CHINESE FLEE IN TERROR. VICTORIOUS ADVANCE OF THE JAPS INTO MANCHURIA. The Chinese Batteries Deserted and }, Much Plunder Is Captured—Japan Expects Easily to Capture Mukden i =Lack of Patriotism Shown by | the Chinese—Herolo Japanese. Count Yamagata, of the Japanese army, with his detachment, entered Manchuria and defeatod the Chinese under General Sung Ching. At dawn the Japanese forces at- tacked the fortified eity of Kiu-Lien-Cheng, which was held by 16,000 Chinese, Alter making only a slight defence the Chinese 1 nl of wounded is not yet known, Japanese loss was eighty-three killed and ¥ i » ¥ Ll EMPRESS OF JAPAN, wounded, Thirty large by the Japanese, as well ofina inition and food, The secon ao army of 30.000 mer CoOmmAanae northeast ol risons fled | } i Wel-Hai-Wel, he Wiju co sins guns were oaj tured os stores rrespondent telegraphs ¢ attack on Kulienchao was made by , aoting in concert, The troops an early in the morning, and began the advance at daybreak, There was no sign from the Chinese batteries or sen tries, was fired, but thers was no re sponse, en a shell was dropped into the principal battery ; still no sign, The scouts soon came baok with the news that the place had been vacated by the Chinese, When the significance of this flight was realized by the Japanese troops they gave round after round of cheers, It is beileved that the ar- rival of the defeated Chinese troops from Fushang caused such a panic in the garrison that the officers could not restrain their men from flight, “After the Japanese troops bad advanced some distance they found the lias of retreat indicated by hundreds of muskets and rifles which the Chinese had thrown away in thelr haste, The batteries, which had been aban- doned, were well built, and the position was a strong one, The guns, however, were not nu- merous enough for the defence of the works, Besides the small arms and artillery, | large stores of ammunition, hundreds i THE QUEEX OF KOREA. tents, any quantity of rice and into the hands of the Japanese, the Chinese were too oh frightened to walt even a few hours to destroy anything. The enthusiasm of the troops Is intense, Every man is eager to press forward, It is believed that Mukden can be reached without an encounter with any organized Chinese foree, great orsmall ™ The Chinese army of the Yalu has retreat ed to a well-fortified position at Ping Huang Ching, and bars the road from Mukden to Pekin, Fifteen thousand Chinese have heen ordered to march from 'Fing Huang Ching, make a detour, and attack the adwanecing dapat army on the right flank, Mrs, Bishop, a missionory at Mukden, gays that she saw the Chinese regiments on their way to the front, and thers was not a single gun of modern make among them, their firearms consisting entirely of antique muzzie-londers and matohlocks, Many of the soldiers, she adds, wes without even these, their only weapons of offence being spears and bows and arrows. During the stay of the force at Makden it was inereased by the enlistment 5¢ able bodied beggars and eoolles, Thin army set off after three weeks of drill. ing. As they marched out many of the sol. diers said they were going ont to be shot, Executions for desertions from the Chinese army have been frequent, as many as four then men having been beheaded in a single day, The army is absolutely without any medical supplies, and is attendad by no ambulnnes corps, it being the sastom of the Chinese to strip all who may be wounded In battle and leave them on the fleld, All the Soochow property belonging to Sheng, tha Taotal of Tientsin, has been seized and sealed by the Chinese Governor in obedience to orders from Pekin. Sheng is the official who bought German rifles for 600,000 tacks, and sold them to the Governs ment for 5,000,000, When the fraud was Miscovered LI Hung Chang slapped his face, The seizure of his property followed quickly upon the denunciation of the Board of Censors An wssentinlly Oriental story is told in Tientsin, {illustrative of the venality of some of the Chinese officials, A gentleman re- siding in that eity ordered a Chinese mason to bring the necessary olay to make soma repairs In his fireplace, The mason Appenred the next day with a cart load of what appeared to be cannon balls, but which were really sun-dried globes ot alay painted black, Some time before hostilities with Japan began Viesroy 14 Inspected a number of