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- * -.sj The Bamberg Herald. i =========================== 1 ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 16.1900. OXE DOLLAR PER YEAR. "IMPERIALISM Bryan and Stevei Of Their IN At Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, j William J. Bryan and Adlai E. Steventon were formally notified of their J nomination by the Democratic party for president and vice president reipectively. Military park, where the exercises vrere held, was a seething mass of humanity, 25,000 people crowding into the open space to btar the notih-: cation and acceptance speeches. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed despite the hot weather, and the lead-j era of the party wei e given a magnifi-I eent reception. I Hon. Vim. J. Bryan. Hon. William J. Bryan, in accepting the Democratic nomination for presiVA/?A? 1*10 flAAAt\fo?AA rv\?? rtrtVk AC UVUby UCgou Uio ntvcywiut,* opcovu ao follows: "I shall, at an early day and in a i more formal manner, accept the nornination which yon tender, and I shall at that time discuss the various questions covered by the Democratic platform. It may not be out of place, however, to submit a few observations at this time upon the general character of the contest before us, and upon the question whioh is declared to be of paramount importance in this campaign. "When I say that the contest of 1900 is a contest between Democracy on one hand and plutocracy on the other, I do not meau to say that all our opponents have deliberately chosen to give to organized wealth a predomiaating influence in the affairs of the government, bat I do assert that ou the important issnes of the day the Bepublican party is dominated by those inflnences which constantly tend to elevate pecuniary considerations and ignore human rights." "The Democratic party is not making war upon the honest acqnisition of reports from General McArthnr sho^rs that the sickness in the army in the Philippines is 8 per cent, which*was considered a remarkably good showing. wealth; it has no desire to discourage industry, economy and thrift On the contrary, it gives to every citizen the greatest possible stimulus to honest toil, when it promises him protection in the enjoyment of the proceeds of his labor. Property rights are most secure when human rights are respected. Democracy strives for a civilization in whioh every member of society will share according to his merits. The most striking sentences of Mr. Bryan's speech were the following: "If elected president, I shall convene congress in extraordinary session as soon as I am inaugurated, and recommend an immediate declaration of the nation's purpose. "First, Toestr^lish a stable form of government in the Philippine; islands, just as we are now establish-1 * ing a stable form of governmea t in the island of Cuba; "Second, To give independence to the Filipinos, just as we promised to give independence to the Cubans; "Third, To protect the Filipinos from outside interference while they work out their destiny, just as we \ have protected the republics of Central * and South America, and are, by the i wjr Monroe doctrine, pledged to protect Cuba. "The Republicans shall not be permitted to evade the stupendous issue of imperialism. "We cannot repudiate the prinoiple of eelf-government in the Philippines without weakening that principle at ' home. "The advocates of imperialism in this country dare not say a word in behalf of the Boers. "The Democratic party does not oppose expansion when expansion en- ! larges the area of the republic. "If we have an imperial policy we must have a large standing army. "The Republican party has accepted the European idea and planted itself gpon ground taken by George III. "History furnishes no example of turpitude baser than ours if we sub*; ftitute our yoke for the Spanish yoke. : "A war of conquest is as unwise as It is unrighteous." RESTRICTIONS ABROGATED. China Reconsider* anil Will Allow Cipher Messages an Open Door. A Washington special says: Minister Wu Wednesday morning received an edict under date of August 5, in which the Chinese government permits the powers to hold open and free communication with their ministers. This includes the sending of cipher messages. Condemned Murderer Escapes* Nathan Caruthers, a murderer, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, escaped from jail at Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday morning. He assaulted the jailer at the breakfast hour, dashid from the prison and made away. Eight Per Ccfnt Sick. Seeretarv Root states that the latest [" THE ISSUE nson are Notified fomination. Hon. James D. Richardson, chairman of the notification committee, made a brilliant speech in announcing to the candidates the honor conferred upon them at Kansas City. Mr. Bryan spoke on the question of imperialism, entirely ignoring silver, trnsts and other issues of the campaign. This fact was the sensational feature of the day. Mr. Stevenson covered the several issues, but made scant reference to silver, confining his remarks on the subject to the statement that the party had reaffirmed the demand for bimetallism. Hod. Adlia E. Stevenson. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, in accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president, 6aid in part: "I am profoundly grateful for the honor conferred upon me by my selection by the national Demooratic convention as its candidate for the high office of vice president of the United Siatei. For the complimentary manuer in which such action has been officially made known to me, I express to you, Mr. Chairman, and to your honored associates of the committee, my sincere thanks. "Deeply impressed with a sense of the responsibility assumed by such candidacy, I accept the nomination so generously tendered me. Should the action of the convention meet the approval of the people in November, it will be my earnest endeavor to die charge with ndelity the duties 01 tne great office. "Imperialism means a permanent departure from all the traditions of the past; from the high idealB of the founders ,of the republic. It abrogates the holding of our great court that the declaration of independence is the spirit of the government?the constitution but its form and letter. "Imperialism knows nothing of limitations of power. Its rule is outside the constitution. It means the establishment by the American republic of the colonial methods of European monarchies. It means the right to hold alien peoples as subjects. It enthrones force as the controlling agency in government. It means the empire, "As a necessary corrollary to imperialism will come the immense standing army. The dead hand of militarism will be felt in the.new world, as it is in the old. "In the light of history, can it be possible that the American people will consent to the permanent establishment of a large standing army, and its consequent continuing and ever increasing burden of taxation? "Only those who believe that our own country has outgrown the doctrines of the fathers are in sympathy with England's attempt to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics. "The baleful but logical result of the tariff law condemned by our platform is seen in the sudden growth of giaut monopolies, combinations in re straint of lawful trade and trusts mora threatening than foreign fo? to the existence of popular government. "The ills resulting from unjust legislation, and from unwise administration of the government, must find their remedy in the all-potent ballot. To it we now make our solemn appeal." A paramount incident in the nomination of Stevenson at Kansas City, which was inadvertently omitted from these colums in the hurried and brie! chronicling cf the event, was the initial part taken by the Georgia delegation in launching the boon for the Illinois man. It is well-known that the Georgians, led by Hon.Boykin Wright, were first in bringing Mr. Stevenson to the front and preventing a stampede to Hill. The nominating speech was made by a member of the Georgia delegation?Mr. Hutcherson?and the first seconding speech was also delivered by a Georgian. SAM ROBINSON INDICTED. Grand Jarjr at Marietta Binds Over Al| lrged Assailant of Mrs. Inser. At Marietta, Ga., Wednesday, th< i grand jury indicted Sam Robinson, colored, now in the Tower at Atlanta, chargiug him with assaulting Mrs, Inj zer, near Mclver's. The descriptior ; given by Mrs. Inzer of the clothes hei assailant wore exactly tallies wit! I those found on Sam Robinson wheE he was arrested. AN "EXPERT" TESTIFIES. Defense In the Powers Ca?e at George t??wn Puts Up Star Witness. The defense in the Powers case a ri-?nrr?<itriTvii T-f *- cm-onrr nnfl of iti v-vv.^vvv MU, W ? star claims Wednesday afternoon ii the shape of Surveyor Coolman an< his chart of the grounds. It "was in tended to prove by his figures tha the bullet which killed Goebel couh not have been fired from the sill o the window of the secretary of state'i office? if it took the course claimed fo: it by the prosecution. TRAIN SMASHES BUS. Frightful Accident on a Peni sylvania Railroad?Eleven Lives Crushed Out. Eleven persons were instantly kille and a dozeen others, several of" who will die, were seriously injure Sunday night in a grade crossing a cident three miles east of Slatingto: Pa., by a passenger train on the L high and New England railroad cias ing into an omnibus containing twent five persons. All the dead and injure were in the omnibus and but three e eaped uninjured. The accident occurred about o'clock. The omnibus driven by a m? named Peters, was returning to SI tiugton, from a funeral the occupan had been attending at Cherriersvill Plia nr>?r?Vi TiAlrmced to Henrv Bitter. * **w"" O ?r Slatington. and the dead and injure were nearly all relatives of ?oph Schoeffner, at whose obsequies the had been present. The train was special and consisted of an engine ar one car. At the point at which the collisic occurred there is a sharp curve in tl road and the omnibus came along at good rate of speed, the occupants u conscious