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CORVALLIS
GAZETTE
WEEKLY.
IXION Estab. July. 1S8T.
GAZETTE Elstab. lec, 1862.
Consolidated Feb. 1899.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1300.
VOL. XXXVII. NO. 30.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of tha Telegraphic
News of thf. World.
TERSE TICKS FRO .vriE WIRES
Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres -utt 1
in a Confleused Form.
William Ahlea, an old resident of
Tacoma, committed suicide.
Rich gold strikes have been made on
the Koyukuk, some claims staked out
yielding $4 to the pan.
Robbers held np an Illinois Central
train near Pad u can, Ky., blew up the
express car and secured $10,000.
'lhe empress dowager has ordered
the suppression of the Boxers and the
protection of the legations at Pekin.
A Pullman car was turned upside
down near Redding, Cal., the nine oc
cupants were all more or less injured,
but none fatally.
Thirty-six bodies, horribly disfig
ured, have been recovered from the
hull of the steamship Saale, recently
burned at Hoboken, X. J.
County Commissioner Campbell, of
Spokane county, Wash., was killed by
an i O. R. & N. passenger train near
Latah, Idaho. He was crossing the
track in a buggy.
A flood of gold is pouring in from
Alaska. The receipts of the govern
ment assay office at Seattle in the 'fis
cal year were $18,630,326. This
month's recepts may exceed $6,000,
000. The Chinese government Is sorry for
the recent outbreaks, but holds the
powers blamable. The empress dow
ager says the attacks on Tien Tsin were
the result of the bombardment of Tien
Tsin.
Savages of the Caroline islands at
tacked a shipwrecked British ' crew,
seiiously wounding two of the British,
and were only driven off when an
American cattle dealer came to the
rescue of the Biitish.
On the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
n deliberate attempt to wreck the
Washington express, bearing $3,000,
000 in gold to the subtresaury in New
York, came very near being successful
at'Folsom, a short distance outside of
Philadelphia.
The general freight agents of leading
Western roads have formed an arrange
ment for the pooling of business. Joint
agencies are to be established at Kan
sas City, Omaha and St. Paul. A
joint agent will be placed in charge of
the traffic at each of these cities.
Colombian revolutionists, nnder Gen
eral Juan B. Gonzales and Simon
Chaux, have captured the city of Popa
yan, a capital of the department of
Cauca. On the march to Popayan the
revolutionists took all the cities near
the Ecuadorian frontier, including the
Paport Tunico.
Boers have retired from Senekal.
British stormed and took the town of
Bethlehem, Dewet retreating. '
The empress dowager again holds the
reigns of government in China.
Three men were killed by the explo
sion of a boiler at an oil works in
Astoria, Oregon.
The total casualties of the British, as
a result of the Boer war, up to date are
48,188 officers and men.
St. Louis street car strikers again
have their busses running in opposition
to the Transit Company.
The French ship L'Aquitaine has
ailed from Toulon with 850 infantry
and artillery for' China.
New York tailors are again planning
a big strike. Contractors are violating
agreements made several years ago.
Dr. Charles F. McDonald, the organ
izer of our postal money order system,
died at Hamilton, Ontario,' aged Tl
years.
Southern negroes may go to Hawaii.
Plantation owners of the island will
make them good offers with a view to
dispensing with the troublesome Jap
laborers.
A plot to assassinate President Mo
Kin ley has been frustrated. It was
concocted by a group of Spanish and
Cuban conspirators who had head
quarters in New York.
George A. Morse, an aged and abso
lutely helpless patient in the Agnew's
insane asylum, at San Jose, Cal., was
slowly boiled to death in a bath in. the
men's ward of that institution. He
was placed in a bath tub, and after the
hot water was turned on the attendant
left the room for a towel, forgot his
patient, and did not return until the
imbecile was? fearfully burned.
A serious fire is raging on Bull moun
tain, Railroad creek and Fompey's
Pillar, on the north side of the Yellow
stone river, Montana. It is extending
east to the Mussel Shell river, and is
weeping the range like tinder, as
everything is dry. A late report says
that 20 head i of horses, belonging to
Ramsey, of Billings, were ourned.
