i new cm am m RENEWED ACTIVITY. General Gran) Invade Their Defense Northern Luton Oue Hundred Killed In Battle In Panay. La't week witnessed a very consider able increase in rebel and American ac tivity in the field. Many skirmishes oc curred, and several small engagements in northern and southern Luzon. The termination of the rains permits a re sumption of operations on both sides. The Americans are iiniieitakiug a se ries of aggressive measures against ;hc insurants, notably upon the island of Samar, againt lien. I.ukban, whoie forces hold the entire island, with the exception of three coast towns, each of which is garrisoned by two companies of the Twenty-ninth infantry and a pla toon of artillery. The rebels are con tinuually shuoting into the garrisoned towns, and our forces have not been lufliiciint to retaliate elTeclively. Gen. Wheaton. commanding the .le partment of Northern Luzon, is sending reinforcements to lien. Young's pro vinces, where the natives, under (ieits. Tinio and Agltpay. the ex-comnumi-cated Filipino priest, are showing sig'is of restlessness., deserting the domiciles they have occupied during the rainy season, and joining under compulsion of fear the insurgents in the mountains. Notable among the week's engage ments was Gen. Grant's advance, with Maeabibc and American scouts upon a rebel stronghold 35 miles north of Manila, which was defended by 200 in surgents armed with rilles. After skir mishing and fighting for the greater part of a day and night, the enemy was dislodged from the mountain fastness, and immense quantities of rice and con siderable ammunition destroyed. Fifty Filipinos wire killed and many wound ed. The Filipinos carried olT their dead. The American losses were 11 privates and one officer wounded, and one Maca bebe killed. liOXERS BEING PUNISHED. Imperial Troops Are Active Against the Rebels. Aro Afraid ol the Allied Troops. Reports from all directions in Chin-Li province indicate that the Imperial troops are at least making n show of punishing and dispersing the "Boxers." It is said in reliable Chinese circles that this movement, which was promised by Li-lIung-Chang on his return from the South, would assume larger and more general proportions ii the authorities were sure of security from attacks on Imperial troops by the called forces. Advices from Ping-Tu state that 5.000 men of Ytian's force have killed a large number of "Boxers" and there is scarce ly a market town but whose walls are adorned with the gha,stly evidence if punishment. Yuan's troops have also been active in Southwest Wu-Tin-Fu, where, it is said, that early in the sum mer an entire community of native Christians, numbering about 120 per sons, were massacred by ''Boxers." Yuan dispatched a force to that region recently and it is reported they found the perpetrators of the outrage, killing! 70 of tlieni. TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC. Ovor Hall the Residents ol a Pennsylvania Town Quarantined Families Prostrated. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging in the town of Cementon, Lehigh coun ty, Paj. Out of 200 families, 118 are quarantined. In 22 families every mem ber is prostrated with the disease. There are but two physicians in the town and they are exhausted. The town gets its water supply from the Lehigh river which, owing to the protracted drought, is believed to have become a stream of contagion. Cemen ton Is in danger of decimation. Com munities south of there, securing water from the same source, are seriously men aced. Disastrous Hotel Fire. Seven men were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the McGonigid house, a three-story frame building at Oswayo, Potter county, Pa., nt 5 a. m. Sunday, the hotel barn and the opera house. The three buildings were burn ed to the ground in half aft hour from the time the fire started. BOGUS COLLEGE OUSTED. Ml, Hope, Ohio, Institution Declared a Bus! neis Enterprise. The Ohio supreme court has handed down a decision in the suit brought on behalf of the State of Ohio by the at torney general against the officials of Mt. Hope college, at Rogers, Columbi ana county, O. The charges against the officials were that they were con ducting a business enterprise rather than an educational institution, and that their diplomas were on the market and purchase-able at all times by men whose schooling and mental attainments de barred them as legitimate recipients. The decision of the court sustains the charges against the officials, and de clares a judgment of ouster against the institution. Held Over Hot Stovo. Three masked men broke into the