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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUN NO FEAR OF ILL LUCK|Y ™% °2% ere and in Conventl NE DISTRICT WORKING Strike Prop Centers wed Btriking Miners Ohoose F' of Conventit. sty great VILI anth al a the entirely to interest i strike lve " SESSIONS ARE TO BE HELD AT SCRANTON | arouud n f miner b Offer of Ten Per Oont Inoreass by Operators to Be Fully Considerd. matter be act vlutely according that his subordinat Begluning with today of be . Coal and Navigation LABOR LEADERS HAVE NOTHING NO SAY | 50 b eftorts of bring them out Operators About president of this d promciied for Thelr \iews ¢ 18 10 the: allihtuat When 1t the is admitte al min strike, wil o his ad workers this QUICK ACCEPTANCE IS LOOKED FOR Disonseion of Yearly Wage Scale May Delay Bpeedy Settlement. ab ice and for he mine belt ¢ the first strike, o th ince pound Panther opening not a oa will he entire whers the ¢ ug company » labor 1 Missionary have ders work has been and Jo rict, daclared in earnes i Fahey Har There men ot ubL avout the ing going out « miners strike wn the ally 140,000 r mining ally comple turn nay have laid ools will be pra Creek nth there in in Schuylkill xtends into Carbon county il that the strike started for purposes Mitchell ssing th waid al companie s at ng that the etk \ tho interest of political | the bituminous regions. [ o ne will believe h charges n digglng « don't par the charge lutely NO MARCHING AT HAZLETON Mine Own No Tue iseuing of resident Miichell of the of America for a anthracite miners begin Friday whether t ralse of. atride strike HAZLETON the call today U United Mino Work Joint convention of to be held at Keranton for the purpose of deciding rejoct or accept the 10 cent fered by operators, 18 a | Mrrt in direction of bringing aigh & close o ! It 1s beliaved the convention W & long one, as | will accept the ever, a possibi t a wgre mination None of would have convention ent Wit Wetunes (o Talk. Mitchell refused to say anything convention would probably decide in the matter of the 10 1n- | of crease. Neither wonld he anti what | ¢ business other than that relatiug to the ad vance in wages would be brought before the legates. It 1s not lkely that the abol {shment of the liding scale will come in for msideration. None of the whether the in jocted, but there is a men will g0 back to work that the couvention 1s a certainty there I8 | cvery colllery in the re a feeling of relief in the entire reglon, and | forces of coal and iron police, fully armed. it is expected that a week from today will| There was no marching of large bodies of seo the mine workers golng back the | men, but crowds of strikers gathered, as mines. is their custom «very week day morning, i President Mitchell will call the convention | the vieinity of the various collieries that to order and will preside its sesslons. | remain iu operation. The greatest crowd The secretaries will be elected br the dele- | which numbered probably 300 men, as- | gates and 1t is almost certain that the con- | sembled in the nelghborhood of the Cran- | vention will vote that all of iis sessions | berry colliery of A. Pardee & Co. sball be held in secret. In the meantime the | outskirts of this city Quite a number of labor leaders say their efforts to close up | the workmen on their way to this miue | the mines still in operation will go on. | were turned back, some through fear and Notlces of & 10 per cent advance in wages | others through pessuasion. The company | and a reduction in the price of powder were | officials sald the colliery ix working as posted this moruing by M. 8. Kemmerer & | usual today. Another crowd gathered ju 0., operating the Sandy Run colliery, and | the vicinity of No. 3 slope aud No. 40 shaft Coxe Bros. & Co, operating six collierfes. | of the Lehigh Valley Coal cowmpany in| The notices are similar to those put up by | Hazleton, but no disturbance occurred. | tho other companies last week. G. B.|The inclement weather probably had much Markle & Co., Calvin Pardee, Dodson & Co. | to do with the pacific condition of affairs. | and the Silverbrook Coal company are the | It rained hard during the night and only companies hereabouts that have not yet | heavy mist hangs over the entire region notified thelr men of an increase. These & today four comncerus normally employ upward of 4,000 | STRIKERS i f the convent i Pleaned he text of the convention ca i Tows s To All Miners and Authracite Keglon Brothers: | the fact that the mine operators posted notices offering wn Yormerly paid and b ii pladn duty 1o «onsult wishes n Jitire 8ciion, we deem It navisable to ask | .ehigh region today 30U to elect delegates to