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DAY Subject: "Tlie lifscut."
Tftt "Kollcvo on tho Tonl Jnctn Christ,
nri'l thou stifilt bo rivi5.J." Vts xvi., 31.
J.'iiln aro tlark-. lull. (i-imp. lo'iUmorro
plncos evon now. but tb"v weri woni in
tho npotolio tiincs. I im:i'.-inn to-lay yn
aro stnnilliit? In tho rhitfpnian ilnnonn.
Do yoti not foci tho oh ill? Do von not
hfvir tho trroans of thoso ino.-irorT.itoil 01103
who for ton y'!rs hnvo not Recti tho Min
liKht nn'l tho dep ;i;,'!t of women who
remember their father's house, an 1 mourn
over their waste! estates? Listen auain. It
in tho eout'h of rt eonnmptivo or tho strnsr
(flo ot one In tho nightmare of a grat hor
ror. Yon listen iiL'.afn anil hear a culprit,
his chains riittHn as ho rolls over in his
(Ire.-tmn. anil yon say. "Oo l, pity tho prison
er '" Utit there is nr.otlicr onnl In that
prison. Tt Is the qoiij of joy anil trlanlnoss.
What .1 plactf to sincr In ! Trio music comes
wimlinK throneh the corrl-lor? of the prison,
anil in nil tho dark wards the wMsper Is
licar.l "Wlint'sthat'r What's that T
It N tho soni,' of Pinil nnl S;!as. Tiiey
cannot sleep. They have been whippel
very biully whlppe l. Tho Ion-' trashes on
their backs are blec lino- yet. T!icy lie flat
on tho colli irronn'l. their feet fast in woo 'on
sockets, n ii' I of course they cannot sleep,
lint thev can siiiL'. Jailer, what are yon i!o-
j intr with these people? Why have they ben
put in hcrer Oil. they have been trvnrj' t
make tho worM better. Is that all? That
Is all. A pit for .Tos"ph. A lion's o;iv.i for
Daniel. A blazing furnrseo for Shadrach.
riuba for John Wos'oy. An finathema for
I'hilipp Melauchthon. A iluneon for l'aul
rind Silas.
Jiut while we are statvlinT 'n tho trloom of
the Pliilippian iluntrpon. nn l wo hear tho
mintrlino: voices of sob an 1 trroan an l blas
phomy ami hallelujah, su'Wonlv an earth
quake' Tho Iron bars of tho prison twist,
the pillars crack off. tho solid masonry lo
trinsto hoave. an 1 all t'10 iloors swin-r opo:i.
Tho jailer, feelins: himself responsilile for
these prisoneis an 1 belivIiiLj. in his pacr.m
lirnorance. suicide to be honorable sine
Brutus kI!lo,l himself, nn-1 (Tato killotl him
pelf, and Cassius killed liimseir put his
eword to his own heart, proposing with ono
etrantr, keen thrust to put an end to his ex
citement and agitation. I!ut Paul criod out
"Stop, top! Do thyself no harm! Wo aro
all here !"
Then I see the jailor running throuph tho
dust and amid the ruin of that prison, and I
see him throwing himself down nt tho feet
of thoso prisoners, crying out : "What shall
I do? What shall I do?" Did Paul answer :
'(let out of this place before there is another
earthquake. Put handcuffs and hobbles on
these other prisoners lest they pet away?"
No word of that kind. Ilia compact, thrill
incr, tremendous answer memorable all
through earth and heaven, was, "UolJevo on
tho Lord Jesus Christ, and thoushalt bo
saved."
Well, wo have nil read of tho earthquake
in Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo and iu Cara
cas, but wo live iu 11 latitudo wheroin all our
memory thero has not been ono severe vo!
canio disturbance. An 1 yet wo have seen
fifty earthquakes. Hero is a man who has
been building up a largo fortune. His biJ
ou tho money market was felt in all tho
cities. Ho thinks ho has got beyond all an
noying ri Onirics in trade, nnd he says to him
self, "Now I am free and safo from all possi
ble perturbation." But in 1857 or in 1873 a
national panic strikes the foundation of tho
commercial world, and crash goes all that
magnificent business establishment.
Hero is a man who has built up a very
beautiful home. Ills daughters have just
come homo from the seminary with diplo
mas of graduation. His sons have started
in life, honest, temporato and pure. When
the evening lights are struck, there is a hap
piness and unbroken family circle. But
thero has boon an ac3ldent down at Long
Branch. Tho young man ventured too far
out in tho surf. Tho telegraph hurled tho
terror up to tho city. An earthquake struck
under tno foundation 01 that beautiful
home.
Tho piano closed : tho curtains dropped ;
tho laughter hushed. Crash go allthose do
mestic hopes aud prospects, and expecta
tions. 80, my friends, wo havo all folt tho
shaking down of some great trouble, and
thero was a timo when we wero as much ex
cited as this man of tho text, and we cried
out as ho did : "What shall I do? What shall
I do?" Tho same reply tiiat tho apostlo
made to him is appropriate to us. "Believe
ou tho Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt bo
saved."
Thero are some documents of so llttlo im
portance that you do not care to put any
more than your last namo under them, or
e ven your initials, but thero are some docu
mi'iits of so great importance that you writo
out your full atnio. So the Saviour tn somo
parts of tho Bii do is called "Lord," and in
other parts of tho Biblo Hois called "Jesus,"
and in other parts of tho Bible Ho is called
"Christ," but that thero might bo no mis
take about this p'lssago all three names como
together "tho Lord Jesus Christ."
Now, who Is this being that you want mo
to trust in aud believe in? Men sometimes
come to mo with credentials and oertilleate-j
of good character, but I cannot trust them.
There Is somo dishonesty In thoir looks that
makes mo know that I shall bo cheuto.l if I
confide in them. You cannot put your
heart's confidence in a mau until you know
what stuff he is made of. and am I tmroasou
able when I stop to ask you who this is that
you want mo to trust in? No man would
think of venturing his life on a vessel ging
out to sea that had never been inspected.
No ; you must have the certificate hung
amidships, telling how many tons it carries,
and how long ago it was built, and who
built it, and all about it. And you cannot
expect mo to risk tho cargo of my immortal
interests on board any craft till you tell mo
what it is made of, and whero it was made,
and what It Is.
When, then, I ask you who this is you want
me to trust In, you tell mo Ho Is a very at
tractive person . Contemporary writers de
scribe His wholo appearance as being re
splendent. Thero was no need for Christ to
tell tho children to come to Him. "Suffer
little children to come unto Mo" was not
spoken to the children. It was spoken to
tho disciples. Tho children came readily
enough without any invitation. No sooner
did Jesus appear than tho little ones jutnpad
from their mothers' nrnis, an avalanche of
beauty and love, into His lap. Christ did
not ask John to put his head down on His
bosom. John could not help but put his
heaa there. I supposo a look at Christ was
just to love Him. How attactive His manner !
