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TflE BESUBRECTION.
Eloquent Easter Discourse By Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage.
Heath a Mercy to the. Human Race As
Flowers Follow the Vernal Equinox So
Will Song- and Happiness Follow
i the Winter of Death.
X
On Easter Sunday Dr. Talmafe
preached at Brooklyn upon the icaar
rection. His text was from I. Samuel,
xv. 32: "Surely the bitterness of deatk
is past." lie said:
So cried Agag, and the only objectiea
1 have to this text is that a bad man at
tered it- Nevertheless, it is true, audi
in a higher and better sense than that
in which it was originally uttereij.'
xears ago a legend something like this
was told me: In ft hut lived a very poofj
woman by the name of Misery, in
HUilb
ront of her door was a pear tree, which
ras her only resource for a living."
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"Christ, the Lord, in poor jrarb was
ii .. ii. -. - i-
-walking through the earth and no one
-would entertain him. In vain he
knocked at the door of palaces and of
'humble dwellings. Cold and hungry
and insufficiently clad, as he was, none
received him. But coming one day to
the hut of this woman, whose name was
Misery, she received him' and offered
him a few crusts and asked him to warm
himself at the handful of coals, and she
rsat up all night that the wayfarer
might have a pillow to rest on. In the
morning this divine being asked her as
he departed what she would have him
. do in the way of reward and told her
that he owned the universe and would
; give her what she asked. All she asked
was that her pear tree might be pro
tected and that the boys who stole her
fruit, once climbing the tree, might not
be able to get down without her con
sent. So it wan granted and all who
climbed the tree were compelled to stay
there.
After a while Death came along and
told the poor woman she must go with
him. But she did not want to go, for,
"however poor one's lot is, no one wants
to go with Deatli. Then she said to
"Death: "I will go with you if you will
-first climb up into my pear tree and
"bring me down a few pears before I
fetart." This he consented to do, but
liaving climbed into the tree, he could
not again come down. Then the troubles
of the woman began, for Deatli did not
come. The physicians had no patients,
3.he undei-takers no business, the law
yers no wills to make, the people who
waited for inheritances could not get
them, the old men staid in all the pro
fessions and occupations so that there
was no room for the young who were
-coming on, and the earth got over
. crowded and from all the earth the cry
went up: "0, for Death! Where is
Death?' Then the people came to the
poor woman and begged her to let Death
descend from the tree. In sympathy
for the world, she consented to let Death
come down on one condition, and that
was that he should never molest or take
her away, and on that condition Death
was allowed to come down, and he kept
his word and never removed her, and
for that reason we always liave Misery
with us.
In that allegory some one has set
"forth the truth that I mean to present
on this Easter morning, which celebrates
the resurrection of Christ and our com
ing resurrection that one of the grand
est and mightiest mercies of the earth
is our divine permission to quit it. Sixty--f
our persons every minute step off this
jplanet. Thirty million people every
year board this planet. As a steamer
must unload before it takes another
cargo, and as the passengers of a rail
train must leave it in order to have
another companj' of passengers enter
it, so with this world.
What would happen to an ocean
.-steamer if a man, taking a stateroom,
:should stay in it forever? What would
happen to a rail tiain if one who pur
chases a ticket should always occupy
the seat assigned him? And what would
liappen to this world if all who came
into it never departed from it? The
grave is as much a benediction as the
cradle. What sunk that ship in the
JJlack sea a few days ago? Too many
passengers. What was the matter with
that steamer on the Thames, which,
.-a few years ago, went down
with 000 lives? Too many pas-
-sengers.. Now. this world is only
a ship which was launched some 0,000
.ago. So many arc coming aboard it is
necessary that a good many disembark.
. Suppose that all the people that have
. lived since the days of Adam and Eve
were still alive. What a cluttered up place
this world would be no elbow room, no
place to walk, no privacy, nothing to
eat or wear, or if anything were left
i the human race would, like a ship
- wrecked crew, have to be put on small
v rations, each of us having perhaps only
.a biscuit a day. And what chance
-would there be for the rising genera
tions? ."
In the ordinary length of human life
you have carried enough burdens, and
shed enough tears, and suffered enough
injustices, and felt enough pangs, and
Oxen clouded by enough doubts, and
surrounded by enough mysteries. WTe
talk about the shortness of life, but if
sve exercised good sense we would real
ize that life is quite long enough. If
vc are the children of God, we are at a
., mot. and this world is only the first
course of the food, and we ought to be
i.,d that there are other and better and
Richer courses of food to be handed on.
rwh also makes room for improved
physical machinery.
