MS NARROW ESCAPE.
JOB DID IT "WITH THE SKIN OF
HIS TEETH."
It. Talmage Cbooui a Unique Teat
to Preach an Hoqoent and Powerful
Fermon-Kucoaraicement for Thote
Who Conaller 1 heir Caeca Hopcleaa.
Our Weekly Sermon.
In thi discourse of lr. Talinage in
mighty encouragement for many who con
sider th-ir own rum1 hopclena. Ilia tett
is Job xix., 20, "I uiu escaped with the
akin of my teeth."
Job nad it hard. What with boils and
bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool
of a wife he wiahed he- was dead, and I do
not blame hiui. Ilia flesh wan gone and
hi boues were dry. Ilia teeth wasted
away until nothing but the enamel seemed
Ipft. lie cries out, "1 am escaped with
the akin of my teeth."
Th-re has been some difference of opin
ion about this j; Ks uge. St. Jerome and
Schulteiis and lrs. Good and Poole and
Barnes have all tried their forceps ou
Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation
and say, "What did Job know about the
enamel of the teeth?" He knew every
thing about it. Ientnl surgery is almost
a old us the earth. The mummies of
Egypt, thousands of years old, are found
to-day with gold tilling in their teeth. Ovid
and Horace and Solomon and Moses
wrote about these important factors of
the body. To other provoking complaints
Job, I think, has added an exasperating
toothache, and putting his hand against
the inflamed face he says, "I am escaped
with the skin of my teeth."
A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's
body and soul, but there are thousands of
men who make just as narrow escape for
their soul. There was a time when the
partition between them and ruin was no
thicker than ft tooth's enamel, but, as Job
finally escaped, so have they. Thank
G.kI! Thank !od!
Paul expresses the same idea by a dif
ferent figure when he says that some peo
ple are "saved as by fire." A vessel at
sea is in flumes. You go to the stern of
the vessel. The bouts have shoved off.
The flumes advance. You can endure the
heat no longer on your face. You slide
down on the side of the vessel and hold
on with your fingers until the forked
tongue of the fire begins to lick the back
of your hand and you feel that you must
fall, when one of the lifeboats comes
back, and the passengers say they think
they have room for one more. The boat
swings unib'r you. You drop into it you
are saved. So some men are pursued by
temptation until they are partially con
sumeil. but after all get on saved as
by fire."
Hut I like the figure of Job a little bet
ter than that of Paul, because the pulpit
has not worn it out, and I want to show
yon, if God will help, that some men make
narrow escaiie for their souls and art
saved as "with the skin of their teeth.'
It is ;ts easy for some people to look to
the cross as for you to look to this pulpit.
Mild, genlle, tradable, loving, you expect
them to become Christians. You go over
to the store and say, "Grandon joined the
church yesterday," our business com
rades say, "That is just what might have
been expected; he always was of that turn
of mind." In youth this eron whom 1
describe was always good. He never broke
things. He never laughed when it was
improper to laugh. At 7 he could sit an
hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking
neither to the right hand nor the left, but
straight into the eyes of the minister, as
though he understood the whole discus
sion alxmt the eternal decrees. He never
upst things nor lost them. He floated
into the kingdom of God so gradually that
it is uncertain just when the matter was
decided.
Here is another one, who started in life
with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept
the nursery in an uproar. His mother
found him walking on the edge of tin
house roof to see if be could balance him
self. There wus no horse that he dared
not ride, no tree he could not climb. His
boyhood was n long series of predica
ments; his manhood was reckless, his mid
die very wayward. Put now be is con
verted finl you go crer to the store and
ay, "ArKwriglit Joined the church yes
terday." Your friends suy: "It is not pos-
mblci l ou must be joking. ion say:
"No; I tell you the truth. He joined the
church. J hen they reply, "There is hope
for uny of ns if old Arkwright has be
come a i unsuan; in otner wonts, we
will admit that it is more difficult for
some men to accept the gospel than for
others.
