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fflCK / DEATH
TO
hisky Distillery Demolished
Explosion and Flames.
.JJ1K HORROR IN
1
r Barn Like Tinder and
ployes " Cat Off From Escape-Over
3,090 Steers Roasted.
Peoria, 111., Saturday afternoon
At occurred in the
exph> sion which
„ house of the Corning
le ven-story * •are
jstille -r. the second largest, in the
r\\ completely wrecked the build
0
Eg. immediately took fire, and,
The ruins
ommunicating to three adjoining
(Hidings burned them to the ground,
fourteen men were buried beneath the
jins and burned to death and six
Lthers were seriously injured,
The loss on buildings and whisky
i spirits destroyed will approximate
1,000,000. The fire spread to
tock yards district, where a dozen
irge cattle barns, filled with
or the market, were burned.
The causa of the explosion cannot
et be determined.
The wildest excitement prevailed af
er the explosion and the
iant was surrounded by thousands
eople. who, however, were unable to
et ciose to the structure on
{the intense heat.
The warehouse containing in the
sighaorhood of 30,000 barrels of whis
f was instantaneously a seething cal
ron, and it was seen no one
1 , big structure could escape. The
itre house in crushing the smaller
tncture nearby, set that on fire,
uthe whisky from the burning ba?
fe flooded everything; in that sec
de. Large streams can down
ward the river and in a short time
here was a. foot of whisky in the
atie pens, east of the ware house,
there 3,200 steers were chained fast,
to distress lasted but a few mo
ats, however, for they were soon
Mated to death or suffocated.
They were the property of Dodd
t Keifer, of Chicago. It is
le to compute their loss, but it will
mount to thousands of dollars.
The two fermenting houses were
Speedily food for the flames.
p two structures of good dimensions
Bd both of them were practically
frayed.
The firemen got near the fire with
difficulty and the water had little
10 effect. A high wind was blowing
mil fanning the flames in the
iffl of the Monarch distillery, and for
1 time it was feared that the
fouid sweep along the entire
lank.
[However, Sremen the heroic work of
[he began to tell and at 7
fire seemed to be under
pith no likelihood of a
spread.
The warehouse, where the first
jiosion occurred, was an
tame structure covered with
pted iron. ' It was 100 by 200
M contained thirty thousand
■els of spirits. Another ware
staining the cistern room, was
■hree-story brick building 100 by
ee b It cont ained in the
'' fifty-two thousand gallons of
te ' In the two fermenting
rtiich were TOO by 180 feet,
lateen tubs with a capacity of
ushelg of mash each. They were
ar ‘ Pl j and gallons contained of about five At'
‘ u spirits each.
Ms wen up in flames and added
V general loss.
I The houses of Dan Giese and
fcDonald N were burned and the f ami
had narrow escapes.
'gut bodies were recovered
he fuins Sunday, four of which
Stilled. and these only by
M Particles of clothing,
hiv '-' 8 nt ^ °*Her pieces of metal.
s ea " air ‘> is . being
continued, the
Ul M, been extinguished and
’Gmei? are now able to handle
•eliris.
Milt PEOPLE IN OH EMMA.
pew f n g : «nd Manufacturer'* Cannot
nefe With Sniilh-*rn Plant.
^ :lp Tl () rton Transcript, which
■ |li P ‘ investigating , textile condi
lions the
“Throughout says:
® ar the state of
-’dfa<u ” rers seom to think that
8 -situation i is a very
not alon e because the higher
e ‘ r>!t r °n
bailment n.nd the dull markets
Nthern but because there
Ir full wills that, are able to
‘ operation
fern under the present
- n " condition
Nan s and undersell
feels mills in the New York
w 'hen i’->r - can be made.”
! UNCLE
SAM WILL LOSE.
England is Working Shrewd -Same to
Cmch the Future Commerce of
Russia.
