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FABLISHED ——— JUNE THE OMAHA 19, OMATA, SATURDAY MORNING, \UGUN DAILY 1900 TWELVE PAG LI SHOWS HIS TE ][” GRAVEST NEWS YET HEARD ARE [[ALF WAY T0 PEKIN|LORDS HAVE BREEZY TIME [NPATIENT AT THE DELAY Chinese Viceroy Makes Diplomatic, but Thml.cning Answer to Hay. IS REGARDED AS NOT FINAL| REPLY Dispatch from Goodnow Indicates Imperial | Banction of Outrages, ENVOYS TO BE SENT SAFELY TO TIEN TSIN Resistence Encountered by Foreign Sconts Presages Strong Opposition, ARMY AND NAVY ARE TO CO-OPERATE na at Forelgn Conrts Convineed That Thelr Country Can No Longer Afford to Dally with Situation. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The State ‘de- partment makes public the following tele- grams received today, August 3, from the consul general at at Che Foo “SHANGHAIL Aug. 3 Washington: Americans left Chun King yesterday. Ll told French consul today no messages will be delivered ministers be cause forelgners advanciug on Pekln. Two pro-forelgn mombers of the tsung If yamen beheaded 27th for urging preservation min- fsters by Li Ping Han, now commanding troops Pekin. He ordered Pao Ting mas- wacre. GOODNOW “CHE FOO, Afternoon, Aug. 2.—Secretary of State, Washington: Just received tele- gram from governor of Shan Tung, request iog me to transmit to you the following ‘Have just recelved telegram, dated July 30, tsung 1i yamen, stating varlous ministers, the German legation, and others (foreign- ers) all well; not in distress. Provisions were repeatedly sent. Relations most friendly. Now conferring as to proper measures to protect various ministers to Tien Tsin for temporary shelter, which con- ference will soon be ended. “*YUAN, Governor.' FOWLER." LI Hung Chang's retary Hay's August 1, to cation with the answer peremptory to Sec demand of be put in communi- forelgn ministers at Pekin, I8 evasive and not final and leaves the matter open to diplomacy. But Li's actlons, as reported by Coneul General Goodnow, are undoubtedly sinister and will amount {5 a rejection of the proposition. Mr. Gooduow's dlspatch contains some fur- ther Information bearing on the question of | Tesponsibility for Pekin conditions, in the etatement that the commander of the Chi- nese troops, by inference anewerable to the Chinese government, maseacre. It is learned here that Li Ping #Hong, the commander referred to, is a civil official and well known to all the Chinese officials abroad as one of the most rabld anti-foreign leaders in China. He is a close friend of Prince Tuan, and the associn- tion of these two In Pekin affuirs, with power enough behind them to cause the fgnominious death of two high officials, is regarded here as a bad sign. Simultaneously with Mr. Goodnow's dis- patch came a characteristically diplomatic message from Yuan Shih Kal, the governor of Shan Tung, repeating the story of two days ago that the Chinese government was arranging to deliver the ministers in safety at Tien Tsin. No'effort is made to recon- cile that statement with Earl Li's refusal o allow communication with the ministers General Chaffee's message as to the un- expected resistance of Chinese reconnais- sance is regarded by military men here as forecasting a greater degree of resistance to military movements than had been ex- pected and they are now satisfied that Chi- neso troopa will furnish magerlal for at least one severe battle before the way is clear to Pekin, Army and Navy to Co-Operate. The Navy dcpartment today lesued an order for the co-operation of its officers abiroad with the officers of the army in la ing and tramsporting troops destined\wr Chinese service. This revives the situation that existed §n Cuba when Shafter's army was landed largely through the efforts of the navy. 1t 1s thought in the department that the navy can lend considerable aseistance to General Chaffee’s efforts, not only In land- ing the army, but possibly in furnishing them transportation if a move is made along the Pel Ho. It appears that some misunderstanding exlsts as to a St. Petersburg dispatch printed here this morning, saying that the Chinese minister there and his colleagues in Europe had cabled the governor of Shang Tang demanding that free commu- nication be opened between the Pekin min isters and their respective governments. This communication was, in fact, a joint memorial to the throne concurred in by the Chiuese ministers abroad, including Minister Wu In Washington. It was for- warded by Minister Yang Lu at St Peters burg because the latter is the dean of the Chinese diplomatic service. It was trans mitted through the governor of Shang Tung to be forwarded to Pekin. This ac- tion is considered very important in dicating that the Chinese ministers abroad Bave at last reached a unanimous opinion | that the situation is no longer to be trifled | with. Their action may be regarded as a final effort on their part to influence the bome government and its outcome is awaited with great interest Determined (o Meanwhile the government of the United Btates, like the government of Europe has