,1 BE !0 PRINCE CHINQ CAPTURED. ANTHRACITE MINERS STRIKE. EXTENT OF DISASTER. Many Section ol the Mainland Along Hit Coat! Buffered Heavlly-Hundredt I Bodie Art Cremntrd. The people In Southern Texas are gradually getting over III cried n( the miimI utoriii along the mail. Galveston is liciiiB looked alter in a ystemntie way anil relief i going m constantly. iov. Saycr ha labored liaril day d liU'ltt lor the past week, nml in jnt getting affairs shaped so tti:it they exit be csily handled. Not alone in Galveston li.ivo the peo ple suffered, lull along llir entire roast . Auntry in the vicinity and north of the iland. In Itiieoiia county, a io?rn little villages have been completely wiped away and Morie of distress ami tin row ri :n( arc beginning to mine in authentic ally. In Columbia precinct, .' people an- without homes or shel ter of any Kind. Fall anil winter crop destroyed and larin implements , i:iuv Along tin- const for tilty mile tic sightseer can find (uriiitnrp, pianna, ki-ti bedsteads and everything which H to make no home. Hip sight "I nil vii h i absolutely indescribable. Of Galveston's population of .Worn, (, wen- killed. TIip area of total ih tun lion wan i,,v ai re. 'I hero wen" S.orni duelings, hotels, churches and movents utterly destroyed. More than i.ym bodies have lieen linrned. The puiperty loss is not less than $15,0110. mw. One hundred and twenty five men, ino,t ol them negroes, were shut to ii oil for robbing the dead. Out of this disaster, unparalleled In the history of the Nation, Galveston i it-ing to reclaim her place among the most prosperous of our cities, ller rail loads have pledged thcmsixlvcs to aid in reliiiihtiiiK the city, ller merchants lire iTso'me to resume business, ller banita arc ready In assist in the r cs t.ili!i"hiiient of commerce and outside amlal in llowinir ill. The one urgent need of the hour is n. il money, hut disinfectant liy tne ion. mi that workmen may hear In work among the ruins. WAR OF ASSASSINATION. Filipino Insurgent Murder Their Countrymen Who Are Amcrxan Syntpathiz ,'rs. i luring the last forlniuhl ten Fili pino in Luzon and the Visayans, known h American sympathizers or as aiding in tin; conduct of the municipal gnvcrn nti'iiM established hy lltf Americans, have hern mnrdcrcil liy their conntry I'lrn in .this. United S'atcs troop,; originally (leu lined for China, hut now diverted to the Philippines, arc being sent to points where they arc needed. Last week 40 lilipinos were killed. One American was killed, ,1 were wounded and J were captured. Gen. Wright, of the Philippine com mission, is preparing a hill for harhor improvements there. It contemplates an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the construction of protective dockage. The proposal is favorahly commented upon especially by Spaniards, and the carry ing out of the works, which will tic completed in ahout iH mouths, will hs grcally lieneficial to commerce. The commission's hill establishing municipalities will introduce a change in the derivation of revenue, which will licreafter come largely from land, in stead of industrial taxation. This will involve the raising of the question of the validity of existing land lit'e and will force a decision as to the extent to which the investment of religion, cor poration are to be exempted. INSPECTING BATTLEFIELDS. Na ioaal Park Commission Invites Vsleraai to View the Work Accomplished. A circular of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga parks commission an nounces that arrangements have been completed, with the approval of the secretary of war, for the inspection by the veterans of all the armies engaged bout Chattanooga of the historical tab let, monumental inscriptions and loca tion of lines of battle upon the seven battlefields embraced in the park, the object being to secure verification or correction by participants in the battles of the historical work thus far complet ed. The inspection will take place on the situ, tot h and nth of October and a half-rate has been arranged with most of the railroad companies. Dearly Bought Victory. The claims hitherto made that the British losses in South Africa have been