t IB PREFAB 10 LEAVE PIKING ORDERS ISSUED. United Slate Legation to he Moved Shanghai at Once-The Soldier Will Quit China by October 1. to Telegrams from Washington, dated Wednesday, say: Within the last 2 hours the United States government has received from its representatives at foreign capitals much material informa tion in regard to the attitude of the powers on the Russian proposal to evac uate Peking. These give the general nature of the responses made to Russia ly certain of the powers. It is stated authoritatively that if there was at any time a prospect of a serious internation al clash, this has been very largely, if not entirely, removed by the harmon ious character of the communications the several governments are making. It is reported that 2.000 Boxers have been killed and wounded in conflicts with the troops of Gen. Yuan Shi Kai, military governor of Shangtttng. A Hongkong dispatch reports from Wu-C'hau that serious disaffection ex ists at Ltm-Chau. Three hundred rob-h-rs besieged the residence of a wealthy Chinaman at Tai-Ping-Fti. The prc fect of Wu-C'hau, with too soldiers, went to his assistance, but has been compelled to telegraph for 400 rein forcements. The Boxers are still active in Shang tung province. An official dispatch from Tsin-tau reports that 500 Hoxers attack-id a patrol of (ierman marines near I.an-Tsnn Wednesday, with the re Milt that 40 Hoxers were killed and the Hermans suffered no loss. Unless Minister Conger, in reply to questions sent by cable to him nearly a week ago by direction of the President, gives better reasons than are now known for his continuance at Piking he will be instructed to remove the American legation without delay to Shanghai. (ien. Chaffee's troops will escort the minister and legation to Taku and Ad miral Ketney will take them on the Brooklyn to tlie Chinese metropolis. making that point the meeting place of his fleets. The main American military force will probably not remain on Chi ne territory after October I and its withdrawal from Peking may be a mat ter of less than 10 days. Said n prominent official: "This Gov ernment will not permit itself to be a party to a partition of China. An Amer ican army was sent in to the empire to rescue its imprisoned officials and citi zens and to co-operate with the powers in restoring order and establishing a substantial government. "Our officials and citizens have been rescued, and when the powers broke the international r.'reement by failing to agree on an occupation of Pekin until the restoration of order, General Chaffee and Minister Conger were ordered to vacate Pekin. We have rights in China still and they will be preserved, no mat ter what may be the outcome. The Unitod States will insist on its treaty rights and a collection of ample mone tary indemnity for indignities suffered by its citizens and officials." KILLED 8Y CANNIBALS. Probablo Fate ot an Expedition Sent Out From a Mexican City. Hermosillo, capital of the state of So nora, Mexico, is excited over the disas ter which has overtaken the Wells ex pedition. This expedition was fitted out by Mr. Wells, of Hermosillo, to explore the island of Tortugas in the Gulf of California. The expedition left Guaymas in a sloop last June and the first ac count of its progress reached Hermo sillo three flays ago, 1 here were 12 men in the expedition. According to news which was sent from the Isla Del Guardia, there are but three left. The object of the expedition was to explore Tortugas, the unknown island owned by Mexico, but controlled by cannibals. Many attempts have been made to establish a civilized settlement in Tortugas, but all have failed. About five years ago an expedition, fitted out in San Francisco, landed upon the isl and and was massacred, l-or more than 200 years this island has been known as the home of a cannibal race whose cus toms are unknown. More than a dozen expeditions have landed on the island and nearly all have been annihilated. The Wells expedition left Guaymas last June. Valuable mineral and agricultural grants were to be given Dr. Wells if he could establish a settlement upon the island. They landed in the early part of ;uiy on the northern coast. END OF BOER WAR. British Think Capture of Lydonburg Will be Fol owed by Trek of Burghort. Telegrams from Cape Town, dated Sunday, say: Sir Redvcrs Duller con tinues his advance. He crossed the Mauchbcrg 10 miles east of Lydenburg and came into action with the Boers. The occupation of Lydenburg, which took place last Thursday, is regarded as marking one of the last stages of the war. The Boers now talk of trekking into German territory. Lord Methuen is marching on Lich tenbnrg from Mafcking. It is said that papers seized at Pre toria show that the Netherlands Railway Company in many ways actively assist ed the