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FORT MILL TIMES.
VOL. IX. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22,1900. NO. 23.
ENVOYS RESCUED.
Pekin Caplnred by tbe Allies
and tbe Empress and Emperor
Pat to Flight.
CHINESE FIGHT FIEnCELY!
Japanese Bore Brunt of the Battle
and Lost 100 Men.
lirar AUtnirnl Keiney Itepnit* tc? VTniitt.
inc Tlinl the I-.-ciK loi.< Ar? Safe?Impnrlnl
rity Fell on Very l>uy Knroprnn
Uoinuinmlera S?tt to Hi-fflti the Mhii Ii
Far I'eltiii Until Clmflre Inlu.ril
Aiiiarlrmi Knerey Into Ilellef Kxpe.ll- I
lloii-Ov.r 300 riilnmp Killed.
Washington. I>. ('. (Special).?Official
upwr of the capture of I'ekin ami
the rescue of the Foreign legations
was received hy the Navy Department
in the following cable dispatch from
Hear Admiral ltemey, dated at Taku
at one o'clock a. in.:
"Just receivetl telegram from Tien
Tsln. tlatetl lt?th, ten p. tu.:
" *I*cktu was captured on August 1.".
Foreign legations are safe. Details
follow shortly.' "
The Acting Secretary of State made
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GATHEIIED TO DEFEND TH?MSEE
public the following plain telfc^rnm.
received from I'nited States Consul
Fowler at Chefoo:
. "Japanese Admiral reports alltjs at- I
lacked l'ekin, Mast, 1 T?111. Obstinate'
- resistance.
"Evening, .Japanese entered capital
with other forces.
"Immediately surrounded legations.
Inmates safe.
"Japanese loss over on* hundred.
Chinese, three hundred."
Collttpfte of KppUtiinet*.
The collapse of Chinese resistance is
explained in dispatches frotu Shanghai
as hclug due to tin' failure of Hie
Chinese to ilood the country below
Tung-Chow. The earthworks connected
with the dam of the Pel-llo
were unfinished, and the canal at
Tung-Chow was full of water, facilitating
hunt transport when the allies
arrived there.
Signals between the allies and the
legations holding part of the wall of
i ?-i\in wiTf excuangea miring the
morning *?t' August 15.
I1IHTOKY OK TMK KIKGK.
fjif Ki>Ti?y? Wprr lt<-1 * ? k u ml In IVUIii |
For t-lfiy-mx Oxyo.
The siege of tin* foreigners in the
Chinese capital lasted tifty-six days.
.Tlii' bombardment of the legations. In
^wliich, with tin* exception of some of
tlie Uoman Catholic missionaries, all
jthe aliens in I'ckin had assembled for
safety, was begun on June 20. l're.vious
to tlds. however, the Europeans.
'Americans and Japanese had been virtually
prisoners for three weeks.
News tlutt the Japanese Chancellor of
Legation had been killed was re
eeived on June 12, and live days later
it was learned that tlie German Minister.
Baron von Ketteler, had been
assassinated by members of Dowager
Empress Tse-IIsi-An's bodyguard.
It was on May 20 in response to urgent
requests from the envoys that an
International force of marines wus
lauded at T'aku. Thev were at nmw
scut on to Pekin. They wont by train,
and found little obstruction on tlie
way. The force consisted of 3o0 otlicers
and men, made up of marines of
the six principal powers. Three days
after their arrival at I'ekin. on June
3. all railroad traffic between I'ekin
and Tien-Tsin was suspended, and
communication with the legations was
cut off. An attempt had been made to
keep this open by means of a line of
marines along the railway, but the
Iloxers, on June f?, attacked and de- ,
If en ted the men guarding the line.
' Then began the period of terrible
jsuspcoie. with continual reports of the <
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killing of all the foreigners in the city,
which only ended on July 30, when unmistakably
authentic cipher messages
were received from three of the Minis*
ters.
The full history of the siege and
bombardment of the legations cannot,
of course, be told till the rescued men
and women shall have been able to
communicate fully with Europe and
America. It appears, however, that
about the middle of June the Chinese
Imperial Government?or those who
had usurped Its power?ordered the
Ministers to leave IVkin in twentyfour
hours. This they refused to do.
A very few days afterward the greater
portion of the legation buildings
had been demolished by bombardment.
The Italian, Dutch, Spanish. Russian,
Austrian. German, Japanese and part
of the French legations are believed
to have been destroyed.
