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TOL. XII. nOOD RITER, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1500. NO. 9.
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HOOD RIVER GLACIER
Published Every Friday by
8. F. BLYTHK,
Term! ol lubscrlptlon 11.60 a year when paid
In advance. .
THE MAIL.
The mall arrives from Mt. Hoed at 10 o'clock
a. m. Wednesdays aud Saturdays; departs the
same days at noon.
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rives at 3 p. m.
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i 87, 1. O. O. K. Meets Brat aud third Mon
eys in each month.
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. 11. 1. Hibbaro, Secretary,,
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of each month at 2 o'clock p. m. All ti. A. K.
nieuibvr invited to meet with us.
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T. . Cunning, Adjutant.
CANBY W. R. C, No. 16 Meets first Satur
day of each month In A. O. U. W. hall at 2
p. m. Mas. Adf.ua Sihanahan, President.
Id its. Ursula Dukks, Secretary.
HOOD RIVER LODGE, No. 105, A. F. and A.
M. Meets Saturday evening on or before
Mh full moou. ti. K. W ILLIAM8, W, M.
D. McDonald, Secretary.
OOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M.
Meets third Friday night of each month.
ti. R. Castnkr, H. P.
0. r. Williams, Secretary.
HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, O. E. 8.
Meets Saturday after each full moon and
two weeks thereafter.
Mrs. Mart A. Davidson, W. M.
LETA ASSEMBLY, No. 103, United Artisans.
U Meets second Tuesday of each mouth at
Fraternal hall. 1 F. C.Brosiih, M. A.
D. McDonald, Secretary.
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in A. O. TJ. W. hall every Tuesday .nlt'ht.
GEO. STRANAHAH, C. C.
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RIVERSIDE LODGE. No. 68, A. O. U, W.
Meetf first aud third Saturdays of each
month. 0. G. Chambbrlain, M. V.
J. F. Watt, Financier.
H. L. Huwb, Recorder.
1DLEWILDK LODGE, No. 107, I. O 0. F.
Meet! in Fraternal ball every Thursday
night. A.U. Gktchel, K.ti.
ft. J. Hibbard, Secretary. I
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TARY PUBLIC and REAL ;
ISTATS AGENT.
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lulen. Hat had many years experience In
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title and agent. Eatlsiavtion guaranteed or no
charge.
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piONEER MILLS
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FLOUR, FEED AND ALL CEREALS
Ground and manufactured.
Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custom
t rinding done every Saturday
usy season additional days will I
Katurda
DHrltiir the
busy season aaailloni
in the local columns.
be mentioned
lOOlt ltlVEIt. ORKOOH.
pAPERHANGING, KALSOMINING, ETC.
If your walla are sick, or mutilated, call on
E. I ROOD.
Consultation free. No charge for prescrip
tion. No cure no pay.
0B,m hour (r a i A. M. till 6. P. St., and All
night if necessary.
CONOMY SHOE 6H0P.
PKICE LIST.
Men's half soles, band eticked, l;
naiUul. rwwt. 75c : second. 50c: third. 40c.
ladies' hand stitched, 76c; nailed, best.
Mc; second, 85. Best stock and work
in Hood River. C. WELDS, Prop.
JHE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY
Is the place to get the latest and best in
Confectioneries, Uanaies, runts, ioobcco,
Cinars, etc.
. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS....
COLE & GRAHAM. Props.
p C. BROSiUS, M. D. ''
' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Phone Central, or 121.
Office
Hours: 10 to 11
and 6 to 7 P.
A. M. ; 2 to
M.
M
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Tommnso.w Baos, Props.
....FIR AND PINE LUMBER..
ftf th) rwst onalitv alwas'on hand at
prices to suit the times, -
TJUTLER A CO.,
BANKERS. i
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Do a general banking business,
HOOD RIVER,
OREGON
DALLAS & SPANG LER,
DIALERS IS
Hardware, Stoves anil Tinware
. Kitchen Furniture. Plumbers'
Goods, Pruning Tools, Etc.
We have . new ana wr' "T.
ml Hardware tOT6V Auu udww
hlhJil keep consU-tly adding,
OuTprtei w U continue tobaMtawM1
a a nH tinVin. UI
.Portland price.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
j Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of thf. World.