not abandoned its efforts to establish communication with its ministers at Pe by independent means, and the State de partment has instructed Consul General Goodnow at Shanghai, Consul Fowler at Che Foo and Consul Ragsdale at Tien Tsin to spare no effort or expense to open up direct communication with Mr. Conger. In addition (o his short message rela tive to the Chinese check, transmitted through Admiral Reney and received morning, General Chaffee made another and direct cable report this afternoon. The message was withheld from by Secretary Root, who declined to make 4ts purport public. It was presumably de voted to Genmeral Chaffee's needs in a military way. Relative to the statement that an advance on had actually begun, there is also a pos- sibility that General Chaffee’s message had a bearing on that subject. It is evident from hls message this morning the ad- vance has begun, though it could not have progressed far beyoud Tien Tsin, the as outpost affair described by him took place thirty miles out of town. Second Assistant Adee 1s to act as secre- " (Continued on Secoud Page.) hanghal and tge consul | Secretary of State, | ordered the Pao Ting | M this publication | London Pekin Pritehard " Ding ation from One of His Chinese ™ Pr Publishing o) (New York World kram.)—Pritchard e that he received Ard Bush, his agent Cablegrametyi 8 Morgan, M. P., THW | teday a cable from Ed at Chung King, saying: “The consul and | Buropeans left Chung King in obedience to instructions from the foreign offce in of the advance Pekin | Morgan said this indicates that England anticipates general war Chung K is in 1 ovinee of Szechuan, a province hitherto perfectly quiet. This is the grav news yet heard ANARCHY REIGNS IN PEKIN e | onsequence on for ris Made Show Dissntiafied Chinese crrible State of Afinir (Copyright, 1900, CHE FOO, July 2)~The latest reports brought by disaffected Chinese rmy They are consider ble. The officers left Pekin July 15. They say anarchy had reigned in Pekin for months and that the streets ran blood, the China- men fighting among themselves. Jung Lu had b silenced for some days before July 15 and they were using thelr rifies only when commander-in-chief of the Ch and Prince Ching espoused the foreigners and endeavored the army loyal, to expel the with the majority of the | under anti-foreign leaders, General Tung Fuh Sian {Jung Lu and Prince Ching lowers were prisoners in their the bearers of these reports left Pekin | Prince Tuan and General Tung Fuh appear to control the government, according | to the ofMc and issued edicts, printed in the Gazette, exhorting the Chinese to kill all foreigners and native Christians. One | officer says that there are 16,000 troops in Pekin, including Tung's army, and 8,000 more at Yung Teun. The soldiery hold all the streets within a mile of the legations. The foreign troops, when the officers left | Pekin, had burned and abandoned Chenmen gate. Their ammunition appeared {to be falling and their quick-firing guns hard pressed. The officers said that every foreign bullet kills a Chinaman. The reports state that the American and English troops defeated General Ma in July 10 The reports from Chinese sources are to [ the effect that all of the legations’ | were Killed. Chinamen caught a messenger who was trying to leave the legations on July 10 with the following message “To Any Foreign Commander: Make all haste if you intend to save us. We can hold out but a few days | Governor Yuan Shi Kai states that he | has received a note from the tsung 1i yamen, dated July 30, reporting that the ministers at the German legation and others were well and that their relations with the gov- ernment were friendly. They were con- ferring, the note said, with a view of arrang- | Ing measures to protect the ministers to Tien Tsin, Lju Kun Y1, viceroy of Nankin, and Sheng, administrator of telegraphs and railways taotal of Shanghai, have both declared officially that the forelgn ministers are held by the Chimaso vovernwent as hos ages and that if the allies march to Pekin they wiu be killed. It Is stated that only Japanese, £3,000 strong, Pekin, Another Chinese exodus from Shanghal has commenced. It was caused by disquiet- ing rumors published in the native and some foreign newspapers. SEE DESTRUCTION OF FORTS Assoclated Pross.) (Via Shanghai, Aug from Pekin were officers of se forces of the with the part of Boxers. Later, imperial troops, Prince Tuan and were vietorious and ith their fol- yamens when A, the Russians and are starting for CHATFIELD, Minn., Aug. 3. Hayes has received a letter, dated June from her father, Dr. Hunter Corbett, a missionary at Che Foo, in which he says: ““At 6 o'clock a note came from Rev. Dr Coltman, the father of Dr. Coltman, at Pekin, saying that he and his wife and daughter, Mrs. Clifford of Tien Tsin, were |in the harbor, returning to the United States. 