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11 ATTEMPT W REGAIN PEKING
BOXERS MOBILIZED.
Force of Imperial Troop and Boxers Pre
paring to Attack the Allies Capital
Cleared ot the Enemy.
Telegrams from Shanghai, dated
Tuesday, say: The flags of the allies
arc now floating over the imperial pal
ace. Street fighting, however, eonti.v
lies. The wall of the city were blown
tip with dynamite.
Considerable .uisistancc in the cap
ture 4 Peking was rendered by 4.oo
armed native Christians. The legations
were enabled to hold out by purchasing
ammunition from the Chinese. The
foreign envoys arc proceeding to Tien
tsin. The dowager empress fled from Pe
king with treasure amounting to $?o,
000.000 tacK She is surrounded by Ji'p-ane-i
cavalry. If the Chinese govern
ment is at Sinan-Fu there is no means
ot getting at them, according to the
military men, without a prolonged
campaign and with a much larger army.
The State department Wednesday re
ceived, through Consul Fowler, at
Che Foo, the following dispatch from
Minister Conger, dated at Pekin: "The
entile city, with the exception of the
imperial palace, is occupied by Japanese,
Russian, liritish, American and French.
It is being apportioned into districts for
police supervision. The Chinese army
tied. The imperial family and the court
have gone westward, probablv to Si An
Fu, in the province of Shan Si. No rep
resentative of the Chinese government
tire in sight in Pekin and the conditions
are chaotic. The palace is expected to
be taken immediately. Many mission
aries have started for home, while oth
ers remain in charge of the Christian
refugees, numbering about i.ooo.
The first assurance reached in Wash
ington, Friday, that the powerful Chi
nese viceroys were disposed to accept
the new conditions of affairs in China
and would assist in the maintenance of
pence.
The information came in a dispatch
through diplomatic channels, and stated
that one of the foreign officers hail re
ceived a telegram from two of the most
powerful central viceroys, stating that
tiny intended to give their best efforts
to maintain nnict throughout the ccnral
portions of China.
As this assurance came subsequent to
the capture of Peking, it is regarded as
a favorable sign of the disposition oi the
viceroys whose authority in the interior
is very great. Their course has been
watched with much concern by officials,
for since Peking is in a chaotic condi
tion the most inllnential authority in
th' empire Is that of the viceroys.
Sunday evening the Japanese Lega
tion at Washintrnn gave out the follow
ing tclcsrani. dated Pekin, from (.Jen.
Vamagitchi, commander oi the Japanese
foree:
"The capital is now entirely cleared of
t lie enemy. A cavalry regiment which
had been sent to W an Shau Shan, where
the Empress Dowaeer's palace is locat
ed, reports that the imperial family. who
had left Pekin, started, after a short rest
ut Wan Shau Shan, for the west, and
were under the escort of Gen. Ma and
his troops, consisting of only about 500
horsemen and 20 carts. The Japanese
forces occupied the Treasury Depart
ment, in which over 2.oon,oco taels in sil
ver and a large uuantnv of rice were I
found. Another dispatch dated Taku,
states that as the Chinese troops nnd
Boxers who had gathered at Nan Yuen
were about to attack the foreign forces
at Pekin Japanese and Russian cavalry
were expected to encounter them. The
dispatch further states that Chinese in
fantry some 9,000 strong, with 15 guns,
are advancing northward from Sluing
Tung to make a rear attack on the al
lies." The news of a possible rear attack
upon the comparatively small force of
the allies was not regarded as serious,
as the foreign forces are believed to be
abundantly able to take care of them
selves against any force of Chinese like
ly to be sent against them.
LIEUT. CORDUA SHOT.
Lord Robert! Confirms tho Death Sentence
Passed by tho Military Court
A dispatch from Pretoria says that
Lieutenant Cordua, formerly of the
States artillery, was shot Friday after
noon. Lord Roberts confirmed the
death sentence of Cordua, who was con
victed by a British military court of be
ing a leader in the plot to abduct Rob
erts and kill British officers.
