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1 i IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XII. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1000. NO. 18. )QP jIVER GLACIER "Tublished Every Friday by I 8. F. BLYTHK. n,s oi .ab.criptlon-il.fiO a year when paid ivuiice. J " TUB MAILS. .mail arrives from Ml. Hood at 10 o'clock He.liiesday and Saturdays; depart the Vi'lioMo'vc'hI'ieave. at 8 a. m. Tuesday., uv a.ul Saturday.: arrive, at 61.. in. Vk hue Salmon (Wash.) leave, daily at 6:45 iii-rive.1 fit 7:15 p. TO. whlio Salmon leave, (or Fulda, Gilmer, ,1 i ke and Gleiiwnod dally at 9 A. M. fli'iujun (Wash.) leaves at5:45p. m.; ar- J " H IX IK TIES. fTTTKfcliKKAH DEGREE LODGE, No (iv I. 0. 0. F. Meet, first and third Mon- in each month. I Mis Stella Richardson. N. 0. ;J IIibbahd, Becretary, viiv POST. No. 16, U. A. R Meeta at A. II U W Hall second and fourth Saturday. ai( h rnoiitli at 2 o'clock p. m. All G. A. R. ber invited to meet with us. M P. Isenbero, Commander ". J. CUNNING, Adjutant. "i7nV W R. C, No. 16-Meet, flr.t Satvtr Jv of each month In A. O. U. W. hall at i ' Man. Auklia Stmanahan, President, lis Ctivu Dukes, Secretary. flOD RIVER LODGE, No. 105, A. F. and A. M Meets Saturday evening on or before h full moon. G. E. William., W. M. ,, McDonald, Secretary. iOob RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M - Meets third Friday night of each month. -' G. R. Cahtner, H. P. Williams, Secretary. -OOP RIVER CHAPTER, No .25 0. E. 8. I .Meet. Saturday after each full moon and a weeks thereafter. Mrs. Mahy A. Davidson, W. M. IF.TA ASSEMBLY, No. 103, United Artisans. ( J -Meets second Tuesday of each month at .irrnal hall. F. C BROSIUS, M. A. !). McDonald, Secretary. TAt'COMA LODGE, No, 30, K. of P. Meeta I in A. 0. U. W. hall every Tuesday night. E. 8. Ol.INGlR, C. C. Frank L. Davidion, K. of R. & S. 5IVKK81DE LODGE, No. 68, A. O. U, W. 1. uwo first and third Saturday! of each Qlltll. O. U. CHAMBERLAIN, M. I V. Watt, Financier. M. L. Howe, llecorder. W. (OLEWILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F . i i Meets in Fraternal hall every Thursday 11,1. A. G. Getchicl, N. G. fl. J. HiBBARD, secretary. JL TflOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. O. T. M.. I meets at A. O. V, W. hall on the first and ilrd Fridays of each month. J. E. Rand, Commander. IIVERSIDE LODGE NO. 40, DEGREE OF i HONOR, A. t). U. W. -Meets first and did Saturday, at 8 P. M. i Mrs Geo. P. Crowell, C. of H. Mrs. Chas Clabkr, Recorder. F. SHAW, M. D. I Telephone No. II. t 3tll Calls Promptly Attended Office upstair, over Copple's store. All call, lift at the office or residence will ba promptly attended to. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL .' ESTATE AGENT. For 21 yearia resident of Oregon and Wash birton. lias lrad many years experience In Beil Estate mallets, as abstracter, searcher of titles and agent, Batlsiaction guaranteed or no oliarge. J F. WATT, M. D. Surgeon for O. R. A N. Co. Is especially equip). ed to treat catarrh of nose and throat and diseases of women. 1 Special terms for oflice treatment of chronic sc.. j Telephone, office, 125, residence, 45. piONEER MILLS 1 Harbison Bros., Profs. I FLOUR, FEED AND ALL CEREALS I Ground and manufactured. $ Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custom binding done every Saturday. During the lusy sciiRon additional days will be mentioned in the local columns. I BOIIU IUYKK. OKEGOK. p.Vl'IiUIIAXGING, KALSO MINING, ETC. I If your walls are sick or mutilated, call on I E. L. KOOO. 1 Consultation free. No charge for prescrip tions. No oire 110 pay. On-shririfrvu i A. M. till 6. P. M., and all .'i&ight if necessary. CONO MY SHOE SHOP. I ' l'KICK UST. t Men's half soles, hand eticked, $1; nailed, best, 75c ; second, 50c ; third, 40c. I.alie8' hand Btitched, 75c; nailed, best, M)c; second, 35. Best stock and work in Hood River. C. WELDS, Prop. :TIJ K KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY . j Is the place to get the latest and best it j Confectioneries, Candies, Nuts, Tobacco, I" Cigars, etc. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... 1 COLE A GRAHAM, Props. