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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1900. MORE TROOPS WILL GO GOVERJTMEXT PREPARING TO DIS PATCH. AN ADDITIONAL FORCE. Consul-General Goodnow, at Shang hai, Again Report That the Trouble la Spreading-. WASHINGTON. July 6. The State De partment Is waiting: with almost an agony of expectation for news from Pe kln, but none comes. Secretary Root was In conference with Secretary Hay this morning, and It was admitted that al though no more troops have been ordered directly to China, yet great activity has been decided upon In the matter of dis patching additional troops from this coun try to Nagasaki, where they will be In readiness for either Chinese or Philip pine service. A dispatch has been received at the State Department from Consul-General Goodnow at Shanghai, dated July 5, In which he says the situation is serious and the Insurrectionary movement is spread ing. If the allied forces, he said, should meet with reverses the Insurrection will certainly spread to Central and South ern China, resulting In the expulsion and murder of foreigners in the Interior and the ruin of trade. A strong force, he says. Is necessary to check the Viceroys In the north, and to support the Viceroys in the EOUth. " It is understood that all Consuls of the powers In China have sent Identical dis patches to their respective governments. CONDITIONS AT TIEN TSIN. Thousands of Chinese Dead Abont the Town. TIEN TSIN, June 29.- via Che Foo. July 1. and Shanghai. July 5. Those best In formed In Tien Tsln consider the position of foreigners In Pekln as almost helpless. It is hopeless to attempt to force the way with the force available. Command ers are willing to resort to desperate means, but to attempt a forced march from Tien Tsln with the forces at hand means certain destruction to the army, besides slaughter of the civilians left at Tien Tsln. Enough soldiers are necessary to defeat the Chinese Army, maintain communication with the base of supplies and guard the hospitals en route. The water supply Is an Important prob lem in a country furnishing none except river wells, which are being poisoned. The Chinese are committing terrible atrocities upon the wounded. They are mutilating all the dead which fall into their hands. General Tung Fuh Slang, with 10.000 of the best disciplined troops In the Chinese Army, Mahomedans, are marching from the southwest toward Pekln. The army thereabouts numbers 60,000. The Empress has fled to her Summer palace. The Mahommcdan Boxers are -fighting In Pekln. Ten regiments of Gen eral Mens command, north of Tien Tsln, are reported to have deserted and gono to pillaging the country. Residents de clare that a Chinese commune has been inaugurated, and that peaceable Chinese have been the greatest sufferers. The foreign soldiers are burning the outskirts of Tien Tsln to deprive the enemy of shelter, and the Boxers are destroying outlying villages for loot. The smoke of a hundred fires can be seen in every di rection. Tien Tsln was not bombarded for the first time today for a fortnight. Families are returning to their homes for their possessions. The women and children will be sent to Taku as soon as travel Is safe. No unfriendly Chinamen are visible in the streets. A few of the richest, with their families, are huddled in the out houses for protection, badly frightened. Dthers concealed in various houses shoot At the Europeans on the. street. The Chinese- dead about Tien Tsln .num ber thousands. Most of those who have been killed He unburled In the fields. The river pf Taku Is full of floating bodies, and many have been washed under by the tide. Dogs are feeding on these bodies along the banks. The small American contingents every where distinguished themselves. Captain McCalla and Major "Waller are at Tien Tsln. Their men are placed In the lead of every movement. By common con sent, the British are close beside them. The foreigners in Tien Tsln declare, how ever, that they owe their lives to the Russians, without whom the smaller de tachments must have been overwhelmed on that darkest Wednesday when the Chinese were r-epslng on every side and the bravest men were abandoning hope. The Russian Commander. Colonel Wo tack, arranged the- main body, with the civilians, to make a sortie In the direc tion of .Taku. He left 400 Russians to defend the city and engage the attention of the Chinese, the intention being for them to ultimately sacrifice themselves. The arrival of the Americans saved the day. Their arrival proved a complete surprise. Among the military evidences of Im mense Chinese preparation for war may be mentioned that arsenals and store4: hitherto unknown have been discovered, with $10,CO0,OQ0 worth of arms and am munition of the most modern type. These arms and ammunition have been destroy ed, with three arsenals outside of Tien Tsln. Several thousand troops under General Nleh are holding the native city five miles north of Tien Tsln. It is rumored that 40.000 Chinese will attack the place at noon today. The troops are under arms, but the Chinese failed to materialize. Admiral Seymour was wounded slightly recently by a spent ball, which struck him in the shoulder while in the house with Commander Mc Calla and Commander Taussig. The hero of Tien Tsln Is James Watts, a "young Englishman, perhaps the best rider In China, who, with three Cossacks, ran the gauntlet to Taku with