Vast flocks of sheep are in great danger.
During the last 13 years the popula
tion of Germany has increased 14 per
cent, but the number of doctors in the
German empire has increased no less
than 56 per cent. If this ratio is
kept up, any statistician can forsee the
time when every German will be a
doctor, and the whole German popula
tion, having no patients on whom to
practice, will have to migrate to fields
where physicians are a shade less common;
LAUR news.
Ten thousand Boers are massing neat
Pretoria.
Demand for. harvest hands in Eastern
Oregon is enormoue.
More soldiers are needed for garrison
duty in the Philippines.
Chinese reformers are using every en
deavor to save the foreigners.
A mountain of gold bearing quartz is
said to have been found . in the Blue
river district.
A daughter of Theodore Havemayer,
the sugar king, shot and aocidently
"killed herself.
Manila is now the counterfeiter's
paradise. Big snap in making Ameri
can dollars out of Mexican dollar".
Andy Smith, 70 years old, was struck
with paralysis at Kalama, Wash., and
when found had been four days without
food or water.
Heavy rain storms are raging in
Northern Wisconsin. All railroads
have suffered from washouts. Hail did
great damage to crops.
It is reported that 10.000 Boers are
preparing to emigrate to America.
President Kruger will refuse to surren
der until his supplies are exhaustud.
Theodore.Greil, aged 60, an employe
of the woolen mills at Oregon City,
Or., was accidentally drowned while
attempting to get into a boat to row
home.
: The American bark McNear was lost
on a reef near Laysan island, near
Japan. The passengers and crew Bpent
two days on the water and landed on
Laysan island.
Aumiral Seymour was compelled to
shoot his own wounded during the re
cent disastrous retreat of the Pekin re
lief expedition. They preferred it tc
tortue by barbarous Chinamen.
Judge W. II. Washington, of Phila
delphia, a direct descendant of Augus
tine Washington, father of George
Washington, is dead at Castle Creek
Hot Springs, Arizona, of consumption.
He was 45 years old and a lawyer of
recognized ability.
A Holland submarine torpedo boat
may protect the port of Portland, Or.
Two of the new ones soon to be con
structed will be assigned to service on
the Pacific coast, and one may come to
the Columbia river.
The Washington government will take
every precaution against violence to
Chinese in the United States, which is
intimated in some sections, in order
that the force of our demand for satis
faction from China shall not be weak
ened by counter claims.
American athletes were successful at
the Paris tournament.
An all day fight between the Boers
and Biitish at Platkop resulted indeci
sively. The Russian minister at Pekin is
said to have been boiled to death by
Boxers.
Nine houses were entirely consumed
and many others damaged by fire at
Dunsmuir, Cal.
A German paper says the seizure of
Kiao Chou has caused the present trou
ble with China.
Fire at Durant, I. T., wiped ont the
greater portion of the town, causing a
loss of $100,000.
All foreigners have been removed
from the town of Wa Chou, China, and
are safe at Shanghai.
'United States Senator John H. Gear,
of Iowa, died at Washington City of
heart disease, aged 75 years.
A large part of the business district
of Prescott, . Arizona, were burned,
cansing a loss of $1,000,000.
S The steamer City of Topeka ai rived
at Seattle fiom Lynn canal with be
tween $750,000 and $1,000,000 in gold
dust from Klondike. .
Twenty square miles of forests were
bunred by a tire started by a firecracker
near Grub Gulch, Cal. The loss will
be hundreds of .thousands.
General rain has fallen over nearly
all India during the past few days and
the prospects are that crops have im
mensely improved. The famine area
as generally been benefitted.
. Eight-hour shifts for all underground
men at the United Verde mine and an
increase of 15 per cent in wages for
miners in certain portions of the mine
were announced at Jeiome, Ariz.
