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The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
INTERESTING STATE NEWS OF
ALL SORTS.
a. Jahn's Big Furniture Store in De-
troit-Five Firemen and One spectato
Other Michigan News.

Fire destroyed keenan, & Jahn's big
furniture store ut 2l3-2l7 Woodward
avenue, Detroit, and after the big
four-story building was Quilted the
front and rear walls fell, killing six
people, five of whom were tiremen,
and injuring at least ten.
The fire was discovered in the ship
ping room in the basement at the back
of the furniture store by Shipping
Clerk James Tewsley. An alarm was
promptly turned in, but by the time
the engines arrived the fire had gained
considerable headway, having run up
the elevator shaft, and the entire
upper floor was a mass of smoke and
fame when the first stream was
thrown.
In less than three quarters of an
hour from the start the roof of the
building was completely licked up by
the flames. At this time the interior
of the building was vast roaring fur
mace, the highly combustiblc material
seeming 20 defy all efforts of the fire.
men. The flames licked up the solid
streams Of water almost in mid-air.
The floors began TO give way, taking
the bracing from the walls, but the
fircmen did not yield an inch. Sud
denly, without moment of warning,
there was a shock and then with a
thunderous crash the front of the
building fell. Almost at the same
instant the wall at the rear bucllled
and fell into the alley burying dozen
men. Panic prevailed for Il moment,
and then brave men rushed to the
rescue and with bleeding and bliStered
hands dragged some of the unfortu
nate victims from fiery death, and
as carefully as possible lifted from the
huge mass of debris the battered and
mangled bodies of their unfortunate
comrades. Both front and rear walls
found their victims.
The dead are: Fred Bussey, died at
Grace hospital; Michael III. Donoghuc,
lieutenant of chemical No. /, was
taken out dead; j. X. Dely, pipeman
No. 9; John w. Pagel, pipeman No. 81;
Julius Cummings. No. .; Martin Ball.
There were aboutG5 people working
in the furniture factory all of whom
escaped unhurt by way of the front.
The loss on the stock is 500, 900;
building, S3j, 900; well insured
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

The American Express Office at
North Star was robbed and SlO6 and
several other things were taken.
Even with the high rate of wages
offered in the lumber woods of the up
per peninsula this season the supply of
men is not equal TO the demand.
The executive council of the Boston
unions of clothing makers,decided that
the strike was ended as nearly every
contractor had signed the unions nIne-
hour day agreement.
Haclxley Park. Muskegon, will here
after be the headquarters of the Chau
tauqua system in Michigan, displacing
Bay View. where the assemblies have
been held for some years.
Allegan sporting men are creating a
fund with which TO buy wild rice seed
TO SOW in the river bottom. 1t will
grow, create swamp, and attract
ducks and there you are.
The first regular session of the
twenty-ninth annual reunion of the
Army of the Tennessee convened at
Council Bluffs, La. Gen. Dodge pre-
sided and addressed the 110 delee dtes
JOnn IL. Dldkc0elu, Oh IldlnWell
township, Kent county, has left his
wife and eloped with his mother-in-
law. Mrs. Blakefield has caused n
warrant to he issued for his arrest OIL
the charge of non-support.
Adam Lindstrum, captain of the Sal
vation Army of West Bay City. who
was found guilty of violating an ordi-
nance prohibiting the blockading of
the streets, was taken to the county
Jail at Bay City to serve 25 days.
The Michigan Sunday School asso-
citation will hold it's thirty-fourth an
nual convention at Grand Rapids Nov.
10, il and IS. Maj. Gen. o. o. Howard
will address the first meeting. Two
thousand delegates are expected and
free entertainment is promised.
Walter B. Dixon, aged Is. married,
was run down by country huckster's
wagon at Grand Rapids. To osave him
self he caught hold of the thills, when
the horse plunged and collided with
another wagon. The end of one Of the
thills caught Dixon under the jaw and
penetrated TO the brain. He died an
hour later.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
MORE WAR TALK.
England To Send Troops TO China. IT he
Situation Becoming Complicated.

