COUNSEL HEEDED.
Thr Thousand Angry Striken on March Ar
Turned Buck by Organizer Armod
Deputiet Rody to Repel Them.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, gave the
keynote ol the strike situation in West
side Park nt Wilkebarrc. Pa.. Tuesday
before the largest crowd that ever gath
ered in the anthracite regions. In
substance he told the men that they
had already won a great victory. ns the
Mr coal and transportation companies
had made concessions to them. They
must not expect to have nil their wrongs
righted at this time, but if they main
tain their organization they will even
tually obtain all they have demanded.
lie implored them not to return to
work until the offers made by the oper
ators hive been accepted by n confer
ence. He was greeted with wild enthus
iasm and the multitude punctuated his
remarks with cheers.
An uprising of striking miners in the
Shamokin region seemed imminent for
several hours lute Thursday, and there
were forebodings of a serious clash be
tween armed denudes and a large body
of striker. Prompt action of some of
the cool-headed nt'licials of the miners
organization finally succeeded in avert
iniT the threatened ronllict.
Some j.onn excited strikers assembled
.it Mount Carinel anil, headed by a
fir.nd of music, started a march to Trev
orton. 16 miles hwav, with the avowed
nnrnnsc of forcing those at work at the
North Franklin colliery to quit and
join in the strike. This was the only
mine in operation in the region, and
the strikers had become angered at the
refusal of the men there to stop work.
The marchers were in a wrathful fame
of mind. When they bad covered
three miles of their march they were
met by officials of their organization,
who. after much persuasion, induced
the men to abandon their proposed trip.
The strikers then turned back, though
many did so reluctantly.
Later it was announced that the offi
cials of the North Franklin colliery,
to prevent trouble, would not operate
the mine until the strike is settled.
(ien. (inbin. as a result of this new
disturbing element, has rescinded his
order for Battery C of the national
guard to return home.
CU3A IS COING VifZLL.
A Season 01 ITark'd Prosperity Thousand!
cf Immigrant Workmen Landing.
Marked and substantial agricultural
prosperity is reported throughout the
region lying between Havana and Cicn
fuegos. The reconstruction of the cane
and sugar centrals is actively progress
ing, and the restoration of commercial
confidence in agricultural ventures is
gradually made evident by the large
importation of American refining and
agricultural machinery which has been
recorded in both the sugar and tobacco
industries, which are settling down to
a large and permanent production.
earnings arc estimated at over $6,000,
000. New sugar machinery is at pres
ent in the course of erection in variom
parts of the island.
During last week t.fVio immigrants
from the Canary islands and Barcelona
have arrived at Havana nnd have hit
for the country, where employment is
readily obtained. This continued in
flux partially solves the labor question,
many of the plantations having been
idle owing to lack of labor to cultivate
them,
YAQUI WAR CONTINUES.
Mexican and Indian Pcaco CommlrJonsrs
Failed to Agree May Try Again.
Negotiations between the five Ynq-.ti
Tndian emissaries and President Diaz
for the settlement of hostilities now
existing between the Yaquis and the
Mexican government, have failed to ac
complish anything, and the peace envoys
have arrived at Hcrmosillo on their way
home from the City of Mexico. They
report that President Diaz refused to
consider their proposal for peace, as
he looked upon it as granting too many
concessions to the Indians.
These emissaries belong to the peace
(action of the tribe, and they hope to
secure a modification of the original
proposal that will be acceptable to the
Mexican authorities and bring about a
termination of the disastrous war. Fight
ing still continues, and the government
troops seem to be making slow but
steady advances into the Indian country.
WANT THE TROOPS KEPT.
American C tlzens at Tien Tain Announco
Their Foars to be Left Alono.
At a recent meeting of American citi
zens at Tien Tsin the following resolu
tion was adopted: "We, citizens of the
United States, deplore the contemplat
ed withdrawal of a large part of the
United States troops in North China.
