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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, AUGUST Chinese camp outride the south gate. The Chinese had behaved with propriety and the attack did not appear to be Justified. After two hours of fighting with UUle dam ns? on either ride the Russians retired. T7ie consul? at New-Chwang, Including the Kussian consul, protected, and received a verbal reply io the effect that the attack would not be repeated. Reports trcm lierlln say that Prince Henry. In behalf of Emperor "William, made the parting address bidding good-bye to the Fourth East Asian Regiment, which palled from Rrcmerhaver. In the direction of China yesterday. Thff French liar Xnt Moved. PARIS, Aug. 4. Telegrams from Admiral Courrejolles and the French consul at Tien-Tsin do not announce the beginning of the march on Peking, and do not even state It as Imminent. joined Tim iioxers. Imperial Troopa Deserted "When Earl L.I L.eft Canton Unaalan AdTlces. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 4. A dispatch from Shanghai, dated Aug. 2, received here to-day, says that after Li Hung Chang left Canton the imperial troops Joined the Boxers. The dispatch adds that the pro vincial troops along the Yang-Tse river re main quiet, owln to the promise of the viceroy of Nan-King to the foreign con ruls. Boxers, It Is further stated In this dlspatrh, are murdering missionaries In routh China, but are not disturbing treaty ports. Troops are being secretly brought to treaty ports. Batteries of the Yang Tse river, the dispatch Fays, are being re paired, and new ones are being erected at Vu-Sung, despite the declaration of the viceroy that the work would be stopped, five guns having been mounted. The dis patch accuses the British of a secret un derstanding with the viceroy in accounting for indifference of the British fleet to the strengthening of the Chinese fortifications at Wu-Sung. General Groedekoff has sent the following dispatch to the War Office from Khabar ovsk, dated Aug. 3: "Two columns from Blagovestchensk crossed over the Amur river at Z a. m. under Colonels Schwerin and ScherikinofT. attacked the Chinese troops and took the town of Bakalln, one run and a Quantity of Mauser cartridges. The steamer Sllenga suffered severely from rill fire. The Tranasetska detachment, un der Colonel Pfotenhauer, bombarded Algun with twelve motars and the Chinese re plied. One officer and Ave men were killed and fifteen men were wounded. Four ar mored steamers are patrolling the Amur." A telegram received here to-day from Engineer Offenberg. dated Kawg-Kumsig, Gaslmur, In the transbalkal province, Aug. 1. says: "In the retreat to the frontier the agents, workmen and guards were sur prised and bombarded by Chinese' in the fthlngan passes. Three guards and one workman were killed and twenty workmen fled to the mountains, none of whom has returned." Owing to the expenses in connection with events in China the Czar has ordered that the rates of eommiclal tariffs be raised, frubject, however, to the maintenance of the tariffs provided for In commercial treaties. PAID FOH FOItniGXERS' HEADS. Evidence Against the Viceroy "Who Rnled Tlen-Tsln. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Before the bom bardment of Tlen-Tsln prominent natives Urged the viceroy to put down the BoxerS, but the viceroy was in the latter's power end wired to LI Hung Chang for advice, says a Che-Foo special to the Herald. The latter advised crushing fhem at once, say ing that the Boxers had gained too much headway. The viceroy also had Instruc tions from the Empress to encourage the Uoxers attacks on foreigners. The Box- crs have released all the criminals, who have Joined them. Proofs have been dis covered that the viceroy o!Terel and paid a reward for heads of foreigners. A cage was found in his establishment especially made for foreign prisoners. Documents found In the viceroy's office at Tlen-Tsln five the names of the heads of the Boxers. Their numbers were said to be 20,000. The viceroy had recommended some for official appointment. Thore are copies of his re ports to the throne on the Tlen-Tsln fight ing. He asked for reinforcements and more puns. He recommended the retaking of the Taku forts, and on this appeared the Em press dowager's Indorsement, "Let the Taku forts be retaken." A private letter to the viceroy's secre tary Indicates that the Pao-Tlng-Fu mis sionaries have been killed. The viceroy Is at present In camp with General Ma six miles away. General Sung is at Yang-Tsung, twenty miles to the lorth. He has obstructed the river by slnk ng stone-laden Junks. The forces of Gen eral Ma and General Sung number about 15.000. They are short of food and ammuni tion. Another Oklahoma Cattle Frn ml.' KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 4. J. S. Scott, fin aged and prominent cattleman of Beaver courtfy, Oklahoma, has been ar rested for alleged fraudulent deals in cattle paper, the amount Involved being $23.000. The specific charge against Scott is that he mortgaged the same cattle twice. This case is an echo of the Swazey case of last week, and is distantly linked to it, as It is alleged that Scott negotiated his paper with the assistance of Swazey. ANOTHER "ROASTER." Pair Weather and ISo Change In the Superheated Atmosphere. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Ohio Generally fair on Sunday and Monday; warmer In northern portion on ßunday; light to fresh southerly winds. For Indiana and IllinoisGenerally fair cn Sunday and Monday; light to fresh southerly winds. Local Observations on Saturday. Bar. Ther. It. 1 1. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a-m..30.1S lo 87 N'east. Clear. 0 00 7 p.m. .20.10 S3 43 S'west. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 93; minimum tern terature. 72. Following Is a comparative statement of iao mean temperature ana total preclplta tlon for Aug. 4: Temp. Pre normal 73 Mean $2 DeDarture n 1 12 departure since Aug. 1 ic q "V A. . - 4S xepariure since Jan. l 147 3. 