ALLIES HEMMED IN {Their Position at Tien Tsin Is Ona of Great Danger. pkre Too Few in Number to Advanc* on IVklu 11 ml a Array of Chinese Troop* Surrounds Tbrm Lllllr Ntm froui the Legation* at tlie J < upltal. >1 London, Jul}' 9.—The foreign office feas issued the text of a telegram from Acting Consul General Warren, at Shanghai, confirming' from a thor oughly trustworthy source the news received by courier from l'ekin July 3, by way of Shanghai, to the London jffice of the inspectorate of Chinese maritime customs, saying that, two legations were, the day the courier left, holding out against the troops and Boxers and that the troops had lost 2.000 men and the Boxers many leaders. Mr. Warren adds that the messenger says the troops were much disheartened by their losses and that Hie Boxers claim their mystic powers have been broken by the foreigners and that they dare not approach the legations. According to a special Che Foo dis patch, the fighting a round Tien Tsin on the 3d and 4th was the severest, vei experienced. The British losses alone were 1.0 killed or wounded. The Chinese had 7.1.000 men attacking si multaneously from the west, north and east, and made excellent practice with over 100 guns. The defenders numbered 14,000. with scant supplies, ind it was only the presence of the newly arrived Japanese and Kitssian guns that prevented a disaster. One Russian company of infantry, num bering 120 '✓en. had 113 killed or wounded. The German contingent ilso suffered heavily. My the evening of the 4tli the situation was very critical. The allies narrowly escaped total defeat. Providential!}, when things were at tiieir worst, a torren tial rainfall compelled the ClNuese to retire. On July the rain having abated, the Chinese renewed the atta< k, open ing tire on Tien Tsin with two bat teries of four-inch guns, but the allies, lided by two of 11. M. S. Terrible's guns, succeeded in silencing the Chi nese artillery after eight hours of fighting. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing yesterday, says; "A message has arrived here from Emperor Kwang Hsu, dated July 2, by couriers from l'ekin to the viceroy of Nankin, who forwarded it here, ft is addressed to the Russian, English and Japanese governments. It de plores the recent occurrences and sol emnly affirms that the foreign gov ernments are mistaken in supposing that the Chinese government is pro tecting the Boxers against, the Chris tians. The emperor further implores •their aid in suppressing the rebellion and upholding the existing govern .ment. Washington, July 11. —The follow ing dispatch was received here last night, by the state department from I Consul Fowler, at. Che Foo, China: "Shan Tung, governor, wires he has reports that on July 4 all legationists in l'ekin were sale except German." London, July 12.—The Chinese sit uation again bears a most ominous aspect. Kightcen days ago Sir l£ol>- steumer Saule ate Din iivrri'd 111 Oun lluy. New York, July 13. —Twenty-four l>odics were recovered yesterday frotn the hold of the burned steamship I Saale, which makes the total number |of dead taken from this ship CO. Most I of the bodies were so badly burned or mutilated that recognition was im possible. but several were identified | by initials or names on articles taken j from parts of clothing' that some times remained. All of them appear ed to be of workmen in the holds of the steamship. Great pumps were worked in the Saale and by 2:20 o'clock the vessel was floated. The ship was in nine or ten feet of mud and when she finally freed herself from this bed she seem ed to jump fully two feet out of the water. Tups undertook to swing the stern of the Saale around toward the middle of the bay. A mud bank on her starboard side resisted and after an hour's tugging the attempt was abandoned. The ship probably will | have to be towed out backward over I the course she came in. After the ninth body had been brought up the men at work in the hold in the search for bodies announc ed that they had counted 15 piled in a heap in the steward's room. The door of this room was found locked. The fire did not get near the unfor tunate ]•">, and their lives might have been saved but for the breaking of the glass in the windows. When the windows were broken the room filled with water and they were drowned like rats in a trap. These bodies were in a better state of preservation than the nine found before them. The tenth body was that of a msn. It was nude and had no marks of identification. The eleventh body was that of a woman. She wore a tflue wrapper and was fully dressed. A wedding ring she wore has the initials "It. \Y. 1890." The twelfth body was that of a man, evidently a steward, who wore a tin badge with the initials "L. ]{.