Dr. Leyds and the Boer envoys have
sent from St. Petersburg to Lord Salis
bury a strong protest against the latest
proclamation of Lord Roberts, main
taining that they viulate every sense of
right and all the principles of interna
tional law.
Lord Roberts telegraphs as follows
from Pretoria, under date of Friday:
"Baden-Powell rescued 100 British
prisoners at Warm Baths August 22,
and captured 25 Boers nnd a German ar
tillery officer. Butler's casualties, August
21, were seven men killed and Capt. El
lcrshaw and 21 men wounded and five
men missing. Kitchener, August 22. had
eight casualties. While reconnoitering
in tne rvomati valley Kundle tottnil 140,
ooa rounds of ammunition buried. The
column pursuing. Dc Wet made won
derful marches. Col.Mackinnon covered
224 miles in 14 days.
Prof. Todd flelirot.
Having reached the age limit, Prof.
H. T. Todd. U. S. N director of the
Nautical Almanac, retired from ac
tive scientific work at the head of the
Naval Observatory, one of the most im
portant scientific posts under the gov
ernment. The directorship of the Nau
tical Almanac was assumed by Prof. S.
J. Brown, the astronomical director of
the observatory.
Spain Adopts Now Time.
Vice Consul Reed at Madrid has in
formed the state department, at Wash
ington, D. C that by a decree time in
Spain is hereafter to be counted from 1
to 24 hours, the order to go into effect
January 1, looi.thc day to begin at mid
night. The interval between midnight
and 1 o'clock will be designated by a
cipher, and the number of minutes as
0:0.?, o:sj. The government officers,
telegraph, telephone, railroad, steam
ship hues and all public offices are to
obscrwc the new method.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
A Boer commando has blown up rail
road tracks near Kmgersdorp.
Boers led the English into another
trap and killed 10 and wounded 46.
Three Hungarians were crushed to
death by a cave-in near Shoeshoc, Pa.
Pedro Calccdo has been appointed
Nicnraguan consul-general at Santiago
dc Cuba.
A dozen people were injured by the
overturning of a trolley car at Chagrin
Kails, O.
The British government has bought
4.000 tons of American coal for the
British navy.
At Muncie, Ind., window glass work
ers have received notice to go to work
next Saturday.
A four weeks' drought was broken in
Oklahoma by a soaking rain. Cotton
will be benefited.
Englishmen are beginning to learn of
great mismanagement of South African
affairs by their officers.
The land agent of the Union Pacific
railroad estimates the damage from for
est fires at $10,000,000.
The battleship Oregon has come out
of the dix-k at Kure, Japan, and will be
ready for sea in a week.
Western Union College, at Lc Mars,
Iowa, was burned Friday at a loss f
$40,000; insurance, $10,000
The reorganized Church of Latter
Day Saints is holdings its second annual
reunion at Kansas City, Mo.
A boulder falling upon a locomotive
near Conncllsville, Ta.. fatally crushed
Engineer Swarner in his cab.
The city of Pekin is being policed by
the allied troops, who have divided it
into districts for that purpose.
A great hailstorm in Rock county,
Wisconsin, is thought to have killed the
tobacco crop, valued at $500,00.
A block of business building' were
burned at Punxsutawiuy, Pa., Thurs
day, causing a loss of $100,000.
Exports from this country in July,
toon, amounted in value to $100,447,470,
against $o4.o.'b. 1 70 in July, 1K00.
At Raleigh, X. C, a monument to
the late United Slates Senator Z. B.
ancc was unveiled Wednesday.
Steamer Mariposa, from Sydney,
Australia. Friday arrived at San Fran
cisco with over six million specie.
A tornado, accompanied by heavy r.rn
and tierce lightning, did considerable
damage at Milwaukee, Wis., Friday.
As the result of a quarrel William
Green killed his two nenhews, F.mmett
and Willie Green at Tcxarkana, Ark.
At Prairie du Chien. Wis., in a riot
started by members of a wild west show
exhibiting there four men were badly
hurt.
Russia will replenish her treasury by
borrowing 300.coo.ooo rubles, or about
$2.ts.ooo,ooo from United Slates capi
talists.