messages, charging through villages under lire re peatedly. Several foreign commanders have recommended the quartet be dec orated. WILD RUMORS FROM THE ORIENT. Describe the Streets of Pekln as Running: With Blood. LONDON. July 6. There Is a mass of wild rumor from the far East. Though so contradictory on most points, it con tlnues "unanimous as to the consummation of the tragedy at Pekln. To consistent reports of the massacre of the whites are now added the addi tional horrors that savage soldiery butch ered at the capital EOOO natives, Roman Catholic converts. This comes In a Shang hai dispatch of July 5, which only adds to the report given by respectable Chinese who have arrived from Chaln-Fu, and who describe Pekln as an inferno, the streets literally running with blood. They confirm numerous stories of executlolns and untold tortures Inflicted on isolated foreigners and European soldiers cap tured by the mob. The authority of Tung X-u, the Chinese Imperial Treasurer, who advocated mod eration, was completely effaced by Prince Tuan. Kang Ti and Tung Fuh Sian. who Issued fresh edicts ordering the merciless extermination of all foreigners in the em pire. In response to Irfqulries cabled to Shanghai In regard to the situation at Pekln. the following cablegram has been received from an authoritative quarter: "Shanghai, Thursday, July 5. Prepare to hear the worst." The danger, of a general revolt In China becomes more and more patent, and Eu rope is being confronted with rapidly in creasing force with the fact that not merely the international column may be forced from Tien Tsln, but that the in ternational troops of the colonies and treaty ports will stand In grave danger of expulsion. In view of the fact that the previous assurances of the Viceroys have proved untrustworthy, their promises of protection for the whites are hardly con vincing. In the meanwhile, the hitherto uncon querable Jealousies of the European pow ers stay the hand of Japan, though it is hoped an understanding will soon ba reached. The Foreign Office here re ceived official dispatches from Tpklo to day, and the Associated Press' under stands that the Japanese Government In formed the foreign officers that. In addi tion to forces already landed In China, Japan has 20.000 troops mobilized and ready for action at a moment's notice when she receives the mandate of the powers. Great Britain Is now awaiting answers from the chancellories to Its pro The British Cabinet had a long meeting this morning under the presidency of Lord Salisbury, and fully considered the crisis. In connection with the Cabinet meet'ng, a story is current that several Foreign Offlce officials and other government rep resentatives will start for China, via Van couver, Immediately, the circumstances permitting. It is presumed In some quar ters that they are intended to constitute a new diplomatic bureau which' will tem porarily take the place of the Pekln lega tion. A missionary who has returned to Ber lin says while In China he learned that hundreds of Mauser r ifles had been brought lri In coffins, supposed fb contain the bodies of Chinese who had died abroad. LIST OF MISSIONARIES. American Board Fears That Alt Hwe Been Killed. CHICAGO, July 6. Officers of the Amer ican Missionary Board In this city state that probably 17 or more of their repre sentatives from the North of China mis sions are victims of the Pekln massacres, if the reports from Shanghai be correct. Following are the names of those from the Chicago district, whom It is feared were murdered by the Boxers: Ament, Rev. William 8., head of the Pekln Compound, who went to the meet ing early In May. Ambrose, Miss Mary E., of the Tung Cho mission. Chapin, Mies Abble B., Tung Cho. Evans, Miss Jane, Tung Cho. Haven, Miss Ada, Pekln. Matler, Mrs. Mary Lv, Pekln. Minor, Mrs. Duella, Tung Cho. Murdock, Miss Virginia, Pekln. Russell. Miss Nellie Pekln. Scheffleld, Miss Elizabeth, Pekln. Smith, Rev. Arthur, Pang Chuang. Smith. Mts. Emily. Tewksbery, Rev. E. G., Tung Cho. Tewksbery. Mrs. Grace. Kalgan. Rev. Mark Williams. Wykoff. Miss Gertrude. Wykoff, Miss Grace. Pang Chuang. The annual convention of North China missionaries of the American Board and' the Board of Interior the woman's branch of the same organization was held at Tong Cho, beginning May 22. Tong Cho is 13 miles north of Pekln. While the convention was In progress an attack was made on the town by the Boxers, and, after some days of fighting, the building owned by the American board, where the convention was in ses sion, was burned. As no report mentions any one having been killed at this point, the officers here argue that the members of the gathering must have fled to Pekln for safety. As nothing has been heard from them since that time, the mission officials fear they are numbered among the dead In Pekln. FR03I JAPANESE SOURCES. Correspondents Tell of the Condi tions nt Pelcin. VICTORIA, B. C, July 6. Correspond ents of Japanese papers, writing from Pekln as late as June 13, tell of the dally arrival there of refugees from all sur rounding country. Many of the Incoming parties had been wounded. Some report having left others behind them dead. The Boxers hosts at Pekln practically commenced their work of destruction at the capital, according tc the correspond- enta, on Juno 11, when a mob burn-rd the Summer houses of the Ministers, the race course and foreign cemetery at Si Hsan. On the following day