-' There was nothing else to show who he was. The thirteenth body was that of a coal passer. A knife was the only thing found in his pockets. The four teenth body was of a large man bare to the waist, a coal pnsser. The fif teenth body was that of a coal passer. He carried a watch and chain and a bunch of keys, 'iiiere was no address or initials. The sixteenth body brought, up was that of a woman. She wore a wed ding ring on the inside of which was "P. Peitseh, 1890." The supply of coffins gave out after II had been filled. Five more bodies were laid upon the deck of an after cabin and covered with blankets. It was then nearly 7 o'clock. Coro ner Hoffman said he would not slop until all the bodies had been brought up, but his workmen said they could not see. There were eight more bod ies. according to the report of the coroner's men, in the steward's room. How many more there were in the ship no one could tell. It was believ ed by the workmen that all had been found. All the faces of the dead were hor ribly distorted and swollen. The odor of the bodies pervaded the ship and was detected on the Jersey shore when the wind shifted that vvav. I'p to last night 159 bodies of vic tims had 1-een recovered and eight more are known to be on the Saale, having been located, but not taken out. This makes 10? bodies recovered from the ship, river and the bay. One other body was found off llock away, making the total thus far If.S. A CUNNING SWINDLE. Bookmakers Victimized Out of Largfi Sum* l»j tliuu* ol' Ouplicate Tick et*. Chicago, July 12. —Pookmakers at the Washington park race track have lost thousands of dollars through a swindling scheme that came to light, Wednesday. The chief factor in the scheme is under arrest and has named tvvo men as his confederates. All of the pool tickets used at the truck are made by ;vflown town firirt in this city, and yesterday Irwin Ap pel, one of their employes, was arrest ed on the charge of stealing tickets and using them to defraud bookmak ers at the track. After being locked up for an hour he confessed and named C. 11. ltussell and U. Leavitt, both of whom are well known at the track, is his accomplices. The plan was fo watch for the issu ing of tickets and then, making a du plicate, rush to the bookmaker as soon as the race was finished and cash in before the holder of the acr u?l ticket could get around. It is im possible to form an estimate of how large the operations have been, but one bookmaking firm known as the Frisco club has been the heaviest loser and it is said that it alone is out several thousand dollars. Several other bookmakers have been hit hard. IClk* I-liect Officer*. Atlantic City, N. .T., July 12.—There were 2,000 men in line in the 101 ks' pa rade yesterday. The Boston lodge, numbering 200, were wheeled in roll ing chairs and thus presented a no table feature. The. principal build ings in the city were handsomely dec orated. Pefore the adjournment of the grand lodge session, the election of officers was completed, as follows: (j rand secretary, (ieorge A. Reynolds, Saginaw. Mich.; treasurer, I'd ward A. Orris. Mcadville, I'a., royal knight, W. Lloyd Bo wen. New York; lecturing knight, William Prook, Lexington, Ky. Tri,ln ISnhbrrn Secure SiO,oO<>. Paducah, Ky., July 12.—The Illinois Central fast train from New Orleans ! to Chicago was hejd up anil robbed of about SIO,OOO early Wednesday morning, two miles south of Wiekliffe, < Ky. The train was flagged. The fire- i man was badly beaten, while the ex press messenger was driven I'rom his car at the point of a rifle. The rob- , bers, six in number, cut off the en- ] gine and express car and ran a mik i to Fort Jefferson, near the Ohio t river, and within sight of 1 Ik- Mis- i souri shore. There they blo-.v opec the express safe, < FUSION IN TWO STATES. Democrats and Populists ol \rliraaka unit Soutli Ilakota I'iilie In iNamlnj < andldutps tor State Offices. Lincoln, Neb., July 13.—Nebraska ning at :i o'clock Wednesday after noon, completed their work last even ing after an almost continuous ses sion. The conventions were the most re markable since fusion became a fac tor in Nebraska politics. National politics was injected into the pro ceedings, and at one time, though it had in reality no bearing on the di rect issues, threatened a split between the democrats and populists. The question was over the indorsement of Stevenson for vice president by the populists- purely a sentimental one — but it provoked a storm in that con vention which practically blocked all business from 11 o'clock Wednesday night up to the time a recess was taken at 5 o'clock Thursday morning. The excitement developed by the dispute over the apportionment of state officers among the three par ties was heightened by the springing of the vice presidential question, and it reached the climax at 4 o'clock Thursday morning, when M. F. Har rington, one of the leaning populists of the west, warned the convention thai it would wreck the party if they endorsed the withdrawal of Towne from the ticket and conceded the other democratic demands. Mr. Har rington asserted that the way to in crease the middle-of-the-road move ment was to throw Towne over and putin his place one who had never been in sympathy with the populists. •T. 11. Kdmiston, chairman of the populist state central committee and vice chairman of the national com mittee, declared if the populists did not stand their ground, hold their place on the national ticket