All the women and children belonging
to the legations took refuge In the
British building, which is the largest
of the legation structures and the best
situated for defense, as it is surrounded
by n large inelosure, which liar
prevented the Chinese approaching
near enough to set tire to it.
On July 1(5 civilized mankind was
horrified to read a ghastly and detailed
account of the alleged masncre In Pekin.
It was sent from Shanghai to
the Daily Mail of London, and seemed
to leave no room for doubt that all
the foreigners. lOttO in number, including
nearly 40O soldiers, ltto members
of the Chinese customs staff, and a
number of women and children, had
been killed. The report even went
the length of stating that tlie defenders
of tint legations had shot the
women and children to prevent them
falling into the hands of the Chinese.
On June 11 a relief force commanded
by Admiral Seymour set out for
the coast. It comprised ID(4 marines
of various nationalities. This force
was stopped at Lang-Fang by a large
Chinese army, and was compelled to
retreat to Tieu-Tsln.short of provisions
ami Harassed by Chinese hordes.
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The movement which has resulted
in the relief of the legations liegan on
August 2, when the advance guard
of lii.noo allies began their march front
Tien-Tsiti. The history of the movement
is too recent to need recapitulation.
JOHN J. INCALLS DEAD.
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M?xlro| Hot Spring*.
Las Vegas, N. M. (Special).?Former
Senator John J. Ingalls died a few
days ago at tiie Montezuma Hotel. Las
Vegas Hot Springs, llis wife aud son.
jMUMiieiu ingalls. were present. lie 1
was conscious and talked up to within
half an hour before liis dentil. The
cause of death was bronchitis and
weakness caused liy inability to assimilate
his food. Mr. Ingalls was gcutown
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eraliy looked upon as nn agnostic, but
a few minutes before his death lie repeated
with Mrs. Ingalls the Lord's
prayer.
John James Ingalls was born in
Middletown. Mass., on December
lS'k'J. He was graduated from Willlams
College in 1855, being a college
mate of James A. Gnrtield. Upon
being admitted to the bar lie went to
Atchison, Kan. In 18ti4 he was defeated
for Lieutenant-Governor, but
in 1872 he was elected to the United
Stntes Senate, il? served in that body
continuously for eighteen year-. ,(>r ,
the last three years J>"?- the Prcsident
pro tena
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
W ihlnrloli It?mi.
The Na>y Department received word
from the builders of the new first)
class battleship Wisconsin that. baH
ring accidents, she will he ready for
her official trial by September 15. She
Is building at the Union Iron Works.
San Francisco.
General MacArthur has cabled the
War Department a brief statement
concerning the health of the troops in
the Philippines. The number of sick
in the hospitals is set down at 3SG8.
and in quarters at 1201. making a
total of 5121) sick soldiers, or 8.47 per
cent, of the entire army in the archipelago.
'
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey are among
the few prominent residents of Washington
who are lingering in that vicinity
dur.nr the heated term.
The King of Sweden and Norway
lias accepted the place of arbitrator
in the Satnoan claims case, the ofli-t
cial notuicntion of that fact having1
been received at the State Department.
Our lit anil*.
The Manila Hoard of Health reports
that there are 30.000 lepers in the
Philippines.
The Council of TTnvnnn roioet??ii ?ii?
now olmrtor. on which n commission
lots boon nt work for more than n
year.
Two Im ml ro<l starving xiativos
walkoil from San Lorenzo to Ran Juan.
Porto Kioo. ami begged tlio Governor
for broad or work. Employment on
public roads was promised them.
John T. McFutohoon writes from
Manila tliat Aguinnldo still retains
his stipremacy anions Filipinos.
August opened with thirty-five eases
of yellow fever in Havana. There are
fiftv-nlne eases in the city, four of the
victims being Americans.
Health reports for June and July
show alartnimr increase in the death
rate, especially among native 11awaiians
and Japanese of the island of
Oahtt. Hawaii. The Hoard of Health
Is disenssino- n niinrantlno
consumption.
VomoMlc.
Six hundred prospect ors returnc<
f.om Cap. Noiiio. with stories of destl
rttlion nml illness there.
The design presented by Thompson
Stickle for n monument to he erected
over the grave of Ahrahnr.i Lincoln's
mother, in Spencer County. Ind. has
tieen accented hy the Nancy Hanks
Lincoln Monument Association.
The Liberty C uiarcss tt Indianapolis
voted to support William J. Bryan for
the Presidency.
