THE MlllEfflN SPREIN3.
TROOPS LANDING.
Decided and Aggreislv Action Taken In Con
cert f gainst tha Boxer Situation at
Petdn Critical MlMionarle Killed.
Telegrams front Shanghai, dated
Thursday, say: The dowager empress
lias ordered Gen. Neih Si Chong. with
l.ooo men, to protect the railroad ni
J'ekirt. A severe finht has necurreil with
the Boxers, whose ranks inehiilc many
soldiers from other commands. When
the linttlc ended 200 dead were left on
the field.
One hundred am) civility British ma
rines, with a machine gun, are about to
force a passage from 'l ien Tsin to Pc
kin. Altogether, aliotit oo British have
been landed from llic fleet, n greater
number than have been landed from the
combined vends of the other powers.
This evidence d (ireat Britain's inten
tion to a--ert lier position strongly
Hives great satisfaction.
DnritiK' the engagement at Tung Hit
between the Itoxers and Catholic
Christians Tuesday the latter captured
nitm cannons.
The authorities arc displaying guilty
stipinetu-ss in dealing with the Boxers
nnd the powers are taking matters into
their own bands. The Boxer revolt is
spreading and is rapidly changing its
character. The Uoxers arc getting
arms, preparing to meet force with
force.
The lloxcrs are still raiding and pil
laging over a wide area. They have
wrecked and bnmed the stations at
Long I'oiik and Ijmgoo. lime. Atier
and Messrs. Ossent and Cades have
been murdered. ien. Nich claims to
have defeated the lloxcrs, killing yoo.
Attempts to repair the railway be
tween Tien Tsin and l'ekin have been
frustrated by the Itoxers. who, thou
sands strong, bold the line against the
engineers, gangs attacking the trains ar
riving. All the children ami women,
except Lady MacDonald. have left the
legations. There are the gravest fears
for mis-i uiaries in outlying parts. They
number hundreds nnd the stations are
isolated. Concerted action is impossi
ble. A special dispatch from Peking under
date of Saturday, says:
The situation is growing steadily
more alarming. The missionary com
pounds were all abandoned yesterday
evening. Forty American and English
mi-sionarics are gathered at the Ameri
can Methodist mission, surrounded by
300 native pupils, whom it was impossi
ble to -end to their homes. They were
waiting with a few revolvers nnd guard
ed by to American marines for rein
forcements to take them to the coast.
Anotlnr dispatch from Tien Tsin,
dated Sund.'.v, savs: About l.soo for
eign tro.-ps of all arms left for Peking
by two troop trains tins morning. I en
thousand troops of all nationalities, ac
cording to a dispatch from Shanghai,
will be st nt to Peking to back up the
demands of the ministers upon the gov
eminent or, if necessary, to suppress
the lloxcrs themselves.
The American mission buildings at
Tung-Chau, u miles freni Peking,
which were abandoned by the mission
aries, have been looted anil burned by
the Chinese soldiery who were sent to
protect them. Within three days 75 na
tive Christians, well-known men, who
had been trained for years by American
missionaries, have been massacred near
lung Chau. Many of them' were burn
ed alive.
The intimidation of Christians con
tinues within Peking itself. Most of
the mission compounds are closed, and
the mssionarics arc being collected tin
dcr the protection of the Legation
guards. Reinforcements for all the
guards are coming.
Trolley Smaih Kill Four,
A frightful accident resulting in the
loss of four lives and the injuring of
26 prisons occurred on the Oakland
ricach electric road at noon Sunday.
Two cars met in a head-on collision on
a sharp curve. The car coming toward
the city telescoped the down trip car,
crashing its way through to the fifth
seat.
Additions to the death list are hourly
expected, as several of the injured arc
at the hospital in a precarious condi
tion. The dead and wounded were
quickly extricated from the wreck, the
latter being removed to the hospitals.
The accident took nlace on the sub
urban line between Providence, R. L.
and Oakland Beach, a summer resort
sonic 12 miles distant.
Lands Open to Homesteader.
