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Foreign.

THE village of Harlan in Roumania has
been destroyed by fire. Four hundred faml'
lies are homeless
FOUR men were killed and thirty seriously
injured at Montreal, Canada, by the eIplo'
sion of the city gas reservoir.
LARGE and demonstrative Nationalist
meetings were held throughout Ireland, and
speeches against the Papal rescript and do
nouncing the Irish bishops were made by
Messrs. o'Brien, Healy and Dillon.
The camp of Osman Digna, the leader oi
the Egyptian rebels, has been burned 6y IN
cendiar:es in order to compel him to retreat.
Two thousand of his followers are said to
have perishei.
ANXIETY about the fate of Stanley, the
explorer, has been alayed by news Just re
ceived from Zanzibar that his expedition !:
safe, and that all its members are alive and
we'll.
J.G. VoIGHT, United States Consul al
Manila City, Philippine Islands, is dead. He
had been in charge of the American Consul
ate there for three years.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

TRENTON, N. j., will grant no liquor
licenses to foreigners.
IT is probable that mackerel fishing will be
a failure in the South.
TOBACCO and other vegetation in western
North Carolina has been injured by frost.
The fruit crop Of Georgia is failure, ex
cepting blackberries, wild haws and perslm
mons
A FLEET Of cruisers will guard the Cana
dian coast against American fishermen this
season.
In fight at Lincoln, Neb., one Burlington
brakeman killed another by biting of his
tongue.
The Emperor Frederick's medical staff will
be reduced, and there will be but one bulle
tin weekly.
PROFESSOR V1RcHow's formal report sayi
there is nothing cancerous about the German
Emperor's malady.
EUGENE CHALFAULT, a laborer in the
glass works,at New Albany, Ind, died re-
Gently of hydrophobia-
LOUIS NEEBE. the Anarchist convict in
Joliet, ILL.,, penitenitiary, is breaking doWr
physically and mentally.
THE total number of saloons permitted tt
sell LIQUOR in Philadelphia after June !, an
1919, against G9i0 the past year.
AN Oregon boy recently killed a companion
for answering in Sunday-school q question
on which he himself had failed.
Two St Joseph (Mo) girls were struck BY
lightning, which tore off all their clothing
but left them otherwise unharmed.
WILLIAM PATTERSON, a condemned muir
derer in the Louisville prison, turns evan
pelist and has converted seven fellow prls
onerS.
THE King of Portugal has ordered thirt.
tons of fireworks and fifty tons of mortar
for use at Lisbon in the royal reception Il
the King of Sweden.
MRS. SALL1E Y. HENDERSON, widow of Q
contractor, has recovered S2S,646 In sun
against the city of Louisville, KY, after thir
teen years Of litigation.
JAMES W. ScHooLER was recently ad.
mitted to practise in the Kentucky Court o1
Appeals, the first colored man to whom the
! privilege has been accorded.
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DIR. 7. p. NEWMAN.

