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« F O times! '>■ A | L IHL • > * Mr JU IT/\T A A ( THE MORNING NEWS. 1 VUII. it. , ■< Established 1850. Incohpohated 1888. > I J. H. ESTILL, President. f TALMAGE IN AUSTRALIA. “An Only Son” the Text of Yester day’s Sermon. The Lesson of the funeral of a Younn Man—The Widowed Mother’s Only Hope -Christ as a Man and Christ as a God—The Seed Time of Tears Will Become the Wheat Harvest, and That Will Be the Sabbath of Eter nity. Brooklyn, Aug. 19.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now in Australia on his round-the world tour, has selected as the subject for to-day’s sermon through the press: “An only Son;" the text chosen being Luke vii, 12-15: “Now when ho came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead mafi carried the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compas sion on her, and said unto her, ‘weep not.’ And be came and touched the bier, and they that bare hjm stood still. And he said: ‘Young man, I say unto thee, arise.’ And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.’’ The text calls us to stand at the gate of the city of Nain. The streets are a-rush with business and gayet£, and the ear is deafened with the hammers of mechanism and the wheels of traffic. Work, with its thousand arms and thousand eyes and thousand feet, fills all the street, when suddenly the crowd parts, and a funeral passes. Between the wheels of work and pleasure there comes a long procession of mourning people. Who is it; A trifler says. “Oh, it’s nothing but a funeral. It may have come up from the hospital of the city, or the almshouse, or some low place of the town;” but not so says the seriouS ob server. There are so many evi dences of dire bereavement that we know at the first glance that some one has been taken away greatly beloved: and to our inquiry, “Who is this that is carried out with so many oflices of kindness and affection?” the reply comes, “The only son of his mother, and she a widow.” Stand back and let the procession pass out! Hush all the voices of mirth and pleasure! Letenpry head be uncovered! Weep with this passing procession; and let it be told through all the market- f daces and bazaars of Nain, that in Gali ee to-day the sepulchre hath gathered to itself “the only son of his mother, and she a widow.” There are two or three things that, in my mind, give especial pathos to this scene. The first is, he wad a ■ young man that was being carried out. To the aged, death becomes beautiful. The old man halts and pants along the road, where once he bounded like the roe. Frejn the midst of immedfl able ailments and sor ' rows, he cries out, “How long, O Lord, how long?” Footsore and hardly bestead on the hot journey, he wants to get home. He sits in the church, and sings, with a uremfitous voice, some.tuiu he kahg forty years ago, and longs to join the better assemblage of the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and the thousands of thousands who have passed the i ood. How sweetly he sleeps the last sleep? ‘ Push back the white locks from the wrinkled temples; they will never ache again. Fold the hands over the still heart; they will never toil again. Close gently the eyes; they will never weep again. But this man that I am speaking of was a young man. He was fust putting on the armor of life, and he was exulting to think how his sturdy blows would ring out above the clangor of the battle. I suppose he had a young man’s hopes, a young man’s ambitions, and a young man’s courage. He said, “If I live many years, I will feed the hungry and clothe the naked. In this city of Nain, where' there are so many bad young men. 1 will be sober, and honest, and pure, and. mag nanimous, and my mother shall never be ashamed of me.” But all these prospects are blasted in one hour. There he passes lifeless in the procession Behold all that is left on earth of the high-hearted young man of the city of Nain. There is another thing t hat adds very much to this scene, and that is. he was an only son. However large the family flock may be, we never could think of ■paring one of the lambs. Though they may all have their faults, they all hat e tneir excellences that commend them to the parental heart; and if It were per emptorily demanded of you to day that you should yield up one of your children out of a very large family, you would be confounded, and you could not make a selection. But this was an only son, around whom gathered all the parental expectations. How much care in his education! How much caution in watch ing his habits! He would carry down the name to other times. He would have entire control of tho family property long after tho parents have gone to their last reward. He would stand in society a thinker, a worker, a philanthropist, a Christian. No. no. It is all ended. Be hold him there. Breath is gone. Life is extinct. The only son of his mother. There was one other thing that added to the pathos of this scene, and that was, his mother was a widow. The main hope of that home had been broken, and now he was come up to be the staff. The chief light of the household bad been extin fuisbed. and this was the only light left. suppose she often said, looking at him, “There are only two of us.” Oh, it is a grand thing to see a young man step out in life, and say to his ipother, “Don’t be down-hearted. 