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SCHEIBE, .r.-ii:Tr.T A lull lln ol Pip.., Teb.cc. ad 5mokn' Artlcl... 474 Commercial Hi. JHONB NO, IijHl. C. J. TRENCHARD, Commission. Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping. Ant Investigate Your Plumbing.. Fee that it in all rilit, lioforo tlio warm wiihom Mm in. We will fix evi-rything right fr you, nt a ronwiinllo ('Oft. FRUIT JARS your money refunded. H J of lablt "La Belle Astoria" Cigar Sctielbe's Opera Star Schelbe's Special And Othar Brand Custom Houae Broker. ASTORIA. .OREGON W. F. 4 Co., and Pacific fcxpreu Co I. ENGLISH TROOPS TAKE AGGRESSIVE ACTION Admiral Seymour Believed lo Tien BRITISH FORCES KNOWN TO Amcrlua Fercti Will Sail From Miolli Tsowrow, tbe Ollkcn lo Take Cbirje l Ibe Force li Chlai Mliilontrlei From Pekla Are Arrlvlag at Chec Pee, But Forclga Mlaliter Art Supposed to Be Held at HoiUjee. LONDON. June 27. The fresh I hae of ih ebullition In China I probabil ity of Immediate outbreak In great . lUtliwn province. The populace there I daily arumlng a more hostile at titude toward the foreigner and the Intt.-r i'iclv symptom of a Ktueralj riHlntr. especially at Nun Kiis. arti.rlitiu to n dlMt''h o lln; Delly xprea (luted yesterday. Kang Wu, on of tlic iiioBt truculent cn-inle of the foreigner, him arrived by way of the lira lid Canal, arm-J with full pow er fiom thtf I'mprcM to dial with the southern province. The frltndiy attitude of Viceroy Lln Kun Ylh t ward foreigner ha brought him Into disgrace with I'rlnce Tuun, president of Tsung LI Yumun. Unrest at Canton la described by a (llsimich from tliut city to the Dally Telegraph, dated Muiiduy, via llong Kong, yesterday: "It la feared that w are on the eve of a fi'lie of bkiodxhrd and that an arthy In th? two quund wait only par- alltlid during the Ta Ping rebellion. .Sign of a murdi-roua uprlnlng are o manlffat thai the wealthy Chlneae are hurrying Iroin Canton and vicinity, taking thi-lr wtvea, fumlllra and val- uab.'i. Li Hung Chung haa again been, pertniptorlly oidcrrd to Fckln. Ill enemlt declare that they wilt murder him before he can reach there. Ilia pretence alone reatralna revolu tionary element 'here. Hi departure will let looae "black flag' and "red girdle." Knowing this. Ll'a trusted oPtclul are aendlng their famlltt to !ng Kong. 'The viceroy himself tructa Ameri can In till el-Ms. He u that they, ulone, want no territory, and he plucea himself luigely, almott unreservedly, in their hands." At an Important conference today he reiterated this atatemcnt; 'All the missionaries have been no tified of their Immtdiute peril through conlllvntlul runners. They ure leaving Canton hurriedly und only a few are now here. 'Commander McLean, of the United .State steamship Don Junn de Aut trla, Is the first hi-re to froiect for eign Interests. "Two Je.ult Fathtrs and 100 tmllve Clulstluiis have been murdered in the southern part of the province of Cld LI. WASHINGTON, June 26.-The navy drpurtment received the following ca hlegium from Admiral Kemptf: "Taku. June I'S.-The relief forca reached Tl.-n Tsln the 23rd Inst., loss very small. The Pekln relief force, which l.ft Tl.-n Tsln June 10, la re ported ten mile from Tien Tsln, sur rounded. A fone left Tien Tsln on the 24 th to render asslsiance." WASHINGTON. June 26.-The six great viceroys of China, acting through the Chinese minister heiv, toduy re newed their efforts to have foreign troops kept out of China until LI Hung Chang reaches Pekln, The request wna a formal document signed by the six viceroys, Including LI Hung Chang. The fnswer of the United States gov ernment was the same aa that to the Informal request of Minister Wu yes terday, and amounted to a declina tion. CHEE FOO. June 2S.-The officers of the British first-class cruiser Terrible assert that discord exists between the Russians and Anglo-Americans, and say they believe the Russians are plan ning to break the concert and take possession of Pekln independently. They assert that Vlce-Admlral Sey mour's command lacked unison, the for eigners sulking because they .Were un Screens and Screen frames, fire and Draught Screens.... . A XTM CONSIGNMENT JUST RECEIVED FOLDING BEDS MAiNTEL. BEDS CHINA CLOSETS and LIBRARY CASES CHARLES HEILBORN & SON ON CHINESE QUESTION Be in an Unfavorable Situation at Tsin. BE IN A BAD PREDICAMENT ! der Britlih leadership. They bitterly dertime the Russian general' conduct aa uncivilised and barbarous, and charge that the slaughter of the peace ful t'hlnanxn at Taku has aroused the otherwise passive native against the foreigner. The secretary of tate has received a dispatch from United Hate Consul John Fow.