vessnls belonging to the northern squadron, Many of the ships wore inguM. clently suppl with ammunition, the and { Qe [ hold it to the last, | | to his dying breast, in full uniform he ealm- | i act Five hundred of them were slain, The | The | gruok him full in the breast, inflicting a | fatal wound, money paid out for that purpose hay. ng en otherwise ‘‘appropriated.," As this story would probably not meet with the approval of the Viceroy, a number of bricklayars were at onoe set to work manufaeturing fake’ oan- non balls out of olay, after which they were painted black, Thess innocuous missles were then smuggled aboard several of the vessels, and when the inspection was held proved a complete success, Numerous ye of heroism are recorded among the Japanese troops, While a body of newly enlisted men were marohing to the front one of the soldiers was taken vio- ently (ll, He was removed to the nearest nospital, but refused to unclasp his sword pelt or surrender his gun tro the at- ending physiclans, That death was near knew, and he deomnsd it a disgruece to die before fighting for his country; his gun was a precious charge and he would And so, eclasping the gun was the fy met his death, No less herolo of a bugler in and had just given = blast, when a bullet Several of his to lay the bugle aside, urging that any fresh exertion would only make the hemorrhage more quickly fatal, wis to raise the bugle once more and for the Inst time to his lips, and with a floal clear ringing ‘‘Charge” the bold spirit passed GERRMANY STRIKES BACK. Retallation for the Discrimination Against Beet Sugar. A despatoh from Hamburg, Germany, says : “The Senate has published a decreas prohibiting the Importation of American ive eattio and fresh beef on the ground that two cargoes whioh had just arrived con. tained several antmals suffering from Texas fever," The German Ambassador at Washington has informed the Seoretaey of State that Germany will prohibit the Importation of beef and cattle from this country on the ground that cattle imported from this coun- try have been found to be Infected by Texas fever, While this is the ostensible ground, there is little doubt that Germany is seoking to retaliate for the imposition by the Tariff law of a discriminating duty upon German best SQZAr, It is well know that the agrarian population of Germany, which is both large and influential, is much angered sgninst this Government for the . sriminating duty placed upon their beet VOAr, Assistant Secretary Dabney, acting as Sec. retary « gricuiture during the absence of Mr, Morton, lost no time in entering a vigorous protest against the action of Germs He sent the following telegram to the SBeorotary of State : “Referring to your telegram in regard to the prohibition of American oattie and fresh beel by Germany, please represent to the Garman Ambassador that Texas fover is not communicated by diseasad cattle, and that even {If the reported discovery of this disease is correct there is no danger to Gorman oattle; also that the meat of cattle affected with this disease has never been shown to be dangerous to the con sumer, This Government Inspocts all meat exported and certifies that the cattle were free from disease when slaughtered, A vig- orous protest should therefore Le entered against the proposed action.” Speaking of the subject, Mr. Dabney sald the Department would maintain its position and he believed thal the German people, us- ually reasonable in all things, would see that they wore mistaken in this matter and re- move their objections to our meat. The Bremen Senate has acted with that of Hamburg in prohibiting the importation of Uve cattle or fresh meat from this country, BURNED TO DEATH. Fatal Fire in a Flimsy Hotel Bullding in Seattle, A fire which resulted In the death of six teen persons and the injury of three more started in the West Street House, at Colum. bia and West streets, Seattle, Wash, about 1am. At30'slc under con. trol. and an investigation ruins was made, All the dead were burned beyond recognition, The flames started so fleronly that the oo eupants of the building were taken } y sur prise, and there was a wild pantie, men and women jumping from the windows in thelr night clothing. explosion was card in kite the rear part of the second story by 8. F. Batler, a son of the proprietor, and Immadiately the flames began to spread rapidly through