So great was the d?niand for lemons
ami limes during the heated season
t.?nt the price ot 1 of It rose from twen
ty-llve to thirty per rent.
The French iJovenintent is seekinv
*re?nn rs to earrv a million tons <>'
roal from Norfolk. Va.. to 1'vnnee.
At ihe meeting of the Anti Imperial
Istie League in Indianapolis ox-Coverrtor
Bout well and Hottrke Cock ran
declared in favor of the election of
''cyan.
\ dead lock between the wine makers
and wipe growers of Fresno. Cal..
.las eniled .11 the breaking up of the
growers' combine f J rapes are now
selling for and $ 14 a ton. Instead
-it .-i- m?m tim* uncos !ix<*d ny tlio
n ssiicin tin)
The main hnildinc of Ilolbrook College.
tit Fountain City. :i suburb of
K no* villa, Tonn.. was tunned; loss,
rr.o.tkKt.
Asm Packer Wilbur. one of tlio heirs
to the $'2<MMM>.000 I'stnto left tiy Asa
Parker, the Pennsylvania railroad
k'ng nt"l roal liaron. who was his undo,
died iti poverty in San Francisco,
lie was hnried in a pauper's crave,
lie was. it is said, a victim of tlio
niorph'no lialdt.
.Tore Washington. an employe of the
Pennsylvania Steel Works, shot anil
trilled Cora -Tiles in Tlarrislnirjr. Pent)..
pml then swallowing two onnees of
laudanum drowned Ititnself in tlie
anal Washington had been forcing
his attent'ons upon the woman. She
(Ireelnroento.
A. 'J. Hitijrnnion. a coal dealer of
Jamestown. Ohio. killed liis wife and
son-in-law. .Tamos Hradley. and thou
fatally sliot himself nlmiit the heart".
Tl?ev had uuarrojed over some trans1.
r *n some property of Mrs. Eintrainon's
sister.
A molt took .Ta"k Hefts, colored,
from the sherin at Corinth. Miss., and
hanged him to a tree In the court
house yard. Tie was charged with
criminal assault on a ten-year-old
white irirl.
Disappointed and despondent, John
A. It ay croft, fifty-two years old. chief
clerk in the ferry division under Mayor
Qniney, Hoston. shot himself at thu
supper talde at this home. East Hoston.
Death was instantaneous.
Sixteen buildings were destroyed by
fire at Hanover. Ponn.. the loss being
estimated at from $-10,000 to $r>0,000,
partly insured.
Philippine war veterans gathered in
Denver, Col., to form the Society of
the Army of the Philippines.
R. F. Harrington and Milton Means,
white, were driving home from SvlTanin,
Cn., in their bugcy. On the
road they met two negroes named
Alexander In n hng>r>. The wheels
of the vehicles came in collision. A
quarrel ensued. when the negroes
drew pistols and shot Harrington and
Means dead.
Komiirn,
The Russian Government is trying
to place an order Canada for n million
toe- coal.
Severe Hoods have occurred i.i .lapan.
and it is reported that liOO persons
hute been drowned. Railway
traffic is interrupted.
ARP'S CONUNDRUMS
B I! Answers Letters of the School
Girls.
TI!E?I GIVES SOME PUZZLES
Says ttl; Best Part of Parental l.ife Is
To Please The Li(ll? Ones?He
Likes Young People.
Two school girls down in Alabama
write to know why it is that, gees?
wull not eat corn when it is str< wu
around the circumference of a circle.
They say that their presiding elder
couldent tell, and advised them to ask
me. I supposed it was a conundrum,
or that there was some catch in the
question?a catch like the one. Why
will a guinea pig's eyes fall uit if you
hold it up by the tail? A* the guinea
pig has no tail, of < ourse. his eyes are
in no danger. Hut a lady friend who
raises geese assures me that she has
often seen them tempted with corn or
other grain strewn thickly round a circle,
and they will not venture near it
but if scattered, they will, after careful
inspection, approach and eat. What
tr.e circle hag to do with it is past my
ken, though we do know that geese
march 4n straight lines and the wild
geese IIy in straight angles. A gooso
is a very suspicious fowl, and is always
on the lookout, for danger. A
goose is a goose; but their devotion to
each other when mated is beautiful.
How faithfully the gander will stand
by his mate while she sits on her nest.
She plucks the down from his breast
and covers her eggs. How gallantly
he escorts her *o the grass and escorts
her back when she leaves them for
food. How tenderly they care for the
brood when it comes, and never leave
them until feathered and grown. There
are no divorces nor grass widows in
the Anserian family?what a pity we
arc not all geese.
