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VOL. XXIII.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., APRIL 2(5. 1901.
NO. 17.
THE WORLFSJEDEEMEii,
Or. Talmage Gives Portraits of Some ot
His Great Disciples and Exponents.
The Lovco* Christ Set Forth?'He That Com-1
eth From Above is Above All."
[Coyprlpht 1901.1
Washington, D. C.?In this discourse
Br. talmage sounds the praises of the
world's Redeemer, and puts before us the
portraits of some of His great disciples
<ind exponents; text, John iii, 31, "He
that cometh from above is above all."
Tiie most conspicuous character of his?
tory steps out upon tlie platform. The
iu*ig-r which, diamonded with light, point
ed down to Him from the Bethlehem sU
was only a ratification of the finger,
prophecy, the finger of genealogy
ringer of chronology; the finger of
--all five fingers pointing in one dj
Christ is the overtopping figure o"
He is the vox humana in ail
gracefullest line in all sculpt
exquisite mingling of lighta
all painting, the acme of al
dome of all cathcdraled gra..
peroration of nil splendid ian
JThe Greek alphabet is nirj "
tatter*, and tva
yeM to y,te fi
{-pbs A
wi all the splendors
H with those two let?
ters between t\iem. "I
omega, the beginning
rst and the last." Or,
words of thc text,
. ju have piled up all
__. kalayan altitudes, the glory
^vonld have to spread its wings
Fend a thousand leagues to touch
Tsummits. Pelion, a high mountain
lcssaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and
(npua, a iiigh mountain, but mythology
a us when the giants warred against tne
rbod-) they piled up these three mountains
'and from the tcp of them proposed to
scale the heavens, but the height was not
great enough, and there was a complete
taiiure. And after all the giants?Isaiah
and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants;
Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic
giants; cherubim and seraphim and arch?
angel, celestial giants?have failed to climb
to the top of Christ's glory they might all
well unite in the words of the text and
say, "He that cometh from above is above
au,;;
Pant, Christ must be above all else in
our preaching. There are so many books
on homiletics scattered through the world
that all laymen, as well as all clergymen,
have made up their minds what sermons
ought to be. That sermon is most effec?
tual which most pointedly puts forth
Christ as the pardon of all sin and the
?correction of all evil, individual, social, po?
litical, national. There is no reason why
we should ring the endless changes on a
few phrases. There are those who think
that if an exhortation or a discourse have
frequent mention of justification, sanctifi?
cation, covenant of works and covenant of
grace, therefore it must be profoundly
evangelical, while they are suspicious of a
discourse which presents the same truth,
bat under different phraseology. Now, I
say there is nothing in all the opulent
realm of Anglo-Saxonism or all the word
treasures that we inherited from the Latin
and the Greek and the Indo-European,
but we have a right to marshal it in reli?
gious discussion. Christ sets the example.
His illustration'* were from the grass, the
flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barnyard
fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from
the seas and the stars, and we do not pro?
pose in our Sunday-school teaching and in
our pulpit address to be put on the limits.
I know that there is a great deal 6aid
in our day against words, as though they
were notbing. They may be misused, but
they have an imperial power. They are
the bridge between soul and soul, between
Almighty God and the human race. What
did God write upon the tables of stone?
Words. What did Christ utter on Mount
Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ
strike the spark for the illumination of the
universe? Out of words. "Let there be
light," and light was. Of course thought
is the cargo and words are only the ship,
but how fast would your cargo get on with?
out the ship? Wiat you need, my friends.
in all your work, in your Sunday-school
class, in your reformatory institutions,
**\nd what we all need is to enlarge our vo
ca**ularv when we come to speak about
GoV. arid Christ by iieaven. We ride a
few old wo'-'tu to neath when there is such
an illimitable resource. "Shakespeare em?
ployed 15,000 different words for dramatic
purposes. Milton employed 8000 different
words for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate
employed over 11,000 different words for
legal purposes, but the most of us have
Ieee than a thousand words that we can
manage, less than 500, and that makes us
so stupid.
When we come to set forth the love of
Christ, we are going to take the tenderest
phraseology wherever we find it, and if it
has never been used in that direction be?
fore all the more shall we use it. When
we come to speak of the glory of Christ
the conqueror, we are going to draw our
similes from triumphal arch and oratorio
and everything grand and stupendous. The
French navy has eighteen flags by which
they give signal, but those eighteen flags
they can put into 66,000 different combina?
tions, combinations infinite and varieties
everlasting. And let me say to young men
who are after a while going to preach
Jesus Christ, you will have the largest lib?
erty and unlimited resource. You only
have to present Christ in your own way.
Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in
the severest argument ever penned, and
John Bunyan preached Christ in the sub?
limest allegory ever composed. Edward
Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up
against the side of his pulpit and wept out
his discourse, while George Whitefield,
with the manner and the voice and the
art of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory.
It would have been a different thing if
Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and
dream about the pilgrim's progress to the
celestial city or John Bunyan had at?
tended an essay on the human will.
