Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1900, Page 1

| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED TERMS ~ OF JUNE 19, Earop. ! " % Are Wondering n & (R an Chine " Cheo ‘. United States Will Insist Upon Many _— 54 Things from Obin BERLIN, Aug. 17.=The news regarding hings from Ohina, the entrance to Pekin was further confirmed - oday by two telegra eceived by the Ja CHINESE CHRISTIANS TO BE PROTECTED |1+ wu ' torces were onl American Government Feels it Cannot De- This evening the German press accepts the fall of Pek as a fa e expre sert, Native Allies, 5%, &Y KA Hathy: AITERY o8 vay wabt that there ch left to be done T'he PHILIPPINES ~ MAY AFFORD ~ ASYLUM | poriiner post A great thing h | been done, b p greater must be done be | tore the powers will be matisfied. It Matter Has Not Been Formally Discussed by | remains 1 \ redress for the attacks . | upon the and other wrongs, par President and Cabinet. tienlarly assination of the Germa - | minteter and to install a government which will punish the guilty and glve ample guar HEAVY INDEMNITY WILL BE ASKED | J/!! nunish the kiilty and give s Expense w0 Far Mas Been Grenat. T e Visisens: RelLonR e it HMas Vot Reached the Totnls :'}y.[n&.‘ & in a similar train Referring Espended in Late Waor [fo 8 number of special didpatehes anpear | ing in German papers which claim that the with 8p ’l nited State governmen now ha the I members of the foreign logations are re eved, is about to withdraw from the in WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—A cabinet off \:'m,‘ AHAsHakIoE. o HIgK oMial ‘of vial said today that unquestionably | b RG ERL BE ee sald this even the pative Christians in China, said | o The Washington erniment RS A8 to number several thousands will | sured the other powers of its willingness be inclu in any arrangement |, ., oiorate in carrying out a joint pro made between this government and | g rance has sufficed so far China Incident to the cessation of hostillties. | qni will continue to suffice in spite of At the present stage of the Chinese SItia- [ nowepuner sto to the contrap tlon this situation has not been seriously [yt plie United States charge discussed by the cablnet, but there 18 no| yfraires, when his attention was called to doubt, according to this member, that the |y o Bl G United States Is honor bound to protect| “.pp. tpited States government has acted them and will sacredly look out for thelr | (yn (he greatest harmony regarding China security with Germany from the outset. In fact, up “What will be done with them? was [ 1o Pokin the powers are all agroed. butbe asked " i Seerhsh yond that no agreement has even been at “That has not heen decided, but rest as- | {onivind The future must be left to new pured that in their disposition the Bonor | yiiiomatic negotiation of the United States will be fully preserved. | © ¢ iorile 500 id any doubt, 1e preparing It may be arranged for them to go to the | ot 50 e utumn and winter cam Philippines or one of many other places | qign jn China. One striking evidence of L hle this is the fact that a slow steamer has “It was stated that while the matter has | oo “ohitiored to carry to China material not been formally discussed, the indemnity [ g0 " re e field raitroad 1o be collected will he not only for the fam flies of the vietims, but to compensate this | government for the expense it has been put to in suppressing the uprising HELPED OREGON CHI HAI “It has not been a heavy expense com- | Chinese Cruiser Came to pared to the Spanish war," he said, “but crlenn War Ship Wh it will be suffcient, together with the in- | Recently. demnity to the families of missionaries and | other victims and for all loss to property | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 17.—Mail of the United States government or of Amer- | advices from Yokohama, Japan, contaln fcan citizens, to make it & very serious | the following story in connection with the matter, financially, to China.” | stranding of the battleship Oregon on the Chinese coast recently DISCUSS FUTURE OF CHINA| | by Captain Sah, a thoroughly westernized | ofcial. on her way from Taku to Che English Papers Deprecate the ldem |, ", rjed the Oregon in her perilou BB CRRENS Ry AR plight and offered her valuable assistance ERELISIa RS which was most gratetully received by Cap- | tain Wilde. The Hal Chi anchored clos LONDON, Aug. 18.—4 a. m.