Advices were received from Sydney
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo
mon group. There has been a fierce
battle between the Marian (Boys) and
Ma lata tribes. The losses on each side
were heavy.
Dynamite was exploded under a
Transit car in North St. Louis, and
four passengers were injured A su
burban car. the only union line in the
city, accidently ran into a strikers'
'bus wagon and injured 12 occupants,
two seriously. . . ; '
Judge Thomas Aver, of the United
States court of appeals at St. Louis,
has handed down an opinion declaring
that John P. Ueese, the Iowa Miners'
Union official who, was' sentenced to
imprisonment in Kansas for violation
of a strike injunction, was illegally
restrained of his liberty, and granted a
writ of habeas corpus releasing him.
Judge Aver ruled that the lower court
erred in induing Reese under the in
junction. Robert Fitzsimmons will meet both
Sharkey and Ruhlin next month.
Gold hunters in Russia are governed
by arbitrary laws, one of which com
pels them to turn over all gold they
may find to the imperial treasury,
which pays the miner at a standard
rate. This law ma' seem tyrannical,
but it has one inestimable advantage
no gold digger in Russia can tell extra
ordinary romances about the richness
of his claim when the official figures are
there to stop him.
ALLIES DRIVEN BACK
May Be Forced to Abandon
Tien Tsin.
POSITION BECOMING UN I ENABLE
CI Hons; Chans Will Remain at Cantor
Until International Troop H
Defeated Tumi's Forces.
London, July 16. The scanty cable
dispatches received today add nothing
to the knowledge in London of the
Chinese situation. It is stated posi
tively from Canton that Li Hung
Chang will remain there until the al
lied tioops have defeated Prince Tuan'a
forces, and will then go noith to lend
his powerful aid in arranging terms of
peace, co-operating with Prnce Cbing,
Yung Lu and the other pro-foreign
viceroys. For the present Li Hung
Chang considers that he can best con
trol and direct the viceroys from Can
ton and also keep in check the turbu
lent province of Kwang Tung.
All the foreigners and missionaries
have evacuated Wan Chan and have
arrived at Ning Po. Large bodies of
Boxers appeared at Wan Chau and
threatened to exterminate the foreign
ers and Christians. They also distrib
uted banners, badges and inflammatory
anti-foreign appeals.
The Tien Tsin correspondent of the
Express, telegraphing under date of
July 9. asserts that the Chinese are
daily driving in the allies. They have
mounted, says the correspondent. 13
fresh guns in advantageous positions,
with which they are now keeping clear
the streets of the foreign settlement,
the incessant shooting rendering the
neighborhood quite untenable.
The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg cor
respondent says that in the last six
hours' battle outside, of Tien Tsin, the
Cossacks captured six Krupp guns and
killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The
Chinese lost 3,000 killed, including
General Kek.
BOLD PLAN OF THE BOERS.
Botha's Army Is Trying; to Recapture
Pretoria.
London, July 16. Lord Roberts'
dispatcn, reporting still another un
fortunate occurrence, throws a serious
light upon the state of affairs in South
Africa. There has been some com
ment recently regarding the virtual
absence of progress by the immense
army under command of LcrJ -Roberts,
but few, could have been found to
believe that the scattered Boers were
able to inflict such a defeat so near
Pretoria.
Instead of the surrender of all of the
remaining Boers being imminent, as
recent telegrams had hinted, it seems
they have been making a concerted at
tempt to Burround or recapture Pre
toria, with so much success that in the
region which was supposed to be paci
fied, and in which no attack was ex
pectd, they succeeded in inflicting a
serious defeat, and capturing two guns
and some 200 men. It is evident that
General Botha has considerable force,
seeing that he is able to press Lord
Roberts' lines at half a dozen points
around Pretoria, from the springs to
the southeast of the city northward to
Middelburg and Durdepoort and thence
southward to Nitral's Nek and Krug
ersdorf. Lord Roberts omits to give the name
of the commander concerned, giving
rise to the Delief that worse remains to
be told. Even if the mishap be not
more grave than his information at
present implies, it proves that the situ
ation is still serious, and that there is
no possibility of any troops being spared
from South Africa for China, but on
the contrary, it will still take a long
time to clear the country of the Boers.
