The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1900, Page 1

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Ww BATHE R—olhtr\, CMS 8U-Niteds. PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, WEDN FIGHTING IN STREET OF CHINESE CAPITAL. SURROUNDED Officers of Foreign Legations Attacked and Their Lives Are in Peril. , WASHINGTON, June 13.—Offictal | Minister and his staff of secretaries @tage. Thecity in the hands @f @ mod, and the rioters have at- (@acked members of the different for- eign “gations there. One despatch states that the Secre- ary of the Belgian Legation was at- + tacked twice on Mor say, and escaped @fter being maltreated by the mob. Om the same day two officials of the | Brition Legation, serving as student taterpreters, were attacked by a mob. | ‘Phe young Englishmen held their as- | qnilante back for a time, but when fhe crovd threatened to close in on them they drew re olvers and made Meir retreat without bodily injury. # About the same the British | Gummer cvarters, fourteen miles | from Pekin, were burned down. These quarters weve extensive and had just been completed They belonged to the British Gov. | @rnment, and not to Sir Claude Mac- Donald, the Britis» Minister at Pe- kin, thich gives added significance to the depredaticn ‘he British Summa were made large enow;h to accdm- quarters themselves for the post of inter- preter, besides servants. The buildings would have been oc- cupied within the next few days, and during the Summer would have con- stituted the British Legation. The killing of the Chancellor of the Japanese Legation at Pekin Sugiyama Akira, is not referred to in the official despatches received here, but full credit is given to this report by the Japanese officials, who | are personally acquainted with Mr. Akira and with many of the circum- stances detailed The killing of a member of the diplomatic body and the foregoing assault upon the officials of foreign countries are regarded as presenting | the most serious phase of the situa- tion that has thus far occurred. LONDON, June 13.—In regard to the reports that Japan is about to | declare war on China, it was learned | by @ representative of the Associated Preas at tu. Japanese Embansy to- | day that the attitude of Japan in the | | Chinese crisis is to co-operate loyally with the European powers. : In the existing situation, however. | modate the entire British establish- Japan would not %e willing to see any | ment in China, These included the; single power take the Icad. CONGER’S GLOOMY VIEW; OUR MARINES SAIL, WASHINGTON, June 1.—A_ cable- rem has deen received at the State Department from Minister Conger, at Pekin, otating that Tuan, the father of having on board one hundred marines and five officers, Major Waller com- manding, in response to the telegraphic request sent from Tong-Ku June li by Admiral Kempf. ‘Thirty others left last week on the United States gunboat Nashville, bound for Tien-Tsin. The marines on the Bo- fs believed that there later on. A supply ship will jeave this week and others will be sent received in diplomatic | and attaches; also seven student tn-| COVernor Hodgson in Sad im Washington show that | terpreters, who had gone out from Plight and Cut Off rioting in Pekin has reached an | England to learn Ohinese and mt from Aid. LONDON, June 19-14 P. M.—A de- apatch has been recetved atthe Colonial Office from Col, Willeocks, In command of the Ashanti relief? expedition, whieh save that a letter has been received | |froe the Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir F. H. Hodgson, datet Coomassie, June 4. On several occasions, it says. unsuce cessful attempts have been made to get off letters, Coomassie ts garrisoned by 700 native troops under the command of Mator Morris, acting commisstoner and commandant of the northern territories, who bas succeeded in entering the place | from the north “The Europeans and other troops are on half rations. The supplies of ammu- Aiton at Coomassie are not sufficient to allow offensive mearures and must be aushanded in case of the reinforcements not arriving. “The march for the relief of Coomas. | sie will be met by # ructed stockades | in the way, such | | #0 slockades sure | rounding Coomassie, offering the rebels | @ood shelter. The rebels have places | bullt uo in trees and have used them to open Are from The state of health of Coomassie js soot" REMEY ASKS MARINES, Admifml, Waste o Battalion Seng to Manila at Onee, WASHINGTON, June 12—The Nevy Department has received the following cabiegram from Admirai Remey at fi and Basilan Island to naval control and defense. The army also wants to give up Olongare We cannot take the iat ter while short of marines. j “The Bolace wlth six offcers intended | for Guam and 10 marines has been sent |to Kempf. Can the Department send « battalion of marmes to the Philippines Think it important that the forme? | Spanish naval station be under navy Additional forere needed if*the | control. | present (ime | ‘The Yorktown nas been placed at ; Kemoets disporsl. The Castine is at an r wislWwiaa tr oe 00 fj vv itna NE 8 BY AAHANTT. 