Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 15, 1900, Page 3

‘ The Hievald--Review. E. C. Kiley T J. Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors Publishers. MINNESOTA, GRAND RAPIDS, - en The screw in the fourth jewel wheel of a watch is so small that a lady’s thimble would hold 1,000,000 of them, The average velocity of cirrus clouds is about 89 miles an hour, while in winter they have sometimes been known to travel at the rate of 230 miles an hour. Mrs. Thomas C. Platt, the wife of the New York senator, gives a great deal of her time to study. Two years ago she took up French and is now especially proficient in that language. When the active service section of the Royal Berks volunteers left Mai- denhead recently on their way to the front, each man was presented with a sovereign by Colonel Boxall, with injunctions to spend the same at Pre- toria, It is announced that Prof. Charles Eliot Norton and the other literary ex- ecutors of John Ruskin have deter- mined not to issue a biography of the art critic, considering his ‘“Praeterita” and Collingwood’s biography sufficient. But the executors will issue represent- ative selections from Mr. Ruskin’s diaries and letters. The foreman of a ranch in Califor- nia declares that rural free delivery is worth a thousand dollars a year to him personally, because it keeps the hands at home. This suggests one reason why the service should be extended. Restless boys will be less anxious to go to the city, when every day the post- man brings the best of the city to them, The Milne-Astor episode dies navd. The finale must be wholly satisfactory to Captain Sir Berkeley Milne—his nomination by the Admiralty as one cf three officers sent to represent the roy- al navy at the funeral of the Duke of Coburg. The selection of Sir Berke- ley was intended as a demonstration and it was due to a suggestion made by a royal personage. February 14, 1901, will mark the centennial of the day when John Mar- shall of Virginia, the first chief justice of the United States, took his seat upon the supreme bench, It is to be commemorated at the initiative of the bar association of the District of Co- lumbia, with the help of the Ameri- can Bar Association, and ex-Attorney- General Wayne MacVeagh has been chosen to deliver the oration, Mrs. Laura A. Alderman owns the largest orchard in South Dakota. Ac- cording to W. N. Irwin, chief of the division of pomology of the Depart- ment of Agriculture in Washington, she has near Harley, Turner county, 150 acres, in which are 8,000 tress, two acres being given over to plums. Be- sides the trees there are 1.000 currant bushes, 1,000 gooseberry bushes, 590 grape vines and three acres of straw- berries. A trade journal estimates the Ameri- can “output” of bicycles for the past year at about eight hundred and fifty thousand wheels. More than one hun- dred thousand were reserved for home consumption, Yet the bicycle is now no novelty. It looks as if the people who have supposed and declared that wheeling was merely a temporary fad would have to own themselves beaten, and aim their dismal predictions at the motor cycle and automobile. Gen, John Watts dePeyster, who de- clares that the earth is fixed in space and who iaughs at those who hold to the Copernican theory of the solar system, is one of the most distin- guished veterans of the Civil war and was formerly a military expert of in- ternational fame. In his old age—he is now 79—he has turned his atten- tion to astronomy, and has just trans- lated a lecture of a Berlin professor, Prof. Schoepffer, who proves to the general’s satisfaction that Kepler, Newton, Copernicus and all their fol- lowers are in gross error when they assert that the earth moves around the sun or upon its own axis. The influence which a single person may exert is admirably illustrated in the case of an Indian girl, who in 1871 was carried to Hampton wrapped in a blanket. One of her first acts was to steal a watermelon, a bit of which she immediately offered to the sun god as propotiation. For the past four years, however, this refined and charming young woman has served as United States field matron among her own tribe. She travels about in a buggy, earrying a wash tub, a wringer and soap, teaching squaw after squaw how to wash, iron and cook, not to hush the baby to sleep with streng coffee,; how to heal weak eyes and other dis- eases common among her people. In the picturesque language of her tribe, Annie Dawson “leaves a trail of light” behind her. The President has approved an or- 23 ~\ der placing the customs service both in Porto Rico and Hawaii under civil ser- vicé.. rules. Hereafter appointments must be made from lists of those who have passed a competitive examina- tion, and are therefore known to be qualified. Moreover, the chairman of.