THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Mr. Bryan will devote all his atten- tion to .'imperialism’” in his netifica- tion reply. Many revruits have been received for the Marine Corps, and thev are gboye the average in intelligence Taére 1s an increased demand at home and abroad for ocean coal-car- rying vessels, A speaker at a Prohibition meeting Hartford charged the President ith being responsible for the canteen at army posts, Patrick Logan killed his father drunken fight in Brooklyn. The race riots in New Orleans were rengwed and two more policemen were killed by the negro desperado Charley, who was eventually shot. Freight trains on the Pennsylvaria Railroad collided near Millstone June tion, N. J. blocking the road for some hours and causing $30,000 of damage The steamer Florence S. was report- ed lost on lake lLebarge, Alaska, and 40 people were drowned. Miss MacDonald, 12 years old, by in terfeding with ex-Senator Clark, of Mentana, has gained the pardon of hei father, a life convict. General Shafter has Army Pardoning Beard. Indians have started numerous est fires in Nerthwest Montana. Testimony in the Goebel case shows that Caleb Powers had Governor Tay- lor's pardon in his pocket when ar- rested. The papers B. Molineaux, of murder, number pages. Peary’'s relief steamer Windward has sailed again for the Arctic Ocean. A plot to release Berkman from Western Pennsylvania penitentiary tunneling was discovered. He Anarchist who tried to kill H. C in Pittsburg. At Hartford, Conn., Charles Hoyt, e playwright, opposed in vain an ap- plication committing him to a retreat for the insane. It is believed in Washington that General Rathbone, former director of posts In Cuba, has been placed under arrest in Havana. A new avenue will Gettyshurg battlefield line Confederate artillery battle. A railroad will Beaus Mill, Upshur tonsville, Randolph county Herbert B. Stimpson, a who was decorated with the « the Legion of Honor by King Hum of Italy, committed suicide at Wich Kansas The Somers tive opinion in Fire in Buffalo d vator laden with gre most $500 000, In the cused of in na appointed an for in the appeal of Roland of New York, convicted 4626 typewritten the by the Frick is he 10 laid follow during aout on the the be constructed from county, to Hut WwW. Va criminolog TOSS ' of bert ita (Pa.) Legisla by a judicial -Quayites, d a grain el The loss | ot was County decided favor of the ant contest eRIrOve Jester Gilbert the rial of Alexand the murd:« in 1871, witnesses New london, Me. for the prosecution A binocular glass ig to be presented by President McKinley to ir Baillie for saving lives An extended ter of the glass beld in Pittsburg, but n was reached After three strikinz coal Pa. succeeded mands, It i= announced in Sterling the Chicago, Burlington and Quin to build a raliroad in Alaska. The Kansas Midland Railway bas been sold, and will become part of the "Frisco system. The German Government has im- pressed Into service as a transport the Hamburg-American steamship Adria, now at Philadeiphia. . A fire in Chicago death of four women four persons. Mrs. John Evans, of Scranton, Pa. a bride of a week, was given oxalic acid in mistake for epsom salts by her father. She will probably die A Skagway dispatch says the Ameri can miners in the Porcupine district are incensed because in fixing the boundary part of the gold mines are now within British territory. A stampede of miners has occurred in the Juneau district of Alaska. The objective point is the placer diggings at Glacier Bay. A Tacoma dispatch says four out of a party of five Jost their live« in the trip from Dawsdn to the headwaters of the Stewart river. ac r of for rebutted defense testimony ap conference cutters months’ miners near Scranton in gaining their de nl the to resulted in and injuries Lake, The engineer and fireman of a Chi- cago. Milwaukee and St Paul passen- ger train were killed by running into a landslide near Wabasha, Minn. The second section of the Washing- ton and New York express ran into the first section at Wilmington, Del, and wrecked the last car. No one was in- ured. Mr. Bryan will attend the G. Encampment in Chicago. Police Captain Day, of New Orleans, and ene