1 will, as far as possible, take father's place, and as long as I live you shall never want anything. ’ It is not always that way. Sometimes the young people get tired of the old people. They say they are queer; that they have so many ailments; and they sometimes wish them out of the way. A young man and his wife sat at the table, their litth-son on the floor playing beneath the table. The old father was very old, and his hand shook so. they said: “You shall no more sit with us at the table.” And so they gave him a place in the corner, where day by day he ate out of an earthen bowl everything put into the bowl. One day his hand trembled so much hedropped it and broke it; and the son. seated at the elegant table in mid-floor, said to his wife : “Now, we’ll get father a wooden bowl, ■nd that he can’t break. ’’ a wooden bowl was obtained, and every day old grandfather ate out of that, sitting in the corner. One day, while the elegant young man and his wife were seated at their table, with chased silver and all the lux uries, and their little son sat upon tho floor, they saw the lad whittling, and they said: “My son, what are you doing there with that knife?” “Oh,” said he, “j—l'm making a trough for my father and mother to eat out of when they get old!” But this young man of the text was not of that character. He did not belong to that school. I can tell it from the way SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS. AtONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. they mourned over him. He was to be the companion of his mother. He was to be his mother s protector. He would return now some of the kindnesses he had re ceived in the days of childhood and boy hood. Ay, he would with his strong hand uphold that form already enfeebled with age. Will he do it? No. In one hour all that promise of help and companionship is gone. There is a world of anguish in that one short phrase. “The only son of his mother, and she a widow.” Now, my friends, it was upon this scene that Christ broke. He came in without any introduction. He stopped the proces sion. He had only two utterances to make; the one to the mourning mother, the other to the dead. He cried out to the mourning one, “Weep not:” and then touching the bier on which the son lay, he cried out, “Young man, I say unto thee arise! And he that was dead sat up.” I learn two or three things from this subject, and. first, that Christ was a man. You see how that sorrow played upon all the chords of his heart. I think we for got this too often. Christ was a man more certainly than you are, for he was a perfect man. No sailor ever slept in ship s hammock more soundly than Christ slept in that boat on Gennesaret. In every nerve, and muscle, and bone, and fibre of his body; in every emotion and affection of his heart; in every action and decision of his mind, he was a man. He looked off upon the sea' just as you look off upon the waters. He went into Martha's house just as you go into a cottage. He breathed bard when he was tired, just as you do when you are exhausted. He felt after sleeping out a night in the storm just like you do when you have been exposed to a tempest. It was just as humiliating for him to beg bread as it would be for you to become a pauper. He felt just as much insulted by being sold for thirty pieces of silver as you would if you were sold fqr the price of a dog. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he was a man. When the thorns were twisted for his brow, they hurt him just as much as they hurt your brow, if they were twisted for it. He tooK not on him the nature of angels; he took on him the seed of Ab raham.. “Ecce homo!” Behold the man! But I must also draw from this subject that he was a God. Suppose that a man siiouldattcmpt of break up a funeral ob sequy; he would be seized by the law, he would be imprisoned, if he were not actu ally slain by the mob before the officers could secure him. If Christ had been a mere mortal, would he have a right to come in upon such a profession? Would he have succeeded in his interruption? He was more than a man. for when he cried out, “‘I say unto ithee, arise!’ he that was dead sat up.” What excite ment there must have been thereabouts! The body had lain prostrate. It had been mourned over with agonizing tears, and yet now it begins to move in the shroud, and to be flushed with life; and, at tho command of Christ. he rises up and looks into the faces of the astonished spectators. Oh, this was the work of a God! I hear it in his voice; I see it in the flush of his eye; I behold it in the snapping of death’s shackles; I see it in the face of the rising slumberer; I hear it in the outcry of all those who were spectators of the scene. If. when I see my Lord Jesus Christ mourning with the bereavet, 1 PuT* my hands on his shoulders, and say, "My brother,” now that I hear him proclaim super natural deliverances, I look up into his face and say yith Thomas, “My Lord and my God.” Do you not think he was a God? A great many people do not be lieve that, and they compromise the mat ter, or they think they compromise it. They say he was a very good man. but he was not a God. That is impossible. He, was either a God or a wretch, and I will prove it. If a man professes to bo that which he is not what is he? He is a liar, an imposter, a hypocrite. That is your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ professed to be a God. He said over and over again he was a God, too t tho attitudes of a God. and assumed the vo?ks and offices of a God. Darc you now say he was not! He was a God, or he was a wretch. Choose ye. t Do you think I cannot prove by this Bible that he was a God? If you do not believe this Bible, of course there is no need of my talking to you. There is no common data from which to start. Sup pose you do believe it? Then I can dem onstrate that he was divine. I can prove he was Creator. John I: 3, “All things : were made by him ; and without him was not anything made that was made.” He , was eternal, Rev. 22: 13, “I am Alpha i and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last ” lean prove that he was omnipitent, Heb. 1: 10, “The heavens arttthe work of thine hands.” I can prove that he was omniscient, John :2: 25, “He knew what was in man.” Oh yes, ho is a God. He cleft the sea. He i upheaved the crystalline walls along which tho Israe.ites matched. He planted the mountains. He raises up governments and casts down thrones, and marches across nations and across worlds and across the universe eternal, omnipotent, unhindered 1 and unabashed- That hand that was nailed to the cross holds the star in a ’ leash of Ibve. That head that dropped on ! the bosom in fainting and death shall * make the world quake at its nod. That ■ voice that groaned in the last pang shall swear before the trembling world that ■ time shall bb no longer. O, do not insult the common sense of the race by telling us that this person was only a man, in whose presence the naralytic arm was j thrust out well, and the devils crouched, and tho lepers dropped their scales, and the tempes s folded their wings, and the I boy’s satchel of a few loaves made a ban ’ quet for five thousand, and the sad pro cession of my text broke up in congratu j lation and hosanna. Again, I learn from this subject that | Christ was a sympathizer. Mark you, this was a city j-uneral. In the country, when the bell tolls, they know all about it for five miles around, and they know what was the matter with the man, bow old he was, and what were his last exper iences. They know with what temporal prospects he has left his family. There is no haste, there is no indecency in the obsequies. There is nothing done as a mere matter of business. Even the chil dren come out as the procession passes, and look sympathetic, and the tree-shad ows seem to deepen, and the brooks weep in sympathy as the procession goes by. But, mark you, this that lam speak ing of was a city funeral. In great cities ; the cart jostles the hearse, and there is ' mirth, and gladness, and indifference as I the weeping procession goes by. In this ■ city of Nain, it was a common thing to i have trouble and bereavement and death. I Perhaps that very hour there were others ; being carried out; but this frequency of ! trouble did not harden Christ's heart at I all. He stepped right out, and he saw this mourner, and he had compassion on her. and he said: “Weep not.” Now. 1 have to tell you, O bruised souls, and there are many everywhere (have you ever looKed over any great audience aud noticed how many shadows of sorrow there are?), 1 come to all such and say, “Christ meets you, aud he has compas sion on you, and he says, ‘Weep not.’ ” Perhaps with some it is financial trouble. “Oh,” you say. “it is such a silly thing for a man to cry over lost money.” Is it? Suppose you had a large fortune, and all •luxuries brought to your table, and your wardrobe was full, and your home was beautified by music and sculpture and painting, and thronged by the elegant and educated, and then some rough mis fortune should strike you in the face, and trample your treasures, and taunt your children for their faded dr<ss, and send you into commercial circles an underling where once you waved a scep ter of gold, do you think you would cry then? I think you would. But Christ comes and meets all such to-day. He sees all the straits in which you have been thrust. He observes the sneer of that man who once was proud to walk in your shadow, and glad to get your help. He sees the protested note, the uncancelled judgment, tho foreclosed mortgage, the heart-breaking exasperation, and he says, “Weep not. I own the cattle on a thou sand hills. I will never let you starve. From, my hand the fowls of heaven peck all their food. And will I let you starve? Never—no, my child, never.” Or perhaps this tramp at the gate of Nain has an echo in, your own bereft spirit. You went out to the grave, and you felt you never could come back again. You left your heart there. The white snow of death covered all the garden. You listen for the speaking of voices that will never be heard again, and the sound ing of feet that will never move in your dwelling again, and there is a heavy, leaden pressure on your heart. God has dashed out the light of your eyes, and the heavy spirit that that woman carried out of the gate of Nain is no heavier than yours. And you open the door, but he comes not in. And you enter the nursery, but she is not there. And you sit at the table, but there is a vacant chair next to you. And the sun does not shine as bright ly as it used to, and the voices of af fection do not strike you with so quick a thrill, and your cheek has not so healthy a hue, and your eye has not so deep a fire. Do I not know? Do we not all know? There is an uplifted woe on your heart. You have been out carrying your loved one beyond the gate of the city of Nain. But look yonder. Someone stands watch ing. He seem>- waiting for you. As you come up he stretches out his hand of help. His voice is one of tenderness, yet thrills with eternal strength. Who is it? The very one who accosted the mourner at the gate of Nain, and he says, “Weep not.” • Perhaps it is a worse grief than that. It may be a living home trouble that you cannot speak about to your best friend. It may be some domestic unhappiness. It may be an evil suspicion. It may be the disgrace following in the footsteps of a son that is wayward, or a companion who is cruel, or a father that will not do right, and for years there may have been a vul ture striking its beak into the vitals of your soul, and