| the cental board of examiners of the civil service commission has been sent to Manila to establish the merit system in the Philippines. These are extreme- ly important steps toward making the administration of our island posses- sions a success. REPORTS WERE NOT MAGNIFIED ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL TRAGE- DIES OF MODERN TIMES. EE Cad Reports From the Stricken City of Galveston Indicate That the Death List Will Exceed 1,500— Property Loss Cannot Be Esti- mated, Although It Will Reach Several Millions— President Me- Kinley Replies to Gov. Sayers’ Appeal for Aid by Ordering 10,- 000 Tents and 50,000 Rations to Galveston—Eight Ocean Steamers Stranded in the Bay—One-half the Property in the City Destroyed— Reports From the Interior Con- firm Stories of Loss of Life and Destruction of Property. Houston, Tex., Sept. 12. — The first reports from the appalling disaster which has stricken the city of Galves- ton do not seem to have bbeen mag- nified. Communication was had with the Island City. yesterday by boats and reports were received here last night indicating that the death list will ex- ceed 1,500, while the property loss can- not be estimated, although it will reach several million dollars. The burial of the dead has already begun. At the army barracks near San Anantion a report is current that more than 100 United States soldiers lost their lives in Galveston. This report, however, lacks confirmation. Yesterday a mass meeting was held and liberal contribu- tions were made for the immediate re- lief of the destitute. President Responds Promptly. Gov. Sayers appealed to President McKinley for aid. This appeal was met with a prompt response from the president, who stated that 10,000 tents and 50,000 rations had been ordered to Galveston. Gov. Sayers also addressed an appeal to each municipality in the state, asking for prompt assistance in caring for the sufferers. Telegrams of inquiry and sympathy have been pour- ing in throughout the day and night from every state in the Union, and in amost every instance substantial re- lief has been offered. The stricken city is in imminent danger of a water famine and strenuous efforts are mak- ing here to supply the sufferers. Re- lief trains are being organized and | will leave at an early hour to-day. Reports from the interior confirm the loss of life and destruction of prop- erty reported in these dispatches yes- terday. Story of the Disaster. Richard Spillane, a well known Gal- veston newspaper man and day cor- respondent of thé Associated Press in that city, who reached Houston yes- terday after a terrible experience, gives the following account of the dis- aster at Galveston: “One of the most awful tragedies of modern times has visited Galveston. The city is in ruins and ‘the dead will number probably 1,000. I am just from the city, having been commissioned by the mayor and citizens’ committee to get in touch with the outside world and appeal! for help. Howston was the nearest point at which working tele- graph instruments could be found, the wires, as well as nearly all the buildings between here and the Gulf of Mexico being wrecked. When I left Galveston shortly before noon Sunday the people were organizing for the Prompt Burial of the Dead, distribution of food and all necessary work after a period of disaster. The wreck of Galveston was brought about by a tempest so terrible that no words can adequately describe its intensity, and by a flood which turned the city into a raging sea. The weather bureau records show that the wind attained a velocity of eighty-four miles’ an hour when the measuring instrument blew away, so it is impossible to tell what was the maximum. The storm began at 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Pre- vious to that a great storm had beén raging in the gulf and the tide was very high. The wind at first came from the north and was in direct opposition to the force from the gulf. While the storm in the gulf piled the water upon the beach side of the city, the north Wind Piled the Water from the bay on the bay part of the city. About noon it became evident that the city was going to be visited with disaster. Hundreds of residences along the beach front were hurriedlly abandoned, the families fleeing to dwellings in higher portions of the city. Every home was opened to the refugees, black or white. The winds were rising constantly and it rained in torrents. The wind was so fierce that the rain cut like a knife. By 3 o’clock the waters of the gulf and bay met and by