of his men were killed In a pistol fight with two negroes, one of whom was captured, A wholesale jail delivery at White Plaing, N. Y., headed by “King” Edgar Burnz. the boy murderer, was frustrat- ed by the jall deputies, Former Senator Clark's contribution of $100,000 has been received by Rich- ard Croker, but it is not for the Demo- eratic National Committee. It is for Tammany Hall, to be used for New York State purposes, ‘rank Black, of Carlisle, Pa., was ar- " pd charged with attempting to shoot Mr. Daniel Cover, father of Miss Bertha Cover, to whom he had been paying attentions and who had reject od his suit. in the trial of Powers, charged with complicity in the Goebel murder, evi- dence was preduced that Youtscy sajd that he had $100 to give “to get Goebel out of the way.” Dr. Oswald B. Iinney, long promi- in California. A. R fought a duel with Judge Roger A. Pryor, died in Onancock. yeas old. "WITH THE BOXERS. SECRET CHINESE EDICTS SHOW OFFICIALSYMPATHY FOR THEM, GOVERNMENT PARALYZED Navy Department Has Made Public Addi tional Chapter in Kemp's Report —Mup. penings Which Took Place at the Taku Fight Induced Him to Make Common Cause With the Allies Navy De the fol- Admiral Washington (Special). partment has just made lowing The waite additional in Kempfl's report: “United States aku, China, June 20, ‘Sir Referring to my tions in declining to take part seizure of the Taku forts, and In afte; ward making common cause with foreign forces in the protection of for eign life and property, fully state that the Chinese Govern ment is now paralyzed and the edicts show that it is in sympathy with the Boxers. “2. The fact circumstances were given chapter Flagship Newark 1900, recent af in the rot RECT . the existing the troops at the much extra drills, doeg were provided and, it is claimed planted in the entrance of the was considered mena senior naval officers sufficlent cause justify them in demanding the tempo rary occupation of the forts, This cul- minated in the bombardment of the forts by other foreign gunboats on the morning of the 17th inst, which been described. the Monocacy struck without vious warning. “3. It is now necessary the other foreign powers defense and preservation people and the honor of our ‘4, 1 refused to join In taking pos- session of the Imperial Chinese Rall way station, and also declined to join in the demnand for temporary occupa- tion of the Taku forts, for | thought it against the policy and wishes of Government to be entangled other foreign powers in fiuch a and alse because it endangered liver of people in the interior in vance of absolute necessity, for early morning of June 17 the C Government had not committed far as I am aware act of open hos- tilities toward armed that under Ore and pre was fired upon having received {to join with for with step, the any the foreign forces 5 In fire Was opening an act of war shots were Monocac v %« from the forts ing must h known of there she had been tion for a number many where the 000 vard ave as Das “In E arde« prot i Ve KEMPF} Rear-Admiral, UU. 8 LOUIS n command United ree, Asiatic Station the Ni Bureau Washington, D rota retary vigation ivy of HOSTAGES IN PERRIN, This Is a Theory Ad cigners vanced a» slers eign Min cafe it is added ing Pekin under a Chi be heard fre that th foreigners flNe #9 in are leav cort the coast While anywhere, and will soon at these stos not feeling ia growing tt the Ministers may after all be al They may. it thought, be held as hostages by Chinese Government in the hope of getting better terms from the powers Color is lent to by the proposition of the Chinese Government submitted to Washington officiais, of- fering to produce the foreign Ministers at an seacoast town provided the allies will agree to take no further steps of military aggression The was promptly rejected by the Govern ment. It Is thought that a like propo- gition has been made to the other pow. ore Stories fen Are credited the hat ve is the this view of the killing of foreig and burning up of missions come from several parts of China. The trouble is said to be spreading It reported on the other hand, that the Boxers are growing tired of the movement and are turning on their leaders. Prince Tuan i= said to have been murdered by mutinous followers gners in Was In Confederate Congress, Atlanta, Ga. (Special). ~Judge Rob ert Pleasant Trippe, believed to be the last surviving member of the Confed- of the Sunreme Court of Georgia, dead. FIELD or I ABOR. Berlin taxes dogs, Chicago has 4118 attorneys. Havana has 1000 policemen. A Filipino horse is worth $25. Japan is opening petroleum fields, New York strike pickets use bicycles, hour. Soon we may telephone to the An- tipodes, Cuba is the greatest sugar-producing country. Strasburg announces a substitute for gutta percha. 