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. ' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Hours: J' io II A. M. ; 2 to 8 and o to 7 P. M. JyJT. HOOD SAW MILLS ToMLi.vsoN Bkos, Pbops. FIR AND PINE LUMBER Of the best qnality alwas on hand at prices to suit the times. gUTLER 4 CO., BANKERS. Do a general banking business. HOOD RIVER, OREGON. DALLAS & SPANGLER, DIALERS IN Kardware, Stoves anil Tinware Kitchen Furniture, Plumbers' Goods, Pruning Tools, Etc. . i v We have a new and complete stoefc of himlN ctnirM and tinware. hich we will keep constantly adding Our prices will continue to be as low as Portland prices. BEPA1S1X1 TllflBE I JPEIliLH. EVENTS OF HIE DAI Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. i " I TERSE TICKS FRO V'fi'K WIRES ! n Interesting Collection of Item. From .he Two Hemisphere Pre Mb i In a CorlenW Jrcvm- Conger advices China. Americans to leave Colorado Democrats nominated J B. Oran for governor. General Botha is said to be making overtures to surrender. Forest fires destroyed no timber in Cascade reserve this season. A man fell from a fruit tree at En gene, Or., with fatal results. Negro vandals were tried by court martial and shot at, Galveston. New York Democrats nominated John B. Stanchfield for governor. A number of vessels were lost or stranded in the gale on the lakes. American troops await the presi dent's word to march from Pekin. Fire at Narragansett pier, R. I., destroyed property worth $350,000. President Kruger is at Lourenco, Marques preparing to sail for Euiope. From 15,000 to 20,000 Chinese con verts were massacred in July by Box ers. Nine persons were killed in South ern Illinios by the wrecking of a the atrical car. Three thousand bodies of storm vic tims have been buried at Galveston. The property loss is estimated at $15, 000,000. The city of Dallas, Texas, has sub scribed nearly $15,000 in cash and sx carloads of clothing for the South Texas flood sufferers. Dr. Dennis Dowling Mulcahy, once an active Fer.ian agitator, who was imprisoned in England in the latter part of the '60s with O'Donovan Rossa and others, died in Newark, N. J., aged 53 years. The trouble that was threatened be tween the whites and Indians, arrayed . on one side,, against the Japs, on the other side, in the hop fields above Puy allup, Wash., seems to have been avert ed, at least for the time being. No ac tual clash lias yet taken place, but there is bad feeling between the fac tions that may at any time break out into open hostilities. , The three silver parties in Colorado will fuse. France will accept Prince Ching as a peace envoy. Americans and French nearly clashed in Pekin. Lord Roberts is pushing operations in Eastern Transvaal. Amerioan soldiers took no part in the looting of Tien Tsin. Many gulf coast towns in Texas ent ered severely from the storm. The state department is not ready to begin negotiations with Li Hung Chang. New Hampshire Republicans nomi nated Chester B. Gordon for governor. Colonel W. B. Shaw, of Illinois, will make Republican speeches in Ore gon. The steamship San Pedro arrived at Seattle from the north with 300 nas sengers and $80,000 in Nome gold. Americans on their way to hunt gold in Siberia cot the best of a trick at tempted by Russians, and seven Yankees took iy) Kussians. Tho controller of the currency has. issued a call for the condition of na- tional banks at the close of business September 1, 1900. The population of Dulutb, Minn , as officially announced by the census bureau, is 52,909, an increase in popu lation of 19,854, or 59.9 per cent from 1890 to 1900. At Reno, Nevada, a wreck on the Nevada, California & Oregon extension derailed 14 cars of beef cattle, reduc ing the cars to kindling wood ana Kill ing 20 head of fat steers. The destruction of shipping at Gal veston may reduce the. volume of early cotton deliveries at Lancashire, Eug land. Reports from there show that 20,000 loams had stopped and that 24, 000 operators were idle.' The postmaster-general has received a communication from F. W. Vaille, director of- posts in the Philippines, showing that there will be a surplus of receipts over expenditures up to June 80 of $19,447. This does not include fees for money orders of $6,500, and rlmva ia firm iBT)rtment. that ol Baco- VUC1V ww r lor, yet to hear from. The government transport Lawton sailed from San Francisco on her errand of mercy to the far north. With all available space bblow decks devoted to berths, provided with bed ding for nearly a thousand persons, be sides the regular complement of offl cers and crew, the big transport will oroceed to Capo Nome, stopping at ! Seattle for supplies. Chicago police have recovered a $1, 000 poodle that was abducted the other day. but there are a number of 54.38 children quite hopelessly missing, to gay nothing of a $25 parrot. -r-.