The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-25

IS resigned 10 FURNISH y Wnolesomo SOCIAL
and religious club under Presbyterian
auspices for the $500 young people study
ing In Ann Arbor. The university has 2, 500
and the high-school 500 students, and
nearly all are from outside the town. As
these two schools are supported by money
raised by taxation they cannot give d.
rectly that religious training which other
institutions supply. But the private In
huence of most of the teachers is religious.
this association it is hoped that the stu
dents may be attracted to and be greatly
aided In Christian living. Mrs. Sackett
gave the lot and a building. to which Nc
MILAN Hall has been added. as q memorial
basement in the new building finely
equipped for physical culture. The mid
die story has reading-rooms q other
facilities for social and intellectual
contains q theater-sbaped hall for lectures
on religious and moral subjects. For four
years such lectures heve been furnished by
pastors and others. mostly from Detroit.
and have proven very attractive.
ing absent in Europe. in q brief and very
neat address, presented the hall to the asso-
citation for his father. who. as DE-. Rad
cliffe had enjoined, did not make it too
pious for the bows. Its aim is to give them
religious influence and training. There
are thousands who will, he said, come here
In preference TO our own college at Alma.
We want to do all we can for them. because
they are here and not there.
Prof. VIM. III. Green, moderator Of the
assembly, said that he was glad to express
the sympathy of that body in this effort to
Christianize the higher education. The
Tappan association has hold of the right
string. God bless the work.
President Angel, of the university. was
presented and all rose in welcome. He said
he was here ''because DR.. Radcliffe. who is
q man of supreme authority in things
Presbyterian throughout Michigan. ordered
it. We are grateful for your coming out to
building. Mr. Mcmillan illustrates the
truth of the Latin proverb. Bis dat qui otto
9 asd;, de sim always oS does y such NJ things at the the
he said. sis one of the most act
i've. supporting six weekly prayer-meet-
lngs and getting men like Moody and Prof.
Harper for labor and lecturers. We are
poor. The principal industry, as we have
no dormitory, is keeping boarders. How
much profit there is in feeding hungry
freshmen. at g. SO o week, some of our good.
helpful Christian ladies can tell you. /
think some of the strongest men in the diff
ferent denominations should be kept in the
pulpits of our own"
A vote of thanks was passed to the Ia
dies and others rho had provided refresh
ments. and one to be cabled to Senator Nc
MILAN. The delegates returned to Detroit
about 8 p. M.
The Gear in q Rage.
Copyright, 1891, by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN, May GA sensation has been
caused by q discovery relating to the French
exhibition at Moscow which gave the Gar
an occasion to show his solicitude for the
French. To avoid wounding the feelings
of the French committee the exhibition,
which was in need of funds. secretly ap-
piled to the Jewish and Russian capitalists,
aid and P~olliakotf, and got a loan on
depositing 1, 100000 tickets as security.
Grunwald and PolliakOtf became involved
in q quarrel with the committee and
claimed control of the entrance money of
the exhibition. The rupture led to a scan
dal. The Gar was incensed that the fair
should have fallen into the hands of the
detestedJ Jews. and to-day it was announced
self, the Czarina and their family depended
upon q settlement between the committee
and the jewish loan-mongers. If the mat
ter is not speedily settled he will abandon
his visit in order to avoid giving Offense to
izing the exhibition. He has sent the pro-
meters of the fair an angry ~intimation that
the presence of the imperial family as an
assistance to Jewish speculation is impos-
sible.
The Cars ire has also been increased by
the fact that during his stay in Moscow he
desired to Hay the fOundation-stone of the
monument to be erected in memory of his
father: and also to open the first exhibition
The whole programme has been dropped.
The Gar will now send the Grand Duke
Vladimir to inaugurate the monument,
himself remaining in st. Petersburg. A
message plainly expressing the Cars in
dignation has been telegraphed to the
Moscow authorities, stating that the origi-
nal French promoters of the show must
buy out the Jews.
Southern Presbvterian General Assembly.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 23.-At the third
days session the Presbyterian Genera AS
sembly disposed of a good deal of work.
DR.. Hitner read q partial report of the COM
mittee on foreign correspondence. which
said: First, the committee is not pre-
pared to appoint delegates to the national
temperance convention at Saratoga: sec
ond. that its sympathy be conveyed to the
Reformed Episcopal Church in convention
at Cleveland, o.: third. that q communlca-
ton from Ireland and Wales. favoring
arbitration, be recognized as laudable."
Adopted.
j. r. Smith, missionary to Brazil. report
ed on the birth and growth of the Presby-
terrain Church in that country. Nh. Smith
asked that the American church give one
hundred ministers and support them for
Brazil. and DR.. Mclean, one of the secre-
taries OF the American Bible Society. said
Bibles. received s 5000. 600 from contribu-
tions and 500, 600, 600 from all sources.
DE-. Robert Price. of Clarksville, Tenn,
presided at the meeting tonight, which
was in the interest of education. Monday
evening will be devoted to foreign mis-
sions; Tuesday evening to publication, and
Wednesday evening to home missions. A
communication from New Orleans was
read requesting the next assembly to meet
.hsre in 1892: Overtnres were received as
follows: Asking nations to settle disputes
BY arbitration. and not byfarms; overture
from Georgia saying that Savannah Pres
bytery desired to resume its connection
with the convention.
Penitentiary Factory Destroyed.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo-. May 23.-At 6
o'clock this evening fire broke out in the
factory of the Sullivan Saddle-tree Com
pany. inside the walls of the State peni-
tertiary. The city and prison fire de-
partments were powerless in their
attempts to extinRuish the flames and it
was destroyed. The loss is $4,000. dis
tributed as follows: On building.
of the Sullivan Saddle-tree Company.
100000; on the stock of the Strauss Saddle
and Harness Company, adjoining, &c. 00.
the latter being occasioned by water.
The State had no insurance. The
Sullivan company's insurance was $50, OO0,
distributed in nearly equal amounts be-
tween the following companies: American
Fire Association, Northumberland Com
pany, London, Liverpool and Globe, Oak.
land Home. Pnenix. Traders, Sun
H5rs; Western: Mississippi Valley.
German, American Fire. United Firemen's.
Southern and New Orleans and the Hecla.
The damage TO the Strauss company's stock
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