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AUARESARACnN
International Arms Rescue Ad'
miral Seymour.
WERE BESIEGED FOR MANY DAYS
MihIc Manful Defense Aalint Chinese
Horde Hemmed In On Krery
8ldo Short of Frovlslons
When ItollOTOlla
A London, .Tunc "0, dispatch says the
casualties of the International force
attacking Tlcn Tsln were: Americans
killed 3, wounded 2: British hilled S,
wounded 1: Germans killed 15; wounded
27; Russians hilled 10, wounded 37.
The gun lire of the Americans and
llrltlsh Is described as something
"beautiful."
After the relieving force pushed on
to relieve Admiral Seymour, Chinese
regulars under (ient'ral Nleh, says a
dispatch from Shanghai, again attach
ed Tien 'JMn fiercely and bombarded
the foreign settlement with n terrllle
lire. Colonel Dorward, Hritlsh, com
manded the column that relieved Ad
miral Seymour. American marines par
ticipated In the achievement.
The admiral was found entrenched
and surrounded by immense masses of
Chinese who were driven off by the re
lieving column after a brisk fijht. Ills
men had made it brilliant resistance,
never falling In courage for llf teen days
of continuous fighting. During ten
days the men were on quarter rations.
PASSENGERS WERE ROBBED
RELIEF PARTY IN TIEN TSIN
MlulMors mill Prkln 1'nrty, However, Not
With Them.
The navy department has lecclved
the following cablegram from Admiral
ICemptV,
"Che Foo, .In no 2D. Secretary of the
navy: Pokln lelief expedition now in
Tien Tsln with 20 sick and wounded.
Ministers ami Pokln party not with
them. No news fiom thorn.
"Kkmitk."
The department has also advised
that Admiral lieuiey, on the llrooklyn,
had arrived at llong Kong en route to
Taku.
A London,.! tine 30 dispatch says: The
adventures of the hard lighting allies
under Admiral Seymour, their reach
ing Anting, twelve miles from Pelt In,
the decision to retreat, the capture of
rice and Immense stores of modern
arms and ammunition, u Hording ma
terial for a strenuous defense until re
lievedall this is told In a long dis
patch from Admiral Seymour received
Friday.
A Washington dispatch says: The
president is quitting Washington for
his Canton home tonight full of confi
dence that the situation in China has
Improved, though It Is fair to say that
all the members of his official family
do not agree with him in ihat conclu
sion. Indeed, today's news, limited
though It was to a single cablegram
frotr Admiral KcmpfT, and the prepa
ration of Instructions to (leneral Chaf
fee set out nothing calculated to
strengthen the hopes of the friends of
the foreign ministers and missionaries
who have now been silent for fully two
weeks.
TERRIBLE DISASTER
Holocaust at New York Stca nv
ship Landing.
TWO HUNDRED LIVES ARE LOST
Fire Breaks Out in Cotton and
Spreads Rapidly to Ships.
ALL EffORTS TO RESCUE ARE fUTILE.
Heat so Intcine rt to Drive the Tur
Awny !. In HiirnliiR of l'ler mill
(Steamers Not Less Than Ten
Million Dollars Act of
Heroism it ml Cow-
rtnllcii.
llubbt-r Umm Through Slceilnc Cur
On No. 41.
A lone highwayman went through
the Portland and Dead wood sleeping
cars on train No. 41, ut 1:10 Thursday
morning and dropped off the train one
mile west of Ilradshaw, making his
escape in the darkness. From verified
reports it seems that he secured about
lSfl. He got on the train at York, It
Is believed, presenting a ticket to Au
rora, lie eutercd the chair car and
feat there for a few moments. He
then went out on the platform, dis
guised his face with a mask and went
into the sleeping cars.
Finding Sleeping Car Conductors
Landaucr and Cooper he o -dcrcd them
at the point of a gun to proceed ahead
of him, while he commanded passen
gers In the berths to donate their
money. The conductors awakened the
sleeping passengers while the robber
took their pocketbooks. So far as
known he took no jewelry, seeming
well satisfied to iret the money He
did not shoot any but threatened to.
The list of losses is as follows:
K. P. MoMullen, Spokane, S.-.3; F. M.
Woodbridge. Harrison, Mo., S00; X.