I may be preaching to some who have
rut loose from churches and Bibles and
Sundays, and who have uo intention of
becoming Christiana themselves, and yet
you may find yourself escaping before 3-ou
leave this house as "with the skin of your
teeth. 1 do not exect to waste tbia
hour. I have seen boats go off from (Jape
May or J,oiik Brunch and drop their nets
and after nwMIe come nshore, pulling in
the nets without having caught a single
IihIi. It huh not a good day or they had
not the right kind of a net, but we expect
no such rxcttrsion to-day. The water is
full of llili, the wind is in the right direc
tion, the gospel net is strong. O thou who
didst help Simon and Andrew to fish,
show us how to cast the net on the right
side of the ship.
Some of you in coming to God will have
to run against skeptical notions. It is
useless for people to say sharp and cutting
things lo those who reject the Christian
religion. I cannot say such things. By
what process of temptation or trial or be
trayal you have come to your present
state I know not. There are two gates to
your nature the gate of the head and (he
gate of the heart. The gate of your head
is locked with bolts and bars that an iirrh
atigel could not hiik. but the gale of
your heart swings easily on its hinges. If
I assuu!led your body with weapons, you
would meet me .'.I ill weapons, and it:
would be sword stroke for sword stroke
and wound for wound and blood forldood,
but if I come and knock at the door of
your house you open it and give me the
Ix'st seat in your parlor. If I should come
nt you now with an argument, you would
answer me with an argument; If with sar
casm you would answer me with sarrusm;
blow for blow, strokf for stroke, but when
I come and knock at the door of your
heart yon open it and say, "Come In. my
brother, nnd tell me tail you know about
Christ and heaven,"
Listen to two or three questions: Are
on as hnppy as you useu lu be vricn you
believed in die truth of the Christian pr
Ibjtou ? Would you like to hare your chil
dren tnivel on In the road In which yon
re now traveling? Yon had a relative
Who p.fessed to be a Christian and waa
thoroughly mnalatent, living and dying In
the faith of the gospel Would yo not
like to live the same iiiiet life and uie the
siiiue peaceful death? I hrll lu my hand
a letter sent Ine by one who lias rejected
the Christian religion. It says: "I am old
enough to know that the joys und pleas
ures of life are evanescent and to realize
the fact that it must U comfortable in old
age to believe in something relative lo the
future urn" lo have it faith in some system
Ihnt protume to save.
"I am free to confess that I would be
happier if I could exercise the simple and
beautiful faith that is possessed by many
whom I know. I am not willingly out of
the church or out of the faith. My state
of uncertainty is one of unrest. Some
times I doubt my immortality and look
upon the deathbed as the closing scene,
after which there is nothing. What shall
I do that I have not done?" Ah, skep
ticism is a dark and doleful land. Let me
say that this Bible is either true dr false.
If it be false, we are as well off as you.
If it be true, then which of ua is safer?
Let me also ask whether your trouble
has not been that you confounded Chris
tianity with the Inconsistent character of
some who profess it? You are a lawyer.
In your profession there are mean and
dishonest men. Is that anything against
the law? You are a doctor. There are
unskilled and contemptible men in your
profession. Is that anything against med
icine? You are a merchant. There are
thieves and defrauders in your business.
Is that anything against merchandise?
Behold, then, the unfairness of charging
upon Christianity the wickedness of its
disciples! We admit some of the charges
against those who profess religion. Some
of the most gigantic swindles of the pres
ent day have been carried on by members
of the church. There are men standing
in the front rank in the churches who
would not be trusted for $3 without good
collateral security. They leave their busi
ness dishonesties in the vestibule of the
church as they go in and sit at the com
munion. Having concluded the sacra
ment, they get up, wipe the wine from
their Hps, go out and take up their sins
where they left off. To serve the "devil is
their regular work, to serve God a sort
of play spell. With a Sunday sponge
they i-xpect to wiiie off from their busi
ness slate all the past week's inconsist
encies. Y'ou have no more right to take
such a man's life as a specimen of relig
ion than you have to take the twisted
irons and split timbers that lie on the
beach at Coney Island as a specimen of
an American ship. It is tune that we draw
a Hue between religion and the frailties of
those who profess it.
Do you not feel that the Bible, take it
all in all, is about the best book that the
world has ever seen? f)o you know any
book that has as much In it? Io yon not
think upon the whole that its influence
has been beneficent? I come to you with
both bauds extended toward you. In one
hand I have the Bible and in the other
hand I have nothing. This Bible in one
hand I will surrender forever just as soon
as in my other hand you can put a book
that is better.