9 Plus. a F. R. WAPPENHAXS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Temperature. Stations. MIn. Max.7p. m. Chicago. Ill 72 94 90 Cairo. Jil 74 V2 b& Cheyenne. Wyo 52 52 6S Cincinnati, O 70 SS 81 Concordia. Kan 74 lüO st Davenport, la 74 Ij 92 Des Moines. Ia 70 92 S6 Kansas City, Mo 74 92 SS Little Rock. Ark 72 92 90 Memphis. Tenn 74 91 SS Nashville. Tenn 72 90 $ North riatte. Neb 70 92 KS Oklahoma. O. T ..70 S 12 Omaha. Neb .....71 90 8 Pittsburg. Pa Si 7S Rapid City. S. D C2 $6 $ Salt Lake City 64 S4 64 St. Louis, Mo 73 94 90 Springfield. Ill 72' 94 Springfield. Mo 72 92 S8 Vlcksburg. Miss 74 94 SS Three Death from the Heat. CHICAGO. Aug. 4. To-day broke the hot weather record for 1000. The mercury in the government thermometer in the Audi- torium tower crept up from 72 degrees In the morning to 54 degrees at 4 p. m. The mercury on the street level was at ieast 2 degrees higher. Three deaths and six prostration? were reported. The dead are: J. Mct'abe. Charles Gutperl and Mrs. Offnes usch. Intense Heat at St. rani. 0T. PAUL. Minn., Aug. 4. To-day closed the hottest week of the year, the maximum owi;iv belncr iu i!eCTffs. and two nthr 1av ttt tli wirk exreedinsr DJ dpirree. whil t h tntrnsc heat continud through all the other 3. xieiiex is xjronusca to-niorrow. THREE FATfllACCIDENTS YOl'XG 31 AX FKLL FROM A nitllHii: AXD WAS. KILLED. Farmer Shot III Drother at Hange Practice Von ng .Man Killed by Car 31 r. 31 lern on Expansion. Srecial to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON. Ind.. Aug. 4. Joseph Dun can, twenty years old, tell from the Evans- vllle & Terre Haute Railroad bridge at Patoka, four miles north of here, this aft ernoon, and was Instantly killed. The rail road company is building a new iron bridge across Patoka river, and Duncan was an employe in the construction. He was stand ing on the bridge, and, losing his tv.lance, fell backward, striking his head against an Iron beam below. He lived in this city, and leaves a widowed mother. Killed While Iteatlnff. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 4. An unknown man was killed by a Panhandle train near the Howard-Tipton county line early this morning. The body was brought here and Coroner Arnett identified the victim as Marion Ellis, son of Reuben Ellis, of Hem lock, this county. Young Ellis was sitting on a cattle guard when the train struck him. He had been working In an Elwood glass factory and was walking the track Irom Elwood to Hemlock. It is supposed he was asleep. A widow and one child sur vive. Accidentally Shot to Death. Fpclal to th Indianapolis Journal. BUTLER, Ind., Aug. 4. William Gllmore, an old and prominent farmer living north of this city, was accidentally shot and killed yesterday by his brother. The men were shooting at a mark. BLOWS HOT AXD COLD. Mr. allem Is for and Aicnlnst Expan sion nn Occasion Offers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., Aug. 4. Hon. P. R. Wadsworth, of Washington, the Republican candidate for Congress, and Robert W. Mlers, of Bloomtngton, the present mem ber" of Congress from the Second district, attended the reunion If the Eighty-fifth In diana Regiment in this city last week, and both gentlemen were on the programme for addresses. Mr. Miers, in his address to the veterans at the love feast at the People's Theater, came out especially strong for expansion, notwithstanding the fact that both candidates were supposed to make ponpartisan speeches". Pointing to the flag on the stage, Mr. Miers said: 'That flag is good enough for the American people, and Is good enough for the Philippines.' Continuing, he said: "Wherever that flag is run up it will never come down. These remarks, coming so unexpectedly strong from him, a Democratic candidate for Congress, struck the audience forcibly. and especially the old soldiers, who greeted the sentiments with shouts of approval. The sentiment expressed by Mr. Miers was like a powder flash among the Demo cratic leaders, and the principal conversa- tlon next day was: "Why, Miers is for ex pansion." As a result the Sullivan Times, in its edition yesterday, had an Interview with Mr. Miers, in which he utterly denied the plain English language he used In the address. He qualified his statement to mean "the spirit of the flag." He said: "I said that I hoped the spirit of the American flag would spread to these countries. By the spirit of the flag X mean the spirit of free dom, the desire for liberty and Justice which brought our flag Into existence, and for which It has always stood. This hedging will cost Miers hundreds of votes in the district. The old soldiers who cheered his utterances are now loudest in their denunciations. Scott County Republican. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Aug. 4. The Repub licans of Scott county met In delegate con vention at the courthouse In this place this afternoon and named a county ticket. Samuel B. Harrod was chosen chairman of the convention and W. M. Foster secre tary. The following ticket was nominated. each by acclamation: Sheriff, Thomas 11. Everltt, of Vienna township; treasurer. James Morris. Iexlngton; recorder, Carl Scott. Jennings: clerk. Emerson T. Vest, Johnson; surveyor, Edward Casey, Jen nings; assessor, Edward Rice, Johnson; commissioners, illlam H. Robbins, Lex ington, and Oliver Hazzard, Finley; Coun ty Council, William T. Hubbard, Samuel Middleton and James H. McCullough. The national and state platforms were unani mously indorsed. Greene Connty Democrats. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Aug. 4.The Demo crats of Greene county met in the opera house here to-day and nominated the fol lowing ticket: Representative, Cyrus E. Davis, of Bloomfleld; treasurer, Joe Moss, Linton; sheriff. Doc Wilson, Worthlngton; surveyor. J. D. Edward; assessor. A. J. O'Donnell; coroner. Dr. P. T. Ollphant; commissioners, J. D. Haseman and An drew Bucher. The meeting was addressed in the afternoon by John W. Kern, Dem ocratic candidate for Governor, and Rep resentative Miers. MORE GAl'GERS AT WORK. Increased Activity at Terre Hante Dis tilleries Market for Refuse. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 4. In the monthly changes of the gaugers and Etore- keepers of this internal revenue district Bledsoe, O'Laughlin, Weidel and Thomas, who were on duty in July, were not as signed. Hunt. Bolton, Williams, Wills, Cas- sady, Stewart and Haln, who have been Idle, were put to work. In the assignment the Merchants Independent plant here was given two more gaugers for August, and the Interstate independent plant at Vin- cennes one more, because of increased out put. A committee of the Whisky Trust was here to arrange for putting In a drying plant at the Majestic distillery. It will cost $30.000. There is a great deal of waste in feeding the slop in liquid state. The Merchants distillery, the Independent house, has been using the drying process and shipping the product to Germany, where there is a good market lor it. Kokomo to Have a Xctt Factory. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Aug: 4. As a result of the announced purpose of the National Glass Trust, of Pittsburg, to remove all its Indiana factories to new locations in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Kokomo will have a new glass factory in the place of the, one located at Greentown, this county, one of the five which the trust proposes to dismantle and take East. D. C. Jenkins, president of the Greentown company, prior to its absorption by te trust. Is ti the head of the new enterprise. He has been offered three locations in this city and will accent one of them. The plant will manu facture all kinds of tableware, including goblets, urns, platters, fruit sets and gen eral tableware, besides beer mugs of the kind to fit the new revenue tax law. The plant will employ people and it U the purpose of the promoters to build the plant here, whether the Greentown factory is moved East or not. Muncie' Wire Fence Works. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., Aug. 4.The work of re moving the Kltselman wire fence factory from Ridgeville to Muncie has been com pleted, and within a few days work will be commenced In the new plant of the com pany here. The machinery has about all been moved, and the office furniture ar rived to-day. The new factory 1 buildings her nuratcr three, ts.1 tit; ct:t:tmU:J ttro-storv brick buildings. The company will employ about 150 hamls. HAS 3IO JURISDICTION. County Conncll Cannot Control a Truant Officer A Xew Rnllnfr. FpecUl to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., Aug. 4. According to an opinion handed down by Judge Henry C. Fox, of the Wayne Circuit Court, to day, the County Council has no right to interfere with the law which controls the operations of the truant officers. The opinion was delivered in the case of Dr. William S. Dempsey, truant officer for Wayne county, against Alexander S. Reld, county auditor, to mandate the payment of a claim for 5126 for services. The County .Council appropriated $100 to pay the truant officer and when the claim for $0 extra came In the Council refused to allow it, th nreif1pnt f thp Council taking . the position that the services of such an of- ticer were really unnecessary, w nen me suit for mandamus was filed to-day, the fnnntv miflttnr filrl n ripmiirrer. allcclntT that the facts set forth did not Justify an alternative writ or manaate. ine coun overruled the demurrer and ordered a rermntnrv writ Issued for the Davment Of the claim of the truant officer. The court takes the position that tne truanrv law was Dassed Drlor to the county reform law, which created the County Council, and that the working of xne lormer is not suujeci 10 me iuiiei aim hence that the truant officer was entitled to his Dav notwithstanding the action of the County Council. ni'YIXG GAS IMIOPERTIES. Standard Said to Re In the Field for Some Yalnnble Holdings. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Aug. 4. The Indiana branch of the Ohio Oil Company (Standard) Is negotiating for the purchase of the ex tensive oil and gas holdings of the Ameri can Window-glass Company and the Amer ican Oil Company. The price to be paid is said to be close to $175,000. The glass com nanv holds some very fine property In the Alexandria district of Madison county. The property lately secured by the glass com pany from Antone Lutz Is In the deal, and the Peck farm is among the best leases in the field. It Is reported that J. C. McDowell, who lately secured the Marion gas plant for the Standard, is after the Fort Wayne and several other gas plants. Con sal Clnnccy nt-Anderson. Si ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. 'ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 4.-MIchael Clancey, United States consul at Bluefields, Nicaragua, arrived here last night from his post of duty, and will visit relatives at El wood, his former home, till the latter part of September. Consul Clancey was ap pointed under the Cleveland administration and this Is the first leave of absence he has taken in five years of official life. He describes life at Bluefields as anything but satisfactory. He thinks there are fortunes to be made by enterprising persons in min ing and the exportation of hard wood. There Is quite a colony of the Japanese and Chinese located In Bluefields, and a clash between the representatives of the Orient was expected any time when Mr. Clancey left for the United States. Celebrated Emancipation Day. Sreeial to the Indianapolis Journal. ROCK PORT, Ind., Aug. 4. A big Eman cipation day celebration was held to-day by the colored people of the First dis trict. Distinguished orators from Indiana and Kentucky addressed the assemblage, and delegations