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Coin prv tumult ttevlvw of the Import-
eat Happening f th Weak
Culled From the Talegranh Column.
American troops shared ,in the ae
eeult ou Pekin. '
Fire in Welling tou, Ohio. caused a
lose ot $30,000,
Frenchmeu accuae F.unland of dupll
ity at Shanghai.
Uuirrigated onipa in Idaho art) tut
taring fiotu drouth.
Another attempt was made to aaaa'
ai nl tba shah ot Persia.
Tba Typographical Union baa refused
to antar tba political Sold.
Two persona vera killed in au aocl
dent at tbe Paris exposition,
Tha population of Greater New York
ia shown by tha ceusus to be 3,437.901.
Four deaths and IS prostratioua aa a
mult ut another hot wave in Chicago.
Steel milla at WUniingtou, Data
art, abut dowu, affecting 1500 mun.
Tha Shanghai muddle is beginning to
assume a serioua aspect, international
troopa being lauded.
Puget atioud aalmon pack for thli
season ia about 199,000 cases, compared
with 528.000 for 1899.
I'hillp Koenigberger, a New York
tobacco dealer, cut bin throat iu a bar
ber aliop iu San Francisco,
Caleb Towers wai convicted of com
plicity of iu the Goebel murder and
sentenced to Ufa imprisonment.
Lord Kobeitii will be recalled from
Africa in October and appointed commander-in-chief
of the liritUh anny.
War in China caused tha clewing of
a larga mill in Hiddeford, Me., throw
ling 3,000 hauda out of employment.
Shipments of lumUr from tha state
of Washington for the year just ended
amount, approximately, to !fT,500,000.
Foreign anarchists, said to have
coma to thia country to asaaariiuate
President McKinley, are uuder arrest
at New York.
Kx-President Iguacio A intrude, who
waa deposed from the presidency of
' Veueauela and succeeded by Cipriauo
Caitro, the present incumbent, ia dead.
A forest lire near Kuchio pmoiit,
Wyoming, haa burned over a territory
eight by 10 mile in extent ami uow
threateuH two town. Two thousand
aheep and one nmu hava perished iu tha
flames.
rort Sherman. Jdano, u unsuitable
for an Indian school.
r.x-Seeretary Boutwell auuouncea
that he will vote (or Bryan.
Seven per wing were killed in a train
wreck near Grand Rapids, Mich.
Tha Frink alate went through tha
Washington Republican convention.
The war department publishes Fill'
pino correspondence captured by Fuua
aton.
Pritchard Morgan says the powers
have decided on a new form of govern
meut for China.
General Chaffee repotted the allies
at Ma Ton, 20 miles from i'ekiu, tiiree
or four days ago.
Preparation!) to extend the railroad
down the Yukou from White Horse to
Selkirk are in progress.
China will vend a imh ofhcial to
Tnng Chow to arrange for delivering
the foreigners to the allies.
Foreign and domestic wheat luarketr
hava a downward tendency, and tfu
lo!al situation continues dull.
Oregon supreme court decides that
district attorney's fee must be dejiosit'
ed with clerk when divorce suits ure
tiled.
The transport Thomas, which left
Nagasaki August 10, will bring 216
aick and four insane soldiers from the
Philippines.
Severe floods have occurred in Japan
and it ia reported that 2,200 persons
hava been drowned. Railway traflic ia
interrupted.
Three Uvea were sacrificed by fire as
the result of an explosion of natural
gas in Thirty-fourth street, Chicago.
Three other persons are supposed to be
in the ruins.
Secretary Gage, of the treasury de
partment, ays that as long ua the
United States maintains the gold stand
ard and keepa the public credit good it
can retain for its own use all the gold
It needs.
A severe haihttorm destroyed 40,000
acres of the finest grain iu North Da
kota, even that cut and in the ahock
being destroyed. Many of the hail
atons were from three to four inches in
diameter.
Maurice Brennan, who is under ar
rest at St. Louis, chargeil with being
a dynamiter, waa indtmtifled aa one of
the men connected with the blowing
tip of the street cam in the southern
part of the city several weeks ago.
Over 5,000 Roumanian Jews are en
route to Canada." The majority are
penniless.
President MoKinlcy and the king of
Portugal exchanged congratulatory
messages over the new direct cable. '
II. N. Rosa who washed out the first
gold in the Black Hills 25 yeara ago is
now the marshal at Custer City 8. D.
Statistics compiled by the Railway
Age show that 28 companies control
147,000 miles of railroad in the United
States and Canada.
In issuing his proclamation for Labor
Day, Gov. Atkinson, of West Virginia
supplemented it with a score or more
of quotations from the Bible.
The Homestake mine at Lead City,
S. D., haa produced $65,000,000 in
gold in 23 yeara and paid $9,000,000 in
dividends to its owners.
Minneapolis manufactured 14,290,
000 barrels of flour in 189060,000
more than ever before. The saw mills
but 103,000,000 feet more lumber than
in any previous year and the bank
clearings were $79,843,000 greater tha
total being $589,705,000. .
LATER NIW8.
Tha foreign auvoyi art on thalr way
to Tien Tain.
Tha ILga of tha allies float from tha
Pakltt Imperial palace.
Two wen went lunaua In Dai Moines,
la., on account of beat.
Five ii;u war smothered In 00a 1
mina at laxaquah, Wash.
Fitatmuioua refused to taka $100,000
to loaa bis fight to Sharkey.
Forest ftrea caused $10,000,000 dam
age in Colorado and Wyoming.
