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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ESTABLISHED JUNE OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST ~TEN D SINGLE COPY FIV CENT! PEKIN NOT FAR AWAY |78 AN REadY To PuLL 0T FILIPINGS SENT T0 PRISON ROYALTY IN A TRAIN WRECK [\ CHARGE OF CAMP LAWTON | CONDITION OF THE wumen‘]i\'u HOPE HAS FLED impress Dowager Wil Not Stay 1 o Pekin to Receive Appronch- Ing Allies, Chaffee Oables That Allies Arriv: L, Ho-8i-Wu on Thursday, ey "w Several Killed Many Wounnded k Forecast for Nebraska | | I oA e | Falr; Warmer; 80 Natives Guilty of Insurrection Against the ’thmlkn Grand Army Formally Takes tare at Oma RLIN, Aug. 13.—The Cathallc paper, United States Punished. ROME, Aug. 13.—The railroad accident not | Charge of Reunion Grounds, ) Ben. 4y <7vs 1t learns that altogether _— far from this city last nigbt turns out to | 8ir Olaude MacDonald Fears General Mas- sacre of Legationers, M. 07 T sevie - Leltip | c— Killed and forty wounded, of whom ffteen 1 coto Vei i SITUATION HAS BECOME DESPERATE | | et testonaries in the vicariate | ave been more serio han anticipated 7 of southwes © i hace heen murdores | ACTION N PETTIT CASE DISAPPROVED | 11" Fou hprire ot “tacive erione. wore | SNUBBED BY POPOCRATIC STATE OFFICERS MAY NOW BE UNDER CAPITAL WALLS [and that 3,000 . nverts have suffersd the | SSns *AL the Chtuens legation In Berlin the cor. | General MacArthur Holds that Prine |8 disaster was caused by the telescoping | Both cia "n!:'l.:;'::"‘ Lieater i i spondent o o sRociate Pre was in- et dg i [of two sect s of a L] on the ilroad nnt iovernor i AR A e T R rilla, Was Entitied to Pr froth. NOMS 10 Fistitine, BoariSg Hotabls Themselves After Acceptl | fe . Bt 1s Bajectol, Traversed, declared her intention (o leave Pekin and tection Until Tried. persons who had b tending the recent Invitations to Speak. .- e 10 (randIOF Bak Souet 1o RROTRYe dlg lory| | Berdtaseiae. Wirs, THg Sopinerot to, Aot | = |SAVES YOUNG BRYAN'S LIFE e the allled forces reached the capital. Lu | section became disabled and stopped and wa f00 UPPLIES MOST EXHAUST INTERNATIONALS STRIKE OFF RAILAOADS | a1 ‘toun, the Chinese minister here, on| WASHINGTON, Aus. 18.—Copies of |aimost mmedately. after. situck by 1he| LINCOLN, Aug, 16— (Special Telogram)— | General Joe Wheeles Catehes oy as | FOOD SUPPLIES ALNO USTED learning of this Intentlon telegraphed to|Orders received at the War department |second section. Gran! Duke and Grand | with due formality the camp of the Grand He fs About . e the . 3 fternoon Gro { " tahis & both the empress dowager and to the em- | Announce the sentence of Jacinto Ebron, | Dychess Peter of Russia and the members Army of the Republic was this & | Shanghai T Within Twen Boon Beleaguered Legationers Can See the | peror not to leave Pekin, but quietly to|® Pative who was charged with “insur-|of the Turkish mission, who had attended | christened Camp Lawton, in honor of the vk, e, . anghai ‘R ports Allies hi onty A h of Reli "UI await the arrival of the International forces, | rection against the government of ihe|the funeral of King Humbert, were among gallant officer who gave up his life in the CHICAC I —~General Joseph Milos of Pekin on El"lfdly- pproach of Kelief' Uolumn, The German forelgn office still belleves | United States of America." Ebron was |the passengers, but they were uninjured. [ philippine islands. An assemblage as large | Wheeler, commander of the Depart that the allies have not begun the advance|sent to the penitentiary for five years.| The accident occurred about midnight and at | ag any that ever attended the opening ex- [ment of the Lakes, today saved the on Pekin, the rainy season bel The order states that Ebron was a mem- |a point about twelve miles frem this city. | ercises of a Nebraska reunion witnessed the |llfe of William Jennings Bryan, Ir.. | AMERICAN AT YANG TSUN HEAVIEST REPLY TO CHINA'S APPEAL FOR PEACE’NM_ et LB LU i fres outlaws operating in|The grand duchess is a sister of the new |ceremony, which was the single important | the 12-year-old son of the democratic can LOSS U E - The Chinese protest against the landing | Cagayan province, Luzon. which com- |queen of Italy evenit of the day didate for the presidency. The lad visited — | of troops at Shanghai has been officially re- | mnitted various outrages upon the whole| When informed of the accident King| 1n connection with the christening the ofi- | General Wheeler, and the latier, after his DRITRN SERtve WALl WO . CORMRE V9 | ioivun o population and kept the people in a con- | Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena | cors of the state department assumed pos- | first greeting, turned o his work and al- Negotinte With LI Hung Chang Great Britain, according to the German |stant state of terror hastened to the scene. The queen and her | session and control of the camp and were [ lowed the youngster to amuse himself as vafus 68 Aliten WS Dikid. Untll Al Forelgners Have | foreign office, has not given wny other| Furmen Tamit, convicted of manslaughter | sister returied to the Quirinal, while the | pregented with a large silk flag by the local | best he might. Young Bryan found a loose are seriously injure Remembering Caweipore, Offer of Chinese formed today the empress dowager had London Press Draws Attention to General Chnflee's Report of Ad- 1 1 " 3 L or and g b e of rubb Nritish, change of purpose in landing tro t|in Tioflo, was sentenced for ten years. King and the ecand duke remained on the | rounion committee. The absence of Gov- |cbalr castor and a big bundle of rubber vantage to en Dellvered. anding troops & 5 5 ; t e o Shanghal than the declaration made by the| The orders also contain the acquittal of | spot Riving orders to assist in clearing the | arnor Poynter and Lieutenant Governor Gil- | bands. These he tied into a long string and Britleh consul general to the other foreign | Colonel James . Pettit, Thirty-first Vol-|Wreck and saving the injured. They re-|pert caused a sensation and much indigna- | then, securing the castor to the bottom LONDON, Aug. 14.--3:30 w. m.—The Bri . 00, by P Publishin M,!\‘nnml- there, numely, the protection of life | unteer infantry, whe was charged with |entered the Quirinal at 6 o'clock in the | tion was manifested at what the veterans| Went to a window and began bouncing the {40 GOt KE OKAtSH, Shes UM DRIy Ny o e s and property | veing responsible for the death of a pris- | morning consider o brazen Insult. Several weeks | plece of iron up aud down on the sidewalk |\ SORBEL A EARLOR. wavs whe | DIl HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED IR, | oner named Ramon Jancs, by turniug| Later In the day it was announced that|ugo, in keeping with a time-honored and | seventy-five feet below. The general, en- NOI'S worresponden ARtel. ANORE- 8 s P SUNG. . to t reside 7 fifteen persons had been killed in the rail- | pever broken custom, it was announced on | €rossed with his labors, paid no attention . S — TROOPS IN THE FIELD, TAIT SUNG, him over to the president of Zamboango never broken cus 1 A trom Bt Oliuds MsoDosald, BHitish (s L Lt ‘ ADVANCE IS AGAIN UNDER WAY The findings and the acquittal are disap- | WAy accident. Among the injured was Gen- | he official programis of the reunion that the | to the boy, Wwho gradually bechme wo in- {rom i Gt il o Sl R il e | IR proved by General MacArthur, who says|eral Bufiis, head of the BeNldn mission to | governor would weleome the visiting vet. | tarested in his play that i leaned farthor | 8188 10 ERRR W Shanghal, Aug. 13)—(New York World| TRTC® Baye Which the Afltes Pro- |, “notwithstanding the alleged charac- | the late king's funeral. He had bis log |urans. No one supposed at that time that | and farther out of ths Cuement of the |, ~QUF situstion here 1y desperate. In tot 4 Speiisl Telaginm)lie gins bbb b AL AM R b ter of the prisoner, which tended to reveal | broken | Governor Poynter would refuse to welcome | Window. “Fighting Joe” happened to glanco {44 our food supply will be at un end. i e 5 e el | him guerilla or outlaw, he was never —— s the Grand Army men on behalf of the statc, | Up few moments later and was horvified to| £11658 wo A general mase LONDON. Aug. 10—As the ailies were |{heless entitled to protection and 10 have| SENDS POISON IN FLOWERS |but atter the programs were printed and the | sec the Ind bunging with bis whole body |, B0 00 0 0 5 (Wednesday) morning. 'The order 18 10| (o rest three dave at Yang Toun it fs sun. | his TIEhts determined in the regular way inuouncerent hurdided over:tEe Hate Lkt | over the MASKIK wnd saly che tows othie |, 0 YO LRG0 QRCHL 8 10 TS | 8 sup i ou e acquitta A . d e would participate the opening exer- | shoes visible, touching the angle of the o 4 rush to Pokin with no rest. We probably | posed that a further advance was begun DY i war tribunal. Although the acauittal | Artem MBI L B Sl ',,’,”F', hned & fshing expedition and | window, He sat aghust for a motent, |{use the offer. There are over 20 Buro August 10, but no word has come through | ¢ di#approved there is nothing ¢ Chin nister in clses e 8 The " g . pean women and children in this legation rthur to do nd p res ) hurriedly left the city last Saturday even- hen rushing to the window he pulled the N from Yang Tsun since August 8, on which [ General MacArthur to do and he rest Paris. : L 1ad 1 *| " The Shanghal correspondent of the Dally p b ) ’ " o) 01 o ol ol v d In by his legs and landed him safel capital 1o seven days, reaching there next date the Japunese commander, in a mes- | “0lonel Pettit to his regiment i L s o | e #0d Ly M SAICY | Bxpress, wiring yesterday, says: “The al @ T . A hoard consisting of five army officers NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—A special that it would have to be satisfied with Lieu- | on oor. ; s Rt . | sage to Tokio, sald 20,000 Chinese were . wetas | 4 . peaking of the nccurrence aft \ | lles at noon Saturday were within twenty Wednesday. confronting the allies. The Japanese losses | DA8 been appointed to make a report upon | dispatch from Paris to the Evening Tele- | tenant