“LES ENTERED PENN WEDNESDAY MINISTERS SAFE. Dispatch From Consul Fowler Confirms the Capture After an Obstinate Fight—Japan Lost Cver One Hundred Men. Telegrams from Shanghai, dated Tues- day, say: Numerous reports from Pe- king have arrived describing the sitna- tion at the Chinese capital. The Chi- nese are again desperately attacking the legations, which had very few defeni- ers left. It is also alleged that Prin-e Tuan and 100 high officials have left Pe- king, and that the news of the capture of Yangtsun caused a heavy exodus of residents. e execution of Cheng Yin Huan, the Cantonese who was special ambas sador of China to Queen Victoria's ju bilee, has created widespread terror, and it is believed to be a fact that Yu Lu, the former viceroy of Pechili, was killed in battle at Yangtsun. Two of the principal Boxer lea Peking, Chang Te Chang and Ful Tel, are reported to have been mur dered by the Chinese since the success of the allies at Tien Tsin. The Chinese Minister in London, Sir Chih Lo Feng Luh, is quoted as say ing that he believed that peace wou be established between China and the powers within the next six weeks. A dispatch to Vienna from Hong Kong announces the capture of Pekin, but the Austrian Government, like s ! : 1 other European powers, is still without | An official confirmation of this report. telegram dated Taku, Wednesday, has been received at Rome, which asserts that the attack on Pekin began Mon- day; that Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Minister, has opened communi- cations with the relieving force and that the allies have established their head- quarters at Tung Chow. Chinese officials in Shanghai are ro ported as admitting that the allies in flicted a heavy defeat on the Chinese | imperial around Tung Chow | Sunday, and then marched direct on Pe- | kin. his, if true, ca the Japanese official advices announcing the capture of Tung Chow one step further. The Western powers, according to a dispatch from Kobe, have accepted the proposals formulated by Japan for ar- ranging an armistice, pendent upon the immediate delivery of the foreign legations to the allies or the granting of permission to the allied forces to en- ter Pekin and to guard the legations. troops Upon these bases Japan has alre ly be- gun to negotiate. Dispatches dated Friday say: The acting Secretary of State makes public the following telegram received Fridav morning from the United States Consnl at Chefu: The Japanese admiral reports the allies attacked Peking, east. on They met with obstinate Wednesday. resistance. In the evening this message was also received: The Japanese entered the capital with other forces and immediate- ly surrounded the legations. Inmates were safe. The Japanese loss was ove , 300 “Fowler.” y Department Sunday re- ceived the following dispatch from Rear Admiral Remey, dated at Taku, Satur- day: “Telegraph line to Pekin interrupt ed. Information, Japanese sources, Em press Dowager detained by Prince Yun- ged>, inner city, i barded by allies. which is being bom- Chaffee reports en tere i legation grounds evening 14th Eight wounded during day's fighting; otherwise all well.” A Shanghai dispatch announces the death of Li Ping Hong, Cheng and Chang Lui Lin in the fighting before Pekin. Li Ping Hong was the former Viceroy of Shanghai who took up with the Boxer cause and became the most rabid and fanatical of the anti-foreign leaders. The mandarins in the Southern prov inces have issued a proclamation recog- nizing the capture of Pekin as just pun ishment of reactionary officials and warning the people not to interfere with forcigners, but also point out that the sole object of the powers should be the punishment of the Boxers and then the restoration of peace, confining their operations to the norh. ROBERTS BECOMES STERN. Burghers Who Break Oath of Neutrality Liable to Death. Lerd Roberts’ proclamation, after re citiig the fact that many have broken the oath to maintain neutrality and that the leniency extended to the burghers is not appreciated, warns all who break their oaths in the future that they will be punished by death, imprisonment or Hc declares thai tricts occupied by those who take the all burghers in dis- the British except oath will be regard- ed as prisoners of war and transported and that buildings on farms where the enemy or his scotts are harbored will be liable to be razed. eT Killed the Ghost. A Philadelphia, Pa., while frighten- ing a crowd of negioes Sunday night by pretending she was a ghost, Florence Almond, aged 15 years, was struck ini the head with a brick thrown by one of the negroes and killed. : The negroes were gathered on a lot and the girl, who lives, nearby, had wrapped a white sheet about her and suddenly appeared before the crowd. The latter scattered in all directions, and the girl was about to return home when the brick was thrown. She died in a few minutes. The negro suspected of throwing the brick has not been cap- tured. State Gets $100.000 Taxes. Telegrams from Harrisburg, Pa., say the Auditor General's department has completed a settlement of the capital stock tax against the Erie railroad Sys- tem, the amount being nearly $100,000. The tax covers a period of three years, and is based on the value of the ‘earn- ing capacity under the “Nypano” deci- sion. The Erie has heretofore not paid tax on its capital stock on the ground that it was bonded beyond its actuul| value. England Serves Notice. Blevit British tr 100,000,000 xm Wes of the died at Memori Two reachin employes Company rob the Waynesbu ing, Xa, and | Aghtni pos I mt ber red. the roa tendent. TI res 1 Cc CO 4 t grievance Gzorge an accide Gern raw as 18 als ous 12 me Pun reservatic I the The Locome Southern Maj. J. ing th ment, into a hb suspected Mcl ey and cl: Referring to the landing of British g Mr. Broderick, Un- ) Foreign Affairs, says the Government was prepared to land forces if necessary for the protection of British Ii interests, adding sig- nificantly: all know that we are de- termined to risk everything and to put forward all ill our strength and wh | before allowing British interests to go down in any part of the worl Will Purchase in America. Admiral Ahmed Pasha, who was sent to the United States by the Sultan to consider the advisabil warship from an Ameri can ship-building | c firm, has returned to Constantinople and | com advises that contract wv a Philadelphia firm fc admiral say ship is supe be made with one cruiser. The | ¢ the American pe of war- ior to all others. Catt'e Dying From An'hrox. Anthrox has broken out in a herd of Collis P. Huntington, of New York I50 cattle about three miles from Tunk- the millionaire railroad president, died hannock, Pa, and five have already died. | suddenly of heart disease Tuesday. Parts of the diseased animals were sent{ iu Pittsl ee e. Sank to the State department at Harrisburg | « At Pittsburg, Pa. a jealous woman for analysis. A reply stated thes oe fires three bullets into the wife of her tained anthrox bacilli has vaccinated the living animals has them quarantined. Dr. L. E. Me: le and Conspired for Regicide. A youth