The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1900, Page 3

CEM (MAS, EDWIN GOULD’ FonTnEron a = as oo hi Ee a —— RECORD OF THE OR Mi Wes Bide Ne. Serene , EGON: BANK FIGURES ‘ ' ow i HOT FIGHTING IN CHINA. HELD BROKERS. ‘The Oregon is “the bulldog of the Bavy.” She is the best beloved and Most famous vessel at present in the ‘United States service. Her refnar Ft r} i § i Spanish-..merican war and her battie of San- “ii ut 1898, under Capt. if 4 West and made her breaking voyage of 17,499 jm eighty-one days. For » bat- {t was the longest trip ever meade, and it includea an unequalled Fun of 4,500 knots without a stop be- Gween Sc - Francieco and Callao, 2,484 knots covered at an average speed of (hirteen knots and a run of 155 kn: - fa ten hours, In the battle of Santiago, on July 8, 1898, the Oregon was conspicuous i One of her 8-inch shells which Dene- wy trated the turret of toe Admiral 4 I sgRtT 32 Oquendo exploded and killed every Dereon in the turret. Her 13-inch Guns were fred thirty-four times, her Sinch guns twenty-eig.: times and her 6-inch guns .wenty-four times, The above diagram shows the hole torn in the warship’s side, through which “".?. ssn -ronacco was very aative |did the Charleston. fired in all 1,776 shells, 1,670 of h were from her 6-pounders, O'Shay sent the first from the forward | Pounder to the time when the Crie- tobol Colon turned inshore, At Admiral Dewey's request the Oregon was sent to Manila, sailing from Honolulu on Feb. 21, 1899, and arriving March 18. The Oregon was launched at fan Francisco on Oct. 26, 1898. She is eel built. Her hull te protected by heavy armor belts seven and one- half feet wide. Her water line length ie 348 feet; extreme breadth, 69 '.4 feet; draught forward and aft, 24 feet, .nd displacement, 10,288 tons Her batteries comprise four 13-inch and eight 8-inch breech-loading | Tifles, twenty 6-pounder rapid fire and four Gatling guns. She carries six torpedo tubes. Her engines are twin screw, vertical, triple expan- sion, inverted cylinder type. Her normal complement comprises 475 persons. PINNACLE ROCK A PERIL OF THE WASHINGTON, June %—Pinnacie fock, where the Oregon ran aground, is @bout % feet high and liew three and miles south of Howk) Island t a mile and a quarter north- Bortheast of the is'and of Siao Lu @han ‘The rock ts encircled by a shoal and Should not de approached nearer than three cables, According to the Hydro- PECHILI GULF..HOQW AMERICANS I: | WERE AMBUSHED. Bureau officials there is» etrong f three to five knot peed always prevalent in this vienity and this fact, together with the dense fog that Graphic prevatied at the time, greatly enhanced thy ing the ¢ on. t aval ‘hydrographs fall of the, tide at thie ‘polut. tm tas it e tide al about 10 feet. dh daa OREGON IN GR STORM BREAKS OVER HER AVE PERIL IF & copy of the report of Capt. Navy Department, telling it of damage and position of to Assistant H. G. Smith, at the Nevy-Y: today by an reporter, he sald docked the Oregon and over- hile she was jaid up here I am thoroughly acquainted struction and am positive Gamage sustained by the bat- Rot sufficient to utterly dis- i sat: . ? @ veesel ie undoubtedly in a position, and if a storm should she would be in grave t F No. 1, mentioned in ‘s report as having been ie @ 1-2 feet from the bow. seven feet high, fourteen feet eighteen wide. The lower bot- @ of the compartment is five- an inch in thickness, The the double bottom is three feet, & plate five-sixteenths of an inch 4 s atEae thick. The compartment tons of water. holds fifty |"pper and lower, may have been stove [tm Tf such is the case the water has {full play in the hold of the | © {4 add another hundred tons of water Ito her burden. The lower gompartment or double bottom may have a number of small holes tn it from the shock of striking and grinding on the rock. “I would not be surprised to hear that the eight-tndi powder magazine adjoin- Ing compartment No. 19 had been pierced. “Bull with all this damage and the hold of the vessel flooded, ahe is in no especial danger while fair weather \aste, “Lying, as the Oregon does on « ledge with a rock in her hull and hoid- ine her fast, the battleship would be in imminent danger should a storm blow up and big seas smash over her other compartments might be ty break der the pound: 4 bien event she. would foon fill rm 4 fe ‘ ye dicate ta" get met position and tt CHINA’S ACT OF WAR! WASHINGTON, June 30.