THE PEKING TRAGEDY CONFIRMED, FOUGHT BRAVELY. Europeans in the Last Extremity Kill Their Women and Children to Save Them From a Worse Fate. Telegrams from Shanghai, dated Wednesday, say: The governor of Port Arthur telegraphs that 40,000 Manchu troops were on July 7 within five miles of Niu Chwang, and had destroyed the Russian mines. They were engaged by a small force of Russians. The result of the encounter is not known. he foreign residents of Niu Chwang were escorted on board steamers by guards from the Russian gunboat Otw jny. It is reported that Manchu troons are marching in the direction of Jehol. atest news from Shanghai regarding the position at Pekin, s Che two remaining legations, the British and ussian, were attacked in force on the evening of July 6, Prince Tuan being in command. Prince Tuan commanded the center, the right wing was led oy Prince Tsai Yin and the leit by Prince Yin Lin. The reserves were under Prince Tsin Yu. The attack com- menced with severe artillery fighting lasting until 7 o'clock in the mornir oth leg: ations were destroyed and the foreigners were The streets around the legations were full of the bodies of foreigners and Chinese. Upon hearing of the attack Prince Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shao went with troops to the assistance of the for- eigners but were outnumbered and de- feated. Both Prince Ching and Gen. Wang Wen Shao were killed. Two for- eigners are said to have escaped through the gates, one with a sword wound in his head. Prince Tuan, in cel- ebration of the victory, distributed 100,- 000 taels and huge quantities of rice to the Boxers. Confirmation of the awful rumors in reference to Peking has now been re- ceived from Shanghai. Sheng obtained audience of the whole consular body on Saturday and informed them that on or about June 30 the foreigners in the British legation were annihilated. The tn had reached him officially from the governor of Shantung. It ap- pears from the governor of Shantung’s own statement that the for eign inmates of the legation, including women and children, were so maddened by hunger that they resolved upon making a sortie on the night of June 30. The attack was unexpected by General Tuan and two hundred of his men were slain in their attempt to cut their way through. | The women and children were in the center of a hollow square. After fighting madly for some time the de voted little band realized that their valor was in vain and they were then reluct antly compelled to turn their revolvers on the women and children to them from a worse fate at the hands of the Boxers. Tuan battered the legation to ruins with his guns, and the Boxers, thirsting for blood, attacked the native Christian quarters, massacreing all who would not join them in outraging the women, braining the children and burning mission buildings, and now all China is aflame and clamoring for the death of the foreign devils everywhere. Sheng asserts that Tuan is the real author of the massacres. There is still some confusion as to the exact date on which the massacre was perpetrated. One thing is certain, however, and that is that the white men died at the posts of duty and honor, and it is a matter for congratulation in the awful circum- save stances that the white women and chil- dren died at the hands of their loved ones. Sheng, it seems, did endeavor to help the legations by forwarding food supplies and this action so enraged Tuan that he determined to attack him. A desperate battle ensued, with the result that Sheng's forces were routed and it is believed that Sheng himself was killed. FIRST MEXICAN HCLDUP. Two Trains Mixed Up in it—Co diers Cap- ture One Bandit. A daring train robbery took place] Wednesday night at Santa Fulalia tion, near Chihuahua, on the Central. When a freigl t tracked to let a passenger train pass it was found that the spikes on i sid- ing had been pulled _~ The train was derailed and the train crew attacked by a dozen bandits. Many shots were fired. Meanwhile the passenger 1 arrived and the ofe%, taki in the situatior pulled back to Chihuahua with the crew of the freight train. With a force of police and soldiers the | passenger train returned to the scene of the hold-up. The robbers had broken into several freight cars and carriec away booty. The police and soldiers started in pursuit, and one robber v captured with some of the booty. Thi is the first train hold-up on record in Mexico. DEATH OF FAITH CURISTS. Epidemic of Diphtheria in Hlinois Colony. Won't Touch Medicine. Quarantined in an isolated farm house near Rockford, 11l, more than half of them stricken with diphtheria, lowers of Abram Zook are { Medicines left by doctors ad upon them by the authorities are left untasted at the order of the faith cure leader. The people of the district are greatly excited over the matter and tar and feathers is among the punishments suggested for Zook. Three children have already with the dreaded malady, all of were hastily buried on the Zook without any services whatever. Six or seven more of the inmates are now ly- ing at the point of death. died Train Robbers in Kentucky. The Illinois Central fast train from New Orleans to Chicago was held up and robbed of about $10,000 early Wednes- day, two miles south of Wickliffe, K The fireman badly while the express messenger was driven from | his car at the point of a rifle. The rob- bers, six in number, cut off the erzine and express car and ran a mile and : half to Fort Jefferson, near the hi river, and within sight of the Missouri shore. There they blew open the ex- press safe, secured all the valuables it contained and crossed into Missouri. | hey dropped one package containing 700 on the Kentucky side and anothe package on the Missouri side, both of which were found. “ was beaten, Chinese Reformer’s Opportunity. Loung-Chi-Tso, the Chinese reform-| Honolulu, will probably | China. He say | | of China may prove | er, now in leave very shortly for that the conditions the open door to the accony lishment | of what the reformers, Ey exile by the dowager emprc 5 ive been | seeking to do through agitation outsis le | of China. Loung has met with great success on the islands. He has just] returned from Maui, where Christian churches were ope ned to him to hold his meetings. : entire Chi- nese population is in s y with his aims. About $25.000 he subscrib ed at Honolulu for the f the re- form mov | A