Boers. It converted its work shops into arsenals and provided the Transvaal forces with horseshoes. Gat Struck Noar Akron. A strong pressure of gas has been atruck by drillers at Peninsula, Summit county, O. When lighted the flames shot up 50 feet. The flow is estimated at 500,000 feet daily. Other wells con tinue of steady pressure and the gas will undoubtedly be piped to Akron or Cleveland. More and deeper wells arc to be drilled at once. Hay Answers the Miner. Secretary Hay, in response to the pro test of the miners of the Porcupine dis trict against being placed under Ca nadian jurisdiction, has assured them that "this government foregoes no nart of its right and power to protect citi zens in the Porcupine Creek region. whether they be temporarily within American or British jurisdiction, in the lull enioyment of all rights and onvi leges which they had before the modus vivendi was concluded, and to see that their freedom of access and exit with their goods IJ not unreasonably imped LATEST MEWS NOTES. The mad dog panic at Wheeling, W. Va., is increasing. Farm help is in urgent demand in Lawrence county. Pa. There is an epidemic of dysentery in the Mercer county, Pa., almshouse. Grand jury witnesses in the Akron, O., riot cases arc to be arrested for per jury. A special grand iurv has been call ed at Akron, O., to consider the riot cases. An epidemic of dysentary at Yocum- town, ork county, Pa., caused 17 deaths. The business portion of Manito, 111., was (li-strovi'il hy fire rriday, the loss exceeding $50,000. Pickpockets gathered in fifty watches and much mom v iliirinir ltrvan's visit to Cumberland. Sid. The Jersey Baptist Church of Ursina, Pa., organized in 1775, celebrated its an niversary Sain: day. The Alabama miners feil the reduction in pig iron, their wages henceforth be ing Si'j cents per ton. What is suppo-ed to be a panther is killing dozens of sheep around Big Bend, near Sharon, Pa. John AlUn was acquitted at Cham bersburg. Pa., oi forgery, but will be tried on a new indictment. Fire caused by a locomotive spark is raging in the tunnel of the Ohio river railroad south of Alliance, O. The tfii.ooo Methodist F.piscopal Church at Carrollton, O., was dedicated Sunday, Bishop Ninde officiating. Survivors of the One Hundred and Forty-second Pennsylvania volunteers held a reunion at Kockwood, Fa. Rebels in Columbia have seized the town of Tarbaco and a stiff fight with the government troops followed. A number of advocates of the whip ping post will be heard at the Slate mag istrates convention at Reading, Pa. At Chicago three persons were pois oned by eating ice cream soda, and five year-old Clarence Smith may die. Vale college has established a depart incut of sell help for needy students with a professor at the head of it. charge in' cowardice against Chief of Police Harrison in connection with the Akron, O., riot is to be invcstigat id. Archbishop Martinclli, the papal dele gate, has consented to open the new cathedral at Savannah, Ga., on October IS. At Des Moines, Iowa. Mattic Mash shot and fatally wounded William Fos ter Sunday because he refused to marry her. t South Sharon, a suburb of Sharon Pa., launched by Pittsburg and Sharon capitalists, is enjoying a big building boom. At Chicago about R.ono union car pentcrs quit work Saturday because the usual half holiday was refused by the contractors. The cornerstone for the new St. Mary's Catholic Church in South Cum berland, Mil., was laid Sunday by Cardi nal Gibbons. At Lacrosse, Wis., Patrolman Terry Gates was shot dead by three thieves as he was trying to arrest them for hold ing up a man. Herman C. Johnson was instantly kill ed by an exploding steam pipe at the Dilworth Paper Company s plant at New Castle, Pa. An insane woman confined in the Wayne county (Mich.) asylum, garrot ed another female insane inmate, caus ing her instant death. John D. Rockefeller has given $18,- 000 to Spellman Seminary, a negro col lege at Atlanta, Ga., and new buildings will be erected at once. Alvina Bollen was shot and killed in Denver bv William C. Baragcr. a re icctcd admirer, who then swallowed poison, but doctors saved his life. The Duke of Abruzzi's Polar expedi tion has returned to Norway, having reached a point in latitude 86.38 north thus penetrating Nanscn s record. Road supervisors of North Strabane township. Washington county. Pa., have appropriated $500 to assist in the con struction ot the model government road Frank E. Carmodv has been arrested charged with blowing open the safe of the Mexican Llcctric Company in Mex ico City, March 21, and securing $10,000, The pier at Grove Springs, on Kcuka lake, at Geneva, N. Y., gave way while 100 people were standing on it. A number of persons were seriously injur ed. The steamer China, which sailed from San Francisco for