The Russian armv, 120,000 strong, is
reported advancing on the last strong
hold held by the Chinese rebels in Man
churia.
Lightning destroyed Bethel Baptist
Church at Fairview, Ky.. built as a me
morial on the site ot Jefferson Davis'
birth place.
An official dispatch from Korea says
1.000 rebels have attacked Song-Chin,
burning the government buildings lo
cated there.
Two Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel Company
workmen were fatally, and several oth
ers badly, burned by an exploscion oi
molten metal.
A farm hand near Canton, To., sus
pected of robbing a widow, was strung
up four times by a masked mob, but re
fused to confess.
A Bessemer railroad locomotive
plunged down an embankment near
Greenville, Pa., killing an engineer and
iatally injuring the hrcman.
The United States transports Crook,
McPhcrson, Rawlins and Sedgwick,
having the 1.300 Cuban school teachers
on board, sailed for Havana.
The transport Strathgyle left San
Francisco Wednesday for China. She
carried 763 horses for the use of the
army operating in the Uricnt.
Russia has placed an order in Chicago
for 6,000,000 pounds of beef on the hoof
for soldiers in China. It will take 5,000
head of cattle to till the order.
The French Government has express
ed its readiness to interchange opinions
with the powers regarding more stnn
gent measures against anarchists.
Gen. DeWct and other Boer generals
have threatened to kill Kitchener and
other English officers because of al
leged vandalism and inhumanity.
The plant of the Maryland Telephone
Construction Company in Baltimore
was destroyed by a fire, the origin of
which is unknown. Loss M 12,000.
The Mosquito coast delegates threaten
to appeal to the United States if Great
Britain does not protect their country
from outrages by the JNicaraguans.
A massive iron furnace is to be built
at Rose Hill. Va near Middlesboro,
Ky. Brown Bros., New York bankers
are said to be interested in the enter
prise.
Astoria. Ore., business men have se
cured 6.500 acres of land at Knappa
near Astoria. Experts have declared it
a very valuable coal and petroleum
held.
Judge White at Indiana, Pa., sen
tenced to death Martin Fleming, who
murdered his nephew, but added th;n he
would recommend commutation of sen
tence.
At San Francisco the Building Trades
Council, representing 28 trade organiza
tions, has ordered a general boycott of
all the goods turned out by nine-hour
planing mills.
At Fort orth, 1 ex., Gabe and Cic
ero copeianti were instantly Killed
Tuesday in a dud with Juhn and Charles
Baker in I oik county, i he men bat
tled at 20 paces with rilles. Both the
Bakers were badly wounded and may
die.
Sam Fields, a young negro, was sbot
to death by a mob of white men Thurs
day night near White Hall, Livingstone
parish. Fields attempted to assault a
while woman.
At Janesville, Wis., a hail, rain and
wind storm caused a loss of more than
$100,000 to standing leaf tobacco. Simi
lar losses are reported near Kenosha
from high water.
The official census figures show that
the population of Pittsburg, Pa., is
.121.616. and that of Allegheny 120.806.
This is. a gain of 8j,oqo for Pittsburg
and su.coo tor Allegheny.
TO BECOME II STRGNfl NAVAL BASE
OUR PACIFIC GIBRALTAR.
Tho United States Will Fertlty the Island of
GuamWith All the Panoply
ol War.
The Navy Department has taken the
initial steps in the preparation for the
complete and comprehensive system of
fortifications and harbor improvements
by which it is intended to make the isl
and of Guam a thoroughly protected
base for our naval vessels in the West
ern Pacific.
The United States has but two sta
tions on the line of travel across the
Pacific between San Francisco and Ma
nila. One of these is Honolulu and the
other is Guam, ,1,500 miles westward.
There is another stre-tch of over 1,000
miles west of Guam before Manila is
reached.
Southward from Guam we are flanked
or 2,500 miles by a chain of islamls
containing 1,1 fine harbors, all of them
potential bases of hostile powers. Some
of them already arc equipped and for
fied. These harbors arc included in the
Marshal and Caroline groups, while on
the north the Ladroncs possess several
harbors, some of them as close as 40
miles to our possessions in Guam.