A conference agreement was reach
ed Monday on a bill which will open a,
400,000 acres of public land to settle
mcnt, 400,000 acres of the Fort Hall,
Idaho, military reservation, and 2.000.-
000 acres of the Kiowa and Comanche
lands in Southwest Oklahoma at $1.50
per acre.
CYCLING NOTES.
Many a fellow owes his good health
to-day to the bicycle.
The bicycle has been one of the main
factors 111 the good roads movement.
The professional promoters in this
country this year will use motor bac
ing machines to a large extent.
The wheel had done more than any
thing else to get people out of doors
and acquainted with nature as seen in
the country.
There has been a marked diminution
during the past two years in the value
of the export of bicycles from the Unit
ed states to foreign countries.
Millions have been made in the man
ufacture of bicycles, but thousands of
persons have been benefited in health,
something that is worth more to t'hem
than the dollars they paid for their
wheels.
The touring committee of the L. A,
W. reports that it has received scores
of requests for routes, and, that the de
partment is one of the most popular
witn tne memuera in tne league.
A chemical compound of india rub
ber has been made by a Philadelphia
man to be used as a filler for pneu
matic tires. The inventor thinks he
has solved the problem of solid tires.
A Canadian has fitted a motor to
ileigh for ice sleighing. The motor OD'
erates a spiked wheel set between the
rear runners, the front ones being
used for steering. The rider sits and
drives as in motor quadncycle.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Pirates looted four vessels near Hon
Kong.
Henry G. Young, rx-treasurer of
Rending, Pa., committed suicide.
The town of Cariaco. Venezuela, was
almost destroyed by an earthquake.
Willie Kali, nired n fell into a tank of
boiling water nt Toronto, O., nnd was
fatally scalded.
Cant. Ethan M. Allen lias been elect
ed department commander of the Michi
gan G. A. K.
A force of 2.000 Boers with six guns
rut Lord Roberts' line of communica
tion at Koodcval.
A tush of llritisli agriculturists to
Soittli Africa is expected to develop the
inqticrcd lands.
Temperance leaders from all over the
world are gathering at London for the
nlernnt111n.il congress.
Wcssels. the llocr envov. nnd W. J.
rirvnn, spoke front the same platform
at a meeting nt Omaha.
Dr. Taliferro and Wiley Wilkins quar
reled in a little Texas town Sunday, and
hot each other to death.
A hard freeze in North Dakota formed
ce a quarter of an inch thick and cut
pring w heat back to the ground.
While playing "robber" nt West Lib
erty, ()., Harry Miller, aged IJ. shot
Margaret Taylor, nged 7, killing her.
Sheriff Porter, nt Stenbenvillc. dis
covered that jail bars hail been sawed
and prevented a general jail delivery.
West Point cadets will have their fur
nighs cut short this year, their services
being required in several regiments.
General Pio del Pilar, the most ag
gressive of the Filipino leaders, was
aptured near Manila by native police.
The World's Temperance Congress
opened in London Monday with the
Archbishop of Canterbury as president.
The Monongalia county (W. Va.)
court has appropriated $20,000 for a
bridge across the Cheat river nt Uneva.
Paris' transportation facilities have
proven inadequate for exposition visi-
ors, who are mostly compelled to go
ifoot.
Near Jackson, Ala., John Ovcss, a
lanter. and his son were riddled with
niekshot from ambttsh by parties un
known.
In an explosion in n powder mill
at t'ontanet, Ind., Matthew Kecd was
killed and several other employes badly
injured.
The Pearv Arctic steamer Woodward
s preparing to sail from St. Johns, N.
for the far north, to bring home the
explorer.
James McXeclv. 1.1 years old, died
at Toledo of enlargement of the skull,
his head measuring yl'i inches 111 cir
cumference. severe windstorm swept over Kan
sas Thursday, causing much damage to
growing crops, entire traitis of cars and
other property.
The inaugural ball in the Kentucky
Capital postponed on nccoiint of the
nth of Governor William Oocoel, was
held brulay night.
Abraham Fisher, one of the Boer
envoys, visited the grave ot Lincoln, at
Springhcld, III., Sunday, and placed a
wreath on the tomb.
