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VOL. XXXVII. NO. 43.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of thj Telegraphic
News of tf. World.
TERSE TICKS FROM JHE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items Froi
ie Two Hemispheres Pro ' iU 1
in a Cor -tensed iV..m. .
The United States has answered the
French note.
Roosevelt denounced the Deomcratic
issue of militarism.
British ministerialists hold 357 seats
and the opposition 205.
Horse buyers for German govern
ment are in Eastern Oregon.
A general uprising is expected in
the southern provinces of China.
Mgr. Chapel le argues for retention ot
church propei ty in the Philippines.
An eight-year-old boy cf Roseburg,
Or., was kiiled accidentally while play
ing with a ride.
One man was killed and 12 injured
in a riot in the anthracite region at
Ilazleton, Pa.
Mrs. Ann Jane Darrah, of Liberty,
Or., an aged and blind woraau, was
burned to death.
Thomas Sheridan, 50 years old, a la
borer employed in a shingle mill at
Fairhaven, Wash., was run over by a
train and killed.
The American marines from Pekin
have arrived at Takn, where they will
be joined by the Tion Tsin battalion,
and sail on the Iudi mi for Cavite.
The wife of a minister at Atchison,
Kan., jumped into a cistern with her
8-year-old child and both were
drowned. The woman was insane.
A cablegram received from Commis-
sioner-General Peck, at Paris, contains !
an announcement if final results ob
tained at the exposition bv the coun-
tries in the way of awards. The Unit
ed States received 2,475 awards; Ger
many, 1,820; Great Britain, 1,117;
Russia, 1.413. The United States
leads not only in the urand total, but
also in all grades of awards, from
grand prizes to merely honorable men
tion. Referring to tho mooted purchase of
the Danish West Indies by the United
States, the Copenhagen, correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph says: "Tho re
newed negotiations will result, I be
lieve, in the purchase. The opposition
party in the Danish parliament favors
the transaction, but urges the govern
ment to obtain a larger price than the
United States has previously offered.
It is understood that America wishes
to use St. Croix as a naval coaling
station."
Bryan concluded his tour of Illinois.
Cecil Rhodes will re-enter politics.
The empress dowagor is said to be
ill.
Huberts wiil
name his own sncces-
sor.
Colville Indian reservation is opened
for settlement.
Roosevelt spoke to an immense audi
ence in St. Louis.
Canada will 1 sell
clams in Klondike.
crown mining
General Brooke, urges reorganization
of the army on modern lines.
Conger has prepared a list of Chinese
officials that should be punished.
Idaho Soloiera' H.rmo was destroyed
by fire. One inmate was suffocated.
The American Bible Society fur
nishes a list ol missionaries killed by
Boxers.
General MacArthur reported to the
war department that the transport
Rosecrans and tho transport Argyle
arrived at Manila with Light Batteries
C and M, Seventh artillery, Majot G.
G. Greeuough.
P. H. Gilhooley, counsel for the
Elizabeth port, N. J., Banking Com
Pny, announced that William Schiie
1 er, a missing clerk of the bank, was a
defaulter to the amount of $50,000,
and that the bank directors had made
good the aomunt of the shortage.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for India, has received the lol
lowing from Lord Curzou: "The gen
eral condition of crops is excellent,
and except in a pait of Bombay famine
conditions are disappearing The to
tal number on the reiief list has fallen
to 2,746.000."
The American Bridge Company
closed a contract to furnish all of the
structural steel to be used in the erec
tion of a big arsenal at Kure, Japan.
The money value of the contract is be
tween $250,000 and $300,000. It
will require six months to tnrnish the
material, aud it must be delivered at
Kure within a year.
Officials of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company at New York City
have awarded a contract for a monu
ment to be erected in a plot owned by
the company in a cemetery in North
Hudson, in memory of the persons who
lost their lives in the great fire that
destroyed the piers and steamers of the
company at Hoboken, on June 30 last.
White blackberries and green roses
have been propagated in Lousiaoa this
year.