It has been determined to make Guam
a great naval base, thoroughly equipped
with supplies for our squadrons, and as
nearly impregnable as possible against
a hostile fleet. A mixed commission of
one army and two naval officers has
been assigned o the work of the prelim
inary survey.
KILLEO ELEVEN PEOPLE.
Two Australian Natives Relapse Into Savagery
and Reveled in blood.
An outbreak of late-nt savagery in two
aboriginal blacks, who had lived for
years in close association with whites,
is reported from Sydney, N. S. W.
The outbreak resulted in the slaughter
of 1 1 persons.
At Brce-lone. in New South Wales.
the Mawbry family offended two natives
known as Governor and Underwood,
who in revenge broke into the Mawbry
House, armed with tomahawks and war
clubs. In the house we-rc Mrs. Maw
bry, her two daughters. Grace and Hil
da; her niece, F.lsic Clark; Miss Kcrse
a school teacher, and three boys, Percy,
aged 13; Licorgc, 12, and Albert, o.
Of these, only the two youngest boys es
caped by hiding.
Alter butchering these di'fensclcss peo
ple the blacks tied across the country to
the (Juecnsland Mountains. At Gulong
they killed Alexander McKav and his
wile, Mrs. O'Brien and her young child
at Mcruwa and Kerin l'itzpatrick, an
old man, at Mudgec. The mounted po
lice were unable to effect their capture.
TWO ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Were Preparing to Loot an Chio Bank Whtn
Surprised by en Officer.
At 3 o'clock Sunday morning Marshal
George II. Parkinson captured two ap
parently desperate and well-trained
bank robbers. W. C. I.yman detected
two men in front of the City Bank at
Kent, (J. 1 hey were working at the
door. He calle-d the marshal, who 1 -cated
the men in the rear of the bank.
l hey were spreading out their tools
preparatory to going to work on the
rear door. He surprised the men and
they surrendered after a short struggle.
1 he names of the men arc Edgar
Clearwater and Will Harrison, both of
Cleveland. The oificcrs found in their
possession a complete outfit of burglar's
tools, including 11 modern electrical ap
pliances for opening safes; also nitro
glycerine and dynamite in large quanti
ties. 1 here was a large sum of money
in the bank, which had been placed
there following the Eric pay day. It is
thought a third man escaped.
f.AILROADED TO PENITENTIARY.
Swift Justice Dealt lo tho Negro Criminal
' at Akron, Ohio.
Justice was dealt out in double-quick
time in Akron, O., Friday, and Louis
Peck, whose assault on a 5-year-old girl
caused the riots of last Wednesday
night, is now in the state prison, at Co
lumbus, sentenced to spend the remain
der of his life at hard labor.
Peck was taken to Akron Friday af
ternoon on a tram leaving Cleveland,
where he has been confined since
Wednesday afternoon, at 1 140. While
the train was spe'eding toward Akron, a
special grand jury was empaneled and
an indictment found against Peck for
assault. The train reached Akron at
3:1.1, and the prisoner was taken immi"
diately to the court house, under the
escort of a company of militia. Peek
pleaded guilty to the indictment, wis
sentenced to lite imprisonment and
taken from the court house again, all in
eight minutes.
Population of United Statci.
The English Statistician Mulhall
makes an estimate of 76,200.000 of the
population of the United States this
year. The late Gen. Francis W. Walker
estimated it at about 75,ooo,ooo,and his
present successor, as president of the
Institute of Technology, Prof. Prichett,
made an estimate in iti'jt that the 1900
figures would be 77.472.000. The actu
ary of the Treasury Department ex
pects the toal to reach 77,000,000.
Will Take a Novel Trip.
Henry R. Clowes has started from
Springdale, Pa., on a houseboat voy
age down the Allegheny and Ohio riv
ers and thence along the Mississippi to
the Gulf of Mexico, from where he will
return overland by wagon. The object
of Mr. Clowes' trip is primarily one of
pleasure and lie expects to be gone two
years.
