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MOB IN MEW YORK CITY. Avenge Murder of Policeman Thorpe by Attacking Negroes. RIOTERS FIGHT 500 BLUECOATS : I Negroes Dragged From Care, House* am Stores, Women Beaten and Men Shot Stubbed aud Clubbed?The Outbreal Lasted Nearly SI* Hours ? Quellec by Police Roierrci. N6w York City (Special). ? A race war as tierce as it was sudden ragoc" along the west side of this city be tween Thirtieth and Forty-fifth streets and alou? Sixth. Seventh, Eighth and Ninth avenues Wednesday night. It called for the services of 700 policemen, commanded by Chief Devery in person, and for six hours there was virtually a reign of terror such as has never been seeu in New York since the Draft Riot days of war times. The air was tilled with shots; negroes were attacked on street cars and dragged from bicycles in the streets. They were pounded and beaten, in some instances into insensibility, and the police were at times wholly unable to afford protection or to control the mad, sweeping fury of the mob. The riot was the result of tlie killing on Sunday of Policeman Robert J. Thorite, of the West Thirty-seventh street Station by a negro, Ariiiur tiar-1 ris. A wake over Thorpe's body was in progress. Feeling against the negroes iu the neighborhood of Thorpe's late home ha<l been at white heat for a couple of days. A drunken negro pulled a revolver on two white women, friends of Thorpe's family, who were standing in front of the Thorpe house. That started the trouble, which spread like Wild Are. Over two hundred negroes were badly beaten. They were dragged from street cars, pelted with stones, beaten, kicked and jumped upon. Then word passed from one police station to another, and reserves came out like quick-moving 'detachments of troops. Rioting suppressed iu one place broke out in another. Saloons were closed by orders of the police, and merchants, alarmed by the crashing of bullets through windows, were forced to close their storey. At midnight the rioting had spread to dozens of points along the entire west side from Twenty-third to Fiftieth streets. It was a scene to remind the sober, staid citizens of New York of the outbreaks in the South on/i Smithvrpsr that drew virtuous an ger from Northern cities. Clubs were used until tlio policemen were almost exhausted. Revolvers were emptied into the air, and iu one or two instances tired at the upper stories of the negro tenements, from which the negroes defensively tired bricks, paving stones and other missiles. That many negroes were not killed outright is miraculous, for the mob at times was frenzied. Carl in Broadway and Eighth avenue were stopped by the mob and terror-stricken negroes dragged bodily to th? street, where they were kicked and beaten. Terrorized negroes, pursued by the mob. took refuge in many of the Broadway hotels. Pistols, razors.* clubs, bottles and stones were freely used by both negroes and whites. Store windows were broken by flying missiles. Even the negro women caught in the streets suffered at the hands of the mob. Police reserves were called out from oviry station I tot ween Charles street and West 12T?th street. Inspector Thompson at first took oh:n-gf. hut i?. filler it, when the magnitude of the war was realized. Soon after his arrlva' Chief Devery ordered out the reserves frouj four east side stations. In Eighth avenue alone there were eight ambulances stationed to care for the wounded, and 130 policemen were scattered aloujs the few blocks. Police Captain Cooney and two policemen were wounded, one of them Kennedy, the partner of the murdered Thorpe, was fatally cut with a razor. Saloons in the vicinity of the riotins: wore closed by the police. This threw into the streets hundreds of half intoxicated men. who hastened to swell the ranks of the rioters. Through the effective work of the police the rioting was quelled and the throngs dispersed about 2 o'clock a. m. At least sixty negroes were wounded, several of them probably fatally. A general order was issued ertrly in the morning suspending all "days off" for policemen, and directing them to remain m the stations when off duty j in order to be prepared for any fur- | tlier outbreak. : SAVED BY TWO CIRLS. riiey .Tittup Into a Lake atxl I'.eicue i Young Man From Drowning, WilU^sbarre, Penu. (Special).?Misses Helen and Jenet Jones, sisters, teachers in the public schools of Scrantou, are spending their vacation at Harvey's Lake. They were walking along the shore when they heard the cries of a young man In the water. The Misses Jones are swimmers. They hastily jumped into the water and in o Klmrt time were lipyiilp the drowninc youth. He proved to be Harry Weller, ag<.d fifteen. He was tall and heavy for bis age and tbe girls bad treble In getting him to shore. To Itepeol Goebel Law. Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, Is sued a call convening the General Assembly in extra session. The call names but one subject upon which legislation can be introduced, the amendment or modification of the Goebel Election law. Cleveland and a Third Ticket. Grover Cleveland was quoted at Indianapolis as having refused to head a third ticket because of the state of his health. Minor Mention. Dentists are scarce In Niagara. The Czar has forbidden baccarai playing in Iiussla. Gilman, a mining town in Eagle ounty. Col., has been wiped out by fire. Glanders has broken out among the horses at the Presidio,' at San Francisco. The fishing fleet on the Grand Banks, off New Foundalind, is doing poorly lately. The military road from Port Valdes, Alaska, has been completed for lflO miles inland. KILLED IN A COLLISION, Two Michigan Passenger Trains Meet Head On in a Fog. Flyer Had Right of Wmy and Loc? Wat Making For a Siding w iion Thpv Clathed. Grand Rapids. Mich. (Special).?Th* worst wreck iu the history of tli Grand Ilapids & Indiana Railroad occurred at Piersou, twenty-nine miles north of this city. The north-hound "Northland Express," which left this city at 4.05 o'clock a. m., collided head on with passenger train No. 2, due here at 0 o'clock. Nine lives were lost and many passengers wore injured, some severely, Both trains were going at a good rate of speed. The locomotives and baggage cars were completely demol* ished. The dead, so far as they have beeD identified, are: W. H. Fish, engineer No. 2, southbound train. Gustav Grootveldt, engineer No. 5. Charles M. Letts, conductor No. 5. Ralph Levan, son of baggageman of No. 5. William Bert, fireman. .Louis G. Boyle, trainman. G. Piersou, passenger, of Franklin, Ind. Mark Blossom, news agent,was mortally lujured. Other persons injured are: H. A. Dennis, passenger, Grand Rapids; W. M. Graves, negro waiter: C.M. Fored,negro porter; Frank Poroff. trainman; D. C. Powers, baggageman; W. M. Barnes, dining room conductor; Harvey Taylor, wiflter; W. C. Hartsliaw, passenger. The railroad officials announced at noon that' the accident was caused by Telegraph Operator Wells, at Mill Creek, sleeping at his post. He was Called up and asked if the express train had passed, and wtis understood to say, "No." when it was already speeding on Its way. The orders to the conductors of the trains were based on this false information. When the trains met day was just dawning, and the fog was so thick that the engineers could not see more than 100 yards ahead. The traius wore to have passed at Sand Lake, two miles south of Plerson, at 4.52 o'clock. Train No. 2 was late and was trying to make the siding at Plerson. The Northland Express had right of way and was scurrying along at nearly full speed. First news of the collision reached here In a message from Pierson, which said that the emgineers and firemen of both trains had been killed, as well as fife other persons. The superintendent immediately started the wrecking traiu from Grand Rapids, I and ns many physicians as could be hurriedly reached went with it to the scene of the disaster. Six injured persons were taken out of the wreck in a short time and eight more, one of them fatally hurt, were soon sent to the hotel at Pier; son, half a mile away. The Northland Express was made 1 up largely of Pullman cars. It was the finest train on the road, and carried a Grand Itapids eoach, a day I coach and several sleepers from Cincinnati and the South. It was called j "the flyer" and catered to the Northern Michigan summer tourist population. The other train was an early local and there were not many passengers aboard. CONDITION OF THE CROPS. Harm Done by Extremes of Heat and Drought and Heavy ltalns. Washington. D. C. (Special). ? The Weather Bureau, in its regular weekly report, gives the following summary of crop conditions: The week has been intensely hot from 1 he Missouri Valley eastward to the Atlantic coast, including the south Atlantic States, with practically no rain over a large part of this area, although heavy rains occurred over the Missouri, upper Mississippi and ' Ked ltiver of the North valleys and lake region. In portions of Missouri and Kansas corn, more especially the late planted, has been materially injured, and the crop has sustained damage in Ne braska, Iowa and imuois, aitnougn in Iowa the bulk is unharmed and well advanced toward matuity, while in Illinois a largo yield is still promised. The outlook in Indiana and Western Ohio continues very promising, but in Central and Southeastern Ohio and throughout the Middle Atlantic States corn has sustained injury as a result of drought and the intense heat. In the principal States of the corn belt the reports indicate that the bulk of the crop will be safe from frost by September 1 to 10, aud that the late crop will be matured one to two weeks later. Heavy rains in the principal spring wheat States prevented the completion of the spring wheat harvest