NEW HEIR T0 THE THRONE OF CHINA Candidate of Dowager Empress Said to Be Nephew of Prince Tuan. PRESENT HEIR UNCONTROLLABLE. Reform Faction Disapproves of the Selection, and Suggests That the Powers Oppose It | the Empress Wishes to Carry It Out— Prince Ching Will Act as Grand Marshal of the Court On Its Journey From Kal-Feng. Pekin (By Cable).—A new heir to the throne, it 1s believed here, will be ap- pointed when the Dowager Empress meets Prince Ching and several of the Viceroys at Kai-Feng. capi Province of Ho-Nan, where be a general discussion of the affairs. This news is believed to be as it was received from hiel officials. The present heir, has proved to be dissipated an trollable The of his father, Prince Tuan, banished pr makes his succession contrary to C traditions, The candidate of the E to be Pei Tze, nephew of Prince Tuan and who is intellectually weak. He took part in the Boxer aggressions, personally leading an attack on the French cathe dral tal of the there ermine will authentic, Chinese Chun, uncon status as a Ce, : 1 mpress 1s sad Present Heir a Lad of 17. uan, Empress Pn Chun, of Prince selected by the Dowager 1808 as heir apparent to the Chinese throne, the present emperor, Kwang Su, having no children. The 1S 17 years oid. It was announced last Prince Tuan, his Su. Tuan is a Man { is the grandson of the Emperor Taouk Wang, who died in 1856, and a nephew of Emperor Hien-I1 died In 1861. Prince Tuan's father, ince Tun, was the most | y after Taouk-Wang's cession was set aside. EX-GOY. PILLSBURY DEAD. son heir ber that y Kan descent, Eat 3 father, i hea who Succumbs to Bright's Disease After a Brief I!ness— Numerous Benefactions. 1 S. Pill Nnesotla, Minneapoli bury, 3 S (Special) ard zens died £52 i! vance His FREDERICK H. BENEDICT KILLED Meets Death by Overturning of an Automobile While Descendin a Hill Porm N \ i ry i ed Crick dict Gran Mr with a an am the cam roadway the cha breakwate upset thrown weighed mobile Benedict weight Taken for Robbers and Shot. S i T wo mistook Jrumm for s Howell, Tenn., Roar oke, V pecial) ville (Tenn.) « McCarroll and \ blowers, shot then men were beating their way on a freight tramn, and, fearin rest, got down and started to the fired on seriously woun COTE 0” Foye ¥ iiilam i Ww fun away. when Mhicers McCarroll them and Lover's Deuble Crime. {apecial Cleveland, Ohio 4 DeHolland, years old, almost insts y kilied at her boarding- house by Rogers, 15 years old After firing thi hots at the young woman Rogers turned the weapon upon himself and sent a bullet into his head. He will probably It is said that Miss DeHolland, who was very pretty, had refused to marry Rogers, and this. it is supposed. led to the tragedy was shot and die - Fatally Stabbed at Bristol Bristol, Tenn ial) ~~ Nathaniel Tate, a farmer. fatally stabbed by his nephew, John Tate. near Kingsport. The elder Tate 1 an and a man stealing. Words (Spe Hall of and it named Smith followed. young man stabbed him with a dirk. He hived but a shor: time. and Smith Halli have escaped, and pesse is organizing (o pursue, Mrs. McKinley “Doing Nicely.” a eral Sternberg, of Washington, left to- ley home to-day. of the McKinleys to make a social call on Mrs. McKinley. “doing nicely.” There was no Sternberg. ds —— bmarise Boat Launched. Elizabethport (Special). The subma- rine boat Shark was launched here. The boat is one of the fleet of submarine warships that is be- ing built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company. Miss Wainwright, daughter of Commander Wainwright, U.S N. christened the new vessel. The Shark is 63 feet 4 inches long and has a dis. lacerment of 120 tons, She has gaso- ne and electrical engines for propellin Romer, She will be ¢ wipped wit iehead torpedoes, ich will be fired from the bow. Domestic. The United States Steel Corporation and the Tinplate Company paid the tax imposed hy the State of Ohio on foreign corporations, but not the fines, aggre brougint by the State authorities. Annie Allison, colored, of Sussex county, was arrested in Richmond, Va., on the charge of abducting Mattie T. Smith, a white gir! [he colored wo man's brother is a criminally assaulting the girl Hen MeDonnell Sedles dent, was arrested for causi Edward Corrig i cused of 4 Yale stu 12 the death stu of 4 school Out os Yor aa ad Taw thrown an, 1 whom he had the Circuit Court of awarded $40,000 B. Church against vin Y.c} tikaisomine Company Conrt lower