Seveu pemous worn killed in a Night
traiu ool Union at Kenacio, N. Y,
Tha new treaty with Spain haa lu
signed by Minister Storer at Madrid
The United States government haa
rejected LI Iluug Chaug'a peace terms
Democratic papera demand tha with
drawal of American tmopa from China
Six men lost their Uvea by tha cav
lug in of a wall at Uuthrla, Oklahoma
Chinaaa vh-eroys ask that no ludlgul
tie ba ahowa tha bmueror and am
presa.
lutauaa heat killed four persona in
St.Lculs, where tba thermometer regis'
tered UU degraea.
Tha trauaport Sherman left San Fran'
Cisco (or Nattasaki with 1.000 o til oars
and men for China. '
Uuoon Wilhehniua. of Holland, la
iiKased to Priuce Frederick Adolf, of
MeckUuburg-Schwariu.
St. I'aul's txpulation. according to
the United States censua, ia 108,032
that of Minneapolis, 202,718.
Several Uvea were lost and much
property destroyeil by terriflo electrical
wii!'J ami rain storms in Maryland.
Colonel Marchand, of French Fashooa
fame, haa been appointed to the genera
staff of the China expeditionary force
One fireman dead, lour Injured and
$30,000 worth of property destroyed ia
the work of a firebug in two tires at
l'vona, 111.
Oiwatioua hava lu resumed at all
the i.rorie of tha National Glass
Company at Pittsburg. Tba tesuinp
tiou ifives employment to 4,000 men.
Sol Bloom, a music publisher of Chi
csgo, has brought suit lor jjo.uuu
damage against the Unioti rnstauiaut
and hotel for refusing to serve him
while ha waa clad in a shirt waist and
minus a oont. Tha inauager of the res
tauraut, wheu questioned regarding
the refusal, said that patrons wearing
shirt waists would otily be served at
tables adjoining the main diuiug room.
No person would be permitted to enter
the diuiug room unless wearing a coat
Count von Walderwe started for
China.
Ronmania and Bulgaria are on the
verge of war.
The emperor and empresa dowager
have left I'ekiu.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, will
support McKluley.
A tornado did great damage in ser
eral Wisconsin towns.
Ex-Senator John J. Ingalla left
eittate valued at $'J50,000.
an
Japanese are beiuuing to distrust
the Continental F.uropeana.
Chicago's population as shown by
the United Status census, la 1,098.575.
More rebels are reported to have sur
rendered in the United Mates of Co
lombta.
A drunken Kansas doctor killed three
persons, aud was shot dead by a sher
iff's son.
William M. Johnson, of New Jersey,
succeeds Perry Heath as assistant
pustmaster-guueral.
Lord Roberts issued a proclamation
prescribing severe penalties fur Boers
who violate their oaths.
Ksiiiiiatci of the shortage in the
Pacific roast salmon pack vary between
000,000 and 1,000,000 casea.
A posoflice employe killed a Kansas
City woman and wounded her husband
as a result of a quarrel over rent.
The Chinese government asks that
Conger or some other American be ap
pointed to open peace negotiations.
The Willamette valley hop crop ia
practically out of danger. The yield
will be heavy aud prices ..re advancing.
The state Board of agriculture or dura
the erectiou of 150 additional stalls for
livestock exhibit at the state fair at
Salum, Or.
Caleb Powers, ex-secretary of state
of Kentucky, issued a statement in
which he declares his innocence, aud
says he bad a poltical trial.
The reported of the plague iu Manila
for the two weeks ending July 17, as
just reported to the marine hospital
service, ia aeven new cases and five
deaths. Oi the new cases four were
Filipinos aud three Chinese.
The Kansas Citv firemen, in a class
created at the Paris exposition for paid
firemen, won the world's champion
ship cup. The officers recoived gold
medals, aud silver medals and the
money prize, 600 francs, was divided
among the officers and men. The tnin
ister of war, General Andre,
presented
the prizes to Captain Hale. Portugal
won the volunteer championship.
Mrs. Samuel Swartwood, wife of
railroad engineer living in Wilkesbarre,
Pa., haa just given birth to her 25th
baby, 20 of whom are living.
Lewis Wilkius, a farmer near St.
Paul, thinks he's the tallest man on
earth. He was six feet when 10 years
old, and ia now 8 feet MM inches.
Cliauncey Depew in London denied
that American railroads are over capi
talized, and says every business in the
United States is healthier than ever
before.
Denver reports the heaviest tourist
travel iu years.
Report comes from Cuba that ' the
tobacco crop ia the biggest ever grow
on the island. -
Extra precautions have been taken
to preserve President McKinley from
attacks of cranks and criminals. He
was not consulted about the arrange
ments.
The treasury receipts of the Philip
pine islands during May, 1900, accord
ing to a statement made by the division
of oustoma and insular affirs of tha war
department, were $706,829,
REPORF OF CAPTURE OF PEKIN
Chaffee and Remey
Information.
