spoke briefly on the pension bill. Tbe latter defended Southern re-unions. f TUESDAY. The firet business in order in the House Tuesday was the veto on the passing of the pension bill, which was taken by yeas and naya? at the demand of Mr. Crowther, Re publican, of Missouri. It resulted: YeaslS7, nays 54. the Republicans and Populists sup porting the bill and the Democrats opposing it. Six Democrats, however, voted for the bill. .- WEDNESDAY. The House Wednesday debated the expen ditures and revenues of the government. Mr. Walker, Republican, of Virginia, presented th report upon th-3 contest of Thorp, Re publican, against McKenney, Democrat, from the) fourth district of Virginia, which was ordered printedj with concurring views from sorjie members of the committee presented byjMr. De Armond, Democrat, of Missouri. Thfe remainder of the day was spent in the discussion of the Lunlu uptey bill. ! THURSDAY. - The House Thursday devoted five hours to he bankruptcy biih The principal speak erS were : Messrs. D Armond. Democrat, of Missouri; Tawuey, Republican, of Minneso ta j and Bailey, Democrat, of Texas, against the bill, and Mes-r?;. Burton. Republican, Of Mi33ouri; Culberson, Democrat, of Texas; anil Bay. Repr.blk-ap. of New York, in favor of.he bill. The di.scu.-eion developed "the fat that the House was practically in favor of fa bill providing fur voluntary bank ruptcy. j FRIDAY. In the House f riday Mr. Codding, Repub lican, of Pennsylvania, submitted the unan imous report tieeti n committee No. 3 in Ihk case of Joshua I". Vt'ii-op, Republican, vs John L. Mf:X.anrii'. Democrat, from tho sixth congrefsiouai b.-trk-t of South Car olina, that M'.Laiuin was entitled to big seat. Ihe report was agreed t-. Mjf. Overotreet, Republican, of Indiana, from th same committee, reported the case ol George W. Murray. Republican, vs. Wm. Ei liojtt, Democrat, from the first district of Squth Carolina, the committee finding that Murray, colored, who represented the dis trict in the last Congress, wa3 entitled to the seat now. The minority of the committee wis given leave to file their views and the caje went to the calendar. A bill was passed tojadmit free of duty articles of foreign man ufacture intended for exhibition at the Nash ville Exposition in 1897, and to admit persons engaged to care for the exhibits. j SATURDAY. After a debate continuing over five hours th House Saturday, by a vote of 157 to HI parsed the bankruptcy bill. It is substan tially well-know 83 the Torey bill. The House passed without a division, the bill pasd by the Senate yesterday appropriating 75,000 to defray the expenses ot the com mission to beappointed under the recent treaty with Grefct Britain. Senator Pritchard introduced a bill establishing h soldiers' ho)neat Southern PinesN.C for throat and lung diseases and appropriating 200.000. He ha also introduced a bill to re-establish the old Fayefteville arsenal, for reclaiming which f 190,000 Is appropriated by the bill. The arsenal was destroyed by Sherman's army. Hejha3 also introduced a bill to pay H. D. BrVan (Craven county) a thirteen-thousand dollar war claim, rents ot his plantation, I A Domestic Tragedy. It Bpsedal, Russell county; Va., a man bylthe name of Dutton and his eon, quar reled over a money transaction. The father flrpd several ehots at bis son, finally a ball took effect in the son's breast. As he fell he bhbt his father through the heart, killing hia tajtantly. Ta son lived half an hour, SABBATH SCHOOL fNTISKNATION'ALi LESSON FOR 31 AY lO. Lesson Text: 'Li2ssons on Prayer,'1 ke xvlif., 9-17 Golden Text: Luke xvlil., lli Commentary. This is railed a lesson on prayer, but If miiht be better .v. led a lesson oa how to enter the king lorn of God. The kins lorn is mentioned at least seve'a or eight times iu this chapter and the last part of the preced ing one. The Pharisees were told that it aj amonethem or in their midst, not within thnm (chapter xvii., 21. margiu or R. V. .'. for it could not in any sense be in such Christ haters as they were, i ut it wai ia their very midst, in the person of Ihe K'ng whom they were watching their opportunity to kill. Chapter xviii.. in which our lesson is. tells us who can and who cannot enter this kingdom, which is yet to be set up on this earth. Self righteous Pharisees and rich idolaters, however mora', an t all who love this present world eanur.t enter lhis kingdom, but helpless blini beggars au i such as have the spirit of a little chili, they can enter. The condition of things on ear;h will become more and more like the days ot Noah and of Lot till the Son of Man shall come. 9. "And He spake this parable unto cer tain which trusted in themsulves that they were righteous and despised others." The previous part of the chapter speaks of the coming of the Son of Mau as a time whu God shall avenge His own elect that is, His elect Israel, for His elect church does not cry for vengeance, but th redemption of Israel Is always associated wiih venge ance upon her enemies (Isa. xxxiv., 8; xxxvj, 4; lxiii., 4). In verse 8 He asks if thero shall be any faith on earth or the faith when thi3 time comes. The church hf.viug been taken to meet her Lord before H comes t o avenge His elect Israel, it will be a dark time. There will ba raauy trusting in than own righteousness, but there will also be an afflicted and poor peoplo who will trust iu the Lord (Zeph. iii., 12). 