Hongkong, carried nearly $1,500,000 in gold and silver cur rency for the United States troops in China. The bones of the German empenv of the Salic line, recently disentombed at the Cathedral of Spires, at Berlin have been rcinterred with imposing cer emonies. All the mines in the Middlesboro, Ky. district have been shut down owing to a difficulty over the price of mining the miners refusing to work under the old scale. At St. Louis, Mo., two policemen were killed and eleven hurt while try ing to use the patrol telephone system, which had been crossed Dy an electric light wire. Several hundred union miners 01 the Saylorville and Consolidated Coal Company mines at Baxter and Mucha kinock, Iowa, have struck to enforce the union scale. At Chicago one thousand members of the Amalgamated Wood Workers' Union struck Tuesday because 37 out of 40 firms intend to return to the nine- hour working day. Hon. Arthur Scwall, died at his sum mer home, Small Point. Me., at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday, of apoplexy, the stroke having been sustained last Sunday, He was 64 years of age. One hundred new houses are being erected at Henry, W. Va., where the Davis Coal and Coke Company have new works. Henry was not "in exist ence six months ago. Advices from Guatemala show irest lessness and paralysis of business on ac count of the expected breaking out of a revolution. President Cabrera's posi tion is admitted to be insecure. The tobacco growers of Cuba have petitioned Governor General Wood to remove the export duty on low grades of tobacco and their request is being favorably considered, as this product goes chiefly to SpaTn. Ill STORM'S AWFUL HAVOC. Three Thousand Human Lives Lost in Calves- ton, Texas Four Thousand Houses Wrecked by Wind and Water. The city of Galveston, Texas, has been overwhelmed by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, driven before a furious hur ricane. The lowest estimate of the loss of life is l.ooo; the highest 3.300. But, like the Johnstown flood, the horror may grow greater every day. The bay is strewn with wreckage of vessels bot tom side up, mingled with hundreds of arcasses of horses anil mules and the bodies of human beings. No attempt has been made to eoniee- turc the property loss. At least 4,000 houses have been entirely destroyed. Communication is interrupted, and the bridges, which afford the only ac cess to the shore, arc either submerged or entirely destroyed. Although some what less violent, the storm prevents all attempts to reach the unfortunate city. No boat could successfully ride I he mountainous seas nor combat the gaic which has strewn the coast of the mai'i- and with ghastly proofs of its strength. telegrams from Houston, lex., dated Sunday, sav: Relief train just returned. They could not get closer than six miles of Virginia Point, where the prairie was covered with lumber, debris, pianos, trunks and dead bodies, two hundred corpses were counted from the train. A large steamer is stranded two miles this side of Virginia Point, as though thrown up by a tidal wave. Nothing can be seen of Galveston; The first news to reach Houston from the stricken city of Galveston was re ceived to-night. James C. Timmins, who resides in Houston, and who is the general superintendent of the National Compress Company, arrived in the city at 8 o'clock Sunday night from Galves ton. The citv, Mr. Timmins avers, is a complete wreck, so far as he could see from the water front and from the 1 re inont hotel. Water was blown over the island by the hurricane, the wind blowing at the rate of 80 miles an hour straight from the gulf and forcing the sea water before it in big waves. The gale was a steady one, the heart of it striking the city about s o'clock Satur day evening, and continuing without in termission until midnight last night, when it abated somewhat, although it continued to blow all night. 1 he estimates made by citizens of Gal veston was that 4.000 houses, most of them resiliences, have been destroyed, and that at least 1,000 people have been drowned, killed or are missing. Some business houses were also destroyed, but most of them stood, though badly dam aged. Governor Joseph D. Savers tc ccranh nig from Austin. Tex., savs: Informa tion has just reached me that about 3.oto lives nave hcen lost at Galveston, with enormous destruction of property. iiaivcston is situated on an island ex tending east and west for 27 miles, and is seven miles in its greatest width nor.h and sourh. In no part of the city, with its 68.000 population, is it more than six feet above the sea level. On the bay, or notth side of the city is the commercial section, with wharves stretching along for nearly two miles, lined with sheds and large storage houses. The island from the north side is connected with the mainland bv railroad bridges and the longest wagon bridge in the world. nearly two miles in length. In 187J the entire east end ot the city was swept away by the tidal wave that followed a terrihe storm that swept the gulf coast tor three days. REBELS SHARPLY PUNISHED. Over One Hundred Killed in an Attack Upon American Soldiers. Gen. MacArthur cables from Manila under date of Thursday: "Details of the outbreak in Bohol have developed the fact that Pedro Sam son, commandant of police, left Tag bilarien Ostensibly to inspect the police 01 the various towns. 