The comment in St. Petersburg of
I the settlement of the Russo-Canadian
I fishery dispute, wherien Russia has
paid to England a long-standing indem
nity for the seizure of British vessels,
:s very significant. The agreement is
welcomed by tne Russian press as an
evidence of increasing probability of
an Anglo-Russian alliance, the papers
pointing out that public opinion in
Great Britain, France and Russia is
becoming more favorable, the war in
stead of proving an obstacle to an al
liance, serving as one of the argu
ments in its favor.
More significant still is a strong in
timation of The Novosti foreshadow
ing that a commercial treaty between
the two countries will pave the way to
a purely commercial raproaehment.
The Novosti adds:
The realization of this is easier as
both Russia and Great Britain are
bound by enormous commercial deal
ings. It is true that Russia is fur
ther from Great Britain than France,
but she is nearer India, whose rail
roads could be joined with Russia’s.
The paper makes the further point
that without such a commercial treaty
any political agreement would be very
frail.
“Although it is impossible to ascer
tain at this time whether the question
of such a commercial treaty lias act
ually been taken up, the possibility of
its being the next step in the program
toward a political agreement arouses
the keenest interest in diplomatic cir
cles, where it is considered fraught
with most far-reaching importance.
.. The United States will probably be
the chief loser by such a treaty. Amer
ica has already suffered from differen
tial duties levied against her in retal
iation for the imposition of a counter
vailing duty on Russian sugar, im
ports of American agricultural machin
ery, etc., which a few years ago were
very large, having fallen almost to
nothing.
“With tariff concessions. Great Brit
ain is bound to succeed to all this
trade with its big potentialities for
the future, The impression is grow
ing that Great Britain is playing a
shrewd game, for big stakes commer
dally as well as politically, and that
while complete agreement would be
mutually advantageous to both Russia
and Great Britain, it would be ar the
j expense of the United States in both
these directions.
|
RACE ROW IN RESTAURANT.
White Men Objected to Presence of Ne
groes and fatal Eight followed.
A bloody fight occurred Thursday
night in a restaurant at Knoxville,
Tenn., as a result of which one man
is dead and two others are mortally
wounded. Constables G. C. Gamble
and T. W. McCarty were eating when
Lum nd Wash Miller, negroes, came
into the place and ordered something
to eat. McCarty ordered the negroes
to wait until they had finished.
A war of words followed. Then
Wtash Miller struck at Constable Gam
ble with a knife, and the trouble
started. Uum Miller was shot through
the head by Gamble and killed, but
not until after he had shot Gamble
through the abdomen and twice in the
right leg. Wash Miller was shot
through the right arm and in the
chest by a negro named Cook, who
was trying to hit Constable McCartj.
Cook escaped. The two wounded men
are at the hospital with no chance of
reeivery.
1 JAIL SURROUNDED BY NEGROES.
!
J Colored Mob in Obi. Seek, .be Life of
Member of Their Own Race.
Another lynching was attempted at
Springfield, crowd of negroes Ohio, Thursday^night surrounded the jail A
at midnight to lynch Waiter Fisher,
ward colored, Stone, under colored. arrest for Sheriff billing Routza f
han had just returned from Dayton,
.here ho took Fisher for safe
ing, and so advised the crowd, which
veiled back that they would get. Fish
er when he was brought-back for
trial.
WYOMING IN HEARST COLUMN.
State Democratic Convention Instructs
Editor by Unanimous Vote.
The state democratic convention
Wyoming instructed for Hearst
mously. He is strongly Indorsed
the resolutions.
J. F. Loup, the temporary
man, made an encouraging speech
garding the condition of the party
the state, and pleaded for harmony
The Carbon county delegation of
members wore broad white and
badges emblazoned with
name.
K.TTWi
A SEI1M0N FOR SUNDAY T
A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED,
" V/riAT CHURCH
CWES CHILDREN. H
rile r.ev. Howard Melish Talk# Whole
j aouirlr on the l’romlso ut Ztehaviul
to His Ditronrageil Conn! ry men —
aiati’s Thirst For ltighieontiKU.