Tornsto’ s Have. | 2 A tornado visited Llano, Tex. ¢ | day. Many persons were injured. | Many i es were unroofed as wer el the railway station d Algona tod: : One or two residences were completely nhabitants . were panic ie ken. were destroy- | ed. and details of he storm’s work are meager, | placed | buildings | mildest of the] which | farm | on | I peace will be [HORE TROUPS RE SORELY NEEDED. LATEST NEWS NOTES. A general agricultural exposition will : Olde: er Be eid £2, Oldentigg, Germany, from FOR PHILIPPINES. Germany is gathering an army fl — iers to send to China about | present Force Unable to Garrison the Towns. the last of the moat; Sa cui | Regiments Now Are Widely Scattered. € Steg Jt fF 20,0 and . . . : relief i ig or he eros | Serious Fighting Inevitable. of India, has arrived in Bombay. _ Fire Friday destroyed 12 houses in| “More soldiers” is the demand which MacArthur from ev- Recent Gen. the little village of Watts, near Lancas {is coming to Gen. ter, Pa, causing a loss of $10,000. i The buffalo bug, which subsists upon carpets, Jugs and velvet, is filling Oil City, housewives with dismay. Brita Texas has been deluged by | 12 hours’ hard rain; Dallas is flooded ent of the islands. vindicate gment that 1c0,c00 needed to establish American ignty over the Philippines. Until ittempted to hold ovinces of worked to 1d troops and railways suffer from washouts. r 300,000 hostile people with a Two thousand solicitors are canvas- ent or two, the American com- Sig St. Louis for funds to enable street | lers hardly realized the size of the railway strikers to continue the figh : i islands. The present force Government officials in London rge enough to garrison more Washington entertain no further the important towns, and in that foreigners in Peking are still the most important islands, Five warchouses and 300 carloads of | Cebu, Panay, Samar, the great Mohammedan em- 1danao, only the commercial occupied. ic Moros are a the horizon. burned Friday at St. causing a loss of $200,000. shingles were Paul, Minn, ¢ Dr. Fernando E. Guachalla has been appointed Minister to the United} : Ea : \ States, Venezuela and Mexico by Be-| . ! best acquainted with condi- livie. tions in Mindanao and the Sulu islands The steamer San Jose arrived at San | jis that they consider sevions fighting Rail BE Poe { there inevitable. If it comes, the two Francisco Saturday, 12 days irom ol. | regime nts which are scattered in small Michaels, Alaska, with $150,000 in|gaticons some of them hundreds of gold. | mil es apart along the coast of Minda- Hawaiian plantation owners are go-| nao, ing to try to replace the Japanese labor- |n ers by negroes from the Southern | f iters by nature, do not fear death, States. | hav many though of antiquated The sensation of the week in London | makes, but do the best execution by was an expose of the corruption of the lying in the thick jungles and cutting so liers who as large as Luzon, have serious work. The Moros are an island nearly guns, police and wholesale bribery now car- down pass. ried on. | . Gen. Young, who is holding seven of . T . | a )S z S of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury jhe me Hy menmingn Jrovisees 49 Vanderlip has turned over his summer { -uzon wit jon rey i eiiis, SEpe ro mansion for the use of working girls of | vere work during the rainy st son. lor some two months after his bewildering Chicago. north in December, the Governor With a few invasion of the insurgents were paralyzed. General Wood, of Cuba, sailed Friday for this country, where he | { troops, to keep an eye on the villa will consult the President regarding | nd ts nt rar the pa Cuban interests. . : [on the general believes, would have The National Teachers’ Union, in- | been made permanent. Finding ample tended for the mutual protection of the | opportu ties to reorganize, the insur- , profession, was incorporated Saturday | gents have availed themselves thereof. in Columbus, O. | NM: any troops have worn themselves and | limit of endurance mountain trails. to the about the ‘hanics bank has | horses down enville, O. John |in marching and Harry A. The Farmers and Me been organized at Gr V Vasler is president, | Sebuiptin Beachler cashier. WILL PREVENT REPRISALS. Five Filipino sailors of the bark Ethel 2 : mr have been an to death at Perth, | Chinese in This Country to be Protected West Australia, for murdering the cap Against Mob Violence. EEA of that vessel. en The government has taken note of The Michigan and Ohio Plaster Com- | ne ea | pany. called” the trast has been dis-j lhe efforts made in some quarters solved and its plants will resume in- | stir no an ition against the peace- i dividual operation. able rinese in the United States. It | Gen. Duniel H. Hastings, of Pennsyl- | feels g s imperatively necessary to use | vania has been elected one of the new [the entire resources of the governnichl | board the reorganized National Red |to Se ss any movement that would ross | ieopardize their safety. Our govern- { and cattle | reparation or whatever demand China for wuld not indemnity from : i nent c« Sout na minin ment « have suffered great | interests, whicl 1 Peking or elsewhere in |irom the drought, were relieved SHINg : : the Chinese government, heavy rains Sunday i su oie a Sn violence of our people, The receipts from all gol 200 1 thet Gere put in position to claim a set-off | Havana Custom LE lot ay snow | wi out of violence shown its peo- 5 ase ove 16 mot an sa € over = 1¢ a month of the [p J . Enited States. preceding year of $100,288. Therefore steps have been taken al Saturday the international conven Li adv to have the authorities in locali tion of Christian Endeavorers opened {jes where there may be danger of anti- in London, over 30,000 delega at | ¢ hinese outbreaks, prepare for the tending the first meetings. {promptest and most stern repressive ser Baltimore rd, | The United es cru i with Rear Admiral Watson on bo and which left Manila carly last May, at Gibraltar awaiting orders. casures at the first symptoms of trou- le. And it may be stated that there will be no halting in the use of the troops for such purposes if they Exporters of Portland, Ore., have lled for by the State officials. united to bring a test suit United . 