Send
SMALL L9S3 OF AMERICANS
Vacla law's Trnup Kuterml lb !.
tlsa UrvitMiW mi 5 O'elevk aa la
Kulw( of the MIH,
Washington, August 21. From Can
eral Chaffee today tha war department
received oflleial tmufirmation of tha (all
ot I'ekiu aud the rescue of tha besieged
legatioiiera. Tha dispatch of tha
American eommauder waa not long,
and coutaiuad but law details, but tha
nucoucealed satisfaction with which tt
waa received by officials of tha 'admin
ietratiou indicated clearly tha anxiety
that had beau euftendared by iu pry
htagaa sUance, Ilia last commuuloa
tloa to tba government prior to tha re
ceipt of today's advices was dated Aug
uat II, at Ma Tou, almost 30 miles faum
I'ekiu, Tha explanation of his 'siteuoe
la suggested iu"ftd views received by tha
navy department today from Admiral
Remey, who, telegraphing from Taku
on tha 18th, aaya tha telegraph line be
tween that poiut and Pakin ia iu
tenanted, ,
lb cablegram from Admiral Remey
contains soma important Information
not mentioned by General Chaffee
Ha niakea tha startling statement, ou
Japanese authority, that the Inuer oity
of Pekin was Mug bombarded by the
allied forces. Admiral Remey aaya
also that tha dowager empresa ia da
tatued iu the inner city by Priuce Yun
gedo. Advices received last night
trom the foreign offieo at Toklo, Japan,
by! the Japaueee legation iu thia city
cou firms and amplifies previous ac
counts of tha capture of Pekin by tha
allied troops.
Following is tha text of tha dispatch
from Geneial Chaffee, aa made public
bv tha war department:
'"lite Foo, Augnst 21, Pekin. An
gust 15 We entered legation grounds
at 5 o'clock last uight with fourteenth
and light battery. Fight wounded
during day's lighting, Otherwise all
well. CIIAFFKK."
The dispatch, which waa received
during the morning, was transmitted
immediately to the president at tha
white house. He expressed his gratltl
caUoii at the news it contained, par
tioolsrly at tha small loss sustained by
tba Auierloau troops.
It will ba noted that the dispatch
indicates that tba American troops an
tered the lunation grounds at 5 o'clock
on the evening of the I4tb lust. By
the WsHhiugton officials ami by several
legation ofliciala to whom It waa shown
the date of General Chaffee a tximmu
uicatlou is nua riled aa an error of
transmission. It ia believed that tha
date "15" should l "10." All prev
ious advices, otliclu! ' aud unofficial,
have indicated that the legations weia
relieved ou the evening of tha 15th,
Wednesday, after a day ot sharp fight
ing. Minister VVu, the Chinese repre
sentative, sort Minister Takahira, l
Japan, were quite potiltlve on thia
point, all their official advices being
that tha entrance to the city of Pekin
waa effected early in tha evening of
Weduesday, the 15th iust.
Hl( i riant Hnrnxl.
Alexandria. Iud August 21. Tba
entire plaut of the Kelly Ai Manufac
turing Company, valued at $800,000,
waa destroyed by fire tonight. It was
the largest ax factoty in the world,
employing 900 men wheu running at
foil (one. The insurance ou the plant
is thought to be $450,000. The tire is
thong it to have originated from au
overheated boiler. The lire was dis
covered by the watchman, and the
woodwork between the boilers and the
grinding room waa ablate. The plant
was thoroughly equipped with an au
tomatic sprinkler, but owing to the
steam in the boilers being so low it
would not work. The great establish
ment was divided br a railroad switch,
and all of the buildings ou one aide
was burned, l lie nurueu district in
cludes the forging, drop, grinders, pol
ishers ,aud pattern makers' depart
ments. In addition to the buildings,
machinery and half of the finished
stock, $150,000 worth of manufactured
goods were destroyed.
Nlaln With a Hammer.
New York, August 21. Catherine
Scharf, aged 22, waa beaten to death
with a hammer iu her rooms on the
second floor of 674 Second avenue,
some time between 7 P. M. and mid
night Saturday, the body not being
found until earlv this morning. Her
brother made tha discovery when he
came home after midnight. The wo
man's body lay in a pool of blood, face
dowuward. Near by on the floor was
a bloody hammer and the rooms bad
been ransacked of everything of value.
It is the opinion of the police that a
thief entered the bouse and waa sur
prised in his work by the girl aud that
he killed her to prevent identification.
Aberdeen, 8. D., August 21. A
severe wind and rain storm is raging
in this city. At Columbia consider
able damage was done. The spire of
fthe Congregational church was blown
off , ami numerous barns und other
buildings unroofed.
But to Gain Information.
,C Cape Town, August 31. General De-
wet's demand for the surrender of the
I British force at Commando Nek is con
I sidered as a pretense of gaining infor
mation. Finding that Commando Nek
was strongly garrisoned, Dewet re
lumed his march northward, shadowed
by General Baden-Powell,
Nf ross Itlad From Haat.
Louisville, Ky., August 81. Two
negroes died at Louisville today from
heat. The maximum was 98.
Itiibarts' Pruolamatlon.
Pretoria August 21. Lord Roberts'
proclamation reciting the fact that
many have broken the oath to maintain
neutrality, and that the leniency ex
tended to the burghers ia not appre
ciated, warns all w ho break their oaths
in the future that they will be punished
by death, imprisonment or fine. He
declures that all burghers in districts
I oconpied by the British except those
' who take the oath, will be regarded as
prisoners of war and transported, and
' that buildings on farms where the ene
my or his scouts are harbored, will ba
liable to ba raced.
STATEMENT OF POWERS.
Mrs His Trial Was rlltUal
aa4 a
Jealelal rare.