A. T. Disscnd. nostmastcr nt Belle
vcrnon, was conuttcd lor contempt 01
court at Grccnsburg for failure to file
an account as executor.
Mrs. lacob Worst has been awarded
$3,000 damages against the city of Mead-
villc. Pa., for injuries sustained in a lall
on a defective sidewalk.
It has been discovered that the Span
ish cannon loaned by the government
to Kansas City is loaded to the muzzle
with powder and projectiles.
Five transports will be sent to Cuba
to bring 1,483 school teachers to this
country for the free summer course ol
fercd by Harvard university.
Simon Adams, a negro 20 years old
was lynched by a mob at Columbus,
Ga., for an attempted assault, and his
body thrown into the river.
The Boer envoys were tendered an
enthusiastic reception Thursday evening
at St. Paul. Mr. tischcr dented that
the Boers hold or own any slaves.
The annual convention of the Scotch-
Irish Society of America began at
Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday, Dr. John
Mcintosh, of Philadelphia, presiding.
Rev. F.dizar M. Levy, D. D., 80 years
of aire, who was chaplain of tJie FrC'
mont convention in 1856, has been chos
en to officiate in the same capacity at
the Republican National convention in
Philadelphia.
At Biloxi. Miss., two negroes, Askew
nnd Russ, supposed to have murdered a
Miss Winterstein a week ago, were
hanged by a mob Sunday morning.
William L. Kendis and William M
Jacobs, implicated in the Lancaster
counterfeiting cases have been sentenced
to pay fines of $5,000 and serve 12 years
in prison.
The Necly hearing in New York was
again postponed, and will be continued
from day to day until orders arc recciV'
ed from Washington under the new CX'
tradition law.
ludce Morrow, of the United States
circuit court in San Francisco, enjoined
the police from interfering with the vis
its of Chinese physicians to the quaran
tined district.
At Summit, Ga., twelve persons at
the home of George E. McGarr were
(poisoned by eating ice cream. Mr. Mc
Garr is dead ana doctors icar that nine
others will die.
The Washington state department
denies that Consul Hollis, at Lourcnzo
Maroues. has gone to Pretoria on ofh
cial business. He is a Boer sympathizer
and has been cautioned.
Following a quarrel, Mrs. Theresa
Tracev. ,the wife of a Brooklyn motor
man, in shooting at her son-in-law, shot
and mortally wounded her daughter,
Margaret, 19 years ot age.
Lawrence Ford, of Fairview, Erie
county, Pa., was found on the street in
Philadelphia, Pa., with his skull frac
tured, dying later In a hospital, and
foul play is suspected.
Tlie Dunbar (Pa.) Fire Brick Com
pany, whose plant was burned down
in the heat of the demand for coke oven
bricks, has been rebuilt and this week
fired some ol the Kilns.
In the discussion of the Lake Mohonk
Arbitration Conference, Rev. George
Horr, of Boston, warmly eulogized the
"Renressive hand 'that Lord Salisbury
had wielded against the precipitation of
'BOERS' BOLD iD I SOFTLY II
BEHIND ROBERTS.
Transvaalora Havt 8evered His Una ot flail
way Communication No Word From
Roberta For Threa Day.
The executive offices of the Transvaal
government are in a railway car, which
s shunted on a switch at Machadorp
station. President Kruger caused the
interior of the coach to be reconstructed
some time ago with a view to contin
gencies that have arrived.
Referring to the reasons why be left
Pretoria, Mr. Kruger said to a corre
spondent:
whs not foolish enough to be taken
prisoner. 1 provided tins means ol lo
comotion precisely for the same reason
as nur burghers supply themselves with
horses when they take the field. It is
necessary that I should be able to move
puckly from place to place. By and
y this car will take me back to 1 re
oria. For the present it enables tne
o keep awav from Pretoria, where I
could be of no service and where I
hould only play into the hands of the
nemy.
You may depend upon it that the war
s not yet over. Guerrilla warfare will
continue over an enormous area. We
intend to fight to the bitter end nnd
shall probably retire upon Lydenbitrg,
wdiere we can hold out for many
months.