1 his he did until he was heard from in Carmen, with fol lowers threatening to attack the garri son at Ubay. Two detachments ordered to Carmen found the town peaceful, and no trace ol an insurrection. A detach ment of 27 men under First . Lieutenant Lcbeck on August 31 were attacked near Carmen by 120 bolomcn. The lat ter were nearly annihilated, over too be ing killed. Our loss as previously re ported. A movement to the interior is now in progress. SPIDERS IN BOY'S EAR. Ninety-Six Insects Taken From a Missouri Youth's Head. From the ear of the 8-year-old son of James Hawkins, oft live spiders were taken, beside three balls of eggs and a lot of spider web. The boy, who lives with his parents at Senatli. ten mil from Kennett, Mo., complained of ear ache, and his mother applied a common remedy, tobacco juice. She was aston ished to see a full grown black spidc come out, and in a few minutes several others appeared. The boy was taken to a physician, who coaxed out 14 other spiders. The boy was then put under an A-ray light and a lot of others were discovered, an 01 the spiders are re ported to have been as large as buck shot. The physicians have preserved the captured insects. The boy still suf fers severe pains in his head, and his experience may yet prove serious, if not taial. Illinois Mine Scale. At a conference between the mine op erators of the Chicago & Alton sub- district and officers of the United Mine Workers of America at Springfield. 111. it was decided that machine men were to receive 35 cents per ton and machine runners or helpers 7 cents. Fatal Railway Accident. The Beech Creek division of the New York Central railroad was the scene of a disastrous accident Wednesday even ing, when three men lost their lives. The local freight bound for Clearfield, Pa., was running fast to make up time, At Forge Run, 30 miles from that place, a number of cows were crossing the truck, and the engine dashed into them, jumped the track and rolled over an embankment, carrying, several cars along. A NOVEL WEAPON. A Ohio Woman Terribly Slashed With a Hook Affixed to a Polo In the Hands ol Burglars. Mrs. A. F. Smith is lying at her home in Bowling Green, O., terribly injured by wounds inflicted by a large hook in the hands of a pair of burglars early Friday morning. The men who com mitted the desperate deed escaped, though they were given a hard chase with a pair of bloodhounds belonging to Sheriff Kingsbury. Mrs. Smith is an invalid and was at tacked in her bed by the fellows. She awoke to find a cloth saturated with chloroform on her face. She discovered at the same moment that the cloth wis attached to a pole, which was thrust in through a window. She grasped the pole and shrieked for help. The fellows tried to get the pole away from her, but she hung on, though a sharp hook fixed in the end of the pole was raked across her face and body with great force, terribly lacerating the flesh. 1-inally the fellows let go 01 the pole and ran. The police were on the ground with two bloodhounds in a short time, and the dogs roadily followed the trail of the burglars. About a half mile from the house the fugitives ran into a creek and trail was lost. The hook is about three inches across and is made as sharp as a needle at the oomt. WILSON TALKS TO YOUNG MEN. The Secretary of Agriculture Advises Boys to Make Study of Scientific Farming. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in a pcech before the Stark County, Ohio, Agricultural Society, at Canton, advised the young men of the nation to make a scientific study of agriculure. He said that half of the farmers' bovs of to-day would be farmers of the coming genera turn, and that farming has developed in to a science, of which its experts should be proud. He advocated the scientific teaching of the daily discoveries that arc being made, and said that no college is complete which has not a branch devot ed to this most worthy profession. An American educated along agricul tural lines," said the secretary, "has just gone to Queensland for five years to or ganize work along producing lines, at a salary of $15,000 a year, and I know where such a farmer is wanted at M.ooo salary in one of our new islands. I know where one is wanted in Africa at