Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 31, 1901, Page 2

The Herald--Review, By E. C. KILEY, RAND RAPIDS, - “MINNESOTA, The latest census shows that there are 420,274 horses in Denmark, 188 for every 100 acres under cultivation and 195 per 1,000 inhabitants; the sheep number 1,058,656, which is 281 per 100 acres and 456 per 1,000 inhabitants. Denmark is an agricultural country. About three-fourths of the population are engaged in the cultivation of the soil. Copenhagen is the only city of any size. Princess Clementine d’Orleans, who 4s now the only survivor of the large family of Louis Philippe, has cele- brated her eighty-fourth birthday at Schloss Ebenthal, her seat near Vien- na, whither she has just returned after a long stay at Mentone. Princess Clementine married Prince Augustus of Sax-Coburg-Gotha, a brother of the late king dowager of Portugal, and a first cousin of Queen Victoria and of the prince consort. The Missouri egg factory of Spring- field handles about 50,000 dozen eggs a day, all of which are candled before entering the factory. About three wagon loads of eggs are rejected each day and hauled outside of the city limits where they are dumped. A man living near the dumping ground has collected enough chickens hatched by the weather from eggs thus thrown away to stock a chieken farm. Every day for a month or more he has been carrying a number of chickens home from the dumping ground, where they had been hatched by the unprecedented heat. Persons interested in wild flowers are endeavoring to create—and to or- ganize—a sentiment for the protection of our native plants, especially near large cities. The pond-lily, trailing arvutus, native orchids, fringed gen- tian and many of the evergreens have been gathered in Massachusetts for sale in such quantities, and so steadily sought by frequenters of suburban woods, that their extinction is threat- ened. The remedy suggested is that care be used to cut rather than pull the flowers, so that the roots need not be disturbed; and that those who gather rare plants for the market should be discouraged by lack of patronage. Bishop Philpotts of Exeter early earned his reputation for saying sharp things. One of the guests at an under- graduate’s party, in Oxford, sang a song much out of tune. Then Philpotts was called upon. “I haven’t a note in my voice,” said he. “Well, if you can’t sing, you must make a speech or tell a story!” declared the host. “If I am to tell a story,” said the future bish- op, “I think I should say that I should like to hear ——.sing that song again!” Much later in life he went to pay a visit in Devonshire. “It’s a beautiful place, isn’t it?” asked a guest. “Yes,” said the bishop, “but if it were mine I would pull down the house and fill up the pond with it. That would remove two objections.” The value of a recipe lies partly in its being accurately set down and fol- lowed. Harper’s Magazine has the fol- lowing directions for making a break- fast delicacy called pop-overs, as they were imparted by the Chinese servant to a lady visiting in the family: “You takee him one egg,” said the master of the kitchen, “one lit’ cup milk. You fixee him one cup flou’ on sieve, take pinch salt—you put him in lump. You move him egg lit’ bit slow; you put him milk in, all time move. You makee him flou’ go in, not move fast, so have no spots. Makee but’led pan all same ‘wa’m, not too hot. Putlee him in oven. Now you mind you business. No like ‘woman run look at him all time. Him done all same time biscuit.” During month if July thousands of young people gathered in Cincinnati and San Francisco, in Christian En- deavor and Epworth League conven- téons. Enthusiasm in large measure was theirs. But the public, always utilitarian, asks: “What have these young people actually done?” A few among the “best things” reported by the Junior Endeavors alone, chil- dren under 14 years af age, are a suf- ficient reply: Clothed :and paid board of a crippled boy in school. Gave a thanksgiving dinner to thirty-five poor children. Earned money to give poor children an outing in July and Au- gust. Kept a crippleti old lady in clothing and food all winter, Fur- nished flowers all winter to our church. Made scrap books for hospi- tals. Educated two olored boys. Placed a rack én depot and kept it filled with good reading. Gathered two hundred good ‘books for the prison committee to use in its werk. Bought an invalid bed, which is loaned in the community. Surely an enthusiasm riv- eted by such acts of helpful service need not hesitate to call itself true religion. Gladstone’s humorous advice to the farmers to convert their superfluous turnips into beautiful