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WEEKLY, tmiON Eltab. Jnlr, 1S07. GAZETTE t-b. Dc, IM& Consolidated Feb. 1899. COBVAIililS, BENTON COUNTY, OEEGON, FBIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901. VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 38. EVENTS OF THKBAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the. Important Happenings of the Past Week Presented in a Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Oar Many Headers. Last efforts to settle the steel strike have failed. Blimot Plaig crushed to death In a well at Lents. Buried forest discovered under the lava on Mount Hood. The National reunion of the G. A. R. opened at Cleveland. Chicago police believe they have lo cated Emma Goldman. Strange death of Winter Kyle at Astoria leads to suspicion of murder. Improvement in President's con dition has good effect -in financial circles. . Governor Geer commends proposed -.New Jersey legislation against an archists. Abraham Isaak, anarchist, under ar rest in Chicago, published The Fire brand in Portland. . Secretary Gage has been asked to relieve the money market by New York financial institutions. . : President McKinley continues to im prove and the physicians have strong hopes that he will recover. H. O. Armour, the Chicago packer, died at Saratoga. An attempt was made to murder a family of hoppickers. A lone highwayman tried to hold up the Ager-Lakeview stage. Thieves are robbing sluiceboxestin the vicinity of Dawson. The Venezuelan fleet is bombarding Rio Hacha, Colombia. .: ... An X-ray apparatus has been sent from New York to Buffalo. , . Shooting of President McKinley dis cussed by ministers in their sermons. Two bombs were discovered under the Hay market monument in Chi cago. -'. The steelworkers' executive commit tee ordered Shaffer to settle -the strike. Prayers for the President's recov ery were offered in churches through out the land. New York police are looking for Emma Goldman. Steps are being taken for the suppression of anarch ists. . . - :- .. President McKinley's chances of recovery have Improved. For the present no attempt will be made to remove the bullet. Messages of condolence were re ceived from all parts of the world. Dr. Von Miquel, Prussian ex-Minis-ter of Finance, died at Frnakfort-on- the-Main. The Texarania train robbers are still at large. The ecumenical conference opened in onaon. ; Fighting is expected at Bocas -del Toro and at Colon. The New York conference did not settle tne steel strike. Remarably quiet year reported in me ngnsn wneat market. Columbia beat Constitution 17 sec onds over a 30-mile course. Bridge of the God's ascended by tho .Regulator exploring expedition. Prince Chun delivered Chin's letter oi apoiogy to Kmperor William. Harvest Carnival of the Modern woodmen or America opened at Al- Dany. New international boundary line may put much of Blaine, Wash., in Canada. Census Office issues a bulletin on the sex, nativity and color of the popula tion of Oregon. The chainmakers are striking for more pay. Venezuela issues an explanation of the trouble. A Cotton Belt train was robbed near Texarkana. The Japanese press is excited over the Honolulu incident. Visible grain supply August ; 31st shows general increase. Late developments were not favor able to the steel strikers. uovernor aenroeder reports pros perous conditions in Guam. Men employed to take the strikers' places at the Le Roi smelter walked out. - Summary of crop conditions reports generally favorable weather. The United States offered to medi ate between Venezuela and Colombia. The Caracas and Bogota eovern ments replied to Secretary Hay's note. English and Pittsburg syndicates bet $4uu,uuo on the coming yacht race. -Boers threaten to shoot all British soldiers captured after : September l&tn. Courts will be asked to set aside the sale of a Skagit County. Wash ington, road to the Great Northern Railway. In Hong Kong there are only 400 - women, and in Hawaii 532 women, to every xuuu men. The number of retail liquor dealers in the United States at the close of last year was 206,000. The total vote of the prohibition party in the elec tion of the same year was 209,000. The bee and honey-raisers of North Germany are having a hard time. They feel the competition of the artificial honey factories very much..' The art! : ficial product contains often no more . than 10 per cent of natural honey. rHE PRESIDENT IS IMPROVING. Reassuring News From the Milburn Residence at Buffalo. Buffalo, Sept 9. Through a quiet, peaceful Sunday every word