and caused injury to the over-ripe standing grain, as well as to that in shock and stack. In the Middle Atlantic States, including North Carolina, Ohio and portions of Kentucky, tobacco has suffered much from drought and heat, but in the last-mentioned State the general condition of the crop is promising. Some cutting has been done as far north as Maryland and Ohio. The intense heat of the past week has not been favorable to apples in the central valleys and Middle Atlantic States, but an abundant crop is promised in New York and New England. Very little plowing for fall seed has been done uuring the week. Letters to Filipinos Captured. The letters and papers of Aguin aldo' captured by General FunstoD were made public. Among them was a letter from Dr. Montague R. Leversou. of Brooklyn, to a Filipino agent in which the doctor applied several insulting epithets to President McKiu ley. Detective* to Watch AnarcliUts. ~ Fifteen Italian detectives have sailed for New York to watch nnar chists in the United States. Neway Ula>tni?~8. There were sixty suicides In Vienna during July, double the average rate. No yellow fever cases are reported among the American soldiers in Cuba. August Belmont's Miueola won the coveted Astor Cup in the yacht races off Newport. The "standing up" method of punishment is employed at th_- Jlnira (N. Y.) Reformatory. The cost of the war in the Philippines has been $180,678,000, and the number of deaths has reached 2304. i C. P. 1IITIICT0H DM Railway Kins: Stricken With Heart Trouble in His Adirondack Camp. ESTATE IS WORTH $50,000,000. Do wm Apparently in Good Health Until Teu Minnies Before Hit DeathCareer of the ileuiarltable Railroad Builder?How Bis Great Fortune Will Be Divided Is Undecided Yet. Raquette Lake, N. Y. (Special).?Col lis P. Huntington died at. his camp. Pin? Knot, in tho Adirondack?. Apparently well on retiring at 11 o'clock p. m., he was taken suddenly with one of the choking spells to which he was subject, and which was not thought to be serious, but he became worse. As soon as the seriousness of the attack was realized, a messenger was despatched to the neighboring camp of Governor Lounsbury for a doctor, and he was on hand in half an hour. Mr. Huntington died without regaining consciousness, not more than three-quarters of an hour having passed befween the attack and his death. Mrs. Huntington and Mr. Huntington's secretary, G. E. Miles, were at his bedside when he di'*d. On the day before his deaih'Mr. Huntington appeared to be enjoying the best of health, walking about his preserve and taking a trip on his private steamer Oneonta, and he remarked to friends that he was feeling unusually well. His adopted son, Archer M. Huntington, v-is notified at an early hour. After much difficulty and delay the news of the death was delivered to W. West Durant, who was jointly con ? *<. 1% \T? TTnnf-in .rfnn ;n i hp a'.Tll'U Willi .111. UUUHU}iVM Itaquctte Lake Railway. Mr. Durant will contribute his bor^, tcaras and servants toward making the final arrangement' for the disposition of the body. Mr. Huntington and his wife arrived at Durant on Friday. August 30, in their private car Oneonta. The steamer Oneonta was waiting their arrival at the wharf to convey them to their mountain home. Pine ' Knot Camp. H\irt disease was the direct > cause of death. VYr-; # 5 Collis Poiter Huntington was born In Harwinton, Litchfield Count}*, in Connecticut, October 22, *o21. His uncle. General Ebenezer Huntington, died at eighty years of age, and his great ancestor, Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Iudependeree, at sixty-five. The Huntington family, founded in Connecticut by Puritans, gave to the coftntry a jurist, a writer, a painter, a physician, soldiers, a clergyman a philanthropist of fame and, in Collis Fotter Huntin; on, r invincible maker of millions. The dead magnate started life without a dollar, and at his death was estimated to be worth over fifty millions. He was a railroad builder, railroad owner, shipbuilder and ship owner. He was seventy-nine years old at bis dentil, and had been one of the country's strong men for forty years, ever since he, with Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker, built the Central Pacific Railway, thus establishing the first railroad across the continent. It Is not known how his gr*at wealth will be divided. His natural heirfc are his widow, his adopted son Archer M. Huntington, the Princess Hatzfehlt, who is an adopted daughter, and H. E. Huntington, his nephew. DEUTSCHLAND'S NEW RECORD. Covers Eastward Passage in Less Than Five anil a llulf Day*. Plymouth. Euglan.. (By Cable).? Faster than the Atlantic was ever traveled before, the Hamburg-American Line steamship Deutschland? which on her preceding and maiden voyage oasr captured rhe blue ribbon I of the sea?by the trip which brought ' her to Plymouth, England, lowered I her