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GAZETTE. CORVALLIS WEEKLY. UNION Eatab. July, 1867. GAZETTE Eatab. Dee., 1863. Consolidated Feb. 1899. COEVALLIS, BEJTTXXtf COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, lflOO. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 29. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of th ,3 Telegraphic News of thf. World. TERSE TICKS FRGJa JriE WIRRS An Interest ins Collection of Ilemi) From the Two Hemispheres Pres Mit -i in :i Condensed Form. President Kruger ia reported to have moved to Nelspruit. Eight deaths from extreme heat are5 reported from Chicago. In a wild plunge of a street-car into a gulch at Tacoma, 36 people were killed and 60 injured. Elizabeth Chapman, a Salem pioneer of 1848, died at that city in her 81st year, of a complication of diseases. An explosion of firewoiks in Phila delphia caused the death of four chil dren and the fatal injury of thiee oth ers. By the explosion of an oil tank in Parkers burg, W. Va., six men were blown to atoms and three others fatally injured. Three men were killed; one wound ed in a wreck on the Delaware, Lacka wanna & Western road at Durkin's Cut, near Henryville, Pa. Southern provinces of China are drifting away from the empire. Li Hung Chang and the friendly viceroys are engineering the movement. The foreigners in Pekin will be left to their fate. The allies cannot rescue them on account of the overwhelming force of Chinese that oppose them. The United States battle-ship Ore gon, which ran ashore off the island of How Ke, in the Miatau group, 85 miles northeast of Che Foo, on June 28, has been floated. The steamer Dirigo artived at Seat tle from Skagway, bringing 10 lioxes of gold dust, valued at nearly $800,000. The Dirigo carried 72 passengers, mostly from Dawson. Rear-Admiral Bare, now command ant of the Norfolk navy yard, has been selected to succeed Rear-Admiral Philip, deceased, as commandant of the New York navy yard. Charles VV. Dickinson, inventor of the geometry C lathe, which made a successful counterfeiting of bank notes impossible, is dead at his home in Belleville, N. J., aged 77 years. June 30 the grand staff of the Rus sian army estimated the Chinese army to number 1,720,000 men. He also said that about 900,000 Mausers have been imported within the last three years. A dispatch from Bombay says that in all except three districts cholera ia raging in Bombay presidency, the cases reported for the week ending June 26 numbering 20,689, and the deaths, 12, 333. Twenty thousand Chinese solders are within Pekin walls, 30,000 outside. Admiral Kempff reports that the Ore gon is not in a dangerous position. The German minister at Pekin haa been killed and other legations are un der aeige and starving. The cruiser Philadelphia arrived at Astoria to take part in the Fourth of July celebration there. The steamer Danube airived at Na naimo, B. C, five days from Skagway, with 40 passengers and $70,000 in gold dust. As a last hope of saving foreigners in Pekin, the powers may now threaten to destroy the graves of the imperial ancestors. Fire destroyed the large soap and fertilizing plant of the Walker-Strat-man Company at Pittsburg, causing a loss of $75,000. A scandal in Klondike. Gold Com missioner Senkler is charged with il legal grants to persons with whom he was partner. Lou Cramer, of Independence, Or., pioneer of 1852, committed suicide by hanging himself. No cause ia known for the deed. The four-oared race between Penn sylvania, Columbia and Cornell crews was won by the former. The race took place at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. At Cheater park, Cincinnati, W. A. Rutz and F. Hansman, of New Haven, Conn., on a motor tandem, made a mile in 1:29 4-5. This gives them the world's record for a cement track. By the bursting of a reservoir of the city water works of Grand Rapids, Mich., 100,000,000 gallons of water was precipitated upon a thickly popu lated district of the city, doing dam age estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The strength of the foreign forces at present in China are aa follows: Ger many, 44 officers and 1,400 men; Great Britain, 184 offi?ers and 1,700 men; Austria, 12 officers and 127 men; America, 20 officers and 329 men; France, 17 officers and 387 men; Italy, seven officers and 131 men; Japan, 119 officers and 3,709 men, and Russia, 117 officers and 5,817 men, with a total of 53 field guns and 36 machine guns. Germans naturalized in America in disfavor in the fatherland. are The wall paper trust, one of the earliest and best known of the com binations, haa asked for a receiver. Since January 1 174 national banks have been organized. On June 9 there were 3,754 national banks in the conn try. Carleton college at North lie Id, Minn, has received $25,000 from Dr. D. K Pearsons, of Chicago. LATfcR NEWS. Tien Tain is hard pressed by 80,000 Chinese. Cubana are pleased at