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E X C U R S IO N T R A IN A O C I D ff N T . MtaM talU e« O « lr l« H . O ne M issien eaO Thirty-five People Lost in a Georfia Train Wreck. WAS A DISASTROUS WASH-OUT Bombay, ladta. Oregon’s vote, offioUlly canvassed, oa tha equal suffrage amendment waa as follows: fo r equal suffrage, 24,966; 10 m in u t e s la t e r G o v ern o r Ko. of New Teak, waa unanimously ad to stand beside him in the __ Gestera) Wheal« says tbs war in tha Philippines is practically ended. A tees can easily ba spared from tha ia- A young man named Robert Jackson, Of Riddle. Or., accidentally ahot him self while deer bunting. Ha was in stantly killed. By tha death of David D. Walla, son of the lata David A. Walla, of Norwieb. Conn., Harvard University ia ric h « by about 987,000. After July 1 tha offloe of Indian agent at Warm Springs, Or., w ill he dispensed w ith, a t which time Agent J a m « L. Cowan w ill ha dropped. Hawaiiana have mat in convention a t Honolulu and have formed aa inde pendent political party. They have already begun the fight tar statehood. Tha statue of Washington presented to the city of Paris by the Daughters of the American Revolution has arrived in Paris. Tha pedretal has already bean prepared, aad tha unveiling w ill west Telegraph Company, the Canada Atlaatio, the Bell Telephone Company O v « 800 men have q u it week owiai to therefusal of the companies to n » Tha secretary of the navy has author ised the following naama for tha naw battle-ships and cruisers: battle-ships, Virginia aad Rhode Island; armored m s lu r - . Maryland, Colorado aad South Dakota; protected crulsera, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Charleston. A strike has occurred among tbe la borers employed bv tha Havana Eleo- trio Company, Cubans and Spanish, on I t is officially announced that Arch duke F n a c ie Ferdinand, the Austrian th e 'rig h T y a a o ce ae i o n to the imperial throne. H e w ill wed the Countess Sophie Chotock, his morganatic mar- vHmsMk t a i n » m utton for w h ic h ho w ill withdraw bom tha suooaaaion. A t the and of a half hoars* speech, the senator plaoed McKinley ia nom ination, amid enthruelaam unbounded. S e c o n d in g speeches were made by Theodora Roosevelt, Senator Thurston, John W . Yerkes, an orator from the Blue Gram state, aad Govern« Mount, of Indiana, but before the la te « cob- eluded the convention w u impatient for a voter and several tim w tried to bowl him down. Americans aad Russians fought side by side at Tien Tssn. Five children perished by the. burn ing nf a house atSolomonvilla, Ariaona. e n d is h and T hom as H enry B r ic e , In Phoenix Park. Dublin, ia 1888, they cannot ba p e r m itte d t o land ia thia oountry a n d « our immigration laws. -• Two thousand stand o! arms have been given up by the Bows at Pretoria. The battle-ship Oregon and 6,000 a s « forte at Taka, A special seasioi « lie d . The sitae Cologne. Germany, w « visited by a cyclone, which demolished many build ings and threw down a number o( factory buildings. Three of tha forte at Taku were com Eight p e o p le w e r e k ille d o u tr ig h t pletely destroyed hy the bombardment and 64 severely injured by a collision from foreign ships, and the British vee- between a freight end excursion train sels«ptared four C hine« torpedo bonta. n o « G r e « Bay, Wie. Mrs. Beveridge, wife ef United Statoa Frank Gilomre, a white man, of Senatoi Beveridge, of Indiana, died in New Orlaaae, w m lynched hy a mob a sanitarium at Dansville, N . Y ., of for tbe criminal anmult end brutal heart failure. She had been 111 «veral m u rd « of a 60-year-old women. months. A detachment of 40 Amerfoana were H a lf of the buiin«s portion of the « tig h t in embuah by Filipinos on the city of Blooimngtun, 111., lnoluding »-U im I Mlnuanao, w ith the result five squares of the finest basins« bloaka that nine ware killed end I I wounded. of the city and the eoort hen«, wara Five m w w e « killed by n cyclone destroyed by fire, with foes« etaimeted whioh visited No Man’s Land, Okla at 91.000,000. homa. Tha storm swept the country Negotiations for a Mmmerolal treaty for 80 miles. Tboueends of « t t le with F ra n « bare been sattafeetorily W«re,stempeded and many