about 20 years of age was arrested at Leipsic Thursday who ad mits having conspired to kill King Albert of Saxony. He says he was ap- pointed by lot to perform the deed, but that his courage failed him. His iden- tity has not yet been established, but a dagger and a loaded revolver were found on his person. The emg SeWEr pip 7 of purchasing a |struck, de cash inste: ed. Three wheelmen near Pleasant Unity, en work ) >, wounding another and robbed the entire crowd. held Unit Another is said to have been made by an Thursday Cl Penn Atlantic town's n: ington, W. Va., Friday. Congressman Cousins, of Iowa, says his State will give 835,000 majority for McKinley and Roosevelt. Allegheny, Pa., to kill their wives, one with a revolver and another with a knife. The Czar There is mine Death resultec bond Pa., won't settle The Prussian Government is issuing orders for 480 locomotives The New York and order has been A windstorm blew down 10 derricks Germany has « convey stores fr China. A ban has been egraphers by the Company The Boers report der General De 00ps ps. he ) bushe attem at Ost nerals ined ha: smen I wet | LATEST NEWS NOTES. at race riots have ce at their cg or has decided to make Pan-American New Castle restored. in the Scio (0O.) oil field Thursday. Great forest Ss are Tr g in the county of Crestone and L and, Col. 10 steamers ic Francisco to iced on women te! nsylvania Railroad forces un captured 4,000 rmer United States Senator John 1. 1 at Los Mex 1s, New Exposi- n Belmont and Jeffer- pt to na , Dev nds, t Transvaal.. f Justice Henry Green, al services in of I of the posto rg, Pa, iV erhaps A panic on a brid in tl esulted al ope Greucutt has sued the Castle Traction Company for the death of Lis son, John, hurt in pro Proc t 1.520 mths. n in tiv Pacific minutes during funer lis P. Huntington Friday. owing to of de ’s life, loyes 4 ture high United St with them as pirate 1p elev 1 mine worker discussed the w ed resolutions, on the operators for Russia kil vet will drive Supreme in n will there September 13, maining five or.six days. Americ at Monessen, Pa. thee fatall rators lIuced 000 North slim. Sy ress of Reed, of Oil ( Third br + G. P., has re are and y injured. struck Morris Betts & Co.'s and planingemill at Homer City, a., and 1t was burned. at ne t Ashtabula. Sev- tis tl no immediate ) breaking the deadlock in Meadville, over the election of city school supe h: workers n counties, O., washed away several railroad bridges Three men were killed in a grade crossing accident at Palm, Montgom- ery county, Pa. The severe outh in Kansas 1s ex pected to reduce the corn crop to about 1 the Shah of Delary, British and Court, honor of the ke were held at Hunt- 1en attempted visit Paris and re- Labor leaders are trying to organize Plate an Tin Unsuccessful attempts were made ‘to 1 a bank at Thursday. Organization of the National Roofing Company has been completed at Wheel- Capital, $50,000,000. Albert Evans, living near Hannas P; vas attacked by a vicious 1 Loss, $1,000. the Paris Ex- death of two persons and the injury of a large num- \ Lake Shore train plunged through a bridge into the bay a e eral trainmen and passengers were in- The Pennsylvania Company has pre- pared plans to meet the competition of trolley lines with ie steam prospect ©o we refused « with the United Mine Worker; o1 1c ground that the for $10,00¢ 0,000 tons o H pri A 33-year-old son of Plummer Wick of West S fa] 1 mbury, Butler county, fo: e . ooiling in a few hours. The steamer City of Seattle has ar- rived from Skagway with 215 passen- gers, 125 of whom are from Dawson, and about $200,000 in gold dust. Two Italian anarchists, ged lover and death o ou tes offic s at Hazleton, Pa,, age question and reject among them one ¢ a conference. The gunboat Mayflower, has board Gov. Charles H Rico, navy yard for that island. sailed from . Allen, of Puerto the from murder 2 on Se | | payable at the | sugar in the year ending July 31, i tons for the previ- cider broke up a Methodist pic nic at Clarksburg, Md., and mz murder, William G. Davis b haps fatally beaten. The agent at the Devils Lake Indian Dakota graphed that smallpox has broken out among the Indians. nk Atkinson, a Spanish-American veteran, committed Government was slow about grant- ing him a pension. y end ’y has tel suicide because Governor Stone has informed Roches- ter, Pa., people, that the chances for or ganization of new Tenth regiment com- panics are ve Ulridi Rupprecht shot himself dead on the grave of his recently deceased wife at Norwich, Conn. pected of poisoning her. strike at pay-day on the 15th instead of the 18th of the month, is over, the company com- promising on the 17th. He was sus azleton, for : 5, steamships and shops of | per. The w tem stopped seven 1 services of Co vate business, 7, comman-i- regi- hot water. just landed at New iberland, Md., ims to have a clew to the gany dumped t 1¢ town into <icked them never to re- ion lice of neighbors in order pany store, which they now fecoive | Filipino correspondence tured by | reneral Funston's command includes a | highly trea le letter from a Boston | anti-imper advisi them to cap- rs and deal the victim is 1en, killing iling having on Charleston an The t rail- have no New ». | avoid the a ji Soto and Uribe at San Vicente. ONERS FORD GILTY BY JOR , HIS FATE FIXED. The Ex-Secretary of State of Kentucky Sen- tenced to Imprisonment for Life- Mother Prostrated by the Verdict. Caieb Powers, ex-secretary of > | State of Kentucky, Saturday was found guilty of complicity in a conspiracy to murGer Goebel, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The was composed of eight Goe- rats, thiee anti-Gocebel Dem- ocrats and one Republican. one bz was taken and it r unani- mously in favor of life imprisonment. Powers was seated near the jury room door. He almost fainted when the verdict was rendered. T lasted six weeks ai was marked by sharp tilts between counsel for the defense and Judge Cantrill. The arguments of the attorneys occupied the last two days, and the case went to the jury Saturday afternoon, the verdict be- ing reached in a short time. Caleb Powers’ mother has been pros- trated ever since her son's conviction. rs. Powers said her son had at all times proclaimed his innocence to her and she relies upon his word. Powers’ father is an old man, a farmer of mod- crat> means. He has almost exhausted his financial resources in his son's be- half. AX FACTORY BURNED. Flames Destroy the Largest Plant of Its Kind in the World. Tle entire piant of the Kelly Ax Manufacturing Company, valued at 00,000, was destroyed by fire Sunday night. It was the largest ax factory in the world, employing between 800 and 1,000 men when running at full force. The company had just enlarged the fac- tory, increasing the output fully one- th W. O. Kelly, president of the company, formerly owned and operated a factory in Louisville, Ky., and re- moved to Alexandria, Ind. in 1883. The fire started in the grinding de- partment of the ax factory. A strong wind carried the flames to the pump house and doomed the entire works to destruction. In a short time the whole plant, covering 10 acres, was reduced to ashes, it was the only plant not in the trusts and was valued at nearly a million dollars. So far as known no one was DEADLY WAR THREATENS. Whites Patrolling Georgia Station—Women and Children Sent Away. Liberty City, Ga., is being patrolled by hundreds of armed men, two troops of cavalry, the Liberty Independents and Liberty Guards, while men are sending away their women and children to escape the troubles that are expect- cd to break out afresh after a short ces- sation. another of those race troublss that grew out of the killing of a white man by irresponsible negroes in a sec- tion where the blacks outnumber the whites three to one. Since the riot’s inception two whize men and three negroes have been killad, one white man has been seriously wounded by a powder explosion, ani ast night's rioting culminated in the accidental shooting of Colonel James a prominent Wayne county Thomas, » | politician. 