you sit there to-day feeling it is worse than death. It is. It is worse than death. And yet there is relief. Though the night may be the blackest, though the voices of hell may tell you to curse God and die, look up and hear the voice that accosted the woman of the text as it says, “Weep not.” Earth hath no sorrow - That heaven cannot cure. I learn, again, from all this, that Christ is the master of the grave. Just outside the gate of the citj, Death and Christ measured lances; and when the young man rose Death dropped. Now we are sure of our resurrection. Oh, what a scene it was when that young man came back! The mother never expected to hear him speak again. She never thought that he would kiss her again. How the tears started, and how her heart throbbed, as she said: “Oh, my son, my son, my son!” Ana that scene is going to be repeated. It is going to be repeated ten thousand times. These broken fam ily circles have got to come together. These extinguished household lights have got to be rekindled. ’There will be a stir in the family lot in the cemetery, and there will be a rush into life at the command, “Younjr man, J say unto thee, arise!” As the child shakes off the dust of the tomb, and comes iorth fresh and fair and beautiful, and you throw your arms around it and press it to your heart, angel to angel will' repeat the story'of Nain, “He delivered him to his mother.” Oye troubled souls! Oye who have lived to see every prospect blasted, peeled, scattered, consumed! wait a little. The seed-time of tears will become the wheat harvest. In a clime cut of no wintry blast, under a sky palled by no hurtling tempest, and amidst redeemed ones that weep not, that part not, that die not, friend will come to friend, and kindred will join kindred, and the long procession that marches the ave nues of gold will lift up their palms as again and again it is announced that the same one who came to the relief of this woman of the text came to the relief of many a maternal heart, and repeated the wonders of resurrection, and “delivered him to his mother.” Oh. that will be the harvest of the world. That will be the coronation of princes. That will be the Sabbath of eternity. DEATH IN A CELL. Fatal Result of a Surgical Operation in Macon. Macon, Ga., Aug. 19.—W. H. Jones, who killed Henry L. Fields in this city about six weeks ago, died in his cell at the jail to-day while undergoing an operation for stricture and under the influence of ether. Jones has been in jail about three weeks. After killing Fields he made his escape and remained in the swamp for some time. While in the swamp he was taken sick, and his health c ontinued so bad that alter hiding out for three weeks he volun tarily surrendered. After being confined in jail he partially recovered from the fever contracted in the swamp, but for the past ten days suffered intensely I from stricture, and although earnestly urged by his family and friends to have an operation performed, declined to do so I until yesterday, after he was told that it I was the only way to save his life and stop his suffering. Ether was adminis tered and when the operation was almost concluded, he gave one quick gasp and was aead. Dr. Etheridge, one of the physicians in attendance, says that the operation itself was highly Successful, but that the ether j killed Jones, as he was previously afflicted with heart trouble. ■" Cholera Cases. Amsterdam, Aug. 19.—One new case of . cholera and one death from the disease : occurred to-day at Haarlem. At Velsen there were reported four new cases, and i at Barsingerhour one new case. CHOLERA IN GALESIA. London, Aug. 20.—The Times has a despatch from Vienna stating that from I Thursday to Saturday’ there was 273 new i cases of cholera and 229 deaths from the | disease in Galicia. In Bukowina thirty eight new cases and twenty-one deaths were reported in the same night. “Rise in do worl’ all yoh kin.” said Uncle | Eten to the young man. ‘that doan forgit yoh < reppytation. Hit do come in handy foh er parachute. “—Washington Star. z SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894. WATCHING WEI-HAI-WEI. Japan Preparing ftfr a Combined At tack by Land and Sea. China Hauling Up Heavy Guns and Troops to Defand the Stronghold— Japanese Rushing to Subscribe to a $50,000,000 War Loan—Heavily Armed Ships Fitting Out with all Haste in England, Presumably for the War in the Far East. London, Aug. 19.--The Shanghai corre spondent of the Central News gives in*to day’s dispatches a gloomy view of affairs at Wei-Hai-Wei, the fortified city on the Shantung promontory. There is little doubt that the Japanese intend to attack this Chinese stronghold shortly despite the tradition of the Chinese that the place is impregnable. The lights along the promontory have been extinguished and the buoys have been removed and the Chinese are con stantly adding to the defenses by’ laying torpedoes and submarine mines. Never theless, on three successive nights in the last week Japanese torpedo boats have entered the harbor and reconnoitered the forts. The crews of the Chinese torpedo boats, which lie in the harbor, had no inkling of the nearness of the enemy until the Japanese vessels were leaving. The Wei-Hai-Wei forts then opened fire, but it was too late to accomplish anything. The success of these Japanese expedi tions has shaken greatly the confidence of the army in the impregnability of Wei- Hai-Wei. The supposition is that the Japanese are preparing for a combined land and sea attack on the stronghold. The garrison is being increased to meet such an'attack, and heavy guns are being added to the artillery’ in the interior line of