—cPekin was |, "o o of further use it needed. The b B Bl DRt next day a Russian cruiser came along This message was received last night at | pext S0% & OECE Cr e the Oregon the Imperiul Customs House in London eyed the Chinese vessel with suspicion and from the customs commissioner at Che Foo On being asked what she was doing ther The Chinese cruiser Hai Chi, commanded | OMAHA, SATURDAY M | Federals and Republicans Come Together in Deadly Riot at Mayaguez ONE MAN IS KILLED AND MANY INJURED Proposed Celebration of the Secon Anniversnry of the Ocenpntion of Town 1x Held Responsible for the Trouble, SAN JUAN, Aug Yesterday at May aguez a crowd of federals and republicans got together and after heated political dis putes thirty revolver shots were exchanged and clubs and other weapons freely used One man was killed outright and a dozen others were injured, two fata ¥ weeks violent pe Vs biation in honor of the second anniversary of the occupation of Mayaguez by the United States troops. The federals, heing ti-American fn sentiment, opposed the project. Former Secretary of Justice Diaz remarked that the day had heen one of mourning rather than of rejoicing and since then the rival politicians in Mayaguez have been at fever heat |MAY BE SENATOR DOLLIVER ra in fown Helleve Wil Ap | dee Man. DES MOINES, la., Aug. 17.-A meeting of all leading republican politic of the ate with the state central commitiee was held here today to discuss the probable choice of Governor Shaw for the vacant porition In the United States senate caused by the death of Senator Gear. Four candi dates are being considered by the governor Congressman Dolliver of Fort Dodge, A. B. Cummins of Des Moines, Congressman Hepburn of Creston and Minister Conger of China. Congressman Dolliver had an extended interview with Governor Shaw to- day and republican leaders in general be leve that he will receive the appointment the campaign should ptember 20, with meet |1t was agreed be opened about S by ings addressed by prominent republicans [ of this and other states in every conkres {sional district. Incldentally Governor | Shaw held numerous conferences in respect to the senatorfal vacancy, but gave no | sign as to when or whom he would ap- point ON TRAIL OF ROOSEVELT | Charies A, Towne Will Follow Repub- lican Candidate on His Western Trip. CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—According to in tonal west, formation given out at democratic headquarter in his teur of the | Governor Roosevelt will have an oratorical sleuth on his trail in the person of Ch A. Towne, the silver republican leade | Within ten days Mr. Towne will open the | campaign at Duluth, where he will make an claborate address devoted mostly to an ort 1% A6 .the gnly. ofdisl, Hisekags, thak ""‘;mm he shook his head and said it would swering Rossevelt. Later Towne will tour veached London In confirmation of thol . . iphelews be his duty to take posses- 1duho, Oregon, Washington, California and earlier reports, Admiral Remey's ill-*um-hl_.m" of it. Captain Wilde answered ‘m | other western states, keeping close to not having arrived in time for publication | ,©yi " iparragsed just now, but there is| Governor Roosevelt's path. Mr., Towne will 4p the London mornig pABeTS: ammunition aboard and my guns are in ex- | make an occasional trip to the south The Morning Post, which is the only | hione condition.” | speaking at Atlanta, Louisville, Memphis, paper printing the Che Foo messake. 8ay8: | rpe pext day after the departure of the | Nashville nd other important cities “Toduy is not only a day of natiopal re-| g gian Captain Wilde visited the Hall Throughout it will be Mr. Towne's mission Jolcing. it is ulso a day of congratulation | opy anq suggested to Captain Sah that|to pay special attention to the republican for all the powers of the world.' |as he was protecting some refugees ou|vice presidential nominee, and to answer Proceeding to discuss the probabilities | yourq it might be well for him to run!arguments made by the latter during the of a cessation of hostilitics, the Morning | ., the American flag to the fore and no|campaign Post assumes that the United States 18| giastions were asked by passing cruisers — willing to abandon any idea of further ag gressive action, but it questions the position of Germany and other powers agree to such a cours The Berlin corresy afterwa BETTER IA.ETVCHINA SLEEP dent of the Morning | Francisco Calls At- Yost says he learns that no formal re quest for an armistice has yet reached th A Few Perti- powers and that it Is improbable that any nets. such request would be granted The oth ers comment guardedly on| OAKLAND. Cal Aug. Ho Yow the general situation, owing to the lack | Chinese consul general at San Francisco, of definite news when the editorials were |in an address before the Ebell soclety written questioned the advisability even from th Most of them advocate a stern inquisi- | Caucasian standpoint of converting the | tlon regarding outrages and the punish-|entire Chinese population to christianity. ment of the leaders even if they have to[“There are 500,000,000 of my countrymen. be pursued all over China | said Ho Yow. “They are increasing In The Daily Chronicle, in o paragraph, ap- | vast numbers. They are quick to learn perently inspired. says there is no reason | and taking these facts into consideration, what would happen if the white race suc- to belleve that any of the powers will re- pudiate the previous understanding to re- | ceeded In forcing its civilization and its spect the integrity of the empire and the knowledge upon them? They will be able