Br.ooKi.vx. X. A’.—“What the Church
Owes the Children” was the subject 01 a
strong sermon preached by the Ti- II ow
m'd Holy Me.ish, Trinity. rector of the Church of the
A number o" requests for
its herewith publication have been received and it is
riah viii:5; given, The text was from Zee ha
“The streets of the city shall
be full of boyi and girls playing in the
streets thereo.7 Mr. Melish said:
Zeehariah gave tliis promise as a word of
encouragement to his discouraged country
men when on their return from their exile
they were trying in the face of enemies
and great obstacles +0 rebuild Jerusalem.
The time will surely come, he bade them
believe, when the city shall stand once
more on Mount Zion n all its former
strength and splendor, blessed with that
greatest of all lif benedictions—children
full at play. "'“he streets of the city shall be
of boys and girls playing in the streets
thereof.”
One of the wonderful stories which our
last census told was the phenomenal
growth of the American city. Briefly 2 the
story is ibis: W hile the population 01 the
country in the nineteenth century was
multiplying lation the itself fifteen times the popu
of cities and towns was multi
plying itself 150 times. Whereas the popu
lation of the farming community has been
multiplied cities by two in fifty years, that of
has been multiplied by ten; in 1800
one man in every twenty-five lived in a
The city. To-day it is oiie man in every three.
tremendous concentration of men,
women and children in our cities is one of
the most significant and startling facts of
our times.
has The city fulfilled—the is built! The prophet’s promise full of
been streets are
boys and girls. But what a fulfillment!
They are playing in our streets because vve
have built our cities in such a way that
there is no ether place for them to play.
In our tenement districts especially there the
houses stand so closely together and air that
is scarcely space for light to enter
rooms, not to mention courts, back yards,
play grounds and small parks. Within a
short walk of where we are to-day are
hundreds of families living in one or two
email rooms to a family, rooms often
gloomy at mid-day. Of course, the ehil
aren are in the streets.
And what places the streets are for these
little ones! Look over the juices of our
papers day b. day with the children in
mind and you read the sad story of this
little child crushed by a ear, of that one
maimed for life by some wagon. Go into
the Children’s Court and see boys of
twelve and fourteen arrested for crimes
which would send men to the Between penitentiary the
for a long period of yearn,
crowded tenements and these injuries,
deaths and crimes, there is the relation of
cause and effect. The tenements drive the
j boys into by the the streets, police and and there prevented they are bv
| forbidden and
j traffic to play games which kept me devil.
mv boy friends from going to the
No! T don’t mean that insinuation. The, l
good God won’t let the devil have thosd
boys. They may become impertinent- thiet^
criminals, and die like the hardened
on the cross, but conditions shaped them,
and God will give them, in my heart 01
hearts, I believe, a new chance to become
like Him in tha new eitv, Jerusalem,
which is nat built by men’s hands, And
yet true it is that in our cities boys who
are denied tne healthy amusements of boy
j life drift into the crap games and form
street gangs which terrify neighborhoods the spirit of
»nd brutalize boys and turn
mischief into the demon of crime. Jacob
Riis has told us that between the tenement
and the penitentiary Lc has found a beaten
path, traveled by the feet of hundreds e£
our boys every this year. somewhat and very
It is about new of
serious situation of the children our
streets that I want you to think with mo
this morning. said, argument against
It is often as an responsibility,
the church assuming this
that the church’s one mission is to preach
the gospel, and I want to say at the start
that the purpose of the church has never
been more correctly ‘the defined. The gospel that
is the message of good tidings Once
God cares for men. that God is love.
let a man accept that message and let it
sink into his soui that it becomes the prin
ciple of his life, and even though he livea
in a badly ven dated house in a crowded
district, surrounded by evil influences, y«t
he will be a good citizen, son, father, hus
I band and friend. Yes, and once let a land
Idrd receive the gospel in his heart and iie
will transform his tenement into decent
abiding places it it t. ,s him half Ins in
come. For the gospel of the Son o* God ut
the regenerating power in the world which
makes all things new. To preach it clear
ly with consecration and power, is the su
preme. all important, never-to-be-forgotten
mission of the church of Gtiriet.