1 started at once to see them. On Saturday the Coltmans came on a military train to Taku, where they went on board a steamer. There they witnessed the de- struction of the Taku forts. The terrific bombardment continued for five hours. Japanese led the attack and distinguished themselves by bravery and skill “A foreigner who visited one of the forts after it had been captured said the sight was appalling. The vast number of Chinese slain was a sight indescribable. The Ru slans fired into a vast crowd of Boxers on the shore. No one can tell how many were killed “At present there is no immediate danger to our lives at Che Foo. Our missionaries at 1sland cities are in the greatest peril.’ WU CALLS TO SECURE NEWS Chinese Minister H from t Mrs. George No Information e Scene of the Trouble, Aug er WASHINGTON. the Chinese mini, partment yesterday, it was diplomatic day with the exccedingly | tary Hay, whi wade public from the State despite the fact taken in conjur sharp note of Secre h the State department had was the subject of speculation. Minlster Wu explained his abscnce on ground that he had no news to communicate and his appearance at the department this morning awaited with considerable in torest. ‘The minister came fn the course of the morning, Imperturbable as usual. He announced that he had abso utely no news from China aod had come to the depart ment (o ece It Secretary Hay was any better off. His interview with the secretray w excecdingly brief, the shortest, in fact, in the whole course of the excitement [ROCKHILL AND WILSON SAIL United States and Army de- that tion was Special « Oficer Enr mmissloner SAN FRANCISCO, Aug America Maru salled this | the Orient via Honolulu number of prominent gers on board including Brigadier General James H. Wil- n, who arrived from Cuba last week, and W. W. Rockhill, commissioner from United States to China General Wilson is under orders to report to Major General | Chaffee, and is accompanied by his aides. Lieutenants James H. Reeves and G. H Turner. 3.~ after There we passen KA Mis, o| PARIS, Aug eral at Shanghai, M in Shan Si. French consul gen- de Bezaure, In a dis patch dated Thursday, August 2, states that many missionaries of different nationalities have been massacred lu the proviuce ef Shan SL teting | the | 1 relia- | the | a night battle on | forces | The | 3.~The absence of | the | }Allu-v Baid to Have Advanced Thirty-Five Miles from Tien Tsin, IS LACKING OF CONFIRMATION | REPORT Than 10,000 Native Converts (0 Have Been Massacred by perinl Troops Outside Walls of Capital. More Na 1 LONDON, spe August 3 les Aug. 4 1 dispatch from Shanghal, dated the advancing column of the al- reported the yesterday to have reached a point thirty-five miles beyond Tien Tsin. Nothing from any other point corroborates this statement. In fact, the Standard goes so far as to say that it ars the real apart from preliminary | measures, has not yet begun ien Tsin dispatches, dated of an action which is termed a “rece between the Ja and Chinese two miles beyond the Hsikl arsenal, in | which the Japanese withdrew after suffering thirty casualties. The Tien Tsin correspondent of the ndard, under date of July declares that the Americans and Germans have orde mov® forward without walting for the British The Shang to a advance July ance, Anese st 27 been ed to Al correspondent of the Daily News says the consuls there regret the in dependent action taken by the American as sociation and the China association, on the ground that it is injudicious. He says settlement b international, jealousies must disappear. The China as sociation is of little local influence he refers e Ameorl assoclation. Houg Kong correspondent of the Daily Express announc the arrival there from San Francisco of Homes Lea, for some time resident agent in the United States of the Society for the Reformation of the Chi- nese Empire, with £60,000, which “will pre- sumably be utilized in connection with th: revolutionary movement against the empress | dowager, a movement quiescent 1808 until within the last few weeks.' arly all the correspondents confirm the | petty Prosumably Asiatic The to | vulnerabie According | | the | | said | for wa | ing | commander reports of a wholesale massacre of Chris- | | tians outside Pekin, a correspondent of the Daily News giving the number of killed as | between 10,000 ana 15,000, all defenceless converts. Imperial troops—so it is stated did the ghastly worl According to the Shanghal correspondent of the Times one of the members of the tsung 1i yamen mentioned by United States Consul Coodnow having been 1 for pro-foreign tendencies, was Ysu Ching Cheng, former minister to Russia. The correspondent says the empress dowager | ordered his execution on the advice of Li Plug Heng Li Hung Chang has been Informed from Pekin that Prince Ching's only prominent supporters are his peace police and General Ling Yu and General Yang Weng Chau, president of the board, whose influence s small. ADVANCE BEGAN ON SUNDAY Army Follows the Ho River, Oc- cupying Both Fanks of the Strean LONDON, Aug. 3.