small as compared -with those of other campaigns appear to need revision. A well-known actuary finds that of the officers in South Africa 73.1 per l.ooo have been killed or have died from wounds and .to.6 per 1,000 of the offi cer have died from disease; of the men ID per 1,000 hare been killed or died from wounds and 31.8 have died from disease. These statistics show that the risks of the officers in action have been huge ly disproportionate and also that thi rate 01 mortality 111 aoutn Atrtea is much greater than it was in the Franco German war. Husband Killed, Family Tortured. At Carey, O., W. C. Johnson wan kill d by burglars Wednesday, and his wife and five children were bound and tor lured until all the money and valuables in the house were obtained. The burg lars escaped and a posse is in pursuit Five men answering the description of the robbers were arrested at Rising Sun, taken to Fostoria, O.. and lodged in jail. They refuse to talk. Revolvers and burglar tools were, found in their possession. Phi'ipplno Rubber Forests. On the recommendation of the war department the agricultural department is preparing ail order setting apart as forest reserves the inland ot Romblon, which is north of the island of Panay; aUo the island of Pauitaui, which is one of the extreme group of the Jolo isl ands. Officers of the army who have been investigating the islands have found that these are the richest land in the world for rubber trees, and it is the intention of the Washington au thorities to have the trees preserved, LATEST NEWS NOTES. North mountain, in Maryland, is ablaze. Oil City (I'm.) firebugs tried In burn ihe boiler works. A court In Hawaii decided that natives of (iuaiii arc American citizens. Meyrrsdalp. IV, miners have ncciired one order for 5011,1x10 tons of coal. One New x'nsile, I'a., Italian mortally stubbed another in revenue for a dun. With n imiuiliiliiiii of .on.nxi, Lon don hnrborn every day ijuxxi forpign Prs. Susan II. il lion v. (he woman suf fragist, who in Ho venrs old, is wiious ly ill. TIip uiiexiion of sciwriitp schools for colored cliihltpii is agitating at Steiibeit- vtl'p, O. (ilass factory snappers at New Castle, I'a., are on strike for a guarantee of To week. Forest fires near Plymouth, Mass., have destroyed over $130,0110 woitll of property. The Akron (O) tiohl Mining Com pany has hren imoi potatrd with $. 000 capital. The Philippine l aud Improvement Company has bei n chartered at Charles ton, W. Va. An unknown woman was cut to pieces hy a InconiotiTC at lli'iliaii.in latum, near Kiie, Pa. C. I). Tenny, prominent as a lender of the foreign element at Tien Tsui, is 11 Massilliiu, ()., man. Crossed wires set fire to the Slat" trrastuy building at Harrisburg, P11. Damage was slight. The steamer City of Seattle has arriv pd from Skaguay wiih 177 passengers and $o.so,ixa) in gold. At Tunica, Miss., three negroes, in dieted for separate mm tiers, were lynch ed hy a nioli of on while men. An unknown man was found near Manheim, W. Va., dead. The condition of his body indicates foul play. DiKvnrili Paper Company' plant at New Castle, Pa., was damaged In the extent of $f,ixi by lire Friday. Leading railroad men say there is no thought of abandoning (ialvrston and that the city will be rebuilt. A steel hoop mill is to he built at Sharon, Pa., at a out of $mo,oiki partly furnished by Pittshuig capitalists. James Hover, of Minersville. IV. fell down the Oak Hill colliery shaft, a dis tance of 410 feet, and waa killed. At Allentowu. Pa., a $io.ixx row of nouses was ileslroyed hy a lire originat ing from a spark from a locomotive. Harry Shoemaker, of Liverpool, IV, was shot 'dead by a robber Saturday night in the cabin of hi canal boat. One man was killed and another se riously burt br the fat of rock in a coal mine in the M.usillon, O., district. The Trexcler Stone eV Lumber Com pany 11 plant ami stock at Huntingdon. Pa., were burned Thursday; loss $15,- 000. (iov. Stone, of Pennsylvania, appeals for nid for (ialveston sufferers and send a message of sympathy to governor of lexas, Peter Hartman wa murdered and robbed by three highwaymen Sunday attcrnoon on Van llurcn street, L.I11 