returned to take the Washington Square
Church. Five years later he was stationed
in New Orleans, and his work among the
colored people resulted in building many
churches, and aided in the organization OK
the Southern conferences From there he
went to Washington, to the church of which
he has now been pastor three times, and was
for three years chaplain Of the United States
Senate. His association with General Grant
began at this time and continued to the death
of the latter at Mount McGregor. After q
pastorate of three years at the Central
Church of New York DIR. Newman went
to the Ecur enical Council in London. On
his return he filled the pulpit of the Madison
time located Methodist minister. After
two years he resigned. He returned to the
active ministry, however, after the death OF
General Grant. DR.. Newman is considered
the ablest speaker in the Methodist pulpit
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DAN WISE sClll lilakeS piehIy VI
hits the ball at critical times oftener than any
other man on the Boston team.
IT's'conceded that Kelly will win the bicycle
offered by Boston firm to the Boston player
making the most runs this season.
The Hamilton team contains eight LETT.
handed batters. A good "south. paw pitcher
generally makes sad havoc with them.
THE marvels and the wonders who were
discovered last winter are not proyms
themselves to be what they were advertlseo
to be.
No base runner takes so many desperate
chances as Ward, Of the New Yorka t At
times these attempts to steal pase are
brilliant. ...-
THE Chicagos' new suits are Of black broad
cloth. and cost s45 each. The suit Is to be
worn at the opening game In eacn League
town and during the Australian "Trip.
THE work Of Reipscblayer behind the bat,
for the Jersey City team, has greatly udeo
that club in obtaining its present high posi-
ton in the race for the Central League pen
nant.
THE eight ball clubs in the Central Inter.
state League will travel 1875 miles. IL
will cost them So, ,452. 40 for Transportation.
The contracts have been made with the rail-
roads. &
IT is a noteworthy fact that young play
orc seldom or never suffer from "Charlle-
horsen 1t is generally the veteran players
who have been in active work for numoer
of years.
SowpERs, Of the Bostons, delivers dlff1'
cult ball for catcher to handle. de mas
control of the mysterious drop ball, but ne
adds considerable more speed TO IL tnan
other pitchers.
NEARLY all Of the Texas League clubs are
increasing their capital stock to raise tne
wherewithal to strengthen their teams.
Dallas has secured $500 extra anu San
Antonio will do likewise.
The Chicago papers have starte9 story
about the immense strength OF 6orcneis,
the new California pitcher, to the effect tnat
he can tear a pack Of cards with his fingers,
and split silver coin with his teeth.
Tony MULLANE, of the Cincinnatis, once
nitched in a Geneva (Ohio) team, and ne re-
ceived the munifcent sum Of "a a week foI
doing it. When not playing, the players had
! to put in the extra time in the hay and corn
fields.
FIGURES tell the story of Kelly's work Tor
the Bostons this season better than anytnlng
else. In the first nineteen games played ne
has made forty hits, and scored twenty three
| times, while the rest Of the team combined
has made but sixty runs.
In Charleston, S. c., fund has beer
raised to give such deserving boys as are un,
able to pay for them, tickets to the best seats
at the baseball grounds. Fifty boys at 9
time will be sent in while the fund lasts, al
ten cents each, and, according TO the NeWs
and Courier, lit is expected to last all SUM-
mer."
HARRY WRIGHT says that the team which
plays steadily and escapes the disabling o.
believes Philadelphia, Detroit and New York
will do the principal fighting for the flag
not having a high opinion of Boston, T. and
considering it problematical how long Chlca
po's younr blood will hold UP.
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MR. BLAINE,s LETTER :
He Declares Fhat He Cannot Posi-
bly, Accent Renomination.

bly, Accept Renomtnatt0n.
The following letter, forwarded by James
G. Blaine from Paris to Whitelaw Reid, OF
the New York Tribune, explains itself:
Ny DEAR SIR: Since my return to Paris
from Southern Italy on the sth inst, have
learned what did not before belieye) that.
my name may yet be presented 20 the Ma
tional Convention as a candidate for the
Presidential nomination Of the Republic
can party. A single phrase OF my letter
of January 25 from Florence (which was;
decisive OF everything i had the personal
power to decided has been treated-hy many OF
my mostyalued friends as not absolutely COM
elusive in ultimate and possible coptinge
and disinterested have construed my letter:
las it should be construed to be an unconI
ditional withholding of my name from thu
National Convention. They have IN
consequence given their support to emil
nent gentlemen who are candidates Tor the
Chicago nomination-son1e OF whom would
not, am sure. have consented to assume
party in the Presidential contest Of 1888
II should now, by speech or by silence
by commission or omission, permit my names
in any. event to come before the Cons.
vention !; / should incur the reproach
of being u1icsndid with those who haye
always been candid with me. speak
therefore, because am not willing 70
remain In doubtful attitude. am
not willing to be the cause OF misleading
q single man among the millions who
have given me their sufrages and thetr
confidence. / am not willing that even
one of my faithful supporters In the pase
should think me capable OF paltering IN
a doublec sense with my words Assuming
that the Presidential nomination could by any
possible chance be offered to me, could not &C.
cept it without leaving in the minds OF thou
sands Of these men the impressions that 1 had
not been free from indirection, and there
fore could mot accept it at all. The mis-
representations of malice have no weight,
but the just displeasure Of friends could NOT
patiently endure. y. &
Republican victory, the prospects Of which
grow brighter every day, can be Imperfect
only by lack Of unity in council or by acrima
onions contest over men. The lssue
Of Protection is incalculably stronger and
greater than any man, for ~ con-
Germs the prosperity Of the present and OF
generations yet to come. Were it possible
for every voter Of the Eepubhc 70 SEQ
for himself the condition and recotnpens6;
of labor in Europe, the Party OF Free
Trade in the United States wonh not re-
caive the support of one wage-worker DE-
tween tho two oceans 1t may not bes dis,
elevate the European laborer, but it VIII sbes
a lasting stigma upon our ststesmanship Il
we permit the American hborer TO be iorced
down to the European level And IN tnes
end the rewards OF labor every VIII
be advanced If we steadily refuse to lover
the standard at home. Yours very sincereiy,
= ) '-"s-a- JAMES g. BLAINE.
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ferance in 1880 and is member Of the pres
ent Conference. He received his literary de.
gree from Indiana Asbury University and
was made Doctor of Divinity by Dickinson
College.
DR.. J. P. Newman, pastor of the Metro
politan Church, Washington, D. c., was
born in New York CITY in 1897, and educated
at Cazenovia and Wesleyan University,
Newark. His first charge was at Hamilton,
N, Y. From there he went to Fort Plain,
where he, in 1855, married Miss Angeline
Ensign, preceptress of the Fort Plain Cole
giate Institute. Some years latter DR.. New
man came to New York, taking the Bedford
Street Church, and after two years. course
of travel and study in Europe and the East,
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]. n. VINCENT, D. D.