that came from the big vine-clad house In Dela ware avenue, In which- the . stricken Chief Magistrate of the Nation lies battling for life, was reassuring and tonight the chances of his recovery are so greatly improved that all" of those who have kept the patient vigil at his bedside feel strongly that his lite will be spared. - The developments of last night and today were dreaded, but hour after hour passed and the distinguished pa tient, struggling there beneath the watchful eyes of physicians and train ed nurses, showed no unfavorable signs. Five times during the day the doctors and surgeons assembled for consultation, and" each time the rerdict was unanimous that what change had occurred was for the bet- Not the slightest premonitory symp tom of peritonitis appeared and the fresh hope, bora with the morning, grew stronger and stronger as the day advanced, until, toward evening, the confidence expressed in the Presi dent's recovery seemed almost too sanguine. Milburn House, Buffalo, Sept. 9, 1:30 a. m. No additional bulletin has been issued by the President's phy sicians. The condition of the Presi dent is reported as unchanged. 2:30 a. m Harry Hamlin has just left the Milburn House. He said: There ha3 been no change.' 9:45 a. m. Up to this time the ex pected morning bulletin from the phy sicians of the President has not been ! issued. The President is reported to be festing well. His condition -remains unchanged. - CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS. Kidnaping of an American Woman in Mace donia is. Confirmed. - Washington, Sept. 9. The State Department has received Information from the United States legation ax Constantinople confirming the press report of the capture of an American missionary by brigands. The dis patch : from Minister Lelshmann re ports that brigands ' captured Miss Stone, an American missionary, who was traveling with a woman compan ion, in the vilayet of Salonlca. The department adds that the matter "has received the immediate and earnest attention of Minister Lelshmann. Boston, Sept. : 9. The American Board of Foreign Missions has re ceived a cable message from Rev. J. H. House, one of t;he missionaries at Salonlca, in Macedonia, saymg: "Brigands took Miss Stone and companion between Bansko and Djoumania. These places are situated about 100 miles northeast of Salonica in a coun try long familiar to the missionaries of the American Board. Miss Ellen H. Stone is one of the tried mission aries of the American Board, having been in this mission since 1878. Mis sionaries now in Boston from Bul garia are confident that no ill-treatment will be given the ladies, but think it is simply a case In which ran som is sought for by the robbers. Constantinople, Sept. 9. The Sul tan, immediately upon hearing of the abduction of Miss Stone and her com panion, peremptorily ordered the Vail of Salonica to secure their release and to exercise every care for their comfort and safety. STRIKE MAY BE SETTLED, Mr. Schaffer Has a Telephone Conference : : With President Schwab. New York, Sept. ,9. The World, in an article on the steel strike to ap pear tomorrow morning, will say that there is. strong hope for settlement of the strike. It says: 'Hope for a favorable outcome was increased when, early this afternoon, President Schwab received a 'phone call from Mr. Shaffer, who said he de- sired to speak with him personally. Details of what passed between the men have not been learned, but it was reported that Mr. Shaffer had asked for another conference between the steel trust officers and Amalga mated board and that the board would come here today for- that purpose. Im mediately . after Mr. Schaffer telephoned Mr. Schwab went ; to Mr. Morgan's office - and remained closeted with him for some time. The, nature of the news he carried seemed to be highly satisfactory to both him and Mr. Morgan." Northwest Pensions.- Washington, Sept - 9. Pensions have been granted as follows: Oregon Original, George Bentley, Portland, $12; Ezra Suman, Elgin, $6; Benjamin F. Nicholson, Eugene, $8. Washington Original, Silas M. White, Walla Walla, $12; Henry W. Davis, Lincoln, $6; increase, restora tion, reissue, etc., John S. McMine- mee, Port Orchard, $10 u original wid ows, etc., Grace S. Wallace, Cowlitz, $12. Famous Racehorse Dead. Marion, Ind., Sept. 9. Glenmoyne, the running horse, which on the Chi cago tracks cleared $120,000 for the owner, Harry Goldstein, in 1893-4, is dead. Will Sign Protocol. Pekin, Sept 9. The Foreign Min isters have accepted ' the Imperial edicts and have arranged to sign the peace protocol tomorrow. . Harvest Hands Killed in a Collision Jamestown, N. D., . Sept. 10. Five men were killed and six others seri- ously injured, two of whom have since died, In a collision early today. A mixed train on the Northern Pacific came in from Oakes, carrying 17 men on a flatcar. As the train passed the station a road engine was struck, and the force of the collision caused the flatcar to collapse.