Brighter than the light, fresher than the
fountains, deeper than the seas, are these
gospel themes. Song has not melody,
Howers have no sweetness, sunset sky has
no color, compared with these glorious
themes. These harvests of grace spring
up quicker than we can sickle them.
Kindling pulpits with their fire and pro?
ducing revolutions with their power, light?
ing up dying beds with their glory, they
are the sweetest thought for the poet, and
they are the most thrilling illustration for
the orator, and they offer the most in?
tense scene for the artist, and they are to
the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm.
Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweet?
est comfort frr ghastliest agony. Bright?
est hope for grimmest death. Grandest
resurrection for darkest sepulcher.
"Oh, what a gospel to preach! Christ
over all in it. His birth, His suffering,
His miracles, His parables, His sweat, His
fears, His blood, His atonement, His in?
tercession?what glorious themes! Do we
exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do
we have love? It fastens on Jesus. Have
we a fondness for the church? It is be?
cause Christ died for it. Have we a hope
of heaven? It is because Jesus went ahead,
the herald and the forerunner.
The royal robe of Demetrius was so
costly, so beautiful, that after he had put
it oft'no one ever dared put it on. But
this robe of Christ, richer than that, the
poorest and wannest and the worst may
wear. "Where sin abounded grace may
much more abound."
"Oh, my sins, my sins," said Ma^'-in
Luther to Staupitz; "my sins, my sins!''
The fact is that the brawny (J^an stu?
dent had found a Latin jjifeie that had
made him quake, and rpj$f?g else ever did
iflke him quake, and when j-^^Pi'iiid how.
hroilgh < hrist. he was^^^hmed ana
aved he wrote to a fncnJ^Hmns: "(ome
ver and join us, great^^^nwful sinners
aved by the grace \A_^_W. You seem to
ie only a slender _^^f. an(- V0" don't
audi extol the nu-v^^m God, but we who
;i\c bri'ii Mirh vei^^^^'M sinners praise
li* grace the inr*^^V>w thal we have boen
edeemed."' Vm^^Wih' that you arc so des
lerateiy egot^^^K that von feel yourself
ii lirst rate^^Pitual trim, and that from
he root oJ^^F hair to tho tip of the toe
on ;wo j^^m'^ and immaculate? What
ou nee^Hr8 looking glass, and lion- it is
n tiie^B*F'-. Poor ami wretched and mis
raldttf^Vi blind and naked from the crown
.(^?F''*':d lo the soli- of the foot, full
j^^Kids and putrefying sores. No health
^?r And then take the fact that Christ
?pured up all the notes against us and
?id them and then offered us the receipt.
f And how much we need Him in our sor*
rows! We are independent of circum?
stances if we have His grace. Why, He
made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under
that grace St John from desolate Patnios
heard the blast of the apocalyptic trum?
pets. After all other candles have been
snuffed out this is the light that gets
brighter and brighter unto the perfect
day, and after, under the hard hoofs of
calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoy?
ment have been trampled into deep mire,
at the foot of the eternal rock, the Chris
tian, from cups of granite, lily rimmed
and vine covered, puts out the thirst of
his soul.
Again I remark that Christ ii above all
in dying alleviations. I have not any sym?
pathy with the morbidity abroad about
our demise. The Emperor of Constantino?
ple arranged that on the day of his coron
nation the stonemason should come and
consult him about his tombstone that aftei
a while he would need, and there are men
who are monomanical on thc subject of
departure from this life by death, and the
more they think of it the less prepared
are they to go. This is .an unmanliness
not worthy ot yon, nor worthy of me.
Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his
day. while dying ordered the tunic he had
on him to be carried after his death on a
spear at the head of his army, and then
the soldier ever and anon should stop and
say: "Behold all that is left of Saladin, the
emperor and conqueror! Of all the states
he conquered, of all the wealth he accumu?
lated, notbing did he retain but this
shroud!"
I have no sympathy with such behavior
or such absurd demonstration, or with
much that we hear uttered in regard to de?
parture from this life to the next. There
is a common-sensical idea on this subject
that you and I need to consider ? that
there are only two styles of departure.
A thousand feet under ground, by light
of torch toiling in a miner's shaft, a ledge
of rock may fall upon us, and Ave may die
a miner's death. Far out at sea, falling
from the slippery ratlines and broken on
the halyards, we may die a sailor's death.
On mission of mercy in hospital, amid bro?
ken bones and reeling leprosies and raging
fevers, we may die a philanthropist's
death.
On the field of battle, serving God and
our country, slugs through the heart, tht
gun carriage may roll over us. and we may
die a patriot's death. But, after all, there
are only two styles of departure?the death
of the righteous and of the wicked, and
we all want to die the former.