thousands gathered outside the city with banners. Then, owing to the terror that reigned among the refugees and the foreigners, the Ministers ordered all to gather In the British and American Legations, which had been secured. Guns were mounted and other preparations made for a siege. The custom house and Cathedral also had been bombarded, but were not held. On the 13th, the mob attacked the east ern part of the city during the night and burned It. This part Included the ca thedral, the custom house, several mis sions and foreign houses. Hundreds of native converts were mafsacrod. Some were hackedto death wlth swords, and others driven Into burning houses and cre mated. At Tien Tsln the Boxers had destroyed two of the mission buildings and had massacred a number of native Christians. On June 13th last, a band of 500 strong entered the city by the Iron bridge over the Fd Ho and set fire to the Roman Catholic mludon and two houoss used as school 6 by the missionaries. As the na tive Christians ran out, they were put to tho sword by the Boxers of pushed back In the fire. It was not known how many had been killed. There waa great terror lest the Boxers should fire the city. HE KNOWS THE CHINESE. W. W. Roclchill Describes Condi tions There in War. NEW YORK, July 6. W. W. Rockblll, Director of the Bureau of American Re publics, who served In China as Secretary of Legation, when the late John Russell Young was there as Minister, and who Is recognized authority In Chinese mat ters, spoke feelingly In Washington last night of the Indignities which foreigners In Pekln are reported to have suffered after capture. "This Is something new In the history of China," he said. "Foreigners have never before been publicly executed, and we can by analogy imagine what has hap pened to foreign women and children In Pekln. We know mat In me civil wars of China, the greatest barbarity was practiced, and It has been the knowledge of what might be expected which has given rise to the custom of the con quered party putting to death its women and children, before surrendering. "No doubt the dispatch tells but a small portion of the horrors of die spectacle In Pekln. It was only a mttter of time, anyway, and what followed waa the com mon practice of barbaric and half-clvlllzed nations. Had they been merely imprison ed, their conditions would have been piti able enough. Any one who has read of the capture and the tortures Imposed upon Lord Loch and Sir Harry Parkes In 1S60, and who knows that' the Chinese prisons have not been Improved in the last 40 years, can appreciate in part the suff erlngu which foreign residents In Pekln must have endured in the last month. ' "There Is little use In trying to portray what Indignities were heaped upon the victims before death' released them. With out question, they were horrible beyond the Imagination of civilized man. Their captors add to the cruelty of the Asiatic the demoniac ingenuity of a race that is almost civilized, a race which appro priates the arts of white men without ap preciating them. The tale to come from Pekln when entrance Is gained by foreign troops will be one unequaled In shudderTforclng qualities since the days of the Sepoy rebellion." FIRST CAVALRY WILL GO. Next Regiment to Be Sent to the Orient. v WASHINGTON, July 6. Although the War Department officials will not admit it. it Is practically settled that the First Regiment of cavalry will be the next reg iment sent to the Philippines for the re- lief of volunteer troops. The regiment Is now stationed In the West. The cavalry detachment at Fort Myer, Va., Is also booked for an early departure for the Philippines. It comprises Troops B, G, H and I of the Third Cavalry, together with the regimental band. The other squadrons of this regiment already are In the Philippines. Other troops supposed to be destined to the Philippines, for possi ble diversion Into China, are the home battalion of the Second Infantry, at Fort Thomas and Columbus Barracks, the home battalion of the Fifth Infantry, at Fort Sheridan, and the home battalion of the Eighth Battery at Fort SnelUng, Minn. Their places will be supplied by the Cu ban battalions of the regiments named, the excess being used, so far as possible, for supplying tho garrisons In New York, Vermont and Georgia vacated by the pros pective departure of the Fifteenth In fantry .for the Philippines. Letter From Minister Conger. CHICAGO, July 6. A special to the Times-Herald from Des Moines, la., says: A letter was received here today by Mrs. Ida H. Conger from her brother-in-law. Major E. H. Conger, United States Min ister to China. The letter was dated May 2G. and is as follows: "The times grow more exciting every day. The opposition to missionaries and all foreigners is worse than It has been for 3) years, hence I am unusually busy. The Woodwards, of Chicago, are with us. They are here to stay until the middle of June. We are still In the City of Pekln, but hope to move up to the hills within 10 days. "I enclose pictures of the American Legation, including besides the Minister, First Secretary Squires, of New York; Second Secretary Balnbrldge, of Council Bluffs, and Interpreter Cheshire, formerly of Iowa, but who has been connected with the Legation for 20 years." Pao Tin sr Fa Missionaries. NEW YORK, July 6. Dr. Halsey, of the Presbyterian Board, received a cable gram from Che Foo saying that Cort landt Van Rensselaer Hodges and his