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GULF COAST STORM
Wind and Wave Play Havoc From
Pensacola to New Orleans.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED
Wire* Are Prostrated and Hurricane
Stricken District is Totally Isolat
ed—Many Vessels Face Grave
Dangers.
A New Orleans special says; The
storm which has been sweeping the
gulf coast from Pensacola and mov
ing westward during the past two
days has prostrated telegraph and tel
ephone wires to such an extent that
news from the outlying sections is
hard to get at. The greatest fears have
been entertained for the safety of tho
people living at Port Eads, which Is
at the mouth of the river, and for the
ships that started for sea just before
the storm began. The wires there
have been prostrated since Tuesday
night at. 8 o’clock, but a man has been
reached who left Port Eads at 2
o’clock on Wednesday. He was seen
at Buras, which is BO miles down the
river, and the farthest point with
which there is wire communication at
the present time.
This man describes the storm which
swept that section as a regular tidal
wave similar to the one which result
ed in such awful loss of life in 1893.
He says all the people living on the
,^4 t | bank lon n of the liver have moved , to .
.
the “jump,” which is 15 miles from
the mouth of the river.
Family o, Fll.ci, L„t.
rhe house of a man named Cobden,
half a mile above the quarantine sta
*">»■>■• «•» “»-■ «*
members of the family, including nine
children, drowned. The quarantine
buildings w.r. b,dl, d.umgud, but „„
one injured. The big towboat Cham
berlain was driven high and Jre | P
jju» aie sare. the
government boat at General Reise is
believed to have been lost. Captain
O’Brien’s house was swept awav *, but
he . the .. . boat which believed
was on was
to be outside. The pile driver at Port
Eads was sunk. The steamboat Burns
was driven ashore near the light
house and later It was reported that
she had sunk. Her crew were said
to have been saved. The tugboat Ve
Jasco went down to Pass A. L’Outre,
which is the eastern mouth of tho
river, with two barges. When last seen
she had her decks awash and is be
lieved to have gone down. If this boat
and her barges have been lost, twenty
people move have been browned.
There are numerous reports of indi
vidual casualties all along the river
iiom Bums down to the passes.
All the steamers which started for
tb, .» Tii-silay remained li.ld. the
passes until Wednesday evening, and
then went out safely, among the num
*•? Jfw <*•<*•>»»* «•» >•“<“*
and the Butlsh ti ansport Mechanician,
which was dynamited while in port a
few days ago Not a single vessel has
passed up the river since the storm
began and great fears are entertained
for the ones which are expected. *,
Great - Loss of Life Feared.
There is serious apprehension con
cerning the Clieniere, Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the south Lou
isiana coast, west of the Mississippi
river, where 2,000 lives were lost in
1893 by the tidal wave. Up to this
writing no word has been received
from that section, which is largely
inhabited by fishermen, mostly Chi
nese and Malays.
Up to midnight Thursday night
everything seemed to be safe at the
Mississippi coast towns. Bay St. Louis,
Pass Christian. Biloxi, Mississippi
City and Ocean Spriugs, but since
then not a word has been heard from
them. All wires are down but no
great fear is entertained. Th. only
reports of damages so far received
are of destroyed bath houses and up
rooted trees.
Storm Isolates Mobile.
The tropical storm which raged
along tho gulf coast completely iso
lated the city of Mobile, Ala., from
the outside world.
SCHl .EY CONFERS WITH COUNSEL
Admiral and His Wife to Remain In
Washington Pending Inquiry.
Admiral Schley arrived In Washing
ton with his wife Thursday night to
remain until the court of inquiry which
is to investigate the Santiago cam
paign completes its work. The inte
rim between now and the opening of
the sessions of the court, September
a2, will be devoted to the preparation
of his side of the case. Friday he had
his first consultation with his counsel,
Judge Jere Wilson, of Washington,
former Representative Raynor, of Bal
timore, and ''Captain James Parker, of
New Jerriey )
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
international LESSON COMMENTS
FOR AUGUST 25.
eubject: Abraham and Isaac, Onn. xxt(„
1-14—Oold,n Text, Heb. xl., 17—Mem
ory Verses, 0-8—Commentary on the
Hay's Reason.