defenses. The foreigners who were employed in the Wei-Hai-Wei arsenal are leaving the place. Nearly all the Englishmen and Scotchmen have gone, and, within a few days, only natives are likely to be left in the shops. The feeling against foreigners is run ning high among the military of the city. The soldiers ha\e fired several times upon foreigners who were leaving the ships, and have been checked only with diiii culty by their officers. Often the for eigners are reproached and insulted as they depart. None of them have been wounded as yet, but their escape has been due almost solely to tne strenuous efforts of the officers who have' been charged with the responsibility for their safety. The main Japanese squadron has been sighted again in the Gulf of Fe-Cbi-Li. The use of Japanese coins has been for bidden. FITTING OUT WITH ALL HASTE. London, Aug. 19.—Government officers have gone aboard another vessel in the Tyne, because they were convinced that she was fitting for service in the Chinese- Japanese war. The work on the vessel has been pushed with the greatest haste since the declara tion of war, and recently materials of war have been placed .5 J *ar as can be ascei taint’d neither China nor Japan ordered the vessel. It is thought she may may have been fitting merely for speculative purposes, her owners intend ing to offer her to China or Japan after getting away from English waters. Despite the presence of the officers, work on the vessel has not been stopped. More seizures of vessels are expected. The steamer Alaska, which China bought before the war from the Thames Iron Company, lies in the Thames. She is an armor-clad, carrying rapid-firing guns. She is understood to be shipping her crew. A dispatch from Vienna says that 2,000 Mannlicher rifles made in Austria, have been shipped to China. ‘ REPORTED SKIRMISHES. London, Aug. 20. —The Times corre spondent in Shanghai telegraphs: It is reported that several skirmishes be tween the Japanese and Chinese troops have occurred at Ping Ran. where a great battle is likely to be fought soon. TOUCHING THEIR POCKETS. Washington, Aug. 19.—The Japanese legation here received a cablegram an nouncing that the government of Japan has resolved to issue a domestic loan of 850,000,000. The cablegram stated that a strong outburst of patriotic feeling had been evoked by this proposition and that people in all parts of the country were eagerly subscribing to the loan. I. T. U. INVESTIGATION. Charges Against the Management of the'Childs-Drexel Home. Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 19.—An in vestigation into the management of the Cbilds-Drexel home in this city is being conducted by the visiting committee, A. L. Runyon of Pueblo. W. A. Whitemeyer and James J. Burns of Denver, and Joseph Conway of Kansas City. An inmate notified Supt. Schuman of charges of conspiracy with threats of ill treatment. The notification thus filled was sent by Mr. Schuman to President Prescott, of the International Typograph ical Union at Indianapolis, demanding an investigation. The committee will investigate current rumors against the management, as well as proposed repairs and improvements. It is believed generally here that the man agement will be vindicated. FEVER CAUSES FEAR. Shipment of Infected Cattle Creates Alarm in Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 19. —The recent shipment of Texas cattle in Linn and An derson counties and the discovery that the.y were infected with Texas fever, is causing much fear among the stock men of Eastern Kansas. The infected cattle were shipped in by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company. The attorney general, in directing the attorneys of those counties to investigate and bring suit, says the prosecution should be filed against the men who shipped them in and not against the railroad company. It is stated over 400 head of native cattle have already died with fever. UNDER KENTUCKY LAWS. Tha Southern Railway Company In* corporated at Louisville. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 19.—Articles in corporating the Southern Railway’ Com pany in Kentucky have been filed in the county clerk's opice. The incorporators are Samuel H. Spencer, Charles H. Cos ter. Francis Lynde Stetson of Ne*w York. Alex B. Anderson of Raleigh, N. C.; William A. Ewen, E. Dobbs Ferry of New York, T, W T . Eullitt of Louisville, W. M. Baldwin, Jr., of Washington. The capital stock is fixed at 81,000,000 and the indebtedness must not exceed 810,000,000. DIRECTORS IN COURT. Answers Filed in Contempt Proceed ings Against the A. R. U. Chicago. Aug. 19.—James Hogan, W. E. Burns, R. M. Goodman, J. F. McVean and Martin B. Elliott, the directors of the American Railway Union, filed an an swer in the United States circuit court yesterday to the information against them charging contempt of court. In ad dition to the general, answer to the in formation they also filed an answer to the interrogatories of the government regard ing the conduct of the strike. The answer to the information denies that the directors have any power to order a strike or compel its discontinuance. The defendants ad mit that at various times during the month of June and before the injunction was issued they advised certain of the employes of the railroads .to quietly and peaceably and lawfully quit the service of the roads, but all the men so advised were members of the union, and in such advice and counsel they acted for said employes and by their authority. The answer denies there was an illegal con spiracy to tie up the railroads, but it al leges that there was a conspiracy on -the pai;t of the railroad companies to reduce