dark the entire city was sub- merged. The flooding of the electric light plant and the gas plant left the city in darkness. To go upon the streets was to court death. The wind was then at cyclonic velocity, roofs, cisterns, portions of buildings, tele- graph poles and walls were falling and the noise of the wind and the Crashing of the Buildings were terrifying in the extreme. The wind and water rose steadily from dark until 10:45 o'clock Sunday morn- ing. During all thi stime the people of the city were like rats in traps. The highest portion of the city was four or,five feet under water, while in the great majority of cases the streets were submerged to a depth of ten feet. To leave a house was to drown. To remain was to court death in the wreckage. Such a night of agony has seldom been equalled. Without appar- ent reason the waters suddenly began to subside at 1:45 a. m. Within twenty minutes they had gone down two fest, and before daylight the streets were pretty free of the flood waters, In the meantime the wind had veered to the southwest. Very few, if any, build- ings escaped injury. There is hardly a habitable dry house in the city. When the people who had escaped death went out at daylight to view the Work of the Tempest and the floods they saw the most hor- rible sights imaginable. The whole of the business front for three blocks in from the gulf was stripped of every vestige of habitatios, the® dwellings, the great bathing establishments, the Olympia and every structure having been either carried out to sea or its ruins'piled in a pyramid far into the town, according to the vagaries of the tempest. The first hurried glance over the city showed that the lalrgest structures, supposed to be the most |) substantially built, suffered the great- est. Every church in the city with possibly one or two exceptions, is in ruins. At the forts nearly all the sol- diers are reported dead, th having been in temporary quarters which gave them no protection against the tempest or the flood. The bay front from end to end Is in Ruins. Nothing but piling and the wreck of great warehouses remain. The eleva- tors lost all their superworks and their stocks are damaged by water. The life saving station at Fort Point was carried away, the crew being swept across the bay fourteen miles, to Texas City. The cotton mills, the bagging factory, the gas works, the electric light works and nearlly all the indus- trial establishments of the city are either wrecked or crippled. The flood left a sllime about one inch deep over the whole city, and unless fast prog- ress is made burying corpses and car- casses of animals there is Danger of Pestilence, Some of the stories of the escapes are miraculous. The Mistrot house in the West End was turned into a hospital. All of the regular hospitals of the city were unavailable. Of the new South- ern Pacific works little remains but the piling. Half a million feet of lumber was carried away, and Engineer Bosch- ke says s ofar as the company is con- cerned it might as well start over again. Eight ocean steamers were torn from their moorings and stranded in the bay. The Kendall Castle was carried over the flats from the Thirty-third street wharf and lies in the wreckage of the Inman pier. The Norwegian steamer Gyller is stranded between Teas City and Virginia Point. An ocean liner was swirled around through the west bay, Crashed Through the bay bridges and is now lying in a few feet of water near the wreckage of the railroad bridges. The steamship Taunton was carried across Pelican Point and is stranded about ten miles up East bay. The Mallory steamer Almo was torn from. her wharf and dashed upon Pelican flats and the bow of the British steamer Red Cross, which had previously been hurled through the stern of the Alamo, is stove in and the bow of the Red Cross is crushed. Down the channel to the jetties two other ocean steamships lie grounded. Some schooners, barges and smaller craft are strewn bottom side up along the slips of the piers. The tug Louise of the Houston Direct Navigation com- pany is also a wreck. Half the City Destroyed. It will take a week to tabulate the dead and missing and to get anything near an approximate idea of the money loss. It is safe to assume that one- half of the property of the city is wiped out and that one-half of the residents have to face absolute poverty. The wreckage from Galveston litters the shore for miles and is a hundred yards or more wide. For ten miles in- land it is a common sight to see small craft, such as steam, launches, schoon- ers and oyster sloops. The life boat of the life-saving station was carried half a mile inland, while a vessel that was moored in Moses bayou lies high and ary five miles up from Lamarque. Relief for Sufferers. New York, Sept. 12. — Dr. Louis Klopsch of the Christian Herald yes- terday telegraphed $1,000 to Gov. Say- ers of Texas to be applied to the im- mediate relief of the Galveston flood sufferers, and further very effective re- lief measures are contemplated by the same agency. ELECTION IN MAINE, Republican Ticket Wins by Good Majority. Portland, Me., Sept. 12.