1 — THREE MINERS DEAD. Their Bodies Taken From a Burning Col- ) liery—Sixty Mules Cremated. with deadly white damp, one of the suc- cessive rescuing parties succeeded Sun- vy in locatit the bodies of George id William Tompkins and Charles I. Rit1s, the burning 1] honey City, Pa. neac the middle of the were lying in a heap. tunnel. the smol passed a surface air hole and missed a chance to escape. lie 60 mules, which were in the mine nri : were raised to the surface. >{ The still burning furiou and the mine officials are bending every ef- fort to extingnish the flames. Another Express Robbery. Somewhere between Chicago and Bue- lington, Iowa, an express package, sup- posed to contain $25,000, is alleged to have gone astray. When the money was expressed from the Chicago bank it was wrapped in the usual way by | which money is transmitted. In due f course of time the Burlington agent of 1 the railroad received a similar package, ined nothing but brown pa- per containing the worth- s returned to Chicago and but it cont less paper w I- i the hank officials are certain it is not the | one sent by them. Representatives of the corporations in- terested in the matter spent a busy day Sunday investigating the mystery of the issing package and laying plans for arrest of the 1obber—if the money stolen between Chicago and Bur- | lington. | me A Terrific Storm. 1 A terrific hail and windstorm passed over Lebanon, Pa. and portion of Le- jbancn county, Saturday afternoon, leaving destruction in its wake. In the | city there were uprooted trees and gen- signs upon President | eral havoc was done. In Myerstown the held up York quarantine for deportation An Towa man is at Cun | wind lifted the roofs of two houses and fgurried them a distance of a hundred feet. A number of other houses were { unroofed and damaged. | guilty « e noted Kessler murders and Reports are coming in from all sec- the other crimes cqually atrocious. [ tions of the county to the effect that fruit Thirteras y r mith a trees and cornfields are considerably Thirteen houses in Smithfield, III. | 2 were burned by a fire started by incen. | daniaged. Telegraph and telephone diaries, who attempted to loot the town | Poles and wire, uprooted trees and ie ips | fences cover the Berks and Dauphin and were driven out. loss, | 5 4 YT; 1 : | turnpike between Avon and Myerstown. Lightning struck a Be: ey | i a tractic ar at Bridgewat : ; traction car at Bridgewate | Captured in Paris. ning both motorman | 5 . co The three passer did | he State Department, Washing- shock ton, D. C,, has received a dispatch from h | Am! ador Porter, at Paris, stating | that Jose Castro Garcia, a fugitive from justice from Puerto Rico, had landed at | Havre, had confessed to the charge of | embezzling public funds and had con- sented to extradition. The American | authorities have been on the lookout for some time. as one of the tax Rico, and after American occu peared and was charge ling the public funds. Germany Sends a Big Army. oa Robbery Next Sunday Emperor William will = receive at Wilhelmshohe Field Marshal , Srtany '| Count von Waldersee and his staff. The I marshal will be presented with a I marshal’s baton. The dates when 7.500 men will leave remerhaven for China have been fixad. Eight ste: will sail on August 31, September 4 and September 7, carrying much artillery, including howitzers and shells. t I 1Mers 7 Buncoed a Farmer. Joseph Witter. a wealthy farmer at Wittens Landing, Ohio, has been bun- coed out of $1.000. Two men told him they had bought a farm near his place, and as they only had part of the money they wanted to borrow that amount ani would give a mortgage. Witten fell into the trap and gave them the money. They went away and all trace of them has been lost. Colombian Rebels Surrender. General Alban, civil governor and military commander of the department of Panama, telegraphs that he has re- ceived a dispatch from an- cing the absolute surrender of the forces under Vargas Santos, Fo- Socorro rebel Gencral Uribe escaped to Barranca, the After many hours of desperate battling who were entombed Saturday in i at Ma- e found They The three men, while on their way down the slope to when it was discovered on fire, are also 1 B ; officers of issued a General Assembly in extra session on Tuesday, Auguust 2 to be considered is the modification or amendment of the Goebel election law, Steyn’s Death Reported—-British Soldiers Censured. ing hands with Commandant DeLarey Former President Steyn is reported t have died from a severe endeavoring to reach Mr. Kruger. peac withority, share this view. aalers have go with abundant provisions. commander-in-chief of the He de ressing Thursday's maneuvers. c pated were utterly unfit to send abroad, being badly led and badly taught. METHODISTS DID IT ALL. Bishop Morrison Takes A!l the Biame for Chi- nese Trouble. At Louisville, Ky., Bishop Henry M. Morrison, of the Methodist Church, South, delivered a sensational addr the laying of the Fourth Avenue Metho- dist Church cornerstone, in which he declared that the Methodists were re- sponsible for the present trouble in China. He said: “I thank God that Allen and Lambeth over there and the Methodists in this country are responsible for the present trouble in China. With bowed head I thank God that in some small way 1 am to blame for the unrest in China to- day. I thank God that each and every cne of you and all the Methodists in this country are to blame.” He proceeded to say that it was the pushing spirit of the church and the conduct of the Methodists in China that caused the trouble. The present unrest, he said, was a foreshadowing of the time when China would be cut from end to end by the armies of the cross. Among other things he said that the only reason the north pole had not been reached was because no Methodist mis- sionary had been ordered to proceed to that region and evangelize the inhabi- tants. MANY AMERICAN AWARDS. Exhibitors From United States Carried Off 1,981 Prizes at Paris. The list of awards to American ex- hibitors at the Paris Exposition has been made public. The United States secured 1,081 awards. Of these 22 grand