tepresent you i | that were idle the AOYVARLCH esident Mitchell's call for a convention You ara therotore notified that a conven- | F AL ML Rk tion will bo held at Scranton. ekin. | of miners at Scranton next Friday ming Friday, October 12, at 10 4. m cuss terms of settlement ix looked upon here as the heginning of the end of the strike. The basis of representation will be SAIRFAE PRRiL M0 BepRcrinTOn atcike, of There s & better teeling in business circles | nd e iubllant over the pros desired, one delegate may ropresent pect of an amicable of the many as b0 mine workers, but no d will be_ allowed tu cast more than Y ach: i dolasate | diMculty. The Delaware & Hudson Co., to sgned by the chairman and duy posted notices of an increase of 10 per tho meeting at which he is {cent in wages at its collierios in this whenever possible credentinls i tho seal of the local nion section JOHN MITCHELL, The Susquebanna company which operatos nited Mine Workers of | the mine at Nanticoke is still holding out. | D. NICHOLS At the office of the company in this city the dent District No general superintendent of the company had . THOMAS DI vel taken wny action on the matter. Presidept Piutelet N T | The employes of the company are a little Prestdent District Ne uneasy about the company's delay in posting notices of an incr Pa., O valley and nines ou tons a m L trouble begins wnd there day county grent to Tamaqu Ther . port i 244 political dis The ¢ alle e it o4 se reporta b have sirike fes 8 expec m ar advar i5, how ; a ty that by roduction 3 pr ar will go ¢ oal, it matter govern ting ator the 1 jon to abolish b 1tion) what political The is controls th ntract another 10 rly wage-co trike might be delayed seen here to in regard to the ment ab untrue. to a ve the ors an all oper hing (o say ed Guards, bat ars—Small er. Peeal hell o Crowds Gat President ay to what HAZLETON, Pa warching by the one of the district o operation, crippled condition during the not happen undisturbed that Hazleton has strike began In addition erift's deputies in this city Oct. § strik In anticipation this morning fozen collleries in this | in a more or less | was virtually an armed night, but the the co It the er cent ipate ery amp aild mainy morning ince the expected hunity re- | uneasiest xperienced | weeks ago to tration of last night, had extra | and labor leaders here will say rease will be accepted or re strong belief that the | 4 | three vote to ow | gh on the | " JUBILANT ARE with Are Called Tomether. Ave of an Prospect | is as fol g Dificultion. Mine Employes of the view of have Wages to our | € WILKE operator SBARRE, Pa Oct. 8.~The ement issued this morn in better shape in the Collleries are working latter part of last week g it to say affairs are b to dis 13 Kate five strikers settlement should dentials etary of elected, “and should’ be have ¢ DPresident America, of the 1 Pre e N. B—Delega hall n which the upon their arriy After all learned that the Mugic hall DISPUTE om, w Wil be notif in Scruntor had been vention ase. | ) of T Notlee of Withdruwal SHENANDOAH, Pa, Oct General n command of the troops here, sald | today that he bad informed Sherift Toole of ehuylkill county of his intention to with- | the remainder of by it favorable weather prevails Iward J. Coyle, who died on Friday from | the offects of a bullet wound recelved duriog the 21, was buried today The snded by all the local mine unions toe fire com- | panies was & participant in | the rlo was atruck by a stray bullet. | vops. the 1ssued » Wil be 0 IS NOT SETTLED 1 of United Mine snes Statement Regarding Strike Siuati Iraw his troops to- morro | Waorkers B the riot of Septem funcral wag workers Mr He INDIANAPOLIS, Ind s ®0n, secretary-treasurer of the Workers of Amerl; today in which All Of the co Tully mala that the miners of the dispute i3 not ton of the oper The sding A pay and other tha miner propositior Vance in wike roduction in t of the mine nd firemen Under_thew i best method « Sl extablishing y from n meeting wnthracite miners w he anthr mountain ranges into three die vach having Reologieal condit to itself, (hux requirin of working and differe d expe ployment : only method by v ERE 8 anation can erators ot vention {s Oet W, B Wil United Mine statem and Coyle ot issued in part ing now von-| More Pay for Moswl Mngineers. | Muth- | WILKESBARRE 8- A commit- | nhracity | o0 of engineers nnd firemen on the Le- | Wi T | high Valley road paptif ling prop Yori w ficials of th ¢ which The road promised to redr 1t stood the of mogul granted an of wages s on coal and frefght trains in ot pay | operators ha il o they onf with the ertain where red of . rh concerning the men committee ance bave long plained of the ances ays the of th engines will be The AR PRI is under the n rma N also t iven an incre No SHAMOKIN this Lo Miners at Work ra 8.