| Show TJIOSOInlcL OIETY Tbe Foar1 Aana onnula or tlie American Section CHICAGO April 27 The four annual convention of the American section of the Theosophlcnl Koclity was held her today Bertram KeighUy of London was present n the bearer of a message from Madame Blowateky mCg tle ruling spirit of the organization He also hal a lengthy address from tbe council of the British Society and fraternal communications from brncht t c in jrarious European coun JIadamo BlowaUkyd communication communica-tion warned Uio members against the results of nuJs presenting metaphysical metaphy-sical and occult powers in eucli forms n Christian pwer tenc mInd cr et Understand once for all sId he that there I nothing spiritual or dlvino In any of these manifestations The healer Inter fen consciously or unconsciously wiUi the free mental action of the magic person he treatx and this l blank The general secnrfctry report says that the visit to Jajon by Colonel Col-onel Alcott one cf the fonder of the organization has been of momentous mo-mentous Buddhkt importance to the I Church I Thu report recummends the suspension of all tho forms of Initiation existing While solemnly solemn-ly symbolic they are merely confessions con-fessions and words by which membership mem-bership can 1 proved Tbe objections objec-tions were that as the sociity was not a secret body but was merely an organizatiou of students and philanthropists the priient system of grips and passwords resulted In many countries In distrust aud au tagouUm 1l lou JoiinialNlil lie nannrr < IOSDOX April 27 lr Parker In addressing the Congregational Union used the occasion to deliver a bitter denunciatiou on j clal religious ligious journalism He spoke of it as the hope of Uio devil and asserted as-serted that its men suspicious In ucudoes against the urthodoxy of lionett men and Its 3110113 mous attacks at-tacks upon preachers are the curse of Uie day aud that the paper in hi question ought to befurbldden to apl ar In the ChrbUaii family lr iarkcr Is using the columns of a religious weekly b publish attacks upuu Mr Si urgeou abusing him aud exhorting him to widen tbe circle of his life He says in a letter let-ter addressed to Mr Spurgeon You are surrounded by olTerers of incense who later your weakness laugh at your jokes aud feeJycu on compliments Renounce it take more fresh nle scntUr your ecclesiastical astical lurem enlarge your socwl i relations He goea on to charge Spuixeon of iucxcusably contenip luC behavior towards others and of being loo free in Um excommunication excommuni-cation of lib Baptit brethren You a really not infallible occupying asoierugn place in a 1anUieou of yourown iuventiou rnrnr1 In Iral MAi ju > nr > liih April 27 Sanmrack shaft No 3 mar Ited Jacket was dc tn > vtil by fire thl morning John Williams was burned burn-ed todeaUi In attempting Williams lard rescue John Itoue was fiiBl e and John Tiioma so badly liurueil that recovery Is duubtful The origin of the flre f n mystery and incendiarl m is feared 1lllorlrl nn < l I whrd VlIJHNOTON Del April 27 James Hamilton John T Otrcns and James Owens Isaacs who were convicted last I week of stealing a one from Philip West a farmer IMinat Cross Keys wtropillorinl for one hour All whlpjied with twenty lashes each nt Cicorgctown i eslerday Tliey have a years 1m pri onment alHj to rve There lw ing no Jail i yarS the I whipping took place on the village green on a Plat ropeti olTto keep lack the crowd of MI The young len were connected connect-ed with prominent families and their trail was Ole of Uie mOt hotly contested legal bitUes evtr known iu Uite section A Arnt Cnrrrr IWBENCti Kann April 27 The missing leg of thnmiltllitrd body of Mn > Mlttman who was murdered 1 month ago was foul in Uie river today 1 ho police are still hunting for Charles A Benson Uie supposed murderer An investigation of his career shows that he is exiled from Germany whence ho escaped t America several years ag He was charged with blowing up his sisters houveaud killing two of her children Drclilnl to Arrrpl CHICAGO April 27 1 fear of 1 strike by the employes of the United Slat Impress Company were banished today The men by unanimous vote decided to accept for Uie present at let the reduced scale of wage VicePresi dent Crosby told them that the reduction re-duction a absolutely necessary The unrestrained comiietiUon of Uie express companies necessitated unprofitable un-profitable contracts with the railroad rail-road and Uie companies employes had been paid regularly when the stockholders received nothing A pledge was given that when the condition of tile company would want I the salaries would be restored Armlnl far Unnler GAINESVILLE Tex April I 28 J D Morris was arrested here today for the murder of George Roberts and John Moss List Thursday cven In1 On that day the three men were traveling in comjany together through Greer county While his companions were asleep Morris shot and killed them loth robbed the bodies and then burled them in a sandbank Fbrlcllon ST IOOTS April 20 TIle Republic Repub-lic Morrilltou Ark sjiocial says A sensation was produced here by the dispatch from IXMI Angeles tIt ing tI-t I Tom Hooper w as probably iWk n r L Uio man who killed John M Clayton Clay-ton Tlie widow of Hooper lives In Morrillton and in an interview today day stated that Uie story was a fabrication fab-rication from beginning to end tint rdg rdLI she nor her huiland never knew anylwdy named Charles I ewland r Uie time Lewis says her husband was away from home he was sick in bed with droi y of which disease he died last leccmber Further when Clayton was killed her husband Cyn band was sick at home state mcnt can lie corroborated by the fly physician Dr Smith of lot Angle I rl1 Eflctlon IUol DCCLIX April 20 I Is learned Uiat serious trouble occurred during leon proceedings Thursday on the Ponsonby estate Patrick Hlao ton 1 tenant defied the entire for of bailiffs and police having placed an iron gate as a barricade Inside the door of his bouse Tlie door was coon cut t pieces by the sheriffs sher-iffs but they found It Impossible to remove the gala Inside They then tried la effect an entrance througli the windows but Stantou battered I their bed with a fchovel A large crowd of tenants amble and a terioui rio ensued many receiving I rovere Injuries After A fearful tlruesa IWted wveral tenant were r |