the dry inner timber of the corrugated iron bullding, which is one of a series of two-story structures owned by J. N. Colman on the east side of West street, Butler raised a ery of fire, which aronsad somes of the guests, The house was filled, and a rush for lite followed. The flames wore already rushing through the long, nar. row halls, Finding exit by the stairways eat off, the people began to drop from ths win- dows on both sides of the btuliding, the flames alosely following them, H. F. Butler, the propristor of the hot was in bed when the fire was discos and narrowly eseapad, His son, 8 ler, was night clerk, He says the fire doubtadly originated from a kerosene | ¢ in the kitchen, which was on the upper floor near the rear wall, In the inside room off the nassasewar Iv. ing In a charred and blackened bed, there was found a man and wile and a little burned arm, showing that a little ehild was among the vietims. The total number of dead Is sixtean, The vietims identified by shreds of aun. burned clothing are: F, W, Boltman, Angue McDonald, CO, Wilson Anderson, Mes, J. W, Huffman and two daughters, Andrew Otte son, Mrs, Andrew Otteson, ————————— SREAD SHOULD BE CHEAPER. sk the fire was of the the Cricks of the Trade Exposed by the Agricultural Department, The Agricultural Department at Wash. | ngton has given out a bulletin on “the cost of bread” taken from the forthcoming report mie of foods, It says; “In practices 100 pounds ot flour will make from 138 to 137 pounds of bread, an average being about 136 pounds, salt, which is certainly very liberal, the ma- terials for a pound of bread would not cost | more than two cents, “The average weight of a namber of shi | ments of ten-cent loaves purchased in Mi | distown, Conn., was one and one-fourth pounds, This makes the prices to the con- sumer eight cents por pound. The price of bread and the sige of the loaf are practically the same now ns when flour cost twice as | much," The bakers of Washington have reduced the price of bread from five to four osnts per loaf, They have yielded to popular de mand, and thelr example will probably be followed by makers of the staff of life in other parts of the souantry, I - Tix Chinese 8ix Companies in San Pran- olsco has fssued a notion warning Chinamen throughout the Stats “ot to give evidence for the Governmen/| in ~<a involving the exclusion or depozsation of Celestials ; other. wise they will Is boyeotted, Puemorxr Penten'’s late tour of France was made in a carriage % high that no hand could reach him with a dagger thrust, the battle of Bong- | Hwan, He had been told to blow the oharge, | comrades ran | | to raise him, but he and they at onoe saw | | that nothing could be done. They told him His sole reply to this | Flour such as is | sed by bakers is now purchased in the | Eastern States at not over #4 per barrel, | | This would make the cost of flour in a pound | of bread about one and one-half cents, Als | { lowing one-half cont for the shortening and THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. BryexTeey cars wore wrecked In an neel dent at Horse Shoes Curve, Jersey Bhore, Penn, Threo men were killed, and from th complete kits which they carried they supposed to have been professional burglar, Ex-Paesipexr Hannmox and Levi P. Morton addressed the Republican ratifica- tion moeting at Carnegie Hall, in Now York City, Taree tralnmen were killed in a collision at Forster, Penn, Jonux Kavse, a very old man, tried to re. sist robbers in his housa nt Evans City, Penn. and was killed on his hearthstone, Witriax Jowes snd George Buckland, miners, ware drowned by a rush of from an old working at Nanticoke, Penn, Busixess {8 so good at Pittsburg, Penn, | that the rallroads are having trouble to get | cars enough to accommodate the traflle, South and West. unt Saw lost bis life at the burning of | Prop. | mitted his annual report to the Beorotary of the Garden Theatre, St, Louls, Mo, wrty valued at £350,000 was destroyed by fire at the East 8t. Louls terminal yards, Ix astroot fight in York, Ala., Chief of Police J, W, Thompson was killed and E, F, Allison was mortally wounded by the dis. charge of a pistol tn the hands of 8, A. Cam- eron., fraxx Crixe, son of ex-City Marshal { Cline, and Otis Savage, whose father was Clreult Judge for yoars, have been arrostad { at The Dallas, Oregon, for the Pacifie Ex. press robbary of $14,000, All