8t. Louis has hardware house, the world's largest for a bedstead. Doctors in Germany are increasing four times as fast as the population, In Switzerland a telephone can be fitted to private houses for $6 a year. More than one-third of all manufac- tured goods In France are made by women, In Nebraska nowadays the skins of superfluous doge are tanned and made in o gloves, Owing to the scarcity of boy labor, the District Messenger Company of | London has been forced to utilize 18- gitls In four of is offices, The telegraph poles along the Sa- in ARE GOING TO TIENTSIN. CHINESE LEGATION SAYS EXVOYS ARE MOVING, Washington (Special), ception of the American minister foreigners were alive and the the from that the Was message at Pekin July 18, News that was in effect safe most cheering London, It Pekin flashed from that the and about to ¢ legationists were tart for Tientsin, This happy confirmation of Minister at the Brit Macartney, h secretary Conger's cable ish capital by 8h was given Halliday and Engli legation in counsellor to the Chinese The Chinese communicated to the press from the Taotal of Shanghai information of July 18 the Ministers were well From the French Consul at Chefn was cabled a message to the Minister Aff (at Paris), M. Del which sent a thrill of joy to the all It was July 21 leciared then that according to re news from Pekin the forel Ministers were alive. Furthermore wax given that the Gov- endeavoring to rescue and London, at London a dispatch that Pe asserted all Minister irs CARNE i hearts of dated en urance was guard them The State Deg partment receive da dis Prince Tuan had wired that officer of the Tsung Li Yamen saw Ministers July 15, that none injured, and that they were not that time being attacked. It was thought probable that a mis take had been made in the name and was really Prince Yuan, Gover nor of the ung proving instead of the Boxer chieftain That the United States Government still has supreme faith that Conge MESBUEe Was all it purports gd to be was hown by the statement given out that willing to mediate enarding under certain conditious. an the Were al Shanty notorious China LETTER FROM CONGER, This Message Stated Pekin Could Hold Out Bat Short While The ved at AgRLIOns Washington (Special). ng cablegram has been rece Department Britis} general mas xioeged TWO wee KH who are on “nt ex rmined Entry MISSIONARIES RECALLED, lishep Graves Says That the Situation is Girawing Worse. fapan dered to tren not necessarily et and there are ral such Yangtze River protection of foreign men cable re day on the the f- war The shows that the only point regarded term Cen indicate by the Episco territory. ceived to. in Central China that is still as safe is Shanghal The tral China” is used roughly that territory which is drained Y angtee All the Protestant pal missions are In that to ME. DRAPER MAR RESIGNED, fleporied That Our Italian tive Will Serve Nao Longer Maes of He etter ited ange his entire atl that the and he grepted Hepresenta Wm WwW ash gna-« Milford (Special) Gen pedale, sent to tendey ing his Amt ington a res tion as Un Italy bed mand He said good faith tion will be Washington States assador to geiness interests de his ention jeter was hopes his + in sent In resigna- Dr. Hil said Te port who that that resig- i Bp all ¥ he knew nothi of the General Draper bad sent nation ax Ambassador to Italy General Draper was appointed to his present office soon after Mr. McKinley became President, and it is understood in his If he has resigned or determined must be, as stated in the because his pri- vate business demands his attention. MIROERED BY MIS nan, w Calf