- The names of the dead -and Injured could not be learn ed. They were harvest hands who had boarded the car at Lamoure. 'i PKESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY. FIENDISH ACT Th Dr-AoiHAnr ie Vhnt III- I I COIUCIIl IO VMlVl By An Anarchist. AT BUFFALO FAIR HE WAS WOUNDED TWICE NOT NECESSARILY FATAL. Well Dressed Stranger Approached Him As If To Shake Hands, and Fired Twice With a Revolver Concealed Under a Handker chiefAssailant Was Immediately Placed Under Arrest. Buffalo, N. Y, Sept 7 President McKinley was shot and seriously wounded by a would-be assassin while holding a reception In the Temple ot Music at the Pan-American grounds a few minutes after 4 o'clock yester day afternoon. . One shot took effect in the right breast, the other in - the abdomen.: The first is not. of a seri ous nature and the bullet has been extracted. The latter pierced the ab dominal wall and has not , been located..---- -- The President was approached" by a man with a dark mustache and with one .hand covered with a handker chief. As the man extended his hand to the President, apparently with the intention of shaking hands with him. he fired a shot which entered the President's right breast lodging against the breast bone. Another shot was fired at once, "which entered the President s abdomen. - " . - - The assailant was Immediately ar rested and was thrown to the ground, and quick as a flash 20 men were upon him. When rescued he was cov ered with blood from a gash in his face. Cries of lynching were heard on every hand, but the police man aged to get the man - out of the grounds and locked him up in a sta tion house a short distance from the grounds. Later, he was removed to the police headquarters. Detective Geary was near the Pres ident and he fell into his arms. "Am I shot?" asked the President. The officer opened the President's vest,vand, seeing blood, replied;" Yes, I am afraid you are, Mr. President." The President was at once taken to the emergency hospital, where a bul let which had lodged against the BOER COMMANDO CAPTURED. V Kllled nd Worn and Several lm- portant Officers Taken. Mflddelburg, Cape Colony, Sept. 9. Lotter's entire commando has been taken by Major Scholl of Pietersburg. One hundred and three prisoners were captured, 12 Boers were killed and 4b wounded. Two hundred horses also were captured. ; -- , . London. Sept. 9. Lord Kitchener's report from Pretoria to the War Of fice covering the capture of Lotter's commando gives the figures as 19 kill ed, 42 wounded and 62 captured un wounded. The prisoners include Com mandants Lotter and , Breedt Field Cornets J. Kruger and W. Kruger, and Lieutenant Shoeman.- Among the kill ed were the two Vaslers, notable reb els. The casualties were 10 killed and eight wounded. . r V : Burned to Death. Topeka. Kan.. Sept. 9. Miss Eolah Hounsom was burned to death today in hor bnmn at 132 Klinn street. . The origin of the fire is unknown. Mur- der, with robbery in view, Is suspect ed W the police, as she was known to have had Some money. Death List is Now Sixteen. - . -Newark. N. J.. Sept 9. The death list of the North Central train wreck, which occurred last week near Falr ville, has been increased to 16 by the death today of Mrs. wuiiam Lee Munyon, of Port Gibson. Garrisons at Shanghai , Shanghai, Sept. 9. The Rajputs have left here, reducing the British earrison in Shanghai to one native regiment. .-, i uiu gouinuu ? ann ntrnne and is snowme ereat ac Mvitv. The Germans have leased for three years, with the option of six, a large tract inside the general set- tlement They are fencing it and. building barracks and storehouses. The British community strongly ob jects. breast bone was removed. Later the President was reported as resting easily. - - At 6 o'clock Dr. Roswell Parke, the well-known surgeon, arrived at the hospital, and after putting the Presi dent under an anesthetic, began prob ing for the ball in the abdomen. The prisoner declares that he is Fred Niemari, of Detroit. - When ar rested he was asked why he had shot the President, and replied: ; I am an anarchist and have done my duty." -. Later he