killed and concluded by the Brasilian minister ot Injored. foreign affairs ta Rio Janeiro. F ra n « Joseph M allet end J a m « Fitaharris, w ill grant a reduction of 20 p « cent on the duty on Brasilian Mffea. Tha Paoiflo O il Works Company w m incorporated at Taroma, Wash., with a « p ita l of 9260,000, to bow for oil in a gulch, almost in the heart of the city. Sample oil from outcropping in dicate rich deposit. Work w ill be proeecuted at onoe. A dispatch from Lord Roberts sent from Pretoria, June 18, gives an offi .aU version of an attack on a British p u t at Zand river, Jane 18. hy 800 Bouc. with three guns. I t rays that Gaaeral Knox, with a mixed fo r« , drove off die Boers, who left four dwd and four pris oners on the field. The British lorn was Major Seymour and two m w killed and nine wounded. The French government w ill have 4,200 troops at Taku w b w tha reia- forcements just ordered have «rived there. They w ill reach Taka before June 80. Tbe dispatch of a oruisn division, whioh w m decided epoa, w ill give F ra n « a strong naval force, consisting of « ra n modern cruiaen— three of the Brat-clam aad tow of tbe second class four gunboats aad a dis p a tc h b oat. The fobeoco trust H m established h virtual boycott on independent, d w lo n doing buaiaem in New England. S tatist!« of the criminal popalatioa ot the United States shows that oaly aix per em t of the total number af criminal« are worn«. Tbe Montreal Star claims it has evi- d e n « that tha Clan-na-GMl planned the Welland oanal ex plot ion as a re- priaal on Canada for sending troops to Sooth A f r i« . Benjamin D. Stillman, of New York, aged 93, is the oldest living graduate of Yale, of whioh his father end grand father were also alnmal. He ia still n practicing lawyer. The 8 « Frenoisoo Call stotoe that 'ex-ljueen L ilia o k a lu i hM decided to bring salt agalast the United Rtatoe government for the restoration of the an English prison for complicity in tbs Phosnix park murders, and who ar rived a t New York, May 27 last, have b a « deported. Aa o rd « from Adjutant-General Corbin has b a « received a t tha Pre sidio, San Pnnclsoo, directing that the troops Of the Sixth « r a l l y shall be re cruited to their full war strength, la view of the fata that thia organisation w m ordered recently to proceed to Manila and tba o rd « to recruit to the lim it waa sent ton.« time later, tbe opinion ia expressed that the regiment Is to he arat to China Instead of the P hllip p in «. The recruits w ill bs «looted fro « th o « now at the Presidio. Ninety persona Wore killed and 872 woueded in the rej«nt condlct between dlstriot, Bulgaria. A state of siege hs» been proclaimed in the aitaricts ol Varna, Shmala. Timova, Raagrand, Rastchuk and Riitovats. The govern- m « t is anxioea to lim it tba number, of newspapers, and. has iseesd string- ent regulations m to the quallfi«tiona whioh must be p o s s e s « J by tbe edito<|. By the d « th of Thomas E. Mtsco in New York six theaters and a large fortune are left to his 16-year-old daughter Edna, hi* sole heir. A monument to M aj. Gen. John Sedgwick hM h e « set up at bis birth place, Cornwall. Conn., and i t was dadfoated on Memorial day. Berlin postal a u th o riti« estimate that no lower t h « 180. (XX) postal card» without aay address« at a ll are malted ia the German empire evaiy y e « . Atlanta, Ga., June » . — A passe— trala oa tha Macon branch «•( Southern railw ay ran into a v - -» out one and a half miles north of Me- Douoagh teat night, aad was oumplate ly wrecked. The wreck oangbt fire and the entire train, w ith tha excep tion of tha sleeper, waa destroyed. Every person oa the train, except tha occupants of the Pullman car.Jjeriahed. Not a atember of tha train crew eaoap ed. Thirty-five people in a ll wara killed. Tha train left Maoon a t 7:10. and waa due in Atlanta a t 0:40 Uat night. McDonough station waa reached on tim e. A t thia point connection is made for Columbus, Ga., and every night tha Columbus train fa ooupled oa and hauled through to Atlanta. Last night, however, for the first time la many months, tha Columbus .train waa reported two hours Ute, on ac count of a wash out on that branch, and the Macon train started on to Atlanta without Ha Columbus oonnec- Pbiladalphla, Juan SS.