prizes, 486 gold medals, z ver medals, 422 bronze medals, 270 hon- orable mentions, and a long list of gold, silver and bronze medals for collabora- tors. Every line of industry and art and skill is given recognition. American farm products and American mines and forestry receive grand pri and gold medals, and American cottons, woolens and silks are given the same conside tion as are American harvesting m: cry, sewing machines, printing pre : liberal arts and transportation, while sii- verware, jewelry, art and education and placed in the front. To Mo!d Public Opinion. Senor Jurado, the Filipino lawyer in London, is arranging to take six Ei lish-speaking Filipinos to the United States in September to lecture, givin: Filipino arguments against a continua. tion of the war in the Philippines. Jurado, who has been writing a se- ries of articles for Filipino papers in Manila, convincing his countrymen that the Americans mean only the best for the ids, said to-day: “If we go to the United States we shall remain on the stump till the November election. We shall not ally ourselves with any party, but will endeavor to mold public opinion that, whoever is elected pre dent, will not dare to continue a policy so objectionable to the majority of the electors. “We desire to give the American peo- ple ample proof that we are quite ca- pable of self-government, and are not irresponsible savages.” — Tarred and Feathered. Clayton Baker, assistant county attor- ney of Blaine county, Oklahoma, was tarred and feathered at Cloud Chief, O. T., by angry citizens of that town. Cloud Chief and Cordell, two rival towns, each wanted the county seat, and Baker was leader in Cordell's support. He boasted that the Cloud Chief people were stuff- ing the ballot box, and when the votes were counted it was learned that Cordell had won the victory. Baker then went over to Cloud Chief and attended a church social with sev young men. As he was leaving church” with them masked men grabbed him and carried him away to the woods, ‘where he was stripped, tarred and feathered. They then tied him to a tree and left him. i LR A Hot Politics in Porto Rico. Telegrams from San Juan de Puerto Rico dated Friday : At Mavaguez a crowd of Federals and Republicans got together and, after heated political disputes, 30 revolver shots were ex- changed, and clubs and other weapons freely used. One man was killed out- right and a dozen others were injured, two fatally. For some wecks violent political dis- | cussions have been frequent and recent- ily the Republicans attempted to hold a mass meeting in a ward controlled by the Federals.” It was this that led to t0- | day's collision. Other encounters are | feared. on Deseiter Severely Punished. _ Private Chester A. Boakes. of the [ Fourth Infantr 125 been convicted by {court-martial at Imus, Philippine Is- |lands, by deserting in the face of the | enemy and of joining the force of the | enemy and also of advising other sol- | diers to desert. Ic was sentenced to be dishonor- ably discharged from the service of the United States, forfeiting all pay and al- {lowance due, or to become due, and to be confined at hard labor for a period of 40 years. General MacArthur ap- proved the sentence and designated Bil- ibid prison, Manila, as the place of con-! finenient. Another Battleship. Another first-class battleship is about to be added to the United States nav It is the Wisconsin, building at the Jnion iron works, San Francisco. This vessel is a sister ship of the Illinois and Alabama. It has a displacement of 11,- 525 tons and indicated horsepower of 10,000, and carries a main battery of 18 guns. A letter has been received at the Navy Department from her builders, saying that favorable progress is being made in her construction, and expressing the be- lief that she will be ready for her offi- cial speed trial, if nothing unforeseen oc- curs, by September 15. Seven Lifes Sacrificed. Seven persons were killed and nine in jured by a collision at Pierson, 20 mil north of Grand Rapids, Mich., Wedn day, of the northbound Northland cx- press No. 5 and passenger train No. » on the Grand Rapids and Indiana rail- road. Kentucky Legislators Will Meet. Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, proclamation conveni has 1g the The only subject ELUSIVE DEWET. | Gives British the Slip and Joins Gen. Delarey. According to a dispatch to the Lon- don Daily Express from Lourenzo Mar- quez, dated Thursday, it is reported that General DeWet has succeeded in join- wound while | py A British correspondent recently rei ; leased from captivity at Nooitgedacht | Mors, asserts positively that Mr. Kruger wishes but that the fighting command- ants insist upon continuing the war an-l would prevent his flight by force if necessary. The burghers, according to the same The Trans- guns at Machadodorp, | €d Viscount Wolseley, field marshal and 3ritish army, delivered the most scathing condemna- tion ever heard at Aldershot after wit- ared that the 30,000 men who partici- PRON LHS 1 NR ANNUAL REPORT. During Last Twelve Months 45,344 Names Have Been Added—Value of Roll Now, $131,534,544. . According to his annual report, just > | made public, Commissioner Clay Evans added 45.344 names to the rolls of his department the last 12 Death, re-marriage and other took off 43.334 during the same The number of pensioners on the rolls was 903,529, a net increase in number of 20710. The annual value of the roll at the close of the year 1899 was $131,617.961, while at the close of the fiscal year end- ed June 30, 1900, it was $131.534.541. Thus, while the roll increased in num bers during the year, it decreased in an- nuai value to the amount of $83,417, oc- casionied mainly by the death of pet- stoners who were receiving high rates Of pension. |For the same reason there was a slight decrease in the average value of all pensions from $132 74 to $132.30. It will be noted that the av rage rate under the general laws has increased from $165.70 to $167.53, while the average ct of June 27, 1890, has Pension causes period. rate under the decreased from $108.09 to $108.28. The average annual value of pensions granted on account of service in the war with Spain has decreased from $108.53 to $169.10. This is still a high average as compared with the rate of pension paid to other pensioners, and the aver- age rates will probably soon conform to the general average of pensioners on the roll. The probabilities, says the com- missioner, are that the new legislation enacted by the present Congress will re- sult in a large increase in the number of pensioners and in the annual value of the pension roll during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. AMATEURISH POLICY. English Attache Says Cnly Americans Fol- lowed a Correct Policy. William Cartwright, who was attach- ed to the staff of Sir Robert Hart, the director of the Chinese imperial marine customs, has returned to London. He says that the United States is the oaly nation pursuing the correct policy in China. “I was stationed at Tien Tsin when the trouble began,” said Mr. Cartwrignt In an interview, “and I assure