What did the dying Janeway say? "I
can as easily die as close my eyes or turn
my head in sleep. Before a few hours have
passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with
the one hundred and forty and four thou?
sand and Arith the just men made perfect,
and we shall ascribe riches and honor and
glory and majesty and dominion unto God
and the Lamb." Dr. Taylor, condemned
to burn at the stake, on his way thither
broke away from the guardsmen and went
bounding and leaping and jumping toward
the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for
Him. Sir Charles Hare in his last moment
had such rapturous vision that he cried,
"Upward, upward, upward!" And so
great was the peace of one of Christ's dis?
ciples that he put his finger upon the
pulse in his wrist and counted it and ob?
served its halting beats until his life had
ended here to begin in heaven. But
grander than that Avas the testimony of
the Avornout first missionary Avhen in the
Mamartine dungeon he cried: "I am noAV
ready to be offered, and the time of my
departure is at hand! I ha\-e fought the
good fight. I have finished my course. I
haA-e kept the faith. Henceforth there is
laid up for me a croavn of righteousness,
Avhich the Lord, the righteous judge, Avill
giA'e me in that day, and not to me only,
but to all them that love His appearing!"
Do you not see that Christ is above all in
dying alleviations?
ToAvard the last hour of our earthly resi?
dence Ave are speeding. When I see the
spring blossoms scattered. I say, "Another
season gone forever." When I close the
Bible on Sabbath night, I say, "Another
Sabbath departed." When I bury a friend,
I say, "Another earthly attraction gone
foreA;er." What nimble feet the years
haA-e!
The roebucks and the lightnings run not
so fast. From decade to decade, from sky
to sky, they go at a bound. There is a
place for us, Avhether marked or not, Avhere
you and I -will sleep the last sleep, and the
men are now living Avho Avill Avith solemn
tread carry us to our resting place.
So, also, Christ is aboA-e all. in heaA-en.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the chief theme of the celestial ascription,
all the thrones facing His throne, all the
palms waved before His face, all the
croAvns doAvn at His feet. Cherubim to
cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed
spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the
SaA-iour's earthly sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of heaven, and
in all the radiant sweep the most glorious
object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on
the scars of His suffering, in silence first,
afterward breaking forth into acclamation.
The martyrs, all the purer for the flame
through which they passed, Avill say, "This
is Jesus, for Avhom Ave died." The apos?
tles, all the happier for the shipAvreck and
the scourging through AA'hich they Avent,
Avill say, "This is the Jesus AA'hom we
preached at Corinth, and in Cappadocia,
and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem." Lit?
tle children, clad in Avhite Avill say, "This
is the Jesus who took us in His arms and
blessed us, and when the storms of the
world Avere too cold and loud brought us
into this beautiful place." The multitudes
of the bereft will say, "This is the Jesus
Avho comforted us Avhen our heart broke.'
Many who had Avandered clear off from
God and plunged into vagabondism, but
Avere saA'ed by grace, Avill say: "This is the
Jesus Avho pardoned us. We were lost on
the mountains, and He brought us home.
We Avere guilty and He made us white as
snoAv." Mercv boundless, grace unparal?
leled. And then, after each one has recited
his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mer?
cies, recited them as by solo, all the voices
Avill come together in a great chorus,
which shall make the arches re-echo Avith
the eternal reverberation of gladness and
peace and triumph.
Edward I. Avas so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that Avhen he was about to ex?
pire he bequeathed $160,000 to have his
heart after his decease taken and deposit?
ed in the Holy Land, and his request was
complied with. But there are hundreds to?
day Avhose hearts are already in the holy
land of heaven. Where your treasures are,
there are vour hearts also. John Bunyan,
of Avhom "I spoke at the opening of tne
discourse, caught a glimpse of that place,
and in his quaint way he said: And 1
heard in my dream, and, io, the bells ot
the city rang again for loy. And as thev
opened the gates to let in the men I
looked in after them, ana, lo, the city
shone like the sun, and there Avere streets
of gold, and men Avalked on them, harps
in their hands to sing praises Avith all.
And after that they shut up the gates,
Avhich Avhen I had seen I Avuhed myself
among them."
4 BINDLE OF RAGS
IN THE COFFIN.
An Alleged Insurance Swindle Un?
earthed in Missouri.
THREE AlEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.
The Sudden Appearance of Thomas Reid,
His Insurance, followed by HU Mys?
terious ll n.ss and Alleged Death In tbe
Wood*--The Smallpox Scare Used to Keep
Away the Cur.'o .s.
Portagcville. Mo. (Special).?Follow?
ing a dramatic scene in the village
graveyard here, where a dozen men
gathered at midnight and dug up a
collin found to contain only sonic old
rags, three prominent residents of this
place have been arrested, charged with
attempting to perpetrate an insurance |
fraud.
Thc accused men are A. T. Smock, a ,
druggist; Dr. Harry H. O'Kellcy and
John Adams. They had taken a lively
interest in Thomas Reid, a stranaer who
came to this hamlet a few month*] ago.
and soon joined the Modern Woodmen (
of America, a beneficiary order. Reid
presently took out a policy for $.10*00 in ' ,
the order, naming a cousin. Francis
Marion Reed, as beneficiary. He dis?
appeared in a few weeks and his alleged
death was announced by Adams soon
afterward.
Murray Phillips. Jr.. prosecuting at- i
torncy o;' New Madrid county, makes . ,
his principal charge against Smock and !
