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V ' - .. . .... . ... The Bamberg Herald. i ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 21,1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. . # I ? ? ? ? t mm nr nnvill CHINA DEFIES ; Her Forces At Taku 0 bined Fleets of ACT MEANS BLOODY WAR Battleships In Turn Bombard and Capture the Forts?Two British Ships Reported Sunk In the Action. The German consul at Oho Foo telegraphs Berlin that a Japanese boat- from Taku has brought tho following: "The Chinese laid torpedoes in the ! Taku river and collected troops from ;; Shan Hei Kwan, The foreign com- i manders assembled on the Russian j: flagship and addressed an ultimatum to the commanders of the Taku forces, j commanding them to withdraw their troops before June 17. ! "At 1 a. m., June 17, the guns of 1 the fort opened fire, to which tho Rus- ] ' sian, British, French and Japanese ] warships replied. Tin bombardment ] lasted seven hours. Two British ships in the river between the forts are reported to have been sunk. "The telegraph line and railroad be- ( tween Tien Tsin and Taku were destroyed. Communication by water i3 < also threatened.-" 4 < wab pbactically peclabed. ; A London special says: China declar- ^ ed waragaiDst the world when the Ta-1* ku forts opened upon the internation- 1 al fleet. The accounts of what took ^ place are still unsatisfactory, the best , semi-official information being the dis- t patch received at Berlin from Che c Foo. J . The unofficial narratives, coming by j way of Shanghai, vary widely and bear i internal evidence of supplementing T the main facts with guess work. One * ? dispatch says that the Yorkto*-n par- ^ in Vinni V>nr<l m on f An.' 1 other asserts that American marines f formed half of the storming force of J two thousand. ^ An Associated Press dispatch from j Che Foo dated Monday afternnoon a says: 0 "The forts on hoth sides of Tnka are ^ now occupied The Chinese opened fire a unexpectedly. The casualties to the ^ mixed force were as follows: "British, 1; German, 3; Russian, 1; ^ French, 1. Wounded?British, 4; ' German, 7, Russian, 45; French, 1. c Chinese torpedo boats were seized." The Shanghai correspondents of the ^ Daily Mail, telegraphing Monday g - says , ? - "The forts began firing in cbservaoce to ordors from Pekiu, conveyed ^ - in a personal edict of the empress dowager, by advice of Ivang Yi, presi- , dent of the ministry of war. Several ,c warships were struck by shells from the 12-inch guns of the forts. , "The heavy Russian losses were due , to the blowing up of the magazine at ( , Mandshnrn. "Four hundred Chinese are reported to have been killed. The Chinese 133 when retreating fell into the hands of the Russian land forces," i The Daily News has the following 0 from Che Foo: "Two of the forts were blown up. The thirty-two warships at Kau aggregated 200,000 'tons and carried more 1X1 than 300 gnus." POWERS TAKE ACTION. ' ^ The failure of Admiral Seymour's tl column and its retreat to Tien Tsin in- g( crease, it is presumed, the peril of the m legations in Pekin, which is still iso- ol lated, although Shanghai forwards gi Chinese rumors that the legations tl were attacked by mobs who were cj mowed down by machine guns, and ta also that the members of the legations hi were massacred. gi The situation at Niu Chwang is re- T ported critical. The British consul at gi Kin Kwang has ordered all foreigners le to leave Ku Ling and Nau King Chang, tl The powers are taking prompt action. b< Four thousand German troops have 'tc CENSUS COUNT COMPLETED. Remit, However, Will Not Known For a Fortnight.' Director Merriam, of the census j j bureau at Washington, said Monday ' j that the work of the census enumera- ai tors would not be known for two tl weeks. Enumerators are strictly for- tl bidden to give out information of any 1, kind in regard to their work. is The count of the population in the II large cities is practically completed, ol and about 15,000 enumeration dis- k: tricts have been reported as finished. g< The number of cards received from. p< enumerators up to date is about 89,* pi . 000. ' J E WHEELED GETS COMMISSION. Alabamian Is Assigned to Department of the Lakes By the President. h General Joe Wheeler has received q his commission as brigadier genera! i in the army of the Uaited States from . President McKinley. I By direction of the president Gene- j ral Wheeler was assi<rnpd to the com-1 maud of the department of the lakes, j with headquarter? at Chicago. He( relieves Brigadier General James F. j & Wade, who has held that command | d temporarily in conjunction with his C regular Dakota command. ai COAL OFERATOKS 31 LET. . T Committees Appointed to Treat With Miners' Organization. A meeting of the coal operators of s the district was held in Birmingham, n ' Ala., Monday to effect a temporary organization, which in turn will ap- n point committees to treat with the 0 miners, who meet in state convention o in a few days to fix the wage scale for a the year beginning July 1, 1900. f< THE WORLD pen Fire on the Com= Other Powers. I been ordered to China; 10.000 French troops are waiting to embark at Saigon, capital cf French Cochin