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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Lutheran Church-Rev. W. S. +. Metz
ger, pastor. Services, Sunday 10 A.
M, and 500 P. M. Sunday school, o,3o
A. NJ. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday,
7.3o P. M.
United Brethren Church-Rev. William
L. Martin, pastor. Regular services
by appointment from the pulpit
Class meeting every two weeks at
10 a. m. Prayer meeting every Thurs
day evening. Sunday school, p. NJ.
Mite Society semi-monthly, We'd
nesday evening at 8 o'clock. w. Mis-
meeting monthly at Parsonage.
Methodist Episcopal Church-Rev. w.
L. Orem, pastor. Services every alter
nate Sunday at 10 a. m. and 7 p. m.
Sunday school at 9 a. m. Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday evening at 7.3o
p. m. Epworth League at 6.3o every
Sunday.
Moravian Church-Rev. Mr. Kaiser, pas
tor. Sundayschoo every Sunday, 9 a.
m. Preaching services will be held
every other Sunday. as heretofore, al
ternating mornings and evenings at 10
and $50, respectively.
Reformed Church-Rev, c. A. Whit
more, pastor. Sunday school o3o a.
m. Divine services alternate Sundays,
1890 a. m. and 7.45 p, m.
Guild every Sunday evening, Gas.
Mid-week services, Wednesday, 7.45.
ST. Stephens Church protestant Epis-
copaD-Rev. Ernest McGill, rector.
Services every Sunday, alternating
monthly, at 1890 a. m. and 4 p. m.
Service Friday at q p. m.
Catholic Church-Rev. Father ]. B.
Manley. Mass at 8 a. IN. on Saturday
during May. Services third Sunday in
each month at a. m Sunday-school
3 o'clock p. m.
German Baptist Churcl,--Elders T. J.
Kolb and Johr S. Weybright Serv-
ices each alternate Sunday at 4 o'clock
D, IN,
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FOUR KILLED AND FOUR WOUNDED.
St Louis Flyer CoIlides With a Cattle Train
on the {. B. & Q. Railroad.

Lincoln, Neb., (SpeciaD -Four men
were killed and four others injured in a
collision on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy near Hyannis, Neb.
All of these excepting the fireman
were riding in the smoking car at the
time. This car was reduced to kindling
wood All the injured have been re-
moved to Alliance.
The collision occurred mile east of
Hyannis, between the PortlandSt. Louis
flyer, eastbound, and an extra stock train
bound west, with IS carloads of cattle
There is nothing to indicate who is re-
sponsible for the two trains being on the
same track, and no details as to the rate
of speed at which either was going.
The postal car, in which three Lincoln
men-Frank Livinghouse, W. P. Jacks
and o. Z. Stanheld--were at work, was
demolished, but none of them was Sc
rious]y injured
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CHAPTER v.


To bring woman into focus, by
means even Of scandal, has always
been a sure way to bring upon her
more than her fair share Of the admi-
ration of the other sex. When, there
fore, the object of public attention Is
gifted with unusual attractions Of per-
son and manner, the havoc she makes
in susceptible masculine hearts is pro.
portionately great.
Clifford was not particularly weak
week ago, the idea that he could love
q woman the more for being under
suspicion Of theft. But 1t Is incontest-
able, for all that, that the stronger the
suspicious circumstances grew which
hedged her round, the stronger also
become his own feelings of tender in.
terest.
If she were not the thief, then who
could 1t have been? And If it were
indeed she who had taken his watch
and money. and dropped or thrown
away the former on her way between
Shingle End and the Blue Lion, what
was the cause which had prompted the
act?
The case for somnambulism still
seemed strong to Clifford, for this
would have accounted for the fright
ened look of half-remembrance which
he had seen more than once in her
face, when the theft was being dis
cussed.
On the other hand, she had certainly
been wide awake when he saw her
start for Shingle End across the fields
that morning, at the very time when
she must have been carrying the
watch.
And if not somnambulism, then what
other motive could there be for this
yielding to n horrible temptation on
the part of beautiful, amiable and
apparently candid and good girl? Was
she the victim to that doubtful disease
invented to afford magistrates an eX-
cuse for discharglng well-connected
thieves "of superior education" Was
she, In fact, "kleptomaniac"
Or, again: Were the difficulties of
her uncle not over, as she had repre-
sented them to be, and was she the vie-
tim of q misguided determination to
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DISASTER IN
A COAL MINE
Over Two Hundred Men Were Imprisone'
and Probably Killed.
ACCIDENT CAUSED BY EXPLOSION.
Fully Three Miles From the Mines Opealng
to the Place Where the Men and Boys
Were at Work When an Explosion Hurled
Them Into Eternity - Flames Shoot From
the Entrance.