—Not glon resumed work today that some of the North Franklin colliery wae closed down Friday, but no for at the regular Pea chestnut coal pared for market at th the being taken from Strikers are endeavoring to in the mine to refusa to and there h to request Oct a collte It would in w re Trevorton. & differe men e the ' | mine o cons work nd ot peared held st tin 18 Wl of Flghe "RANTON Pa Oct The week of the strike in the Lacka glor began today, with a general that ihis week will «end the Preparaticns are be made f demonstration here Wednes sembling on Friday of the convention, which will take posal of tha operators See K . fourth | cHim bunk he few this work the P men at feeling may be a ma | enforce iy Trouble HARRI Williar number " ed. lie Jonl m S.—~Work was resumed by 500 men today in the converter wnd bil lot mill of the Iilinols Steel company in this elty, which shut down recently The work was resumed by 500 at the plant Pressed company Feaved BURG, P at Willin Oct. 8§ «d in About Kkens, where three hund went on strike and are expected to remain « morrow. Trouble is feared tomorrow, us the strikers seem determined to accomplish | men | the closing of the Williamstown mines Car | Sherift Reiff has a large number of deputie | on the ground. | day o o parti tonight from Ly Abou a at this | col parade halt town cam M W ries are id Willlamstown more ot the Steel | although the incriminating article had been | tenced | FITZHARRIS AGAIN | wounding mander OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1900-TEN PA( FORTY CRUSHED TO DEATH CASH IN NEBRASKA BANKS VI(TOR TACTICS AT CHICAGO aitn and Decem Democratic Hoodlums Attack Proces Depew's Honor, ES. June t ns from | ra Notable Ame Floor Falls in Upper Floor of the Monastery | of 8t. Nikander, WASHINGTON bl o s e ive | MANY OF THE MARCHERS BADLY HURT was today blle. Individual Q. ts have increased from $19,34%.361 in e, | Loans Oct banks - PANIC FOLLOWS FALSE ALARM OF FIRE mad Sleeping Pllgrims Mashed and Man- || f Wreckage Fafl. | When Them ns They Rested ¥ Thelr Wreariness. Mob Rreaks Into Stoues, Wields Claba, Tears forma and Distarbs tWe Occasion. the Ranks, Throws statement . Uni- re and discou ne about $1 ts have also regating $16 Average reserve hel 1‘ | | | | & | b | per cent in June. Present holdings of gold coln aggregate $747,280, a gain of about $17.000 Cornelius Van St postmaster at Pitzer [ ana A West 8 D ST. PETERSBURG «and Pilgrims assen in th Oct. 8.—F bled at the Porkhoft iring the night one psed and many of thero fell upon those below aused by a false alarm of thirty-six women nd leath, many others hein thou Nikan for ve CHICAGO, Oct. 8.—Bloodshed followed in the trall of Chauncey Depew and his three mile escort of republican marching clubs to- county, n,, | DIBL. ~Ju the last company in Hrown county, | tUrned the corner of Sedgwick stfe | Chicago avenue it was charged by | organized gang of men had in the dark recess er mobastery &1 tstrict e was today Madison Savo, Jointed a re N L . a and on an oncealed of an.un Rural who tablished free delivery service October 15 at Hudson, Lincoln D, with two carriers | Miss Ora M. Shepherd of Roscbud, S. D is appointed laundress at the Santee Indlan f8 to be es re four shed ENGLISHRETURNSANNOUNCED Reported Monday In Leave ¢ Party | to Dayton Unchangea | 'The lund office today made public the re celpts for the different land offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, as follows Nebraska—Alllance, $26,502; Broken Bow $18.424; Lincoln, $2,650: McCook, $5.611 North Platte, $9,5624; O'Nelll, $17.876; Sid 14,184 South Dakota berlain, $10.441 $49,720; Plorre Watertown Wyoming and men themselve lighted alley The rloters were repulsed finally by the marchers, but not until four or five of the ublican marchers had been injured, s of them quite seriously. The moat serfously | injurs Mic sclous after three with George me hool The postofiice at Webster county is ordered discontinued. Mail McGuire 1 were Ball the teeth a brick Results an Morning on hael found on the street uncon struggle; nose broken, eye knocked out, struck on taken to hospitul Hughes, picked up unconscious, having been struck on the head with a pav ing block; slight contusion of the skull Captain Maurice struck on back of the head and stunned Robert Lang, knocked down and about the body by being stepped on Many other of the marchers were more or burt and their uniforms ruined. The who precipitated the riot escaped ENGLISH CABINET RESIGNS Step Taken (hat | rmany Likely to Introduce Caltiva- o ton of Great Staple Into Her Own Coion LONDON. Oct Lo twenty 8.8 p results m.