cago. . At Negaunpp, Wis., with the fhcr mometcr at jo above zero, it commenc ed snowing Sunday and continued all afternoon. Fight hundred butcher in the pack ing houses at HulTalo, N. Y., have struck because two non-union men were given work. Abraham ' Guernsey, a carpenter of Massition, O., has received a $too,oix legacy from a deceased cousin at Chau tampia. N. Y. The National encampment of the Sons of Veterans and the convention of the National Aid Society began at Syracuse, N. Y Tuesday. At Stroudsburg. Pa., thirty-six white employe at Black Diamond glass works struck because negro blowers were employed. The Antietam battlefield monument of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Kegimcntal Association was dedicated Monday at Sharpsburg, Md. The transport Hancock arrived at San Francisco Friday from the China station with 14 missionary refugees and several army officers. United States secret service officers arrested William Scott, William Fraker and I). Iionelake in Mercersburg, Pa., on the charge of making and passing counterfeit half dollar. In the Philippines F. W. Vaille, direc tor of posts, states there will be a sur plus of receipts over expenditures up to June 20 of $io,4-)g. A monument is to be erected on a mountain in Switzerland to Barry, the most famous of the St. Bernard dogs, which saved 40 lives. Gov. Saycrs, of Texas, asks the Presi-1 dent to order a boat to Galveston to transler passengers and supplies between that cily and the mainland. Robbers entered the office of the Cambria Steel Comuanv nt Wheeler Pa., Thursday night. They took all the nine and tobies in the store. The plants of the McMorran Milling'?6 ' $i.5oo.ooo. The gold rnn....... t.. p-. u in. .... . imports for the month amounted to St.- Company, at Port Huron. Mich'., werciw' " u- f2,iThe destroyed by fire; loss $225,000. exports of gold aggregated $18,066,37 . . ,, ' ... u . . . ! against $2,214,573. an increase of over ui m.. it., , u.c iiciiiuiiii an I ",ucl" V" p'ant in the south, was destroyed by fire Sunday, causing a loss of $400,000. Three hundred weavers in the Givcr naud silk mill, Allentown, Pa., struck against a 15 per cent, reduction in r,rd ,so winder$ and warpcr, are,!wo-a whoToiKS h r. also ialP. : ...L..i .u J.:. i. General Grecly chief signal officer, re-;'aniuck. killing five others and wounding ports from Alaska that by the end of lwo fatay. Then he went to the local September there wi l be telegraphic 1 cemetery and committed suicide. The communication with Fort Egbert and tragedy has created a great sensation r-B!c viij. 'Hunffry Mill" miners near Barton. Md, have struck. A committee who ! 1 I 'UJ ........ al.. 1- -.1. ThVprivileV of chlckweiglnnaiirwere ! discharged. The grand jury at Marysville. O.. has returned an indictment of first degree murder against Kosslyn li. rerrcll for killing Adams Express Messenger Charles Lane Fire at Paris. Ont., while the wind 1.. j".. j : : VX'TmZlT1 SS" hr.n'roVheyre,oo JrobatS $So.rM' '" "'ja.-' Uf Co,rnnKn, WW - was at us iiciuui, iicsiruycu over to EARLY'S CAVALRYMEN. Adoption of Hit President's Policy Giving Na llonal Cart la Unclaimed Remains at totdlora ol the to nth and North. I he PrrsidPiit'n policy of the Nation carina (or Confederate its well a Fed eral dead will soon be put Into actuality at Washington. The cpiartprmaitcr yrnrrsl ha preiwred a list of the Con IpdpratP dead buried in the District of tolumhia, and a soon a the arrange ment ran be completed thf ir bone will bp transferred to Arlington, the big Na tional crinelery on the Virginia side of tne rotomac, which was the home of (irneral Kobeit K. Lee up to the time of the war. The program will nrobahlv provide for public sirvieps. at which the Presi dent will presitle. The arrangenieiit ! the order of exercise is ilclaycd 1111 ac count of the absence ol Secretary Hoot. I he dead to be Itaiislerreil were sol titers ol l-.ariy army, w hich iniule n raitl around the capital in July, 1H04. rvinip ol them are Inn n il 111 llatlle- ground National cemetery, a few mile norm ol tin city, where, the only light ing that occurred in the district look place. It was in that battle, in which 40 ur 50 