Board Of Domestic Missions of the Presbyte.
rian Church. In 1913, resigning that posi-
ton, he went to Walnut Hill, where he took
charge of two country churches, and at the
same time established large female semin-
ary. His health being fully restored, he ac-
cepted q COLL to the Second Presbyterian
Church, Louisville, KY, in 1853, where he min
istered until 1855, when he returned to Wal
nut Hill. In the spring Of 1861 ne accepted a
call to the Franklin Street Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, where he labored success
fully for nine years. In 1870 he accepted
the charge of the Second Presbyterian
Church. Alexandria, Va, where he remained
until 1878, when he was elected Chaplain Of
the United States Senate, which Office he
retained for five years. He is now
Secretary of Foreign and Domestic
Missious and resides in Washington, D. G.
A feature of the Assemblies was q recep-
ton given at the mansion of Mr.. Morris,
Overbrook, Penn. The members Of the
Northern and Southern Assemblies were
there in full force, and many prominent peo-
ple including President Cleveland and his
wife, were present. The President made a
short address of greeting to the delegates of
the two General Assemblies, and expressed a
wish for Presbyterian Union.
On the following day-May "a, the centen-
nial date of the Presbyterian Church--the
members of the two GeneralAssemblies united
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REV. DANIEL A. GooDsELL.

The Rev. Daniel A. Goodsell, D. D., the
fifth Bishop elected, is native of New
burgh, N. Y. He is 4S years old, and has
been a member of the New York East Con-
ference for twenty-nine years. His father
was the Rev. Buel Goodsell, we'll known in
this vicinity in his day. DR.. Goodsell's work
as pastor has been almost entirely confined
to Brooklyn, New York. and New Haven.
He is now Secretary of the Church Educa-
tional Sociatv
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WashfnotOu.

SENATOR HAwLEY has accepted the official
invitation of the city of Philadelphia to de
liver the oration in Independence Square on
the Fourth Of July.
A DISPATCH to the Navy Department from
Montevideo, Uruguay, announces the death
of Lieutenant Commander George NJ Totten,
United States Navy, executive officer OF
the United States steamer Tallapoosa, flag
ship of the South Atlantic squadron.
The President has approved the act grant
ing certain lands in Wyoming for public pur.
poses; the act authorizing loan Of arms and
Equipments to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company Of Boston, and number
Of private pension bills.
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RELIGIOUS BODIES.
Centennial Meeting of the Pres
byterian General Assembly.
Bishops Elected by the Methodist
General Conference.