— Pi MeKiatey waa unanimously rem ad for president of tha United by tha Republioan National con a t 1:48 o'clock today, aad aa hi Lafe Young, who.tras w ith Roo«velt in C u b a , nominated him on bebalf o f the state which had originally came ta Philadelphia for DoUtvw. H ie nom ination w m seconded by Delegato Mur ray, of Secretary Long's state, and Del egate Ashton, of Washington, who eame here for Bartlett Tripp. [Chaun cey Depew wound up tba oratory on behalf of tha state whioh declared for Woodruff. Dupew'e speech aroused the moot derail ng dreams of the coun try ’s future. During every punas, th» band played bat one air, the tune which Colonel Roo«velt bed heard in the trenches before Santiago. A t 1:14 o’clock the convention, which had done the unparalleled thing of nominating both the candidates far president and vice-president unani mously, adjourned. Governor Roosevelt drove from the «invention ball with M r. Odell, seated ia the r e « of an o p « landau. Ha lifted hie hroad-brimad bat to tha 'con tinuum valves that groeted him « ha passed through the densely peeked street, like a c o rn e rin g hero fresh from new viotortaa. Tonight the feees of MoKinley and Roo«velt are on a ll the badgw, end their namw are oa every lip . _______________ _ aiyaed aad tha national « e d it disas trously impaired. Tha country’s capi tal was hidden away and ita labor dis tressed and unemployed? The Demó crata had no other plan w ith which to Improve tha ruinous conditions whloh they had themselves produced, than to coin silver at tha ratio of 1 6 \o 1. The Republican party, denouoing thia plan as sure to produce conditions even worm than thorn from which relief waa sought, promised to i setose prosperity by means of two legislative measures— a protective tariff aad a tew making gold tha standard of vaina. Tha peo ple, by great majorities, issued to tha Republican party a commission to on set them laws.' Thia commission has been executed, and the Kepnbllçan Tremendous rains, of daily occur pledge is redeemed; and prosperity rence for the past two weeks, have more general and more abundant than swollen a ll streams in thia part of tha we hqva aver known has followed them South aad several wash outs have been en a ctm en ts. reported on the different roads. Camps There is no longer any controversy as creak, which runs into tha Ocmulgea. to tha value of any govarnemant obli- was o v « its bank and its waters had gationa. Every American dollar ia a spread to a ll tha lowlands through gold dollar or its equivalent, and whloh it runs. About a m ile aad a American « e d it stands h ig h « than half north of McDonough tha creek that of any nation. Capital ia fu lly cum « somewhere near the Southern's employed, and everywhere labor ia tracks, and, running alongside of I t for profitably occupied. soma distance, finally pasaea - away ■ s K l e U j ’s A S m lalatratlaa. an d« tha road by a heavy stone cul feWe indorse tha administration of vert. A cloudburst brake o v « that W illiam McKinley. Its acta have section of tha country about 8 o'clock been established in wisdom and in last night, and preaumsbly shortly patriotism, and at-home and abroad it aftor dark waabed out a section of tha has distinctly elevated and extended track nearly 100 feet in length. the influence of the American nation. Into this tba sw iftly moving train W alking untried paths and feeing un- plunged. Tha storm waa s till raging forseen responsibilities, President M c and a ll the oar windows ware closed. Kinley baa been, in every situation, Tha passengers, secure as they thought, the true American patriot and upright and sheltered comfortably from tha in statesman, claar in vision, strong ia element weather, wont to death w ith judgment, firm in action, always in out an inatant’s warning. The train, spiring and deserving the confidence of consisting of baggage cst, a aaoand- olam coach, first-clam coach and a Pullman sleep«, was knocked into We « n e w our allegiance to the prin kindling wood by the fall. The wrack ciple of the gold standard, and declare caught fire ia a few minutes aftor tha our confidence in tbe wisdom of the fall, and a ll tha ooach« wara burned legislation of the Fifty-sixth oongress, except