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TT HILL VOL. VII. HILLHWmO, OKEOON, TIIUItSDAY, JULY 19, 1900. NO. 18. SB61 Y EVENTS OF Till! DAY Epitome of th'; Telegraphic News o! the World. n.USK TICKS KIM .liK. WIKF.H a Intrrt-allng I'ullvrlliin i.f 1ihi. Flout he Two. MemUphvrea Free -mm In a tor lmH ?vm- Amerlcau athletna wai eurceaafut at tli Parla tournament. An nil day right llwn the llo-rr and ItiltUli at Platknp resulted WkWI' slvely. Th Kuain miiilrtir lit 1'i'kto l said hi v a bu Midi l death by ituiera. Nina house were entirely ruiianmml ml mauy other damaged by II ro at Dtinaiuuir, Cel. A German paper iw the ristir of KUo t'lnm caused the preanut trou ble Kith China. Fir lit Duraut, I, T., wiped out th greater portion o( the lowu, causing kM u( $100,000. All foreigner hav been returned from the tnwu of W Chou, China, ami kre eaf at hhaughal. United Ktutna Senator John It. Gear, ( Iowa, (1 !! at Washington City ol heart dlanaae, agwd 75 year. ' A large part of the budm district ol Cnwoutt, Arttoiui, wet burned, causing a lio( 1 1. ooo, ooo. The steamer City u( To peka ni rived at Kfattla fiimi Lynn raunl with I tweeu f ;MI.K)0 and $1,000,000 111 gold dual (rum Klondike. Twenty square mlltta ol Ii.mv.ta were burned by a lira started by a firecracker uuar Grub Gulch, Cut, The Um will be hundreds ol IIhiumiuiU. General rata ha fallen over nearly all India during tha wt lew days and lh pruepeot are that crop hava tm Uienanty Improved. Tha famine ;rea baa generally ru beuelllled. F.lglit-hour ahlfu ftir all mderground mau at tha United Verde iiilua aud an Increase of 16 per i-unt iu wage (or tuluara in carUiu portions ol ilia mina warn atiuoumwd at JeiOiita, Aria. Advice ware received from Sv.lney that tribal wara ara raging at tha Solo mon group. Thura haa Ihh ii a llerce battle between tha Mariau (llova) aud Malata tribe. Tha luun on each aida wara heavy. Dynamite wa iiIim11 nmlrt a Transit car lu North St. Lout, and lour paeaengur were injured A an burban car, tha only union hue iu tha city, accldently ran luU a striker' Mma wagou and lujuiad 1 '.' occupant, two seriously. Hiuh gold strike hnva Ixwn made on th Koyuktik, aoin claluia ataked oul yluldluii 4 to tha pan. HoliUra huld up an Illliiola ('entrat train uaar 1'adurah, Ky., blKW up tho xpreaacaraud aiK'tirad f 10,000. The emprea dowar hat ordarod the aupinwliin ol tha ltoxwr aud tha protactlou ol th UKutlona at IVkln. A Tollman car wan tnruad upaide down linar Heddiun, Cat., tha utua oo oufiauta ware all morn or leaa iujurcd, but none tatatly. Thirty-l Iwdiea, horribly rtUllit urad, hava Imou recovered from tha hull of the ateaiimhlp Kiuile, rereutly burund at lloboken, N, J. County I'-omnilaaloner ChiiiiIhiII, ol Spokane county, Waali., waa killml by an C). it, ft . paiuonifcr train utar lAtah, Idaho. Ho wai crowing tha track in a bi;y. A flood ol koM in jKinrlnit in from Aluxka. The rocelpta ol the govern nient aaauy olllce at Hnnttle iu the tlx- cal year were f IS.030.8SU. Thia mouth' raoeptH may excoml $0,000, 000. The Chlueae government la aorry lor the reoeut ontlireaka, but holda the power blaiualilo. The euipmrw dow ner aaya tke attmtki on Tiou Tain were th reault of th imiiiuaMiueut oi lieu Tain. Havnuca of th Caroline Inland nt tacked a tdilpwracked lirtuali crew, lailotwly woondiua two ol the Urltiah, aud were only driven off when an American cuttle dealer cnine to the reaoue of the Itiitiah. On the llaltimore A Ohio railroad. a deliberate attempt to wrenk the WaabiiiKtou expruaa, beiirlug $3,000, 000 in gold to the Nulitreaaury iu New York, came very near being autioeaNlul at Folaoin, abort Jtatnuue outalde ol Fhiludolphla. Th geueral height agonta of lending Weatoru road have funned an arrange nieut (or the nooliuii of buaiueaa. .lolut agenuiei are to be eatahliahed at Kau ai City, Dmaha aud Ht. Paul. A joint agent will be placed in charge ol the tralllo at each ol theae oltiea. Coloinblun revoluttouiBta, nudur (Ion eral Juan 11. (ionmilos aud Htinou Chaux, have captured the city ol J'opa van. a capital ol the department ol Cauua. Ou the march to 1'opayau the revolutiouiHt took all the citiei near tha Ecuadorian (routlor, iuuludiug the I'aport Tunioo. Chlnoh bug are doing great damage to Kanaat crops. American trade with China it ohieflr in the region where the dis turbauoe 1 greatest. A iteam