THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. A TRAIL OF DEATH
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A terrific storm is reported to have Chinese and This Government.
raged at Cape Nome on August 7, re- | DRINK-CRAZED PHYSICIAN KiLLs | Washington (Special).—The State
sulting in much loss of life and the de- THREE AND Is SHOT DOWN. | Department made public the following
struction of many vessels. - | correspondence: .
Water splashed into a vessel of mol- {| (Handed to Mr. Adee by
ten metal hy the Bethlehem Steel Com- CHILD A FORCED WITNESS. | August 20, 1900.)
pany’'s works, at Bethlehem, Pa,, and Cablegram dated
caused an explosion. Seven men were | Dr. Sturley Harrington of Missouri Shoots | Viceroy LI Hung
Down His Uncle and Mother-in. Law |
dangerously hurt. by the Chinese
While in Search of Wife, Wham He Had |
"wr : p a1 . dved hiv
I'he remains of ind received ba
known writer and Driven Away, and Kills Pursuing Sherifr | OF the
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OUR REFLY TO EARL LIL HOW PEKIN WAS TAKEN,
Correspondence Helween the
RIOT IN AKRON, OHIO.
LARGE CROWD GATHERED TO LYNCH
COLORED MAN,
TWO CHILDREN KILLED.
Jall Officials Fired Upon and Many Peo-
ple Injured In Melee Crime for Which
Colored Man was Arrested was Assault
Eix-Year-O14 Girl
Taken to Cleveland,
Foreigners Were Attacked the
fore Alllgs Entered.
(By
Day Ne.
' POWERS QUERIED.
ASKED TO DEVIN
TOWARD
Cabiej.~Contrar) ATT
agreement of the allied commande
the Russians advanced and
the first door of Pekin's east gate early
Tuesday morning, but
the second door,
At 2 o'clock in the
Americans and British entered the gat
near the legations and met with
slight resistance, The Japanese
Pekin THEIR
CHINA.
IMPORTANT MOVE.
Warlike FPrejurations
snd Hostile of
fussing, the United States Government
Wants
TLE
QUCHPH
Mr. Wu,
AN
in
1 failed to force
August 19, from ACQ We 10
Chang, transmitted
Minister Landon
Mr. the night
afternoon he View the
of Germany
in of
Wu on
i 5
Hooves
“Tom Hall,” the well-
sordier, who died
Only
same day. Upon a Prisoner
. 1 fet
was the declaration of all the nu to Know Their Iutentions in
were taken to Chi-
there.
at Hannibal, Mo., it
cago and interred
The Building Trades Council of San
Francisco has ordered a general boy-
cott of all the goods turned out by
nine-hour planing mills
A terrific electrical storm struck
Joseph, Mich, and did much damage to
property.
A small tornado vis
One man was killed and
tally injured by a live
Philadelphia.
St
ted Milwaukee
another fa-
electric wire in
The will of the late C. I’. Huntington
was filed in New York, The widow
adopted daughter (Princess Hatzfeldt),
and his nephews are the chief bene-
ficiaries,
Andrew Carter illigan
his of
penitentiary for
Turner, father
heart,
The
238.
The increase
was 133,468, or
Hon, W,
ter-Genera
Washingtor
has begun
in Virginia
murder of Mr,
one-time sweet-
sentence VOurs
Of
Louis in YE -
was 451.770
ten years
papulation
In 18% puiation
ing the past
Hon. Harry L
mouth, was nomi
Democrats of Second
Omaha, Neb
counted in the
The Faverweather
1
has been opened
he steamn 8
Lake Erie,
The Farmers’ National Congress as-
sembled in Colorado Springs. A
number of delegates from various
tions of the country were present
J ¥
visitors were welcomed by Mayor J.
tobinson.
he pectacu
The
According to census
population of St. Paul is 163
ret
urns,
£32. an in-
cent, and that of Minneapolis is 202.-
718, an increase over 1880 of 237.980, or
23.05 per cent.
Mr. W. J. Bryan addressed
ence at Wahoo, the seat
county, near Lincoln.