wife. Dr. G. Taylor and the Rev. S. E. Slmcoxe and his wife are at Pao Ting Fu and have not made their escape. The Rev. J. Lowrey has excaped from Pao Ting Fu and 1b now at Tien Tsln. and the Rev. J. A. Miller and Mrs. Miller have escaped and gone to Corea, The cablegram also Indicates that the Pekln missionaries are still at Pekln. The final part of the message Is Important In that It shows that all the missionaries, noma CO In number. In the Shan Tung dis trict are safe. Emperor to President. CANTON, O., July 6. The following ca blegram was received by President Mc Klnley Friday: "Rendezburg, July 6. To the President of the United States, William McKlnley: For Your Excellency's warm words of condolence In the murder of my repre sentative In Pekln, I express my most sincere thanks. I recognize therein the common Impulse of Interest which bind 'the civilized nations together. "WILLIAM, Emperor." Oregon May Be Still Ashore. LONDON, July 6. A dispatch from Shanghai, dated Thursday, July 5, says Inasmuch as the steamers sent to the as sistance of the United States battle-ship Oregon have .not returned, many persons have concluded that the Oregon is still ashore. FIRE LOSSES. Biff Insurance Companies nave Snf fereil Heavily. NEW 'YORK. July 6. The Increase In tho fire loss of the Untted States and Canada during the current year, soys tho Journal of Commerce and Commer cial BuHctln. has been about normal. The record shows a total loss of $123,189,900 for the firet six months of the year 1000, aa against $65,699,750 for the Kuno period of 1S99.' The great difference between 1900 and 1S99 and 1SDS Is shown. The losses for the first six months of 1S9S were J5S.377.100; of 1899, $63fC&9,750, and of 1900. J123,1E9.900. The heaviest low this year waa the Ot'awa-Hull conflagration; amounting to J12.OO0.0OO, and tho next in point of de struction of vahie, though taking pre cedence as to loss of life, was- the Hobo ken dlsaater of last Saturday. Tho Standard Oil flro Is, of couraj, net in cluded! In thcM figures. The months of April and June show greater advances than the others. Fires of $500,000 and over in destructlveness which have oc curred rince January L 1900, are pre sented In this compilation: Philadelphia, eeveral department stores, $700,000; Lead City, S. D., various, $500,000; Dayton. O.. tobacco factory and others, $500,000; St. Louis, department stare and others. $975,000; Newark, N. J., depart ment store and others. $1,000,000; Pitts burg, department store, $1,200,000; Ottawa-Hull conflagration. $12,000,000; Sandon, B. C, various, $700,000; Constable Hook. N. J., dock property and oil works. $600, 000: Fisher, Wis., various, $500,000; Vir ginia, Mont., business portion of town, $500,000; Bloomlngton. 111., various, $1.S50. 000; Phoenix, Ariz., mining property and mill. $500,000; Morenci, Ariz., mining prop erty, $300,000; Hoboken, N. J.,- steamship docks, storehouses, ocean steamers and cargoes and barges, $5.850,000.. The officers of fire insurance companies have had a turbulent experience during the past two years. Many companies have been forced to the wall, and others have had their financial strength so de pleted that they must succumb before January L 190L when statements are re quired to ba filed! From present appear ancon insurance rates will need to bo largely Increased to keep up with the constant, trarfous drain on Insurance cap ital. Cadets for West Point. WASHINGTON, July 6. Cadets for West Point, under the Increase provid ed by recent legislation, have been ap pointed during the last week from the fol lowing states at large: Vannie B. O'Netl, Mount Pleasant, Tex., and Max O. Elser, alternate, Corslcana, Tex.; Edward K. Martin, Searcey, Ark., and Karl Hargrave, alternate. Browns ton, Ark.; Lucien Moody, Huron, S. D.; Milton Fenner, alternate, Austin, Tex.; Alvtn B. Barber, alternate, Portland, Or.; Merrill E. Spalding, Concordia, Kan:, and Norman F. Ramsey, alternate, Topeka, Kan. Attempt to Retake Flcksbnrg. MAZERU, Basutoland, July 5. The Boers made a determined attempt to re take Flcksburg. Orange River Colony, yesterday. They attacked the pickets at midnight. Tho fighting was short but fierce, lasting an hour, when the Federals were repulsed. Natives Fight for Boer Cattle. LONDON. July C A special dispatch from Pretoria says that an Intertribal fight, in which more than 10CO natives were engaged. Is taking place in the plains of the Boer position. The fight. It is added, is for possession of the Boer cattle. Powder Explosion in Russia. ST. '"PETERSBURG. July 7. An official dispatch from Nlkoll. dated July 1, says that 50 persons were killed by an ex plosion of stores of powder at Mukden Colton Succeeds "DnrTcer, WASHINGTON. July 6. Rear-Admlral Co'.ton has been assigned as commandant of the Norfolk Navy-Yard, vice Rear-Admlral Barker. Franklin MeLcny Dead. LONDON, July & Franklin McLeay, tho Canadian actor died this morning of brain fever. Deaths nad Prostrations In Chicago. CHICAGO. July 6. Heat caused four deaths and seven prostrations today. STEEL AND IRON TRADE BELIEF THAT THE BOTTOM BEEN REACHED. '' HAS Sew York Conference Resulted In Advance In Steel Stocks Weekly Trade Reviews. NEW YORK, July 6. The presence In this city this week of leading officers of some of the largest steel companies, coupled with a sharp advance- yesterday in the prices of steel stocks, has led. Wall street to believe that Important action looking to the