-r at Chee Foo, saying: "Combined forces entered Tier. Tsln June 23." The war department ha. received the following cablegram: "Manila, June 2S. Adjutunt-general, Washington; Ninth infantry sails out the 17th. thoroughly equipped and well supplied with everything. "MacAItTH UU." -The navy department announce that the armored cruiser Hrooklyn, with Admiral Remey aboard, will take marine from Manila to Taku, stopping at Xugasakt en route. The gunboat Princeton ha been ordered to Swato, Amoy and Gee Chow, thence to Shang hai, to Install an electric plant, keep ing evtr ready for Immtdlate active service. The president has assigned General Adna It. Chaffee to the command of military force operating In China. General Chaffee was at the war de partment today receiving Instructions and will leave for Pan Francisco in time to call on the 1st of July with the Sixth cavalry, Thla detachment sails on the Grant, which haa been ordered to touch at Nagasaki for fur ther orders. It Is probable that the ship will then sail direct for Chee Foo with General Chaffee and the Sixth cavalry. General MacArthur waa cabled today an order directing the commanding of ficer of the Ninth Infantry and such other for.'es as may be operated In Chi na at the time of the Grant's arrival, to report to General Chaffee on his arrival. Unless present plana chang', headquarters will be established at Chee Foo. General MacArthur was also directed to send Captain Russell, of the Sfcnal Corps, with a detach ment to Chee Foo. Captain Russell, during the Spanish war, worked In conjunction with naval officers, and he has been selected to have charge of the signal operations because of his fa miliarity with that vyork In both the army and navy. LONDON, June 26.-The exclusive dispatch to the Associated Press from Chee Foo giving Admiral Kempft'e authoritative nnnounciment of the re lief of Tien Tsin June 23 remained for hours the sole new of this occurrence of world-wide Importance. About one o'clock the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank's London branch received infor mation of the news, and at about the same time Mr. Dawson, a delegate from Singapore to the congress of the As sociated Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, now in session here, Informed his fellow delegates, amid loud cheering, that he had Just received a dispatch from his son announcing the relief of Tien Tsln. The news reached Berlin later from the German consul at Chee Foo, who announced that the relief column reached Tien Tsln during June 23 and started again on June "f. to the relief of Vlce-Admlral Seymour, who, with the foreign ministers, was said to be occupying a position 12Vi miles from Teln Tsin, where he was surrounded and hard pressed by a great force of Boxers and Chinese regulars. Possibly the Japanese report that Seymour Is a prisoner and that the ministers had left Pekln, guarded by Chinese sol diers. Is merely a distorted version of the Berlin story. But. In any eveht, definite m-w may be expected speedily, and It Im confidently believed h'-re that Seymour and his companions will be safely delivered from their plight. According to the report of a China man refugee, who has arrived at Hhunghal, the condition of Tien Tsln Is horrible. Everywhere In the streets ere the bodlt-. of mitKKacred men and women, American as well as other na tlor.alitlirti. The Hong Kong and Ger man banks, he add, were both de Mroyed early during the bombard ment. Shanghai also report that the Amer ican-Russian relief force was so badly ambuscaded that the forces were oblig ed to abandon several field guns and much ammunition. About IV) Rus slans and 11 Americans were killed and wounded. The Grman gunboat litis and iiu.si&n torpedo ioat destroyer are patrolling the Pel Ho river and raking with guns the. native villages on the banks, which were filled with conceal ed "nlpers." Although It Is officially said at Can ton that LI