dynasty, adding that the proposal to land |to manufacture guns and all the engines a British force at Shanghai originated not | of warfare with equal facility. Under these circumstances, Christianity might triumph nd again it might not The thre | China, Ho Yow Qisposes | Work, acquisition territory by foreign of the story that the viceroy of Nankin |Dations and the ration of ancestral changed his mind under the fofluence of | homes and the landscape of China the consuls. Her majesty's government In clesing, Ho Yow said he could we belfeve, has no intention of contesting |0 legitimate reason why one nation should the right of France or the United § wish to force its religion upon another. to land troops should either think it neces HAVE FAITH IN GOODNOW with the British government, but with the | Chinese, who at the same time urged that | this should not be done if likely to lead to tnternational complications. “This,” says the Daily Graphie decl of dese to be missionary Shanghal dispatches that Emperor Kwang Su, accompanied the empress dow- | oMcinls at Washington Take No Stock ager to Hslan Fu much against his will in Story Comcerning the Prince Tuan commanded the rear guard of | Co 1 Genernl, the Imperial escort of which Boxers - formed 65 per cent It was expected that WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—~The State de- Genernl Tung Fuh Siang would follow after | partment tdkes na stock in the story put the arrival of the allies. All the palace [forth by the China Gazette at Shanghal, treasyres were sent to Hslan Fu. {accusing Consul General Goodnow of com- The h say accounts of the method of | plicity with the Chiness On the con- entry into Pekin are contradictory, some | trary. he is spoken of in the very highest maintaining that there was severe fight- | terms and his course in the trying situa- ing and others that the entrance was not |tion is commended A number of state opposed nents have appeared concerning Mr. Good New Chwang wa again attacked on | now's estion about the land of August 13, but the Russians repulsed 2.000 | British troops The only part which My Chinese, infiicting heavy loss, although they | Goodnow took in this matter was to in also suffered soverely | torm the State department that he doubted According to a dispatch to the Daily |[the wisdom of landing troops of one nation Express from Che Foo, the dispatch from | without others having the same privilege Minister Conger. which was received by It also is sald that the China Gazette is & Consul Fowler Wednesday, after sayine all [ British paper ard positively represents a the Americans were alive except the Eng- |[sentiment existing among the Enghsh at lish baby and seven marines. admitted [Shanghal opposed to Consul General Good- that there was some sickness, but said he now and the course he has pursued expected the food would last 1 re s 4 until reliet ] Jown Pleanes General Wheeler. CHIC u iene Joseph The Chinese minister at Toklo, Li \'hr-m:'“l”_l‘ pos \“f. 1, .;l I“wlajl\m-:) I.; Toh. has telegraphed Li Hung Chang, ac- |\ hecler commander of the Dei 2 the Lakes, expressed great pleasure today on cording to a dispatch to the Times from | . hearing that the allied foices had reached Shanghal. that Japan is willing to use Pekin. He said that it has Seen his opinion her good offices in behalf of the empress 4 : 4 [ since the commencement of the Chines dowager and Emperor Kwang Su. but is| 1 trouble that the officials und members of the otermined to prevent tha escane of Prince |\ ) H01 A8 GRmAh phe Wamuen oF tae Tuan of Yang Ki, president of th~ Board |’ * ess b ha : & to delay the entry of the allied forces into | Pekin in order to give the Chinese wuthori ties an opportunity the capital of War of Hsu Tung. puardion of the heir apparent and of Chao Shu Chiao, commis to mov to ;“.:"':‘” of the right of way and mining | getner with all the archives and sacred writ 4 Tunk, Chane." the dlsoateh continues, | 1ES: 2 AUOLD jolut, which polnt probably “has received instructions from the throne | e, e (B¢ dncient capital of the Chine to usk Russia if she is willing to assist | “" P! , China to arrive at a pesceful settlement | Golng from Cuba (o China. and to give assurances that she has no| LEAVENWORTH. Kan. Aug 17 Com intention to annex any part of Manchuria | panies A, E. G and H and the regimental 1t the reply s favorahle Barl Li has or. | band of the First Infantry, Colonel A. A ders to nepotiate without delay. Simul-| Harback commanding, arrived at Iort taneously. the military governor of Man- | Leavenworth today from Cuba and went churia will be directed to cegse hostil- | Into quarters. Afier a thorough rest the ittes regiment will be sent to China, hief causes of the trouble in | ST. PAUL special s Captain Seth Bullock of Grigsby's Rough Riders has ived a letter from Gov ernor Roosevelt, in which an fnvitation has been extended to the captain and the Rough Riders to accompuny colonel on his trip through the state 1 The colonel will spend five days in South Dakota, three Minn., Aug. 17.