It is only now the real Struggle has
legun. I fear that there will still be
much bloodshed, but the fault is that
of the British government. Then rnis-
ng bis voice to an almost passionate
leight, Mr. Kruger exclaimed: The
ime lias passed for us to talk. We
have done plenty of that, but it has
done us no good. There is nothing left
or us to do but to keep on fighting, to
keep on fighting.
I he burghers nrc fully determined
o fight to the last. They will never
surrender so long as 500 armed men re
main in the country.
1 he Moers have torn tin 2! miles ol
Lord Roberts' vital line of railway bc-
wcen American Sidititf and Koodcval.
It is a bedd raid and vexatious, but it
Iocs not disquiet the military authori
lies, for they expect Gen. Kellcy-
Kenney to drive off the marauders and
to rc-open the line. The rapidity of
Lord Roberts advance cannot have
permitted him to accumulate large re
serves of stores. Therefore an inter
ruption of the railway, even for a week,
must embarrass the army and may
bring the forward operations to a stand
still.
Nothing has been heard from Rob
erts for three days. This raid on the
railway, the strenuous opposition to
Gen. kundlc nnd the nimble escape of
Gen. Botha's division 'have forced the
war office observers to the conclusion
that the war is not yet over, although
even the Boer sympathizers cannot see
how the Jlocrs will be able to do any
thing to change the result.
Gen. Kundlc s nnd Gen. Brabant s
divisions arc still at If ammonia, in the
I'ickslmrg district. The latest intelli
gence is that the Boers are determined
to fight to the bitter end. They nrc
concentrating 4,000 men around Bethle
hem. Gen. Hunter has warned all
burghers that if the telegraph is cut
behind him be will burn the houses near
the line.
BRUTALITY TO WOMEN.
Shameful Treatment by tha Mob at St. Louis
School Invaded.
A mob of furious women and boys
Friday night beat and denuded Lena
Kacntcr, a young woman who makes
her living by peddling lunches among
employes of the California Avenue
street car line. When the mob had strip
ped her to the waist, one woman,
daubed her with green paint.
while two others held her. the leering
boys and women of the mob applauding
the outrage and throwing mud. two
shop girls weTe attacked by the same
mob an hour later, and they also were
partly denuded before they escaped.
An organized committee ol women
began to visit the public schools, en
tering the school rooms, accusing the
teachers of riding on the tabooed cars,
and threatening them with bodily harm
I they did so again. At the Mount
Pleasant school the leader of this "com
mittee" seized the principal, Mrs. Rose
t anning, shook her violently and an
nounced that she would be tarred and
feathered if cither she or any of her
teachers rode on the cars again.
Bloody Riot at St. Louis.
Sunday was one of the most eventful
and bloody since the strike on the St
Louis transit lines began more than
one mouth ago. There were numerous
encounters between strikers and others
and the authorities, resulting in four
deaths and the wounding of four per
sons, mostly strikers. One of the latter
will die.
Gov. Stephens says that everything
is in readiness for calling out the Na
tional Guard to quell disorder in at,
Louis, but he will not issue the call ex
cept as a last resort. It will cost, he
said, fsooo to land 2500 men in St. Louis
and as much per day to maintain them,
and as there is no appropriation for that
purpose lie does not know how the Leg
islature wuum view a uenciency 01
$100,000 for maintaining troops in St.
LOUIS,
Troort Routed by Rebel.
A dispatch from Cucuta, department
of Santander, Venezuela, says that after
13 days of fighting the Colombian revo
lutionists have routed the government
forces near Ducaramanga, capturing a
number of prisoners, including Gen.
Pcnasolana.
Fin Destroys Canadian Town.
The large Limber colony at ( St.
Kticnne, belonging to Price Bros. &
Co., of Quebec, was totally destroyed by
fire Wednesday afternoon. The loss is
very great, and includes 300,000 feet of
lumber, stores, all the wharves, one
schooner and two bateaux that were
moored at the wharf.