We feel the work of the allied armies
is far from accomplished, and that the
refusal of the American Government to
take its part therein is sure to be re
garde d by the allies as an unworthy
net, and by the Chinese as a sign of
indifference. We urge our Govern
incnt to carry to an end the work it has
so honorably and efficiently begun, and
to maintain a sufficient force here to
secure the protection of American mer
cantile and missionary interests until a
settlement of the present trouble is ac
complished." All One Way In Georgia. ,
Renorts from all parts of Georgia in
dicate that the Democratic majority in
Wednesday's election for members of
Congress, State officers, members of the
General Assembly and county officers
will be about 50,000.
Will Suppress Marlnduqut Rebels.
Gen. MacArthur announces that an
expedition is to be sent to Marinduquc
to avenge the capture by insurgents of
Capt. Shields and his company, of the
Twenty-ninth infantry. In a cablegram
to the war department he says:
"The First infantry started to Marin
duquc Friday on the Sumner. Gen.
Hare, is to command the island, with
orders to push operations until the in
eurrection is stamped out absolutely.
He will have 12 full companies of in
fantry lor the purpose."
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Scores of hogs in Washington coun
ty, Md., arc dying of cholera.
Owing to the drought, dairymen of
Washington, Pa., have raised the price
ot milk.
The West Virginia State asylum for
the insane nt Spencer is suffering a wat
er famine.
Owing to seven enscs of diphtheria,
seven schools nt Conncaut, O., have
been closed.
The New Masontown gang of negro
footpad have extended their operations
to Uniontown, Pa.
At Arcadia, Fla.. two negro women
arc dead, having killed each other in
a duel wall razors.
The plant of the Atlantic Tube
Works at Heaver Falls. Pa., has been
put on double turn.
Five arrests have been made at Brus
sels as the result of an alleged plot to
kill the Prince of Wales.
A Mind woman at Bromley, Ky., was
the first to detect a fire, which destroyed
$40,000 worth of property.
The census returns give New Castle,
Pa., 28,.i.?o population, an increase of
I.I.1.30 per cent, since 1P00.
The Chinese emperor has selected a
new capital and is not likely to re-establish
his court nt Pekin.
The foreclosure sale of the Penn plate
glass works nt Irwin, Pa., has been
postponed until October if).
Farmers near Massillon. O., have or
ganized a vigilance committee to pro
tect their crops from thieves.
An experiment in the making of
cheap fuel gas to lake the place of nat
ural gas is well under wav at Irwin. Pa.
A recent letter from Conger shows
that Secretary Hay's diplomacy saved
the legations at Peking from massacre.
Frank Pope, a hunter, was instantly
killed at Harvey's lake, near Wilkes
barre, Pa., by a big tree falling upon
him.
The American Tin Plate Company
has ordered the Lnughlin and La Belle
plants at Wheeling to be put in full op
eration. Several head of cattle near Madison,
Westmoreland county. Pa., were bitten
by a rabid dog, which succeeded in es
caping.
George Von I.aer Meyer, of Hamil
ton. Ma-s is to be appointed ambassa
dor to Italy to succeed General Draper,
resigned.
A British syndicate has declared the
intention of securing control of all im
portant industrial concerns in the Unit
ed States.
The American Steel Hoop Company's
eight-inch mill at Greenville, Pa., has
been closed on account of inability to
get billets.
Charles O'Neal, a veteran of the Civil
war. was drowned in a roseroir near
Uniontown, Pa., while on his way home
irotu town.
The abandoned Carnegie library site
at Conncllsvillc, Ta., which was recently
a graveyard, may be converted into a
playground.
The commissioners have hxed a
boundary line between Nicaragua and
Honduras that is satisfactory to both
governments.
There has been an appreciable dc
crease in yellow fever at Havana since
October 1. F.ighty-four cases of fever
were reported.
A government report says that the
Cape Nome gold beach has been prac
tically worked out, after yielding about
$300,000 tins year.
Dr. and Mrs. Ycatman Wardlow, of
Columbus, O., were robbed of $2,000
worth of jewelry and $246 in cash at a
hotel in New tork.
Miss I.ayola Plague, a school teacher,
was attacked by a negro on a Union-
town (Pa.) street, the negro got ner
pocketbook and lieu.