home of aged Joseph Kane at Sugar Notch, Pa., and because he would not divulge the whereabouts of his money, they held him over a red-hot stove until he was terribly burned. While he was being tortured Kane insisted he had no miiey. His tormentors then placed him on the floor, where he was found later by a neighbor. Reassignment of Troop. The troops which will return from Puerto Rico as a result of the abandon ment of the island as a military depart ' tneut. have been assigned to stations in this country as follows: Two companies of the Eleventh infantry will go to the Washington barracks, while two other companies of the same regiment will be ent to Fort McPherson, . Ga. Two troops of the Fifth cavalry will be as signed to Jefferson barracks, Missouri, and two other troops of the sajne regi ment will go to fort lUhan Allan, Ver f inont. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Diphtheria has closed the Schools at Bracburn, Pa. Canal Dover and New Philadelphia, O., may consolidate. A crusade against immorality has been prevalent in Japan. It is alleged that Indiana county (Pa.) records have been tampered with. Jerome D. Knapp, crazed by religion, committed suicide in Indianapolis, lnd. The Tyler County, W. Ya., Fair As sociation has paid a 25 per cc'.i. divi dend. The Ohio Match Company at Wads worth, O., will triple the capacity of i'.s plant. Fire detroved the business area of Phillippi, W. Ya., the loss being about $100,000. The steamer Mariposa brought $.?. 000.000 in gold from Australia to San Francisco. The fine new $-00,000 court house at Washington, Pa., was formally dedi cated Saturday. Lip Yueck, the murderer of Chief of Police Main, of Steveston, B. C, was hanged Friday. Lackawanna county civil war veter ans unveiled at Scranton, Pa., a $50, 000 soldiers' monument. President Kruger. of the Transvaal, will arrive in Paris Friday ami be given an immense demonstration. The island of Curacao. West Indies, was shaken up by an earthquake, but only slight damage was done. Thieves looted the show window of S. I.ocb, an F.rie, Pa., jeweler, and st ile about $1100 worth of diamonds. The Colbert colliery strike near Sham okin. Pa., is ended, the company tak ing back discharged union men. Hunters found a skeleton believed to be the remains of Burt Alvord, former leader of a band of train robbers in Ari zona. The United States transport Sheridan has sailed for Manila with 210 recruits. She also carries a large number of -i-vilians. Ballard Dick, aged 45 years, proprie tor of the Blue Sulphur inn, at Blue Sulphur. W. Ya., was found dead in Huntington. Samuel Sheppard. the Wirt county, W. Ya., wile murderer, was refused a new trial, and sentenced to be hanged March t, next. The United Mine Workers have de cided to endeavor to bring into their organization all the employes in and about coal mines. Sampson Sherman, residing at Des Moines. Ia., brother of the late John Sherman, is probably dying from a stroke of paralysis. A young woman of Jimtown, Fayette county. Pa., had the lower part of her face shot away. Her brother was cleaning a revolver. The board of inquiry has decided that the 25 lace workers, imported from England by Zionist John Uowie, should be returned at once. Information has been received that Britr. Gen. James F. Smith, of San Francisco, has been appointed collector of customs of Manila. John P. Holland, inventor of the submarine boat, intends to start his boats in March on voyages to Hurupc Mid the West Indies. P. W. Hunt, a farmer near Wheel ing, W. Va., cut his throat with a razor and was found dead by his wife, lie was temporarily insane. The steam whaler Grampus has ar rived at San Francisco from Unalaska. She brought 27.000 pounds of whale bone and oil from 13 whales. Frank Alderman, a wealthy real es tate dealer, walked into a store at Fort Wayne, lnd., bought and loaded a re volver and blew his brains out. The report is again heard that the Nationalist party intends to force Max imo Gomez into the presidency when the republic of Cuba is established. The Isthmian canal commission will recommend the Nicaragua route in its report, which will be ready for Con gress on the first day of the session. In Puerto Rico Antonio Quinones as saulted Jose Major, a letter carrier, with intent to rob. Major will probably die and Quinones is held in $10,000 bail. At Cincinnati a human skull, believ ed to be the head of Pearl Bryan, was found in' a thicket a few rods from where the headless body of the unfor-tm'"d tunate young woman was first discover ed. According to Commissioner of Im migration Ritchie, immigrants have ar rived