I. “After these things.” The things re
corded in the previous chapter regarding
Hagar ‘ Did and Ishmael Abraham" and (R. their V.) banishment. “Not in
cite prove (Jas.
to Bin 1; 13), but try, prove,
faith.” give occasion for the development of
1 Cor. 10: 13; Heb. 11: 17; James 1:
12. It le well to see that God confers a
signal honor upon us when He thus tests
our hearts. Tempting is for the sake of
leading men to evil; testing them is for the
purpose of making them better. The trials
of life are to prove what we are, to see if
we are fitted for larger things. “Here I
am.” Ready at a moment's notice for
God’s service.
2. “Thine only son.” His only Abraham's son by
Sarah, his legal wife. Had
whole soul not been stayed yielded simply on the
Lord he never could have unhesi
tating obedience to such a searching com
mand. Abraham desired earnestly to be
let into the mystery of redemption, and
God let him feel by experience what it
was to lose a beloved son. “Land of Mo
riah.” A general phrase for the mountain
ous district of Jerusalem. This Moriah
was the same Bite upon which Solomon
built the temple, and Calvary was near by.
“For a burnt ottering.” Abraham w-as liv
ing first amidst horn idolaters their idols, who sacrificed their
to and “Abraham
himself might not have been sure that he
ought not to offer as costly sacrifices as the
heathen did; but God at this time taught
him and his descendants not to offer hu
man the sacrifices, of ( 'sacrifice and yet they were which to retain
spirit out of they
grow. “Rose early.” That
3. up there might
be no appearance of delay or reluctance on
his part he made every preparation for the
mo Alice before setting out—the materials,
the and knife, he had the the servants painful to convey them;
his bosom during the thrie secret days pent he up in
was
journeying to Moriah. He murmured not,
nor took counsel with flesh and blood.
He waited not to consult with Sarah, not
listen to the misgivings of his own mind.
The command was clear and the obedience
prompt, “The third day.” Beer-sheba, Abra-
4.
miles south of Jerusalem, and three days
was the usual time it would take them to
thus the struggle of faith is not short and
momentary, but prolonged. As this sacri
Stg-ft* thf.Effi d.y™
His resurrection. “Saw ahoqf the place.” milea _Th§.
h ill Marialu.GaB,be~9een- v tBree
® siant b v one comin£ t from Beer-sheba.
“And - worship.” Perform solemn
5 . a
act of devotion which God requires,
“Come again to you.” This may have
teen an expression of faith that God would
restore his son even if actually sacrficed.
Heb. 11: 17-19. This reminds us of our
Lord in Gethsemane; going into such an
would not admit others to g0
6. “Laid It upon Isaac.” Isaac carried
the wood for the burnt offering, He died so Christ (John
S arri f d the tr ee whereon
,
typical, for so Christ was bound. Matt.
27: 2. "Took the fire.” That is, carrying
“ bia banti the ves9el containing the coals
“Y'“Where is the lamb?” The tender
ness tbose of this scene Gethsemane is only to and be,surpassed Calvary,
of
tf^,Xtm , , COTCm ” afieCtio “
tt provide." ? The patriarch spoke
8. “Will Lamb
prophetically, and referred to that
woriTand°'M
whom Isaac was’a most expressive his type.
Th e £ ivin S U P by the father of only
gf<3 bearing of the Vfc instru
John 19: 15), the
ment of death by the victim (v. 6; John
IS; “im l '»rKSVr.SS‘frlm the third day (vs. 4, 12; Matt,
death on accidental coin-
2 ? : can not be mere
^““Bound Isaac, sustained his son.” by Had the full not
consciousness the patriarch been of acting in obedience to
great Liod ' 8 for . wiH ; human the efior endurance; t . must have and , \ had ee ? not to ?
Isaac, then probably twenty-five years of
age, displayed equal faith in submitting,
M ? f& at trial could not have bcen gone
ol ^ “Stretched forth his hand.’ The
10 . the will shows
deed is virtually done when whoilooketh
firm determination. God upon
bpt i&ver the deed for the will,
“The angel of the Lord.” The very
f^ing; the°Lord Jesus,^ho^calJs His authority Himself
Jehovah (v. 16), and on own He
renews the promises of the covenant. God
was ever the great Mediator between
and man. “Called unto him.” When we
cannot see on any side a way of escape,
then God comes and often shows us a
wonderful deliverance. hand.” The sacrifice
12. “Lay not thine intention, the
was virtually offered, the all sincerity
purpose to do it. was shown in
and fulness. “I know.” The best evi
dence of our fearing God is our being will
ing to honor Him with that which is dear
est to us, aud to part with all for Him.
“That thou fearest God.” This was faith
in action. Paul says that Abraham was
accepted by faith, and James says he was
accepted by works of obedience, but these
are onlv two sides of the same thing, for
not a single act of faith can be named but
what has in it the nature of obedience.