China, and from 3,000 to 5,000 more Russians j have been ordered from Port Arthur j to Taku. The morning papers consider that a state of war practically ex- j ists and that the issue is between East- I ern and Western civilization. The ! Times says that the latest news infinfinitely increases a situation already sufficiently serious. THE NEWS IN* WASHINGTON. China continues to overshadow national politics at Washington. The orief cablegram received at the navy department Monday from Admiral Remey, in command of the naval forces at Manila, containing information to the effect that he had received ' an official report from Commauder Taussig, that the Chinese fortifications it the mouth of the Taku river had fired upon the war vessels of the allied powers, and had subsequently surrendered, occasioned intense interest in diplomatic circles. It is difficult to get a precise official new of the status of our relations with China since this last news. The conclusion that wo are in a state of war is emphatically negatived by the officials best competent to speak. The Chinese minister, Mr. Wu, was an early visitor at the state department Monday. He does not believe that we are at war with China. He said there had evidently been a great misunderstanding and was confident if it were -irue that the Taku forts had ired upon the international fleet, It was either because the commander of he Chinese forts there did not unlerstand what was wanted, or he had ailed to receive proper instructions rom his superior through an error. To had himself received no word of lews from his home government and vill remain in Washington until urther developments. At the state department the view >revailed that notwithstanding there lad been a bombardment and that our orces were on Chinese soil, still there vas not war up to this stage. So ar the state deportment has had no >roof that the Chinese government at ?ckin has sanctioned or ordered any ttack upon the international column r upon the international fleet. It is ossible that the Chinese commandant t Taku himself may have revolted rith his troops and joined the boxers, therefore it cannot be assumed that re are at war nntil formal assurances d that effect has been received from ompetent authority. Secretary Hay was asked if the itest developments had made any bange in the policy which the United tates had adopted toward the Chiese trouble. H?replied: "Our naval forces in that region ave been directed to act concurrently ith the forces of the other powers ' >r the protection of all American invests." Owing to the eccentric action of the degraph wires and cables which injrferes with Admiral Kempff commuicating with the navy department ad also with his superior officer, Adliral Remey, at Manila, the navy dearfcment may give Admiral Kempff an idependent command in the interests i : quick dispatch of business. Great apprehension exists at the : avy department as to the fate of the nited States marine guard of fifty-si^ i ten which was landed at Tien Tsin i ad dispatched by rail to Pekin before le railroad was interrupted. They 1 ent forward to Pekin under an an- 1 lorization granted by the Chinese < overnment to the United States linisfor at Pekin in common with ther ministers to employ a naval ] lard at the legation. Just before ! te wires from Pekin were cut word 1 ime that Minister Conger had de iched twenty of these marines from i is legation and placed them as a ] lard at the Methodist compound, his is an inolosure of some ten acres tuated nearly a mile distant from the gatioD, where many missionaries aud ( teir families as well as a large num2r of native Christians are believed i ? have taken refuge. WAR IX SOUTH AMERICA. olombian Government Forces Badly Whipped By Revolutionists. News has been received at Kingston, amaica. of a battle which was fought nne 13 and 14 on the Bejuca plain ad'Antom hill, Colombia, between ' le government forces composed of iree battalions numbering about 1 500 men and a force of revolution- 1 ts under General Belazario Parras. ; is asserted that 400 soldiers and 35 1 Seers of the government force were tiled and that the remainder of the Dvernment army was divided. One artion, it appears, retreated to Em- : rador, on the Atlantic side of the s phins. 1 Xegroes Oppose Amendment, The negroes of Hobson City, Ala., eld an emancipation celebration at >xford Lake, at which several speeches ere made in opposition to the pro- ( osed amendment to the constitution f the United States. Russia Demands Heavy Indemnity. A dispatch from Shanghai says Rusia has demanded 50,000,000 taels in emnity for the damage done to the * hinese railroads in which Russians re interested. CAPE COLONY CABINET. . Gordon-Sprljrsr Premier and Gresliam Colonial Secretary. The new cabinet for Capetown, outh Africa, has been officially anounced as follows: Sir Joseph Gordon Sprigg is prelier and treasurer, J. J. Graham is ofonial secretary, Mr..Joseph Innis ommissioner, Mr. Srnartt department, f public works aud Sir Peter Faure griculture aud forestry, without portolio. | ARMISTICE WAS OFFERED. Roberts Suggested That Boers Surrender Without Dishonor, But Proposal Is Refused. Lord Roberts, according