Our bodies have
but they are very
wondrous i.. -
.. --! Thevare
beasts that can out-
aimiwu. - - --. o Tho
vun us
OUtlHb US, um....7 -"- -
both the eartnnno.au- ior
" i -n must stick to the one.
J Vtnr
in
travel, j- . t. aaiinmnn n takes
this W(
rorld, wm ""--"""-""-.
there are
creatures of God
Sam far surpass us in some things.
;tlUiwu" . 'nr, cmwr and less
JSS 35"- "
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sometmiib -- ... hMv
is the
Do not t-i""1
not """" - , , 0 n,i i:,i
-.tt. tliat God
can uo ioi u. " -
l-'" !-
He contrived your
not
rss-.'--iSE
gists and. .with all icieatiBtaaad witki
the psalmist that "waare fearfully and
wonderfully made." alut I believe and
I know that God cA and"' will get us
better physical equipment yIs it possi
ble for man to make improvement in al
most anything and Got not be -ablsvtn
make improvements is jnaa's physical
machinery?. Saal&nabeet fpre way
to luutvcu'cpnapwii:
letter give plaetta
pauses fan Fjgajicisso
within a minute of communication?
Shall the telephone take the sound of a
voffce sixty miles and fnstaitly blangTiack
another voice, and God, who made the
mam who does these thing?, not be able
to approve the man himself with infin
ite Velocities andinfinite multiplication?
Beneficent death comes aii makes the
njcelsary "vremoval to mike way for
thesi fsugjlrnatural improvements.
There asust be. some switer wav and
more satisfactory -way oiuakmg in
0 f . . ,. . '-. i . - -
rjfod'sf aafverse of thought! and facts
ana Motions and information. But
his'-craot be done with your brain in
its prelent state, 'i
ir . . .
. Man a Drain gives way inder tne
present facility. This whitisK mass in
Mie ijvr cavity of tne skull, d at tne
eitrtnnayof the nervous sysim this
tcr ot perception ana sensation can-
ebdure more than it now indures.
rGcd ean make a better bitin, and
He sends 'ieath to remove this inferior
briaii tha He may put in a 4perior
brain. "Well," you say, "does lit that
destroy thpJdeaof a resurrectioijof the
present body?" O, no. It will be the
old factorjS with new machinerA new
driving 'vhiel, new bands, new fevers
and mew powers. Don't you see? So I
suppose lhaldullest human brain
the resujTcStionarv process will
more kne wsfage, more acutenesss,
brilUanc more breadth of swinir
anv Sir VVilliim Hamilton or Hers:
or Isaac Newton, or Faraday or Ags
ever Wad in tae mortal state or all t
intellectual "powers combined.
see God has only just bejmn
to build yoS. The palace of yosr
nature ;has onlv the foundation la'i.
and part of th lower story, and onlV
part offon window, but the greljt
architcciha; Made his draft of whit
you wili'se ihea the Alhambra is conn
nletcd. m 5
Then then, afa the climatologicalV
hindrances. We run Jigainst unpro-
pitious wiethx-TO al sorts, kiter
buzzard asKi si:
P-$P"M& !rj
4&Sv;ork
er scorch, and eachPof seraphim
season seesns v
tch a brood of its
own disorders.
e summer spreads its
wings andjsatc'te
ut fevers and sun
strokes, and spi n
rand autumn spread
their wingsy am
itch out malarias,
and winters spre
hatches out" (put u:
its wings and
ima and itussian
grippes, and the tli:
ite of this world is
a hindrance.which c
try man and worn-
an and child'&as f j1
Death-is to the
good transference to
oMveather;,
jdvWtoocold
never too light
weather neverckJe,
and never tooYTiot am
and never tae. dai
doubt that God
ive you any
make better
weather characteristic
f this planet?