automobile was built in Eno land in 1884. It wai regarded as a curiosity. An Oklahoma, woman wants a dl vorce becaute her hualiand had killed 87 men. After the Sttth she drew th line. LAIkft NtWi. Llama, Ti wa demolished by a cyolou. Ht. Ltml Tranatt Oompany refuaea to arbitral with th atrlker. Chicago Chlueae, havlug Juat learned of the trouble tit Chlua, ai greatly cited. Tweuty peraon were proatrated by heat at New York. Temperature W degreea. Foreign warahip have their guna trained ou Che Fou, in anticipation of an outliixak. Fleet of the revolutionlata hat been raptured by govnruioaut foroea in Co loiubian relielliou. The big aluel plant ol th Federal Kteel Company, at Uiralu. Fa., hea Imwu i loaMl down, throwing 4,000 men out ol work. Two trail-port, with 1,200 offlcera and men, tailed from Manila (or Taku. The hoapital ahip Itelief baa aitio been aaut to Taku. Mrt. F.llaabetb C. Toliuan, wlf of (ieiieral J. C. Tulman, aud a pluuwr of lNSl. died at her home lu Aahlaud, tr., aged I year. " At New York city, Terry Mrflovern. feather weight champion of the world, defeated in three rour.de, Frank Krne, light weight champion of the world. Healing clnima are to be arbitrated. Ituwia, I'ulted Plate and F.nglaud have dually armxl on a mutliod of dial-tiling of loug pending llehring tea trouble. In Iloml'iay, India, for tha week cod ing July 7, tliere were B.Vl'f caaet ol ' l , I.. .1 ... ,,.... I - vnoiera id ine laiiuue uiairici, oi wiucn 6,474 were fatal, and iu the native late 9,t!!0 caaea, of which C,hU'.' were latal. Jo IWUinl, wealthy aheepman of Weetfall, Malheur county, Dr., wa accidentally killed while itacking hay ou hit ran. h, being ttruck by a durrlck (ork, oue orouK ol which pierced hit neck. ' " I'eiirU, 60 milea aouthweat ol Dal la a, Teiaa, wa (wept by cyclone, killing three raona. Two cuurchea, aeveral duelling houae and an tut nivnae amount ol farm property waa deatroyed. Th flrat anit for damagea growing out of the Fourth of July atreet car ac- rldeut at Tacoma, in which 43 Uvea were liwt, haa been tllwl by Harry (ianl, for the dentil of hia ton Harry, for $5, 000. Mauy other tulu am xpcted Five Chlueae rvgliiient have been ordered from I'ekln to Chlng Han I'o, on the tirand canal, the ohjectiv point ol the aouthern extoiinlou of tha lkixer moveiiieul. tihaughal aud t'he Foo are threatened, aud an attack on New Chwaug It imminent. Ten tliouaand Iloert are matting near Prehiria. Demand (or barvett hand In Kaitern Oregon it enormoua. More aoldler are needed (or garrison duty In the l'bilippiue. t'liiiicmi retormeit are nalng even' en deavor to tava the foreiguera. A mountain of gold bearing quartz it taid to have been found in tha lllue river dint riot. A daagliter of Theodore Havemayer, the tugar king, ahot and aocidently killed heraelf. Manila la now the couuterlelter't parudlae. lUg anap in making Auieri cau dollart out of Mexican dollar. Andy Smith, 70 yeartold, waattrnck with paialyaia at Kalama, Waah., and wheu found bad been four day without food or water. Heavy rata tormt are racing In Northern Wiaooualn. All railnwida have ufferd from waibouU. Hail did great damage to cropt. It 1 reported that 10.000 Boor are preparing to emigrate to America 1'roaldvnt Krogev Will retuae to tnrren dvr uutil hit tuppliea r xhauatd. Theodore drell, aged 60, an employ of the woolen mill at Oregon City Or., waa accidentally drowned whila attempting to get into a boat to row home. The American bajfc MeNtatr wa lout on a reef near Laytan ltiano, nunt Japan. The pantcngert and crw apent two dart on the wattr and landed ou Laytan it laud. Anmiral Seymour wa ejorot)lld to about hi owu wounded during th re cent diaattroni retreat of th Pekln re lief expedition. They lire f erred it to tortus by barbarom1 Chinamen. Judge W. II. Wathlugton, of Fhlla delphla, a direct deHcondaut of Augua tine Waaliiiigton, father of (ieorge Wathlugton, in dead at Cuntle Creek Hot SDt'inga, Arizona, of couaumption He waa 45 veura old and a lawyer of recogulaed ability. A Holland Huhmarlue torpedo Ixmt may protect the port of l'ortlnud, Or Two of the new ouea toon to be cuu t true ted will be URNiguod to service on the Facitlu coant, and one may come to the Columbia river. Th Washington government will take everv vrucautiou aualutt violence to Chinese In tho United States, which la Intimated iu some