—The, forward movement for the relief of the foreign legations in Pekin began Sunday, July 25. A message from Tien Tein on that date saye that the advance guard of the Russians occupled the Chinese camp and the Japanese pushed up the right bank of the Pei Ho river with- | out opposition. It was the expectation that the whole of the allied expeditionary force, about 20,000 men, would be on the march | by Tuesday, July 31, Sixteen hundred as heade ing. It is purposed to follow the boats to carry food, ammunition and ar tillery. The telegraph office at Che appears to be blocked and newspaper official telegrams are subject to delays. Shanghal river, using and indefinite correspondents learn Russlans were defeated north Chwang and that body 5,000 | endeavoring to relieve the force at Toshl Chow by 40,000 Chinese and numer- | ous guns. Four Russian steamers on the Amur river are said to have damaged by the Chinese fire, The Chinese military commanders Shanghal havo formally notified the forelgn consuls there that the enlistments now proceeding are to provide large forces for the protection of foreigners and have ex- pressed the hope that they will not enter- taln groundless fears or suspicions, adding that the increase of the army is entireiy to secure their safety As target practice at the Chinese forts alarms foreiguers | Shanghal, the commanders announce it abandoned The smuggling of arms continues was selzed at Canton Wednesday, with seventy rifles and board | Forelgners at Macao fear an attack An imperial trade authorizes the that of strong besieged the ew at will August 1, 10,000 cartridges ou war material hound for China News agency dispatches dated at Shanghai Thursday, August 2, say Ping Hong, formerly govermor of Shan Tung, has arrived at Pekin with a large following of troops. On the way north he killed two French priests and many hundred converts. LI Hung Chang is e sent a message to Pekin | Ping quiet alleged to keep CONGER MESSAGE WAS DATED 17T Wa irst Messnge from United States Miunin WASHINGTON, partment has Aug. 3.—The State received a cablegram Consul Fowler at Che Foo, which says that ho has obtained the of the dispatch from Minister Conger which was sent through Minister Wu to the depart ment here. The dispatch is dated July 17 | and signed by Conger. Consul Fowler has | no doubt as to its genuineness. de copy Cabinet Discnsses WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 ing was held today. hour. The Remey check to the Japa Situation, A cabine which lasted about an dispatch telling of the scouting column read, but was not considered as of serious importance as affecting the general | sdvance. It was stated that tho govern | ment has no official assurance that a gen- eral advance against Pekin has been besun by the American or any other conting of the international force | The Fowler dispatch also was discussed and one of the members said it copted a8 putting an end to any controve to the authenticity original Conger cipher dispatch The president’s plans have not changed by any developments since his return to Washington and he will start back to Cantua tomight, as previously ert ranged. was Wwas ac 8sible ot the been Americans and 2,300 British are co-operat- | of Sending the | | arrested for th | the Foo | | and were | to the | earl A junk | of the Bosphorus by Russian transports with | mando the ferocious Li|to Rustenburg to bring away Baden-Pow- | issued in the from | cipher | | nual meeting of the worth | | exchequer Rosebery, Lansdowne and Salichury Clash Over Affairs of Depari- ment for War. LONDON, A ther br L the Hou ords today @ of the debat Friday last England w attempted mewhat otar Lanedowne, | wuggesting forces, Lord the house and government's m sald he did not in the discha Ay tuty. The he sald, muet be there existed fn confiden ing the allogation tha dinet an Lord Re the a the him t 1y today ® ion of the Marquis of task t the awuthority the plans. Lord Rosebery POE to be Wolesle: Hught &I to snubbe of what he con Marqu dere public tden that A blind, venerating office. marqule war Wi liament and the commander-in-ch sponsible to the war ary, having spoken the premier, Loy eald he understood Lord Roseber that the nation re eatisfied if Lord Wolmsley w the house and exp his val marquis of Lansdowne's plans. 1t w ybvious that if Lord Wolesley could be called o to do that he was also entitled to ex s disapproval. Lord sald he see how that was poesible. There was much force in what Lord R had but it was of an abstract thject was then dropped BELGIUM TRIES TO EXPLAIN Who Atter Not Chnrgen ernment. War The f Lansdowne, reg socretary responsib t was re cre Other peers sbury 1ten be much | uld come was would the pre Sallebury ot ehery kind cape Wales' ot Sipid Life, to ¢ BRUSSELS, Aug. 3.