Blessed is death, fcr
way to a change of zm
prepares the
yea it clears
the path to a seiti-ocmi
often we want te be n
mce. How
ferent-ylaces
at the same timed Dw
uexed we
get. being compelled to
k'nnfnfAAH
invitations, between weddings, between
friendly groups, laytwcsn three or four
places we would Jkc to b4 in the same
morning or the same nool'or the same
evening. niie,aeatn may not open
opportunity to dc a ma ay
same time, so easy and u
aces at the
ck and so
instantaneous wills fee tie
nsference
that it will amounto i boj
thesame
thing. fr v
All scientists tell as that
e human
body changes entirely once Jin seven
years, so that if you'are 2S years of age
you have now your fdarth bodjK If you
arc 42 years of agoou ha had six
bodies. If you are 70shrs of gsge you
have had ten bodiesJDo you not, my
unbelieving friend, thiik if jGgd could
build for you your foir o - five or ten
bodies he could reall3' Ud oroubne
more to be called thereswrrei tidmbody?
Aycl to make that resgerectiofc body
will not require half as seach inKnuity
and nower as those dflbCrl
have liad. Will it enot
God to make the resurrei
of the silent dust of the cBsab'c
thnTi it. was to make vestr 1
fivf nr kiv or eicht timeSWhl'e
-- a
in motion, walking, clirabjif, fal
rising? God lias already c yourkiour
or five bodies bestowed tenithnes vmore
omnipotence than He
.... j. , --j--
foundation for the rcsurccawi "ny in
us
now. burgeons and pavsieiqnsis
say they are parts of the hsfesni jdy,-
the uses of which. tloy canaK jsswr
stand. They are searching PwL Saase
narts were made for. but haveiaot "aiad
out. I can tell them. ThYtfrilttaV
preliminaries of the rvsuireetfiMx
God docs not make anythingifcr'
ine. Now. if Death clears the way for
all this, why paint him as a hobgoblin?
Why call him the king of terrors? Why
think of him as a great spook? Why
sketch him with skeleton and arrows,
and standing on a bank of dark waters?
Why have children so frightened at his
name tha't they dare not go to bed alone,
and old men have their- teeth chatter
lest some shortness of breath hand them
over to the monster? All the ages have
been busy in maligning Death, hurling
renulsive metaphors at Death, slander
ing Death. Oh, for the sweet breath of
Easter to come down on the earth.
Right after the vernal equinox, and
when the flowers are beginning to
bloom, well may. all nations with song,
and congratulation, and garlands, cele
brate the resurrection of Uhnst and our
own resurrection when the time is gone
by, and the trumpets pour through the
flying clouds the harmonies that shall
wake the dead. By the empty niche of
Joseph's mausoleum, by the rocks that
parted to let the Lord como tnrougn,
let our ideas of clianging worlds be for
ever revolutionized. If what I have
been saying is true, how differently we
ought to think of our friends doparted.
The body they have put off is only as
entering a hall lighted and resounding
with musical bands, you leave your hat
and cloak in the cloakroom. What
would a banqueter do if he had to car
ry those encumbrances of apparel with
bafcrout
A body
todejover
st was
llPffor
Si
aim into the brilliant reception? Wka
would your departed do Avith their
bodies if they had to be encum
bered 'with them in the King's draw
ing room? Gone into theJightf-Gone into
tne music! dune into tni
lestivityl
Gun6 among kings and quec:
aiid con-
querors! Gone to meet Elija
him tell of the chariot of fire
sad hear
-n by
horses of fire and the senr.tion of
mounting the sapphire steps! 'frlane to
meet with Moses and hear hi
c ascribe
the pile of black basalt t
H -i.i.
w 'aiuuA
jLtbyieet
when the law was given! , Gon
Paul and hear him tell hov
trembled, and how the ship
Felix
Mat to
pieces in the breakers, and'Jiovfrtaick
was the darkness in the Martine
dungeon! Gone to meet John Knw: aVid
John Wesley and Hannah Mofe ahd
Frances HavergaL Gone to mentke
kindred who preceded them! .WmvI
should not wonder if they had, a J?r
family group there than they everjuuvd
here. O, how many of them can beVot
together again? JJ
I was told at Johnstown, after, $&'.
flood, that many people who had bwa
for months and years bereft, for3te
time, got comfort when the awful flop-lj
came, to think that their departed o:
were not present to see the catastrop'
As the people were floating down
the house tops, they said: "O, ho
glad I am that father and mother
not here," or "how glad I am that then
rfiilflnTi nn Tint. n1Str in spa trifa VirmJll
ror!" And ought not we who are downH
hm nmirl thn nntnrarni nf this Iif hn
glad that none of the troubles which
Submerge us can ever affright our
friends ascended? Before this (I" war
rant our departed ones have been intro
duced to all the celebrities of Heaven.
