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YilHILL COUNIT REPORTER. LAI tR NEWS. PROCLAMATION TO Issued by the Foreign Admirals at Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, will not Taku. tun for governor of Illinois. London, June 25.—The admiralty Prohibitionists, in national conven has received the following dispatcu OREGON. tion assembled at Chicago, say they Thirty-five People Instant from Rear-Admiral Bruce: M c M innville I will poll 390,000 votes. “Taku, June 25.—No communica ly Killed. W. H. Wade, an expert billiard tion from the commander-in-chief in player, and by many considered the seven days or from Tien Tsin in five best bank shot iu America, is dead at TRAIN RAN INTO A WASH-OUT days. The allies hold the Taku forts Chicago. and Tong Ku securely, and they will advance to the relief of Tien Tain when Martin J. Rnssell, one of the proprie tors of the Chicago Chronicle, died at Wreck Caught Fire and Kntlre Train in sufficient strtngth. Troops are ex pected from Hong Kong tomorrow and With the Ksreptlon of the £leeper, Mackinac Island from a complication 800 from Wei Hai Wei the following Wa. Destroyed. of diseases. day. It ia believed that fighting is con There were 10,377 deaths from chol stantly proceeding around Tien Tsin. Hunter’s advance column occupied era out of 15,479 cases during the week Atlanta, Ga., June 26.—A passenger Our garrison there should be about Krugersdorp without opjiosition on ending June 16, in the province of train on the Macon branch of the 8,000 men. Bombay, India. Southern railway ran into a wash out June 18. “The following proclamation was Oregon’s vote, officially canvassed, one and a half miles north of Mc agreed to this morning, to be issued Admiral Schley’s squadron, which has been in quarantine at Montevideo, on the equal suffrage amendment was Donough last night, and was complete forthwith: as follows: for equal suffrage, 26,265; ly wrecked. The wreck caught fire has been released. “ ‘The admirals and senior naval offi | and the entire train, with the excep- cers of the allied powers in China de A Russian admiral was in com against 28,402. . tion of the sleeper, was destroyed. The United States district judge at I Every person on the train, except the sire to make known to all viceroys and mand of the fleet that bombarded and St. Louis has issued a restraining order occupants of the Pullman car,¡perished. authorities along the coasts and in the destroyed the forts at Taku. cities aud provinces of China that they Railway and telegraphic communi to prevent interference with the run Not a member of the train crew escap intend to use armed force only against cation between Cape Town and Pre- ning of street-cars. ed. Thirty-live people in all were the Boxers and people that oppose them General Wheeler says the war iu the killed. toira is now completely restored. on their march to Pekin for the resoue I The train left Macon at 7:10, and of their fellow countrymen.’ ” Thieves cracked the safe of the Gam- Philippines is practically ended. A force can easily be spared from the is was due in Atlanta at 9:40 last night. brinus brewery, in Portland, Or,, and The date that the above dispatch was McDonough station was reached on sent off from Taku is not given, but it escaped with between $600 and $700 in land for work in China. A hot wave is prevalent in North time. At this point connection is its probably June 19 cash. Dakota, ('rope are in a parched con made for Columbus, Ga., aud every Several dispatches from Shanghai A young man named Robert Jackson, dition. The thermometer at Grand night the Columbus train is coupled continue to recount wholesale slaughter of Riddle, Or., accidentally shot him Forks registered 104 in the shade. on and hauled through to Atlanta. at Pekin. The soldiers and Boxers are self while deer hunting. He was in Last night, however, for the first time Affairs in Cuba are now so tranquil in many months, the Columbus train said to be massacring each other, aud stantly killed. the Chinese manchus are also reported that soldiers are no longer needed. By the death of David D. Wells, son The troops will be withdrawn aud sent was reported two hours late, on ac to be engaged in the slaughter. Prince count of a wash out on that branch, of the late David A. Wells, of Norwich, to Manila to relieve the volunteers. Tuan is alleged to have sacked and and the Macon train started on to <k>nn., Harvard University is richer burned the palace. The emperor is re The Yaqui Indians have nearly all Atlanta without its Columbus connec by about $37,000. ported to have been killed, the dowager abandoned the warpath. Several hun tion. empress is represented as missing, and After July 1 the office of Indian dred are still hidden in the mountains Tremendous rains, of daily occur agent at Warm Springs, Or., will be I and make an occasional descent on iso rence for the past two weeks, have in some quarters it is believed she has committed suicide. All