the Pullman car. Every person by which the parity of a ll of our oa that train except the occupants of money and the stability of aax cur- the Pullman car, perished in tha dis aster. Thera w u no escape, « the heavy Pullman oar weighted down the others, and tha few alive in the sleep« were unable to re n d « amtetaaan to their fallow passengers. , and production W e oomwend the policy of the Re publican pertp ta maintaining tha afll-. clency of the civil serrios. Tha ad ministration hM acted wisely In its effort to aeouie for public service in Cube, Puerto Rico, H a w a ii and the Philippine islands only th o s e whose fitne». has 1-een determined by train in g and experience. . W e believe that em ployment in the public servioe in th e « territories should ho confined, as for « practicable, to their inhabitants. Public movements looking to a p « - manent improvement of the roads and highways of the country, meta with our cordial approval, and we recom mend this subject to the earnest mnsid- « a tfo n of the people end of the legis latures of the several states. Wa favor the extension of the rural fraa delivery service w h e n v « ita ex tension may he justified. We favor home rule for and the e « ly admission to statehood of the te rrito ri« of New Mexico, Ariaona and Okla homa. We favor the construction, owner- ■hip, oontrol and protection of an isth mian canal hy the government of the United States. In the interest of oar expanding com merce, wa recommend that congress create a department of comm eroe and industries in the charge o f a secretary w ith a seat in the cabinet. Wa approve the annexation of the Hawaiian islands to the United States. ltoUerte VraaS O alltr. Salt Lake, June 81.— The jury ia the case ot B. H . Roberto, an tria l for un lawful oohabitation. returned a verdita of guilty. Roberts, in aa agreed state ment of tecta pat before the Jury, ad mitted that be « te re d into a polyga T k e r h llly y iM « . mous marriage with Maggie B. Shipp In acoepting, by tbe treaty of Paris, and lived w ith her and hia legal wife, the responsibility of our victories in Sarah Loniea. I t is claimed that Rob the Spanish war, the president and the erts relies on the raprame court to re senate won tbe undoubted approval of verse the verdict on technical grounds. tbe American people. No o th « course w m possible than to destroy Spain’s sovereignty throughout the West Indies and in tbe Philippine islands. The largest measure of self-govern ment consistent with their welfare and our duties shall bo secured to them by law . To Cuba, Independence and self-government were anrared in tbe « m e Yoice by which w m w m declared. The Republican party, upon its his tory a»d upon this declaration ot Its principles and p o lic i« confidently in vokes the considerate and approving Judgment of tha Anrtricaa people. T orrikle TraneO r la Baa Pva a s ls s s . 8an Franciooo, Jana 28.— Henry E. Pike, a bookkeep«, shot and killed hia fo rm « wife, and t h « committed m i* eide tonight at the home of Mrs. Pike. Pika left a tetter fall of abum of hia P o rta b le f c r a l l l B lo w Vp. H a m b u r g , N . Y -, June 88.— A bolter of a portable steam engine used to pro pel a raw m ill exploded n e « tbe village of Eden, Erie oounty, this evening, ih- stantly killing three men— John Flem fo rm er wHe, » cen sin g her of m any im ing, Alexander Fleming and Bert Mam- proprieties. Pike formmly lived nt D m ror, w h an ha w m ia tha employ Taeoma w ill o ff« a 9160 M irer cap ef tha Dearer A Rio Granda railroad. Ha oama ta this city about eight yean for a compstire d rill between the 18 oompanies of tbe National Guard, which w ill «tebrata t h « s July 4. Havaaat June 81.— Oraaral Wood ha« loaned the following statement: "The examination by export account ants of tbs treasurer’s o fll« from the tion net. Increasing tho pay of « v a i data of ita inception lata ye w hM h e « A balloon bon« is being b u ilt' si odBcere on abase la Puerto Rise, Cuba, oompletod. Tbe o ffi« w m foaml ia Fort M y « , n s « Washington, and n-> tbs P h ilip p i« islands, H aw aii and excellent mndition. I t Iws also h a « tensive sxpsrimmts era to bs made by Alaska by 10 pemeMt, and tor tha « - conclusively proved that tbe charge of tha govetnmwt looking toward tha a « extravagan« ia tha m a tt« af « l a r i « to Am eri«ns paid from ialaad faade is abaolately without loondatiou. The fata of the « « is that the highsta « l a r i « paid ia tha island are paid to Cubans. Tha seporti of extravagance • * 8 n e 1 paade I s o o n s d e r p e r s e tr o o lr ju lg ’ ’ is the Flemish word foe automoblls. W ouldn't that make you rtlgk M the old reliable boss? ■ e G reat« t h e Y tU ntaee Wvarly AU T h ey Aah Tar. M anila, Jane 88.