A freight train wreck occurred on the
tral Railroad at Kensico, N. Y. Seven
persons were killed.
It is estimated that the losses caused
by the forest fires in Colorado and
Wyoming amount to $10,000,000.
John D. Flower, a New York banker
and brother of the late Roswell P
Flower, is dead.
The suggestion of the Baltimore
American for a floral exhibit in Balitl-
more next year meets the approval of
those attending the convention and
trade exhibition of the Society of
American Florists and Ornamental
Horticulturists in New York.
Gen. John B. Gordon has replied to
the United Confederate Veterans, who
protested against future reunions of
the Blue and the Gray and against his
acceptance of an invitation to attend
the G. A. R. Encampment in Chicago.
He states that he will continue to work
for harmony between the North and
the South, and that he must be the
judge of his acts,
Miss May Fosburg was fatally shot
by a burglar in her father's home, at
Pittsfield, Mass. Her father and
brother were beaten into insensibility.
There were three burglars, all of whom
esenped,
The Commisgioner of Internal Reve
nue has ruled that Porto Rico is not to
be considered a foreign country after
May 1, 1800,
Census returns for Chicago show
the population of the city to be 1,608.
B75, as against 1,009,850 in 1890.
Dr. Howard M. Wilkinson and Miss
Packard, the eloping couple of Dover,
Del, were arrested in Atlanta, Ga.
Shot by Sheriffs Son.
Leavenworth, Kan. (Special). ~—A
culiarly distressing quadruple trage
ok place at Farley, a small
across the river in Missouri. Dr. Stu
ley Harrington, a physician,
drunk and imagining fancied wrongs
killed James Wallace, his uncle, a
wealthy farmer; Mrs, Wm. Wallace
rrington’s mother-in-law, and J
ilingham nerifi of Platte county,
tried arrest him. He was, in
rn, shot dead by Harry Dillingham
ifs
pe
ay
of
ty
10 io
sO,
rington’s
rand
night Harrington quar
is wife and drove :
witening her life.
with James
and had been
Mrs. Harrington
home, and Harri
Wallace's home,
where she could be
her from home
He had had
Wallace over a ling
on a protracted
had not re-
I repall
a dl §
anded 1
essed
whereabouts,
¥ ned ph "
iipped i i It
e once in the h
tin
Lill
mile
hie
hall a
am Wall
fb
wil
AINED ITALIAXS RELP ¢
DED
Serv! Men's Vrisopers Has
Nothing
Secret ee
to Say.
artmen
nothing new in the
Whether the Government autho
¥
CaP
ive § of ine
Anare
as suggested
ay be a special
n It is unders
wait
from the Consul at Naples w
be gathered by the Italian poll
{By The Rome cor
¢ Daily Mail
The arrest of Maresca and’ Guida
New York arose out of some letters re-
cived at Bresci's lodging subsequent to
assassination of King Humbert
One of these, dated New York, July 25
and signed ‘Mabor,” urged Bresci
commit the crime, urging that Maresca
and Guida would do their duty toward
President McKinley
to the Italian police as a most fanatical
Anarchist.”
London
FAVE
in
the
Tried to Impaie Train.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. (Special).~—~A po-
Hernan crossing the tracks of the Le.
high Valley Railroad in the
northern part of the city came upon a
gerious obstruction on the track. He
could see down the line some distance
from the crossing something that pro-
truded from the rocky embatukment
He made an examination and found a
30-foot steel rail imbedded in the rock
and reaching out onto the track at an
angle,
strike the cylinder of an engine com-
ing from the west. It is thought the
Buffalo, and in the excitement
would follow blow open and rob the
safe in the express car.
Latimer a West Virginian,
the purpose of transmitting authentic
information to Admiral Remey, to be
gent on to Washington, is a native of
Jefferson county, W. Va., where his
father was for several years Clerk of
the Circuit Court.
He was appointed a cadet at the Na-
val Academy In 1886 by Hon. Wm. L.
Wilson, was a bright and industrious
student, and graduated with credit,
In July of last year he was commis.