-l r.l,n. Tit.no. of IoWB. and of the FourteentL United States infantry, snhli-r to olanttheAmeri- LU . T - . - f . III can nag on we waus 01 1 o. 1!nu be remembered that a certain inns battered down the walls of Jerusalem, After all, there may be something in name. LATER NEWS. Galveston's 4,078. list of dead unmbert Six persons perished In a Cincinnati, Ohio, tire. Bryan' letter of aooeptanoe was given to the public. The powers have aocepted LI Hung CbanK as 8 ne80tiator. Plans aTe being drawn for harbor itn. provements in Manila. Americans are building a permanent telegraph line to Pekin. Lord Roberta will leave South Africa for England about October 3. Colorado Republican nominated Frank C. Gouily for governor. Great Britain is preparing to have more troops in readiness for service in China. j Troops of I hustling for various winter nationalities are quarters at Tien Tsin. Portugal has authorized the depart ure of President Kruger from Lourenco Marques. Cuba had an orderly election, and closer relations with the United States are desired. All Alaska is infected with small pox and strict quarantine regulations are prescribed. Government is building railioad spur to secure direct delivery of rock to Columbia river jetty. Li Hung Chang sends memorial to the throne, advising the impeachment of several anti-foreign advisers. Roosevelt's letter aocepting the Re publican vice-presidential nomination discusses the financial question, trusts and "imperialism." The steamer City of Grand Rapids, built for the Yukon trade, was burned to the water's edge in the West Seattle harbor, causing a loss of $20,000. An official dispatch from Shanghai says a German naval battalion, uo companied by 40 Bengal lancers, oap tured and, burned the town of Liang September 11. Chinese regular troops occupying the place had previously fled. The German loss was one man killed and live wounded. Professor David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., has returned from a three months' trip through Japan, where he succeeded in securing the largest and most complete collection of Japanese fishes ever oh tained by scientists. Collections or descriptions were made of all but 15 known species, besides 125 species un known to science. . Boxers-are again active at Pekin. A gradual reduction of the Russian lorces in Pekin has begun. Other towns in Texas besides Gal veston are in need of assistance. General French has occupied Barber ton, capturing 100 Boers and some roll ing stock. The first thimbles were made in Hol land. They were brought to England in 1695. At Tacoma, Wash., the North Taco ma shingle mill was entirely destroyed by fire. Loss unknown. John Wilson, a pioneer merchant of Portland, Or., who began busines. there in 1850, is dead, aged 74. The exodus from Galveston grows in number as the facilities for getting away from the city are increased. At Eau Claire, Wis., seven men were drowned by the overturning of a boat while trying to cross the river at that place. Mexican thieves entered a saloon at Guthrie, Arizona, for the prupose of robbery and were compelled to kill two men and then escape. Three men were drowned and two gasoline launches sunk as a rseult of a collision between the small crtfft and a steamer at Stookton, Cal. - Another plague case has been re ported at Glasgow, making a total of 17. In addition there is one suspect and 115 persons under observation. Near"Nanaimo, B. C, two coal trains collide 1 on the center of a tres tle, killing four men and reducing one engine to scrap iron. Misplaced sig mils was the cause. The division of customs and insular affairs of the war department has given out for publication a statement of the rRrw intB of the Havana custom house for the month of August, 1900, show ing that the total receipts lorthe month were $991,926. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire--men convened at Des Moines adapted resolutions denouncing the governor of Idaho for maintaining- martial law in the Coeur d'Aleue district, the gov ernment for using the government troops and congress for making public the testimony taken at the investiga tinn hv the house committee last win ter. The Boer delegates, Messrs. Fisher, Wolmarans and Weasels, have ad dressed an appeal to all nations for in tervention in Sooth Africa. The ap peal concludes as follows: "In the name ot justice and humanity, we ap peal to all peoples to come to our aid in this supreme moment and save our nnt,o ' commit ourselves to God, tTustmg that our prayers be heard." will Teais are the diamonds of the fairies. The "missing link" has again been found, this time in Java, where Dr. Dubois has unearthed certain fossil re mains of such an interesting character that Prof. Haeckel, the celebrated Ger man biologist, has determined to go i.;nif mil invflsticate. Dr. I nnhm. ia firuilv of the opinion that the , to , Bpecif,g intermediate j the behest ape and prehistoric ; i MORE TROOPS READY British to Have Men Conve nient for China. SOLDIERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA Americana Ilttvo Kcgun Construction o Fvruiauont Telegraph Between Tleu Tain nd Pekin. London, Sept. 18. In accordance with the prediction of Sir Robert Hart that there will be further hostilitiei in China in November, the press uu drestands that the British government ia already considering the transfer of troops from South Africa to India in order to make it praoticab'e to send more British troops to China. The military authorities consider the win in South Africa so far ended that troops may now be safely moved. It is possible that the Russian lega tion has already been removed from Pekin to Tien Tsin, but there Is no definite news as yet as to whether Li Hung Chang will after all go to Pekin. General Dorward is going to the capi tal, leaving the British troops at Tien Tsin under command of Brigadier-General Campbell. Vice-Admirai Alex left has returned to Takn. The Americans have begun at Ho Si Wu a permanent telegraph line be tween Pekin and Tien Tsin. ; The Pekin correspondent of the Daily Mail says that the assassin of Baron von Ketteler has been shot. The Morning Post's representative at Pekin says that the question is being discussed of sending relief to a few British, French and American engi neers, who are besieged in a City 200 miles south of Pekin. Chinese officials estimate that 20,000 disbanded Chinese soldiers, by the simple expedient of turning their coats, managed to remain behind in Pekin. Other dispatches confirm the report that in addition to Hsn Tung, the guardian of the heir apparent, Yu Lu, viceroy of Chi Li, and Wang Yi Yung, president of the imperial academy, with 200 members of official families, oommitted suicide when the allies en tered Pekin. HUSTLED BY A MOB. Oblo Boxen" Forcibly Kxpel bowls Teacher. From the City. Mansfield, O., SerVs. 18, A mob to day drove Zion Elfler Ephriam Bas singer, of Bluffton, jlnd.f and two of Dowie's converts here out of the city, and thus broke the monotony of the usual routine followed for the past lour Sundays. " Elder Bassinger was in the oity yes terday, held several meetings without molestation, and had a number of con sultations with his attorney, A. A. Douglas. lie left last night, but re turned again today and was holding a meeting at the home of E. II. Lei by, when the officers went there and took him to the depot, followed by a jeering mob of several hundred. He was a target for apples, tobacco quids, mis siles and kicks, as he was escorted to the depot, and when he arrived there he was a pitiable sight? The passenger train was missed by about two min utes, and while they were waiting for the next train the mob went to the home of E. II. Leiby and took him'and Frank Calver, both .Zion followers, and marched them to the depot. When an express train arrived all three were put on it and hustled out of the city. CLUBBED TO DEATH. Brutal Murder of a Portland Saloon Keeper Motive Waa Robbery Portland, Or., Sept. 18. A brutal murder, followed by robbery, was com mitted at an early hour yesterday morning in a saloon on the southwest corner cf Fourteenth and Marshall streets, H R. Dickel. the proprietor of the place, being the victim. Although the tragedy occurred about 2 o'clock, nothing was known of it un til nearly 4, when Partolman Wheeler, on his regular