Seventy-two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in
creasing the output for 1900 by 2,500,
000 tons.
What promises to be the best apple
.crop in the history of Canada not
merely the quantity, but quality ia
now fast approaching the harvest season.
LATER NEWS.
Buller will return to England.
Germany accepts France's proposal.
Immense field of coal has been dis
covered in Alaska.
Reformers defeated the imperial
rrmy on East river.
The Boers are very active in the
Kroonstadt district.
Russians take the first step on the
right bank of the Amur.
Lord Alverstone will be the new lord
chief justice of England.
Mexican troops are having a hard
campaign against Indians.
Captain Shields and his 51 men were
rescued fron the Filipinos.
A milk combine has been formed by
milkmen of Vancouver, B. C.
Roosevelt concluded his Kentucky
tour -with a speech in Covington.
The rebellion in Southern China is
anti-dynastic rather than anti-foreign.
Yellow fever is expected to increase
in Havana while sewers are being dug.
Fire at Herrick, 111., destroyed 1Q
business houses, causing a loss of $50,"
000.
John
Oregon
cell.
P. Adams, a patient at the
insane asylum, hanged him-
Li Hung Chang expresses regret fox
recent occurrences and thanks Ameri
cans. Dewet proclaims that burghers who
refuse to fight will be made prisoners
of war.
A case of illness, suspected to be bu
bonic plague, is reported at Stepney,
a parish suburb of London.
Records that fell into the hands of
correspondents show that Chinese au
thorities supported the Boxer move
ment. A dispatch from Port Limon, Colom
bia, says that a serious file broke out
uu lnal Heveral prominent commercial
buildings were destroyed.
The sultan of Turkey has
leased to
Germany for SO rears the island of
Uroan, in the Red sea, 40 miles north
of Kamaran, for a coaling station.
Full returns as to the wine harvest
throughout Germany for the year show
that it is more abundant and of more
excellent quality than for several years
previous.
Miss Amanda Fairman, a prominent
young lady of Philips bora, Mont., was
found dead in her room, having been
shot with a shotgun. A shotgun was
lying on the table. The suicide theory
is denied, and it is believed she was
murdered.
Li Hung Chang is in Pekin.
Southern rebels defeated General
Ho's army near San Chun.
The submarine boat Holland has
been placed in. commission.
Russia urges that the Chinese in
demnity question be arbitrated.
Coal miners in the state of Kansas !
have won a strike and gone to work.
The members of the Chilean cabinet
have resigned, owing to a politica
cause.
The National League baseball season
came to a close with Brooklyn the pen
nant winner.
Charles Fargo, second vice-president
of the American Express Company, is
dead at Chicago.
The Loraine, O., plant of the Federal
Steel Company has been closed, shut
ting out 3,000 men.
The queen regent of Spain will ar
bitrate the differences at present exist
ing between Peru and Chili.
A clergyman of Blair, Neb., convict
ed of bigamy, was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary.
Dysentery is raging among the troops
at Tien Tsin and the German conting
ent will transfer its headquarters to
Pekin.
The steel plants of the Illinois Steel
Works, at South Chicago, were closed
down, 2,500 men bei: . thrown out ol
employment.
A minor official of the Vatican at
Rome has been arrested on .the charge
of giving the thieves access to the
room from which the sum of about
350,000 lire was recently stolen.
Striking coal miners will accept the
10 per cent increase in wages offered
by the operators if it lasts all winter.
However, the men will not resume
work until officially ordered by union
officer.
In northern Panay, October 12, Com
pany D, Twenty-sixth United States
volunteer infantry, was attacked by a
force of Tagals. The enemy lost 20
men killed and 40 wounded, while the
Americans had two men wounded.
Twenty-two prisoners and 12 rifles and
a quantity of ammunition were cap
tured. A colony of 500 Sicilians from New
Orleans is to leave for Hawaii early in
January, under the leadership of Father j
Nasca, an Italian priest. The colony , secretary oi war Bernardo Keves, ex
will be in the employ of an American pel ling from the army Major Carlos
company, which has large sugar inter- j Glass, the grounds for expulsion being
ests in the Hawaiian islands. The j that the officer made public statements
COmpanv Will build a cnurcn, school
and homes for the Sicilians.