jam has been abundantly acted upon, even in the vir- tuous United States. Around one ease of the Agricultural Department’s ex- hibit at the Pan-American Exposition hang squares of cloth, originally white, now yellow, orange, scarlet, erimson, blue and purple all colored by aniline dyes extracted from comntercial jam and jellies In comparison with such nefarious adulteration comment would tbe colorless. Washington Notes, President McKinley has proclamation inviting all the nations of the earth to take part in the expo- sition at St. Louis in 1903 to commem- orate the purchase of the Louisiana territory. issued a According to a statement given out by the division of insular affairs of the war department the total receipts of the department in Cuba during the cal- endar year 1900 were $16,999,923, against $14,854,261 for 1899, The fears in Manila of a*famine in Nloilo are not taken seriously by the authorities, and the offer of the Manila papers to start subscriptions has been declined. The government has already advanced $25,000 in gold for Hoilo. The public health report just issued by the marine hospital service shows the existence of 8,258 cases of smallpox in the United States, against’ 3,342 at the same time last year. Minnesota had the largest number of cases— 1,152, The arrangements made by John Hyde, the statistician of the agricul- tural department during his recent trip abroad for the telegraphic exchange of crop reports with grain producing coun- tries, contemplates three reports an- nually from Great Britain and six to eight from other European countries. | Secretary Hay h as appointed Dr. -J. J. Rodriguez of Washington secretary of the United States delegation to the international conference of American states to be held in the City of Mexico next October. Mr. Rodriguez is a law- yer and served as special consul to the American peace commissioners in Paris. Personal Mention. Dr. Edward W. Claypole, the well | known geologist of Pasadena, Cal., is | dead. £ | Edwin Manning, one of the wealth- lest men in Iowa, died at his home in Keesauqua. His estate is valued at $3,000,000. Frederick Baldwin Betts, who in the first half of the iast century was head of one of the largest saddlery firms in the United States, is dead at Morris- town, N. J. Rev. Handley Carr Glyn Moule-Nor- tizan, professor of divinity at Cam- bridge university, has been appointed bishop of Durham in succession to the late Dr. Wescott. Mrs. Eliza Parker died at Bedford Springs, Trimble county, Ky. She was the widow of Col. William T. Parker and the jaughter of the late William H. and Mary Goeghan Reordan. She was a writer of much prominence. Beaumont Smith, well known in the East as an editor and recently connect- ed with a Kansas City company, died in Denver, aged forty-two years. Smith’s state career included seasons with Booth and Barrett, Modjeska and Robson. Winfield Scott Stratton, Cripple Creek’s bonanza king, as great a com- moner r.ow as when, ten years ago, he shoved a plane for daily wages, will march on Labor day, Sept. 2, with the Colorado Springs local lodge of the carpenters’ union. A. W. Graham, first vice president of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, died at Petoskey, Mich., recently. Mr. Graham suffered a sunstroke during the hot weather in July and was taken to Petoskey, where he was attacked by typhoid fever, which disease caused his death. Casualities. Two negroes were blown to atoms by a dynamite explosion at a stone quarry just outside of Baltimore. James: McCue, connected with Bar- ney Schreiber’s racing stable of St. Louis, was fatally injured at the Sara- toga race track. The floods resulting from the cloud- burst at York, Pa., have proved the most destructive in York county for many years. Estimates place the loss at over $100,000. A hurricane has swept over the vil- lageof Villariego-Jilota, Spain. Forty buildings were razed to the ground, six persons killed and many injured. The damage is estimated at several million pesetas. In the head-on collision between the Chicago & Alton west-bound “hummer” and a freight train at Prentice, IIL, five men were killed and six badly in- jured. None of the passengers were injured beyond slight bruises. The freight sheds and twenty-five loaded 1nd twenty-five empty freight cars belonging to the Union Pacific railroad were burned at the transfer depot of that company in Council Bluffs, causing a loss estimated) at $100,000. From Other Shores. The first parliament of King Edward has been prorcgued. It is proposed to give London a bath in anticipation of the coronation. Astronomers of Russia are nonplus- sed by a constellation phenomenon. Tord