Minis
preat POWETs
the allied ti
af
ters for Affairs of
expedition
solely for the
ministers in Pekin, Now
entered Pekin
sii fe t
the
{
Foreign
that the
i GOnDE Was
Fesc1e the
allied trool having
all the mipisters
proper that hostilities
ceane, that negot
should comu therefore request
he United
point an envoy with full powers
should at
once and
1ONICe, 1
Gos
ations
States ernment to ap-
ap
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0:
SD NOTIYICATION,
Foy at 1 Wit
Large Crowd
&
eeting wan cal
ind th
ompel
had
tiereely
waa inten:
and unte
had lifted
h might «
indoor
whic
held
he certdaiaty of
shine, which
umidity
mpered
andible sigh from the
sweltering crowd mingled with the ap-
planse which greeted the appearance
of the national leader upon the plat-
form when he arrived at 3.30
and it was evident even then that
while there was a general dewnire
hear and see him the audience was
finding the situation too uncomfortable
to be long endured
to
Girl Killed by Robber,
New York (Special), — Catherine
Scharff, aged 22, was beaten to death
with a hammer in her roomeg on the
second floor of 674 Second avenue some
time between 7 p. m. and midnight
Saturday, the body not being found un-
til morning. Her brother made the
discovery when he came home after
midnight The woman's body
a pool of blood, face down.
ward, Near by on the floor was a
and the rooms had
It is the opinion of the police that a
thief entered the house and was sur-
he killed her to prevent identification.
Assaulted as They Hep.
Samples, a 19-year-old printer, em-
ployed on the Gazette, had his skull
crushed while lying asleep in bed at
Shamblin's Hotel, and Bert Myers, his
room-mate, was rendered unconscious
by a blow at the same time,
The assault is shrouded In mystery.
Samples gave one scream about 1
o'clock, rousing the house. He was
found in bed with his skull crushed,
while Myers was on the floor uncon
geious, The room was open, but there
vears at sea,
Ohlo (Special).—In this city
rt of the boasted Western Re
serve, 4 mob sought the life of a negro
risoner and In a conflict with the an
hie blood
Peck, a
in jall on the charge
aulting the little
1 Hed ele Ie
t that
}
ritie shed
Louis colored man, was put
inally as-
Mr. and
of erin
daughter of
Mans,
confessed
he
and a
had
mol
, tement
Peck 1 been
crowd sent committiecs
city prison and the
Th roving fruitless
repot
idly gatherad
\(3 biel ie the of
1erifl that
ity the
gent out
tarough the
fall to search
the mob gathered
pris where the
them to disperse,
fired
shots
CO
i
on
Some one
ison Other
a few minut
Cones
Was olio
The officer
at the window
the heads «
in
Bn
ding thin 3 3%
INE appeareq ana
¥
the
then
shoot over
DeEan O
pe ople
of
A man with a shotg
fired at the officers
It that
wounded. The
smash in the windows o \
ing and the firing became general
Hundreds of shots were exchanged, and
ne name unknown, was carried
dead from the street It is certain that
dozens of men were wounded
LIFE SENTENCE FOR LYNOCHERS,
Tour More Whites Go to Jall for Killing
Humphries Mon.
Dallas, Texas (Special). ~~Four lynch-
! white men, recognized as among
the leading citizens of Henderson
county, pleaded gulity before Judge
Lipscomb, at Palestine, in Anderson
county, before whom they were to be
tried on change of venue, and received
life sentences in the penitentiary. They
were Former Justice of the Peace Jos
Wilkerson, J. A. Johns, Sam’l Hall and
John F. Gaddis. This concludes the
sever
officers
*n began
n
E
al
crowd th
ft
is said were
iH
¢
he city build.
ers,
the history of Henderson county. Eight
been convicted and
gentenced to the penitentiary for life
for the lynching on the night of May
23, 1868, of James, John and George
Humphries, white farmers, in what is
i
others, Polk Weeks and John Green.
haw, turned State's evidence and will
gacape punishment. The excuse for
lyne
harboring criminals.” The truth, how.
ever, appears to be that they knew too
much about illicit stills and other vio-
lations of the law,
ABOUT NOTED PROFLE
fighting to any lmported sports,
The little Grand Duchess Olga of
Russia js the richest baby in the world,
At one time the Kaiser called Victor
Emmanuel III. “the wandering royal
encyclopedia.”