But how :s the gospel to be It preached in
our crowded cities to-day ? is as im
portant to know the way as She deatina
j tion when one is trying to reach a dehnite
ponOjn preacher and building— to
<ry Ullage— a preached a with power.
have the gospel Side’in^anhatU.
^ man 0 f ability determined to preach the
gospel every Sunday and do nothing else,
j Afopr several years he X? gave “i.*^ up the
t WO rk as a proved failure. He was a Joan
%% the
; did not come out to listen to voice,
; And I believe it is because they were wait
. Sit iimnto^^t'doing
! good, healing, strengthening, services encouraging, and
| inspiring. Sermons, prayer
meetings are preaching the gospel without and <lo
good. Manv of us could not live
them But "they do not Jesus monopolize do nothing preach- but
ing the gospel. Did
preach ana the teacn. .*«»«.. of the --------
learn anew message imparted only through
the truth that life is
life. We arc Christ’s body. May we
prove it by going, as He went, into
highways and back alleys, doing good,
bringing hope to the discouraged, children
up the fallen, taking little
our arms, and so assuring them as
assured the world that love reigns
throned above this world of pain,
and hardship. When the church is a
ifestation of Christ among men, speaking as
was of God, not merely by by
singing and communion, but
working, helping in the yvorld the
of Christ will be truly preached. stand
Let me specify. One man may
a pulpit bv telling of God’s love, give
to some poor mother who is almost m
I *pai -■ -ver h DO Another man.
* mated L ' J love, may furnish u
room tvh. re young from men the dangers may spend of the
evenings loon, a, v ko doing give hope to
and r there. Both
mother who* ’ q°
the gospel of : **®pe> one in vr? and
! \ A P r ® ac flcr $*'*'•■*
other iu deeds. ' and his a hearer siro..,
sermon against i. ,e sa monr
j ! say he 1.-4 cooking preac-in. ck s ?' t "‘here ‘ ,e Scsr.e! v lien A
starts a that ^
to make food so who. es ° me tr.eir
bands and son* do emu longer have tiie
sire for drink. Are i»ot both preaching
gospel of the more sha.idant The life? church 1
see what this mean*. love
preaching the good tidings d 1
every agency which gives hojv ’ to men,
•nakes thei : feel their broiherv'ood
men and the Fatherhood in God.
You know the way the churches
shirked responsibility for this .kind
preaching, the kind that is effective in
crowded districts. It is one of the sa.ide$t
Churches chapters in the history of Chriatiat ity.
among our tenements, with i'*w
splendid exceptions, have sold out aid
moved up town, with their wealthier mem
bers leaving their poorer members as sheep
without a shepherd iu the “city wilder
ness. ” One will hunt far before finding
a
more un-Christian spectacle than the exo
dus of the C hristian churches from the ten
ement districts where the harvest is ready.
The reason usually given is the removal of
the rich to the suburbs and the failure of
the poor to contribute iiberady. So the
poor are blamed for the church’s infidelity.
The church ought to be on the firing line
where the need is greatest. Instead it is
too often found in the rear, caring for the
wounded, no d«. ~bt, and occasionally urg
ing back the frightened or forward the
stragglers. the The crowded districts where
streets are full of bo. . and girls are
the church’s responsibility. To betake it
self to the suburbs and leave these children
m the streets, saloons and tenements is to
offend God’s little ones. And the Master
said about such a one that it i: bettc ■ that
a millstone were hanged about his neck
and he was drowned in the dept 11 of the
sea.
The second .birig I want .0 think about
this morning with you is the church's op
portunity to help -the children of oitr
streets.
This opportunity is orly limited by the
number of men and women who are will
ing to take a real interest in the enndren,
these and by children the space you have 1 1 use. Give
a chance to get ou; of the
streets and away from the bad influence#
into a wholesome environment of real
warm-blooded people and good books and
amusements and fun giving recreations
and the- will come to the church in .1
stampede. Their hunger for ennobling
things friendships I is found one of the most pathetic
have in my ministry, and
also one of the most inspiring.