The Red Boy mine, near Baker City,
Ore., has been sold to an English syn
dicate. It is said the purchase price is
in excess of $.1,000,000.
The steamer Santa Ana, with 207
passengers and from $500,000 to $600,
000 Klondike and Nome gold, has ar
rived at Seattle, Wash.
The finishing department of the
American Tinulate Company, at Niles,
O., employing 300 men. has resumed
work under the new scale.
The bishop of Jerusalem laid the cor
nerstone of the church on Mount Zion
on the site presented bv the sultan of
Turkey to Emperor William.
Eddie McBridc, aged 10, of Trenton,
N. J., was playing "Indian with com
panions and was tied to a stake and
burned so badly that he died.
Captain Frank West. Sixth cavalry.
superintendent of Scquaia Park, Cal-
nornia. reports that saw mills are men
acing the great scquaia trees of the park.
The British have purchased at New
Orleans, La., since August, 1890, 15,000
horses, 42,000 mules and other armv
supplies aggregating a value of $10,000.
Hip Luck, the highbinder accused of
the murder of Chief of Police Main, of
Stevenson, B. C, has pleaded guilty and
implicated two other Chinese in the
crime.
Private letters received from Havana
indicate apprehension exists among the
Americans there regarding yellow fever,
as conditions grow worse instead of im-
nrovine.
Lieut. Andrtip's Greenland expedition
has returned to Copenhagen alter ex
ploring a previously unknown stretch
of land between cape town and Agas-
s'z land.
Provincial Mineralogist Robertson
whn hn iust returned to Victoria ft
C., from Porcupine, reports rich finds
of gold in that district and predicts a
big rush there.
An accredited representative ot an
English syndicate has contracted for
750.000 tons of Alabama coal to be de
livered at some point on the Gulf of
Mexico. The deliveries arc to extend
over two years.
Eighty-seven per cent, of the boys and
many of the girls at the Fort Wayne,
Ind., public schools are addicted to the
cigarette habit. Anti-cigarette clubs
arc being formed.
Michael Moynahan, of Lexington,
Ky., who killed R. C. O. Benjamin,
the negro lawyer, at the registration poll
last Tuesday, has been acquitted on the
ground of self-defense.
At Columbia, 6. C, a young negro's
ears were cut in slits for having insulted
a woman Wednesday. This was a sec
ond offense, the first having been pun
ished by 300 lashei with a whip.
GERMANS GOMPEUEO 10 RElll!
LEADERS DEGRADED.
The Chines Emperor's Edict Name tht
Prince Selected tor Punishment An
Earnest Effort Being Mad.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin, dnted Fri
day, says: "A German force came into
collision with 8,000 Chinese, described
as Boxers, a few miles south of Tien
Tsin this morning. The Germans were
checked and compelled to retire on
Tien Tsin. There is reason to believe
that the Chinese in this case were not
Boxers, but were Li Hung Chang s
eterans, who had been ordered to wait
ear here in view of the possibility that
the foreigners would bar his progress
o the capital."
On Saturday 7.000 rebels attacked the
market town of Sai Wan, eight miles
northeast of San Chun, but were de
feated. The people of San Chun closed
heir shops, expecting to be attacked
ilso. The troops at Hong Kong arc
held in readiness for any emergency.
All foreign troops at Shanghai nre
held in readiness against a possible at-
ick by 8,000 Chinese troops advancing
along the (..rand canal.
A disnaleh from Pekin confirms for
mer reports that the emperor has issued
a decree in which he denounces the
Boxer movement, nnd designates for
punishment nine ringleaders. He ac
knowledges his own fault nnd rebukes
himself, hut he places the chief blame
upon the princes and nobles wdio partici
pated in the movement and protracted
it. Trincc Tuan. Prince Chung. Prince
Tsai Lien, Prince Tsai Yinff, San Kang,
mg Men, president ot the censorate,
and Chao Shu Chiao, president of the
board of punishment, nre deprived of
their titles, removed from ottice and
urned over to various trial boards for
further penalties.
