f THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.| TUAN A PRISONER. |... wcorvevic ors. oo co. o.| BURNED AT STAKE. Striking miners who had marched | i crease and Hedrons. SUF ER | Shenandoah, Pa. (Special).—~The DEGRADATION. | only important development in the | trike situation in this district was the | posting of notices by the Philadelphia and Coal and Com- FOREIGN AFFAIRS. | the King pi~ WE LEAD THE WAY. SIs In honor of the birthday of of Portugal 10,000 British cavalry raded at Komati Poort. The Canadian contingent of troops that fought in South Africa galled from with the intention of closing down the | OTHER CHINESE PRINCED North Franklin colliery were persuad- | ed to return home by the district sec- | retary without accomplishing HORRIBLE CRIME OF A GERMANY IN ALABAMA. MOD DOWN IN ACCORD WITH GOVERNMENT, purpose, A Burlington passenger train was killed by the express messenger, other fled without booty. it was announced in Boston that the fered to George Von lL. speaker, of the Massachusetts House. Clothier, of Swarthmore, beat Alex- ander, of Princeton, and Plummer, of Yale, defeated Ware, of the intercollegiate tennis tournament. Klondike gold to the amount of $1.- 500,000 arrived at Seattle. futile. Strikers the offer of pany to start proved paid no attention to creased wages. The Republicans of held their State convention in Boston and nominated W. Murray Crane, of Dalton, for Governor. An investigation was begun in Pat- erson, N. J. to find out whether the plot to murder King Humbert of Italy was hatched out there. Mrs, Lillian Smith, of Inwood, N. Y., shot her daughters, Ethel and Mabei and hersel!l. an opera company, died in a New York hospital from want of food. Some one threw a chunk of ice at Mark Hanna during the progress of a political meeting in Chicago. Charles Broadway Rouss has with- drawn his offer of $1,000,000 for restoration of his eyesight, The managers of the Delaware State Fair bh practically decided not to hold any more exhibitions. M. ¥. Imyden was killed ing, W. Va., by his Thomas Workman. The National Funeral Directors sociai-'n held a convention in ver, C ive As- Den- Governer poi commissioner. year. Nace & Swartley, commiss’'on merchants, of Philadelphia, failec. The failure is a large one. All the Swedish bonds consigned for sale in America have been disposed of. of Pennsylvania, ap- KX Reeder banking salary is $6000 a found guilty of murdering Adam Goodling was shot and by an assassin at Mifflintown, Pa Gen. Olney Arnold, a prominent manufacturer, died at Pawtucket, R. 1 The Glass Chimney Association was formed in Pittshurg. Fire i his wife killed B. i Pa, 1 : The British steamer Eagle Point lided «fF Nantucket Shoal in a fog early Mor a 10g any Jiela » col- the steamer gunk her in 30 minut saved Seng Fire ville, I: The Milwaukee, Wis... d of the Chicago Board of temporary injunction eral alleged bucket from using the q cago board, and referred a referee, Capt. J. V. Henry. former postmaster at Quincy, Ill, was arrested on the charge of embezzlement from the National! Railway Mail Service Benevolent Association. Theodore Furley was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary for attempted rape on Mrs. Sarah Bowers, near Darkeville, W. Va. The threatened race riot at George- town, 8. C., was averted by the Gov- tations of the Chi- the case beer privilege closed. Jobn E. Hudson, of Beil Telephone Preeident American Beverly, Mass inte a creek, of whom 30 were injured. management of Leslie's Monthly, General Colton Green, Tenn Rey Columbia (8. C.) Baptist Church, who had been warned by aan opposing faction not to hold services, was shot dead while praying, and Rev. B. H. wounded, arrived at New York from Liverpool and Queenstown after a very protract- od voyage, caused by dense fog, dur- Ing Which the engines were slowed down. The nine year-old son of 8. W. Kalor, of Parsons, W. Va., was killed by falling from a chestnut tree, Sexto Lopez, formerly secretary of Aguinaldo, arrived in New York on the Cunarder Campania to explain to the American people, he says, the Fili- Pinos’ side of their fight against the Americang, Harry Bloomburg, a traveling sales- man, from Hagerstown, Md., was found unconscious on the mountain road near Franklin Y'urnace, Pa. He claim- ed to have been a victim of knockout drops, Warner M. Newbold, a prominent of- ficial of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, cow n.itted suicide in Bir- minghar, Al. i | Outrages Against the Foreign Legutions Our OfMicinls Have Not Forgotien the i Treachery of the Chinese. Washington (Special).