to a Boer dispatch received in Loudon Monday from Machadodorp, sent a message to Commaudant General Louis Botha on Juue loth suggesting disarmament and complimenting the bravery of the burghers. It was pointed out that the surrender would be without dishonor to the burghers and would prevent much suffering. General Botha asked for a six days' armistice in order to confer and consider. Lord Roberts consented to five days. Finally General Botha declined to accept the proposal and hostilities were renewed. The Boer commandos are retiring on Hiddleburg, followed by the British cavalry and artillery, occasional shells reaching the rear guards. The Boers are destroying the bridges and bnrning the veldt behind them, carrying off provisions and cattle and leaving the country barren. Other advices from Macbadodorp say that the Boers have an abundance of arms and ammunition with dynamite and oxen, and that they are preparing heavy wagon trains for aretreat to the Lydenburg district, where the chiefs, notwithstanding rumors to t'ip contrary, aro determined to make a stand. I he Boers continue to work the Barbeton mines, says a dispatch from Lourenzo Marques,and there aro eight car loads of bar gold valued at ?3,000,000 with President Kruger. Mr. Steyn, in his proclamation declaring the Free State still free and independent, says the fact that the army is yet in the field renders Lord Roberts' annexation contrary to international law. in a dispatch to the war office from Pretoria, dated Monday, Lord Roberts said that General Badeu-Powell had just arrived there. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Many New Industrie* Established Pnrinff the Past Week. The more importaut of new industries reported during the past week include an automatic brake company in Tennessee; brick works in Alabama; a broom factory iu North Carolina; coal mines in Alabama, Texas and West Virginia; cotton mills in Georgia and North Carolina; cotton seed oil mills j in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas; a crato and package factory in North Carolina; electric light plants in Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessre; a fertilizer factory in South Carolina; foundry and machine shops in Tennessee; a furniture factory in Arkansas; glass works in West Virginia; a hames factory in Tennessee; a harness and saddlery works, capital $150,000, in Texas; a hay press manufactury in * Tennessee; iron mines in Alabama; an irrigation company in Texas; a knitting mill in North Carolina; natural gas aud oil companies in Texas and West Virginia; a palmetto liber factory in Florida; steel rail mills in Alabama; telephone lines iu Texas; tobacco factories in North Carolina and Virginia; a wheel factory in Virginia.?Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) BROUGHTO.VS "SECRET." Atlanta Parson Makes Serious Charges Against Municipal Officers. Rev. L. G. Broughton, in his preliminary remarks at a revival meeting in the auditorium at Piedmont park at Atlanta, Ga., last Sunday afternoon, said: "I have a secret to tell, and I im prepared to prove it. I never told anything en the ofheiuls of Atlanta but [ was ready to prove. Atlanta has not only gone back on God, but humanity itself is below par in this sin-ridden city. "Do yon know that in the crematory which is made for the burning of de^d borses, cows, dogs, cals and rats, the sanitary mgp are burning the bodies of tinman beings? Yes, my fellow citizens, burning human bodies after the medical colleges have got tired chopping on thepi." Master Car Builders In Session. The thirty-fourth annual convention < of the Master Car Builders' Association of the United States began at Sar atoga, N. 1'., Monday, with a large attendance. SHOUT CHOP IX TEXAS. Cotton Acreage Reduced 2.8 Per Cent From Last Year. The Galveston-Dallas News has published the first of its 1900 series of crop reports, compiled from replies from 449 correspondents covering 172 ; counties in Texas. The report shows j a decrease in the cotton acreage of 2.8 per cent from last year, due to heavy , raius. American Painters Win Medals. American Painters have received more awards in gold medals at the 1 Paris exposition than competitors of any other nation save France. THE CZAR'S PROGRAM. Rumor Is Current That Russia Will Act Independently In China. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of The London Times, telegraphing Thursday, says: ' "In competent political circles there | 1 is no wish or trace of intention to act in China other than with the great ( powers. At tho same time there is no ' I"""* iwtrthlish n Fnrnnean con cert, Russia, like the United States, j reserves to herself independence of j , action." < Three Furnaces Closed Down. Three furnaces of tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company at j Bessemer, Ala., aro banked as tho re- j suit of a strike amoug employees, who j demand an increase in wages. The ; strike affects about 600 men, mostly j negroes, who earn from 31-25 to 31.50 per day. i Lumber Plant Destroyed. The plant of the Tiffin (Ohio) Lum- : ber Company was burned Fridaj j morning. Loss 380,000. ? REQUISITION IS REFUSED Governor Mount Will Not