—There is poll constituenocles announced this party gains unchanged H. Hemphill, tormerly treiand, liberal rth Tyrone, but Healy by Sir T otal number of members of Parlia . 5 ot wis nour 1 a7, as| IN FEAR OF COTTON CORNER Barl of Dudle who now serving in replace Earl Cadogan as lord lieutenant of Ireland. T0 PRISONVFOR LES MAJESTE German Editor Who Compared Kainer & Pood Prince Again in Trouble for Similar Ofense. Wollman, the les for N ney Aberdeen, $14,169 Huron, $9,028 Rapid City Cham Mitchell $30,309, | re injured tains his by & s $74,630. Buffalo, 8 romas nationalist, has ling at North H. G. Esmoude lens men bheen Wexford Irish The the 266 Cheyenne Evanston, $6 $10,928 Douglas $14.23 ele up to o Allow of Any ¥ cavalry in South [ e § LONDON, Oct. 8.—(3 a. m.)—The I Telegraph says it und-ratands that the cabs inet resigned a formality and In order Lo enable any necessary reconstruc tion Only four results out of twenty-one con- stituencies polled yester: in the parlia- mentary general election, bave thus far been announced. These show that the Iib erals have gained two seats, one in Car marthyoshire and the other, in the Radecliffecum-Farnsworth of southeast Lancashire, which tofore gone strongly conservative It looks, therefore, as if there might b a slight reaction in the country pollings but this will be too late to affect the gen eral result Last evening Herbert Henry of the liberal leaders Salisbury government power with a majority of 130 to 160. Of the 492 members already declared oficially elected the ministerialists number 372 and the opposition 165. The former have gained seats and the latter 13 William Abraham. liberal. has been re- elected for the Rhondda Valley division of lamorganshire, Waiex, with a majority of ,509. In the general election of 1585 he returned unopposed, as was the case the election of ‘1896 and 1 NEBRASKANS 60 T0 W. ¥. Elmor: for Their Misstonary WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—"If, for any rea- Germany should be cut off for oue year her cotton supply, there would be a of consequences United States Consul Winter Amaberg in & to the State Department upon | the consumption in that couniry In order to guard sgainst any exigency, the Colonial assoclation Censul Wint nt the imperial ¢ every means be has as son, from cris incalculable report L cotton possible says petition to that BERLIN den, editor has went onmont in a flc offense Zukunft entitled Dragons The trial Oct. 8.—Herr Maximiltan Har and publisher of the Zukunft nced to six months Impris rtress for lese majeste, his | gy owing into the different being an articte the re climate and soll favor. With the SEERESIHS theexcey of about $17,000 worth of cotton grown little colony, Germany | entirely fent upon the United § and England for this commodity and she onsumes more of It than any other nation on the continent | “Germavy, France | consul sa ave | 5 @ | dnye of the o enough )t requesting introduce cotton German colonies aivision had her been used to with ion in depe: b o sertously was held behind closed doors ki Asquith, one admitted that 'the would return to widely circulated before the of t issue contalning It In November, 1508, Herr Harden, who is well known socialist writer, was sen to six months' imprisonment which he began to serve in May of | (10,0 year—for a series of articles In his [\ "0l in one of which, “‘Pudel Majestat Here Emperor Willlam to a poodle confiscation and Eogland never forgotten the eivil when their cotton completely cut off by the | of the southern states.’ is n tendency, he says, on the | part of the cotton industries to gravitate | toward the centers of production, that s |the United States, England and the Eest Indies. The shifting of cotton mills and manufacturers to these po’:'s saves time nd money and the problem which now con- fronts Germany is to insure a cotton sup- ply that can be absolutely depended upon in peace or war | BOUNTY FOR SANTIAGO TARS| the a war term last paper. he compared prince. was TOO MANY BOHEMIAN GIRLS Carl Melkar, Arres was in About to Sall feor Amer- 4 at Hamburg on Suspicton. INDIA nd Wife Sail New Fleld of Labor, Rev. dny To- BERLIN, Oct. 8.—The authorities Hamburg arrested & Bohemian named Carl Mclkar as he was about salling for New York with three attractive Bohemian girls | on the steamer Patricla, Captain Leit hauser. Melkar, it appears, had promis. to find situations for Kis comyanions in the United § but he was unable to explain his methods to the BOSTON, Oct. 8 —Twenty-elght mission aries who are to sall on Wednesday on thelr way to the tield of labor to which they have bLeen assigned in the far east made the guests of honor of the Baptist min isters at their Tremont toduy The newly assigned missionaries are A. Ehrgott and wife of Ohio, Burmah: Rev. G. J Hulsing Michigan, Rev. W. T. Elmore Nebraska and Miss Lillian Bcotia to Telugu, India; Re and wife of Michigan and Miss | of 11 Miss E sylvania and D. to Burma | The others are returning to former fields of duty No Distribution as Vet (o Oficers and . . Squndron Which Lam- basted Cervern, were WASHINGTON, Oct. §.