teotlona, in order that the force of our demand for satis faction from China shall not he weak ened by counter claims. A IUrmluglinm, N. Y., school teaoher whipped a school boy and exploded torpedo. He may die. A six year old boy at Acorn Ridge, Mo., shot his brother dead as th re' suit of a quarrel. Japan has appropriated 60,000,000 ven or war purposes. A yen is about the same as our dollar. The Christian Endeavor convention in Loudon will be attended by 10,000 delegates, 8,000 from America. IG FIRE IN PRESCOTT osses Aggregate More Than $1,000,000. MANY ilOMK.I.KSS AND FF.XMIXSS rrlacliMil HatlBMt Purtlaa at tha Tuf Omruf -Mcrclianta K.dr fr MualHtM la Tata. Freaoott, Aris.. July 17. A scene of great duaolatiou aud a feeling of deep- eat gloom pervade thia town today. 11 that remains of tli principal bual- next portion of the town 1 tottering wailt aud pile ol charred ajid burning ubrl. Th Dre. which started at 10:45 'clock last night, wa not under cou trot until 8 o'clock this morning, when the fliflitom went a oouaiderahle dit- tauc iu advanc of th llaiueiand blew d the bulldingt on e aoutn aide ol oodwlu afreet, preventing the Dre from croatlng that ttreet. The moat oonavrvativ eatlmatetof the total ioaae from 11.000.000 to $l,t00(0)0 Tha burned diatrict embrace nve blockt. in which were located the prin ipal mercantile houaea, both bank, both telegraph olllce, the three new paper olllce. lour hotel, aud every auloun and restaurant except on in the town, beeidct icoret ol private real dencet. To add to the p-evailing gloom, high wind ha prevailed all oay, teudlng tmoke, dust aud burning embert in every direction, requiring the greatest vigilance to prevent an oilier outbreak ol the llamet. Owing to the chaotic condition existing today, it it linpomible to obuin an accurate account of th lost or individual insur ance. From interviewi with inaurauce agent, th total immranoe does not ex ceed $350,000. At daylight this morning teams were at work hauling lumber to the public plaaa. and thit evening it It covered with tent and temporary frame build ing. The occupants will be ready lor buaineat tomorrow. ISoth banks have it-cured temporary quarter and will be open tomorrow, ine iiatnioro-ur- uielatcr Company will be open lor Dun nes tomorrow iu their warehouse, two blockt from the pluxa. Hon. W. A. Clark, of th United Yerd Copper Company, who wa vialt ing tli work at Jerome, wired a draft for $500. All the sufferers from the fir are provided with food, shelter and clothing, and it is not thought any outtlde aaaittance will be required. The only business houaet remaining lu the town are Coldwater Broa., A. lllumberg and Mrt. K. K. Blaine, dry goods; Joaeph Dougherty, T. W. Otis and J. I. Gardner, grocers, and W. W. Hou and W. P. Covilland, drug store. Tha exprett office aud pottofnee w ere both out of the fire limit, but tna atter bad a clot call. All th mail aud effect were ready to mov at moment's notice. The oflioe of the supervisor of census for the territory wa located in the Freicott National Bank bailding, and contained all the official (tatiaticaof tha , census of th territory, but they were removed to a place of safety. The western Union opened lu otuce thit morning in a grocery store, and th Tottal baa opened an office at the railroad depot. The electrio light poles and wires were in the burned dis trict; and the town will be In darkness until they can be replaced, ine com pany alto ownt the telephone system, and lose more than ball it instru ments. Many citiaens who yesterday were comfortably fixed are today homeless and penniless, a number losing both their business places and their resi dences. An army of carpenter have been busy all day putting up tempor ary structures, many 01 wuicn uava been completed and will open lor oust- nets tomorrow. Of the three printing offices In town all that waa sated waa about 80 cases of type by the Courier. The destruc tion of the others was complete. J. C. Martin, proprietor of th Journal Miner, saved only his books. Included in his loss was a Mergenthaler linotype, Installed in th ofUoe only three months ago, The two papers nave aireaay mad arrangements for continuing pub lication, although but little insurance was carried by either. Most of the heavlett losers will rebuild at once, Th origin of the fire was unknown until this evening, when