Give Up W. S. Taylor. GIVES REASONS FOR ACTION Issues [a Statement and Says a Fair Trial In the State otKentuckv Will Be Impossible ^ - A special from Indianapolis says: Governor Mount issued a statement Wednesday declining to honor a requisition from Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, for the return to that state of W. S. Taylor, who is under indictment for complicity in an alleged plot which resulted in the assassination of Governor Goebel. Colonel Tom Campbell, Justus Goebel, brother of the murdered man, and Sheriff Snter, of Franklin county, Kentucky, arrived iu the city during the day with the requisition. They met the governor in the executive parlors and at his orders, every one was excluded during the arguments, including reporters. Colonel Campbell insisted to the governor that he had been misinformed as to the situation in Kentucky. The evidence, he said, all Came from those who had been near to Taylor, including Republican state officials and Taylor's own private secretary. This was in reply to the sharp statemeut by Governor Mount that he would hear no evidence secured by means of the $100,000 fund. Mr. Campbell said Taylor could get a fair trial in Kentucky and cited the fact that seveu others, charged with the same offense, had not been molested. Justus Goebel added to Mr. Campbell's argument, which lasted an hour, a short statement, urging the governor to "have the law take its course. He said be believed Taj lor and Finley | guilty from the evidence that had i come to him, but if they were innocent the law of Kentucky would so declare and the men would go free and unmolested. At 10 o'clock Wednesday night Governor Mount announced his decision. The latter part is as follows: "The honoring of this demand and the return of Governor Taylor into the custody of men who, blind to reason, have ignored civil rights and into environments where rapacious- bate dominates, would be assuming a responsibility from the gravity of which I shirk. If conviction should follow, and the fact be made manifest that the court was a mookery of justice, it would fan into flame the smouldering embers in your state. "Until those already in prison have been accorded a fair trial, thus demonstrating the possibility of securing justice in your courts, I cannot honor your requisition. When the time shall have come that I can feel assured that a fair trial will be accorded Mr. Taylor, then, and not until then, will I honor a requisition for hii return." STRIKERS ARE QUIET. Officials at St. Louis Think Troublof are About Endod. A St. Louis dispatch says: Sheriff Pohlman and Chief of Police Campbell are of the opinion that the reign of terror that has prevailed during the greater part of the past month or more as a result of the street railway strike, is at an end. They are confident that 1 1- - "? ? ? ?- 1*'-* will V* A A V\1 A a meir CUIIIUIU^U iuiuco mi* uo aL/ig tv prevent any further lawlessness. It seema to bo the general opinion that last Sunday's riot was the culmination of these outbreaks. MAY FORGIVE EMPRESS. Rumors Current That Chinese Qneitloa Will lie Setllcd. Extraordinary rumors are current in Shanghai to the effect that the powers have settled the Chinese question by agreeiug to forgive the Dowager Empress and her Manchu advisors, provided they promise to amend their future conduct. TEDDY EMPHATICALLY DECLINES Boosovelt Says Again Thnt Ho Won't Have Second Placo on Tloket. "I stand just where I did two months ago. I am not a candidate for vice president, aud will not accopt if nominated at Philadelphia next week." These words were spoken by Governor Roosevelt to the Associated Press reporter in Rochester,X. Y.,Wednesday.The governor continued: "I see that my name is being mentioned in this connection again; but I cannot imagine by whoso authority, or on whose responsibility. The national leaders know my position, and tha New York state delegation will cot present or urge mv nauue." KIXLEY MACK THE WINNER. First Under Wire In the Suburban Baco and Gets 510,000 Paris. At Sheepshead Bay, X. Y.t Saturday Kinley Mack won the suburban race by a length. Ethelbert was second ami Gulden, third. The time was 2.00 4-5. . May Make Application. Under the new law Ihere has been 302 applications for tlio organizations jf national banks. DEWEY SON-COMMITTAL. Gives An Unsatisfactory Answer to Associated l'ress Representative. Admiral Dewey was seen in Washington Friday by au Associated Press representative and asked whether or not he would define his position rela- . tive to the vice presidential nomination. He replied that inasmuch as he * had not been offered the nomination, it would perhaps be presumptious in him to say that he would or would not accept. * I cMcsjcMfNjrjrvWMrNjj I SOUTH CAROLINA l k STATE NEWS ITEMS. rslCSJCSJCSIIMCMfMCM? Fund* Not Available. As has been previously annonnced Governor McSweeney appointed Major Edward Willis fish commissioner some days ago. He has as much authority as the law will permit, and no pay is yet provided. Notwithstanding the uncertainty of affairs. Major Willis is receiving letters asking for assistance. He has received a letter from Orangeburg, sayiog: "I notice that you have beeu appointed state fish commissioner and patrol. I desire to inform you that the fish laws are being Honrraritl-a vinlfttpd fin the EdistO I Wi J iiu^i IliiUJ ? ? river by the use of wire nets and seines and various other devices. The destruction of the fish in the Edisto and its tributaries is so great that it will only be a question of a short time wbeu there will not bo any left, etc." A long letter from McClellanville reports to Major Willis that the law as to terrapins is being violated in his section, and appeals to him to put a stop, if he can, to the violations. There are no funds available for this work, ?