but £400 was recovered, Five thousand dollars was found in the house of the ex-Marshal, Five members of the Cook gang of traln robbers wern captured by Iodian deputy marshals in Indian Territory. Porurist Eprron Tarr, of Ripley, Tean,, was held in 82500 on a charge of sedition based on his call for a meeting to prevent election frauds, in which he talked of soak ing the god with blood, Two robbers in a Chicago stole about $0000 worth of jewelry, and escaped. jewelry store watches and Washington. Tar United States Supreme Conrt decided that John C. Eno must stand trial for per Jury in the courts of New York State, Puesipext CLevELaxDp approved the pro. posed changes in naval stations arranged Uy Secrotary Herbert, Prrsipgxt Crevziaxp's family hers residing In White H necinated by Dr. O'Relily, hiysleinn, as a necessary pre ppearanos the in the RETARY GRE st Germany's pints, HAM » Paesipest CLEVELAND ap! P. Willett postmaster at a member of a hatter's fira bis Ife {a the Capital, LT washing Wirriax M. Caxrozry has been appolnte United States Marshal for Minnesota in i Adam Bede, who resigned rather thar wamaleninge ampalgning. Foreign. IT was rumored in Tien-Twin that the you Empress of China, was dead, but that fact would not be announced nor mourning be worn by the Court until after the birthday of the Dowager Empress, Tux argo against American and dressed beef was extended to all tus ports of the German empire, Howorz Mrmcizn, ex-Prime the Provinoe of Quetee, died in Canada. Tue Prince and Princess of Wales wore summoned to Livadia, ani from this {t was believed that the Czar's end was near, Parxcs Houswvoug-Laxorxsuno has boon appointed Governor of Alsace Lormalne, Tax British steamer Tormes foundered off Pembroke, Walesa. Fourteen of her crew were drowned, em! cattle Minister of Maatroal, Tur Peary steamer Paloon, { plia for Bt, Johns, N has been out four weoks, ap by the owners as Jost, Tux Swedish insane aaylun ing was burned, Fifteen In JAaraxese f supplies from orders include goat skins, cloth " seat —— T TY ' ve NEWSY GLEANINGS, Tax Spanish Ministry resigned Irary's deficit this year is 812,000,000, Tux remains of the late Justin LL. Q. C. Lamar wore Interred at Oxford, Mise, Tux city of Boston is selling its four per cent, bonds at $113.55 for the $100 bond, Tux mines at Criople Creek, Col., sare now urning out $700,000 in gold every month, Tux appropriation for the New York City Park Commission now amounts to $#1.547.« 955. Navaso uprisings In progress in Arizona are traced to Mormon anxiety to obtain the Indian lands, A TRX-Acng tract of hone stone, a valuaabls mineral, has been Hardin County, Towa STATISTICIAX LionTs estimates Euro. pean beet sugar crop at 4,675,000 tons, as against 3,890,000 last year. discovered In the Ronnenies from the baggage of passengers In tring in Italy have begun again on a larger scale than ever before, Ix West Virginia 2000 ofl wells are .n on. eration, and 10,000,000 barrels, worth #4. 000,000, will be the output this year, Grayaxy has made the sale of Atlantie tickets to persons barred from landing in this country an offense punishable by fine, Tax steam whaler Narwhal arrived at San Francisco from the Arete and reported a oateh of sixty-nine whaies, valuad at nearly 8500,000, Me. axp Mas, Nzrsox Tonazes, of Litoh- field, Mich,, have just colabrated thelr ruby wedding, making the sixty-fifth anniversary of thelr marriage. health resorts will be two cents a mile, Tickets at these rates will be soid from No of Professor W. O. Atwater on the nutritive vambar 1 fo. Alay 20. Inox Industries are moving South, Nearly as much ple iron is already United States twenty years ago. Tux Bouth Caroline Dispensary law, whers | it comes into confilet with the United States, is inoperative, according to a decision ren- dered by Attorney-General Olney, DISASTROUS FLOODS, Immense Destruction of Property Re. ported From Northern France, Heavy rains have cause! floods in the North of France, In the Departments of Pas-de-Calais and Nord thousands of acres are under water, Many villaghs have been rendered uninhabitable, and hundreds of ts have boon driven from their farms, n the neighborhood of Lille, Tourcoing and Armentiors the water is threo feel deep, The factories in Rouba's and other indus trial towns have been stopped by the rising flood, Their looms ary idle and nearly 100. 