it was learned that a man rooming over the bottling works waa lving in bed reading by candlelight when a piece of loose paper on th wall caught fire. He ran out to olva tha alarm, and before other . ..l 1 U J.M ,ta Am waa ItAvnnit I control. Mere Italnt In Tat at. Dallas, Tex., July 17. Northern Tsxai ba been deluged by rains for mors than 12 hours, and the indioa tioni are that the storm has only be gun. The downpour at Dallas wa ter rific Streams are swollen ana train tr delayed because of washouts. Tpungstown, O., July 14. The severe storm last night caused a sud den rise in Mill creek, sweeping away a bridge and washing out railroad tracks, causing damage amounting to 150,000. 100,000 Fruit Fire la California. Newcastle. Cal., July 17. Fire to- day destroyed all the fruit houses and noon destroyed five large and three leading business houses of tha town, small buildings formerly nsed by tha The loss will exoeed $100,000. Over Chicago Great Western railway as re 100,000 boxes ot frnlt were burned, pair shops, at South park, just outside Th Southern Faolfio Company wa th th city. About 800 carloads of shin heaviest loser. Their loss in fruit in g were bnrned. The loss is estimat oars and rolling stook Is estimated at ed at $300,000. There was a high $35,000. 1 wind blowing, and the flames spread " ' from the oil house to the adjoining 8om women amount to nothing out- buildings and freight cars, of which ! old of tkeir ohuroh. MORE MEN ARE NEEOED. the Dtasaa trmm All Part r tk Pklllapla l.laa.. Manila, July 18. "Mora soldiers" Is th demand which is coming to Gen eral MacArtbnr from every department f th Inland. Kecent events hav worked to vindicate General LaMon't Judgment that 100,000 troops would be Deeded to establish American sovereign ty over th Philippines. Until they attempted to hold province of .00,000 or 800,000 hostile people with a regi ment or two, tb American command ers hardly realized the sice of the Phil ippine Inlands. The preneut force is oot large enough to garriaon more than half the Important townt, and In torn of the moat important itlandt, among them Cebu, Panax, Kamar and Ltyt tnd the great Mohammedan empire of Mindanao, only th commercial parts are occupied. The Moros are cloud on the bori son. ' The officers beat acquainted with conditions in Mindanao and the Hula Islands tell the correspondent that they contider teriout fighting there inevita ble. If it comes, th two regiment which are scattered in small garrisons, tome ol them hundreds of mile apart along the coast of Mindanao, an Island nearly at large at Luzon, may hav teriout work. The Moro are fighters by nature, do not fear death, hav many gun, though of antiquated make, but do the best execution by lying in th thick jungles and cutting down soldiers who pat through with their terrible krltet and spears. GREAT WAR HAS OPENED. Will Knit Only With Breaking a4 Par. titloulRg or CnlnoM Kmplra. New York, July 18. A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: A great war has opened in China, with the Japanese in the front line and with th heaviest reserve immediately available. Three American battalions, and about 13,000 Japanese troops, have reached Tien Tsin t nee the two battl were fought, to that the allied force now aggregates 25,000 men, with con tingents slowly dribbling into Taku. War baa not been formally declared, but it is in progress, with every indica tlon that it will continue indefinitely until the government now In power it overthrown and the empire broken tit Into a eerie of European and Japanese provinces ami piotectorates. Hie re treat of the allied forcet from Tien Tsin would be followed by oothreakt against the foreigner in all the province. They are compelled to bait where they are and to bold their ground by bard fighting, and a campaign begun with no other motive power than that of se curing rengance and reparation for tb massacre of the legations will involve sacrifices aud expenditures for which territorial concessions are indispensa ble. This is not th American view, bat the Kuwian, Japanese, German, Ital ian and French, who already have their eyes fixed npon future provinces and conquests, and the Kngliah will find an India in Central Asia. A Crime of Deaperatlaa. Baltimore, July 17. Poverty and Ill-health drove Louis Fisen, a shoe maker, today to kill bimself, his