News lias reached London that Lord
Roberts has been suffering from a seri
ous bowel complaint, and that Lady
Roberts was hurriedly summoned to
Bloemfontein.
Gunpowder Plot In Paris.
Paris, July 16. Inquiries are being
made into what may possibly turn out
to be a serious attempt to destroy the
grand palace of the Champs Elysee,
Wednesday night. A watchman of
cellars which were filled with package
cases and a large quantity of other in
flammable material overheard a con
versation between two men, leading
him to believe that a plot was on foot
to set fire to the building. The mis
creants fled upon his approach. A
search the next morning resulted in
the discovery of two hermetically seal
ed boxes filled with black powder.
The chemical properties of this pow
der have not yet been disclosed by the
authorities.
Fires at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, July. 16. Six coal and
ice store houses, three stables, a frame
dwelling, a number of outbuildings
and six Pennsylvania freight cars were
destroyed by fire today at Sewickly, a
suburb of Pittsburg. Samuel Woods, a
stableman, was burned to death, and
eight horses were cremated. The loss
is $50,000. The Garland Chemical
Works at Rankin, Pa., were burned at
4:30 o'clock this afternoon. The loss
is $100,000. The fire was caused by
the explosion of a tank of chemicals,
but no one was injured.
JElectrlc Storm In Iowa.
Dubuque, la., July 16. A terrifio
electric storm, accompanied by a rain
fall of 1.72 inches, raged here for three
hours today. Nellie L. McQuillman,
aged 16, was killed by lightning. The
Fourth street incline railway station
was struck and shattered. It is be
lieved great damage was done in the
country.
A good many men boast of their
methodical habits who never have any
thing but unpaid bills to file away.
HUNDREDS BURNED.
Oil Tank Exploded Scattering; Oil Oter
Throng of People.
New York, July 16. A special from
Boston to the Herald says: By the
explosion of an oil tank in Somerville
last night nearly a hundred persons
were more or less injured, and early
this morning two were reported dead.
Many of the injured are in the Cam
bridge, Somerville and Massachusetts
general hospitals, while others were
taken to houses near the scene of the
explosion.
In the yard of the Boston & Maine
Railroad, near the old McLean asylum,
among more than a thousand freight
cars filled with coal and general mer
chandise, were three oil tanks of the
Union Oil Company. When one of the
cars caught fire and made a blaze that
could be seen all over Somerville. hun
dreds of people flocked to the yards.
The Somerville firemen arrived prompt
ly enough, but had to carry hose
through all kinds of places, while the
fire burned briskly and the crowd drew
closer and closer. It is estimated that
soon after the fire started fully 1,000
persons were in the freight yards, and
scores of the most daring were on top
of freight cars near the fire. .
Suddenly there was a rumbling noise.
One great sheet of flame shot into the
air, and a huge oil tank which had
been on a car went up on end, scatter
ing blazing oil in all directions. The
huge tank of oil, one of three, on as
many cars, had exploded. The burn
ing oil fell upon men, women and chil
dren in the throng, who shrieked with
pain and terror. Six men on top of
one box car were thrown to the ground
with their clothing on fiie. Men and
women, with their garments burning,
ran about the yard in terror. Some
were so badly burned that they drop
ped. Those who were not on fire help
ed them, and were themselves burned.
Meanwhile the railroad men were
performing acts of heroism. The oil
tank which had exploded was on a car
between two others, and those were in
danger of going up at any minute. A
locomotive was backed in and started
to draw out the train. A railroad man
ran up, threw a heavy sleeper beneath
the wheels of the burning tank, the
coupling broke, the car stopped and the
oil tanks were separated.
Fifteen persons were taken to the
Somerville hospital. Joseph Hayden,
of engine company No 1, who was
standing on the oil tank at the time of
the explosion, died early this morning.
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KETTELER TO BLAME.
