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“ANOTHER CHANCE”
FORMS Till? SUBJECT oF AN INTER
ESTING SERMON.
Dr. Taimace Tells the Sinner That Hie
L'haoce* to Correct the Mistakes of This
Life in the Next World are Chimerical.
Brooklyn, June 17. —(Special.)—Rev. Dr.
Talmage, who is now on his round-the-world
journey, has selected as the subject for
his sermon through the press today, “An
other Chance,” the text being taken from
Eccles, ii, 3: “If the tree fall toward the
north, in the place where the tree falleth
there it shall be.”
There is a hovering hope in the minds of a
vast multitude that there will be an op
portunity in the next world to correct the
mistakes of this; that, if we do make com
plete shipwreck of our earthly' life, it will
be on a shore up which we may walk to
a palace; that, as a defendant may lose
his case, in the circuit court, and carry it
up to the supreme court or court of chan
cery and get a reversal of judgment in his
behalf, all the costs being thrown over on
the other party, so, if we fail in the earth
ly trial we may in the higher jurisdiction
of eternity have the judgment of the lower
court set aside, all the costs remitted, and
■we may be victorious defendants forever.
Aly object in tnis sermon is to show that
common sense, as well as my text, de
clares tnai such an expectation is chimeri
cal. You say that the impertinent man,
having got into the next woriu and seeing
the disaster, will, as a result of that dis
aster, turn, the pain the cause of his re
formation. But you can find ten thousand
instances in this world of men who have
done wrong and distress overtook them
suddenly. Did the distress heal them? a
they went right on.
That man was flung of dissipations.
must stop drinking,” said the doctor, ant
Quit the fast life you are leading, or it
will destroy you.” The patient suffers par
oxysm after paroxysm; but, under the
skillful medical treatment, he begins to
sit up, begins to walk about the room,
begins to go to business. And, 10l he goes
back to the same grogshops for his morn
ing dram, his evening dram, a id the drams
between. Flat down again. Same doctor
Same physical anguish. San» medical
warning. Now, the illness is more pro
tracted; the liver is more stubborn, the
stomach more irritable, and the digestive
organs are more rebellious. But after awhile
he is out again, and goes the same round
of sacrilege against his physical health..
He sees that his downward course is
ruining his lousehold, that his life is a
perpetual J rjury against his marriage
vow, that that broken-hearted woman is
so unlike the roseate young wife whom he
married, that her schoolmates do not re
( hei sons are to be taunt-
( I tl father’s drunken
ness, ! are to P ass into
■ , L , a 1 ion of a disreputa-
I i king up their hap-
o | ;ts for this life, and,
perhaps, for the ii:'*' to come. Sometimes
iiu appr'e i'■ ii of what he is doing comes
upon him. His nervous system is all in
a-tangle. f rom crown of head to sole of
rasping, crucifying,
, ... he? In hell or
on earth? 1 ■ - it reform him?
le he nas d< lirium tremens,
v. tn a who], in ,1c- of hissing reptiles let
, screams horrify
tii - n< ,;..ilis as he dashes out of his bed,
crying: “Take these things off me!” As
h- sits pale and convalescent, the doctor
s: “Now i want to have a plain talk
with you, my clear f- How. The next attack
of ths kind y< u have, you will be beyond
all ni.'oical skill, and you will die.” He
g, is better and goes lorth into the same
round ;...ain. This time medicine takes no
effect. Consultation of physicians agree in
Saying there is DO hope. Dearth ends the
“The Proc, s of inebriation, warning, and
j soin g on within stone’s throw
in the n< ighborhoo Is of
Ch-'-j- muon. Tain docs not correct. Suffer
not i onn What is true m one
sense is true in all .senses, and will foi
ever be so, and yet men are expecting
the next world purgatorial rejuvenation.
I lnt< j reports of theprisons
... th. United Stifu-s. and you wi 11 find t at
the vast majority of the incarcerated have
been there before, some of them four, five,
s.x ti nes. With a million illustrations all
working the other way in this world, peo
ple are expecting that distress in the nut
itate will be salvatory, You cannot lm
. _, H .. ai.y worse torture in any other world
than ti t which some men have suit- red
here, and without any salutary conse
ciuence. -
Furthermore, the prospect of a reforma
tion .n the next world is more improbable
th. n a reformation here. In this world the
Ji-,, started with innocence of infancy. ■ ■ ■
tl, ■ cas supposed, the other life will op- n I
with all the accumulated bad habits o
” many years upon him. Surely, ft is easier
to build a strong ship out ot new timber
than out of an old hulk that h .
ground up in the breakers. If w rlnps
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n>l b. -me godly, what sin
t • nth next world, starting Sure iy
seraph < VOl 2d«> making
t! .,. culptor has more prospect of makin»
tine statue out of a block of pure white
.- ••
r . b. i century. Surely upon a clean,
ct j, i centurj tQ wnte a
white sheet ot p..p< r it „ hp „t of paper
io bottom. ' £<- ,1U u pn mn-inf
• .» life that began here compai •
though die ii-c b-niiv the nej
~ turned out .;a<u>, fl
.. lho ugh it starts with?;
de . : .* l , !,u a .i n 'avs some one. "I think we ons '
to hive a chance in the next life, bee
life is so short it allows only
. • We hardly have time to
S./an.l «».>,
Os the one almost touching the mas
the other.” But do you know w <
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but only made them worse, the ages of
eternity could have no effect except pro
longation of depravity.