of any impending dange As the bus swung around the curdie engine and car came in sight, was too late to stop either the omc bus or the train, and as the driver the former whipped up the fourhors to cross the track ahead of the trai the latter crashed into its middle. The occupants were thrown in t directions, bruised and bleeding. Tl eleven dead were killed outright. Ph sicians aud a special train vere se for and the injured were taken South Bethlehem. No watchman is employed to wai teams or pedestrians of any approac' ing train and those living in the vici ity state that it is impossible to he an approaching train. A peculiar feature of the accide was that the horses drawing the bi ercaped unhurt. THREATENED RACE WAR. Two White Men Killed By Negroes < the Public Hichvar. News reached Sylvania, Ga., Sundi of a colored race war in the upper pa of Screven county, twenty miles nor of town, which, though already seriou threatens to grow more so. Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, ] F. Harrington and Milton Mears, t\ white men, were driving in a bugg They met two negroes named Alexa der and in parsing their buggy whee collided. Words ensued and the n groes drew pistols and shot the whi men to death. Captain Jessie T. Wade., living nea organized a party and went to captu the negroes. As he reached the home the party was fired upon ai Capt.Wade was seriously wounded. T1 attempt at capture was temporari abandoned. 'The negroes are quartered on tl plantations bordering on the Sava nah river swamps. It is claimed thi are planning to resist arrest and the number is being increased. In tl section where the tragedy occurri there are only about twenty-five whi families and a hundred negroes. STILL UNDER SIEGE. Additional Message From Conger Read Washington Through McWade. TViq f/-dlrnrincr cnmmnnic.J ing an additional message from Mini ter Conger was made pnblic Saturd; morning by the state department: Canton, August 11.?Secretary State, Washington?Conger, date A gust 10, Tsinan, answering my ni( says that the legations are und by the imperial soldiery. The situ tion is desperate. The losses of t' legations is 60 killed and about 1 wounded. There is some sicknet nerertheless the general health co tinues good. He concludes: 'Whatev may be the outcome, we will hold < indefinitely.* McWadb." | More Missions Destroyed. The United States codsuI general , Hong Kong, Mr. Wildman, has i ceived a telegram from the Americ Baptist mission at Swato, province Kwang Tang, saying that three mc chapels have been demolished ai that there has been much looting mission property. i _ NON-UNION PRINTERS WIX. Georgia Supreme Court Declares Uni Label Ordinance Illegal and Void. i The union label ordinance, pass p by the Atlanta city council some tir ago, which required that all the ci printing should bear the union lab< has been declared ultra vires ai illegal by the supreme court of Gee gia. The court also held that 6ucl procedure would tend to encoura 1 monopoly and defeat competition. The non-union printers of the ci 1 fought the movement, when it w k adopted by the council. The case w 1 first carried to the superior court them and afterwards to the suprei x>urt by the union printers. RIDS ARE REJECTED. The Navy Department Fails to Award J vaor Plate Contract. ? The navy department Saturday aft ? noon decided to reject all bids for i > mor plate presented to the departmei It is stated that new advertisemeri 1 will be issued as soon as possible, a the contractors will be given anoth 1 chance to put their bids into su [ shape as will be acceptable to the gc eminent. Working Sight and Day. The Union Metallic Cartridge co ~ pany at Bridgeport, Conn., is worki night and day to fill orders from s< ' eral governments for ammunitic 3 Besides the big orders for Krag a * munition the company has a contri * for field artillery ammunition to ' for the United States government. 1 Orders Kural Delirery ScrTicc. { The postoffice department has < 3 dered that rural delivery service r established on August 15th at Henm ay, Okla., and New Boston, Tex. . RUSSIANS FIRE " ON AMERICANS id m ^ Mistaken For Chinese and Many I] Were Killed or Wounded. e j: the' error a deplorable one id s~ Sir Claude ilacDonald Again Sets 5 Forth Fearful Condition in of Affairs in Pekin. ats e- A special cable dispatch to the New York Evening World of Monday, dated Che Foo, August 9th, via Shang1 . jy nai, says: * A terrible mistake occurred at the ^ taking of Yang Tsun. Russian artillery opened fire on the American troops. >n Before the mistake was discovered i? many American soldiers had been a killed or wounded by the Russian a- shells. r- The Fourteenth took part in the aft* ^? tack on the Chinese trenches. As the It Chinese fled the regiment entered d- and occupied one of the Chinese poof sitions. 