Rut. speaking of conundrums reminds
me of how a lady caught me
yesterday when sue asked me how the
water got into the watermelon, and as
1 proceeded to expound the chondral
processes that all fruits and vegetables
had to go through, she stopped me and
said: "Oh, major, the water gets into
the watermelon because it is planted
In the spring." 1 got even with her,
though, by asking her why was an elephant
like- a lady's belt. When she
gave it up. I said, "Reeause there is a
'b* in 'both '* "Why " she x:il<t "there
is no M>' in 'elephant.' " "There is a 'b'
in 'both,' ' said 1. " *B-o-t-h'?you
ean't spell 'both' without a 'b.' " It
takes a little time to see that. And
there is another conundrum that was
classic wh?n I wa young?
" Charge, Chcstn, rharge? On, Stanley,
on!
Were the In ~t words of Marmion.
Had 1 but been 111 Stanley's place
Tears would have moistened Chester's
face."
The smell of ar. onion would have
brought a tear or two. I reckon. Now,
let those sw< ei school girls strain their
minds over that, and then lot them
search tin* scriptures and tell me this.
There is reference made in the old and
new testaments to a person who died
as no other person ever died; whose
body never saw corruption, whose
name is never spoken and the material
of whose shroud Is found in every
household. There is no catch in that
?it is a fact. Ask the. presiding elder.
I am in '.ilging in these thoughts to
please the children, for that is the biggest
and b< -t part ?>t parental life, and
is what the world is working for.
Sometimes I cannot help ruminating
upon what pleased me when f was
young and my mind was expanding into
knowledge day by day. How 1 did
strain over the problc m of the fox and
the goo-e and the hag of corn. And
there was the elephant puzzle, where
an ohl man died leaving eighteen elephants
to his three sons?one to have
half of them, another one-third of
them and the other one-ninth. Rut before
the division one elephant died,
and seventeen wouldent divide even at
all. So they consulted a wise oid nubor
who had but one elephant. He generously
drovo hi.s one into the herd of
seventeen and then divided thom. giving
to one of the hoys nine, to another
six and to the other two. This took
but seventeen and so he drove his own
elephant bock home again. How is
that? 'NVn.sent he a smart old fellow
to satisfy tho boys and save his elephant?
Rut by and by these srhool children
advance into their teens and begin to
choose sweethearts, and the boys
brash their hair more carefully and
the girls cast glances that are shv atu?
sly and read poetry and mark the loving
passages, and flowers grow lovelier
and the birds sing sweeter and the
world grows brighter, and the day# of
love's young drenm have come. Delightful
days, delirious memories?
i veil an old man loves to revel In
I' fip. No wonder the poets wrote so
tenderly of love and the novelists
madA it the chief mihirrt nf their I
story. I was ruminating the other day
about compiling and publishing a l?ook
?a little book that could be sold for
less than a dollar, a book of gems?
poetic gems by the best authors, and
urging every parent to buy it. for the
children, for <it would help to mold and
refine their characters and give them
pleasure and comfort all their lives.
My good father encouraged me to com
rait to memory some ot tne sweetest
poems that were ever written. I can
repeat "The Hermit" now. and "Gray's
Elegy" and "Genevieve" and "Byron's
Address to the Ocean" and "Hohenlinden,"
and such as these were an is?
feptration to me as I grew to manhood.
If 1 were teaching school I would have
the boys and girls to recite them.
What a book of gems could be made
of selections from the old authors, such
poems as have not been written in fifty
years and could noy be written now.
What poet could approach such beauty
of language and sentiment as that
verse from Gray?
fl>ull many a gom of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean
bear;
Full many a llower is born to blush
unseen
^nd waste its sweetness oti the desert
air."
or those two verses from Goldsmith
beginning:
"And what is friendship but a name.
A charm that lulls to"sleep,"
or has sad warning to the weaker
sex?
"\\ urn loveiy wotnan sioop-s 10 iouy
And learns too Into that men betray
What art can soothe her melancholy,
What charm can drive her grief
away;
The only art her grief can smother
And stifle every buying sigh
And bring repentance to her To ?r
And wring his bosom?is to die.
Of course I would not omit son.c
beautiful gems from Coleridge and
Wordsworth, Montgomery and Newton.