Hung Chang will not go to Pekln, he continues his preparations for departure. A telegram from the governor of Llao Chow, (Jated June 23, which reached Berlin, announces that according to reports from Chinese sources. Vlce-Admlral Seymour's force has reached Pekln. This Is probably merely a reiteration of the previous re ports on the same subject. CHEE FOO, Tuesday. June 2S-The foreigners everywhere are urging the concentration of an army of lOO.OoO men, or at least about 50,000, for an advance on Pekln. Many persons, fa miliar with the Chinese character, think the foreign ministers and Vlce Admlral Seymour are held as hostages for. good terms of settlement. They also believe the whole Chinese army la Joining In the movement, un der the leaderhslp of Tung Fu Hslang, who crushed the Mohammedan rebel lion. Recently he was nominally de graded for the purpose of organizing an anti-foreign uprising quietly. It Is estimated that 0,O0O soldiers, well armed but poorly disciplined, are about Pekin and Tien Tsln. The Chinese of ficers boast that they have 400,000 sol diers. Admiral Seymour s rorce carried a week's rations, and the men had an average of 130 rounds of ammunition. The Russians' conduct at Taku, ac cording to other officials, Inflamed the natives. The Russians are reported to have been shooting the Chinese indis criminately and driving away the Chi ness who would have procured trans portatlon and provisions, and of loot Ing the town. A great naval demonstration at all the treaty ports Is also said to be de sirable in order to Influence the wav ering Chinese merchants who are fav orable to foreigners. The masses are becoming excited at the reports of :helr countrymen's successes against the powers. Merchantmen arriving here report that ihe Boxers are drilling In the streets of New Chwang. and that when the officials inspected the soldiers with the view of suppressing the Box ers they found soldiers had sold their rifles and equipment to the Boxers. The military school at Moukden is re ported to have been destroyed. The British consul at Foo Chow Is asking for warships. The arrival of the British first-class cruiser Terrible and two Japanese crui sers at Chee Foo today relievel the strained situation. Two Chinese forts, equipped with Krupp guns, command the foreign city. The only protection was the United States gunboat Yorfc- town, with 130 soldiers. As reported last night the sailors slept on their arms and the foreigners prepared to take refuge on the ships. Commander Taussig of the York- town, requested the commander of the forts to discontinue his maneuvers with cannon, and notified him that If Chinese troops were sent to the city ostensi bly to repress the Boxers, Americans would be landed. There are about 150 Americans and British missionaries at Chee Foo. They are short of money and clothes, hav ing left their stations hastily. United States Consul John Fowler's ship is expected to bring 50 missionaries and French priests from the mouth of the Yellow river, whither they are flecking from the Interior. The commander of the Chinese crui ser Hal Chi, at Teng Chow, offered Mr. Fowler to go to the relief of mis sions at Yang Chle Klang If assured of protection. It is reported that the Russians are moving 30.000 men towards Chlew Chwang. LONDON, June 27. The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: June 26. -Sir Charles Warren has re ported that the rebellion In Caps Col ony norih of the Oranga river is now over. The last formidable liody, un der Commandant De Villlers, surren dered June 20, consisting of about 220 men, 2S0 horses, IS wagons, 260 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition. General Baden-Powell reports that pacification Is going on satisfactorily In the Ku.stenbui'i district. WASHINGTON, June 26.-The pur post of the government to place an adequate military force In China was made perfectly clar today when orders were lisuod to Brigadier-General A. R Chaffee to laks commanl of the forces lp China and to proceed at ome to as sum?