SMlanghtered. Glencoe, O. T. (Special). year-old son, a calf, Peterson went shade tree, with which the calf had been killed. to sleep throat, ing him almost instantly. Then the little fellow entered (he kitchen to tell his mother that “Papa does not jump like the chickens, but went to sleep like the calf.” WASHINGTON CITY. tween the United States and Italy has The President appointed Brigadier. General Chaffee, who is to command the American forces in China, a major- General, The report of the Patent Commis. gloner shows a large surplus for the fiscal year, with a corresponding in. cresse of patents applied for and granted, He advocates a new building. — REPLY TO CHINA. TO EMPEROR KWANG HSL. MEDIATE UPON CONDITIONS Knowledge of Fate of Ministers at 'ekir Instated Upon Full Text of the Corres pondence Which Passed Between Me Two Governments McKinley's Answer Guarded and Diplomatic. The follow hetween the Pres and the Em § made public by 1! Washington (8pecial) ing correspondence of the of China was Department of Wu on aotal of United States peror he state Translation received Minister a cablegram July 20, 19060, from Shanghal, July 18 by dated 19040: Have received from Gov Yuan (of Sha dated 23 ernors tung) {July 19), who, hav the Privy dispatch embodying an day of this moon ing received from Counc (at Pekin) a imperial letter President of the has instructed me to your Excellency The imperial message is res fully trans mitted as follows: The Emperor of China to his lency the President o to the States in pect Foxe el {f the United maintained friendly United States and is deeply conscious that the object of the United States international com merce. Neither country entertains the least suspicion or distrust toward the other. Recent outbreaks of mutual antipathy between the people and the Christian m caused the foreign powers to view with suspicion the po- of the Imperial Government as people and prejudicial with the result that the cked and captured been a clash- alamitous conse uation has become serious and critical ve a telegraphic i emorial from Envo ¥ Wu 1 ing Fang, and it ig highly gratifying to us to learn that the ment, having in view i between the two count in the long relations with the is ixksions «ition favorable to the to the missions aku forts were atta ‘onsequently ng quences, The more and more ‘We ha there has of forces with « sity just received our United States GGovern- friendly rela- has present the has un- the 100s ries taken a nierest Now China if events nigh For settling the pre deep driven bj iniver well f the Know that fact that of the United § g but wh the pie : 1 and equita- purpose for whict landed China was na nothin bie The trot in rescue of our legation fror grave danger and the tion of the lives and property of Americans who were sojourning in Chi- na in the enjoyment of rights guaran teed them by treaty and by interna tional law. The same purposes are publicly declared by all the powers which have landed military forces in your Majesty's Empire 1 am infer from your Majesty's letter that the malefactors who have disturbed the peace of China, who have murdered the Minister of Germany and a member of the Japanese Legation and who now hold besieged in Pekin foreign diplomatists who still have not only not received any encouragement from but are actually in rebellion imperial authority. If this I most solemnly urge upon Government to give whether the foreign and, if in what + pe protes fo thous survive, favor or Majesty against the be the case our Majesty's public assurance Ministers are alive, ondition “To put the diplomatic representa- tives of the powers in immediate and free communication with their respect. ive governments and to remove all ger to their lives and liberty “To place the imperial authorities of China in communication with the relief expedition so that co-operation may be secured between them for the libera tion of the legations, the protection of foreigners and the restoration of der “If these objects are accomplished it is the belief of this Government that no obstacles will be found to exist on the part of the powers to an amicable settlement of all the questions arising out of the recent troubles, and the friendly good offices of this Govern. with the assent of the other powers, be cheerfully placed at your Majesty's disposition for that purpose, WIL LIAM McKINLEY — sk A Tennesse Atsutaiualion. Nashville, Tenn. (Special). Near the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at The Hermitage, Alex. Donelson, one of the best-known men in Davidson county, was assassinated by some unknown person. Donelson was en route home and was going through a lane when he was shot and killed, Twe Eaplosions In ,. Lenin #t. Louis, Mo. (Special).