this purports dispensed with, at which time Agent I lated ranches. swollen all streams in this part of the to have been contaiued iu a letter from James L. Cowan will be dropped. The secretary of the navy has author South and several wash outs have been Pekin received bv a high official Chi Hawaiians have met in convention ized the following names for the new reported on the different roads. Camps naman at Shanghai, where it is hoped at Honolulu and have formed an inde battle-ships and ciuisers: battle-ships, creek, which runs into the Ocmulgee, the desperate struggle between the pendent political party. They have Virginia and Rhode Island; armored was over its bank and its waters had leaders and the dowager empiess will already begun the fight for statehood. cruisers, Maryland, Colorado ami South spread to all the lowlands through preveut the sects coiubiuiug against the Dakota; protected cruisers, St. Louis, which it runs. About a mile and a Europeans. The statue of Washington presented Milwaukee and Charleston. half north of McDonough the creek | to the city of Paris by the Daughters comes somewhere near the Southern’s PEACE WITH TAGALS. A strike has occurred among the la of the Americen Revolution has arrived tracks, aud, running alongside of it for borers employed by the Havana Elec in Paris. The pedestal has already some distance, finally passes away Filipino Leader« at Manila Agree Upon been prepared, and the unveiling will tric Company, Cubans and Spanish, on undet the road by a heavy stone cul Terms. the ground that they do not receive the vert. A cloudburst broke over that take place July 8. Manila, June 25. —Two hundred Fil same wages as Americans who do sim section of the country about 6 o’clock ipinos met this morning in Manila to Uniform wages of $2 for nine hours’ ilar work. The contractors reply that work a day is demanded by the line last night, and presumably shortly determine honorable and decorous I Americans are worth far more than after dark washed out a section of the methods for securing peace. The re men working for the Canadian Paciflo Cubans. Telegraph Company, the Great North track nearly 100 feet iu length. suits were submitted tins evening to It is officially announced that Arch Into this the swiftly moving train General MacArthur, who accepted west Telegraph Company, the Canada- Atlantic, the Bell Telephone Company. duke Francis Ferdinand, the Austrian plunged. The storm was still raging them. The leaders of the meeting will Over 200 men have quit work owing heir-apparent, will formally renounce and all the car windows were closed. use their influence to induce Aguinaldo to the refusal of the companies to ac the right of succession to the imperial The passengers, secure as they thought, to accept the arrangements. If they throne. He will wed the Countess and sheltered comfortably from the in are supccessful, as they hope to be, cede to their demands. Assistant Secretary Taylor has ten Sophie Choteck, his morganatic mar clement weather, went to death with they believe Aguinaldo will issue or The train, ders in conjunction with the American dered a decision adverse to the appeal riage being the reason for which he out an instant’s warning. consisting of baggage car, a second- authorities for the cessation of hostili of James Fitz.harris aud Joseph Mullet, will withdraw fiom the succession. Americans and Russians fought side class coach, first-class coach and a ties. from the decision of the immigration Pullman sleeper, was knocked into The meeting which was the first of -officials at New York, who held them by side at Tien Tsin. for deportation on the ground that, I I Five children perished by the burn kindling wood by the fall. The wreck the kind since the days of the Filipino having been convicted of felony in con ing of a house at Solomonville, Arizona. caught fire in a few minutes after the congress, was composed of the distinct fall, and all the coaches were burned revolutionHry element, the Americanist nection with the murder of Lord Cav Men from the U. S. S. Monocacy except the Pullman car. Every person being lacking. Thirty political prison endish and Thomas Henry Brice, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1882, they have been sent from Chee Foo to Tien on that train except the occupants of ers were released from jail this morn the Pullman ear, perished in the dis ing in order to attend. Senor l’ateruo cannot be permitted to land in thia Tsin. Brigham II. Roberts, found guilty aster. There was no escape, as the presided and Senor Buencamino, the country under our immigration laws. heavy Pullman car weighted down the originator of the movement; Senor Two thousand stand of arms have of unlawful cohabitation at Salt Lake, others, and the few alive in the sleeper Flores, General Pio de* Pilar, General been given up by the Boers at Pretoria. was fined $150. Charles Mefford, a maniac, of f Cedar were unable to render assistance to Garcia, General