—The earnest { to the Chinese government that the | United States would enter on no peace | negotiations so long as Prince Tuan was retained in favor have i the desired effect. A cablegram was received from Consul General Goodnow Prince be «nn Tuan's degradation He has stripped of all his honors and is a prisoner, awaiting trial before the {| Imperial Clan Court. Mr. Goodnow | states that Sheng, the director of tele- } ! Tsignan, in which the Emperor | Empress Dowager blame their minis- { ters for encouraging the Boxers, P {| princes have been degraded, Prince Tuan is deprived of his salary {and his official servants. The { perial Clan Court, before which he | will be tried for his life, judicial body of privies of the empire, whose sole {| duty is to try malefactors of the im- | perial family, { The imperial family in China is an elaborate and far-reaching aggrega- | tion. | an extensive harem | generation of the imperial | stands one grade lower in of the Chinese nobility, { seventh remove they have the plain people. jut Ev ery until at the i right of tris known itenat board, mud news ind! of spirit Dowager declared hers ViCerovs and d only &] viceroys Boxers themselves will be down and be aste, A brief eablegram was rec Minister Conger, in which » the receipt of the stating that Prince for preliminary been granted. He slaughtered edges had with Earl capacity Ii and Prince minister AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT Prooks Secures from the Light of the Planet Venus, neva, N. Y R. Brooks ‘ho togrs pi Fhotog lie planet Ve ant photographing t h has been done ma periments were co he observato £0 light was excluded which came from Venu open shutter of the dome. The time vas the datkest hour of night alter the planet had risen and before the ap proach of dawn, The action of light from Venus was much stronger than anticipated, the photographic intense and fully timed. The experiment will be continued every clear night. Dr Brooks was an early worker in that except that s through th the the years in his astronomical research. Insulted Our Fiag San Antonio, Tex. States Consul W. WW. Milla, at hua, Mex., has gent a note to the Fed- eral authorities here and also to the State Department at Washington de- tailing an insult to the American flag Consulate on September 18 the anniversary of Mexican Independ- once, by a mob of Mexicans, He hoisted the United States and Mexican % § 5 (Spec =U hited tore down the United States colors. Money Order Heport. tle for the Postoffice Department ished money order business of the country The statement exhibits a increase in the money order business, of this great business institution are rapidly approaching the billion dollar mark per annum. A Raijlroal Man's Suleide. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). -<~War. ner M. Newbold, superintendent of the South and North and Birmingham Mineral divisions of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, committed suicide at his residence In this city by shoot ing himself in the mouth with a 28- caliber pistol, Mr. Newbold lost his wife three months ago. He was about fifty-five years of age and has been connected with the railroad company for many years. He was prominently mentioned | Me a probable successor to General Manager Metcalf, | | { Reading Iron pany at all of its colleries and in con- announcing a net in- wages, and a grievances of ing “patches,” crease of 10 per cent. in willingness to hear the its employes. The local were on the minutes and district organizers aiert, and in less than five after the company’s proposal ‘ning to the was circulated. In this Organizer CC. 8B. Pot- printed in mineworke: town and vicinity stributed circulars iglish, Polish and Lithuanian lling on the strikers to ntion to the company's of- for the ision of the convention, The im is that none of the strik irn to work un- swident Mitchell. follows: Reading Coal Pottsville, Pa. the languages, ca att but to wait minewori fer de y ordered by ¢ notices are as Philadelphia and and Iron Company, October 3 “This company the makes following “It will adjust {ts rate of wages so a8 to pay its mine employes on and after October 1, 1800, a net increase of 10 per cent. on the wages heretofore recived, and will take up with its mine employes any grievances which they nay have (Signed) “R. G. LUTHER, “General Superintendent.” “Fellowh Workmen—Pay no attention whatever to these Wait you hear from the convention (Signed) CC. 8B. POT There are no ations in the Panther Valley General Gobin | been meeting of minew( at Lansford. ieton notices indie Creek posi HORROKS OF WAR Seenes of Desolation and Haln in Transvaal {Spec “s Hay Makes 3 Penial, the i 4 * % the § y i al ; um- y led early in the ning and nt several hours witl cretary Hay ex- Were no new ad- y all other