Road improvements has begun in the
Philippines, with . money collected
i rom customs at Manila.
Lorin Pease, of
at the age of 100
be 99, and his six
Hadley, Mass., died
His father lived to
brothers and sisters
all passed 70.
James Ellis Tucker baa sailed for
Honolulu to revive the customs law
and service of the Hawaiian islands so
as to bring them up to the standard of
those at home
CANTON IS ALARMED
Spreading of the Revolt
Southern China.
in
FEAR OUTBREAK IN THE CITY
Six Districts In the Wei Hal Wei Pre'
fecture Are Now In the Hands
of the Rebels.
Hong Kong. Oct. 15. The reformer
Sun Yat Sen, according to dispatches
j from Canton, has unfurled the reform
flag in the important town of Wei
i Chou, on East river. This act has
'given rise to considerable excitement
in military circles in Canton, as it is
believed the object in raising the flag
in Wei Chou is to denude Canton of
troops, so that they can seize the city.
London, Oct. 15. The Times has
the following from "Hong Kong:
"The situation in the Wei Hai pre
fecture is serious. In six districts the
cities are in the hands of the rebels.
If an outbreak should occur in Canton,
its suppression would be difficult.
Berlin, Oct. 15. A dispatch received
here today from Shanghai says a very
serious view is taken at Field Marshal
Count von Waldersee's headquarters
in Tien Tsin, of the revolutionary
movement. At Canton a false alarm
October 7 caused the Chinese officials
to protest aaginst any occupation of
Chinsese territory. The Yangtse vice
roys, the dispatch adds, openly affirm
that they will oppose any advance of
the Gernians into Shan Tung province.
CENSUS OF PORTO RICO.
Only 25 Per Cent of Population Educa- ;
tionally Qualified to Vote.
Washington, Oct. 15. The recent
census of Porto Rico lias developed the
fact that there are 201,071 males of
voting age in the island, but that only j
25 per cent aie educationally qualified
to vote. The native-born whites of
the island number 120,295, and the col-
ored
natives 73,010. The Spaniards
who now live in the island number
5,662, and whites born in other coun
tries are 2,104.
Of the whites of Porto Rican birth, '
35,397 were liteiate, forming 29.4 per 1
cent of this class. Of the colored, 12,
576 could read, or 17.2 per cent of the
race. Under the educational voting
qualification, therefore, the number
entitled to vote in the island would be
47,973, or 25 per cent of the native- j
born males of voting age, ana 24 per 1
cent of all males of voting age.
In the cities of San Juan and Ponce
ia concentrated a consderable part of
the foreign element of the island, and
here, if anywhere, will the
restriction
of the suffrage to the literates give the
! foreign-born an advantage. It is well,
therefore, to examine the conditions in
these two cities. In the cities of San
I Juan and Ponce the number of persons
; 21 years of age and over, and who can
read, are distributed as follows: In
San Juan, 1,925 native whites, 1,100
Spanish-born, 592 born in other coun
tries, and 1,822 colored. In Ponce
there are 2,190 native whites, 409
Spanish-born, 268 born in other coun
tries and 1,265 colored.
It appears that in the city of Sao
Jnan the native whites and the colored
each outnumber the foreign element.
In Pence this proportion is even great
er, the nati .-e whites being more than
three times as numerous as the foreign
element, while the colored is double its
number.
Family Burned to Death.
Boston, Oct. 15. Three persons, a
father and two sons, were burned to
death in a shanty in Roxbury at 2:30
this morning. The victims are: Ed
ward Tousealin, aged 45; Edward
Tousealin, aged 27; James Tousealin,
aged 14; Tousealin had lived in the
place 10 years. He carried on the bus
iness of wood peddling and one side of
his abode had a shed where he pre
pared the wood for market. The
bodies of Tousealin and his sons were
almost consumed. Several years ago
Tousealin's wife was burned to death
in this same place, her clothing hav
ing caught fire while she was cooking a
meal.