Macabnlos, and other The battle-ship Oregon aud 5,000 their fellow passengers. prominent revolutionists were present. i American troops will go to Taku at Rapids, Iowa, slew a whole family, It was pointed out that the questions then killed himself. once. to be considered were military and MACARTHUR ’ S REPLY. Four miners lost their lives by an civil, the military concerned with a American ships took no part in the lionibardment and seizure of the Chi explosiou in the Champion mine, H« Grants tlie Filipinos Nearly All cessation of hostilités, and the civil Champion, Mich. with the determination of the political nese forts at Taku. They Ask For. Cologne, Germany, was visited by a status of the Filipinos, The iinmed- A special session of congress may be Manila, June 26 —General Mat 1 iate object of the meeting was to effect called. The situation iu the far East cyclone, which demolished many build ings and threw down a number of Arthur has given a formal answer to peace, and consequently the leaders seems to demand it. factory buildings. the Filipino leaders who last Thursday conld consult with the civil commis Three of the foats at Taku were com Eight people were killed outright submitted to him peace proposals that sion as to political matters. It was pletely destroyed by the bomlraidment and 54 severely injured by a collision had been apptoved earlier in the day evident that Senor I’aterno was con from foreign ships, and the British ves- between a freight and excursion train by a meeting of representative insurg vinced that he could obtain Aguinal- •clacaptured four Chinese torpedo boats. uear Green Bay, Wis. ents. In his reply he assured them do’s sanction to a peace based upon the that all personal rights under the following seven clauses, which, after Mrs. Beveridge, wife of United States Frank Gilomre, a white man, of United States constitution excepting four hours, were unanimously accepted Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, died iu New Orleans, was lynched by a mob trial by jury and the right to bear as compatible with an honorable peace: a sanitarium Ht Dansville, N. Y„ of for the criminal assault and brutal arms would be guaranteed them. First—Amnesty. heart failure, Sh*. had been ill several murder of a 60-year-old woman. “ The promoters of the peace movement Second—The return by the Ameri mouths. A detachment of 40 Americana were are now engaged in reconstructing the cans to tne Filipinos of confiscated Half of the business portion of the caught iu ambush by Filipinos on the draft of the seven clauses submitted to property. city of Blooimngton. III., including island of Minuanao, with the result General MacArthur in such a way as Third—Employment of revolutionary five a<|iiarea of the finest business blocks that nine were killed and 11 wounded. to render it acceptable to both sides. generals in the navy and militia when of the city and the court house, were The seventh clause, providing for established. Five men were killed by a cyclone destroyed by tire, with losses estimated Fourth—The application of the Fili which visited No Man’s Land, Okla the expulsion of the friars, General at $1,00*,000. I homa. The storm swept the country MacArthur rejected on the ground that pino revenues to succor needy Filipino Negotiations for a commercial treaty for 60 miles. Thousands of cattle the settlement of this question rests soldiers. with France have been satisfactorily Fifth—A guarantee to the Filipinos were stampeded and many killed and with the commission headed by Judge concluded by the Brasilian minister of Taft. of the exercise of personal rights ac I injured. foreign affairs at Rio Janeiro. France That portion of the Forty-third in corded to Americans by their constitu Joseph Mullet and James Fitzharris, fantry which formerly garrisoned the will grant a reduction of 20 per ceut tion. the Irishmen, who served sentences in island of Samar will proceed to the on the duty on Brazilian coffee. Sixth—Establishment of civil gov an English prison for complicity iu the island of Leyte, giving the garrison ernments at Manila and in the prov The Pacific Oil Works Company war Phoenix park murders, and who ar there the needed reinforcements. The inces. incorporated at Tacoma. Wash., with rived at New York, May 27 last, have battalion of the Twenty-ninth infantry a capital of $250,000, to Imre for oil is Seventh—Expulsion of the friars. which was sent yesterday to Samar a gulch, almost iu the heart of the beeu deport*!. The statement of the seventh provis An order from Adjutant-General will act as the garrison there. city. Sample oil from outcropping in ion was vociferously acclaimed, the entire assembly shouting, “expel, ex- dicate rich deposit. Work will be Corbin has been received at the Pre Tlie Ashantee Rebellion. sidio, San Francisco, dirvetiug that the prosecuted at once. pel.” Prahsu, June 26.—Sufficient sup Yellow Fever in Cuba. A dispatch from Lord Roberts seut troops of the Sixth cavalry shall be re Havana, June 25.