—Admiral Kempff cabled to the Navy Department to-day as follows: “ Ministers at Peking were given twenty-four hours to leave on the 19th. They refused and are still there. “The Peking relief forces got halt way. They were attacked by Imperial troops on the 18th, Mc- Calla,was in command. Fous-were killed and twen. ty-five wounded, McCalla and Ensign Taussig wounded, but -not seriously. Now over 14,000 troops ashore. “ Commander Wise commands at Tong-Ku, in charge of transportation, rail and river. The combi- nation officers find it necessary to make use of some civilians to operate railway. KEMPFF.” A cablegram received at the State Department to-day from Ambassador that the foreign Ministers were safe at Choate at London states Peking on the 25th inst. Chinese Minister Wu has advices to effect. or, if a storm comes, HOW THE OREGON WENT ASHORE. | water poured and filled the forward compartment. The big vessel is balanced on the) reef and may break her back, be forced off the rocks and sink, as|+,rimitar (Continued from First Page.) try, formally detained as a hostage for the eafst? of Minister Conger, or whether proceedings should be de laged tn view of the hitherto unsat- isfactory nature of Admiral Kempéf's Geapatehes until his report is cor- Toborated by further official advices. The following cablegram was re- ceived from United States Consul Ragedale, at Tientein, dated June 27, being the first communication re- ceived from that official in nearly two weeks, It confirms Admiral Kempff's report: of Teintsin raised. Troops sent for the relief of the legation re- turned. In vain, Fighting seven separate battles. American loss, 6 killed, 38 wounded. On the 19th Min- isters given twenty-four hours to (Copyright, 1900, by the Associates Prem) TAKU, Admiral Kempff believes that large| 0/0 the English they were exposed | |i reinforcements are necessary to reach fact Peking. The greatest anxiety exists Jobn Hunter was killed and Sergt regarding the foreigners there. | The list of American ities in j the Thentsin relief expedition has been received. The Americans, with Major Wallet/ wajied city by storm. They foun id in *| 1m command, with 440 Russians, were) Tientsin Lieut. Irwin and Cadet Pet- ambushed within three miles of Tien-| 1j- tsin June 21. They were compel’. to retreat) Admiral Kempff is anxious to avoid! “Tt lp possidié that both compartments | With such haste wat the Americans| all action likely to involve Amer!cans had to abandon a three-inca rifle and|!0 future diplomatic discussion. He 2 Colt’s gun. The column lost four| %PPOsed the policy of attacking the) killed and seven wounded, the Ameri-| “times¢ army unless they began hos-| ‘ can casualties being as follows: AMERICAN LOSSES. Privates John Hunter an. Nicholas, killed; sergt. Taylor, Vorp. Pedrick and another, wounded. Lieut. Irwin and Cadet Pettingill, with forty men, were found in good condition at “ientsin. Major Waller's battalion of 130 ma- tines, with Commander Craddock’s |Britieh Naval Brigade, numbering 500, camped on June 22 eight miles from Tlentsin, where the railroad had been destroyed. At daybreak on the morn- ing of the 234 Major Waller and two companies of Hritish marched on Tientsin. The remainder of the Brit- ish and 300 Welsh fustliers support- ing went up the river bank. Another column, consisting chiefly of Rus- sians and Germans, took up the route chosen by Waller. They were re- pulsd, Lowever. On June 21 the Rossians became engaged in a cosfilct with the Chi- she left Puget|from the time at which Private|/et once notified to leave the cann-)leave Peking. Refused. Still there. (Signed) “RAGSDALE.” After the conference the impree- ston was given out that no messures would be taken in the way of Gespatching more troops or warships to China until further reports had been received. Both the Navy and War Depart-| ments to-day showed greater ac- tivity than at any time since the Spanish war. It {8 now generally believed that | the supreme crisis in the Chinese ait. | tation is at hand and developments of the highest {mportance may follow at any moment. One official of high rank said to- | ‘7 day that just as a match would blow up & powder magazine with fearful consequences, so would one single act in connection with the Par Eastern situation precipitate a war of great magnitude and of unknown conse- quences. der the marines, merely bruisin a Northern China, June 27. | few of the men. While crossing to | piu! to a heavy flanking fire, and Private Taylor and Corpl. Pedrick were | wounded. Of the English, two were killed and three wounded. The English and American forces carried the village outside of the, “with forty men in -ood cond!