Kitchener says the South Afri- can war has ecased to be patriotic. Italian hostility te Austria has werked itself up to the fighting point. London bacteriologists will endeavor to transmit human tuberculosis to cows by using pigs. Favorable crop reports throughout Italy indicate the wheat. prospect as slightly in excess of last seasor.’s har- vest of 42,000,000 heetclitres. “American coal has ousted British coal from the Swiss market,” says a dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Geneva, “and the American syndicate fs confident of eventually obtaining a monopoly of the entire Swiss coal mar- ket.” . There has been a recrudescence of agitation on the part of the Irish and British farmers against what they term the practical monopoly of the London meat market by Americans, and the ‘board of agriculture has promised to inquire into the matter, Sins and Sinners. The cottage of Lady Gerard, in Eng- land, was entered by burglars and robbed of jewels of the value of more than £2,000. Jack Williams, who stole $320,000 in gold bullion from the Selby Smelting works, has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. In a fight between several coal min- ers and deputy sheriffs near Madison- ville, Ky., several hundred shots were exchanged and a number of persons wounded. George Gordon, a negro, killed his wife with an axe near Raymond, Miss. He chopped the body into an unrecog- nizable mags and escaped. A sheriff's rcsse is now in pursuit. Zeno Williams (colored), who was re- cently released from the penitentiary, was shot and killed at Paducah, Ky., by Eugene Edwards, while trying to break into éhe latter's store. Luke Hough, a negro, was hanged near Wadesboro, N. C., by a crowd of enraged citizens. His body was then riddled with bullets. His crime was criminally assaulting Miss Lena Keith. Assistant Postmaster Max Kruskopt of Marshalltown, Iowa, who had the funds of the office in his charge, in whose accounts a shortage of over $800 was discovered by Postoffice Inspector | Ketcham, has disappe: red. Four boys, Roy and Lester MeVeta and Ray and Freddie Marvin, all in knickerbockers, ranging in age from six to ten years, have been arrested at Kokomo, Ind., for stoning another boy, Eddie McKee, to death. Secret service agents have arrested three men in San Francisco on the charge of passing notes printed on the stolen plates of the defunct Bank of New SErunswick, N. J. The suspects are Frank Perry, E. Logan and W. E. Smith. Frederick Cristella, assistant cashier in the Brooklyn office of the internal revenue department, is under arrest, charged with the embezzlement of $2,000 worth of revenue stamps. Cris- tella is said to have admitted that the peculations had been going on for two years past. Miss Jennie Ray, a young woman of Fort Wayne, Ind., who recently came into possession of $1,200 by a relative’s death, consulted a clarvoyant as to the best means of investing it. He ad- vised her to put it into a safety depos- it box with $5,000 of his own. She did, and he afterwards took the money out and derarted. Otherwise. A very rich strike of lubricating oil has been made in Bates county, Mis- souri. Thirty couples of teachers, en route for the Philippines were married at Honolulu. A St. Louis physician separates him- self from his family in order to nurse a Chinese leper. An uncle of President Schwab, of the steel trust was sent to the workhouse for drunkenness. A Syracuse woman horsewhipped a private detective who had the audacity to kick her little dog. A Massachusetts man bas invented a device to keep roosters from crowing in the early morning. An Indianapolis minister fired three pistol shots at his daughter’s beau to remind him that it was time to go home. The board of health of Monte Clair, J., has given the authorities power to purchase oil to begin the work of exterminating mosquitoes. It is estimated that the hop crop in Oneida, Madison and Otsego counties, New York, will not be over two-thirds the average this year, and possibly not over one-half. The national council of the Knights of Columbus has chenged the method of election of state ¢nd national chap- lains, making the offices appointive in- stead of elective. Now there is to be a million-dollar Eutton trust. This combination, by the plans of men now at work perfecting it, will take in all the important manu- fecturers of ivory buttons in the United States. Arrargements have been completed for the establishment of a direct line of steamers between New Orleans and Rotterdam, under the joint manage- ment of the Illinois Central railroad and the Radcliffe Steamship company of Cardiff. A_mad dog, chased by policemen and animal