London: Six thousand troops will be
send from India by England to protect
the treaty ports IN China. The first
rifle brigade will leave Calcutta on
Oct. 16 for Hong Kong. IL is stated
that the second-class cruiser Aeolus,
from the Mediterranean squadron, and
the gunboats Red Breast and Pigeon,
from the East India station, have
been ordered TO join Admiral Free
mantle's squadron in Chinese waters.
The British consuls at HanKow and
Ningpo sent alarming dispatches to
the government reporting disturbances
in those places and stating that the
European residents were in peril.
Washington: In Japanese official
circles here the cable reports that
China has asked England, France and
Russia TO send troops and vessels to
China TO protect their respective in
terests, are construed to be a public
confession on ChIna's part of the panic
and generalization of her people, and
her inability to afford the usual pro-
lection to foreigners. Secretary Her
bert has been forehanded in taking
steps for the protection of the lives
and property of American residents in
China believed now to be endangered
v ICDClllOuS ullIcSlIdlnCAl lIOODo.
There are now five United States war
ships in the east, the Charleston, Balti-
more, Monocacy, Concord and Petrol,
and this force will be increased to
eight vessels by the addition of the
Detroit, Machias and Yorktown as
soon as they can be made ready. And
these will co-operare with the war
ships of the other powers to mutually
protect foreigners.
Yokohoma: The applications for the
Japanese war bonds have exceeded
20, 900, 600 yen, more than double the
amount called for. The Japanese gov
ernment has decided to prohibit the
export of coal from the empire. The
Chinese man-of-war Isao-Kiang, cap
tured by the Japanese July 25, has been
added to the mikado's navy and is to
be known as the Toyoshima, the name
Of the island off which she was taken.
The standing committee of the six po-
litical parties in opposition 10 the Jupa-
nese government, have passed resolu-
tions that during the war the ministry
shall be cordially supported, without
regard 90 domestic differences of
opinion.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

France and England at Nar-in Papers.
London: There is great excitement
in the city. The cabinet ministers
who are away on their holidays have
been hastily summoned home. A
special cabinet council has been called.
Such a proceeding in time of peace is
most unusual. II is understood that
relations with France are likely TO be-
come strained and that question is
probably the occasion of the meeting.
The London papers in discussing
this meeting made some awful war
preparations because of alleged differ
ences between England and France in
Madagascar and various African colo
mics. The papers said the French had
blockaded Madagascar and was crowd
ing the British at every available point
and that the latter were mailing great
preparations TO wipe France off the
face of the earth. Then TO spoil it all
the authorities-the cabinet officials in
northumberland the whole thing
and said their meeting was TO discuss
the China-Japan war and British inter
ests therein. II is not likely that Lon
don or Paris will be bombarded before
next week.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
200 People Drowned in Cuba.

The steamer Saratoga, from Tampico
and Havana, arrived at New York.
Capt. Boyle says that at Havana it was
reported that the little village of
Dagua, about 100 miles TO the eastward,
had been almost entirely demolished
and that 200 souls had perished. The
report was very meager, and no esti-
mate of the damages done TO property
could be ascertained. OF the reported
destruction of more than half of the
town of San Domingo, Capt. Boyle
said he had heard nothing.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
Prof. David swinr Il nend.
Prof. David Swing died at Chica q
of acute blood poisoning broupht ON b,

Prof. David Swing died at Chicago
of acute blood poisoning brought on by
an attack of jaundice.
David Swing was born in Cincinnati. August
So 1850 At the age OF Is he entered Miami
university at Oxford, o., and graduated in
1852 In 1855 he accepted the pastorae Of the
Westminster Presbyterian church OF Chi
cago, which was later united with the North
Presbyterian church, the two forming the
Fourth Presbyterian church. one OF the
wealthiest and most influential Institutions OF
its kind In Chicago. Shortly after the great
Chicago FIRE OF 1871 occurred the most import
ant event in the great minister's career-his
trial before the Chicago presbytery on a charge
OF heresy preferred by Rev. DR.. Francis l..
Patton. now president of Princeton college.
These charges were not sustained. But the
subsequent feeling was so bitter that Prof.
Swing brought matters 70 a close by rosigning
his pastorate, a large number OF his friends
going with him ana forming the Central
church, In which Prof Swing has since labored
with great success. For two years services
were held in McNickers 5 theater. a permanent
home being then secured in Central Music hall
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
Embcznler Lindholm brought Back.