TERSR TICKS FROji JriR WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Item From
the Two Hemisphere Pre nU 1
In a Condensed Form.
William Ahles, an old resident of
Taconia, committed Buicide.
Rich gold strikes have been made on
the Koyukuk, some claims staked out
yielding $4 to the pan.
Robbers held up an Illinois Central
train near Padncah, Ky., blew up the
express cur and secured $10,000.
T,he 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, N. J.
County Commissioner Campbell, of
Spokane county, Wash., was killed by
an U. It. 6c iN . passenger train near
Latah, Idaho. Ite 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 $13,630,326. 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 cuttle dealer came to the
rescne of the Biitish.
On the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
deliberate attempt to wreck the
Washington express, bearing $3,000,-
000 in cold 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'
nient for the pooling of business. Joint
agencies are to be established at Kan
sas Citv, Omaha and St. Paul. A
joint agent will be placed in charge of
the traffic at each of these cities.
Colombian revolutionists, under Gen'
eral Juan B. Gonzales and Simon
Chaux, have captured the city of Popa'
van. a capital of the department of
Cauca. On the, march to Popayan the
revolutionists took all the cities near
tha 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
inn nf 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 ars
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
sailed from Toulon with 850 infantry
and artillery for China.
New York tailors are again planning
a bie 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 71
years.
Southern neuroes may go to Hawaii
Plantation owners of the island will
make them aood offers with a view to
dispensing with the troublesome Jap
laborers.
A plot to assassinate President Mo
Kinley has been frustrated. It was
nnnmcted bv a eroup of Spanish and
Chilian conspirators who had head
quarters in New York.
Georee A. Morse, an aged and abso
lutely helpless patient in the Agnew's
intann Asvlnm. at San Jose, Cal., was
slewly 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 isging on Bull moun
tain. Railroad creek and Pompey's
Pillar, on the north side of the Yellow
scone river, Montana. It is extending
east to the Mussel Shell river, and is
sweeping the range lilse nnaer, as
everything is dry. A late report says
that 20 head 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 leas
than 56 per cent. If this ratio is
I.... anr statistician can forsee the
.ij" "fi .
will be a
1 a .k. .wo,. r:-mn nonnla
time wnen eery
AOCIOr. IUU rraw v- '
u. " - L A
tion, having no patients on whom to
pnetlce, will have to m.grate to fields
wnere pnjHiuu -
LAI tR NEWS.
Ten thousand Boers are massing neal
Pretoria.
Demand for harvest hands in Eastern
Oregon is enormous.
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 Blut
river district.
A daughter of Theodore Ilavemayer,
the sugar king, shot and accidently
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 exhausted
Theodore Greil, aged 60, an employe
of the woolen mills at Oregon City,
Or., was accidentally drowned while
attempting; to net into a boat to row
home.
The American bark McNear was lost
on a reef near Laysan island, near
Japan. The passengers and crew spent ,
two days on the water and
landed on
Laysan island.
Anmiral Seymour was compelled to
shoot his own wounded during the re
cent disastrous retreat of the Pekin re
lief expedition. They preferred it to
tortue by barbarous Chinamen.
Judge W. II. Washington, of Phila
delphia, a direct descendant of Angus
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 ne ones soon to be con
structed will be assiEned to service on
v, r,. nri one mnv come to '
the Columbia river.
' 1
The Washington government will take
every precaution against violence w
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 nre 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 out 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 II. 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,
causing a loss of $1,000,000.
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 fpresta were
bunred by a fire 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 widerground
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 Jeiomo, Ariz.
Advices were received from Sydney
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo
mon group. There has been a fierce
battle between the Mariaq (Boys) and
Malata tribes. The losses onach side
were heavy.
Dynamite was exploded under a
Transit car in North St. Louis, and
four passengers were injured. A su-
hnrhan 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
t.iat John P. Keese, 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 Ayer 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 whien 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 may seem tyrannical,
but it has one inestimable advantage-
00 ,
ord
no gold digger in Rnsua can tell extra-
inary romances about tne nenneas
of his claim when the official figures ars
there to stop him.