O'Kelley, and holds Adams for com?
plicity. A furiher charge again-t Adams
has just been made, it being alleged j
that last week he fired two shots into
the homes of George McFadden and
David Fischer, two farmers living near
thc graveyard. ,
Little else has been talked about here
than the sudden appearance of Reid, his
election to the Modern Woodmen, the
issuance of the largest policy thc order
grants to any member, his subsequent
disappearance, and reports that he was
seriously ill with pneumonia at a hunt?
ers' camp nearby.
Adams announced on April 5 that
Reid was dead. Smock bought a coffin,
which was charged to the Woodmen,
and several members of the order then
suggested that they attend the funeral
as a mark of respect for the new mem?
ber Avho had been taken from them so
suddenly. ,
The strange facts surrounding Reid's
insurance and the burial late at night
led several men living near the grave?
yard to make an investiga.ion. Mc?
Fadden, convinced lhat the affair was
no ordinary one, led a little band of
farmers to the graveyard at midnight
on Monday. Some began to froAvn on
the undertaking, but McFadden was
not discouraged. Taking a shovel he
began to throw back the earth over thc i
grave.
When McFadden had penetrated to
the lid of the coffin several tried to dis?
suade him from further investigation.
But he continued his work, presently
lifting the cover from the coffin.
Taking a lantern in his hand he re?
turned to the edge of the grave and
lowered the light until thc rays fell noon
the casket. McFadden exultantly called
his companions to the edge of the grave
and there they beheld wih him that only
a few old rags had been buried in the |
coffin.
A PHYSICIAN'S BIG filLL.
He Calls lt the Utterance of a Man Who Has
Yielded to force.
Pittsburg (Special).?Tbe Dispatch
says thc estate of the late State Senator
Christopher L. Magee has received a bill
from Dr. Walter C. Browning, of Phila?
delphia, for $100,000 professional ser?
vices during thc illness of Senator Ma?
gee. Dr. Browning was in attendance
on Senator Magee for 21 months pre?
vious to bis death, and accompanied him
to several places for the recovery of hi*
hcaith. The fee is believed to be one of
the largest of its kind ever charged in
Pennsylvania or the United States, and
has produced widespread comment in
professional circles. The bill is under?
stood to be itemized, covers 21 months'
treatment, and is charged at the rate of
$80 per treatment hour. One charge is
$i/,cco for last summer's treatment at
Atlantic City and another $12,000 for ac?
companying the deceased to Hot Springs,
Va.
FAITH CURISTS BARRED.
An Atlanta Court Refuses to Allow Them to
Prnct ce There.
Atlanta, Ga. (Special).?Judge Lump
Scin, of the Superior Court, denied the
application tor a charter for "the Atlanta
Institute of Christian Science," the ef- ]
feet of his decision being that Christian
Scientists cannot practice their treat- j
ment of diseases in the State of Georgia
without having regularly graduated in I
medicine or passed an examination be- I
fore the Medical Examining Board, thc
same as other physicians.
Judge Lumpkin holds that, according
to the decision of a case in the Supreme
Court of Nebraska, Christian Science is
the practice r> medicine, and he further
holds that the practice of medicine in
Georgia, according to the State law.
must bc accomplished by persons who
are regularly graduated from a medical
school.
Killed His Wife and Himself.
Chicago (Special).?J. J. Gillen, an
attorney, 25 years old. killed his wife
and then fatally shot himself in a hall?
way at 177 East Lake street. The couple
were married onlv a few months, and
soon separated. Shortly after Mrs. Gil?
len left her husband the latter accused
his wife's relatives of drugging her and
keeping her as a prisoner. He. was ar?
rested for threatening to kill. Mrs. Gil?
len was the daughter of Cornelius Mc?
Guire, a wealthy manufacturer of this
city.
Serious Railroad Wreck.
Philadelphia. Pa. (Special).?A fatal
head-on collision occurred on the Ply?
mouth branch of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad at Tyrol Station, near
Conshohocken. John Fallows, engineer
of a westbound passenger train, which
ran into an eastbound freight train.
was instantly killed, and his fireman,
Grant Eisle. was seriously injured. Thc
locomotives of both trains were wrecked
and many of the cars were damaged.
Several passengers were shaken up and
bruised, but none was seriously injured.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Domestic.
Two decisions made by the Circuit
rourt in New York upon the tariff law
anil add Seto-000 annually to the cus
oins receipts of thc government.
'Longshoremen's Unions Nos. 71 and
108, of Newport News. Va., received
mtice that their strike had been sanc
ioned by headquarters.
Capt. R. S. Parks was nominated at
Luray, Va., lo represent Page and Rap
>ahannock counties in thc Constitu
ional Convention.
hour graduates of Union Seminary
vere denied admission to the ministry
iccause their views were held to be un?
orthodox. ?
Negotiations are in progress for a
?ombine of makers of steamer engines
ind tor manufacturers of mining ma
:binery.
W. S. Yeatman, a disbursing clerk in
he Treasury Department, died suddenly
it a hotel in York. Pa.