Georgetown, Ky., August 22. Ca
leb Powera issued a statoiuaul to tha
public touight, la which he aayst
"That oua of tha greatest Judicial
farces kuuwu to history has bueu an
acted here in my trial, under tha forms
of law, no well-informed man can
doubt, luuooeuce Is no shield with
$100,000 and tha methods of Campbell'
ism agatust you. Tha rectitude of
one's past Ufa counts for naught. Thay
lay Taylor ia guilty, because ba waa
at bis office, and that I am guilty be
cause I was away from wine. This
has been a political trial throughout,
for political purposes, aud no greater
mistake haa bmui made by tha IHniio
cratlu party since thay robbed of tha
offices to which wa war fairly elected
by tha people, rroin tha beginning ot
tha campaign uutil now I hava stood
with what little of tmrftrt-f haa bad
for tba rights and librtia of tha peo
ple. That ia my or! tie. That is tha
only offauaa I hava omn Utel.. That
.... .. .. . . . !
is iue ouiy witng rt 7-iava
against ma, 1 swore to that
i Hiysalt la
testimony. I hava never bad, ami I
now have no apologyta jjisaa for ba
lug trueHo tha trust impoaud upon ma
by a majority of tha voters ot thia
state. History will draw i's dark
Hues around those alio have outraged
me aud disgraced the judiciary aud
blacktued the history of the state."
25,000 PACKAGE GONE.
Last Suiar Kilins Calves; ami
tturllMglun, a.
Chicago, August 32. Soniewhera
betaeeu Chicago aud Burlington, la.
au ex presa package supiKised to cou
tain $25,000 ia alleged to hava gone
astray. The Commercial National
baukof thia city sent the package to
the Burlington ageut of tha Chicago,
Burlington A (Juluoy railroad a few
days ago on orders given from tha Bur
lington headquarters iu this city. The
money was scut by tha Adams Kspresa
Company. When tha money was sent
fiom tha Chicago bank It was wrapped
In tha nsual way in which money ia
transmitted. In dua course of time tha
Burliugton agent of tha railroad re
ceived a similar package, but It con
tatued nothing by brown paper. Tha
wrapir coulalnlug tha worthless p
ir was returned to Chicago and tha
hauk officials are certain it is not tha
una sent by them, Representatives of
tha eoriMiratioua iu tern, tod in the mat
ter siaiot a buay day today luvastlgat
ing the mystery of tha missing iack
age, and laying plana for tha arrest ot
tha robber, if tha money waa stolen
between Chicago and Burliugton,
iitraulK la Mamas.
Kansas City, Augnst 22. Two-thirds
ot Kaunas, west of tha three eaatermost
tiers of oountioe, ia exrienoiug one
of the most severe droughts in the his
tory of tha state, and tha general opin-
on is that tha Kansas corn crop will
a the smallest in proportion to its re
quirements fur feeding, that has been
raised iu many yeara. In 1899 them
was 225,000,000 bushels. Secretary
Cobuni's report of conditions in Au
gust indicated a yield this year of
a!aut 143,000,000 bushels. Since
then there have been two weeks of hot,
Iry weather, which has further materi
ally reduced conditions, aud tha most
liberal estimates ot well-informed men
on change do not exceed 10,000,000
bushels, while many place the crop at
not over 75,000,000 bushels. Tha plow
ing for winter wheat is delayed by the
dry condition of the soil. Pastures are
Iry aud stock water in many cisterns
ia scarce.
I'arlo Ulna fttrtkor A.k AM.
New fork, August 23. Tim Social
Democratic party received a letter to-
lay from Alwlu llnshler, secretary of
the Federation Libre, a central labor
body of San Juan, Porto Rico, asking
for aid on behalf of a number of strike
leaders who were arrested there. Tha
letter stated that the cigar makers,
painters, carpenters and bricklayera
were ou a strike in San Juan, aud thn
strike was beginning to spread over the
whole island,. In all, 30 strike lead
ers were arrested, lhe subject waa
brought np at' today's meetiug of the
'antral Federation Union, whore tba
etter was read, aud it was decided to
send a contribution to tha Porto Rico
strikers aud also to ask President Mo
Kinlcy to aotln the matter.
Boillos I.eeatad-Mlna HUH llurnliis;.
Mahoney City, Pa., August 22. Af
ter liiauy hours of desperute battling
with fleadly white damp, one of the
uccessiva resouiug parties succeeded
today in locating the bodies of George
aud William Thompkiss ami Charles
Iritis, who were entombed in tha burn
ing colliery. The 60 mules which
were iu the mine when it was discov
ered to be on lire are also dead, and
were raised to the surface today, Tha
fire is still burning fiercely, and tba
mine ofliciala are bending every effort
to extinguish tha (lames,
Ion Killed Vatitsr. ;
Lincoln, Neb., Auguut Juincs
N. Buruham, publisher of the Wyiuor
ean, at Wymore, Neb., sliot and killed
his father, Captain Collins A. Burn
ham, at their home today, A coroner's
jury immediately exonerated tho son.
Both father and sou were prominent
political workers in the county iu
which they reside. The killing was in
soif-defeuse. lhe son save himself to
j the oflloers. -
Collision III I'arls,
Paris, August 20. A sireet-oar col
lision, resulting in injuries to 85 per-
sons, occurred lust evening at the cor
ner of the Boulevard des Batignolca
and tha Rne St. Petersburg, where
electric and horse lines cross. All the
j injured will recover. No American
was hurt.
The United States army will aid des
titute miners at Cape Homo, feeding
there those that cannot be gotten home.
It. Louis Fair Fund.
. St. Louis, August 22. Plans for the
resumption of work on the world's fair
fund of $5,000,000, which has been
vexatiously interrupted, are : nndor
duily consideration by Chairman D. R.
Francis and William H. Thompson,
of the two principal oommittes. Mr.
Francis expects to sail for Paris about
September 15, and hopes to have things
in such shape by that time that the
fund will be pretty complete. In fact,
one reueon he delayed his departure
was to assure himself that there would
be no hitch.