the withdrawal of American troops. St. Louis street car employes have renewed their strike. Chinese imperial troops are defend ing the foreigners in Pekin. Chinese do not want religion and no amount of war can make them accept it. Battleship Oregon to Taku again unless will not be sent absolutely neces- sary. It is said America ia to have 11,000 saen in the force of 100,000 to be used in China. The steamer Rosalie arrived at Seat tle from Lynn canal, with $600,000 in Klondike gold. American trade will be injured il the powers decide to make war On the Chinese empire. The Oregon must remain in dry dock 90 days. She has arrived at Che Foo and will go to Japan at once. Li Hung Chang is again urging the powers to intervene and establish a strong government in the Chinese em pire. George Horiick, is held at North Ya kima on a charge ot killing a squaw on the reservation. He claims self-defense. Rumoi is current that the Chicago & Alton, Kansas City Southern and Un ion Pacific railw;s will be amalga mated. Dr. Henry D. Cogswell, a well known philanthropist and prohibition ist, is dead at San Francisco, aged 80 yeais. Commissioner of Patents Duell is said to be out for the nomination for governor of New York on the Repub lican ticket. Japanese laborer? in Hawaii are dis contented. Plantation managers have conceeded everything asked for and still they are not satisfied. The converter and billet mill "of the Illinois Steel Company at Joliet, III., resumed operations and nearly 1,000 men were put to work. Russian, French and German admi rals at Tien Tsin are said to have ex pressed themselves as unfavorable to Japan's being given a free hand. Roy C. Gage, of Company C, Third regiment, O. N. G., in their annual encampment at Salem, was drowned in the Willamette river while bathing. Many prostrations from beat in New York city. Two more British warships have been ordered to China. A Franco-American alliance ia pro posed by an enthusiastic Frenchman. Fire in the business section of Pitts burg caused the death of four persona and injury to six others. File in the Cramp's shipbuilding yard near Philadelpba, destroyed prop erty to the value of $200,000. Nine deaths in one day in Chicago from extreme heat. The record for a week is 27 deaths and 96 prostrations. The total number of bodies recovered from the recent Hoboken fire now number 143, and 140 persons are re ported missing. A cyclone, accompanied by a cloud burst and hail storm, a wept over Kala mazoo, Mich., resulting in damage to property of $100,000. On June 17, the Chicago & North western railway opened for traffic their new line from Belle Plaine, Ia., to Ma son City; also their new Fox lake branch. The length of this new line is 195 miles, which added to their mile age gives them a total ot s,4bz.oo miles, the largest mileage of any rail road in the world. The dock laborers' strike at Rotter dam, Germany, is assuming threaten ing proportions. lbe carmen nave now joined in the strike, and the police and marines are guarding the streets in order to check disturbances. The strikers have picketed all the ap proaches to the town, so as to prevent non-unionists from entering. The la borers of Rotterdam will hold a mass metting to discuss the best means of aiding the strikers. The orders recently issued for the re moval of a large number of troops fro'u Cuba have been gladly welcomed by the Cubans, and General Wood is in receipt of many letters from various municipalities offering thanks for what they call his disposition to trust the Cubans, and declaring that the entire island is in a state ot absolute tran quillity. The Tenth infantry, it is be lieved, will leave the island shortly af ter the departure of the regiments now under orders to proceed home. James W. Porter, of Chicago, has re ceived a cablegram from Che Foo, an nouncing that his brother, the Rev. Henry J. Porter, and his sister, Miss Mary H. Porter, missionaries of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, stationed at Pang Chuang, 2G0 miles south of Tien Tsin, had arrived safely at Che Foo, July 5, coming overland from Chinan Fu, cap ital of the province. They were accom panied by the Rev. H. P. Perkins, an other missionary stationed at Pang Chuang. An ordinary sight in Manila is a Fil pino market or. washer worn an smok ing a large cigar and clothed in a low necked gown, with flowing sleeves and a handsomely embroideried silk scarf. Partick Sharkey, who died at the age of 83 in East Cambridge, Mass., was the last survivor of the four organizers of the Father Matbew Temperance so ciety, the oldest association of its kind among the laity of the Roman Catholic church. BRYAN IS NOMINATED Unanimous Choice of Kansas City Convention. ON A FREE COINAGE PLATFORM Webster Davis Arraigns t lie Republican Party for Lack of -Sympathy for tlie Boers. Kansas City, July 6. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, was tonight unanimously placed in nomination as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, on a plat form op posing imperialism, militarism and trusts, ami specifically declaring for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The nomination came as the culmina tion of a frenzied demonstration in honor of the pat ty leader, lasting 27 minutes, and giving utterance to all the pent-up emotions of the vast mul titude. It followed also a fierco strug gle throughout the last 36 hours con cerning the platform declaration on 3ilver and on tho relative position which the silver question is to mal tain to the other grea (Tissues of the .'a It was late this afternoon when tte convention was at last face to face -vi'h the presidential nomination. Early in the day there had been tedious d laya, due to the inability of the plat form committee to reconcile their dif- W J Bryan, ferences and present a report this was ready the convention ma beguiled the time by putting ! speakers of more or less pronim keep the vast audience from 5 mints too restless. Trie first session, beginning at ID o'clock this morning, was entirely fruitless of results and it was not un til late in the afternoon, when the sec ond session had begun, that the plat form committee was at last able to re port an agreement. Already its main features, embodying the 16 to 1 princi ple, had become known to the dele gates, and there was little delay in giving it unanimous approval Thu removed the last chance fcr an open ' pture on questions of principle and i the way clear iojt the supreme -vent of the day the nomination oi me presidential candid The vast auditorv mi a utmost capacity vh the momen rived for the rominat to be Not only were the usua tfaciliti forded by tickets taxed to the utri but the doorkeepers were given 1 instructions, under which the aisles and areas and all available spaces were packed to thoir fullest limit. Wjbec the call of states began for the purpose of placing candidates in nomination, Alabama yielded its place at the I ad of the list to Nebraska, and Oldhamt, 0; that state, made bis way to the plat form for the initial speech, placing Mr. Bryan in nomination for the presi dency. The orator was strong-voiced and entertaining, yet to the waiting delegates and spectators there was bu one point to his speech, and that the stirring peroration waich with the name of William J. Brya This was the signal for the denion tration of the day, and with a com mon purpose, the great conourse joined in a tribute of enthusiastic devotion to the party leader. All of the intensity of former demonstrations and much more was added to this final tribute to the leader.-- When the demonstration hadl-Mni beet iMrinii itself, the speeches seconding the nbmi- Strv existence of our constitutional nation of Mr. Bryan were in order. ! republic is at stake, and that the decis Then came the voting. State :ftea n0w to be rendered will determine state recorded its vote in behalf ot 6"w!hether or not our children will enjoy Nebraska candidate, giving hi the , tljiese blessed privileges of free govern unanimous vote of all the states and ;ent which have made the United territories. The convention manag-MifJ' states graat, prosperous and honored, had already agreed that this was aura-; w earnestlv ask for the foreuoim- defi cient work for the day, and the vice- presidential nomination was allowed to go over until tomorrow. Next to the demonstration for th party candidate, the greeting of the announcement that imperialism was te be the paramount issue of this cam paign was the most spontaneous and significant of the day. Another stirring event of the day was the appearance of Webster Davis, ex-assistant secretary of the interior under McKinley's administration, in a speech severely arraigning the Repub lican party for its lack of sympathy for the Boers and formally announcing his allegiance to the Democratic party. Victims of rjtoboken Fire. New York, July 5. Up to 11 o'clock last night 120 bodies had been recov ered from the waters of the North rrver. Thero are yet over 125 people missing. A large electric light plant Trill be put in at the Cornucopia mines in Union county, Or. The waters of Pine creek will be utilized to operate the machinery. Work on the same will begin immediately. , DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. Imperialism Announced as mount issue. the Para- Kansas City, July 6. Following is the official text of the platform aa ageed upon by the committee on reso lutions and presented to the conven tion: We, the representatives of the Demo cratic party of the United States, as sembled in national convention on the anniversary of the adoption of the Dec laration of Independence, do reaffirm our faith in that immortal proclama tion of the inalienable rights of Ameri cans and our allegiance to the constitu tion framed in harmony therewith by the fathers of the republic. We hold with the