a high salary, and there is a demand in our own country for such educated men." HIT BY A HURRICANE. Great Gato From the West Indies Reaches tho Florida Coast. The tropical hurricane which has done considerable damage on the islands of Jamaica and Cuba, struck the Flori la coast, the wind at one time reaching a velocity of nearly 100 miles an hour. It is feared that the crews of at least two vessels were swept overboard about 30 miles south of Miami. Telegraph wires were blown down and that part of the country was shut off from the outside world until I-riday evening. The barkcntiiie Culboon, of St. John, N. B.. is ashore hve milts south of Casyfoot light, about 35 miles south of Miami. Nothing has been heard of her crew. At West Palm Beach, considerable damage was done by the tropical hurri cane. 1 he bulkhead ot the immense Palm Beach pier was swept from its foundations and washed several hundred feet to the north. A number of small boats which were anchored in the in land lakes were torn from their moor ings and sunk. Several docks and sea walls were badly injured. AGUINALDO'S WAR. Cepturod Records Direct Filipinos How to Murder Amorican Soldiers. Assassination, treachery and every possible violation of the rules of civil ized warfare arc urged upon Filipinos in a recent communication from Agui naldo, the Filipino emulator of George ashington. I he communication was made public Wednesday by the war de partment, it having been found among captured Filipino records, and its con tents stamp the author as the most un conscionable miscreant who ever waged a warfare of murder and rapine. It :s addressed to the secret Filipino organ ization known as the sandatahan, mem bers of which have been guilty of count less outrages and murders, not only of American soldiers, but of peaceable Fili pinos. Damage In Mississippi Valley. The damage in the . storm-stricken section along the Mississippi river, start ing 30 milts below New Orleans, and reaching to the gulf, is $iod.ooo to the rice crop and a like amount to truck farms, cattle, poultry and other property. 1 he river rose six tcet during the storm, and flooded the country through which it passed. 1 lie disabled steamer Oterio was towed into Port Fads Sun day evening, with all well. She will be towed to New Orleans for repairs. Slashed and Rolibod. At Alton, 111., two negroes held up William Riggs, slashed him with razors, robbed him and left him for dead. A posse of 50 men, headed by Rev, Owen W. Rose, a brother-in-law of the victim, is searching for the culprits, who arc threatened with lynching. The in jured man may be fatally hurt. Botter Prospects In India. Telegrams from India say: Tho weather is now promising for the crops, Excellent rain has fallen in all the fam ine tracts and the winter sowings are practically assured. The number now receiving relief is something under 4, 000,000, an encouraging reduction. Excursion Steamer Founders. The excursion steamer John Endicott, on the Boston and Plymouth line, struck a sunken rock just east of Minot's Light Sunday afternoon and tore a hole in her side, so that she was obliged to run full steam for the shore off North Scituate, where she foundered. There were on board Goo passengers at the time of the accident, but by the hasty use of all her lifeboats and with assistance from the boats nearby every person aboard was saved. LARGELY INCREASED. Under the New Tariff Act the Island is Mak. Ing a Rcmaikable Showing Acqui sition by United States. Commerce between the United States and Puerto Rico has developed rapidly since the new act went into effect on May I, 1000. Imports into the United States from that island have increased 50 per cent, over those of one year ago anil arc three times as great as the av erage when Puerto Rico was Spanish territory, while exports to the island have increased nearly 150 per cent, over one year ago, and arc nearly five times as much as the average when Puerto Rico was Spanish territory. During the month of July, whose figures have just been completed by the treasury bureau of statistics, the exports from the Unit ed States to the island were $5Ji).ji), against $jo,4o6 in July. 1800,, and $15'). ) in July, 1807. Taking the entire three months in which the new net has been in operation May, June and July the exports toiie island were $.8,117. 