13. “Beliold—a ram.” Though Christ
was typified by Isaac, yet the offering of
him was suspended, and in the meantime
the sacrifice that of beasts expiation was for accepted sin which as a
pledge of fulness of time:’*
should be made in “the
the great principle of the Mosaic economy
was the acceptance of animal sacrifices in
stead of human. That is. “The
14. “Jehovah-jireh.” provide.” "It shall be
Lord will see. or this the
seen.” The meaning is that was
spot of God’s choice for the manifestation
of His visible presence, where the sanc
tuary should be erected and sacrifices of
fered. After the ram had been offered
the angel of the Lord again called tc
Abraham and renewed the covenant that
God had made with him. Abraham then
returned to Beer-sheba.
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OR.TALTIAGE’S SERflON
Th* Eminent Divine’a Sunday
Diaceurae.
Subject: Religion a Great Refreshment —
Water For the Thirsty — God a Foun
tain of Joy That Is Unappreciated.™
An Everlasting Well of Gladness.
ICopjrriifht 1 W 1.1
Washington, D. C. —In this discourse
Dr. Talmage represents religion all th world as
great refreshment and invites e
to come and receive it; text, Genesis gath- xxix,
8, “We cannot until all the flocks be
ered together and till they roll the stone
from the well’s mouth; then we water the
sheep.” in Mesopotamia, beautifully
A scene value
pastoral. A well of water of great
in that region. The fields around about
it white with three flocks of sheep lying
down waiting for the watering. I hear
their bleating coming on the bright and maid- air
and the laughter of young men
ens indulging in rustic repartee. I look
off, and I see other Jacob, flocks of sheep com
ing. Meanwhile looking a stranger, on an
interesting errand of for a wife,
comes to the well. A beautiful shepherd
ess comes to the same well. I see her ap
proaching followed by her father's flock
of sheep.. It was a memorable meeting. The
Jacob married that shepherdess.
Bible account of it is, "Jacob kissed Rach
el and lifted up his voice and wept.” It
has always been a mystery to me what he
found to cry about. But ut before b< that scene
occurred Jacob icob accosts accosts the the shepherds she and
asks them why they postpone the slaking
of the thirst of these sheep and why they
did not immediately proceed to "water
them. The shepherds reply to the effect:
“We are all good neighbors, and as a mat
ter of courtesy we wait until all the sheep
of that, the neighborhood come up. t moutli ____' Besides
this stone on the well’s
somewhat hold of it and heavy, push and' it aside, several and of then us take the
buckets and the troughs are filled, and
the sheep are satisfied. We cannot until
all the flocks are gathered together and
mouth; till they then roll the stone from sheep.” the well’s
we water the
the Oh, head this and is a blistering thirsty world! for the feet Hot and for
parching for is the cool, tongue. refreshing, The world’s
great want a satisfying
draft. We wander around, and we find
the cistern empty. Long and tedious
drought has dried up the world’s fountain,
hut centuries ago a shepherd, with crook
'? the , bleeding, p shape explored of a cross and desert feet cut to
world, the ■ passages -
of this aud aud one one day day came came across uu lush a a
well a thousand feet deep, bubbling and
bright north and and the opalescent, south and looked to the
and the east and the
west and cried out with a voice strong and
musical that rang through the ages, “Ho,
every waters!” one that thirsteth, come ye to the
'
gather around -gssat-flock’'’iff this gospel "shcep well. 'to-day There
are why a tlie great flocks many of thirsty all souls. I wonder
nations do not'gath
er—why so many stay thirsty—and while
I am wondering about it my text breaks
forth m the explanation, saying, “We can
not until all the flocks be gathered to
gether and till they roll the stone from
'T, eli ’ s moutl L then we water the
sheep. v If herd of
a swine come to a well they
angrily deuce; if jostle drove each other for the prece
a of cattle come to a well
they hook each other back from the
water, but when a flock of sheep come,
though pointed, a hundred of them shall be disap
they only express it by sad bleat
ing nt they come multitude together peaceably. We
v the £ a gospel a great well. I to come around
know there are those
who do not like a crowd; they think a
crowd is vulgar. If they are oppressed
for room in church, and it mjxkes them posi
tively impatient belligerent. leave We have
had people permanently church be
did cause ... these , so many Oriental people shepherds. come to it. They Not so
wait
ed until all the flocks were gathered, and
the more flocks that came the better they
liked it. And so we ought to be anxious
that all the people should come. Go out
compel into the them highways and the hedges and
to come in; go to the rich
and tell them they are indigent without
them thegospelof the affluence Jesus; go to the poor and tell
to the blind and tell there them is in of Christ; the touch go
that gives eternal illumination; go to the
lame and tell them of the joy that will
make the lame man leap like a hart.