keepers, ran into tne den of the polar bears in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and fought for ten minutes with the ponderous animals before Head Keep- er Devery entered the cage and club- bed it to death. The Catholic Order of Foresters has decided to admit saloonkeepers in the order. The liquor business, however, was deemed to b2 an extra-hazardous occupation, and all members of the so- ciety engaged in it will have to pay an extra assessment. The American Shovel and Tool com- pany, to manufacture all kinds of tools, has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J, with a capital of $5,000,000. The in- orporators are Lawrence Grover, New York; Herbert Taylor, New York; Ol- iver W. Mink, Boston. Capt. Andrews ani Miss Mary South- 1ow, the young girl who is to accompa- ny the daring navigater on his next trip across the Atlantie, were married Sunday on Young’s pier, Atlantic City, N. J., in the presence of an audience which filled the marine ball room. ‘While messages of the Marconi sys- tem of wireless telegraphy were suc- cessfully received from the steamship Lucania, off Nantucket, it was said on board the steamer at quarantine that nothing transmitted from the shore could be understood on board the Lu- cania. It is stated that the longest tunnel in the United States will be built through the Sierra Nevada mountains of Cali- fornia, if the plays of E. H. Harriman are carried out. The tunnel profect, which will involve an outlay of from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000, contemplates the boring of a@ hole 27,000 feet in length, “BOB” EVANS DEAD PROMINENT MINNEAPOLIS POLITI- CIAN PASSES AWAY SUD- . DENLY. THE WHOLE STATE IS SHOCKED Asthmatic and Other Serious Affec- tions From Which He Had Suf- fered for Years the Cause of His Death—Causes Universal Sorrow— Prominent Leader in the Ranks of the Republicans. Minneapolis, Aug. 27.—Robert G. Ev- ans, United States district attorney, and a man thoroughly well known and highly esteemed throughout a great commonwealth, died suddenly, at the family residence, 2030 Queen avenue south, Minneapolis, yesterday morning. Mr. Evans’ death came with a sudden- ness that was startling. The communi- ty in which he has lived for seventeen years was shocked by the information that “Bob” Evans had been surnmoned py death only four months after his be- loved wife had passed to the great be- yond. The most intimate friends of Mr. Evans had known of his severe physical troubles, and these were not as greatly surprised as were the many thousands of citizens that knew him only by reputation, but who knew him sufficiently to appreciate what an ex- cellent citizen had passed away. Sufferec for Years. Mr. Evans was forty-seven years old. He had been troubled for years with asthmatic and other serious affections. Mr. Evans returned only a few days ago from Lake Ida, near Alexandria, Minn., where, with Senator Charles M. Fairbanks, Congressman F. C. Stevens, Congressman Loren Fletcher and oth- ers he had spent the greater part of a week in fishing. The outing seemed to do him good, for at a dinner given at the Minneapolis club Thursday he was especially jovial. Then on Saturday evening he was with a company of friends at the same club, and partici- pated in a dinner with his characteris- tic jollity and good cheer. He went home about 11 o'clock Saturday night. His sleep was not sound, and he Arose From His Bed a number of times during the night. Shortly after 7 o’clock he was taken seriously ill. With great effort and ev- idently with great pain Mr, Evans managed to reach the bedchamber of his daughter. Miss Evans realized only too well her father’s condition. He could not speak to his child, but the agonized look was sufficient. Anxious for fresh air he made another heroic struggle and managed to reach the front veranda. Mr. Evans had hardly passed through the front doorway when he fell seemingly lifeless. Med- ical aid was hastily summoned by the neighbors, but there was nothing that medical science could accomplish. Mr. Evans was born in Troy, Ind., March 18, 1854. He was admitted to the bar in 1876. Later he practiced his profession in Vincennes until 1884, when he Removed to Minneapolis. His first law copartnership here was with Judge Daniel Fish. For more than a dozen years Mr. Evans was a member of the law firm of Keith, Ev- ans, Thompson & Fairchild. His great and absorbing ‘interest in political af- fairs, and his energetic and zealous participation in city, state and national campaigns brought him conspicuously to the front. He was appointed United States district attorney about four years ago. He had been talked about as