rounds, was passing the premises. He noticed"that the saloon was lighted up, which was something unusual, and he proceeded to investi gate. On entering a little cardoom at the rear, he found the body of the murdered man in a corner, ' leaning against the wail, where the murderers had placed it after, riling the pockets and helping themselves to the contents of the safe, which it is thought amounted to over $256 New Iturllngton Line Opened. Denver, Colo., Sept. 18. The first train over the new branch of the Burl ington road from this city to Dead wood, S. D., left this city at 11:30 to night. The first train from the north will complete its journey of 455 miles at 11:30 tomorrow night. This new route to the Black Hills country is al most due north from Denver, the main line of the Burlington being left be hind at Brush, Colo. The road then leads across Eastern Colorado and Western Nebraska and into the Black Hills. . The Russian government is invest! gating the cost and probabilities of ouick delivery of 30,000,000 feet of lumber from Puget Sound to Ylaidvo stock. Three Keg-roet Lynched. St. Louis, Sept. 'It. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., says: A masked mob of be tween 60 and 100 men broke into the jail at Tunica, Miss., early today and took out three negroes, whom they strung op to a tree within 100 yards of the jail. Not a shot, was fired. Each negro bad committed a murder. The lynching is a climax of the intense feeling against desperate negroes which bas been brewing in the neigbboihood of Tunica for months. NATIVE TROOPS. Q belt Ion of Repine lug Volunteer Troop. With Fillpluu Soldier. Manila, Sept. 17. As the time ap proaches for the volunteers to loave these islands and return to the United States, in ordor that all may be mus tered out there by Jnue 80 next year, the question of how to replace the de parting troops has brought the matter of an armed native militia to general, notice. For more than a year there has been In the service of the United States a detachment of native Macabebe scouts, and their work lias in the main been satisfactory. It is argued that other native fighting organizations can be used with as good a result as the Maca bebes, especially if tho authorities take advantage of existing tribal hatreds and jealousies m selecting native sol diery to operate against the Tagals. In many of the village garrisons throughout the i8luu'iar,"rjative inhabit ants are being employed as a local po lice force to protect their own villages against depredation and attack from robbers and othor malefactors. These local police are in sotffo cases given firearms and uniforms, and they have at times done effective work to the limited field of action allowed them, namely the protection of their homes. They have also been used in operations against the insurgents, both in Luzon and in the Southern islands. In Leyte they did good work two months ago when they helped eight American sol diers repel a persistent insurgent attack upon their town, and two weeks ago, near Lipa, 20 native policemen went out alone against 40 insurgents, scat tered the enemy, killing one, and re turned proudly to their town with two of their number wounded. Those are the beginnings of what must eventually come to puss in the Philippines, namely the organization and use oi native soldiers to preserve order in the counrty. Just how these men will be organized and officered is not yet decided; but Major Allen, of the Forty-third regiment, on Samar island, has lately been given permis sion by General MacArthur to organize two companies of Visayans for uso against the insurgeuts, and Colonel Kenuon, of the Thirty-fifth regiment, now stationed in Cabanatuau in the Nueva. Ecja, province of Luzon, has been experimenting along the same lines with Ilocanos from tho northern portion of Luzon island. In December of last year, about 600 Ilocanos came to Colonel Kennon, at Cabanatuau, and asked to enlist under the American flag. Colonel Kenuon at once ouened negotiations with the corps headquarters in Manila in the matter, and Juue 1 he was granted per mission to enlist 50 Ilocanos as scouts. Durins this intrim of six months the 600 men were employed as far as pos sible as road builders, ration carriers and guides. The success of this first detachment in the service will