** Charleston and Atlanta. The Southern railway, in connection with the Georgia railroad, is now making a feature of special Saturday trains from Atlanta to Charleston and the Isle of Palms. ' The Charleston Kxpositlon. The Nashville American says: The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian exposition at Charleston will shortly be organized, and preparations will begin for the buildings and displays, which will bo opened in December. The exposition project, when first broached, included only the idea of a stato fair, but npou disenssion it was determined that it should be of a broader scope. As the namre indicates, exhibits from states outside of South Carolina and from the new possessions of the United States will be displayed. As is natural, particular attention will be given to cotton and cotton manufactures. thoush milliner and ereaeral manufactures ami agricultuie will be well represented. The exposition will, no doubt,prove a s-iccess, as it is backed by keen and sagacious business men. Located in the south in the winter season, and in a city crowded with historic memories and full of quaintness and romance, there should be a large attendance from the more northerly states. Such an exposition will be of inestimable benefit, not only to Charleston aud South Carolina, but to the entire south. Wheat Growor?' Convention. The Wheat Growers' Convention of the state, it is announced, will bo held in Greenwood on August 15, aud the local committee are at work preparing for it. A large attendance is expected and the convention promises to be even more successful thau the one last year. The one last year it is noted, was so successful that Greenwood county "will not have to buy a barrel of western flour for the next twelve months." ?*? The Oljmpia Cotton Mill. One of the new enterprises going up in Columbia is the enormous stable being erected by the Olympia cotton mill for its own use. The building will be over two hundred feet in length : -1 L 1 ami UUUUl UUU IIUUUICU UUU uiljr iccv wide. Work has already been commenced, and will be carried to an early completion. The stable is to be fin- < ished in the most modern way, and will consist of forty stalls. Here all the dray horses and wagons for the Olympia, Granby and Richland cotton mills are to be kept. ( Another important featnre connected with this enterprise is to be a fire department, maintained at the ex- < pence of these three mill". As the j sitnation now is the mills have but little protection from fire from the city department on account of a poor flow 3 of water in that part of the town, and . hence the authorities have taken these precautionary measures. There is to ' be one chemical engine, two hose reels j and one hook and ladder, all of which . will be manipulated by trained firemen, who will be employed by the ' mills. The mill building is now 3 nearly complete. ; Teachers' Summer School. The final arrangements for the second annual summer school for teachers at Winthrop have been made. Superintendent of Education McMahan, who has managed the work so very J successfully, has had a leaflet published giving all the facts about the school. The faculty announced for t the school, which is to continue from I July 18 to August 14, is strong. 1 The officers of the school are: John f J. McMahan, superintendent; D. B. 1 Johnson, associate; W. Zach McGee, assistant superintendent; R. B. Cun- * ningham, secretary and treasurer, Winthrop College; Miss Ida Dacas, 1 librarian. t In the rules for the school are these items: 1 The boarding department of Win- ( throp college will be opened under 1 Via /.Viorrro r?f fho r<arMllar fnroft nf that v*""eiu "* - -& ? institution. All who wish to board in 1 the dormitory must make application 3 to President D. B. Johnson, Kock Hill, S. C. Furnished rooms in the dormitory will be assigned free of cost to those who board in the college. Everything will be supplied. The dormitories and diuing room will not be opened for summer school 1 students until July 17 at supper and 1 will close positively on August 15 af- ( ter dinner has beeu served. 