(Hi
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Disastrous Storm at the Town
of Sheboygan. ;
SWEPT AWAY ALL IN ITS PATH
rra44 by lateese Itaat-Tkal Na Uaa
Was KIIUil H..WI AlNtast a Miracle
- l-srje I'ruavriy toss.
Milwaukee, Wis,, August 22. A
pec la I from Bheboygau, Wis., tavs:
A terrlllo wind storm struck the city
Ibis ftfternoxm. Tha storm name very
suddenly from tha north. Fight larga
uuil'llugs were completely wrecked aud
200 small bouses ware blown dowu
The hats will be more than $300,000,
Al boon It was dark at night and iu
t(m.l" bt. A few momenta before I
j',U the stcrm broke, iuctvasiug in
A .ii'ti: a . t rttedo was blowing
1 w.
n i wi re thiown dowu and fences
Kt' sign burled hundreds oi (oat. lhe
t i n tgd Jor some minutes aud
pw 'i sit W-ik- south. The storm
started iu tha western tout of the city
near the cemetery, and swept down ou
to the south side and off into the lake
It was two miles wide and wrecked
everything In Us path. AU waa over
In 10 minutes, although it seemed hours
to tha panid-atriokeu people.
Tha naif of the large warehouse of
tba Crocker Comiatny waa blown off
and thrown against the large factory
Tha building- was wrecked aud a larga
stock ot chairs was left without protec
tion from the rain, which lei I in tor
rents.
Tha street car barns weie wrecked,
and street rare wire smashed to pieces.
The electric wires were ail blown
down. Tba naif of the mallhoiise ol
tha Ketinld-Schrlver Brewing (omiiauy
waa lifted from the building, carried
over 160 yards and thrown into the
treat. It was carried over the huge
ventilators of tha brewery. The
American Folding Bad Company's plaut
was demolished aud the sheds In the
SlmUll & Sous brickyard were blown
down and the debris scattered in every
direction.
The storm struck the South Side Lu
thrran cnunn, and me steeple was
blown down on to two residences,
smashing in tha roofs. The Fourth
ward school bouse, a beautiful build
lug, was completely wrecked, one side
aud tha front being blown iu, causing
the roof to full ami cnnhlng the floors
down into the cellar, The plaut ot
th Opeteulerg A Snuneman Company
was partially wrecked. Several freight
cars standing on tha Northwestern rail
road tracks were blown over ou their
tide.
That no one was killed auetns almost
a miracle. Tha wind wrecked build
ing after building, with the greatest
rapidity, and there was little warning
of tha approach of the storm. The po
pla, iu every case ware out of their
homes before the storm broke, and those
who were struek by dying debris were
only slightly Injured. In the factories
tho employes ware iu many cases
bruised ami cut (rout wreckage.
The 6-year-old son of Mrs. Thomas
Atkins had a remarkable escape The
bouse was torn into shreds and scat
tered alaiut in the Mad way. What
was left ot the bouse, waa only about
three or four timbers where tha build
tug stood. The child waa burled In the
ruins, and when found was staudiug iu
tha comer, with timber piled in front
of him iu such a manner as to shield
him, aud he escaped with only bruises
Four box cars iu the Chicago Jfc
Northwestern yard were carried off tha
track and stood straight on end. Soma
of the bricks from the Crocker Com'
pany's warehouse were throwu with
such force against the adjoining build
iuifs that they passed through the sides
of the buildings and yet uo oua was in
jured. Other portions of the building
of the Crocker Company were torn to
pieces. There is scarcely a whole pane
of glass left in the tornado district.
Telephone, electric light and trolley
wires and poles are toru down, aud a
atreet oar has not run iu the city since
the storm struck. Sidewalks aud trees
were carried away like chaff.
The principal sufferer is the Crocker
Chair Company, whose loss is $250,
000. Thru Bathsrs lrownd.
Cape May, N. J., August 22. F.llen
Young, Salina Newhouser and Albert
J. Schwab, all of Philadelphia, were
drowned in the surf tit Cape May poiut
today. They were bathing aud got be
yond their depth, Schwab made a
noble effort to save his companions,
holding their unounsclous laidios above
the water toi some time. Just as a
boat, which went to their rescue,
reached his side, ho loonimed bis grasp
on t). women and sank out of sight.
The vpiunu were taken ashore aud,
altr-'WU'b. the naoul methods for resusci
t j ig drowning peopl-j were resorted
to,' they could not bo biought back to
t'aUlmn'Xssasslnntal.
Wichita, Kan. Augnst 22. Mr,
II u IT, cattleman and farmer, was shot
dead In his home iu Custer county,
Oklahoma, Fiiday uight by some one,
Who tired through an open window,
The herd there is said to be the cause
of the crime and more trouble is (eared.
Hersjtinnt "Burk" Taylor.
Washington, August 22. Sergeant
"Buck" Taylor, 42 years old, known
as "King ofthe Cowboys," a dashing
cavalryman," and one of the bost-known
of the Rougl) Ridors, died at Provi
dence hospital today of consumption,
the result of illness contracted during
the Cuban campaign. Taylor's correct
name is said to have been Berry F.
T'utjum, He was the sou of a former
well-to-do merchant of Montgomery,
Ala. . . s
Hurnrd to Dwnth. ' .
Helena, Mont., August 22. Tom
Martin and Barney Keegan npset a
lamp while fighting in a room in the
Hamilton house, at Hamilton, and sot
fire to the building. Both were burned
to death. The hotel and three adjoin
ing hotels were burned. Loss, $20,000,
partially insured.
trlka In Wales.