pioba bly soon lead to the enlisntmeut of other Ilocanos tribesmen. THE WRECKED CITY. Galveston ! lowly itecoverlng; From the Terrible Blow, Galveston, Sept. 17. More than 2,000 dead bodies have been identified and the estimate of Mayor Jones that 5.0U0 souls perished in Saturday's hur ricane does not appear to be magni fied. The city is being patrolled by troops and a semblance of order is ap pearing. Though the city appears pitilessly desolate, the authorities of the com mercial and industrial interests are setting their forces to work, and a start has at least been made towJrd the re sumption of business on a moderate scale. ' The presence 6f troops has had a beneficial effect upon the criminal classes, and the fear of a brief, but desperate, reign of anarchy now no longer exists. The saloons have at least temporarily gone out of business, and every stroug-limbed man who has not his own abode to look after is be ing pressed into service, so that first of all the water service may be re sumed, the gutters flushed and the streets lighted. The further the ruins are dug into the greater becomes the increase in the list oi those who perished as their houses tumbled about their heads. On the lower beach yesterday a searching party found a score of corpses within a small area, going to show that the bul wark of debris that lies straight across the island conceals many more oodieg than have been accounted for. Fire at Port Huron. Port Huron, Mich., Sept. 17. Fire at noon today destroyed the entire plants owned by the McMorran Mill ing Company, the Port Huron & Northwestern Elevator Company and D. McMorran & Company. Tho loss will reach $225,000, covered by insur ance. One hundred and fifty thomand bushels of grain stored in the elevator were destroyed. Buffalo Butcher' Strike. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 17. Eight hundred butchers employed in the packing houses of the Jacob Dold Pack ing Company and Klinck,'s and Dana hay's packing houses are on a strike, owing to the refusal ot the Dolds to discharge two men who refused to pay their dues to their union. Dold claims to have 150 men at work today. Chinese Fund Confiscated. Pekin, Sept. 17. The Rosso-Chinese bank, which, as announced yesterday, closed here today, and removes to Shanghai, will confiscate, as part of the iudemnity to be paid to Russia, the imperial university fund of 5,000,000 taels deposited with it, against which the Chinese drew for the payment of their troops. Pittsbutg, Sept. 17. The Carnegie Steel Co. has given $10,000 to the Gal veston relief fund. STRUCK IN EARNEST Coal Miners Out in the thracite Region. An MITCHELL SAYS 112,000 QUIT No Violence Una Thus Far Keen He ported -Strike Kxleuda Over Large Territory. Ilazleton. Pa., Sept. 19. The grea. etruglge between., the anthracite coal miners of Pennsylvania and their em ployers war begun today. Each sido is confident of winning, and neither of the contending forces shows any dis position to yield. The contest thus far has been devoid of any violence. The exact number of mon who struck cannot at this tune be told. Reports received by the United Miueworkers officials from the entire anthracite re gion were to them most satisfactory. In this territory, known as district No. 7, there are 16,000 men employed in and about the mines. Of this number, it is conseravtively estimate. that about 50 per cent obeyed the order of President Mitchell to quit work. live thousand of these belong to the col lieries which did not work at all, and the remaining 8,000 to mines which work short-handed. The district south of this place, known as the South Side, was tied np completely with the exception of Coleraine, Beavei Meadow and Carson's Washeries. In this territory the United Mineworkers are very strong. On the north side, the Upper Lehigh, Minesville, Ebernle and Drifton No. 1 collieries, employ ing about 1,500, are shut down. The mines at Lattimer and Pond Creek, employing 1,200, are wroking full, but every other mine in that big territory is working with badly crippled forces. Three of the Markle mines,' over which there has been so much contention, worked all day with aobut 65 percent of the men. On the West Sido every colliery started up today minus its union men, except at the Hazle mines, where the union miners went to work in