NOT YET SELF-SUPPORTING.
United Stales Postal Service Almost Five
Million Dollars Short Last Year.
Auditor Castle, for the postofficc de
partment, has received the trial balance
showing receipts ami expenditures of
the postal service for the fiscal year
ended June 30, iono. This statement
taken in connection with that of the
money order statement, which was com
pleted a week ago, shows the entire
financial results of the postal service for
the fiscal year. The financial statement
of the postal service proper for the year
I'm) 15 as ioiiows: r.xpcnciiiurcs, ?io7,
240.21)8.13; revenue, $l02,.i54.570.2o. Kx
cess of expenditures over revenue. $4.-
X04, 718.84. The excess of expenditures
over receipts or net deficit of the postal
service is about $1,500,000 less than the
deficit for the preceding fiscal year. The
principal item ot revenue is the sale of
tar ;s and stamped nancr. That item
for the year under review amounted to
$1)4.01 ikx).6.i, an increase of $6.7.11.-
045.62 over the preceding year. The
total financial transactions of the postal
service, including the money order
statement, were $714,394,101.22.
FLOODS DROWN AND DESTROY.
Mexican Rivers Overflow Their Band
-Tho
Tames 50 Miles Wide.
The Tanuco and Tames rivers, which
enter into the Gulf at Tampico, Mex.,
are on one of the biggest rises in their
history, and great damage has been
wrought by the Hoods in the populated
and cultivated valleys above Tampico.
At one point, near Clula station, on
the line of the Mexican Central railroad,
the Tames river is over 50 miles wide
and has swept to destruction hundreds
of houses occupied by Mexican farmers
and laborers. Many cases of drowning
arc reported. All the tributaries of
these rivers in the south and eastern
parts of the state of San Luis Potosi arc
out of their banks, and have .washed
away villages and ruined thousands of
acres of growing crops.
Philippine Revenues.
The war department has made public
a statement showing the revenues in
the Philippine islands for the first seven
months of igoo to have been $4,782,080,
an increase over the corresponding pe
riod of 1800. of $2.0Q.-m. -The custom
receipts tor the period named in 1000
were .l.,y2,245, and the internal reve
nue receipts $1.10,101. The nostal re
ceipts beginning July I were deposited
in tne treasury nnd tor that month
amounted to $110,845.
Prisoner Number 16,000.
A dispatch from Lord Roberts says
The number of prisoners captured or
surrendered is daily increasing nnd must
now aggregate nearly 16,000 men. Com
mandant Mullcr has surrendered to
Clery and Commandant Dirkscn and
ethers are on their way to Pretoria to
surrcniler.
A detachment of the London Irish
endeavored to surprise a party of Boers
near Bulfonstein. but had to retire after
three hours fighting, with six men
wounded. The Boers suffered heavily.
Robbed the Vatican.
Thieves entered the Vatican at Rome.
forced a safe and carried off securities
worth "7,000 lires and 3,000 hres in
silver. The safe, situated on the second
floor, belongs to the management of the
apostolic palace which looks after the
horses and carriages and the decorations
of St. Peter s cathedral.
Suicided In Hi Church.
Rev. B. L. Pirtle. pastor of the Cum
berland Presbvtenan Church at Tasner.
Tcnn., hanged himself on the bell rope
of his church Saturday morning. He
was discouraged by the falling away of
his congregation during his pastorate
01 less tnan a year.
Tornado Kill Nln Ptopl.
A fierce tornado Saturday afternoon
visited parts of Northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin. At Biwabik, on the
Mesaba range, Minnesota, nine were
killed and many others were hurt. The
funnel-shaped cloud passed over Biwa
bik with a power that was irresistible,
It tipped locomotives over, lifted can
off the track and carried them from 100
to 300 feet. Houses in the path of the
tornado were blown to atoms and the
INSURGENTS CONCENTRATING.
Mom Fighting to b Don In Luton Fill
plno Tactic Modeled Upon th
American Example.