and in sist on the bulk of the state officers | they could never hold another nation | al convention. Just, at a time when the sentimen* ! seemed strong' for breaking* away i from all alliances, a motion to take a recess prevailed. The democrats ad- I jonrned at the same time and the leaders pot together for a conference with the result that the democrats yielded everything', accepting 1 but a single office on the state ticket anil dividing with the populists and free silver republicans the eigiit presiden tial electors. The conference com mittees were discharged, the populists sent their ultimatum to the democrat* on the question of the division of the slate offices, it was accepted and Gov. Poynter's renomination followed. The ticket was completed with a fair degree of alacrity. Yankton, S. I>.. July 13.—TJoth dem ocrat and populist conventions yes terday received the report of the con ference committee appointed Wednes day. After a heated discussion a sub stitute for the report of the commit tee was adopted and the committees in each case were instructed to con fer again under instructions from the convention. The populists claimed two electors, two congressmen, gov ernor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and commissioner of public lands. The democrats stood out for one congressman and two electors, but \tere willing to concede any of the other offices. The conference committee finally agreed upon the substitute reported back by the populist convention to their committee. The democratic convention then marched into the populist tent amid great enthusiasm. Joseph I>. Moore and Andrew K. bee were nominated for congress. 15. If. Lien, of Sioux Falls, was nominated for governor. WERE WHIPPED BY BOERS. ItcportN u Seriou* Itcfrut of 111M Troop* ut Mtrnl'ii Nrk. London, July 13.-—Lord llolierts re ports to the war office under date of Pretoria, July 12. as follows: "The enemy, having failed in their attack upon our right rear, made a determined attack upon our rig-lit flank yesterday and succeeded in cap turing Nit nil's Nek, which was gar risoned by a squadron of the Scots (ireys, with two guns of a battery of the Hoyal artillery and five companies of the Lincolnshire regiment. "The enemy attacked in superior numbers at dawn, and seizing the hills commanding the Nek, bought a heavy gun lire to bear upon the small garrison. "Nitral's Nek is about 15 miles from here, near where the road ciosses Crocodile river. "The tight ing lasted, more or less, throughout the day, and receiving in formation of tin- enemy's strength, I sent reinforcements from here. Tie fore they reached the spot the gar rison has been overpowered and the guns and a greater portion of the squadron of the (ireys had been cap tured. owing to the horses being shot; also about 90 men of the Lincoln reg iment. "A list of the casualrties has not been received, but 1 fear they are heavy. "Simultaneously an attack was made on our outposts near Durde port, north or the town, in which the Seventh dragoons were engaged. The regiment was handled with con siderable skill by Lieut. Col. Low and kept the enemy in check until they retired on their supports, and would probably have suffered but slight loss had not our troops mistaken some lioers in the bushes for our men. "Smith-Dorrien had an engagement, with the enemy yesterday near Kru gersdorp and inflicted heavy loss upon them." To be Nollltrd at IndiniiHpolln. Washington, July 13.—Aryan and Stevenson will lie formally notified of their selection as the presidential and vice presidential nominees of the dem ocratic party on August 8, at Indian apolis. Information to this effect was received yesterday by I'eprescntati\«* liichardson. of Tennessee, chairman of the democratic congressional cam paign committee, from Senator Jones, the national chairman. Mr. TJichard soii will make the speech of notifica tion to Mr. and Gov. Thomas, of C olorado, that notifying Mr. fitcv enson. PROHIBITION LEADER. I#l>n CM. Woollrr, Presidential (itnti dute, 11ns llrrn lIEXRT 13. METCALF. (Nominee of the Prohibitionists for Vic* President.) tucket, where lie is president of the Providence County savings bank. He Is superintendent of the Sunday school in the Church of Our Father and also president of the board of trustees of Tufts college. He belonged to the re publican party at one time, but became a prohibitionist many years ago. He has been the nominee of that parly for governor of Rhode Maud several times. A Century of I*cut« Yenrw. The twentieth century will have 24 leap years, the greatest number pos sible; three Februaries with five Hun days each, and! 180 eclipses. Though the unexpected will happen frequently In the nexi hundred years, the events mentioned may be counted rn with a reasonable degree of confidence. Strain Rice Milt* In Bias:. Ttiee forms the principal industry of Siam. There are 20 steam rice mills In I'.atrl.olc, and. although the first one In the country was started by an Amer ican, of these mills to-day four are European and all the rest are owned managed by Chinese. IS WORKED OUT. The Cape Nome Cold Field Is