THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. The big miners’ convention was be- gun in Scranton, Pa. President Mitch. ell, of the Mineworkers’ Union, presid- ing. The settlement was against accepting the offer of the oper- ators, Proceedings are to be net M. C. Sibel, a Philadel- iia dressmaker who brought a Ler of rich gowns from abroad, Were sg by the customs officials Upon receipt of a telegram, proved to be bogus, declaring that her husband committed suicide in New York, Mrs. in Chicago. Bert Waite, forgery in having robbed Company August, Ww ‘owell, was Miss ized which used of 18 years old, ace San Francisco, the United States at Ravanna, 0. Ex press last who for seven years t president of the Order o Railway Telegraphers, was expelled at a meeting of the delegates in St. Louis, Col. A. G. De Marest, who command ed the Twenty-first New Jersey during the Civil War, died at his home ar Tenafly, N. J. The new battleship Wisconsin ex ceeded all records on her trial trip off the Caiiforn coast L.. Lightner died in Hanover from injuries received while walk in his sleep. Iszac Pa. ing The Pennsylvania contracts for 1 at $26 a ton. Twelve specfilators in puts and calls were arrested in Chicago. Railread 50.000 tons of steel awarded rails Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff, of New York, declined to honor requisition of the governorof Texasfo the delivery of the officers apd diree- tors of the Standard Oil Company W H. M. T. Holland William Stewart were arrested Martinsville, Va., for counterleitis Molds and spurious guarters were also found by the officers. The ine and near Carter, or 18 China Board outlook American for Foreign St. Louis situation and was discussed by the of Commissioners sions, in in in M Se8S8ion The d dertakers’ a blizzard NArTOow Three the National U were caught Peak and escape from death. brick arches « Christ Reformed Church burg, W. Va., coliapsed wrecking the building Erward Eye, president more Hardware Company phia. killed himself } ner had robbed him. John White, painfully i mob that serenade. Thirt ed Ha elegates to Conference on n= in had a Mion IRC S { the new in Martins- £ omplete large ont of Kingston ired two m oon abandone: cargo, off Isan The attempt of tl vent the running of ; colliery, near Hazleton, Pa a h between the strikers and coal and iron p emen, as a result which one officer one m on each si ie seriously h clas wed ; £ d The the from strict No. 9 will ignition, of grievances to in- he iegates miners’ convention be demand red wides The Wil down, and g am in Ly 18 Valley FPERIDE ilamest colliery thors _ ie tier JW No min ng in rrison statement York some of gues A dental i! Bayard Ww Casper Wei ima near The Neely advanced on reme Court Colonel sistant surgeon general died at the age of 64 In his annual report General Brooke recommends a reorganization of the army. rme hanged Ridge, Pa case - h if ireen be es Ii will the States, Wright f the extradition the docket of of United Payson the Joseph as- O a well died of Major Seldon Noyes Clark known newspaper worker, heart failure, President Mitchell reviewed a large procession of striking miners in Sha- mokin, Pa. and in an address told them that was for them to decide in couvention whether to accept the ten per cent, increase offered by the companien passengers were blown out sea off Cape May on the steamer Ocean City and bave not been heard from One parsgenger was William Holman an advertising asent of Baltimore The American Bible Society of New York hae received from Shanghai ligt of all the mirsionaries supposed to be killed or in hiding in China, Work was resumed by 1500 men in Joliet (111) steel mill and car works, Mrs. Elizabeth Sternbauet thot at Columbia, Pa. by Mott, died of her injuries, Walter Johnson and Charles miners, were killed by a Johnsiown, Pa. Major Edward Goldberg died at Sen- eca, Mo., having been poisoned mushrooms, Harry Anthony is it Thiee Lo # who was Williaz Buchan train was accidentally ny, Via A jury was completed in the trial a: the murder of Governor Goebel, | NOW FOR PEACE. i | PREESIDENT'S REPLY { NOTE TO TFYRENCH ON CHINA. United States in Acenrd as to Teace as to Punishment of Guilty and Fgunita. Ble Ine But the Inting to Permanent Guards and Huy ing of Yorts Deferred. smnities, Clanses He- Washington (Special) the State Department to relative to negotiations has He, The the rent Hote of Chine made j the bases Just been The answer has