betterment of the present condition Is In contemplation. That this belief Is weil founded is shown. In the fol lowing statement made by a director of one of the companies Interested: "The fcteel and Iron situation has now practically touched rock bottom, and at any rato will have reached It befcre the end of the week. Conferences have been bxf.d, and others are to be held, at the of fice of President Gary, of the Federal Steel Company, between repreojntat!ve3 of all the Important steel Interests. Among them are tho Federal Steel Com pany, the American Steel & Wire Com pany, the Carnegie Steel Company, the National Steel Company, the Lackawanna Steal Company and the Maryland Steel Company, and the result of these con ferences will be the end of. the existing demoralization. "I expect that lower prices will be fixed for bessemer plg-lron and steel bil lets, but after that there will be no fur ther cutting. In fact, this will be the last time such a state of demoralization can exist in the steel and Iron trade. The renult of the conferences will be the es tablishment of harmonious relations among all the steel companies. As far aa steel rails Is concerned their price will not be changed, aa there are contracts far ahead which will prevent that." Among the men who have taken part In the conference referred to are: President Gary and C. M. Porter, of the Federal Steel Company; President Schwab, of the Carnegio Steel Ccmpany, and President Clifford and Directors Pam and Elwood, of tho American Steel & Wire Company. SIX MONTHS FAILURES. Most of the Embarrassments Cansed "by Too Much Speculation. NEW YORK, July 6. Reports to R. G. Dun show commercial failures for the half-year Just closed 5332 In number, with liabilities of $7i,77,2, but nearly . one third of the whole amount was In the list of brokers, agents and the like, of which 265 failed, with liabilities of $22,122,26, and during the last quarter 115 failed for $1S,- 520.973. On the other hand, the manufacturing and trading failures were both smaller In the second than In the first quarter of the year, although both were considera bly larger than In the corresponding quar ter of last year. The record shows plainly enough the disappointment and loss which results after a year of wholly unprecedented ex pansion and hopefulness in all lines of Industry and trade, when It Is found that a season of halting and delay has come. To multitudes who have bought too much, relying upon continued or even Increase of buying or consumers, this Inevitably Involves losses, and when out of more than 1,100,000 concerns In business it Is found that but one In 200 has been thus drawn Into misfortune, the evidence Is quite as satisfactory as when half a year of extraordinary prosperity appears to have brought a smaller ratio. The returns still offer many satisfac tory features, but they show relative In crease in number, and large increase In amount of defaults, and In some especial lines to which analysis Invites attention there Is Indicated much soundness. Hap pily. It Is hardly more than Indirectly connected with the great branches of pro ductive Industry or of trade. Speculation In real estate and In building and con struction has led to more speculation In builders materials than Is wholesome, especially In lumber, so that a number of commercial failures follow In lumber dealing and manufacturing and others In building and manufacture of builders' supplies. There is much ground for satisfaction regarding the geographical location of losses. As this city has been by far the heaviest in the brokerage business, all elements considered, the one large fail ure of that olass at this point does not disturb proportions, and Chicago and Boston follow with no more than a rea sonable share in the same lines. There la satisfactory decreases in the volume of failures In New England, outside of Massachusetts, and in the Southeast. Southwest and Pacific States. But it Is still better that no new centers of weak ness have been developed In either branch of industry, spreading into adjacent states and weakening their returns. DUN'S REVIEW. Over Five Thousand Failures for the First Half of 1000. NEW YORK. July 6. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: - Failures In the first half of 1900 were 5S62, with liabilities of $100,570,134. There were 30 failures of banks, and financial corporations of $25,822,662, leaving 5332 commercial failures, with liabilities of $74,747,457. Iron and steel'products have declined about 25 per cent since January 10, and some further decline Is now expected be fore things are adjusted for another ac tive season, and efforts to arrange wages are progressing. The Fall River committee has decided to close their cotton mills for a time, and some of .the largest woolen works have been closed or much reduced In force. A large share of the boot and shoe force Is Inactive, and no change In prices has resulted since those of some weeks ago, which, according to later accounts, were made by fewer of the manufacturers than was at the time believed. The crop year for grain la over, and the outward movement of wheat has not been stopped, although somewhat dimin ished by the vagaries in prices. While exact figures for the year will not be known for some time to come, they differ very little from 400.000.000 bushels of wheat and corn together, which was almost exactly the quantity exported last year, while in 1S9S