Four troops of cavary and two com
panies of infantry have recently rein
forced Gen. Young in Northern Luzon,
where the insurgents nre concentrating
in the mountains of North and South
1 locos provinces, under the leadership
of Aglipay, the excommunicated priest
and renegade. Gen. Tino and Gen. Vil
laneuve, who had been quiet for some
time, nre now showing signs of becom
ing active, as the end of the rainy sea
son approaches.
Of late there has been considerable
scouting nnd skirmishing in the prov
inces of Abra nnd North Iloeos, though
without decisive results. It is obvious,
however, that the maneuvers of the Fili
pinos are more skilful than formerly,
and that the field tactics of the Ameri
cans are being followed by them.
This week the commission will begin
the work of revising the tariff, making
use of the results of the investigation of
the army board in this direction. It is
the intention of the commission to give
American trade a better chance than it
has hitherto enjoyed, owing to the high
duties.
The transports Sumner nnd Venus
have sailed for the island of Marin-
luquc, of! the west coast of Luzon, car
ving two battalions. The former has
ilreadv arrived there. The trnnsnort
Logan will reinforce the Twenty-ninth
infantry, now in Marinduquc.
DAVIS BUNCOED THE DOERS.
Induced Them to Believe That He Could So
cur Intervention ol the United State.
Douglas Story, correspondent of the
ondon Daily Mail with the Boers in
South Africa, publishes over his own
signature in that paper a remarkable
narrative concerning Webster Davis, ex
assistant secretary of the interior of the
united Mates, and his dealings with
Kruger. It is said that Story makes the
matter public at the desire of Kruger.
le charges that Davis permitted him
self to be introduced to the Boers as the
American secretary of state and recciv-
1 Irom them $125,000 because he im
pressed upon them his ability, by his
oratory, to arouse the people of the
United States to intervention in the
South African war. Mr. Story says:
"The theory advanced by Davis, and
on which the Boers founded their faith,
was that in the United States there was
a large, bitter anti-English public, com
posed of Germans and Irishmen. All
of these were, by assumption, pro-Boer.
If Davis could arouse them by false en
thusiasm, Bryan's election, he declared,
would be a certainty, and his interven
tion in behalf of the Boers an assured
corrollnry. To-dav such Boers as arc
still fighting remain in the field to await
the announcement of the result of the
polls on November ft next, nnd the ful
fillment of ebster Davis promises.
AT LEAST 200 HURT.
Vast Quantity ol Dynamito Explode at
Mine With Terrible Effect.
Seven thousand five hundred pounds
ol dvnamite 111 the powder magazine
at the Spruce mine, about half a mile
from F.veletli, Minn., blew up Sunday
afternoon. A hole 100 feet square nnd
25 feet deep marks the spot where the
magazine stood. The force of the ex
plosion was so great that there is not a
piece of glass over a foot square within
a radius ol two miles ot the mine. Prac
tically every window and mirror in
eleth was broken. The loss in the
own is estimated at $10,000. The dam
age done to the Spruce mine was about
$.1.ooo, the nunc laboratory and ware
houses being totally wrecked.
At least 200 people were more or less
seriously hurt from being thrown down
by the shock or hit by shattered glass,
The explosion was plainly felt at Biwa
bik, 12 miles distant. Its cause has so
far not been ascertained.
Will Go at Public Sal.
The secretary of the interior has dc
cided to dispose of nt public sale the
ceded lands of the Chippewa Indians,
adjoining the White Farth and Red
Lake reservations in Minnesota. These
lands comprise 33,310 acres of agricul
tural land, near the White Earth reser
vation, and 30.022 acres of nine land
containing 76,34,000 feet of pine. The
value ol this pine land is S2.t1.4nQ.
the Ked Lake land is 8.17 acres of
pine containing 488,000 feet, valued nt
$1,45. 1 lie aggregate area of land to
uc (usposcu 01 is 74,125 acres.
Lived Mlsorly; Left $100,000.
lames Howie, a Scotchman 70 years
old, who was employed for 50 years as
gardener for Dr. Bolton, the clergy
man and historian, at the old Ho ton
Friory in Pclliam, N. Y.. died Fridav
Irom old age and exhaustion.
