a THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Alexander Bracchi, the allezed An- archist, who was arrested in Richmond upon complaint that he had threatened to blow up St. Peter's Cathedral, cre- ated a sensation in the Police Court by springing upon and striking the first witness against him. This incident practically ended the examination, as the police justice sentenced Bracchi to jail in default of $1000 security. At Goodland, Kan., the hiding place of the two men who held up a Union Yacific train, killed one passenger and robbed the others Sunday, was found by a sheriff and posse. A fight fol- lowed, in which one robber was killed and two of the posse probably fatally injured. The other robber barricaded himself in a sod kitchen, where he still holds the fort, The American Caramel Company, of York, Pa.. has purchased the Lancaster Caramel Company's plant for the sum of $800.000 in cash. Thomas J. Brown was killed in New York by falling from the third story of an apartment house, in which he had a flat. Governor Roosevelt will open campaign in the West on Sept. 20. Charles Rodding, of Lancaster, was drowned at Atlantic City. A committee to organize a company and the railway in St. Louis was appointed at a meet- ing of the executive committee of the Street Railway Employees’ Union. ‘he heat rif In people the Pa., enter street business been ter- eleven have been have ted ven were Chicago has than » died and prostrated. One tl died Business js seriously Two d t Pittsburg and su prostrated The } and Clif machinery E. Orr for WwW. B estine, in IES two davs many } ousand horses a ifs aut ied a farper Bros. building, on Pear New York, with tl} Wits to Alexan sireets, ete, sold $1.100,0600 t Pal ipa! in icted no pi Brooks was conv Texas, of being a the lynching of I1RGS The Briti ed on Diamond 8 taken off by li Fwo n ine sh stea men sly Herber at Clay tramp The Beaver $300,000. Steamer nearly hal Seattle, The was $14,500 Evening at : itt ’ Bryan discu paramount Judge Lacombe, « Circuit which extraditic the Cuban on A issue, Court, rende: indicates mm of aut Charles norities 1enst ugu Pittsburg by the of Jacob Reneker tally. At Newport, Ky and killed Lottie gister wkamp. his Ke ly wounded his and mortalls The Sonoma, a large merchant ves- sel for the Pacific trade, as launched at Cramps’ yards, Philadelphia Victor B. Fay, of the United States Bureau of Forestry, at Washington, died at Pine Bluff, Ark. William Gilbert, aged 15, was killed near Scranton by the roof of a coal mine falling on him Battery O, with 175 from Fort Riley, Kan. San Francisco. James Hudlow, a fireman on the Manon line, was killed in a collision near Lafayette, Ind. Rev. Ezra B. Lake, one of the found- ers of Ocean City, N. J.. died there, aged 66. men, started for China, via Mr. Charles A. Towne has declined the Populist nomination for Vice President. Three people died and four were prostrated by the heat in Milwaukee, There were four fatal cases of pros- tration by the heat in Chicago. The Weather Bureau issued a bulle- tin that present conditions indicate several days of high temperature from the Lake region and Ohlo Valley over the Middle Atlantic and New England Btates. Chairman Hanna, in refusing to dis- cuss Senator Wellington's charges against the President, says that he has not got time to reply to every cam- paign attack on Mr. McKinley. The count of the population of Buf- falo, N. Y., just completed at the Cen- sus Office, is 352,219. The population in 1890 was 255,664. The increase is 37.77 per cent, The Addicks faction of the Republi- can party in Delaware nominated a full State ticket, the electors and three State nominees being regulars. Ambassador White, upon his return from Germany, expressed the opinion that the allies dared not resort to a partition of China. Mr. Elmer Clevenger and Miss Ber- tha Venable, of near Winchester, Va. eloped to Hagerstown and were mar- ried. ‘ Dr. Thomas McClelland, of Oregon, has aceepted the presidency of Knox College, Calegburg, 111 Gen. Nelson A. Miles reviewed the Pennsylvania militia, in camp at Mt Gretna. ‘ Secretary Hay says there ig no truth in the rumors of his serious illness, | | | CONGER AGAIN. ™?