Thc Reynolds band of fcudists. in?
trenched at Boones Fork, Ky., was
finally induced to surrender.
The chair factory of James O. Clone,
it Madison Court House, Va,, was de?
stroyed by fire.
Ex-Gov. Charles C. Stockley, of Dela?
ware, died at his home in George.own.
Lizzie Dodson, thc woman burg1,ir,
tvho escaped from the Virginia Peniten?
tiary, was recaptured in Fairfax county
alter a fight with Deputy Consiable
Pierpont.
Dan Murphy, the Richmond (Va.)
newsboy who had been missing for
some time, was found dying from
wounds at the TraLgar Works.
Rev. Wayland F. Dunaway was elect?
ed to represent Lancaster and Rich?
mond counties in the Virginia Consti?
tutional Convention.
The hamlet of Biscayne. Fla., was
struck by a tornado. John Peters was
fatally injured and William Cook seri?
ously hurt.
The strike of the steelworkers at Mc
Keesport was ended by an amicable
agreement, which declared that there
had been misunderstandings and mis?
takes on both sides.
Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister,
spoke on America's cotton trade with
China at a dinner given by the South- |
ern Manufacturers' Club at Charlotte, !
N.C.
Postoffice Inspector Bulla and United
States Marshall Bendit arrested in
Rocky Mount, N. C.. Charles Alexan?
der, a member of Frisco Stern's gang.
Two locomotives were struck by a
huge snowslide near Boulder, Col., and
hurled down the mountain into a chasm.
Four men .vere klled.
In a head-on collision on the Wheel?
ing and Lake Eric Railroad, in the
Cleveland yards, one man was killed
and a number injured.
Joseph Gomb'osky was killed in Tren?
ton. N. J., by Detective John J. Clancy,
who was trying to arrest him for bur?
glary.
Labor leaders in Virginia have sta-ted
a campaign to secure thc adoption of a
ten-hour bill by the next Legislature.
D. P. Hurley, freight agent of thc
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Alex?
andria. Va., has disappeared.
Clifford C. Deem, a brakeman, fell
from his train at Long Run, W. Va.,
and sustained fatal injuries.
Dr. Charles W. Dana was burned to
death whilctrying to save his horse from
a burning stable.
Gen. Andrew M. Anderson, com?
mandant of the Soldiers' Home at San?
dusky. Ohio, dropped dead.
Storms did considerable damage in
Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.
Archbishop John J. Keane was invest?
ed with the pallium at Dubuque. Iowa.
Cardinal Gibb ins conferred the pallium. !
Archbishop Ireland made the principal
address.
Five hundred employees of the Onon?
daga Pottery, in Syracuse, N. Y.. went
on a strike in sympathy with thc girl
strikers.
Minister Loomis arrived at New
York from Venezuela. He denies that
he criticized President Castro.
Fifty-one Indians and negroes receiv?
ed diplomas and certificates at thc
Hampton Normal School.
Alexander Agassiz was elected presi?
dent of the National Academy of Sci?
ence.
Mrs. Anna Sheldon AndreAv-s died at
Slatersville, R. I., aged 100 years.
Code Denny, a B. & O. brakeman,
was killed at Lamira. W. Va.
Ex-Congressman Melvin R. Baldwin
killed himself at Set.le.
Foreign.
Thc cup challenger Shamrock II. A\*as
launched with in'ercsting ceremonies at
Dumbarton, Sir Thomas Lipton and all
expressing confidence that the yacht
would lift thc America's cup.
Prince Hohenlohe says that Field
Marshal von Waldersee, more than
Count von Buclow, advised the Em?
peror to take an uncompromising atti?
tude toward China.
The Dutch troops at Blangpedir, on
the west coast of Achin, routed 500 na?
tives Avho were trying to surround the
place.
Italy's alliance with France is regard?
ed unfavorably in German political cir?
cles.
M. Delcasse, the French foreign min?
ister, started for St. Petersburg.
Admiral Canevaro, of Italy, formerly
Italian minister of foreign affairs, says
the future of civilization will require
European nations to unite against
America. Africa and Asia. Thc London
Spectator says this view corresponds
with that of the Austfo-Hungarian For?
eign Minister.
The Chinese government has ordered
the Chinese troops at Huailu to remove
outside the Great Wall. The Franco
German expedition has, accordingly,
been abandoned. France will shortly
withdraw 10,000 troops.
Major General Schwartzkopf, Count
von Waldersee's chief of staff, perished
in the fire that destroyed the winter pal?
ace in Pekin. General von Waldersee
made a narrow escape through a win?
dow.
The acceptance by Archduke Francis,
the heir apparent, of the patronage of
the Austrian Catholic Schools Associa?
tion, provoked a stormy scene in the
Austrian Reichsrath.
The British punitive expedition
against the Ogaden Somalis, in East
Africa, has constantly defeated the na?
tives and burned villages.
Active preparations are being made
at the arsenals and shipyards of Japan
for war with Russia.