the wages of their employes and to break up the American Railway Union. As to the telegrams sent out in the name of Debs, tor which Debs, when brougnt into court, denied all responsibil ity, the answer admits that they were sent by the defendant, Hogan. In the answers to the interrogatories the de fendants say that Hogan sent and re ceived all the telegrams except those re lating to the finances of the union. As to the authorship of the telegrams severally the defendants pleaded inability to state. United States Marshal Arnold left for Washington yesterday to present bis ac count of the expenses of the railroad strike to the Attorney General. Marshal Arnold expects to receive at Washington the money with which to pay his deputies for their services during the recent trou ble. The total amount of the bill which ho will present to Mr. Olney is about 8100,000. TO LIFT THE BOYCOTT. Labor Chiefs at Chicago in Conference on Lodge Affairs. Chicago, Aug. 19.—A conference was held here to-day.by representatives of the railroad brotherhoods for the discussion of matters affecting the old organizations as a result of the work of the American Railway Union during the recent strike. Among those present were Grand Chief F. P. Sargent and F. W. Arnold of the locomotive firemen, Gratia Chiefs C. Wilkinson, Messrs. Morrisey and Terrell of the Brotherhood of Train men and M. V. Powell, grand chief of the Order of Railroad Telegaphers. An agreement was reached to endeavor to secure the reinstatment of the memoers of the order who joined the American Railway Union, and, having since re pented of their course, are applying for membership in their old lodges. Mr. Wilkinson said after the conference that many of the men were out of posi tions since the strike and had applied for re-admissioa io the con-’ fessing that they had been swept away by the announcement attending the strike and profuse promises of the leaders of the American Railway Union, and they now had no jobs, and the American Rail way Union was in no financial position to give them support. “The trainmen lost several lodges by de fection to the American Railway Union,” he said, and applications are made for a renewal of the charters of all of them. We agreed to take the men back and will do all in our power to have the roads lift the boycott against them, for we are as sured that the men will not again desert their lodges under similar circum stances.” “The Order of Railway Telegraphers,” said Mr. Powell, “was fortunate in the defection of but few of its members. We lost but two lodges, one at Helena and the other at Ripon.” The officials of the order left Chicago to-night to effect the reorganization of the lodges, and will make personal ap peals to the various roads to reinstate their men. As the brotherhoods stood firm against the strikers, the officials be lieve they will get repentant members back to their places. FREE-FOR-ALL FRACAS. A Heavy Oaken Chair as an Argu ment Amongst Populists. Hammond, Ind., Aug. 19. —In a free-for all fracas, which marked the close of the populist county convention here yester day, Delegate Walker was struck over the head with a heavy oaken chair, fell ing him to the floor, while others were pushed about and roughly handled. R. A. Hawthorne, the populist candidate for congress from the Tenth aistrict oc cupied a place on the stage and witnessed the proceedings. The convention was the most turbulent and boisterous in the his tory of Lake county. A full county ticket was nominated, but on account of the technicalities it was decided that the proceedings were out of order and the ticket therefore irregularly named. A new convention has been called for next Wednesday. TOWN IN DANGER. An Insane Firebug Believed to Be Starting Incendiary Fires. Providence, R. 1.. Aug. 19.—The officials of the fire department decided to-day that the city is practically at the mercy of unknown fire bugs. During the past two weeks there have been twelve incen diary fires. Two lumber yards and a large barn were destroyed to-day, and there is evidence that the same person has set all the fires. Tho police believe it is the work of James McGunigle, an insane fire-bug, who was sent to the asylum alter having set fire to the Union Congregational church. He escaped three months ago. A WAYWARD SISTER. An Alabama Young; Lady Draws Her Money and Leaves Home. Indianapolis, Ind., J\ug. 19.—J. Stanley of Selma, Ala., was in town to-day in search of his sister, Xilla, who left her home in anger with her parents and brother for opposing the attentions of her betrothed. She drew 8400 from the bank and disappeared. She was traced to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, but the indications now are that she went on to St. Louis. Her fam ily stands high socially in Selma. Her lover is aiding in the search. Thxe Persons Drowned. Braunfels, Tex., Aug. 19.—Mrs. Hugo Cramer and daughter and Mrs. Hartman were fishing in the river to-day, when their boat upset and all three were drowned. * TROUBLE THREATENED. Coal Operators Moving Aggressively in the Pittsburg District. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 19.