Slew Five of Hit Family.
Theodore Wallatt, a farmer living
eight miles from Arlington, Minn,,Mon
day slaughtered his wife and four step
children with a butcher knife. A fifth
child was so badly wounded he may not
recover. Wallarl married a widow with
a family. The couple recently separated,
and Mrs. Wallart had taken steps to se
cure a divorce. After committing the
crime Wallert set fire to the barns,
which were destroyed with their con
tents. Wnllart escaped, with a sheriff's
posse in pursuit.
AMERICA'S FIRM REPLY.
Peace Talk May Begin When China Exhibits
Some Government No Authority
Visible to Negotiate With.
After a long conference at the White
House, the reply of the United States
to the application of Li Hung Chang
for the appointment of peace commis
sioners has been completed and a copy
of the reply sent to the Chinese minis
ter, Mr. Wu, to be forwarded to Earl
Li.
The American reply is chiefly chanc
tcrircd by its firm tone and its brevity.
Its keynote is the President's attitude
as laid down in the American note of
July ,1, and there is the strictest ad
herence to the points enunciated at that
time.
The United States places itself in the
position of being ready at the proper
time to take up peace negotiations, but
in the present unsettled condition of af
fairs in the empire, the lack of knowl
edge as to who are the responsible rul
ers, and what constitutes the actual
Chinese government, it is made cleir
that the time has not arrived for pursu
ing the negotiations.
1 he government takes the position
that negotiations arc impossible with a
government which cannot prevent hos
tilities against the forces of the powers
which were sent to the Chinese capital
to save their envoys. As long as atta:ks
arc made on the troops 01 this and
other irovernments. such as have fol
lowed the occupation of Pekin and the
attacks in he viciniv of Tien Tsin. it is
deemed that the Chinese government is
eitner unwilling or unable to prevent
these hostilities and negotiations must
be deferred.
CHAFFEE HAS ENOUGH TROOPS.
Hit 6.000 Dremcd Sufficient for all Emer
gencies Others Ordorcd to Manila.
The War Department has issued the
following bulletin:
"The government has decided that,
unless required by future developments,
no more troops are to be sent to China.
Orders have accordingly been cabled to
Nagasaki for the Meade, with four
troops of the Third cavalry, four com
panics of the Fifteenth infantry, and
Company E, battalion of engineers, to
proceed directly to Manila. Similar or
ders will be given to the other troops
which arc under orders for China, via
Nagasaki.
This order will divert to Manila about
4.000 troops now at sea and .1.000 more
that are under orders to proceed to the
Orient. Secretary Root said that no
merc troops were being sent to China,
because they were not needed. With the
arrival at Taku of the Hancock and the
troops she carried. General Chaffee will
have 5.000 available men, which is
deemed sufficient for all present pur
poses. 1 he decision of the department
was based upon reports lrom General
Chaffee, which made it apparent that no
more troops were needed.
GERMANS AT FRISCO.
They Will Uso That Port at a Ease tcr
Supplies.
A report received by one of the for
eign legations at Washington states
that Germany is preparing to make
San Francisco a point from which large
quantities of military supplies will be
sent forward to China.
The report conies from the Consul
General at San Francisco, and gives a
number of de-tails oil the extent of con
templated German shipments. He says
that German ships arc already arriving
there, and that a commission of Gcr
man officers, together with a rcprcsen
tative of the Hamburg-American stcam-
shiD line, is there to look after th
plans for forwarding supplies. These
relate principally, he states, to horses
for cavalry and other military uses and
breadstuff's for the army.
Based on the foregoing report, the
opinion is freely expressed by high din
lomatic officials here that Germany w;ll
send a large army to China to operate
under Count Waldcrsee, the total not
falling short of 50,000 men.
Ohloant Admonished.
At a public meeting of Sherman. Tex
citizens, presided over by Judge R. R
Hazelwood. resolutions were passed pn
testing "against uncivilized conduct on
the part of citizens of our sister state of
Ohio," and admonishing them "of the
pernicious example thus displayed in
setting the laws of the land at defiance
in this age of civilization and land of
Christianity."