Forty families are rendered homeless
by the conllagration, and are in a desti
tute condition. The fire is supposed
to have been started by the 'colonists.
The loss is estimated to be between
$350,000 and $400,000,
DEAu Y MINE EXPLOSION.
Two Hundred Miners Entombed Threa Lose
Their Live Bodies Unrecovorod.
At Glottster, O., two hundred miners
were imprisoned early Friday morning
by krt explosion of gas in mine No. 2
and as many more were about to enter
the mine for work. It was thought at
first that the loss of life would be very
large, but the work of rescuers wa car
ried on so energetically and successfully
that all were rescued and saved, except
three. Fan Joseph, John McClelland
and Aaron Swanson were killed and
their bodies probably cannot be recov
ered, as the mine is still on fire.
These men were engaged to watch
the large mine nt night and see that it
was in condition for the miners to en
ter in the morning. They were cut off
from all means of escape at the time of
the explosion, nnd their horses perish
ed with them. William Williams, also
employed in the mine, liad bis leg
broken and others suffered slight in
juries. The explosion set the mine on fire
and the rescuing party has been working
with difficulty. State Mine Inspector
Klmcr G. Biddison was telegraphed for
and he, with Deputy Inspector Will
iams, are on the ground trying to smoth
er and drown out the Haines, but so far
they have been unsuccessful. In the
evening a second explosion occurred
and shortly afterward a third, in which
the system of fans used to force fresh air
into the mine was completely destroyed.
There were 400 men employed in the
mine. Had the explosion occurred a
few moments later, after nil the men
had entered and taken their positions,
the destruction of human life would
have been fearful to contemplate.
ANOTHER MINE EXPLOSION.
Four Men Killed and Three Seriously Injured
at tha Ellsworth Pit.
A terrible gas explosion occurred at
the Lllswortli mines, at Kllsworth, 12
miles west of Monoiigahcla, Pa., at 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon, in which twj
men were killed and three injured.
There was no person in the mines at
the time of the explosion, the day shift
having conic out nt noon and the five
miners killed nnd injured were the first
of the night shift to enter the cage to
descend the shaft wdien the explosion
took place. The force of the explosion
seemed to be in the shaft. The cage
in which the men had just entered was
thrown a number of feet in t be air and
its occupants thrown out. All clung to
the rigging of the derrick except Rodg
ers and Forsythc, who fell to the bot
tom ol the shaft. Rodgers was hiir ed
to the top of the derrick before falling
into the shaft and got a fall of 300 feet.
The cage was caught before falling
and was soon repaired and sent to the
bottom with a party in search of the
men who were thrown out. They were
loiuid lying nt the bottom of the shaft
in a badly mangled state.
ATTACKED BY TWO EAGLES.
Slrango Experience of a Man Who Met With
Mountain Mishap.
James Wiltbank. of Black Loir Val
ley, Huntingdon county, Pa., met with
a queer experience on Saturday. He
was going down a stecn Part of the
Black Log mountain, when he caught
hold of a grape vine and swung out ov
er the mountain side. The vine broke
loose and the man was thrown out over
the tree tops. He lost his hold on the
vine and landed in the top of another
tree lurthcr down the mountain.
In the tree where he struck was an
eagles' nest, and both the old birds at
tacked him fiercely with talons and
beak. He succeeded in getting out his
knife and struck at the birds, managing
to keep them off until he had scrambled
to the ground. At this juncture the
male bird fastened its talons into bis
left shoulder. With a well directed
blow of his knife Wiltbank killed the
bird, when the female screamed and
flew away. He will have the dead eagle
mounted.
Fir Causot $500,000 Lot.
The entire business and most of fhe
residence section of the town of Vir
ginia, on the Mesaba iron range. Minn..
was wiped out of existence Thursday by
hre. 1 he territory over which the fire
traveled covered about 12 blocks, nine
of wdiich were thickly built tin. There
is not a business house, hotel or store
standing in Virginia. 1 he loss is esti
mated nt $500,000: insurance not over
$135,000. So far as known no lives were
lost, there is little food left in the
town, and women and children are with
out places to sleep or any covering.