Would Rot Call Additional Guards foi
the Legations.
New York, July 16.--A d sptach to
the Herald from Berlin says:
A letter has just been published here
from Lieutenant von Loesch, attache
of the German legation at Pekin . It
is dated May 29, and shows that the
early failure to increase the guards of
the various legations was due to the
action of the late Baron von Ketteler.
The letter states that after the first
attack by the Boxers on the Pekin
Hankow railroad, a meeting of the
ministers was held to decide whether
additional troops should be sent for to
protect the legations. Baron von Ket
teler was very much opposed to this
being done, while the French minister
was very much in favor of this course.
The latter was, however, overruled by
his colleagues. M. Pichon was so hurt
by this refusal to ask for guards that
he wept.
Another factor that led the ministers
to reach this unfortunate conclusion
was the desire of the diplomatic corps
to take their usual summer holiday
and it was feared that if additional
troops were sent for they would not be
able to do so. , ,
Later on, as the Boxer movement in
creased, a second conference of minis
ters was called, at which it was re
solved to bring detachments of at least
60 men to guard each legation.
A Runaway Freight Train.
Redding, Cal., July 16. Last night,
when a freight train bound for Oregon,
drawn by two engines, was climbing
the heavy grade above Upton, a coup
ling gave way, and 30 cars, loaded
with fruit, started back. They passed
through Sisson seemingly at the rate
of 70 miles an hour. Half a mile be
low Sisson is the Pioneer Box Factory.
Here seven of the cars broke loose and
pitched over than embankment. The
others continued on their mad course.
At Big Canyon, three miles below Sis
son, the runaway train again parted,
some of the cars flying the track and
being dashed to pieces. The other
half dozen continued over a high tres
tle around a loop and finally shot off
the rails below Mott, aftei running 10
miles. All .the timbers are in splin
ters. Fortunately, no trains were en
countered by the runaway.
Robbers Caught In the Act.
Marshaltown, la., July 16. Four
men were caught in the act of robbing
Mason Whitebill's general store at
State Center today. A number of citi
zens surrounded the building, and a
pitched battle ensued. Ben Whitehill,
one of the proprietors, was shot in the
leg. One of the robbers was also
wounded, and with one of his associ
j ates was captured. The other two es
I caped.
Political success, like anything else,
depends almost entirely on the amount
of rustling a man does.
Surgeons for Cape Nome.
Washington, July 16. As a result
of a conference today between Assist
ant Secretary Talyor and the officials
of the marine hospital service, two ad
' ditional surgeons have been ordered to
' proceed at once from San Francisco
to Seattle, and thence by boat to Cape
Nome, to assist in stamping out the
smallpox now epidemic at that place.
When a woman dislikes a man, it is
ber favorlito mode of abuse to charge
that he leads a dual life.
BIG FIRE IN PBESCOTT
Losses Aggregate More Than
$1,000,000.
MANY HOMELESS AND PENNILESS
Principal Business Portion of the Ton
Destroyed Merchants Ready
for Business In Tents.
Prescott, Ariz.. July 17. A scene of
great desolation and a feeling of deep
est gloom pervades this town today.
All that remains of the principal busi
ness portion of the town is tottering
walls and piles of charred and burning
debris.
The fire, which started at 10:45
o'clock last night, was not under con
trol until 3 o'clock this morning, when
the fighters went a considerable dis
tance in advance of the flames and blew
up the buildings on the south side of
Goodwin street, preventing the fire
from crossing that street. The most
conservative estimates of the total losses
are from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
The burned district embraces five
blocks, in which were located the prin
cipal mercantile houses, both banks,
both telegraph offices, the three news
paper offices, four hotels, and every
saloon and restaurant except one in
the town, besides scores of private resi
dences. To add to the prevailing
gloom, a high wind has prevailed all
day, sending smoke, dust and burning
embers in every direction, requiring
the greatest vigilance to prevent an
other outbreak of the flames. Owing
to the chaotic condition existing today,
it is impossible to obtain an accurate
account of the loss or individual insur
ance. From interviews with insurance
agents, the total insurance does not ex
ceed $350,000.