in this country at the rate of 1,000 per last. cr day from all countries since July An international association for the furtherance of the exploration of Cen tral Asia is being formed. The princi pal seat will be at St. Petersburg, Rus sia. The veterinary college, one of the finest buildines of Cornell university. was badly damaged by fire early Tues day morning. Loss estimated at $25,- 000. Robert F. Hill, of Camden, N, T., convicted of murdering his wife, bowed and smiled at the judge when he was sentenced to be hanged January 16 next. At Geneva, 111., fire destroyed the farm machinery manufacturing plant of the Aptileton Manufacturing Company, Loss, $100,000; partly covered by in surance. The National convention of the Wo men's Christian Temperance union has been called to meet in Washington on November 30, which will also be a day of prayer. The Connellsville school board burned $t,ooo worth of school bonds over which there was a legal tight. Reports from the northwest show a general fall in temperature of 15 to 20 degrees with light falls of snow at sev eral points. This is the coldest weather of the season. Thirteen insane soldiers from the Phil ippines, who huve been confined in the Presidio hospital in California, have been sent to the government asylum at Washington, D. C. Stephen Kozlowiskey, a tramp, has begun suit at Butler, Pa., against the Pittsburg & Western railroad for $20, ooo damages for injuries received from a railroad detective. mm exists m I south ! NEGROES IN BONDAGE. On Hundred Persons on a Mississippi Plan, tatlon Not Yet Heard ot Their Emanci pation A Startling Story. Rev. J. H. Magec, a well-known colored leader, of Chicago, III., is authority for the statement that slavery still exists in the south. Dr. Mag:'C says that he can tell specifiically where the slaves arc held, and even produce three -negroes who only a few days since learned that they had been free ), and escaped from bondage, and his fearful charges demand the most re spectful attention. Wade Crowder, his wife and child, a little girl, are the three negroes who have just achieved their freedom, and that only after ai series ol incredible hardships and sufferings. They are now nt Jolitt, III., in the care of sym pathetic friends, anil everything possible is being done to ameliorate their wretched condition. The place from which they made their escape, and where he ha lived and worked as a slave, ignorant of the emancipation proclamation, ignorant of the I ml war, ami ignorant of the four teenth amendment, is situated about eighty miles northwest of Grenada Misssissippi river, with no railroad nearer than Grenada. Tallaliatchce is the name of the county, and Pascilla, a little hamlet ten miles away, is the nearest town, According to tile es caped slave, there are on the plantation one hundred or more negro slaves, ami owners of adjacent plantations have lotty or tilty apiece. l)n all these plantations the olil-timc methods are rigidly enforced. Th slaves have been taught to believe and .0 believe that they arc absolutely the property 01 their white masters. 1 licv are compelled to yield ininlicit obed lence to every command, no matter how tyrannical; the v receive no wages are leu irom troughs like pigs, ate guarded by armed patrols in order to prevent their escape; arc compelled to do work from 4 o'clock in the morning until sundown, anil lor the slightest rc missions, are beaten with the most fiendish brutality. Crowder says properly protected he will go back and prove all that he has said, and show the slaves, how they live, and how the law is defied. AMBASSADOR CHOATE'S PROPHECY. Nation That Stops to Fight Will Got Left Be hind In Peacetul Arts. Mr. Choalc, the United States am bassador to Kngland, distributed prizes to students of the mechanics institution at Burnley. Replying to an address from the mayor and corporation of Burnley he reciprocated the wish that Anglo-American friendship might never be disturbed. "I venture to express the belief," he saul, that luture national contlicts will be in the fields of industry and com merce rather than the held of battle and that any nation which overindulges in the destructive luxury of war will fall sadly llchind in the peaceful arts. Mr. Choatc added that it would not do to rely too much upon Anglo-Saxon supremacy, as Germany was making a bold bid. The United States, however., had no intention, he declared, of being left behind; AGED PREACHER SENTENCED. Unusual Development In a Missouri Pension Case Perjury Admitted. At Kansas City, Mo Rev. Alonzo Rich was in the United States District Court sentenced