consequence of a misunderstanding. Ilazleton today presented an ani mated appearance, strikers from all the surrounding mining towns coming in early in the day and gathering in groups on the street corners and dis cussing the situation. It was a most orderly crowd. Around strike head quarters, at the Valley hotel, there was more or less of a crowd of men all day. President Mitchell, who arrived from the West last night, was kept busy all day and evening, receiving reports from every section of the region. Mes sengers bringing information to him from near-by points kept coming regu larly. Mr. Mitchell decided an important point today in the matter of arbitra tion. Last week the miners employed by G. B. Markle & Co. decided not to strike until the firm had passed upon a set of their own grievances, which differ somewhat from those of the Unit ed Mineworkers. The firm has an agreement with its men that if any differences fail of adjustment, then the grievances shall be arbitrated, John Markle, ol the firm, yesterday agreed to have Archbishop Ryan, of Philadel phia, arbitrate the differences, if the mediators already decided upon by tho firm and the men cannot oome to a satisfactory agreement. President Mitchell, however, stated today that he should ask the men employed by Markle to cease work. The men might gain concessions through arbitration he said, but it was now a case of secur ing a uniform settlement throughout the anthracite region. About 100 foreign-speaking miners left Ilazleton today, and will take a steamer for Europe. These men ex pect a long strike, and, rather than re main idle here, they preferred to go to their former homes. President Mitchell tonight gave out the following statement: "Information received np to tonight shows that 112,000 mineworkers uie on strike in the anthracite region. Of this number, 72,000 are in district No. 1; 80,000 in district No. 8, and 10,000 in district No. 7. Reports received are to the effect that a large number of those who went to the mines today will join in the suspension tomorrow. The number of men now out on strike ex ceeds that of any other industrial con test in the history of our country. Ttewrad For Atnerlenn Mead. Victoria, B.- C, Sept. 17. Among the advices brought by the Brecouslnre from China were stories of the arrest of Chinese with the heads of foreign sol diers in sacks. It seems that head monev of 50 taels is paid for each bead. This fact was brought to light by the discovery of the private papers 6f Vice roy Yu Ln, of Tien Tsin. In his day book there is an entry which reads: "Taels, 100, paid for the heads of two American marines killed in the ad vance for the relief of Tien Tsin. Taels, SO, for the two guns captured on the same occasion." More Plague In Glgow. Glasgow, Sept. 19. Five additional cases of bubonio plague have beeu re ported here, four of the stricken per sons being members of the same family. Prince of Saxony Killed. Dresden, Sept. 19. Prince Albert of Saxony was killed ln a carriage ac cident yesterday at Wolkau, a short distance from Dresden. He was born in 1859 and was unmairied. Kefuaed to Work. Bloomsberg, Pa.. Sept. 19. All effort to settle the difference between the Reading Iron Company, of Dan ville, and its employes having failed, the 600 men employed at the plant re fused to work this morning. AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Kockhlll Gael to Fekln Operations ol American Troop.. Tien Tsin, Sept. 18, via Shanghai, Sept. 19. William W. Rockhil', spe cial representative of the United States in China, has left for Pekin. In an interview before leaving, he said he did not expect to remain there more than a few days. Li Hung Chang is at Taku on a Rus sian vessel. It is not believed that he will come to Tien Tsin. Americana Fight With the Ho-or. Tien Tsin, Sept. 18, via Shanghai, Sept. 19. A British signal officer re ports a sharp engagement between a company of the Fourteenth United States infantry and 2,000 Boxers at Matow, on the road to Pekin. The Americans made a gallant stand, and a detachment of Bengal lanoers nearby, hearing the firing, came to their rescue and charged the Boxers in the rear. The Chinese were routed, leaving 200 dead. The Americans had no casual ties. The Germans report an engagement with a heavy force of Boxeis west of Pekin yesterday. The