Coal Creek, Tenn, (SpeciaD The
worst disaster in the history of Ten
ncssee mining occurred at 73o O'Clock
in the morning. Between US and 225
men and boys met instant death at the
Fraterville coal mines, two miles west
of this town, as a result of gas explo-
sion.
Out of the large number of men and
boys who went to work in the morning.
developments at 10 o'clock at night show
that only one is alive, and he is so badly
injured that he cannot live, This man is
William Morgan, an aged Engishman
who was a road man in the mine, and
was blown out of the entrance by the
force of the explosion.
One hundred and seventy-fve miners
were checked in for work by the mine
boss. In addition to these were boys
who acted as helpers and drivers, road
men and others to the number of per-
haps 50.
Fraterville mine is the Oldest mine in
the Coal Creek district. having been
opened in 1870 1t is fully three miles
from the mines opening to the point
where the men were at work. They had
not been at work long before the ter
rible explosion occurred There was a
fearful roar, and then flames shot from
the entrance and the air shafts. News
of the disaster spread like wildfre. but,
as soon as possible, two rescuing par
ties were started in, one at the main en-
trance, the other through the Thistle
mine, which adjoins and in which no
men were at work The Thistle party
was unable to make any headway, as the
gas stifled the workers.
The Fraerville party went fully two
miles under the earth, until a heavy fall
of slate was encountered. AT this bar
rer men worked like demons, hoping
against hope that those beyond might
be safe.
The scenes at the mouth of the mine
while the workers were within were
beyond dscription.
The hopes of the living were doomed,
however, for when once the rescuers
could enter and proceed they walked
through continuous tomb OF death.
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CUITTTIt ~.
Continued.

Continued.
There was q faint track over the
fields, not defined enough to be called
a foptpath, but just clear enough for
him to discern by the trodden look Of
the short grass.
He was within couple Of hundred
yards of the little river, and was look
ing out for any sign of Ncll's presence
In the little kitchen garden on the other
side. when he became aware that the
questionable Jcm Stickels was in sight.
punting slowly down the stream, as he
had done the day before. Catching
sight Of the gentleman, Jem drew his
punt to the shore, and with his black
felt hat on the back of his head, his
short clay pipe in his mouth, his hands
in his pockets, he landed, and slouched
along toward Clifford.
"Well, sir, l warned you as how it
were not wise thing to put up at the
Blue Lion" said Jem, with swagger-
ing insolence which made Clifford
want to kick him. II 'eard Of 1t up at
Fleet yonder," and he jerked his head
back in the direction of the old ruined
castle up the river. II s'pOse there's
been grand pretence O huntin' about
the place, and how they've found moth
in.' They're gettin' used to these lit
tie scenes by this time"
After one glance at Clifford's face,
+bo ,,,op LOT bic ovoc uyo n dor o1caU hora
Looking shiftiLv and idly about as he
spoke, his attention was suddenly ar
rested, just as he finished his speech,
by something on the ground apparent
ly a few feet from where Clifford was
standing. The latter noticed the rapid
change which came over the mans
face, the eager look of interest and as
tonishment with which he stood gazing
bpen-mouthed at the one particular
spot on the ground.
In spite of himself Clifford turned
his head and looked. too.
There. on the grass behind him, not
three feet from the track he had fol-
lowed, was his own watch. with the
CIldlu Sllll uttdCHtu W II, ~ ing hoiL-
hidden in the stubbly growth of the
field.
For the first moment Clifford stared
without speaking or moving, dumb
with Astonishment.
my watch! How did it get there?'
he stammer at last.
The man laughed scornfully.
"Aye, how did it? I think could
give good guess, If ! dared"
what do you mean?"
"Why, that this is the way Miss Nell
Claris goes to see Miss Bostal at Shin
gle End, and that nobody but her ever
uses 1t. That is what l should make
SO bold as to mean, If could speak my
mind. And I'll wager Miss Nell has
been along here this morning. Oh,
she don't get around the swells for
nothing, she don't"
Clifford sprang at the man and pin
ioned him by the throat.
"You lying cur!' he hissed out, saw
agely. "You deserve a thrashing for
thisv'
But even as he flung the fellow
sprawling in the mud of the river
bank, Clifford felt chill at his heart
when he saw the evidence closing
round pretty Nell.
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10 Drowned 10 Killarney.