United States su preme court that the Declaration of Independence is the spirit of our gov ernment, of which the constitution ia the form and letter. We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; that any gov ernment not based upon the consent of the governed is tyranny; and that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute the methods ol imperialism for those of the republic. Believing in these fundamental prin ciples, we denounce the Puerto Rican Taw enacted by a Republican congress, gainst the protest and opposition of e Democratic minority, as a bold and -open violation of the nation's organic law and a flagrant breach of the na tional good faith. We condemn and denounce the Phil ippine policy of the present administra tion. It has embroiled the republic in an unnecessary war, sacrificed the lives of many of its noblest sons and placed the United States, previously known and applauded throughout the world as the champion of freedom, in the false and un-American position of crushing with military force the efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self-government. We oppose militarism. It means conquest abroad and intimidation and oppiession at home. It means the strong arm which has ever been fatal to free institutions. . We pledge the Democratic party to an unceasing warfapt, in nation, state and city against private monopoly in every -jOTffiT "Existing laws against J-fetusts must be enforced and more stringent ones must be enacted provid ing fir publicity as to the affairs of "rjieijations engaged in interstate com m"': and requiring all corporations to before doing business outside of state of their origin, that they no water in their stock and that have not attempted and are not attempting to monopolize any business tie production of any articles of merthandise. W3 condemn the Dingley taiiff law a? a -mtt breeding measure. Wtrearhrm and endorse the princi ples of the national Democratic plat form adopted at Chicago in 1896, and wafcflifceiate the demand of that plat- faBBBBB& an American financial ulat- pted bylthe American people selves which shall restore and a.m a bimetallic price level, ana 1 of such system the immediate ration of the free and unlimited lis of silver and gold at the pres Ifjgal ratio of 16 to 1, without wait er the aid or consent of any other. favor an amendment to the fed- stitution providing for the elec- Untied States senators by direct the people, and we favor direct -lsiwion wherever practicaDie. We are opposed to government by in junction; we denounce the blacklist and favor arbitration as a means of set tling disputes between corporations and employes. favor the immediate construe too. ownership and control of the Nicaragua canal by the United States. favor an intelligent system ol ing the aiid lands of the West, the waters for purposes of irri- and the holding of such lands tual settlers. e favor the continuance and strict forcement of the Chinese exclusion and its application to the same sees of all Asiatic races. peakiiro, as we believe, for the en American nation, except its Re- blican office holders, and for all free n everywhere, we extend our sy Bo thies to the heroic Boers in their un equal struggle to maintain their liberty and independence. Relieving that nnr most, nherishpn (inctimtinTia r. in m-oot ,l0rii (kt tk j laration of principles the hearty sup j port of liberty-loving American people, regardless of previous party am nations. The Ticket Filled. Kansas City, July 7. The Demo cratic national ticket was completed i today by the nomination of Adlai E. Stevenson for vice-president. The I nomination was made on the first bal lot, state after state joining in the wild : scramble to record their support of the winning candidate. It was not ac- 1 companied by any such frantic demon stration of approval as had marked the proceedings at previous stages. Sipido, Would-be-Assassin. Brussels. July 9. The assize court today returned a verdict of guilty of at tempt to kill the Prince of Wales against Jean Baptiste Sipido, who fired at the ptinoe in this city, "April 14. The court considered that Sipido acted without discernment, and sen tenced him to a reformatory until he shall have attained his majority. Meert. Penchot, and Meirere, tne in sticators of the attack upon the prince, were acquitted on the ground that they conadiered the plot a joke. or-W 0 I ft fe. mm WRECK OF A YACHT Six Persons Perished in a Lake Erie Disaster; BOAT WENT DOWN IN A STORM Bui Seamanship Ia Said to Have Keen the Cause of tho Accident Oue Passenger Was Saved. Cleveland, O., July 10. The schoon er yacht Idler was lost in a terrific storm 16 miles off this port this after noon, with six persons, all members of the family of James Corrigan, wealthy vessel-owner of this city. Mrs. John Corrigan was the only passenger aboard who was saved. C. H. Holmes, the captain; Samuel I5ig gam, the mate; four sailors, two