Some one has said to them: "Let me
introduce you to Joshua, the man who
by prayer stopped two worlds for several
hours. Let me make, you acquainted
with this group of three heroes John
Huss, Philip Melancthon and Martin
Luther. Aha! here is Fenclon! Here
is Archbishop Leighton! Here are Lat
imer and Ridley! Here is Matthew
Simpson! Here is poet's row James
Montgomery and Anna Barbauld and
Horatius Bonar and "Phoebe Palmer and
Lowell Mason." Were your departed
ones fond of music? What oratorios
led on by Handel and Haydn. Were
they fond of pictures? What Raphaels
pointing out skies with all colors
I wrought into chariot wheels, wings
and coronations.
iVVere they fond
of poetry?
What !
ternal rythms led on by John
ilton. Shall we pity our glorified
dred? No, they had better pity us.
e, the shipwrecked, and on a raft in
e hurricane, looking up at them sail
ing on over calm seas, under skies that
never irowneu wun lempesus, wc nop
pladby chains, they lifted by wings.
"Sirely the bitterness of death ispast."
Further, if what I have been saying
is tqae, we should trust the Lord and be
thrilled with the fact that our own day
of e&tape cometh. If our lives were go
ing to end when our heart ceased to
pulsate and our lungs to breathe I
would Want to take ten million years of
lif e he f or the first instalment. But,
my Christian friends, we cannot afford
always to stay down in the cellar of
our Father's house. We cannot be al
ways postponing the best things. We
cannot always be tuning our violins for
the celestial orchestra. We must get our
wings ouu We must mount. We cannot
afford always to stand out here in the
vhstibuleoi the house of many man
sions whilexhe windows are illuminated
with the ltee angelic and we can hear
the laughter of those forever free, and
the ground quakes with the bounding
feet of those who have entered upon
eternal play.l Ushers of Heaven! Open
the gates! Swing them clear back on
their pearly hinges! Let the celestial
music rain on us its cadences. Let the
hanging gardens of the king breathe on
us their aromatics. Let our redeemed
ones just look out and give us one glance
of their glorified faces. Yes! there they
are now! I ste them. But I cannot
stand the visicn. Close the gates, or
our eyes will be quenched with the
overpowering brightness. Hold back
the song, or our ears will never again
care for earthly anthem. Withdraw the
perfume or we shall swoon in the fra
grance that humm nostril was never
made to breathe, i
All these things are suggested as we
stand this Easter morn amid the broken
rocks of the Saviour's tomb. Indeed I
know that tomb has not been rebuilt,
for I stood in December of 18S9 amid the
ruins of that, the most famous sepnl
cher ot all time. There are thousands
of tombs in our Greenwood and Laurel
Hill and Mount Auburn' with more pol
ished stone and more elaborate masonry
and more f bliaged surramdings, but as
I went down the steps oUthe supposed
ly
tomb of Christ on mjreturjiiJroHt
. . . . i m
Mount Calvary Isaidtajicsfs
is thctomfe-Silbmbs. Turou;
t.ira more' stunendous ncidenl
,2'This
'Around this
rbiiiamore stupendous incidents than
around any grave of all tla.world since
death entered it." I could ot breathe
easily for overmastering eaotion as I
walked down the four ertmbling steps
till we came abreast of tie niche in
which I think Christ was buried. I
measured the scpulcher anl found it
fourteen and a half feet long, eight feet
high, nine feet wide. It is a family
tomb and seems to have beaibuntto
hold five bodies. But I rejoice to say
that the tomb was empty, and tfee door
of the rock was gone and the Afclight
streamed in. The day that CMi&rose
and came forth the sepulchefne de
molished forever, and no tweli ot
earthly masonrycanrever retold it.
And the rupture of those rocks,; aad the
snap of that government seal; aid the
crash of those walls of limestone,atlthe
step of thelacerated buttriumphanu'oot
of the risen Jesuswc to-day celetmte
with acclaim of worshiping thousands,
while with all the nations of Christen
dom and. all the shining hosts of Ileavra
we chant: "Now is Christ risen from tie
dead and become the first fruits of then
that slept.''
O weep no more your comforts slain.
The Lord is risen no lires again.
. ......... .