Cardiff, Wales, Augnst 23. Owing
to a strike of some 2,000 Tuff valer rail
road men, traffic on the railroad has
been stopped, and there baa been some
violence against volunteer workers.
THE PIQHT AT CATUBIO.
Ftrtlselar at the Asaaalt aa the lei
tierrlsaa.
Manila, August 98. It bai been ex
pected thai some ot the 376 garrisons
the United States maintain In theae
Islands would sooner or later be sur
roouded by the enemy and attacked
with such determination and advan
tage la point of numbers and ground
that the American soldiers would be
powei lass to resist the onslaught. This
haa happened at Catublg, on the Island
of Samsr, aud the detachment of the
Forty-third volunteer infantry, the
troops in question, lost 20 ot its 80
man. No oue is surprised at thia re
sult, considering the cricumstances;
but surprise Is manifested that a simi
lar fata has not overtaken other email
garrisons in Isolated towns. The offi
cial report ot the Catublg incident la as
follows!
"In the Catublg engagement, in
which the Insurgent! numbered alaiut
600 men with 300 rifles and one can
non, our men gave an heroio account
af themselves by killing more than 100,
Our loss was III killed and five
wounded. The detachment was at the
time quartered iu the convent. At 6
A. M April 15, almost simultaneous
ly fire was opened upon it from the
bills on both sides, as well as trom
every available part ot the town. It
continued all day and night, aud was
vigorously resumed al ft o'clock the
following morning. At 6 A. M. th
eauuon began firing nails, pieces ol
cbalu and iron scraps. This sort ol
attack continued until the third day,
when a large number of the lusurgeuts
got into the adjoining church. With
10 volunteers Sergeant George chargeil
on the church, killing a large numbei
of men, but he could not hold' it. From
the windows ol the same the Insur
gents threw a quantity of hemp satu
rated with kerosene aganisl the aide
ot the convent, aud thus set it on fire.
Aa thia building soon became unten
able, the detachment attempted to es
cape to the river and cross (t; and here
occurred its first considerable losses.
All of the men of the detachment, ex
cept Sergeaut Hall, Corporal Carson
and 13 privates attempted to get ink
a boat, and In so doing they wen
killed, Sergeant Hall and his mer
began intrenching themselves near tlx
river, aud there that little band held
out (under Corporal Carson), two day
longer, in tha face of most adverse cir
eumstances, nutll rescued.' Sergeaut
Hall and two others ware killed, and
two were wounded during that period
NEW TREATY WITH SPAIN.
Agala We era aa FrUadl Terras
War Lata Beamy.
ritk
Washington, August 23. Mlnlstei
Storer, at Madrid, informs tha state
department that a treaty of amity
commerce and navigation and general
Intercourse has been signed, provision
ally, bv the minister ol state and him
self. This practically marks the last
step tu the complete restoration of re
lationa Mween Spain and the United
Statea
The new treaty modernises the treaty
relations uetween the two nations,
Prior to the eaveiance of all ootumuni
cation upon the declaration of war
with Spain, the two governments were
proceeding nnder terms oi a treaty ne
gotiated in the last century, it wst
very cumbersome, and in some reetieots
wholly inapplicable to existing oondi
tions, one provision, for instance, relat
ing to trade between the United State-
em! Florida as a colony of Spain. Sev
eral efforts were made to remedy the
ilef ecu, but only oue was partially sue
oesaful, the adoption of the Cuahiug
protocol. The last attempt waa made
when Mr. Olney waa secretary of state,
but the strained relations growing out
of the Cuban affairs caused the .effort
to fail.
It is understood that Minister Store
negotiated with Dupuv de Lome, ex
Spanish minister to the United States,
and now under secretary of state, who,
of course, Is thoroughly oonveraant
with all the conditions of trade likely
to arise.
Although the general provisions arc
not known lu detail at tbis stage, it i
understood that the instrument pro
videa the usual facilities fur intercom
muulcatinn, aud probably contains pro
visions which carry out those relation;
growing out of the territorial oondi
tloua resulting from the war.
A Nurse Orowaed.
New York, Augnst 23. The body ol
Miss Bertha M. Huut, the nurse who
so strangely disappeared from the city
hospital on Blackwoll'i Island, where
she was empolyed, on Thursday night,
was found yesterday. Miss Hunt came
from Chatham, N. Y, She lived with
other nurses in the training school.
On Thursday one of the patients, nnder
her caie died of epilepsy. Thia made
strong impression on the nurse's
wind, and when she returned to her
room she waa in quite a nervous state.
She told her roommate that she would
go down to the river to get a pitcher-
ful ot salt water, with which to bathe
hor head. She waa not again seen
alive.
Chicago Flumbars' Htrlka.
Chicago, August 28, The Journey
meu Plumbers' Union has ordered a
general strike to take effect at once.
The action was taken at a protracted
meeting, when it was determined to
put an end to the dilatory methods now
being used and ' begin an aggressive
tight on the contractors.
Trainman Killed In a Wreck
Tazewell, Va., August .28. A wreck
at Maxwell, six miles from here on
the Clinch Valley division of the Nor
folk & Western, occurred yesterday, re
suiting in the death of two trainmen
and the wounding ot seven others. A
light engine was running west at 40
miles an hour when it met. in a cut a
freight drawn by two engines going 30
miles an hour. The crash waa terrific.
Pittsburg will
spend $7,000,000 on
parks.
Arnold Ordered Kxtradlted.
