Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-13
MILLENNIUM AT HAND.
Lieutenant Totten Declares the Day
of Grace Is About Over.
NOW LIVING IN TIME OF FACT.
Jupiter at Perihelion the Cause of All the
Woes Of Late.


u Woes of Late.
A LONG LIST OF HORRORS PILED Ut
NEW HAVEN, CONN, July 12.-Lieuten'
ant Totten, Fourth Artillery, United States
army, who is about returning from Yale
University as military instructor, was
found ct his home yesterday afternoon and
he talked freely regarding his ideas of the
advent of Christ and the millennium.
Jupiter goes into perihelion," he said,
'on the Oath of this month at P. M. At
this time the giant of our solar system is
$4,000, 900 miles nearer the sun than when
he is in aphelion. His magnetic influence
upon the central orb is therefore at the
maximum, and from that date onward, as
from noon onward in ordinary days, we
may expect severe demonstrations of solar
power.
Cali of the disturbances in climate that
have been the daily record of the past few
months are due directly to this perihelion
passage of Jupiter, and just as the sun Is
warmer from noon onward to 3 r. NJ 80 will
| we have more and more Of varied cata-
clysms from now until the Planet passes
we'll beyond his sphere of maximum infu-
ence."
In reply to specific questions Lieutenant
Totten said:
'It seems useless to reiterate my predic-
tions; they are all in black and white, and
though few heed them, facts bear them out
and justify me In every scientific position l
have taken.
Doesn't Think He's an Alarmist.
81 am more concerned about this than I
can express, for while the mass of men take
it for granted am merely "a crank and AN
! alarmist' 1 have ample testimony from
thousands who have read my books, that
they are absolutely in accord with current
events
1--WE are living in the most critical days
the world has ever seen, and am perfectly
willing-nay, anxious-to 60 on record that
things will by no means get better, but
rather worse-so it Is peculiar-so it is full
filling day by day, and those are blind who
do, or will not, see it.
"Take this partial summary of events:
Since January 1 there have been four
destructive wind storms, killing nearly 200
persons, viz: April 1, Missouri and Kansas,
rs; May 16, Texas, Is; May 27. Wellington,
Kan, 50; June 16, Southern Minnesota, 30.
SIN the same period there have been four
| great floods, viz: April II, Tombigbee
river, 250; May 18. Sioux City, Ia, 35; May
20, Lower Mississippi, 36; June 8, fire and
flood, Oil creek, Pa, 1876.
'There have also been four mining dis
asters, viz: January 7, McAllister, L T., IS;
April 20, Minersville, Pa, IL; May TO-
| 'Three fires have been unusually dis
astrous to life, viz: January q, Indianapo-
lis, Ind, surgical institution, 13: February
| Z, Hotel Royal, 30; April %, theater, Phil
| adelphia, r.
'Besides these there were: On March 81,
an explosion at Jordan, Mich, by which 10
lives were lost; June 13, the explosion at
the Mare Island Navy Yard, which killed
13, and Jnne 10, the fall of the bridge over
the Licking river, by which 80 lives were
sacrificed.
Losses by Minor Accidents.
''These are the principal disasters of the
year, and they involve an aggregate of 800
lives. Adding to this total the sum of
losses by minor accidents we have the fol-
lowing sad and unusual record: By fire,
876; by drowning, 1884; by explosions, 313;
by falling structures of various kinds, 267;
by mine disasters, 3O8; BY wind storms, $40;
by lightning, 32O; grand total, 1858.
'The total loss of life by these causes
during the whole of last year-and 1891 was
one of the most destructive years on record
was O,10Z. 90 IL 16 eV1QenL Gu8L LOSE WILL
far surpass its predecessor.
"The best way for the individual to dem
onstrate this to his own satisfaction is to
mark the concurrent events recorded in his
daily newspaper for q single month. They
range through all classes of phenomena,
moral quite as well as physical, and the
public press seems to have long ago ex-
hausted its vocabulary expressive of their
unusual and astonishing character
cit is also generally admitted that the
frequency of disaster due to atmospheric
causes is not to be explained by the facility
of modern news gathering" and the Lieu
tenant maintains that "such general and
astonishing matters as those of late date
must have super-terrestrial origin"
"But did not your predictions as to March
20 fail. e., as to its being the last day of
grace?"
Predictions Borne Out by Facts.
''By no means have been persistently |
misrepresented and misunderstood as to that |
statement believe we are in tine time OF |
the end, and that it began March 20, and, as
matter of fact, all Of the unprecedented |
events of this year seem to have occurred |
since then.
'Ths human race owes debt to its
maker; its legal time ran out, az though 1t
were note, on March 20. Its three days of
grace, as 1t were, extended from March,
1889, to March, 1892; and whether the
world will see it or not they exactly cover
the period Of my own testimony here in
New Haven.
'.All this is quite as surprising to me as
it can be to those who have actually fol-
lowed that testimony as borne out in the
seven volumes have published during that
period. My own constituents know It, and
they already number many thousands, as
evidenced by the sale Of my books.
II never said or meant that grace as .
beatitude was to be over with the late pass
over, nor that the Holy Spirit would be
withdrawn at that time, nor that repentance
as such would be fruitless thereafter. I
have written just the opposite, and am not
responsible for what others have assumed.
meant we are now in the days of fact,
and this will be more and more apparent in
the future.
"We were in the days of faith. Now,
as faith Is no more faith when fact sup
plants 1t, SO the day of grace is neces-
sarily over when the period of payment, or
judgment'-if you will-has begun; and in
that period we certainly now are"
'You certainly failed, professor, as to the
new star in the east, which you predicted?"
Right to the Very Instant.
"No, sir. There, again, was right to
the instant I referred to this very planet
Jupiter, which that day became the bright
and morning star st sunrise at Jerusalem,
and absolutely fulfilled the anticipations Of
the Indian magi.
For thousands of years the wise men of