given a satisfactor i turn to the Chinese | were it not for the repofts activity in China on the the Powers the out | excellent for gpeedy | long-deferred | sides negoliations of part look it mii of som jo! would of th Be peace answering the specific prog tions advanced by the French gover: ment, the American reply expresses lial approval of the taken ww France. The memorandum c¢ oses : h a phrase in which the Prex dent expr the belief that, in eves of the French government which this on constitutional understood as of negotiations they will begs openis negotiation COrt COlirse } |BCS the the government grounds prevent made will not be the opening President hope has early date. The reply reads ws The of State to Charge d'Affaires to M. Phiebgut Octobe: Memorapdum The government of the Unitdd with that nizing asx the from the government priate reparation tantial guarantees for The President is d to the bases in spirit a. foll Secretary of France in re be obtained China past and the future EB fo of abhiept appro for the perceive 3 m put forward October the 0 negotiat the memorandum animated Hine terested, and the negotiations mediately upon the of credentials It may be tions DOWers ed to i gee representatives Pekin." The resgy Chinese gov icated its number disorders Powers a of thos he rece tives of the addition are at goat 8 to that tiations entered The against ipon continuan the 0 guard thei: ; means of them whenever President hielieves that t he of Fran and the in the reserves made no obstacle to the negotiations on the suggested, and he hopes it will be found practicable to hegin such nego- tiations at an early day of 8 1900, have the unrest cess 10 required he rnments will © othes we tn RO Powers have her itiation of see © Washingion ate, October 10, Dowry System Abolished. (By Cable). —French officers who wish to marry are no longer re- stricted in their choice of brides girls who ean bring a dowry of 20.000 france. General Andre hae introduced a reform by abolishing obligatory dow ries. The dowry system was originated in 1843, when the a wife was at a disadvantage, as pas ents would not give their dowered daughters to men who were likely at any moment to leave them widows Now that a long peace made people forget the war bogey, and men sometimes remain for a lifetime at one garrison, the profession of arms bas become chic, and officers are a premium in the marriage market, PEKIN, Paris 2s at TROOPS IN BO000 Germans, alnns WHI Winter There, Pekin (By Cable). General guchi will retain troops, 000 of them at Pekin and the communications, Eight thousand Germans will pass the winter in Pekin and 1500 Russians, | i | be retained has not yet been decided. 2 brigade, The allies ave gtoring supplies for #ix months, # i NOT AGHREY, FOin RIOT AT THE MINES. the Proposals, ] The Cabinet | srRIKERS this gov will French note | the razing of the fortifica-! tiong between Pekin and the sea; the | A POL ICE MAN KILLED military control of the road . to the capital by inter at fortified piaces, the perma- importation and ammunl permanent occupation of an international guard, and | tion to nations. societies and the excesses committed French Washington decided frnment (Special) the reply make USE SHUI DOWN VIOLENCE TO which A COLLIERY. the an Lo the tional const An Locomotive Which Shots Sides A Min { Siriker Probably Fatally Wounded Hun a Mine Conflict, In toth ¥ ses ne, garrisons hereafter ohibition Attempt Caused A 3 fo to be selected: the Fired ister’s Narrow ' 2 Dn al ine Were of firearms oh the Lin by repars clal an a i Hazleton, policeman other strike Pa A &p Was {Bpecial) instantly killed was wounded in the head was probably fatally shot viduals for the Bos att tude taken by the admini a nd i 10 non-union wen were more ot seriously wounded at the Onelda Hery of Coxe Bros. in a claxh between { the officers and 500 strikers. The vie permanent occupation of | tims are detail of an' American | Killed the Sarrizons of certain | Beaver Meadow, one of the trolling the road to | fonveyed in a special train early rument cannot at this | morning from that place to Oneida assent to propositions shot through the back n the pern disposi Wounded-—George Kellnor, American troops in foreign ter- | Years, of Beaver Meadow that being the sole prerogative | #pecial officer. He received the final wounds in the head, but will recover this government Joseph Lesko, aged 38 vears, of demand just and suit- | Sheppton, a