Locomotive Blew Up.
St. -Louis, Oct. 15. A special tele
gram rom Mexico, Mo., to the Post
Dispatch says: Engine 105, while
hauling the east-bound passenger train
on the St. Louis & San Francisco, at
the usual speed, exploded at Curiy
ville, about 30 miles east of this city,
early this morning and was blown al
most to atoms. John Mason, colored
porter, of Roodhouse, ill., had his head
cut off, and several others were in
jured. Fifty yards of track was torn
up, and trains delayed for several
hours. It is not known what caused
the explosion.
Mexican Major Expelled.
Chicago, Oct. 15. A specal to the
Record from Monterey, Mex., says: An
official order has just been issued by
tua presenile, ui ui supenurs ueruga-
tory to the institutions of Mexico.
Grain Gamblers Arrested.
Chicago, Oct. 15. Twelve promi
nent speculators in the Chicago Board
of Trade were arrested today in the
raid made by the police on the open
board. Among them were Charles Al
bertson, president of the open board.
The general charge made is "gambling
ingrain." It is stated that 80 more
warrants have been issued in conneo
tion with the attempt to suppress the
alleged gambling in grain and yro visions.
LADRONES of LEYTE.
Are
Plundering and Following
si ve Tactics.
Manila, Oct. 15. The west coast of
the island of Leyte is in a state of tur
moil. The rebel ladrones are actively
plundering, the disturbers following
offensive tactic?, raiding and attack
ing and then returning to the garrison
ed towns, while the Americans pursue
them to the mountains. General Ma
jica's officers are surrendering and his
soldiers, attempting to escape to Samar
in boats, are being captured, and his
organization broken up. The captured
guerrillas and ladrones, when ques
tioned, stated that on the 5tb instant
80 Americans attacked 45 rebels, rifled
their stronghold in Camarines province
and ranted them, killing' 10. Two
Americans were killed and three
wonnded. Twenty members of the
Thirty-second infantry, in an engage
ment on the 10th instant, in Batan
province, had one man Killed and four
wounded.
The Philippine commission, of which
Judge Taft is president, today passed
eight bills of minoi importance, one
providing for a civil increase of salaries
of several municipal officials, includ
ing school teachers, appropriating $7,
500 in gold for the construction of a
garbage crematory at Manila and for
the reorganization of the auditor's
office.
The Wright bill, asking for $1,000,
000 in gold for the completion of
Spain's plans for Manila harbor im
provements, elicited comment from one
representative of Manila's Interna
tional Chamber of Commerce to the
effect that, as the merchants had long
been paying a special impost fund to
this end, the merchants should belong
to the board controlling the construc
tion; and that as the United States had
collected $3,000,000 since its occupa
tio by imposts for harbor improvements,
he failed to see the necessity for the
appropriation of insular funds and sug
gested the use of a special fund. The
discussion was deferred until Friday.
AN ANARCHIST'S CONFESSION.
Assassin Bressis Accomplice Tells ol
the American Plots-
New York, Oct. 15. A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Rome,
says: The anarchist Bertollani, ar
rested at Milan as a suspected accom
plice of Bresci, has made a confession
about anarchist plots.
"I have known about these plots for
a long time," he said. "It was I who
sent the letter to the crown prosecutor
at Naples, warning him in advance that
Italian anarchists were coming from
America to kill the king, but they paid
no attention to my letter. At an an
archist meeting in Paterson, N. J.,
seven men were selected to kill kings
and chiefs of states. One ol them was
alloted to kill McKinley or Bryan dur
ing the presidential campaign. I do
! not know the name of the man who
was assigned to this duty. The recent
Chicago plot was independent of that
hatched at Paterson. I believe ocher
plots having the same object, have been
organized in the United States. An
archists have killed kings and queens,
now they should kill a president of a
republic to show tho world that for an
archists there are neither monarchies
Box republics, and that a king is as
cheap as a president."
Transport Broke Down.