cooks and the ship's carpenter were also saved. The yacht left Port Huron yes terday with the family of Mr Corrigan aboard and started to Cleveland. Mr. Corrigan was ill, and left by the train. At 2 o'clock the storm came up. and inside of five minutes the yacht sank. All the women, except Mrs. John Cor rigan and Miss Etta Corrigan, were in the cabin when the gale came up. They became panic stricken, and re fused to leave the place. The men im plored them to come to the deck, but they refused. Mrs. John Corrigan clung to a cork sofa came, and was saved. when the gale "When rescued, Biggam said: "It was about 2:05 when the squall struck us. The yacht laid down on hqr beam ends, and the water rushed through the deadlights and companion ways, and in thcee minutes she sank. Mrs. James Corrigan, Miss Ida Corri gan, Miss Jane Corrigan, Mrs. Charles Reilly and the infant daughter of MrsV Reilly were all in the saloon below when the storm came on ns. Captain Holmesgav-me orders to take in sail, aiid I transmitted the order to the men. They obeyed quickly. The captain, myself and the crew made efforts t save the women, but without success. We told them the yacht was sinking, but they could not or would not come on deck. I waded into the saloon when the water was up to my neck, but Mrs. James Corrigan would not come out. She may have been rendered incapable of action by fear and knowl edge of the impending doom. An effort was made to take the infant daughter of Mrs. Reilly out, but Mrs. Reilly would not let the child go. "It was realized that nothing could be done to save those in the cabin, and attention was turned to saving those on deck. The latter, outside of the cap tain, mate and crew, were Mrs. John Corrigan and her daughter, Miss Etta Corrigan. The captain and the crew tried to get Mrs. Corrigan and her daughter up on the cross-trees in the rigging, but the heavy sea washed them all overboard. "For God's sake, Mrs. Corrigan, yon and your daughter keep a tight hold on the rigging," we called to them. "Even as we yelled the sea swept them and us overboard. Fortunately, Mrs. Corrigan had succeeded in taking hold of a cork lounge. She clung to it and was saved." According to the testimony of several sailors, the topsail, mainsail and jib were all set when the storm came up. This is denied by Biggam, who declares that they were in good condition to face the storm. Captain James Corri gan declared tonight that good sea manship could have averted the tragedy. He is almost frenzied with grief. The Idler was a staunch schoon er yacht, which Captain Corrigan re cently purchased from John Cudahy, of Chicago. The survivors of the wreck were picked up by tugs a few minutes after the accident and brought into this port. Pittsburg Fireman Died. Pittsburg, July 10. Stewart Burns, of Engine Company No. 4, who was taken out of the wrecked Evans build ing last night, died at an early hour this morning, making the list of dead number five. Captain Dan Campbell, also of No. 4, who was thought last night to have suffered the least injury of any of those buried, is tonight in a very critical condition, suffering in ternallv. The phvsicians considered his chance's of recovery very slight. The other injured men are getting along nicely. All of the wounded men unite in saying that their rescue was little short of miraculous. None expected to be taken out alive. Ho Bodiea Yet Recovered. Cleveland, O-., July 10. None of the bodies of the six persons drowned by the capsiizng of Captain James Corri gan 's yacht, the Idler, 15 miles off this port yesterday, have yet been re covered. On account of the high sea still ranniug, divers were unable to do anything towards recovering the bodies today. Another attempt will be made tomorrow. Seattle, Wash., July 5. A $50,000 fire caused ny a skyrocket in the hands of a careless boy last night burned a business block occupied by Holden & Wilson, Randolph Gross and Rhodes Bros., on Second avenue. The buildJJ ing and most of the contents is a total loss. All are believed to be fully insured. Tbe Ashantee War. London, July 9. The colonial -office has received a dispatch from Govrenor Hodgson, of the Gold Coast colony, saying that owing to the non-arrival of the relief column at Atekwaute, June 26, and the reduction of the food sup ply he had decided to push through the I rebels and had deceived the enemy re garding the route followed. The col umn suffered great privations, but the loss was only six men killed and sev eral wounded. WEIRD TALE OF THE SEA. How Stowaways Bred a Serious Mutiny on the Dolphin. San Francisco, July 11.