Sobdalo (ifddress not given) SO; .1.
Evors and wife, known as Miss Isa
bella Henderson, (an actress) of He
lena, Mont., 835; N. W. Sherry, Oma
ha. SI; Conductor I.amluucr, S3.
The company has men and dogs on
the track of the lobber, and no effort
will be spared to effect a capture.
WASHINGTON MAN HANGED
llrnjmnln Hill Sncll llxcrutcd for Mur
der of Young .ill rl.
Iienjiunin HillSnell, forty-four years
of age, formerly a clerk In the pension
ofllce, was hanged at the district jail
at Washington, I). C, for the murder
of thirteen-year-old LIz.le Wlesberger,
who was employed at his home and
with whom ho was infatuated. Snell
was the largest man ever executed at
that place. When ho was received at
the jail August 7 last he weighed 290
pounds and measured six feet six
inches in height. When led to tho
scaffold his weight was 237 pounds.
iNotvvitnstatuting ttiat tlie tlrop was
considerably lessened on account of his
size the rope nearly severed the mur
derer's head.
WILL WORK IN OPPOSITION
Striken at St. I.ouls to Kxtend 'IJus
Line System.
The work of establishing 'bus lines
by the St. Louis street car strikers to
compete with the St. Louis traulst
company in carrying passengers is pro
gressing. The committee that has tho
matter in charge reports that 53,000
has been raised for that purpose, and
that twenty-two vehicles are now reg
ularly running. It Is tho intention to
divide the city into districts and estab
lish regular lines that will give tho
public ample service to any portion of
the city. An appeal will be made to
the public to assist in establishing
theso lines.
WOOLLEY NOMINATED
for
OREGON GOES. ASHORE
Nearly 200 lines were lost, almost
$10,000,000 worth of property was de
stroyed, many persons were injured,
and at least 1,500 lives were Imperiled
by a fire that started among cotton
bales under pier 3 of the North German
Lloyd Steamship rompany In Hoboken,
N. J., at 4 o'clock p. m. Saturday In
less than fifteen minutes the flames
covered an area of a quarter of a mile
lomr. cxtendiuir outward fium tho ac
tual shore line to the bulkheads, from
COO to 1,000 feet away, and had caught
four great ocean liners and a do.en or
more small harbor craft lit Its grasp.
From what has been learned later
the flames started among a large pile
of cotton. bale on pier 2 of the North
German Lloyd Steamship company,
and spread with lemaihablo rapidity.
There was panic on board the various
ships, and many jumped overboard and
perished.
The scene of the great fire pre
sented a spectacular, but horrible
sight. Over In Hoboken, where two
days ago piers reached hundreds of
feet out into the river and rising in
the air like great hills, alive with go
ing and incoming commerce, n great
waste of burning and smoldering
beams, with here and there a remnant
of a high brick vtall, are all that re
mains of the hundreds of thousands of
dollars' worth of property.
Up the North river at Weehawken
a great column of smoke rose and
tumbled, at one moment lying on tho
water, the next rising just enough to
show the skeletons ot two of the great
ocean liners, the llrcman and Main,
that rose like giant spires out of the
smooth surface of the water. They
had both been beached here. Around
them swarmed a fleet of small boats,
carrying spectators. Far down the
river, off Ellis island, lay tho smoking
and steaming hulk of the Saalo. She
is almost a total wreck.
The losses sustained in the fire are
comparatively placed at nearly ten
million dollars. The loss of life, while
merely guesswork will ptobably reach
200, and there are over 300 men in tho
hospitals In New York, Hoboken aud
Jersey City badly burned.
GOULDJEWELRY RECOVERED
Arrested hj Detective hllsl "I t'onry
Island.
A largo i, 'antlfy of jewels, allied
at about SJi'UMO. which was leeently
stolen from the apartments of Mr. and
Mis. Kilvvln Gould In London, have
been lecovcred and tho man In whose
possession the jewels wore found Is
under arrest. The prisoner describes
himself as Charles W Hlalr, twenty
eight years old and a valet by occupa
tion. ' Hlalr was at rested at Coney Isl
and, where he had been to witness a
prhe tight, lie tried to dispose of
some jewelry theio and attracted the
attention of detectives. Tho prisoner
was ui-mlgncil anil rciuumi?ii io jaii.