At daylight this morning teams were
at work hauling lumber to the public
plaza, and this evening it is covered
with tents and temporary frame build
ings. The occupants will be ready for
business tomorrow. Both banks have
secured temporary quarters and will be
open tomorrow. The Bashford-Bur-meister
Company will be open for busi
ness tomorrow in their warehouse, two
blocks from the plaza.
Hon. W. A. Clark, of the United
Verde Copper Company, who was visit
ing the works at Jerome, wired a draft
for $500. All the sufferers from the
fire are provided with food, shelter and
clothing, and it is not thought any
outside assistance will be required.
The only business houses remaining
in ihe town are Goldwater Bros., A.
Blumberg and Mrs. R. R. Blaine, dry
goods; Joseph Dougherty, T. W. Otis
and J. I. Gardner, grocers, and W. W.
Ross and W. P. Covilland, drug stores.
The express office and postoffice were
both out of the fire limits, bnt the
latter had a close call. All the mail
and effects were ready to move at a
moment's notice.
The office of the supervisor of census
for the territory was located in the
Prescott National Bank building, and
contained all the official statistics of the
census of the territory, but they were
removed to a place of safety.
The Western Union opened its office
this morning in a grocery store, and
the Postal has opened an office at the
railroad depot. The electric light
poles and wires were in the burned dis
trict, and the town will be in darkness
until they can be replaced. The com
pany also owns the telephone system,
and loses more than half its instru
ments. Many citizens who yesterday were
comfortably fixed are today homeless
and penniless, a number losing both
their business places and their resi
dences. An army of carpenters have
been busy all day putting up tempor
ary structures, many of which have
been completed and will open for busi
ness tomorrow.
Of the three printing offices in town
all that was sated was about 30 cases
of type by the Courier. The destruc
tion of the others was complete. J. C.
Martin, proprietor of the Journal
Miner, saved only his books. Included
in his loss was a Mergenthaler linotype,
installed in the office only three months
go. The two papers have already
made arrangements for continuing pub
lication, although but little insurance
was carried by either. Most of the
heaviest losers will rebuild at once.
The origin of the fire was unknown
until this evening, when it was learned
that a man rooming over the bottling
works was lying in bed reading by
candlelight when a piece of loose paper
on the wall caught fire. He ran out
to give the alarm, and before others
reached the place the fire was beyond
control.
More Rains in Texas.
Dallas, Tex., July 17. Northern
Texas has been deluged by rains for
more than 12 hours, and the indica
tions are that the storm has only be
gun. The downpour at Dallas was ter
rifio. Streams are swollen ana trains
are delayed because of washouts.
Youngstown, 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
$50,000.
100,000 Fruit Fire In California.
Jewcastle, Cal., July 17. Fire to
day destroyed all the fruit houses and
leading business bouses of the town.
The loss will exceed $100,000. Over
100,000 boxes of fruit were burned.
The Southern Pacific Company was the
heaviest loser. Their loss in fruit in
oars and rolling stock is estimated at
95,000.
Some women amount to nothing oat
tide of their church.
MORE MEN ARE NEEDED.
rhe Demand From All Parts of the
Philippine Islands.
Manila, July 18. "More soldiers"
is the demand which is coming to Gen
eral MacArthur from every department
of the islands. Recent events have
worked to vindicate General Lawton's
judgment that 100,000 troops would be
needed to establish American sovereign
ty over the Philippines. Until they
attempted to hold provinces of 200,000
or 300,000 hostile people with a regi
ment or two, the American command
ers hardly realized the size of the Phil
ippine islands. The present force is
not large enough to garrison more than
half the important towns, and in some
of the most important islands, among
them Cebu, Panay, Samar and Leyte
and the great Mohammedan empire of
Mindanao, only the commercial parts
are occupied.