TERSE TELEGRAMS
A brewery costing over $100,000 will
bo erected at Sharon, Pa., by Pittsburg
capitalists.
Ex-Congressman A. J. Holmes, of
Iowa, has been declaied insane by a
commission.
George J. Browne, n wealthy dry
goods dealer, commits! si.icide at his
home in New iork.
The Bible was the best selling book
of the past year. The American Bible
Society put out 1,406,801 copies.
Matthew Clark, Dan. el Halpin and
Patrick Ryan were run over and kill
ed by a train on the Long Island rail
road.
Stephen R. Romaine fell 250 feet
from the steeple of a church at Cold
Springs, N. V., and was dead when
picked up.
Lead producers ot Utah arc organiz
ing to form a State and later a National
combine to put up tne price by incrcas
ing exports.
During a quarrel 'between Nathan
and Morris Krause. brothers, at Phil
adelphia. Nathan shot and instantly
killed Morris.
Missouri Democrats, in convention
at Kansas City, endorsed the free silver
theory and declared in favor of Bryan
for President.
The elegant mansion of J, O. Don
ner, of the Sugar trust, three miles from
Kamseys, N. J., was destroyed by tire
the loss being $75. 000.
On behalf of the people of Kentucky
a silver service of 70 pieces, which cost
$6,000, was presented to the battleship
Kentucky at fort Monroe.
A Kentucky delegation nresented in
the name of that State, to the battleship
Kentucky, lying in Hampton Koads, a
silver service that cost $0,000.
MM REBELS Sll BY SOLDIERS.
AGUINALDO'S PLAN.
Paper Funslon Secured Contain Rebol Chief
Instruction to Hi Bolomen for tha
Murdering of all American.
As a result of last week's scouting
more than 200 Filipinos were killed and
160 captured, while 140 rifles, with am
munition and stores, were secured.
The American loss was nine killed,
in-hiding a captain and a lieutenant,
wo captains and 21 privates wounded
and one captain taken prisoner by the
1'iiipinos.
1 he grcnt store of insurgent docur
mcnts discovered by General Fimston,
together with some interesting papers
which Captain Smith found in the pos
session of General Pnutalcon Garcia,
throw interesting side lights upon the
i iiipino government.
Most important of the lot is Atruin-
aldo's plan for the uprising in Manila,
winch was drawn by mm nt Malolos, is
in his own handwriting in the Talolog
angnage and bears the date of January
9, I).
1 he insurgents were to rcnair to
housetops whence they were to burl
down upon the soldiers licavy furniture.
and any iron implements they might
have heated redhot. They were also
to have ready in their houses hot water,
which was to be thrown upon passing
soldiers or squirted at them from bam
boo syringes. The women and children
were exhorted to lielp in preparing the
water and boiling oil, which they were
to pass out to the men for use. After
wards bolomen were to rim through
streets slashing Americans wherever
they met them.
1 hey were instructed not to ston to
pick up the guns of soldiers they kill
ed, as those could be collected after
ward. The bolomen were warned to
restrain themselves from the temptation
ot looting, because, as Agumaldo ex
plained, lie was particularly desirous to
make good in the eyes of foreign na
tions his assertions that the Filipinos
were disciplined and civilized people.
Particular injunctions were given for
tirotecting the banks, even the Spanish
tank.
Telegrams from Manila. dated
Wednesday, say: Major Johnson, with
two companies of the Twenty-ninth in
fantry and 25 men of the eighteenth in
fantry sailed from Romblon to the
neighboring island of lablas, where
they disembarked simultaneously in
four columns, converging upon a cen
tral point. Tlie Americans encountered
about Co rebels, who retreated, nnd they
captured 40. including all the officers,
together with 10,000 rounds of ammuni-
1011 and 2J nl es. Forty men of the
Twenty-ninth regiment, with a lieuten
ant, were left ns a garrison, the others
returning (o Romblon.
rorty rifles, with artillery and a con
siderable (iliantitv of ammunition have
been captured by the Americans in the
mountains back of Dtinalufilian. Three
l ilipinos were also taken.