Ho positively denies that lie stole the
jewels, but says that they wore given
to him by a woman who asked him to
dispone of them for her.
TWELVE MONTHS IN JAIL
Trunk !. Simmon Sentenced In United
Ntatc Court.
An Omaha, Nob., .Inly special says:
Frank (1. Simmons, the ombo..Hng
postmaster of Seward, was sentenced
to pay a tine of llfty dollars and costs
and to twelve mouths' imprisonment
in the jail of Dodge futility l tho
United States court. The crime for
which Simmons was sentenced was the
umhczlngnf S.I.Oir.' ,IS of tho funds of
the Seward postollleo. !lo pleaded
guilty early In tho term of tho eourt.
In passing sentence the judge re
ferred to tho previous high standing
of the prisoner, the esteem in which
ho had been held by tho iiconlo of tho
comuiiitv In which he resided and tho
confidence which they had in his hon
esty and integrity. lie stated that
neither tho government or the bonds
men hail lost any money by reason of
tho ombe.lement, as the prisoner and
his fi-ion Is had made up the shortage.
MAY CHANGE SEAT OF SEE
fur Chnthollc
SINISTER REPORTS
Last News From Pckin Shows
Peril of Legations,
ALLIES NOT ADVANCING TO RELIEF
tho
Prohibitionist Nmno tho Orator
President On First Ilnllnt.
A Chicago, .Tunc '.'8 dispatch says:
The prohibition national convention
adjourned sine die today after having
placed in nomination for president
John G. Woolley of Illinois and for
vice president, Henry II. Mctealf, of
Rhode Island. The nominations In
each Instance were made on tho llrst
ballot. Only two candidates for presi
dential nominations were balloted for
Mr. Woolley and Rov. Silas C. Swallow
of Pennsylvania Hale Johnson of Il
linois withdrawing his name at the
last moment and throwing his strength
rjt to Mr. Woolley.
Fate Still a Mystery.
Tho fate, of the members of the for
eign legations in I'ekin Is still a mys
tery. If they aro alive and unharmed
tho Chinese government deserves some
credit, Shanghai correspondents think,
for restraining the fanatical mob. Tho
Shanghai correspondent of the London
Dally Telegraph says:
"It Is reported on good Chinese au
thority, that the government, alarmed
by the foreign military preparations,
has Issued an edict ordering the per
emptory suppression of the boxers and
announcing 'a decision to protect tho
legations a all hazards."
Hues for Alleged Hlunder.
At Madison, Neb., Herbert Kaufman
began suit for slander In tho district
court against J. A. Parker and Fred
Nenow. The parties to the suit were
until recently employes of a Norfolk
" creamery and It Is alleged that a story
was circulated by defendants that
plaintiff had appropriated property of
another, thereby causing him to loso
his place.
BitnilungKetl ami Itobbeil,
Union Pacific Flagman Aaron Cuo
was sandbagged and -robbed of a 820
watch and S3 In cash in tho 'western
part of Columbus, Neb., while en routt
home.
Osceola Han Killed In Oklahoma.
A telegram has been received at Os
ceola by tho pare'nts of Will Dense,
paying that he had been accidentally
shot and killed at Cordell, in Oklahoma.
Mr. Henso was a Polk county boy and
a year afro went from live to Okla
homa and got a farm of his own. Ho
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F, Rense,
residents of Oscola, and leaves bo
sides his parents, a. wife and onochlld.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Tho IJoer envoys havo sailed fer Europe.
lllB llottleshlp Lose Hearings on
Chinese Shore.
It is reported at Shanghai that tho
United States battleship Oregon is
ashore on tho island of IIoo Kic, in the
Mlao Tao group, fifty miles north of
Che Foo, and that a steamer of tho
Iudo-China Steam Navigation company
has gone to her assistance.
FATAL FIRE AT PITTSBURG
FEAR AN INDIAN UPRISING
anil
Ono Man Killed, Mnny Injured
Much Property llurued.