—In view of the numerous inquiries on the subject the Navy | department has authorized the statement | that up to date there has been no distribu tion of bounty money to the officers and crews of the American squadron which de | stroyed the Spanish fleet off Santiago. The | matter has pending in “the court of clalms, and while bounty money has been | allowed it has not been determined | what the amount or the individual rrdlinein bl g ances shall be whetber the allowances shall be pald by the court of claims or the prison release license. It 18 | Nyyy gepartment. Moreover, even it thesa he will only be temporarily | questions have dotermined, it will [ necessary to secure wn appropriation by con- KANSAS TREASURER | &ress 1o enable the payments to be made to police meeting in Rev Rangoon, and wife of and wife of Bishop of Nos W. F. Dowd A B Loug Scott of Penn- Mason of Illinols IN JAIL Phoenix Park Murderer, Recently from Yew York, Liverpool. to De- varted m n Arres been LIVERPOOL, Oct. .--James of the Phoenix park murdere the Goat for failing terms of his probable that detalned Fitzharris, known as “‘Skin was rearrested here last evening as to ois to Assam or Miss A or the Fishermen Fire on Gunboat. VIGO, Spain, Oct. 8.—Fresh disorders have occurred as & result of the industrial rivalry between the fishermen of this neighborhood | and those of Cangas. province of Ponte- | vedra, who, as already cabled, fired on the | Spanish gunboat Vasco Nunez de Balboa as that vessel was leaving the port Saturday, many persous, and also attacked the commandant of the port. The latest disturbances have resulted in numbers of men being wounded and in & fAshing boat being burned at ¢ The has seized seven fishing Oficinl i Charged with Making Wrong Use of the Funds ot the State, ex It et a the The quartermas ter general has been informed that the Slocum arrived at San Francisco on Sun- day night, having made the trip from New | | York, by way of the Straits of Magellan, In eighty-six days, The Slocum is one of th largest and most powerful (ugs in the sery the department unable to buy the Pacific the of senger Hig Tug WASHINGTON W 8 TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 5.—State Treasurer ank Grimes and his bondsmen were wued thie morning in the district court of Osage county for $25,000. The suit is based upon claim that State Treasurer Gr ited the state funds in Topeka ccllected 325,000 in interest on the deposits it his own use. The uit is hrought on the relation of the count attorney of Osage county, A. B. Crum Judge Willam Thompson allowed a re- | straining order, prayed in the petition enjoining Treasurer Grimes from making any further deposits of &tate funds. The hearing for the injunction was set for Oc tober 15 Treasurer Grimes today said: “I have understood for several days that such a list would be filed. The motive is to injure me politieally ARRESTED AS TRAIN ROBBER Bega for Food of n Woma Identified by Her an Highwayman, naval The goverar the hat chartered ive o it was Aen anks, p vessel of character on ’ ’ coast and s a tug A Vasco Nunez ! appropriate o Thaoeibad o fe and appropria t the S EaiiikE It was found n York id bhoa boats by e Wages In COLON. Colombia, Oct (Via L Junction.)—The first batch of 1,509 of the 000 Jamatean Iaborers engaged by J. P. McDonald tractor, to work on tho Guayaquil-Quito (Ecuador) ratlroad, ar- | rived here today in transit, accompanied by a representative of the Jamaican govern ment, who will act as their protector. Thc men nre engaged for two years' service They are to receive 80 cents per day and |season amounted to $10,440.000, against $5 free lodging, hospital and medical atten- |425.000 for the same period Jast year, show tion ing an increase to nearly twice the amount. Of the total amount New ! $6,340 The trea had cials re the shipments a Colombin ete fre op 8 redo [ a ve 0 New for Shipments WASHINGTON, Oct. § money to the New Orleans nleiaa Chicago sub-treasuries for the movement of the erop continue from the treasury. The | shipments for today $100.000. On Saturday last the total shipments for the the ¢ former Orlean iy off howin atlon of Peace. Oct A dispateh ser from Capetown in South Procin AW YORK received 0 rd unusually the N to the | ay Africa Mar 8 h amation of