BIG FIRE IN PRESCOTT
Losses Aggregate More Than
$1,000,000.
MANY HOMELESS AND PENNILESS
rrlacipal Business Fortlon of the Towa
DMtroyed Merchant Ready
for Builnes In Tent.
Presoott, 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, Are. whioh started at 10:45
o'clock last night, was not under con
trol until 8 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
rinruiniin Rtrnet. preventing the fire
froni- crossinn that street. The most
conservative estimates of the total losses
are from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000,
Tha hnrnnrt district embraces five
blocks, in which were located the prin
oinal 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 reBi-
dfiiiceg. To add to the p-evaning
gloom, a high wind has prevailed all
dav. sendinz smoke, dust and burning
embers In every direction, rfquiring
the arreatest vicilance to prevent an
other outbreak of the flames. Owing
to the chaotic condition existing today
it is impossible to obtain an aoourate
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 teamB were
at work hauling lumber to the public
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
nnnn tomorrow, lhe iiasniora-uur
meister Company will be open for busi
ness tomorrow in men wmouuuoo,
' blocks from the plaza.
I Hon. W. A. Clark, of the United
i Verde Copper Company, who was visit-
ino the works at Jerome, wired a draft
1 .1 . . ..... .n . .1' rt
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 the town are Gold water Bros., A.
Blumberg and Mrs. K. 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 omce ana po0.ue
Vt 1 A.. iU HfAvtA
With nut of the lire limits, dot ine
latter had a close call. All the mail
and effects were ready to move at
moment's notice.
The office of the supervisor of censu
for the territory . was located in th
Prescott National Bank building, anr
contained all the official statistics of th
census of the territory, but they wer
removed to a plaoe of safety.
The Western Union opened its otnc
this morning in a grocery store, an
the Postal has opened an office at th
railroad depot. The electrio ligh
poles and wires were in the bprned dis
triot, and the town will be in darknes
until they can be replaced, ine cqm
pany also owns the telephone system
and loses more than half its instru
ments.
Many citizens who yesterday wer
comfortably fixed are today homeles
and penniless, a number losing bot
their business places and their resi
dences. An army of carpenters hav
been busy all day putting up tempoi
ary structures, many of which hav.
been completed and will open for bust
ness tomorrow. ,
Of the three printing offices In towL
all that was saved was about 80 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
ago. 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
nandlelicht 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.
Mere Bain In Texas.
Dallas, Tex., July 17. Northern
Texas has been deluged by rains for
more than 12 hours, and the indica-
.l.i .1 i 1 V...
lions are wanne ewxiu
gun. The downpour Dallas wa
rlfl; ,6TKm it.
tre delayed because of washouts.
Youngstown, O., July 14. The
severe storm last night caused a sua
den rise in Mill creek, sweeping away
a bridge and washing out railroad
tranks, causing damage amounting to
J50.000.
S J Fruit Fir la California).
Newcastle, Cal., July 17. Fire to
day destroyed all the fruit houses and
leading business houses of the town.
The loss will exceed $100,000. . Over
100,000 boxes of fruit were burned.
Tha Southern Pacific Company was the
1 1 ti rn,.(. 1 lMH I
ears and rolling stock is estimated at
5,000.
Boms women amount to nothing oat
ldo of thslr oharoh.
I
Oil Tank Exploded Scattering Oil 0r
Throne; of Feople.
New York, July 16. A special from
Boston to the Herald says: By the
explosion of an oil tank in Souierville
last niiht nearly a hundred persons
were more or less injured, and early
this morning two were reported dead.
Many of the injured are in the Lam-
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 cauL-ht tire and made a blaze that
could be seen all over bomerville. hun
dreds of people flocked to the yards.
The Somerville firemen arrived prompt-
lv enoueh. 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 freieht cars near the fire.
Suddenly there was a rumbling noise.
One creat sheet of flame shot into the
ir. and a huoe oil tank which had
been on a car went up on end, scatter
ing blazing oil in all directions. The
hucre tank of oil, one of three, on as
nmnv cars, had exploded. The burn-
ine 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 olothina on flie. 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 heip
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 pf 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.