American scouts have destroyed the
camp of General Mascardo. The natives
report that Mascardo, with 200 men
and 500 rifles will surrender if given
assurances that t'liev will not be im
prisoned. Yesterday, while scouting in
the vicinity ol banto lomas. Province
of Nueva Ecija, two Americans were
wounded.
Work ot This Congress.
A summary of. the work of Con
gress, compared with the four preced
ing Congresses, gives the following
data: Number of days in session 137;
bills introduced, 12,152; passed, 1,215:
public acts, 283; private acts, 932; extent
of Congressional Record, 7,o,M pages.
This far exceeds the work of the first
sessions of the four preceding Con
gresses and in much shorter time. The
shortest of these preceding first scs
sions was 175 days, as against 137 days
this session. The greatest number of
bills at these longer sessions has been
10,639, as against 12,152 to-day. and the
highest total of acts heretofore, 723, as
against 1,215 at present.
Moor Ara Massing.
Special dispatches received from Al
(tiers portray a serious situation. Thou
sands of Moors are massing at Figuig in
the neighborhood preparing lor a dc
termined attack upon the advance posts
of the trench.
The French columns have joined
hands at Zoubia, but the men suffer ter
ribly from heat and thirst, and hundreds
of camels died.
The French are preparing int-ench-ments
and are confident of their ability
to repel an attack and even to take the
offensive against Figuig, if necessary.
Led Into an Ambush.
Capt. Frank F. Orcnshaw, with 40
men of the Twenty-eighth infantry,
while scouting near Taal, was led into
an ambush by a guide. Capt. Orenshaw
was badly wounded in the head and one
private was wounded. The ambushcrs
were scattered, leaving 10 men dead
and three wounded on the field. Capt.
Flint, while scouting five miles east of
Biacnabato, Bulacan province, had a
slight brush with the enemy. Flint and
two privates were wounded.
Outbreak in Eorneo.
A special from Victoria, B. C, says:
News was brought from the east by
the steamer Empress of Japan that a
serious uprising against the British has
again broken out in North Borneo.
Many refugees who arrived in La
buan say that the cause of the outbreak
was the general dissatisfaction against
the rule of the Chartered Company. In
the fighting several British were killed
and seven wounded. Twenty-five Chi
nese were killed and die environs of the
city were totally destroyed.
Japan Will Fight Russia.
Admiral S. E. Freemantlc, for years
in charge of the Indian and Chinese
squadrons, arrived at Vancouver, B. C,
Wednesday on his return from a tour
of the Orient. He said he thought Ja
pan and Russia will fight. At any rate
Japan would never back down. The
feeling was so intense that no ministry
could or would give in to Russia. Ko
rea should belong to Japan, and the
Japanese know it and will fight for it.
apan was in the right and she would
win.
MANY ARE ILL.
Major March'a Mm In Very Bad Shapo.
Treachery of Native Prctiitonti,
Exposed.
A dispatch from Candon, dated
June says Major P. C. March's men ol
the Thirty-third regiment, returned to
Candon that day by steamer from Apaf
ri. A majority of the men are ready lot
the hospital. They are thin and weak,
having traveled 250 miles in the moun
tains, during which thry suffered great
ly from hunger.
Of the 50 horses which started with
the battalion 13 survived. The remain
der died on the march or fell into can
yons. The battalion practically col
lapsed nt Piat, 30 miles from Tugttea
rao as the result of fevers and exhaus
tion. Kighty-seven of the men were
conveyed from Piat to Muguearao in
bull carts, and those falling on the way
were carried in litters by the Igorottii
with the column.
The officers say it is guesswork as
to whether Aguinaldo was shot. Be
fore the Americans struck Sagat the in
surgent chief divided his forces into
parties of 10, following different trails.
The officer shot was perhaps Aguinal
do's secretary or adjutant. The report
among the natives of the reirion is that
Aguinaldo was wounded in the shout- d
dcr.