Governor Gilbert X, ‘s Arrenice ASLOFWAN, | s Tor Pekin. | at Pei Tsang August 6 were 300 killed and |® classification of all persons cmployed | gram y says: An artful attempt Oftered No Explanation. \‘l“:"" ""'“m";:'l':‘h'm"‘::‘y";‘l:‘""""{”': ':““' taeheq | A8 General Chaffea's report, which is the b ila ! s | poisol hy he usge of perfu whic re- g yai . ch o cing dashed ¥ mro reported to have retreated stralght | wounded. The Chinese left 200 dead on the | 1B the public service fn Manila. This 1s | poisoning by the use of perfume, which r No explanation was offered and the ab-| o St O O e hen he | NIy nuthentic news recelved here regard | flel, for the purpose of establishing a proper | calls memories from Lucretla Borgla, 18 ex- | nypi yotion of the governor naturally ecre- oaughit sight of him ing the advance, located the international ki [ he object of Chinese diplomacy, as ap- | Unit ty in the compensation of such Hl'll'“:' -l\l 'h’l'-‘ u:v_«‘:"’rv* :1' :,f'.’[". Yu Keng, At€d a little surprise in Grand Army ranks. | s forces about forty miles from Pekin on driven out of Yang Tsun on Monday. | pears from the great efforts being made in | “™M d s s o RODE. | stter Governor Poynter's departure the | Friday, it seems probable that the Shang Yang Tsun was captured by the Amer-|London and at the continental capitals, is | AN order promulgates the tariff on state | received a letter. It was "“"'] fulle Caei- | pime of the lieutenant governor was sub-| VETERANS OF SPANISH WAR i report i optimistic. 1t is scarcely der | Chaffee. They led the | t0 'duce the powers to suspend the march | tmber and issues Instructions for its ap- | winska” and contalned some dried flowers uted for that of the former and arrange- — likely that the allies could advance twenty feans under General Chafte | Of the rellef expedition, but it has been | Plication. It is intended for the utfliza- | which the writcr asked leration Ame e | ments were made accordingly RNeunton of Men Who Served in the miles in as many hours, A Yang Tsun dis allies in the forced march from Pel -r.‘.,m‘“"hm.. success in the case of any govern. | tion of the forest praducts of the islands cept. The secretary to the legation, Armani | " Tuie afternoun the veterans assembled i ohmpatEn T the i ttoh, dxted IAURHAL 7, 1 P i 7, giving details re- ment to the best possible advanage. | ai Parma, opened the leter ‘”u s {mifs- | iy furge ‘tabernacle SRt B0 fhe epenios v iy BOAIETINE: aptive o Tt | "An explanation as to why some of the | diately overcome by the deadly odor ema- y [ meeting, which was scheduled for 2 o'clock “The Russians and French held the left covered from the effects of their signal | pokin cipher messages wed Tsi Nan | WHY AGUINALDO HOLDS OQUT |vating from the flowers. He fell in a faint. | 5t the appointed time the local committee,| DENVER, Colo. Aug. 13— Nebraska i cral advance of the allied forces began this shall arrive at the gates of the Chinese The enemy is demoralized. The Chinese to Yokin after having been unexpectedly and attacked before the natives had re- 4 s 3 | the British the left center, the Americans defeat of the day before, is made by the Great Northern Telegraph His recovery was accompanied by violent | communder Reese und other oficers of the | Kansas, lowa, the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyo- | (he department ended to the platform, but [ ming, Utah, Oregon and other western | (reme right he British and Americans s the lleutenant governor had not up te |states will be represented at the reunion of advanced on the village at a rapid rate : ’ i | that time put in an appearance the meeting | veterans of the Phillppine campaign, which | for 5,000 yards under a severe shell and from the latter place. he reliever | was not called to order. A band was|OFens In this city today and will continue rife fire. The Russians opened and the Weth piAstets - of (RS Jposical. Bt JU . WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Coples of Ma-| Mile. Czerwinakn has been arrested. She | pressed Into service and until 3 o'clock the | foF three days. Two years ago today these | British-American advance beemme o rone | nila papers received at the War depart-|appears (o be mentally deranged. Before (audience was entertained with music. Then | soldiers were wading the Rio Cingalon | gop positions, culminating in a brilliant The Americacs bad dons thae work so| CHINESE HAD BOMB PROOFS | 1, “inict, wiier puroarine i be from | 1 exarinng magisrate she oleumed o e | o eonmrs s ™, ¥Ah muale. Theo | wedlor, vere madlag e i Clngalon| tor o | a personal friend of Aguinaldo, which states | the victim of a Polish princess, who vowed | jjeutenunt governor, but he returned a few | the old flag and facing a storm of lead from that the Filipino chief does not take advan- | (o take hideous vengeance for some mys- | minutes later and reported an unsuccessful | tén miles of Spanish intrenchments before in the Chinese trenches before the rest of Left Many Guas and Good tage of the amnesty proclamation because | terious wrong done her, presitnably by the | (rip Manila. They will never forget the occa-| ' The heaviest loss of the day was sus Bridge of Boats. | : some time ago he gave orders to his foi- | flower-sending Julie, who is now being care- | Colonel Pace, o e local com- | #lon and the reunion has been called for | talned by the Americans, the Fourteenth the B (86 BERWAIEAS Ry SEIRHAD DRMATY TR R lowers to brn:k up l:m guerrilla bands. The | fully watched by alienists. The flowers are : ,.,”..A?,N‘,“:?,‘\ ‘..,?1,‘3"”,',',1‘.' :’l,’,::',,,:',',',l n:,::, the purpose of keeping comrades shoulder to | Infantry having nine killed, sixty-two ST. PETERSBURG, Aus. 18.