—-A Deadwood days in the eastern part and two in the Black Hills. One day will be spent in | Lead and Deadwood. Captain Bullock and | his boys will meet Colonel Roosevelt at the state line. Conference with Roosevelt. NEW YORK, Aug Governor Roose- velt came from Oyster Bay today and had a onference with Chairman Hanna ator | Scott and Cornelius N. Bliss on his itinerary He said | My itinerary will have to be materlally | changed from the list published this morn- ing. here has flood of telegrams | from placs 1 was supposed visit | good many people will be disappointed been a to Th changes will probably be made in a few days | Cotored Men on Advisory Committee | CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Cyrus Field Adams, colored editor, linguist and orator, and Bishop Arnett of Ohio, also colored, have | been appointed by Chairman Hanna mem- | bers of the advisory committee of the re- publican national committee NO MASS FOR HUMBERT t Refunes to Pray for { Late King's Soul ns Requeste LOUL Bouchet, VILLE, Ky, Aug. who refused to celeb for the late King Humbert at the {of the Italians of Louisville today refusal was due to the fact that | hud been excommunicated. F does not believe the pope allowed mass to | be celebrated for the dead king, notwith standing reports to the contrary ather e mass request sald his Humbe | Heat Recoras 1 ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1 test diy the vear | p. m. the temperature jump of 3 degrees fr registe Al re been b since the AuguSt therm tow Fourteen deaths of infants from th cessive heat were reported to the mort Mtice n Wednes. ¢ today. This n completed month fants alor “our adults today hen at St Louis. lay was the hot in St Lo At 4 reached @ e m 2 o'clock, when i ras for AUgust have ear 1881, ‘when, on meter registered 106 ex fr iy fr Ak wer Contract for KANSAS CITY, Aug partment has just closed A local packing house for 350,000 pounds of reakfast b for immediate shipment to Chini for the Amerfean soldiers now sery ink in Ching The War | Movements of 0, At Nagasaki Seattle At MovilleSailed—F gow, for New York At Hamburg- Arrived Via Plymout New York-—-Arrived—-Faerst Bismarck Hamburg: Gallla, from Naples; Lu from Liverpool and Queenstow) Queenstown—Arrived—Campania, from York, for Livernool Cherbourg—Sailed - Kalser from Hamburg and Southampton York | CAd nn Salled els Aug. 1%, Albert, for irnessta, from tricia, * from New York At from cania At N Friedrich for New Brisbane—Satled—Warrimoo Sydney, for Honolulu and Vanc At the Lisurd -Passed New York, for Antwerp, wer, B Kensington, from and a her Bouchet | ORNING, AUGUST PEACL ", ASK SAME QUESTION B ) FLOWS IN PORTO RI(() UNION REFUSES To DIVIDE ROYALTY WELL Stereoty p and Electrotypers Des and Permiest rmoin Sepnrat MILWAUKEE, W \ 1 The for noor n ¢ Ay International Typographica n was almost exclu vely devote neidering the proposi tion of the pers and elecirotypers trade union district for permission from the Inte ational Typographical union to grant its withdrawal from that body and to form an rhational stereotypers and clectrotypers unfon. At the hour of recess argument was still in progress and a vote will not be taken until late this afternoon The stereotypers favored the proposition only a few of the printers giving voice to | opposite view President-elect Lynch nade a strong argument against with drawal. stating that every time a branch withdraw the power of the International body sened. He stated that the pub lishers were only too anxious to see the \ifferent bodies in the printing business become independent of eadn other, so they ould play one off against the other | proposition of the stereotypers and typers to withdraw was fost, the being 101 to il It seems to be the entimont of the stor and electro ypers to withdraw from the International Tvpographical union in case the referen lum, to which the legislation must be re- | | ferred. goes against them A resolution by Mr. Bandlow of Cleves land, O, was passed declaring the Inter national Typographical union (o be dis- tinctly a class organization and that to subserve their interests as wageworkers it is essential that they act as a unit wpon the political field from whence capital lerives fts power to oppress, and that it 18 the duty of every member to sever af- fillation with all polit parties of the exploiting class which are constantly en eroaching upon the liberties of the work- ing people. The passage of this resolu tion is looked upon as a victory for the Debs followe Considerable miscellaneous and routine business was transacted at tonight's ses. n. which lasted until about midnight 1A resolution was adopted instructing utive council to communicate with the proper officials at W with the end in view of having the government e lish printing offices of its own in all territory under the flag and to abolish the eystem of subletting private institu tions. Another resolution was passed granting Commissioner Frederick Driscoll of the American Newspaper Publishers’ as pociation permission to heard amendments to the laws of the International Typographical union that materially affeet ngton to be on publishers’ interests | A proposition that the International | Typographical unlon assist the union at | Ottawa, Canada, in securing sn advance in secale for government printing also went through. HENRY C. AKIN GETS A PLACE | Made Private Secretary to Postmaster Crow at the Instance of Sen- ator Thurston. | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—(8pecial Tel | gram.)