Tlie papers secured show that nearly
all the presidents installed by the Amer
icans in General Young's territory are
treacherous, and have been making reg
ular reports to Aguinaldo for the dispo
sition and movements of the American
troops, and they have been collecting
and forwarding taxes. The captured pa
pers also prove the disloyalty of the
native telegraph operators, whom the
Americans retained on the Cayagan
valley line.
BOXERS THE VERY SCUM.
Broadswords Discarded lor Modorn Weapona
Furnished by Imperial Family.
Rev. Mr. Sowerby. who has worked
for 20 years in China and who has
just reached London from Pao.Ting Fit,
says:
"The 'Boxers' arc the scum of the
population. They have no uniform or
ganization, nor any official leaders.
Formerly they carried broadswords,
but now they have well-managed mod
ern weapons, undoubtedly supplied by
the imperial family. Before drilling they
throw themselves on the ground, work
themselves into a frenzy and then be
lieve themselves invulnerable.
"The dowager empress has fostered an
otherwise unimportant movement be
cause of the wholesale desertions from
her army under Gen. Tung, the imperial
troops believing that war with some for
eign power is imminent.
"The dowager empress, who becomes
more intensely anti-foreign as time
passes, has been greatly annoyed by the
work of the Germans at Kia Chow. She
desires to use force to stop the reform
movement, and is ready to defy flic Eu
ropean powers. If the 'Boxers' are
permitted to invade Peking the result
will probably be disastrous to foreign
missions, which are isolated and spread
over a large area."
TEN CENTS TO SEE A CORPSE.
Hummol Hanged and Hi Body at One
Placed on Exhibition.
William Hummel was hanged at
Williamsport, Pa., Tuesday morning at
10:58 o'clock. , The body was rushed to
an undertaker's establishment, Where
it was embalmed and turned over to
Manager Bubb 01 the Lycoming opera
house, to whom Hummel sold it. At
3:30 o'clock it was placed on exhibition
in the opera house.' A rope was placed
around the neck to make it more realis
tic. An admission fee of 10 cents was
charged, and boys with banners and
dodgers advertised the "great show."
The body was to have been taken
throughout the country for the purpose
of publicly exhibiting it. It had been
embalmed to last six months.
On the night of November 16, 1899,
Rag Peddler William Hummel deliber
ately murdered his wife and her three
children with a handax.
Wednesday morning the attention of
Mayor Williams was called to the mat
ter and after consulting City Solicitor
Rcardon he issued instructions to Chief
of Police Striker to have the exhibi
tion stopped and to employ the entire
police force, if necessary. The remain
of Hummel will be buried at the scene
of the murder.
New Machine Gun.
Herman II. Toll, a boy of Clarinda,
Iowa, has invented a compound ma
chine gun which has excited the inter
est of Congressman W. P. Hepburn.
The gun or guns consist of 144 rifle
of small bore, which are mounted in i
carriage resembling a movers wagon.
The muzzles point out of the rear of
the wagon and are arranged in twelve
tiers, with 12 guns in a tier. All of
these guns are connected by a lever, by
one movement of which all the guns
may be loaded, fired and he shells
ejected. One operator can work the
guns.
Toll declares that at a mile range the
gun can scatter bullets over a distance;
of 248 feet, putting a bullet every two
feet. The compound gun, he declares,
has a capacity of 8,640 bullets a min
ute, which is many times as great as
uny gun now in use.
CABLE FLASHES.
The British steamer Moana is bring
ing $750,000 in gold from Sydney, N. S.
V.. to the United States.
Princess Djemile Sultana, sister of
the sultan of Turkey, Hed from Constan
tinople to join her exiled husband in
France.
Sir Alfred Milner warns all miners
and others to keep away from the Trans
vaal, saying they will only be delayed
at Cape ports.
It is rumored at Accra, on the British-African
gold coast, that Sir Freder
ick Hodgson has surrendered Kumassi
to the Ashantis.
Prof. MetchnikofT, at the Pasteur in
stitute, Paris, is working on a lymph,
the object of which is to postpone the
progress of senility.
Lord Salisbury is tinder fire of many
critics who declare the whole machinery
of the foreign office has been paralyzed
by 'his independence.