1 Board will be at the following rates, j payable, . without exception, at the 1 time of enrolment: , ' Four weeks, two in a room, single beds, $12. For periods less than four * weeks the rates will be $1 per day, $5 1 per week. For each meal served in J dormitoiy, 25 cents extra. Late sup- 3 per will he served only on the even- 1 iugs of July 17, 18 and 19 for the accommodation of persons arriving on 1 the north bound trains of the South- 1 em railway. J Laundry, $1.50 for.the four weeks, 3 payable at enrolment. Everything possible will be done by the authorities of the college for the comfort aud pleasure of the students. All the college conveniences and appointments will be at their disposal. *% Senator Tillmnn Goes to Dakota. Senator Tillman will go to Aberdeen, South Dakota, to help Senator Pcttigrew in his campaign for re-election. Senator Tillman says that he expects to leave home on the 26th iust. He does not expect to rejoin the campaign party until the middle of July, if then. He is not the least worried pr annoyed at the candidacy of Mr. Jones, and says that while Mr. Jones is on the road selling goods and doing some campaign work he will take things easy. While in Columbia a few days ago -enator Tillman made arrangements for the West Point cadetship examination, which is to be held there on the 3d of July. CUBAN ELECTIONS QUIET. Little Interest Taken in the Matter?National Party Elects Its Entire Ticket. General Alejandro Rodriguez, nationalist, was elected mayor of Havana in Saturday's election, polling 13,073 votes, against ?,034 cast for Son or Estrada Mora, independent. The total vote fell about 4,500 below the registration. The national party elected its entire ticket?eighteen conucilmen, the treasurer, one correctional judge and three municipal judges. The other correctional judgeship fell to an independent candidate, as did also the fourth municipal judgeship. Of the six other councilmen four are republicans and two nationalists; the latter ran independently. Reports from every part of the island go to show that perfect order prevailed at the polls. To au American observer of the election, it seems as if the people regarded the whole matter with absolute indifference. There was not even a ?""1 lioar tllA TPSnlt dft I'lUWll ill i,v uvMi ?mv ?.? dared. Not a cheer was raised, nor were there any of the ordinary indications of election excitement, although a demonstration in ,honor of the successful candidate to*k place Saturday night. The victory of the nationalists is chiefly due to the fact that they were first iu the field, and had the benefit of a well-disciplined organization. The Associated Press corresponder $ visited many booths which were clean and orderly. There was no confusion, and voters were lined up awaiting their iurn. The Cubans, members of the boards said, were conducting the elections in an exemplary manner, being anxious to show their fitness for independence. General Wood received nothing but satisfactory accounts from all parts of the island concerning the behavior of the people during the elections. General Lee, General Wilson and Colonel Whiteside, all make similar statements to the effect that everything was a model of quidtness and order. WIRES ARE CUT. No Cables From China Are Working and All are Gne*dlng. The Commercial Cable Company at New York sends out the following notice: "The Siberian land lines are restored and messages for Japan, routed via Northern, are now accepted without restriction. The lines between Maimatchim and Kagan, China, are interrupted. "We are advised that telegraphic communication with Tien Tsin is totally interrupted. The Western Union Cable Company issues the following: "Telegraphic communication with Tien Tsin is interrupted," The central cable office of the Western Union at noon Saturday sent out tie following notice: "In making connection with this morning's bulletin reporting the interruption of the Tien Tsin telegraph line we have been advised by the Great Northern company that there is no prospect of restoration of Pekin-Tien Tsin lines. The Shanghai-Tien Tsin line is totally interrupted beyond Bau3au, near Tien Tain, outting off communication to Tien Tsin, Tako and 3ther stations in the north. The ibove mentioned places are entirely cut off telegraphically and messages can only be forwarded at sender's risk." BOERS IX PHILADELPHIA. Envoys Stop Over to See How a Presldent Is Nominated. While the convention delegates were arriving by every train in Philadelphia :he three representatives of the South African republics, Messrs. Fischer, of ;he Orange Free State, and C. H. Vessels and A. D. Wolmarans, of the Transvaal, also put in their appear- ' ince. i Mr. Wessels, when asked if there I vas any significance in the visit at the ime of the convention, said: "Not in the least. We had expected to have a meeting here, but jwing to the convention have given it lp. We are here simply as observers ?to see the manner in which your lominations for the presidency are made." GOMPERS HAS PLAN I (Thereby the St. Lonis Strike May Be SatUfactorily Settled. A St. Louis dispatch says: By a sractically unanimous vote the striking ^ J?T?.; ' street railway union uiou uccmou mlay to accept a new proposition presented by their executive committee ;o settle the basis of the clause regardng reinstatement without reference to :he union. j This action was brought about dirough tho influence of Samuel Gomiers, president of the American Fed?ratiou of Labor, who arrived in St. < Louis Thursday night and conferred i vith the strikers. j Heretofore all plans have contem- < ilated the reinstatement of all