Why, when they saw Christ coming
along the street, they ran into their houses,
and they wrapped up their invalids as quick
as they could and brought them out that He
might look at them. Oh, there was some
thing so pleasant, so inviting, so cheering in
everything He did, in His very look ! When
theso sick ones wero brought out, did He
say "Do not bring before Mo thoso sores.
Do not trouble Me with these leprosies?" No,
no ; there was a kind look ; thtro was a, gen
tle word ; there was a heating touch. They
could not keep away trom Him.
'I think there are many under the influ
ence of tho Spirit of God who are saying,
"I will trust Him If you will only tell me
how." And the great question nSked by
many is. "now, how?" And while I answer
your question I look up and utter the prayer
which Rowland nill bo often uttered in the
inidst of his sermons, "Master, help !' llow
ure you to trust iu Christ?
Just as you trust any one Yon trust your
partner in business with important things.
If a commercial houso gives you a note pay
able three months hence, you expect the
payment of that note at tho end of three
months. You have perfect confidence In
their word and In their ability. Or, again,
vou go home to-day. You expect there will
be food on the table. You have confidence
in that. Now, I ask you to have the same
confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. lie
Bays, "You believe ; I take away your sins,"
and they are all taken away. "What !"
you say, "before I pray any more? Be
fore I read my Bible any more? Before
I cry over my sins any more?" Yes, this mo
ment. Believe with all your heart, and you
are naved. Why, Christ is only waiting to
get from you what you give to scores of peo
ple every day. What is that? Confidence. If
these people whom you trust day by day are
more worthy than Christ, If they aro more
faithful than Christ tl they have done more
than Christ ever did. then give them the
preference, but if you really think that Christ
is as trustworthy as they aro thon deal with
Him as fairly.
"Oh," says some one in a light way, "I
believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem,
and I believe that He died on tho cross " Do
you believe it with your head or your heart?
I will Illustrate tho difference. You are in
your own house. In tho morning you open
a newspaper, and you read how Captain
Braveheart cu the sea risked his life for tho
salvation of his passengers. You say : "What
a grand fellow he must have boen ! His fam
ily deserves very well of the country." You
fold the newspaper and sit down at tho table
and perhaps do not think or that Incident
again. That is historical faith.
But now you are on the sea, and it is night
AH(1 Vfkll ua naloan o rt f wnn o rrk n tit a !-aia ,1
j v m ao&v sj . y . tJ 'a J W lA lil V 11 n tl ikvuv1
by the shriek of "Fire !" You rush out on
the deck. You hear, amid tho wringing of
the hands and the fainting, the cry 1 "No
hope, no Lope ! We are lost, we are lost !"
The sail puts out its wing of fire, the robes
make a burning ladder in the night heavens,
the spirit of wrecks hisses in the waves, and
on tho hurricane decks shakes out its banner
or smoke an l darkness. "Down with tho
lifeboats !" orie l the c ipfain. "Down with
the lifeboat. !" People rush into them. The
boats are about full. Boom for only ono
morn man. You are standing on tho dock
beside the captain.
Who shall it be? You or the captain?
Tho ei,paiu says, "You." You jump an 1
are saved. Ho stands there and die3. Now,
you believe that Captain Braveheart sacri
ficed himself for his passengers, but 3-011
believe it with love, with tears, with hot
and long continued exclamations, with
grief at his lo.3 and joy at your deliverance.
That is saving faith !n other words, what
you believe with all tho heart and believe
in regard to yourself. On this hinge turns
my sermon aye, tho salvation of your im
mortal soul. You ofton go across a bridge
you kno nothing about. You do not
know Wuo built tho bridge, you au not
know what material it is made of, but
you como to it and walk over it
and ask no questions. And here is an
arched bridge blasted from the "Hock of
Ages" and built by the Architect of the
whole universe, spanning tho dark gulf be
tween sin and righteousness, an 1 all God risks
you is to walk across it, and you start, and
you come to it, and you stop, and you go
n littlo way on, and you stop, and you fall
hack, and you experiment. You say, "How
tlo I know that bridge will hold mo I" in
stead of marching on with firm step, asking
no questions, but fooling that tho'strength
of the eternal God is under you.
Oh, was there ever a prize proffered so
cheap as pardon and heaven ere offered to
you? For how much? A million dollars?
It is certainly worth more than that. But
cheaper than that you can have it. Ton
thousand dollars? Less than that. Five
thousand dollars? Less than that. One
dollar? Less than that. Ono farth
ing? Less than that. "Without money
and without prico." No money to pay. No
journey to take. No pennnce to suffer.
Only j. 1st one decisive action of tho soul,
"Believe, on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thou shalt bosavod."
Khali I try to tell you what it is to bo
saved? I cannot toll you. No man, no
angel, can tell you. But I can hint at it, for
my text brings me up to this point, "Thou
shalt bo saved." It moans a happy life here,
and a peaceful death, and a blissful oternity.
It is a grand thing to goto sleep at night,
and to got up in tho morning, and to do bus
iness all day feeling that all is right between
my heart rind God. No accident, no sick
ness, no persecution, no peril, no sword,
can do mo any permanent damage.
I am a forgiven child of God. and
He is bound to see mo through. lie hag
sworn He will see mo through. The mount
ains inrfy depart, tho earth may burn, tho
light of tho stars may bo blown out by tha
blast of tho judgment hurricane, but life and
death, things present and things to come,
nro mine. Yea, further than that, it means
a peaceful death. Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Si
gouruey, Dr. Young and almost all the poets
havo said handsome things about death.
There is nothing beautiful about it. When
we stand by the white and rigid features of
those whom we love, and thoy give no an
swering pressuro of tho hand and no re
turning kiss ot the lip, We do lot
Want anybody poetizing round about
Us, Death is loathsomeness and
midnight and tho wringing of the heart un
til tho tendrils snap and curl in tho torturo
Unless Christ shall be with us. I confess to
you an infinite fear, a consuming horror of
death uuless Christ Bhall bo with tno. I
Would rather go down into a cave of wil l
boasts or a junglo of reptiles thau into tho
grave uuIcbs Christ goes with me. Will you
tell me that I Am to bo carried out from my
bright home ami put away In tho darkness?
I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming
of the evening I must have tho gas lighted,
and the farther on in life I get tho more I like
to have my friends round about me.