Pennsylvania!! were killed, that President Lincoln was under foe while standing on the work of pott Stevens. Most of the Confederate ileatl are, however, buried in the cemetery ol the Home lor Soltlirr of the Kegnlnr Army, wIim-Ii wa endowed with the money (ienetal Scott exacted as a ran som from the City of Mexico. (.'apt. Charles McCJiieston, Fourth United Slates infantry, stationed in the Philippines, while temporarily insane, shot several soldier and wa fatally shot by 11 private in self -defense. PROTECTION FOR RHUGER. Ho May Sail for Hoi and In a Dutch Warship. Boer Appeal lo the Nations. The Portuguese government has tele graphed to thp governor of Mozam bique authorizing the departure of Mr. Kruger lor I 'm ope. The governor, however, must satisfy himself that Mr. Kruger is renlly going in Furope. Meanwhile be i instructed to lake all precaution to safeguard the personal security of Mr. Kruger. Ihe government of the Netherlands ha telegraphed to Lourcnr.o Mnnpiea ottering a Dutch warship to take Mr. Kruger to Holland. The fjoer delegates, Messrs. Fischer, Uolinai ans and WesnelitiN, have acldren cd an appeal to all nation for interven tion in South Aftira. They assert that the South African republic have show 1 themselves to be worthy of liberty, and that they will continue to struggle to the last breath against Great Britain's attempt to annihilate their existence as a tree people. STRUCK BY A CYCLONE. Much Dimarjo Throughout Northwestern Part of Pennsylvania. A cyclone spread disaster over North western Pennsylvania early Wednesday '1 lie wind storm, coming at a terrible rate, struck about midnight, and con tinued with unabated fury until late in the morning. In Corry, IV, houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, glass broken antl smokestacks torn down The oldest inhabitants cannot remember a storm coital tn this one. Fvery telegraph ami telephone wire wa down during the storm, making it impossible to move trains on any road Along Lake Frie, in the grape belt. great damage was done. But little ra;n fell during the storm, The temperature dropped from q.i to (in. No deaths were reported, although news from outlying districts is still scarce. Anarchist From Now York. The Swiss arrested at San Sebastian, Spain, Thursday, charged with plotting to assassinate a Fitropean monarch, is named Walter. Hi departure from New York three weeks ago was due to the police searches in anarchist centers in consequence of the assassination of King Humbert, of Italy. Walter in tended to sail for Havre, but the close inspection of the French line steamers made him change his mind. A number of newspaper cuttings, referring to the movement of political nersonanes. were found in hia trunk, including reference to President I .outlets arrangement .it Rambouillet. The sum of sou francs and a poignard were found on the prisoner, DECREASE IN TRADE. Aggregate Imports and Exports During Aug ust Smaller Than Last Year. The August statement of the imports and exports of the United States, issued by the bureau of statistics, shows that during the month the total imports of merchandise was $j,()j0,oo5, a decrease ;ns compared with August, iti). of about $5,000,000. Of the imports of mcrchan disc, $ja,568,8o6 was free of ditty. The exports of domestic merchandise during the month amounted to $101,1.18, $, ,00000, 8d tne exports to $6,486,890, an increase ol S2.CO0.ooo. Murdered Eight Peop'o. Caetano I.ongo, on returning from the I United States to Pastona, a small town throughout the surrounding country. Cbject lo Militarism. At the session of the New York Stale Federation of Workingmen at Utica, Thursday, among the resolutions adoot- ' ed was one which protests against I "Large standing armies as being a men- 1 ace to the liberties of organized wag earners and a heavy burden upon them." 1 he resolution declares it to be the firm belief of the Federation that "No contingency could possibly arise that contingency c : - i - ... ;r , The Oreal Pro-Foreign Leader In China Taken Prisoner by Japanese Mold n Hotlajo for Peace. TIip edict of the Chinese giivprnmrnt aptminting 1.1 Hung Chang it plenipo tentiary to negotiate