7 | 8 C ; : tes courts for the return of duties Bushmen Elen by anaimls { paid on shipments to Manila. | Telegrams from Victoria, B. C., say: | The new treaty between the United | Bushmen from Cape Oxford, according States and Germany was proclaimes dito a letter received by the Miowera Saturday, establishing a system of reci- | from Sydney, were killed and eaten by procity between the two countries Vconnibals on the coast of New Britain. An Italian miner named John Bartilla {The German Government is taking came in contact with an electric wire in | steps to punish the cannibals. Lo the mines at Export, Westmoreland The natives who were made victims | I county, Pa., and was instantly killed. i had been trading and when they reached The official report that Tuan attacked | the landing in their canoes they were and destroyed the remaining legations | fired on. Many were killed and their in Peking has be en partially corroborat- i bodies carried ashore. But the most ed by advices received by Consul Good- | fying part was when several men now. captured alive and dr agged to the | acta ~ S S 1 S Two additional surgeons have been | actual Sean of the Jos thelr Doge [ordered to proceed af once from San| Were fo provide Icy were sil ! J ass {and afterward roasted or baked and i Francisco to Cape Nome to assist in! en The ict: were not all killed amping ou re smallpox epidemic | ate! © yicims Wobe nop pg viz omnia ope he Spidemis {at once, some of them witnessing the J lees : 2 i ki of their comrades. | The dates for the cclebration of | — i jooth anniversary of the founding Troops Are Wanted. Johnstown, Pa., set for September | LL a ov a 22 and 23, have been changed to Octo-| The outbreak by the ber 5, 6 and 7. | Blanket Indians on Red Lake, Minn. Uniontown, Pa, town council haslis incr The Indian police from granted a company of Uniontown capi- | the ency over to the point talists the right to lay pipes for a steam | where the B fnket ters are holding their | heating plant and to erect poles for an {war dance and it is expected trouble Thee ets light plant. ! will ensue. Bulletins in Chippewa have V. Jones, of Minneapolis, esti- | been posted, warning all friendly In i the yield of spring wheat in Min- | dians and whites to remain away from nesota and the two Dakotas at 133,000,- | the suffer the consequences 21, danger of an asing. have gone | point or 000 bushels—about two-thirds of a good | Twe mounted men have left Solway crop jand will proceed to the agency and take President of { instructions irom Indian Agent Mercer. General D. S. Stanley, ) | the Society of the Army of the Cum- berland, decides that the next reunion {2 tion tl | The men are well armed and carry each la thousand rounds of extra ammuni- at Chattanooga shall be held on Octo- | which will be dis piled gnong ber 9, 10 and 11. | the settlers. A petition has been sent to | 7 1s Andrac & Sons, makers of clec- Governor Lind asking that a detach- | nls FY , ~ {ment of State troops be sent to Red trical supplies and bicycles, in Milwau | Lake an kee, has put itself in the hands of credi- | *-2¢ 2* tors. The liabilities are $100,000, and the assets $125,000. Searching parties are Porto Rico’s Labor Classes. Roman Dobler, the immigrant in- seeking Mrs. Richard Keller, who is missing from | Spector recently sent by Commissioner Tyrone, Pa. Her handkerchief and a | Powderly to examine into the conditions fracment of her clothing have been|of Puerto Rico laboring classes, has found on a bramble. | sul bmitted his report, in which he says: Reports from Arizona say the Gila | “I would report that owing to the con- and Salt rivers have gone dry, and cat- | ditions that prev: ail I Puerto Rico all tle are dying in large numbers as a re- | IMMIgr: ation of the laboring classes be ged, and that the undesirable Jimbinants of adjacent islands be, as ir as possible, prohibited from going iH Puerto Rico. I would recommend | that a commissioner of immigration be that two immigrant in- discour sult of the drought. Forest fires add | | terror to the situation. | Non-citizens of the Chickasaw nation | | 5 deny that they refuse to pay tribal taxes | las demanded and say there is no ne- | g cessity for Federal troops, sent there appointed, and EA to enforce the collection. spectors wit ‘ > : : 55 | Bace be also designated. M. Lasies, the prominent French N: — tionalist, fought a duel with G Ridiculed Ail Warings. and in the i Ir : i Richard, a newspaper man, > 2 | eleventh round l.asies was hurt in t} William P. Chalfant, of Pitts- larm and the duel stopped. i Pa., a Presbyterian missionary, Judge Kohlsaat made a ruling in the | who arrived at San Francisco Friday | United States district court of Chicago, | from China, on the steamer Rio de Ja- Tuesday, declari that duty must be i places the blame for the present paid on goods brought to this country! yor of the European EL Ofr new poessessions : | warning, | The sultan of Sulu, although nomi 1 & a| nally an American subject. is giving by the yamons ms | the American military authorities trom the embassies in Peking [ble by objecting to American troops howe Yeh, were treated and we were told that we | passing through his territory. 1 | The Ct residents of the qu: ourselves unnecessatily. paid by the authorities | tined district in San Francisco cl OUr warnings is lare responsible | S y d a ! Ir wi gs 18 arg i they lost $2,000,000 during that timc or the present situation. -e preparing to sue the city or Gis eral Government for that amount. | fig Wheat Crop in Tos. of warehouses | of these facili An experienced diplomat in London | by the scar 3 said that the concert of the powers is | road companies | put to the test in the Chinese affair and ply in sufficient number if they hang together great work for | mand for movi i done, but if they dis: = likely to result. Japan's Strong Force. The Chefu SaTeonden teleg ed a rebate on taxes. pressing of the rail- lo not seem able to sup- to meet the de- gree a world war is C. M. Walters, of editor of the Journal raph- Frankfort, Md. | and | | | i: secretary of > Tuesday. says: “The Japanese force Middle-of-the-Road Populists Statc juipy ped with 36 heavy mortars and mittee, ree s Rev. J. C. Little, of i 120 He id guns, and has pontoon and Rossville, with threatening to kill him, {hal n lan of campaign 1 » has SWOrT rr is a : hre od i has sworn out a warrant for h conter two or three € vears of 13,000 men The celebration of the anniversary of will be week hence, { . the fall of in France resulted in { and 10,000 1 afterward. at the Palace de la