Howie lived on 10 cents a day, and
paid only $1 a week for his room. When
his trunk was broken open after his
death, bonds and mortgages on property
in Iew Kochclle, remain and IScw
York city and shares in the New Haven
Kailroad Company were found amount
ing to nearly $100,000.
Germans Battle With Boxer.
The Chinese report that 2.000 Boxers
attacked two battalions of Germans at
Kau Ku Men. near Pekin. The Box
ers lost 400 men and the Germans five,
The latter are now said to be burning
the Hoxers villages around t ekin.
The Japanese expedition has return
ed to Pekin. It met with slight resist
ance at the village of aifa. Such ex
peditions have small effect on the Box
ers, who recongregatc in the villages as
soon as the allied torees leave.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
New coke works are starting up in
tne vicinity ol Masontown, Pa.
Youncstown. O.. will vote on a $400,
000 water works proposition in Novcm
oer.
W. J. Cotts, the forger just convicted
at Wheeling, W. Va., has applied for
a pardon.
The Uniontown (Pa.) flint glass works
closed down because the tayette Oas
company raised its price.
At Charleston, W. Va., Mrs. Harry
Ulaisel and her child were fatally burn
ea by an oil can explosion.
Women of Hartford, Conn., will not
join the W. C. T. U. because the use
of cider in nunc pie is interdicted,
RIOTERS INDICTED ill UNO JURY
CITY OFFICIALS SCORED.
Grand Jury Sayi th Akron Trouble Could
Hav Easily Been Averted Slxly
rlv Tru Bill Returned.
The special grand Jury, which for
five weeks has been investigating the
Akron (O.) riot of August 22, in which
the city building was burned and two
children killed, has filed report. The
responsibility for the riot is laid on the
police department and the assertion is
made that the character, number, ag
anil physique of the rioters was such
that nt any time they could have been
dispersed by a dozen courageous men.
It is stated that the saloons are to
blame, for except for them and the
liquor sold to the turbulent element the
rioters would not have been nerved to
commit their violent deeds.
After Columbia hall was burned and
dynamite fired in the entrance of the
city building, "There was no one," the
report savs. "to stand tin for Akron.
Her responsible and legal guardians had
I. fine lay prostrate before a band
of hoodlum. Hit fair name was
smirched for the want of moral and
mysiral courage."
It is found that Columbia hall was
fired by a man who deliberately used oil
waste. I he city building was tired by
three boys who brought the dynamite
used in an earlier attempt to destroy
the building. It is shown that Chief of
'oliee Harrison fired the first shot nnd
used both shotgun ami revolver. It is
stated that Mayor Young left the city
uilding by a rear basement door, and
went home before midnight, steeping at
the house of a neighbor. It is stated
that boys from 16 to 21 were the chief
rioters: that of the crowds standing
near not one in loo was guilty of wrong-
lnl nets, nnd nmong the rioters was not
one prominent citizen or church mein-
cr. 1 he police nre especially sco'rd
or attempting 10 neieno. ine city ouiiu
ng from the interior.
Councilman Georec Broilt and An-
rlrcw Halter, a Democratic politician
are the only well-known persons indict-
d. i-or the most part the others arc
it the criminal element and mere bo vs.
The grand jury examined 350 witnesses
and indicted 45 persons.
GAINS FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
The Ministerial Parly Increasing Its Majority
In Brlllih House ol Common.
The "Khaki" boom has swept th
country. Thursday s pollings are a tale
of increased Ministerialist and dimin
ished Liberal majorities. The Con
servatives gained 12 seats, against three
Rained by the Liberals. The working
men have replied in a decided voice in
favor of the war nnd of the annexation
of the republics. Even Liberal Scot
land is feeling the full force ol the
hock, the Glasgow lories being ns
much astonished as the Liberals at their
success in winning two seats. The Lib
eral representation from London will not
amount to more than seven or eight
out of 62 members. Chamberlain sc.it
the following message to Birmingham :
"This has been a great day for the Em
pire.