000 of ives are out of work, Many miles of rallway tracks have been undermined or subm , And trains are run only with larity. In the Valley of the Meuse h of aattle have been killed and bridges and barns near the banks have hadh swspt awa}: Acoidents have been re. Jord from parts of the fAooded dix. | of Utah in | made that the appropriations by the last ! y #dos. Excvnsions south of the Ohio to Southern | uate, 9408 roducsd in the | Southern States as was made in the whole | LATER NEWS, Ex-Poriox Carrarx Joux T, Brernexsox was indieted by the Grand Jury in New York City for alloged bribery, Parnick Warsi was named by the Georgia Democrats in eaucus to fill United States Benator Colquiit's unexpired term, and A. 0, Bacon, a free silver man, for the long | term. don shares its profits with Mone than three thousand employes of the | Tovernment in decided to home to vote, Washington Perv's civil war continues, Jusiness Is | entirely paralyzed by the guerrilia conflict, water | ——— CONDITION OF UTAH. Facts From the Annual Report of the Governor of the Territory. Caleb W, West, Governor of Utah, hassub- the Interior. It shows that the population 1894 Is 252.834. Complaint is Logislature for charitable and edocational institntionss wers not so liberal as they should have heen, The Governor states that the allottment In severally of certain lands within the Uintah and Unecompaghre reser. vations and the opening for settlement of the remaining lands will prove of untold ad. vantage to the State, The report recom- meoends the passage of Inws returning to the ‘hureh of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints tha real and personal estate, valued at 8785,000, which has been escheated to the Government, The invasion by the indus- rial army Is referred to at length, In refer. nea to statehood Governor West says ““(iroat joy has heen brought to the peopls of Utah by the enabling act of admission as » State. While the changes in our social and polities! position have been rapid they have von sompiste and no voles is now heard in wpposition to statehood, Us government wo confidently of popuiati ufficient to strengthen our olties, eultivate our valleys, and as s as the Indian rose tio lemont to com productive gard k ages and t ier the Biate anticipate an in- FrORe wns,’ » — raesipeyr Bern Low, of Columbia Ool- lego, New York Clty, publicly apologized to Dr. Parkhurst for having oritiv'sed his re- form methods two years and a half ago. THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Produce Quoted in New York. Prices of Country oe Creamery Pens Western, extras Woatorn, § Western, third State ~Extm 1 . Virsta Thirds tos Western Im is aaaaaasas rr a Nae 0 Western Factors CHERSE State Fall cream, white, Inney Full cream, good to State Factory Part ar pn aims, State & Penn Jersey ~-Fanoy Wostern Pris Dusk eggs Sou Goose egies Poans—Marr Maodiam Hay—Prin Clover mixe Btraw-lLong rye Ont ‘a “i une LIVE POULTRE Roosters, old, ¥ B.....mm. Turkeys, FI. .oieninis Ducks, ¥ pair Geese, ¥ palr Pigeons, ¥palr..... DRESSED POULTRY. Tarkeys, young ¥ hh. .......0 Chiokens, Phila, broliers Powis, FI. .conuesisssnins Ducks spring, L.L&East® Ib.. Goose, ¥ Ih . aa ami YEOETABLES, Potatoes, 8t, & Jersey, ¥ bbl 100 Long Island... cnn. 1D Sweet, P bbl... .ovv. Cabbage, ¥ 100... Onlons—Yellow, # bbl Red, # bbl PER Squash, marrow, ¥ bbl Habbard ...... Turnips, Russia, White “ Egg plant, # bbl... . Celery, # dos. roots... Tomatoes, ¥ orate Lima beans, ¥ bag Cauliflower, ¥ bbl... String beans, L. 1 GRADE, RTC, Flour—Winter Patents. .... Bpring Patents, ...c ceoiass Wheat, No, 2 06d. coaeeass Deoomiber ...cocoo0ciuiiine Corn-<No. 3. .cove.vunvrrsnne Onts—No, White. ..c.oov vm Wii mixed ) fon © | SORA Barley Ungraded Western Beeds Timothy, ¥ 100 IOV, .... is sessanrrvine Lard Clty Btenm,.. o.oo LIYE STOCK, Booves, city deimwod | Mileh Cows, com, to good... Calves, city deessed.,....... dressed .......... Shoop, R100 8. .oves varies fim ha" ORs aan oh EE EEE EL aS a Gn am os ow S33d« — 3 5d ~t 3 wt ¥obl..... S 8g ~F | oi FEAR RERRAEn gO THE LABOR WORLD. UxcrLe Sax has 80,000 union musicians, Exovisn bakers sre agitating eight hours, Civeixxart hus 1000 unfon shos workers, Farr Bivens (Mass, ) spinners and carders are 1o smsignmate, IT is sald that Hussian glassworkers get from #56 to #86 per your, R Tur Metropolitan Gas Company of Lon- its employes, Tur Cotton Warkers' P.otective