—The diapatch | [ Uil 120 00 o onty ‘those who “violated | belng chemically analyzed, The secretary | oo announced that the leutenant governor | Shoulder and effecting an organization Wounded and several missing. The Bengal e the laws of war and it states that Aguinaldo [ is slowly recovering. had fafled to put in an appearance Wwhereby their deeds may be preserved fn |lancers unsuccessfully attempted to cut Russian troops in the province of Pe-Chi-Li, | oo F45 O N0 10T BRI (0 ted claes “They care a lot for the old soldiers of | hi8tory. The idea orlginated with Genoral | Off the Chinese retreat. aro estimated at about seventy, most|to the Russian minister of war, ()enrrullmmlm he undertake to surrender under the [ HEVIEWS AMERICAN FINANCE the state,” shouted an old soldier in the rear | I'VIDE Hale and to his efforts is duc the| Another Yang Tsun special says: “Owing among the men of the Fourteenth infantry, | Kouropatkin, ~describing the capture of [ 2 1oi® 1€ Wnierfe of the tent, but before anybody else could | uCCess of the first annual reunion to a mistake the Russian guns shelled the ; 5 Pel Tsang and Yang Tsun, has been pub- [_ . \ ‘ed and the| ‘Tonight the veterans with their friends Fourteenth United States infantry during Part of the Fourteenth's losses were ""‘““"‘I;leh('d here, but adds nothing not already | wpich is sald to be the present provisional wing Strength of the nx?r:‘l‘:n: v‘::rse:l:; :fi'nn:.'l"f.’fi'.'.'.fl' 1;:;‘:":."( filled Central Presbyterian church to over- | the night, wounding ten." by Russian shells. Forty per cent of the known. The general adds that the Chinese | ;oo qouarters of Aguinaldo. It states, how- el ) L ien P | fowing at the reunion. Addresses of wel-| Commenting on this occurrence the force at Pel Tsang was 20,000 strong. He over, that Aguinaldo never stays more than l come were made by Governor Thomus and | Standard sa |sald ita loft flank was g00d and provided | ;i "ighs in & place, and only a few hourd| LONDON, Aug. 15.—The® Times today | Commander Qtecne's Speech. Mayor Johnson and speeches were made | it I8 melancholy (o learn that che losses babbesnnbel @ the ntenss with bomb proofs. lts hurrled gt pre- | 1y yny ore location. He allows no one 10 [ prints a long. editorial dealing with the| Colomel J. H. McClay welcofed the veter- | by General Francis V. Greene, General|of the Americars, who seem to have borne FREDERICK PALMER. |Vented it from destroying a bridge of boats, | .omo near him except his most intimate | oconomic position of the United States as |ans in the absence of the governor and leu- Irving Hale and other officers of the Philip- | themselves with conspicuous gallantry, were aud this enabled the allles to capture the | oryonal friends evidenced by the allotment of the war loan, | tenant governor, and Commander Reese re- | pine army. One of the most notable ad- | Increased by a deplorable error, owing te PEKIN 1S DRAWING NEARER wl:\olu\rumn’i.mrlmllng thirteen guns. traces the progress during the last four | sponded. He said In opening dresses was by Senator Wolcott, who took | Which one of their r-s;lm'-nw qunuu;xda“I t Yang Tsun General Linevitch estimates sats of the reduction of the America Responding to the remarks of Colonel | advanced grounds in favor of expansion by Russian and British cannon. The inei- - the Chinese torce at about 20000 he Rus. | FILIPINOS FOR CHINA WAR | bt ,""”":”L‘i o ,','", :‘,m,“'l“s',f”:,: McClay Mr. Reese said that during the five | Gencral Groene presided n’. the business | dent emphasizes the necessity of that close General Chaffee Cables that Allfen |8lan losses were two officers and 116 men. General Pio Del Pllar, Who Recently ‘h.lr not yet ceased to be a debtor nation, | Ye4rs that the state reunion had been held [ meeting in the afternoon and a committee | €0-0Peration which is not easily attained Have Reached Point Forty Miles The report concludes: “Our troops are | rendered, Would Like to Fight | It refers to the abundance of capital ac- | 11 this cliy no time, trouble or expense had | was appointed to draft a constitution and | Without a single commander and a gencral bivouacing at Yang Tsun and are in splendid | pl S5 vaitaa bixtcs | cumulating in Amerton and adds been spared by the citizens of Lincoln that| clect permanent officers of the society of | $taff.” 5 bealth.! | ot Ml C 3 | othing could suit 11 Americans bet-| Would contribute to the comfort and enjoy- | the Army of the Philippines. They will re. | OMcial advices from Yokohama dated WASHINGTON, Aug, 18.