The ministers in Pekin have accepted
Mr. Rockhill's proposition for a foreign
board to take the place of Tsung Li
Yamen.
BIG RAIN AND SNOW STORM
CAUSES WIDESPREAD RUIN.
lt Sweeps From Clevelrnd, 0., cn the North to Atlanta, Ga., on the South
The Heaviest Damage Done in Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).?Pittsburg
nnd AHeghey arc slowly emerging
from the flood. At 8 p. m. the rivers
were receding nearly a foot an hour.
The highest point reached at Davis
Island dam was 25.8 feet at 3 a. m.,
which means 28 feet at thc junction of
the Allegheny and Monongahela rive-s.
Thc water remained stationary until
about 3 p. m., when it began to fall.
Conservative estimates of the total
loss in this district is between $2,000,000
and $.1,000,000.
Fifty thousand workers are suffering
from enforced idlcnc-s.
While there have been greater floods
at this point, there was never one that
caused so much financial loss and dis?
comfort. This Avas due to thc denser
population caused by the recent rapid
growth of the two cities, and to the fact
that all the manufacturing plants on thc
river banks Avere in active operation,
most of them Avorking night and day,
until the rising Avater put out the fires
and drove the workers to higher
ground.
. The damage to the furniture and
buildings in Allegheny is estimated at
about $100,000. It will take tAvo months
of hot summer weather to thoroughly
dry out these houses. In Pittsburg the
loss to residences, stores and goods and
the cost of cleaning up will amount to
about $250,000.
At Carnegie borough, six miles from
Pittsburg, the loss is estimated at $40,- j
ooo, of Avhich the Columbia Bridge
Works lose $5000. The other losses
range from $75 to $000. The Westing?
house Electric Company had two car?
loads of finished material for Toronto,
Canada, on the tracks near Turtle
Creek. They Avere caught in the flood,
and Avater got into the cars. The loss
may reach $?o.ooo.
Trains Stalled in Snowdrift.
Erie, Pa. (Special).?The snowstorm
of Friday night and Saturday and thc
sleetstorm of Saturday was the worst
known here in 60 years, and surpassed
the famous blizzard of March, 1888.
There is 12 inches of snow on the level,
and during Saturday nearly every trol?
ley line in the city Avas knocked out.
Sunday traffic was resumed irregularly.
Wires were down and crossed and tele?
phone companies blocked. Saturday
night there were t.vo fires from crossed
telephone wires carrying heavy currents
AGED HUSBAND A MURDERER.
Holds His Wife and Tires Four Bullets Into
Her Body.
Jackson. Mich. (Special).?David H.
Creech, a capitalist, aged 70 years, and
for 50 years a resident of this city, shot
his wife on the street, firing four bullets
into her head, neck and mouth while he
held her fast Avith his kft arm about the
waist.
Mrs. Creech was 40 years of age and
was married to Creech 12 years ago.
Previously she had been his house?
keeper.
Three years ago Mrs. Creech began
divorce proceedings, and after several
futile attempts to live with her husband
she Avas granted a divorce. Tuesday
the Supreme Court affirmed the divorce,
and the shooting was the resu't.
Mr. Creech Avas arrested, and a sec?
ond loaded revolver was found on his
person. He said he intended to kill
himself.
Bank Official Accused.
Pittsburg (Special).?A. J. Schroth, a
bookkeeper in the First National Bank
of Birmingham, this city, has been ar?
rested by United States Marshal Leon?
ard charged with the embezzlement of
$.35,000 of the bank's funds. He Avas re?
leased later on furnishing bail in the
sum of $10,000. The defalcat'on Avas dis?
covered by National Bank Examiner
Slack, who found a number of false en?
tries in the books. Mr. Slack says the
bank is in excellent condition and will
not be affected.
Tbe Maine to be Launched Soon.
Philadelphia (Special).?It has been
practically decided by thc Cramp Ship?
building Company to launch the United
States battleship Maine on Memorial
Day. Survivors of.the original Maine
and the Avidows and orphans of the
sailors killed in Havana harbor will
probably be invited to attend the
launching.
A Bookkeeper Missing.
Wheeling, W. Va. (Special).?Henry
J. Hartman, a bookkeeper for Watter
house Bros. and an exemplary young
man, has been mysteriously missing
since last Monday at 5 o'clock, when he
started home as usual. His accounts
are correct. His friends fear he has be?
come mentally unbalanced.
Pension for Mrs. Breckinridge.
Washington (Special).?A pension of
of $8 a month was granted to Mrs. John
C. Breckinridge, Avidow of the former
vice-President of the United States.
Mr. Breckinridge was major of the
Third Kentucky Volunteers in the
Mexican War. The pension carries ar?
rears amounting to $1350. Mrs. Breck?
inridge is 76 years old.
A Doctor Assassinated.
Memphis, Tenn. (Special).?Dr. S. H.
Scruggs. Jr., who resided at Autolona,
a suburb of this cjty, was found sitting
upright in his buggy near his home
early to-day. A bullet hole behind the
left ear showed that he undoubtedly
had been assassinated by some person
who climbed upon the back of the ve?
hicle as the physician was returning
from visiting a patient. The horse wan?
dered along the roadway for several
hours before the crime was discovered.