—In =-ly to the note of the British government expressing 1egrot that the proceedings against Sipido, the lant of the prince of Wales, should have such an utterly inadequate ending, the B glan government says that, as a strict ob- server of the laws, it nable to violate them, however strong its desire to proceed rigorously against the culprit Accord.ng to Belgian law, the reply points out, Sipido, like any other young man placed at the disposal of the government and having a legal domicile in Belgium, had three days to appeal to the court of cassa- tion. Living with his parents, he had legal domicile, and, therefore, he could not be e days. He profited by the | flight. government but cannot be was delay to take The Belgian the incident ble for it says held it regrets responsi- TOO SHARP FOR GERMANY Berll several nations represented here. Newspaper Urges Govern 1o Publish Terms of Treaty with United States. BERLIN, Zeitung Aug Deutsch Tages | urges the government to publish terms of the recent tariff agreement between the United States and Germany claiming that Germany was severely beaten by the United States and that the German toreign office is afruid to 16t the Germam public kiow BOERS LEFT PRIVATS LTTTERS lnrve-pondrnr! Between Members of | e of Commons and Kruger in Chamberinin's Hands. Aug. 3.—In response to ques tions the secretary for the colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, said today in the House of Commons that the Boer governments, in flceing trom Bloemfontein and Pretoria, left | masses of private correspondence among | the archives, which the authorities on the spot were examining. He had received in- stallments of this correspondence by the last two mails and he had been informed that more was to come. Thw portions had seen were writter previous to th chiefly letters of British of the Cape and of the two republics. Ther were, however, coples of two letters t purported to have been written by English member of the House of Commons and aleo letters and an extract tzom a letter written by two other members of the House of Commons two days before the outbreak of the couched in the form of oper LONDON, he war subjects at an W 8UDK OF | eriticism, asking for information regarding martial law and suggesting that Pre Kruger make temporary concessions await a reaction in England, In his opinion the latters were not trea- sonable, though certainly improper while her majesty was engaged in difficult nego- tiations. He proposed to send the lettors writers and ask it they desired to explain, and he would await a reply before deciding whether to publish them or not he under secretary for the colonies, the of Selborne questioned in the | of Lor concerning alleged onable correspondence and in reply | 1 the explanation which Mr. Chamber- | Jain had made in the House of Commons. | | | |4 ident wis Hous: tre n CAPETOWN Wine Boer Attack. Aug. 3.—Llebberg's General Smith-Dorrien, but was easily re Hamilton has gone com attacked otchefstroom, eneral Tan near pulsed ell's garrison Scven hundred and Aifty additional Boers have surrendered to General Hunter i to Durghers. AuR President Kruger General Botha have issued mising to pay all damage the British provided with the commandoes. Kruger's PRETORIA, and Commandar proclamation pr done to the farms by the burghers remain Appeal British War Loan. Aug. $.—The war loan has been Lorm of £10,000,000 3 per cent at 9%, repayable at par in LONDON bonds 1908, LARGE APPLE CROP ASSURED dieatiol That More Than 60 Barrels Will He Gathered, . Are h00 v CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 3.—The sixth an National Apple Ship came to an end this even- ing and most of the 160 delegates b departed for their homes. The next m ing will be held in Toronto, Ont., the first Wednesday of August, 1901 The following officers were sident T. Richardson president, C. P, 0 ary, A treasurer, W. L. committes Md., chairman €. 0. Wlley, Detroit Mich.; E. M New York, and B. Newhall, Chicago. During the three days the convention was in session letters and | telograms veceived from every, growing section of the country, and from these it is estimated that the apple crop | will be the largest in the history of the | country, exceeding that of 1596, when 60, chosen Pr George vi Jast Palestine, Patch, Boston Chicago; executive Snyder, Baltimore Sutton, Columbus Leaven Rothwell Warren gner. | Walter | |. K Kas | secre 0 Loomis | 000,000 barrels were gathered, | ing {ery, | trcops are a revelation that commands the | Accompanying | ana Secretary Cortelyou | goodbye. | the'president and remained until the truit | ¢ Buropean Officers Slow to Avail Themselves of Means at Hand, FAIL TO GRASP URG[NCV OF SITUATION | Americans Only Energy—Jny thing Needfol by the Associated Press.) Wednesday, July 20.—(Via Thursday, Aug. 2)--A majority & officers here say the re will start for Pekin about Foreign residents and friends Pekin who came to Tien accompany the intensely diseatisfied with progress of preparations. They accuse army of indifference and of wagnifying ificulties to be encountervd In reach Pekiy President Tenney of the Tien sity, who has volunteered to gulde to Pekin, said today This business is lance with Anglo-Suxon Twenty thousand soldiers are staying her while and children of their ow race starving and awaiting massacre eighty miles away. Military and officers meanwhile wasting time in ing over petty politics, I8 a sorry spectacle. 