San Francisco, August 23. Julian
Tregenna Biddulph Arnold, son of Sir
Edwin Arnold, haa been ordered ex
tradited to England by United Stater
Commissioner Ileaoook, on the charge
of embeczling over $60,000 of the
estate of John Thomas Donrille Taylor.
' v Chinese Moving East.
Tien Tsin, August 23. About 6,000
Chinese troops, which are reported to
have been at Sung Liu Ching, left to
day for Felt Sang, and 2,000 more Chi
nese troops have gone toward Tung
Chow. ,
M U m REJECTED
United States Cannot Aooep
His Offer.
CHINA HAS NO GOVERNMENT
I'nILe llntae Will Act With Kslrewa
, Cei.tloa la Whatever Aatloa It May
Taka the Matter.
Washington, Augnst 28. The cabinet
session today practically opened the
consideration of the momentous quet
tlons growing out of the capture of
I'ekiu ami tha war In China. Until
today's session the absorbing question
bat been the safely of Minister Conger
and the legationers in Pekin. Now,
however, thai has given place to prob
lems of a more intricate and far-reach
tog eharaoeer, teaching the eatstsatee
ol the Chinese empire and tba part
which tba American government Is to
taka In the reconstruction of that oouu
try.
ine meeting today was devoted en
tirely to tba Chinese tituation. Seore
taritrtlay end Root, who have been
most active in directing affairs, wars
absent from the city, so that the attend
slice was comparatively small, tbe prea
ideut having with him , Secretaries
Gage, Hitchcock and Wilson and Post
master-ueuerai smith, several ques
tions were awaiting attention.
Karl Li's 0r Hajantad.
First ot these was the application oi
1.1 Hung Chang for the appointment of
Minister Conger or some other coramls
sioner to negotiate for the cessation ol
Inutilities. Tile decision arrived at
was to reject the appeal, and a reply
of this character will be sent to Min
ister Wn, to be forwarded to Li Hong
Chang. Tba moving cause for thU
action is thai this government is at
present very much in the dark as to
whether there is any existing govern
meut In China. With tbe capital iu
the hands of the allies, the emperor
and eiupieaa dowager fugitives in Bid
ing, and the entire governmental fabric
paralysed, there is no evidence of an
authority adequate to conduct negotia
Hons and secure results which will be
tins I and binding. - '
It waa stated by members ot the cab
Inet that the Chinese establishment
lustead oi being a government, ap
pears to be an enormous headless affair,
without knowledge of what ia for its
beit good, and without power to en
force its wishes. With the tecgnized
ruler lu flight, no oue seems to know if
anybody ia directing its affairs. Aa
China is au absolute monarchy, with
out any executive branch, the emperor
and tun press dowager are all-powerful.
and practically they are the empire c
China, Under the present remarkably
conditions, the United States will aci
with extreme caution in whatever
steps it may take toward a solution o
the pending problems
In tbe meantime there Is reasou t
believe that the United States and all
the other powera interested will kce.i
their armed forces on tbe ground, s
that order may lie maintained aud a (
least a semblance of stable government
brought out of the existing chaos.
Freight Train Cnlllsloa.
New York, August 23. In a freight
train collision at Keusioo, N. Y., to
night, seven persons were killed and
others are missing. Kensico ia on tha
Harlem division of the New York Cen
tral lailroad, about 16 miles from New
York. At 8:3q touight, while a freight
train was standing at the depot, a sec
oud freight dashed into the rear end ol
it. The engine of the second train
smashed the caboose of the first train
and then turned over. . Reports from
the scene of the accident say that the
engineer and fireman of the second
train are dead under the wreck, and
two othera of the train crew are buried
in the debris. So far as can lie learned
the accident was caused by tbe engineer
of the second train runniug past a
block signal that had been set against
him.
Minnesota Butuhcr Caught.
St. Paul, August 28. An Arltng
ton, Minn., special to the Dispatch
says: wauert, who yesterday butch
ered his wife and four step-children
and seriously wounded another 16-year-
old step-aou, was captured thia morn
ing in a barn on the place of his sister,
Mrs. SteinlKirn, abont two miles from
the scene of the crime. He waa hid'
den nndor a manger. Wallert made a
somewhat incoherent confession, but
became more confused under question
ing. Wheu Wallert, in custody of ofli
cers, passed through where the bodies
of the. murdered family lay, a hastily
organized crowd attempted' to lynch
him, but he was taken away in safety
by the officers.
Woman Killed bj a Burglar.
rittsfleld, Mass., August S3. Miss
May Fosburg, the 24 year-old daughter
of R. L. Foaburg, a contractor of Buf
falo, N. Y., was shot and killed early
this, morning by a burglar. Her
brother, K. K rosburg, was badly
beaten by one of the men. whom he
tried t& capture. There were three of
the burglars and all escaped. Mr.
Kusburg is living in this city while en
gaged on some work for au electrical
company. . " -i, -.
Welcome Bains In India.
Loudon, Aiigust 22. -The viceroy of
India, Lord Curson of Keddleston,
telegraphs that the heavy general rain
fall has continned in most of the af
fected tracts. The crops promise well
iu the central provinces and Berar.
Sowing ia active elsewhere, and the
necessity for free kitchens will shortly
disappear. Prices, however, are still
very nigh everywhere. Cholera is pre
valent throughout Hyderabad and in
Bombay. There are 6,688,000 people
receiving relief.