There it no clue to the murderers.
nto thc buildings. Reports from out?
side the city?wc*', east and south
show snow three feet deep and great
jamage to fruit trees from thc Avct
snow.
Firing at River Steamer.
Wheeling. W. Va. (Spccia'.)?At u
**. m. the river is 41 feet 4 inches. This
tagc shuts Wheeling entirely out of out
side communication by rail, and only the
iii- Cincinnati liners are able to run noAV,
ind irate residents along the river banks
ne firing frequently at thc boats because
he -well from thom is washing thc foun
lations away from their houses. A
Wheeling Island man fired at thc packet
Keystone State and a passing towboat,
mt without effect. In Wheeling. Bell
lirc. Bridgeport. Bcnwood and Martins
Ferry about five hundred houses have
iccn entered by water, most of the fami?
lies moving to upper floors.
Nearly every manufacturing establish?
ment in the Wheeling district is shut
lown. At Martins Ferry the Avater de?
stroyed 500,000 brick at the Belmont
Brick Company, entailing a loss of $20,
x-o to $,30,000. There arc smaller losses
it other plants, aggregating probably
1*40.000. Taking the loss of b"siness. rail?
road landslides and industrial losses, the
aggregate cost of the flood in this dis?
trict is at least $100,000. probably more.
Ice-Crusted Trains.
New York (Special).?Owing to the
heaAy storm raging in the West all traf?
fic east of Cleveland has been delayed
from 2 to 7 hours. The Grand Central
Depot presented a strange appearance as
thc belated Western trains lumbered in
several hours late, with their roofs and
steps encrusted with snoAV and ice.
Friends of the long-overdue passengers
hung around the depot all day, and
rushed to meet the Aveary passengers
every time a train came in.
Dam Bursts in Massachusetts.
Chester. Mass. (Special).?The Flood
Hollow Dam, in Middlefield, gave Avay,
lining loose the water in thc big reser?
voir, Avhich rushed with terrific force
into the west branch of thc Westfield
River, sAveeping everything before it. and
submerging thc greater part of this toAvn.
No lives were lost, but great damage has
been done, the extent of which it is im
posible now to estimate.
Wind's Terrific Force.
Chicago (Special).?A high Avind,
which reached Chicago Saturday, loos?
ened a huge iron water tank from its
fastenings on thc roof of thc Galbraith
Building. Madison and Franklin streets,
causing it to crush through six floors
to the ground, injuring five persons and
resulting in a damage to thc building es?
timated at $50,000.
MANY FILIPINOS BURIED ALIVE.
Priest Prominent in Society That Inaugurated
Reign of Terror.
Manila (By Cable).?The trial of the
members of the M ando-Ducat secret so?
ciety. Avho are charged with burying alive
Filipinos Avho were opposed to the in?
surrection, and the trial of insurgent
agents has elicited the fact that in one
locality all the local officers, the parish
priest and the president Avere the chief
offenders.
A reign of terror was secretly inaugu?
rated, and persons refusing to contribute
to the insurgent cause were buried alive
by the direction of the president.
All the details of the conspiracy have
been unearthed, many arrests have been
made, there is abundant evidence and it
is probable that all the ring-leaders will
be hanged.
SHORTAGE OF $81,000.
First National Bank of Vancouver, Wash.,
Closed by Comptroller.
Washington (Special).?The doors of
the First National Bank. Vancouver,
Wash.. Avere closed Saturday under in?
structions from the comptroller of the
currency upon recommendation of Na?
tional Bank Examiner J. W. Maxwell
and a report from him that during the
course of his examination of the bank
he had discovered a shortage of about
$81,coo. Examiner Maxwell has been
placed in charge as temporary receiver.
Thc following is a statement of the
condition of the bank as shown by its
last sworn report to the comptroller
of the currency, under date of February
5. 1901: Capital stock, $50,000; surplus
and undivided profits, $9874; circulation,
$12,500: deposits $230,973; total liabili?
ties, $303,348; total resources, $303,348.
Against Compulsory Education.
Jefferson City, Mo. (Special).?Gov?
ernor Dockery has vetoed the compul?
sory education bill, entitled "An Act
to enforce the constitutional right of
every child in the State to an education;
to provide for truant or parental schools
and attendance officers in cities of 10,
oco population or more, and to prohibit
the employment of children during
school hours." Governor Dockery de?
clared that the Act interfered with the
personal rights of parents and savored
Another Bullion Theft.
NeAvark (Special).?It has been dis?
covered that forty bars of silver bul?
lion, valued at $1200, have been stolen
from the Lide, now lying at Balback's
Dock. No clew to the thieves has
been obtained. The police believe the
bars were stolen by river thieves, Avho
operated from a boat and secured the
bars while the Avatchman on the dock
was engaged.