- tion. Ulities, KEMPFF DIDN'T ACT. It 1s now admitted that the Powers Attacking the forts turned the Chinese into allies with the Borers. Americans think this might have been avoided. Admiral Kempff has held aloof from hostilities, beyond movements necessary to rescue Americans. When the forts were attacked the British unboat Algerine surprised and boarded four Chinese torpedo- boats under the shadow of the forts They offered one to Admiral Kempf, who declined to recetve it. However, the Russians, Germans on Japanese each took one of the boats. ‘Lae forces ashore now number 16,- 900, of which 3,200 are British, 1,200 German, 4,000 Ruasian and 3,600 Jap- anese, Yesterday the English to-r-* | beat Fame visited the fort at the jnew city, twelve miles up the river. nese. First Major Waller reinforced them »nd then rejol the British, the Military College being attackei. MINE UNDER MARINES. ‘The Chinese exploded a mine un- FRANCE GETTING READY | FOR PROS (Copyright, 1900, by he Prose Publishing Com pany, New York Wortt) ai Cable to The Bvenina World ) and navy arsenals. It was found deserted and blown up. Lieut. Jayne, of the Newark trv-| ing to reach Tientsin by boat at the | time of the storming of Tientsin, had & flerce fight with the Chinese. } PECTIVE WAR. fect Envoys Extraordinary, are con- stantly being déspaiched to the 5.40 P. M.—The Chamber of Depu- ties to-day adopted the clause of the sent| Naval bill amended so as to provide French Government to inapect|for the construction of battleships! and five armored cruisers and appro-! Orders have been given to rush the! priating 115,000,000 francs for bulld- ‘work on all the men-of-war and tor-|ing torpedo-boats and submarine- pita: to-day pedo boats now boats, This an increase of 60,000,000 = gEELSESS aoe — oo Stock Market Was List- less and the Deal- ings Narrow. Dealings were decidetly narrow and Quotations generally lower at the open- ing of the stock market today, owing to unfavorable London cables and the! uncertainties surrounding to-day's bead satement New York Air Brake and New Jersey / Central were exceptions to the genera! | fractional declines, Air Brake rose an extreme seven points to 121, and Jersey | Central bettered itself 2 points to 126 os | Sugar opened down 34, but. regained | half the lose later, while People's Gas) euffered a decline of #4 to M 1-4, and/ Brooklyn Rapid Trapett started « halt) point under last might at 63 a4 &. Paul, Baktimore @ Ohio, Buritng- ton, Loulaville @ Nashville, Union Pa- cific and Missourt JPacifie showed the heaviest (ractional losses in the raliroa® and@ quickly recovered a half point joes sustained at the opening and later made cal gained 1. point from the level. "New York Se ot ie eee ve en! reese, Sa and trregulse at very | ef es ORS Net value. The Closing Quotations. Lew. 4m Car & Foundry pt. e Amer tee Co. fon Getafe met, Seesl Mone Am Weel & Wire Be Amer Heel & Wire pt | Anheonde Mining i. FE a) | Amer Amer Tobacco | Amer Tin Brooklyn Burlington Canada Inter Pape os Inter Paper pt ” Pha Leal Nem a) iu 8) woe my WS 146% 6 my! “ Nort Norhern Pacif aeihe pe Norwie NY Air ny Pae Vea: % ise sooth ae Rout, fea ioe | 0 * L. & San ah Lar Tene Can! @ Iron. EM Untom Pacite » Union Paeite pt nS U. & Leather * 1 & Leather pt rN } wabaad pt ny Weet, Union Tei ” mH Vherl & Le Brie ~ o % Wheel al Mw Be a WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT. The Ranke Now Hold Nearly 617,- 000,000 in Eueess of Legal Requirements. ‘The weekly bank statement shows the Depostis te Cirealation (nereaned x The DAnKs now hold S16.90,376 in ex- coms of the requirements of the cent. rule