At midnight returns showed the total
number of elected to be 307 ns follows:
Ministerialists, 2H0; Liberals, including
l.aborites, 72; Nationalists. 45. Dr. A
Conan Doyle was defeated in Edin
burgh.
REBEL FLAQ OBJECTIONABLE.
Its Display is Sharply Condemned by tr
Union Veteran Union.
The Union Veteran Union, at Wash
ington, D. C, after sonic debate, have
adopted resolutions which read in part
as follows:
That the blending of these emble
matical colors, the entwining of the
Union flag with the Confederate flag,
must of necessity be futile nnd empty,
a mere mockery, an unseemly effort to
harmonize adverse principles.
"In the capacity of personal friends
and blood relations, we extend to those
who fought against us the full measure
of natural affection, and when they act
in the capacity of lawabiding citizens of
the Kepublic we cheerfully give to them
our recognition, but when they act 111
the capacity of Confederates, making
unpatriotic display of the Confederate
colors, we unhesitatingly decline to ac
cord to them the slightest recognition
or affiliation.
TROOPS AID HARVECTTRS.
French Government Sends He'p to Farmers
Whoso Crops Have Been Damagel
Heavy storms throughout France
have done much damage to property
and live stock. Many of the rivers are
overflowing, devastating wide tracts.
1 he vine-growing districts arc the
greatest sufferers. Over a large area
the vineyards have been terribly injured.
1 he vines have been beaten down and
in many cases the crops arc almost
ruined.
The damage done in the Haute Pyre
nees amounts to a disaster. The situa
tion is so critical in Burgundy, Au
vergne, the Rhone and the Saune vine
yards that in response to the urgent re
quests oi the growers the minister of
war, Cien. Andre, is sending troops to
aid in the harvesting.
Insane Mothers' Crime.
Mrs. Lillian Smith, of Inwood, a sub
urb of New York, while insane, shot
her two children, Ethel, aged 12 years,
and Theodore, nged 8 years, and then
committed suicide. Before shooting the
children Mrs. Smith tried to force them
to drink carbolic acid, but sucecded only
in forcing it down the throat of Mabel,
the youngest.
Long brooding over the prospect of
death is said to luvc been the cause of
the woman's insanity.
Tin Wag Seal Settled.
The American Tin' Plate Company
and the tin workers' union reached an
agreement Wednesday on wages for the
ensuing year. The rate paid will be
practically the same as last year, with
the exception that the catchers on all
tin pots and tinners and tinners and
catchers on all Thomas White pots will
be given a slight advance on the roll
trimming machines and eight roll stanl
ard pots.
CAPTURED BY ALLIES.
British Demanded Surrender ol Shan Htl
Kuan Russian Hav Another Balll
With Chinoie Hopeful Oul'ook.
The allies have occupied Shan ITil
Kunn, which was surrendered on tho
demand of the English warship. Tho
Russian general staff has rercived a dis
patch dealing with the operations north
01 ciiu wiu Miwang, which say thnt
Gen. Fleischer' division of 6,000 men,
with artillery, engaged the Chinese on
n vast plain covered with high grass.
The Russians lost two officers killed and
18 men wounded. Col. Artamanoff,
while rcconnoiicrinur with two snuad-
rons of cavalry, rnnic into touch with
M.wjo disciplined Chinese. Ihcse
Fleischer is expected to engage.
Gen. Grodekoff. the Russian com
mander in Amur, has word that Prince
Ching, with a view of facilitating peace
negotiations, has ordered the governor
of Tstoiknr to cease hostilities. Fifteen
Hundred Chinese surrendered, nnd no
further fighting in Manchuria is ex
pected. Gen. Chaffee ami the commander o
the Russian forces have notified Field
Marshal von Wnldersee of the with
drawal of the American nnd Russian
forces from Pekin. The Americans took
up part in the expedition against Shan .
iiai rvuan.