1t will be a dark blot on the reputation of every commanding officer here if the white people in Pekin are allowed to perish with out a te effort them.” Tenney and many ¢ with the condition there were sufficient troops here to forward and pursue the Chinese after the fall of the native city of Tien Tsin. That the position of the legations demanded that the army take extraordinary risks by scour- ing the surrounding coun mandeering animals and wagons boats sufficient for purposes of tion might be improvised, is th opinion of civillans, and many o bly J and Americans, confirm view, The comment is made that Euro officers are too much attached to theories to atilize the resources of country and that they would rather s Tien Tsin according to rules than for Pekin without a perfect Oflicers Are Optimist General Dorward of the British forces and other high officers take an optimistic view of conditions at Pekin think that the legations will { hold out On the valls among (Copyright, 19 N TSIN hal commandi the expe August 1 of the Tsin besieged in to await expedition the the the news or to are Taln univer the urmy not progressing in ac traditions. women are naval e Ker despera President are acquainted to save rs nk push and and t transporta- evailing com- nota this an book anese in to start equipment they saying ma to surface the best officers and of feeling soldiers of the All are fraternizing, but the lack of organization and a supreme commander handicap prog- ress. While people at Tien Tsin are en tirely ignorant of diplomatic negotiations abroad concerning Chinese affairs, of harmony here among th of the powers hinders vigorous action. The Japanese are giviug a splendid ex- hibition of organization. Thelr whole ma- chine moves like clockwork. There have been forwarded from Japan small boats, or lighters, for moving troops and stores, and every regiment 1s landed quickly and with- out comfusion and started for Tien Tsin {'wdthin, a few lours afer the trapspurt has anchored in the Larior. The ment of the Japanese army and the brav- spirit and Intelligence of the Japanese pre xepresentatives respect and admiration of all foreign off cers. The heat is intense. The tempera- ture averaged 100 degrees during the w and yesterday it was 104 degrees. The disregard of all sanitary regulations certain troops is a serious mena streets are full of refuse and insut- stench pervades the town. The and sanitary work compares un bly with the American regime in Philippines. by The fernble police favor the BUGS ARE Nefther Mushrooms but Insects Res NOT HEALTHY " Nor Tondtools, e for Death nily. CHICAGO, Aug. the inquest upon the m ris family, three of whoi at Harvey, Ill, suppo toadstools, that they were in fact polsoned by mushrooms and not by toadstools. was shown that the family ate mushrooms of the finest quality and not toadstools at all $ Robert Martin, a mushroom expert, tes- tified that in his opinion the poisoning was 1sed by & small black bug which he said he had found recently making its home in the top of mushrooms, “I do not know, of course,” he eaid, the Norris family was poisoned in this way. but they certainly ate mushrooms and not istools. Awhile 1 found some of e bugs in mushrooms and noticed that exuded a viscious fluid, which sur ruundml them as they lay in the mushroom. placed the bugs and the portion of the mushroom immediately surrounding them in a saucer of milk, fed the milk to a cat and in two hours the cat was dead.' Mr. Martin showed eoveral of the bugs which he had taken from mushrooms. Sev- eral professlonal men, well versed in ento- mology, sald they had heard of such a bug in South America, which makes ite home in ain plants and causes the death of any animal which cats the foliage. » of them had heard of the insect in this coun try. The physician in charge of the case testi fied that the family was poisoned “by ing mushroom: d the verdict of the son taken in was developed at embers of the Nor died yesterday ly from ea i mushrooms caus death |TO RESUME HIS VACATION President MeKinley Home at Cante by Mr. Dawes. WASHINGTON, Aug. Kinloy left the city this ¢ turn to Canton, 0., to resume his vacation him were Hon. Charles G comptroller of the currency The party occu car, G mere, which was regular evening express on nia railroad, leaving here at Secre Root and Wil Postmaster neral Smith and Gen Corbin w at the tion They went aboard the train with train train President M ening on his re awes, th pled the private attached to the the Pennsyly 7:46 son, eral ra. o'clock iries tarted, each was moving Jumping oft while th Cubans HAVANA the republica parti G iy stit take General wminority Fear Gerry Aug. 3.