peace ha been handed to Acting Secrctiiry of State tun by Minister Wil inn rung. It is a follows: I.i Miinu Chiniii. envoy uleiiioolen- tiary, in hereby vented with full discre tionary power, and he shall promptly deal with whatever ineslion may rc qnire attention. From thi ilislanre we will neit rontrnl In anions. Let this edict he fnrwaided with extra expedi tion nt the rale of fmn li per day (lo I'.arl l.l) lor Ins information 11 ml gum ance. Hrspect this." Tn the nhovr eoiiiiiiiuiiciilion. Actinu ScereUity Hill gave Mr. NV'u the follow ing reply: "The United Stale does md feel called upon to express any opinion at thi time as to the sufficiency of Li Hung I linnu s atilli'Pitl v. Iittt hopes n will tran iptie that his credentials are full and authoritative, not only for negotia tion, but to enable him without further delay to give assurance that the lilt- ami propery of Americans will henceforth be respected throughout the Chinese empire." I clc grain from I'ekin, dated 'I lie ulay, say: 1 lie Japanese found Prince Clung, leader of the conservative pro-foreign party, in the western hills, 30 mile dis tant, and are holdinii him there with the view of a ronferencp nml in the hope that he may establish communication with the dowager cmiires. t apers have been found in the em peror a room at the palace containing list of the foreigners killed nml the for eigners' properly destroyed. The search upon the part of the allies lor t.iitnee troops lias been suspended. LAWT0N HONORED. Monument Dodlcaled lo Dead Philippine Hrro al Fori Wayne, Ind. The people of Ft. Wayne, Intl., dedi eatPtl tn the memory of General Henry W. Iwton Thursday n monument crowned by a cannon captured by him, and christened the principal city park in honor ol the iteaj hero. Ihe ceremony occurred under Ihe atlKtnre of tin Union Veteran Leuiun. and Colonel V. . Bryan wa the principal orator of tin1 occasion. Ill address wa nun parti san The introduction portion of Governor Mount s address was largely Innuranlu cal and eulogistic. The governor then took up indirectly Ihe Philippine fpies ttiin, denouncing Aguinaldo and show ing a tendency to condemn the instir gents antl their sympathizer. At the conclusion of the governor's address, roir. tiryan wa introduced. FATAL BLACK DAMP. Cauied Three Deaths In a Family at Rimer Ion, Pa. It lack dump in a mine near Rimrr- lon, IV, caused the death of Mr. Will iani Flick, her son and daughter Sat ttrday. The little village is filled with sadness owing to the character of llir sad accident. Mr. Flick ha I gone In a small coun try mine to dig a load of coal. Not returning in uue time 111 nter was sent to find him. This she did, but dead, and ere she could make her exit she was overcome and died. The mother becoming alarmed made haste tn the mine. F.nlerimz the mine she wa startled to find the corpses 01 her son and daughter and before she reached the mouth of the pit she was ovrcoinc and died. One ol a srurch ing party who almost shared a similii fate is in a serious condition. COMMITTED SIX MURDERS. Unruly Ncgroot Terrorite Ihe Town Huron, Indiana. Negroes are causing a reign of terror at Huron, Ind., south of Iledford, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and Judge Martin, of Hedord, has been asked that the sheriff and a posse be sent to the town to quell a riot that is on between a mob of negroes ami a number of whites in the marshal x posse. The negroes have been employed bv railroad contractors anil received their wages Saturday, since when they have been spending the time in drinking an gambling. Many bloody fights have re sulted, and at least six murder have been committed among the negroes. To Fight Ihe Coal Trust. The J. W. Ellsworth Coal Company has bought eight square mile of tlx. richest coal land in the Monongaliel. valley to fight the trust that is known as the Pittsburg Coal Company. This is the second big purchase of coal lands by independent companies in which Cleveland, O., capital is invested, the Kirk-Woods Coal Company, having bought a large tract at Monongahcla several weeks ago. The land bought by the Ellsworth Company is at Hent leysville, five mile from