Concorde. |B fore the season 1s well advanc- Sr day, in which scores of per J apan he J! to 63.000 troops sons fainted, children were trodden un in China These formidabl prepara- der foot and over 100 women carried ons are viewed with reat dis trust by away unconscious. lis Germany and France, 2 at San Juan and | said Mr. | | | | If [fom Wuhu in the province of CONSPIRATORS ACTIVE. Spaniards and Cubans in the Scheme, One of Whom Reveals the Secret— Detectives Immediately Engaged. York special says: A plot President McKinley has It was concocted by a group of Spanish and Cuban conspira- tors with headquarters in New York. One of the plotters weakened and sent a warning letter to a member of the Republican National committee. That letter was placed in the hands of Secretary Charles Dick, who feferre >d it to Chairman D. B. Odell, A New to assassinate been frustrated. i of the New York State committee for investigation. Chairman Odell engaged a detective, who speedily verified certain important allegations made in the warning letter. essrs Dick and Hanna whole matter before the Pr ly before he departed for Canton. They instructed Mr. Odell to investigation and cautioned him to work with the utmost secrecy. To a reporter Mr. Odell admitted that he and certain members of the National committee had discovered a plot to asassinate the President. Yes, it is true, he said; but I regret exceedingly that the matter has become public. Special detectives are guarding the President in Canton. STRANGE ANCIENT GRAIN. Itis Dug Up in a Jar—May bs a Thousand Years Old. While excavating for a new building at Walnut Ridge, Ark., workmen un- carthed, about 20 feet under ground, a drift of sand and gravel, a sealed stone cask. The cask when opened revealed a species of maize resembling in some respects the corn of the present day, but a different grain in every particular from any grain at the present time, and being reddish brown in color and somewhat larger in size. The contained over a peck of the grain, which will be preserved and replanted Near where the cask was found many evidences of a prehistoric race have been unearthed. Several years ago stone jars and vases were revealed anc bones of what was once a human being apparently gigantic in size were discov- ered. ILocal scientists who have ex- amined the grain declare there is noth- ing produced like it in the world at the present time and they account for the preservation under ground for probably 1,000 ars or more due to its being closed’ in the airtight ca ask. OIL TANK CAR EXPLODED. Many Men and Women Ran About With Their Clothing in Flames. By the explosion of an oil tank car at Somerville, Mass., Thursday - evening, - less in nearly 100 people were more or jured, several of whom have since died. A fire in the Boston and Maine rail- road yards gieeasted a crowd. Suddenly there was a rumbling noise. One great sheet of flame shot into the air, a huge oil tank which had been on a car went up on end, and, following a hiss and a sputter, there were shricks all directions. The huge tank of The burning oil went in all directions, and the shrieks came from men, women and children who had been in its vicinity. Men and women with their garments from oil had exploded. on fire ran about the yard in terror. Some were so badly burned that they dropped. Alarms were rung in, but the great sheet of flame had been seen at the hospitals, and ambulances were sent to the freight yard. The injured were sent to various hospitals and some were taken to Boston he train. SENTENCED 0 DEATH. Two Leaders Plotted to Blow Up the Maga- zine at Pretoria. A Lorenzo that Marquez dispatch says Licut. Tossil and S. Gillingham, two leaders of the Irish-American corps, in South Africa, have been sen- tenced to death by a British court- martial for having plotted to blow up the Pretoria magazine. The Irish-American corps sailed from New York for South Africa in February last. The corps was in charge of Dr. amara. It has been re- ported that after getting through to Joer te rritory on the strength of their Red Cross insignia, the members of the corps tore off badges and shoul- dered rifles. These reports, however, emanated from British sources Escaped to Japan. Francis Bell, business manager of the Christian Missionary Alliance, at New York, Wednesday received a cablegram An Hua. China, where some of their missionar ies are stationed. cablegram which Mr. Bell sent three weeks ago when he warned them to go to a place of safc ty in case of danger. The cable says: “All well. Ladies Ta pan.” The cable was signed by Matthew B. dirrel, who is in charge of that station. Mr. Bell said he thought the cable meant that the women had escaped to Japan. There were 14 women and 9 men at the different stations of Wuhu. Soldiers for China. Telegrams from Manila say: Two battalions of the Fourteenth infantry and Daggett’s battery of the Fifth artil- lery sailed for China Monday by the transports Indiana, Flintshire and Wye- field. The expedition, which will join the \inth infantry will carry 300 rounds ammunition to a man and a reserve of a million rounds, together with medical subsistence, stores and clothing for 5.000 men for three months. It will take also two 7-inch mortars and two 6-inch howitzers, with ammunition. "he hospital ship Relief is going to China. Ca'l to Gold Democrats. A committee of gold Democrats Sat- | | | | iter baying all expenses, the execu-| : tive € es fi] of the Butler county, | rl e large wheat crop of Texas, which Hi centennial found a balance of cash |is in excess of existir storage facili- on hand amounting to $465, which has! tic created a d nd for are i been turned over to the local hospital. | houses such as has never before been | Suit has been filed in the courts of \ : Io d s more than a Butl er county, Pa., to test the constitu evato] comp Ji have been tional lity of the timber °t of 1897. which with pital Stoe is ranging provides that owners of land containing | 'T9™ | to : no o gant ea h of | certain grades of timber shall be allow- them has contracted for the construction 1d ¢ he need led that a call for a meeting in July 18, to devise the urday issued a New York city best method of placing in nomination {a third ticket for President and Vice | President upon a platform “denounc- nd combating the fallacious and creeds of both of the a al old parties The call is signed by gold Democrats of New York Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Colorado. Infants Not Bankrupts. At Chicago United Judge Kohlsaat, in the district court, has decid- person under the age of 21, who is reg an infant at law, cannot be judged a bankrupt in Illi- nois. He holds that an infant can, upon reaching his majority, repudiate the debts which he owes, and that he has no creditors in the sense contemplated by the bankruptcy act. States Slain by His Little Son. Oscar Sisco was shot and instantly led Wednesday evening by his 12- ir-old sci, Alton, at South Caanan, isco was beating his wife and the The Pa. boy fire d in defense of the mother. bail from the revolver passed diagonal- ly through the man’s head from neck to ear. Sisco was intoxicated at the time. He was a civil war veteran. Porto Rico's First Election. The date of the Puerto Rico, it has heen decided, fall on the same day with the national a in the United States. One del egate is to be chosen in accordance with law at this election, and it is not deemed necessary to hold two elections in the island. will laid the | sident short- | continue his It was in answer to al . coming elections in: HORRORS OF APE APE NOE DESCRIBED Smallpox and Typhoid Add to the Pan- demonium Reigning There. suffering, disease and these seem to be the features of ld camp at Nome City, und ler the Arctic circle. Forty thou- sand men are there on the beaches, and hardships and des- Lawlessness, { death- {life in the new | the story of their peration is told by passengers who have E ched San cisco on the steamer | San Juan, which left Nome City June | 30, the day Colonel Randall declared { martial law. Before the steamer sailed pandemonium, without “h presented a spectacle other gold rush in add to the horrors of unchecked murder and robbery, small- pox and typhoid broke out and many men died for lack of ordinary care. Cc Hibbard, of Newport, Vt., gives a good idea of the desperation of the men who are stranded on Nome beach. “In the first place, there are ings to support the 40,000 pe ple now at Nome. The beach for miles is strewn with engines and ail kinds of Nome aw, and tl seen in any this country. To machinery sent north to work the beach sands, and you can buy the whole lot for a song, because there is not a ve: tig f gold left to be washed out. T whole beach was worked out last y "The beach for five miles on each side of Nome is lined with a wall of tents 200 feet deep, and many of these people have to steal to live from day to day. Lawlessness was rampant and unchecked before martial law was pro- claimed. It is a crime for the transpor- tation companies to carry any more people to Nome, as the Government will have to: bring them ba ck” T0 CEASE H HIS DECEPTICN. Schweinfurth, the IMtinois Messiah, to Break up His Heaven. A disaptch from Rockford, Ill, George Jacob Schw cinfurth i is going out of the “Heaven” bu ss into the insur- ance business. He has come to the ir- revocable decision that he is of human origin, and now he is going to act on the principle that nothing human is foreign to him. For six months Schweinfurth has been suspecting that the old idea of his be the son of God must have been an i sion. Now he is convinced that it was. He has been looking into Christian Science and he will join that church. ‘he “Angels” in the “Heaven” are growing tired of their beatitude and likewise growing smaller in number. Scores of them have left the place of late, and many of these are now ped- says: dling fruit and vegetables in the city. Those he remain are no longer wed- ded to the belief that Providence is espe- cially interested in their doings. Schweinfurth’s desertion will probably close up the “Heaven” permanently. Remey Assumes Command. The following cablegram has been received at the navy department from Admiral Remey: rrived Tuesday. Two battalions N Ninth infantry and one battalion marin Ce cade landed to proceed to Tien Tsin. “Allied forces at Tien Tsin engaged in maintaining their defenses. Ordered Solace to take sick and wounded to Yokohama hospi- tal. Oregon proceeds soon to dock at Kure, towed by ered steamer and convoyed by Nashville. Just learned from Admiral Seymour at Tien Tsin that foreigners there are hard pressed.” Admiral Remey, the commander-in- chief of the United States naval forces on the Asiatic station, having arrived in Chinese waters, is in command over the head of Admiral Kempff, whom he ranks. Heavy Increase in Exports. The exports of domestic products of the United States during June were as follows: dreadstuffs, $21,104,947, in- crease as compared with June, 1890, $143,000: cattle and hogs, $2,870,357, in- crease $235,000; provisions, $16,303.132, increase $1,247,000; cottons, $7.420,777;, decrease $1,500,000; mineral oils, $5,- 730,042, increase $257.000. For the full 12 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, the total value of exports was $765, 351,708, an increase for the year of $43,- (“Fighting Chap!ain’’ Dead. Rev. Dwight Galloupe, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of Newark, N. was found dead in the bathroom of his parsonage in that city Wednesd: night, aged 29 years. Rev. Mr. I loupe went to the front in the Spanish- Ame rican war as chaplain of the Ninth regulars. He went to Cuba with the regiment and hive won the name of “The Fighting Chaplain.” He was on the field with the Red Cross men dur- ing the battle of San Juan. mg 0 Killed by Outlaws. The body of James Pool, president of the Anti-Horse Thief Association of In- dian rritory. reached Bartlesville Tuesday on the wav to Venita. He was killed ina battle with the Barker gang of horse thieves, 30 miles southwest. Pool and two companions had follow- ed the outlaws 100 miles. Barker, lead- er of the gang, shot Pool through the heart. Pool’s companions after a des- perate fight, succeeded in wounding and capturing the gang, three in number. An Army for the Orient. In pursuance of rush orders received from Washington the camps at Presidio, Cal., will be put in order for 5.000 men, who are expected to pass through there in the next few weeks for China and Manila. The quartermaster’s depart- ment is buying horses wherever they can be secured, and it is thought one of the infantry regiments ordered to China will be mounted in order to do more cffective work. Almost a Million in Gold. The steamer City of Seattle from Alaska Tuesday, with $000,000 in gold from the Klondike. Of the total amount, dust valued at $800,000 was shipped to the Seattle assay office. Be- sides this there was $100,000 ei :adivid- ual gold. returned Rains in Northern Nebo ka have al- layed all fears for the corn crop. On June 30 James L. Smith, a Butler carpenter stepped on a rusty nail. Tues- day he died of lockjaw. The interdenominational relief com- mittee has sent $100,000 more India through the Christian Herald. An alleged edict by Prince Tuan, bit- terly Drang foreign troops for the troubles, has been made in Shanghai. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Allegheny Lutheran synod is in session at Altoona. Gov. Stone has respited Isaac Biriolo, the Tioga county murdered, until July 12. His counsel has appealed the case. The Youngstown & Sharon street rail- way has settled all rights of way dii- ences between Sharon and Hubbard, Gov. Dole of foreign ada the Hawaii. oe M: have pursuance of an production. To avoid advertising a private prise Assistant Attorney General Tyncr decides that on stamps issued in com memoration of the Buffalo Pan-Ameri- can yosition the inscription shail read “Commemorative Series—1go1.” > has decided that subjects powers can not hold o government of the territory cotton mills at Fall River, closed for four weeks in agreement to curtail enter- HEAVY CASUALTIES. Almost a Whole Squadron of Scots Greys and Ninety of Lincoln Regiment Captured. Day of Hard Fighting. Telegrams from Pretoria, dated Wednesday, say: The British success at Bethlehem has considerably improved the prospects for peace. The whole o the government of President Steyn of the Orange Free State has surrendered except President Steyn himself. Those officials who are prisoners have been allowed to communicate with President Steyn for the purpose of attempting to prove to him the uselessness of an con- tinuance of the struggle, which can only produce bloodshed without any counter- balancing advantages. The collapse of the forces of Gen. De- Vet is expected daily. Intelligent ad- ministrators with a knowledge of the people could undoubtedly greatly aid in the future settlement of difficulties, in- asmuch as a frank feeling in favor o submission is prevalent among the Boers. Telegrams from Lord Roberts, dated at Pretoria Thursday, say: The enemy, after an unsuccessful attack upon our right rear, made a determined attack upon our right flank Wednesday, and, I regret to say, succeeded in capturing Nitrals Nek, which was garrisoned by a squadron of the Scots Greys, with two guns of a battery of the Royal Artillery, on five companies of the Lincolnshire | Regiment. The enemy bifncied in superior num- bers at dawn and, seizing the hills com- manding the Nek, sean a heavy gun fire to bear upon the small garrison. Nitrals Nek is about 18 miles from here, near where the road crosses the Crocodile river. It was held by us in order to maintain the road and telegra- phic communication with Rustenburg. The fighting lasted, more or less, throughout tke day, and immediately on yr notice this morning of the en- s strength I dispatched reinforce- ments from here under Colonel Godirey of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Before, however, they reached the spot the garrison had been ov erpowered and the guns and a greater portion of the squadron of the Greys had been cap- tured, owing to the horses being shot, also about go men of the Lincoln Regi- ment. A list of the casualties has not been received, but I fear they are heavy. FAMINE STRICKEN INDIA. Cholera and Famine Unabated and the Frightful Mortality Continues. The secretary of state for India, Sir George Hamilton, has received the fol- lowing from the viceroy, Lord Curzon, of Kedleston: “The cholera mortality continues high in Bombay. The May mortality there was appalling. The number of persons receiving relief is 6,- 013.000." The governor of Bombay telegraphs to the foreign office as follows: “There were 10,320 deaths from cholera and 0.502 fatalities in the famine district during the last week in June. The total deaths among the numbers on the re- lief works in the British district were 5.324. The number on the relief works is increasing rapidly in consequence of the drouth. The number on gratuitous relief is increasing througliout the af- fected districts.” The rainfall has been fairly general this week in Bombay, Deccan, Berar, Khandeich, the central provinces of the Gangetic plain and the Punjab, but has been much below the average for these tracts, except in Southern Deccan. Lit- tle or no rain has fallen in Rajpootana, Guzerat and Central India. CHINA MUST BE SUBDUED. Kaiser Makes a Warlike Speech to His Sail- ors Leaving for China. The German East Asiatic squadron sailed Monday morning for China. Em- peror William and Prince Henry of Prussia witnessed the departure of the warships. Addressing the first division, Emperor William said: ours is the first division of armored ships which I send abroad. Remember you will have to fight a cunning foe, provided with modern weapons, to avenge the German blood which has flowed. But spare the women and children. I shall not rest till China is subdued and all the bloody deeds are avenged. You will fight together with the troops of vari- ous nationalities. See that you maintain good comradeship with them.” The emperor is ordering more vessels to get ready for China. nay al A Great Fruit Year. The peach crop in Pennsylvania will be one of the largest in years, says Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Mar- tin. We won’t have to go out of the State to supply the home market when the Pennsylvania fruit is ready to be picked. The great fruit crop, however, in Pennsylvania this year, will be the ap- ple crop. Reports from all of the apple growing counties show that the trees will bear unusually heavy this season. Last year the apple crop was almost a complete failure, through the freezing of the buds. especially in the western counties, Mercer, Lawrence, Beaver, Ww ashington, Greene and Westmoreland. CABLE FLASHES. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, is be- ing urged to accept a third term. Cholera has broken out at Kohat, In- dia, 77 deaths occurring in a week. In the Bankruptcy Court in London an order has been issued against Baron Sudeley. A steamer, arriving Friday at St. Johns, N. F., reports the straits of Belle | Isle full of ice. Rt. Hon. Sir George Goldie is to be appointed governor of Cape Colony | after the war there. Heavy rains have fallen throughout | Chili, washing away 16 bridges and flooding several cities. Herr Krupp is building a large mill for the manufacture of American car wheels and axles at Essen. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved the commercial treaty be- tween the United States and Italy. The Government of Nicaragua is re- newing measures to prevent the intro- duction of bubonic plague into that country. The Queen has approved the selec- tion of the Earl of Hopetoun as Gov- ernor General of the Australian com- monwealth. Prince Ruprecht, heir apparent to the | Bavarian throne, was married in Mn- nich, to the Duchess Marie Gabrielle, of Bavaria. The new German Meat Inspection bill will be modified so as not to inter- fere with existing contracts of Ameri- can exporters. A hot wave in many sunstrokes mercury register 86 in the shade A dispatch says the Afridis have be- come warlike in the Punjab and that 600 recently made a night attack on Afghans, killing a number. General Jamont, the French army and vice president of the superior cr h of war, resigned on account of the changes made in the gen- eral staff by Minister of War Andre. The strike of men at Rotterdam has assumed a serious aspect. The strikers fired upon the sol- | diers, wounding 10 of them. The garri- sons have been reinforced, and war- ships are protecting the water front. | Consul General Guenther, of Frank- fort, Germany, says the new meat in- |! spection bill does not adequately pro tect the consumer against bad meat, but excludes many first ss products. The consumption of horse meat is on the | increase. TLondon is causing and prostrations, the | 1g 129 in the sun and | inspector general of | dock laborers and car | easier terms the world tunity you cannot afford to pass. we can offer most liberal terms. SUNDERED. BY CLINTON SCOLLARD. O Jove, since vou and I must walk apart, race ze one little corner of your heart— shri That shall be wholly mine! Others may claim, and rightfully, the rest; If there I know I am not dispossessed, 1 bliss I, eager, shall not miss. And if so be you sometimes offer there. Though but in thought, the fragment of a prayer, No more Can I, alas! implore. But that is much. and shall, forsooth.avail 0 make my footsteps falter not nor fail, Though far Our pathways :. Then, =idered are. love, since you and I must walk apart, Spare me one little corner of your heart— A shrine That shall be wholly mine! Jarper’s Bazar. LONNIE] FICSICICIOIISICICKISICICIIISICICICIEN £Gupid Witha Jimmy en Follett. Sexe Jee ANZA IA SCISSOR HACIICISISIOICIISIISISICIOI 6 HEN John Trumbull fell in love with vivacious and sprightly Gertrude Moore no one would ever have suspected that he was a scholar, a thinker and a setiled man of forty. His general actions were those of a youth of eighteen undergoing his first case of love. The upshot of it was that when these two became engaged Miss Moore pulled Mr. Trumbull around by his philosophical nose ad made him dance to her fiddling suited her capricious and changing moods. Matrimony found the same condition of affairs. Ivery domestic question was decided by Mrs. Trum- bull, no matter whether it was the choice of an apartment or tiie sclection of a new coffee grinder. Mr. Trum- bull, being still in a state of blinding affection and admiration for the little girl of twenty, whom he had woed and won, let her have her way, with the result that he was being henpecked to the queen's taste. But as the years went by, as the years have a way of doing, Mr. Trum- bull gradually awakened to the one- sided state of affair being selfish and pc « a thistle- down intellect, fancied that it would not do to let Mr. Trumbull know that she was at all fond of him. Some old lady had told her once that when a man knows a woman loves him his af- fection becomes chilled like whipped cream in an ice chest. So she stuck up her nose—it stuck up of its own accord by the way—and went her us- ual pace of bullyragging and worrying My s. Trumbull, | him. She would do this, she would do that—what John thought didn’t matier. But, as said before, a change finally came over John's heart. He still con- sidered that dainty wife of his quite the smartest, cleverest woman in the world, but, strange to s: he was becoming aware of her peculiar pow- ars of dictating and laying down the law. John was quiet and inoffensive and just the kind of man that offers splendid opportunities for the woman with a will of her own. Ifor a long time Mrs. John did not observe that her husband’s substantial admiration was growing thin, almost to a shadow. But when she did realize it, the blow was something fearful. It had been her opinion that even though she were to sell his best clothes to the rag man or burn the house up or turn his hair white with her everlasting criticisms John would ever remain the same— faithful, adoring, enduring. One morning John didn’t kiss his wife when he went downtown to business. She moped and wept and scolded th» baby and the kitchen maid, and then decided she didn’t care. I'rom that time on things went from bad to worse and from worse to even ivorse | than that. Once in a great while [when John's old time vision of love | for his wife came up he would take | her in his arms and tell her that she | was the prettiest thing in the world. Following her old-time tactics, Mrs. | John would in return comment on his bad choice of a necktie or let loose the pleasant information that his collar was soiled on the edge. John's heart would sink :nd he would tramp off to work feeling like an orphan asylum fn a derby hat and ¢ sed trousers. As it was not John's nature to war against any one, he simply kept him- | self out of Mrs. John's way. Sunday | afternoons he went out for a walk. | Sometimes he went over to the North Side to see an old college ehum of his. | These trips were his only dissipations. On Sunday afternoon, when he and | his old friend were discussing some | particular exciting college scrimmage that had taken place fifteen years back, the telephone bell rang, and a woman's voice begged to speak to Mr. | | { Trumbull. He went to the ‘phone. | “Is that you, Gertrude?” “Yes, John. And won't you come home, please. 