Oil Craze Causes a Rush
NeAv Orleans (Special).?The Louisi?
ana- State Land Office has disposed of
all the swamp overflow and sea marsh
lands in the parishes of Calcasieu, Ver?
non, Iberia and Vermillion in the last
few days. Since the oil boom the Land
Office has disposed of 7000 acres ol
lands in Calcasieu and Vernon, 74,50c
acres of sea marsh in Iberia and 53,000
acres in Vermillion. This is the heaviest
sales of marsh and overflow lands in the
history of Louisiana. The sales are at
trihutfid to the oil craze.
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VIRGINIA STATE NEWS.
Budget of the Latest Happenings
From All Parts.
TREE HILL TO HAVE STEEL PLANT
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway is Behind thi
Movcment"Thc Jefferson Hotel May Be Re?
built by the Insurance Companies- Mr
Thomas L. Alfriend Dead--Desperate Flgb
at the Warwick Citv Jail-Other News.
Warwick City jail, about ten mile
above Newport News, was the scene o
a desperate fight between George Ear
nest, a negro prisoner just brough)
there from Baltimore and waiting trial
on tlie charge of robbing a schooner 0
$too, and Frank H. Gibson, the jailer
Gibson opened the cell door and tin
negro struck him with a heavy piece o
iron. A hand-to-hand fight ensued, (jib
son receiving nine *caip wounds fron
the iron. The negro had him dowt
finally and was beating him into insensi
bility when a negro woman prisonc
rushed to the rescue. Her screams at
tracted the attention of a plumber work
ing outside, and the two manage I tc
subdue the brute in time to prevent birr
from finishing his man.
The shaft to the Tinder's Flat mine, ir
Louisa county, which is 800 feet deep
has had some additional borings by dia?
mond drill about 100 feet deeper thar
the working shaft. The gold fields o'
the Tinder'- Flat mine are now berne
prepared for sy-ucm&tic and txtensir*
working. A branch of the Chesaneakc
and Ohio Railroad from Sulphur Mine?
has been run to them, and buildings, en?
gine, boilers, etc.. have been put in tc
work the gold gravel, which covers 3
large area on Contrary creek. Aftei
extracting the gold the gravel will b<
delivered on Che-apeake and Ohio can
and used for ballast by the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway on its main line.
Mr. Thomas L. Alfriend. one of the
best-known fire insurance agents in
Richmond, died very suddenly at hi?
home on North Laurel street of heart
trouble. The deceased was 58 years ol
age and was widely known among un?
derwriters all over the country. Mr
Alfriend was a gallant Confederate sol?
dier, tie leaves a widow and several
sons and dauhgters. all grown. He was
a brother of the late Frank Alfriend, at
one time librarian of the State, and a
well-known newspaper correspondent at
the national capitai 25 years ago.
The Alexandria authorities, after they
had constructed a sewer on Henry
street, in the "twenties," made no more
sewers until after 1890. Since that time
ali the old open drains running into the
river have been closed in and sewers
have been made on King. Prince. Pitt
and other streets. A portion of Alfred
street is now being sewered, and an ex?
tension of the King street sewer, be?
tween Royal and Fairfax streets, has
been projected, as well as the covering
in of the south end of the great drain
into Hunting creek at the south end of
Royal street.
It is stated that the Chesapeake and
Ohia Railway Company is behind tbe
movement for establishing a steel plant
at Tree HUI, on James river, near Rich?
mond. The road is reported to have an
option on t'his property. Tree Hill was
the home of Franklin Stearns, a man
who was conspicuous as a Unionist dur?
ing the Civil War.
The Jefferson Hotel may be rebuilt,
not by the owners, but possibly by the
insurance companies. Those who had
risks on the house are, it is said, getting
estimates from builders with a view of
restoring the hotel. The companies
claim that they can put the building
back in thc condition it was before the
fire for the amount of the insurance,
$565,000.
At the joint convention of Larcas:-*r
and Richmond counties Mr. W. F. Dun
away, of Lancaster, was unanimously
nominated as the Democratic candld.'itc
for the two counties to the Constitu?
tional Convention. Mr. Dttnaway in ad?
dressing the meeting said he was against
the wholesale disfranehisment of the ne?
gro. He is also in favor of a new judi?
ciary system. W. B. Sanders was made
chairman of the meeting and \V. Y.
Morgan secre'.ary.
The long distance telephone line con?
necting Lexington with Richmond via
Staunton has been completed. The line
connecting Lexington with Buchanan
has been completed, and connection will
be made with Roanoke and from that
point connection can bc secured wit'.i
Lynchburg.
Mr. Eustace Limerick and Miss Har?
riet Bullock, both of Fredericksbur-r.
were married bv Rev. Dr. J. S. Dill at
his residence, this is the young cou;>'e
who went to Washington to marry, but
were denied a license on account of
their youth.
The Richmond Board of Alde--:nen,
by a vote of 14 to 2, decided to accept
Mr. Carnegie's offer of $100,000 tot a
public library here. The matter now
goes to Common Council, the lower
branch of the city legislative body.
The saloon and grocery of J. Walter
Vaughn, at Suffolk, was bunicd. Less,
$1100; insurance, $640.