—The unusally from Pretoria, June 16, gives au off! iaf cruited to their full war strength. In plies have at last treen collected and version of an attack on a British | k st view of the fact that this organization the final advance to open communica heavy rains that have been falling at Zand river, June 16, by 800 Bone, was ordeied recently to proceed to tion with Knmassi is reaily. On the throughout Cuba have caused yellow with three guns. It says that Gainrat Manila and the’ordiu to recruit to the road from Ashantee to Kwahou are fever in places where it has been un Kuox, with a mixed force, drove off the limit was sent some time later, the three villages w here are garrisoned known for years. Fortunately, except Boers, who left four dead and four pris opinion ia expressed that the regiment tome 7,000 fighting men. who have at Santa Clara and Quemados, the oners on the field. The British loss is to be sent to China instead of the practiced the rites of Fetish worship United States troops have escaped. At The recruits will be aud pledged themselves to help the Quemados two cases are reported, was Major Seymour and two meu killed Philippines. ■elected from those now at the Presidio. A ah an tees. among the members of General Lees and nine wounded. staff—Major Kean, chief snrgeon, and Ninety persons were killed and 372 The Freuch government will have Kooarvtlt to McKinley, Captain Hepburn, signal officer. Cap 4,200 troops at Taku when the rein wounded in the re cut conflict between Washington, June 25.—The follow tain Hepburn's case is serious, but forcements just ordered have arrived the troops and tenants in the Varna ing is the text of Governor Roosevelt's Major Kean's is light. Mrs. Edmunds, there. They will reach Taku before district, Bulgaria. A state of siege haa message to President McKinley: wife of the late Major Frank Edmunds, June 30. The dispatch of a cruise» been proclaimed in the districts of ia convalescent. She has not yet been "New York, June 25. — Hon. Wil \ arna, Shmala. Tlruova, Rasnrand, upon, division, which was decided will give France a strong naval force, Rustchuk and V «tovats. The govern liam McKinley. Washington. D. C.: I told of her husband’s death. Havana consisting of seven modern cruisers— ment is anxious to limit the numlrer appreciate greatly your congratula has developed only three cases thus far. three of the first-class and four of the of newspa|>ers, aud has issued string- tions, aud am proud to be associated in spite of the gloomy prediction of what would occur as soon as the rainy seco ml class—(our gunboats ami a dis eut regulations as to tte qualifications with you on the ticket. season, from which thejcity did not suf which must Ire possessed by the editors. patch l>oat. ••THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” fer last year, was really at hand. D. I. AIBUar, EXCURSION VICEROYS Bv the death of Thomas E. Miaco in New York six theaters and a large fortune are left to his 15 year-old daughter Edna, his sole heir. A monument to Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick has beeu «er up at his birth place, Cornwall. Qonu., and It was dedicated on Memorial day. Birmingham. Ala., June 26.—lleav» rains the past few days have done heavy damage. It has rained every day this month in this section, the to tal rainfall since the first o* April liv ing 24.92 inches. Reports from the farming districts are that the fields have been so soaked with water that the farmers have been unable pi do any Berlin postal authorities estimate work for several weeks, and grass is that no fewer than 160,'XJO postal cards running away with the crops Cotton without any addresses at H]| arv mailed baa vtiffered more than any other crop, in the German empire aiuiy year. while fruit and vegetables are rotting I I Minister Drowned While Bathing. Sonoma, Cal., June 95.—The Rev. F. B. Bartlet, pastor of the Episcopal church of St. Mary the Virgin, of San Francisco, has been accidently drowned, while bathing, in Sonoma creek. Captain Georfe Towle Dead. I New York June 25.—The death is announced In London of Capta .it» George F. Towle, U. 8. A., retired, aged 65 years ACCIDENT. Eight Killed Outright, One Missing and 54 Severely Injured. Publisher. The tobacco trust has established a virtual boycott on independent dealen doing business in New England. Htatistice of the criminal population of the United States shows that only an per cent of the total number of criminals are women. The Montreal Star claims it has evi dence that the Clan-na-Gael planned the Welland canal explosion as a re prisal on Canada for sending troops U I houth Afrioa. TRAIN A Thousand British Join the Allied Forces. PREPARATIONS FOR ASSAULT Foreign Officials at Shanghai Relieve the Worst Han Happened to the Le- gationn at Pekin, Green Bay, Wis., June 27.