from many southern In diana towns were In attendance. Indiana Obituary. MtTNCIE. Ind.. .Aug. 4.Peter Ladd. colored, died yesterday at the home of his daughter on Beacon street, at the ase or ninety-six years. lie was born in North Carolina on Christmas day, li03. His father was a slave, but his mother was free, and he was free born and came to Indiana sixty-five years ago, walking the entire distance, and located In the colored settlement at Modoc. Wayne county, where he resided until a few years ago. He se cured 116 acres of land from the govern ment in Wayne county. In quest of work to make the payments on the land he walked to Wisconsin, a distance of 400 miles, passing through Chicago when the town had but a few small cottages. RICHMOND, Ind.. Aug. 4. J. H. Potts to-day received a dispatch from Baltimore, Md.. announcing the news of the death or his cousin, Capt. Isaac N. Potts, as the result of a railroad crossing accident about two weeks ago. He was long a resident of this city, having been engaged in both the drug and shoe business. He enlisted in the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment, which was raised here, and was made hospital steward of the regiment. He was atter ward commissioned and assigned to com missary duty, being on the staff of Gen. E. S. Bragg as well as with General Grant after the latter took charge of the Army of the Potomac. A widow and four chil dren survive. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Aug. 4.-Mrs. Ruth Bowman, aged elghty-slx, died here last night. Mrs. Bowman was born in North Carolina, and came with her parents to this county at an early age and became prominently identified with the early his tory of eastern Indiana. Her husband, who died several years ago, was the Rev. David Bowman, a prominent German Baptist minister. ' UNION CITY, Ind.. Aug. 4. W. O. King. a pioneer settler of this county, and one of the oldest Odd Fellows In this vicinity, died at his home near Deerfirld, to-day, aged seventy years. He was prominent in county affairs at one time and served as county commissioner. CULVER, Ind., Aug. 4. Mrs. Mary A. Seddon, mother of Mrs. A. F. Fleet, wife of the superintendent of Culver Military Academy, died suddenly this morning of heart failure. Her body was taken to night to Fredericksburg, Va., for inter ment. Indiana Noten. A celebration of Labor day is being planned by the Rlchmtmd labor unions, the molders, printers- and cigarmakers taking the lead. It Is the Intention to have var ious amusements and addresses. The cele bration will be held at Glen Miller, the city park. . W. T. Murray, assessor of Fayette county, took a couple of stalks of corn from his farm yesterday and exhibited It In the courthouse yard in Connersvllle. They measure a little over sixteen feet and a six-foot man cannot reach the first ear. Fayette countj' will have the finest corn crop in its history. PROBING A PLOT. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) the hall and settle the matter outside. Mal atesta. In a passion, was on the point of descending from the platform when Pazza- giia drew a revolver and shot him In the thigh. Brescl threw himself upon the would-be assassin and disarmed him. It was this act which won for Brescl the friendship of his leader, who looked upon him as the savior of his life, Malatesta himself being unarmed at the time. As soon as Malatesta recovered from his wound he continued his lecture tour, and was always accompanied by Brescl to guard him from further violence. It was well known, however, that Pazzaglla had re pented of his attack and promised never to repeat it. Before Malatesta'a departure fo London last April it had been determined that the society should strike a telling blow. But the opportune moment had not yet arrfved. Malatesta consulted with his fellow-conspirators abroad, and It was evidently agreed that the Italian monarch should be the victim. A cable was sent over from London. "The opportune moment has ar rived," funds were raised at once, and Brescl. Qulntavelle and Sassl were dis patched on their murderous errand. Girl Anarchist Loses Her Place. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Word was received from Paterson last nignt that Miss Er nestin Cravello, the girl Anarchist, had lost her place in the Paragon mills. When she failed to appear for work on Thursday at the mills it was seen that she had left a piece of silk on the loom unfinished. To do this Is violation of a rule, which Is al ways followed by dismissal. Miss Cra vello called at the mill on Friday to go back to her old loom, but was told she had lost her place. She said she had been kept busy for two days with her mall. The letters came from aU parts of the country. Come praise her, but acre denounce her In ctrcz Urns. WRECKED BY BURGHERS TRAIN OVER WHICH THE STARS AXD STRIPES WERE FLYING. Consul General Stovre Wa Aboard and Secnred Release of British Prisoners Captured by Doers. LONDON, Aug. 4.-Lord Roberta tele graphs to the War Office that General Hunter reports that 3,343 men have sur rendered to him altogether. General Hun ter also secured 2,040 horses and three guns. Lord Roberts adds that Gen. Ian Hamilton, continuing his movement to ward Rustenberg, engaged the Boers in the Magallesberg range Thursday. Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes and MaJ. G. A. Williams were among the fortj-one British wound ed. The Boers left two dead and several badly wounded. Thursday night a train was derailed and attacked twenty miles south of Kroon Etadt, four men being killed and three wounded. Lord Algernon Lennox and forty men were made prisoners, but were released at the request of the American consul general, who was on the train. A Boer force was attacked by General Knox near the railway north of Kroon stadt on Wednesday, Aug, 1, and left five wagons and a lot of cattle. A dispatch from Pretoria, dated Aug. 4, to a news agency here, says: "It is re ported that Gen. Christian De Wet is dead from a shell wound. The report has not been confirmed." Regarding the wrecking of the train a Bloemfontein dispatch says: "A train, on board of which was United States Consul Stowe, and over wlch was Hying the stars and stripes, has been derailed and burned at Honlgsprult, south of Kroonstadt, by a flying patrol of Boers. No prisoners were taken." The War Office has received a dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Pretoria, Aug. 4, which says: "Lord Algernon Lennox has been released by the Boers. Only two officers remain prisoners. Commandant Olivier has managed to escape to the hills in the vicinity of Bethelehem with 1,500 men. He has informed General Bruce Hamilton that he does not consider him self bound by General Prlnzloo's offer of surrender, and that his force Intends to continue the war. He has taken uo a position between Harrismith and the New market road. Lieutenant General Rundle is now following him. "Prisoners captured by General Ian Ham ilton say that only soft-nosed bullets are now served out to the Boers. Hence the wounds of our men are very serious. I am representing this matter and protesting to General Botha." Prisoners at Hunter's Camp. FOURIERSBURG, Aug. 4. There are 2,500 Boer prisoners at General Hunter's camp, and 1,500 prisoners and nine guns at Gen. Ian Hamilton' camp. There were about 5,000 in the Caledon valley originally, but some refused to acquiesce in General Prinzloo's surrender and slinDed away in the night. These have' now sent in, asking for terms of surrender. It will take some days to ascertain the exact number. The Boers, who excuse themselves for not fighting, say they are in a hopeless posi tion. The ravines were choked with wagons, which were placed In the most dangerous parts of the road, which were blocked for twenty miles. Slllltary Officer in Charge. LOURENZO MARQUES. Aug. 4. All of the customs officials and railway employes have been dismissed and replaced by mili tary officers. ON TO PEKING. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.! something is occurring at the eastern end of the great wall which will surprise the Chinese. There Is a firm military road from this point to Peking, over high and dry ground, and although the distance Is nearly twice that from Tlen-Tsln to Pe king, its physical advantages may make this route practically much shorter in point of time. It Is believed here that a strong Russian column either has been or will be landed at that point to converge on Peking simultaneously with the International col umn, and thus divide the Chinese oppos ing forces. SUPPLIES FOR TIIC ARMY. Enough, for a Six Montlm Campaign Are Heina; Hurried to China. ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Preparations being made by the War and Navy Depart- ments to facilitate the operations of the American forces In China, not only in the advance against Peking, but also for a winter campaign, indicate that the admin- istration, while hoping that a condition of avowed war may be avoided, intends to be prepared for it. In antlciptation of the northern part of the Gulf of Chl-Li freez ing in November, Quartermaster General Ludington is making a strenuous effort to land at least six months supplies at Taku. At this moment Nagasaki is the base of operations for the troops operating in China, but this base must be transferred to Taku, which can be reached by land. General Ludington Is arranging for . the transportation of 27,000 tons of fuel to Taku. Thousands of small campaign stoves have been sent to that point. Heavy win ter clothing, doors for tents, arctic shoes, etc., have also gone. The transports will. of course, be withdrawn before the gulf freezes, and any additional supplies sub sequently sent to the troops must go via Che-Foo, which connects by means of a highway with Taku. Brigadier General J. W. Weston, com missary general of subsistence, is also pre paring to dispatch six months supplies to Taku. The Hancock, which recently sailed for China, carrying 973 men and 26 of ficers, conveyed sixty days rations for these troops, and this supply will be greatly augmented. General eston has in con templation the simplification of the com missary supplies sent to Taku. He has called attention to the inadvisability of sending canned oysters, lobsters, mush rooms, peaches, pears, pineapples, two kinds of sardines, four kinds or pipes, etc.. to China, and if his wishes are carried out the supplies will pe limited to the whole some ration of the army witn a lew extras for sale to the officers and men desiring to purchase them. This is a list of the arti cles selected at random from that detail ing the supplies carried by the Hancock, the amounts being given in pounds: Bacon. 21.976 pounds: corned beef, canned. 2,064; flour, 1S.8ÜT; hard bread. 2S.641; beans, loose and packed in cans. 5,430; rice, 06; bominy, 464; potatoes, fresh. 7,651; potatoes, desic cated, 1,750;' potatoes sliced, I.TjO; onions, 2.010: milk, canned. 7.S20; macarino, 1,620; sugar, 5.151; butter. 1.050; green corn, in cans. 4.600: tomatoes, canned, 1Z.J5Ö. in ad dition to these articles there were apples. apricots, cheese, chocolate, prunes, pre serves. Jellies, olives, pickles, etc. General Weston holds that In view of the difficulties in the way of prompt transportation it is entirely inadvisable to send so many arti cles which are of course sold to officers and men, and he favors limiting the number of articles as much as nossinle. Surgeon General Sternburg is sending as manv sureeons as mav be neecea to L-nina, and is placing both medical supplies and money at their disposal. AS VIEWED DV BISHOP MOORE. The Chlnecie War Simply a PlovfJnff of the Field for the.Goapel. CHICAGO. Aug. 4.-Bishop David H. Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. who is on his way to Shanghai. China, to take charge of missionary Interests in China, Korea and Japan, is making a short visit In this city with his son. Prof. E. H. Moore, head of the department of mathe matics In the University of Chicago. The bishop will leave Chicago on ilonday or end T7li zzll Crcn Can Vzzz'-zzi on the Japanese eteamcr Hong-Kong- Maru on Aug. 2D. "This Chinese war." Bishop Moore said. "is simply a plowing of the field for the gospel. The conservatism of China must give way to the expansive forces of mod ern ideas. My first and most urgent work in China will be to reorganize the work of the missionaries. At present the L mis sionaries of the church are so scattered that they themselves do not know exactly what 13 going on." The bishop further explained the situa tion of the missionaries in China as fol lows: "The annual missionary conference was adjourned at Peking the very day the disturbance broke out. Some of the mis sionaries in attendance got away on the last train. Others. I think seven in alH are in the Imperial city. The last I heard they had gone into the Asbury Church, a strong brick buttressed structure in the mission ary compound. Dr. George E. Lowrey, a medical missionary, was in charge. They had the windows barricaded except for loopnoies, had big jars of rice and water. and were ready for siege. About two hun dred altogether were In the church, count ing the women and children, and they had a guard of ten American marines, ten English marines and twenty men mission aries. They could withstand in that church fortress anything excent well- directed artillery fire. Whether they have since gone to the English legations we do not know. "The West China mission, the center of a so-called missionary conference, 1,600 miles up the Yang-Tse, Is completely cut off. We have not heard from Spencer lewis, or this mission, nor any one there for some time. He is one of the most courageous missionaries in China. With him are men who have often been, hunted by the mobs seeking 'foreign devils.' They have been concealed by the native con verts. The fidelity of those native converts Is remarkable. Halngua, another mission. is cut on also." MINISTER CONGER'S MESSAGE. The Original Cipher Text Indicates that It Was Genuine. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. The 'Department of State authorizes the following state ment In relation to the probable date of the first telegram from Mr. Conger, to which, in transmitting it through Sheng, at Shanghai, and Minister Wu, the Tsung Ll Yamen assigned the date of 18: "The DeDartment of State Is in posses sion of the original cipher text of the en tire message as received by Minister Wu on July 20- and communicated hv him tn Secretary Hay on the morning of that day. I.Is partly in the Chinese cipher code and y njr in ma i. u& 111c uuueu Oiaies. JLI1U two texts were separatedjDy several groups not intelligible in either einher. As de ciphered on July 20 the Conger message appeared to begin with the words 'In Brit ish legation under continued .shot and sneii,' etc. With the aid of the full text as telegraphed from Che-Foo from Consul Fowler and already given to the press, tho doubtful errouDs. which were distorted in telegraphic transmission, have now been corrected and found to read: P or one month we have been besieced' which intelligibly completes the sentence, matung me telegram reaa: "Jb or one month we have been besieged in British legation under continued shot and shell from Chi nese troops. Quick relief can only prevent general massacre. Conger.' As it is known that the various lega tions and foreigners tncAc hpltor In the British legation about June 17, the date of Air. monger s telegram is fixed with ap proximate certainty as July 17. This agrees with Consul Fowler's cabled message that the original message, as written on a reg ular telegram form and signed 'Conger Is supplemented by the words, 'F. H. Con ger, July 17, address United States lega tion.' written on the same form, hut evi dently not transmitted. The fact that me autnentic text of the original message, as received in Washington on July 20, agrees literally with Consul FnwWs re port Of the WordlntT of the nrlnal fnrm wruien Dy Aimister conger and bearing me me aaie 01 juiy 17, appears to estab lish the genuineness of the its date beyond doubt. , 9 NO CIPHER MESSAGES. Chinese Give an Excuse That Fifthtlng I Golncr on at Tlen-Tnln. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The State De partment this morning issued the follow ing: "Minister Wu this morning handed to the acting secretary of state a copy of a tele gram from the taotai of Shanghai, dated Aug. 2 and received by Mr. Wu on the evening of the Sd. It confirms the message of Yuan Shih Kai, Governor of Shan-Tung, to Mr. Fowler, consul at Che-Foo, purport ing to communicate the same teleerram of July 3 from the Tsung LI Yamen, but It is to oe noted tnat it contains a passage omitted from Governor Yuan's message namely, the announcement that as fighting is going on in Tlen-Tsln It is inexpedient to send cipher telegrams to the foreign ministers in Peking. In this particular the present telegram agrees with Consul Gen eral Goodnow's report, received yesterday. tnat .kari l.i itung Chang had told the French consul at Shanghai, on the 3d, that no messages would be delivered to the min isters because the foreigners were advanc ing on Peking. The Tsung LI Yamen's ca blegram of July 30 Is as follows: 'Foreign . ministers in Peking are all safe and well. Recently vegetables, fruit and provisions have been repeatedly sup plied to them. Relations most friendly. At present consultations are going on for the protection of the various ministers going to Tie,n-Tsln for temporary shelter, wnicn win soon be concluded satisfactorily. But as fighting is going on in Tien-Tsin it is inexpedient that cipher telegrams should be sent. The different consuls have been notified so that they may Inform their respective governments. Please inform