— General Mae- Arthur baa given a formal an ew « to tha Filipino loaders who lata Thursday submitted to him peace propomls that had b a « approved eextier in the day by a meeting of representative insurg ents. In his reply he aaeuied them that a ll panonal rights a n d « tha United States «institution excepting tria l by Jury and the right to b e « arms would bo guaranteed them. “ The promoters of the p ea« movement are now engaged in reconstructing the draft of the seven clans« submitted to General MacArthur in such a way w to render it aooeptable to both a id « . The seventh clause, providing for the expolaion of the friars, General MacArthor rejected oa the ground that th eaettlem w t of tbte question rests w ith tbe wmmiesion handed by Judge Taft. That portion of tha Forty-third in fantry whioh formerly garrisoned the island of Samar w ill proceed to the Island of Leyte, giving the garrison there the needed reinforcements. Tbe battalion of the Twenty-ninth infantry whioh w w s w t ywtarday ta S am « w ill act aa the garrison there. Prahro, June 26.— Sufficient sup plies have at lata been collected and tbe final advance to open oom m unl«- tion w ith Knmami is ready. On the road from Askant« to Kwahou are throe v illa g « where are garrisoned some 7,000 fighting men, who have practiced the ritae of Fetish worship and pledged themselv« to help the Aahante«. British Join Allied Forces Near Tien Tsin. . la t h is taty. collided ta 10:1« thia morning w ith a freight train at Depere. five miles south of hero. Eight persona kNOTHER ASSAULT’ IMMINENT v a n kilted and 64 waaa injured. The accident happened jest M the r a n r i trala waa palling lata tha station. A doable haadar freight waa faaoking info a alda track, bat had not cleared tha mala track. Those Injured w en nearly a ll la tha aaooad coach. Whan tha two tralaa came together tha ■rat car, whioh waa a combination car, waa driven through tha aaooad ooach, where tha lorn of Ufa occurred. Noaeof tha trainmen wara injured, the engine oraw Jumping la tim e to rave them ml vee. Both eagtaoe wara badiy damaged and two ooachea ware brokea Into kindling wood. Of tha Injured SO are In a aerloea condition, and «veral may not raoover. Tha excursion train waa made np at Fond da Lao aad waa packed w ith peo ple from that city, Oahkoah and Neenah. Tha first two ooachea of tha passenger train were telescoped and demolished, few of tha pasaengers « « p in g injury. Some wara killed outright, others ware terribly mangled. Others wara badly crashed and maimed— a ll hemmed la amid tha debris of the wracked oar. Passengers poured cut of the ¡rear ooachea, and i t waa bat a moment be fore hundreds of w illing workers war* busy extracting the unfortunates. Soma of the injurad ware barely alive whan they were taken oat aad died ba- fare they could ba removed. The bodies of Charles Mieraa, of Osh kosh, and Edward Koake, of Fond d u Lac. ware terribly crushed, and oould scarcely ba recognised. The cause of the accident, so far ar has been determined a t thia time, was —. — — --------------- ~ dac to the freight crew failing to give “ d General tha paaseqger tha right of way. troops, numbering 8,6 Lata tonight 1» other injured, a a h - . otaoc June 1». lag a total of 68 hurt, wara found at “ A careful eatlniafc different houses la the nighborhood. »nd armament of the where they had bean taken by friends, around Pekin pun th« Of these tha injuries generally consist- and i t is calculated t ad of braises and dislocations. possess 817 oantimeh --------------------------- 18 Krupna and 160 MADM AN SLEW A F A M IL Y . Cedar Rapida, la ., June 87.