Seattle, Oct. 15. Major Ruhlen,
assistant quartermaster here, has been
notified by the quartermaster-general
that the Kanglse, the freighter under
charter to carry animals and supplies
from Seattle to Manila, has met with
an accident off Singapore, and will
probably not enter the government
service. She broke her shaft and is
expected to be laid up for at least five
weeks. As a result of the accident to
the Kangtse, several additional vessels
will probably be at once chartered.
The Mogul has alreaady been chartered
from Dodwell & Co., and will carry j
part of the cargo intended for the :
Kangtse. She will be loaded with for- :
age and will go under tonnage charter. 1
The Mogul is not expected to arrive
here until about November 1.
Floods in New Brunswick.
St. John, N. B., Oct.. 15. The
provinoe of New Brunswick has re- ;
ceived a terrible drenching from a rain
storm which lasted 108 hours, and
which in amount equals 10 inches.
Not a train is moving on the Canadian
Pacific Railway between St. John and
Vanoeboro, or on the branch lines of
the road to St. Andrews, St. Stephen,
Fredericton or Woodstock. The tie-up
is due to washouts. Conditions are
the woist which have existed in the
Canadian road's history, and thous
ands of dollars are represented in the
damage already done and in loss of
traffic.
Burglars Bob the Vatican.
Rome. Oct. 15. A number of the
papers here publish the extraordinary
statement that the securities valued at
857,000 lire, the theft of which from
the Vatican was recently reported to
the Italian police, had been stolen
some time previous to Februaiy last, !
and were sold in that month on the
Paris bourse. They were stolen, it is
asserted, bv order of an Italian capital- ;
iat. If the story be true the more re
pent burglary was committed with the
object of deceiving the authorities. 1
This theory has produced a great im- ;
pression at the Vatican, bat it Is not
generally credited.
Mains Goes to Nagasaki.
London, Oct. 16. The American
Ladies' committee has received a dis
patch from Wei Hai Wei, dated Wed
nesday, October 10, reporting the re
turn there of the American hospital
nip Maine from Takn with many in
valids on board, of whom two officials
and 69 men are Americans, and 19 of
the latter belong to the Ninth infan
try. The Maine will sail for Nagasaki
today.
CAN'T GET TOGETHER
Mineowners Could Not Agree
Among Themselves.
SO CANNOT MEET THE STRIKERS
statement Pro n the Standpoint of the
Owners and Operators Knd of
Strike Expected Soon.
Scranton, -Pa., Oct. 16. In response
to a request for a statement as to his
views on the answer of the United
Mineworkers to the operators' proposi
tion, T. H. Watkins, president of the
Temple Iron'Company, which company
is largely interested in coal mining, to
night gave out a somewhat lengthy
statement, in which he says in part:
"We will give jour men reasonable
time to return to work, trusting they
will see the mistake of being guided
and influenced by men who, however
honest and sincere they may be in their
efforts to benefit the miners of the an
thracite region, are unable to advise
them intelligently and for their best
good.
"Mr. Mitchell apparently thinks that
the control of the mining operations
rests in the hands of one or two per
sons, notably Mr. Morgan, or that there
is a trnst of some sort which can de
cide the whole question, when, as a
matter of fact, there are only three or
four of the transportation companies in
which any one concerned has any in
fluence, and thev do not represent 30
per cent of the whole anthracite ton
nage. More than 100 different com
panies and individuals are interested
in mining the total tonnage, and no
one man can control or have the slight
est influence over their action.
"One thing the companies are ap
parently agreed upon is that they will
not agree. ' Efforts have been made for
years to get some plan to which all
could agree to control the tonnage, so
that fair prices could be secured for a
product which requires so large an
investment of money with such great
risk to the labor employed, as well as
the capital employed, but effort after
effort has failed through failure to
agree on a plan that would not violate
the laws and to which all could agree.
"But Mr. Mitchell comes here and
says in effe t that no mineworkers
shall go to work until every operator
does juEt exaclty what the other does
aud that the Lehigh and Schuylkill
men must have a new basis before the
men in the Lackawana and Wyoming
regions can go to work.