—The American| RUSSIan officials think the papers misrep- WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—A dispatch in a | ter among the non-Amc ecurities than | Ment of the veterans and their families who | port at noon tomorrow. Monday say that the allies proposed to ad- commuuder in China, in a dispatch of just ‘;.f‘\’:."l"”“I':I'“:::I,»A‘nln:r i'( m‘.; prolntment of | lste Mantla paper received here by the |the obligations of the British government. | MIght attend the reunions. The feature of tomorrow's exercises will | YANCe on August 7 to Nan Tsi Tsung, he- three words received at the War depart- s ant von Waldersee. 1t is | polnted out h b last mail, dated at San Pedro, Macatl, | “Not only have the Americans consider. | From Kimball to Omaha, from Chadron | be parade, in which the local members | !Véen Yang Tsun and Wu Sing. The Jap- ment late this afternoon, sent a thrill of | POINted out here that he will act merely as right center and the Japanese the ex company, which points out that it has a | Filipine Rebel Chief Fenrs He Wo sickness and vomiting. In fact his condi- ‘ri'xulnr courler service between Pekin and He Includ selud tion l'r""v';""l By Qw acteristics of pol- | sh when they found the enemy and s0on | Tsi Nan and that the wires are workin 1 soning and only by prompt treatment was da 5 The United States regulars made here a most distressing thing happened quickly and thoroughly that they were|Ferce that Defended Yang Heavy Loss by American threw shells among the Awericans through | of General Linevitch, commander of the ® frightful error. The American casualties The letter I dated at le‘—.\‘mflnm London Times Comments on the men of the Ninth Infantry were exhausted i e states that General Pio del Pilar, who re- |ably reduced the permanent indebtedness | (% &% (ity. members and represen Of the Grand Army of the Repubiic will| $0¢5€ suflered mo casuaities at Yang Taun, exultation and expectancy throughout |yt PFRHASHE 0 ;“"‘;"‘” of generals to | oni)y gurrendered, says he wishes to be-[of Europe by buying American raflway | hus ever acent pon od’ here, have the position of honor. Various enter- | DIt the officlal reporte aay. they 3 officlal quarters by announcing his arrival vay weakentns pnents, but without | ooy good American citizen and intends and other bonds and securities, but when, | have come fo meet the friends wnd clash | tainments will be glven by cltiene tn nones | P€l TSANE Y In any way weakening the independence of : : - R TACrAT S DA GE ORI Aty Nk gineg ] o I B at_Ho-Si-Wu, only thirty-three miles from [ iy (1% W0 e i s to accept the American terms offered to | In the autumn of 1898 London, for causes, | prefypbe,ihe iund of comr 4L N4 | of the visiting veterans and on Wednesday | E Ny B : Pekin, last Thursday strategle arrangements aonqen ©XCCUIDE | iy people. He euid be would like noth-|refused to renew masses of German bills | who Joined Ih the same ma beans | they will be taken on excursions to mountain | The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg corre- The iast heard from him before this m;"“:" arrangements decided upon ”"mu better than to raise a regiment of | previously held here, the bulk, after having !rom l)wl“:luSw A<u~‘|‘,“..:".' ;;'.L k fro .'\‘v‘»..‘ resorts and noted mining camps. spondent declares that the taking of Aigun was at Yang Tsun, which had been cap- | native Filipinos to serve in China. been domiciled for a short time in Paris, - L] slad remem: tured after a hard fight, and word of his | movements since then had been ecagerly awaited. Thursday he was eighteen miles beyond Yang Tsun. Lang Fang, the place where the ill-fated Seymour expedition met its fate aud turned back, had been Jeft behind. The battle of Yang Tsun was fought on August 6 and the advance to Ho-8i-Wu was accomplished on August 0—a march of eighteen miles in three days. This was four days ago and at the same rate of progress Chaffee is even now fairly within striking distance of the walls of Pekin. Tt was a consummition for which the War department had awatted calmly and stirring as the news was that the American force was now nearing the gates of the imperial city, Secretary Root and Adjutant General Corbin evinced no sur- prise, as it orded with calculations, al- though the advance has been more rapid than was expected The dispatch from Chaffeo, conveying so much in 50 few words, is as follows “CHE FOO, Aug Adjutant General, Washington: Tenth day arrived Ho-81-Wu yesterday. CHAFFER." Chaftee May He at Pekin, Word of the advance soon spread throughout oficial quarters. Tn the enthu- slasm of the moment word got about that this was the day of actual arrival at Pekin, Although the War department had no word of the advance heyond Ho-Si-Wu At was deemed hardly likely that the march to Pekin could have been made since last Thursday. At the rate of progress, six miles a day, made from Yang Tsun to Ho- BI-Wu about twenty-five miles would have been covered in