}® MINISTER'S LATEST WASHINGTON, CABLY ro LEGATIONERS ALL WELL. | | Chinese Government | the Ministers City This Amanunition He that Is Tusisting the Dare Not Says the that Capital Do Little Move i From They | or Provisions, I'he State | Department is in receipt of an undated | at Pe Washington (Special) dispatch from Minister Conges kin, saying that the legations were still that precariou besiegea the situation was than previously and even more reported, The i ing upon the foreigners leaving Pekin, Chinese Government was insist but this the envoys had refused to do, | as their departure under present condl tions would mean certain death His message is in contradiction to previous reports from Li Hung Chang, which stated that the Minis were in daily communication with the Tsung I.i Yamen and that the Chinese Gov- ernment was furnishing them with food, as Mr. Conger says that the le- gations are under continuous rifle fire He pathet cally that they had “abundant x but little ammu- nition or : Previous of two Tsung 1 adds Con provi foreign Yamen Hr pro ol (American) moment. The received a in that Tat Jap Pekin, dat the m had mily provigions to each he statement in the patch to 15s effect the Chiness iewed may the constant Minister Conger id Hung Chang r that It ase ia left Japanese the attack x pe ted artillery was ¢ to be refer to their ‘hinese suggestion allowed t« to escort absolutely BILLIONS, NEARLY F1VE of Nanks All Aggregate Assets National Surpass Hevcords, banks in th of business ompleted by Currency The aggregate t i £4 044 reached in reserve held 15040, wa show ros against Year the ins th in the new New the A geographi banks organized England States Eagtern States, ie Southern States, 16; in the Middle States, 29; In | Pacific in ¥ States, a A CLASH ALREADY REPORTED, and Huossians Sald te Have Fought Each Other. Japanese A Shanghai dig ial advices from london (By Cable) patch says that offic Tokio announce armed collisions have occurred between parties of Rus- sians and Japanese outside Taku. This however, as it comes by way of Shang hal, must await confirmation before be. ing credited The Sebastopol correspondent of the Daily Graphic states that the Russian Government will send 125.000 additions al troops from Odessa to the Far East | before the end of the year. Berlin dis- patches say it is rumored there that an | agreement has been reached between Emperor Nicholas and Emperor Wil. liam, by which the German troops will be permitted to proceed to China br way of Siberia. that Gets 822,000 After 21 Years Leavenworth, Kan. (Special). After | gix trials in the United States Circuit Court and a delay of 21 years and 4 months, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York settled its case with Mrs. Sallie E. Hillmon-8mith, this city, by paying her $22,000 in cash. | This amount, with interest, was decided | by a jury to be due her on a policy | held by Hillmon when he disappeared in 1879. The Mutual Life of New York is the second of the three original insurance | companies to settle. The Connecticut Mutual is still holding out, with a judgment of $11,054 against it. ABOUT NOTED PROPLE Prince Sheng, the Chinese Director | of Telegraphs, is said to be one of the best telegraphic experts in all the East, | The degree of doctor of philosophy | was recently awarded to Mon Toa. of | Bangkok, by the University of Heidel- | berg. ] Australia has had a controversy over | the right of members of Parliament to | take service in the army, which recalls | the case of General Wheeler, In the | Australian case the seat of a member who went to South Africa as a cor. poral was promptly declared vacant, | RILLED BY INTENSE REATY, York and Nine In Chicago. (Special) Eleven per ¢ from the exces heat, been torturing humanity in locality for some days and still with little prospect of a let-up., The greatest suffering is en dured by the people of the lower East Side districts, which are thickly populated In these nejighborho families occupy a xingle and many of them sleep on pavements in front of the bhulldings the hope of obtaining a little fresh The fire department opened a number of the plugs and flushed the streets in the hope of reducing the tempernture This gave a temporary relief. The infant mortality is very seal Horses are perishing all over the elty mortality among them threatens that of the record-breaking August hot spell of 1886, when so many that business was seriously crip Fieven litle in New fas Ve BO wis Fous the in ter equal Philadelphia at here resulted in tions The intens deaths (Special) five and Vents The prostra rature the Goverr- maximum temps reached at 4 o'clock, when wnt the #1 rmometer on top of the po building ster 07 rg lower { Spe the thermometer aching ! ing a point rument Fix are directly tions Her, NO WELCOME FOR RIM, Italian st the White House With Jeciile nan a Present, EEYMOL IR GAINS HIS POINT, The Viceroy of Nankin of Agrees to British Occupation Shanghai May Have Heen Saphie Niel. Chattanooga, Te tal) telegrams received New & believed that Mrs. Gaetano of the Italian who King Humbert Niel, who lived at Keveral dave ago hed dispats nn. Spe from wife ETRE was former Sophie Tenn papers Shelbyville supposed and that of a distinguish- the Confederate Army. publication telegrams have «tating that Mrs. Bresel her name was Sophie Shelbyvi Tennese hee fr Bresci was native of that city om iad the daughter onel in voceived that heen admitted Niel The place went turned Shelhrville Sophie Niel left that dozen ARO York has never about a Years to New She res and First Hide Was Fatal. Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special) Near Als, W. A. Turner, wife and d-monthe-old baby jumped off a Sonth- ern Railway train while it was running at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Turner was killed and the wife and baby are thought to be fatally injured. At last They had never been on a train be. fore, and when the engine blew for the station where they they deliberately walked to the plat- form and jumped off. The Cotton Crap. Washington (Specigl). ~The erage condition of cotton on August 1 to have been 76, as compared with 75.8 on July 1, 1900; 84 on August 1, 1809; on August 1, 1588 and 85.3 the mean of the August averages last ten years. Train Records Broken. Baltimore (Special), = The train Adams and generally known as “The Wind Splitter,” beat all records bee tween Philadelphia and Baltimore, when the run was made from Chest nut Street Station to this city in 1 hour and 41 minutes. Some of the miles were covered at the rate of 82 miles an hour. The run was made under the supervision of engineers of the technical, mechanical and sclentifie departments of the road, and Mr, Fred, Adams, the inventor, "BRYAN NOTIFIED. TOOK PLACE IN THE OPEN AIR MILITARY PARK, IMMENSE CROWD PRESENT Hon, Adiat ¥. tireat Al Also Notified Prevalled Both Nominees Make Imperialism the Great Testie Parade of the Park Btevenson Enthusiasm of the Campaign A Clubs Preceded Exercises at Wil Btevenson Indianapolis, fal) Ham J Ind. Bryan and Adinl E were in this eity officially and formal {Spec ly notified of their nominations by the Democrats at their re the ively, of President and Vice-President of the United The ceremony was made occasion of a demon stration with which Democrats may be fairly sald begun theh national campaign. The notification occurred in the mil tary Park, a beautifully if ground in the The park contains, of ground and, it with people, speakers’ stafid th dense, and the filled Probably Were re Wer ent Kansas City Convention to offices respect States the the to have shaded tract the 20 COVE of WHS centre of city prob HOTes was 3 the VOT was well them ents many irom other diana, while many also came % om dis tant ” States i't 64 the seaboard. Millon Dollar Fire, Ashland doll Mis Special) A ro "YL x v 3 ’ Ars worth of ind was Tumber district million destroyed by fire in the of this city. The flames were checked three struggle and they reached the valuable sawmills and ore docks along the water front. The wind favored the fighters during the afternoon and probably nothing else saved the millions of dollars’ worth of property along the water's edge, and perhaps a good part city property after hours’ before § ure Boy Poisoned His Father Freano, Cal. (Special) 13 years old, has confessed that he poi. goned his father, who ig lying danger- ously ill at the County Hospital. The boy said that his father treated him cruelly, and had refused to allow him to drive his team. He concluded to kill him bought the poison which Fred put in his father's coffee, May Be an Army Scandal. Washington (Special).—A board of survey has been appointed to meet at report upon the circumstances pertain- ing to a shortage of Government pro- perty and the failure of certain officers in Alaska and Manila to receipt for Government stores invoiced to them | by the quartermaster. Georgia May Follow Suit. Atlanta, Ga. (Special).