207, against $873,453 in the correspond ing months of the closing years of Spanish control of the island. Taking the export side of the picture the evi dences of growth are still more plainly apparent. The exports from the United States to the island in May, June and July, 1000, amounted to $j,t 17.207, against $873,453 in the corresponding months of i8i)j, $485,270 in the corre sponding months of 1807, and $393,223 in the corresponding months of 181). Thus the exports under the new law arc nearly two and one-half times as much as in the corresponding months of l8)0, when the island was under the American flag, but the tarifiF relations yet unaffected, and nearly five times ns much r-.s the average during the closing years of Spanish control of the island. MINERS' BOARD ADJOURNS. Strike May Still be Cal'ed, Hcwevor, on the Indorsement ol Officers. The National executive board of the United Mine Woikers of America ad journed sine die Sunday, without pro mulgating a formal indorsement of the application of the miners of the anthra cite districts for permission to strike. At the close of the session President John Mitchel said: "There is practically no change in the situation since Saturday night. If the operators do not meet our demands witmn a given time the strike will be ordered upon the indorsement of Sec retary dsoti aty.l myself. " hfther the tunc allowed is five days or longer I decline to sav. As set out in our statement of Saturday, influences arc at work to bring about a settlemeit: without ordering the men to lay down their tools. If there are any political influences at work I know nothing of them, and I do not think it has come to the knowledge of the board members." Up to the lime the members of the board left the office of the president there had been no communications with the leaders of the anthracite districts. STORMY MEETING. Cumberland and Mcyersdale Miners Wili out a Leader. The United Mine Workers of District No. 16, composed of the Cumberland. Md., and Mcyersdale, Pa., regions, held two days convention at rrostbtirir. Mil., adjourning Saturday evening aft-.'r what is reported to have been a very tormy session. Nearly all the old offi cers resigned, but the convention ad journed -without being able to elect a successor to the old president. Allen ISartier. leaving John Conrad first vice president, to act until the next meeting in January. I he secretary and treasurer. V. H. Cochrane, of Mcyersdale, Pa., resigned and Daniel Young, of I.onaeoning was elected in his stead. Hugh McMullan of Frostburg was elected to succeed W. J. Walker, of Mcyersdale., as a member of the executive board. The sessions were held behind closed doors. It is understood there is talk of calling on the strike, unless all men arc rein stated. The President's letter accepting the Republican nomination for a second term has been made public. It is re garded as one of the most virile political documents that has been written since the civil war period, when public life called for emphatic declarations. ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED. Terrible Deeds ol Ainlrnfan Clacks, Who Are Pursued by Elccdhounib. Full advices from Australia report an atrocious series of murders in the coun try districts of New South Wales by a band of blacks. The murderers first entered the Mawley homestead at Gotgaudia, where sevenl young ladies were living. The inmates were killed in their beds. The blacks, after the terrible butchery, fled through the settlements on stolen horses, mur dering and robbing as they went. They were chased by 1.000 volunteer police men and 12 bloodhounds and two out of six of the gang only had been caught. The bodies of their victims were mutil ated with hatchets. Thomion Kingslord Dead. Thomson Kingsford, head of the Kingsford Starch Company, boiler works and box factory, and leading bus iness man and manufacturer of Owego, N. Y., died Friday night after a brief illness, aged 73. He was born in Head comb, England, and became the head of the big starch industry in 1869. He was the father of Thomas P. Kingsford, president of the National Starch Com rany. Lunatic Stabs Two Mon. William Fitzpatrick, 30 years old, of Roseband, Staten Island, who for years has been recognized as of unbalanced mind, but was permitted to roam at large, subiect to the ridicule of boys and thoughtless men, stabbed two men, one ol them fatally, Thursday. The victims arc Richard Gerden, al years old, and his twin brother Louis. The life of the latter was saved by the fact that the knife blade struck the buckle of his suspenders before entering his body. ' ' THE NATIONAL PARTY. Senator Cattery of Louisiana, and A. M. How of Massachusetts, Nominated Platform Opposed to McKlnlcy and Bryan. The National party, the official name of the third party, met in convention Wednesday in Carnegie halt, New York city, and nominated these candidates for President and vice president: For President Donclson Caffcry, ol Louisiana. For vice president Archibald Mur ray Howe, of Cambridge, Mass. There were no other candidates and the nominations were received with hearty applause. The platform says: " e, citizens of the United States, assembled for the purpose of defending the wise and conservative principles which undcrty our