—The Repub- licans elected their state ticket yes- terday by a plurality over the Demo- eratit candidates of over .33,000. The vote was almost as large as four years ago and the returns so far as received, compared with 1896, show Republican losses of about 10 per cent, or a Demo- cratic gain of about 19 per cent. The result must be in a great measure gratifying to both parties. To the Re- publlicans, because they polled almost as lalrge a vote as in 1896, and to the Demograts because of the heavy gains over that year. While thousands of voters who, in 1896, deserted the Democratic ranks, returned to the fold yesterday, yet the Republicans were able to make good most of the loss. : The entire Republican ticket, headed by John P. Hill of Augusta for gov- ernor, was elected, as were all four of the congressmen, Allen, in’ Reed's old istrict; Littlefied, in ‘Djngley’s old district: Burleigh in the Third and Boutelle in the Fourth. The campaign throughout the state except, perhaps in Cumberland county, was fought en- tirely on national issues. In Cumber- land county, with Portland as a cen- ter, there was fought one of the most interesting contests in the state. It was based on the liquor law, its en- forcement or {ts non-enforcement, the Republicans representing the latter and a Prohibition candidate the form- er issue. The fight was a bitter one. As to the legislature there were few Democratic gains. This body will meet in January and re-elect W. P. Frye to the United States senate. Deserted Their Officer. Kumassi, Sept. 12.—News has been received here that a hody of 3,000 na- tive levies, under Capt. Benson, at- tacked Ojesu, the famous Fetish town, ten miles east of here, Aug. 29, instead of waiting to co-operate as ordered with Lieut. Col. Brake’s column, which destroyed Ojesu Aug. 81. As soon as they were under fire the levies turned and fled. Capt. Benson, who had only one white man with him, is reported to have shot himself in order to avoid falling into the hands of the Ashantis. 3 John S. Kettl n of Ida Grove, Iowa, was the lowest bidder for the construction of the new public building at Bk > Neb. His bid was $26,640. ig op x OWS MORE . APPALLING CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE “DEAD NOT LESS TIAN 5,000, tory Has No Parallel for the Aw- ful Calamity’ Which Befell Gal- “veaton—Appalling Nature of the Tragedy Grows as Communica. tion Is Slowly Bodies Have Already Been Dis- Restored—2,2 posed Of—Fiends in Human Form Flock to Galveston to Rob the Dead—Score of Ghouls Killed by Soldiers—Whole Country Is Re- sponding to the Appeal for Relief —Immense Losses on the Coast Beyond Galveston. Houston, Tex., Sept. 12.—The appall- ing nature of the great tragedy at Galveston grows steadily as communi- cation is slowly restored and refugees reach a haven of safety here, bringing with them stories of a calamity unpar- alleled in history. When early reports of the disaster reached the outside world giving an estimate of 1,500 souls swept suddenly into eternity, the news was received with incredulity. Last night Mayor Jones issued the astound- ing statement to the world that a con- servative estimate of the dead is not less than 5,000. The news yesterday 4 from the stricken city is as sensational as it was shocking. So dangerous a menace to the safety of the survivors the existence of the rapidly Decomposing Corpses became that every able bodied man who can lend a hand is engaged in the work of cremating those bodies that remain in the debris and of consigning to the sea or to common trenches those that are picked up on the streets or along the storm-swept beach. Al- ready 2,300 have been thus disposed of in the interest of human life and the preservation of public — sanitation. Though hardly credible, the news seems amply confirmed that fiends in human form have flocked to Galveston to rob the dead and to loot their homes. Intense indignation has been aroused here over these terrible disclosures, and the report of the killing of more than A Score of the Ghouls by the soldiers and citizens finds the strongest commendation in public sen- timent. Now, however, that Mayor Jones has taken a firm stand on the situation and has both the support of state and