you it is purely local and not serious. The ma- rines sent to guard the legations at Pe- kin were not molested on their journey thither and the Chinese Government would not imterfere now with the pass- age of a sufficient force to escort the foreigners from the capital if the allied naval commanders had not lost their heads and sent an ultimatum to the com- manders of the Taku forts, which was a gratuitous insult, and a declaration of war. “Admiral Kempff was the only office who saw further than the end of his nose. If the others had had his percep- tion most of the present difficulty would have been avoided. “It is the damned amateurish diplom- acy of Europe which is responsible for the outrages and murders in China. The United States is the only power which is not muddling through the cri 2 WOMAN'S AWFUL DEATH. Traveled Half a Mile With Her Flesh Fall- ing Cff. Naked but for her shoes, and with her burnt flesh falling from her in bits, Mrs. Katie Butts, wife of Cromer Butts, of Richmond, Pa., managed to run and walk a half mile through the wooded mountains to her home late Wednesd 1y aiternoon. She died soon afterward. She had been picking blackberries on the mountain and came past a charcoal pit of her husband's. He was absent and t was a hole in the moun, which, not covered, would ruin the coal. She climbed upon the pile to rake the hole over when a puff of flame set fire to her dress. In an instant her clothing was consumed and she hastened home in agony. Later her path was clearly traced by the bits of burnt flesh along the way. Nearly all the flesh was burned from her body, and her shoes could not be removed, even after death. REIGN OF TERROR AT NOME. Incendiaries, Thugs and Thieves Aitempt to Burn and Loot the Town. For a week or more prior to the de- parture of the steamer Centennial from | Nome, which arrived at Seattle, Wash., [1 hursday, thugs, thieves and firebugs had kept the city in a state of sup- pressed excitement and talk of lynching was to be heard on every street corner. The crimes were apparently the work of an organized gang. sreatest indignation has been aroused by the discovery and frustration of at least three attempts to burn the ciy, and a rumor was in circulaion on the streets that a gang of firehugs hal planned to start fires in various parts of the city simultaneously and loot the banks,shops and stores during the prog- ress of a general conflagration, TWO BIG COAL DEALS. Many Thousand Acres Near Wheeling, W. Va., Sold. A deal has been closed by which Wheeling syndicate represented by Col. W. W. Arnett sells to a Philadelphia syndicate in which the Pennsylvania ra:l- road is known to be interested, 7,000 to 10,000 acres of coal land above Wheel- ing, in Brooke country W. Va., the con- sideration being between $168,000 and $200,000. The property is on the Ohio river and on the Panhandle railroad. Another deal is announced, by which Schaffer & Ullomo, of Wheeling, dis- pose of 6,000 acres on Boggs run, souih of Wheeling, in Marshall county, to J V. Thomnson, president of the First National bank of Uniontown, Pa. New Date for Memorial Day. Commander-in-Chief A, D. Shaw, of the Grand Army of the Republic, that at the coming convention in Chi- cago a resolution will probably be pass- cd to change the date of Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Sunday in May. He says that the members feel that as it is now the day is largely devoted to sports and amusements and it is thought that the change would result in a more faithful and proper observation of the day. on Kentuckians Use Their Guns. The Adkins and Howards have had a bloody battle in Elliot county, Ky. in which one of the Howards was killed and another fatally wounded. One of the Howards and one of Lindsay Adkins boys quarreled over a young woman. after which both went home and brought back other members of their families for reinforcements. All the Adkins have been arrested. Poison Turns Hair Green. Louis Kosok, of Chicago, is at the County hospital suffering from lead poi- soning. His hair and eyebrows have turned green, and the patient entertains the fear that his skin will also turn the same color. lis recovery is doubtful. Kosok has been employed in the smeit- ing department of the American Smelt- ing and Refining worl Gen. Chaffee’s Reward. General Chaffee’s reward for the mag- nificent feat resulting in the fall of Pe- king will be a brigadier general's com- in the regular army and the ¢s of the President. That was de- cided upon Friday afternoon by the President after a talk with Secretary NATIVES PUNISHED. Health Authorities Considering the Advis ability of Colonizing all Victims of Leprosy on One Island. Reports from the Visayas islands show that there has been increased activity among the insurgents there during the last six weeks. ‘he American losses in the island of Panay last month were greater than in any month since Janu- ary last. Gen. Majica, in Yeyte, and Gen. Lucban, in Samar, are harassing the garrisons, shooting into the towns during the night and ambushing small parties, firing and then retreating upon the larger bodies. The Americans have garrisoned three towns on Samar island, two of which shelter a tenth of the original inhabit- ants, who suffer from the continued “sniping” of the rebels from the sur- rounding hills. The third is without any native inhabitants, the rebel outposts, a mile away, preventing their return io their homes. Gen. Lucban punishes the islanders who have any relations with the Americans. Cebu is likewise dis- turbed. Barring those who have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States the rebels are imprisoned in Manila. When amnesty was proclaimed it practically was without effect, and the expectation that the proclamation would accomplish much in the unexpired time is daily diminishing. Surgeon-General Sternberg has re- ceived a report from Maj. Guy L. Edie, president of the board of heaith in Ma- nila. The report says that by a rigid Sys- tem of inspection and vaccination small- pox has been kept from spreading ser:- ously. The board of health is consider- ing a plan to segregate all the lepers on one island, where hospitals and other suitable buildings can be erected for their care. The report states that leprosy was in- troduced in the Philippines in 1633,when the Emperor of Japan sent 150 lepers to the islands. Since then the number has increased until the estimate is that there are 30,000 lepers in the archipelago, largely in the Visayas. In a recent in- spection of Mani 100 lepers were found concealed in various houses,while many others escaped to the country. WAR UPON NEGROES. Infuriated Mob in New York Deals in Blood- shed and Riot— Killing of a Police- man Causes Troub'e. A mob of several hundred persons formed at 11 o'clock Wednesday night in front of the home of Policeman Rob- ert J. Thorpe, in New York, to wreak vengeance upon the negroes of that neighborhood because one of the race had cause the policeman’s death. Thorpe was stabbed and bruised last Sunday night by several negroes while he was attempting to arrest a colored woman, and died