to two years' impris onment and fined $100 for perjury in a pension claim. Rich formerly lived in Michigan, where he was a traveling preacher. He married the widow of art Iowa soldier, who afterward secured a divorce from him for cruelty. Then to help her obtain a pension Rich per jured himself by swearing that their marriage was illegal, asserting that he already had a wife. In his trial it was proved that he had no other wife. When sentence was about to be passed Rich said: "I am an old man, 65 years of ace. broken in and body. I know I have sinned and deserve punishment. I throw my- sen upon the mercy ot the Court. A Cabinet of Giant. Lord Salisbury has at last finished his work of reconstruction, ad at least half of the cabinet are veritable Sons cf Anak, well over six feet in height and as bulky as they are tall. The cry of the reformer is for younger men to grapple with the newer tasks of emnire. Well. there were 1,160 years wisdom in the old cabinet, and there are 1,003 years in the new, an average of 61 years, as against 75. What more could one want in the way of youth and vigor? , A Deluge Prophesied. The 100 colored people of Evansville, lnd., are greatly excited over the oro- phecies of Mrs. George Overby, a col ored evangelist, who says the city of St. Louis and part of Evansville are to be swept oft the earth by a great flood be cause of the wickedness of the Deonle. Many of the colored people here are fasting and praying and hold meetings every mgin. Will Oppose Partisan Legislation The President Saturday for the first time expressed himself upon the pro posed reduction of representation in the south. Jt was in a decided tone that h said he hoped the partisan measur would not be pushed. Cotton King of Export. Cotton is king again and its export record for the month just passed makes all former records took insignificant. The movement of cotton itself was not only unprecedentedly heavy, but the price was phenomenal. During Octo ber, 1,312,574 bales of a total of 678,000, 000 pounds was sold abroad at an aver age price of 9.8 per pound, total $60, 391,107, a against 790.855 bales, 407,. 000.000 pounds, in October. 1800. sold at only 7 cent per pound or a total of 128,348,118. iMMENSEjixpoiu trade. 1 YOUNG NEGRO BURHED AT THE STAKE I N""LP0"T- : October Flguret Have Broken all the Previous Records Amounted In Value toll 63. 093,697-A Great Year. October exports have broken all monthly records in the history of the commerce of the United States, and the 10 months of 1000 ending with October also break the record of exports for the corresponding period of preceding years ami give assurance that the calendar year 1900 will show the largest exports in the history ol our foreign commerce. The total exports during October were $103,003,507, or practically double the exports of October, 1K94, whin these were $83,653,121. 1 lie total for the 10 months ending with October, woo, is $1,104,775,205, or practically double that of the 10 mouths ending with October, 1804. Fxports exceeded imports during the 10 months ending with October by $400,067,030, while in the corresponding 10 months of lS)4 imports exceeded ex ports by $1)6,663.369. The year rjoo will for the first tune in our history show an export of more than $100,000,- 000 value in every month of the year, while in the first time a single month October, 1000 passes the $150,000,000 line, against the highest preceding rec ord of $134,157,225. which wa.s made in March, woo. Agriculture, mining and manufactures have jointly contributed to this enor mous increase. The details for the nine months ending with September show that agricultural exports are $50,000,000 greater in woo than in 1899, manufac tures $00,000,000 greater, products "f the mine $7,000,000 in excess of the cor responding months of the preceding year, and products of the forest $5,000, 000 greater than in the nine month -A IS.K). KENTUCKY BANK CLOSED. A Trusted Employe is Said to Have Em bezzlod $201,000. United Slates Bank F.xamincr Tuck er has taken possession of the German National Bank, at Newport, Ky.. and posted a notice that the bank woiiTiT n -main closed pending an examination. Kxamincr Tucker also announced un officially that Frank M. Brown, the in dividual bookkeeper and assistant cashier, was missing, and that a partial investigation showed that Brown was short about $201,000. Brown had been with the bank 18 years, was one of the most trusted men ever connected with this old bank, and is stated by the experts that his operations extended back as far as !0 years. The capital stock of the bank is only $100,000. Brown's