it was slightly larger. It Is now asked by the most conservative whether Indian corn has not at last crept Into such special favor in place of other grain that a larger quantity of It will bo required hereafter, lessening the strain in this country when wheat Is in short supply, and without curtailing the supply of the world's needs or the sum duo to this country on balances. A single moderately short wheat crop might change all calculations in this respect for the future. THE DULL SEASON. Railway Earnings Arc Good, How ever, and Business Failures. Few. NEW YORK, July 6. Bradstreefs will say tomorrow: Business Is unusually dull at this season, and this year no exception to the general rule Is remarked. A re view of the past six months, however, gives little comfort to pessimists. Bank clearings, It Is true, are smaller by about 11 per cent than they were In the first half of 1899, but railway earnings are about 10 per cent larger, and business failures, as reported to Bradstreefs, are the fewest reported for IS years back, with liabilities of falling trades tho same, with one exception, and that last year, since 1892. Winter wheat has about all been harvested In the Southwest and the yield there has been very large. Co pious rains In the Northwest, too, have apparently worked some improvement. Judging from te more cheerful tone of advices received from thence this week. Wool Is dull and manufacturers are supplying only actual wants. Prices are at the lowest point reached this season. In sympathy with the lower opening of July wool sales at London, where finer grades are relatively weakest. In manu facturing ltnes dullness and weakness are most marked In products of Iron and steel. Talk of an effort by the great com bines to control prices in the latter in dustry Is heard, but In the almost total lack of new business the basic material, pig Iron, weakens steadily, some author ities predicting a 25 per cent reduction from present prices, which are not at tracting buyers. The settlement of labor troubles' Is re flected In the better demand for building materials at affected centers, while rains In the Northwest havo allowed white pine manufacturers to open their works, and give employment to many thousands of men. Southern pine prices are weak and the market for that material is very dull. Anthracite coal has advanced 25 cents a ton, and while the demand has not In creased heavily, the feeling In that trade is rather more cheerful. Sugar has been marked up again this week, coffee Is higher, while tea holds the full advance scored on the outbreak of the Chinese troubles. Wheat, Including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,018.832 bushels, against 3.184,144 bushels last week, 3, 758,972 bushels In the corresponding week of 1899; 2,728,642 bushels In 1S9S; 2.502,603 bushels In 1897, and 2,167,076 bushels In isse. Business failures In the United States States for the week number 196, as com pared with 185 last week. 136 in this week a year ago, 241 In 1898, 213 In 1S97 and 219 In 1S9S. Business failures in Canada number 25 as compared with 18 last week. 25 In this week a year ago, 18 In 1898, 24 in 1S97, and 82 In 1896. The Financial Markets. NEW YORK, July 6. Bradstreefs financial review tomorrow will say: Although activity has been of the re stricted kind, suitable to the Summer sea son, and though speculation still has al most entirely a professional origin, the past week has witnessed both a strong and an interesting market. In fact. Its strength. In the face of dullness and of adverse political developments at home and abroad, has been somewhat remark able. The Chinese situation. Involving danger of the European markets, with the possibility of future International complications, brought a free selling of stocks here for account of Berlin, and to some extent for London. These offerings were, however, readily absorbed, and Wall street was apparently Indisposed to borrow trouble by looking too far ahead In connection with China. The adoption by the Kansas City con vention of a free-silver plank without modification of the 16-to-l principle was also apparently disregarded, or It might be said that the market was Inclined to a belief that this action renders the out look In the National campaign that Is 'now beginning more certain than if the Chicago platform of four years ago had been modified in Its financial sections. Conservative people, of course, give due weight to the uncertainties that are lia ble to develop in connection with domes tic politics, and there is In such quarters a due recognition of the dangers that are Involved In China. This seems to have brought back many large financial Inter ests, but on the other hand money Is easy and the enormous disbursements of Income on July 1 have brought a largo supply of funds Into the stock market for reinvestment. Although scattered, the buying of dividend-paying stocks has been large and persistent, and commission-houses report a considerable demand of that kind, which, of course, reduces the floating supply. The fact that rains have Improved the wheat situation In the Northwest and have caused expectations of half a crop to replace the estimate of a total failure of the Spring wheat yield In three Import ant states, also helped the market and caused covering of shorts throughout the list. The belief that a change for the better is at hand In the Iron trade also had a good, effect on the Industrials, In the railroads, the anthracite group was the active feature of the week, with sharp advances In several of the mem bers, giving rise to the Idea that some Important deal Involving trunk line inter ests Is In prospect. Bank Clearings. NEW YORK. July 6. The following ta ble, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended July 5. with the percent age of increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year: Tnr TV rew xorK $ 951,r55,000 Boston 115,?6?.0C0 Chicago 138.556.000 11. Philadelphia 100,554.000 .1 15.8 9.6 at. 1XHHS 25.7o8.C00 Pittsburg 27,529.000 Baltimore 25,195.000 San Francisco .... 