And am I to be put off for thousands of
years in a dark place, with no one to speak
lot When tho holidays como and tha guts
nro distributed, shall I add no jov to tho
"Merry Christmas" or tho "Happy New
Year?" Ah, do not point down to tho hole
in the grouud, tho grave, and call it a beau
tiful place. Unlessthero be somo supernatu
ral illumination I shudder back from it. My
Whole nature revolts at it. But now this
glorious lamp is lifted above th3 grave, and
all tho darkness Is gone, and tt.o way is
clear. I look into it now without a single
Bhudder. Now my anxiety is not about
death ; my anxiety is that I may live aright.
What power is there in anything to chill
me in tho last hour if Christ wraps around
me tho skirt of His own garment? What
darkness can fall upon my eyelids then, amid
the heavenly daybreak? O death, I will not
fear thee then. Back to thy cavern of dark
ness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou
dcspoller of families. With this battieax I
hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal,
tho voice of Christ sounding all over tho
earth and through tho heavens : "O death, I
will be thy plaguo. 0 grave, I will bo my
destruction."
To be saved is to wako up in the preseneo
of Christ. You know when J. sus was ur n
tho oarth how happy Ho made every houso
Ho went into, and when Ho brings us up to
His house in heaven how great shall be our
gleo ! His voice has more music in it than is
to be hoard in all tho oratorios ot etern'ty.
Talk not about banks dashed with efflor
escense. Jesus is tho chief bloom of heaven.
We shall see tho very face that beamed sym
pathy in Bethany ai.d take tho very hand
that dropped its blood from tho short beam
of the cross. Oh. I want to stand in eternity
with Him. Toward that harbor I ste r.
Toward that goal I run. I shall bo satisfied
when I awake in His likeness.
Oh, troi.on hearted men and women how
sweet it will bo iu that goo I land to pour all
of your hardships and bereavements an I
losses into the loviug ear of Christ and then
have Him explain why it was best for you
to bo sick, and why it was best lor you to bo
widowed, and why it was best for you to be
persecuted, aud why it was best for yon to
be tried and havo Him point to an elevation
proportionate to your disquietude here, say
ing, "You suffered with Me ou ear.h ; come
up now and be glorified with Mo in heaven."
Someone went into a house where there
had been a good deal of trouble an i said to
the woman there, "You seem to be lonely."
"Yes," she said; ' I am lonely." "How
many in tho family?'' "Only myself."
"Havo you had any children?" "I had seven
children." "Where are they? ' "Gone."
"All gone?" "All." "All dead r "All."
Then she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness-
and said, "Oh, sir, I havo been a good
niothei to tho grave."
And so there are hearts hero that are ut
terly broken down by tho bereavement of
life.' I point you to- lay to the eternal balm
of heaven. Oh. aged men and women who
have knelt at the throne of grace for three
score years and ten will not your decrepi
tude change for the leap of a heart when
you come to look face to faco upon Him.
whom having not seen you love? Oh, that
will be the Good Shepherd, not out in
tho night and watching to keep
off the wolves, but with the lamb re
clining on the sunlit hill. That will be the
Captain of our salvation, not amid the roar
and crash and boom of battle, but amid His
disbanded troops keeping victorious festiv
ity. That will be the Bridegroom of the
church coming from afar, the bride leaning
upon His arm while He looks down into her
face and says : "Behold, thou art fair, my
love ! Behold, thou art fair !'
Japan's Surplus.
Japan has an available surplus of 11,000.
000 fun (7.00y.000 in tJh Treasure
FATAL FOREST FIRES,
HUNDREDS PERISH AMID THE
SEETHING FLAMES.
The r la iIe In Heaps iu Minnesota,
AVIsconsfn nnd Michigan Fright
ful Kate ot Hinckley Destruc
tion in Pennsylvania and New
York.
Never in tho history of tho Northwest, ex
cept nt tho time of the fires in the Michigan
pineries in 1-871, has there ben such a terri
ble loss of life and such suffering as has just
been caused by forest fires in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
Tho loss of life has been awful. At a late
hour it wn estimated tha between eight
hundred an I fl"te-n hnndr.d persons had
tieen burned to death or suffocated, nnd tho
wide discrepancy- in thesi figures was proof
of the nttr impissihilitv of giftincr reliable
information. Property losses already reach
up into the millions.
One of the most palnrul features of the
whole affair Is the charge that these death
dealing fires were started by incendiaries
among the woodmen, who were led to com
mit this terrible crime bv a dspernte desire
to tret work, ns theconflaarration will necessi
tate tho immediate cutting of a vast quan
tity of scorched timber to save it from total
loss.
The work of recovering scorched and
blackened bodies and identifying and bury
ing them went forward in those districts
where the flames had sp-nt their fury, while
in other parts men were fighting grim death
all day long in towns threatened with llko
destruction.
The aggregate loss will run Into millions,
but it Is absolutely impossible to give anv
trustworty estimate, as so wide an extent ot
country was devastated. Tho larsrest single
los?was that of the Brennan Lumber Com
pnnv, of Hinckley. Minn., which is placed nt
$000,000 by the officials ot the company. The
ngarregate loss is variously estimated at from,
throo to five millions and this does not in
clude the standing timber destroyed.
Tho following towns lu the Northwest have
been either totally or partially destroyed by
the flames : Pokegama. ninckley, Sand'
stone. Mission Creek, Itutledge, Mansflftld
and Milaca, in Minnesota ; Bashaw, Barron
ette, Benoit. Cartwright, Fifiold, Granite
Lake, Grantsburg, Glidden, Marengo. Mus
cado, Shell Lake, South Bango, Poplar,
Soencor, nighbridgo, Ashland, Junction and
Washburne. in Wisconsin ; Ewen and Trout?
Creek, in Michigan.
The latest advices from the ftceno of the
big fire indicated there would be a total of
nearly 400 lives lost. This included the fa
talities at Ilincklev, Pokegama, Rutledge,
Sandstone and all the area ot country cov
ered by the conflagration. Searching for
the dead under anything like system had then
only begun. At noon fully 200 dead were
gathered in the cemetery at Hinckley await
ing burial. There were two groat heaps
of naked and charred bodies in every con
ceivable distorted attitude. There wero six
teen known to be dead at Pokegama. There
wore fifty-one at Sandstone village,
and about thirty moro from the outlying
country. But it must be remembered
that the fire covered a largo area of country,
some of it very hard to get over by searching
parties. There are many isolated families liv
ing in the country ; and all suffered to some
extent. It will take at least a week
to ascertain how many are lost,
and many of them will never be Identi
fied. Many families are being cared for tit
Pine City and Duluth and Superior. At the
former place there are about 500 homeless
people, and it is estimated that at least 1000
people will have to bo taken care of until
they can got a newstart in life. The wounded
in hospitals at Pine City were all doing well.
The surgical staff was supplemented by a
number of physicians from tho "Twin
Cities."