cused hims i vices awaiting him He expressed satisfaction with the steps taken by this government and gave a final and emphatic denial to afloat the allegations recontly ferences of opinion be- were if and ministration on our China He reiterated of Dr that there twern himse other the ad : toward the statement touch and communication department during the pro- negoiiations and was in the gress of the government in every phase of the sit uation. Mr Hay said he “was in the usual Canght by the Bele. Fairmont, W. Va. (Special). —Ed- win Devaul, aged 40, a laborer working togers & Jacobs” saw mill this county, wax belt which cperated a gaw. He was hurled crushing his skull, a few hours. ir cavght large to the ceiling by the An Editor Shot in the Back, Lexington, Ky. (Special).~R. C. O. Benjamih, editor of the Lexington Standard, and attorncy for gecegsory to the Goebel, was shot In the back by Mike Moynahan, white, while fleecing after a registration quarrel here last night, is “ Mrs. Harriet Stanton Haten, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will soon arrive from her home in Eng- land to take part in the Presidentisl campaign. Perape one of the most consclon- tious of royal diary keepers is the Km. pregs of Germany, whose dally record no one ever sees, not even the Em- peror himself, LEAVE WORK TO HUNT MAN Wingfield Townsend, Alins Floyd, is Al Ieged to Mave Harrington, Eclectrie, Miles Wetumpkn Other Negro Gave thas Alarm. Lonnie About Ane Assaulted Mra Near Vilteen From Wetumpka, Ala. (Special). —Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake in the little town of Eclectic, fifteen miles from this place, a half-hour after midnight. The crime with which he was charged was an attempted assault upon Mrs. Lon- nie Harrington, whose husband set fire to the brands which Town- body to ashes About one o'clock the nephew of the negro Floyd, hanged in the Wetumpka before last for attempted assault, at tempted to outrage Mrs. Harrington Mr. Harrington was engaged at a cotton gin in Eclectic, and lives mile out of town. The negro came to the house and told Mrs. Harrington that her husband had sent him to get twenty cénts from her. She told him she had no change. Then the negro left, but returned in about ten min- utes. The woman's screams were heard by Bob Nichols, another negro, who was passing along the road at the time He ran to the house in time to see the negro escape. As soon as Mrs. Harrington was brought back to consciousness Nichols gave the alarm The news rapidly. All the stores in were closed; all the ns and sawmills shut down; the peo- le left their wagons in the road, in the and gathered reduced Negro, a who was jail week one spread Eclectic and wodhounds to the been found crowd of tlie RESCUED IN MIDO §9 y 8 aptain Hatfie ! anong ong He said that y sailed New York Sep 10, bound for Sourabay. Java £0 of case oll. Two days af- Sandy Hook she ran The seas boarded the tons of water fall- he deck doing considerable to the fittings and finally i the vessel on her beam ends The Nonpareil remained in this posi- and all efforts to right her were unavailing. Conditions continued to grow worse for geveral days, and Mon- day, September 17, the wind increased to a fresh gale, and the ship was un- der water on the port side. The gale became so violent the crew were to work throwing over the cargo he seas, which swept over the vessel, washed everything from the decks filled the deckhouse and smashed the cabin skylights. The cabin was filled with water up to the deck. At 3 o'clock in the morning of S8at- urday, the 22d, the ship was lying at an angle of 40 degrees and the crow constant dauger of being washed overboard. The chief ofc and several men had been injured. At 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon the Glen. goil was sighted, She hove to and sent a boat and took off part of the men, All had to jump overboard, and were hauled into When the boat re turned to the Glengoil it was stove pareil #3 thie tember with a car ter leaving into a hurricane tion gel ly lauded on board the steamer. An- boat was sent and made two trips successfully. The last trip of the boat was made after dark, and when she went alongside of the steam. er, F. George, one of the boat's crew, got crushed on the gunwale and was washed overboard and lost, Woman Crushed to Death. Hazleton, Pa. (8pecial).