—Troublesome times are in prospect for the coal miners in the Pittsburg district, and the fall and winter season may witness a repetition of the experiences of last winter. Several mining companies show a disposition to repudiate the Columbus,. O. agreement. To meet the threatening emergencies the Miners’ National Organization has opened permanent headquarters in Pittsburg, and the national officials will be in con stant attendance. The construction of extensive barracks for the accommodation of new men at the Turtle creek mines of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, tend to con firm reports of an aggressive move by that company. A number of mines in the vicinity of California, on the Monongahela river, are idle on account of the haulers and labor ers refusing a reduction in wages. Work in other parts of the district is greatly restricted by reason of a car famine. Discrimination is openly charged against the railroads in the allotment” of cars. A BARBECUE IN COFFEE. Democratic Principles Explained to Thousands of People. Douglas, Ga., Aug. 19. —There were over a thousand people presentohere yesterday’ at the big democratic barbecue. Hon. W. G. Brantley was introduced by Col. J. M. Denton. Mr. Brantley spoke for an hour, delivering a very fine speech. He ex pressed the hope that those who had be come populist‘friends would return to the Democra tie f old, as som es e w h ave recently done. Col. Denton then introduced Col. Leon A. Wilson as the next senator from the Fifth district. Col. Wilson made one of his characteristic speeches in behalf of pure and undefiled democracy. The best of order prevailed throughout the exercises of the day. After Col. Wil son’s address all repaired to the table, so bountifully spread with choicest barbe cued meats and delicacies, for which Cof fee county is proverbial. Coffee county will outdo her former . record for pure democracy in October. A STORMY SESSION. Falling Out Among the Knights of Labor as to the Master Workman. Philadelphia, Aug. 19.—District As sembly No. lot the Knights of Labor held a meeting to-night, which is said to have ended unpleasantly for General Master Workman James R. Sovereign. The assemby has been the bone of conten tion between the Sovereign and anti- Sovereign factions for spme time past, and to-night's meeting was attended by Sovereign, General Secretary Hayes, T. B. Maguire and Henry B. Martin of the executive board in an attempt to settle the dimculties of the organization. The session was so stormy that Sover eign is said to have called in a policeman to deer the hall. ■ Not. .v.ing in -ais, it is asserted that the opposition forcibly e u ected Sovereign, while his followers took precipitate leave. Sovereign denies the forcible ejection story. POPULISTS DESPERATE. They Make Wild Claims on Demo* crats Without Authority. Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 19.—Arrange ments have been completed for a grand democratic rally in Brunswick on Tues day next, when all the democrats in Glynn will assemble and whoop up the cause. This will set tho ball rolling and no let up will be made in this county un til the victory is won. Several prominent orators from other cities will participate, while Hon W. G Brantly will speak for Glynn. The desperation of the populists is causing them to make wild claims about prominent democrats changing to their faith, their latest claim being on CoJ. • Brantly. At the time the publication appeared yesterday claiming Brantly as a convert, Brantly was in Coffee county delivering a democratic speech to a large crowd under the auspices of the state democratic committee. WRECKED BY THE WIND. A Saw-Mill Shed Blown Down and One Man Hurt. Abbeville, Ga., Aug. 19.—The shed of the saw-mill of R. A. Wilson at Reid field, five miles from Abbeville, was blown down during a storm that swept over that place yesterday. Mr. A W. Allen, a prominent citizen of Wilcox county, was caught under the shed as it fell and was seriously injured. Dr. A. R. Royal, who was called to see Mr. Alien, says that he sustained serious, but not necessarily fatal internal injuries. Mr. T. U. Sessions, the sawyer of the mill, escaped miraculously without injury, but his son, Irwin, 18 years old, received painful injuries on the head. The dam age to property at the mill is estimated to be aoout S3OO. This is th® second time that Mr. Wilson’s mill shed has been blown down within the last two years. FOR WIFE BEATING. Suspicious Character Surrounded in a House at Waycross. Waycross, Ga., Aug. 19.—Garrett Clark, colored, charged with several crimes, was arrested this afternoon by a policeman. He was in a house and the police quickly surrounded it. He tried to escape through the rear door, but failed. i The officers were informed that ClarK had j concealed a revolver on his person. The j arrest ws.s made on the grounds that l Clark had given his wife a severe beating, i He was also charged with having staobed a negro man nearly to death. This will hardly be proved by the evidence. He will have to answer to the charge of car rying a concealed weapon when he has satisfied justice as to the other charges. BLEW OUT HER BRAINS. An Unfaithful Wife Murdered by a Jealous Husband. Jacksonville, Fla.. Aug. 19.—A special to the Times-Union from Dade City, Fla., says: “Last night Milton Higgs came home from Floral City, where he works, ; to see his wife. As he reached home his wife drove up in a cart with another man. Higgs led the woman into the house and blew out her brains. The mur derer escaped. Mrs. Higgs was notori ously unfaithful.” Death of Henry Gaudy. Thomasville. Ga., Aug. 19.