denied to a police official that he was an anarchist. Mrs. McKinley received the news of the attempted assassination with the utmost courage. -r. ...... HOPE OF RECOVERY. One Bullet Removed Wounds Dressed Imme diately and Patient Doing Well. Buffalo, Sept. 7. Secretary Cor telyou gave out the following state ment last evening at 7 p. m.: "The President was shot about 4 o'clock. One bullet " struck ' him on the upper portion -of the breastbone, glancing and not penetrating; the second bullet penetrated the abdo men five inches below the left nip ple and one and one-half inches to the left of the madian line. The ab domen was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the bullet had penetrated the stomach.; The openi In the front wall of : the stomach was carefully closed- with silk stitches, after which a search was made for a hole in the back wall of the stomach. This was found and also closed by the same way. . "The further course of the bullet could not be discovered, although careful search was made. The ab dominal wound was closed without drainage. No injury to the intestines or other abdominal organ was dis covered. The patient stood the oper ation well; -pulse of good quality, rate of 130; condition at the conclusion of the operation was gratifying. The result cannot De foretold. His con dition at present justifies hope of re covery. - "GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, ."Secretary to the President." Buffalo, Sept. 7. The following bulletin was issued by the President's physician at 10:40 p. m. last nieht: "The President Is rallying satisfac torily and is resting comfortably. "10:50 p. m. Temperature, 100.4 degrees; pulse, 124;. respiration, 24, Buffalo, Sept. 7. At 3 a.m. the fol lowing bulletin was issued: Tne president continues to rest well. Temperature 101.6; pulse, 110 respiration, z. Buffalo, Sept. 7. At 4:30 the Pres ident was still resting easily; Cloudburst in Kansas. Kansas City, Sept. 9. A special to the Star from Ness City, Kan., says A cloudburst struck Ness City last night and it . is -estimated that over eight Inches of water fell. Bridges and sidewalks were washed out, cel lars were flooded and several small business houses were undermined and ruined. T No lives are reported lout Ness City is a town of 1000 people, situated on the Santa Fe railroad In Ness County, 55 miles east of the Col orado State line.. Ptomaine Poisoning. Cleveland, Sept. 9. Ninety people who ate clams at a lunch at the open ing of a new public building a few days ago have been ill since, suffer ing, it is alleged, from ptomaine pois oning. No person has died, but many are still in bed. CI yclist. Loses a Leg. New York. Sept 9. Gangrene hav ing set in, . the surgeons at Bellevue hospital Save decided that John Nel- son, tne cyclist, must have his leg amputated in an effort to save is life. Snowstorm in Montana. - Butte, Mont, Sept 9. The western portion of Montana is tonight in the grasp of a storm that began before daylight this morning. The weather is intensely cold and considerable snow has fallen. More is now coming ana it is reared crops will suffer. Ligh house is Too Low. London, Sept 9. According to re ports from Ottawa, an engineer of the ; t" ."" ! nnfnn ffnnina TVrt til ...... 1 I rltoH f 'a rtd KfQfiA IM M" where' several f , . j . He reports that the lighthouse is in. good order, but that the-light is 55 feet lower than it is advertised as being, which reduces the horizon . by two ' miles. He also suggests, that the du- ration of the fog whistles be changed to two blasts of nve seconds each. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PART8 OF OREGON.' Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portance A Brief Review of the Growth and Improvements of the Many Industries I v Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth Latest Market Report It is said at least 5,000 hoppickers are now employed in the Polk County yards...... .