—Senator Thurston aud Postmaster | Crow have for some (ime _ ep urglng an allowance for additional help wt the Omaha postoffice, with the result that one addi | tional carrier has been allowed. Postmas- ter Crow has also allowed a private secretary and Colonel C. Akin will receive the appointment A. L. Branston was teday appoluted post- master at Auburn, Walsh county, 8. D Rural free delivery has been ordered es- tablished at Aurelia, Cherokee county, la., to take effect September 1. Service will cover forty-four square miles, with a popu- been Henry the | all | 1900 - TWELV PAGES, PROTECTED | Europein Police Take Great Against Anarohists Precaution | WALES HAS TWENTY SPECIAL DETECTIVES | New System Insngurated by M res. ent Visit to Homburg Intended to utwit the Assnssin in the Future, (Copyright, 190, by Pross Publishing Co) LONDON, Aug. 17.—(New York World Ca | blegram ial Telegram.)—Precautions for the safety of the prince of Wales dur Sp ing his stay in Homburg, where he arrive i today, include the inauguration of a new system for the protection of royalty from the attacks of anarchists. Under this system every member of a royal family traveling out of his own coun try has the service of a detactive from ch Buropean bureau, whose special qual ification fs his fntimate acquaintance with the dangerous anarchis These foreign detectives, fourteen in number, arrived ar Homburg a week before the prince of Wales was expec in order that a thorough preliminary investigation | might be made and all necessary precan | tions taken to insure his safety. The | prince was accompanied upon his arrival by six special service men from Scotland Yard, who will guard him during his stay at Homburg Lord Salisbury, who is at Schlucht, has a comparatively small guard—four English de tectives and six from other European coun | tries—as the town is small and it s easy | to keep track of suspects. | The detective guard of Emp | of Germany has been doubled or William since King is said that that the: | ponsible if any | preventable mishap occurs to the kaiser | Queen Victoria is also more carefully guarded than before the murder of Hum bert. During yachting week Cowes swarmad ith detectives and the grounds of Osborne house are patrolled by guards night and day Colonial Secretary Chamberlain has three Scotland Yard men in constant attendance | and the two Balfours are similarly guarded Humbert's assassination and it the guards h been warned be held personally re will | AWARDS MADE TO AMERICANS | Kxhihitors from United States at Paris Exposition Recelve Medals or Other Prizes. PARIS, Aug. 17.—The list of the awards to American exhibitors at the Paris expo- sitlon was made public today. The United Btates in all secured 1,981 awards, Of thes 1220 were grand prizes, 486 gold medals, 553 | silver medals, 422 bronze medals, 270 hon- | orable mentions and a long list of gold silver and bronze medals for collaborators dvery line of art and skill fs given recog nition. American farm products, Ameri can mines and American forests receive grand prizes and gold medals, and Ameri- can cottons, woolens and silks are given the | same consideration as are American har- | vesting machinery, sewing machines, print- | Ing presses, liberal arts and trausporta tion, while silverware, jowelry ari and education are placed in the list. In the Paris exposition of 1889 only 1,981 priz including those for collaborators, were given, divided as follows: Grand prizes, 55; gold medals, 214; silver medals, 300 bronze medals, 246; honorable mentions, 299, United tes Commissioner General Peck and his associates are highly pleased with the results, as demonstrating the su- periority of American products and the superiority of the character of the whole lation of 495 ward Stier was appointed | American section | carrior. Among the awards are a gold medal for he comptroller of the currency today au- | the Omaha Board of Education for its thorized the First National bank of Ruth- | school exhibit and a gold medal for A. I ven, la., to commence business with a cap- Root & Co., printers. ital of $23,000. M. T. Brown is president| Among the commissioners figuring in the and J. H. Thatcher cashier. list_or decorations confessed by the legion The comptroller has upproved the Hanover [of honor fs United States Commissioner National bank of Naw York, the Corn Ex- General Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago, who | change bavk