WOUNDED FROM AMBUSH.
Throo West Virginians Shot in Logan County
by Unknown Persons.
An epidemic of assassination has
broken out in Logan county, W. Va.'
Friday Lewis Eilis was shot from am
bush while at work 011 his farm. The
bullet pierced his abdomen and he is in
a serious condition. In the evening Ira
Ellmer was shot at several times while
riding along the public highway on
Island creek. II is horse was crippled
ind a bullet pierced Ellmer s thign.
Next morning in the same neighbor
hood, Millar Stafford, a circuit rider,
was shot twice, but the chances are fa
vorable for his recovery. He saw his
assailants, there being two of them.
They were strangers. The officials think
they have a clew. Much alarm is felt
in the Island creek neighborhood and
citizens fear to leave their homes.
Industrial Plants Destroyed.
A large crushing mill, owned by Con
gressman liowersock and others at
Lawrence, Kas., was swallowed
Wednesday night by an immense cave
in. Thursday the Nightingale plant, in
cluding derrick, tramway and tanks was
also engulled. the employes were at
dinner and no one was injured. The loss
is heavy.
Japanese Steamer Wrecked.
The Japanese liner Futaini Mani,
Captain Thorn, bound from Australia to
Manila with a cargo 01 stores lor the
American government, went aground
and broke in twain on the island of Min
danao, The passengers and crew camp
ed for six days on the island. They are
now being brought to Manila by the
British steamer Australian, the officers
of the luckless liner remaining behind.
There were no casualties; but the cargo,
baggage and vessel will probably prove
a total lost.
SAVAGE FILIPINOS.
A Roturncd Soldier Tols of Atrocities Perpe
trated Upon American Sodlort They
Mutilatod the Doad Bodies.
Lieut. William Weaver, of the Thirty-
second United States Volunteers, who
resigned in the spring on account of ill
ness, aqd had just returned to his home
at Emporia, Kan., from the Philippines,
tells of barbarities practiced by Filipinos
upon American soldiers. He said that
outside of the Macabcbes, who were
friendly to the Americans, the Filipinos
are very cruel.
"Six men were killed at Dinalupi
jahan," said Lieut. Weaver, "and I do
not think there was a man that had few
er than 10 bullet holes in his body, in
tne case ol one American soldier, it
looked as though the muzzle of the re
volver bad been placed right in his eve
and hreil; he was also slabbed in the
neck and breast with bayom-n Here is
another sample of their cruelty: Harry
Easter, of F.mporia. and MacDonald, of
Iowa, two of my company, we-rc kilK-d
instantly. Harry Easter was shot in the
neck, and the other man was shot in I
the back of the head. Only about 23
of the company were with them, and
they were attacked by about 250 Fili
pinos.
the Americans fought them an lio'it
nnd forty-five minutes. They had to
leave the dead, and whin they came
back the rebels had stripped the boys
of all their clothes, They pulled up grass
and slicks and built a fire on their
breasts. We got to the boys before any
thing further was done to them. c
got Faster and the other man away bc
lorc they were burned."
THIRTY-EIGHT DROWNED.
Storm on Alaskan Coast Docs Enormous
Damtge at Cape Nome.
Telegrams from Seattle, Wash., say:
Heavy loss of life and destruction ef
property were caused by a storm at
Cape Nome. Twenty dead bodies were
washed ashore and taken to the morgue
for identification. Five dead bodies were
washed ashore at Topkuk. three miles
north of Nome, the mouth of Nome
river, and eight in front of Nome Camp,
three 12 miles below BlulT City, and two
below topkuk.
Guy w. btockstager. who has been
directing a government relief expedi
tion, has returned from York and re
ports the natives dying by wholesale,
dozens of dead bodies lying around tin
buried. At Teller City, the sick natives
killed the medicine men of the tribe in
the vain hope that the act would ap
pease the evil spirit. Thirteen deaths
were reported at Teller City in one day
SENSATIONAL ALLEGATION.
Chicago Man's Charge ol Conspiracy Com
pelled (0 Eat Soles ot His Shoes.