Oh! the suiendiii opportunity for you all
to fulfill your responsibility for these boys
and boys’ girls of our streets is here. In the
clubs is the chance for you young
by men to preach the gospel to our lads, not
sneaking them through sermons, but by manifesting
to and your manly sympathy
interest, your courage and your truth
fulness, your honor and your uprightness
the Christ you love and follow. Christ
may be preached to these boj’s with the
boxing gloves, and the fencing foils, the
carpenter’s tools and the football teams
with more power than by sermons from a
pulpit. In the sewing school is the chance
for yrm young religion, women but to preach Christ, not
by words of the by your beautiful
friendship for little girls who come in
eager to receive that which their homes
are unable to give them. In the Sunday
school is the chance for you young men
and young women, and older ones, too, to
gather once a week a little group about
you and lead them through the wonderful
story of Him who came to earth to be our
servant and yet the alchemy was lying Eternal, the and
then through of influence
of your life move them to love honesty,
purity, goodness, man. Christ and God.
Nor will I admit the older people’s chance
to preach the living Christ. T) ipre comes
before me the picture parish of a scene house in where a men’s
club in a certain a
professor natural of political economy brakemap - met in the a
perfectly Pennsylvania way, and a both on
road, men came to
see that had great of labor the problem Christ tolerance more clearly, than
and more
ever before. And I know of women who
have found through the Girls’ Friendly So
ciety the chance to preach the living Christ
so effectively that girls have risen up and
called them “blessed among women.”
The few hours given to such work in a
single year seem very powerless beside the
powers of darkness which walk our streets
both day and night, week in and week out,
in vacations as in working or school days.
But. thank God, a mau’s life is not an
equilibrium of forces, a resultant of houses
and environments. In every soul is the
thirst for righteousness which can be
aroused by bringing it face to face with a
righteous life. There is a contagion in
goodness as there is in badness. Arouse
those dormant faculties in every soul, and
they, with Christ’s help, will counteract
all the influences of house and street.
This is the opportunity of the church to
day in our crowded cities. By meeting individual it
the church will find, what every
who has so met opDortunity has finds, that it
gets by giving and a firmer hold than
r ver on the realities of truth and life.
Call such service what you phrase will—though
I personally hate tne trite institu
tional, gether personal, for I am the pleading touch for of a life work alto
on
but you must believe that the church
which assumes this responsibility following the and
meets this opportunity is ex
ample of the Master. When Christ came
to earth to lift men up to God He took
form of a common man. He might, we
say, have gathered the Jewish nation into
some great plain and revealed His
in the sight of all with such glory that all
must bow the knee before Him. He
have come with angels straight from
en and swept men irresistibly resembled into- His
train. What He did neither
these, but poi* ts the way for us to
He was among men as a servant. By
life of service, now with sermons,
with deeds, but always with a life
ing a contagion of love, courage,
manliness, sincerity. He, the servant,
profoundly touched the hearts of men
men have risen uo and crowned Him
of Kings and Lord of Lords.
The Power of a Godly Life.
Tn a recent, article, the Rev.
SchautHer incidentally said: I had
teacher in our school who used to be
sailor—a godly man. Ho knew little
history, and nothing of science; but
knew Jesus. He so taught his and class
everyone found the Savior,
public confession. By and by he came
me and said: ‘Tike my class away. I
am uneducated. I can’t lead them
higher; but I have led them to
Give me,’ he said, ‘a new class that
not know Christ, and I will try to
them to the before Shepherd.* he died I gave him a
class, and everyone
found the Savior. What was the
tency in that uneducated man? Was
not Iris, humble trust in Him who
sanctify whatever word is spoken?”
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
Carrier Pigeons From Port Arthur Give
Hope to RassUns-Cossacks Again
Put to Flight.