London, (By Cable).--Nine tourists,
including four women, and four boat
men, were drowned by the upsetting of
a boat on the lakes of Killarney. Coun-
ty Kerry, LELAND, during squall. The
wreck of the boat in which they went
sailing was found near the spot where
the Pennsylvania University boat crew
won its victory last July Three corpses
were clinging to the sides Of the boat
when it was found. Four of the tour
lists drowned were South Americans and
the other FIVE were English
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ParthQuake In California.

San Francisco, Especially An earth
quake shock, which was felt generally in
Northern California, occurred at 1890
o'clock A. NJ In this city and the inn
mediate vicinity windows were broken
and in some other places the shock was
even sharper. Felano county reports the
most violent shock in 10 years In Sui
sun clocks were stopped at 1892. The
tremor was from northwest to south
east and lasted about 20 seconds.
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Peace May Be Near.

London, (By Cable) No details have
been received regarding the Boer delb-
erations at Vcreeniging, but the Daily
Mail understands that peace is absolute
ly assured. The source from which the
Daily Nal obtains this information is
the same as that which enabled the pa
per to announce on April 49, that peace
was assured. That was before anything
had been said about meetings between
Lord Kitchener and the Boer leaders.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-05-22
New Law in Sea Crimes

Manila, (By Cablc).-The United
States Philippine Commission has passed
an act conferring marine jurisdiction
upon the courts of first instance, which
permits these courts to punish crimes
committed at sea. The military orders
and acts of the provost courts referring
to such crimes, previously in force, are
repealed by the act passed by the COM
mission
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Rapids TO Run a Biz Mil.

Pittsburg, (Special) The Pittsburg
Reduction Company will erect one of
the first big industrial plants at Masse-
ma, N. Y, to utilize electric power Sc
cured by the St. Lawrence Power Com
pany, which has bridled the Long Sault
Rapids at a cost of $4,000 600 The
Pittsburg Reduction Company's first
plant will cost $soo,ooo and will be for
the manufacture of aluminium, which is
being made at 4 similar plant owned by
this company at Niagara.
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TOWN DIRECTORY.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
President of Board, J. F. D. Miller.
Commissioners, Frank Hesson, w. J.
Freeze, ]. T. Waesche, c. A. Weller.
Bailiff-Benedict Knott.
Justice of the Peace-John Jones.
Notary Public-W. w. Zimmerman.
Postmaster-J. Henry Cover.
Agent w. M. R. R-Frank Hesson.
Thurmont National Bank-Sam'l M.
Birely, Cashier.
High School-H. D. Beachley, Princi-
pal.
Public Schools-H. J. Kefauver, Prin-
cipal: Misses M. Beth Firor, Mary Lam
ders, Grace Henshaw, Assistants.
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LODGE DIRECTORY.

Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 46, I. o.
O. F., meets every Thursday.
Acacia Lodge, No. I55, A. F. & A. NJ,
meets every second and fourth Monday.
Chancellor Lodge, No. 67, X. of P,
meets every Saturday.
Columbia Council, No. 81, Jr. O. U. A.
NJ, meets every Friday.
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Trains Going EAST.

Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg
at 8 26 and 10 80 IN, and 81 and 81
pm.
Leave Edgemont for Waynesboro and
Chambersburg at 705 m, and for Ship
pensburg at II 40 m, and 7 80 p m.
Leave Hogerstown for Cherry Run and
points on Potomac Valley Railroad at
5 10 m and IL 08 and s 05 p m.
Leave Bruceville for Frederick at 8 39,
Q 50 and 10 40 an and 46 and 80
p m, and for Littlcstown Taneytown,
Wrightsville and Columbia OF 8 Al m
and 8 45 p m.
*Daily--nll other daily except Sunday.
J. NJ. Hoop, B. II. GRIswoLp,
Gcnl Manager. Gan. Passenger Agsps.
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Financial.

The New York subtreasury statement
shows that the banks have lost $4,000
during the week.
S. NJ. FELTON,, president of the Chicago
& Alton, has been elected a director of
the Louisiana & Missouri Railroad.
The National Lead Company has de-
clared regular quarterly dividend of ~
per cent. on preferred stock, payable
June I6.
The Virginia Car Chemical Company
directors have declared quarterly divi-
dend of ~ per cent on common stock
This is an increase of "a per cent.
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To be Continued.