Charlcroi, Pa. A railroad will be built at once from Iientleysville to Monongahela and the entire territory will be underlaid with mines. At least 3,500 men will be em ployed in the new mines. Report on Cuban Affairs. The annual report of Colonel Samuel M. Whitside, commander of the military department of Santiago and Pucrtn Principe, is probably the most complete report ol its kind prepared by any Amer ican commander in Cuba. It contains extensive data a to the troop there, including something like 150 officers and 3.500 men. He reports that there are 165,000 school children in the de partment. To them he looks for the future of the district. Arretted on Burglary Charges. Officers from Ashtabula, O., have ar rested Theodore Swart, a well-to-do young farmer, and his wife, living near Wooster, O., on a charge of burglary. A search of their premises resulted 111 fruits of not less than 30 burglaries, many of them forgotten because it was thought that the places had been enter ed by tramps. The couple had never been suspected by their neighbors. It it now alleged that Swart, tome years ago. served a hort term in the Qhio penrteotiarr. FIVE ROBBERS SHUT. Many Drunken Rufflani Doing Fearful Deed. Women'! Ears and Fingers Cut OR It Obtain Their Jewelry. A soldier nf Cnpt. KafTerly's bulleiy, while patrolling the beiieli at Galve- ton, Ten., Tuesday, ordereil a man lo desist from looting. The fellow drew a weaxm noil Ihe soldier shot him dead. I hp soldier wa attacked by lour other men and he killed nil of litem. Oilier men have also been shot, ami it is prob able that 25 were killed. Some ol these were shot lor tailing lo hall when order rd In do so. I lilieis were shot for van dalism. J. N. (iriswotd. division frrlght ng' iil ol the Gull, ( nloiado and Santa I r railroad, said: "Fur and fingers bear ing diamond, were hacked off with potkt'l knives nml Ihe member pli d 111 Ihe pockets of the vandals. 'I he bodies i women who wore line clothes have been snipped of Ihe In-t thread and left lo tester in the sun. I he re i tlenccs led standing have been broken it'lo and irueliy and silver plate stolen. I poll all hands this horrible, woik is going on. Ihe ollen.lcls ate generally negroes, nllhotii;h there are some while nun who have (leiiioiistrnted that they lire suflii ieully devoid of honesty 11 nd manhood lo participate in these, ghoiilt-h deeds. As soon as the slot ill subsided the negroes slolp nil the luiitor tlu-v could gel, mid, beastly drunk, proceeded wiin iheir campaign ol vandalism. II troops are not sent without delay, God help the survivor in Gnlvcsjon." liny 1 aim dated Wednesday, sav: Vandalism at (ialveston has been horri blr. The most rigid enforcement of martial law has not been able to sup press it entirely. Adiutaiit General Scurry's men have 111 rested loo or more looter. Forty three negroes with ef. feels taken from ilea') bodies, were ord ered tried by the court martial. 'I h y were ttied. convicted mid ordered to be shot. One negro bad j human fingers With ring on lliein in his pocket. ruination grows worse rvety minute. Water mid ice are needed. Peonle in f ',. t, -y W fr...i. ..(Y..rl.i, f..n. iIia.m ....... ,,., ,,,,., Scores have died since last night, and numbers of sufferers gone insane TICKET NOMINATED. The New York tt.ilo Drmoeratle Slato Con vent on Harmonious. The New York iJciuocratic Slate con vi -Minn held at Saratoga has named the following ticket: Governor. John II. Stanchfi-ld. Lieutenant governor, William I'. Mackey. Secretary of stale, John T. Morion, Comptroller, ImI win G. Atwater. Treasurer. John II. Judson. Attorney general, 'I liomas p. Conway. Lnginecr. Kussell A. Stewart. George Nnincs, of Monroe county, was selected as permanent chairman. The platform begins by pledging the Democracy of New York anew to the principles and polit ies of JefTer onian Democracy ami imorrrnenl of the plat form adopted by ihe last Democra'tc National convention. The platlorm conclude with a discus sion of purely Stale i- sites, the claim be ing nude that "the Democratic party in the Slate and Nation has been the con sistent ft ic nd and champion of labor." GREAT STORM IN THE WEST. Chicago Suffer