—A joint nationalist in consulty today the The gerrymandering the principle ander, ymmittes infon dem h Goy & mi oming idea wa of and ratl wa W rnor regardin itional co steps to avoid Wood approved representation, and who | the | the lack | menige- | ek | eating | “that | BEE SINGLE |CONDITION OF THE WEATHER s Hly Wind Tempern e o Yesterdny Dew BEGIN WORK ON CANAL Cengin Syndicate He 000 Necessiry (0 Dig Ist Wa NEW YORK, Aug {of the syndicato interoceanic under the ment of John 1. ¢ formed canal thr concossion given by t Nicaragua Edward Edward ¥. Cragin existence was proclaimed Zelaya, sald today construct canal, organized 0 laws of New Jersoy, would proceed to carry out the terms of it& contract without delay The capital needed has an estimate of the cost mate s about §130,000,0 Mr. Crimmins sald would prefer to have leave the matter in the comp % to permit private and operation of the canal for the bencfit of th whole world. However, he added, the licate had no desire to embarrass the ernment and would defer to its concey of policy. The route has not been and the company has liberty to choose within the domain of Nicaragua preferred by this government would tainly have preference. The probability rimmin P h ver Eyre and | of whict President the yesterday that the the under been made secured and This esti that the the company governmer any’s hand s0 construction gov That cer that the route would be that hitherto called | the N | conce right on either Maritime to be ernment.” Mr pe “Our gives us th for ten mile whereas (he policing Nicaraguan gov Crimmins said tual, It police the country side of the canal company’s concession done by the was MONEY IN NEBRASKA BANKS of Over a Milllon in Indi- Deposita in the Smaller fen of the Stat Incrense vidual « Aug (Special gram.)—The report of the condition of tional banks of Nebraska, exclusi Omaha and Lincoln, at the close of by 20, was today made public. The | noteworthy of the report is the of more than $1,000,000 in individual deposits ompared with the pre ement in April, increasing from $18,2 o $19,348, 1. The volume of loans and discounts has increased from $16, o $10 Present holdings of gold coin aggre $728,085, a gain of about $100,000 since April | The averago reserve held has increased about § per cent, now being 42.22 p nt The report of the condition of Wyoming national bars was also made public. in dividual deposits bave increased from $3,- 4,351 to $3 864,941, and loans and digcour from $2,067,206 to §3 Average serve held is 27.85 wer cent, agalnst 30.04 per ceat in April. \’nhu F. McKen, a'teacher at Pine Ridge ToKian school, has boln transteirer. 4s prin cipal tencher to the'L4mMt (Idaho) school. The Towa Natlonal 'bink of Des Moines was today approved as reserve agent for Bedford (Ia.) National bank TRYING TO SAVE THE BOY WASHINGTON ine | June most ure #ain evious st 98,10 Minw Ja xon of Dex WMol People in Deh Ma NI 3 ! Teleg Moines, la all the of saving 18 SALT LAKE, Aug Miss Lulu Johnson a paralytic invalld, has way from her home in the life of Abe Ma tenced to be shot Miss Johnson's tarfan. She and many is accuse Brown, 1 Utah, | brother, am.) me here the hope of weeks from purely humani boy is innocent helief. Majors William A sham City th his time, a the ors, a boy son two aday motive 18 believes the others share her of shooting Cap police officer, ne i hout & year ago. He was who was killed at the and the clalm is that the bro fatal shot. Majors was convicted when feeling was running high. Since then the state supreme court has upheld the verdict and the Board of Pardons has refused to in tervene. Now Miss Johnson has come here ‘Iu tr carry the case to the United States supreme court She issued an ap | peal to the people of Utah for fun heading the subscription list he | prominent local attorney has becorn ested and will conduct the ca charge, iSHE TWEAKED BEAVER'S NOSE Miss Elln nges from 1 ] Ame her 1l to § today elf inter without A Platt w rench wn vy Dam- WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Miss Platt of this city today instituted | 1aw in the district supreme 000 damages for breach of promise wgain Major George A. Arme retired United States army officer. The defendant ha ined national in wit once by twe Beaver, then and another War department officials The suit alleges breach marry of de mission or plaintift. Amor he deceived her the signing of “they hereby stituted a valid he discover refuscd EVANS' HEIRS FIVE UP FIGHT o RILO00,- 0 Ella suit for $0 notorie King the 1 governor by ral Pennsylvania y with of controver time a of promise to a upon the other things she alleg: in making her believe ement man and marriuage a the marry her of that n agr reciting that become wife” con ers that alleged deception City of Philadelphin Will ¢ 0 Ved PHILADELPHIA, Aug that an ag the he n Announcem ment had been Philadelphia Thomas B e in which estate will fortune of $2,000,000 bl nt s mado today hed of Dr dentist be heirs vans, the Amcric P, France, several year the controversy over the doctor abandoned. Dr. Evans left a rly $4,000,000. He whed to the city of Philadelphia for the « ment of olleg the of the ¢ relatives. The heir the agreement Just re \ get a little less than mainder of the rovert to the executor | entrusted the dutte | wises of Dr. Evans ween city be hequ: a denta nd Eidue the b ir about §,000 hom have est will of arrylng o cory Fore TTABLF Their Heatl FIVE gners CENT 10 WIPE WIPE OUT PEKIN in China Demand Destruction of Capital, the Total LLosON IS NECESSARY ust Be Made to Pay Dearly for