“But,” says some one, “in the future
state, evil surroundings will be withdrawn
and elevated influences substituted, and
hence expurgation, and sublimation, and
glorification.” But the righteous, all their
sins forgiven, have passed on into- a beati
fic state, and consequently' the unsaved will
be left alone. It cannot be expected that.
Dr. Duff, who exhausted himself in teach
ing Hindoos the way to heaven, and Dr.
Abeel, who gave his life in the evangeliza
tion of China, and Adoniram Judson, who
toiled for the redemption of Borneo, should
be sent down by some celestial missionary
society to educate those who wasted all
their earthly existence. Evangelistic and
missionary efforts are ended. The entire
kingdom of the morally bankrupt by them
selves, where are the salvatory influences
to come from? Can one speckled and bad
apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the
other apples good? Can those who are
themselves down help others up? Can
those who have themselves failed in the
business of the soul pay the debts of their
spiritual insolvents? Can a million wrongs
make one right?
Poneropolis was a city where King Philip
of Thracia put all the bad people of his
kingdom. If any man had opened a pri
mary' school at Poneropolis, I do not think
the parents from other cities would have
sent their children there. Instead of amend
ment in the other world, all the associations,
now that the good are evolved, will be de
generating and down. You would not want
to send a man to a cholera or yellow fever
hospital for his health; and the great laza
retto of the next world, containing the dis
eased and plague-struck, will be a poor
place for moral recovery. If the surround
ings of the next world, after the righteous
have passed up and on, will be a thousand
per cent more crowded of temptation.
The count of Chateaubriand made his
little son sleep at night at the top of a
castle turret, where the winds howled and
where spectres were said to haunt the
place; and while the mother and sisters al
most died with fright, the son tells us that
the process gave him nerves that could
not tremble and a courage that never fal
tered. But I don’t think that towers of
darkness and tjie spectral world swept by
sirocco and euroclydon will ever fit one
for the land of eternal sunshine. I wonder
what is the curriculum of that college of
inferno, where, after proper preparation
by the sins of this life, the candidate en
ters, passing on from the freshman class
of depravity' to the sophomore of abandon
ment, and from sophomore to junior, and
from junior to senior, and the day' of grad
uation conies, and with diploma signed by'
satin, the president, and other professional
demoniacs, attesting that the candidate
has been long enough under their drill, he
passed up to enter heaven! Pandemonium
a preparative course for heavenly' admis
sion! Ah, my friends, satan and his co
horts have fitted uncounted multitudes for
ruin, but never fitted one soul for happi
ness.
Furthermore, it would not be safe for
this world if men had another chance in
the next. If it had been announced that,
however wickedly' a man might act in this
world, he could fix it up all right in the
next, society would be terribly demoralized,
and the human race demolished in a few
years. The fear that, if we are bad and
unforgiven here, it will not be well for us
in the next existence is the chief influence
that keeps civilization from rushing back
to semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism
from rushing into midnight savagery, and
midnight savagery into extinction; for it
is the astringent impression of all nations,
Christian and heathen, that there is no
future chance for those wao have wasted
this.
Multitudes of men who are kept within
bounds would say. “Go to, now! Lot me
get all out of this life there is in it. Come,
gluttony, and inebriation, and uncleanness,
and revenge, and ail sensualities, and wait
upon me! My life may be somewhat short
ened in this world by dissoluteness, but
that will only make heavenly indulgence
9 1 ?_a larger scale.tjioJMXHiec, Possible. L.wUJ
the heavenly temple only a little later than I
those who have behaved themselves here.
I will on my way to heaven take a little
wider excursion than those who were on
earth pious, and 1 shall go to heaven via
Gehenna and via Sheol.” Another chance
in the next world means free license and
wild abandonment in this.