From Hurricano Winds Cat astrophy Reported at Caleiburn, III. Chicago was visited with a terrific 1 windstorm from the south Iiipsday, Si miles nn hour. Many heavy swinging signs were torn from the fastenings, roofs dislodged, the lake filled with enormous wave and there is the great- est tear i." mere nave i.een many o.s- asters. Two men were killed by falbnj; trees and poles. It is rumored that dale, burg wa al - most destroyetl. with great loss of lile, Meager reports that have reached Chi cago show the storm has done tremen dous damage throughout Illinois, Indi ana and Ohio and is moving northward over Lake Michigan with increasing force. Telegraphic communication is absolutely cut off from most important point. Eight Women Ktl'ed. The special car of the Duncan Clarke female minstrel troupe was wrecked at Mounds. III., Wednesday afternoon, and ol the lb occupants nine are now dead and six otlieis are seriously injured, ome of them perhaps fatally. RACE WAR BREWING. Delaware, Ohio, W r'd Up Over Actions of N.a.O Hypnotist. A colored barber named litck. acciis- ed of exercising a hypnotic influence over a little White gil l, was toned to leave Delaware, O.. Thursday night by a crowd of aoo angry citizens, who gathered about his house and threaten-1 rnrcm,rc bis" majesty, after express ed to lynch him if be remained, lice,: ; jn ,,is sincerc tha,,k. concludes: went to Columbus, nit was brought back, and is under the protection 01 about too colored men assembled in South Delaware. About joo armed white men are scat tered in the vicinity of Vie college grounds waiting for drvcl!pmcnt. The negroes have threatened to shoot if any attempt is made tn harm Heck. Intense ieelinir has been aroused. It is alleg'.-d that Beck has insulted several white girls, whose relatives have been most active in the movement to compel him lo leave town. Famine Pries Asked. Provision are seKing at famine prices at Inhanucshlirir. sui-ar hrinuimr 1 nhill. ings and 6 pence a pound and pork the there would be no lulitical significance same price, while matches are sold at attached to so serious a matter a this I shilling per box. Other staple nrti- great strike, involving the iving of 14. cles are proportionately dear, while ' wage-earners, who have felt the many necessities are not obtainable at ' merciless foot of capital for two tet any price. South African Native Defeated. News ha been received that a body of 3,000 native levies under Capt. Ben son attacked Ojesu, the famous Fetish town, 10 miles cast of Kumasse, instead r w.iiiniT I.i rn.nnernte as irdrf.H u-itli Lieut. Col. Brake's column, consisting r,l ihe I entral Alrican recmienl -hieh destroyed Ojesu. A soon as they were under fire the levies turned and fled. Capt. Benson, who had only two white men with him, ie reported to have shot himself in order to avoid falling into the hands of the 4 liMtti Nearly 148,000 Men Invoked In Ihe Strv glePretldenl Mllohell lo Person ally ConJucI Ihe Affair. At 5:15 o'clock Wednesday aflrravon President Mitchell nml Secretary Wil son, of thp United Mine Worker ol Amrrha affixed their signatures to) The iliictiriif nt which called 142,000 mlnrl of the Pennsylvania anthracite regiein from (heir work Monday morning anil precipitated one of he most gigaetis strike in the history of thp labor war hi. The document was the official endisme inent of Ihe reipiesl of the anthracite diliict to strike. It wa considered, hy the National executive board n( the Mine Worker lat week, and when the hoard adjourned nil power In endorie the rnpiest for the trikp wa left in the hands of the National president and irc teliry. 'I he three district president report that of the 14.1,000 men in Ihe three ch trit Is l.M.Vxi would go on a strike Mon day. President Mitchell would not state what secret liilliirncrs were nt wink lo ptevent the strike ami whlrh caused the delay. Ile said the perwin al woik hail offered his service vnlan- lanly mid the matter wa confidential. As to munitioning the men during the tril.e he said: "When men are fighting lor ju it wage they rim subsist on wry little. At any rate, it Is safe to say that nobody will starve or want for necesaary clothing. Most of the men live in com pany house, and we must consider fhe probability of eviction, but these thing Iiiivp nil been fully considered and will be met a thrv present themselves. At this lime it would be folly for the eir ganintion to go into detail a to tti provision made for feeding and clolh- US' the strikers." President Mitchell will be in IUle ton to personally conduct the strike. KflUUER ENDS DOER WrR. Transvaal President Gnrk Putune In Porlo gucte Territory To 611 lor tuiope. 