Exhausted. THOUSANDS DESTITUTE. A Miner Who was There Telia of His Experience. MEALS COST $1.50 APIECE. Tbp Prlci" of a Mslit*) Cnugea Irom s - to #3, ItrciiU In ,» (rnia a Loal, Tlr a I H*l a I'ouud anil Oilier Artie leu in Pro[>orttou. Washington, July 14. —The secre tary of the treasury has received a letter from Mr. U. liudolph, living at B£t> Broadway, Brooklyn, N. V., on the situation at Cape Nome, Alaska. The department sees 110 reason lv> doubt the trustworthiness of the story told by Mr. liudolph and sug gests its publication. It is becoming daily more apparent to the officials that the conditions in the new go4d fields are certain to result in grea« suffering during the coming winter, especially as epidemics of smallpox and typhoid fever are threatened. The letter is as follows: "On accounts of the terrible re ports in the newspapers concerning the conditions at Cape .Nome, I take, the liberty of sending you a few lines. I left Nome on June 20, and, being: an old miner, I am fully capa ble of sizing up a new mining camp in a few days. I arrived at Xotne on June 12. I and my partner tried working the beach for gold in sev eral places, and 1 personally saw oth ers by the hundreds do the same, but not in one instance did we see a man. take out enough gold to pay for his grub. The only place where any gold was being taken out was between the beach and the tundra. There they were only making day's wages of from $7 to $lO a day. "This place is only about three quarters of a inile long, and it is all taken up by about 500 men. Like the beach, it is now nearly all worked out. I, with thousands of others, had been led to believe that after a win ter, or after any storm, the beach, would be just as good as it was orig inally. That is not so. When onee worked out the beach there is done for. While at Nome I talked with men who had come from points 50 miles below the camp. They told me they had found nothing and they were going further north. J talked, too, with men who had come from, points far up the beach, but they de clared there was nothing up there, and they were going down the beach. So it seems that the whole stretch i& nearly all worked out. "Now concerning the creeks: An vil creek is the richest. Having sprain ed my knee 1 could not go up. but my partner went the full length of it looking for work or for a lay. He could get neither, for at that time— June 15—the creeks were frozen. Alt they could discover was live miners there who were beginning to strip— that is. to take off the top layer of moss—which is left to dry while they begin in another place. Meanwhile the tirst hole would be thawed out.. I'>v that means they managed to work alternate holes. There is no wood in Nome as there is in the Klondike and coal is SOO a ton on the beach, while the cost of refreighting it over to Anvil creek is 1:2 cents a pound. You can figure how rich the ground must be to stand such costs of mining. "No one estimates that more than P.OO hands are at work on Anvil creek, with as many more each on Know, (ilacier and Dexter creeks —a total of perhaps 1.500 men. When 1 left 20.00 ft men were destitute and the only work was in unloading or putting up new buildings. The former task kept, about 500 men busy and the building employed about '!00. When 1 left, on June 20, between 500 and 1.000 were, arriving daily. T went up on the San Mas, which made a trip onto St. Michaels and brought down ."'OO men. The Aberdeen, on which I came back, made two trips, and brought a few over 500. Several other boats made one or more trips to St. Michaels and brought more. "There are far more destitute peo ple at Nome than people on the out side know of.l know that the San Tilns has steerage bunks numbered up to :i9O and over 100 were in the cabin, while there were also about. 20 stowaways. On the Aberdeen they told me that they had about 20 stow aways. and no doubt every boat had a trreat many stowaways. I spoke to dozens of men and they told me that, they had no food, but expected togo to work when they reached Nome. A meal cosls from S1 to $1.50, coffee and pie or three crullers 25 cents; a bed from ■:£ to or when you fur nish your own blankets from $1 to :j>!.so. Canned goods are 50 cents a can; bread 25 cents a loaf: fresh meats from 75 cents to $1 a pound arid other things in proportion. 'There was only one toilet room for the public and there you had to pay. For water the cost was 25 cents for four buckets, and wood was near ly all gone except at a point several miles down the bench. Iwen the lit tle to be found there was half rotten and water-soaked. Coal oil is $7 a case and lumber $l5O for drv and $125 for srreen. per thousand; and is scarce at that. The water wells 112 saw were from 12 to 15 feet deep and arc sure to be contaminated by all of these people being huddled together. When I left there were tents 2(1 deep and about three miles long." Will ISelnrti mid Ntuiul Trial. India:.apolis, July 14.—Charles Fin ley. ex-secretary of state of Ken tuel._\, says that he intends togo back to Kentucky to stand trial foe compile'ty in the murder of Goebel. 3