Cowper and Clray and many others,
hut I would like to make up a
book that would adorn the fireside oj
every good family. . here is one
poem 1 have not mentioned, for 1 do
not know who wrote it, nor do I :oniember
but a few linse. Its title is.
"Where Shall the Soul Kind Host?"
and the verse 1 recall is:
"And thou serenest moon that with
such holy faeo
Looks down upon the earth asleep in
night's embrace.
Dost thou not know some spot where
weary man may rest.
And free from care and pain be ever
blest?
Itohind a cloud the moon withdrew in
woe.
And in a sweet, sad vouV she ans.
werod 'No.'
a ? * ?
Faith, hope and love?best fcoons to
mortals given,
Plumed their bright wings and answered.
'Yes? in heaven.' "
1 would he ploa-sed if -ome one wouTil
send me all of that poem and tell me
who wrote it.?Bill Arjj in Atlanta
Constitution.
To I(ep?-Hl (iorl)rl I.hit.
Governor Iteekham, of Kentucky, issued
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 tloe*
liel Flection law.
Cleveland uiitl 11 Third Ticket.
Crover Cleveland was quoted at Indianapolis
as having refused to head
a third ticket because of the Mtute of
his health.
,'iiiMir nriMion.
Donlists are searce in Niagara.
The Czar lias forbidden baccarat
playing, in P.ussia.
(illmnn. c. mining town in Fagle
County, Cel., has been wiped out by
lire.
(Handera hns broken out among llr?
liorsea at tiie Presidio, at San Francisco.
Tlie lis', ing Heet on the Grand Banks,
off New Foundaland, J:t doing poorly
lately.
Tlie military road from Port Vald
Alaska, he? becU completed for 1J.I
miles iu'jtnd.
I.rttor* to Filipino* Cuptumil.
Tlie letters and papers of Againnldo
captured by tJenoral I'unston
Were made public. Among tliein was
a letter from I>r. Montague 11. Feverson,
of Brooklyn, to a Filipino agent
in which tli?- doctor applied several
insulting epithets to President Vlelvinley.
Ilrtrrlltio to tViilrli Annrclil-t*.
Fifteen Italian detectives have
sailed for New York to watelt ntiarckUtls
in the United States.
Nowxy
Thorc wpic sixty suicides in Vienna
during .July, double the average rate.
No yellow fever eases are reported
r.uiong the Ainerleati soldiers in Cuba.
August Itelmont's Mineoln won the
coveted Astor Cup in the yacht raees
of? Newport.
The "standing up" method of punishment
is employed at the I'llniiru
(N. Y.) Reformatory.
1 he cost of the war In the I'hiiipplues
has been ?]K<*.,C?7N,<h>u. and the
number of deaths has rcncht d ".''.ill.
Chirr** War Notr*.
Restlessness is increasing in Southern
China.
The Herman nrmv will nve American
horses i!i China.
C'antou otHelals arc enlisting Chinese
at *:> n month. tw>e the itsttaJ amount.
Russian tr'.rps have raptured the
town of Snkhuirrin, on the Amur Itiver.
Japanese new?p:i;K?r.-* denounce Kinperoi
W:!!'.i .1 vinnieuvenct-s toward
< 'hina.
I"i 1:..\ <; mm ?;f some foreign troops
at Tioi. Tsiri are ptoving i menace tu
her. It I..
C. P. HUNTINGTON DEAD.
Railway Kine Stricken With Heart \
Trouble in His Adirondack Camp.
ESTATE IS WORTH $50.000,000.
He Wn* Apparently in Good Health I'b.
Ill Ten Minute* llelore HI. Drullu.
Career of the Itemnrknhlo Knilroutl
ltutliter? llotv Ilia Grrnt Fortune Will
Ua LHvl<le<I In Dmlrclilvil Vet.
Ibiquette Luke. N. Y. (Specialt.?Collis
I*. Huntington died at his camp,
I'ine Knot, in tln? Adirondack^ Aj?purently
well on retiring at 11 o'clock
p. in., lie was taken suddenly witbi
one ol the choking spells to which litt
was subject, and which was not
thought to lie serious, but lie became
worse. As so< n as the seriousness t?f
the attack was realized, a messenger
was despatched to the neighboring
camp of <Jovoruor Lounsbury for ?
doctor, and lie was on band in half an
3mm*. .Mr. Ilitntitigtou tiled without
regaining consciousness, not more than
jthree-quartera of an hour having
passed between the attack and his
death. Mrs. Huntington and Mr lli.n?i...'ton's
secretary. <J. E. Miles, wore
at hi. b 'dside when he died.