gubernatorial timber for many years, but never saw his way clear to making an effort for the nomination. Mr. Evans yielded to great pressure last winter when he entered the famous senatorial race that resulted in the se- leoticn of Moses E. Clapp. DAM BREAKS—FOUR DROWNED. Creek at Mauch Chunk, Pa., Tarned Into Raging Torrent in a Short Time. Philadelphia, Aug. 27. — Reports re- ceived in this city state that the heavy rainse which have fallen almost inces- santly during the past week throughout the state have resulted in the most dis- astrous flood experienced in many years. At Mauch Chunk the storm was attended by four fatalities. Jesse Struthers, a prominent citizen of Mauch Chunk, and three boys named McCafferty, McGinley and Johnson were standing on a bridge spanning Mauch Chunk creek when the supports collapsed and the four were precipitat- ed into the water and drowned. The stream had become a raging torrent by the bursting of a dam a half mile above the borough line. The creek is fifteen feet above {ts normal mark, and the towns in Carbon county along its course have suffered much damage. Bridges, culverts and arches are de- stroyed and the loss to the borough and to the property holders will be many thousands of dollars. Business is at a standstill. CONDUCTOR BLUNDERED. Fourteen Persons Seriously Injured in a Collision. Indianapolis, Aug. 27.—Fourteen per- sons were more or less seriously injured in a collision between a Greenfield in- terurban car and a train on the Belt railroad yesterday. The conductor motioned the motorman to come ahead at the crossing. A freight engine with a dozen cars was approaching and as the electric car reached the center of the track the freight cars struck it and threw it to one side. The electric car was practically demolished. The mo- torman was badly injured. THIRTY-DAY SWIM. Boston Man Will Attempt to Swim From Boston to New York. Boston, Aug. 27.—To swim from Bos- ton to New York is the feat that Peter 8. McNally will attempt, making the start next Sunday, the entire distance to be covered within thirty days. Mr. Mc Nally hopes to arrive at the battery in New York before noon on Monday, Sept. 30. The actual distance is 2823-4 nautical miles, but the swimming course will be very little less than 400 les. mile: BURNED AT STAKE, Six Thousand People Witness the Horrible Fate of a Negro. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 27.—Harry Noles, the negro who criminally as- saulted and shot to death Mrs, Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer near Winchester, Tenn., last Friday, was captured early yesterday morning at Water Tank, near Cowan, Tenn. He was taken to Winchester by his captors and placed in the county jail. Sheriff Stewart made haste to try to barricade the jail and protect the prisoner. Soon an angry mob of several hundred men gathered but Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Matt Newhittaker appeared and made a speech to the crowd. He ap- pealed to them to assist him in allaying excitement and upholding the majesty of the law. He promised to reconvene the grand jury to-day to promptly in- dict the negro and have him speedily tried, assuring them that his conviction and legal execution was a foregone con- clusion. This appeal was supplemented by Judge J. J. Lynch, Capt. W. P. Tol- ley, Joseph M. Littleton, Foster Ram- sey and others. No sooner had their appeals been made than several hun- dred citizens from the neighborhood where the crime had been committed, came up and augmented the crowd to thousands. They swept forward upon the jail, overpowered the sheriff and his deputies, took the prisoner and started for the scene of the crime, twelve miles distant, at 10:15 a.m. The mob was orderly but determined. It seemed that the whole population for miles around had turned out to see the Fate of the Wretch. A procession three miles in length fol- lowed the mob to the Williams home. Arriving at a point near the scene of the crime the negro was placed on a stump and given a chance to make @ statement. He mounted the stump stolidly, and laughed as he began his statement. He said: “Tell all my sisters and brothers to meet me in glory. I am going to make that my home. Tell my mother to meet me where parting will be no more.” He was then asked if any one else was implicated in the crime. Noles stated emphatically that there was no one else implicated but him- self. “Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?” he was asked. “I just done it because I had nothing else to do,” he said. He finished his statement at 1:30 p. th. He-was taken from the stump, car- ried to a tree near’ by, bound with chains and his body saturated with oil. At 1:40 a match was applied and in- stantly the quivering body was envel- oped in flames. Fence rails were pitched about the burning body and soon life was extinct. The negro made no outcry at any time and died as stolidly as a stoic. There were no dis- orderly scenes about the burning body. At least 5,000 people witnessed the hor- rible fate of the negro. Many remained until nightfall, augmenting the blaze until the. body was entirely consumed. They then departed for their homes quietly. WORK FOR PEACE. Civic Federation Moves to Bring About a Settlement of Strike. Pittsburg, Aug. 27.