—A north bound passenger train on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, loaded with excursionists bound for the Saengrefest in this city, collided at 10:15 thia morning with a freight train at Depere, five miles south of here. Eight persous were killed and 54 were injured. The accident happened just as th« passenger train was pulling into the station. A double header freight »4.4 backing into a side track, hut had not cleared the main track. Those injured were nearly all in the second coach. When ths two trains came together the first car, which was a combination car, was driven through the second coach, where the loss of life occurred. None of the trainmen were injured, the engine crew jumping iu time to save themselves. Both engines were badly damaged and two coaches were broken into kindling wood. Of the injured 30 are in a serious condition, and several may not recover. The excursion train was made up at Fond du Lac and was packed with peo ple from that city, Oshkosh and Neenah. The first two coaches of the passenger train were telescoped and demolished, few of the passengers escaping injury. Some were killed outright, others went terribly mangled. Others were badly crushed and maimed—all hemmed in amid the debris of the wrecked car. Passengers poured out of the ¡rear coaches, and it was but a moment be fore hundreds of willing workers were busy extracting the unfortunates. Some of the injured were barely alive when they were taken out ami died be fore they could be removed. The bodies of Charles Miersa, of Osh kosh, and Edward Koske, of Fond du Lac, were terribly crushed, and eould scarcely be recognized. The cause of the accident, so far as has been determined at this time, was due to the freight crew failing to give the passenger the right of way. Late tonight 19 other injured, mak ing a total of 53 hurt, were found at different houses in the nighborhood, where they had been taken by friemts. Of these the injuries generally consist ed of bruises and dislocations. British London, June 27.—The firuiser Terrible has arrived at Cbe Foe from Taku, with the latest news, which is as follows: “Eight hundred sikh and 200 Welh fusiliers have effected a junction with the American, German and Russian forces which had been eut off by tin Chinese about nine miles from Tien Tsin. It was proposed to deliver au assault unon the Chinese forces at Tieu Tsin last night.” “Foreign official opinions here,” says a dispatch fiom Shanghai to the Daily Express, dated yesterday, “in cline to the belie! that the woist has happened to the legations at Pekin and to Admiral Seymour. Even if the legations were safe Jnne 14, there is no guarantee that they are safe now. The situation, in fact, glows more and more gloomy. The entire absence of reliable news from the capital seems to justify the worst construction which can be put upon it. “Bad news conies from Yan Kung, where the unrest is said to be growing hourly. Viceroy Liu Kin Yih has tele graphed the British authorities that he has ordered the five Chinese cruisers, which have been lying off the harbor there, to proceed to Nankin.’’ “General Ma’s armv,” says a corre I spondent at Shan Hai Kan, “consist ing of 45,000 men, left a week ago for Pekin, and General Sung Ching’s troops, numbering 2,500, left for the same place June 15. __ “A careful estimate of the number and armament of the Chinese troops around Pekin puts the total at 360,000, and it is calculated that these troops possess 227 centimeter Creusot guns, 18 Krupps and 150 Maxims. Their MADMAN SLEW A FAMILY. supply of ammunition is practically in exhaustible. It has been mainly sup plied by a German firm at Carlwitz.” He Then Got a Revolver and Ended Hi» Own Existence. Another Shanghai dispatch says: Cedar Rapids, Ia., June 27.—Charles “Li Ping Heng, ex-governor of Shan Tung, who is intensely snti-foreign, j Mefford. a maniac, today killed James has gone to the Kiang Yin forts, on the ■ Fitzsimmons, fatally injured Joseph Yangtse. He has declared his inten Drake, seriously and possibly fatally tion of resisting the landing of British i injured Mrs. James Fitzsimmons, slightly injured Mies Kate Fitzsim- forces in that region.” Extensive preparations by the allies ! mons, and then ended his own life. Mefford, who is 27 years old, cam» are going forward. The first regiment of British India’s 10.000 meu embarked here from an asylum two years ago, Late at Calcutta yesterday, and 833 more and had never been returned. marines received orders to go out from Saturday he became wild, and darted English ports. The British war office, i out of his home, a raving maniac. Thu in anticipation of a prolonged cam police tried unsuccessfully to find him. paign, is contracting for winter cloth : Shortly before 5 o’clock this morning, | Regniald Andrews, the janitor at th« ing and fur caps. The Amur army corps, ordered out Old Ladies’ Home, was awakened by The next moment by Russia, numbers 52,100 men, with , crashing glass. 