own record by three hours and twenty-one minutes. Never before was there so quickly spuu a wake that united the metropolis of the New World with the snus; little island that lies beyond the sea. , The Deutschland's record is: Across the ocean on an average hourly speed of 23.32 knots. From New York to Plymouth, England, in 5 days. 11 hours and 43 minutes. Best day's run, 532 knots. The course, ' '.072 nautical miles. The Deutschland's hourly a\erage speed of 23.32 kuois over the course of 3072 nautical miles is equivalent to nearly twenty-seven land miles. What the accomplishment means for the German built steamship is indicated when it is realized that the commerce destroying cruiser Minneapolis, the fleetest craft of the American navy larger than a torpedo boat, made on her speed trial?with picked crew and picked coal, with only a part of her weights, undei- forced draagl.t and favorable conditions of sea aud weather, off the Massachusetts coast?an average speed of 23.03 knots an hour, and that, too, over a measured course of only forty-Jour nautical miles. Legations Attacked Again. Reports at Shanghai from Pekit dated August 8, are to the effect that the Chinese were again desperately attacking the legations, which had few defenders; it is said that Prince Tuan and a hundred hijjh officials have left Pekin, the news of the capture of Yang-Tsun causing an exodus of the residents. A Dramatic Death. Mme. Nemethy, nu opera singer, while performing in Budapest. IIuugary. draak poisou from a glass supposed to be filled with colored water, cai'smg her death. Largft Gold Export*. The largest amount of gold <?S.0G2.000) ever exported at ou?' time from the port of New York went out Wednesday for England. Chinese War Notes. Restlessness is increasing in Southern China. The German army will use American horses in China. Canton officials are enlisting Chinese at a month, twice the usual amount. Russian troops have captured the to#Q of Sakhalmin, on the Amur RivI er. I Japanese newspapers denounce Emperor William's vindictiveness toward China. i Filthy camps of some foreign troops j at Tlen-Tsiu n r<: r* moving a meuacc to [health. . I X FATAL FAMILY" FEUD.! Bittles and Laniers Quarrelled ?.\ Aberdeen, Miss., and Fight. Two Southern Fatten' Families Battle in a Public 8troet?Six txclianfjed Kliota UotU Three Are Dead.. Aberdeen, Miss. (Special).?Three lives vere sacriGccd in a family feud near here, the members of both families meeting in a pitched battle, -which resulted in the death of two sons of one of the families, and one of the other. The home Of J. S. S. Lanier is not far from that of the Bittles. Once on the friendliest terms, petty differences caused a coolucss.and then every trifling incident, was exaggerated oy each until the families were the deadliest enemies. There have been several encounters between the young men, but until the day of the tragedy the difficulty did not assume a serious aspect. It must have been that both sides were looking for trouble. Homer Blttlrand his brother Walter, both armed with Winchesters! were going along the road leading to the home of the Laniers, when they found their way barred by their enemies. The elder Lanier was accompanied by his sons, George, William and Jefferson. Murder would have been done then, but that mutual friends, apprised of the pending battle, rode up, and before a shot could be flred had hustled the meu back to their homes. They were watched for hours, and then, believing there was no more danger of bloodshed, the friends departed. Then the families sallied forth again, each man in both parties heavily armed. They met in the main road. Not a word was said, but each,side opened fire at once. Will Lanier fell at the first volley, shqt through the heart This made the ..battle more even. The interchange of shots was continued, and the next to fall dead was Homer Bittle. His brother, undismayed at finding himself opposed to. i three others, continued the battle UQ-. til he dropped mortally woondedi As he fell the frlenttajaMJlfe family, who had hoard of the wB^appeared on the scene, too late to^Kc^qther than mrrv the hndips of the vumHi to their homes. It is feared that njore bt this feud will be heard of, for now the other relatives of each family are flocking here, and preparations are being made to prevent more bloodshed at the funeral. ' A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the Laniers. WARSHIP SINKS A DESTROYER. Thirty-two French Sailors Lost Result of a "Mistake." . Paris (By Cable).?In the manoeuvres of the French fleet off Cape S& Vincent a crash occurred between the first-class battleship Brennus, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Fournier, commander of the fleet, and the torpedo boat destroyer Framee. The Franmee sank immediately.'Of her crew of flfty-six fourteen Sv'ere saved. The losses include three officers, Captain Maudit du Plessis, the second lieutenant and the chief engineer. England's Lord Chief Justice Dead. Baron Russell, of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England, died in Kensington as the result of an operation performed by Dr. Treves. He had been ill about a fortnight from gastric f n Tnrfl Pnccnll wnQ th<* fi Irish Lord Chief Justice of EngfrrBd? , the first Roman Catholic to occupy.