The centennial meeting of the Presbyterian
General Assembly, the supreme ecclesiastical
court of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States, commenced in Philadelphia,
the 18th Of May. There were over 500 dele
gates, or commissioners, in attendance, re-
presenting every State and Territory in thn
Union. The opening services were held in
the First Presbyterian Church, the oldest of
the denomination in the city, to which the
commissioners marched in procession from
Horticultural Hall, where the business Ses-
sions were held. Rev. DR.. Charles L. Thomp-
son, Of Kansas City, Mo-, was elected Moder-
ator by decided majority.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

LILLIAN RUSSELL is the best dressed woman
who sings in comic opera.
MACBETH by Irving is promised to English
theatre goers next season.
MINNIE MADDERN, the actress, made her
professional debut at the age Of four.
N1r1KA, young America singer, has been
scoring a triumph in European concert
rooms.
MRS. ASIA BOOTH CLARKE, sister Of Ed
win Booth, died recently at Bournmouth,
England.
Mr.. w. S. GILBERT, Of 'Pinafore," and
"Mikado" fame, is engaged In erecting per
feet theatre in London.
KARL FoRMEs, the famous tenor, is seventy
three years old. He will sing in London in
Italian opera next season.
SARA BERNHARDT, the French tragedienne,
says she has 800 plays in her possession, and
that shenever read one of them.
AN all-summer run is indicated for Sydney
Rosenfeld's comic opera, '.The Lady or the
Tiger" at Wallack's Theatre, New York
JOSEPH JEFFERsoN's spring tour this year
was of only two months duration, but it was
$1,000 miles long and he played in forty
cities.
A COMPANY of colored minstrel performers
is being formed formed for tour to Australia
and possibly India. Charles B. Hicks is to
manage the troupe.
Go.wAN-Go- MOHAWK, who was member
Of the Michael Strogoff" company last
season, is to be starred in the cheap theatres
next fall She is half-breed Indian girl.
AT the last concert in st. Petersburg in
aid of the military veterans Of the empire,
the music was furnished by 400 singers, q
band of 800, $50 drums and "A pianos played
by 4S women.
EDWARD HAREFeAN new play, more am
bilious than any he has yet appeared in, will
be called THE Metropolis" and will repre-.
sent phases of New York life. He will be.
gin the next season at his New York Theater
with it.
HARRY MINER, the New York manager,
has bought Mr.. Mackaye's play, Paul Kau.
var, and also secured control Of all the plays
now in the possession of, or that may be writ
ten or adopted by Mackaye during the next
five years
AMONG the things that have been promised
to this country in the future is series OF
performances by Russian opera company
Of seventy Lofts and Effskys. The troup is
now in Berlin and will sing its way across
Europe to the saaboard.
HATEFUL to me as are the gates OF
Mall 10 bo 1pbo hidjnp one thing in hiH
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THE LABOR WORLD.