—Some remarkable changes in the situation of the strike- ridden mills of the United States Steel corporation are promised for the pres- ent week that will change the aspect of affairs considerably if carried out. It was stated on good authority yesterday that before the end of the week those of the plants that have been operating on single turn would be run with full force and for the usual three full turns each day. Men enough have been se- cured for this purpose, the officials say, in spite of the claims of the strikers that the companies could not get enough men to operate their plants, and the managers of the various mills say they will be ready with all the skilled men required to start up the machinery and turn out a heavy ton- nage. In furtherance of the peace pro- gram which is said to have been in the course of preparation for several days, it was given out yesterday by one on the inside, and one who should know, that the Amalgamated executives have consented to have ' Certain Propositions made to the officials of the United States Steel corporation through mem- bers of the conciliatory committee of the National Civic Federation, which proposals are expected to bring about a settlement of the great strike. Those interested in the matter were in wait- ing all day yesterday for word to pro- ceed with the program as outlined at the conference of Amalgamated execu- tives and the conciliatory committee of the Civic Federation last Firday. The propositions which are to be taken to New York carry certain concessions by the Amalgamated officials which it is hoped will pave the way for the re~ opening of direct negotiations between the association and the company. The proposition carries much of the terms under which President Shaffer and his advisers stand willing; to settle. What these terms are and the made of their presentation are carefully guarded se- crets. There is the implication that they contain concessions of such im- portance that those in interest expect the corporation to drop its adverse at- titude to reopen negotiations. The pro- posal contains nothing looking to arbi- tration. This mode of settlement was waived on the advice of the Civic Fed- eration men. CRUSHED BY ICE. Brookly Soctety Woman Victim of Accident in the Alps. New York, Aug. 27.—A cablegram an- nouncing the death of Mrs. Ella Smith, @ prominent society woman of Brook- lyn, by the fall of a great mass of ice in the Alps, Switzerland, was received here yesterday. The message was sent by William Wickham Smith, husband of Mrs. Smith, who is a member of law firm in this city. : KILLED AND MAIMED IN FIGHT, Vicious Brawl at a Party Near Na- codagoches, Texas. Nacodagoches, Tex., Aug. 27. — In a fight at a party near here Sam Scott was shot and instantly killed, Hammond Scott, his brother, will die as a result of knife wounds, and B. W. Bead was shot in the stomach and can hardly recover. His brother was wounded in the leg and foot and Jasper McDaniel was shot in the hip and may lose his 1 = CU ee eg ¥ i . —_——4 7 } FOUR MEN KILLED’ TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT’ A RATL-- WAY BRIDGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. IMMENSE STEEL GIRDERS FALL Crash Came Without the: Slizhtest- Warning—Three of the Men Were Pinned to the Bridge and Killed Instantly—Besides the Killed, One Was Fatally and Two. Seriously Injured. Columbus, S. C., Aug. 28—An accident: at the new bridge which the Southern railway is constructing across the Con- garee river caused the death of four men. One other was fatally, and two- more seriously injured. The accident was caused by the falling of’ two steel girders about seventy feet long, weigh- ing fourteen tons each. The girders« were hoisted about midway of the river above the bridge. The rains of the- night previous probably had caused. the ropes holding them in place to slip. The crash came without the slightest warning. There were seventy- five people on the bridge. Three of the men were pinned to the bridge and killed instantly, four more were knocked into the rived, two of whom were rescued by a government tug which came up from the Congaree lock, a quarter of a mile away. The bridge is being built by the Phoenix: Bridge Company of Philadelphia. The struc- ture was not materially damaged. SHAFFER DENIES IT.. Reported Peace Negotiations eRe- ceive a Severe Shock. Pittsburg, Aug. 28.