alleged short age is double that amount, and more than the reserve aiiil all the assets, in cluding their real estate. GREAT EXPENSE8 IN CUBA. Outlay Came Within $4,000,000 of the In come of Over $21,000,000. The Senate committee on relations with Cuba Friday held a session in com pliance with the Senate resolutions 111 thorizing the committee to investigate affairs in Cuba on account of the Neely defalcation. Col. Kdwards, chief of the insular division of the war department, said that it had been found impossible to prepare a full statement for this meeting. He presented a statement showing rpecipts of over $2 1, 000.000 from the date of the military occupation of Cuba to April 30, 1000. Of this amount only $432,075 was from the pos tal service, while there was over Jjo,- 000,000 from customs. The expendi tures amounted to $17,564,903, and of this sum only $605,661 was on account of the postal service. Boer to Locate In Southwest Africa. The German government has official ly informed the colonial council that it will gladly grant permission to 15,000 Transvaal Boers to trek through the Kalasan desert to territory in German Southwest Africa. Arrangements therefore are now be ng made to welcome the vanquished Boers as a new and valuable element for the colony. CABLE FLASHES. The bodies of 50 victims of the re cent typhoon in China have been recov ered. Bubonic plague has broken out in the interior of Cape Colony, South Atrica. King Oscar, of Sweden, is a victim of quick consumption and his death is not far off. , lecal separation has been decreed between the Prince and Princess Ari- bcrt, of Anlialt, Germany. In a railway collision near Gellivarc, Sweden, a conductor and six passen gers were severely wounded. Princes Tuan and Yu Hsien, two of the guilty Chinese anti-foreign leaders, were arrested while preparing tor thglit. At Caracas, Venezuela, Senhor Ca brera Malo, minister of the interior, was fired on by a man, receiving a slight wound. Dunug a bull fight by women at Pcdraguer, Spain, the benches collapsed and eight persons were killed and 200 injured. Russian troops came upon a robber republic, occupying a fortified city in Manchuria, and several engagements were fought. Russia has decided to send its won derful iceboat, Vermack, next summer in am attempt to cut jts way to the North role. The government reports that $1,563, 060 acres of land in New South Wales are under wheat cultivation arid that the total yield ought to be 16,000,000 bush els. Captain Coblenz, of the French armv. and M. Roger Luzaxche Dalzcy, fought a duel with swords, the former being thrice wounded. A great scandal has been caused in the Greek navy by the detection of the officers of a warship from Crete in the act of landing smuggled goods in a de serted part of the pieraeus, the port cf Athens. The Chilean congress ha voted an appropriation of half a million dollars to defray the expense of the representa tion of Chile at the exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. Y next year. MURDERED A GIRL. The Death of lit:le Colorado Last Avenged. Victim Dragged to Scene of His Crime. The Father Appled the Torch. Chained to a railroad rail set firmly in the ground on the exact spot where his crime was committed, Preston Por ter, Jr., or, as he was familiarly known, John Porter, Friday evening paid a ter rible penalty for assaulting and murder ing little Louse Frost, aged It, who was found a week ago at Limon, Col., with 14 stab wounds in her body. It was 0:23 o clock when the father of the murdered girl touched the match to the fuel which had been piled around the negro, ami 20 minutes later a last convulsive shudder told that life was ex tinct. What agony the doomed 16-year-old boy suffered while the tlamcs shriv eled up Ins llesli could only be guessed from the terrible contortions of his face and the cries he gave from time to time. 1 he executioners, who numbered about 300 citizens of Lincoln county, had not the least semblance of the ordinary mob. Their everv act was deliberate, and during nil the preparations, as well as throughout the sufferings of the ne gro, hardly an unnecessary word was spoken. Grimly they stood in a circle about the fire until the body was entire ly consumed, and then quietly they took their way back to Limon, whence th:y departed for their homes shortly alter ward. GRAVEYARD GHOULS. Michigan Cemetery Furnishes Nine Codies. Coffins Strewn Over the Ground. The authorities of Kalamazoo, Mich., have been informed of a horrible case of wholesale body-snatching which took place in the Springbrook ceme tery 111 ,ewago county. 