hen Savagery, NO REPETITION OF EXPERIENCE OF 1860 Time Has | V\‘\ZW(‘ | Him CHE F( )—Publ th he power bility peace fitting | Omciats, ¢ its and are remar should and (hat hould b gesting portant that Chin, Ause the ght th ament China fetinit foreign sho w butary mand for What The wdvocate Al fore governmer trying downfall ¢ reports thi to China. saying tions The foreig suffered settlement it An int against L nounced t and Shang the belief from the the power tinues. | that neunt mous | Chinese outrages been mur renounce bave b at alive Dr colleg | after rece | A le | Taku, T | and Shanghai ‘(" n n | overcrowd | hopeless « | are public cable ed by rvice fc | | NEW | NEW YORK, Aug. 3 gratulator Kinley ar flashed di States an the Comm just been | Azores an 1x¢ ik josty mm und Portt for the p friendly T tries s the ple ar, | United States of ‘America this mome gress and the Porti Stutes of for the k exeellency desire 1o th America Pelicl president Azore fean m wuthoriiic nnect th 1t also op time boty The | mak gues lan sompany's L ) We Argentina ‘OFF|CE Crazy St Sn | | 8T LO butcher o log Nankin struction of American that ceased should, would have anti-forelgn | through the New (! between Che utive Bur Come for Abandonment of Fiction as to Tributary Powers, OF ROYAL TOMBS SUGGESTED Have and Ca No Fatth s Regnrd ne the Most nt Anti-Foretgn Ofelal, by the July 29 Assoctuted Press.) (Vin Shanghal, Aug and the foreign p rie are alarmed at the possi tt fnese would prevail upon s to consent ablishment hment be- erime. to the es inflicting e Chinese without pur crsons engaged fn commercial pur of all nationalitice unit They lieve Pekin royed as ot lewson the dynas otinued it forced to establish the capital at resible the Americans sug is coneldered im- the always belleved 4 defeated the powers fn 1860, be- Al remained Intact. It is also guaranties to prevent excessive should demanded and that mld compelle publicly and to renounce the fiction that the ninisters re representatives of powers. There I8 a strong de unusual punishment, like the de- the kings' tombs. on Are Up To. and nglisn missionarieg a program similar to the forg- Kably e onaries an o if is ¢ city This a8 Chinese t » ers belleve engineered that the Chinese the outbreaks and call off ite troops atter the Tien Tsin and the weceipt of the powers are sending armies A Germ legation telegram the bombardment of the lega- July 17 suppyrts this theory. ners think that Yhe ministers who it resgued, conduct the of the governinents for the effect upon the populace. ensely bi r feeling prevails {\ Hung Clfang. The papers d he hionor fatd him at Hong Kong hai and a1l him the most corrupt officy; China and express that Mo proposes to save Chiva peaalty of 1ts acts by embroiling 8 it to 't at n of foreign property con- States Consul Fowler states of the American missions 10,000, TE. trade losses pension of trade are enor- brin 1pon lered, their many storles of horrible tive Christians, who have ortured compelled to eligion. eral hundred 1 alive. Two French nuns were deliberately hurned Ting, Y graduate of the Ameri vefusedl ta renounce Christianity iving 2,000 lashee & lald he land | line managed and ope Sneficient. Th work and busine Messages over There or S w hwang m Che Jotween 00 and Che Koo ted by line is in is and s ed with onfusion the line property should be a Foo and Shanghai man- relgners so as to give satisfaetory CABLE LINE OPENED K Fellet- tntions. The from of hetween tollowing con- President Me- Portugal, w the Unite the new line of ble company, which hus jon betyveen the Y messui nd the king rect today 1 Portugal, ercial put in this country Mansion, Washington King of Portugnl in_congratilating your ma- the completion of —telegraphic wtion between the United igal, and tender my best erpetuation and inereaso elations _between the two WILLIAM M'KI the " Prosident Washington slement of pro- development unites tion with the United Amerlea, | hasten to thank you ind ratulations which your has kindly addressed to and express my sincerest wishes for of the United Sta of KING OF PORTUGAL were hanged he 180k npany aver ope a His Mar Lisboa: L wikhes of the ellency, nt when A new mic ex tween the in Amor local cabla vith the s line from the i the first United States. the firet and Portugal Azores company's cable at Lishon with the Portu- d lnes, the Eastern Telegraph cablea to the Mediter- s, all Africa China, Japan, Philippines, and with the nicn company’s cables to Hrazil, and o parts of South Africa R SHOOTS INSANE MAN Louis 1¥ ton D Amerd, residenta from the na the The v the tho Azores island Azores con Portugal \zore direct cen thi and ls of it a the wyal nd with conne ™ the en fon for country necti ain India her Mak Snvage Marshnls and ‘ UIR, Aug 8 denly be Eddinger, a insane at the an assault with marshals who had Aftor knocking down sev nger followed refused to halt and defied Deputy Charles Day fa he hack since he oty three 180 by par v bloody prize with Gus ldinger's wind bas been afe me na made leputy toda g on th tod broke away wher n in Iver