of Chicago and the Citizens' | is appointed a grand officer of the legion National bank of Des Moiues as reserve | the announcement being made by the of agents for the F Natioual bank of Mil | ford, la. Asa C. Pachaw, St. Paul, Neb.; Peter It Futchoff, Lancaster; Ernest G. Bivens and | Bart M. Rohrbaugh, Lincoln, Neb. John | McGill and Charles H. Randall, Cheyenne, |and W. A, Simmons, Hecla, Wyo., were to day appoint KILLED | Adki 1 railway mail clerks. IN MUUNTAIN FEUD Hownrds Enliven VMatters wtern Kentucky, with Probably One Fatality, | MOORHEAD, Ky., Aug he Adkins and Howards bad a bloody battle in Elliot county last night, in which one of the How ards was shot dead and another was shot through the lung and is expected to die. | The difficulty was caused by one of Howards and one of the Lindsay | boys quarreling over a young woman in | their neighborhood. After quarreling both went home and brought back other mem- | bers of their families for reinforcements. ',\(lkmn father, who is a preacher, was in the fight with his boys. All the Adkins have been arrested and are now in the Mar tinsburg jail |BETTER KEEP OFF THE GRASS| | Town Boomers amd Lot Speculators Are Warned to Keep Far Away from Indian Territory, ARDMORE, I. T., Aug. 17.—District At rney W. B. Johnson of the southern dis trict has received instructions from the Jepartment of the Interior to prosecute I persous concerned in surveying or lay ing off new towns since the passage of the Curtis act. This includes speculator boomers and privat rveyors, but not bona fide purchasers, who afe building on their lots. Several warrants have been i ued and prosecution will be instituted Many new towns are being laid out along te line of the 'Frisco extension from Sa south wnd the law applies to all or them. | Rulgarin Gets Ultimatam, LONDON, Aug. 18.—The Roumanian gov ernment, according to a special dispatch trom Vieuna, has addre a sharp note mounting almest to an ultimutum, to Bulgaria, demanding the arrest of Karafow president of the revolutionary committee at Sofia, and the suppression of that or ization, Money for Beitish Prisoners, CAPETOWN. Aug An American onsular offcial has gone from Larenzo Marquez to Nooitgeedacht to distribute noney to the British prisoners there, each of whom receives £4 Kitchener Relleves Honre CAPETOWN, Aug. 17.—Lord Kitchener after a short march, has relieved Colonel Hoare and the British garrison at Elands | river, the | Adkins ficlal journal this morning. CZAR TO PAY FARIS A VISIT Official Anno in Frau n e Septes Stay Six Days. PARIS, Aug. 17.—It is officially announced according to Petit Bleu, that the czar will visit Paris, arriving at Cherbourg Septem ber 14, reaching Paris the next day and remaining here five or six days. 1t is added that his majesty, who will come alone, wilt reside at the Russian embassy while in this city. DEWET ELUDES KITCHENER amiliarity with Country K m to Slip Through the Cord PRETORIA, Thursday, Aug. 16.—Gen eral Dewet has managed to elude General Kitchener, in spite of the fact that all the British wagons had double toams of | picked animals. The Bocrs evaded the | British by marching at night over ground known to them, while their pursuers wer obliged to march in the daytime. ord in Itallan Cabinet. Aug. 17.—A special dispatch | from Rome says it is rumored | there that ministerial discord resulted | from the recent conference between the king and his ministers and that several of them wish to resign, owing to their belief they do not have his confidence. It that modifications in the cabinet on the resassembling of | D | PARIS the Temp to at is added expected Parliament The d has clearly and patch also asserts that indicated that he desires to have the king will act and young minis govern ters with initiative. Hale's Men Do Well at Pari PARIS, Aug. 17.—The preliminary tests in the preliminary exhibition of f apparatus came off this afternoon at Vin some 5,000 firemen, representing all con cernes nationalities, participating. The Ameri | can representatives, Chiet George Hale of Kansas City, and the men of the city fire brigade, caused great wonderment by their quick harnessing aud running, together with their method of life-saving, They received an ovation and by common con sent were assigned the fArst place. The contests will be continued tomorrow | Kidnn B Trial, | PRETORIA. Thursday, Aug. 16.—The | trial by court-martial of Lieutenant Cordia of the Staats artillery and the other con spirators concerned in the plot to kldnap General Lord Roberts began today. The prisoners pleaded guilty, but at the sugges tion of the court withdrew their pleas and the trial is proceeding. Prince of Wales at Hombura. HOMBURG, Aug. 17.