Colorado Hold-Up. -
Denver, August 23. A special to
the News from Florence, Colo., says:
George Bonash anl Joe Juhasz, miners,
were shot by hold-ups at Brookside, a
coal mining town, five miles from here,'
Bonash being instanly killed and Ju
hasi fatally wounded. O. A. Havens
and Jpseph Graham have been arrested
on suspioion,
Abilene, Kan., August 82. This wiaj
the 11th day of 100-degree weather,,
and the temperature rose to 116, with
hot winds. Pastures and corn are
badly burned,, . '
ALL ARC EAGER TO BUY.
Caaatrr la AaMvelr Preperlag far tbe
Fall Trade.
R. O. Dun St Co. 'a weekly review ol
.ratio says; titeragreai wave oi aa
vanning prices, optimism as to boslnese
ia generally dangerous. But tbe top
was reached tbe middle ot March, sine
which time reaction has come to every
great industry, so that consumers era
asking whether in sotue directions tha
deoline may bava not been reasonably
large as was tbe advance, and whether
baying on tba present bash of prices ia
not fairly mre. There are fresh evW
dencee of weakness in raw materials,
notably tha break in structural iron,
lint each one la availed of to place
heavy contracts. New York is wel
coming buyers from all over tbe conn
try ia larger numbers than for many
years at this season, in drygoods, gro
ceries, in Jewelry and in hardware,
and if contracts are not placed to as
larga a volume as expected, it is be
cause ot tba conservatism ot those who
think tbey may compel soma farther
ah ad tag of prtoee. Uepotlc tble week
from other important points of diitrU
bat ion show tba same eagerness to buy
when tbe time aeerut right. It is be
coming mote apparent that tbe bottom
has been reached in pricea ot iion and
steel. Tba deoline was severe and re
oovery must ba slow, but gradual ad
vance and moderately increasing activ
ity are more bealtby than violent
changes. In no single division is tba
improvement more striking than in any
other. Except steel rails, all forms of
iron trom the ore to tbe finished pro.
dnct are being sought more eagerly and,
with less effort to seenre further con
cessions in prices, but when the secre
tary ol agriculture was reported aa pre
dicting "dollar wheat" before the end
ot the year, the market showed an in
clination to diaagree, and tbe Septem
ber option fell below 80 cents for thf
first time in two months.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
aeattle Markets.
Onions, new, llio.
Lettuce, hot bouse, $1 per crate.
Potatoes, new, $15,
Beets, per sack, 85c $1.
Turnips, per sack, 75c.
Squash 4o.
Carrota, per sack, $1.00
Parsnips, per aack, $1.25,
Cauliflower, native, 76o.
Cucumbers 10 20c.
Cabbage, native and California,
to per pounds.
Tomatoes 60 60c
Butter Creamery, 25c; Eastern 22c:
dairy, 16(9 18o; ranch, 14o pound.
Eggs 24o.
Cheese 12c.
Poultry 12o; dressed, 14c; spring,
130116c.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $11.00
(912.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $16.00.
Corn whole, $23.00; cracked, $25;
teed meal, $25.
Barley r Rolled or ground, per ton,
$20.
Hour Patent, per barrel, $8.60;
blended straights, $3.25; California,
$3.26; buckwheat flour, $6.00; ttra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
flour, $3.25; rye flour, $3. 80 4. 00.
Milbtuffe Bran, per ton, $13.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00.
fresh Meats Choice dressed beei
steers, price 7fo; cows, 7c; mutton
7,4; pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9
11c.
Hams Large, 1 8c; small, K
breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt aides,
8,Wc
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 64c;
Valley, 65c; Blueatera, 67o per bushel.
Flour Beat grades, $3.10; graham,
$2.60; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 87c; choice
gray, 85o per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $16.00315.50;
brewing, $17.00 per ton.
Millatuffs Bran, $13.00 ton; mid
dlings, $20; aborts, $15; chop, $15 pox
ton.
Hay Timothy, $1112; clover,$V
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $61 per ton.
Butter rancy creamery, 45 50c;
store, 27 He.
Eggs 17o per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 13c;
Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo
per pound. .
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
3.60 per dozen; hens, $5.00; springs,
$2.504.00; geese; $4.00 5.00 forold;
$4.50(36.50; ducks, $3.004.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 1617o per
pound.
Potatoes 40(8 50o per sack; sweets,
82o per pouna.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 76c;
per sack; garlio, vo per pound; cab
bage, So per pound; parsnips, $1;
onions, lao per pound; carrots, 90o.
Hops 88o per pound.
Wool Valley, 1516o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 15 16c; mohair, 85
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3o; dressed mutton, 7
7o per pound; lambs, 6 Jao.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
$5. 006. 50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4.00 4. 60;
cows, $3.60 4. 00; dressed beef, 6s
?40 per pound.
Veal Large, 6 7 Ko; small, 8
o per pound. .
. San Franoiseo Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, ll18oper
pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 14c; Val
ley, 1618o; Northern, 8 10c
Hop"! 1899 crop, ll13o per'
pound. " ': v. .
Butter Fancy creamery 2222feo;
do seconds, 21 21o; fancy dairy.
l9o; do seconds, 16 18o per pound.
hggB Store, . 17o; fancy ranch,
82o. '
Millatuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $12.50 13.60.'
Hay Wheat " $8 1 2 ; wheat . and
oat $8.0011.00; beat barley $8.60
alfalfa, $6.00 7.60 per ton; straw.
2587io per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 80 75c; Ore
gon Burbaaks, 90o$l; river Bur
banks, 80 60o; new, lj$2c.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,
$3. 75 3. 25; Mexican limes, $4.00
00; California lemons 76o$1.50;
do ohoice $1.752.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.50
50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian, dates, 66Ko 'per
povnd.