10. "Two men went up into the temple to prav, the one a Pharisee anl the other a publican." The Pharisees trusted iu their own righteousness. It is wri'.leu of then in Rom. x.,3. that being ignorant of Oil's righteousness, aud going about to-establish their own righteousness they did not submit themselves unto the righteousness of Goi. Our Lord said to th9 n that they would sse Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all the prophets, and many from the north, south, east and west in the kingdom of God, but they them selves thrust out (Luke xiii., 2 29). Hs also said that unless one had mors right eousness than that of the scribes an l Phari sees it would bs imposslblo to enter the king dom (Math, v., 20). 11. 12. This 13 the.'record of the Pharisee's so called prayer, as givc-n by Him who reada our hearts, whose eyes are as a flame of fire. There is not one petition in it. He did not ask God for a simple thing, but just told God what a gool fellow he was in his own esti mation and how thankful he was for it. He mentioned four things that he did not do and two thing thai he did. There were thus just six things in his little talk with God about himself, and six is the number of man, as 666 is the number of the beast, the man who will be satan incarnate. There was no humility, no sense ot'sin, no knowledge of God nor of himself, yet lie thought tbut he prayed, and no doubt went away feeling well pleased with himself. He is a picture of multitudes of religious people to-day who attend church regularly, but are no moM saved than he was. In their own estimation thejtare not sinners, never were. They were borirchlldren of God by natural birth, or if not then, they think it was all made sure by Infant baptism and now they can tell you of what they are glad they are not, an 1 of some good! things which they do, aud vainly think that all Is well. They are follower or Gain, who despised God's way anl loved his own. 13. "God be merciful ti me a sinner. This is the substance of lh prayer of tin poor despised publican who woUid not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, tut smote pon a truly contrite breast, as he stood a ar Off and tittered the3e words from his heart. He had ho righteousness, and he knew it, but he had plenty of 6ln, and he knew that too. He needed mercy, and be aska-.l for it, and he pleaded nothing but b'n Bin and God's redemption. His prayer might be ren- dered, "God be propitious to me." or "ho reconciled to me because of atonement." He, like righteous Abel, acknowledge I h s sin and looked to ft sacrifice. 14. "I tell you this man went down to his house justified." The man who wanted nothing and asked for nothing received nothing and weut back to his house a poor, self right eou?, lest oul. but the penitent publican who confessed hi sin and asked for mercy received mercy and wa.' instantly justified from all things from which he. ould not be justified by the law. for by the deeds of the law no one can be justified. But the righteousness of God. even Christ Himself and all His merits, is freely given to every penitent sinner who comes to Hi n (Acts iiii.. 38, 39; Romiii., 19-24; x. 4; II Cor. -.21). ... 15. "And they brought unto Him a'so in fants that He woul I touch them, but when the disciples saw it they rebuked them." The disciples did not knowllim ven though they dwelt with Him. Even James and John had to be reproved more than once, and Xhi night beiore He was crucified He had to say to another, "Have I been so long time vith you, and yot hast thou not known Me, Philip?" All of them seemed :o censure Mary's apparent waste of precious ointment, but Jesus rebuked them and commenied her. We need fear no oaf's censure if only we have Hia approva'. Therefore let uu COvet that above all thinK-. 16. "But Jesus callal them unto Him and said, Suffer little children to coaie unto Me and foibid them not, for of such i3 the king dom of God." It is not their Innocence He refers to. for all are born in sin, but they are helpers, dependent, empty, self unconscious, confiding, clinsring. They are not wise and prudent, like the Pharisees, but they are utterly helpless, like thr publicans, and the leper, and the blind men. The heir3 of the kingdom are such as these. Their need is their strongest plea, and the jrreat heart of compassion opens to them. S5 some of the Srecious words to all who. by faith in Christ esus, have become GdI's true litt e chil dren, in such passage a I J jhn ii., 12, 2-. 17. "Verily I say unto you. Wnosoeer shall not receive ihe king torn of Go i as a little child shall in nowise enter t herein " Unquestioning confidence in th:3 wurd that is spoken and c jmpiet'! emptins an 1 need these will open the door for iho fubnss oi God. The blind men in l ie ml of the cnapter are the little children who enter in, but such as the rich young ruler, who is fu!l to overflowing oi his own possession?, theso cannot enter in. Lesson Helper. The Per Capita Circulation. The treasury official circulations statement issued Saturday trives all the kkds of mony In circulaticn. at 1.510.007.032, or 30.000, 000 less than May 1. 