"And now may tne lioaox peace, wno . "- X 4 ,,-7- i ", V
brought again from the dead our Lord, omnussion; cx-benator Hui, of oolo
Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheen, ""to ex-Speaker Reed and Jolm L.
through the blood- efj theeovenant maite
-rnn uerfect iri 'etferv cSorf-'woi&iand
von uerfect irievery cwxf? wonifand
I 1- f TTc! Irtln-Sol Amnt "
I VOTa liJUUlUJM( UMVU
EARTHQUAKE.
Central California Subjected to a Shock
That Frightens the l'eople and Destroys
Much Property.
Sax Francisco, April 20. The heavi
est earthquake experienced in California
since 1SCS occurred shortly before 3
o'clock yesterday morning. The coun
try within 200 miles of San Francisco
was visited bj a shock which varied in
intensity at different points. In this
city a number of large buildings
trembled perceptibly, but the only one
to sustain damage was the old church
which until lately had been occupied
by the academy of sciences, the front
wall of which gave way, tearing away
the balconies.
The town of Vacavifle in the heart
of the beautiful Vaca valley, sixty miles
from here, 'was the center of the dis
turbance. Vacaville is a town of 2,700
people and on its main street were a
number of brick buildings.
They were all cither lradly damaged
or totally destroyed, as well as a num
ber of brick residences in the town and
vicinity. Many of the walls fell out
ward into the street .which was filled
with debris, but which workmen at on-'c
began to clear away. Many of the walls
Were oi iruu vuurucia ouu juv.vmu-i
easily to the shock. Very slight dam
ages occurred to frame houses. The
Ally person in Vacaville or vicinity re
ported seriously injured was Rev. O. O.
"BVlkner. of San Jose, who was struck
bj falling debris and sustained severe
brillSiVS. beVCRll nerSOU 11UU
narrow
'tiscancs from injury.
i Tw m .
Dixon and Winters, towns ot aimut
,00 inhabitants, located respectively
oriheastand northwest of Vacaville
id!j within a few miles of the latter
were also scenes of considerable
itruetion. The Masonic hall at
ULrdn. a two story brick block,
wii 'j ruined and its falling walls
shattered the two adjoining
hdfees. A fire that broke out caused
so? "danger at Winters, but the dan
gerwas lessened by an abundant water
supWyJ The house of John T. Hiffel,
neatVacaville. was destroyed by fire,
caud fey an overturned lamp, the oc
cupahtstbarely escaping with their lives.
AtfWiites the inhabitants were for a
time panic stricken, owing to the
scverlfepf the shock. Forty guests
were V the Bliss house at Winters, the
walls ocj which collapsed, but no one
was i
and i
d. The brick school house
1 brick houses in inters
were
eked and wrenched from the
foundat
The banks of Pulah
creek
caved in and fissures
opened i
tke bottom of the creek. Three
milcswi
iit the town an acre of ground
slid into
,e creek, and small fissures
were mat
t- in tne county roan.
The to
n pf Monticello, seventeen
miles' fro
"tVinters, was at lirt report-
ed totally
jmolished. but a gentleman
arrived fi
: tnere
reports the damage
nominal! Vr
Losses attTacaville, owing to the de
struction ofVnildings and other prop
erty, are estimated at 100,000, at Dixon,
30,000 andVWiBters 1 00,000. Elmira,
Fairfield, Sapka,Rxsa, Woodlands, Da
visville and Bcnicia report windows and
crockery brolyn and a number of chim
neys overturnfed. ' Some thirty or forty
towns report trifling damages, though
all accounts agkce.-in placing the inten
sity of the shock' a greater than any in
recent vears.
The numberfjpf shocks felt differed
at various placSw At some points only
one shock walsiregistered, while at
others two or evni more occurred. The
vibrations extenidfrom north to south
and from east to west. The single
shock is generalfrf .ascribed as being
most intense. viSraHons where more
than one shock oocLrred becoming con
fused. V
LOUISIANA ELECTION.
. ri
The AntKLottcry
craUo Ticket Klect-
ed-Oaly Fire
etaln the Field.
New Orleans,
tion yesterday in
.20. The clec-
na was one of
the most important
keld here. The
neonle voted for ctnernor and other
state officers for a ful legislature, sen
ate and house for foa years, and for
district, parish and
officers and
those of New Orleans,'
roied in addition
for all their munici
mayor and councilm;
. ,?mu..t .viu
dawn. Three
amendments to the c
stiiution were
also submitted to the
itilar vote.