court Supreme yivama 100 of the 3 dec the Philadelphu YEE T pps pany George W. Farnsworth dr while at work on thi tedmont, W. Va Admiral Fran d of an 3 scar steamer Stean launcl ipbmilding Newpor the 20.4 : \rmitage, i the Bank i the Ne ered to * & CoOnicssion, moh 0 Dit New Amst w York police a <= 10,000,000 i Asso AiG O'Donnell. Cities. of German and business men was heid in | ss the "American dange $54 ory ears ssdicment A meeting le the was ms States kept detectives i rmany discover trade secrets undervalua tions The uncertainty gents will attack ama CAUSES intense anxiely and | general de pression in trade. The Umted States ttieship Indiana and French and Brit ish warships continue to await develop ments. The French Government has refrain ed from taking « measures against Turkey to enforce settlement of the Lorando cl fearing that action might the disruption Turkey. The defaulting manager of a bank in Hungary made a confession to his wife, who handed him a revolver and told him to kill himseli, which he did Commander Sheepers and 11 Boer leaders, recently captured by the dritish, have been banished from South ba Dercive such of Judge O'Connor Morris, at the open- to emanate from containing threats against King Ed- ward. Two French Jdectectives have started for Bulgaria to search for Miss Stone, the American missionary held by bri- gands for ransom. They say they are ossession of likely clucs, he gun sights and other fittings of the British cruiser Magnificent have been thrown into the sea by the crew in order to bring about a righting of their wrongs. Financial The steamer St. Paul has arrived at Seattle from Nome with $1,500,000 gold. The New York subtreasury has trans- ferred for the banks $275000 to New Orleans, It is reported that Atchison will show over $1,000,000 increase in September RIrOss earnings, The New York subtreasory statement shows that the banks have lost $1,447. 000 during the last week. The Puliman Company is expected to show $17,000,000 gross earnings for the year. | i | i { i ! | POSTOFFICE STAMP VAULT ROBBED Thieves Bore an Entrance From Beneath Through Steel Flooring, SECURE $74,610 WORTH OF BOOTY. So Careful Had the Job That Men Working in Other Parts of the Building Had Not the Slightest Inkling of the Daring Robbery Being Worked Almost Under Their Noses, Chicago (Special) I'he ingen wus and boldest robbery of a public stitution most in accomplished some time between day mgt Mi to Satur and nday morning, when the value of $74.610 from the stamp vault operators huilding postage { age stamps abstracted 1 of the Chicago postotce who burrowed beneath through a their plunder were t Dy the sfeel Hoor Had they 240.000 Orig no partition put mn were i re ¢ Xhert iu No tangible MOOTres 1 at work on he worl fie y vant i iu SANTOS-DUMONT WINS FRIZE Committee Says That He txceeded the Tig Limit Time Lost In Descending. Paris (By Cable) —M. Santos-Du mont, the aeronaut, sailed around the Eiffel Tower in his balloon and return ed to the Aers Club within twenty-nine minutes, having, to all appearances, complied with all the conditions impos ed by M. Deutsch for the winning of the award of 100 ooo francs for the in ot a dirizible airship. M. Deutsch says that Cavtos-Dumont vention 20 minutes, M. Dumont The ¢ mittee de Dumont took 30 mint the trip. offered , but 5a ares that San 40 4-7 sed ciub O10 onds te make M. Deutsch pr G1 25.000 rang The inventor won te the Ris tarted ion a consola tos would iL 11 4 Ww Wil npw ira take his bali 3 for S Dumont 2 3 on leaving the hit in a tree a scend turned ag ' 1 he AOCWAY AMECONGS I'he en Sir Thomas Advocates Change Chicago ial) n declared himself 1100 Sir 1 homas Lip change : A Dp i in favor of a of America’s Cup challengers 1 I he ething more than ity New York (Spee fled and two injur when a great fell from the side and rool & Of TOCK of the rapid transit tun I. In course of on Broadway Hundred and im this city about the Sixty-fourth construction line of One sireet, The in surface \ shait leads to nd from ti f section of tunnel! where the below th the You f. ‘ geadings cave occury 1s O85 feet funnel m extend - being about yo0 nt occurred in the tunnel, about 640 feet from the si A gang of 20 rock drillers was working in the extreme south end of the head ing and about 30 feet from the end a gang made up of 20 shovelers and a foreman was removing the debris pro tl blast Without warning s of rock, 61 feet feet