-' that position since the Reformation. He was born in Newry, County Down, in 1S32. He was twicc Attorney:General in Gladstone's Ministry and succeeded Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief Justice o? England. Lightning's Deadly Work. Nine persons in tho vicinity Of Now York City lost their lives in the terrific storm which put an end to^.the hot weather, and nine others were terribly hurt?five of them, it is thought, will die. During the storm, while the flashes of lightning were almost incessant, tlte wind attained a velocity of seventy-six miles an hour, and ivitliin ten minutes of the first rumble of thupdcr the thermometer dropped twentyfive degrees. . Chicago Wants ar Jteconnt. A movement Is on foot among many influential citizens of Chicago to insist on a new federal census of the city, on the ground that the recent count conducted by Supervlsior Gilbert was inaccurate and not worthy of being regarded as a true statement of the population of Chicago. Stelnltx, Mrtdter of Chess, Dead. William Steinitz, of New York City, chess champion of the world, died in the Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane a few days ago. He suffered with paronoia and had been confined in the hospital since May 1. Conger's Plucky Message. A dispatch from Minister Conger, dated Pekin, August 4, just received by the War Department, said that he would hold out until relief reached him, but hoped that it would soon reach the capital. Armor Plate Bids Rejected. The Navy Department, Washington, rejected all the bids for armor plate submitted by the Carnegie, Bethlehem and Mldvale steel companies, and will issue new advertisements. To Bring Back Volunteers. Transports taking troops to China will bring back volunteers now in the Philippines, reducing the forces under General MacArthur. An Insurgent band numbering 185 has surrendered to the Americans. An Arilrohdnck Park Claim. h Benton Turner has filed a clain\^ against the State for $128,03(5.23 forj the taking, for the Adirondack Park.f i of land known as a portion of the; McCouib purchase, in Franklin County^ l'romlncnt People. Wiiliam Clark, the thread iuanufnct*? urer, of Westerly, R. L, 'lieJ unex-" pectedly. Abbas Hlmla II., the young khedive i of Egypt,has recently had built a sum-1 raer palace on the shores of the Medit- ' erranean near Alexandria. Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has re- i turned from his vacation, which he j spent with his wife, camping out in the mountains of Colorado. j It is perhaps not generally known { in the United States that Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister In .Washington, Is an Eugllsh barrister. " t L T mpKBesgirof Train Crashes Into an Omnibus Containing Twenty-four Persons. ONLY THREE ESCAPED INJURY. Dead and Injured Resident! of Slating, ton aud WaluutpoTt, renn.?Had At* ? vnn...ai?Tli? Horani Draw Ing the Vehicle E?cajied Unhurt?InJared llurlcd Into a Creek. Slatington, Pcnn. (Special).?A train on the Lehigh and New England Railroad crashed into a 'bus containing twenty-four persons near Cherry Valley, and killed ten outright. One more died later. The party was returning from a funeral. Ten of the party are In a hospital. Most of them are injured mortally. Only three escaped' injury. The dead are: Samuel Mummy, sixty, Walnutport; Mj;s. Samuel Mummy, fifty-eight, Walnutport; Eli S. Remaley, seventy, Slatington; Mrs. Eli S. Remaley, sixty-five; Mrs. James Kern, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli S. Remaley, thirty-two; Mra^ Elias Sourwiue, a widow, -three, Slatington; Mrs. William Katie, fiftyone, Walnutport; Miss Carrie Smith, twenty-two, Walnutport; Mrs. Kuntz, thirty-two, Walnutport; Mrs. James Minnich, thirty-three, Walnutport; three-year-old son of Mrs. James Kern. The Injured include: Mrs. William Resch, of Walnutport, seriously hurt Internally, wilF die; Miss Alice Nagle, Walnutport, slightly bruised, will recover; Louis Kuntz, Slatington, dangerously cut about head and hurt internally; Miss Carrie Nagle, Walnutport, badly hurt internally, may die; Harry Minnich, aged ten years, may die; George Minnich, brother of Harry, badly cut about head,"seriously injured internally, will not recover; Byan Walp, Walnutport, badly hurt Internally and badly cut, will die; Miss tjizzic Jones, Slatington, hurt internally uid badly cut about head and face, cannot live; Miss Distler, Wal2ini4 ln4nmo 11 rr m? rr ronnror UUl[/Vll| UUi I miciuuilj! uilt/ 1VVVI v*? The omnibus left