— C h a ri« Mefford. a maniac, today killed J a m « Fitatam m o«, fatally injurad Joseph Drake, kerioualy afid possibly fatally injured Mrs. J a m « Fitasimmona, slightly injurad Mies K a t e jjt e s iw - mone. and than ended his own life. Mefford, who ia 87 years o ld 7 came hare from an asylum two years ago, ■ nd h u d n e v e r b e e n r e tu r n e d . L u te S a tu r d a y h e b e c a m e w i l d , u nd d a r te d o u t o f h is h o m e , a r a v in g m a n ia c . The police triad unsuocesafully to find him . Shortly before 6 o’eloeh this morning, R e g n iu ld A n d r e w « , t h e ja n ito r ut th e Old L a d l e s ’ Home, waa awakened by c r a s h in g g la m . The n ex t m om en t M effo rd sto o d b e fo r e h im , s ta r k n a k e d , swinging a aachyoha. •'rh u v e m u r d e r e d a whole family tonight, and I am going to h ill yen next aad then e v e r y b o d y in t h e b o rn e, ” declared n eserd . w u n t a n ne ai- tempted to brain Andrews. Tha latter choked him into submission. Rushing through tba bourn, Andrews looked the old ladtes in their rooms, notified the polios, and ran across tha street to the home of J a m « Drake ) « assistance. Aa A n d r e w s a n d D ra k e em e r g e ,) a few m in u t e s la te r , Mefford, c a r r y in g a n a x , was seen to plunge through a window in the homo of J a m « Fltsaimmons near hy. Aa ha entered tba room, Mrs. Fitastmmonk uttered a scream, Mefford swung the ox and brought it down toward her head. H er uplifted arm saved her life; the arm was broken in two plaoss, and she «S ored a reri- o f a m m u n it io n |> “ L i Ping Heng, ex-governor of Shun I Tung, who is intensely snti-fomign, has gone to the Kiang Y in iortu, on the Yangtae. H a has declared h it inten tion of resisting the landing of British forces In that region." Extensive preparations by the allies are going forward. The first regiment of British India's 10.000 m m am barked at Calcutta yesterday, and 888 m o r e marines received orders to go out from English ports. The British w ar offioe, in anticipation of a prolonged cam paign, ia contracting for w inter cloth ing arjd fu r cape. » The A m ur army oorpa, ordered out by Russia, numbers 68,100 men, w ith 84 guns. J a p a n p u r p o se s to land 16,-' 000 men an C h in e « territory w ithin a m ilitary fortnight. Among He continued a b o v e b i» h e a d . to wave the revo lv« B ut ju st a« t h e first offimr grabbed the revolvw from . be hind, Mefford fell o v « in to the getter dead. ruuudi St. L eal« Striker« M ata Mat Ia te rfe r e W ith M ail Oars. St. Louis, June 87.—Judge E lm « B. Adams, of tbe United Statoa district c o u r t , to d a y g r a n te d a te m p o r a r y in junction in tbe « a s of W . D. Mahon and a ll members of Division No. 1811 Of t h e A m a lg a m a t e d A s s o c ia t io n o f Street Railw ay E m p lo y« of Amorim , rw training them from interfering in any way w ith the running of m ail car« o v « the lines of the St. Louis Transit Company. Nona of tbe defendant« were prewnt. They were represented by W. 8. Anthony, w hile District A t torney Hitchcock and Rosière acted lot the government. In summing np the contents of the affidavits p rw w ted, M r. Anthony de clared that It w m not shown that any of the defendants name«I had beeu guilty of lawlessness. "O n the con tra ry ," he added, "th e strike leader« and e ll tba member« M tbe Street R ail way M w ’s Uaion have èouneelled law and o rd « . The Transit Company i: not responsible, perhaps, (or the un settled conditions which exitaed. It Is tbe union men who have been made to suffer and Lear tbe brant of a ll the disturbance«. The preeidw t ol the union, M r. Patterson, is dying in the hospital ee tlie re w lt of being stabbed by an assassin^_________ Mrs. A . P. Lowrie, a Presbyterian missionary, who has b e « stationed at Pao Ting Fa for tbe lata six y e a n , and who has arrived a t San Frenoisoo, re ports that on tbe night of May 18 many native Christiana, principally woman ■ M M m ll ta M eK lalay. Washington, Jons 26.— The follow and children, ware murdered by the ing is the text of Governor Roosevelt’s Boxers while fleeing from Pao Ting Fu toward Tian Tain. in nmrgit to President McKinley: “ New York, June 26.— Hon. W il P a k ta L e^ allaaa Mta la ja r o S . liam McKinley, Washington, D . C.: I BrasMla, J was 88.