1 he evidence at hand points to the fact that the work was done several days ago as the earth removed from the graves was Irozcu and the barren graves were half filled with snow. Nine bodies so far as known at present were exhumed and i ll but one were those of persons who had died within the past year. The ninth victim of the ghouls was discovered in a hedge fence about a quarter of a mile from the cemetery. She died about five years ago. The cemetery is in an isolated spot, and up to Wednesday there had 1v.1t been a burial there for nearly three weeks. It was when Isaac Dunton, '.he sexton, went to dig a grave that the dis covery was made. The remnants of the caskets, which seemed to have been knocked apart with an ax, were strewn about the graveyard. NICARAGUA MINISTER RETURNS. Ha Received Instructions to Help Along the Inter-Oceanic Canal. The minister from Nicaragua, Scnor Luis Corea, has arrived in Washington, after an absence of four months in Nica ragua, during which he conferred with President Zelaya concerning Nicaragua canal affairs. He says that the way is now clear of private concessions and border misunderstandings, so that direct governmental consideration of the wat erway may be taken up. He added: President elaya and the whole country are enthusiastic on the future of the great waterway. They are hope ful nnd confident that Congress will pass the bill authorizing the opening of negotiations with the countries interest ed in the canal, and the actual beginning ot construction. 1 have the necessary nstructions to facilitate in every desira ble way the co-operation between the governments. The difficulty between Costa Rica and Nicaragua has been en tirely removed." PORTO RICO NEEDS SCHOOLS. Commissioner Brambaugh Say 300,000 Children Need Educational Facilities. M. G. Brumbaugh, commissioner cf education for Puerto Rico, says th school system there includes 800 teach ers and 38,000 pupils, but there are 300 000 children of school age with school facilities, most of whom would enroll f they could. Commissioner Brum baugh says the hope of the island is in the public schools and that the great illiteracy in ruerto Kico must be reduc ed. Thousands of children arc half cloth ed, half fed and half housed. At least 80 per cent, of all the people are illit- crate, aim iue crying neco. is scnoois to reduce the appalling illiteracy. DODGED THE LYNCHERS. When Taken From Jail th Accused Negro Escape From Mob. A negro accused of poisoning Dr. Love, who died at Albermarle, N. C, several months ago, turned the tables on a mob which attempted to lynch him Friday night. On being defused en trance to the jail, the mob battered a hole in the wall. They forced the door of the negro s cell, dragged him out and pushed him through the hole where they had entered. hen the negro touched the ground he broke away from those guarding the exit, and, amid a shower of bullets, disappeared in the darkness. Englishman to Succeed Moody. Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, of Lon don, it is announced in a cable dis patch, has accepted an offer to come to this country as successor to Dwight L. Moody. Mr. Morgan, who is pastor cf the New Court Congregational chapel, of London, took part in the Northfield conference last summer. Dead Letter Office Report. The annual report of the superintend ent of the dead letter office shows an in crease of undelivered mail matter over the previous year of nearly 10 per cent. The number of pieces was 7,536,158, against 6,855,983 for the preceding year. Waldertee't Fat Job. Telegram from Berlin say: The reichstag bill providing for a third sup plementary credit on account of the China expedition fixe the salary of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee at 150,000 mark annually, with large ex tra. 7 . Ha Been Excieded Only One In Gove mend History Taxpayer Thanked for Their Prompt Settlements. The report of Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue Wilson lor the fiscal year ended June 30, 1000 shows a collection exceeded but once in the history of the bureau. The rereipts were $205,316,107, being $10,316,107 in excess of the esti mated amount, and $21,831,534 more than during the previous year. The percentage of cost of collection was t.58 as against 1.68 for last year,' being :he smallest in the history of the internal revenue service. Mr. Wilson estimate that receipts from all sources of inter nal revenue for the current fiscal year win approximate $205,000,000. He says: "I deem it my duty to make a new departure by saying that for the sttcccsslul and economical manner in which the internal revenue laws have been administered much credit is due to millions of taxpayers throughout the country for the generous, patriotic and prompt manner in which the taxes have been paid." The receipts from the various sources during the year were: Snirits. Jtoo.