KETTELER TO BLAME.
nr..ij Knt full Additional Guard
fot
the Legations. 1
New York, July 16. A d sptach to
the Herald from Berlin says: .
A letter has just been published hero
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from Lieutenant von Loesch, attache
of the German legation at Pekin . It
is dated May 29, and shows that the
earlv failure to increase the guards of
tha various legations was due to the
. Bftron yon Kottel(,r.
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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
It.
when a freight train bound for Oregon
drawn by two engines, was climbing
the heavy grade above Upton, a eonp
line? cave way. and 80 cars, loaded
with fruii, started back. They passed
tlironoh Kisson seemlnaly at the rate
of 70 miles an honr. Half a mile be
low f-isson is the Pioneer Box Factory,
Here seven of the cars broke loose and
riitehed 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.
Itobber Caught In the Act.
Marshaltown, la.. July 16. Four
men were caught in the act of robbing
Mason Whitehill's general store at
State Center today. A number of citi
zens surrounded the building, and a
... . . . ,, t u,!.il,MU
1, was .hot in the
Meg. One of the robbers was also
one of Mg
tes was captured. The other two es-
- leaped.
Political success, like anything else,
depends almost entirely on the amount
of rustling a man does.
Surgeon for tpe 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 thonce 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 favorlite mode of abuse to charge
! that he leads a dual life.
HUNDREDS BURNED.
REPULSE OF ALLIES
Admiral Remey Confirms the
News From Tien Tsin.
AMERICANS LOST OVKR THIRTY
three Thousand Friendly Cliliifse
OB
dial Were Ordered Killed b)
Prince Tuau.
Washington, July 18. The navy
opeartment this morning received olli
cial confirmation from Admiral Remey
af the reverse of the allied forces at
Tien Tsin on the morning of the llith.
The dispatch is dated Che Foo, July
16, and says:
"Rooorted that the allied forces at
tacked the native citv the morning of
the 13th. Russians on the right, with
the Ninth mfantry and marines on the
left. The loss of the allied forces is
large; Russians, 100, including artil
lery colonel; Americans over 80; Brit
ish over 40; Japanese, 58, including
colonel; French, 25.
"Colonel Liscum, Ninth infantry,
killed; also Captain Davis, marine
corns. 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.
"RKMEY."
Consul-GeneTal Goodnow cabled to
the state department from Shanghai
under today's date that theie is noth
ing more to report siuoe his cablegram
of the 18th inst. The diBpatoh report
ed the attack on the legations at l'ekin
as about to beign. Mr. Goodnow's
statement is in direct contradiction ot
the Shanghai story that all foreign con
suls were informed Saturday by Siieng
that the logationslhad fallen and the
mlnlsteis were killed.
Without exception today the foreign
representatives in Washington accepted
as practically certain that the foreign
legations and ministers at l'ekin nave
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 Chiuis-
officials hope has been about given up,
but they maintain that there is no oiii
cial information, and that they are
much in the dark as others.
The situation as a telling effect on
the Chinese minister, who is under a
nervous tension and airitation more
severe than that of the American off!
cials. He is seeking to show in the pres
nt acute crisis that no matter how bad
conditions may be in China, he is not
the less anxious to serve the American
nnnnle and covernment, for he has
taken great pride in the kindly person
al relations botween him and the peo
pie here. Minister Wu declares un
worthy of belief the came report tunc
Show, director of telegraphs aud posts
at Shanghai, knew of the killing of the
foreign ministers at the time he made
a recent suggestion that foreigners be
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 be
fiscortod out of the city. This latter
i considered proof positive by Mr. Wu
that Sheng considered the foreigners
alive.
Bualne Interrupted by Strike
St. Louis, July 18. The St. Louis
Transit Company today fllod in the
city register's office its returns of tripB
and passengers for the quarter ending
June 80 last, as required by law
Theso reports are particularly interest
ing, as showing the decrease in the
company's business, caused by the
atrike. Duriuir the first throe months
of this year, before the strike was in
anonrated. the Transit Coniyiauy, ao
cording to its returns, carried 27.0C8,
585 passengers, its cars making 1.807,
825 trips in so doing. According to
its returns for the throe months ending
Juue 80. its cars made only 447,040
trips and carried 13,733,621 passen
gers.