—Reported peace negotiations for the settlement of the strike through the mediation of disin- terested parties—officials and members of the National Civic Federation— re- ceived a shock when President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated association, last night declared absolutely that he had no. official knowledge of such proceed- ings, and that if such a move had been started, it did not have the official sanction of the organization. Never- theless, the subject will not down, and it is said the conciliatory committee of the Civic Federation, already promi- nent in the matter, is fully prepared to carry on negotiations and will, if nec- essary, endeavor to secure the good of- fices of Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Potter, Daniel Hanna and Seth Low, to give such prominence to the commit- tee that the proposition will be received by the steel corporation. In the mean- time both sides to the controversy make claims to a victory. The steel’ people point to the gains they have made All Along the Line in the way of securing men and start- ing plants, while the Amalgamated of- ficials say that instead of losing ground, the association is gaining every day; that while the combine has succeeded in starting a few plants it is not turning out merchantable material and is losing money and breaking val~ uable machinery, and in the end will have to ask the old men to come to the rescue. The steel people ridicule the claims of, the association and point to the failure to induce the South Chicago and the Duquesne men to go on strike as an evidence that the strength of the Amalgamated has departed. The sur- prise of the day was the Painter plant,. with six mills—the same mills that were running when the strike began. Not a striker could be found anywhere near the mill. ‘ “We started this morning with six mills running full,” said Supt. F. L. Harper yesterday. ‘Week before last: we begun with two mills which we kept running all that week on day turn. Last week we added two more mills, also keeping them running on day turn. This morning we added two- more mills, making six in all.” POINTS UNSETTLED. Chinese Protocol Has Not Fully Been Agreed Upon. Pekin, Aug. 28.—The three points of the protocol that are unsettled are the times for the evacuation of Pekin and the province of Chili, whether the Whangpo commission shall consist of representatives of the large shipping: nations, such as England, Germany and Japan, or include representatives: of the smaller shipping nations, such as the United States and France, and the approval of three edicts which have not yet been received. So far as the Wang- po commission is concerned it is likely that the United States and France will be represented thereon. The three edicts in question refer to the punishment of certain officials in- cluded in the provincial list, which the ministers allowed the Chinese to exam~- ine and decide upon the punishments; where and what examinations shall be prohibited, including the metropolitan examinations in Pekin, and the order of the razing of certain forts by China. The first two edicts wil! come by cour-| ler from Singanfu, and the third by, telegraph. It is expected that the pro- tocol will be signed this week. If it is not it will be the fault of the edicts. Choufu, the provincial treasurer, has published throughout Chili province @ circular letter ordering that all religions be tolerated by the Chinese, who will be allowed to accept any religion. The letter says that there must be no in- timidation or persecution by any sect, all alike observing the Chinese law, ex- cept when it conflicts with the require- ments of one’s religion. No advantage shall be derived in law suits from one’s religion and there shall be no foreign Interference except in cases of persecu- tion. GUSHER BREAKS LOOSE. Large Oil Gusher Resists All Efforts to Step It. Beaumont, Tex., Aug. 28.—Two men are dead and one of the largest ofl} gushers in the world is going absolutely wild, utterly defying the mechanical’ skill of man to stop it. The famous oil field presents the possibility of one of the divest calamities which ever visited Texas should fire join forces with the great gusher. James Smith died trying to shut off the gusher and John Mc- Daniels died trying to save Smith. Both showed great heroism. fn