the < jmployees. This matter is waived by i ;ke new plan and the Reinstatement is eft open to arbitration- j EXCITING NEWS FROM CHINA London Hears That Foreip Legations Are Destroyed AND GERMAN MINISTER KILLED Reports Are Not Confirmed as the Chinese Empire Is Cut Off From the World.. A dispatch received in London Saturday from Hong Kong, China, was to the effect that the Pekin legations have been destroyed and the German minister, Baron Yon Ketteler, has been killed. A New York Journal and Advertiser special of the same date from Tien Tsin says: Boxer & control at Tien Tsin and the city officials have been burned at the stake. A great panic has arisen among the Chinese. CONFIRMATION LACKING. Tho unconfirmed and unofficial rumor that Baron Von Ketteler, the German minister at Pekin, had been killed, soon spread to the diplomatic circles in Washington, and caused great uneasiness, as the erroneous statement go* abroad that the state department had received confirmation of the report. As a matter of fact, neither the state department nor the German embassy knew anything of It The rumor was none the less disquieting, for aside from the grave international aspect of such an act, Baron Yon Ketteler is intimately known in Washington, having been first secretary of the German embassy a few years ago. * Minister Wu, of the Chinese lega tion there, called at the state department Friday, bat he declined that he was without any advice from his own governmcn. Some of these came from Iowa, the home of Minister Conger, and some of them from friends and relatives of other persons connected with the United States legation at Pekin. Mrs. Baldwin, sister of Minister Conger, called in person at the department to inquire into the truth of the story. The department was obliged to make answer in each case that it had no news and that it could not confirm the report. It was apparent that the officials did not believe that the United States legation had been burned, and they were only sorry that they conld not make a denial upon authority. It is said at the state department that according to the last report there was at the United States legation besides Minister Conger his wife, daughter, at least one lady visitor, Secretary of Legation Herbert C. Squires, of New York; William E. Bainbridge of Iowa, the second secretary: Lieutenant Albert Key, naval secretary, and F. Y. Cheshire, interpreter. DEPARTMENT GROWS ANXIOUS. Not a word of news came to the state department from Minister Conger, who has now been cut off from communication. Even the United States consuls in north China ports were silent. Admiral KempfF has not been heard from since Thursday. This absence of official reports has given rise to grave apprehensions. It was expected that there might be delay in hearing from Mr. Conger, but in the case of Admiral Kempff an early report was looked for, and it is feared that the officers of the foreign fleet at Takn have been prevented from reaching the cable station there either by the open hostility of the boxers or by the sinister orders of the Chinese government Admiral Kempff has been called npon by direction of the president -for an explicit statement of the situation and his needs. It was for him to say whether he required re-enforcements. If he is cut off from communication the government must then act without waiting much longer. Of conrse in that case it would have to proceed upon the theory that additional forces, both ships and troops* perhaps is needed. A GIGANTIC MORTGAGE. Seaboard Air-Line Secures Issue of 915, 000,000 Fifty-Year Bonds. A deed of trust from the Seaboard Air-Line railway to the Continental Trust Company of Baltimore was recorded in Portsmouth, Va., Thursday, conveying all property of every description of that road to secure the issue of $75,00$, 000 first mortgage fifty-year 5 per cent bonds. The mortgage was first recorded in Petersburg and will be recorded in Bix states?Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. The state tax was $75,000 and the United States internal revenue tax $17,500. MORE MONEY WANTED. Citizens of St. Louis Will Be Called on For Additional Subscriptions. At a conference between the chairman of the executive and finance committees of the world's fair at St. Louis, Saturday, it was decided that the recauvassiug the city for the purpose of obtaining additional subscriptions from tirms aud corporations to the local fuud should begin vigorously as'soon as conditions in St. Louis would permit such action. SEVEN MEN INDICTED For Criminal Assault On a Woman In Blonnt County, Aln. The grand jury at Bangor, Blount jouuty, Ala., has returned indictments igaiust Jack Webb, Charley Webb, Idenry Webb, Bobert Webb, A. Aber;rombie, NTose Helm and John Barrett, juarging them with criminally as3anltng Mrs. Fronnie Fuller. The men are in jail at Cullman and i ?iU be given a trial in a Hw days. <,1 n m ni bkiah Result of Various State Conventions Makes His Nomition Certain. A Chicago dispatch says:'. By the action of the Democratic state cob- - ventions in California, Missouri, Ken- tacky, Georgia and Vermont Thursday Hon. William Jennings Bryan if assured of the nomination for president | on the Democratic ticket. The in- -.