— The P etit B I « appreciate greatly your congratula statoa that a telegram w m received tio n « , and am proud to ba associated yesterday by aa important Brassls firm The London, England, T im « mys: w ith you on the ticket. from China, saying that Adm iral Sey- “ England, w ith 600 years of license, ssow’s relieving fo r« and tha Russian is the worst liquor tu n ed nation in the "T H E O D O R E R O O S E V E L T ." column « te re d Pekin simultaneously. w o rld ." -.wfo - , <l Birmingham, Ala., Jana 3fl.— Hrnyy Tbs legations ware reported intact, and C a llf o r a la W k a a t fo r P ta ii. rains the past few days have done a ll the Belgian residents a n said to ba Lima, Peru, via Galveston, June 27. heavy damage. I t Iws rained ovary — An excellent impression has been T h e T a g a la A g a ia A ggröaalva. day this month in this section, tbe to Ortia, Mexico, June 26.— General made by tbs announcement that in ad ta l rainfall s in « t h e iirat o ' A p r il be ing 34.92 in c h « . Reports from the Torres hM divided hia forces Into two dition u> the 60,000 tons of California wheat which h M just arrived at Cal terming districts are that the fields have bom so soaked w ith water that new stronghold of the Yaquia, kmatod lao, an equal quantity is on the way tu the farmers have b a « unable to do any about 60 miles north of Torta. One Peru. work for « v e ra l w « k s , and g ra « is army of 8,600 men is on the snot side M a a ltek a Crape F a lla S . running away w ith tha crope. Cotton of the Yaqul river, and the o th « army, Winnipeg, Manitoba. June 27.— Of hM suffered more than any othto crop, numbering about 6,000 men, ia on the while fruit and vegetablw a n rotting. west side. Tbe In d ia « have beeome 1,800,000 acres of w b « t. 1,000,000 sores w ill m v w ba eat. Rains can B ig P a b U a h la g C aataM t. Redford, la d ., June 86.— Albert not now change a stunted crop, six to Chicago, June 26.— W hat la raid to ba tha most important contract of tba Roberts aad O so« jean» have been sight in c h « high, and a small bead kind o v « made west of tba Mississippi rival suitor» for i l i a Jennie Russell. into a crop. Tha more optimistic bops r i v * w m executed bars lata night. W hite Roberts and Mtes R u s m II ware fer mad and feed, hat thia is doubtful. By ita teems a local publishing oom- oat driving they mta Jeans, and • pia- This is the hottest day of the y e « . pany eeourea for five years tha sxela- sive publication of tbe Joint produc tion« of L . Frank Baum and W. W . Denslew, roopetaively author and i l l « - tentar of **F a tb « Goo«. His Book." end the "W onderful W in u d of O n ." Meaara. R a n « and Deaafow a n to pro* f in « a t IsM t eno book a y e « , end i t ia said that they sot -gnaraatosd royalttes w alkiui awootei a s llu u s o f a il» h a v e at ft >14. b i of Maeao,"j6iand’ of Macao, at the s o u t h w e s t e n t r a n c e of Cnnton r iv « , is eending arms fo the Portuguem eon- OMsion. The Germans ia Hoag Kong have cabled Emperor W illia m ta oak it they may serve in the local forces in defense of Hong Kong. A m illion rounds left Hong Kong yesterday for Takn by the British steamer Huilong. The Shanghai correspondent of the Tim w sends the following u n d « yes terday’s date: - ’ " A m ilitary correspondent a t Taku •ays the operations of the a l i i « are suffering from want of a r e c o g n is e d head, defective organisation and the lack of transport." o u s s c a lp w o u n d . M r. FitssimmoM ruahed Into the room and grappled w ith the maniao. Mefford shook him off and split hie kkull w ith a blow of the ax. Then dashing np stain, Mefford attacked M i « Kate Fitasimraona, Inflicting a num b« of « v a n emlp wounds. W b w Meffonl came down s ta in ha W Muatarad Drake, struck him on the head with tha ax, aad, taking Drake’s revolver, ran out of the hones. After ra w in g « v e ra l Mocks be pat a ballet into hie left hawst, just below tbe heart. Running oa two a t three blocks farthw be «at down on the ourb- ■tone. Placing tbe revolvw to the sm altii C k la a W ar AVeata K e a t a e k f . Lousivilla, June 87.— The trouble« in C h im are beginning to aYect the re mote districta of the Kentucky moun tains in the ginseng trade, by which hundreds of people moke a living. Ever «inoe the Boxers began their out-