- - -., The omnipresent forest fire la rag- i. Jn pn n,nt w amount of damage Is' renorted as yet The big fall roundup is now In pro- gress at Alba and will continue until all the cattle are gathered in. It be- gan last week. , . ... l Barnes Bros., of Meacham. have burned an experimental kiln of 20,000 I brick. A first-class article is reported. and the Inland Empire will furnish a ready market Wade Calavan fell 42 feet through a condemned bridge over the Santlam, and struck In 20 feet of water on his head and shoulders, missing a ledge of rock by about six Inches. He was able to get to shore without assistance. The articles of incorporation of the White Butte Mining Company have been filed with the Secretary of State and the Crook County Clerk. The property of the company consists of seven claims. White Butte, Lily, Cel tic, Capitan, Oregonian, Gypsy and Mo hawk. Fourteen carloads of Bartlett pears were shipped from the Medford sta tion last week.. Six hundred boxes are loaded in each car, or 8400 boxes in all, which quantity at the price most of the fruit has been sold, $1.25 per box, in Medford, has left $10,500 among or- chardists. The Mount Angel City Council Mon day night granted A. B Kurtz a 30 year light and water franchise and entered into a contract to take four arc lights and four hydrants for three years. Mr. Kurtz will supply the light and water with the use of the Aurora water power. Baker City has issued $20,000 worth of bonds to establish water rights. ine iences oi Jesse carr around 80,- 000- acres of public land in Southwest ern Oregon have been torn down. A. B. Hammond, a Montana capital ist has bought 50,000 acres of timber land near Portland. Deputy Fish Warden-Austin is put-! vue " uu a va i tDaif luici just above the mouth of Wildcat Creek. J. S. Herrin, of Jackson, has sold his 1901 wool clip, 10,000 pounds, to San Francisco parties at 13 cents f. o. b. Ashland. The notable feature of the fair at Marshfleld is the large number of dif ferent kinds of "skin games" which have been licensed. During the past week or ten days quite an extensive fire has been raging in the Middle Fork Country between Willow Creek and Susanvllle. : Cattle and sheepmen In Grant and adjoining counties are losing small lots of stock every once in a while from poison weeds and gun-shot wounds re spectively. The salmon hatchery , at Siuslaw is not to be abandoned, as lately stated. It is the intention to increase the out put and operate the hatchery to its fullest capacity. As this is the open season for ducks numerous hunters are going out daily from Albany. They are said to have trouble avoiding accidental slaughter of Chinese pheasants. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, nominal 55c; bluestem. 56c; valley, 56. Flour best grades, $2.653.50 per barrel: graham, $z.bO. Oats Old, 9095 percental. Barley Feed, $1515.50; brewing, $15.50 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $17 18; mid dlings, (21.50; shorts, $20; chop, $16. Hay Timothy, Sllairf; clover, $79.50; Oregon wild hay, 56 per ton. Butter Fancv creamery, 2527c; dairy, 18 20c; store, 12 15c per pound. . Easts lSZ2c per dozen. Cheese Full cream, twins, 13c; : Young America, 13gl4c per nound, Poultry unicicens, mixea, s.uua 3.75; hens, S3. 00 4. 25; dressed, 10 lle per pound; springs, $1.753.O0 per dozen ; ducks, . $3 for old ; $3.00 3.6Q tor young; geese, $55.60 per dozen ; turkeys, live, o10c; dressed, 1012c per pound. Mutton Lambs, smc, cross; dressed, 66sC per pound; sheep, S3.ZO, gross ; dressed, be per lb. light, f4.755; dressed, 77o per - 1 ' pound. -Veal Small. 89c; large, 7 7c per pound. Beef Gross top steers, $3. 50 4. 00; cows and heifers, $3. 00 3. 50; dressed beef, 647c per pound. Hops 1012c per pound. ; Wool Valley, 1113 c ; Eastern Oregon, 812c; mohair, 20 21c per pound. Potatoes $L10$1.20 per sack. The biggest pumps ever used were made to pump out Lake Haarlem, in Holland. They pumped 400,000 tons dally for 11 years. For continuous beer drinking, so to speak, Egypt holds the record among nations. In Egypt beer has hAn drank fnr R ono nam and rh "busa" of the fellahs of today made bv a orocesa almost identical with that described by Herodotus, mentioned in hieroglyphs and de- picted in sculpture as old as 3000 B. C. . LAST PEACE MOVE FAILS. Semi-Official Report That the Settlement is Left to President Shaffer. Pittsburg, Sept. 11. The last efforts to settle the steel strike have failed. The general executive board of the Amalgamated Association adjourned this evening without date and without accepting any of the peace propositions that have come indirectly from the United States Steel Corporation, or making any counter propositions, ac cording to the official statement. The semi-official report is that the propo sition secured for the Amalgamated Association, through the intervention of the representatives of the National clvl Federation, was unsatisfactory. and tnat 016 matter of settling and ar- . . nner- 'ine " BBf " "V. hM been clamoring for a settlement " sui.acury terms ana means were not at hand, and the sessions resolved themselves into an informal discus sion of the situation. At