20,033.000 Cincinnati . 14.242.000 Kansas City 11,254,000 New Orleans 7,187,000 Minneapolis 20.191.000 Detroit 7.606.0CO Cleveland 11.147.(XX) 29.5 14.5 19.7 1.7 12.9 8.4 22.1 9.5 21.5 3.6 46.6 11.4 7.2 i3i9 36 48.5 50.7 is! 5.6 Louisville 8.50S.OOO Providence 9.736.000 Milwaukee 5.485.000 St. Paul 4.390.C00 Buffalo 6.024.000 Omaha 5.ESS.000 Indianapolis 5,178,000 Columbus, O. 5.29S.0CO Savannah 2.982,000 Denver 4.111.000 Hartford 2.S64.000 Richmond 2.269.000 Memphis 1.454.000 Washington- 2.503.000 Peoria 1.7C0.0CO Rochester 2,515,000 New Haven 1.668.000 Worcester 1.361.000 Atlanta L2S9.0CO Salt Lake City.... 2.894.000 Springfield. Mass. 1.533.000 Fort Worth 1,528,000 Portland, Me, .... 1.223.000 Portland, Or. 1.75,000 St. Joseph 3.991.000 Los Angeles 1,500.000 Norfolk L313.fC0 Syracuse 1.203.000 Des Moines 1.230.000 Nashville 921.000 Wilmington. Del.. 1,011.000 Fall River 674.000 Scranton 1.074.000 Grand Rapida .... MO.000 Augusta, Go. .... 648.000 Lowell 451000 Dayton, O l.C-51,000 Seattle 3.101.000' Tacoma 74.O0O Sookane LO.OO Sioux Citv 1.1S9.C00 New Bedford .... 452.00 Knoxville, Tenn... 4g,o0O Topeka 4O3.00O Blrrnlngham 7?3.f00 Wichita 420.OTO Blnehamton 373.00 LexlnRton. Ky.... 419.0M Jacksonville, Fla, 2tt.000 Kalamazoo 3!M.W Akron 42J.fO0 15.9 15.6 12.0 21.7 30.2 41.4 16.! 2S.4 2.4 2Si5 16.9 52.1 12.8 10.7 17.4 27.0 25.5 6.9 7.9 5.4 27.1 10.3 6.3 46.3 41.8 fi'.s 13.2 11.7 24.0 15.1 43.4 'i'.s 25.3 12.2 9.5 8.3 Chattanooga 4MKi Rockford. HI 2f.(W Canton. 0 229.001 Fnringflold. 0 744 cn Fargo, N. D 34SUXV) Sioux Falls. R. D. ri.fOfl Hastings. Neb. ... .14.0M Fremont, Neb 12,000 Davenport l.li.ov Tolwlo 2r8.W Gulveston 4.wo.(rio Houston Youngstown 2S!1 Macon 4iy0M vnnsville rrn.nv) TTlna ". 574 cv Little Rock rso.COO Totals. TJ. S SLRTOmVO 0"Md N. Y. fi?8.GS6.0CO Domln'on of Cannd- 4.3 ?. 7.1 ii'.s 33.3 2.8 14.4 s.2 41.0 7.4 .S 23.2 3.3 Montreal J l.3O"0 3.0 4.0 Toronto Wlnnineg TTnllfox TTamllton St. John. X. B... Vnnco'iver Victoria Ift.TCS w 3 1coyy '. rfifi.ooi .t 23.9-a.flCP 12.9 0.3 12.4 5.3 Totals 2.0 Spenlcer Hemlcrson ComloK Went. CHICAGO. July 6. A special to the Times-Herald from Dubuque. la., says: Speaker D. B. Henderson, wife and uaugnier, ICll mat 111111. m a. wmuir -ai -voiin.R.afrn Trn-ir nnA tr Pnciflp 1 Coast, going via St. Paul. KV. A.V ..OWWI'V- ' ...... W--W ROOSEVELT AT CANTON A CONFERENCE WITH THE PRESI DENT AT HIS HOME. ' Speeches From the Front Porch by Both of Them The Towns people's Demonstration. CANTON, O., July 8. The home city of the President today accorded to his col league on the Republican National ticket an ovation almost unprecedented even In Canton. It would be hard to say whether the citizens of Canton voiced a more demonstrative welcome to President Mc Klnley or Governor Roosevelt, yet it may be said with truth that Canton did not discriminate In today's demonstration, the first occasion on which the Republican candidates for President and Vice-President personally met since the Philadel phia convention. Governor Roosevelt arrived in Canton over the Valley Road at half past 5. His only companions from Cleveland to Can ton were the newspaper men who have accompanied him on his long trip to Oklahoma. As the Governor alighted from the train the whistles blew and cannons boomed and an immense crowd gathered about the station and gave him a mighty cheer of welcome. The Presi dent's secretary, George B. Cortelyou, was the first person to meet him as he stepped off the platform. Carriages were In waiting. All along the line from the station to the McKlnley residence, nearly a mile, the streets were lined with peo ple and Governor Roosevelt was kept busy bowing his acknowledgments to the acclaims of the peoplo of Canton. A brass band, giving forth patriotic airs, led the procession. The carriage In which Gov ernor Roosevelt rode was surrounded with small boys shouting at the highest pitch of their voices, and by bicyclists who seemed anxious to feast their eyes on the sight of the Rough Rider. The yard of the McKlnley residence and the streets adjacent were literally packed with humanity when the Gov ernor alighted from his carriage and walked briskly toward the house. Then a tremendous cheer burst forth from the assemblage. President MclKnley was standing on the porch waiting with out stretched hands to greet his associate on the National ticket. When they shook hands the scene was Inspiring indeed. The assemblage was clamorous for speeches and when something like quiet was re stored, the President Introduced Gov ernor Roosevelt In the following words: "I cannot exowress the pleasure it has given to me to see the enthusiastic wel come my fellow citizens have given to Governor Roosevelt, and I now have the pleasure of presenting him to you." The Governor spoke but a few words, but his voice