striker, He was for the injuries the groin and will probably die 18 commerce and to the missionary so- Ten non-union men stoned ‘eries intry, as well as | but only two of them seriously amends the insult offered | injured. They are John Van Blargin and the American Minister ind James Torsh. of i n. The Ww in effect, the conclusion | former sustained and after a long and latter had nresent git The Oneida McKinley fami 0 formaily express its dis position to raze the rohibit the trade in fire- pr fhe nd talph Mills, aged 50 years officers this He tne for of $8 ( EOY was aged also anent n of Mi sho f Con f ‘or Of Bross As to proposi- | indemnity, ghot in COUrse, reparation done were Of this 1 wore FO? sheppto wounds broken ving been on of the the four Coll * the exhaustive n showed uation in } # rat trike, the Oneida and sheppton, where many of the { the Oneida nger Bros . ive Har with union me; that havi employes and Der Collier.es Coxe dec) ¢ down th nin 1 Rroupe o o'clock work hey {8 as n 16¢ K1ed As the non-uni ¥ therefore members ondition MIRDER IS ALLEGED, Palmist is Shot and Killed by J smlous Man. LY] Mot, Pa. (Special) Wm. «h killed Mik 4 w he he was Pe ude of Denamite Explode. M 2.000 Fou loth {Rnec and i a 100 arks the The $i t whore of “Diy force great Over fwo i very was broken extimated at $30. the SBpru }, the mine labora being totally iit glinsgs font of a squar miles of YW the and The radius tically Eveleth fown : The damage done Mine was about $3004 tory and warehouses wrecked At least 200 people were more or less iy hurt from being hrown down shock or hit by shattered glass winds of € uml a {to a, Tenn, (Special) The isinees meeting of the So Army of the Cumberland General T. J. Wood pre. inual reports of officers were one of the most important | in \ iat of General H. V. Boynton, : rresponding secretary, providing for the seriou the Alariner Hangs Himself, lianover, Pa. (Speciai) Casper Weigand, a well-known farmer resid- ing near Green Ridge. hanged himself tivaking his neck and dying almost instantly. About eight o'clock Mr Weigand sent hix daughter on an er- rand, leaving him alone in the house i for a short time. On her return she beard a noise in the cellar, and, go. ing there, found her father with a rope halter about his neck, suspended trom joist. His knees touched the floor, An unhappy love | but the strain bad broken his neck be the cage and life was already extinct. De. ceased wae aged 70 years, and for the past two years had been a victim of | paralysis, rendering him entirely speechices, siclety., ullale Girt Killed Merssl”, Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—Miss Beila Warren, of Buffalo, twenty-eight years old, committed suicide by jumping into the Erie Canal at Tonawanda. Miss Warren left home saying that she was going to church. She evidently went from her home to Tonawanda. A boy | her leap into the canal, but wae! supposed to affair is of her act. Kitted by a Tealn. Johnstown, Pa. (Special). Walter fohnson and Charles Buchan, two voung miners on strike, who came here | ‘rom. Pltteton to get work in the bi- tuminous district. were run down hy a train while walking on the railroad Stearme Caunse Parther ose Fort Worth, Texas (Special). ~-Logs- es caused by the storms and loods in | vai lous sections of the State since the Galveston disaster are estimated at | | $1,000,000. The rivers are still rising. A Eel eats Killed by an Engine ABOUT XOTED PROFLE. | Fairmont, W. Va. (Special).—A) I > Adams, a miner, 33 years old, was Washington Duke, the tobacco man- | crushed to death by an engine near ufacturer, has given $100.000 to Trin. England mines. Albert Oriss, at the ity College, a Methodist institution at | Fleming mines, had a foot cut off by Durham, N. C. ia mine car to-day. The Gold Cross of the Order of Dan. | a . nelirog has been conferred by King | Net as er na | Christian 1X. of Denmark on Jacob | Staun on, a. pecial).