1 invite you buck into the good old
fashioned religion of your fathers to the
God whom they worshiped, to the Bible
they read, to the promises on which they
leaned, to the cross on which they hung
their eternal expectations. You have not
been happy a day since you swung off.
Y'ou will not be huppy a minute until you
swing back.
Again, there may b some who in the
attempt after a Christian life will have to
run against powerful passions and appe
tites. Perhaps it is u disposition to anger
that you have to contend against, und
perhaps, while in a very serious mood,
you hear of something that makes you feel
Ihnt you must swear or die. 1 know u
Christian man who was once so exasper
ated that he said to a mean customer, "I
cunnot swear ot you myself, for I am n
member of the church, but if you will go
down stairs my wirtncr lu business will
swear at you." All your good resolutions
hyretofore have been torn to tatters by ex
plmion of temper. Now there is no harm
in getting mad if you only get mud at sin.
Yoo need to bridle and saddle those hot
brwathed passions and with them ride
down injustice and wrong. There are a
thousand things in the world we ought to
be mad at. There is no harm in getting
redhot If you only bring to the forge thut
which needs hammering, A man who has
uo power of righteous indignation is an
imbecile, but be sure it is a righteous in
dignation und not a iwtulaiicy that blurs
und unraveUuud depletes the soul.
There is a large class jt persons in mid
life who have still in tlim appetite that
were aroused in early manhood at a time
when they prided themselves on being a
"little fast," "high livers," "free and
easy, "hull fellows well met." Thev are
now paying in compound interest for trou
ble they collected twenty yeurs ago.
Some of you are trying U escape, and you
will, yet very narrowly, "a with the skin
of your teeth." God und your own soul
only know what the htriiggle is. Oninipo
tenl grace has pulled out many a soul that
wu deeper in the mire than you are. Thev
line the beach of heaven, the multitude
whom (Jod has rescued from the thrall of
snMihtl habits. If you this day turn back
on the wrong and start anew, (Jod will
help you.
Oh. the weakness of human help! Men
will sympathise for awhile, and then turn
you, off. If you ask for their pardon, they
will give It and say Ujy will try you
again; but, falling away again under the
power of temptation, they cast you off for
ever. But God forgives seventy times
seven; yea, seven hundred times; yea.
though this be the ten thousandth time, he
is more earnest, more sympathetic, more
helpful this last time than when you took
your first misstep.
If with all the influences favorable for
rifrht life men make so many mistakes.
how much harder w it when, for instance,
some npiietite thrusts its iron grapple '.nlo
the knots of the tongue and pulls a man
dowi with hands of destruction! If under
such l Irciimstatices he breaks away, there
will bi- no sport In the undertaking, no
holidur enjoyment, but n struggle in
which the wrestlers move from side fo
side and bend and twist and watch for. an
opior;iinity fo get in a heavier stroke,
until uiili one fiuul effort, in which the
inuscUs are distended and the veins stand
out, id the blood starts, the swarthy
hnblt tails under the knee of the victor
escaped at last as "with the skin of his
teeth."
The nhip Kmmu, hound from Gotfcn-
burg t. Harwich, was sailing on, when
the II i ii on the lookout saw something
that fi- pronounced u vessel botfom up.
1 here was something ou It thut looked
like a sea gull, but was afterward found
to be a waving handkerchief. In (he
small bout the crew pushisl out to the
wreck and found that it was a caps lied
vessel snfl that three men had been dig
ging their way nut through the bottom
of the ship. When the vessel enpsised,
they' had no means of escape. The captain
took hla penknife and ring away through
the plunks uutll hla knife broke. Then
an old nail was foivid, with which tbey
attempted to criie iheir way up out f
the darkness, each one working unti: h s
hand was veil nigh paralyzed, and be
sank hack faint and sick. After long
and tedious work, tin- light broke through
the bottom ij the ship. A handkerchief
was hoisted. Help cauie. Tbey were
taken on Ixard the vessel and saved. Did
ever men come so near a watery grave
without dropping into it? Hoiv narrowly
l they escaped escaped only "with the skin
of their teeth." There .-r e men who have
been capsized of evil passions and cap
sized luidoceun, and they are 1,(KKI miles
away from any shore of help. They have
for years been trying to dig their way
out. They have been digging away ana
digging away, but they can never be de
livered unless now they will hoist some
signal of distress. However weak and
feeble it may tie, Christ will see it and
bear down uism the helpless craft and
take them on board, and it will be known
on earth and in heaven how narrowly they
escaped, "escaped as with tlie skin of
their teeth."