The Moros are a cloud on the hori
zon. The officers best acquainted with
conditions in Mindanao and the Sulu
islands tell the correspondent that they
consider serious fighting there inevita
ble. If it comes, the two regiments
which are scattered in small garrisons,
some of them hundreds of miles apart
along the coast of Mindanao, an island
nearly as large as Luzon, in ay have
Berious work. The Moros are fighters
by nature, do not fear death, have
many guns, though of antiquated
makes, but do the best execution by
lying in the thick jungles and cutting
down soldiers who pass through with
their terrible krises and spears.
GREAT WAR HAS OPENED.
Will End Only With Breaking; and Par
titioning of Chinese Empire.
New York, July 18. A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
A great war has opened in China,
with the Japaneee in the front line and
with the heaviest reserves immediately
available. Three American battalions,
and about 13,000 Japanese. troops, have
reached Tien Tsin since the two battles
were fought, so that the allied force
now aggregates 25,000 men, with con
tingents slowly dribbling into Taku.
War has not been formally declared,
but it is m progress, with every indica
tion'that it will continue indefinitely
until the government now in power if
overthrown and the empire broken uj
into a series of European and Japanese
provinces and pi otecto rates. The re
treat of the allied forces from Tien Tsin
would be followed by outbreaks against
the foreigners in all the provinces.
They are compelled to halt where they
are and to hold their ground by hard
fighting, and a campaign begun with
no other motive power than that of se
curing vengance and reparation for the
massacre of the legations will involve
sacrifices and expenditures for which
territorial concessions are indispensa
ble. This is not the American view, but
the Russian, Japanese, German, Ital
ian and French, who already have their
eyes fixed upon future provinces and
conquests, and the English will find
an India in Central Asia.
A Crime of Desperation.
Baltimore, July 17. Poverty and
ill-health drove Louis Fisen, a slioe-
maker, today to kill himself, his wife
. and 13 -months-old babe with a razor
and to wound his 3-year-old son.
The tragedy occurred in East Lexing
ton street. The corpse of Fisen was
found lying in the middle of the floor
with the head almost severed from the
body. The body of Mrs. Fisen lay
across a mattress in the corner of the
room, her throat cut from ear to ear,
and the infant's body was in a baby
carriage behind the counter. A most
pitiable and distressing sight was the
little boy, Harry, standing near the
body of his dead mother, with blood
streaming from a gash in his throat.
The boy was sent to a hospital, where
the physicians hope to save his li'e.
From Manila to China.
Manila, July 18. Two battalions ol
the Fourteenth infantry and Daggatt'e
battery of the Fifth artillery, will
leave for China tomorrow by the trans
ports Indiana j Flintshire and Wyefield.
The expedition, which will join the,
Ninth infantry, will carry 500 rounds
of ammunition to a man, and a reserve
Df 1,000,000 rounds, together with
medical subsistence, stores' and cloth
ing for 500 men for three months. It
will take also two seven inch mortars
and two six inch howitzers, with am
munition. The hospital ship Relief is
going to China.
Assault on Kansas City Chinamen.
Kansas City, Mo., July 18. In
censed at the Boxer news a crowd of
men and boys gathered about the laun
dry of Ah Sing, a Chinese laundryman,
and started a demonstration that caus
ed Sing to call on the police for protec
tion. The crowd passed the time
throwing stones into the laundry and
calling out to the inmates that they
would kill them. A squad of police
dispersed the crowd quickly, and, at
the instigation of Sing, who is one of
the most intelligent of the several hun
dred Chinese in Kansas City, guarded
the place during the night.
Violence to Italian Missions.
Rome, July 17. The Italian consul
at Shanghai cables that the Italian
mission in Hu Han has been destroyed
and Bishop Fantosati and two mission
aries killed. He also reports that the
Italian missions in Ho Nan and Huj
have been assaulted.
Fire at St. Paul.
St. Paul, July 16. Fire this after
noon destroyed five large and three
small buildings formerly used by the
Chicago Great Western railway as re
pair sheps, at South park, just outside
the city. About 300 carloads of shin
gles were burned. The loss is estimat
ed at $200,000. There was a high
wind blowing, and the flames spread
from the oil. house to the adjoining
buildings and freight cars, of which
there was a great number in the yard.