Armin Benedict, of Chicago, a for
mer lieutenant in the Hungarian army
and a translator of foreign languages,
declares that he is the victim of four
men who had bound and imprisoned
him leavinir him nothing to cat but the
soles of his shoes.
Benedict declares they followed him
for two years, and finally placed him
in jail in Crown Point, Ind., where he
was half starved and reduced to eating
the soles of his shoes. He asserts tint
he was treated thus before he refused
to return to the employ of Lundin, for
whom he once worked as a translator.
One man has be-en arrested and has giv
en bonds to appear before Justice Ke
hoe. 'Others implicated will be arrested
in a few days.
Work of Safe Crackort.
At Bedford, Pa., the office of the
Everett furnace was breikcn into by
thieves, who forced the safe, getting
$100 in money and a lot of postage
stamps. In their hurry they overlooked
some bonds and several pay envelopes.
They had attenipted to open another
safe in the office and had knocked off
the combination, when they wcxx
frightened away.
The postoffice at Center Hall, Pa.,
was entered by thieves and $150 in
stamps and S2S0 in money were stolen.
Only $160 of the cash was government
funds, the remainder belonging to indi
viduals for wdiom Postmaster George
Boal was keeping it. The thieves es
caped, leaving no clew.
No New Route for Canal.
Gen. P. Alexander, who was appoint
ed by President Cleveland arbitrator in
the houml.'irv ilisntite helee'een Kirnr.n-
gua and Costa Rica, has just returned
from those countries on the completion
of his mission.
An interesting feature of Gen. Alexan
der's work lay in the fact that his la
bors on the boundary questions resulted
in a close survey of the line of the pro
posed Nicaraguan Canal. He said that
he did not think the commission now
preparing a report would advise a new
route.
While disclaiming definite knowledge
on the subject he was inclined to think
that a proposition from the Nicaragirm
Government to ours hail already been
made. He belie ved that rather than not
have the canal built, the Nicaraguan
Government would accede to almost
any terms made by ihc United Stales.
Will Kaiser Pay Ransoms?
The German papers are asking if
I'mperor William intends, under the
circumstances, to keep his promise,
made several weeks ago, of paying 1,000
taels ransom money for each European
rescued in Pekin. If so, the relief of
Pekin will cost the Kaier over ? 1,000, -000.
Coy'i Eyes Blown Out.
The ambition of Robert Ilucy, of
Franklin, Pa., aged 12 years, to be an oil
well shooter, has resulted in the loss of
his eyesight, besides being badly burned.
The boy had drilled a miniature oil well
which he decided to torpedo in real
style. He filled a piece of gas pipe with
powder and after lighting a fuse at
tempted to lower it into the hole. Ths
fuse burned sooner than he had expect
ed and tho powder ignited when only a
hurt distance from his face.
SIX ARE KILLED.
Night of Terror In Akron, Ohio Terrible Car
nago Rosults From Fruitless Effort
at Lynching t Negro.
At Akron O., the heart of the boasted
Western Reserve, a mob Wednesday
night sought the life of a negro prisoner
and' in a conflict with the authorities
shed blood. Louis Peck, a colored man,
was put in jail on the charge of assault
ing the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Maas. The report thathe
had confessed spread rapidly and in the
evening a mob gathered.
Not believing the statement of tho
sheriff that Peck had been sent out of
the city, the crowd sent committees
through the city prison and the county
jail in search. This proving fruitless,
the mob gathered in front of the city
prison, where the mayor tried to induce
them to disperse. Some one fired a
shot at the prison. Other shots followed
and for a few minutes there were terri
ble scenes. Six persons are dead from
bullets and the number wounded may
reach loo.
At niidnJuht mob rule rciuned. Fires
have been started, the city prison is in
flames and. the police department has
been penned up by the rioters and arc
powerless. Hardware stores have been
looted for arms and ammunition, and
dynamite has been used by the mad
dened crowds.
At 3:45 o clock Thursday morning
appeals had been sent to Governor
Nash and to the police department of
Cleveland. Troops have been ordered
to hold themselves in readiness to
hasten to the scene of wild disorder.