Ex-Deputy Secretary of State Lind
holm, who is charged with embezzling
81, 900 of state funds, arrived at Lam
sing from Sweden in charge of Deputy
Sheriff Wright and Chief of Police
Sanford. The officers say that the
only bit of excitement experienced
during the journey was the trouble
with the Swedish authorities over
Lindholm's release.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

There are premonitions of troubls
between Mexico and Guatemala grow
ing out of dispute over the boundary
between the two countries. Guatemala
has undertaken to assert sovereignty
over considerable piece of territory
lying within the borders of Mexican
state, wEich the latter strongly re-
sent5.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
To the City's Shame, be 1T Said.

West Bay City's Salvation Army vio-
1ated an ordinance which prohibits the
use of the streets for crowds. Finally
a climax was reached when the entire
police force swooped down upon the
army and bore away to Jail Capt Lin
strum and five soldiers. with their
cymbals, bass drum, cornet, and flag.
All the soldiers were locked up in the
police station.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
Tn. whole Train I,urned.

Train No. from New York on the
Southern railway jumped the track
about three miles south of Bristol,
Tenn. The engine fell across the
track and the express and mail cars
jumped over it, and falling on their
sides, were soon a prey to the flames
which consumed all of the train-eight
coaches-with the exception of the last
Pullman, which was cut loose and
backed from the train. Several per-
sons were injured, but all miraculously
escaped with their lives.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
Hypnot.sm AS Mrs. Meyers Defense.

When the mysterious woman now
confined in the Tombs, in New York
City, known TO the public as the wife
of DR.. Henry c. +. Meyer, the poisoner,
who was arrested in Detroit, is brought
te trial hypnotism is TO be set up as
the burden of her defense. 1t viii be
claimed that she has been unIer the
doc .or's absolute control through this
power since their marriage.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
Inereased Attendance at the Unlverslty.

Increased Attendance at the University.
A conservative estimate places the
increase in attendance in the various
departments of the University at Ann
Arbor as follows: Literary, 1875; law,
100; medical 40; pharmaceutical 30
The attendance in the dental depart
ment promises TO be about the same
this year as last. According TO these
estimates the attendance for the COM
ing year will be very nearly 5000.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

Great excitement was caused al
Elyria, o., hy the discovery of a pow.
erful nitro glycerine bomb in the
l.. S. a M. ;. elevator. A workman
found the bomb with fuse attached
hidden in the building. IL contained
sufficient nitro-glycerine and dynamite
TO have wrecked the elevator and sew.
tral large buildings adjoining.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

During the progress of the funeral of
She late Richard Doyle at Hastings a
serious runaway accident occurred in
which Prof. w. w. Sterling was badly
injured about the head His right leg
was smashed at the ankle. Ills wife
and little son were also thrown from
che buggy, but were uninjured.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.

NEW YoRK.-Dun's weekly review says
With the chief money crops OF the west and
south sinking in value. IL is not strange that
purchases OF manufactured products are
the lowest point ever known for options and
cotton the lowest ever known in any form
with the present classification, and the accu-
mutation OF stocks in both products is dis
couraging TO purchasers for an advance. Pro-
ducers are compelled TO sell at prices below
western states there Is also a lamentable fail
ure OF the corn crop. Under the circumstances
1t would be very strange II the demand for
manufactured products should be quite as
large as in other years. Wheat suffers most
from accumulation OF stocks IN sight which
are far beyond wnat is usually expected for the
season and the exports in September wcro un-
usually small. Corn receipts at the west have
been only third as large as they were last
year. with exports amounting TO nothing. but
the price has not further declined after the
heavy fall during the previous fortnight Pork
products are weak in tone. The condition of
the industries is I'm some respects more salts
factory. The failures for the past week have
been 2l9 in the United States. against 80 last
year, and 80 In Canada, against 40 last year
NEW YoRK.-Bradstreet's review says:
While no radical change has appeared there
are features OF the situation pointing TO con-
tinued progress in the direction OF improve
The price movement has improved little.
Wheat, corn and oats have advanced slightly
from previous lowest levels. Some varieties
OF lumber. naval stores, tin plate and a few
other staples have remained steady In price
but refined sugar Is lower for reasons which
prices In other lines. Concessions in prices
have also been made for p-g iron, steel billets,
lumber, lard, codec, cotton print cloths and
live hogs.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

Fire started in the carding room of
the Centervillc knitting factory. About
<, 600 damage was done; fully insured.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

The BaaclSe's Wire Nail company, of
Cleveland, the largest concern of the
kind IN the world, has closed down for
an indefinite period.
The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12

ID. L. Palmer, of Charlevoix, has
been missing since September %.
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John Wright Arrested.