REPULSE OF ALLIES
Admiral Remey Confirms the
News From Tien Tsin.
AMERICANS LOST OVER THIRTY
Three Thousand Friendly Chinese OnV
nials Were Ordered Killed bj
Prince Tuan.
Washington, July 18. The navy
A peart in eut this morning received offi
cial confirmation from Admiral Reuiey
of the reverse of the allied forces at
Tien Tsin on the morning of the 13th.
The dispatch is dated Che Foe, July
16, and says:
"Reported that the allied forces at
tacked the native city the morning of
the 13th, Russians on thej right, with
the Ninth infantry and marines on the
left. The loss of the allied forces is
large; Russians, 100. including artil
lery colonel; Americans over 30; Brit
ish over 40; Japanese, 58, including
colonel; French, 25.
"Colonel Liscum, Ninth infantry,
killed; also Captain Davis, marine
corps. Captain Lemley, Lieutenants
Butler and Leonard wounded.
"At 7 in the evening an allied attack
on the native city was repulsed, with
great loss. Returns yet incomplete;
details not yet continued,
"REMEY."
Consul-General Goodnow cabled to
the state department from Shanghai
nnder today's date that theie is noth
ing more to report since his cablegram
of the 13th inst. The disnatch report
ed the attack on the legations at Pekin
as about to beign. Mr. Goodnow's
statement is in direct contradiction of
the Shanghai story that all foreign con
suls were informed Saturday bv Sheng
that the legationsfhad fallen and the
ministeis were killed.
Without exception today the foreign
representatives in Washington accepted
as 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 hope has been about given up,
but they maintain that there is no offi
cial information, and that they are as
much in the dark as others.
The situation as a telling effect on
the Chinese minister, who is under a
nervous tension and agitation more
severe than that of the American offi
cials. He is seeking to show in the pres
ent acute crisis that no matter how bad
condition may be in China, he is not
the less anxious to serve the American
people and government, for he has
taken great pride in the kindly person
al relations between him and the peo
ple here. Minister W11 declares un
worthy of belief the cable report that
Sheng, director of telegraphs and posts
at Shanghai, knew of the killing of the
foreign ministers at the time he made
a recent suggestion that foreigners he
escorted out of Pekin it the allied forces
would not advance. As a matter of
fact, Minster Wu states that the Chi
nese officials have no better means of
learning the truth of affairs in Pekin
than the foreigners, as all the usual
means of communication are suspend
ed. But he points out that Sheng
could not have known of the death of
the foreigners, else he would not have
made a proposal that the foreigners he
escorted out of the city. This latter
is considered proof positive by Mr. Wu
that Sheng considered the foreigners
alive.
Business Interrupted by Strike.
St. Louis, July 18. The St. Louis
Transit Company today filed in the
city register's office its returns of trips
and passengers for the quarter ending
June 30 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, ac
cording to its returns, carried 27,058,
585 passengers, its cars making 1.367,
825 trips in so doing. According to
its returns for the three months ending
June 30. its cars made only 447,049
trips and carried 13,733,621 passen
gers. Hurt by Falling; Walls.
Chcago, July 18. Nine persons were
injured, one fatally, by falling walls
in a lire caused by lightning tonight at
Michigan street and Dearborn avenue.
Fireman Robert Meany will tiie.
The total damage amounts to nearly
$200,000. Henry F. Vehemeyer &
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. At
attempt was made to wreck and prob
ably to rob the Union Pacific "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 siding. A
gun, dynamite and a bottle, supposed
to contain nitroglycerine, were found
hidden under a pile of old ties.
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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 in the Valley be
low Coleman. The cloudburst."1 wh'ieh
followed three days' unpreoedenjad
rainfall, caused Ford's creek to burnt
its banks and rush through Coleman,
a village of less than 1,000 'inhabi
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