Soldiers loaded down with ball
cartridges arc camped on the corners
of the streets of Akron ready for any
emergency. A battalion of them lie on
tlieir arms at the court house waiting,
as if in leash, for the long roll that will
summon them to quell riot. The police
force of the city, supplemented with 40
special officers, is patrolling the streets
seeing that people do not congregate in
groups that might menace the peace. As
darkness fell a dismal drizzle began that
was more effective than the soldiers and
the police in keeping the streets clear.
. PROSPERITY IN KLONDIKE.
Latest Reports Stale That Dawson Is Enjoy
ing Healthy Boom.
"Dawson appears to be starting on a
new era of prosperity," says United
States Consul McCook in a report.
"Supplies nre plentiful and mining ma
chinery in large quantities is coming
into the city. Warehouses and wharves
are being built, a new steamship com
pany has started to do business, a new
postoffice is in course of erection, and
estimates arc now in for a new court
house, a new gold commissioner's office
and an executive building for the com
missioner of the Yukon territory. The
prices on vegetables and meats have
taken a drop from exorbitant to almost
normal, although this has not affected
the prices in the restaurants. The Ta-
nana mining district is becoming more
and more prominent. The country is
rich, but difficult of access. Mosquitoes
are very numerous and savage on the
trail, and some persons returning from
this district to Dawson City wcre so
badly bitten that the medical authorities
there mistook the bites for the marks c.f
the dreaded smallpox and detained
them."
W. C. T. U. Indebtedness.
Mrs. Matilda B. Carsc, president of the
Temperance temple trustees at Chica
go, denies the statement that the tem
ple indebtedness is $2,400,000. She says:
"A slight fraction over $700,000, with
what has been pledged, will give us the
building entirely free from debt. The
sum of $65,000 more, however, must be
raised by the first of next January, in
order to secure Mr. Marshall Fie-ld's
conditional pledge of $100,000. We have
still ten years in which to raise the re
mainder of the $;oo.ooo. The building
is well filled with tenants and shows a
balance upon the right side of the led
ger." CABLE FLASHES.
Eleven persons were killed and 3$
injured by the derailment of a mail
train at Baripada, India.
The Moorish government has again
appealed to the powers for protection
agaiiist t-rcnen aggression.
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Hon in recent plague riots.
Count von Goetzen has been
motcd to the rank of captain of the
cral stall of the German army.
I . . A..-. 1 . cr. .
111 we-iuuurnc, nuMrauii, uiivcii 1
against the female suffrage bill.
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man Underground Railway at Glasgow,
I anJ 2 m'r"ns were seriously injured,
A magnificent statue of Apollo has
been found near Athens nnd it is be
lieved to be work of the fifth century
B. C.
Prince Maximilian of Saxony has ac
cepted the professorship of -canonical
law at the University of Freyburg,
Switzerland.
The Mansion house war fund Tues
day passed the million-pound mark,
making it the largest volunteer fund
ever raised in England.
Prof. Fricdrich Wi'helin Nietzche, the
philosopher.died at Weimar Saturday of
apoplexy. He was born in 1S44. He be
came hopelessly insane in 1KH0,
Bresci, the assassin of King Hum
bert, has asked for a postponement of
his trial at Rome until witnesses can
arrive from the United States.
The work of opening the tombs of the
ancient German emperors buried in the
Cathedral of Spires at Berlin is pro
gressing. The first discovery made was
of the sarcophagus of Emperor Conrad
11., surnamed The Saliquc, of the llouie
of Franconia, who died in 10J9.
A fatal landslide occurred at Cardez
z.a, in the Italian Alps. Twenty houses
were destroyed and a number of persons
killed. Seven bodies have been recov
ered. At Berlin orders have been given to
increase the secret police in attendanc
upon Emperor William during the Stet
tin maneuvers fr-.n September J to Sep
tember 1 3.
Thirty thousand coal miners at Car.
diff, Wales, have struck because the
manager of the Toff Vale railway re
fused to meet the representative of i
labor union.
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