here shortly after 1 o'clock p. m. to attend the funeral service* of Mrs. James Shafer at Walnutport The services were held in St Paul's Lutheran Church, Walnutport, land Interment took place in CherHemetery, about three miles place. The burial services laded at about 4.30 p. m.,and started on their return JourJourney ' soon came to an ?ver, for many of them. About one mile from Cherry Valley the Lehigh and New England Railroad crosses the road at grade. There is also a very sharp curve at this place, and it is stated that it is sometimes almost impossible to hear a train approach the crossing. The 4'.50 p. m. train from Slatington, drawn by Engine 15, bound for Portland, hove in sight Just as the vehicle was on the tracks. The driver was powerless to avoid a collision. The loeoLUUUve SHUCK, me wuue ui uie 'bus. So great was the momentum that .two of the bodies were picked up 600 feet from the scene of the accident. The train was stopped above the crossing, and when the train hands returned to the1 scene it was found that ten of the occupants of the vehicle had been killed instantly and ten badly injured. Only three of the party, It was found, escaped injury. ,^^^ecullari (coincidence connected j Jfllhc accident is the fact tbat none | l^^he horses attached to the 'bus j was hurt When the train struckthe 'bus the force of the collision broke ! the traces and the shaft and tbe horses ran down the road a short distance, where they were caught by a farmer. Many of' the injured were hurled Into a creek which runs beside the railroad at that place, and were only saved from frowning by the prompt attention given by the train hands. Word was at once dispatched to this place and all the physicians available in the surrounding towns were hurried to the spot. There are rumors current that the engineer of the train failed to blow his whistle before approaching the crossing, but this is doubted by many, who say that the road does not employ flagmen at any of Its crossings. As a consequence engineers are very careful when approaching street crossings. At a liite hour most of the citi- ' zeu3 of Slatington and Walnutport were at the railroad station inquiring for fuller details of the accident and for tiie condition of tlie injured at the hospital. THEY LOVED THE SAME CIRL Tito Kentncklaim Quarrel, One It Killed and Slayer Commit* Suicide. Owingsville, Ky. (Special). ? Levi Goodpaster and Edgar Conner, of good families, were buried here a few days ago. Goodpaster was killed by Conner, who then committed suicide. The young men were rivals for the hand of Miss Julia Gooch. Each, with his own party of friends, was keeping late hours when the parties met, and Goodpaster and Conner began to quarrel. Conner fired three shots at Goodpaster. When he heard some one say "Levi is dead" he snatched the revolver from the hands of a bystander. who had taken It away from him, and, saying, "I will end it here," shot himself through the temple. China's Strange Move. China Is impatiently urging the foreign Governments to order the envoys out of Pekin. Mttsiiacro In Armenia. Two hundred men, women and children have been massacred in the Armenian village of Spaghauk by Turkish troops under Ali Pasha, the commandant of the garrison at Bitlis, in aoiuvi\; j. ui ftvj mc ivuiuo cioataiuu the soldiers in the slaughter. A Pitiful Snlckle. Bertha Koss, a beautiful Russian, killed herself in New York City, be- | cause her mother forbade her to marry 1 the man she loved. i The National Game. ( Orth, of Philadelphia, has not made ; 1 wild pitch this season. < Daly's work at second for Brooklyn Is something marvelous. I Collins, of Boston, has played fifty perfect llelding games this season. < In Chicago they claim that McCar- ' :hy is the greatest left fielder that ?ver 1 played on a Chicago team. Sheehan. the new infielder of the 1 S'ew Yorks, was farmed out to the 1 Syracuse Club of the Eastern League. Schri^er, of the Pittsburgs, has the { listlnctlon of having gone through lalf the seagou without etrUtlnjg out THE NEWS EPITOMIZED ' WMhlncton Iteina. The Kins of Sweden and Norwaj has accepted the place of arbltratoi In the Samoan claims case, the offl cl.il notuicatlon of that fact having been received at the State Depart ment. Tlie State Department, upon the advice of the Solicitor-General, decided not to try to force the extradition of Neely while an aPPeal *? the Supreme Court is pending. The Fed ernl authorities were advised accord ingly. Major RusselMB. Harlson's claim of $G77 for extra tray In the volunteer army was refused by the Treasury Department. \ The Secretary of Wat has approved the recommen$*t|p? of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications that there be no further action for the present in providing new field artillery. ? Rear-Admiral Watsoni, aboard the Baltiiqore, will reach New York City September 10. Onr Adopted IilMdt. t