A Ixmdon special says: The Daily
Telegraph's Tien Tsin correspondent
wires as follows:
“Four thousand Russians belonging
to General Stakelberg’a brigade on
May 31 attacked 1,500 Japanese oecu
pying a position five miles south of
Wafangtien. The Russians were re
pulsed, losing two hundred killed and
four hundred wounded. The Japanese
lost more than one hundred killed.’’
Explosions Heard at Port Arthar.
The Japanese? legation at Washing
ton received the following cablegram
Sunday from the home government
at Tokio, bearing on events:
“Admiral Togo reports that accord
ing to a message received by him
through wireless telegraphy from the
captain of the cruiser Chiltose, which
was exercising off Port Arthur, four
masts, one with wireless telegraphic
instruments, and a sentry box, was
seen on the top of Liaoteshan. Great
explosions were heard and rising of
dense , smoke , was observed , repeatedly
in the direction of Port Arthur dur
I 1 q<, Saturday.’’
1
| Co**ack s Were Routed.
The Japanese and Russian forces
located north of Pu Lan Turn, which
were in a series of brushes during
] the early part of last week, had an
i other encounter on Friday, June 3.
near Chu Chia Tun. On that day the
Japanese cavalrymen met the Rus
elans at noon. The Russians number
ed 2,000 men and were composed of
infantry, detachments of cavalry and
artillery. They were pressing the Jap
anese cavalry when the Japanese as
sembled their entire force and engag
ed the enemy. The Russians drew off
gradually and at 5:30 in the after
noon they retired to Telishu. The
Japanese suffered four men killed and
four wounded in this fighting.
Carrier Pigeon” News.
Two carrier pigeons arived at Niu
chwang Saturday noon from General
Stoessel at. Port Arthur. The Rus
sian A will not divulge the messages
carried by the birds, but declare they
contain good information. They are
very cheerful since the pigeons ar
rived.
An Associated Press messenger from
the north reports that, the magistrates
of Hai Cheng and Liao Yang were
arrested recently by the Russians and
charged with furnishing supplies and
information to the enemy. They were
taken to Mukden, but were released
after an investigation. Influential na
tives declare that the arrests were
made not because the Russians be
lieved they could prove the charges,
but because the magistrates were non
committal and refused to aid either
side.
The Russians are printing a news
paper in Chinese at Mukden for the
purpose of influencing the natives. The
latest copy received at Niuchwang
says that the Japanese attempted to
float, a second loan in America for 1*3,-
750,000, but that it was coldly reject
ed. Other contents of the paper ex
plained that, the Russian loss in the
Yaha battle was due to the preponder
ance of the Japanese cavalry and says
also that the Russians will soon dic
tate peace terms in Tokio and that the
leading Japanese statesmen will be re
duced to richsha coolies.
HONORS PAID SOUTH’S DEAD.
Graves of the Confederates in Arlington
Cemetery Strewn With Mowers.
In the presence of thousands of
ex-Confederate and ex-Union soldiers,
and of numbers of officers of the
United States army and the Grand
Army of the Republic, the first formal
memorial exercises ever held over the
graves in the Confederate section of
Arlington cemetery in Washington
were hel# Sunday.
As a result of a movement initiated
by the late President McKinley, the
Confederate dead now have been gath
ered in one large and beautiful circle
in the southern part of the cemetery
where they graves have been marked
with separate stones.
DEADLY WORK Of LIGHTNING.
Three Negroes Lose Life by Electric Bolt*
in Vicinity of Columbus.
Three deaths from lightning occur
-£d near Uolumbus, Ga., Monday and
Monday night, Manuel Riley, color
ed, 18 years old, was struck and in
stantly killed at Gentian, about seven
miles from the city, at 7 o'clock Mon
day night, An old negro man was
knocked down by the same bolt. Dur
ing the afternoon near Crawford, Ala.,
12 "miles west of the city, two negro
girls, aged 17 and 18 years, were in
stantly killed and their mother and.
a smaller child were severely shocked.