84 guns. Japan purposes to land 15,- I Mefford stood before him, stark naked, 000 men on Chinese territory within a »winging a neekyoke. ‘‘I have murdered a whole family fortnight. Among the minor military preparations, the Portuguese governor tonight, and I am going to kill you of Macao, island of Macao, at the next and then everybody ;i> the home.” southwest entrance of Canton river, is j declared Mefford. With this he at sending arms to the Portuguese con tempted to brain Andrews. The latter cession. The Germans in Hong Kong choked him into submission. Rushing have cabled Emperor William to ask if through the house, Andrews locked th» they may serve in the local forces in old ladies in their rooms, notified tha defense of Hong Kong. A million police, and ran across the street to the rounds left Hong Kong yesterday for home of James Drake lor assistance. Taku by the British steamer Hailong. As Andrews and Drake emerged a few The Shanghai correspondent of the minutes later, Mefford, carrying an ax. Times sends the following under yes- was seen to plunge through a window in the home of James Fitzsimmons ticday’s date: “A military correspondent at Taku near by. As he entered the room, says the operations of the allies are Mrs. Fitzsimmons uttered a scream, suffering from want of a recognized Mefford swung the ax and brought it head, defective organization aud the down toward her head. Her uplifted arm saved her life; the arm was broken lack of transport.” in two places, and she suffered a seri- A RESTRAINING ORDER. •us scalp wound. Mr. Fitzsimmons rushed into th» St. Louis Strikers Must Not Interfere room and grappled with the maniac. With Mail Cars. Mefford shook him off and split his St. Louis, June 27.—Judge Elmer »kull with a blow of the ax. Then B. Adams, of the United States district court, today granted a ternpoi ary in dashing up stairs, Mefford attacked junction in the case of NV. D. Mahon Miss Kate Fitzsimmons, inflicting a uumber of severe scalp wounds. and all members of Division No. 1311 When Mefford came down stairs be of the Amalgamated Association of encountered Drake, struck him on the Street Railway Employes of America, restraining them from interfering iu head with the ax, and, taking Drake's After any way with the running of mail ears revolver, ran out of the house. over the lines of the St. Louis Transit running several blocks he put a bullet Company. None of the defendants into his left breast, just below the Running on two or three were present. They were represented heart. by W. S. Anthony, while District At blocks farther he sat down on the curh- torney Hitchcock and Rosiere acted itone. Placing the revolver to the center ot his forehead he fired again. for the government. In summing up the contents of the He continued to wave the revolver affidavits presented, Mr. Anthony de l xbove his head. But just as the first clared that it was not shown that any officer grabbed the revolver from be of the defendants name.I had been hind. Mefford fell over into the gutter dead. guilty of lawlessness. ‘‘On the con trary,” he added, "the strike leaders Mrs. A. P. Lowrie, a Presbyterian and all tha members if the Street Rail missionary, who has been stationed at way Men’s Uaion have counselled law Pao Ting Fu for the last six years, and awl order. The Transit Company is who has arrived at San Francisco, re not responsible, perhaps, for the un ports that on the night of May 16 many settled conditions which existed. It native Christians, principally womeu is the union meu who have been made and children, were murdered by the to suffer and Lear the brunt of all the Boxers while fleeing from Pao Ting Fu disturbances. The president of the toward Tien Tain. union, Mr. Patterson, is dying in the Pekin Legations Not Injured. hospital as toe result of being stabbed Brussels, June 23.—The Petit Bien by au assassin ” »fates that a telegram was received The London. England, Times says: yesterday by an important Brusels firm “England, with 500 years of license, from China, saying that Admiral Sev- ia the worst liquor cursed nation in the mour’s relieving force and the Russian world.” column entered Pekin simultaneously. The legations were reported intact, and California Wheat for Pera. Lima, Peru, via Galveston, June 27. •11 the Belgian residents are said to be _ An excellent impression has been safe. The Taqnls Again Aggressive. made by the announcement that in ad Ortiz, Mexico, Jone 26.—General dition .o the 50,000 tons of California wheat which has just arrived at Cal Torres has divided hie forces into tw<> lao. au equal quantity is on the way to parte and proposes to march against a ■ew stronghold of the Yaquis, located Peru. »bout 50 miles north of Torin. One army of 2,500 men is on the east side Manitoba Crop« Failed. Winnipeg. Manitoba. June 27.—Of of the Yaqui river, and theother army, 1,800,000 acres of wheat, 1,000,000 numbering about 3,000 men. is on the acres will never be cut. Rains can west side. The Indians have become aggressive again. not no* change a stunted crop.