On the t. m* before his dcalli .Mr.
Iluutiugton appeared to be enjoying
the best of health, walking about his
preserve and taking a 4rip on ids prH
vute steamer Oneonta, and he remarked
to friends t lint he was feeling
unusually well. His adopted sou, Archer
M. Huntington, was notilled at
ar? early hour. t v
Alter niueli ditlieulty and doi.ly ill*
news of the death was delivered
\V. West intrant, who was jointly eonip'oted
with Mr. Huntington :n the
Itaquette bake Railway Mr. Durant
will contribute his horrs. tennis and
servants toward making the final arrangement
for the disposition of the
body.
Mr. Hunting'.on and his wife arrived
at Intrant on Friday. August 10. iu
(heir private ear Oneonta. flic
steamer mioows was waiting M'eir
arrival al tin* whari in convoy llicui to
tlicir mountain homo, Pino Knot
( amp. II ?arl disease was tin? direct
cause of death.
Coilis Potter Huntington was horn
in l'htrwiutou. Litchfield County, iu
Connecticut. October "2. S21. Ills
uncle. Oencral Ehetiezer Huntington,
died at eighty years of ago. and his "
great ancestor, Samuel Huntington,
signer of the Declaration of Independence,
at sixty-live. *
The Huntington family, font)tied in
Connecticut by Ptttttans, gave to the
country a jurist, a writer, a painter, at
physician, soldiers, a clergyman a ph!-,
Innlbrnpi.-d of fame ami, in Colli1; I otter
11 illiii- hi, invincible maker
:tf millions. 'l ilt' dead magnate started
lift' witlioni a dollar, and at his death
was estimated to he worth over fifty
millions, lie was a railroad builder,
railroad owner, shipbuilder and snip
owner.
lie was seventy-nine years old at
bis death, and had Iteen one of the
country's strong men for forty years.'
rvet since he, w'.th Stanford, Hopkins
and Crocker, huilt the Central Pacific
Hallway, thus establishing the tirstrailroad
across the continent.
It is not known how his great wealth
will he divided His natural heirs are
bis widow, his adopted son Archer M.
! Huntington, the Princess Hat/.feldt,
who is an adopted daughter, and II.
K. Huntington, his nephew.
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Cover* rmtuHtil I'hmhcx in I.?in Mian
Flvn unit m Hull 1>?V*.
Plymouth, Knglnmi (Iiy Cable).?
Caster thnn tiie Atlantic was ever,
traveled before, the Hamburg-American
Line steamship Deutsehlnnd?
which on her preceding and maiden
Voyage casi captured tiie blue ribbon
oi iri?* son ny ?no trip wntcii drought
lior u? Plymouth, KiirIiiihI, lowered
11or own record l?y three hours and
Iwonty-ono minutes. Never l?ofore
was there so quickly spun a wake that
united the metropolis of the New
World with the snug little island that
lies beyond 111" sen.
The 1 teulseliland's Record is:
Across the ocean on an average
hourly speed of lid..'12 knots.
from New York to Plymouth, Etig1;iud,
hi f> days, 11 hours and 15 niiuules.
Host day's run, r?.V2 knots.
The course, 2072 nautical inih s.
The 1 aiilfioliln nd's hourly ater.ige
speed of 2.'!.22 knots over the course ofMi?72
nautical miles is equivalent to
nearly twenty-seven latul miles. Wliat
the aeeuiiiplisliment means for the
(b-ruian laiilt steamship is indicated
when il is realized that the commerce
destroying cruiser .Minneapolis, the
| tleetest ernlt of the American navy
iiiili i ill.ill .1 mrpi'iui IIIIMI, MIMIC ?>3
her speed trial with picked crew and
picked colli, with only a pari of her
weights, tir.der forced drauyl t and favornlde
cond'tions of sea and weal licr.
ofl the M.issaehusettK coast?an averaye
speed of <>."? knots an nour. and
that, too, over a measured course of
"only forty lour nautical miles.
I.rCUttmiK Attnrknl Again.
Wcports at Slmnyha! from Prkln.
dated August H, are to ihc effect tint
the t'liiiu'se were ay a in desperately
attaching the leyaiions, whieii had
tew defenders: 1 ?> said that Prfnet ^
Tuai and a hundred high otlloinlH
have left I'ekin. the news of the caiptnre
of Ynny-Tsnn causing an exodus .