peace e be fssued by Iield Thurs next, that of the declaration of war leaves at the end of the to assume bis new hief of the British army pro. in " n TACOMA bell, a Taroma bighwayman train two Wash Scotchman, w Oct. 8 —~William Camp arrested ion of bel who held up the near Rathdrum Campbell the Lotd nth for lutles as com Roberts lay be Not ¢ 8 erks e WASHINGTON Hay the State have Mit whatever blic subscriptions for ontribnte By employes of anni Robe England ersar 0 fires 5 today on Vo suspl the Depa fled throug! of their g the North Tdaho, stopped at a for a meal. The woman house, who was on the train when robbed, identified the man as the and notified the police, who ar him. The police think the woman mistaken REV. HIRST COMES TO OMAHA m Secretary lone of ment® Chiet ern | weok te n not acifie the in hell that or ago n by reaso house and begged a German Meat Laws Huort Australia, PERLIN, O his evening the Vos he Ze lishes a letter from Bri bave the being i seryi ontributions o t owas robber & tun politic olitical molestod gainst for fail contribute ¢ or other pury 1 tha discrimina seribe erting that oses, or to rende 1y the prohibi dy prove packing meat in on as to canned 1 a heavy blow industry. in whi ed financially ection services they will not be ats, has or in any wa Austral o b |ure Germans hea intere Ann Late off Censxas Re WASHINGTON bureau nw Oct announced f the unced “0 POW bly passe Pay in Oct he 1 to a second reading of £ to ensure the payment of half the lo sus private persons through Lon 8 CAF osnes Boer War., Cape house of & bill today and Rev. Chuse of the First Church Fxchange ¥ Delaware Golng to Chicag the po was 1847 1890 This per cent The population lumt 18 years rease ation 0 Talse 0,000 immed a in 1900, against of 10 168,458 in s increase CHICAGO, stor 0ct Rev ( ntenary Methodist church of Chicago, bas accepted to the pastorate of the First Eplscopal church of Omaha, Neb recently tendered him Rev. M. W. Chase, present Omaha church, will All Dr. Chicugo he war the the D agains " opal the call Methodist N LONDON Majestic, which i Wednesday, Octobe have among It8 Ireland and David Bispham ed Men to Oct. 8.—Th to sa White sail from Liverpool for New York, will | passengers Archbishop the singer. a 18 3 star liner | inc of 26, ago b cent pastor of Secretary Root in Better e irst's pulpit in WASHINGTON, Oct. § who for some weeks bis Long Island home, is 4 baok hie desk Wednesday. The secretary ported to be in improved health " past been 1l at Trying to Surr has CAPETOWN, Oct cupy Wepener Ficksburg the British them und Hoers The Boers now as Rouxsville nge River colony attempting 5 exp " fons in Army. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-—The following promotions have resulted in the United States army by reason of the death of Lieu- w Fever tenant Colonel Lancaster last week: Major Fosnes, act- | James M. Ingalls, Fitth artillery, to be lieu ing director general of posts, was removed | tenant colonel of the Third artillery; Cap today 1o the Las Animas hoepital, suffer- [tain A. M. Hodges. Fifth artillery, to ing, it is believed, from yellow fever, major of the Fifth artillery o at or are and and surrou; | A n.a‘.l to Fosnes Have %ellg EAVANA 8.—~Martin ( May Oet New Case of Plague at Brish BRISDANE, Queensland, Oct. 8 ase of the plague is reported here line | strangely | Temple | SUED | nes has | in South | It is probable that | the | Lvork FIVE C INTS. INGLE | UNCITON e THR weetEn WILL NOT' G0 BACK Forecast for Nebr Falr and COoPry Shigh Wattnet Temperatare at Hour. e o s m. m. Efforts to Persuade Imperial Yamily to R [ “h turn to Capital Fail COURT DECIDES TO REMAIN IN SHEN S| It o LR o DIE ON MONGOLIAN DESERT Forcigners Fleel Over T00 Wi Waste Prescuce of Allies and Fear of Plague Reasons for Avoiding Pekin, POWERS ARE ASKED TO BE CONSIDERATE & from Ch e Across Dy of San Tenwel Lengthy Dispatch Covering Situation i Received by Minister Wu NEW YORK, Oct. & -Fiy | can missionaries wh the Boxer outbreak returned t day on the City of Rome. They es [ the Ruseian frontier and theiy ward fournes via Europ Thet® were Rev. J. H. Robert | Sprague and wite, Rev. Mr | wite ana Mrs. Dr. Virginia ¢ | members of the American | 1 Family. | Speaking of their experience, Mr. Robert safd: 1 Pekin when the fir break occurred. 1 hurried to Kalgan he other missionaries and & number of fo We lenrn moving tha to make a quick made HOSTILE INFLUENCE OF BOXERS ABSENT Rev Willia Mur; Missiona New Capleal t Simtine Distin Clty, with Former Times Fnjoy ton and is & Great Palaces of Royal was at ou wher, WASHINGT luce the d | Pekin N Chinese Oct. 8.