It soomed that forest and peat tires had
been raging within a short distance of Hinck
ley for some weeks, but no apprehension
had been folt by the inhabitants, and no
preparations had been made for emergen
cies. Tho flro approached, fanned by a
strong wind, tho smoke grew denser
as tho day advanced, and it
soon bocamo dark as night. About
4 o'clock the wind changed and the residents
of tho doomed town saw tho flames were
bearing down upon thorn. As the alarm
rang through tho streets the peoplo rushed
from their hemes, and when thoy caught
sight of the red, onrusaing sea of lire, they
bocamo panic-stsicken. The fire shot across
the town and the peoplo fled in all direc
tions. They ran wherovor they thought they
could find refuge. A large number ran to a
pond somo three or four acres in extent aud
throo or four feet deop. Women and chil
dren ran side by side with cattle into the
pond and crouched close to tho water,
for the smoke hung low and the flames
were dangerously close. The largest crowd
of peoplo rushed to Griudstono itivor, a
small shallow stroam, which it was thought
would afford protection from the flames. But
the water was too low, and all miserably
perished. There the relief parties found the
bodies lying iu the water, aud rudely
trampled by the flying cattle.
Just as the flames were raging fiercest, a
train arrived ovr tho Eastern Minnesota
and 500 people clambered aboard. It was a
godsend to tho people, who offered up
prayers of thankfulness as the engineer scut
the train at rapid speed away from tho burn
ing town and back: to safety in Superior.
Another party had rushed for the limited
on the St. Paul and Diiluth, but as the Are
cutoff their way in that direction they ran to
a shallow pond near by. There, like rats in
a trap, they perished oae and all. One bun
dled and flvo bodies were removed from the
miserable pond by the Belief Committeo,
where they had been literally roasted to
death. Thero was absolutely no escape.
East of the village thero was a stagnant
pool ot rain water. Over ono hundred peo
plo sought refuge there, and of these only
ono man is known to have perished. The im
mense plant of the Brennaa Lumber Company
with sawmills, planing mills, stablesand 28,
000,000 feet of pine lumber, was wipod out in
almost less time tiian it takes to writo it.
With the stables were consuuiod ninety head
of splendid horses.
As tho flames subsided and the shadows
of night closed dowu over the ill-starrol
town, the people lott their places of refuge
and made their way ovvr the smouldering
embers through the one street of the village.
Tho flro had spent its lorce, but the ruins
Btill glowed red through tho dense
Cloud of smoke, marking the spots where a
few hours ago wero the homes of a prosper
ous and happy people. Guided by the weird
light, men moved about as if dazed, loca
ting the spots where their homes had
stood. The air was filled with moanings of
the wounded, for whom no assistance could
be had, and with sobbings cf thos who had
lost friendu or possessions, or both. When
the terrible night was ended and the light of
another day dawned upon the scene of deso
lation a few energetic spirits recovered
from the blow and began to organize for the
work of recovering tho bo.li!s. Two hun
drod and thirty-three holies were buried,
only twenty-three of which could be identi
fied Th reporter ricked his way through de
ported avenues of Hinckley.Minn., encounter
ing the bursting remains ot horses, cows,
cats, chickens, and dogs. He overtook
Hans Paulson, an employee In the Urennan
mill. "I am going out to the cemetery to
see if I can find mv wife and four children,"
he said. "I lot them nil."
The rain was pourlnein sheets. Atthecem
otery. a mile and a half from town a half dozen
men were digging a trench. A heap of bodies
lny on a knoll in the mlddleof the cemetery.
There were ninety-six naked bodies, men,
women, and children, scorched, blackened, dis
torted, brains protruding, hands clutched in
their final agonies, hair singed from heads ;
old, young, mfidle aged, male ant female,
all in a promiscuous heap. In another
corner of tho cemetery were forty- other
bodies covered with quilts.
A majority of those lost were Scandinavi
ans, and many ot these, distrusting the banks
since last year's panic, carried their savings
iu their pockets, and where it was in paper
money It was. of course, destroyed.
Reports continue to como in from the
vicinity of Skunk Crek of added discoveries
of burned victims. Fifty-eight dead were
found lying la the streets and inthe irumedi-
nto vtelnitr of this village. The total Initio
1 vicinity will reach fully 40) bd when all
the returns are in. I lentiflcatiou is an ex -ceodintflv
difficult matter.
J. D. Markham. of Bush City, s.ivs that
the population of Pokegama agregat'd 11J
souls. Of this number sixteen aro known to
bo burned.
Sandstone, Minn., is In complete ruins,
there iM-ing but one building standing, a
shack ue 1 bv thequarry company. Crow le 1
into this building anl the ferry, the relior
party found over 200 people who had !ot
their homes and everything they possessed
except the clothing thev wore.
All those saved nt Sandstone were in the
river while the cyclone of flames parsed, and
they only Tianage 1 to escape by wading In
the water as far as possible and throwing
water over each others" heads. The coming of
theflames sounded likethun lor.nnd with such
rapidity did they com that people who
waited to save property or neglected lo seek
safety in the river perishe 1 in tho flames. As
far as can be learned between forty and fifty
peoplo nre dead.
Broad Tark, Pokegama Station, Minn., a
ne-A? town on the St. Cloud and Hinckley
brr-ueh of the Great Northern, was totally
destroyed. The flames burned 300,000 feet
of lumber, a sawmill, hotel, stores, post
offlce, school house and section house.
Twenty-five families in the immediate
neighborhoo 1 are homeless. Tho total loss
of property is estimated nt 6300,000.
In accordance with an order issued by
General Merritt, commander of the Depart
ment of Dakota, Company G, of the Third
United States Infantry, stationed at Fort
Snellinu. left on a special train on
their way to Hinckley under command
of Captain Hale. Tho principal purpose
of sending the Federal troops was to fur
nish tents an I blankets to the people of
Hinckley. The soldiers were equlppe 1 with
ammunition and were to do guard duty
protecting property and supplies.
Not since 1871 has Michigan, seen such
awful devastation by forest fires. Some idea
of the extent of damage can be gained from
tho fact that more thau 1000 square miles of
territory has been burned over. 700.000,00')
feet of standing pine scorched, and
300,000,000 pieces of cedar ruined, and
this does not include the loss of scores
of sawmills, lumbering plants, aud
piles of dressed lumber, nor does it take into
consideration the hundreds of homes belonging-
to homestead settlers that have been
wiped out. O ving to the fact that all the
railroad lines in tho upper peninsula run
through thoso blazing forests and the ties
and bridges have been burned, train service
has been abandoned. From latest accounts
received it is now believed that the worst
is over nnd the fires will subside, although
the people will not feel safe until a heavy
rainfalls. The best geueral estimate of tho
loss of property in the northern peninsula of
Michigan is 82,000,000.