There are others who in attempting to
come to God must run between a great
many business perplexities. If a man go
over to bm-iness at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing and come away at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon, he has some time for religion,
but ho shall you find time for religious
contemplation when you are driven from
sunrise to sunset and have been for five
yeurs going behind in business and are
frequently dunned by creditors whom you
cannot pay, and when from Monday
morning until Saturday night you are
dodging bills that you cannot meet? You
walk day by day In uncertainties that
have kept your brain on fire fo.sJ he past
three years. Some with less business trou
bles than you have gone crazy. The clerk
has heard a noise in the back counting
room and gone in and fouud the chief man
of the firm a raving maniac, or the wife
has heard the bang of a pistol in the back
parlor and gone in, stumbling over the
dead body of her husband a suicide.
There are men pursued, harassed, trodden
down and scalped of business perplexities,
and which way to turn next they do not
know. Now God will not be hard on you.
He knows what obstacles are in the way
of your being a Christian, and your first
effort in the right direction he will crown
with success. Do not let satan with cot
ton bales and kegs and hogsheads and
counters and stocks of unsalable goods
block up your waj to heaven. Gather
up all your energies. Tighten the girdle
about your lions, Take an agonizing
look Into the face of God and then say,
"Here goes one grand effort for life eter
nal," and then hojind away for heaven,
escaping "as with the skin of your teeth."
Try this God, ye who have thought
thot God had forgotten you. Try him and
see if he will not help. Try him and see
if he will not pardon. Try him und see
if he will not save. This world is a poor
portion for your soul, O business man!
Oh, find your peace in God! Make one
strong pull for hpaven.
Short Sermons.
Education. Education Is not merely
In the muster's word from his desk to
4 he pupils seated In the forme before
IiIih Kiliication Is In everything that
tends to develop the human mind, to
ennoble the human heart, to educate, n i, within six times of the emper
to instruct and perfect man. Father : or'8 Palace- The plaintiff asks that the
T. J. County, Catholic, Washington,
I). C.
Nirturo's. Gifts. How much of good
the great and the lesser lights that we
see lu the lieiiveiw bring to us! The
iv ti.tt iiitv nf llw Iww.ri' ,t.w lutf . I,
mellow loveliness of the moonlit night, 1 e8.t1of here ftnd P-d,. withalarrmng
nnd the pb.ee and profit of each In the "P"1"? WJ thlB C1,y- The fire has
economy of nnture-theae are good 1,eady burned over 10,000 acres of tim
glfts. Kev. C. A. Miller, Lutheran, ber A. messenger from the burned dis
New York City. ' i trict say? that Georgetown and Silver
Matter. What is true of matter,
which we can see and handle, is true
of that uneeii matter, force. It can not
be destroyed. It Is. never lost. It may
1h active In the waterfall or the sun
beam, or it may be dormant In the coal
mine or the Ice, but It la nlways pres
ent; It is never lost. Kev. F. S.
Schenek, Collegiate Church, New York
City.
Men of Old.Our old men dream
dreams of the past, of the "good old
daya" when men wer honest nnd man
ners were simple. Men who were
breaking up the prairies atwl opening
jmthwuyn through the forest might
have great faults of character, and yet
be preserved by their conditions: from
many of the ten)iUitlonn of our age.
Kev. S. C. EdKiill, Eplwoiwllan, Chi
cago, III.
For Young Women. Young women,
hold fast to vour (rood milrlta an.l inuJ
times. Xevw outwear or outlive the'
free, rippling laugh, the unconscious
song or the happy face which make
your youthful life ho beautiful. Bear
ti.- Minwhlne and brightness of life to
tnany a weary father and brother and
many a Jaded mother. Kev. O. M.