the Foreign Office. Besides writing to other ministers, I transmit the above to you. " 'YU LIEN YUEN.' " Minister Wu has gone to Cane May to spend a day or two with his family. HAWAIIAN CHINESE EXCITED. They Threaten the Life of Their Con sul at Honolulu. HONOLULU, July 27, via San Francisco. Aug. 4. The news from China has stirred the Chinese here to the depths. Yesterday Yang Wal Pin, the Chinese consul, made an appeal to the government for personal protection, saying that he had received anonymous letters threatening his life. He accuses the Bow Wong Wul, or Chinese Reform . Society, of having made the threats. The Bow Wongs are the element opposed to the Empress dowager and de sirous of having a liberal pro-foreign policy in the empire. They formed their societies here under the leadership of Leung Chi Tso, the exiled reformer, and the consul here sent to Calna tne names of those who became members. As a result the relatives of the Honolulu Bow Wongs were cast into prison In" China, and feeling against the consul runs high. One of the letters that frightened Yang Wal Pin referred to his action in sending the names of Bow Wongs to .the imperial government and told him that he would be killed for doing so. The consul and vice consul. Go Kim, have made purchases of weapons, organized a guard at the Chinese legation and secured the protection of the Honolulu police. Two officers are kept constantly at the legation. How to Address Mall. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. The War De partment desires it to be known that mail Intended for the United States soldiers In China should be addressed with the full name of the soldier, his company and regi ment, with the words "China, via San Francisco." In the case of staff officers or civilians of the army the same means "China, via San Francisco" should . be employed. All the regular China mall routes in that section having been suspend ed, the government has been obliged to de vise a service of its own. using the army transports as far as possible. A postal agent stationed at Nagasaki will make the first distribution of these mails, and an other agent at Taku will care for the de tails. These agents have started for China and will be In position to handle any malls written after this date. Another Message , from Conger. NEW YORK. Aug. i. A message from Minister Conger In Peking, dated July 23, has arrived at Che-Foo, says a dispatch to the Herald. United States Minister Con gtr says they have provisions and can hold out for six days. Food In Peking Is crrow- h.g scarce. It Is reported that the cessa tion of the attacks on-the foreigners was by order of an imperial decree. All the Peking and Sung-Chow Americans, also the Walkers. Chapins, Cmlths. WyckofTs. Ho- bart Terry and ilaciay ere cafe in Petlrr All tha x.lziizn rrcr-rt7 tt trta C OIVIvY A. FEW For You to Take Advantase of OtfrGasI Clearing Sale Honest, Straightforward Reductions in all Departments MEN'S UNDERWEAR, i 5HII?T HOSIERY, ! NECKWEAR, HATS CAPS, Get In now bf fore It is too late This Is last notice; we cannot afford to advertise it. GBRRITT A. ARCHIBALD 38 East Washington St. O; Great Factory Extraordinary, selling" of high - of George E. Hatch & Co., Boston, MVTV'MAKERTO i? Not a lot of broken sizes, undesirable, out-of-style stuff, all new goods, regular sizes and up-to-date styles. Ladies' Factory-Damaged Oxfords EÄ-Tr.!. AU KinüS OI Snoes in Same proporuun. oatama iui wvci uuuy. XJUll l miss tue lutaiiuu. MANUFACTORS' SHOE CO. 342-348 Massachusetts Avenue Enterprise Hotel Building JACK BOLEN STABBED A CIXC1XXATI PRIZEFIGHTER WAS BADLY 1IANDLF.D. He Fouerht rltl George Mann and ainy Lose Ills Life Taken to the HoHpltal. Jack Bolen, the Cincinnati prize fighter, who spends a great deal of his time In this city and at Walters's saloon on West Washington street, was stabbed Ave times In the back last night by George Munn, who made his escape and was not found by the police up to an early hour this morn ing. Little could be learned of the beginning of the fight, which started in the barroom. The men got together out In front, and Bolen got Munn down. Munn had a knife or other sharp instrument, which he used while he was on his back. Bolen cried that he was being stabbed, and some one pulled him off Munn, who Jumped up and disap peared. Dr. Cotter, of the City Dispensary, was called and bound up Bolen's wounds, after which he was taken to St. Vincent's Hos pital. He was very weak from loss of blood, and it was thought his injuries were perhaps fatal. Bolen said Munn was drunk and wanted to fight. Emil Glasser, of 519 West Market street, who was in the crowd and was connected with the fight, was ar rested and charged with assault and bat tery. Cablegrams from India. Frank H. Levering, chairman of the local India relief committee, has received the following cablegram sent by William II. Fee, chairman of the Americo-Indlan be lief committee, Bombay, through L. T. Chamberland, chairman of the executive committee: "To the Indianapolis commit tee of one hundred on India famine relief In behalf of India's famine sufferers we thank you for your generous part in pro viding relief funds. Distress Is undimin ished and will certainly continue for many months." The following cablegram was received by the New York committee of one hundred on India famine relief from Chairman Fee: "Rainfall favorable over whole of famine area, but Immediate distress unabated. Great 'suffering not only for food but also for blankets and clothing and aid to im poverished peasant farmers. Money Is specially needed for care of famished, desti tute children." S3IART" BUT ILL-BRED. Bad Manners as Exhibited by the Typical American Girl of To-Day. Mrs. A. J. Maren, in August Century. It seems a trifle' unjust to the clever and well-bred American girl to dwell upon a familiar type so much en evidence as to overshadow all the others and pass every where as