regular troops, it is assured that the city will be more thoroughly policed and further desecration of the dead promptly stopped. The most ex- haustive efforts have been made to ob- tain a complete list of the victims of th disaster. That seems an impossible task now, and perhaps only through a néw census of the iiving will the full namber or the identity of those who lost their lives be made known. All estimates with regard to property loss are apparently only guess work. The Relief Work now under full sway here is along two lines—to succor those who cannot leave Galveston and to bring out of the city all of those who can and are willing to leave. Mayor Jones and the citizens’ committee of the Island City are urg- ing that only those shall be permitted to ente? whose presence is imperative, and the\transportation lines are strain- ing every nerve in order that they may accord the privilege to those who are pieading'to get away from the scenes of horror and desolation around them. So far as actual relief is concerned the local committees are Devoting Themselves to converting their cash subscriptions into food ‘and clothing, both of which are imperitively needed. They urge that New Orleans, Mobile and other gulf and Atlantic coast cities can best help the fabs by sending neces- saries direct by steamer. News has gradually = reaching here of the immense lojses along the coast beyond Galveston. | Damage difficult to esti- mate in déllars and cents has been done in a wide stretch of territory and many human lives have been lost be- sides thdse which were wiped out in Galvestoa and its immediate vicinity. - WORK OF RELIEF. } 2 Whole Chuntry Responding to the \ Appeal. Another {train over the International & Great Northern left Houston at 8 o’clock yesterday morning. This train carried water, medical and other sup- plies of which the sufferers are in greatest need. It was deemed best to call the military companies into ser- vice. It\is believed they can do ef- fective wérk in burying the dead, res- cuing the\living and doing what gen- eral work\remains to be done. Gen. McKibbin grrived here at an early hour yestelay morning with aid and a number ¢ soldiers. Following him on a fast fraéght were two cars loaded with 10,000 Yations and 1,000 tents. These were tent to Galveston on a barge. Offers of assistance are pour- ing in from al\ over the United States. The whole couitry is responding to the appeal for relilf. The money coming by telegraph akeady amounts to sev- eral thousand dilars and according to all reports will \e needed. APPEA\ FOR AID. Mayor of Galveiton Issues an. Ad- dress to the Peple of the United States. The Post corresp@dent was instruct- ed 'to forward the f\llowing address to the people of the United States: Galveston, Tex., Spt. 11—It is my opinion, based on perional information, that 5,000 people hay} lost their lives here.. Approximately pne-third of the |, residence portion of tle city has been swept away. There ae several thou- sand people who are homeless and des- titute. How many thet is no way of finding out. Arrangemetts are now be- ing made to have the wamen and chil- ‘dren sent to Houston and other places, put the means of transjortation are limited. Thousands are \still to be te : “killing her immediate aid. —Walter C. Jones. Mr. Jones is mayor of Galveston. cared tor here. We appeai to vou tor] ACROSS THE BORDER FIENDS IN HUMAN FORM, Committing the Most Atrocious Acts of Vandalism, . Dallas, Tex., Sept. 12.— A horrible story is told by Dallas citizens who | returned last night from Galveston. They declare that negroes and many white persons are hourly committing the most atrocious acts of vandal 5 J. W. Griswold, division freight agetet, of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, who was in that city during the storm and had a narrow escape from death, said: “Ears and fingers bearing diamonds were hacked off with pocket knives and the members placed in the pockets of the vandals. The bodies of women who wore fine clothing have been stripped of the last thread and left to fester in the sun. The residences left standing have been broken into and jewelry and silver plate stolen. I saw a negro woman carrying a large basket of silverware that was not hers. At Texas City I saw an old man, consid- erably under the influence of liquor. From his pocket protruded a» roll of bills as big as my-+arm, which he claimed to have found on the bay shore. Upon all sides this terrible work is going on. The offenders are generally negroes, although there are some white men who have demon- strated that they are sufficiently de- void of honesty and manhood to pur- sue ghoulish deeds. As soon as the storm subsided the negroes stole all the liquor they could get, and, getting drunk, proceeded with their campaign of vandalism. Troops are needed at once. If they are not sent without de- lay God help the survivors in Galves- ton.” This is confirmed by a dozen men of the highest standing here. FAG END OF HURRICANE. Does Considerable Damuge in West- ern States. Chicago, Sept. 12.