-j structions given delegates, by those five states carry Mr. Bryan's vote, it it vj believed, considerably over the two- % thirds necessary to nominate him. ^ HEAD-05 COLLISION '^.^8 Occurs on Alr-*Jn? Btltaosd SIX Mil? Out From Atlanta. With only a moment's warning glimpse of each other, northbound ' train No. 12, which left Atlanta Thursday morning at 7:30 o'clock and the > Air-Line Belle accommodation crashed together on a high embankment on the - M Southern railway line, about six,ratios Two lives paid the penalty of the [ oollision. Reuben R. Mayfield, - the ^ veteran engineer of the Belle, and ? Benjamin Davis, a white flagman of freight train, but who was on tw| Belle at the time of the accident, were the men killed. || No. 12 was loaded with passengers*- :-|3B Southbound train No. 17, better knowdKSfl as the "Air-Line Belle," which runs J between Atlanta and Luis, Ga,, usu-. ally arrives in the dty shortly after 8 ^ o'clock in the morning. It also had ar?| $ number of passengers on board. 9 A large number of the passengers ^ M both trains sustained painful, thoughJ^S not v^ry serious injuries. Several^! | members of the train crews were hnrt^B : The two engines were completely desl| I molished. The baggage ears on train had their front ends battered but the passenger coaches, ezoepticar>f 9 a few scratches, remained in gooaoon- * || The acddent was due to the CmIx ^ that the engineer and conductor of northbound train were not aoQwdgijdSlIiP with the fact that they should wait the JBelt junction for the southbound || Belle. To explain away the responrf^^H bility there is a conflict of testimony.-^ v|S?j between the train dispatcher's oflkS^-m and D. G. Owens, the operator wfcblpB was on duty at Belt Junction. g Owens declares that he was ?ot structed to hold the north-bound traiai^^p Thomas H. Grant, the dispatcher E^|| ^ the Atlanta office, says that suoh.of^ ff| ders were sent to the operator at DEMOCRATS OF KESTtJGKT | || Name Delegate*, Beafflrm Chkfp PlnC*^ S form and Indoree Bryan* .1 The Democrats of Kentucky mefcliS^ Louisville Thursday to select dete^Mf^ gates from the state-at-large to the tional convention at Kansas City. TStplJS meeting was harmonious throughout^ ''M Senator Joe Blackburn read port of the committee on resolutions|jj|g The report reaffirmed the Ohie^Bx^^ platform and instructed the twenij-fSwM delegates from Kentucky to oast ^9-4 vote for'Bryan and to vote as a unit flip xB The Republican national policy wra ? denounced in full, as were separata^'^pM the policy of imperialism, t&e ronn Bican tariff bill; the mainteoaiM^^K^^ an army in the Philippines and financial policy. Sympathy waE *H >^ pressed for the two South Afrinan re?': fi publics. Trusts were denOiwoed. j? The Democrats of Kentucky wor?|jg congratulated for their coarse in thjM a recent troubles. The assassination <jft I| Goebel was declared to be the reww ^ of a Republican conspiracy and W9? liam S. Taylor and his official -acts || were denounced. jra The following delegates at laraa^M were then unanimously elected: Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, Governor James B. McCreary, Louiv j? H McQuown, Charles B. Poyntz, Jasnet^ fl F. .Gregory, William S. Pryor, W. XJtley, C. W. Bransford. :i?|l After the election of Morton K. m Yontz and X. B. Hayes as presidential vfl electors the convention adjourned. " * ' "v T* Committee to Netify Towne. -'JM ^ A Minneapolis dispatch sayt:'^jH- :fJI Bingdal, temporary ohairman otf tiw ; Sioux Falls Populist convention, named the committee to notify Charles m A. Towne of his nomination for S vice presidency. CRUISER LEAVES SHANGHAI., 5 ffl Ifary Department adrtmt tdk 1 u""* ^PUmil Hm Gone to Chee Foe. 33 The n&vy department has been fiM'fj|| formed that the Yorktown sailed TaaffeJ ^ day from Shanghai for Che Poo, Tfc?|| .ffji United States consul at Che Foo mS |I formed the state department of Boxric'% ?1 disturbances at that place. M Riots la Peking Increase. || Official dispatches received in dijddnp -B ma tic quarters in Washington Wed?:J| || nesday showed that the rioting lag Peking had reached an acute staga ^ ?9 with the rioters directing a nualw^Hs their assanlts against members of thd.-f I different legations there. POLICEMEN"ALLED OFF. 9 Guards For 8t. Louis Street Oar LtMS Jfg^j 9 No Longer Needed. $? 'J?| All the policemen who have been oil B duty guarding the power houses, caf f M sheds and cars of the St. Louis Traa?>:: 9 sit company since the strike bega*;!* 9 went back to their beats Thursday, ?: J All of the 300 emergency po- 9 licemen, sworn in for strike were also also divided among lii.sW-.MJP tions and do patrol duty. The houses and sheds will, until the strlkl | -M is over, be guarded by the poaae <J| comitatus. . . IS GENERAL GORDON INVITED ^ J To Attend National Encampment of O. Ml R. Men In Chicago. ^ Commander-in-Chief Shaw, senting veterans of the civil war the Grand Army of the Republic, Bent a personal invitation to General John B. Gordon, i npi laiml the United Confederate Veterans, to -S|g3 visit Chicago next August as, a spatial guest of the thirty-fourth national anoampmont of the G. A* A ~