the last four days and up to today this would still leave the fn ternational forces nine miles out of Pekin Viewed from any standpoint the advance to Ho-Si-Wu was of the utmost impor- tance, not only strategically, but also in | showing that communication was open back | 1o Che Foo, that the expected oppesition from Chinese hordes had not heen sufficient to prevent the steady forward movement | and in the influence it would exert upbn the Chinese government Dispat Ties Much. Brief as Is the dispatch it contains much Information not specifically contained in its few wordg. Although it is not stated what force arrived the War depart ment accepts it to mean that this is the fnternational force which first took Pel Tsang and then Yang Tsun. It has gone steadily forward along the left bank of the Pel river, keeping on the main read DE GIERS TO HIS GOVERNMENT Rassinn Minister Wires Messnge Si Recelved 1 TERSBURG, Aug. T, under date of Pekin, August 4, as fol- government recently and to all the the tung Il yamen info forelgn governments had not once arture from Pekin unler ¢ t We replied that we required instructions AVe our posts. r it my duty to our journey : to point out Alspensibie force to protect cason of the year the luck of m of communication Please inform The tamilic SUMNER of the imperial mission and ARRIVES IN JAPAN Fifteenth Infantry Wil Indiana and anafer to 3. —The War has received the following from “NAGASAKI Washington Will proceed Taku ou Indl a battalion aboard slege which General Chaffee has requested three days for the Indiana to reach Taku LION DOES AS BEAR DID by Britiah New Chwang. Prestdent Donnelly in His Report B fore Typographical Conventi Offters Severnl Suggestions, MILWAUKEE, Aug The forty-sixth annual convention of the Internat onal Typo- graphical unlon opened at the Masonic tem- ple today and will hold sessions throughout the week. At the opening sessfon, which was at- tended by about 500 delegaies, the amnual reports of the officers were submitted in | printed form. President S. B. Donnelly, in his report, recommends that annual conven tions be abolished and officers elected by specially called conventions Instead of by can better be spent “In resisting the en- croachments of unfair men and in protect- Ing the union's scale of wages.” He also recommends that amendments to the consti- tution be made by conventions instead of referendum vote. Secretary-Treasurer J W. Bramwood reports a total membership of 40,000, four-fifths being in good standing. Seventy-six new locals were organized dur- ing the year and one reinstated. A local union is soon to be formed at Manila. An effort will be made during the conven- tion to increase the death benefit from $60 to $76. The committee on laws reported thir- ty-five propositions of a varied characte for action by the convention. Buffalo, To- ronto, Birmingham and St. Louis are work ing for the next convention. | journment of the first session to have the rived | convention consider certaln matters of political nature. The movement was quickly squelched and nothing bearing on politics will be entertained during the convention SHIPS ARE CAUGHT IN STORM Passengers Are Glven a Dose of Rongh Wenther on Luke Michigan, CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Exciting experiences were reported by passengers, who having started to cross from South Haven, Mich were either compelled to return to the throughout the night The steamer Darfus Cole, carrying 2,000 seasick peaple, due here last night, reached UNION MEETS IN MILWAUKEE | referendum vote as at present. The amount | of money spent in conventions, he contends, An effort was made just prior to ad- | during a storm on Lake Michigan last nigh | Michigan side or to fight the waves and wind | were transferred to New York, where they lave remained ever since, and have doubt- ess been added to. “The United States alzo loaned money to Russia “It has been evident for eighteen months or two years that American money houses | possessed lurge funds which they have been | unable to employ home satisfactorily |and the higher interest rates at present | | In Europe attract some of this money." {BOERS MAKE CHANGE OF BASE tch Received In London Indi cntes HBarberton as New Seat of Government. LONDON, Aug. 13—The Boers have laft Machadodorp, according te the correspon dent of the Dally Mall and occupied Water- valender in considerable force A considerable force of Commandant Louis Botha's camp and stores at Dalmatnua | was destroyed by fire on Sunday Accord ing to another special dispatch Barberton has been proclaimed the new seat of the Transvaal government SALISBURY IS NOT WELL English Premier Goes to Resort in | Volges on Advice of His Physiolan, | LONDON, Aug. 13.—Acting under his doc- tor's advice Lord Salisbury, the premier tonight started for Schucht, a health re | sort In the Volges, where he will stay a month. He will, however, retain the con duct of foreign affairs by means of the | telegraph and messenger LONDO 13.