wife and 13-months-olil liabe with a razor and to wound 1 his 8 -year-old son, The tragedy occurred in Fast Leilng ton street. The corpse of Flsen was found lying in the middle of the floor with the head almost severed from the body. The body of Mrs. Flsen lay across a mattress in the cornet of the room, her throat cut from ear to ear, and the infant's body was in a baby carriage btklud the counter. A inort pitiable and distressing sight wsa the little boy, Harry, standing near the body of his dead mother, with blood streaming from a gash in his throat. The bov wa sent to a hospital, wher the physicians hope to save his li'e, From Manila to China. Manila, July 18. Two battalions ol the Fourteenth iufautry and Daggatt': battery of the Filth artillery, will leave lor1 China tomorrow by the trans ports Indiana, Flintshire and WyefleU! The expedition, which will join the. Ninth infantry, will carry 800 round of ammunition to a nmn, and a reserv Df 1,000,000 rounds, together with medical subsistence, stores and cloth lug for 500 men for three months. It will take also two seven inch mortars nd two six inch howitzers, with am munition. The hospital ship Belief is going to China. Assault oa Kansas Oily Chinamen Kansas City, Mo., July 18. In censed at the Boxer news a crowd of men nud boys gathered about the lsun dry ol Ah Siug, a Chinese laundryman, and started a demonstration that cans ed Sing to call ou tho police for pro tec tiou. The crowd passed the time throwing stones into the laundrv and oalling out to the inmates that thoy would kill them. A squad of polio dispersed the crowd quickly, and, at . the Instigation of Sing, who is one - , the most intelligent of the several bun dred Chinese In Kansas City, guarded the place during the night. Violence to Italian Missions. Rome, July 17. Tha Italian consul at Shanghai cables that tbe Italian mission in llu llan has been destroyed and Bishop Fantotati and two mission aries killed. He also reports that th Italian missions in Ho Nan and Hu hav been assaulted. Fire at St. Paul. St. Paul, July 18. Fire this after- IOwra was a great number in the yard. REPULSE OF ALLIES Admiral Remey Confirms the News From Tien Tsin. AUKftlCASS LOST 0VF.K THIHTY fhrae Tboaaaad rrln4ljr t'hlarte OS alale Were Ordered Killed b) Prior Teaa. Washington, July 18. The navy ApeartiBent thia morning received offi cial confirmation from Admiral Keroey Df th reverse of the allied force at Tien Tsin on the morning of the 18th. The dispatch is dated Che Foo. July 16, and tays: Kenorted that the allied forcet at tacked the native city the morning of the 18tb, KuFsians on the right, with the Ninth infantry and marines on the left. The loss of the allied forces is large; Kusrin, 100, including artil lery colonel; Americans over 30; Brit ish over 40; Japanese, &S, including colonel; French, 25. "Colonel Liacum, Ninth Infantry, killed; also Captain Davis, marina corps. Captain Leinley, Lieoten ats Butler and Leonard wounded. 'At 7 in the evening an allied attack on the native city waa repulsed, with great loss. lie turns yet incomplete; detail not yei continued. "REMEY." Consul-General Ooodnow cabled to the state department from Shanghai under today's date that there is noth ing more to report since his cablegram of the 13th inst. The dispatch report ail the attack on the legatloni at Pektn a about to beign. Mr. (ioodnow't tatement is in direct contradiction of the Shanghai story that all foreign con sals were informed Saturday by Sbeng that the legationsfjhad fallen and the ruinistei were killed. Without exception today the foreign representatives in Washington accepted practically certain that the foreign legations and ministers at Pekin have been wiped out. The opinion is based on the accumulating unofficial data that the slaughter occurred about July 6 or 7. Even among the high Chinese officials nope haa been about given up, but thev maintain that there is no offi cial information, and that they are as much in the dark as other. Th situation at a telling effect on the Chinese minister, who is under a nervous tension and agitation more severe than that of the American offi cials. H is seeking to show in the pres ent acute crisis that no matter bow bad conditions may be in China, he is not the less anxious to serve the American people and government, for be has taken