Gather all the sheep off all the mountains;
none so torn of the dogs, none so sick,
none ted. so Why worried, gather so dying, as to flock? be omit
not a great All
this city in a flock; all New' York in a
flock; flock. all London in a flock; all the world
in a
This well of the gospel is deep enough
to 1,600,000,000 put out of the the burning Do thirst of the tiie
race. not let
church by a spirit of exclusiveness keep
the world out. Let down' all the bars,
swing invitations, open all the gates, scatter all the
“Whosoever will let him
come.” Come, white and black. Come,
red men of the forest. Come, Laplander
out of the snow. Come. Patagonian, out
of the south. Come in furs. Come p ant
ing under palm leaves. Come one. Come
all. Come now. As at this well of Meso
potamia Jacob and Rachel were betrothed,
so this morning at this well of salvation
Christ, our Shepherd, will meet you com
ing mxieties, up with your long will flocks of cares and
-and Ho stretch out His
hand in pledge of Ills affection while all
the heaven will cry out: “Behold the
bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet
Him.
mia You had notice that this it, which well of Mesopota- be
a stone on must watered, re
moved before the Bheep could be
and I find on the well of salvation to-day
impediments removed order and obstacles which must obtain be
in that you may
the In refreshment the and impediment life of this gospel. of
your case is pride
heart. You cannot bear to come to so
democratic a fountain. You do not want
to come with so many others. It is as
vited though you were thirsty thirst and you were in
to slake your at the town
pump instead of sitting in a parlor sip
just ping bcen out lifted of a chased from chalice silver salver. which Not has
a
so want many publicans heaven, and but sinners. You be
to get to you must
in a special car, with your feet on a Turk
ish ottoman and a band of music on board
the train. You do not want to be in com
pany with rustic Jacob and Rachel and to
be drinking out of the fountain where 10,
900 You sheep will have nave been drinking the before obstacle you.
to remove of
pride, or will never have find your way to the well.
\ou to come as we came, will
ing to take and the water of eternal life in
any way at any hand and in any k’*nd
of pitcher, dying of crying thirst! out: “O Lord Jesm, of I
am Give me the water
eternal life, whether in trough or gr-blet.
Give me the water of life. I care not iu
what it comes to me.” Away with all
your hindrances of pride from the well’s
month!
Here is another man who is ke-it back
trorp this water of life by the stone of an
obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth
of the this well. subject You than have if no God more had feeling yet
ur.on to
da you the first lciudness or you had to do
Gou the first wrong. Seated on His lap
all these years. where His everlasting arms gratitude? shel
Where tering you, morning is and your evening
er? Where is your consecrated lives? pray
arc your
I say to you, as Daniel said to Belshazzar,
“The God in whose hand thy breath
and all thy way thou hast not glorified.
If you treated God, anybody would as badly have as made you
have treated you whole life would
500 apologies — apology. yea, your Three times day
have been an seated God’s a table.
you have beeu at
Spring, summer, autumn and winter H
has appropriately appareled you. Your
health from Him, your companion from
Him, vour children from.Him, your home
from Him, all the bright surroundings of
your life from Him. dost thou with that hard
Oh, man, what throb of
heart? Canst thou not feel one
gratitude toward the God that made you
and the Christ who came to redeem you
and the Holy Ghost who has all these
years been importuning all you? the griefs of all
If I could these gather crowded streets and could
sorts them from scroll, neither
put in one the man Well, nor
angel could endure recitation.
what do you want? Would you like to
have your property back again? “No,” be
you say as a Christian man, “I was
coming arrogant, and I think that is why
the Lord took it away. I don't want to
have my property -back.” Well, would
you have your departed friends back
again? “No,” you say, “I couldn’t take
the responsibility realm to of bringing fealm of them tears. from I
a tearless a what do
couldn’t do it.” Well, voices then, in the audience you
want? A thousand comfort!”
cry out: “Comfort! Give us
For that reason I have rolled away the
stone from the well’s mouth. Come, all
ye wounded of the flock, pursued of the
wolves, come to the fountain where the
Lord’s sick and bereft ones have come.