—The priuce of Wal L arrived here today, SINGLE CONDITION OF THE WEATHER 1 [ Forecast for Nebra | Fair: W South Wit Temperature aha Vesterdny " n Mounr Deg | 8a ~7 A v viee N9 T oa | S n 2 o .2 [10m 11a | Judge Cantrill Modifies Instractions | to Jury in Trinl for Goehel's W GEORGETOWN, Ky, Aug. 17 ~The argn | ment tn the case of Caloh Powers, charged with being an accessory o the murder of William Goebel, was ot ted to Aay, the court refusing to hold ’ sion. Commonwealth Attorney Robert 1 Franklin will make the closing speech for the prosecution tomorrow m. T The argument for the defe was closed by ex-Governor John Young Brown Nearly an hour was taken up this after noon by Colonel Campbell for the prosecu- tlon. Tn the latter part of hix address to the jury Colonel Cumpbell likened the cir cumstances of the assassination of Goehel to that of Tom Baker in Clay county, in which Jim Howard figured, and he in timated that Howard fired the shot, hut | subsequently said: “1 do not say who fired |the shot that killed Goebel, but it was one of the five principals named in the indictment, Jim Howard, Terry Howard Henry Youtsey, Harland Whittaker and “Tallow Dick" Combs, and overyone of them was there by procurement of Caleh Powers and W lor At the close of Colonel Camphell's speech the court announced a modification of the soventh section of the instructions to the jury. The modification defines the words ‘unlawful act” to be to alarm, incite | terrorize or do bodily harm | This section instructs the jury that if Powers and others conspired o do an unlawful act and as a result William Goebel was killed it should find Powers gullty, In his preliminary remarks Colonel Camp | bell took occasion to regret the heated state of polltical feeling in Kentucky and appealed to the jury to not think of politics, but to | based upon th, I Colonel Campbell took up the evidene of various witnesses and discussed its bear | Ing on the case. He declared that the mur- der of Goebel had for its object the permas nent installment of an organization of polit ical buces in the mountains whose strongest ally was a great corporation, of whom Goebel bad heen a thorn in the flesh Powers' own admission on the stand, cor roborating everything Colton had said, was sufficient to hang him, the gpeaker declared, | He took the diagram of the state capitol | rounds and measurements this, in connection of civil engineers autepsy on the hody of Goehel, were used in tracing the bullet. By this he said it | was conclusively proved that the shot was fired from Caleb Powers' office and defied | the defense to try to shake the correciness of (he demoustration. Mr. Campoell {ferred to Attorney Owens of the defense as one of Powers' fellow assassins, and said that while he always refrained from calling | men lars the temptation was great in | the case of Lawyer Sinclair, who himself one of three witnesses who testi {fied that tho sound did not come from the with and the direction of Powers' office, while over 100 other witnesses testified that it did come from that direction Ex-Governor John Young Brown, in clos- ing the referring to William Goebe: | characterized him as a leader of men an the manner of his taking off accursed. The state had falled to make a case against | Caleb Powers. He ridiculed the idea that | the mountain army was brought to Frank- fort for the purpose of intimidation or mur: der, as testified by Noakes, Culton and Gol- den. He declared Culton, Golden and Noukes absolutely unworthy of belief | Neadley & el Lies, NEW YORK. x-Governor William O. Bradley of Kentucky, who ar- rived in New York today, was much exer cised over the statement of Attorney Campbell in the Powers trial in effect that during Bradley's term as governor S0f | murders were committed in Kentucky, 2 convictions were found and 116 murdercrs pardoned. Mr. Bradley denounced thés ement in unmeasured terms false |COMING HOME FROM NOME | o Ships Arrive at ith | PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Aug-15.—Two steamships arriving from Nome today | brought nearly 606 pus: he | Roanoke, with 200 passengers, was a treas | ure ship in every sense of the word, it | having on board $3,000,000 in gold and a [ cargo of furs valued at $1,000.000. The | gold was almost all from Dawson, having | been shipped down the Yukon to $t. Mic and there placed aboard the Roanoke | The steamer Robert Dollar arrived lnte | this afternoon with nearly 400 passengers, but neither they nor the ship brought any gold The passengers report the health conditions at Nome as being good, and Dr. Foster, United States quarantine officer here, received information that smallpox | was disappearing and that only eight cases | exist there | |RAINS HAVE HELPED CORN | Re h th vt " | nt Crop Wil He | o Averng | | CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—The condition of the | corn crop in Nebraska A% summarized from reports received at the Chicago, Bur lington & Quincy rallroad headquarter | has greatly improved within the last week | Three heavy rains, covering the central [ and eastern parts of the state, have a | sured the maturing of the crop which in the section named promises a large yield Extending over four of the central coun ties—Phelps, Kearney, Harlan an ‘rank | lin—is & dry stretch of country, where orn