—The fag-end of the West Indian hurricane, reinforced by heavy winds from the region of the Dakotas, raged yesterday over parts of the States of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Indiana. The storm center was near the Iilinois- Wisconsin line. For hundreds of miles around Chicago telegraph lincs are down and in some directions there are no wires working. Much damage has been done to crops and some towns re- port buildings demolishef. On the Mississippi river a number of steam- ers are reported wrecked. The high- est Velocity of the wind reported was seventy-two miles per hour. WORST IN -YEARS. Storm Causes Loss of Life and Prop- erty Damage in Illinois. The storm of yesterday was one of the most severe that has visited Chi- cago in years. At one time the wind reached a velocity of seventy-two miles an hous, and at no time during the day was the velocity less than fifty miles an hour. Two people lost their lives as a result of the gale and a number were injured. The damage from broken windows, falling signs and trees will run into the thousands of dollars. Marine interests were warned by storm signals early in the day and only the staunchest vessels of the reg- ular lines ventured out. A number of boats and vessels in the harbor dragged their anchors and were in- jured. STORM IN WISCONSIN, Tail End of the Texas Hurricane Causes Some Damage. Milwaukee, Sept. 12.—The tail end of the Texas hurricane reached Milwau- kee last evening and wrought consid- erable havoc at the state fair grounds, blowing down twenty-five tents in which various exhibits is placed. The damage is not known. ‘Marinette re- ports the region north of there, near Faithorn Junction, suffered consider- able damage, houses and barns being unroofed. An unknown schooner was in distress in Green Bay and could not be reached by tugs owing to the heavy sea. Eau Claire reports heavy rise in river there and bridges and a dam carried away. Storm at Winona. Winona, Minn., Sept. 12.—This vicin- ity was visited yesterday with about the heaviest rain and wind storm for years. Rain fell for two hours in tor- rents, while the wind tore tents and frames that were being used for the street fair which opens to-day, and levelling four large tents covering vau- devilles and frightening the audiences badly. La Crosse Also Suffers. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 12.—A heavy storm raged in this city yesterday. Rain fell in torrents and much dam- age is reported in the country sur- rounding La Crosse. Railroads suf- fered throughout the Northwest. The trains are all behind time. Cigarmakers Strike. Hanover, Pa., Sept. 12. — The first strike of organized labor in this sec- tion was declared yesterday when nearly 700 male and femaie cigar- makers in a number of shops in this place and McSherrytown went on a strike because of the refusal of the marufacturers to adopt the union shop system. Killed His Grandmother. Fort Scott, Kan., Sept. 12.—Ora G. Scott, aged twenty-two, yesterday buried a hatchet five times in the brain of his seventy-year-old grandmother, instantly. He had been brought back from California on ac- count of mental derangement. He is now in jail. Town Is Burning. Toronto, Ont., Sept. 12.—A terrific fire is raging in Paris, Ont., and there is little hope of saving the business por- tion of the town. A message asking for immediate assistance was sent to Brantford. Paris is about forty miles west of Toronto. rn Damage in Louisiana. New Orleans, Sept. 12. — The total, damage in Louisiana by the late storm is estimated at over $600,000. The greatest damage was done in South- west Louisiana and the sufferers were storm. BOTHA HEADING FOR PORTUGUESE ' TERRITORY. Dutch Commander Expects to Fight Pursuing British Troops Another . ™Whree Months and Then Go Over Into Portuguese Territory and Be Dis- Power— Allow Themselves armed by a Neutral Kruger and Steyn Will Flee—De a Wet Says Annexation Has Fired he Burghers Anew — Will Fight to Londony Sept. 12.— Gen, Botha's dogged 1 through the Lydenburg hills has East Africa as its goal. The - to fight the pt at least another over the Portuguese across the border he will any spoils of war to the enemy. 