- his new dutle. More significant probably than the aslKnmcnt It if, w.ik the wording of th? formal order to G'-neral Chaffee, Ixvii-i late In the day by Acting H-cp.iary of War Melkle John, directing him to take command of the troop ordere to Chli.a, and to pro ceed to Pekln by way of San Fran- Cisco and Taku, accompanied by his aides. It has been exacted that the mili tary forces would be concentrated at Chee Foo or some other convenient mil itary base, but the direction to proceed to Pekln indicated a firm determina tion on the part of the government authorities to have a strong military force at th seat of the Chlnes-J gov ernment. The announcement of General Chaf fee's assignment and orders to pro ceed to Pekln came after the state department had decllntd to accede to his second proposition from six great viceroys of China that foreign troops be kept out of China until Li Hung Chang reaches Pekln. Secretary Long received nothing dur ing the day oeyond early dispatches from Admiral Ktmpff. stating that the combined forces had entered Tien Tsln, surrounded. This clearsd up the situation only to present another condition which may prove even more grave. NEW YORK. June 26. -A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: The dense fog has not lifted from China. The wires axe down in every direction from both Pekln and Tien Tfcln, and Chinese messages received at the seaboard from the Interior towns are not entitled to credence. An old-time official who resided in China for a long period told me yesterday that he had followed the details closely and that, apart from the dispatches from the admiral at Taku, there had bepn no authentic 'nformatlon for a fortnight from any source. "The most significant and ominous fact In the situation," he added, "was Prince Tuan's presence as comman der of the Chinese forces near Tien Tsin, since this was a proof that the most powerful leader of the court was at the head of an anti-foreign move ment, and that well-armed government troops were massed on the side of the Boxers. This meant that China was at war with Europe, America and Japan." This well-Informed official could not find In yesterday's dispatches any evi dence that the relief column under Ad miral Seymour had reached Pekin or the legations were safe. The Chinese assurances were of no value, and the news from China was a tissue of rumors. This Informant de clined to believe that the legations were safe, since he remembered how easy It would have been for the Boxers and the soldiers to command every lega tion, except the Austrian one, from the wall which towered above them, a short distance away. Two facts stand out In this tangled maze of uncertainties. One Is the ne cessity for an army of from 50,tK)0 to 100,000 men. If China is to be rescued from anarchy, and the second is the fact that the Chinese troops are well armed and In better condition for a warfare under modern conditions than they were in the campaign with Japan. NEW YORK, June 26.-A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Che Foo. June 23, says: The arrivals today Included 148 per sons In all. Including servants and at taches of the mission. The list of missionaries Is as follows: From Pekin Reld, Davis. Hobart. Walkers, Veritz. Gamewell, Lowry, Ament. Ewlng, Wevell, Gilman, Gloss, Martins. These are of the American board of Presbyterian ladies' mission. From Tien Tsin Pye, Hayner. Pat terson, Lowry, Roberts, Wilson. Bend. Stevenson, Glover, Croucher, Shockley, Gailey. One hundred and forty-eight arrived in good condition. , For Pao Ting Fu there is very little hope. TO FIGHT THE CHINESE. EL RENO. Oklahoma. June 26.-A. M. Ballwln, of El Reno, has recruited a company of volunteers and has of fered their services to the govern ment in case hostilities require the sending of more troops to China. HILL BUYS A YACHT. President of the Gr?at Northern Will Cruise on the Great Lakes. NEW Y'ORK, June 26.-The rumored purchase of Mrs. James W. Martinez Cardeza's steam yacht Eleanor by President J. J. Hill, of the Great North ern Railroad, has been confirmed by the departure of the yacht from South Brooklyn for the Great Lakes, where she will be us?d by her owner, The Eleanor's name has been changed to Waucota. The yacht Is one of the largest sea going pleasure craft and one of the very few that have voyaged around the world. She was built In US5 for W. A. Slater. The Wuucota is built of uleel through out. She measures 232 feet over all. 20S feet on the water line, 32 feet beam, 17 feet five inches depth of hold and 15 feet draught. She Is bark rigged. REBELLION IN CAPE COLONY IS OVER Commandant Villiers Surrenders the Last Formidable Body. ENVOYS LEAVE AMERICA la Tbelr Fir.