-~The effort tuperial court 1o re to in urn t tent | elgners were that the Boxers | cality and we de | parture We secured all could and reached the ering b damage. was stationed soon n hus failed, arter a week's pers of the powers. N 1ght (o the Stute the Chinese w e urg trom Chang Coih Tung, unde Min Wu received the A6 fedlows tded hat effect was bro tepart ment today by nister, who the Viceroy on gollan horses and mules we our journey. We des Jun, . ved 1 vin 8t Kun Yih and of October 4 erw started M n cou mer of them oft scattered parites managed fight messuge 1 & 1 wa fe Hoxers, to I'he doy ir their imy ikl majesties Thera nunued AL . peopie th tha without It trip across the x of the party dled horses and mules. We water or food The distance we traveled When reached the were well taken care of and furnished and other necessities may WORK OF YEARS 1S UNDONE iiiy! iifiii it il v e | Gloomy Report Concerning Condition | 1107 Oxheditiousiv by thelr prosence 7 Res . Shensi rather than in Shansi. the China by Amer Min- tor the ten postponement " M esUOR Felurn (0 PeKin are the the wllied torces there which icitous fear entertained, besides a dread ¢ of eplaemi which After great disturosnces PrOperty und miltury oper ped (hat the powers will tnefr Judgment in this matt The important feuture of the the confession that the court is restrained by fear of the allied forces from ng to Pekin movement emperor empress dowagel miles further away trom Pekin cording the the mess July 30 the ney that During and had 0 we finished | kit . \ Yuen) 1% aumost ted, the ira ha lett on account of the and continued 10r month miles reocls, who had invaded With the encouragement of AF mijesties, ther w Pluceed 10 Shenst, where tele onimunication with Snunghul s parts of the empire I8 opened, and Commuiication with thelr majesties theretore, be carried on, thus court ca M 0 st border we Russian we food o her e 3 rupid of their presence unt doubtiess ioreak re N rionnry here CHICAGO, Ward of the of Missions Kays wrought work in China Miss E Board missionary Oct In a letter ta Womau's Mrs. L. Boxer upris ble The Pekin v ' mixey are The work of and the Christians robt ¢ thelr all, and _mar m’ massucred and all Manchurla, Cii Shantung swept clean of all mission and the first two of all large sta n, while all the interior of China is be ing cleared of forelgners. The sufferings of those traveling from the inland stations have been simpiy terrible, the China inlan{ misslon belng the worst sufferers. Ope party of nincteen from Shan 81, where Yu Hsten, under whom all this uprising started in 8han Tun, i¢ governor, had Aty days of horror getting from Ping Yaug in Shan 8t | to Yan I TO WALDERSEE British fn China Accuse Count of Give iug All Strateglc Positions (o Other Nations Presbyterian Glscases, it Fate the ' China has i 18 fnjury t irrepara misslonary sage 1s missions stroyed It were tered h Aries return The the terified about though, ined telegraph W und 300 statements ¢ roason of dir comuunication with Shanghai, the practically will be nearer for puropses ui uvegotiutions with the outside world than it was at Tal Yuen Minister Vu has been informed also that Viceroy Yu of th province just vacated by the court hs been impeached because of his anti-foreign tendencies, which 18 the first step toward his degradation It is id there are vo Boxers in the vewly chosen locallly, wo that th¥, court will have thrown off hostile Influences re cently surrounding it As the dispatch is dated four days ugo, ft is taken that the trip of the imperial party began prior that time. It will be slow and tedious overland most of the with a short stretch river navigation Singan wu formerly the place of fmperial residence and the anclent palaces are still there. The only disquietiug teature of the move comes from Japane advices statlug that the new point of location fs strongly fortified | which is some indication that the imperial 1 Iy is still in fight and {s seeking ouger defenses. but the friendly viceroy Minister Wu do not share fn this u " ge. by LONDON spondent of says ‘It is reported that French troop Lu Kee Chigo on the Lu Han railway Russiuns hold the Pel forts and have also taken Tong Shan the Kal Ping mines, thus monopolizing the | | coal supply tn north China “It was reported that Count von Walder see would be tween (he whereas the actual re sult of the operations places all the gic positions in the hands of other nations A strong feeling that the tlon is daily becoming more gloomy APPLY TORCH TO MUKDEN Forced Leave Oct the 8 —The Times. Shanghai corre to wiring October 7 held o The and Germans T maintain an even balance powers strate. | #nd view The minister considers the question punishment practically disposed of by the edict of the emperor and the German and American