- 868.K17, increase $10,585,283: tobacco, $59,355,084. increase $6,861,876; ferment- en nuiior. 973.550,751, increase $4,906, 196; oleomargarine, $2,543,785, increase $587,166: filled cheese, $17,064, decrease $1,033: mixed Hour, $7,439, decrease, $401 ; other special taxes, including theaters, etc., $4,515,540, decrease $405, 052: legacies and distributive shares of personal property. $2,884,491, increase $--873-45.l: miscellaneous, $2,921, de crease $1,795. OLD EMPRESS TO RETURN. Tsl An Decided to Rolurn to the Capital. Russian Cattle. It is reported at Tien-Tsin that at imperial edict has been issued announc ing that F.mperor Kwang Hsu and the Empress Dowager Tsi Au will return to l'ekin. A Russian column of 330 men, with four guns, fought 2.000 Chinese troops, dispersing them and killing 200. The Russians had no casualties. Telegrams from Brussels say: In the Senate Wednesday the minister of for eign affairs, M. dc Favcran, said: "The government does not contemplate mili tary operations in China, nor the for mation of gendarmerie. We are seek ing to acquire a piece of territory, but as a simple settlement only, and with out political importance." At the end of a conference of the for eign ministers in Pckin Wednes day Mr. Conger said he wai encouraged to believe that pro positions would he submitted to the Chinese plenipotentiaries much gooner than he had heretofore hoped. Much progress was made toward reaching a settlement, nnd agreement was reached upon several questions. YIELD OF THE CROPS. Secretary of Agriculture Say Corn and Potatoo Are Above Average. The preliminary estimate of the aver age yield per acre of corn in 1000, ac cording to the statistician of the de partment of agriculture, is 25.3 bushels, as compared with an average yield of 25.31 bushels in 1899 and a ten-year average of 24.1 bushels. The indicated yield per acre in Ohio is 37 bushels, in Indiana and Iowa 38, in Illinois 37, in Missouri 28, in Kansas 19 and in Ne braska 26. The average as to quality is 85.5 per cent. It is estimated that 4.4 per cent, of the corn crop of 1809 was still in the hands of farmers on Novem ber 1. The preliminary estimate of the aver age yield per acre of buckwheat is IJJ bushels, against a ten-year average of 16.8 bushels. The average for New York and Pennsylvania, the two State of principal production, is 14 bushels. The preliminary estimate of potatoei is 80.8 bushels per acre, against a ten year average of 76.6 bushels. The esti mate on hay is 1.28 tons, which is the ten-year average. American Troops Leave China. The transport Sumner sailed from Nagasaki Wednesday for Manila with four troops of the Sixth cavalry and four batteries of the Third artille-y; Four companies of the Fifteenth infan try left Taku Wednesday for Manila. 'PI-- A , . I 1 lie uuiy vmencan iroops now in China are the legation guards at Pekin in command of Gen. Chaffee. ARRESTED IN TURKEY. Four New York American Charged With Revolutionary Plotting. Five Armenians, by name Bedros, Hufenun, Daragogly, Gghulfhamian and Garhassan, said to be from New York, were arrested recently at Dianbckir, lurxey, tor alleged complicity in a rev olutionary plot. All of the men pos sessed document of American citizen ship which the local officials confiscat- ' eel. In an eoffrt to extort confessions from the Armenians, they were crucified as a mockery on their Christianity, rope be ing useu instead ot nails. They hung for three hours, then, when thev con tinued silent, were cut down and thrown into prison, lheir friends are prepar ing a protest to the Turkish govern ment and further developments in the case are expected. Three Negroes Lynched. Three negroes who had. been arrested by Sheriff Haywood for waylaying and attempting to kill a .Mr. Mallcup at Jef- lerson, icx., were taken Irom the by unknown persons, and hanged to ' railroad bridge across Cypress Bas 1 lie negroes had confessed crime, 4 he mob that did overpowered the jailer and phone line so that the jaile communicate with the slierj Mexican Weaver Sr Owing to a reduction ill cotton mills at ruebla. operatives have struck at J - 1 . . 1 ... 1 lies nave laKcu measure trouble, which is threaten the cotton null owners to have a reason for closil until they can dispose of stock. Some nulls have, down or were running
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