The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1900, Page 1

eT oe ee ‘NIGHT! @oe La _EDI TION | ; q { “ Circulation Books Open to All.” i _ PRICE ONE C ENT. » RESULTS OF | THE RACES. EEN me NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JU LY 18, 1900, BASEBALL. ~ CHINA MOBILIZES ‘A MILLION MEN FOR WAR ON WORLD “ Cire lation Books Open to All. | | o is RACING) PRICE ONE CENE, Sa IN FROM WOONG f 1S WITH BOWS | The Evening World’s Scientific Experiment to| Relieve Suffering in the Heat-Stricken City’ —Huge Bombs Fired at the Skies from the Dome of the Pulitzer Building— The Experiment Conducted by | Prof. C. R. Bishop. Prof. G. R. Bishop, of Tucson, Aria, this afternoon, on behalf of The Evening World, endeavored to relieve New York from the oppressive heat which has hung over the city for the past week. Prof. Bishop is one of the best known rainmakers in the West, and has operated successfully in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska and other States where droughts are frequent. He reached New York Tues- day morning, and to-day was sought by The Evening World and asked if it would be possible to bring about a rain to cool the atmosphere. Prof. Bishop, said he would do his best, and immediately set about making his preparations, A sclentifie experimen’ in the in- thousand feet above the great gilt sired result. | hope eo,” he added tereats of the heat sufferers of the! dome of the Pulitzer Building feelingly, “for the sake of the ii | Then the professor, assisted by sev-| fering infants and the aged in this | eral men experienced in such mat-| great ‘ty | d city war attempted this afternoon) from the dome of the Puliteer Bulld- | ters, exploded five more bombs at in-| Pith the explosion of the six ‘ing tervals of forty-five seconds. ‘he ef-| bombs the Profeasor decided to make ———— Prof. G. R. Sishop, of Tucson, Ari- fect of these explosions was at ogec | tonger ervals between fires, and zona, one of the most noted rain- noticeable in the skies. ‘for the next hour discharged them makers of the United States, at the When the first bomb soared upward | once every five minutes instance of The Evening World, ex-| there was not a cloud to be seen In The notee Ah iey wions of there ploded two dozen rain bombs in an the heavens. mite bia mb are the largeet endeavor to bring about a downpour, By the time the last of the six had | cre by the 5 "Vinee wks Cc which would cool off the parched been fire’ there was a distinct change | any pas be heard for aie earth and bring relief to the unfor-|{n the appearance of the sky. White, | around, and created intense interest tunates whose strength has been fleecy clr uds began gathering, and at |and even excitement slowly sapped away by the heat and! the end of ten minutes there appeared| From the dome of awful humidity which hae continued in the zenith a dark, irregula> cloud, | Building the view of the immediate im New York for the past week. Jarger than the others, which hovered | neighborhood was interesting Prof. Bishop arrived unexpectedly | above the city to the satisfaction of} (ity Hall Park was thronged with in New York yesterday, and bis ser-| Prof. Bishop. persons, all looking skyvard. The vices were immediately engaged in| “I can’t say that {t means rain im-|roofs of all the office buildings and the hope that hie successes of the) mediately,” said the Professor, stud. |the windows were filled with curious West might be repeated here ing the horizon and zenith carefully, | persons, while the Brooklyn Bridge The most elaborate preparations | “but those six bombs have certainly | was lined with thousands, all eyes were made by him, and at 221 the caused an atmospheric disturbance | focused on the scene of the experi- first bomb was exploded, nearly a! which is likely to bring about the de- | ments tre the Pulitzer HEAT IS KILLING MEN. mt DASL id/ AL BROOKLYN A Byrian woman, 4 second-class pas unable to speak English Her fellow- | P. ty RAMEEP SETS could not remember any- met aoe thing concerning het, as she wee un- mn we 1! 01 0 | NEW YORK. 40000203 Dread Disease. of a re mt Donnelt t hae VS. BOSTON, "made for losses. DEATH OF WOMAN PASSENGER, ion as 8 preee d all ‘the effeets wuddenly early this morning and the BF € contac h | Corpat “ly was removed to Swinburne Island 9p 4 — for — oF an autopay “he ane shows suspicious Indien: | tions that the woman died of yellow| fever Dr. Doty says the woman came trom, ELMIRA. July iy " ner hand com > te ios . 8 t ) slained of 00 filnece while at Hoffman the hands of the He formetory Hoard ot °™P Ie Managers al to-day» executive thor tion ‘ss patel Aosta stan du = cad tank Ly charge ' without coa- " egainst Mbkéea and occupy the roads | consuis there that : ¢ caamo! be an- ~ = 2006 = ——_- PRINCE TUAN MASSES VAST ARMY FOR THE CONFLICT, | China has at last idee te or andi is making war on the — iwhole world, Prince Tuan has mobilized an army of 950,000 men and ) jhas planned a great campaign against the allies, | Four army corps will operate against various bases of supply — ‘held by the great powers in China. The Chinese fleet has been prepared to give battle to the foe- 7 e'gn squadrcns in China seas. All the Empire is aflame and Corea is also disturbed, wh Viceroy of the huge province of Honan says he cannot ¢ "tro! the rebellion. Shanghai is threatened and the Chinese forts are making “""lready. Seventeen foreign warships have assembled to protect the ~19/ settlements. Russia is reported to be sending a great army through Man- churia to Peking. Earl Li Hung Chang’s memorial to the Empress says envoys ‘must be rescued, Germany must get an apology and compensation | | | Our losses at Tientsin July 13 were 18 killed and 79 ‘wounded. The casualties for July 14 are not yet reported, A despatch from Consul Fowler at Chefoo says the Lega- a“ dew July 9. A last message from the Japanese envoy id massacre was imminent. Fifteen thousand Japanese troops are landing at Taku. YELLOW-FEVER VICTIM weirs Autopsy Indicates tt that Quaran- tined Patient Died of ARMY OF 950,000 MEN TO FIG HT THE WORLD, ible 9 communicate Aer wants and senger on tae steamer Havana, who “Spt als o Health Ome on 69T PETEROBURG, July 18 —A «and Shas-Ial-Kuan. swerable for events in Chao-liim dled Was detained o nHoffman Island, ary measure. x lean ¥ aie ta t e at Ning-Poand Chu-Chau, The foreign — the patie Mein te ors are fleeing to Shang’ The € nd the steamer rove a also disintectea. | PT Tuan has mobilized 956 ition js alarming. sft ro t Hifferent corps, to ng 40,000 ‘BROCKWAY'S RE MSiCMTION are en od bestilities are entret Nanking burned and missionaries | apparently well and resignation wee said . = Me ¢ on. Multreated. The rebellion bas : . ~ id of Southern China, ' tate last night ——— at Prince Tuan has or- hold It was tmpossibe to learn from her 7 i af military movement Goreigners bes any history of the illness on the wx 1 to expel foreigners from Am In-Chaa have deen attacked aad ’ mova. He ould mot dine ance of the Jép from Havana, because the WOMAN WAS ported tender The Peking Army is divided into f The Viceroy in| Seeing panic-strickea, SHANGHAI, July 18—te (Continued on Secand ‘o- | Corps, the iret of which is to operate * informed the foreign | ] i i} } | | =e