“Ah,” says some one, “you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows. You
have not been in the world as long as I
have, and you can’t talk to me about Well. my
misfortunes in the time of old age.” but I
I may not have lived as long as old you, people,
have been a great deal among
and I know how they feel about their fail
ing health and about loneliness their that departed
friends and about the some
times strikes through their souls. After
two fifty persons have lived together for taken forty
or years, and one of the a is
away, what desolation!
I shall not forget the cry o Dr. De
Witt, of New York, when he stood by the
open grave of his beloved wife, and after
the obsequies had ended he looked down
into the open place and said: beloved “Farewell, wife.
my honored, faithful and Thou
The bond that bound us is severed. We
art in glory, and I am here on earth.
shall meet again. FareweUlFarewellF’
To lean - cax. ind
'tEen have , it break under you! There were
only two years’ difference between the
death of my father and mother. After my
mother’s decease my father used to go
around as though looking for something.
He would often get up from one room
without any seeming reason and go to an
other room, and then he would take his
eang and start out, and some one would
say, “Father, where are you going?” exactly And
he would answer, “I don’t know
where I am going.” Always looking tender- for
something. Though he was a
hearted man I never saw him cry but
once, and that was at the burial of my
mother. After sixty years' living together aged
it was hard to part. And feeling there are
people to-day who are just such a
pang as that. I want to tell them there is
perfect enchantment in the promises o£
this gospel, and I come to them and offer
them my arm, or I take their arm and I
bring them to this gospel well. See Sit down, there
father or mother; sit down. if
is anything psalmist, at the well for you. anything Come,
David, the have you
encouraging to offer them? “Yes,” bring forth says
the psalmist; “they shall still
fruit in old age; they shall be fat and
flourishing to show that the Lord is up
right. He is my rock, and there is no un
righteousness m Him.” Come, Isaiah,
have you anything to say out of your pro
phecies for these aged people? “Yes," with
says Isaiah; "down to old age I am
thee, and to hoary hairs will I carry thee.”
Well, if the Lord is going much to about carry you,
you ailing ought eyesight not and to worry failing limbs. your
You get a little worried for fear that
some time you will come grandchildren to want, do you?
Your children and some
times speak a little sharp to you because
of your ailments. The Lord will not
speak sharp. Do you think you will come
to want? What do you think the Lord
is? Are His granaries empty? Will He
feed the raven and the rabbit and the lion
in uralists the desert tell and that forget the porpoise you? Why, will nat- not
us
forsake its wounded and sick mate. And
do you suppose the L'-rd of heaven and
earth has not as much sympathy as the
fish of the sea? But you say, “I am so
near worn out, and I am of no use to God
any more.” I think the Lord knows
whether you are of any more use or not.
If you were of no more use He would have
taken you before this. Do you think God
has forgotten you because He has taken
care of you seventy or to-day eighty than years? He He
thinks more of you ever
did because you think more of Him. Jacob May
the God of Abraham and Isaac and
and Paul the aged be your God forever.
But I gather all the promises shepherds to-day drive in a
group, and I ask the to
their flocks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply. “Behold, happy “Though is the
man who Goa correeteth.” He
cause grief, yet will He have the compassion.”
“Many are the afflictions of righteous,
bnt the Lord delivereth him out of them
all.” “Weeping may endure morning.” for a night, I
but joy cometh in the am
determined that no one shall go out of
this house uncomforted.
So I come to your timid and shrinking
soul to-day and compel you to come out
in the presence of the Divine Physician.
He will not hurt you. He has been heal
ing wounds for many years, anu He will
give you gentle and omnipotent medica
ment.
But people, when they have trouble, Quin- go
anywhere rather than to God, De
cey took opium to get rid punch, of his Theodore troubles,
Charles Lamb took to
Hook took to something stronger. Edwin
Forrest took to all theatrical around dissipation, the earth, hop- and
men have run
ing in the quick transit to get away from
their misfortunes. It has been a dead
failure. There is only one well that can
slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and
that is the deep and inexhaustible well of
the But gospel. in the audience
some one have said savs, this
“Notwithstanding morning. I find alleviation all you for trou
Well, no through my I
bles.” I am not yet.
have left the most potent consideration
for the last. I am going to soothe you
with the thought of heaven. However
talkative we may be. there will come a
time when the stoutest and most em
phatic interrogation will evoke from us
no answer. As soon as we have closed
our lips for the final silence no power on
earth can break that taciturnity. But
where, 0 Christian, will be your spirit?