One fireman was killed and eleven
other firemen Injured and nearly S100,
000 worth of property was destroyed
in a lire that broke out in tho machino
shop of the Hcst Manufacturing com
pany, on Twenty-fifth street, Pitts
burg, Pa.
Find an Unknown Unity.
A body, the last of the unidentified
from the McDonough wreck Is at an
undertaking establishment in Atlanta,
Ga. When It reached Atlanta It was
marked "Elder W. II, Jensen of tho
Mormon church in Utah," but nobody
claimed it. A Mormon elder said the
bod' might be that Elder lienuison of
f:iuittunooga
. Founders Itejoct Demand.
- At a meeting of the National Found
ers' association at Cleveland, O., 'it lias
been decided to reject absolutely tho
demand of the moulders for an advance
of 25 cents per day in wages. As a re
stilt of the action of the founders a
strike, involving several thousand men,
seems likely to be inaugurated.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Those In tho Ilnlny I.uko KegUm Act
Threateningly.
A special from Rat Portage, Out.,
says: There is a threatened uprising
of Indians on the Rainy rivr, Ontario.
One thousand Indians are gathered
near the mouth of Rainy river. Leach
Lake Indians are said to be among
them, inciting them to murder and
pillage the settlers, who arc sending
out their women nnd children.
Ono hundred and fifty have reached
Rat Portage on the Kclnora. The In
dians arc also gathering at Rainy
Lake, the largest and most secret gath
ering ever known. Indian agents say
they know of no grievance. Great
alarm is felt by tho settlers.
A Duluth, Minn., telegram says:
Company A, Third regiment, M. N.
G., left under orders from Governor
Lind to proceed to the scene of the In
dian uprising in tho Rainy lake region.
The company will be in command of
CapUiln Eva and will consist of forty
flvo picked men.
MANILA COLLEGE OPENED
Non-Sectarian for Primary nnil Second
ary Education.
A Manila dispatch says: Tho
fori Dodge an Aspirant
lllshnprlc.
A Washington dispatch says: Advices
are oxpectetl at the papal legation
soon concerning the petition which n
contingent of Iowa Catholics recently
brought here for transmission to the
pope and which Archbishop Martinelll
forwarded Its object is to secure ino
elevation of Fort Dodge, whore the pe
titioners resided, to a blshoprle.lnstcad
of Sioux City, as tho authorities in
Rome contemplated. The petition was
.brought hero during tho absence of
Archbishop Martinelll In Oregon, which
caused a little delay in its transmission
to the pope, before whom It must come
for final settlement after tho authori
ties of tho propaganda examine It.
NO NEWS FROM THE OREGON
Now Department Without Further Ail-li-e
on OrouiulliiK
Tim navv department has received
no further news of the battleship Ore
gon, aground off tho Chinese coast.
Murtlnl Law t Hutch Harbor.
Alaska advices state that thc-steamcr
Gustln from Dawson and Yukon way
ports arrived at St. Michael Juno IB.
She brought 'J00 passengers and S!,000,
000 In gold dust, most of which
belongs to Dawson banks. At Dutch
Harbor, on June 8. martial law was
declared by Colonel Noycs, who had
sailors and marines from tho revenue,
cutter Rush and the gunboat Wheeling
patrolling the shoro with guns and
fixed bayonets All the saloons at
Dutch Harbor and Unalaska were
closed. Deserters from the govern
ment vessels were found by tho force
under Colonel Noycs in several other
vessels and when all the runaways had
been found, the martial law was
abolished.
JtlRht llehlnd tho llobbers.
Tho man that was supposed to have
robbed the passengers on n llurlington
train near Ilradshaw was soon with
two other men throe miles west of
Reynolds, Neb., going south, driving a
team of mules which Bcoincd to bo
about worn out. Officers with blood
hounds were closing In on them, being
only thirty minutes behind. On ac
count of it largo reward, considerable
excitement prevails.
Injured In n Collision.
In n head-end collision of passongcr
trains on the II. & O. S. W. railway
near Remington.'O., Mrs. Agnes Evnn
fcldtof Cincinnati was seriously In
jured by a cut In the forehead ami ten
others were slightly hurt. The prop
erty damage was slight.
l.oudmi Heady For Nevis of u l'rl;lit-
fal Truant)--l.lttle Itnuil of For-
Iciism Miiy All lie II ordered
Food U i:limntod.