-Owing the result of the recent election in North Carolina, in which white su. premacy was engrafted on the state, | Representative Hardwick will intro. | stitutional amendment similar in form and provision to that adopted in the cld North State, i FIELD OF LABOR, London has 13.564 policemen, New York contains 233,000 unionists, New Hampshire has 13,000 shoemak- ors, | indianapolis has 600 union carpen- { ters, Chicago has ninety-eight steam fire | Persia's women are adopting Euro pean dress, In Kaffraria cattle constitute chief currency. | The Amalgamated Carpenters’ treas- the SITUATION IN CHIN General 1.1 Ping Hong was to command the troops in the Chinese Empire The Governor of Moukde ed 1G have urged the massac tians. Nearly all the mi been destroyed Rev, R. H. Bent, arrived at Ban Francisco told a story of his flight with his wile and two children from Ching Chow A courier from the Japanese legation in Pekin brought a message stating that but five days’ provisions were left and twenty-five rounds for each man The Belgian vice consul at Tien Tsin M. H. Ketels, says that the Chinese in Pekin are g thei; side the legation There are | that iE preparing expen China The } take of Philadelphia where he position out Germia tion t¢1 the git ny 10 idication another Emperor and Mi view of + 4 y ' ni yOu Helow different uation Admiral Seymour telegraphed to ihe Admiralty that the Viceroy of Nankin had agreed to the landing ‘ of 3,000 British troops for of Shanghal Chaffee's Department fs Fras of a for the defense General report gald to hay on some of the mill fen Tein for ing heen oN aot igh p SWEFT BY STOR Faornade it and Eain fc Fasses Through Farming Section ompanied by Ha AY es were 1 were exh into Minnesots guffered con was rapid Hilaire glornm LOT0H barns Indian In Grand Forks to a h completely « storm, whict lights were owever i after destrovi it passed into th reservation and the stor ed eavy rain, bu becured seed on th ke pt burning REVERSE IN PHILIPPINES the American Months, T roops in first {Special) check which the American troops have met in the Philippines during the past {wo months is recorded in a dispatch received from MacArthur, It is assumed that the little American command which suf. fered so severely was completely trap Washington The be exterminated. The follows: message is as Manila, Aug. 4. “First Lieutenant Alstaetter, corps of engineers, U. 8 army. with escort 15 men, attacked August 1, road between (Luzon) and (Luzon), by armed insur- 350 strong. Entire San Isidro gents, reported Yell From Rallroad Trestle, Waynesboro, Pa. (Special) Howard G. 8Bpeck, son of Frederick G. Speck, of Waynesboro, while walking with B C. Weyant over the long trestie of the ground below, fully thirty feet, land. ing on his left side, He was rendered unconscious and his left arm was fractured in three mashed, his hip sprained and bruised and there were many contusions on his left side, John Lockard «Age 108, Parkersburg, W.Va. (Bpecial). John Lockard, one of the most remarkable men in the state, died at Wadesville, aged 108 years and 10 months, Until Friday he never knew a day's sickness Ke never took medicine, never use glasses and never rode when he could walk, He used tobacco and drank whiskey in moderation. He could dance an Irish jig as well as anyone and only a¥®ew months ago walked 18 miles to Parkersburg in preference to riding. He was born in Ireland, but after huoeking owt a local champion in a fight he to America 8 FOWN OF YANG. TRUN G€CUPIED 18% INTERNATIONAL VOROCES OPENS THE ROAD TO PEKIN { General Clhiufllos Cabled that the Ameri. About Sixty Men Demanded Cesss can Cosnnlties Wore Message Chins of Attacks Operation With Hellef Column. Rent tion on legations and Co Wash patche ington Two which an order of examination guestion« a an him to answer erty possessions, a having een stated that } with which ified, exc $1.000 000 ceived word genship in tion was accor i Bievelist’s Fatal Accident Schenectady, N. Y. (Special) Gibbe, aged 19 years, Rotterdam Junction, this county, while riding a bicycle along the canal bank «trivck a chicken. The collision caused his wheel to upset and Gibbs was i thrown into the water. He was una- bie to swim, and was drowned. Rob- residing at 4 “1 TOREIGN AFFAIRS, King Alexander of Servia was mar- ried in Belgrade to Mme. Draga Mas- chin. General Baden-Powell was wounded during a recent engagement at Rusten- berg. Auguste Valette chist, was France. General Christian de Wet is reported | to be completely sarrounded by the British near Reitzberg. The question as to whether England a dangerous anar- arrested at Abbeville, King Victor Emmanue! of Italy sent Kinley for his expression of condos The Vorwaerte, of Berlin, finds fault with Emperor William for his denun- ciation of the shipyard strikers. Secretary Hay and Ambassador Hol leben have signed the new commercial treaty agreed upon between the United States and Germany. It is explained that the Shah of Pere gia is a fatalist; hence the coolness with which he acted when attacked by the assassin In Paris, . Lord Roberts reported that General Hunter had taken 3,348 Boer prisoners, 3.046 horses and three gune. Com- mandant Olivier escaped to the hills with 1,500 men,
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