"The United Mineworkers will lay
themselves open if they have not al
ready done so to the charge of being
the largest and most dangerous trust to
the public welfare that has ever exist
ed and the organization will make the
mistake of all others that of going too
far and using its power to hurt the
public, as well as those directly inter
ested. "Our company will be glad to dis
cuss the matter with our employes
when they are ready to meet us with a
view of going back to work, without
regard to what Schuylkill operators
may do. The strike has already cost
us a great deal of money, and the men
much more, as well as loss of trade,
which we may not recover in years.
In the meantime soft coal mines are
working night and day filling the place
jf anthracite coal."
STORMY AT ST. LAWRENCE.
Thirty Vessels Driven Ashore Nova
Scotia Swept.
Halsfax, N. S., Oct. 16. Additional
disasters to shipping on this coast are
reported. The known list of vessels
driven ashore now numbers 30, mostly
owned in the province and Newfound
land. The loss all over the country
and in the neighboring provinces
through terrific rainfalls and washouts
aud damage to orchards and buildings
by heavy winds will be very many
thousands of dollars.
The Canadian Pacific wires connect
ing Cape Breton with the rest of Nova
Scotia are completely broken at the
straits of Canso, where the cable was
fouled by a schooner dragging her an
chor in the recent gale.
Heavy rain is falling again today
throughout Nova Scotia. Rivers and
lakes everywhere are overflowing and
destroying property. There has been
no Canadian Pacific train from Mon
treal in four days and a serious wreck
of the Sydney express caused by a
Washout is reported in Cape Breeton.
The Gloucester schooner Mystery, at
Canso, reports one man lost at sea.
Manila, Oct. 16. Captain Deve
reaux Shields, who, with 61 men of
Company F, Twenty-ninth reigment.
United States volunteer infantry, was
captured by the insurgents last month
in the island of Marindnque, was les
cued yesterday by the American rescue
force with all the members of his
party.
The naval board to examine the old
frigate Constitution has reported to
the navv department that it will cost
about $400,000 to place that vessel in
condition, such as is contemplated by
the Boston Patriotic Society, which is
raising a mnd for the rehabilitation of
"Old Ironsides."
New Zealand Mail Service.
Weilington, N. Z., Oct. 16. The
house of representatives today approved
the postmaster-general's agreement I
..... ... .. .
with Messrs. Spreckels to continue for
a year the San Francisco mail servioe.
The vessels will run every three weeks
instead of monthly, beginning Novem
ber 1. The time from San Francisco
to Auckland will not exceed 16 days.
An amendment favoring a Vancouver
&eyice was carried without a division.
GOVERNMENT SURVEYS.
Hard Work Is Necessary to Secure Con
gressional Recognition.
Washington, Oct. 16. All the great
appropriations of the government are
based upon the estimates of the several
departments.
At this time of the year the various
offices are preparing their plans and
estimates for the operations of the fiscal
year beginning on July 1, 1901, and
ending Jane 30, 1902. These estimates
will be transmitted to congress and em
bodied in the appropriation bills, mos
Df which will be considered and passed
luring February, as congress adjourns
on March 4, it being the short session.
The estimates which have peculiar
importance to the arid regions are those
for the continuance of the measure
ments of rivers, the examination of
underground waters, and especially the
survey of reservoir sites, and reports
upon the cost and value of reclamation
)f large areas of fertile arid lands.
For Surveys.
At the last session of congress the
National Irrigation Association ener
getically endeavoied to have the annual
appropriation of the geological survey
for this purpose increased from the
almost absurdly sum of $50,000 to the
a mount of $250,000, this being more in
accordance with the needs of the coun
try. The increase was made in the
senate, , bnt in conference with the
bouse of representatives a compromise
of $100,000 was reached, the conces
sion being made that at the next session
the sum of $250,000 would be favorably
considered.
Organized Effective Work.