A London July 3 dlsp.tloh says: Tho
allies are not advancing for tho relief
of l'ekln. This auuiiiiueetueiit to the
house of enmtnons by William St. John
Hrotlerlek. under secretary of state for
fotelgn alTalrs, was received with ex
clamations of astonishment and dis
may.
Sir F'"s Ashinead ' .. t
If iiiiv Inn. ... .ad been roeolted
fr'.ii the legations at Pokln or us to
no composition and command of tho
relieving force ami Its present position.
Mr. Hrodorlck read the dispatches
received today anil said tho total allied
force available is now about 13, 000, as
troops have been rapidly arriving.
"The situation Is desperate. Hasten."
These wot ds from the message of von
llorgoii, a member of the Gorman lega
tion to Pokln, countersigned by Sir
Robert Hart, Inspector general of cus
toms, ami dated nine days ago, are tho
theme of all private comment. They
are passing for news of a frightful
tragedy. Nino days ugo tho ammuni
tion of tho little garrison defending
tho foreigners was running low anil
their food was nearly exhausted, while
around thein wits a horde of Kiin-Su
braves having at their service Krttpp
guns and repeating rllles. Pokln was
in the hands of the revolutionists.
While nothing but sinister news
comes from northern China, southern
China Is seemingly breaking away
from tho empire. All tho provinces
south of the Yellow river, whoso vice
roys and governors maintain friendly
relations with tho powers through
their consuls, have been formally In
stituted Into a confederacy, with Nan
kin as the capital.
GERMANIZING THE ISLAND
Onlrrs nt Apln, Hummi, lli'liitf Filled by
Fort'lRucr.
Aii Apia, Samoa, dispatch says:
There aro many evidences of the Ger
imiiiMng efforts being made by tho
now government of Samoa, though
Governor Solf Is proving himself ft
tactful man and personally Is very
popular.
Tho ollicors at Apia are gradually
being filled by Germans, llrltlsh and
Americans being ousted to make room
for them, and the matter of substitut
ing German currency and coinage for
all other Is now being considered.
Governor Solf has sent a circular letter
to merchants and others asking their
views on tins subject.
Though good order prevails and tho
'German government Is being well ad
ministered, there Is evidence that busi
ness Is dojllnlng, owing to a with
drawal of Hrltlsh anil American
activity ami enterprise, and It Is now
believed that Pago-Pago will eventual
ly become tho metropolis ot tho group.
Tho United States ship Aboromhv
comes up from Pago.Pagoto meet every
mall steamer stopping here, but a reg
ular mail to the new American town
will soon be established.
AWFUL HORRORS
Hoboken Fire Has Caused Nearly .100
Heaths.
Sixty-seven bodies of victims of the
Hoboken fire have been recovered says
n New York dispatch. F.ach hour that
passes witness additional recoveries of
bodies, scared, maimed and burned be
yond all semblance of humanity. And
tho half has not yet been told, as all
tho bodies brought to the surface wore
caught on gritpllng hooks. The list of
missing Is still placed at but few below
the 300 mark and when the. bodies
begin floating to the surface the grovv
somoucss of tho situation will bo
rcalicd. The bodies recovered up to
Tuesday night include, forty-one, now
in O'Donnell's undertaking establish
ment and some In Hoboken, ten in
Hoffman's In tho same city, twelve in
tho morgue in Now York, and four on
tho decks of tho Saale, which were re
covered and brought to tho oltj Of
these thirty-seven have boon either
positively or partly identified, as far
as can be discovered, being victims on
tho Saalo. Twenty-one of these Iden
tifications wore made by Second Olllcer
Sanders who was helped in tho task by
firemen, coal-piusers, machinists and
other employes of tho vessel.
BOTHA GROWS MORE ACTIVE
lloer Uenerul Keep the F.ngllili Very
llusy.