Monday. n a few moments the mob swelled to 1,500 people or more, and as they be- came violent the negroes fled in terror into any hiding place they could get. “he police reserves from four stations, numbering 400, were called out. The mob of white men raged through the streets, and negroes, regardless of age or sex, were attacked. A score were ir jured. It took the combined efforts the reserves, with as many more police- men on patrol, to restore order. Clubs were used until the police were almost exhausted. Revolvers were emptied into the and in one or two instances fired at the upper stories of the high tene- from which the negroes defens- cly fired bricks, paving stones and other missiles. For the next hour the streets weve filled with a rioting, surging mob. It was a scene on very much the same or- {der as took place a few days ago in New ! Orleans. New York has seldom had its lequal. The shouting of the men, the shrieking of the women, the lamenta- tions of the children, the shooting of re- volvers, crashing of windows and all made a pandemonium. he policemen in other parts did much clubbing, but the injured men were all negroes. MAY CONTINUE MANY YEARS. An Army Officer Gives His Views on the Philippines. Capt. W. L. Simpson, of the Sixth United States Infantry, who has just re- turned from the Philippines, says that the struggle there is one that will con- tinue for many years. “It is in no sense a war, but such as it is, it is no nearer an end to-day than it was eight months ago. The people are liberty lowing, he says, but absolutely incapable of self govern- ment. When asked how many troops could be withdrawn from the islands for service in China, Capt. Simpson said: ‘Any number. We should merely be obliged to give up the stations we are now holding and in my opinion that would not make the least difference in the situation. When we wanted to take them up again we would simply walk 1a and do so.” A COSTLY MINE FIRE. Surface Works of the Berwind Shaft De- stroyed—Loss $200,000. The entire above-ground works of ihe Berwind shaft colliery of the Berwin i- White Coal Mining Company, at Du- Jois, Pa., were destroyed by fire Wed- nesday evening. Flames were disco: ered in the boiler house at 7:43 o'clock and in an incredible short time had en- veloped the head house, tipple and com- pressor, Sixty men were in the mine at the time and were saved by the prompt and heroic action of Fire Boss John Har- rison and a party of volunteers, who entered the workings by the air shaft at the risk of their lives and warned them of their danger. It was at this mine some years ago that 73 miners lost their lives by an explosion of gas. The loss will approach $200,000. MADE A STRANGE DISCOVERY. Linemen Find a Sawmill and Village, but No Inhabitants. The managers of the Charleston party engaged in stringing the All-Canadian telegraph wires to Dawson have return- ed to Vancouver, B. C., from sections of the Klondike country, where it was thought that the foot of white man had never trod before. Near Pike river, in a dense forest, they found the skeletons of 12 horses in a clearing. Further on there was a com- plete sawmill and several houses. In the cabins there was no human being, bus all were well stocked with provisions and besides there were lying around overalls, grindstone and axes. It is sup- posed the party owning the things frozen to death. The outfit was 40 miles off an old Indian trail. CABLE FLASHES. The town of Columbia. B. C., . has been practically wiped out by fire. The town has a population of about 500. Heavy floods have occurred in Japan and 200 persons are reported drowned, In many places railroad traffic has been interrupted. Prof. Herman Riegel, the well known art historian and director of the museum OR. TALMAGES SUNDAY SERMO: A GOSPEL MESSAGE Subject: Spiritual Values—Earthiy Riches Are Transitory, But the Glories of Heaven Are Everlasting—Compares the Triceless Soul With the Valueless Body [Copyright 1900.1 Wasm~crox, D. C.—From Berlin, where he preached in the American church to a congregation comprising many of his countrymen who are traveling through Europe, Dr. Talmage sends this discourse, in which, by original methods, he ealcu- ates spiritual values and nrges higher ap- preciation of things religious. The text 1s Mark viii, 36: “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Men of all occunations are to be found in the assemblies of the house of God, but in these days of extensive business opera- tions a large proportion are engaged from Monday morning to Saturday night in bar- gain making. In mapy of the families across the breakfast fable and the tea table are discussed questions o s and gain. You are every day “What is the value of thi t value of that?” You would not think of giving something of greater value for that which is of lesser value. You would not think of selling that which cost you $ for $5. If you had a > worth 315,000, you it for $4000. You are intelligent in all matters of bargain making. Are you as wise in the things that pertain to the matters of the soul? Christ adapted His instrue- tions to the circumstances of those to whom He spoke. When He talked to fishermen, He spoke of the gospel net. When Ife talked to the farmers, He said: “A sower went forth to sow.” “hen He talked to the shepherds. Ife told the para- le of the lost sheep. And am I not rignt when speaking to an audience made up of bargain makers that I address them in the words of my text, asking, “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” I propose, as far as ible, to estimate and -ompare the value of the two proper- ties. First, 1 have to say that the world very grand property. Its flowers God's thoughts in bloom. Its rocks are God's thoughts in stone. Tts dewdrops are God's thoughts in pearl. This world is God's enild—a wayward child, indeed: it has wandered off through the heavens. But about 190) years ago, one Christmas night. God sent out a sister world to call that wanderer back, and it hung over Bethleh>m only long enough to get the o is a are promise of the wanderer’s return, and now that lost world, with soft feet of light, comes treading back through the heavens. The hills, how beautiful they billow up. the edge of the wave white with the foam of crocuses! ow beautiful the rainbow, the arched bridge on which heaven and earth come and talk to each other in tears after the storm is over! How nimble the feet of lamplighters that in a few minutes set all the dome of the night ablaze with brackets of fire! How bright the oar of the saffron cloud that rows across the deep sea of heaven! How beautiful the spring, with bridal blossoms in her hair! 1 wonder who it is that beats time on a June morning for the bird or chestra. ow gently the harebell tolls its fragrance on the air! There may be grander worlds, larcer worlds than this, but I think that this is a most exquisite world—a mignonette on the bosom of im: mensity! “Oh,” vou say, “take my soul; give me that world! I am willing to take it in exchan I am ready now for the argain. so beautiful a world, so nd a world!” k more minutely into