The census returns show that clear
majority of .he people Of New Jersey
live within twenty miles Of the New
lYork. City Hall ------------~---
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THIJRMONT THURSDAY, MAY 22 1902
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

At a special meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the United States Steel Corpora
ton the resolution to pay q per cent
commission to the underwriters of the
issue of $25o,ooo,ooo bonds was adopted
though there was minority protest
Because his proposal to marry I3-
year-old girl, Abittra Mccullough, was
rejected, William Austin killed the child
and four other persons and committed
suicide near the town of Hastings, Fla.
Judge Lafontaine, in Montreal, again
remanded Gaynor and Greene to the
custody of the detectives having them
in charge in behalf of the American au-
thorities.
The Toledo Grand Jury returned in
dictments against city officials and 9TH
ers involved in the municipal scandal on
various charges of corruption.
Bishop William Taylor, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, died at Palo, Al
to, Cal, at the age of 81 years.
Judge Wexford, of Richmond, Va,
spoiled the social club scheme of the
liquor men to evade the Sunday liquor
selling law by inserting a provision in
the charters forbidding the sale of liq-
uors.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is reported
to have given notice to the Western Un-
ion Telegraph Company to- vacate its
occupancy on the railroad right of way
on the Pennsylvania system
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, in convention in Norfolk, Va,
accepted an invitation to attend the
Charleston Exf osition.
Sydney and Junius Booth, nephewS of
the late DR.. Joseph Adrian Booth, filed
in New York caveat to the Doctors
will.
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch said in his SER
mon in Chicago that the Jewish Sabbath
was dead, and urged the observance of
Sunday
Gaynor and Greene, the contractors
charged with conspiracy against the gov
ernment, are at a hotel in Montreal,
guarded by detectives. There promises
TO be great legal fight.
Church insurance was considered by
the committee on church extension of
the General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.
The Maryland Virginia Oyster Com
mission agreed upon certain recon-
mendations to be made to the legsla-
lures of the two States.
Lewis G.. Toombs was sentenced in
Chicago to be hanged for the murder of
Carrie Larsen, whom he had lured to
his boat
Mrs. Carrie Nation was sent to Jail
for 80 days in Topeka, Kan, for smash
ing liquor stored in an empty barn.
A number of fertilizer concerns in Ala
bama have been absorbed by the Vir-
ginia Carolina Company.
w. w. Berkeley, of Roanoke, Va,
announced his candidacy to succeed the
late Congressman Otey.
Charles NJ Schwab, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, .pur-
chased bathing beach facing New York
Bay, which he proposes to be used for
poor and sick children of New York.
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foreign.


Remarkable letters from residents of
St Pierre, Martinique, written several
days before the disaster, have been re-
ceived in Paris. The writer's calmly de
scribe the rush of people to the city and
the suffocating sensations caused by the
volcanic heat and dust, and speculate as
to when and in what form the final
calamity would overwhelm them.
Reports as to the revolt in the south
ern part of the Province of Chi Ii,
China, are conflicting The Chinese For
eign Office notified the ministers OF the
foreign powers that the uprising had
been quelled, but Russian advices say
the situation is serious.
Nine English tourists and four boat
men were drowned by the upsettlng OF
boat on the Lakes of Killarney Ireland.
Many lives were lost and much prop
erty destroyed by hurricane in the
Province of Scinale, British India.
The Columbian revolutionists are re-
ported to be steadily making headway
in the interior.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
assassinate the Governor of Wilma, Eu-
ropean Russia.
Private kilograms received in London
from South Africa are said to indicate
that the negotiations between the Boer
leaders and the British at Vereenging,
Transvaal, will result in peace.
The shareholders of the White Star
Line, it is said, have ratified the Morgan
Atlantic shipping combine agreement.
Requiem masses we're celebrated in the
churches of France for the victims of
the Martinique disaster
Fifty robbers of the dead in the ruins
of St. Pierre have been sentenced to
Imprisonment. Investigation shows that
the sea has encroached from ten feet to
two miles on the coast of the Island of
St Vincent and that section on the
north of the island has dropped into the
sea. Mont Pelee was again active Thurs
day night and yesterday, and the people
in a number of districts are panic
stricken.
The third court of the King and Queen
of England, held at Buckingham Palace,
was brilliant function, Notwithstanding
the agitation in London society over the
conflicting orders of the King concern
ing the wearing of trains.
By the tactics of the opposition, the ces-
S on of the Danish West Indies was
again delayed in the Danish Parliament
A mob attacked the palace in Port
au Prince and was fired on by the pres
idental guard
Andrew Carnegie declared in London
that it was true he had offered the
United States $2o,ooo,ooo for the indie.
pendence of the Filipinos.
Scientists who have arrived on the ISL
and of ST. Vincent predict another erup.
ton. Great physical changes have taken
place on the island No person has yet
been able to get within eight miles of the
new crater of Soufrere.
Dispatches from Kingston, Jamaica,
confirm the reports that the British gcv.
ernment will decide to abandon ST. Vim
cent Island and transfer the people now
there to other islands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-29
HON ALPHONZ0 HART
ernor of Ohio, in recent letter from