Suppose you were a party in an important
case at law, and you knew from consulta
tion with judges and attorneys that it I
would be tried twice, and the lirst trial !
would be of little importance, but that the I
second would decide everything; for which
trial would you make the most preparation,
for which retain the ablest attorneys, for
which be most anixous about the attend
ance of witnesses? You would put all the
stress upon the second trial, all the anxie
ty, all the expenditure, saying, “The first
is nothing, the last is everything.” Give
the race assurance of a second and more
important 'rial in the subsequent life, and
I all the preparation for eternity would be
i “post mortem,” post-funval, post-sepul- .
ch?al. and the world with one jerk be pitch
•cdoff into impiety and godlessness.
furthermore, let me ask why a chance
snuld be given in the next world, if we ■
h/e refused innumerable chances in this?
SPpose you give a banquet, and you in
v«* a vast number of friends, but one man 1
(ilines to come, or treats your invitation ’
■dh indifference. You in the course of
I fenty years give twenty banquets, and
| fe same man is invited to them all and
| ■cats them all in the same obnoxious
uay. After awhile you remove to another
reuse, larger and better, out send no invi
; fation to the man who declined or neg
lected the other invitations. Are you to
blame? Has he a right to expect to be in- ,
vited after all the indignities he has done
you? God in this world has invited us all
to the banquet of his grace. Me invited
us by His providence and His spirit 365 days
of every year since we knew our right
hand from our left. If we decline it every
time, or treated the invitation with indif
ference, and gave twenty or forty or fifty
years of inuignity of our part toward the
banqueter, and at last He spread the ban
quet in a more luxurious and kingly place,
amid the heavenly gardens, have we a right
to expect Him to invite us
again, and have we a right to
blame Him if he does not invite us?
If twelve gates of salvation stood open
twenty years or fifty years for our admis
sion, and at the end of that time they are
closed, can we complain of it and say:
“These gates ought to be open again. Give
us another chance?” If >the steamer is to
sail for Hamburg, and we want to get to
Germany by that line, and we read in every
evening and every morning newspaper that
it will sail on a certain day, for two weeks
we have that advertisement before cur
eyes, and then we go down to the docks 1
fifteen minutes after it had shoved off into
the stream and say: “Come back. Give me i
another chance. It is not fair to treat me
in this way. Swing up to the dock again,
THIC WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; .ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. 18, 1894.
and throw out planks, and let me come on
board.” Such behavior would invite arrest
as a madman.
And if, after the gospel ship has lain at
anchor before cur eyes for years and years,
and all the benign voices of earth and heav
en have urged us to get on board, as she
might sail away at any moment, and after
awhile she sails without us, is it common
sense to expect her to come back? You
might as well go out on the highlands at
Neversink and call to the Majestic after
she has been three days out, and expect
her to return, as to call back an opportunity
for heaven when it once has sped away.
All heaven offered us as a gratuity, and for
a life-time we refuse to take it, and then
rush on the bosses of Jehovah’s Luckier
demanding another chance. There ought
to be, there can be, there will be no such
thing as posthumous opportunity. Thus,
our common sense agrees with my text—
"lf the tree fall toward the south, or to
ward the north, in the place where the tree
falleth, there it shall be.”
You see that this idea lifts this world up
. from an unimportant way station to a plat
form of stupendous issues, and uiakejs all
eternity whirl around this hour. Put Lona
trial from which all the preparation must
be made in this world, or never made at
all. That piles up all the emphasis and all
the climaxes and all the destinies into life
here. No other chance! Oh, how that aug
ments the value and importance of this
chance!
Alexander with his army used to surround
a city, and then would lilt a g’’eut I gni
in token to the people that, if they sur
rendered before that light went out, all
would be well; but if once tie light went
out, then the battering rams would swing
against, the wall, and demolition and dis
aster Would follow'. Well, all we need do
for our present and everlasting safety is to
make surrender to Christ, me King and con
queror-surrender of our hearts, sm render
of our lives, surrender of everything. And
he keeps a great light burning, light of
gospel invitation, light kindleu with the
wood of the cross and flaming up against
the dark night of our sin and sorrow. Sur
render while that great light continues to
burn, for after it goes out there will be no
other opportunity of making peace with
God through our Lord aesus Cn'-.'rt Talk
of anotner chance! Why, inis is a super
nal chance! ,
in the time of Edward VI, at ’,ie battle
of Musselburgh, a private soldier, seeing
that the earl of Huntley nad lost h's hel
met, took off his own helmet and put it
upon the head of the earl; and tne ’lead of
the private soldier uncovered, he was soon
slain, while his commander roue safely out
of the battle. But. in our case im-t?ad of a
private soldier offering helmet to an earl,
it is a king putting his crown upon an un
worthy subject, the king dying ifiat we;
might live, fell it to ail points oi the com
pass. Tell it to night and day. I.< 11 it to
all earth and heaven. Tell it to a.l cen
turies all ages, ail millenniums, that we
have ’such a magnificent chance in this
world that we need no other cnance in the .
r fam in the burnished judgment hall of
the last day. A great white throne is lift
ed? but the Judge has not yet taken >t
While we are v si tmg for his airixal 1 near
immortal •mirits in conversation, V nat
a?e you waiting here for?” says a sou
that'went up from Madagascar to a
that ascended from America. flu.