—A fatal ge. cident occurred and Mrs. Patrick Gale lagher was the vietim. The past two weeks of the strike had diminished the family's coal supply, and after partak- ing of supper the almost destitute wo- man proceeded to a stripping opening at the southern extremity of the city. She was engaged in the work of filling her buck, when, Sithout warning, a large piece of & wn, crushi her skull and killing the poor Yes instantly, Her body was found almost bidden from view, Cape Town for England The United Btates received awards at the Paris Exposition any nation except ¥rance Great Britain shows d Hung Chang, because of hi close relations with the Rus It was reported in Pa King of Belgium intends in favor of the Prince of The Yamagata mini try Baving resigned, the Mikado moned Marquis ito to form a cabin Prince Inkanthos of Cambodia, after upon the French appeared from Pa It is evident that the will all follow United Btates forces to Chines In the Brit #iXLy-six cand ed unoppo nine are ministers ! It was officially announces don that Lord Roberts pointed commander-in-chief of t} ish Army, succeeding Nol The Presse, of Paris ter from Alfred Dreyfus dieux, in which that he is still ni Belaunde, Finance of Peru upon allegations of frau bers of the Cabinet have resigned, and leading newspapers are urging Presi dent Romana to also resign. EITUATION IN CHINA, more than appal inns, that on of Piayil had ford ¥ the The Russians have the capital of Tung Chinese officials peror the Empress their flight from Pekin, ry of inve the nrovine BAY and pointed gunccession has arrived to Pekin The Sins Rtamps Not Heqguired. Washington (Special) Commis gioner of Internal Revenue Wilson re cently received a request from Cor Pe ration Counsel Whalen, of York, for a ruling whether satisfaction pieces of judgments recovered against that city require to be stamped in the amount of 10 cents He said that the coun=y clerk refused to accept such gatisfaction pleces unless stamped, notwithstanding that the State laws directing him to do so make no men- tion of stamping the documents. Mr Wilson has notified the Corporation Counsel that he concurs with Mr Whalen in the opinion that such docu- ments are not taxable under the United States internal revenue law. Civil Service Record, Washington (Special).—Mr. John B tiarlow, acting president of the Civil Service Commission, has written a let. ter to the special committee of the National Cicil Service Reform League, of which Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte is chairman. In his letter Mr. Harlow declares to be unfounded the charge that information has been publicity in its records consonant with the good of the public service, Clergyman Died In the Pulp, New York (Special). ~The Rev. Dr jilbert H. Gregory passed away (o- dgy in the presence of his congrega- tion at the morning service in 8t Stephens’ Methodist Episcopal Church, Marble Hill, at the upper end of Man- hattan Island. Physicians had urged Dr. Gregory to retire from active church work, as he had long been a sufferer from heart trouble. He was 63 years old. 1.0 to Stay in Tien. Tein. Tientsin, vie Taku (By Cable).-~1Li Hung Chang has abandoned his de- ciston to proceed to Pekin and will, it i& announced, begin negotiations with the Russian Minister to China, M. de Glers, upon the Intter's arrial at Tien tain, General Chaffee has designated the Ninth Infantry, the Third Squadron of the Sixth Cavalry and Battery F to re- main at Pekin, He estimates that it will take a month to get the American THE LATEST PROPOSITION. Becrotary Hay, in Reply to Germiag cerning Punishment of the Guilty Chin. ene, vy fon. Bays United States Governtnent Agrees with Germ ty that Chinese mn. peror's Ediet is » sep Townrd Veace, mcerned thes © governmen in the opinion it now with the imperial German government that the 1 in question 1 an im- it } © shares portant of pe [oe Department October 3, 1900 Coucerted action bj powers in China is thus apparently again mads possible, #0 far as peace negotiations Bie There seems no good reason to the sincerity of the Chinese Emperor in his desire for peace, at the expense of the heads of Prince Tuan and others, if need be. and the cancerned doubt Argry Mob in San Juan. San Juan de Porto Rico (Special), The plant of El Dario, organ of the Federal party, was completely destroy- ed by a mob. The type and presses were smashed. The supposed cause of the disturbance were articles ftacke ing Mayor Egozcuo, who Is a Kepublie No arrests were made. Munoz the editor of the paper, is pre- Can. Rivera forded by the authorities. The protest will be sent to Washington. To Exterminnie Fuxess London (By Cable).~The Chinese minister here, Sir Chih Chen Lo Feng Luh, has received an imperial edist vhich orders that the Boxers be axe terminated, and says that the mission. aris at Pao Ting Fu are to be escoried by the troops of the acting viceroy and delivered to the commanders of the al- lied forces at Chang Sing Tien and Lu Kon Chiao. Catastrophe at Sen, Nagasaki, Japan (Special).