1895. The per capita cir culation based on a population of 71,136,000, is stated at 2L65. The increase in money In circulation during April, is placed at til, -377,619 and the decrease of money in the treasury during the month is stated at $ 6, 572.676. Andrew Carnegie's Generosity. Andrew Carnegie has purchased for $25, 000 a plot of ground at Daquesne, near Pitts burg, Pa., on which he will erect two hand-. some buildings, one a public library the other a gymnasium and natatoriom. The estimated cost of the buildings is 150,000. They will be free to the citizens of Duquesne and em Dloyees of the Carnegie Siel Company, THE WOMEN WILL WIN. OHIO METHODISTS WILL' ADMIT THEM TO THE CONFERENCE. A Complete Victory. All Other Ques tions Lost Sight of. The Third Largest Church. The conference of the Methodists of Ohio, in session at Cleveland, have decided to admit the four ' women who' have been elected as delegates to the ! general conference of the Methodist Episco- A pal church, and their supporters claim to have gained a substantial victory, and the ' indications are now that when the question : is fought out on the floor, the women will' come out with flying colors. The four dis trict conferences have held meetings and selected committeemen to represent their respective districts on the committee which will report on the eligibility of women to the ' conference. The result was a complete victory for tho women, the committee now standing 17 to 11, in favor of the uncondi tional admission of women. Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, of New York city, the leader of tho opposition to the admission of women, was selected from the second dis trict and he led the opposition on the floor, of the conference. From the eighth district the clerical representative. is Rev. Dr. A. G. Kynett.of Philadelphia, one of the leaders of the women's side. Almost all other ques tions have been lost sight of, and the busi ness of the conference will be unimportant until the woman questionls settled. Bishop Foster, of Boston, called the gen eral conference to order. The Rev. Dr. Park er, of Indiana, led the devotional exercises. He showed his preference for the case of women by praying that God might bless the men and women. It was carried that the Epworth Leagut . committee consist ofone delegate from eack annual conference, and that the members of this committee be chosen in the same way as the standing committees are chosen. The judicary committee will be chosen by the bishops. ! ' - . ' Bishop Henry W. Warren, of Denver, read , the Episcopal address. It contained many recommendations. I The address congratu lated the church upon its advancement, but said there was much work yet to be done. The growth of the church during the past four years has been 386,000 souls, and the Methodist church Is now the greatest in num bers in the world, save the Baptist and Catholic churches, i Including probationers, there are now In the church 2,766,626, thero persons. The Sunday schools have gained during the four years past 280,858. The woman's foreign society, and tho woman's home missionary society are very pros perous. ' The report says the church is opposed to intoxicants, and urges the United States gov ernment to so adjust its laws as not to seem to lagalize the liquor traffic in StaUs where therp is prohibition. The report closed by saying that from all the world came signs of encouragement, and that it was surely march ing on to ultimate victory. The conference accepted the report. . IT IS CONFIRMED. The X Ray Will Certainly Kill the Bacteria of Diphtheria. ( An X ray will kill the bacteria of dyph theria. The electrical department of the Uni versity of Missouri at Columbia announces that after extensive experiments, diphtheria germs have been killed by the Roetgen light. This -confirms the recent announcement of Professor Harry Preston Pratt and Professor Hugo Wightman, of the Chicago University,1 the first to give to the scientific world pos itive assertion that disease germs in the hu man body could be killed by the use of X rays. Professor Roetgen wa cabled of tho result and replied that be had expected it as the X ray was a germicide. . . Exploring Lookout Mountain Cava Professor Mercer, curator of the Museum of America and Prehistoric Archeaology of the University of Pennsylvania, is exploring the great caveB of Tennessee, and has had a foroe of men at work in Lookout cave in Lookout Mountain and has made several dis coveries of great value to science. He found the jaw of a mylodon, or Kigantie elotb; the bones of a peccary and the jaw of a fossil tapir, besides numerous relics in the two culture layers on the surface. Ills work has extended down to the "bed ot rock, iu four sections, six feet wide. The bones will bo examined by Professor Ed D. 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