savs: “1 came from America, where lorty
-i.'ars 1 heard the gospel preached, amt
Bitde read, and from the prayer that i
learned in infancy at my mothers knee
until my last hour I had gosi’cl all ' al ’ 1 ’
a< r e but, for some reason, 1 did not
the* Christian choice, and 1 am here
ing for the Judge to give me a new tnai |
and another chance.” “Strange *ays Die |
other; ”1 had but one gospel call in mada- •
gascar, and I accepted it, and 1 do not |
need another chance.” I
“Why are you here.' says one who on i
earth had feeblest intellect to one who had
great brain, and silvery tongue, and seep- :
ters of influence. The latter respom:ls <> .
I knew' more than my fellows. 1 mastered
libraries, and had learned titles Hom col
leges, and my name was a synonym lor
eloquence and power. And yet 1
mv soul, and I am here waiting tor a ne w
trial” “Strange.” says the one ot tne (
feeble earthly capacity; “I knew but little
of worldly knowledge, but I knew (. hi Kt,
and made Him my partner, and 1 have no
need of another chance.”
Now Hu- ■-■round trembles with the ap
proaching chariot. The great folding doors
of the hall swing open. 'Stand t ’ ac *\- .
the celestial ushers. Stand back, and let
He takes the throne, and looking over tne
throng of nations, he says: ‘Come to juug
mint, the last judgment, the only judg
ment’” By one flash from the th one all
the history of each one flames forth to
the vision of himself and all others. “Di
vide!” says the judge to the assembly.
“Divide!” echo (he walls. “Divide! ’ cry
the guards angelic.
And now the immortals separate, rush
ing this wav and that, ami after a while
there is a great aisle between them, and a
great vacuum widening and widen.ng, and
’ the Judge, turning to the throng on one
I side, says: “He that is righteous, let him
i be righteous still, and he that is holy, let
I him be holy still;” and then, turning to
. ward the throng on the opposite side, he
I says: "He that is unjust, let him be un
i just still, and he that is filthy, let him be
filthy still;” and then, lifting one hand
i toward each group, he declares: “If the
tree fall toward the south or toward the
north, in tne place where the tree falleth,
there it shall be.” And then 1 hear some
thing jar with a great sound, it is the
closing of the book of judgment. The
Judge ascends the stairs behind the
The hall of the last assize is cleared and
shut. The high court of eternity is ad-
. journed forever.
ERASTIS WIMAX ON TRIAL.
The Courtroom Filled xvith Spectn-
tors —His Counsel.
New York, June 11.—Erastus Wiman was
I placed on trial today before Judge Jngra
! ham in the court of oyer and terminer on
two indictments charging forgery, ine
courtroom was well tilled with spectators
long before the judge took the bench. The
defendant entered at 10:30 o’clock with two
of the counsel who will tight to prove his
innocence—James N. Greensheilds, queen s
counsel, of Montreal, and A. ii. Boardman,
of this city. Ex-Secretary Tracy, senior
, counsel, for the defense, arrived a few mo
ments later. Although there are two in
dictments against Mr. Wiman, both in con
nection with his partnership dealings with
the firm of R. G. Dun & Co., the district
attorney had decided to try him on the one
which charges him with having forged trie
signature of E. W. Bullinger on a cheek
on the Chemical National bank, ot this city,
dated February 6, 131)3.
it ima.i 's g.v il Doing.
New York, June 11.-—The testimony is all
in in the trial of Erastus Wiman for
forgery of the endorsement upon two
checks given by R. G. Dun Co. to clients,
which were used by Wiman. In the course
of his statement Wiman said that the rea
son he had signed E. W. Bullinger’s name
upon one of the checks he is accused of
forging, was that Bullinger was in the habit
of lending him money. Bullinger denied
this assertion, and said he -had loaned
Wiman money only once, and then upon
cull, ana he had never authorized Wiman
to use his name.
Upon Wiman’s redirect examination
under the leading of his counsel, General
! Tracey, Wiman said tnat all the letters
i which the people had put in as evidence,
I had been written in the strictest confi
dence. lie tnougnt it was a breach of trust
to make them public.
At this point justice Ingraham inter
rupted ana said that he snould instruct
the jury that it would have been a criipe
for air. Dun to have concealed any evi
dence of crime that he might have in his
possession, and that he had merely done his
duty as a citizen in making the contents of
the letter public.
Er;«»i us Wiman Convicted.
New York, Tune 15.—The case against
Erastus Wiman, charged with forgery, was
given to the jury at 2:34 o’clock p. m. At
4:30 o’clock the jury brought in a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation to mercy.