Mr.. John Wright who went over 10
Bristol Tuesday came very near bcIhS ar
res,ed for theft. He had purchased q
.uit Of clothing from Cody / HsdrIck, ana
in trying his coat OH, made a mistake ps
putting on the coat of another sent'cma"
and walking down to tho st. Lawrence.
VERY soen squad of men, "ceomranieo
bv policeman, came down searching 'of
, man named Wright, who had stolen q
eentleman's coat.
They found him in his room' anu "po'
Mr. Wright persistently declaring thar ths
coat was his own, believed all the more
firmly that he was fit subject Tor 'ne
lookup Finally in rummag'ng 'nso"s"
ths rockata of the coat MIR. Wright to"ha
, warrant for the arrest of some one anu
b.xt.,.d 10 turn over the coat. he wouia
probably have been arrested h'"e'''
ANYWAY. had not Mr.. Walter +. Addison
kindly consented to 60 his bond anu
spoken i'll glowing terms Of ms chSf"' !,
ter The hangers on ato""0
town had got it into their head tha' "s
Was tho John Wright Of the mountains %
kentucky, famed for his nerve anu 40 NV
r,;ard of file notorious T'alt Hail. ana "S
consequence quite large crowd sas"S'e0
IN the lobby of the ST. Lawrence 20 Se'
the noted kcntuckisn.
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n every town, ..b. school-l,ou.e may be

II every town, the schocl-house may bt
seen at every crossing, while in larscl
cities universities are established where
students may learn everything and any
thing. This is the case, too, with the
whole civilized world, and this may well
be called the educational age.
The general effects that true education
should have arc to secure to every one 4
good, sound, healthy body, which may he
called physical education, and after Sc
curing good health, developing strength
and fitting ones self with the capability
to perform the practical duties Of life
with ease, then should he brought in de-
votion to studles and by applying the
of years, it will be in fit condition to be-
gin some business course Ivy which one
may earn living and enjoy the pleasures
of life. To ba intelligent and mindful it
requires much intellectual power, and
that must be cultivated when young, for
understanding the principles and features
in which one must he placed through life
requires much power to judge and conf
9prehand the meaning Of what is read and
heard. II requires accurateness in read
ing and writing, and by this means intel
lectual power will soon develop itself. 1t
is supposed when leaving college that
it's duty has been to develop whatever
might be the talents which nature has
given to the student and cultivate every
good feature pertaining to tho elements of
character There is some occupation
stored in every human mind, and power
for its devslopemcnt; and these are the
abilities which need to he cultivated. Az
the plant grows the dead and disfgursd
limbs should be trimmed off,and 40 should
the child be trained and all bad habits and
manners taken aways when advancing in
life. One should bs taught to think. feel
and realize for himself not to say what
OlHCIb uuNC bdlu w uh' ONHS'' a" "
done, but act from his own experience
and do what no one else has done.
With regard to the principal features OF
education, the most important is the cul-
tivaiing of moral dutiss-it is the finish
ing touch to he placed upon MI education.
student must he we'll qualified and we'll
vcrsed in the Bible to understand the
meaning Of education in MORAL senso,
for The Bible is the great textbook which
teaches us the only and right way to live
in happiness, and NC should study it with
great diligence and care. 1t is the great
elevator Of man which teaches him the
great combination Of love, truth, faith
and sympathy, creates moral excellence
in him and leads him in the path of right
cousncss to The end of life, saving him
then from destruction.
While we have good schools and good
opportunities Of fitting our minds to act
our part as regards the duties Of life We
should take the advantage OF them.
Big Stone Gap, Va, MAy, 1875.
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A HAPPY DAY.
Several Prominent Kentuckians
Spend a Day Of Pleasure Among
the Mountains and Natural

81
Spend Day Of Pleasure Among
the Mountains and Natural
Tunnel, on the S. A. s. 0.
Last Saturday party, consisting OF
Mrs. j. W. Lossden, Miss Mary Veal,
of Middlosboro; Miss Mary Richmond, o f
Ewing, Va, and DR.. Hall, Of Bloomfield,
K7., arrived ut this place on tho morning
L. N. train, en- route to the Natural
Tunnel, where they spent glorious day
among tho mountains. They werc accom-
rsnied from this place by the happy and
always jolly gentleman, Mr.. Jos. e. May
nor. After spending several hours Of
pleasure among the picturesque hills and
beautiful mountains, and possessing
conscientious feeling that nature WAS
more sublime than the works Of art, they
retraccd their journey in the evening
toward the setting sun.
This WAS their first trip to the Natural
Tunnel, and they, like all other visitors
had ouy words Of worthy praise to speak
Of it,
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INDUSTRIAL.
! e. Johnson g Co., l.umbormen, Head
quarters Zig Stone Gap-ot!cr In
du.triwl Notes.