The Mataila Board of Health report a that there are 30,000 lepers to the Philippines. The Council Havana rejected the new charter, on which a commission lias beeu at work for more than a year. &?.. *& Two hundred starving natives walked from San Lorenzo to San Juan Porto Rico, and begged the Governoi for bread or work. Employment od public roads was promised; them. John T. McCutcheon writes from Manila that Aguihaldo still retains his supremacy nrapng Filipinos. ':| August opened with thirty-toe cases of yellow fever in Havana. There ire I flfty-nine cases in the city, four-df the victims being Americans. HeMto reports for June and July 8how?flffiirming increase in the death rate, especially among native HawaiiJps and Japanese of the Island ot. OahST Hawaii. The Board, of is discussing a quarantine agBBH consumption. ^ An appeal to^the Supreme . Court Wfc, counsel for Offy; W. Neelygfrevenpl \ his extradition to Ctlba for /Ttlme. At sungao. i?i immuau, ?tu>vw is the most northeasterly of the hemp ports of the island at which there'are American troops, everything eeeqii serene and in really excellent running condition. ' An investigation of the present obnoxious customs regulaijons at Manila has been ordered. Domestic. Jere Washington, an employe Pennsylvania Steel Works, sHHa^ killed Cora Jiles in Harrlsbu*^*^?.. and then swallowing two ouncEHsi laudanum drowned bimaeljL UjJwfr canal. Washington had I his attentions upon the Tamestown, Ohio, killed^mKv -(ff- niui son-in-law, James Bradleyy|jlk?i??fi& fatally shot himself about'the heart. They had quarreled over CMRle transfer to some property of MrK BiiiisaA mob took Jack Betts, colored, frnm the sheriff at Corinth. Miss., and hanged him to a tree In tb? court house yard. He was charged with criminal assault on a ten-year-old white girl. Disappointed and despondent. John A. Raycroft, fifty-two years old. chief clerk In the ferry division under Mayor Quincy, Boston, shot himself at the supper table at this home, East Boston. Death was instantaneous. Sixteen buildings were destroyed by Are at Hanover, Penn.. the loss being sstimated at from $40,000 to $.10,000, partly insured. Philippine war veterans gathered in Denver, Col., to form the Society of the Army of the Philippines. Mm<^ Elise L. Camacho, wife of the Mexican Minister of Railroads, died, of he.irt disease on a train }ust before ' reaching Jersey City. Miss Alma Osborne and Melville M. Wood, a schoolteacher, were drowned near Washington, Ind. Mr. Wood attempted to rescue Miss Osborne, who i had fallen iu a sinkhole while wading j In White Tiivei* R. F. Harrington and Milton Means, white, were driving home from Sylvania, Ga., in their buggy. On the road they met two negroes named Alexander in a buggy. The wheels of the vehicles came in collision. A j quarrel ensued, when the negroes j drew pistols and shot Harrington and j Means dead. The Rev. Ur. Cyrus Hamlin, a for- ! mer missionary to Turkey, and one j of the most famous men in the Con- j gregational ministry, died at Portland, Me. Charged with insubordination, eight sailors of the British ship Kings County, arrived in irous aboard the ship at Pensacola, Fla. The Rev. Father Stemmens, recrefnrv to Arehhishon Chnnelle. arrived I at San Francisco on the transport j Sherman from Manila. The new census gives Providence. R. i I., 175,597, an increase of 32.88 per i ;cnt. over 1S90. A thirty-eight-i-ch water main burst under the sidewalk in front of the Hotel Touraine, tn Boston, ind the flood did $75,000 damage. George Welch and B. Roberts, colored waiters employed at the Hotel Imperial, Atlantic City, N. J., were found dead in their beds, having been asphyxiated by gas. A stranger thought to be Frank Rouick, from Virginia, jumped from the State House dome at Columbus, Ohio, and was killed. Cape Nome gold to the value of ?545,000 arrived at Seattle, Wash. Foreign. The Paris Exposition Jury has madt 42,700 awards to exhibitors. i , The Government leader at Panama.! j Colombia, said the rebel casualties in j < recent battles had been (500. i The French have peacably occupied < the Touat Oasis in North Africa. | i The Ameer of Afghanistan has l>e-1 1 ;un mobilizing, forces, and it was re-1 ported in Lahore, India, that he would :ross the Russian frontier. j The Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung says ] that the relations between France and Germany are continually Improving, ind it learns from authoritative sources of a military alliance. < In spite of the fact that General Christian de Wet is in full flight. South j African telegrams announce a hurried ixodus of civilians from Mafeking and ( :bat Lord Edward Cecil is preparing :o stand another siege. Germany will get 230 first prizes 1 from the Paris Exposition, more than my other nation. It is officially announced thq? there ! ire now do cases of bubonic plague in ' uondon. ...... j ' > . 