—The fourth Zionist congress was opened today with 500 del, gates present. After organizing Prof. Max Nordau, roviewing the situation, gave an appalling account of persecution in Roumania and paid a tribute to Em Germany for his attitude toward the Jews of Pomeranla and East Prussia Among the Americans present were Prof. and Mrs, Gotthell D, Blanstein and A. Aaner- | baum of New York. Jacob Manitoff of Brooklyn, Isracl Stein of Baltimore and Wil- liam Schur of Chicago. The Amerlcan dele- mittees Dr. Deftz, formerly of Syracuse, but now | of the congress. gates are well represented e com- | & gates are well represented on the com- | §arids At powers themselves confess. es they will carry hence to be re P MURDERER TALKS OF HEAVEN Gory-Handed arsed In post room and by their firesides the vears to come will be the circum- tances and events transpiring here today nd those which are destined to mark the | perlods of this reunton to which, in behalf of the st vou bid us welcome. In their behalf, therefore, as department communder, 1 convey to you our apprecia- | tlon and thanks. We realize that our ranks are rapldly thinning and that the camp- | tires will soon burn low. Tribate to the Fiag. In accepting the flag Commander Reese | said 1 come now to another event and | recognize In” fitting words your pres | tion"of this beautitul and costly this | feel my own incompetency. | racog- wever, that it fs not in personal f any act that | have done or d, but as the representative rather of the brave and loyal men of Ne- braska who, when uanger threatened and thelr country called, responded to the sum- mons and placed their lives In peril that “The star spangled banner in triumph might wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.'" History's faithful record will tell you the bravery with which that flug, the emblem of true liberty, was defended. That ban- ner that waves over the capifol at Wash- ington, on the great warships as they plow the distant waters, I8 an emblem of America's greatness.' 1t, my comrades, is the noblest flag that ever Kissed the sun- light of God in the breezes of heaven. It possesses the greatest history in the cause | of humanity among the banners of the world When after many years of peaceful pros- perity the sound of battle is again heard that “banner of the free comes forth and its glory lightens the way Admiral Dewey over the wiaters and Into the harbor f Manila. It leads Admiral Sampson into ntiago. Held alort by stalwart followed by defenders rocked In t of freedom, It swept through Kl Canes up the blazing slopes of San Jua ne with irresistible force, till in triumph was planted upon fts summit There I8 power and maglc enoigh in that banner when carried by American sailors and coldfers, enlisted fn the cause of hi munity, to avercome the urmies of the world and strew the high seas with the wreckage of every navy that may seek to destroy | and cruelly oppress mankind. In the events of the past three years ull natlons were taught the great lesson that the cause of humanity has some rights thut must be respected when backed by American sol- | diers and American satlors Where that flug goes it carries deliver- ance to the onpressed: such is the record of history and the verdict of mankin. Where that flag shall remain the people over whom It floats are {ns “life, lib. erty and the pursuit W' 1o an tent not_guaranteed by ther nation wer or government on face of God's n e @ fact and truth to which the | Movements of Ocean Vessels Aug. 14, of Johannesburg, is a conspicuous member | At New York-—-Arrived—Mesaha. from Laurentian, from Glasgow: Cym Dastard Who Union county, in which his crime was committed, An afdavit | was diled against him there this afternoon. Ferrell 1s losing his nerve and beginning | to show deep lines of care on his fa still maintains he was alone in the of Steubenville tonight and visited his son at was an affecting Toblas Ferrell think of me or mother?" ask with tears in his eyes eried the boy. had thought of mother I would never have Both fathor and son wept message to the father, When asked gend to his mother, the young man cried ““They will kill me for this meet her in heaven.' , sr., stated that he was the only one of the family able to leave home, all of the others being hysterically, Tell her 1T will a physician MAD DASH OF CHARGERS Horses Kick Liberty and NEW YORK, Aug Speeding at break maneuvers, a band of cava through the etreets of ry horses charged City tonight, carriages scurrying spurned a crowd of hundreds of Hackensack Kearney meadows of the hand train and three In the mad charge Lackawanna A sewer excavation The horses belonged to and had Juet arrived from Twenty-five of the number in one pen at the Central stock of the enclosure The escape was that the troopers were powerless has sealed the fate of the rising in nerth~ castern Manchuria. He adds ““No prisoners were taken by the Ruselans. Wholesale massacre was the order of the day, and when the hattle was over the Cot- sacks rode over the field, killing all the wounded with the butt ends of thelr muskets."” Once more the press of England remarke upon the ability