wi 10 feet high ng about 150 tons, fell with a crash cctly where the were at work, almost closing | and creating a panic among ne 200 of 300 men at work in other sec of filled the The frightened men, fi them Italiane, in great excite ment and finding rives cut off, wild efforts treme nile His Great clouds dust * exXCavalion As int. tO ¢8 \ : hey thougil their cries In a made their adding to the time, the the conn Bs no 1 however, all street aj # short way to rescuing commenced Owen Bly, the section boss, charge of that portion of the tunnel, war placed under arrest. shovelers Work ot Was Durban, Natal (By Cable) General De Wet's recent inactivity has produced the impression among military men that he is either dead or incapacitated through illness or wounds. According to a let- ter from Pretoria a prominent Boer re- cently wrote to a friend there relating the terrible hardships suffered by the Boers irtthe field, especially from a lack of Burgoyne - . “De Wet, for example,” wrote this Boer, "suffered the most terrible agony before he died. He was wounded in the shoulder by a splinter from a shell and the wound jahgrencd, owing to its being dressed with dirty rags.” Five Boers captured at different places recently said De Wet was dead, but each gave a different version of his death. Against these reports is the statement of Piet De Villiers, the field cornet, recent- ly taken prisoner in the northeastern part of the Orange River Colony, who said that on the morning of his capture he took breakfast with et. Ls A ——— Houston, Tex. (Special).--At 2 o'clock in the morning fire broke out in the rear portion of she Hutchings House, one of the leading hotels in Houstdh, The flames spread rapidly to all parts of the upper stories of the building, which it a four-story structure covering more Ee than half a block, The guests, of whois the hotel was full, were aroused by the hight office force, and most of then es- caped. so far known to have resulted from the fire. This was a man believed to be a guest of the hotel SHOWS NO SIGN OF A COLLAPSE Mary Witmer Is a Woman of Iron Nerve, IN HER SISTER'S BODY. Mrs. Retalus Her Stoicism and Maintalas Her Composure—The Attempts to Get Her to Convict Herself of Amy of the Murders Charged Against Her Prove Futile, Dayton, ial). —Mrs, Mary sged murderer of toicism which and quite discon- i iaintamed ing Only , and that OQ, (Spex Witwer, the al 14 persons, retains certs her attorney composure fron 1as she epson, whose r fifth and died from dd Young any reminded kind ROOT th A kept indifferent attitude under cit Police lighite fail ion upon erated her Cries at. Inno the apparent entrap tly charg Mrs who t sister, Pugh, a professional nus with Mrs city Witwer | and all rather su nly and under peculiar ge lesale charges : she sing the death of several 14 deaths. more than Orities PAT CROWE TOURS THE WORLD. Detectives Could Not F.md Mim His Brotkes Speaks for Him. {Specia the Root's Health Restored. York : St § President Fq Western awara 1 1d «HY \ New SPecia private iT OO the Ona and sent . War nn Raquette Lake to : 15 expected, til reach Washingto iriy this week Fiis health has lly restored and he has greatly enjoved e two weeks of A dire Fatal Blow After a Nap. 5) ot r y a TC4T S LE of i i jstungton been CoOmpicie rest in the NGacKs rrisbure TOK a1 ¢In Steel Wi rks, told hig fellow-wy to awaken hin Parthemore hat Bickle, at r head with a Xt 5 3 Jickle was arrested, % 3 J! . 3 " ITAYY wrcnca ii di To Regulate V visection. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special) Sydney R was elected president of the American Humane As. Francis H Rowley, of A committee was authorized to prepare a bill to be intro- 3 tion upon living beings Bank Officers Misglag. Lowell, Mass. (Special). There is nothing new in the Merchants’ Bank af. fair, and Smith and Swiit, the missing teller and bookkeeper, were not locat- ed, at Jeast not to public knowledge. The bank authorities will have nothing more to say until the financial situation is definitely established. Accountants have been at work on the bank's books since Friday night, and President A. G. Pollard refused to make any statement. Counsel for the missing men likewise are reserved in their answers to queries, Minister Kilis Negro Burgiar. Madisonville, Ky. (Special).—Rev. Fugene Harralson, pastor of the Metho- diet Episcopal Church South. shot and killed a negro named “Jim” Lewis, and