There were five com
and distinct
I tickets in the field,
regular
democratic ticket with JW & D. Me
Enery for governor ifif Robert C.
Wiekliffe for lieutenant-fl&rerfeor.
Second The anti-loMtty, faction,
headed by Murphy .J. FefeVer ex-state
senator from St. Mary'stjiarfch, with
Charles Parlanger, ex-Unit
litet States dis-
trict attorney, forlieuJeiEiaffclrovernor.
1 and ThomaKS5otC"Adams of the Farm-
KTf - - tt.r - .i i
trsAitmuce for secretary of state.
' Third The regular republican ticket
headed by A. 11. Leonard, of Shreve
port. Fourth The republican ticket headed
by John E. Brcaux, of Point Coupee
parish.
Fifth The people's party ticket, for
governor, R. L. TannehilL
Advices so far received say Foster has
carried the state by alxut 10,000 plu-
I rality. The republicans have carried
about six parishes, claiming ixmcoitna
among them, but McEnery, the rival
democratic candidate, will le second in
point of votes.
The McEnery majority in the city has.
been reduced in point of votes. Fitz
patrick, the McEnery candidate for
mayor, is elected by from 4.000 to 5,000
majority. The election was quiet con
sidering, and the scratching in the city
is unprecedented.
Massachusetts Republicans lianquet.
Bostox, April 20. The dinner of the
Republican club of Massachusetts, at
Music hall last evening, was the larg
est political gatheringof theseason and
thus was sounded the opening gun of
the campaign in this state. Hon. John
Simpkins, president of the club, presided.
Others present were
tenator uoipn, oi
Oreson: Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, chair-
' , TTnitfl Stftj.j pivil RprvTfM"
wage, preruuvui- ui ". .
Kelub.
I Ex-Spaker Reed was warrjly greeted.
DESTRUCTIVE
Avaui
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A SECOND SHAKE.
Many California Towns llailly Damaged
By the Second Seismic Convulsion.
Sax Francisco, April 2i There was
a recurrence of an earthquake wave in
the central portion of the state yester
day forenoon which was perceptible in
this city and was noticeable as far east
as Reno. Telegraph reports show that
it was felt as farnorth as Red Bluff and
in the San Joaquin valley south. The
shock was not as severe as that of Mon
day night, and the only damage done
was to the buildings in the towns of
Winters, Woodland, Dixon and Vaca
ville, which had been wrecked by Mon
day's shock, The shock was sharper at
Sacramento than any previous one, and
causes some excitement at the state
capital. A plaster figure over the
portico of the capitol was thrown down.
A survey of the damages at six towns
in the Vaca and Sacramento valleys
show that the buildings injured were
of frail character, the construction of
which would not have been permitted
in any city with building regulations,
and a number of which would have col
lapsed in the event of a severe storm of
any character.
At Winters another slight shock was
felt at 0:45, completing the destruction
of the Masonie hall, Bertholet's two
story stone building and generally de
molishing goods, fixtures, etc One
man was badly hurt by a falling wall.
Three brick and stone farm houses west
of town were injured.
At Davi.sville another shock was felt.
It was of brief duration, lasting no
more than five seconds, yet in severity
it seemed to exceed that of Monday.
At Dixon severe shocks completed the
wreck which was before threatened.
Only two or three brick buildings in
town are safe, and fortunately possess
thick walls. No one was injured, but
there were many narrow escapes.
At Esparto several shocks occurred,
completely leveling the brick portion of
the town. Every brick chimney was
thrown to the ground and the wooden
buildings wrenched out of shape. W.
II. Shultte, engineer, was seriously if
not fatally injured by a portion of the
walls of his blacksmith shop falling on
him. Levy & Schwab's brick store is
almost a complete wreck, the entire
fore wall and part of the east and west
walls being down. Barnes' hotel suf
fered a severe loss, making a hole 8x0
in the cast wall. The bricks crashed
through the roof and the floor of the
balcony and the cement walks were
torn out of shape. Mrs. J. H. Davidson
was taken out of the debris of Levy &
Schwab's store unconscious. A baby in
her arms was unhurt. Reports from
the surrounding country show great de
struction to property. Teams broke
and ran away, wrecking valuable ve
hicles and injuring stock.
INDIANA DEMOCRATS.
Handier Democrat Nominate a State
Ticket and Indorse Cleiclaud and Tarill
lteform.