The heaviest loser by tho forest fires at
Chippewa Falls, Wis., is Cornell University,
which has nearly 1,000,000 invested in piua
lands locatod chiefly around Loan Lake.
These lands havo boon completely divested
of standing pinos, and their loss will b3 al
most complete.
The destruction of Birronett, Wis., was
complete. One building is left of a city of
700 inhabitants. Ono man was burned to
death. The total loss is a quarter of a mil
lion dollars. Throe hundred and sixty per
sons are homeless.
Forest fires raged in Pennsylvania, all
along the line of the Buffalo, Rochester anl
Pittsburg Railroad. Reports from all points
on the narrow gauge state 1 that the woo ls
were on fire for miles, and the da nage
would be heavy unless rain should fall.
Forest Arcs raged fiercely all around
Jamestown, N. Y. At Falconer during tne
last few days farmers have had to organize
a bucket brigade and work hard to keep the
flames from setting lire to their houses and
barns. Forest llros in Chautauqua
County, New York, raged with increas
ing force through meadows, woods an I
farms, reducing to waste the source of liveli
hood of a considerable portion of tho
farming population. No one fools safe, for
the fires progress with such incredible velo
city that those on picket duty sometimes aro
barely able to give notice of approach before
the flames aro In possession of the property,
and sometimes have to fleo for their lives.
Itoports have been received of extremely
dangerous fires iu Lewis and Ulster Coun
ties. Later Details.
From revised returns received from the
burned regious of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan the following are tho total and
partly burned towns and counties ;
Minnesota towns totally destroyed Hinck
ley, I'okevjama. Sandstone, Sandstone Junc
tion or Miller. Partridge, Cromwell, Curtis,
dishing, Mission Creek. Tartly destroyed
Finlayson, Mansfield. Rutledge, Milaca.
Minnesota counties burnei over Pine
Partly burned over Kanabec. Carlton, Ben
ton. Aitken, Mlile Lac, Morrison.
Wisconsin towns totally destroyed -Com-ato?k,
Bonolt, Barronett, Poplar, Marengo,
Granite Lake. Partly burned Spencor,
High Bridge, Ashl.an I Junction, Fifiold,
Washburne, Cartwrig'jt, Grautsburgh,
Turtle Lake, Rico Lake, Muscoda, Bashaw,
Shell Lake, South Range.
Wisconsin counties partly burned Bar
rou. Washburn, Florence, Ashland, Taylor,
Chippewa. Burnett, Marinette, Price, Grant,
Douglas, Marathon, Bayflold.
Michigan towns partly burned Trout
Creek. Ewen, Sidnaw.
Michigan counties partly burned Hough
ton, Ontonagon (almost total except in
towns). Huron, Macomb.
The General Executiva Committee in
charge of tho relief work made a report of
tho dead bodies recovered as follows :
Hinckley, 271 ;S andstone, 77 ; Miller (often
eallei Sandstone Junction), 15; between
Skunk Lake and Miller. 12: Pokegama, 25 :
in lumber camps, 50. Total, 450.
Everything at Sandstone has burned, the
only thing left standing being tho school
hous') walls and big bank safe.
Ono farmer, who lived about half way
between Miller and Sandstone, killed him
self when he saw his wife and three chil
dren, and his son-in-law, wifo and child all
burned to death before his very eyes, and
his home, stock, aud savings of a lifetime
awept away.
THE UNCONFIRMED.
Nominations That Were Not Acted
on, or Were Rejected.
The following nominations failed of con
firmation by the Senate during the second
session of the Fifty-third Congress :
United States District Judge for the East
ern and Middle Districts of Tennessee
James D. Porter.
United States Attorneys John W. Beek
man tor the District of New Jersey, William
M. Marbury for tho District of Marylan I.
Collectors of Internal Revenue Geo. W.
Wilson for the District of Florida. A Augus
tus Healey for the First District ot New York.
Collectors of Customs David G. Brown
for the District of Montana, James W. Ball
for the District of Yaquina, in the State of
Oregon; George M. Hansom for the Dis
trict of Passamaquoddy, in the State of
Maine.
Indian Agents Thomas B. Teter, Fort
Halt Agency, Idaho; Marshall Petit, Kla
math Agency, Oregon.
Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels
John H. Galway for tho Eighth District.
The following nominations were rejected
during the session :
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
of the United States William B. Hornblow
er and Wheeler H. Peckham.
Consul Benjamin Lenthier, Sherbrooke,
Quebec.
Collector of Customs Edward J.Taylor for
the District of Niagara, New York.
Surveyor of Customs J. Scott Harrison
for the Port of Kansas City, Mo.
Register of Land Office Henry W. Long,
Gainesville, Fla.
Postmasters Jonas Shays, Oswego. N.
Y. ; Treadwell B. Kellum, Babylon, N. Y. ;
Thomas B. Manion, Herkimer, N. Y. ; Georga
F. Yan Dam, TomjklnsviUe, N. Y.
A. r. Laxe. o" the Geological Survey,
is making au exp'oration through the middle
of Labrador. It h reported that he has
made some very important discoveries, and
that inner Labrador is not tho barren waste
Vt has been reported to
Appabestlt the United States will have
to pay damages to the amount of about
1 600,000 for seizing Canadian vessels that
were slaughter 1113 our seals.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Kastern and Middle States.
Fob est fires have done great damajo in
Pennsylvania.
The torpedo boat Ericsson, after a jour
ney through inland waterways for 3SM
miles, passed through Nw York Harbor on
her way to her official trial at New London.
Conn.
Ex-Vice-Prestpeict Mohtox addre1 a
letter to the Republicans of New York Sinte.
Announcing his readiness to run for Gover
nor or not, as they saw fit.
The Police Board of New York City dls.
missed Captains Deyery and Cross an l ex
Wardmen Burns, Olennon and Smith from
the foroe, having found them guilty of the
charges of bribery, for which thev hal bvn
tried.
Two persons worn killed, three serlouslv
hurt andmnny slightly InJuroJ In a rear end
collision in Camden, N. J.
In the Eastern and Middle States Labor
Day was genoruJIy observed, workingmen'-i
orjranissations havlr.g many pnrades. A
strike of several thoi: sand irarment workers
In New Yorit City and Brooklyn wn hectn.
with the object of abolishing tho "sweat"
system.
South and West.
The National Labor Commission. In s-e-Blon
at Chicago, adjourned to meet In Wash
ington, D. O., September 2.
Forest fires in Northwestern Wisconsin
have been intermittent for two month, an
the aggregate loss is not less than $1,011,001
among the pinoland owners and sawmill men,
besides loss to Individuals.