great pride in th kindly person al relations between him and the peo pie here. Minister Wu declares un worthy of belief the cable report that Sbeng, director of telegraphs and posts at Shanghai, knew of the killing of th foreign ministers at the time he made a recent suggestion that foreigners he escorted out of Pekin il the allied forces would not advance. As a matter of fact, Minster Wu states that the Chi nose officials have no better means of learning the truth of affair in Pekln than the foreigners, as all the usual means of communication are suspend' ed. But he points oat that Sheng could not have known of the death of the foreigners, else he would not have made a proposal that the foreigners be escorted out of the city. This latter is considered proof positive by Mr. Wu that Sheng considered the foreigners alive. Builnet Interrupted by Strike St. Louis, July 18. The St. Louis Transit Company today filed iu the city register's office its returns of trips and passenger for the quarter ending June 80 last, as required by law These reports are particularly interest ing, as showing the decrease in the company's business, caused by the strike. During the first three months of this year, before the strike was in augurated, the Transit Company, ao cording to its returns, carried 27,058, 685 passengers, its cars making 1,367, 835 trips In so doiug. According to its returns for the three months endiug June 30, its cars made only 447,049 trips and carried 13,733,621 passen gers- Hurt by Falling Walla. Chcago, July 18. Nine persons were Injured, one fatally, by falling walls in a tire caused by lightning tonight at Michigan street and Dearborn avenue. Fireman Robert Meany will die, The total damage amounts to nearly 1200.000. Henry F. Yehemeyer & Co , proprietors of the broom corn fac tory, estimates their loss at $150,000, and J. Dreyfus & Co., furriers, at $30, 000. Attempt to Wreck Fast Train. Junction City, Kan., July 17. As attempt was made to wreck and prob ably to rob the Union Paciflo "flyer' about four miles this side of Manhattan this evening. The switch was turned but the engineer succeeded in stopping the train before it had gone but a short distance in on the Biding. A gun, dynamite and a bottle, supposed to contain nitroglycerine, were found hidden under a pile ot old ties. Cloudburst In Texas. Coleman, Tex., July 18. Fifteen lives are known to have been lost in a cloudburst here today. Ten bodies have been recovered, but only two were identified. It is feared that many more lives were lost iu the valley be' low Coleman. The cloudburst, which followed three days' unprecedented rainfall, caused Font's creek to burst its banks and rush through Coleman, a village of less than 1,000 inhabi tants. LIGHT FROM PEKIN. administration; Arrangee tm Oot War Throega. Washington, July 19. A decidedly more hopeful feelintT with regard to the Chinese situation wa apparent in all administration circles this evening. Tb tide of sentiment, which bad (been markedly pessimistic, turned with the announcement of th victory of th allies at Tien Tsin, an1 the capture of the forts and native city, and gathered further strength from Minister Wu' cablegram declaring that the foreign ministers at Pekln were safe July 9. Aside from these dispatches, the ar rive.) of tb president and tn special cabinet meeting called to contider the situation were the features of the day. The cabinet met at 2:80 this afternoon, lea than an hour after the president reached the White House. Over 100 newspaper men thronged the corridor while the cabinet was sitting behind closed -doors. Tb scene resembled th hottest days of the Spanish war. Tber were present Secretaries Hay, Root, Long, j Gage and Postmaster-General Smith. At the conclusion of the ses sion, which lasted two and a half boors, aeiTetary Root gave oat tbe fol lowing formal statement of thection of the cabinet: "The president has determined thst the facts known to us do not require or justify calling an extra session of contneis. Should future developments indicate that he is unable to do what it required with the means now at his command, and tb action of congress is necessary; to furnish either men or money or authority, be will not hesitate to call it together." The decision that an extra saasion m congress was not demanded by existing conditions was the