A lesson that can be learned from the
attitude of many of the Eastern states
as regards river and harbor improve
ments; these improvements are not left
to chance or regarded with indifference,
bnt the claims of each locality are
made known and systematically push
ed by organized effort, such as
boards of trade or merchants'
associations. Eastern interests are or
ganized for work, and when an Eastern
locality wants a river and harbor appro
priation it goes alter it in a thorough,
systematic manner, and sooner or later
gets it. This is what the West can
and should do. Every Western noard
of trade, chamber of commerce am
commercial organization should bestii
itself individually, bring all the influ
ence it can to bear upon the senators
and congressmen of its state, and act
ively co-operate with the National Ir
rigation Association to not only insure
favorable congressional action on these
survey estimates, bnt to otherwise ad
vance the interests of the arid region
through national channels.
Irrigation Congress Meeting.
The ninth annual session of the Na
tional Irrigation Congress will meet at
Chicago Illinois, November 20-23,
1900.
PANAMA CANAL GOING AHEAD.
Will Be Huilt Kven If United States
lakes Nicaragua Knterprise.
New York, Oct. 17. M. Hutin, director-general
and president of the
board of directors ot the Panama Canal
Company; General Abbott, chief engi
neer, and W. N. Cromwell, counsel for
(he canal company, were passengers on
the steamship La Lorraine from Havre
"The Panama Canal Company," sai
General Abbott, "is waiting for thi
recommendation of the Walker com
mission to congress and for the action
of that body. I believe that the decis
ion will be in favor of the Panama
canal as being more feasible and eco
nomical and giving better results. If
the decision is against the Panama
canal the company will nevertheless go
on building it. I believe that if both
the Panama and Nicaragua canals are
built nine-tent lis of the vessels will
choose the Panama canal as being the
better. What the Walker commission
heard when in Paris was a revelation
to it. Already between three and four
million cubic yards have been taken
out down there and two-fifths of the
work has been done.
Killed a Postmaster.
Chicago, Oct. 17. A dispatch to the
Record from Guadalajara, Mexico,
says: A band of brigands, under the
leadership of the notorious Pedro
Flores, has been committing numerous
murders and robberies in the Autlan
district of this state for several months.
News has just reached here that the
robbers made a bold raid on the town
of Autlan and killed the postmaster.
Following this unprovoked murder they
looted the place and terrorized the
populace. They have a stronghold in
the mountans and a detachment of
ru rales has gone in pursuit of them.
Again Driven From Mansfield.
Mansfield, O., Oct. 16. The Dow
(eite Deacon Homer Kessler, of Chi
cago, made another unsuccessful at
tempt to hold services here today. He
was taken in charge by the police while
Holding services at the home of F. D.
Caverand was sent ont of the city on
the east-bound Pennsylavma passenger
train at noon.
New York Cigarmakers' Strike.
New York, Oct. 15. Samuel Gom
pers, president of the American Federa
toin of Labor, is in the city to endeavor
to settle the cigarmakers' strike, which
has lasted now for more than four
months. He had conferences with
representatives of firms who formerly
employed about 4,000 of the 6,000
cigarmakers who are still out.
The Child Was Mutilated.
Dayton, O., Oct.
body of Ada Lants,
17. The dead
the 12-year-old
daughter of Charles Lants. a carpenter
, j., t k failiav'i
ru innnd in the rear of her father s
residence last night. A surprise party
had been tendered her parents and
while the guests were playing cards
the little girl left the bouse. Her ab
sence was not discovered for half an
hour and after a search of the premises
her body was found
WAR IN SOUTH CHINA
Reformers Continue Their
Victorious Progress.
DEFEAT TROOPS ON EAST RIVEh
Sun Tat's Army Is Now Investing
Prefectoral City of Hal Chou
Activity In Canton.
the
Hong Kong, Oct. 17. Sun Yat Sea,
Recording to reports from Canton, ha
taken the town of Kin Shan, on Eastr
River. and is now investing the nrafon.
toral city of Hui Chou. A force of im
perial troops from Canton was defeated
by the reformers, 200 being killed.
The advices say also that there it
great activity in Canton in preparation
for dispatching troops to the disturbed
districts.