Louis Galviv, fifteen years of ngvholl
up and robbed five loys at St. Joseph. Ml,
while they were playing ball. II s u I a
revolver to show ho meant business. Gal
vln got $1.20, and was soon arreste 1.
The Texas Republicans name I W. K.
Makenson for Governor.
GovERSoa Waite. of Colorado, was ac
quitted of violating the sicrecy of the
malls.
The Grand Jury in New Orleans, La., ad
journed after indicting eleven Conn ilineu
and the City Engineer for "boo lliug."
Dux Wrr.MAirs, nephew of Allen G. TIi k
man. committed suicide bv leaping f.) 11 a
window in the Capitol at Columbu, ()iio.
Bobebt.T., C. J. nam'.in's pacer, went a
mile at Fort Wayne, Inl., hi 2.03'. the
greatest record In the history of harness rac
ing. Thk flood which visited tho country west
ot San Antonio, Texas, beginning at a point
about fifty miles distant from thero and ex
tending for nearly 20") miles, was one of the
most terrible catastrophes the State has suf
fered sinca the Indianola calamity, when all
the coast towns were swjpt into the Gulf of
Mexico.
The Democrats carrlod Arkansas by 30,
000 majority.
Washington.
A convention to promoto Southern de
velopment, was hold In Washington.
The President has commuted tho death
sentence of Mitchell Thomas, tho I11ll.au
murderer, of Wisconsin, to life imprison
ment. Undeb instructions from Secretary of State
Gresham, Minister Baker has demanle l of
Nicaragua a fair and impartial trial of tlie
Americans arrested for complicity in the
Blueflelds conspiracy.
The full text of the engineers' report on
the New York and Now Jersey bridge plans
is made public.
Secretary Carlisle gave carders for an
investigation of tho sugar room of tho Now
York Custom House.
Foreign.
German nnd Engllsa warship? asslstel
King Malietoa to put down a rebellion in
Samoa.
The International Peace Congress at
Antwerp resolved to petition European
Governments to put a stop to the Korean
war.
Atjde Brtjneau has boon guillotined at
Laval, France, for tho murder of Abt3
Erlcot at Entratnmos.
Seven people have boon summarily shot in
Hayti for attempting to murder President
Hypollte's daughter.
Spain has cancelled the reciprocity treaty
between tho United States and Cuba.
CONDITION OF THE TREASURE
Decrease ot the Public Debt aud In
crease in Cash Receipts.
Tho monthly statemeut issu j I from Wash
ington shows a net decrease in the publie
debt, less cash ia tho United States Treas
ury, during August of i.174,'t2.f,i. The
interest boaring debt iu to ase 1 f 8 ),') 0, the
non-interest bearing debt decrease I f'.ll,
977.55, aud. the Treasury increase 1 8,0S2,
745.24. The balance ot tho several classes of debt
at the close of business August 31, ware:
Interest bearing debt, $5 ! .012,u70 ; debt ou
which interest has cease I since maturity,
$ 1.831, 750. 2 ; debt bearing no intermt,
$370,807,593.47 ; total, 1.01t;,7i2,013.73.
The certificates aud Treasury notes, offset
by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury
outstanding at the en 1 of the mouth were
$615,350,572, a decrease of i'l,u21.77. The
total cash in the Treasury wis 1 .021.757.
The total cash iu the Treasury was 701,
703,357.85. The gold reserve was -".,21'J,-300.
Net cash balance, 71,!)U, 197.27.
In the month there was au lucre ase iu go! I
coin and bars of !)3i.0U, the total at the
close being .fl20,8i5.8t;'.).4.). Of the surplui
there was in national bank depeitorie-j -i' 17,
330,897.20, against 17,48j,1 55.52 at the end
of tho previous month.
For the first time In two year? and more
the receipts of the Treasury for auy one
month have readied 440,O00,0OO, thoso of
August, as stated iu tlie statement issue 1
aggregating jitst ift),il7,ri05. This i9
nearly six million more than the receipt
in July, Tho sources of and amount of re
ceipts for August were : From customs, f 11,
804,914 ; luterual re'-enue, 27,5i2,27-J ; mis
cellaneous, $1,050,112.
While the receipts iu August were abnorm
ally large, the expea litures, owing largely
to the fact that but little interest oa the debt
was paid iu that month and inn eh in July,
were 5,000,000 less than in July. T.ie ex
penditures were on the following accounts
Civil and miscellaneous. 9.8 J'i.l-H : war,
$5,000,911 ; navv, $3,444,272 ; in iians. $174,
815 ; pensions, $11, 334.5811 ; interest, $911,
579. As compared wiih those of July aud
August, 1H93, the exprladiteres for the same
two months this fiscal year were $ I,5K),fK)')
less. This savin? is showu aloaein p insioa
and war expenses.
SIGNALLING BY SUNLIGHT.
Messages Fiasl.cd IJetweeu l'Ike's
Peak and Denver.
A message was signallet with sunlight
from th top of the Equitable Building, Den
ver, Col , to the su limit of Pike's I eak, sixty
six miles. Several days ago Sergeants Mc
Glone, McLaughlin and Blssei left Denver
or Pike's Peak to make the etp-rimenf.
This was the n;-ig.. which was fl ished
from the top of th- Peak :
"Fike's Peak. To Captain Glassford,
Denver : We greet you via sunbeam. Ar
rived at 4 p. m. yesterday. Snow stor.n pre
vented our opening station. McGlone."
Experiments will be continued at certain
hours for three days, ut the en I of which the
sigL..' men will start for their attempt to
flasn a message froa; Munt I'ncompnbgro
to Mount Ellen, 183 mi!-s. The U isncs of
the mirror ou Pike's Peak could lo distinct
lyseenbythe nake I eye during the trans
mission of the moss ige. T.ie Peak was first
called from the Denver side of the line, and
within five minutes after the operators be
gan their work came the rcsponv.
Chaelks Preston, sixteen years old, ot
Center Moreland. IVnn., threw a lartre fiat
stone on some pieces of dynamite that were
drying out. an 1 w is kille 1 by the explosion.
His younger brother, standing rllteeu feet
away, was struck by a flying ttone, which
arushed hit) skull.
LATER NEWS.
Vermont oiivtI the entlr Republican
ticket by n majority of alout 25,000.
The Colorado Democratic State Conven
tion nominated for Governor Charles S.
Thamas, of Denver; for Lieutenant-Governor
F. I. Meston. of Pueblo.
. tramp named Bourfc, who asau'ted Mrs.
Wlllbone, was caught and brought to Water
town, South Dakota. About 11 o'e.-ek he
was dragged through tho stro'ts with a rop
around his neck and was haugod to an ehv
trio light pole.