1 army will be but a barren capture. The gunners of every piece of artiller; in his command, which includes vast bulk of the Boer field armament, announce that they will reserve the last round of powder to blow up their guns. These statements are on the au- thority of burghers who have been in the closest touch with the young re- publican general throughout the recent operations in the northeastern part of the Transvaal. They regard as defi- nitely confirmatory of this intention on his part the recent action of the Portu- guese government in dispatching a thousand troops to the vicinity of the South African frontier. Holland or America. With the evacuation of the rem- nants of the federal army Presidents Kruger and Steyn will leave the coun- try for Holland or America. One of these two countries is certain to be the destination of the deposed executives. Rudolph Botha and Daniel Dewet, two of the Cape Colony “loyal Dutch,” have been sent to England to plead for “a just settlement.” They declare that Roberts’ annexation of the Transvaal has fired with a new determination the fighting burghers, and has irreparably ruined what remote chances there still remained of a pacification of South Africa. Fight to the End. Daniel Dewet, a cousin of the bril- Nant raider general, is also his counter: part in personal appearance. He say: “The Boers have lest their indepen- dence, but they have not lost their fighting blood. The theft of their coun- try by the British will serve only to make them battle the harder for the final possession. While the annexation of the Orange Free State foreshad- owed the doom of the Transvaal, there has always been a glimmer of hope that some vestige of liberty would re- main to the public. We realize now, however, that it was only a glimmer. Whatever may be said about the beneficent, pacifying influence of Brit- ish rule, the Boers will never make loyal colonists. Their hearts are full of malice and of the desire for re- venge. Their people, their homes and their country have been outraged, and their sole excuse for cortinued exis- tence is the possibility of future ven- geance. They will hate the British till the very veldt becomes an unsafe res- idence, for either their tormentors or ‘themselves must be exterminated.” PAO-TING-FU MASSACRE. Children Butchered and the Men and Women Tortured to Death. London, Sept. 12—The Times publishes this morning additional advices from its Pekin correspondent, Dr. Morrison, under date of Aug. 31. “The censorship, which is under Sir Alfred Gaselee’s control, makes it dif- ficult,” says the correspondent, “to con- vey a true picture of the situation in Pe- Kin. To-day the city was thrilled with horror at the news of the massacre of the missionaries at Pao-ting-fu, who were under the protection of the imperial troops. Children were butchered before the eyes of their parents. White women were assaulted and carried into captivity. Parents were tortured and murdered. “‘Massacres by. red Indians never call in vain for vengeance. Yet the troops re- main here inactive. Their one thought and wish-are to be given work or to be recalled from Pekin. Surely the civilized world will not suffer this cruel massacre to remain unavenged, and make no et- fort to ascertain the fate of the ‘poor martyred Christians and white women. Since the relief of the legations one fact stands conspicuous—the predominance of Russia and the overfostering pusition she is now assuming here. The passage through the Forbidden City on Aug. 28 was a triumphant entry by Russia, fol- lowed by the other powers. Russia did the honors, greatly to the chagrin of the other rainisters, “Russian troops are pouring into Pekin daily. Ninteen hundred came yesterday and 2,800 the day befcre. Already the Russians outnumber the Japanese and they will soon outnumber the combined forces. Their stay is assuming every characteristic of permanency.”’ Sons of Veterans. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 12.—The nine- teenth annual encampment of the Sons of Veterans opened in this city. Com- mander-in-Chief A. W. Jones, lieuten- ‘ant governor of Ohio, presided. An ad- dress of welcome was delivered by a representative of the city government, and the response was by ex-Goy. Frank D. Jackson of Iowa. ~ Killed by Falling Brieks. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 12. — A brick wall eighty-four feet long and five stories high, a part of an addition be- ing built to Swift & Co.’s packing plant, was blown down by a wind One was killed and one hurt. Charged With Murder. St. Loris, Sept. 12. -— John Morgan, the colored college graduate who is avanted in Memphis fcr mvrder, was errested here yesterday at the recuest of the police of that city. He will be taken to Memphis fer trial. 9 — ©