Sovithgate, Congregatlonallst, San
Franelwo, Cal.
Guilt. Oh, conaelence, the revision-
nry court, condemning or excuIng
Where Is the man lu all this vast audi-
enee who ueirer felt the pangs nnd
jmiIii of nn outraged conscience? Oh,
conscience, that something within me
that will not It me eat Mimes,
lliongh the table Is richly londed Im
fore me! Conscience, that s.Mii.lhlng surveys of British possessions alonR the
within me that will not let me Bleep Klondike, has been recalled by the gov
bellmen, though the ImhI Is soft and ernment for consultation as to impor
dowiiy. K'v. Sam Jones, Evangelist, nt matter" affecting the new gold
Hnwklnsvllle, Gn. fields and is now en route to Ottawa,
M.,.,.ini o.i u,,iriir.,.i ? . via San r'rancisco. He will make a re
Ma erlnl and Spin m.I.-I ery hu- K)rt embodying suggestions for new
nan being la a twin. One of hl.n his mining laws, governing the sale of lin
material IhkI.v, the other his spirit,,,, uor and taking wood lor fuel, etc. He
body, which Just fits the material one, nude a census of the production of ths
and If It could be seen would be found neW fiel'' Rrd finds twenty-three claimr
ti look lust like It. The snlrltimi i..i.. prodneed $.82(1.000 and Bars that 70.-
U tue lovable, Important, eternal nnrt
of the twin personal n, v. At death
thew two are Kepanited, and the
empty earthly shell fnt;s n lu tracks
and nioblcrs back to earth nnd dust.
Hev. V Marshall Law, Adveutlst, Oak
land, Cal.
II. Rider Hnggard, the novella). Wft-'
a pupil In Ipswich school, nnd Is de-
acrllK'd aa a fall, Innk youth, wlUi
thick crop of unkempt hair, sharp Tea-
tures, prominent nose, nnd eyes which
had rather a wild look about them. ' In
hla classea be never took a high place,
nnd both bis schoolmates and hla ma,
ters looked on bin u a rather nUiuI4
toy.
I Mil HUMAN I1C.
Cat Svangollla Cuaaart
Iatr-silag
Washikotoh, Sept. 1. Consul Gen
iral Lee's investigation into the circum
stances attending the arrest of tie
young Cuban girl, Evangellina Cossic
Cisneoe, have resulted in sweeping away
a great deal of the romance that at
tached to her case. He cabled the state
department yesterday from Havana
that the girl is not the niece of the Mar
quese Santa Lucia, as has b;en publicly
proclaimed, but is the daughter of a
poor and respectable Cuban named Au
gustin Coasio. Her mother's name be
ing Cisnero, it was idded to ber own
according to the Spanish custom. She
is not an only daughter, nor has she
been raised in wealth and luxury, but
is one of fire or six children.
Havana, Sept. 1. General Linarei,
in the province of Santiago de Cuba, has
been engaged with an insurgent force.
The enemy lost two men killed and the
troops lost thirteen men killed, includ
ing two Captains. The horse of General
Linares was struck by two bullets and
killed.
A Spanish column consisting of 1,200
men of all arms, under the command of
General Luque and Colonel Sotomayer,
recently left Holguin, province of San
tiago de Cuba, with the intention of at
tacking an insurgent force which occu
pied a strongly fortified position at Sa
bana de Becorro. The troops camped
nine miles from the enemy's position
without being observed and during the
night the Spanish commander ordered
two guerilla companiei and three com
panies of Spanish infantry to surprise
the enemy. The Spanish forces ap
proached close to the insurgent ramp
and then rushed upon it, under a heavy
6 re upon two sides, and captured it. The
insurgents were completely taken by
surprise and fled in disorder with the
loss of sixty men killed, according to
the official report, and carried away
their wounded.
Can't Practice In I nil tana.