1 CEHt SDES FOB PEACE We Refuse to Help Her Till Foreigners Are Protected. STILL ADVANCING ON PEKIN. Edict Appointing LI Hang Chang Plenipotentiary to Negotiate Wltji Powers ?Reply of tlie United Statea Govern* ment to It-lYFaahlngton Confldent ol na jr.any rroce-viiuuco o Aiaviruvuum) Washington, D. C. (Special).?China's expected appeal for peace has come, and seven hours after It was received the answer of the United States, in effect a refusal to negotiate at this time, was handed to the secretary of the Chinese legation. The appeal is In the form of an imperial edict, appointing LI Hnng Chang as Plenipotentiary to arrange a cessation of hostilities Spending negotiations for a settlement of the questions at issue between China and the Powers. No proposal for an armistice has yet been received by the Government, but the President and his advisers deemed the edict sufficient groundfor making an immediate response, which said that as a prelim- . lnary to the beginning of negotiations the Chinese Government mus?"domply witlr the conditions imposed W the * President's answer of Jnly the % 4| appeal of the .Emperor Kwang% fori-^ xhe good offices of the United "States 'to bring about a settlement of tfie dif-l^ ferences between China and the Powers. When this has been done, the answer said, the Government wlBjflfecept -A Li as the Chinese Plenipotenl&jflk ^The document containing handed by Minister Wu to th'e 'Stata "An Imperial edict forwarded by the Prlvy 'Councii at Pekin, under date of the 14th day of the Seventh Moon (Augnst 8^ to Governor l?tian at 4sina&, snantGHg, who transmitted it m tlft;.|7th of the samjjjLMoon iateKS.tir *ho received K on the night la. 1 ^1^ transml^^ severaJl^>on8idercd in a satisfactory manner, 'and thtf^restilt of the negotiations reported to us'for our sanction, TtpanpH-' *??' "The above is respectfully copied for transmission to your Excellency to be communicated to the Secretary of State for His Excellency's information." Minister Wu handed the decrec to Acting Secretary of State Adee at 10:30 o'clock in the morning. After a conference between Mr. Adee and Secretary Root and a further conference over the telephone between the President and Mr. Root, at which the terms of the antsrer of the United States were outlined, the note to the Chinese Government was prepared and delivered to Miniate* Wu. 1 After his cOTversatlon with the Preslde^t-ASer the ^jpleplione Secretary RootjjgjP' a cjppMch to General Cliaffee^^fcCon^tiander of the United Stat&ipfedfttery forces in China, luformj^"AttSfc?f the appointment of Li Hung Olmng and his mission and the charadier of this Government's reply. LET IN HIS OWN SLAYER. a Adams Express Messenger Lane Wu Killed by n Guest. Columbus, Ohio (Special). ? Charles R. H. Ferrell, a former employe of the Adams Express Company, was arrested here, and has confessed to the killing of Messenger Charles Lane and the robbery of the way safe of the Adams Express Company on the Pennsylvania east-bound traiu. Of the money which he had stolen $1000 was recovered. It Is believed that he stole . not more than $1200. He declared in his confession that the motive of the robbery and murder was to secure money on account of his approaching marriage. The money winch was recoverea he naa given to Miss Costlow, to whom he was engaged, to keep for him, saying he had saved it from his earnings. He was at the home of his sweetheart and in her company when arrested. He boarded the east-bound train at Urbana and immediately went into the express car. He had been friendly with Lane, who made no objection whatever to his riding ifi the car. When Ferrell had finally nerved himself for the crime he drew his revolver, stepped up behind Lane unobserved and fired three shots in rapid succession into the messenger's back. Lane rolled off the chair on the floor on his face, and Ferrell quickly fired the remaining shots at the prostrate form. He then robbed the safe and jumped off the train. Indicted For New Orleana Rlota. The Grand Jury of New Orleans, La., has indicted five white men for murrler as leaders in tho mobs which, during the recent anti-uegro riots, beat and shot a number of negroes, aud six negroes for assisting the negro murderer. Charles, in resisting arrest and in firing on and killing a number of policemen. Life Term For Lynching. For participating in a triple lynching W. B. Brooks was sentenced tc ife imprisonment at Palestine. Tex. The Labor World. England seems to be on the verge 3f an Industrial crisis. Baltimore & Ohio employes are given medals for length of service. # Ten thousand glassworkers have struck work at Charlerio, Belgium. Scotch miners' wages are to be ad rancea 10 a poiut not reacnea in tnir:y years. , The Brotherhood of Locomotive fireneu has gained over 3700 members ia :he past year. Because of over production the ore nines at Watts Station, Ky., havt KC8 shut down. ? l