outcome of the showing which both Secretary Root and Secretary Long made as to tbe force that can be thrown into China without, tbe authorization of additional troop by congress, and also tb decid edly mora hopeful feeling entertained by the president and member of bis cabinet as to tbe safety of Minister Conger and tbe other foreigners in Pekin, due to the cable of Minister Wu, reporting tbe safety of tbe minis ters July 9, two days after their re ported massacre. While this cable is not regarded as conclusive, it is ac cepted in good faith for the present. CAMPAIGN IN CAVITE. Geaerml Grant Blame Captain Hollls Ceadaet. Washington, July 19. Brigadier- General Fred D. Grant, United State volunteers, in submitting to the war department an interesting account of the fighting around Imaa, - in Cavit province, from September 29 to October 8, last, closes by saying: All the officers and men under my command behaved well in all engage ment, unless I except the movement of Captain Hollis battalion of the Fourth infantry, from Imna, on October S, which was not well conducted. Some deserve especial mention for their bravery and energy. Among these I would mention Captain Reilly, of the Fifth aitillery, who conducted the move against. Binacayan, October 6; Lieutenant Knatsenshue, my aid-decamp, who commanded the scout dur ing th who! time; Lieutenant Fenton, Fifth cavalry, aid-de camp, who con ducted a company'through from Baooor to Imus, October i, and wa much ex posed in the fighting which occurred October 2, 3 and 8, and Captain Cow lea, who commanded' the recon naissance, October 8, which resulted in a fight at St. Nicholas. Major Lee and Captains King and Fuller, of General Law ton's staff, who were with me on October 3 and 8, de serve special mention for their gallan try, and my personal thank for the assistance they rendered me." New York SSreKered. New York, July 19. There was no relief for suffering New Yorkers today. In fact, it waa hotter thia afternoon than yesterday, and there was scarcely any breese. As was tbe case yesterday, many business houses were compelled to close early in the afternoon, and it Wa impossible for laboring men to work in the streets after 8 o'clock. In Greater New York there were about 35 cases of heat prostrations. Five per sons died from the effects of the heat, and one person, who bad been over come aud taken to a hospital, commit ted suicide. Orhcially, tbe mercurv ranged from 9t to 100 degrees between the hours of 10 A. M. and 5 P. M, but many thermometers at different points throughout the city registered as high as 106. Horns del Toro Deatroyed. Kingston, Jamaica, July 18. A let ter from Atrato, Colombia, says Bocat dol Toro has been visited by a terrifio gale, which destroyed many buildings and banana plantations. Immediately after the gale a fearful fire swept the town, destioying its finest buildings. The situation is said to be desperate, the people being demoralized. Perished In Ctnh Desert. Williams, Aria ' July 19. Word leached here today of the death of J. M. Meneck, upon the desert of south ern Utah. Meneck, who wa an engi neer aud mining expert, and a repre sentative of th Smithsonian institu tion, left here June 24 in company with four others (or southern Utah in quest of the far famed lost copper mine. that was claimed to have been visited bv one of the party, E. R. Good, Worried to Death Over the Massacre. Davenport, la.,. July 19. John B. Phelps, a prominent lumberman, died today of apoplexy, attributed to worry over the fate of relative in Pekin who are guests of Minister Conger', family at tbe American legation Halifax, N. S., July 19. A cable gram from South Afrioa report that Captain Harold Borden, of the Cana dian contingent, bad been killed in ac tion. He was tb ouly son ot F. W. Borden, Canadian minister of militia. BURST ITS BOUNDS Chinese Army Invades Ail atic Russia. ATTACKED CAPITAL OF AMUt fnteUeallr Deelnratloa of War raneet. London, July 19. Tb Daily Mail publishes a sensational dispatch from St. Petersburg, dated Monday, which ieits that there is no doubt that China has declared war against Rossia. "The Russian press," sayt th corre spondent, "Is restricted to the publica tion of official details, and tbe publica tion ot any dispatches from tbe front ha been prohibited. 