It is the conviction in trovrrnmrnt
circles at Washington that an agree-.
inriH nmong the powers in Chinese r.f
fairs is close nt hand. Germanv nnl
he United States are workinir in har
mony, nnd while there is no doubt that
r ranee has proposed a general plan of
dealing with the subject, it is believed
that it will be acceptable to this gov
ernment. Plans arc under consideration
by which the powers will see that the
Chinese government carries out it
promise of punishing the persons guilty
01 uic outrages.
ALL E0ERS NOT SUBDUED.
Their Guerrilla Warfare Catches Brlllih
Wagon Convoy and Railway Train.
Lord Roberts telegraphs ns follow
from Pretoria, under date of Tuesday:
A convoy of 22 wagons, escorted b
60 mounted men, was attacked by 140
nocrs, near ue jagers drilt, while on
the way to Vryheid. Twelve of the
men escaped. The fate of the others i
not known. The Boers derailed a train
near Pan Monday evening. Five Cold
stream guards were killed and 19 'n
iured. Commandant Dirksen, who ha
been opposing Paget, has surrendered,
after a personal visit to Komati Poo.-t
to assure himself that Kruger had gon
into Portuguese territory."
Hall Million Coal Deal.
For a consideration amounting to
more than $500,000 a syndicate of east
ern capitalists became the owners of
12,000 acres of Pittsburg coal land lying
west of Morgantown, W. Va. The title
is in James Millholland. trustee, until
a company is formed. The work of per
fecting titles has been going on for sis
months. W. S. Gufley, of Pittsburg,
one of the men intefYstcd, states that
the contemplated Cheat river railroad
lias virtually been abandoned because of
(he refusal of the Baltimore & Ohio or
Pennsylvania systems to co-operate
with the Chi at River Company.
Cotorcd Men In Control.
Wednesday for the first time since
they were given the right to vote the
negroes took entire control of the Re
publican organization in the 5tatc. K.
H. Deas (negro) displaced R. R. Tol
bert (white) ns chairman of the State
executive committee, nnd Robert Small
(negro) was re-elected vice chairman
over J. H. Wheeler (white).
Nine presidential electors were chos
cn, four whites and five negroes.
Adams Express Robbery.
The Adams Express Company' main
office at Marietta. O., was robbed
Wednesday while the agent was at lunch
and a delivery man, wdio was left in
charge, was sitting outside. The sum
taken is said to be between $20,000 ami
$30,000, but the officials of the com
pany say the amount was only $219.
They say the robbery was committed
by some one who knew the combination
of the safe.
CABLE FLASHES.
At Caracas, Venezuela all war taxet
on importations from foreign countrie
have been abrogated.
; Hamburg firms have bought 50,000
! S'lringfield muzzle-loaders from the
Unite'' St.ifs government.
Another case of bubonic olasue ha
been discovered in a part of Glasgow,
iiiuicrto iree trom tne disease.
President Castro has issued a procla
mation convening the congress of
Venezuela for February 20 next.
Marshal Leonhard von Blumcnthaf.
the last surviving prominent general of
the Franco-Prusaian war, is dangerous
ly 111.
It is estimated that the speculation
of the former Spanish minister, Salva
dor Lopez y Guijarro, amount to over
$100,000.
Representatives of Germany, Austria
and France will meet in Paris in a fev
days to reconsider the sugar bounty
question.
Mark Twain sailed Saturday for the
United States, thus terminating a nine
years' residence in England and on the
continent.
The government arms factories at
Spandau, Dantzic, Erfurt and Aniberg
are manufacturing a new rifle for the
German army.
Prince Albert, of Belgium, heir-presumptive
to the throne of that country,
was married Tuesday to the Duchess
cuzaoctn ot cavaria.
Fire caused $125,000 damage at Wet.
M 1 , l- a PrtrtltnH , n Vnlt!Hl...L:
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saved.
The agricultural section of the
committee of Berlin has agreed
tliA 111, ... fin Am.rian il-han
per metric ion.
ine Vatican autnorities itKom
with the recent burglary an ie
sreurities valued at H7.ori x-
more than a fifth of the ti
came from America.
furniture scattered for miles.
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