The President nppotnte 1 W. F. Marbury,
of Maryland, to be Attorney of the Vulted
Stntes for the District of Maryland. Mr.
Marbury was nominate I for the office on
April 12 last, but the Senate failed to con
firm hlra.
Uncle Sm's cash balance Is beyond the
danger point, and tho pol l reserve is also
gaining elowly as the result of Increased
Treasury receipts.
Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, who
has sat In the Senate as a 11 "publican twenty-one
years, has joine 1 the Populists.
Moors have looted the Hebrew quarters in
plx towns in Morocco, killed many and sold
women and children Into slavery.
The Vigilant lost her centreboard while
proceeding to ('owes, England, and the race
for the Cape May Cup was declared off.
Empfrou Willi am, of Germany, unveiled
a monument to the memory of his grand
father at Kouigsberg.
Misses Marion Glenpf.ninii and Kitty
Kutz, both of Brooklyn, N. Y., aged twenty
two and fifteen yours, respectively, were
drowned near the mouth of the Oyster
Hivor, Saybrook, Ccnn.
Both legs and one arm of William Cur
new, n coal Inspector at Midvalley Colliery,
Penn., were cut olT by a train. His sixteen-year-old
son saw the accident, but lustcal
ot summoning aid ran in affright lo Ids
homo In Mount Carmel. Sir. t'tiriiew was
doiid when his bo ly was found an hour later.
Ho was rich and leaves a widow uud fun'
children.
General Geouce Stonem an died in Buf
falo, N. Y., at tho residence of Ids sister, Mrs.
Benjamin H. Williams. He was a noted cav
alry leader and was once Governor of Cali
fornia. Thk Republicans or New Hampshire nom
inated Charles A. Busiel for Governor.
Governor Waitk. was renominated by the
Populist Convention nt Pueblo, Col.
James J. Hill, of St. Taul, Minn., Presi
dent of the Great Northern Railroad Com
pany, donated 5000 acres of land, valued lit
$8 an acre, to furnish homes to survivors of
the forest fires. He has also given $5000 In
cash.
General Schofielp has ordered that
hereafter no person under tho ago of twenty
one years will bo enlisted except boys as
musicians or to learn music.
The establishment of a Division of High
way Geology is in contemplation by Director
Walcott of tho United States Geological Sur
vey. It Is proposed to establish a labora
tory for testing all materials used In the con
struction of highways.
There have been 3000 deaths from cholera
In the Austrian provinces of Galici.a and
Bukowina.
The Japanese .claim to havo completely
routed tho Chinese at Gazan, Korea.
The fishing schooner Rigel arrived at
North Sidney, Capo Brent on. with Dr. Cook's
Greenland expedition ou board. The Mi
randa struck a rock and later foundered at
eoa.
FARM AND HOME OWNERS.
They Number ia,70,1.VJ lu the
United States.
The Census Office has made public the
principal results of the investigation o farm
and home proprietorship, which was made
In all of the Stab and Territories. This is
tho first investigation or the kind ever con
ducted for this or any other country.
The farm families number 4,707,179, of
which C5.92 per cent, own their own farms,
and 34.8 per cent, hire, while of the owning
families 28.22 per cent, have encumbrances
on their farms and 77.78 per eon, have none.
In 1880 25.56 per cent, of the farms were
hired.
Of the 7,992.973 home families 30.90 per
cent, own their homes nnl 03.10 percent,
hire them, while of the owning families 27.70
per cent, own their homes subject to encum
brance and 72.30 per cent. free.
In the cities and towns of 8000 to 100,0 10
population nre 1,749,579 home famili-s, of
which 35.90 per eent own thoir homes and
64.04 per cent, hire, while of the owning
families 34.11 per cent. twn subject to
encumbrance and 65.89 per cent, without en
cumbrance. In the cities that contain, over 100. 000 pop
ulation there are 1,918,834 home families, of
which 22.83 per cent, own their homes and
77.17 per cent, hire, while of the owning
families 37.80 per cent, own subject to en
cumbrance and 02.20 per cent, free of encum
brance. In those cities New York has the
highest percentage ot home tendency,
namely, 93.67 ; Boston is next, with 81.57 per
cent. ; Brooklyn third, with Hl.il percent. ,
Jersey City fourth, with HI. 2') per cent., and
Cincinnati fifth, with 80.82 p-r cent.
To briug the urban population into con
trast with the non-urban population, totals
have been obtained for 4.224,500 home,
families living outside of cities and towns of
8000 people and over, nnd of these families
43.78 per cent, own their homes, 50.22 p-r
cent, hire, while of the owning famili?s 23.09
per cent, own with encumbrance and 76.91
per oent. own without encumbrance.
The 880,957 farms subject to encumbrance
are worth $3,051,923,165, and the encum
brance is $1,085,995.90'), or 35.55 ter cent,
of the value. Tne 109,933 hom'es Hubj-.-t to
encumbrance are valued at $2,632,375,901,
and tho encumbrance is $1,046,953,603, or
39.77 per cent, of the value.
The average value of each ownel and en
cumbered farm is $4444, of eneurrib-rd
home $3250, and the average encurnbran :e
on each of the farms Is $1224, on each en
cumbered home $1293. The interest charge
on the encumbered farms is $76,72S,077, on
encumbered homes $65,182,029. The aver
age interest charge on each encumbered
farm is $87, on each home s0. The aver
age rate of int-rost on the encumbrance on
farms IS 7.07 per cent., on ho nes 6.23 per
cent.
In the cities of 8000 to 100, 00) populatiou
the average value of each owned nn l encum
bered home is $3417 ; average encumbrance,
$1863 ; average annual Interest charged, $f I ;
average rate of Interest. 6.29 per cent.
In the cities having at least 100,000 popu
lation. $5555 represents the average value of
each owned and encuniberel home. N'w
York has the highest value, namely, $19,200 ;
San FrancUco la second, with $7993 ; Bro k
Uyn third, with $7349 ; Omaha fourth, with
$7179. and Washington fifth, with $7054.
The annual interest charged ou each ownel
and encumbered home in theseelties is $134.
The highest araouut being $43s, in New
York, and the lowest amount $33, iu Louis
ville. Denver has the highest average rate
of interest, namely, 7.87 per cent , an 1 N-w
Orleans is second witn 7.86 per cent. New
York has the lowest rate, 4.95 cent., and Bos
ton stands next with 5. 14 per cent.
A settler at Rutherglen, Austrahn, hav
ing become iuvolved in financial troubles,
cut the throats of his three children, shot ft
neighbor dead who tried to inUrforo and
then took his owe Ufa.
GENERAL BANKS DEAD.