The foreman ot the jury concluded his re
port by faltering: “I am sorry; very sorry,”
looking about m a dazed manner.
Lawyer Boardman, of cousel for Wiman,
then asked for a stay ot sentence. Judge
Ingraham readily granted the request and
named Wednesday, the 20th instant, at. 10
o'clock, when he will pronounce sentence,
unless Wiman’s counsel shali, meanwhile se
cure a further stay.
?.tr. Wiman was handed over the Deputy
Sheriff Brown. He received the verdict
with less emotion than it was supposed he
would Before leaving the courtroom he
srom; hands with his counsel and as many
of his friends as could clust-r around him.
He waved the reporters off with a sad
smile. He was accompanied to the Tombs
by his two sons. Contrary to the usual
custom, the prisoner's counsel did not ask
for the release of their client on bail.
DIPPED IN THE BUD.”
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NARCII ISTS RIOT TO BLOW UP T.UE o
CAPITAL AT WASHINGTON. h
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. Half Breed Indian the Leader—Tho Bomb
to be Thrown During a Coxey De- j
monstration —No Danger Now.
Washington, June 17. —The Post tomorrow r
’ill publish an exposure of a plot which i
ltd for its object the destruction of the j
iipitol and perhaps other government build- a
kgs which had been slowly developing for
■rveral weeks past. The secret service and
plice authorities, however, have been kept
Iformed of the movements of the plotters
fend would have been enabled to thwart them 1
jad their machinations approached actual
violence. ;
! “Only once,” says The Post, “about three
peeks ago, when me channel of information ;
has unexpectedly interrupted, were the fed- (
Vai and district authorities really alarmed. ]
they did not know at what moment an at
tmpt might be made to explode bombs in _
te capitol, the treasury building, the white ,
huse and the war and navy buildings. But ,
a,, the days passed and nothing was done ,
tl- authorities, who had redoubled the.r vig
il nee. restore., the line of communication
wth the nest of anarchists, and were able
ajain to shadow every conspirator and to
kep fully informed of anarchistic move
mnts, both here and elsewhere.”
A Half-Breed’s Plot.
according to the story the plot was form
ed at the time Coxey’s army was marching
tothe capital, and reports of its existence
cane from various points—Omaha, Chicago
aid Pittsburg, among them. r l he prime
m>ver in the anarchistic plot—that is, the
Wishington end of it-was Honore Jaxon.
H came from Chicago, and is still in the
cly. He is a professional Indian. In Chi
cteo he has been a disturber for years.
A the time of the Haymarket riot, he
nirrowly escaped being arrested as a prin
ciial conspirator, and was shadowed by tne
ditectives for a long time after that most
nemorable affair. •
Jaxon is a half-breed of unknown tribal
oligin. He w r as one of Louis Riel s lieu
tenants in the Canadian rebellion some
yiars ago. The man has done some little
newspaper w'ork, and has frequently passed
himself off as. a reporter for The Chicago
Times.
Officials Warned.
After .Taxon’s arrivel here letters were re
ceived by the secret service officers and
capitol officials notifying tljem that a band
of anarchists was being organized in W ash
ington, and that PI. J. Jaxon, of Chicago,
was tne leading spirit, independent investi
, gations satisfied the officers that the writer
of the letters was telling tho truth, aid
since then, says The Post, secret service
men and local detectiv ;s have been con
stantly engaged in watching the band. I lie
\ informant in the case has kept in touch
‘ with the conspirators, and given the police
the names of those engaged in the plot, to
gether with other facts. These have been
communicated to the officials of other cit
ies, and they will probably act upon the
strength of the information thus given.
United for Developments.
“The fact, that the anarchists have com
i mltted no act in Washington,” says The
I Post article, "upon which they could be
i convicted has prevented their arrest here.
! Their meetings have been small and secret;
i their experiments with chemicals have been
> such that it could hardly be proved that
I they intended to resort to extreme meas
i ures. They have written no letters. In fact .
j all along they have waited for something
to happen—something which would give
I them an opportunity to carry out their
! Scheme of violence.”
The Post article asserts that the formula
?f the explosive to be used in-the grand
catastrophe has been discovered. It is a
compound that explodes by the action of
the sun. The occasion for the act was to
! be found in a disturbance, to be started by
I the section of arrpy. aow approach
;■ ■ - i tlmxiborland xr.llev
JIDI.E PHELPS IS DEAD.
The End < nine Peacefully—His Family
at His Bedside.
Englewood, N. J., June 17.—At 1:30 o’clock
this morning Judge William Walter Phelps
I passed away. The end was so peaceful
that for some minutes after he had
breathed his last his family, who were
watching at the bedside with intense sor-
w
JUDGE WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS.
row, would not believe that the end had
come. The patient was unconscious at
the end and appeared to pass into a deep
sleep. Nirs. Phelps and Mrs. Von Rot
tenberg were greatly overcome with grief
but bore up nobly. Grouped around the
bedside were Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Von Rot
.■ tenberg and his sons, Captain John J. and
! Sheffield Phelps.