- The steam er Dolphin, which arrived last night from New York, through the Straits of Magellan, had a sensational trip. Ac cording to Captain John O'Brien, the day following her departure three stow aways were discovered. But for the stormy weather Captain O'Brien would have put about and landed the men. Subsequently the captain wished with all his heart that he had followed his first inclination in this respect. From St. Lucia, he took eight na tives to assist the crew. About a week after leaving the West Indes, a native told tbe captain that one of the stow aways was a notorious bandit, and an other was a lunatic and the third was an escaped murderer. Edward Palmer, a negro steward, assumed an independ ent attitude before the Dolphin was past Sandy Hook. Three daye out from St. Lucia he attacked a fireman named McAllister with a chair and laid his! scalp open. The steward was put in irons and Captain O'Bren and Chief Engineer Winter took six stitches in the fireman's head. Tne West Indians then became friendly with the negro crew and they worked only whenever they pleased. Captain O'Brien intended to land the steward and the natives at Montevideo, but the United States consul there ad vised holding them until an American port was reached. The steward was released from his irons and put to work painting and cleaning ship. Follow ing this trouble the blacks showed a tendency to rise against the officers and white men of the crew, but Captain O'Brien and his men kept their revolv ers in plain vie W and by their apparent readiness to use them prevented trouble for the ti?re being. Three days was spent at Montevideo in coaling. In sailing out to open, sea, in the river Platte, a hurricane swept down on the Dolphin, and she narrowly escaped be ing wrecked. In the Straits ot Magellan the man eating Fuegans attempted to set fire to the Dolphin as they had done a year before to a Chilean man-of-war, killing and eating the entire crew. At Coro nel, a Chilean coaling post, the coal passeis obtained liquor and went on the warpath and could not be subdued. They smashed all the fire axes on board and threatened to kill every one on the steamer. During the trouble, Purser Hnmes and Second Engineer George G. Carroll were sent ashore by Captain O'Brien to procure assistance and they lost no time in finding the men in au thority. The nearest troops weie 100 miles away, but a special train was sent after them by the government. It developed that Humes and Carroll were no better on shore than they had been on the Dolphin, for in so out of the way place it was useless to make at tempts to get back to the ship. "When we got back to the steamer," said Purser Humes, "the mutineers had the crew up in the rigging and were in full possession of the vessel. The sol diers had a quieting" effect on the ne groes. The striking firemen were tak en ashore in irons and next day the court of inquriy was held on the Dolphin. The court sentenced the six ringleaders to three months each in the calaboose. In the crowd were the steward and the three stowaways from St. Lucia. Yon can bet we lost no time getting out of Coronel as soon as sentence had been passed. I would not want to see my worst enemy in prison in Coronel. It is a desolate place where only leprosy and crime seem to thrive." The Dolphin is on her way to Seat tle, where she will go into the Alaskan trade. MORE BODIES FOUND. A Total of 146 Recovered From the Hoboken Fire. - New York, July 10. Three more bodies were found today on the Saale. This makes 29 bodies that have thus far been taken from the wreck of the Saale since the fire, and 146 bodies in all recovered. The bodies recovered today were found in the second cabin in the after part of the ship, and they were horrible sights to look upon. They had very little clothing on, and were all victims of fire. They could not be identified. Chief Officer Henry Schaeffer, who was in charge today, said he had no idea who the men had been, but, judg ing from the place where they were found, he thinks tbey were stewards. The body of a man badly scarred and burned was found at Rockaway Beach this afternoon and taken to the morgue there. The body is supposed to be that of a victim of the Hoboken dis aster. Dynamite was exploded on the river bed about the wrecks of the piers of tbe North German Lloyd line today without bringing to the surface any more bodies. Another Venezuela Revolution. Kingston, Jamaica, July 11. Gen. Gorsira, the Venezuelan minister to Colombia, airived here yesterday, on his way to Caracas, to report to his government specifically on the Colom bian situation. He said another revo lution is impending in Venezuela, headed by Dr. Petrie. A private ca ble dispatch received here announced that starvation practically exists at Carthagena, Colombia, and that the rebel general was recently near Bogota, the capital of Colombia. A Texas Tragedy. Vernon, Tex.. July 11. John and Edward Brewer, wealthy cattlemen, were shot and instantly killed near here by N. K. Norris. The tragedy oc curred over business affairs. Norris was arrested. The consuls at Shanghai report that tbe Pekin legations were safe on July 4, and that the Chinese had ceased their attacks. The only fear felt, ac cording to