Union has joined the American Federation of Labor, Burvaro (N. Y.) labor stutisties say that | Over 3000 women in that city earn less than | about £2.50 ench per wook, Tux National Brotherhood of Walters Is a newly formed organization, with headquar- ters at Nashville, Tenn, : Junar Woorsox, of the Federal Court in town, has forbidden Wabash receivers to re. duce the wages of the employes, BEVENTY-sEvEX per cont, of the bakers and nearly all the tailors in 8t, Paul, Minneap- olis and Duluth are of forelen birth, sux clonkmnkers' strike is driving buyers from New York City and causing manufac. turers to have goods made in Earope. general office of the United Green Workers’ Association of the Cuited wid Canads has emoved t« Phlladeiphis : Ye Tur O lass Blates beat BavMuUeL Goxrens is tuthority for the sate. Lient that the membership of trades unions in this country has increased 100,000 since the Pullman strike, Parnick Bravrey, aged forty-four, applied fer work at the Lowell (M ws, ) Boot Mills He was refused, and at once frowned him «if in the mill canal, that one-half the sugar refineries of the country have closed, and that remaining ones will Hkowise HS, it is sald, will mean the enforced idle. 14 ipioyes IT Is announced soon do f 10.000 « nadian Knights of Labor have been ¥ the General Assembly that un- helr present (riendiy attitude y will be disfranehised, yod than f vod Is rap- : A raj y 8 wages will A A— - TO ON TUT TAY .« A OF THANKSGIVING DAY. The President Designates by Procla- mation November 20 By the Pros America, gratefully he 3 1} sg he American or than ksgi ne Raler who 1ohad over them with kindness and foster jaring year that has passed ald also, with bumiiity and faith, Father of All Mercies for oon- aod blessings according to thair nesds, they should by deeds of charity seek ha favor of the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Therelora I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby appoint ard sot apart Thursday, the tweaty-sinth day of November instant, as & day of thanksgiving and prayer, fo be kept and observed by all fed t 4 hing are he wiioats the a land at day work and ot us mest In ip and give prose rva- pF from dis. harvests that ¢ a ronowal i. us pray ' 1 unto ghte yf worship and praise, s of Kindrad us invoke Usiy rane Surely He who ha will look up minisira- oarts truly ols of the sincerity of CLEYELAX By the President, W.Q. Guusian, Secretary of Stata, ea —— i —— GREAT STRIKE OFF, A Victory for Fall River Manufacturers (Mass.) The big strike of weavers at Mass, , which was begun with a four weeks' vacation ten woeks ago, wis declared off and the strikers have returned to work, They wera defeated by the manufacturers, and they resume theif places under a reduced sonic of wages, For weight weeks 23,000 operatives were thrown out of work, and for the last two weeks about 8000 people were affected, The strong letter of the manufacturers, in which it was | stated that no conference would be held and no concessions made and the fact that (he | union's financial resouross were extremely | Jow were the causes which broke down the resistance which has been offered, About 1800 operatives crowded the Aead | emy of Music, and speeches were made by | Becretary Whitehead and others, The gen | eral advice given was that it was wisn 10 res | turn to work | rising vote was taken on the question, and under the terms offered, A hardly twenty-five persons voted to remain out, The strike has been the most orderly al fair of its kind in the long history of abot struggles there, General businessh as been about paralyzed, but although s0 many people were {dis no serious disturbance oc ocurred, snd arrests for druokenness and minor crimes fell off, The operatives lost about $1.500,000 in wares, - EE — Cuavxeey W, Cnvion nine months started an altruist community on about PH acres of land south of Flint, Mich, It was aspnounced, a few days ago, that the sechome faa fallure, Jealousy and dissatisfaction have) suited In driving the members of the colony away until not a half dozen are left, It Is likely that the scheme will be aband- oned at onoe, The profits to each member of the colony for the past six months, ex- clusive of living expenses, were 878, cue Coroxnr, Nonrn, the nitrate king, started life ns a boy in a small machine shop in Loads, England. He was advanced to the post of fitter, und