of the American govern- ment to secure news ahead of the rest of the world, “It 16 to General Chaffee,”” says the Daily News, “that we are agaln in- debted for news from the front. Not a single dispatch from Sir Alfred Gaselee has thus far been {seued by the War offce."” Commenting on the American reply to the Chinese overtures the Dally News say: “The reply is more conciliatory than that of M. Delcasse and in some respects it 18 a little ambiguous, still its substance is the same. It may be observed that the United States government does not seem to sep- arate itself from the allies.” All the small arms ammunition used by the allies will be in accordance with tha recommendation of the peace conference, none being explosive or expanding. The drain of China and South Africa upon Eng- land's etores Is &0 great that every private firm has been enlisted to help the govern- ment supply the demand and to restore the reserve, which is much below par. All the great ammunition firms are working night and day In thelr efforts to meet the govern- ment's wishes.” |FIRE ON AMERICAN TROOPS Russinn Battery Makes n Mistake During the Fight at Yang NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—A special cable digpatch to the Evening Werld today, dated Chee Foo, August 9, via Shuaghal, says: A terrible mistake occurred ut the taking of Yang Teun Russian artillery opened fire on the Ameri can troops, Before the mistake was Ais covered many American soldiers had been killed or wounded by the Russian shells The Fourteenth took part in the attack on the Chinese trenches. As the Chinese fled the regiment entered and occupled one of the Chinese positions A Russian battery, some distance off, dia not notice the movement. It opened fire on the position and planted shells among the American troops The Russians were quickly notified and coased their fire. upation of New Chwang justi- | POt at daybreak today. 1t had been driven ric, from Liveraool road | Livorpool ~Arrived—Georgic, from New - - TROUBLE ON THE YANG TSE which skirts the river banks. At Yans|fies the dispatch of British troops to Shang. | Wenty-five miles out of its course by the Canal Concesston Forfeited, y Ivernia, from Boston; Tunisan, from | , (Wristian Chareh Convention. Tsun the rallway crosses the river and |pay storm and the captain had much trouble in| MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 13.—(Via| Montreal y AUHICAGO, Aug 4 Bronasition for rec | posins Commenoas AR the Chinssy branches off to the west. Now the forces | It appears that other powers will be | Auleting the panic-stricken passengers, who | Galveston.)—El Commerclo of this city, con N e bl 1 T vl B 1 0f the €hiistiny Dentroy (he kraph have left the raflway far in the vear and|driven to take similar measures in other | ©/Amored to be landed on the shore any-| firming today the report of the forfeiture of | for Hremen 5 Church of Amg Disciples, which | Statl are depending upon the highway and the | parts of China. | where so as to escape the watery grave|the Interoceanic Canal company's conces-| - dnoy, N. 8. W.—8alled—Warrimoo, | to be held in I caoapee 31 a1 river. Ho-8I-Wu is a place of considerable which many believed awalted them and | sion, says e (Vabeier iy afe Rin df i fare i # for the Tound 1y | NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—~A dlspateh to the #lze and the largest town between Tieu Heltin their boat. The steamer A. B. Taylor, with We understand that the government of | Janeiro. from San Francisco yvia Hommuls T ggested dates for sule | Tribune from London says: A Shanghai Tsin and Ching Chia Wan. The latter | LONDQN, Aug. 14.—The E h govern- | twenty nassengers, battled with the waves | Nicaragua has offiefally informed the In- | for Hong Kong: Olympia. from Tacoma re October {4 16 and 16, with October | possage to the News says that troubles place and Tung Chow are the two cities [ ment, according to the Shanghai corre- | for hours and was in the end compelled to | teroceanic Canal company—the Eyre-(ragin | RIO QU0 Masu, Hom Saaitin AR5 ToluEn limik have commenced In the Yang Tse valley at of considerable size in the line of advance | epondent of the Times, has oftered to lend | put back to Holland, Mich., after haviug | syndicate—that its conceasion was annulled | no AP UrE—Arrived—August Korff,trom Fire Flahters Go on Strike. Tatung. Serlous rlots have taken place and after leaving Ho-Si-Wu. It s surrounded [ £75,000,000 at 413 per cent to the viceroy of | lost a liteboat in the storm. It is decla on the 3rd instant in consequence of the (M Bremen-Arrived-—Grosser Kurfurst ROME. N. V., Aug. 1i—Twenty-five fire- | tho telegraph station is reported to have RS Hu Pee, on the Yang Tse Kiang, for the|that the passengers all but mutinied before | company's fallure to deposit §400,000 rom New York 5 jpan Went on Sirike fodey Al e e | heen destroyed by members of the Kolav (Continued on Second Page.) payment of provinclal troops. the captain would returs. gold.” tiom Yort e itz Risemtontals, | ¢ VOIS, haush sa tar ik Micose, | SN v i i