the close of the meeting of the National executive board this evening, President Shaffei declared he had . no statement to make, but subsequently said: The board has adjourned, and the out-of-town members will probably leave for their homes tonight . No peace proposition has been received and none made. Still later he added that he nor no other member of the board would go to New York during the night to sub mit a peace proposition, saying he wouia oe at neaaquarters as usual to- The meeting of the board did not adjourn in high good feeling, yet the members of the board were averse to making statements supplemental to that of President Shaffer. It was stated by some of the members of the board that the adjournment had left matters practically as they were before the meeting had been called, and that the strike must go on as before, leaving arrangements for a possible settlement through the direct conference of the representatives of the United States Steel Corporation with President Shaf fer. GREAT FOO CHOW FIRE. Caused by the Overturning of a Lamp Loot- ing by Natives. f' Vancouver. B. C, Sept. 11. Details of the weat fire of Aueust 20. in Foo Chow, which destroyed over $1,000,000 worth of nrnnprtv iwHivo1 Tit ' fljo caused by the .Overturning of a lamp in a native undertaking establishment Hundreds of acres of business houses were carried away, and many people perished in the fire, which burned the greater part of two days. European proprietors of business houses ; and larger Chinese, merchants were the heaviest sufferers. " During the progress of the fire and immediately after it the coolie native population - looted ' the half-burned buildings and stole everything that they could lay hands on. The Chinese police, under their European officers, were unable to prevent the looting except in a small degree, and before the second evening had passed a large number of regular soldiers were call ed out. At that tlmje many people had been killed in fights and there were dead bodies In every street Five men were kind by the failing of a three-story building. , The carnage on the streets was aw ful. The soldiers, mounted, dashed np the main thoroughfares, stabbing to death or trampling under horses' feet the robbers who were carrying away goods in every direction. Even though knocked down, the natives who were running away with stolen goods held on to their bundles. The horsemen thrust them through the legs or arms with swords to make them drop these, and even then some of the coolies clung to their plunder with such desperation that they were put to death where they had been knocked over. Many of the injured were taken away in ambulances and were being treated in the hospitals when the Tar tar sailed from China. Union Men Return to Work. Milwaukee, Sept. 11. Thirty-five Amalgamated Association men return- ed to work at the plant of the Illinois Steel Company in Bayvlew today. It is said two of the company's mills, the 12-inch and the rail mill, were 1 started. Among those who reported for duty were J. D. Hickey and J. F. Cooper, the two men who went , to Pittsburg recently to learn the real facts about the strike. British Minister to Chile. Washington, Sept 11. Gerard A. Lowther, the first Secretary and harg d'AIf.aire8 Bri"sn Ejn- 1 Yia rhv tiArA hflH raralvAil ft substantial bassy here, has received a substantial yiuuiuuuu 1U Lilt) iilibu uipiuuiauu . J 1 .L -ft I A 1 l JlnlAn4H service, having been selected for Brit ish Minister to Chile. Fatal Collision. Jamestown.- N. D.. Sept 11. A Northern Pacific train of seven freight cars and two passenger coaches col lided with an engine in the yard here today, killing five men and injuring several. - Prussian Minister of Finance. Frankfort-on-the-Maln. Sept 10. Dr. Johannes Von Miquel, ex-Prussian Minister of Finance, was found dead In hed this morning. He was born In February, 1849. Dr. Von Miquel was out -walking Saturday and spent th evenlne reading. , He retired at is midnight He had not been feeling well all day.