Daniel Howell, of the New York City
Postofice, hag resigned after an un-
broken service of 47 years.
President Hadley, of Yale, is an ex-
pert with the foils, and Is sald to be a
better fencer than anyone in his col-
lege.
more serious opposition at the
cast gate all day. At midnight
blew up the gate and entered the
Many Chinese were killed 1
sons in the
somewhat starved,
city
he per
legatic will
sald
“They tried to annihilate
before you got in, Prince Ching
dent of the Teung 14d Yamen
that his officers had received
cease firing on us under pal
At 7 o'clock in the even
day the Chinese opened
continued If the
not arrived we
The Americans
and 15
“Tha wh
governmental
ng
fire
0
i
reiievil
wounded
mos
ong
sje
only a pretense
confidential adviser
was the leader
¥ ¥
ners
NOW A SM PPLICAANT,
Chins Makes Formal Applic
Pence
having
the Emperor
have fled from
The Government
Li Hung Chang, app!
powers to name a
bring about a f bh
Li asks that Minister Conger or
other official be named on
the United States. As fighting has b
continuing at Pekin, the powers are
not disposed to negotiate
Field Marshal Count von Walderses
Chinese
isd 10 each
COMMIS
cessation of hostilities
slone
SONA
part of
fen
the
China,
Orient
The Fifteenth United States Infantry
and a battalion each of the Second and
Eighth Infantry, sailed from San Fran-
cisco for Taku.
left Berlin on his way to the
Drought Killing Ransas Corn,
Kansas City, Mo. (Special). ~-Two-
ernmost tiers of counties, ig experienc.
ing one of the most severe droughts in
the history of the State, and the gen
eral opinion js that the Kansas
to its requirements for feeding.
has been raised in many years,
In 189%
bushels. Secretary Coburn’s report of
conditions on August 4
yield this year of about
Since then there have
has further materially reduced condi
not exceed 100,000,000, while many
Killed Wife and Children.
Arlington, Minn. (Special).~Theo-
i
i
:
and a full hay barn. Mrs, Wallart had
been trying to secure a divorce, the
couple having separated, Wallart en-
tered the house through a window and
tion of one child, a boy, who was
Nounded, Hewes st. and probably will
die. Wallart fled.
China,
mashed
vere all
warehouse
was bi
pany
factory
he tent of a
torn from the i
leaving the inimal run
the
panic
The
was
utheran Church
two residences,
The Fourth
schoolhouse § completely
The w= reciked building
after building with tl reatest rapid-
and there was lit warning of the
of the storm. The people in
every case. however, were oui of their
houses before the storm struck. and
those who were hit by fiving debris
were only slightly injured. In the fac-
tories the were in many
«od and cut from wreckage
steeple of
hivwn down
in ihe
Ward
wrecked ind
employees
Children Killed br Lightning.
Milwaukee, Wis, (Special) During
the storm two little children of Chas.
Frida and Adele, were
sit of lightning. The
was struck by light.
away
killed by a
gwept over Rock county,
and it is estimated that two-fifths of
tobacco crop is ruined. If this
should prove to be true the loss wi"
reach $500,000,
Our Largest Gun.
South Bethlehem, Pa. (Special). —In
the presence of Licutenant-General
Miles, General Wilson, General Buffing.
ton and other army officials the new
18-inch Gathaman torpedo gun, the
largest ever built in this country, was
tested at the Bethlehem Steel Works
to determine the velocity of the shot
and the strength of the gun and proved
a gratifying success. The Government
made an appropriation of $65,000 for
the experiment aud demanded that ten
shots be oe the tests to show a
pressure per inch ana
a velocity of 38,000 fo
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