LONDON STOCKS LIFELESS A@aire th Market. Business was virtually lifeless in the London security stocks to-day owing to the anxiety regarding future develop- ments in China. Americans shared the general tnac- tivity, but the declines were restricted to small fractional losses. The conu- nent again purchased the Pacific stocks. Some of the declines occurred in Baiti- more & Ohto of, Rew pt. Nor- folk & Western. A ~ 9 Poe and New York Centfal WHEAT PRICES DOWN. Wheat opened lower to-day despite strong English cables, The deciine was brought about by heavy selling by for- cigners. Trade was extremely light! asde from the foreign business, French m were fram 10 10 % point per im Chine itive Aasiety Over Affects ng prices were: July July corn, @ | The closing prices were: July. 9% to » 923; September, $6 to cotton to-day August, 9.28 to October, £4 December, » oh, Peo a2 to 8m, November, &.3) t 59 Janvary AD to Sai ruary Mt April, $24 to 628, May, 627 to 62. Mar: | kee: weak. |thirty years old, of 15 Washington street WORPHINE KILLED HER, Young Woman Foend Unconscious im the Mreet Died im the Hospital. May Hamitten, who. It ts supposed, took an overdose of morphine with sui- eidal intent, died he New York Hos- ice Seca EWEL THIEF HELO, SHAD WA Mrs. Schley Left $200,- Man Who Offered Some of! 000tothe Late Ros- $5,000 Diamonds for Sale May Be Deported. t j ~ While Mr. and Mra. B4win Gould were at dinner in the Cariton House, Landon, two weeks ago, a thief entered their Apartment and stole $5.000 worth of jew- olry. The Scotland Yard authorities no- (ified the police of this city Al When Detectives Butler, Cronin and Hennessy were at Coney Island on Tunsday they saw a man trying to get some of the shopkeepers to take jewels in exchange for goods They followed tim to the Ruhiin-@harkey prise-faht, then to New York, and on Wednesday morning to the lodging-house at #0 Weat Forty-first street. Later in the day they arrested him, after shadowing | him to a Rowery saloon. In an inside pocket they found « big chame’s bag Aled with jewels “They were given m* by & woman at Coney to sell for her,” the prisoner said, but he could not tell who the woman Was As wome of the Jewels bore the Tiffany (rade mark, Capt sky gent for one of the Tiffany ol | “Those,” said the when he ex-| amined the jewels ings we sold to Mra, Edwin Gow! Mrs, Gould's BOTH DIE SUICIDES Woman Shot Herself— Sweetheart Then Went to Death. Auguat Koch, brother of Charies Koah who committed suicide tn the Hotel Van Twiller, at Twenty-fifth street and Lexington avenue, with Marie Duran yesteriay, called at the Morgue this) morning and made final arrangements for the shipment af the bedy of hie brother to Hartford. ‘The tly was sent to Hartford this stternoon. It will be Interred in Spring be left. In accordance with oetved of the etd ty committed suicide The course af the | vullets 9 cach instance was almost iden (teal, the bullet lodging near the left or He said he believed the woman shot S| att Saree STRUCK BY “L.” ENGINE, Salim Gerwed Dragmed Over Ele- vated Track from Rector Street Platform. While standing on the Rector street station of the Elevated road this morn: ing Salim Gerwet, « Syrian peddier was struck by the engine of a local! train and fatally injured. He was drag: | ged forty feet over the tracks before) the engine could be stopped He received @ compound fracture of the skull. He was taken to Hudson Street Hospital. He will die. — Woman Injured by Renaway. Mes Geran Hail, ty years oid, of |dred and Fifth street, was arrested at eating Bedford Park, was this afternoon | Rit jauniry. Hark avenve and One ‘Has. use (o all brain wornens, knogked down by « horse ead wagon so MRS. EDWIN GOULD. AMERICANS operation seieiser riinri-rieb brother, George Shrady, also identied the Jewelry Bome of the articles were a diamond ruby and pendant, a golt locket with the monogram "8. C. G..” a large scart. pin of diamonds and rubles, @ fob chain with the ‘nitials “E. G." in diamonds, nine diamond buttons with the mono- gram “A. G.," pearl sleeve links, cat's eye and pearl scarfpin, six stickpina, two pearl pins, ring set with four sap- hires, brooch of diamonds, studded with pearls and eme lorgnette chain studded with diamon@s, pearie And amechysts; baby ring with three well Flower. ty the late Emma A. avenue, disposes of |miltions of follare. Mre.