1 let Sadie take baby over to your mother's, and eve rybody in the igs is out and I'm having the fidgets. I don’t know what I am scared about, but I'm just nervous.” “All right, dear,” said John, ana ; home he went, not stopping long | enough to finish up the recollections of the college fight. At home he found his wife sitting curled up on a little settee looking | very much as she had looked when five years before he had be gged and ited and kissed her into saying ” She was twisting her hand- Kerchiof into little wads and ropes, and he knew by that that she was distracted about something. “I know you think I'm silly to feel this way when it's not even twilight yet. But I know positively that some- body tried the kitchen windows while ANEW DEPARTURE ERECT TES VESTER. A Radical Ge in Marketing Methods as App An oink pi under which you can obtain famous ever before offered. Write for our elegant H-T catalogue and detailed particulars. we can save you money in the purchase of a high-grade sewing machine and the casy terms of payment we can offer, either direct from factory or through our regular authorized agents. You know the «White,”” you know its manufacturers. Therefore, a detailed description of the machine and Its construction 1s unnecessary. If you have an old machine to exchange Write to-day. WHITE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, (Dep't A.) Cleveland, Ohlo. LAV VL BVDV ied to Sewirz Machines. ard better value in the purchase of White” Sewing Machine than How This is an oppor- Address in full —=n get over it. I always was afraid of burglars or ghosts.” And then she had a nervous chill. John said nothing. He took out a copy of Spencer and lighted a cigar. After a time the baby was brought home and put to bed. Mrs. Trumbull had recovered from her nervousness and was peeking out from behind a window shade listening to a conversa- tion that w going on in the court. The servant employed by the fam- ily in the apartment just below the Trambull’s abode was in the flat oppo- site telling the occupants of that place that she was unable to get into the house. “I can’t turn the key, and if you don't mind, ma'am, I'll go through your window.” The people didn't mind at all. They even held the girl's parasol and pock- etbook while she clambered from one window sill to the other. Then came a erash. It was a ter rific crash. Had the girl fallen into the court? No. The sounds that came from the floor below were unlike those heard when Hendrick Hudson played ninepins in the Adirondacks. At that point came a shriek, such as the stage heroine gives vent to when the villain gets after her with a butcher knife. It was sickening, Mrs. Trumbull waited half a second, then stuck her head out of the win: dow, and with the help of half a dozen other feminine voices called; “Mary! Mary! What's the matter?” The reply was a volley of sobs and squeals winding up with: “The flats been robbed!” Mr. Trumbull was surprised to see his wife with hair streaming down her hack and hands clutehing the folds of a bath robe, go shooting through the library out into the hall and down the stairs. In ten minutes she returned. Her eyes were big and black and scared. ITer teeth were chattering, and her hands were busy with each other. She curled up on the divan and looked at her husband. “John, what do you think? Smith's flat has been robbed and hardly a scrap of anything They came through the kitchen window. They even took some Per- sian rugs and Mrs. Smith's sealskin. And the silver's all gone, and the house—oh, you just should see it! It's knee deep with the things that they've pulled out cf the Dns and ward- 1 The robes! John continued to read his Spence. “That's too bad,” he said. Silence of five minutes. “John,” very softly. “Yes?” he asked, not looking up from Spencer, “Jom, do you know I'd just be scared stiff if you weren't here.” John smiled sadly. “You won't go off trip, will you?” “Well-1I-1L,” he drawled uncertainly? “I just won't let you, now. They might come in and take my candle- stick, or the baby, or my grandmoth- set of china. And I'm not a bit afraid when you're here. Honest, I'm not!” she spoke, on that hunting John’s chest swelled up. This was something new. He threw Spncer on the floor and went and looked at his revolver. Then Le tried the dining- room windows. After that he threw his arms out and doubled them up to see if his muscle swelled as it did when he was a lad at school. Ie walked back and forth through their bit of flat and held his head up high. Then he sat down beside that little tyrant of a wife and looked her in the eyes. She giggled hysterically and ran her fingers across his moustache, just as she used to do when poor John was S80 crazy with love for her that she could have pulled out every hair ‘of his head and he'd never have known i “Dear,” John said softly, “I never knew before that there was any place for me in this house, that I filled any want here. But now I find that ¥ am useful, that I am a burglar-scarer. God bless that man that stole those things downstairs. It'll be hard on the Smith's, but it’s a mighty fine thing for me.” : And they lived happily ever after. Or had for a week, as the burglary only took place that far back.—Chi- cago Times-IHerald. —_— NMenzel's Iden of Rest. The German artist, Adolf Menzel, is a great favorite, and his vagaries af- ford endless amusement to the Berlin art fraternity. It seems that Menzel was engaged on a mural decoration. He lad rigged up a scaffolding in his studio, on which his model was requested to stand. For two long hours the poor *“poseur” stood up aloft in a most fatiguing posture. Menzel, meanwhile, worked at his sketch, heedless of the fact that his model was growing tired. At length the model found it neces< sary to speak. *Hery P Yofessor about a recess Menzel apologized profusely for his forgetfulness. “Certainly, certainly, my dear sir,” said he, “Come down and rest your- gelf a bit.” The model had clambered from the scaffolding to the ladder which led down from it to the studio floor. “Stop!” cried the artist, suddenly, “That pose is fine! Don’t move a mus-< cle}? And once more the model was forced into strained rigidity, while the enthusiastic draughtsman set abou sketching him. At the end of half an hour Menzel yoked up from his work. “Phere,” said he, “that will do nice- ly! Get back on the scaffold. We have had our rest. Let us get back to work again.”—The Youth's Com- said he, “how 1 was lying down, and I Just couldn't panion, { >. 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