will not be more than half a but the extent of this district not suf ficient (o materially affect the aver of the state as a whole SAID TO HAVE EMBEZZLED | © Salexma of Burling- in Arrested | 1 Calitorn NEVADA. Cal, Aug. | amuel Weller wis arrested here today for felonlous em bezzlement, the complainan | mes \. Guest of Burlington, la., who charge that Weller, while in his employ ale man, appropria 1o his own use $1,000 Weller admits owing Guest a small sum | but denies committiug any criminal act cory the | ro- | made | ALLIES ENTER PEKIN eged Legationers Relioved by the Army Headed by Japanese, SHARP RESISTANCE OF CHINESE OVERCOME Attack Made and Viotory Bought with Considerable Loss. IMPERIAL TROOPS RETREAT TO SHEN €I Wednesday nfirmation of News Comes from Beveral | Different Souroes, | i~ NO DETAILS AS TO CONDITIONS THERE | Biritish Troops to Be Landed at Shang- Reporied Va Wi Saturday—Quiet in the Great Yang capes. allied Pekin the WASHINGTON 17.—The entered Aug armies have and captured |in of obstinate reststance and members of the foreign legations are safe OMcial confirmation of the fall of the United States ot Admiral Remey Chinese capital came to the tonight the shape of two fr government in and cablegrams, one m the other from Consul Fowler at Che Foo. The cablegram from Admiral Remey came to hand first, early in the evening, followed very soon by that of Consul Fowler and the oMcials, realizing the great public in- terest in the events which it was believed had happened in Pekin at once made them public | Admiral Remey's dispatch fs as follows | “TAKU, Aug 17.-1 a. m.—Bureau Navi- gation, Washington: Just received tele | gram from Tien Tsin dated 16th, 10 p. m. [ Pekin was captured on August 15, For- elgn legations are safe. Detalls follow [ stowly REMEY." That from Consul Fowler, giving impor tant details of the occurrences at the time of the capture of the city, was givem out fn the subjoined ofclal statement “CHE KOO, (Received August 17, 7:55 p. m) AR Secretary of State, Wash admiral 16th; re nteenth, Japanese Pekin, ington ports allles attacked cast, obstinate resistance; evening, Japanese en (ered capital with other forces; imme- dately surrounded legations; inmates safe; Chinese 300, FOWL has Japanese loss over 100 R been *(Signed.) Previous informagion, which recelved bere, showed that the allied armies took possession of Tung Chow on the 12th instant. From that city to Pekin the dis- tance s not very great, not more than & | dozen miles. 1t seems evident, therefore. | that the armies halted for a time at Tung Chow, probably for the purpose of giving |the men a rest and by preparing for the attack upon the capital city in force after | walting until the rear of the advancing host should arrive at the front. Possibly | also the delay was the result of negotia | tion inaugurated by the Chinese officials looking to the delivery of the ministers with a Chinese or other escort. If nego- tiations were attempted they must have failed, as the army continued on its march and attacked the capital three days after eaching Tung Chow st Gate of here artar ty. fact Mhe officlals were aware of the t the stronghold of the Hoxers was in the so-called Chinese city, and that for the allles to attempt force the the legation compounds are located, might of life to their way | through it into artar city, in which great It [mean A possibly a defeat was also known that the im- with in or near the perfal troops which had sidel the Boxers we of them many Chinese city and that much of the artil rifle legations had been from the | lery fire which be and has been poured into the walls | separating the two cities | These fac s evidently were communicated to General Chaffee and the other command ing ofcers of the allies. Realizing these obstacles it appears that the allies de- cided to attack the city by the east gato There are four entrances to the city on | the east, two leading to the Chinese eity and two to the Tartar city. Just which one of these was selected as the attack ing point Consul Fowler's dispatch does not Contrary to fhe press reports of today Consul Fowler's dispatch shows that the attack on the city met with strong re tance The Ja nese force engaged with advance, according to the understand |ing of the officials here, numbered 10,000 men, %0 that the loss suffered by them was over 1 per cent, Allowance is made for losses in the forces of the other armies but it Is presumed that it was not in pro- portion to that suffered by the Japanese The president was overjoyed on hearing the news of the safety of Minister Conger and his assoclates. He has been hopeful all along that their rescue from the peril | ous postion they have t in for o long |a time would be accomplished Tonight confirms that belief Later in the evening, as soon as he heard of the news, Secretary Reol came in from the Country club and remained for ome time with the president, dis 1 the latest information which had come () hand Nothing has come to the War department