The Veteran ('oinin.iiidcr Ksplrednt
Walthaiii, luv
General Nnthmicl p. p. ink o.ed nt hi
honiK In Waltham. Ma., at ,'!,. W p. Tn.,
fr'm train trci'-lo after a Seng iiln . Kor
nearly two years h. in 1 1 11 n Miff-rcr, but
he WM Hot taken vriouly III until at-mt
tW' weeks l-ef.ire ln dea.
Nathaniel l'rentts HanW was lra iu
Wnltham, Ma., Jtum iry ;l 1. !! r"
euivod a common nchool eduenll.iii, tin 1
fy . . -w
v v . " 4
A7
OENrilAT. N. r. T ivf 1.
teamed the trad" f machinist in a cuMon
mill. During hi eure leeir he siulc
law, gave lectures nnd edit-" I a hie il paper.
He was admitted to th bar. and In l
was sent to the Legislature. The rie v r
he was chosen Member of (" ngf by the
coalitionist During Id term he withdrew
from the Democratic party an 1 i 1 H 1 Idm
Kolf with tln Know N'lthltig. They H.-nt
him back to ( 'uiigr' by an overwhelming
majority.
The eonfitit for the Speakership, whi h
ti van nt t he opeiil 11 g of leper 1 1 I Ian s s -oinl
term, lasted for t w- months. M" w i t
nominated on th bun Ire 1 mid Ihlr'j-
thlrd ballot. General l'.lllk Was eleeo. to
the Thlrty-flfth Conare . n Kepublle;ui nnd
served until lee. 4. is:i7, when ln resigned
to take hisseat as Governor ot Massachusetts.
He was re-elected Governor In h."iS .m l y.i.
Ill 100 lie nueeotded General Georg" i.
McClellan In the Presidency .if the llllnol
Central Kailroad Company, but relgne-l at
the breaking ou: f the Civil War, and went
to the front ns a Major-' ieneral of volunteer.
Ills first active service l-lng in the
Shenandoah Valley. After hervlng for a
time in defending Washington In- was
assigned to the Department of N"w
Orleans. succeeding Goner il I -n J.im I ti
F. Butler. In May, ls4. having 1 11
relieved of his comm 111 I, lie r -slgue I hi
commission, mi I returned to Massachusetts,
Where he was elected to Congress Iroin hie
old district. He was re-ele. t.i until 177,
except in 1H72, when he was an a -liv" mip
porter of Horace Greeley. ,ft"r lib retire
fuent from Cingn-bs he act el iiri United
States Marshal for Massac I iu"lt. Maud
Banks, the actress, Is a daughter of Geueral
Bunks.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Japan has 377 Christian churches.
I'iiui'st llrcs are raging In Colorado.
CiiM Aiio has 110,000 nat urali.od voter.
Amkiiican railroads htreteh 172, 1100 mile.
New York's hop crop willispi.il last year's.
The revolution in Nicaragua Is gaining
strength.
The cholera is spreading rapidly in Aus
trian Silesia.
A new Ohio law prohibits the use of ficti
tious name In partnerships.
I r is enliniale.1 that I'.ngl iiid expend! an
nually $15,000,000 on picture.
Noittiikun bieiber ma 1111 fact 11 rers wan t t
restrict the production of yellow pile'.
Siorx Cnv. Iowa, has H'-t 300 men to work
cutting Ibihslaii thistl' H which have I
a pest there.
The sevre drought has caused several
clii;eo factories lu Western Ontario, Cnna la,
to close down.
Nancy M. Walker, of Rochester, N. Y.,
has Just celebrated Icr one hundre I an 1
third birthday.
Railway mail clerks are wrought up ovr
the new order requiring them to live 011 the
line of their run.
A l'ofi lak demonstration against the
British House of Lords was held lu Loudon,
When 70,000 people were present.
In her speech proroguing the '.rltlh l'ir
11a ii'-ut the t,lieen said htrl' t neutrality
would be observed in the war between 1 fiina
and Japan.
A Nt ooET of tin weighing 5100 pound ha
been found in Tasmania. The assay show
47 per cent, of metallic tin.
Gkkonimo, "he Apache, and his warrior,
who have peen confined tor several years at
Mount Vernon, Ala., are to be released.
Government expert declare the recent
explosions to have been caused by faulty
Hindis, mid they have been ordered out ol
Service.
The United States gunboat Machlas will
be intrusted with the return of the Colum
bian relics loaned by the Vatican nu t the
Duke of Veraguiu
VIKING SHIP SUNK.
The Famous ('raft (iocs to the Rot
tout of the Hiver.
After sailing thouvm in c-f miles ovr the
Atlantic Ocean, up the St. Lawr-nce au I
through the lak"H t' Chicago without a mis
hap, th" Viking ship was mink in the Chi
cago River during the late storm. TM
famous vessel was one of the notabie ex
hibits at the World's Pair.
The Vikll.g Mip, which was t uilf on the
model of an old Viking rover found fourfc-a
years ago in the irrouud deep un h r th vil
lage of Gogstad, nar San b-Ij t I, s iil-1
from Chrlstl.anla on April 9, 1193. Iter eo-u-rnander
was the famous Captain M i.'mm
Anderson, who, with a pleke I crew, cru:- I
along the co.i-t for a time an I early in M r
commence 1 the trip across the At!a..ti
which en led triumphantly. Captain An t-i-nou
s object, it was given our, was to bow
that the Norsemen might have dis-over" I
America while on home of their venturesome
trips on tej.itB buch as the Viking. Win 11 the
strange craft reached New York, It remained
in North River for some time and was of
popular Interest. The Viking was seventy
H"ven feet long and pullel hutcm oars to
I he side. She was built throughout of sil 1
ccutury defying oak.
TWO RECORDS IN A DAY.
Lucanla to New York and Carnpanl
to yurrtnlowii.
The Canard ilne steamships smash 1 two
tranatlantle recor U In one day. F.rsf, th
news came that the (-'amp aula had lower"!
nil eastward re:or Ij one hour an I twenty
minutes by retching Q lccmtown from V"
York in five day, t 11 hours an i forty-wen
minutes.
Agent Vernon If. Brown felt prou 1 and le-
J gantotalk of still better acliievMaints, not
dreaming that at that minute tf i.uc.inia
was rushing in towards Fire Inland away
ahead of tim, throwing r cor Is to right and
left, as she swept a to war Is Sandy Hook.
It was so foggy out there that the steam
ship was scarcely recognized, and it w is al
most 5.30 before it wis learned that at 4.5s
p. 111. the Lueiriiahal passeithe lightship
just five days, eight hour. and thirty
eight irinutes after leaving Daunt' Rock.
She had thus beaten the Campania's record
oi two weeks ago by fifty-one minute.