the. world. You will not buy property unless you can get a good title to it. After you have looked at the property and found out that it suits you you send an attorney to the public office, and he examines the book of deeds and the book of mortgages and the book of judgments and the book of liens, and he decides whether the title is good before you will have anything to do with it. There might be a splendid property and in every way exactly suited to your want, but if you cannot get a good title you will not take i Now, I am here to say that’it is im: possible to get a good {title to thi If 1 settle down uvon it, in the ve vear I so settle down upon it as a permaiient on, I may be driven : from it, , in five minutes afterward I give up my soul for the world I may have to part with the world, and what kind of a tit! do you call that? There is only one w in which I can hold an earthly posses ion, and that is through the senses. All beau- tiful sights through the eye, but the eye may be blotted out; all captivating sounds through the ear, but my ear may be deaf- ened; all lusciousness of fruits and viands through my taste, but my taste may be de- stroyed; all appreciation of culture and of art through my mind, but 1 may lose my mind. What a frail hold, then, 1 have upon any earthly possession! In courts of law, if you want to get a man off a property you must serve upon him a writ of ejectment, giving him a cer- tain time to vacate the premises, but when death comes to us and serves a writ of ejectment he does not gi ond of forewarning. Ile s world € y place! You have no right any longer to the poss on.” We might cry out, “1 2 h 1 gave you $100,000 for that proper plea would be of no avail. We mig “We have a warrantee deed for tha erty;” the plea would be of no avail We might say, “We have a lien on that storehouse;” that would do us no good, Death is blind, and he cannot sce a seal and cannot read an indenture. So that, when you propose that I give up my soul first and last, I want to tell you for the world you cannot give me the first item of title. Having examined the title of a property your next question is about insurance. You would not be silly enough to buy a large warehouse that could not possibly be in- sured. You would not have anything to do with such a property. w, I ask you what assurance can you give me that this world is not going to be burned up? Absolutely none. Geologists tell us that it 1s already on fire; that the heart of the world is one great living coal; that it is just like a ship on fire at sea, the flames not bursting out because the hatches are kept down. And yet vou propose to Im off on , in return for my soul, a world for which, in the first place, you give no tithe in the second place, for which you can give no insurance. “Oh,” you say, ‘the water of the oceans will wash over all the land and put out the fire.” Oh, no. There are inflammable elements in the water, hydrogen and oxygen. all off the hydrogen, and then the Atlantic aud the Pacific oceans would blaze like weaps of shavings. You want me to fake this world, for which you can give no pos- sible surance. Astronome have swept their telescopes through the sky and have found out that there have been fifteen worlds, in the last two centuries, that have disappeared. At first they looked just like other worlds were on Then they got deeply red—they fire. Then they got ashen, show were burned down. Then the peared, showing that even the ashes were scattered. And, if the geologist be right in his prophecy, then our world is to go in the same way. And yet you want me to exchange my soul tor it. “Ah, no; it is a world twat 1s burning now Suppose you brought an insurance agent to look at your property for the purpose of giving you a policy upon it and while he stood mn front of the house he should say, “That house is on fire now in the basement,” you could not get any insurance upon it. “et you talk about this world as though it were a safe investment, ag though vou could get some insurance upon it, when down in the basement it is on fire. ere is a man who has had a large es- tate for forty or fifty vears. Ile lies down to die. You sav: “That man is worth millions and millions of dollars.” Ts he? “on call up a surveyor, with his com. and chains. and you say: “There is a pronerty extending three miles in one di- rection and three miles in another direc- tion.” Is that the way to measure that man’s property? No! You do not want any surveyor. with compass anc ains. That is not the way to measure that man’s property now. It is an nndertaker vou need. who will come and put his finger in his vest pocket and take out a tape line, and he will measure five feet nine inches one way and two feet and a half the other way. That is the man’s property. Oh. no. I forgot. Not so much as that, for he does not own even the place in which be lies in the cemetery. The deed to that belongs to the executor: and heirs. Oh, what a property you pro- % at Braunschweig, Germany, is dead, at the age of 66. The British steamer Clan MacArthe i of the Clan line, which sailed from Cal. | cutta July 12, has been quarantined | the Thames river, owing to a form of ! bubonic plague on the vessel. A cable dispatch received at New York Thursday announces the resion,. tion of President Sanclemente. of the Republic of Colombia. Vice President Marroquin succeeds him for the re- Root, | + } - mainder of the term of four years. , you to test the matter. pose to give me for my soul! If you sell a bill of goods you go into the "counting room and say to your partne “Do vou There is the world now. I shall sav no more about it. iIake up your mind for yourself, as I shall. before God, have to make up my mind for myself. about the value of this world. I cannot afford to make a mistake for my soul, and you ecan- not afford to make a mistake for your soul. Christ is glorious to our souls now, but how much grander our appreciation after awhile! A conqueror comes back after the battle. He has been fighting for us. He comes upon ‘he platform. He has one arm in a sling, and the other arm holds a i 0 crutch. As he mounts the platform. oh, the enthusiasm of the audience! They ay, “That man fought for us and im- 5: Rr periled his life for us,” and how wild the huzza that follows huzza. ; When the Lord Jesus Christ shall at last stand out before the multitudes of the redeemed of heaven and we meet Him face to face and feel tnat He was wounded in the head and wounded in the hands and wounded in the feet and wounded in the side for us, methinks we will be over- whelmed. a Ve will sit some time cazing in silence until some leader amid the white robed choir shall lift the baton of light and give the signal that it is time to wake the song of jubilee, and all heaven then will break forth into “Hosanna! hosanna! Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.” I calculate further the value of the soul by the price that has been paid for it. In St. Petersburg there is a diamond that the Government paid for. “Well, you say, “it must have been very valuable or the Government would not have paid $200,000 for it.” § I want to see what the soul is worth and what your soul is worth by seeing what has been paid for it. For that im- mortal soul the richest blood tnat was ever shed. the deepest groan that was ever ut- tered, all the griefs of earth compressed into one tear, all the sufferings of earth gathered into one rapier of pain and stuck through His holy heart. Does it not im- ply tremendous value? argue, also, the value of the soul from the home that has been fitted up for it in the future. One would have thought that a street of adamant wonld have done. No, it is a street of gold. One would have thought that a wall of granite would have done. No, it is the flame of sar- donyx, mingling with the green of emer- ald. One would have thought that an occa- sional doxology would have done. No, it is a perpetual song. If the ages of heaven marched in a straight line, some day the ast regiment might pass out of sight. But no, the ages of heaven do not march in a st aight line, but in a circle around about the throne of God, forever, forever, tramp, tramp! A soul so bought, so equipped, so provided for must be a price- less soul, a majestic soul, a tremendous soul. If a man sell a bill of goods worth $5000, and he is cheated out of it, he may get $5000 somewhere else, but a man who in- vests his soul invests all. Saving that, he saves all. In the light of my text, it seems to me as if you were offering your soul to the highest bidder, and I hear say, “What is bid for it, my deathless spirit? What is bid for it?” Satan says, “I will bid the world.” You say, “Begone, that is no equivalent! Sell my soul for the world? No! Begone!” Well, there are a great many people who say, “I will not sell my soul for the world. I find the world is an unsati tion.” What, then, will you do wit soul? Sone one whispers here, i soul to Christ.” Will you? That resolution you ever made. 3 give it to Christ? When? To- morrow? No, now. [I congratulate you if you have come to such a decision. Oh, if the eternal Spirit of God would now come down upon you and show you the vanity of this world and the immense importance of Christ’ Will you g t's religion and the in- finite value of your own immortal souls, what an hour this would be! What a moment this would be! Do you know that Christ has bought your soul? Do you know that Ife has paid an infinite price for it? Do you know that He is worthy of it? Will you give it to Him now ? was reading lately of a sailor who had just gct ashore and was telling about his last experience at sea. Ie said: “The last time 2d the ocean we had a terrific After we had been out three or four a time. days the machinery got disarranged, and the steam began to escape, and the cap- tain, gathering the people and the crew on deck, said, ‘Unless some one will go down and shut off that steam and arrange that machinery at the peril of his life we must all be destroyed.” He was not will- ing to go down himself. No one seemed willing to go. The passengers gathered at one end of the steamer waiting for their fate. The captain said: “I give you a last warning. If there no one here willing to imperil his life and go down and fix that machinery we must all be lost.” A plain sailor :aid, ‘I'l go, sir,” and he wrapped himself in a coarse piece of .can- vas and went down and was gone but a few moments when the escaping steam stopped. The captain cried out tq the passengers: ‘All saved! Let us go down below and see what has become of the hoor fellow.” They went down. There he ay dead.” Vicarious suffering! Died for all! Oh, do you ¢ se that those people on the slp ever t, ever can forget, that poor fellow 0,” they say. “It was through his sacrifice that I got ashore.” The time came when our whole race must die unles some one should en- dure torture and sorrow and shame. Who shall come to the rescue? Shall it be one of the seraphim? Not one. Shall it be one of the cherubim? Not one. Shall it be an inhabitant of some pure and unfall- en world? Not one. Then Christ said, “Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God!” and He went down the dark stairs of our sin and wretchedness and misery and woe, and He stopped the peril, and He died that you and I might be free.. Ob; the love; oh, the endurance; oh, the horrors of the sacrifice! Shall not our souls go out toward Him, saying: “Lord Jesus Christ take my soul. Thou are worthy to have it. Thou hast died to save it.” God help you rightly to cipher out this sum in gospel arithmetic: “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” . PROMINENT PEOPLE. General Chaffee is a native of Ohio Emperor Kwang Hau, of China, only 30 years old. The Shah of Persia has abandoned his proposed visit to Berlin. Miss Helen Zimmerman, of Cincin- nati, denied that she was engaged to the Duke of Manchester. General Cronje, the Boer captive, it is said, is recognized as an ‘expert goli player on the St. Helena links. Six hundred Senators and Deputies called on King Victor Emmanrel 111. of Italy and expressed their loyalty. Senator Heitfeldt, of Idaho, used to be a cowboy in Kansas, and has always been more or less engaged in stock- raising. It is feared Victoria's heaith will be gravely affected by the death of her second son, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha The Sultan of Turkey has fallen a viz- tim to the automobile fad, and is so well pleased with his particular machine that he has conferred a decoration on the manager of the German works at which it s built. Prof. Thomas H. Norton, of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, who was recently appointed United States Consul at Har- put, Turkey, will have the distinction of representing this country ‘at its very farthest inland consulate. Charles Scott Venable, for the last five years professor emeritus of math- c¢matics at the University of Virginia, died at his home in Charlottesville, Va. During the Civil War he was a licuten- ant-colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of General Robert E. Lee The late C. P. Huntington was burizd in Woodlawn cemetery, New York cits in a mausoleum that cost $250,000. Fiv. years were required to construct it. The materials are granite and marble. The structure is 42 feet long, 28 feet wide and 24 feet high. that Queen China Has Stolen a March. China has not been sufficiently watch- ed; it has not been understood’ that for years past she has been making prepara- tions in view of the present occurrences, She has been occupied with developing her na "yi: fortifications have been con. structed at the entrance of bays and think that man is good for this bill? n he give proper security? Will t this payment?’ Now, when vou are of- fered this world as a possession T want I do not want you to go into this bargain blindly, - vou to ask about the title, abont the i surance, about whether men have ever { had any trouble with it, about whether ! you can keep it. about whether you ean get all or the ten thousandth or one hun- dred thousandth part of it rivers, at Canton, Foo-Chow, at Shang - hai and at Peking. 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