IXDiAXArous, Ind., April 22. The
largest democratic convention in the
history of Indiana met at 10:0 o'clock.
Every county in the state was repre
sented by a full delegation.
Senator Turpie was chosen chairman
of the convention. The platform in
dorses a radical reform of the tariff; a
sufficient circulation of gold, silver and
paper to meet the demands of the peo
ple; favors the election of senators by
the people, the Australian ballot, and
liberal pensions to soldiers; indorses
Cleveland as the logical candidate of
the party, and in case of the inexpedi
ency of his nomination favors Gov.
Gray. Senator Voorhecs, Hugh Dough
erty, Charles J. Jewett and Samuel E.
Morss were chosen delegates at large to
the national convention.
Claude Matthews, of Clinton, the
"farmer's candidate," was nominated
for governor on the second ballot, and
Mortimer Nye, of Laporte, for lieutenant-governor.
The following candidates were then
nominated by acclamation and the con
vention adjourned: Secretary of state,
William R. Myers; auditor of state.
John Oscar Henderson; treasurer of
state, Albert Gall; attorney general,
Alonso Greensraith; reporter supreme
court, Sidney R. Moon: superintendent
of public instruction, Harvey D. Voreis,
and state statistician. William A. Peele.
GOVERNMENT PREDICTIONS.
Reportu From WanlilnBton Are to the Ef
fect That the MbHlsiippi Will KLe ery
HlBh About the .Middle of .May.
WAsmvr.TON- Anrl 22. Recent heavy
I rains are causing the rivers to rise
rapidly in the Ohio and upper .Mississip
pi vallevs. The stages of water in the
lower Mississippi river, already high
' and risimr. will be added to greatly in
r the next two weeks.
The situation as regards the possi
bility of an overflow of the lower Mis
sissippi is critical, -ine nvcr at oi
Louis has risen S.7 feet in the last three
I days and Ls now at a stage of 25.5 feet.
It is likelv to continue risinjr for the
'next two days and wilr reach 2Sfcct.
The lower Mississippi river at .Mem
phis will ri.-e to the highest known
stage, :C.0 feet, or even higher, by May
ii. At Helena, Ark., the stage yester
day was 43.3 feet There has been a
rise of :5 feet in ten days. By May 10
the stage will rise to 47 feet or more.
At Arkansas City the river, which is
at 45.0 feet, will continue to rise until
May 15, when the stage will approxi
mate the highest water known about
4'J.5 feet. At Greenville, Miss., the
stage of the river, which is. 40.2 feet,
will reach a stage of about t feet by
May 15. At Vicksburg, Miss., the stage
of water is 44.5 feet. It will reach by
May 15 about 48 feet.
The SI;ueton Openinjp.
Watkrtowx, S. D., April 22. The
land office still continues full of busi
ness, though the filings yesterday were
not quite up to tne average, ine iv
of rejected entries is enlarging and
and causes much grumbling, iut
nothing worse. The large army
of squatters have not yet put in
their appearance at the land office to
file. When they do some of them will
be fighting mad to find filings ahead of
them. The attorneys who hV.d bunch
es of soldiers declaratorii have suc
ceeded in filing many of them by get
?T,f intn liw affinir Wlt'.l thoKO who de-
I sire to take laud for f jurminrr purposes.
MONEY FOR INDIANS.
geeretary Xoblo Ak For More Money Tor
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians.
Wasihxgtox, April 19. Secretary
Noble, in a letter submitted by tha
secretary of the treasury, asks that an
additional appropriation of $50,000 be
made, for the support of the Cheyenno
and Arapahoe Indians in Oklahoma ter
ritory for the fiscal year ending Juno
SO, 1S93. He says:
"I deem this a matter of the very ut
most importance, it appears to me to
J have been a serious mistake to nave
made so low an estimate at first, and if
this additional amount is not appropri
ated we shall have very serious trouble
with these Indians when the want of
rations is felt. Another year it may be
different, but this year all the rations
formerly allowed will be needed."
Commissioner Morgan, in a letter
which accompanies the documents,
calls attention to" the inopportune oc
casion chosen for the reduction of the
rations, as the allotments to these In
dians are nearly completed, and the ad
jacent country will soon be opened to
settlement to the whites, "whiclowing
to the fact that nearly all the Cheyennes
are discontented with the sale of the sur
plus lands, a.ul believe it was nob
authorized by a majority of their peo
ple, will serve as an opportunity for
friction between the whites and In
dians, and that everything possible
should be done to keep the Indians-good-natured
and friendly."