- His daughter went to his bedroom this morning and found her father dead. A physician who was summoned certified that death was the result of heart apoplexy. I HE STILL IMPROVES PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S CONDI TION IS SATISFACTORY. No Unfavorable Conditions Have Appeared Physicians Express Confidence That tie Will Ultimately Recover Many Friends and Relatives Leaving Him Confident That He Is Out of Danger. Milburn House, Buffalo, Sept. 10, 3 a. m. President McKinley is resting easily. His condition continues to Im- Drove. His physicians express the ut- most confidence that he will recover, though there is still a possibility that complications may set in. Up to this ha been no Bymptom8 of peritonitis, and the danger of this set ting in decreases every hour. Dr. Mc Burney, however, says that If the im provement continues it will be a week before the President can be pro nounced out of danger and convales cent. The President himself is cheer ful, and was given light nourishment yesterday. Everything is qniet at the Milburn house, and the vigilance of the guards is not as strict as it has been heretofore. Milburn House, Buffalo, Sept 10, 6:25 a. m. Up to this hour no bulletin of the President's exact condition has been issued, but it is learned that the Datient nassed a ennd nieht and at this nour ia quietly sleeping. Bulletins Don't Tell All. Milburn House, Buffalo, Sept. 10. After the 9:30 bulletin had been is sued from the Milburn residence last night announcing a continuance of the favorable condition of the President, there were many indications that the bulletins were but meager indications of the real Improvement of the .distin-' guished patient. At 9:45 p. m., Miss McKinley, a sister of the President; Dr. and Mrs. Herman Baer, the latter a niece of the President, and the Misses Barber, nieces of the President left the house, and, taking carriages, announced their intention of returnine to their homes tonight. Abner Mc Klnley accompanied them to the sta- uon ana to tne Associated Press said: rne nearest relatives of the Presl- dent are so confident-of his recovery that they have no hesitancy in leav ing. Postmaster -Frease. of Canton, a warm personal friend of the President wba came today fllled with anxiety, said tonight: "I go baek because I have the most positive assurance that the President is going to make a rapid recovery." GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA. Thousands of Lives Lost Along the Yangtse River Rice Crop Ruined. Washington, Sept 11. Under date of Shanghai, July 25, Consul-Generai Goodnow reports to the State Depart ment that the most disastrous floods are prevailing in the valley of the Yangtse River. He understands that they are the worst known by Euro peans In that valley. All the towns in the neighborhood of Wuhu and Klukiang are, to a large extent under water. The farms, especially In the rice-growing region about Wuhu, are so completely flooded that there is no hope for the crop this year. In ad dition to this, thousands of lives have Vtiin lsxt a Tt si nnlrnAiirn numhara vn -aered homeless by the overflow. The stoppage of trade is very serious. The destruction of the crops in the fields, and particularly the probable loss of the rice crops in the district of Wuhu. the great rice-producing center, will add famine to the other difficulties be setting the empire. - , Arms for Colombia. Washington, Sept 11. Following is a translation of a cablegram- received late today by the Colombian Legation from a confidential agent of the Col ombian Government: 'Kingston, Jamaica, Sept 9. Col ombian Legation, Washington. It is known officially that the Ecuadorian vessel Cotopaix sailed with arms from Esmeraldos, Ecuador. Tomaco be sieged by filibusterers from Nicaragua. A considerable expedition was expect ed to land near Panama on the 5th of September." The signature to the dispatch was not made public, but the information contained in the message is believed by Colombian officials here to be en tirely authentic. Dynamiters at Work. Chicago, Sept. 11. Three men who said they were linemen, on being re fused admission to the office of the Chicago General Electric Company, 1 1 i j j - , hfiro tvlav nlar-ori rivnWmit. 1 . . ' ridge under the front door and ex- .1nJ.J Ji. V. 1 ik. 1. . . : 1 J : a LI1UUBU Ik, wrcumiiK lilt? uuuumg uuu injuring Nightwatchman Brenn. The men escaped. ' Ordered Out of France. Paris, Sept. 11. Ferideoun Bey, head of the Turkish police in -Paris, and the right hand man of Munir Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, has been or dered to quit France within 48 hours. ' Windfall for a Waiter. A nlil (i n rl fti Sanf 11 To rno T7M lison, a young man who for the past four years has lived in this city, fol lowing the occupation of a waiter, has come into a windfall by the death of a hitherto unknown aunt in Switzer land. He has received word from a firm of attorneys, stating that he and three others would inherit the estate of the deceased aunt, and that his share, when finally administered, i would amount to $50,000.