~In pulling | A. Riis. the author. {down the Courthouse preparatory to : Prot. B w Seripture, head of the | [EMudaling i She, walls, which ere y! tial ’ > 1 expecte O stang, nave n found une psychological laboratory of Yale Uni-| gate, The board of supervisofs has versity, has been awarded a gold medal | gotermined to build an entirely n by the Paris Exposition for a device for | courthouse, and change ite lacavion Ts! testing color-blindness, the grounds, | FOREIGN AFFAIRS. | General de Wet ig still Britieh busy. He hax lately appearance near Wepener The American steam collier Emi which recently sank in the Suez Canal has been successfully floated A dispatch from Lord Roberts ports that the number of Boe: tured or surrendering ix dally | ing Madame TORNADO KILLS NINE ENTIRE VAMILY AMONG the hin Keeping ade i mad OF PYHASONS T™ME BODIES BLOWN FAR AWAY. intnesotn’s Great Storm Far More Severe Than First Pualuth, SIX VICTIMS, Reported. Fagine-Houw of Hesabs and Northern Wrecked, Over nd Hedueed of Wind, Perret, the wealthy Senator Perret I“rance, leaving a f aubet At n i Hon Dllced his i . ; Engines 1 te rien died l.yons & = BF He 4 i crap fron hy Yores ortune to President | y ne county fair ne kilied of nearly i glass NO ¢ vine-grow| tuffered sey ns which have rops in France Out of 30,000 British in South 4 249 O00 duty Te and d the wa! The International casion in i iritair i ed to Killed tion in the 1 ransvaani Infuriated fishers oast fired on ! the naval «¢ take refuge or Five thousand have ret northeast guns It is the big guns i The French embling numb MM Oo 1 a IRIN SE FITUATION IN CHINA, The Germans Pekin A thousand the town of Sa 1 in eq Other pow from Pekin there the Brit Sir Claude at Pekin. to to that of ment American adopted resolutions de templated withdrawal of the n China A German Foreign ussing the French hit in of the ni shoul resia ited Siates Om “ol HOLE ‘hina d should an military note trouble suggests mantiement of tary the 1 i In 9 111 CCupat Tusurgent Activity. Manila (By Cable). Four troops cavairy and two compani® of infants have recently reinforced Yen ef Young in Northern Luzon, where insurgents are concentrating mountains of North and South 1) iad it Provinces, under the leadership of Ag. lipay. the excommunicated priest General Tino and Genarl Villaneuve who had been quiet for some time, are now showing signs of becoming active as the end of the rainy season ap proaches Of late there has been coneideran scouting and skirmishing in the prov- inces of Abra and North locos. bie Three Million for the Academy. Washington (Special).—In his esti- mate for the expenditures under the furisdiction of the Navy Department, Secretary long decided to place $3.- 000 G00 as the sum to be appropriated for continuing the work on the new Naval Academy at Annapolis during the next fiscal year. Congress has fixed the limit of cost of the entire new 000. The work of erecting the buildings is progressing rapidly, and if Congress adopts Secretary Long's recommendation and appropriates the three millions he asks, the new Naval Academy will be completed in two years, FiELD OF ABO Norway has 2841 factories, #81. Louis has 65,000 unionists, #t. Louis has 800 unioh barbers, There are $700 brotherhood firemen, A naps has a co-operation gro- ofry, Pacific const unionists want Japa- news barred, New York Building Trades Council will raise $15,000 for Chicago strikers Labor decision In Germany: Inven. tions hen JSoncelved or worked out in employer's factory, belong to lai. GREAT S13LD OF MM ISCONSIY Battieshin Knots. Maxi Bid , {ed there was not a an irreguiatly machinery the il saip afte: usa the re bow nih not the yf the Without stopping the engine board wilt charge the the run and pot her thio quired evolutions By the terms of the « Wisconsin was reguired wo steam at the rate of 16 knots an hour for four peecutive hours, one knot moe han demanded of the Oregon, which a spurt duriug her trial reaching knots, The Wisconsin g 1000 tons heavier than the Oregon, and no premium was ofiored for ex cess of speed over the requirement of the contract Neveribhelegs ah Eas taten the record of the Oregon at cyery point ¢ y £ » 0 . t 3 movements tr iH mtract the { was 17.15 11 Re tortion in the Vetre of Copa fiantington, W. Va. (®pecial) ~The american Car and Donedey Company annonneed a reduction of one dollar in the price of ereeiing fat oars. The price for ciocting hopper cars was cut 4 dollar a fow weeks ago. IN GUAY AMA, Palitieal sow Resalts Tour Danthe San Juan, Porto tice (By Cr ble)- A dispatch to the Nowa from Guayama says there was a sevons politica! riot at that place. Several! handred chots were fired, and at last accounts four persone had been killed and Slieen wounded, The police, while attempting to quell the tiouble, were attacasd by a mob armed with sticks, tones, machetes aad rovolvers. The Was reiniore. ed to-day by 100 nen from Arroyo. Pifty additional ce from other twas arrivea at yama, a mnioy Rie mn in