Hoer Genornl Hotliu Is showing In
creased activity. His patrols cover
wldo stretches of country, approach
near the outposts ami engage in skir
mishes, while larger bodies threaten to
attack, declining to allow themselves
to bo eauirht by tho return of blows
which the llrltlsh promptly sock to de
liver: Attacks of this sort wore made
recently at Pinna's poort on General
Polo Ciirew anil at Springs. Generals
Hotha and Dewetaro seemingly operat
ing in combination. Hotha Is reported
to have divided his force Into two parts,
one moving west and tho other to tho
mitith to try to olToet a juncture with
Dowel.
Poor circulars aro out exaggerating
the Chinese, troubles anil urging tho
burghers to rejoin the army.
THREATEN ASSAULT OF CITY
Iteliel (leuoral Demands the Surrender
of l'aniinm.
Further udvlws frmn Colombia say
the rebel general, Caimicho, recently
captured a government gunboat on tho
river Slim. Tho ollicors and crew vvero
tntitlo prisoners. It Is added that tho
sum of 310,000 was found on board.
Tho government forces Juno 'J3 at
tacked the rebels fifty miles from Pan
ama. The former was defeated, losing
100 men killed, one gun and a number
of prisoners, rllles and flags. Tho reb
el general Porras has sent an ultima
tum to tho governor of Panama de
manding the surrender of the place.
The ultimatum expired Juno 30, but
foreign consuls prevailed upon l'orras
to extend It until July 4. If the city
is not Mil-rendered then an assault
upon It Is expected,
Alnny Deaths From Heat.
THE STRIKE DECLARED OFF
Employes of the Itromwell Car com
pany, St. Louis, aro on a strike.
Tho Hello Isles mines, tho sccno of
the recent strike, havo closed down.
The'synod of the Christian Reformed
church of North America has ended.
The German government expects tho
disturbance in China to last for a long
time.
The annual meeting of tho society of
colonial wars, in ,'owa, was held at
Cedar Rapids.
At tho Uroadway athletic club, Now
YorK, Jim Handler of xsewarlc was
awarded tho dcscislon on a foul over
Mysterious Hilly Smith of New York
in tho fifteenth round,
A suit was filed at St. Paul in the
district court by tho btato railway com
mission, asking that tho court order
tho reconvening of the St. Paul & Du
luth railway property from tho North
ern Pad 11 o back to tho stockoklurs of
I the former company.
non
sectarian college of primary and sec
ondary education has been opened in
Manila in tho presence of Judge Tuft,
president of tho civil commission, and
his colleagues. Judge Tuft spoke in
fitting and effective terms of tho signi
ficance of the event. The institution
in the first educational cntcrpriso in
tho Philippines that is under tho con
trol of tho priests and that looks for
support to voluntary contributions of
the people. Five hundred pupils havo
already been enrolled nnd many more
children aro leaving the schools of tho
priests to enter tho college. Tho
American educational department sup
plies text books on the easiest possible
conditions.
Nt. I.ouls Transit Compuuy Kmployes and
Men Agree
A St. Louis, July 2, dispatch says:
An agreement between the St. Louis
Transit company and its former em
ployes was signed tonight by repre
sentatives of tho transit company and
the executive committee. Tho agree
ment provides that every employe of
the company shall be free to join or
not to join any organization. The
company will moot any employe or
committee of employes whether repre
senting themselves or other employes
or an association of employes, regard
ing nny mutter of mutual interest.
The strikers will be reinstated as
fast us tho company needs additional
men, not interfering, however, with
men now In service. Tho strike has
been ofllclally declared off.
HONORS FOR HELEN GOULD
Heroine of the Hour at Dewey Cannon
Unvelllue;.
Miss Helen Gould, accompanied by
Dr. and Mrs. Pulen, Misses Palcn, Ed
wards aud Colon, arrived at Three
Oaks, Mich., from tho cast on the samo
train with General Russell A. Alger to
attend the Dewey cannon colobratlon.
The party reviewed tho military and
civic parade which took place shortly
after their arrival und the ceremonies
attending the unveiling of the Dewey
oaonon were then observed.
F.itnidlnc Free Delivery.
Rural free delivery servlco will bo
established at Sutton, Clny county,
Nob., July 10, with two carriers, To
bias Snelch and L. L. Ames, who will
cover an area of seventy-nine square
miles, serving a population of J,000.
' FlRiitlni; In West Africa.