of oh in recent letter from Washington D. O., The Fortuna Go, Columbus Oho
 using Peruna cafarh. and for and Is also cood to1ic" A. HART.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-29
Q the pdltor of the Age-Herald:

To the Editor of the Age-Hcraid:
 To the observant ontoolsen whose only interest is the advancement of the state. the present condition of affairs appears to be real contest as to whether the white people of Alabama are capable of honest self-government The suggestion in some of the papers that an attempt is being made by the politicians to shift the issue from Governor Jeflss to the now Constitution Is misleading: the Coneti- tuition has been the issue an along, and Governor JeIlzs has been recognized as favoring the Constitution and his real strength lies In the fact that he is for giving the new constitution a fair trial, and this imports that ne wants a Leg1s- lature which will in good faith carry out its mandates.
 desire 1t to be understood that write not as the advocate of any can Gi6ato, but I am for the new Constitu- ton for honest primaries and elections, and popular education. The Issues in- volvtd In the present campaign seem to me to overshadow any individuals, and in my Judgment further involve the pol icy, and Il may be the existence of the Democratic party-and these mean the policy of the state-for many years.
 The people have tired of unbridled po- that has been said about the counting or cheating or corruption by which the new Constitution was adopted, large majority of the white people are willing to go to any length to get honest cleo tions and free schools, the two vital things promised by that instrument, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-29
BESSEMER.

Bessemer, June 2S.-(Special) )-Mr. Cicero Ward of McCalla died yester- day at his home at that place, where he has lived for the past thirty years. MT. Ward. who was prosperous farmer, was 73 years old, and lived alone. The funeral services were held today, the interment being in Moore's Cemetery.
 A committee is working hard to
 ~''-r Fourth of July cele- bration a great success. There will be ball games throughout the day, be- sides foot and other races, and grand ball at night. The citizens of Brighton are preparing for big barbecue.
 It is understood now that free mail delivery service will be inaugur- ated here early in July.
 MT. and Mrs. T. R. Copeland, who were quietly married by the Rev Mir Read at the home of the bride last Wednesday night, returned today from a brief honeymoon spent on Lookout 
 The Epworth League of the First Methodist Church held delightful so- cial meeting last night at the residence ol the Rev and Mrs. D. w. Read.
 The Rev. and Mrs. Read leave short ly for the East to be absent about a month. During his absence MT. Reads pulpit will be filled by the Revs. Glenn, Howell, Sellers and others.
 ATS. Sue Malone of Athens is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. P. Hamil.
 Miss 4..a.~e Terry returned today to Griffin. Ga, after pleasant visit here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-29
NEGRO SHOT AND
 STABBED OFFICER
SYLACAUGA'S MARSHAL PARED BADLY WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ARREST A NEGRO RosHER-THE CULPRI. ESCAPES.

Sylacauga, June 2S.-(Specfal)-In at tempting to make an arrest at an early hour this morning, City Marshal J. d. Phillips was stabbed in the right arm and neck, and received a bullet in the left thigh from his own pistol The shoot ing toi5 place in the rear of Johnston & Looney's store between the hours of 1 and o'clock, when the marshal iiscov- cred negro entering the rear of the store. When tho negro saw that he was discovered he turned upon the officer stabbing him In the right arm and in the neck, severing the bicep muscles in the arm.
 After receiving the cut in the arm the officers pistol dropped from his hand ard was secured by the negro, who shot him in the thigh and ran. The officers condition Is not at the present considered by the physicians IS being very serious, but owing to the fact that the wound in the thigh could not be drained, compli- cations may yet arise. The negro suc- ceeded in making good his escape, but a telegram has peer sent to the state prison at Spigeners for the dogs, and nope is yet entertained that he will be caught.