'Ihe announcement from Lotirrnrn Mar'pies that President Kruger arriv ed there on Tuesday night is regarded ...:! "" """CHiive 01 an cany enu 01 mssui- itit 111 .South Africa. It 1 also reported that Ihe Transvaal stale official (ir eompiiuied Kruger in hit llifht, and that they are with him now in Portu guese territory. They are Maying at the house of the Dutch consul, Mr. Pott, (it l.oorcmro Marqur, and it is rrpnrt.nl they will sail for Europe on September j, on ihe German steamer lleru. Significant also, although unrotilirin ed, is ihe iitinotincrmeitt that Gen. I'o tha. Ihe Itoer commander in chief. , i making overtures to surrender, anil the itiestiori whi ther the burghers will now follow the usual course of beaten armies and iay down their arm or formally de clare in favor of guerrilla warfare, must be speedily settled. It is In hcved here that President Kruger' action deprives the Hoers of their main pretext for re maining in the field. The war department nt Washington has received from dipt. Krirhman, the army officer who accompanied Ihe llrr 11 military observer, the following dis patch, dated at l.oiireno Marrptrs: "Events have required the departure of Ihe at ladies from the Transvaal, He quest instructions." This message is interpreted at the de partment lo luran the complete collapse of the Itoer resistance to Eng and. Cnpt. Kcichmann has been rallied permission to start at once for the United States. MOST DISASTROUS KNOWN. Weather Bureau Chief Hoota Fears the Wort H Yel to be Heard, Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief ot the ' Weather bureau at Washington, D. C, 1 h , w , y h, fc . . . ,,. , . . i'1"1 ur" ll'ihm damage in Tea.i. .wa central in Oklahama .Monday, and v.. in f.ll'lUIT IW,FS,I,U ,(S III3I1U1 lire IIMI' acter, the wind nt Oklahama City being reported as plowing at .10 miles an hour. It will probably pass into history as one of the most disastrous, as well as pe culiar, storms on record. I fear, said Chief Moore, that we i have not yet begun to get any idea of the toss of life, not only at Galveston. but along the gulf coast generally. The telegram from Mr. Vaughan indicate that the waters from the gil f encroaclW six nulrs inward. Ihe sudden pass 'of the storm permitted, I am afraid. water to recede rapidly and in such no one can estimate the damage I and property done. CZAR PRAYS FOR PEACE. Emperor ol Russia Truvt Disarrrimenl I flrCti Will f vcnlually Bear Fru t. T T.1yinK to the telegraphic message I forwar,icd , ,,e rzar on thc occasion of , ,l, ..I..,;,,., I.. ,he foreign nffiee nrrliin. 1 , t)lc rat;fic;l,i0n 01 the agreement .,n,i ,,ion,. (mm ..,. j ..Go,i Rrant tliat lhe .,bor, jn whi,h ,hr,e Rl.lltflncn have taken such active ; ,,art .y ,erve ss the ; fr the . I ,a,iilimen. even Ihnimh in the disei... future, of universal peace, which i the goal of Christian civilization." Mahinj Political Cspl'al. John Mitchell, president, and W. II. Wilson, secretary, of the United Mine Workers. ay they are p'eased with the manner in which the anthracite coal strike order has been received by the public. Mitchell says that he regrets deeply that politician are undertaking to make oolitical capital out of the strike. "I had hoped." said he. "tb.it ac'et.' Burned by a Eip'es'on. , The explosion of a car load of gas oline in a freight wreck on the CTtrv-; land and Pittsburg railroad near. Liverpool, O., resulted in the in " 'en and havV PPcr,y. 1 !"" . u; m I igniting, from a workman's tram Had been derailed, w were being hoisted back to 1 Africa has very nearly and this fact presents g' to anisaionary ettorU r I 1 i
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