Indianapoi is, Sept. 1. FederalJudge
Jenkins has issued an order granting a
temporary injunction as prayed for in
the complaint of Don Sang, a Chinese
doctor of Crown Point, sgainstthe State
Medical Registration and Examination
board, which refused to issue a license
to Don Sang. The complaint seta forth
that the law passed by the last legisla
ture s far as it pertains to practicing
physicians holding licenses under the
prior law, is contrary to the constitution
of the United States and beyond the
power of the legislature. It also says
that Don Sang is a descendant of one of
a family that represents nine genera
tions of practitionerr), who were gradu
! a,e(1 from t"e &g hospital, established
1 case De tried early in iQven0er.
Format Fires Causes Alarm.
St. Pall, Sept. 1. An Anaconda
Moat., special to the Dispatch says: A
fierce forest fire is raging a few miles
I Lake are both in the track of the Are
and unless something is done to check
the flames great loss of property and life
may result. Near Georgetown a terrible
fire has been generated and flames 100
feet high can be seen from the village.
Much anxiety is felt here over the out
come, but no action to stay the fire hag
et been taken.
Danger of Famine.
Ban Francisco, Sept. 1. W. A. Ryan,
one of the special correspondents of the
Associated press cn route to Yukon gold
fields, writes from St. Michaels under
date of August 15, to the effect tiiat
there is grave danger of a famine on the
Klondike this winter. According to all
reports received from the upper country
it will be impossible to land sufficient
food at Dawson City to support the pop
ulation already dependent upon that
baHe of e"Pplt'8.
R-T. Lyng, local agent for the Alaska
Commercial companv at St. Michaels,
declares that there are al-eady over
2,000 idle men in Dawson and new
Pities are arriving every day via Chil-
cxot PaM while the total amount o.'
freight landed there this year will not
exceed 4,000 tons, of which not more
tlian three-fourths is provisions. Miners
returning from Klondike, who left there
in July, report that the food was run-
ning very low then and it was disposed
of as fast as discharged from the steam
ers. Old timers realize the situation
ami predict distress and death as a re
sult of the Klondike craze.
William Ogilvte, Dominion land sur
veyor, w ho has been making topographic
0M,WQ is no exaggerated estimate ol
the amount that will be produced hv
1H0 claims on Honanza, Hunkers and
Eldorado creeks in three years.
tlntan the Town of gkagxway.
San Franimhco, Sept. 1. A Chron
icle special from Victoria, contains a
tigned statement from Bernard Moore,
who claims the townsite of Skagaway.
J'e saya that ten rears ago tie made ap
plication for 100 acres of land in accord
trice with the United States laws, asap-
plied to Alaska, had a legal survey and
paid In the requisite $400 to the proper
official
He had Just began to stock the place
(or a dairy h n the gold rtl'i bogftn.
WEVLEK l SLOW.
to mm Harry to l.elt-aee
EvanfalllSMV
CUaaroa.
Havana, Sept. 3. If the Duke of Tet
lan's order for the removal of Erango
ina Coasio Cisneios from the reoogdias
o a convent has been received here,
.vbich the authorities will not admit, no
iction lias yet been taken. According
o precedent, nothing will be done until
General Weyler returns from the field,
Che date of his return is uncertain. In
the meantime there is no danger tha
.be girl will be harshly dealt with. It
would appear that her release from
prison is only a question of time. Evan-:-hn
does not wish to go to convent,
iler cbeif desire is to face ber accusers
n open court. She atill remembers
hat she has a sweetheart and she is
very anxious concerning her father's
;ate. She is as comfortably situated
now as possible in a Spanish prison.
She is well drrssed, has ber meals sent
from a restaurant and is afforded pri
vacy. There is a fortune lying in cban
'erv here to which she has a .better
.laim than anybody else. It is not pub
licly alleged that any official is trying to
cheat her of her inheritance, but the
matter will be investigated. The for
tune amounts to 11,000,000.
Five thousand of proud Spain's sol
tiers commanded by the blue-blooded
Castillian officers down on their knees
pulling up sweet potato vines is not an
e Jifying spectacle, yet that is what Gen
eral Weyler and his troops are doing
ince they left the capital last Sunday.
General Weyler's idea is to cut off the
food supply of the rebels. ' From the
outskirts of Havana to Tapaste, where
he is at present, General Weyler hae
cut a swath of destruction. Evey horse
and cow in sight has been seized and
growing crops uprooted. Some military
commanders would simplify matters' by
destroying the rebels lira, but that is
not Weyler's plan.
t'athlar Uaa Gone.