—W. Henry Gaudy, son of Charles Gaudy, died in this city yesterday. ( WEEKLY, (2-TIMES-A-WEEK) SIA YEAR. ) J 5 CENTS A COPY. 4 A ( DAILY, $lO A YEAR. XIV. 1:0, I f times! WHIRRING WHEELS. Fine Weather, Great Crowds and Fast Time at the Denver Meet. A Large Number of Beautiful Prizes Draws a Large Number of Riders. Details of the Day’s Racing - The Men and the Time They Made. Denver, Col., Aug. 19. —The twenty-five mile road race from IJenver to Lupton, over the famous Denver course, came off to-day. The weather was fine and the at tendance crowded many trains of eight coaches each. Seventy-five men started, including many of the wheelmen who were in Den ver to attend the L. A. W. meet. Titus, Sanger, Johnson, Callihan and others from the east, and Zeigler, Wells and Foster of California were entered, but did not start. The scratch men in the race were: Boyd of St. Paul, William Bainbridge of Chicago, Doson of Chicago, A. Gardner of Chicago and C. M. Turpin of Lynn. The first dozen men over the tape had heavy handicaps, and Gardner of Chicago won the time prize in remarkably fast time, considering the stiff breeze which blew in the riders’ faces. Gardner ran a wonderful race from start to finish. When half over the course, he discovered that his hind tire was punctured, but he kept his gait be hind Murphy of Brooklyn for fifteen miles. He then changed wheels with Bainbridge after dismounting. By this time Murphy was a long distance in front of him, but he went for him and passed the Brooklyn man five miles from the end of the track. The prizes were valued at SSOO. The first man in takes a SSOO piano, and the next five men over the tape get high class bicycles. In all there were about twenty prizes. A bunch of handicap men got in a mix up ten miles out, and M. M. Hanchett, Lincoln, Neb., had his collar bone broken. The first man started with 15 minutes handicap and the scratchmen got away at 10:10 o’clock. Going through Brighton fburteen miles from the starting point the handicap men were keeping up their lead on the scratch men, and up to this time very few had dropped out. H. L. Dobson of Canon City, Colo., with 11 minutes handicap, was the first man in, at 11:08:88: A. D. Banks, Denver, with 10 minutes 30 seconds handicap, second; W. M. Enright, Sioux City, la., with 11 minutes, third; M. M. Kruetz, 'Penver, 10 minutes, fourth; G. A. Max well, Winfield, Ivan., 9 miautes, fifth ; W. K. Fellisen, Wichita, 10 minutes, sixth; William Schnell, Leaven worth, 8 minutes, seventh. The first scratch man was A. R. Gard ner of Chicago, who was the twenty-sev enth man over the tape. He was followed by C. M. Murphy. Brooklyn, N. Y.. also a scratch man and F. G. Barnett of Lincoln, Ne.b., with a handicap of 4 minutes, was next. He was followed by H. L. Neelson of Chicago, scratch. Gardner's time was 1 :*22:41; Murphy’s 1:22:42: Dobson, 1:22t '45;, S -:riell and- Lincoln made ni-xi bes time in I:^2:. >i. . • • LUCKY ’WEALERS. One Hundred Coxeyites Given Lib erty and a Free Ride Home. Baltimore, Md,, Aug. 19.—One hundred members of the army of the commonweal were released from the house of cor rection this morning, and were started for Cincinnati, 0., over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Gov. Brown had a conference with the imprisoned Coxeyites a few days ago and agreed to pardon them provided the habeas corpus proceedings, which had been instituted at Upper Mariboro, be withdrawn. This provision was readily accepted by the mtn. who also agreed to leave the state if given their liberty. Late last night the governor went to the house of correction and selected 100 of those of the men who had given western addresses. They were placedin two coaches, which were brought to Balt imore and attached to the Cincinnati ex press leaving here this morning. The men are in charge of a squad of Balti more and Ohio detectives, who will see to it that they-arrive at their destination safely. Since Camp Lost Liberty at Hyattsville was raided and eighty-eighty members of the army taken to tho house of correction, many additional arrests have been made, and the institution was becoming over crowded. There are nearly 200 men re maining at the farm, who claim allegiance to Coxey’s cause, and they will be sent out of tho state as fast as Gov. Brown, can make the necessary arrangements. WITH FRIGHTFUL FORCE. Explosion of 1,200 Founds of Dyna mite and 600 Powder Kegs. Fort Smith Ark., Aug. 19.—Last night four powder houses of the Speer Hard ware Company, located two miles from here on the Poteau river, exploded. The powder houses are total wrecks. A small cabin near by, the home of Mrs. Cook, was Mown to splinters. Mrs. Cook, her daughter and an infant were hurled into eternity. The powder house contained 1,200 pounds of dynamite and 600 kegs of powder. The shock was felt at Vanßuren, , Alma, Greenwood, Jenny Lind, Hackett, Kavanaugh and many places nearly twenty miles away. Tn Fort Smith thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed. The opera house, Boston store. Arcade, J. J. Little, Ayers & Co., Vaughn hardware store, Fagane Bour land and Western Union buildings were severely damaged, while along Sixth street and Garrison avenue is a continued story of wreckage. No explanation can be given for the explosion. It could not have been an accident and many rumors are flying about. One is to the effect that a remnant of the Dalton gang is about to rob the bank here.” A NEIGHBOR’S LAST LOOK. Narrow Escape of Mrs. Allen of Texas From Burial Alive. Madison, Tex., Aug. 19. —At Midway, in this county, Mrs. Lucinda Alien was seized with colic Physicians and nurses after six hours of attention pronounced her dead. She was dressed and placed! in ber coffin, and just as the cortege was about to start to the graveyard, a neigh bor asked for a last look at her. She (the neighbor; thought sne discovered signs of animation. The suspected corpse was taken from the coffin, placed in a tub of water and soon revived. She thus es caped being buried alive. An Aged Lady’s Death. Parkersburg, W. Va., Aug. 19.—Mrs. Eunice Conrad, the oldest woman west of the Allegheneys, died yesterday at her home in Gilmer county, at the age of 117 years.