notes exchanged last week. The only difffculty he apprehends is in case the foreign ministers seek to designate certain persons who shall be punished, in addition to those which the government itself marks for punishment. Such a course by the ministers, he says, would be hard to comply with, but he looks to the sa gacity of Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching to overcome any difficulty | AMERICANS TO TAKE NO PART Chaflee's Troops Will Not Participate in Expedition to Ting prevails situa o Ahandon Great City. Chinese Stores, Which snimns Capture, i a7, Pl ERSBURG, general's staff has receiy patches confirming the cupa- tion of Mukden. Lieutenant General Sub bovitch entered the city October 1. He ad- vanced from Old Niu Chwang on Sep- tember 2 with eleven battalions of infantry two squadrons of Cossack cavalry and forty guns, and, after Aghting two engagements routed the Chinese army on September 27 Hefore withdrawing the looted | and fired the city. The aptured numerous modern guns and immense store of ‘war materials Oct. 8.-~The Russian d ofcial reported Chinese PEKIN Sunday Russians Thursday, Oct. 4. -(\ Oct and Shangh | The American troops will not | the expedition Pai | Chatfee has the assuran that if the Chinese will re ia Tien Tsin, participate in Fu Genera Hung Chang allies Ting Fu the | ily r that eity, Li Hung Chang has glven the same assurance to the othei The American military d the restoration of p ["tne ® 10 g Stores Reopen HONG KONG, Oct. & The Chun Is quiet this morning and the stores | have reapened. The rebels who at tacked Sal Wan, near San Chun, San are believed 10 boiong to the force of Triads | | which is procecding westward, levying black mail and recruiting The missions in At town of San been 1s cvo that revenge and the only ebjacts of the hold that 1t will retard are the Hinterland are safe GENERAL WOOD COMING HOME sslans reported to have practically abandoned the railroad and to have stopped its reconstruction. General Chaffee favors the return of the rallroad o its owners and its reconstruction and tion ¢ joint international | vernor Genernl Short of Cuba Time in Native to Spend ra Tha na basis ent German HAVANA, Oct Woed | tour of investig Santa (lara ery from the tion of the actual want S.—Governor Genera from who raturned ton yesterday neral Yamaguachi troops. will of at Taku and along the Eight thousand Ger wi Pekip and Ru The bumber of Brit which be retained hae not y tded Alfred Gaselee will prot keep a brigade allies are Peki 0, v them in nese the commurdeations will the the pro ts only a partial of the war it Although he district of 2,000 repo effect Island the for instance, stance Thi of Sancti spl neral \ others at found tl Spir mans 1 I ops heen de ably The month Coun be the grounds 'ALLIES HOLDING THE FORTS Refose in n 00 slan itus great need Mtural Jation was asked for b and ad from mu- | n alar nicip it has heey Eran fund General Wood this w 1 by storing supplies for six the ins Von Walderses buildings in the ide the ters wi for pleasur turning eok, T the about United ates Octo ber Cattle for breeding from (e tral America and Jamaica will be imported into the ern districts of Puerto cipe province and the western part | province of Santiago. The importation will be the expense of the government T press of the Island unanim the efforts of the secretary | Senor Perfecto Lacoste, to induce immigra 8han Hal Kuan | tion. The planters’ association Is particu in orda with an agreement Movements of O « K. | of the admirals the forts have been divided arly hearty in its approv Among rent nations. The town has not ed, b the gates are ry The forts are nearly whole route from Hong Ken Kuan is now occupled by the he upation of Shan Americans refuscd to further operatlons. Part of th Ru force vancing northward Kalser WiI LONDON, Oc The Times publishes u York. for Tire- | report that Emperor Nicholas had decided Now | 10 call the Russtan troops from Manchuria " | atrer Mukden had been occupled purpose ean Prine Americans to Jurther n Participate in Akgressions of the at usly PETERSBURG n orting on the applauds 0 Oct af agriculture, | Alexieff 8.—Admiral occupation of Gulf of Liao Tung, ar | At New York — Arrived | Rotterdat; New York, from Southampton Trave, from Bremen; City Rome, from Glasgow; B from Livéry AL Cherbourg — Arrived — Prince from New Kk " for Bremer | Deutschland, from ilamburg a | ampten, for New York | AT “Genon-Arrivea | trom New vork At Southampton helm der Grosse Maasd, from o guarded e m of Intact a e n Hai Kuan the n the participate | iKaleer W m 1 sian Arrived 9. from New erpon Parisian Arrived—T'mbria, from from Montreal

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