Hart by Falling Wall.
Chcago, July 18. Nine persons were
injured, one fatally, by falling wans
in a fire cauHed by lightning tonight at
Michigan street and Dearborn avenue.
Fireman Robert Meany will die.
The total damage amounto 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 Fust Train,
Junction City. Kan., July 17. Ac
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
th a tiain before it had KOiie but a
short distance in on the siding. A
gun, dynamile and a bottle, supposed
to contain nitroglycerine, were found
hidden nnder a pile of old ties.
Cloudburst tu Texae.
Coleman, Tex., July 18. Fifteen
lives are known to have been lost in a
cloudburst here today. Ten bodiei
have been recovered, but only two were
identified. It is feared that many 1 pair lhopi( ,t goUth park, just outside
more lives were lost in the valley be- tn oity About 800 carloads of shin
low Coleman. The cloudburst, which gei were burned. The loss is estimat
followed three days' unprecedented t $200,000. There was a, high
rainfall, caused Fold's creek to burst win( blowing, and the flames spread
its banks and rush through Coleman, J txom y,, 0i house to the adjoining
a village of less than 1,000 iuhabi- buildings and freight cars, of which
tant. there was a great number in the yard.
MORE MEN ARE NEEDED.
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Demand From All fart of tha
Philippine Islands.
Manila, July 18. "More soldiers"
Is the demand whioh is coming to Gen
eral Mac Arthur from every department
Df the islands. Recent events have
worked to vindicate General Laton'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 800,000 hostile people with a regi
ment or two, the American command-
era hardly realized the size of ihe 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 Cebn, Pa cay, Samar and Loyte
and the great Mohammodan empire of
Mindanao, only the commercial parts
are ooenpied.
The Moros are a cloud on the hori-
son. lhe officers best acquainted witn
conditions in Mindanao aud the Sulu
islands tell the correspondent that they
consider serious fighting there inevita
ble. If it comes, the two regiments
whioh are scattered in small garrisons,
some of them hundreds of miles apnrt
along the coast of Mindanao, an inland
nearly as large as Luzon, may have
lerious 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 Knd Only With Breaking and l'ar.
tltionlnaj of Chlnelo Kinplre.
New York, July 18. A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
A great war has opened in China,
with the Japanese in the front line and
with the heaviest reserves immediately
available. Three American battalions,
and about 13,000 Japanese troops, have
reaohed Tien Tsin sinoe the two battlei
were fought, so that the allied force
now aggregates 25,000 men, with con
tingents slowly dribbling into Takn.
War has not been formally declared,
but it is in progress, with every indica
tion that it will continue indefinitely
until the government now in power ii
overthrown and the empire broken
into a series of European and Japanese
provinces and piotectorates. 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
massaare 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 aud 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 shoe
maker, today to kill himself, his wife
and 18-months-old babe Avith a razor
and to wound his 8 i-year-old -son.
The trHgedy 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 comer of the
room, her throat cut from ear to ear,
and the infant's body was in a baby
carriage btbind the counter. A mont
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 bov was sent to a hospital, where
the physicians hope to save his li'e.
From Manila to China.
Manila, July 18. Two battalions oi
the Fourteenth infantry and Daggatt's
battery of the Fifth artillery, will
leave for China tomorrow by the trans
ports IndianiifFlintHliiro and Wyefleld,
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 subsistencerstores and cloth
ing for 500 men for three months. It
will take also two seven inch mortars
nd two six inch howitzers, with am
munition. The hospital ship Relief it
going to China.
Assault on Kansas City Chinamen.
Kansas City, Mo., July 18. In-
censed at the Boxer news a crowd of
men aud boys gathered about the laun
dry of Ah Sing, a Chinese kundryinan,
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 tlioy
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 te Italian Missions.
Rome, July 17. The Italian con3ul
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 tin
Italian missions in Ho Nan and II u
have been assaulted.
Fire at St. Paul.
St. Paul, July 16. Fire this after
noon destroyed five large and three
' small building formerly used by the
rihinami Great Western railway as re-
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