a $4,000 silk factory 4 70 Do puHss puHrssSt: ~:
Jacksonville, Fla. ~ :,
PULLMAN, I'll, Is to have an electric beles
railroad FIVE miles long.
THERE are thirty six societies Of the various
crafts in Minneapolis, MINI.
In Massachusetts, 1900 children under "a
years Of age are working in shops ~
EXTENSIVE potteries for working up the fne-
native clay are now In course Of building az
Memphis, Tenn. z.
INDUSTRIAL establishments are springtng
up in the South faster than an account OF
them can be kept
THE Boston Herald, In furtherance OF its:
proft-sharing agreement OF year ago, nass;;
divided $4,000 among its employees.
SECTION men along the line Of the missouri.
Pacific Railroad have gone on strike because
Of reduction from $50 to 81. 25 per day
= TWELVE hundred Hebrews engaged In
tailoring at Leeds. England, have suucS
against more than ffty-eight hours a yeek
Two Presidential Labor party tickets have
been placed in the field, one by the Union La
Dor party and another by the United LaDors1
party. s.s;ss
TIE industries in the United States are
now carried on by 4, ,000, 900 persons, IN roane
numbers, representing population OF NJ !.
N0 0S0. .g:.ss :
THE Loughlin Coke Works at Bradferd,
Penn, have shut down its 24o ovens lnden
nitely, throwing large number OF men QUIZ
of employment.
RETURNS from SS9 labor organizations IN
New Jersey give membership Of 81, 6a2-
40. 172 being Knights Of Labor and IftSVr
Trade Unionists. Z.
THERE were over 100 delegates, represent
-, I,,,to ar ANIMAL
Philadelphia Of the Butchers Union. Inomhs-
Armour, Of Chicago, presided. ss
TIE number Of men employed at iron MIN, s
ing in the Lake Superior basin Is estlmatea
at 10000 Wages have been reduced trom9
to 10 per cent. Miners get sl65 a day
IT is reported that the Delaware, Lacks
wanna and Western Railroad OF New Jersey
has issued notice that hereafter the Train
hands on passenger trains will be held re-
sponsible for damage to seat arms and pacKA
SKILLED laborers in China, such as car
penters rnasons, blacksmiths and the IKE,
earn from ten to thirty cents day, ,while Gn.
skilled laborers, men who, In the e1Pressisy1
term in their language, ''sell their strenetn,
earn from eight to ten cents day.
TIE Union Steel Works Of Chicago con-
snnne daily 1000 barrels Of oil as fuel inrPlaces
of ZOO tons Of coal For every 10 barrels tnsy
save IS, or $27S per day. They dispense also.
With With the tho labor Of 65 men, or $780, In the 3i0
working days there is saved in these wor4s
alone the enormous sum Of Sl26 4S0.
WoRKMEN in the vicinity of Hackettstown,
N. j.. are exuberant over the tidlngs tnat tnS
Warren Foundries, owned by Cooper o.
Hewitt, will be put in blast, employing sew
eral hundred hands. These works nave Desn es.a
idle during the last five years, owing 20 inc
Sanressed Condition Of the iron trade, during
which time the business interests Of the toWn
have been paralyzed.
>,n Mps GREEIY have taken Y
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REV. CHARLES L. THOMPSON, D. D.

REV. CHARLES L. THOMPSON, D. D.
DR.. Thompson is about forty eight years OF
age. and was born near Allentown, Pa. His
boyhood days were passed in Wisconsin, and
he entered Carroll College in that State,
graduating in 1885, After his collegiate ca
reer he entered Princeton Seminary, having
determined to study for the ministry, where
he spent two years. finishing his seminary
course at the Northwestern one, the McCor-
mick Seminary. in Chicago. He graduated
in 1861 and his first charge was at the little
town Of Juneau, Wis, the next at Jonesville.
His first city church was the First Church,
of Cincinnati, from which he went to the
First Church, of Chicago. He became
editor of the Chicago Interior between the
years 1S74-77, but resumed pastoral work in
Pittsburg. His last five years have been
passed as pastor of the Second Church Of
Kansas City, where he is in charge at pres
snt, although he still continues to be an
editor Of the Interior.
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=" REV. ). y. BULLOCK, D. D.
On the same day that the Northern As
sembly convened in Philadelphia, the South
ern Assembly met in the Franklin Street
Church, in Baltimore. The Southern Assem-
bly, is composed Of thirteen synods, sixty y-nne
presbyteries, 1116 ministers, 1928 churches
and $50, 1913 communicates. The entire con-
'tributions for all purposes last year were
$l,4l5,3ls. After the delivery of the annual
sermon, tho Assembly proceeded to the elec.
tion Of Moderator, Rev. J. J. Bullock, Of
Washington, being chosen.
The Rev. Joseph James Bullock, D; D. was
born at Lexington, KY, December 23d, 1872.
He received his classical education in Centre
College, Kentucky, where he graduated in
1882. He studied law in the Transylvania
University, Lexington, in 1885. and graduated
in theology from Princeton College in 1856.
He received his first call to take charge
Of a congregation at Frankfort KY, the
summer Of his graduation, and the same
year was made State Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction. In 1916 he resigned his
charge to accept the Secretaryship Of tie
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NEWS FROM STANLEY.

Reports From the Great Explorer
That He Was Well.
A despatch from Zanzibar states that
messengers from Tippoo Tib have arrived
there with letters from Major Barttelot,
dated Singatini, on the Congo, October %.
Major Barttelot says that deserters from
Stanley's camp had arrived at Singatlnl a1teI +
q twenty days canoe voyage. They reported
ina tnaS sTansH n1aneif dna sppIR p R'o Of P food
The letters further say that the behavior
of Tippoo Tib has not been satisfactory. No
details are given regarding Stanley's route.