Progress of Campbell's Column.
Tien Tsin, Oct. 17. The British col
umn under Lord Campbell, which
forms part ot the expedition against
Pao Ting Fu, and is making a detour
to the south of the Pao Ting river,
reached Tn Liu, on the grand canal,
yesterday.
Sir Ernest M. Satow, who succeed!
Sir Claude McDonald as British minis
ter to China, has started for Pekin.
M. de Giers, the Russian minister, if
likely to return soon.
An Appeal to the Czar.
Berlin, Oct. 17. The Chinese minis
ter to Russia, Yang Yu, who visited
Emperor Nicholas at Lividia yester
day .strongly appealed tor the interces
sion of the emperor in his favor and
presented to him a letter from Emperor
Kwang Hsu, together with documen
tary evidence going to show that the
Chinese ruler and court are less to
blame for the anti-foreign outbreak
than the Russian emperor had been led
to believe.
Reactionary Edicts.
London, Oct. 17. "Since the Chi
nese court arrived at the new capital,
Sinan Fu," says a special dispatch from
Shanghai, dated yesterday, "reaction
ary edicts removing the moderates from
high offices have been issued, showing
that Prince Tuan holds the imperial
seal."
The Daily Chronicle has the follow
ing from Vienna: "None of the pow
ers except France and the United
States approves the Russian proposal
against China to the arbitration tribun
al at The Hague."
Germany Accepts France's Proposal.
Berlin, Oct. 17. The Berlin Neuste
Nachrichten says that it understands
that Germany's answer to the note of
M. Delcasse, French minister of for
eign affairs, was dispatched today, and
that it is friendly in tone and raises no
objections to the principles set forth
by M. Delcasse. It does not asrert
that the reply deals with all his propo
sitions. Warning to White Women.
Berlin, Oct. 17. A dispatch re
ceived here from Shanghai says the
British consul there warns European
women against coming north horn
Hong Kong in the hope of joining their
hnRhftnds. t.h aitnntinn in the Ynnmtp
,
valley being very serious.
BOER WAR NOT ENDED.
Unexpected Activity Delays Lord
Boberts' Departure.
Loudon, Oct. 17. Commenting upon
the activity of the Boers and the state
ment from Cape Town that Lord Ro
berts has postponed his home-coming,
the Standard says:
"There are certain indications point
ing to the conclusion that unexpected
difficulties have arisen which Lord
Roberts deems grave enough to delay
bis return for some time to come. The
facts suggest that it is impossible yet to
denude South Africa of any substantial
portion of the large army now engaged
in dominating a sullen and recalcitrant
people."
The editorial finally calls for the
severest measures against irreconcila
ble Boers, "prompt and ruthless pun
ishment for every insurgent burgher
caught in delicto."
Marching Resumed.
Ilazleton, Fa., Oct. 17. The threat
ened march of the strikers to Panther
creek valley started from this section
tonight. The objective points of the
marchers are Lansford, in Carbon
county, and Coaldale, in Schuylkill
county. These towns are about 20
miles south of ilazleton, and the strik
ers expect to reach their destination
early tomorrow morning. Most of the
collieries in that section are operated
by the Lehigh Valley Coal & Naviga
tion Company. They have been work
ing all through the strike, despite the
efforts of numerous organizers sent to
that section for the purpose of getting
the men to quit.
Yellow Fever Will Increase.
Havana, Oct. 16. It is generally
admitted that yellow fever wil increase
in Havana when the streets are opened
for the installation of the sewers, a
work which will probably require three
years. Major Lodge, paymaster for
the division of Cuba, is down with the
fever.
Car Sheds Burned.
Cleveland, O., Oct. 17- The car
sheds of the Cleveland & Eastern Elec
tric Railway Company at Gates Mills,
together with a number of oars and
othei property, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss is f 100,000.
- Fire in an Indiana Town.
Sullivan, Ind., Oct. 17. Fire to
night destroyed the large building ia
the nnblic square occupied by Barton
Bros.' department store. Loss, $100,-
000. -