Rocxfohd, 111., Sept. 3. fh Bank
of Durund failed to open its doors Thurs
day, and Charles A Norton, cashier
and general manager of the institution
has disappeared. It is alleged that Nor
ton took much, if no' all, of the money
on hand with him. It is said that he
forged the names of prominent farmers
to twenty-seven notes for various
amounts.
The bank had on deposit about $30,
000, but a time lock is on the safe, which
cannot be opened until today. Norton
was a prominent church man. The
bank was a private one and had been
running six years. The inhabitants of
Dura nd are very much excited over the.
affair.
Wellington Retires.
Baltimore, Sept. 3. Theodore Mar
burg, the "organization" candidate fot
mayor of Baltimore, and Col J. Frank
Supplee, his sole opponent in the "or
ganization," have withdrawn from the
contest, leaving the field clear for Will
iam T. Malster. The withdrawal of Mr,
jlarburg is the result of the defeat ad
ministered io the organization forces,
under the leadership of United States I
Senator Wellington, by the friends oi
Mr. Malster at the Ocean City conven
tion last week. There now seems to be
but little doubt that the friends of Mr.
Malster will control the new state cen
tral committee and that Senator Well
ington will retire from the leadership
of the party in the state.
Di-ath In a Runaway.
San Fkancibco, Sept. 3. Henry
Windell, an eccentric money lender
whose years have been one long chapter
of trouble with pretty women, was last
Wednesday evening thiown.from his
buggy and instantly killed. Windell
lived all alone at 4 Burritt Place, in e
house jealously protected from intrusion
by a trellis fence and barbed wire. He
was a bachelor, over sixty years of age,
and reputed to be very wealthv. Win
dell went out for a drive Wednesday
with a younu lady, Miss Constance Kohl
a musician, liviving at 1812 Bush street,
who claims to be an adopted daughter
of the deceased. When opposite the
alms house the horse ran away and the
occupants were thrown out, Windell
being instantly killed.
In an A vnlnnclie,
Bkrnk, Sept. 3. Further advices froa
La Salle, near Mount rieureur, show
that the reports ot thu accident to a
party of Alpine tourists in that vicinity
were not exaggerated. Fight persons
started from Sion, cipilal of the canton
of Valais, to aecen1 Mount Pleureur.
Tue latter is 12,155 eet high and is- not
a very difficult ascent. The first party,
the tourists, were led by Pastor Gonjn
of Sion and they made the asc?nt di
vided into two parts four in ech. The
first of these parties reached the sum
mit and the second was only a short
distance behind when they were forced
by an avalanche into a crevasse 1,00 J
feet deep. It is lioped that some of the
louriets may be rescued. The missing
party was composed of Pastor Gonin,
two school boys from Lausanne and a
young Englishman named Bernard.
Taken Hark to Iowa.
Vinton, la., Sept. 3. Frank A. No
vak (lie Welford murderer, though)
back from the Klondike, was turned
over to Benton county otticials by De
tective Perrin yesterday morning.
A Hear Kml C'ollUlon.
London, Sept. 3. When the east
bound express on the Grand Trunk rail
m id was standing on tne main line
eiuht miles west of Strathroy, a fiuighl
r.j'i came tearing down the grade and
oiaH.'-l into the rear Pullman of the ex
press, telescoping it. The car contained
nine passengers, none of whom was seri
ously injured. Engineer John P,
O'Hogan was killed. Fleming Fulton,
brakemsn had ft leg broken and Walter
Wallace, the fireman, waa badly hurt.
rHEY MAY FAIL
Leaden May set 8nooee4 b
Their Labor Oonfersnce.
r00 MANY UNIONS TO BE SATISFIED
Make tne Convention aa Uowlaldy Oae ta
Handlr Notning- la Aecompllsbad
an tba Opening Ua.
St. Louis, Aug. 31. The conference
of labor leaders, which began Monday
morning, had a busy day and at night
the end was in sight. What the con
ference has accomplished, if anything,
is in doubt. .
It is not believed the leaders hare at
tained any definite recult, and in fact
the president of one of the nations
organizations aaid that the failure of the
conference was a foregone conclusion.