120.00 Eee rnmnnan ar Omen BASLUALL GANIES, Coun om TE. lace had Leen destined for Guam. 1 | nevy i 10 secure raval station at the uggem itp fice Whe Ought to Be citizeng to shirk public tm Jatt,” He faye. CHAMPAIGN, Iti, June 12—Comp- NEW YORKS PETITION TO GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT ASKS COLER'S REMOVAL. AMY U. Ct 6 YORK. ' v) } ) J Se VA \ FINN ‘ if ante PRINCETON ise QO 1 c—2 * o 1,8 0 , t bi T GRAVESEND. ftextor 9 ” 3 7 th 3 oul -NWI YN. Ve 7) ’ ot tepablt {in thie country eo & matter of course There hes teen growing tendency among men who were otherwise good dutles | “They wanted to keep vet of pette| tee and pubite life, but Im keeping jeu they made room in both places |pessibly the cruiser New Orleans witi| S*4n@Rei and her repairs will be com: troller Bird ® Coler, of New York, de- fF See Whe enght to be tm jail. pleted by July ®. “The Austria 4 at Canion with or-| Commencement of the State University livered the principal address at the “The spirit of corrupt commercialiom has invaded politics and public life {i thie country, and im some of the larger dere to proceed to Swatow and Amoy to-day, and some of his statements were | -ici94 the invasion hes for a time over- ‘The movement of the Yorktown from *#nsetional. Tun the gevernaent. . Shanghai to Chefoo was not directed “No serious danger to American ineti-/ “By the spirit of commerciaiiom in from Washington, and it is assumed tutions.” he aald, “lurks anywhere on /thie connection I mean that public feel- that the order was issued by Admiral the broad and fertile prairies of Iitt-/'rg, far toe prevalent in this countey, Kempen. business and those Baye equadron entities to make Chefoo the ® day's call of otealtag trem ‘Tabu. bes passed i | “ Cirewlation Books Oren to All.” ESDAY, JUNE 13, 1900, neqegpresy. Were true, then the Comptrolier would Comptriile king houses to mate It fe recited that im 188 Comptroller nave deen guilty of an indictable crime Dt® fr the replies, naming. Coker threw out thirty-one bide for for selling any more bonds - ate _* . a — pay. bende from reliable financial concerns Tne more sensational statements, «Mita preB ny and sccepted one from the Produce Ex- | however. are said to be contained in | fect. the evidenen, Salen tance <|change Trust Company's syndinate documentary evidence submitted po Bie ” which bid lower than the concerns men- sisting of a bulky package of wits Gp tee toned ten atter. The charges continue that before the Ja Wo Mack wh pings m * tide were elved . mp r harges, is @ promine manof | o wrote, and hed published. interviews New York, amid to be» a! al eos land Wétters qratntaining tha ty’s « ‘ debt limit had deen excente more ind prominently than $1060), “thereby frightening in . & = RACING| PRICK ONE CENT, } | : —————_+4-__—. Jaceb W. Mack, a [lille lonaire and a Member of the Chamber of Commeree, Makes the Accusations, A'leged Bond Conspiracy with the Produce Ex. change Syndicate Pur. chase Two Years Ago— Debt Limit of City, It Is Charged, Falsely Stated. ‘Nothing bet the most positive | evidence would have made me co than anything that preferred against ai city oMcial.”From an interviem with Gov. Roosevelt in thy Brooklyn Bagle Gov. Roosevelt ha remove Hird & Greater publisbed im the Brooklyn Kage thie wdiug to a story | | efiernoon + yaltiionaire, and | Jaco Wo Mack member of the Chamber of Commerce through his altorney yesterday prepared formal charges to the Governor ending with these words | “Tt Wo respectfully prayed that upon the foregoing Sharges and specifications the Comptroiier of the city of New) York be removed from office.” The Governor has accepted the| charges and bas ordered an investiga | thon at once ! Briefly the formal charges made are breach of trust and what is practically COMPTROLLER COLER. | vestors from bidding for the city # bonds at the then impending rate thereof It lo also charged that a brother of | behind him | ‘ the Comptrotier, a member of the bond at least t } ‘. Coler banking houses in New Y | banking firm of W. N. Coler & ot | bas ene } ve ea wie tiie whieh Grm the Comptroiieg was nim | caso if cas - e104 or, who was broughe te seit @ member, was active in the » hee a aaneneal " dicate which succeeded In getting (he It | unlerstond na ay - 4 | pone yy which ral hundred [Donde at the small Agure of WAM. thus wrtien gocuments, wae obtained in Deing able to weke protably 1.000% O65 from (he peivate memoranda of | on the transection [the Comptrotier's office, from papers | Serth American Tarmtest ‘The charam further state | supposed to have been known only to) the Comptrotier and his most confiden- “That if the Comptroiier's statement | tia) clerks. the debt mit being exceeded §=They inqude laviiedeas * * We Map

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