luStrtHI NOtoSs
Tho arm Of j. F. Johnsos, Co., repre-
scnting English L Holt, of New Hayen,
Conn. have permanently located here and
established their oflirc in the Ayers Block.
Mr.. J F. Johnson, II most affa'ic gentle
n,p and excellent lusiness man, Is in
charge ofthe business. Tho firm, is buy
ING nonl.r lumber along the l.. Il n, s. A.
q. and N. 4 w. r. Rs. and any one
having good poplar lumber for sale will
"a ve,, 10 communicate With Mr.. Johnson
at This place.
I'll. Templcton has large sa~ mill
located upon tho Roaring Fork Of Powel|s
River and is engaged upon contract TO
cut two million feet Of yellow poplar. He
ha. thirty men employed and j. rapidly
telling the giants OF the forest. On Fri
dnv he cut three twelve foot logs tha.
measured up nearly five thousand feet and
wss compelled to split them before they
could he transported to the mill.
~
All the differences existing betw the
Receiver Of the Big Stone Gap Colliery
Company and J. G. Haskell have been sd
iustcd, and the receiver will complete the
coke ovens as rapidly IS possible.
6~r
c,iyed their revenue stamps and now have
about 1000 Of their different brands box.
ed and good supply placed with all our
merchants. DR.. S. L. Whitehead will be-
gin introducing these cigars to the trade
in few days. This new enterprise begins
business under encouragin. circumstances
AID with promising future before it, and
bids fair to lead all other cigar factories
in the Southwest in quality and prices.
XIX
". W. Nickcls l. Co. are to have very
valuable acquisition to their firm, in the
person OF Mr.. S. I. Nickels, Of Catlctts
burg, Ky. who will remove his family TO
this place in August. They will enlarge
their stock OF dry goods, and also other
departments. Mr.. Nickcls ia an expert
encsd and talented bnsincss man. He be-
lievcs in advertiser. in the proper man.
ncr. "for from the results Of advertising
cometh profit and prosperity" He has
evidenced this fact by contracting with
us for one column to begin with
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|have passed the prime OF life and are get
lting ready for the winter Or last season o.
Lies year. The farmer, too, has cut ms
grain and is getting ready for winter
There is very little more to be said abou'
autumn.e1cept that the most OF MS hate TO
see it come, and hate atill worse to see u
go aud winter core.
Just think hom you and will feel When
we get old and good wsy along in Lille 8
Autumn and begin to..think that We =onl!
have one ore season Of Lifs's Year to
live. and then our allotted three score
years and ten" will he over and iife's
fickering candle burned down to the end.
The gardens all begin to look litsle bare
with the summer vegetables all gone. So
doas our life look to us with all the pleas
urs gone TO us that we enjoyed so very
much when we wore young. Only very
few thugs left that NE can now enjoy!
East of all comes winter. Oh, how yer.
sorry we will he to see it come if ne have
spent thoss other two seasons in idieness,
selishness or wickedncss. But, on the
other hand, how glad ~e will he to see it
come, and look in the glass and see that
all of the hairs in our head are snow
white and only little while to wait and
this season, too, will come to an end.
Tbia 10 tho way We will welcome winter if
no have led'a useful and unsefith life
What q pleasure it will BIO to US then to
look back and recall the many times We
have made others happy, and how very
happy re ourselves will be when We think
of the pleasure we gave our mothers and
fathers, who will then long since have
been laid in the narrow home. This sea-
son will surely come just as certain a. it
does in the solar year.
"There il no death, What seems so is
transition;
This life Of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portals we call death"
Winter nearly over in the life and in
the year also, the only thing We have to
wait for is Gods call for us to come to
Him for one Eternal Spring, and let us
live 50 that We may he able to welcome
that call and that Sprins,-s does the hale
old farmer welcome the frat sOng.sof the
robin and tho spring of another solar year.