In a scene of infinite gladness; the spring
morning the bright of heaven waving its blossoms in
air; victors fresh from battle
sorrow shoeing struck their scars; through the with rain the of rainbow earthly
of eternal joy; in one group God and an
gels and the redeemed—Paul and Silas,
Latimer Payson and and RidYy, John Milton, Isaiah and Jeremiah.
Gabriel and
Michael, the archangel; long line of choris
dashing ters reaching the across the hills; seas of joy
to white beach; conquerors
marching from gate to gate, you among
them. around Oh, what the e great flock God will
gather the well’s mouth celestial well! the No stone
on while shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will rec
standing ognize Rachel, the shepherdess. 4nd
on one side of the well of eternal
rapture vour children and standing on the
other side of eternal rapture vour Chris
tian ancestry, you will be bounded on all
sides by a jov so keen and grand that no
other world has ever been permitted to
experience it. Out of that one deep well
of heaven the Shepherd will dip reunion
for the bereaved, wealth for the poor
health for the sick, rest for the weary
And then all the flock of the Lord’s sheen
will lie down in the green pastures, and
world without end we will praise the
Lord that on this summer Sabbath morn
lng of Jacob we were permitted Rachel to study the story
and at the well.
ECUADOR JOINS THE FRACAS*
Three South American Nations are
Now Engaged In Mad Tur
moil of War.
Advices from Quito, Ecuador, un
der Sunday’s date, state that a force
of Ecuadorean troops is ready to in
vade Colombia, and a battle is immi
nent near Pasto, just beyond the Co
lombian frontier and about 150 miles
northeast of Quito.
From Willemstad, Island of Cura
cao, c-ame a cable dispatch that Presi
dent Castro, of Venezuela, some days
ago sent to Cucata, Colombia, ammu
nition, arms and men to assist in the
Colombian revolution.
Emilio Fernandez, former governor
of Caracas, under President Castro,
and subsequently administrator of
laws at Laguavra, who finally declared
against Castro, has left Curacao. a<- ,
c o mimnleJ---Av--e-:stT--TTariik'an^:^ w r i t h
the announced intention of invading
Venezuela.
It is also reported that Segundc
Rivera has also effected a landing.
Statements made by passengers who
arrived at Colon, Colombia, Sunday,,
on the steamer Canada from Venezue
la ports clearly show that there is con
siderable political unrest throughout
Venezuela. The passengers were not.
permitted to land indiscriminately.
No authentic version of the recent
border engagements couid be obtained
from any of them, but the evidence
all points to serious internal dissen
sions.
It is reported that the insurgent
general, Ruiz, has landed near Panama
from the south, probably from Guaya
quil.
A Washington special says: Cap
tain Perry, of the battleship Iowa,
now at San Francisco, has telegraphed
to the navy department an acknowl
edgement of his instructions to pro
ceed to the west coast of Panama in
connection with the revolutionary
troubles, but reports that the boilers
and some other parts of the vessel
need immediate attention. It is hoped
by the navy department, however,
that she will be able to sail immedi
ately.
There was a dearth of other news
bearing on the Golombian-Venezuelan
trouble during Sunday. Secretary
I-ay received no dispatches bearing
upon the subject. The Colombian and
Venezuelan legations were similarly
without advices.
The most interesting development
was the news contained in the press
dispatch from Quito that Ecuadorean
troops were ready to invade Colombia.
“CORN KING” KNOCKED OUT.
George Phillips Consents to Filing of
Petition in Bankruptcy.
On the petition of three creditors
of George H. Phillips’ company a peti
tion in bankruptcy has been filed for
the company in the United States dis
trict court at Chicago. George H.
Phillips and two other directors of the
company filed their consent that the
petition be allowed and the Chicago
Title and Trust Company has been ap
pointed temporary receiver.
The filing of the petition and the ap
pointment of the receiver will enable
the company to continue in business.
It is estimated that the assets of
the company will aggregate $250,000
and the liabilities will not exceed
$300,000.
CUBAN ELECTION PLANS.
Convention at Havana Discusses the
Representation or Minorities.
The Cuban constitutional convention
met at Havana Wednesday and dis
cussed the representation of minori
ties in the election ot a president.
It was decided that Havana should
elect 21 presidential electors, Santa
Clara 18, Santiago 18, Matanzas 12,
Pinar del Rio 11 and Puerto Principe
8. Of these the minorities in the six
provinces in the order named shall
have, respectively, 1, 6, 6, 4, 4 und .7.