-wcll Address to tbe America People Tbey Exprcif Appreciation lor Our Sympatiy-Whtt tbe Boers Think of tbe Silasiloa. NEW YORK, June 26.-The Boer en voys, who have been in the country for the past two months, today Issued an address to the people of the United, States. After expressing regr;t at their inability to accept many of the, Invitations extended to' them, they ex pressed their thanks to the American public for the deep sympathy they have shown for the cause of the two strug gling republics. Continuing, the address says: ''We now feel convinced that the boastful allegation of the Colonial sec retary and the British statesmen that the people of this country sympathized with the British empire in its attempt to crash the liberty and Independence of our two small republics Is absolute ly devoid of truth." The address then goes on at great length Into the history of the relations between Great Britain and the Boers, which is characterized as one of "vio lated faith and broken pledges, cloaked under the display of magnanimous and Irreproachable principles." Coming down to the discovery of gold in Johannesburg in 1SS6, the ad dress says: "AH the forces of land greed and gold hunger, stimulated by the desire to avenge what Is known as the batt'e of MaJuba Hill, were let loose." Then follows a history of the politi cal agitation, which culminated In the Johannesburg raid. ."Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Alfred Milner . and Mr. Cecil Rhodes," continues the address, "are the terrible diabolical trinity which had brooded over ths shape and destiny of South Africa dur ing the calamitous period. These gen tlemen combined forces so as to achieve by subtlery and craft and misrepre sentation what Dr. Jameson and the raiders failed to obtain by open vio lence." The address declares that the (apl tallsts control the press of South Af rica, and that the editors of these sub sidized Journals were appointed special correspondents of the principal London dallies. The broad charge Is made that Mr. Chamberlain's revival of the suz erainty claim in 1S97, his public ut terances. Sir Alfred Mllner's speeches and inflammatory dispatches and the efforts of the South African League under the presidency of Cecil Rhodes were all directed towards the ultimate destruction of the two Dutch repub lics. The address then takes up the var ious internal questions which contrib uted towards the war and dlscus'?a them In great detail, making wholtj eale denials of the English representa tion. The address declares that at the Bloemfonteln conference both President Steyn and President Kruger endeavor ed to avert the catastrophe by on ceding even more than the original de mands on the franchise question, but their efforts were fruitless. It Is asserted that the war was forced upon the Boers and the claim Is ad vanced that they took up arms only In self-defense. The address contends that the policy of Great Britain was designedly shaped so as to compel the Boers to send on the 9th of October what Is commonly known as their ul timatum to Great Britain. Taking up the campaign to late, the address says: "The Boers may be In the end de feated by overwhelming numbers, and may ultimately be forced to surren der, owing to difficulty of securing am munition and provisions, but the con duet of the present war, as well as the history of the past 100 years. Justifies us in saying that they will never be conquered." The address concluded by saying that the envoys do not ask the direct or fa vorable intervention of the United States, but a continuance of the pub lic sentlm;nt and support. The ad dress Is signed by Abraham Finch -r, C. H. Weasels und M, D. Wolmarans. AWFUL DEATH NEAR ROSEBURG. Young Man Dragged to His Death by a Horse. ROSEBURG, Or., June 26. Al! Cochran, a young man of Myrtle ere. met a horrible death there last eve log. Cochran was leading a horse water when It took fright, and the r being fastened to his hand, he dragged about half a mile and terrlt mangled. The rope was Just U, enough to reach the horse's heels a every Jump the horse made its iw struck Cochran's head. en -k.