"I am very much chagrined," aaid
this gentleman, "that I had any part in
the convening of this conference."
The committee on resolutions and
plan of action was at work all afternoon
and evening and Mr. Sovereign an
nounced that tbey had formulated
plan, but declined to give any details.
The platform, it is expected, will be
ubmitted to the convention The four
teen different organization! represented
in the convention make an unwieldy
body, and it is evident that all of then
cannot be satisfied with a platform
formulated by five men representing a
many branches of organized labor.
Mr. Ratch lord's plan of petitioning
President McKinley to convene congress
in extra session to enact measures pro
viding for the settlement of the present
labor difficulties, or as he put it, "to de
fine the rights of citizens, if any," did
not meet with the approval he had
hoped for and it is not believed the idei
will be incorporated in the platform.
Although present in the convention
all day, Mr. Debs did not speak, nor did
be put in an appearance at the maai
meeting, where he was widely adver
tised to make an address. He is repre
sented on the resolutions committee,
however, by Mr. Berger, and aa he has
remained pretty close to the gentlemen
composing that committee it is safe to
say his social democracy idea will be
repregented.
Working of During Pirates.
Hong Kong, Aug. 31. Matt Salet, a
notorious brigand vith 2(10 followers,
raided the government station at Pulop
gay Saturday, captured Mr. Newbron
ner, the officer in charge, killed a cor
poral and then sacked the treasury oi
$20,000. The town, which consisted en
tirely of wooden and kajang houses,
was then Gred and every building de
stroyed. Pulopgay ia the export and
import center of a considerable district
and the population was largely Chinese,
Salet, at last accounts, was fortified at
Inaman, and it is feared will attack
Sandakan and massacre the Europeani
after looting the town.
The daring piracy is repo-ted off ths
cast of Acbentskachen. The British
steamer Hegu was attacked by six
armed Achinese. Captain Ross, after a
fearful struggle, was stabbed .in the ab
domen. Then the piratical gang sur
rounded the prostrate man, disembow
eling him and leaving him a mangled
corpse on deck. The mate and ths
steersman were the nej.t to be attacked.
Iu spite of what resistance they could
offer both were soon cut down. Re
turning to the deck two more of the
crew and four Chinese passengers were
killed. Thirty or forty more passen
gers, according to accounts, have been
killed or met their death by jumping
overboard. The vessel was looted and
$15,000 was taken. Two boats wers
lowered from the ship and the pirates
made off in the direction of Simpang.
The vessel was a frightful sight, the
deck being spattered with blood and
the entrails of the victims.
Advices lroin 1'apen, North Formosa.
State that the rebels have been particu
larly active, but no serious lighting has
taken place.
M loimhlnera Commit Murder.
Littlk Rock, Ark., Aug. 31. Tw
deputy United States marshals are dead)
two are seriously wounded and two mors
are missing, as the result of an attack
upon a posse of ofiicers by a gang of des
perate moondliiuerd iu Pope couuty yes
terday.
Ttie djaJ are ;
B. F. Taylor, Searcy co'inty.
Joe Dodson, Stone county.
The wounued are :
The Renfrow brothers.
The missing men's names are not
given, but they are supposed to be deputy
Bi'.eritfu oi Searcy county,
Taylor, one of tfce murdered men, was
eixty years of age, ana wus the wealth
iest man in Searcy county.
Dodson was a well known deputy, and
had been a terror to moonshiners for
years.
The six ofiicers were on a moonshine
raid when the terrible affair occurred.
They had approached to within thirty
yards of an illicit distillery when they
were tired upon from ambush. Taylor
and Doileou fell at the dm volley, dead
iu their tracks.
Kinliexcetl His; I'lle.
Boston, Mass., Aim 81. Robert 8.
Strame, president and director of the
United Telegram company in this city,
anested yestenl,.y afternoon by an it
tpector fioui pobci: ii -iilqiiariers on a
charge of oniber.i!.i..g 73,500. The ar
rest is a nsuit of discoveries made by
Mariiden J. Perry, receiver of the com
(any, who reports that there are only
7oin the treasury instead of $78600
mat ought to have been there. The
United Telegram company bas been in
tne h i nds of a receiver since last J una.