~Two ex- plosions, which damaged Transit Com- your sa dan- Orr. which a woman was wounded by a stray bullet, occurred here. A car of the southwestern division was blown up on South Seventh street. Another car of the Broadway line was blown up in South Broadway and the front trucks were demolished, Mrs. Annie Kollmeter was struck by a bullet in a bombardment of a Cho teau avenue car, sustaining a slight flesh wound, HIGHLANDERS CAPTURED. | GEN, RORBYRTS (OMMUNIC ATIONS | AGAIN SEVERED BY DE WET. London (By Cable) —General Dx has cut Lord Roberts’ both raflway captured 100 of the Hig The story of bold raid telegram from Walker forwarding a communications hy raph, And and teleg hlanders, the Fe deral command the neral er x Comes in 4 y dated at Cape Town July 22 digpatch from General Knox follow H ing from Bre rider to Honingsp Kroonstad Have commando since July 1 Ha fighting at Palmictfontein, July 18 Prevented from pursuing laage by darkness Eight dead Boers found Our losses 5 k wounded Boers doubled bi kraal in darkne Roode Vaal Station 3000 men and horse the enemy's movem: commando consists 4 guns, and dent Steyn and General and main Honingepruit the telegraph Potchefstroon mation De W way and going north General Kelly - Ken from Bloemfontein "The railway has north of Honingspruit and a ply train and 100 Highlanders the ene my A report was that large of the nemsy ving Honingspruit. All commun on wi Pretoria is cut off The Second and Third Cavalry Brigades are following the enemy.’ The War Office b gram from i.ord Roberts the news contained In telegram from General r-Walker, given above, and continues “Methuen cont his march after the pation of Hed kport and en gaged the enemy's rear guard at Zinds fontein July 20 Losses, 1 killed and wounded ‘Hunter ton Spitzray wita al ron Highlan Our los killed the Oxf tenant as Follow adwood sent by wired followed 4 ligkpatch ripit thence to have harp Hed Paarde march news of RCCOMIPAD both the Knox contis of the rallwa heave heen cut to Pretoria by According my has crossed th ies fine way 10 #1 ny heen captu foree as received a tele- which repeals the Forestie oon ris Ham the Cams Bruce 13018 POR repo gecured a tion on and the m : the { atlery ders and 504 amerons Hamilton, of irown and BOK Were Ke aptain and x in and Captain Lieu orgs, 1 i t and 13 of the Cam- Slewar wounded Blue Ba ying the reference ith Als ENDING WAR IN PHILIPPINES, Amnesty Resolutions Sent ta Aguinalds Answer Fapected Soon fenor here Jun neral MacArtl other doc "Hlipinos 34 BTIsWY them, and the ¢ . oration of pead It is Aguainaldo non his and that a ay be expected within a month Mlipinos here gave a banque bration of President McKi order of amnesty It i= officially announced that last week 200 insurgents were killed and 130 surrendered or were captured. One hundred rifles were taken Twelve Americans were killed and eleven wounded This includes the casualties of Col- Wm. BE. Birkhimer's engagement with a force of the Twenty-eighth Volunteer Infantry. who attacked 200 insurgent rifles entrenched two miles east Taal killing 8 A detachment of Signal Corps. while repairing wires was twice ambushed Capt. Charles DD. Roberts, of the Thirty-fifth Volunteer Infantry, who was captured by the Filipinos last May has arrived here on parcie. He will not return to captivity hearing rest that advisers upon will repis inderstood t In nley’s of the UNCLE SAM BUYS LAND, Two More txlands Purchased In Philip. Prine Group. Madrid (By Cable). ~The Cabinet considering the proposition of United States Government for the ces- gion of the Islands Cibitu and Caga- yen in consideration of an indemnity of $100,000, The Ministry regards the