German low is said to have been 20. Indications now point strongly to the withdrawal of all the powers from Pekin to Tien Tsin. The Britiah have issued an order prohibiting the selling or renting of any building within the limits of the British concession. Gen eral Fukushima is here arranging win ter quarters for the Japanese troop.. The Germans are pouring into Tien Tsin, and all nationalities are scram bling for buildings. One British bat terv and 200 Australians have arrived. TtussUii. Push Into Manchuria. Tien Tsin, Sept. 18, via Shanghai, Sept. 19. The Russians, it is rumored here, are rapidly pushing through into Manchuria, where all indications point to extensive operations before the arri val of winter. They have suspended work on the railroad to Pekin, which adds to tho complications. It is be lieved that their objeot in this is to compel the other powers to oonscnt to the destruction of Pekin. The Tu Liu expedition has returned to Tien Tsin.- The march back was unopposed, and it is reported that the Boxers have retired in force to a vil ltge 80 miles up the Grand canal. The Americans did not participate in t'ho burning and looting of Tu Liu, and this caused considerable comment among the other commanders. The Sixth United States cavalry, it is rumored here, has been ordered to camp at Yang Tsum, up the Pel Ho, with a view of strengthening the line of communication. The regiment will take two heavy guns. Twelve thousand Germans arrived here. Corporal Hughes, of the Third Unit ed States artillery, was killed, and bis companion wounded, while trying to force a passage of the French bridge after dark. AGAINST COLUMBIA. Award of the French President on the Boundary Question. Washington, Sept. 19. The minis ter of Costa Rica at Washington, Sen or Calvo, has received a cablegram from the minister of Costa Rica at Paris, which conveys the information that the president of the French repub lic, M. Loubert, who was the arbitra tor appointed to deoide the boundary question between Costa Rica and Co lombia, by his award of yesterday, fixed the boundary limit between the two countries on the Atlantio side at Mona Point and on the Pacific side at Pnnta Barica. The republio of Colom bia claimed that the limit should be fixed at Cape Graelas Adios, on the At lantic, including the whole of Costa Rica and the Nicaraguan Atlantio coast, and that the limit on ths Paoifio side should be placed at Boruca river, to the northwest of Golfo Duloe, which would have given Colombia a right to half the territory of Costa Rica and about, two-thirds of that of Nicaragua. Costa Rica claimed the old limits be tween Central America and Colombia, placed at the Island of Escudo de Ver agua, on the Atlantic, and the river Chiriqui Viejo, on the Paoifio. The award fixes the boundary line on the Paoifio side at Punta Barica, as claim ed by Costa Rica, and on the Atlantio denies the right of Colombia to any pait of the territory of Nicaragua or any portion of that of Costa Rica be yond Mona Point. An Arizona Murder. Thoenix, Ariz., Sept. 19. Some time last night, Fermina Ochoa, a Mex ican woman, about 50 'years of age, . was murdered in a horrible manner at Yuma. Her body was found the fol lowing morning in front of the house where she had taken lodging the night before. Her skull had been fractured by a blow on the forehead and a piece of cloth torn into strips and twisted into a rope was tied around her throat so tightly as to produce strangulation. There was also a deep knife wound in the body. Captured Boer Gun. and Store. Cape Town, Sept. 18. The military authorities have taken over The Nether lands Railway. General MaoDonald. operating in the northeast corner oi Orange colony, compelled the Boers to make hasty flight from Vet river. He captured 81 guns, a quantity of cattle and stores, and 65,000 rounds of am munition. In the Hayiuarket Itlot. Chicago, Sept. 19. Police Lieuten ant Edward J. Steele died suddenly early today. Lieutenant Steele was the man who led the police np Des Plaines street to the scene of the Hay n,arket riot, his company being at the bead of the column that advanced to disperse the anarchists who were mak ing speeches. He was prostrated by the force of the bomb explosion and had one of bis wrists broken. Nine out of 24 of Ms company were severely injured. - ;. t