rang clear and loud and the great crowd had no difficulty In hear ing him. He said: "My fellow citizens. I thank you most cordially for the way you have come forward to greet me. I know that none of you, least of all my old comrades here, will grudge my saying that I thank par ticularly those who wear the buttons that show they fought In the great war (ap plause). "I cannot say how I appreciate this, coming as it does from the townsmen of the President, who Is now In a peculiar sense my leader and whom I shall follow and support with every ounce of strength that there Is in me. And, at least, there is to be said for our side that we know what we believe. In Kansas City they have had a little difficulty in finding out what they believe. I see by the papers that they had some difficulty, extending finally to a vote of 26 to 24. in putting In free silver. Now, we believe with all our faith In a dollar with a hundred cents. Apparently, they have 52 per cent of faith In a 4S-cent dollar. I do not Intend to do more this afternoon than again thank you most cordially, and to say that I appreciate what this greeting means, coming as it does from the home of the President, I shall try to show myself not wholly unworthy of the way In which you have met me this afternoon." The President and the Governor then retired to the house, but the crowd was not satisfied. The demands for McKln ley were so persistent that at length he stepped out again upon tho porch. A great cheer went up, which he silenced aMth a wavii of his hand. ) "T nnlv annear." said the President. "that I may say to you that I am going to be with you most of the Summer." Cheers and laughter followed this re mark of the President and the crowd soon after broke up. At dinner the only guests at the McKlnley residence besides the regular household were Governor Roose velt and Judge and Mrs. Day. President McKlnley and Governor Roosevelt were In conference most of the evening, .but noth ing could be learned as" to the matters discussed. The Governor left for New York at 1:50. "I am going direct to Oyster Bay tomorrow afternoon," he said, "and we are going to have some fireworks, a sort of belated Fourth of July celebration." Governor Roosevelt refused to discuss the Kansas City platform or tho candi dates. ROOSEVELT AJSD HANNA. Campaign Plans Arranged The Sen ator on the Democratic Platform. OI1EVBL1AND, o., July 6. Governor Roosevelt spent eight hours In Cleveland today. He left at 2:35 in tho afternoon for Canton to visit President McKlnley. Senator Hanna did not accompany him. The most of the Governor's stay In Cleve land was taken up by a consultation with Hanna. Governor Roosevelt said: "I have been conferring with the Sen ator about the itinerary that we shall follow out this Fall. It has been de termined that If possible, I shall visit all the Rocky Mountain States." Senator Hanna, when asked for an ex pression on the Democratic platform, said: "From what I have read. I can see that it Is a cunningly devised scheme to catch the unwary and the unthinking voters. I think the most labored effort In their document was to create a difference be tween expansion and imperialism. It was rather amusing to see their line of de marcation; they apparently rely upon the Constitutional question to establish thnt difference as to whether the flag follows the Constitution or the Consti tution follows the flag. We are perfectly willing to meet that Issue on their own hypothesis. So far as the free sliver plank is concerned. I think all Republi cans will be satisfied. It is certainly sat isfactory to me." ARMY REORGANIZATION. Root Is Preparing? a Bill Kext Session. for the NEW YORK, July 6. A special to the Herald from Washington says: Secretary Root Is preparing a bill for the reorganization of the regular Army even more radical in nature than the one submitted in the last session. In order to obviate all antagonism from members of the staff of the regular service, the Secretary has sent a circular letter to all chiefs of bureaus, calling for their recommendations relative to regulation of staff as appropriate to their Individual departments. The Secretary said he had decided to have the new bill provide for the com plete reorganization of the artillery along the same lines as proposed in the old measure. It Is also Intended by the Sec retary to ask for relief for the cavalry. It seems to be his opinion that the caval ry should be Increased from 10 to 12 reg iments, in order not only to give a larger mounted force, but to make promotions faster among officials. An official In close touch with the Sec retary says It Is the Intention of the de- 1 w.-.-j ,- -- -- ---- - I oartment to ask Congress for a standing . - 1 army of not less man i&.uw men. An army of this slze It Is estimated, will be needed to successfully cope with the sit uation In the Philippines. AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTLAND. Wm Winters. SpokaneGo H flayler, 3fodor A G KInns. WalUccKI Co Edward Doyle, do J R Dryer. Spokana CharLthman. do F Krlske. Baker City .K L Nelll. Sumnter IT H Curtis. Astorlx D Corlmcr. St Joe J T Clark & w. Bak Cy W A Doyle, San Fran Fred L Warren. War- renton W H Lemon. San Fr A X Laird. N Y W E Cumback & wifo. E F -Willis, Portland Mrs C L Bent, Mo D F Waencr. city Paul Bunker. San Fr E M Valentine, Elgin, m Geo M Bowman & wf,l Idaho San Jose. 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