was sent out by bis ems ployer to set up machinery in Ameria, Fall River, | MARRIED SIXTY-FIVE YEARS Rev. and Mrs. Edward Deecher Cele brate the Anniversary. Although no notices wers sent by the Bev, Edward Bosohor, of Brooklyn, to his friends to remind them that he and his wife had been married sixty-five yoars, the ane niversary was not overlooked by them, All day congratulatory letters and floral tokens poured inupon them, and calls were made y intimate friends, REV, EDWARD BEECHER, The only special event to was a family dinner, at wl Henry Ward Beecher, Eugene F, son of the Rev, and Mrs, Voles Adams Boscher, their adopted deugh- ter, and Miss Andra Adams, A birthday cake, topped with sixty-five candles, occu. pled the center of the table, one end wns a large sliver epergne, After the marriage of Mr Isabella Porter Jones, at Wiscassot ne was actiy tt LJ a ay were Mrs, Beecher, Beecher ; Miss mark the feh and at 1 & serious acaiden he wes partially EE ——— SHOT HIS WIFE. Lent on tha erippind. Frederick Mertz, a Ended His Own Then Jaker, Life. Froderiel - a ountry in On August The womar iivested rteenth street, M atl his trade as baker while wasagsd tae barroom, CHINESE TURN ROEBERS. Impoverished by Flood They Prey Upon Thelr Fellows, 1 re H his ai Chinese newspapers received by steam. ship report tliat men, made desperate by the loss of crops and homes in the recent flood, have established a reign of terror along the Leao Valley, which crosses gatas presumed route to Mukden, They have boats, and earry on ¢ water as well Yams. way ol General Pekin by nnerations peration as ob the land f r nexr- and le A SAVING OF $1,3754,000. Decrease in the Estimates for the terior Department, In. According to the estimates preparad af the or Department, at Washington, $158, J78.53 will be necessary to carry on the work of that department, including payments for pensions, during the next fiscal The appropriation f P160.559,950.08, and next year is year, r this fisoal year was the saving for the estimated at £18,754.- $71.20, The decrease in the estimates for pensions for 1808 is #10,000,000, The decrease, it is stated, is a decrease from he appropriation of the current year, That appropriation was made before the close of the last fiscal year, and was for $10,000,000 more than the amount actually expended inst year, The estimate for 1808 is no de- woase from the amount actually expended | mat year, but is based upon the idea that he expenditures will be statigaary for the {| pears 1894, 1805 and 18046, - — Dramatic Incident In Court, Recret Bervioe officials who bad arrested a man, himself! John Robertson, dis. covered that their prisoner is John Spayne, A notorious counterfeltor, who has been a fugitive for three years, and during his ex. amination at Chicago a dramatic ineldent occurred, A woman, of beautiful face, but totally blind, bad appeared at the examina tion and announced herself ns Spayne's wife, Daring the proceeding, Ames Morton, a wells to-do merchant, who had been oalied as a witness, caught sight of the woman and rushing to her, deciared she was his wife who had disappeared two years before Becognining Morton's voles, the blind woman plteousiy begged the officers to protect her from him. She acknowledged that she was Mrs, Morton, but said that her husband had treated her cruelly and that she feared him, Despite Morton's entreaties, the woman re fused to go with him, declaring that 8payne had treated her kindly and that, even though he was a criminal, she would remain with him, S8hetold a pitiful story of lli-treat- ment and disgrace and was allowed to leave the courtroom with the guide who socoms- panied her, Spayne, who appeared deeply affected by the scene, was seat to 1 await trial calling EE Tuxes are now ding befors the United Btates Court of Claims a 10,000 claims arising {rom the depredations committed - the various Indian tribes on the property © the pioneer settlers of the West, The claims aggregate nearly $11,000,000, Dn. Hanxis, Commissioner of Eduonts reports vg Me h4 the popuiation attend yoar, but that the only eight) nin " portico. TNR Xrnmse company officials discussed the prevalence of nd , and e the fon that the eral aut should pursue and punish the bandits, EC .cuSE—_—— A MONUMENT Is to bo erected to the late Auiraw 0. Curtin in the public sqaare at
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