government, thus declare our aims and purposes. We find our country threatened with alter native perils. On the one hand is a public opinion misled by organized forces of commercialism that have per verted a war intended by the people 10 be a war of humanity into a war of con quest. On the other hand is a public opinion swayed by demagogic appeals to factional and class passions, the most tatal ol diseases to a republic. We be lieve that either of these influences if unchecked would ultimately compass the downfall of our country, but we also believe that neither represent the sober convictions of our countrymen. The convention was called to ord?r by Thomas M. Osborne, of Auburn, N. 1. incrc was no roil can. ah tne delegates were volunteers who had re plied by their presence to the invitation issued to all persons in sympathy with the objects of the party. Donclson Caffery has always been conspicuous as a gold Democrat. He was elected to the United States Senate from Louisiana in 181)5 and his term ex pires March 4, iqoi. He was born in Louisiana September 10, 1835, and was an officer in the Confederate army. NEGRO EXODUS THREATENED. Fifty Thousand to Leave Norlh Carolina Al Depends on Now Amcndmenl. George C. White, the only negro congressman in the United States, has announced that he will give up his resi dence in North Carolina if the recently adopted amendment to the State con stitution is held valid by the courts and will begin the practice of law in New York. He says: "I am not only going myself, but I am going to take 50.000 negroes with me. I am going to New York to live. I cannot live in North Carolina and be a man and be treated like a man. "I ttstd to feel at home in my State. When I practiced law at the bar of North Carolina I was not discriminated against because I was a negro. That is all in the past, now. As a matter of fact. I am going to practice law in New York. I feel I will have a cordial wel come there." White will not be a candidate for re election to the seat he now occupies. His term expires next March. He be lieves the negroes of the State will gradually leave it and make their homes in the north and west. Ten years, he says, will be required for any extensive emigration. AN ALASKAN EARTHQUAKE. Mountains ot Ice Tumbled Into the Sea. Much Damage Done. An earthquake at Lituya Bay, Alaska, according to information brought out by the steamer Bertha, did a vast amount of damage. Five Indians are known to have been killed. The news was brought from Lituya Bay to Yakutat by Indians in canoes. The disturbances occurred on August II in the district of Mount Klias and Moutit Fairweather. Five of the immense gla ciers which extend far up the mountains from Lituya Bay were sent crashing in to the bay. partly filling it with moun tains of ice. Chief George, one of the best known characters in the North, was one of the drowned Indians. Battlo With Safe Blowers. Athens, O., officers accompanied by Pomeroy police hail a pitched battle with alleged safe blowers near Canan- ville Friday morning. James Watkins nnr w:u:..... .. . 1 .1. 25 shots had been exchanged. Watki was seriously wounded. Charged With Robbory. At Monclova, Mexico, a young A ican has been placed in tail rha ...:.u ...1.1. ... H-..1 .. 1? Company of $20,000 which was bei shipped from Monterey to New Yo c,tv- CABLE FLASHES. Thirty Lnnchashire, England, cotton mills have closed. A plot against the sultan's life has been discovered and 1 18 arrests have been made. In a fire in Tonbridge, a London suburb, a father and his three daughters were burned to death. The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, cables that the total number of persons receiving relief is 4,8ji,coo. An imperial decree dissolves the low er house of the Austrian reichsrath and directs a new election immediately. The Great Northern Telegraph Com pany has laid a cable between Port Ar thur and Chcfu. Service has begun. Sir William Henry Precce, consult ing engineer to the British postoffice, has been able to convey audible speech eight miles across the sea without wires. The extraordinary Italian embassy to inform Emperor William officially of the accession of King Victor Emmanuel III. to the throne of Italy has been re ceived by the kaiser. The missing members of the crew of the wrecked British steamer India have landed on the Arabian coast near Ma kulla. The boi-ler of the Danubian Reamer Negotln exploded near Kladovo and the captain and twelve of the crew per ished. Rains and high winds have done sa rious damage to the banana and tobac co plantations on the north side of the island of Jamaica. A member of the Geographical socieV named Poggenpohl, accompanied 1 two officers und a number of soldiers licenced the srt Ararat. " -
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