No news has been received from
Kumassl. Native reports state that
tho column advancing from Prasu has
been fighting for two days.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
llrlgndlcr General Chaffee has sailed
from San Francisco on the transport
Grant.
The Cataract hotel at Sioux Falls
burned, loss 850.000.
Tho Detroit Journal office was
burned. Total loss 875,000.
Twelve business houses of Ilrown's
Valley, Miss., were burned, entailing
a 875,000 loss.
Tho great lumber yards at Rlack
rock, a RulTalo, N. Y., suburb, burned,
loss 8400,000.
Tho transport Sumner has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila and
Nagasaki. Thcro were no deaths on
the voyage.
KEMPFF WISEST AFTER ALL
Did Not Approve llonibardmant of Chi
nese Forts.
Admiral KcmpfT opposed tho policy
of attacking tho Chinese army unless
they begun hostilities. It is now ad
mitted that the powers attacking tho
forts turned the Chinese into ullles
with the boxers. Americans think
this might have been avoided. Admi
ral KemfT has held nloof from hostili
ties beyond movements necessary to
rescue Americans.
The forces ashore now number 10,
000, of which 3,300 aro British, 1,300
Germans, 4,000 Russians, 3,000 Japan
see, and tho remainder Americans,
French, Italians and Austriaus.
Attempt to Hob n Hank.
The Dorchester, Nob., state bank
was tampered with tho other night.
Two citizens were going down street
when a dark lantern was flashed In
one ot their faces by somo ono on tho
bank corner. They got another citi
zen and approached, when they could
plainly hear tho burglar alarm on tho
inside of tho bank which was going
continually. Ono stood guard und tho
other awakened the marshal aud sov
eral other citizens, who formed a shot
gun brigade and marched to the bank,
but the burglars had loft and no truce
of them was to be found.
A thunderstorm that suddenly burst
upon Chicago after it day of torrid
weather, tore down tho tents at tho
Korassan carnival, Loomls nnd Con
gress streets, caused u panic among
3,000 persons and did much other dam
age to property and individuals
throughout tho city. Flvo fatalities
and numerous prostrations resulted
from tho intense heat preceding tho
storm.
Affairs In lluytl Quiet.
Official advices received at Washing
ton from Haytl sot nt rest the rumors
that havo boon current In some quar
tern recently of disquieting conditions
in thut island. It nppeurs that tho
present government of lluytl Is busy
ing Itself with it settlement of the ex
isting financial crisis and there Is no
other foundation for tho reports of
political troubles.
Young Man Accidentally Shot.
A fatal accident occurred near Up
land, Nob. James Norman, in com
pany with his father, In-law, II. Aowell,
was shooting rats about tho farm build
Ings when that which Norman was
(hooting exploded near tho breach,
the load entering his side, cuuslug
almost Instant deuth.
Hkull Crushed by a Fall.
Eugene Schneider, a enrpenter, who
has the contract for building tho Ger
man Lutheran church three miles west
of Sterling, foil from the scaffolding,
striking his head ou a rock. Ills skull
was crushed and his body badly
bruised. It is thought that it will not
prove fatal, although n very close call
from being killed.
IlurKlnrs at Norfolk.
The drug store of George Chrlstoph,
was entered ut Norfolk, evidently
through the transom over tho back
door, tho safe opened and 880 taken
from It, 8'J of tho money belonging to
the American Express company. Thero
is no clew 6o far to the burglars.
rromlneut Man a Suicide.
Judge Thomas It, Long, well known
to tho Indiana bar, a thirty-third de
gree Mason and past -grand roaster of
tho Indiana grund lodge A. F. and A.
M., committed suicide at Tcrro Haute,
Ind. Despondency Is given us tue cause.
Jlefuse to Close Exchange.
Owing to the nctlvity in tho grain
trade tho board of managers of tho
New York prdduco exchange haB re
fused to grant a largely Blgned peti
tion asking that the exchange bo closed
next Tuesday, tho day before tho
Fourth of July.
All the union miners in Alabama,
about 10,000 in number, suspended
work Monday ponding the settlement
of the wugo dispute between them and
the operators. The old wage contract
expired Monday and the miners de
mand a ralso and other concessions.
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