1 bear, however. from a reliable source, that the Chines troops and tbe Boxer seized a Russian transport vessel laden with munition at Ariagon (on th Amur river, about 18 miles from tbe Russian frontier), killing almost the entire Russian escort. They next suddenly attacked and bom barded the town of Blagovestchnesk, capital of t'n Amur government, on tbe Amur river. The garriaon held out bravely, but was finally overwhelming ly overpowered. Nearly all perished and tbe town wa burned." Plenty of Bualnne, London, July 19. Tbe new of tha Manchuria disturbances is not regarded a justifying th serious view attribut ed by tbe Daily Mail's advices. Amor is boundary territory between Eastern Siberia and Manchuria. The district ha been tbe scene of local disturbances for a long tint, owing to provocative conduct of th Cossack toward the 25,000 Chinee employed in the con struction of the Bnaso-Manchurian railway. Several collisions bar occurred be tween the Coraacks and the Chinese troop. One happened several week ago, when two Russian officer and 18 men were killed. Tbe extension of the Boxer movement to Manchuria ha re sulted in great destruction of tbe rail way, compelling th Russians to with draw' their official. Tbe Chines tried to stop the Russian steamer Michael, carrying ammunition, and the steamer Selonga, with the Ruaaian frontier commission on board, from passing up tbe Amur at I gun. They fired on the teamen, wounding an officer and a few men, bat th steamer reached Blagovestchnesk. Tbe local commander at Ariagon seem to have sent' the Russian a sort of ultimatum to quiet Manchuria. , The Chinese! according to the Dally Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent. have throwm np fortifications and placed 40 guns at a point 12 miles from Anagon, to dispute the passage of the Russians. The official Bnasian adivce leave the inference that Blagovestchnesk is still In Russian hands, the Russian losses daring1 the bombardment ' being only three killed aid five wounded. Tbe Amur military district wai mobilised a' fotthight ago, on a war footing-, and it it believed that the Russian forces there are 50,000 men and 112 guns. The governor-general has now ordered the troops on the frontier to form a cordon. Tbe Russian paper demand retribution for Chinese auda city in Manchuria, but they bold fo tbe view that Russia must persevere in lier resolution to avoid wai. Tbe-Chinese minister in St. Petersburg ha disavow ed the event in Manchuria, on behalf of his government, and has ' promised to make serious , representations : to Pekin regarding the consequences that will follow if the hostilities ther be continued. A CHINESE REFORMER. Long Kal Chn't Idea of Governing th Bmpire. Honolulu. July 12, via San Fran cisco, July 19. Long Kal Chu, the noted Chinese'refdrmer, on whose head a reward of $86,000 i offered by tb empress dowager, has returned to Hon olulu from the Island of Maui. The reformer has been in the islands about three months, organising the Po Wong movement, which has a it object the overthrow of the empress dowager's regime and the re-instatemect of the young emperor. , Societies have been organised here and a large amount of money raised. In speakfng' of how China may be governed in the future he said: , "The opening np of China so that tbe Chinese may be able to assimilate foreign ideas of progress) and that all foreigners may share with th Chinese in development of the wealth of thi vast empire, the power in China mnst be centralized to prevent jealousy among factions, and for tha best inter ests of China and the world the em peror should be reinstated. "Last year the United State pro posed to the other power .to open np China and to protect her territory from partition. Snob a course Will be found most beneficial and a policy most ap propriate to modern civilisation," Kumaaale Relieved. Fumsu, July 18. Kumatti ha been relieved by the command under Colonel Willooks. Antl-Chluese Riot In Tlrden. Virden, III., July 19. Enraged at the new from China, a mob today at tacked a Chines laundry bar and de molished the entire front of the build- j gl iMf tni 4 two cw, nese laundrymen, but without effect. No arrests have yet been made. Joseph Real, a white man, died la Toledo, O., from luokjaw, resulting from bite received in an assault or a ' negro, Haley Ravelle. ,H,t9, .SAtfwi-iVie. ,t..i'y'aiiei 'iu iff4t:,i't'fc ft'