NEARLY ALL GO RACK.
, Operators Estimate That Ninety Per
Cent Will lieMutue Work.
Chicago, June 17. —The belief is general
among mine owners and operators in this
city that 90 per cent of the miners will go
to work tomorrow morning under the Co
lumbus scale of wages. Telegrams from
the bituminous coal fields of western Penn
sylvania. Ohio and parts of Illinois verify
this prediction. All the talk about a dis
agreement and the forced resignation of
President Mcßride and those interested in
effecting the Columbus settlement is given
as passing comment.
The discontent mostly centered in the
Hocking valley in Ohio and was fostered
by President Adams. J. H. Ellsworth and
others were in receipt of telegrams yester
day from that section, saying that the
miners had accepted the Columbus settle
ment and would go to work Monday, de
spite the utterances of Mr. Adams and his
handful of followers.
The mine owners particularly interested
in the Hocking valley fields aver that the
following of Adams is composed of those
who were lawless during the strike, and
whose services are not desired when opera
tions begin.
Mieliigaii Miners Go Out.
Ironwood, Mich., June If.— The miners on
Gogebic range today decided to trike to
morrow. The companies refuse to negotiate
with committees from the unions, but are
willing to hear the workmen individually
as to their grievances. Should all the miners
strike, 3,000 men will be affected. The
mine owners threaten in case of a general
walkout to close down their properties in
definitely. The workmen demand an in
«rease in pay.
FILL PAY TO BE RESTORED.
General Manager Clarke* Sends a
Pleasant Notice to His Men.
St. Louis, June 17.—President and General
Manager Clarke, of the Mobile and Ohio,
has addressed this circular to the engineers
employed on the entire system, and to the
conductors, brakemen, firemen and switch
men employed on the system south of the
Ohio river:
“This is to notify locomotive engineers
that, although they accepted a reduction of
8 per cent from ths Ist day of May, the
railroad company will not hold the en
gineers to the agreement which they made
on May Ist, but will only ask them to ac
cept a reduction of 4 per cent for June, July
and August, after which time the full com
pensation agreed upon is to be restored.
To the trainmen south of the Ohio a sim-
lar restoration of one-half the reduction
formerly agreed upon is made. t" l ®. re *
toration will equalize all wage reductions
X the arbitrators’ finding in the case
if the engineers north of the Ohio, held
here last week, who agreed upon a 4 per
sent cut for three months.
PRESSING GEORGE TILLMAN.
His Friends Want Him to Run so
Governor.
Columbia, S. C., June 14.- b J ar
mendous pressure is to
X”'tU ra?e tor ™
Stole and Greenville can .
dZy°“lna petiuons are netog
political will take on a decidely diffe ,
h The Orangeburg Times and 1
says that Mr. J. N. Fogle and a nun be j
of friends went fishing t 0 some 1 ° f . !
near the South Edisto river last
week. While drawing a seine they c<
an alligator in it ten and a halt tout. on»,
which was killed after a despe.ate ha-Ue.
The men had nothing to tight With
The dispensary disorders came up I
Darlington circuit court yesterday, co . < .
bles McLendon and Cam were P r ® se 1
for murder by the grand jury nut th- ,
trial was postponed. The grand jury < ■
presented Citizens J. Blackwell andMohn .
Covington and others for tiling . - nrtri _ ■
train on the Charleston, Sumter and - ojtn
ern railroad ,on the day of the Khlmg o*- ;
Norment ami Redmond. It 1 j
bered that a number of constables were ,I ,
this train fleeing from the -P Wl *‘ ‘ nan ; ‘
Scarborough and ms deputy, otricial I ■
Scarborough, were presented tor < ■ , ]
misconduct in aiding Consta 1 ° ®.s°?! I 1
one of the principals in the killing of i
ment, in escaping from jail. '■ • • • I
Skinner and Simpson Skinner were
presented for assisting in McLendon s es- I J
C The Georgetown Times reports a '
tragedy winch is said to have oecurre.l wo . ,
days ago on Black river, eleven raile “ ,
Jed are’ that' on i
some unknown person and Aiat .'.is. ,
was burnt along with it. i
Thin is the veritable “dark corner of tne ,
* tv 'iml 'i srreat many barns and stoico ;
county and a u j war
ore.l people and the men"e eio 1
ETnJOT S i
-
trouble is feared.
HE bCORED LIS OI’I’ONLNI.