the reports of the consuls, was regarding the food supply. STRIKE IS ON AGAIN St. Louis Carmen Say Com .pany Has Broken Faith, j THE BOYCOTT WILL BE RESUMED Employes Say There Will Be No Law lessness Nor Demonstration of Violence This Time. St. Louis, July 11. The strike against the St. Louis Transit Company by its former employes, which was de clared off July 2, was ordered recalled today at a meeting of the Street Rail waymen's Union, at the West End coli seum. Tomorrow morning at 5 o'clock was the time fixed for the recall of tbe boycyott on all the company's lines. When the strike was settled Jnly 2, there were some mutterings of discon tent among the men over the terms ol settlement, and so it is the dissatisfac tion has grown daily. The men main tain that the company has failed to keep the agreement " and a dozen or more instances were cited tending to prove that there had been a breach of faith. Meetings were held at several laces in the course of the week, and committees were appointed to procure proof of infidelity on the part of the company. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Street Railwaymen's Un ion held Monday, a batch of affidavits was presented to tbe effect that men had been employed by the company since July 2 in violation of the terms of the agreement of that date. At a session lasting several hours, the com mittee called a mass meeting of the men for this morning to recommend at that meeting that the strike be declared on again. The Central Trades and La bor Union met later and indorsed the action of the executive committee. The company, through President Whitaker, addressed a letter to the men, denying that the company had intentionally violated the agreement of July 2, and declaring its intention to live up to every condition of the agree ment, both in letter and spirit. Fred W. Lehman, attorney for the company, appeared at the meeting and offered to submit the question as to whether the company has broken faith to Joseph W. Folk, counsel for the men, and bound the company to abide by Mr. Folk's judgment in the premises. The proposition was ignored, and by a unanimous vote the strike was re newed. A member of tbe executive commit tee today said that this was the second time the company had broken faith with its employes, and no agreement would be accepted in the future that did not provide for the reinstatement of all old employes in 24 hours after the execution of the agreement, "There will be no lawlessness or demonstrations of violence this time," he continued. "By means of a vigor ous enforcement of the boycott we hope absolutely to destroy the earning capac ity of the company " The whole trouble seems to hang upon a few of the men violating its agreement, while the company, on the other hand, emphatically denies that such is the. case. The men claimed yesterday that a verbal agreement was entered into concurrently with the written agreement and under the ver bal agreement the company had agreed to re-employ all the old men in 60 days, seniority in the services deter mining the priority of re-employment. It was claimed that the Rev. Dr. W. J. Boise instructed the men that such an agreement existed, in a speech at the West End coliseum. The officers of the company declare that there was no such verbal understanding and that the only agreement made by them was the written agreement, which was published at the time. WEEK'S WORK IN LUZON. Eleven Americaus Were Killed and Sixteen Wonnded. Manila. July 11. The past week's scouting in Luzon resulted in 11 Amer icans being killed and 16 wounded. One hundred and sixty Filipinos were killed during the week and eight Am ericans who had been prisoners in the bands of the rebels were surrendered and 100 rifles were turned over'to the United States officials. The enemy ambushed a wagon train between Ind aug and Naio. The Third infantry lost nine men while on an expedition to punish the Ladrones in the delta of the Rio Grande. In the Antigua, province of Panay, a running fight of three hours' duration resulted in the killing and wounding of 70 of the enemy. There were no cas ualties among the Americans. The insurgents are slowly accepting the amnesty provisions. In some in stances Americans are suspending oper ations in order to give the rebels an op portunity to take advantage of the decree. A general movement of Boer settlers in Gazaland, Portuguese territory, seem to be in contemplation. Large herds have been driven across the border. The Portuguese welcome the movement. Sensational Paper Suspends. Chicago, July 11. The Chicago Democrat (the Chicago Dispatch), an afternoon newspaper, founded in 1892, suspended publication of its daily edi tion today. It will be continued as a weekly. Nathan Eisenlord, publisher of the paper, states that the discontin uance was because of the lack of pa tronage. Two persons were killed and three injured by a runaway at Indianapolis, Ind