The amount estimated for the support
of these Indians during the next fiscal
year was fixed at $05,000, instead of
$125,000 heretofore allowed them, for
the reason that under their late agree
ment with the United States the sum of
$1,000,000 was placed to their credit in
the United States treasury, to draw in
terest of 5 per cent, per annum, the in
terest, $50,000, to be paid to them in
cash per capita.
EXPLODING POWDER.
Another Powder Mill Kxploalon y Which.
Seven Men Wore Blown to l'leces.
Mount Aulixotox, N. J., April 19.
The works of the American Forcite
Powder company on the shores of Lake
Hopatcong, a mile below here, blew up
at o o'clock yesterday and seven men
were blown to atoms. The names of
five of the men killed are as follows:
J. D. Smith, superintendent, married
and leaves a wife and child; J;icob Cart-
i son, aged 35 years, married and leaves
five children; William Pierce, aged 23
I years, leaves a widow and two children;
James Vagh, aged 2t years, unmarried;
A. Jobson, aged 30 years, unmarried.
Another body has been recognized as
that of a Swede, whose name is un
known. Two men were injured. One
of them, Benjamin Cassano, is terribly
burned and mangled. He will die.
The explosion occurred a few minutes
after : o'clock and five buildings were
shattered. What caused the explosion
will never be known. The works con
sisted of a number of small buildings
scattered about a distance of 300 feet
f rum each other. Most of the buildings
were used in the mixing process in
which one man was employed. The
other buildings on the side of the mount-
ain are used for the storing of dynamite,
nitro-glvcenne and detonators. Th
works have been frequently the scenes
of explosions, but never to such an ex
tant as yesterday.
WYOMING RUSTLERS.
The Kzcltement Continues Over the Wyo
onitnt; Cattle War Determined Jtux
tlcrs. Chevexxe, Wyo., April 19. There is
no news from the rustler country.
The Buffalo wire is still down. A num
ber of refugees from Johnson county
have arrived in Cheyenne, but they
bring nothing in the way of news ex
cept that that the country Ls terrorized
by roving bands of armed rustlers.
A Gillette, Wyo., special says Col.
Van Home left Fort McKinney yester
day with Hesse, Ford and Elliot, three
of the cattlemen demanded by the John
son county rustlers. He was in com
mand of three troops of cavalry, and
his destination was Fort Douglas.
Trouble is feared, as a thousand armed
rustlers, under M. A. Ryder, a
young Methodist preacher of rare
power and nerve, are lying in
wait for the troops and swear
they will get possession of the prison
ers and hang them, if they have to kill
Van Home and his men to do so. It is
thought that Van Home has changed
his course and will bring his prisoners
to Fort Russel, near here, whore the
Seventeenth infantry is stationed. . No
word has been received from the troops.
Many wires are down, and it is thought
they have been cat by rustlers.
TIED TO AN UNRULY COW.
Charges of Itarbarous Treatment to Ills
Wife. Children and an Old Man Made
Aeainst a 1'eunsylvanlan.
PiTTSBUiuiu, Pa., April 19. The
agents of the Humane society have
subpoenaed many witnesses for the
hearing of Albert Zitman, who is al
leged to have treated his children and
an old German living at his house so
barbarously. Xew storiesof his cruelty
develop daily. Previous to his arrest it
now transpires that the farmers in the
neighborhood were afraid to do oi
say anything about his conduct,
Zitman being known as a man of vile
and revengeful disposition. It is said
that not long since, wanting to take
one oi his cows to a neighboring town
and being unable to manage ii, he tied
his wife by a long rcpe to its horns and
let the animal draw her about over the
rocks and through the bushes until one
oi the woman's legs was broken and the
con- nearly tired out. The investiga
tioa is anxiously awaited.
A Bank Officer AcciurI t Theft.
Guano Forks, X. D. April 19. Carl
Nelson, assistant cashier of the Union
National bank, is under arrest chargeft
with the defalcation of many thousand
dollars, lie claims, mat everything a,
correct, and is at work straighten!
out the books.
Tuntlce Laatar Convalescent.
Wasihxgtox, April 19. Justice La
mar, who has been very seriou .dy ill, is
now convalescent and able, to walk
about the house. He has not been out
of doors since his illness and will not
ffo out until the weather becomes setr
tied.
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