Owens Meets Settle “in Joint Debate ;
at Lexington.
t., Inna 11 BV 9 O’clock j
Lexington, Ky., June n. |
this morning the streets of th-s aty
crowded for blocks. Ip and |
the center nothing could be seen■
eurtrin- mass of human. beings, xn ,
headquarters at the Hotel Re < • ’ t(J J
hour before the time for t e
begin the opera house v,a» tinea ;
tfon The audience was crowded and ,
LJ c 0..." to he...- UV-- speaking were unable |
“"e Mo"on arose amid a storm o<
Judge Je ipnothy and befitting <
applause and in a len„t us ;
sneech, endorsed Mr.
a man of high moral character, a gentle
man above reproach and truthful m even
sense He paid a beautiful tribute to Sir.
(livens and did not forget to draw < olonel
SeckTnriSge over the coals without the
mention of his name Derfect uproar
.Mr. Owens arose amid a peri i
of aonlause, and it was ten inmincs be tote
the Weott county man cornu pruceeu. -utt.L
paying a tribute to his opponent, Mr. Set
tle, he began to handle him without gloves.
Settle's statement that Mr. Owens had to
have a certificate of good character from
his people first caught his attention. When
he said that Settle, like the present repre
sentative in congress, badly needed one, the
applause was deafening. I pon the stage
were seated many of the leading ladies and
gentleman of the district.
Ti, o He KILLED
Uy an Explosion in .Mines in Si
lesia.
Troppeau, Austrian Silesia. June la.—A
disaster involving a great loss ot lite is re
ported today from Karwin. An explosion
of lire damp occurred last night in the Jo
hann and Franziska mines at that place.
Both mines were on fire when the dispatch
announcing the disaster was sent. The ven
tilator shafts were destroyed and the fire is
spreading in all directions. Hue explosion
took place at 10 o’clock p. m., in the pit ot
the Franziska mines, and resulted in the
death of one hundred and twenty miners
there. This explosion was almost imrnedi
’ately followed by a series of other explos
ions in the mines, the most disastrous o. the
latter being in the Johann pit, wheie
eirhty miners were killed.
A rescue party, which descended into one
of the pits at 5 o’clock this morning, also
perished.
Assistance has been sent to the scene o.
the disaster from all directions. The Jo
hann and Franziska mines are owned uy
Count von Larisch.
Vienna, June 15-—A dispatch from Kar
win says that only twenty of the mon in
jured by the explosion w*ire gotten out of
Lie mines. Several of them w< re dying
when brought t> the surface. Ihe res u
ing party which was lost consisted of ten
men. Count Larisch has been al Ixaixvin
since last evening and has superintended
the efforts to save the men and extinguish
the fire. In ISSS there was a fire in the
same mines. It lasted eight days and min
ing experts say that this time it will con
tinue to burn for at least a. week.
TRAIN PIRATES C'AI’TLHED.
Strikers Oveiisoiver the Marshals and
Release the Prisoners.
Staunton, 111., June 17.-Ten United
States deputy marshals from Springfield
went to Mount Olive last night on a spe
cial train to arrest the ringleaders of the
strikers who have for several days I.eld
up trains and confiscated coal in transit
over the Chicago. Peoria and bt. Louis
road. They succeeded in arresting foui
of the strikers for whom they had war
rants; but a mob of 400 strikers took pos
session of the car, overwhelmed tie- deputy ,
marshals and took the prisoners awaj iiom .
them. The marshals have returned to ,
Springfield for reinforcements. ;
Shot His Brother-in-Lnw.
Tallulah Falls, Ga., June 17.—(Special.) <
George Scott was shot in the face at, ,a 1
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party last night by his brother-in-law, a
man named Ledford. The ball ranged
downward Scott cannot recover. Ledford
is under arrest,
discusse d silver.
The German Imperial Commi.sion Through
with Dh Labors.
Berlin. June 10,-The imperial currency
commission has adjourned, and Rs minutes
and soeeches are in the hands of the piint
er The original intention of the commis
sioners was to keep their proceedings >«-
cret, but, with the governments approval,
they eventually decided to make all the de
bates public and thus forestall the false
reports which interested persons might
spread. The commissioners who are friend
ly to silver have arranged for a che«>
pamphlet in which the whole record of their
sittings will be set forth at great length.
The commissioners held twenty sittings of
six hours each, yet they left the entire
silver problem in Germany exactly as they
found it. Only the most sanguine of the*
expect any practical result in the future
from their labors.
Dr. Arendt, the most ardent of the silver
men. and a few of his closer followers,
contend that the German government has
become convinced of the theoretical cor
rectness of bimetallism, although it recog
nizes the impossiblity of Germany’s under
taking single-handed the rehabilitation of
silver. Arendt says he is convinced that
the German silver mines must be abandon
ed if the present prices continue and that
with their abandonment will end much of
the zinc and copper production on German
soil.
Von Kardorff, who sat is the commission
as the representative of the agrarians and
their over-mortgaged constituents, pro-
fessed in a published interview to be well
satisfied with the commission’s work.