representative, but it is a ques tion of tendencies. This typical girl of the day puts on mannish airs with man nish clothes, spices her talk with slang. not always of the choicest, tosses her pret ty head in proud defiance as she puts down her parents, her elders, and her superiors indeed, she admits no superiors, though this scion of eauallty does admit In feriors and snubs them .without mercy pronounces a final opinion on subjects of which she does not know even the alpha bet, shows neither respect for white hairs nor consideration for favors which she claims as a right, and calls all this "swell," or "smart," and ä proper expression of her fashionable, or unfashionable, inde pendence. The same spirit runs through the entire social gamut. There Is nothing more con tagious than bad mannars; it is so easy for the selfish Instincts to come uppermost when the pressure of a law, written or unwritten. Is removed. The insolence of servants Is sufficiently emphasized. Even the shop-girl waits uon you with half disguised Impertinence, often Imperti nence without any disguise, and replies to your civil word with a lofty stare, as much as to say, "Since you are polite to me you cannot be of much consequence." The causes are not far to seek. A potent one Is the rush and hurry of life In whicn everybody Is Intent upon doing the most In the Jeast possible time. There is no leisure for small courtesies. It is a heterogeneous scramble for the loaves and fishes, in which the survival of the fittest resolves itself into a survival of the strongest. It Is something akin to brute force that gains the prl2e, whether it' be a seat in the car or a seat in Congress. Indeed.' we claim, as a part of our national glory, the trait so well expressed by the word "push." It makes little difference what one pushes so long as It stands In the way. Men In the garb of gentlemen do not scruple to thrust aside delicate women who happen to be moving before them in the procession. Well-dressed women run over one another. It U the same spirit applied to the minor morals as -that which prompts the Wall ctreet magnate to walk over his weaker rival, and the laboring man who has or ganized in the name of freedom and human hrothfrhocd to crush cut cf existence, if he can, his pocrer nei-rtcra who hav not I -ths rr'.rit tf ir.tir.rt:vc. thcuh scme- ' ' f V. - . . . 4 LP I ! I MORE DAYS ! In fact, all Men's Furnishing andnatscjt t I I t na 4 KAOl !j iu J J FOR CASH grade shoes. The surplus stock bought at an immense reduction. YOV" m m See the Biff Sign be crudely clear or hidden under sorre high-sounding name. Nor is the fact with out its significance that women, who .ire natural arbiters of manners as well as con servators of morals, have been driven by necessity Into the hustling crowd. It is an alternative between struggling fcr a foot hold in the world or sinking; and .uoces- nine times out of ten. Is the triumj-h of aggression. This in itself is fatal to the self-effacement rwhich is so strong an ele ment of good breeding, and tend towar ! a radical change in the habits and tradi tions of womanhood, which must react more or less upon society. By "society woman" I do not mean the tj'pe that first presents itself, the brilliant compound of style, daring and Pari? go ns, whose life begins and ends with entt rain ing and being entertained, who puts the fashion of a handshake, the porcelain and cutglass of the dinner table, and the co.n of an equipage above the simple graces and fine breeding which betray the chnle life of generations, or the inborn taste ar.4 nobility that ask nothing from inheritance. I mean something that compares with It as the rare old lace compares with th machine-made imitation, as the rich and mellow ones of. the cathedral window. which the light of centuries has tempered and softened, compare with the crude and garish coloring of its modern copy. There are society women upon whom the mantle of the old-time lady has fallen, throuph nature or heritage, whose social gifts are the sum of many gifts, the crown of many womanly virtues. One finds them every where, women who cherish the fine amen ities, who are gracious. Intelligent, tact ful, kind, and active in all gpod works, who understand the art of kgant liv ing, as well as the Intrinsic value of things, and like to open their hospitable h ni. 3 for tho pleasure of their friends. It is such as these who represent the linest flower of our womanhood and help to pre serve the traditions of gentle manners, which are in the way of being tramplod out in the mad march of something we call progress. It is for these to ostracize vul garity, to put up the delicate barriers which have been permitted to be let down between the pleasant comradeship of rr.n and women, and the loud note of famil iarity, to temper and the sordid spirit of commercialism with the refinements of that higher class of Intellect which sets things not only as ther are, but as th.jr ought to be. Lone Lines. Philadelphia Record. Some women are naturally tall, some become so by , well-chosen physical exer cises, ajid some have tallness, or the ai pearance of it, thrust upon them by a a ingenious tailor or dressmaker. To this end, and no other, does the modiste device long panels, long triangles of lace ujon the dress: to this end does she lay the folds of the skirt In long pleats; and for the same reason she devises the Ions scarf or boa with "stole ends." which nach from the throat to the hem of the fkirt. To be tall is to be smart, nowadays. Changes In CoIIck Fornltj. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Aug. S.-Rev. L. Z. Gilmer, pastor of the First M. E. Church at Pana, has been elected president f Uedding College, Abingdon, 111.. ar.J Charles G. Simpson, of Mt. Vernon. U.. professor of mathematics. Dr. Gilrvr was formerly connected with the colli ge. IDE uOBVIUNnilLC VKtf eures 111 mutes women stronö Gtchvomen well. A Surplus Sale f