*Schiey wae related to Gov Roewell P Flower, to leaves $200.0 Allen ©. Beach, lertown, ts named as jee of fund created under the will. | The residence at 1 Fifth avenue, at] hi |the Interest of « trust fund of jare Dequeathed to Mra Emma ey. daughter of Mra. Halsey's deach the trust |divided among the next teatatrts. Other bequests are as Magistrate Pool received « - ing message by mail to-day. Ho , the Dench In Centre Street Court a postal card was handed him. ‘The writer, who failed to name, abused the magistrate for Greek peddlers who were obstructing the streets, and that unless the course was maste\rate might feel the Interested tn a foretble A To emphasize the fact t to be intimidated, Magtet three Greeks, who had the usual charge, in $100 bail. men are Peter Lampreeas, of street, Antonia Caraholas, of treet, and John Banaclos, of the card to t ~ Sones mins.ng. The prisoner sald by Blair, twenty-six yea an Avstraian The a member of a wang thieves Hiair, was arraigned before Magte- | trate Pool in Centre Street Court and | held on a charge of bringing stolen Property into this country Ho is & well-dressed, ¢mooth-votced yourg man and cinims to have come Teecenth Sydney, M8. W. He re of to him aod allow the English authorities to try him for {he robl or press the case here the charge under whieh 00 SUCHE Goering Ran in Paris Streets Slashing His Throat. FARIA, June ®—EAward Goering, | %. formeriy employed at 8 Cornhil) street. Boston, Mass. fatally injured himealf to-day in a sensational attempt to com- mit suicide Hin queer actions on the Avenue de la Bourdonnais attracted the attention of C. J, Stilwell, of Ban Francisco, to whom he spoke in an erratic manner and, drawing a resor, he said he intended to take his life Mr. Stilwell calmed Goer- ing and sent for the poltce. On the arrival of the latter Goering backed into the middie of the evenue, | which ts & prominent thoroughfare run-— ning along one aide of the exposition. rasor and, dieeding profusely, started | running down the avenue, followed by the Gendarmes. } As he ran, Goering continued slashing his throat After a chase of three blocks the man was overtaken, weakening from wee of But he fought the Gen- darmes flercely 11 took six men to hol bom. While the surgeons of the ambulance station to hb he was taken tempted | rhood ineertt) the vital portions. makes recover, G ov ing ab- CAUSBD GlaL'S DEATH. Jennie Cotter, a remarkably pretty girl, twenty-two years olf died at 2 Je clock this morning at tbe home of |), Mre. J. Potsdamer, @ Wee One Man-) dred and Twenty-ninth street, from 49 /Grape-Nuts food is that it the nutritive qualities of @ * as a brain food, until quite by 2. hot milk, eaten before \t dissolves to | seems flavor of the food as in the case DBAD IN THE RIVER, ~ ti, Man Found Drowned tn Socth River Was Kvidently @ Sailer. * ‘The bedy of a drowned man floating In the North River at 6 o'clock this morning. = It was evidently that of « safler in a blue sweater inderclothing, The was thirty years old, 6 feet es weighing 1% noonds. His (ache were ' Helen Frances Gainesville, Ga, ‘% neh T have wh Note wilesome, nourishing and ap- ng food that has ever beady hae been | He then slashed hie throat with the my knowledge. constantly tm severe work I found that I did not ordinary diet; even a moderate ner dulled my brain so as to be tically incapable of critical tried meat-jutce, peptonolds, the two 4 meal system of light breakiast amd no supper which brought on ey jetion and sleeplessness, so narwe to one and another of the vartous health - foods, whieh ali seomed alike tasteless and valusless 1 had a dish of Grape-Nate served as dessert. I liked it eo that | began to use ft daily for per, four teaspoonfuls In s saucer mushiness. This point should be remembered fier a certain time, evaporation to affect the sweet certain fine-flavored fruits. ‘The result in my case was astonisbing. | had no desire ever for sweet pastries, meats, or tact anything else; and my was as clear and active at aking from a long, Phe peculiar advantage Ralph Jandorf, of Ut Bast One Hun- diet without the bad results I cheerfully —s Se