“When we met,” he said, "the gold men
were stronger numerically than the bi
metallists. but the latter carried a motion
that no votes should be taken on any of
the points to be discussed, the object of the
inquiry being merely to provide the govern
ment with information concerning the cur
rency question.”
Von Kardorff said also that Dr. Bambe
rger, chief of the militant monometallists in
Germany, came off second best in his con
test with the silver men and suffered the
mortification of hearing his arguments re
duced to absurdity by' Dr. Arendt and his
sympathizers.
Professor Suess, when interviewed as to
the work of the commission, said that he
was present merely as an observer who was
occasi*nally called upon to give impartial
testimony. He believed that Count von
PosaAowsky, secretary' of the imperial
treasury', had been deeply impressed with
the difficulties of the existing situation and
had been convinced that some reform was
unavoidable.
director Russell, of the discount company,
who, as a monometallist, is second in au
thority only to Bamberger, praises highly'
the impartiality of the government towards
the investigation. He thinks that much
good W’ill result from the commission’s
labors, for, leaving all else out of consid
eration, he says, the statistical information
gathered by the commissioners will be most
useful whenever enactments as to the cur
rency of the empire shall be considered.
Dr. Arendt’s elaborate plan for the issue
of silver certificates by international agree
ment Director Russell said -was so dan
gerous and impractical tnai Agrendt’s
own friends could not find the courage
to support it, and absented them
selves from the sittings in which it was
discussed. “No practical method of rais
ing the value of silver was suggested in
the commission,” is Director Russell’s gen
eral verdict, “and if Germany ever adopts
a compromise in the direction of bimetal
lism, the motive will, m all probability, be
political and diplomatic, rather than tech
nical and economic.”
The Vorwaerts, organ of the social dem
ocratic central committee, after comment
ing on the commission’s work, demands
the appointment of an imperial labor com
mission to inquire into the condition of
the unemployed and the causes of tne
prevalent distress among laborers. Such
an inquiry, it says, is needed much more
than was the current inquiry.
The North German Lloyd and Hamburg-
American Steamship Companies have taken
steps to establish jointly an emigrant sta
tion at lllowo, e-st Prussia, where steerage
- passengers will be received, examined,
washed and disinfected before going aboard
ship. The sheds at Illowo will cover some
four hundred and fifty square metres. An
official notice says that the cholera was
brought to Myslowitz, on the east Prussian
frontier, by a Russian tramp. The mem
bers are convinced that the cholera is not
likely to spread far from the frontier. All
the patients have b.on isolat’d, and no
fresh cases have been reported lor several
days.
TRI STS IN FRANCE.
Legislation Governing syndicates Raises k
a Storm in the Ci amber.
Paris, June 14.—The deputies discussed to
day proposals to attend to the laws govern
ing syndicates. Premier Dupuy accepted
and spoke for the ’amendment proposed by
Leon Guillemin, republican deputy frotn
the Nord, but it was barely carried, tne
vote being 188 to 177.
Jean Jaures, of the republican union,
taunted the government with the fickleness
of its policy toward the Ex-
Premier Ribot expressed r. grot that Guille
min’s amendment had been suddenly pro
duced in the chamber without any previous
examination in committee. 'I his, he said,
was contrary to the r<?g'.ilar procedure.
Mr Loekroy, who was in the presidents
chair, said that in v.'-w <>f the objections
mentioned, he would use his right to leter
the amendment to a committee.
This announcement raised a storm of pro
tests from th'* center. Some twenty uepu
ties were shouting and gesticulating at
once. Comte de Bernis declared excitedly
that the president could not nullity the
chamber’s solemn vote; any attempt to
do so was a great usurpation. Loekroy lost
his presence of mind completely in the un
expected storm and replied that he had
dope only his plain duty, but he would, how
ever, let the chamber settle the matter by
another vote.
The tumult was renewed. Loekroy s voice
was drowned in shouts of advice, ridicule
anil protest. A hundred deputies crowded
the aisles and shouti 1 and shook their fists
at the president. When He could again
make himself heard Loekroy again propos
ed to put to vote the demand that the
a nenilment be referred to a committee.
Jaures, who first made the demand, then
withdrew it. saving that a matter of right,
not to be determined bv the chamber’s vote,
was in question. De La Batut, republican
from the Dordogne, fathered another de
mand of the same tendency. It was re
jected by a vote of 313 to 190.
The Chinese Plngne.
London, June 15.—The British Medical
Journal has received the following tele
gram from Hong-Kong: “The plague has
all the symptoms of true bubonic pest,
which ravaged Europe in the middle ages
and which is deseribed by Defoe. The only
Europeans who were affected were ten
soldiers who were employed in the work of
disinfecting the native quarters. One of
them has died.”