proposition favorably, proc ceding Governments are rapiaiy Five Mathers Perish. from the eastern part of this the drowning of five persons in Wjley's Lake. It was an exceedingly hot day and Mrs. Wiley's little party of five went in bathing. They went out on a raft which suddenly began to wobble, and some of the bathers fell into the water, The others made a3 desperate attempt to rescue their companions, and in so doing all perished, Miner Killed by Fall of Siate. Fairmont, W. Va. killed in one of the mines of Monon - gah by a fall of slate. He was about 356 years old and leaves a family, FOREIGN A FFAIRS ot “ “ Queen Victoria and her suite arrived at Osborne. The big strike of the dock laborers at Rotterdam is ended. King Charles of Roumania author- ized M. Carp to form a new cabinet. The Boers made an attack on a Brit- ish fort near Heldelberg, but were beaten off. Two hundred persons were killed or Jured as the [el of voleanic erup- near Bandaigan, Japan. a a NEW ORLEANS RIOTS NEGROES, ovy. MOBS ATTACK MILITIA CALLED Fxtra Policemen anf Issues a Frooismastion Communding, Peace One Nv s Beaten to Denth, Siz Will Probably bile, and a Score of Other Fersons Reverely Injured. in New Orleans (8 fal). Disorderly * rioting throughout KWOAring special police- 500 of thie P promptly ie for isting a Te. ighout rre- the riers ness the $F UIOUR port, the force and nent men ippeal of erving and injured Dances Hows beaten to death, that thelr qd about 8 black, male ore or less pre- ywition of losing of the po- Close 1 svery saloon in the that “IX lives are One Were inded BOOT 10 shops in Colonel Wood nmanded the the Span- ommand of speci police have practically helpless during the disturbance : ! pation among the members of the department Captain Day the negro extent made the mohs avenge has he part of steamship oyving ne- whites on fronts t is bee first Louisiana Regiment in h War ok # In tn there Vee of the po- Ocean wept over the fe iP- sald ailable THR mmand- absence Inne ington Ar- Battery twilight mgregsted in armories same time the Mavor in a proclamation appealed for 500 special police. Before 4 p. m. 400 of the representative citizens of the ommunity had been sworn in. The‘ fayor made requisition on the leading hardware and ammunition establish- ments of the city, and the specials were heavily armed and sent to vari ous sections of the city Capdev had an excellent effect all good citigens a to proclamation It called upon iled in the homes or remain there, and advised about streets. The general and special, were di- disperse all crowds and 10 PETSOLS, Mavor jelle’s not onro go 10 business and were warned the * 4 police thelr places of RIiBO loiter fhey not 1o police rocted to ‘ rrest all disorderly A SI3.000 FIRE Ctorage Warehouse Narned With Valuable (ommoditios. Minn. (Special).—Fire broke St. Paul Cold Storage and Warehouse large ware- | house on Eagle and by 10 | o'clock the building had been almost destroyed. The loss is estimated at $750,000, with insurance of $550,000. Part of the building collapsed at a few minutes after 10 o'clock, and the ! attention of the firemen had to be de- voted to preventing the spread of the flames, although, fortunately, the ware house was almost alone in the block. Cold St. Paul, out in the Company's sireet Crab Shell Caneed Denth. Gloucester City (Special).~—As the result of esting a crab, Miss Mamie | Mahoney, aged 25 years, of this city, is dead. She had not been feeling well for about a week, but Wednesday morning was seized with violent pains, dying in a short time. Dr. Duncan W. Blake, the attending physician, thinks death was caused by swallowing a piece of the shell while the young wo wan was cating crabs. Nominated or Congress, Greenville, Ga. (Special). ~The Demo- crats of the Fourth district nomihated Hon. W, Cc Adamson for Congress, ABOUT NOTED reori. One of the British Army's grand ola men is the Duke of Cambridge. In the last five years that he has been in office Lord Salisbury has cre- gted 36 new peers, Miss Grace C. Strachan has been viected associate superintendent of Department of Education for iyn, The senior bachelor of A of mouth College is now Arthur L Lore, of Manchester, Bugiand, of | Class of '29.