68 The Russian battery, it seems, did D? not notice the movement. It opened Are on the position and planted ill shells among the American troops. The Russian < were quickly notified, 7- and ceased their fire, ot Commenting upon this occurrence, to The London Standard says: "It is melancholy to learn that the 'n losses of the Americans, who seem tc I1" have borne themselves with conspicun" ous gallantry, were increased by a ar deplorable error, in consequence ol which one of their regiments waa pounded by Russian and British can118 non. The incident emphasizes the necessity of that close co-operation which is not easily obtainable withoul a single commander and a general staff." on ~ SITUATION 0P FOREIGNERS IN PEKIN IS tt_ DESPERATE. ^ The British consul at Canton, sayt ^ The London Daily Telegraph's corre[S, spondent there, has received the following message, dated August 6th, from Sir Claude MacDonald, British minister in Pekin: nl "Our situation hero is desperate. (ls In ten days our food supply will'be al e_ an end. Unless we are relieved a gem te eral massaore is probable. "The Chinese offer to esoort us tc ,r Tien Tsin, but remembering CawnTq pore, we refused the offer. There ar< sir over 200 European women and chil 1(| dren in this legation." he The Shanghai correspondent of Th< ]y Daily Express, wiring Monday, says. "The allies at noon Saturday were he within twenty miles of Pekin." n_ As General Chaffee's report, which By is the only authentic news received al >ir Washington regarding the advance, he located the international forces about B(j forty miles from Pekin on Friday, it te seems probable that the Shanghai report is optimistic. It is scarcely likely that the allies could advance twenty miles in as many hours. A Yang Tsun dispatch dated Augusl 16 7th <rivinfr details recflrdinc the oan ? ?, O"?o ?o? o f ture of that place, says: is- "The Russians and French held th< ay left, the British the left center, the Americans the right center and the Jaof panese the extreme right. The British u- and Americans advanced on the vil58 lag? at a rapid rate for 5,000 yardt er under a severe shell and rifle fire. The ;a- Russians opened and the British-Amer he ican advance became a race for posi 00 tions, culminating in a brilliani 58j charge. The heaviest loss of the daj n- was sustained by the Americans, the er Fourteenth infantry, having nine on killed, sixty-two wounded and several missing. The Bengal Lancers unsuccessfully attempted to eut off the Chinese retreat." at British Offer Money to China. :e" The British government, according an to the Shanghai correspondent of Tht London Times, has offered to lent re ?75,000 at 4} per cent to the viceroj Q(* of Wu Chwang, province of Hu Pee, ?" on the Yang Tse Kiang, for the payment of provincial troops. REFUSES TO SIGN WRIT. O* Jadff* Lacombe Make* a Decision Favored able to C. F. W. Xeelej. ne Judge Lacombe, of the United States circuit court at New York, j Monday, refused to sign the writ o; )r_ extradition of Charles F. W. Neelej on account the action of Judge Wal lace in granting an appeal to the su ? preme court in the habeas corpus pro . -ceedings, but indicated that he die ; g not think Judge Wallace understood ag the real situation of the case, and h( i believed if it went to the Buprem< ^court in its present shape the application for a writ of habeas corpus would be denied. JAIL DKLAHEKS LAUUHl. *r" All But Six of the Marianne, Fla., Escape Are Captured. er- All but six of the Marianna, Fla. ir- jail breakers, whose escape was chron at. icled some day3 ago, have been cap its tared and lodged in jail at Pensacola nd Among them are Raymond West, ne ler gro murderer, and the most desperat ch of the gang, and Dallas Miller, wh >v planned the escape. Miller was cap tured about three miles south c Sneads, Fla. m" FAMOUS CLAIM DECIDED. ng 3V" General Land Office Settles River Islam )n. Contest In Kansas City. m* Commissioner Hermann of the gen eral land office, in the homestead en fill try contest of John H. Menstng, fo valuable land now within the corporal limits of Kansas City, Mo., but for merly an island in the Missouri river or- has decided in favor of the Mensini be heirs, permitting their entry for al 68- land within the Mender bound&r; lines of the island. \ SOUTH CAROLINA I j STATE NEWS ITEMS. | Keep Missionaries Out of China, Says Senator Tillman. Senator Tillman lias made public his views on the China question. He is unalterably opposed, he says, to missionaries going to China to teach religion, favors convening congress at 1 this crisis and will support an alliance with Great Britain and Japan to prevent partition. He says: "I would support a policy looking to the maintenance of the integrity of the Chinese empire, and to that end would be willing to see England, Japan and the United States form an offensive and defensive alliance to guarantee the integrity of the Chinese empire with equal opportunities of trade with all Christendom. "In regard to the missionaries and the future effort to force the Chinese > to aid them and protect them, I am utterly opposed. We do not admit the Chinese, even to work, and the i idea of their sending missionaries i here to preach is as preposterous to us as our sending missionaries to them. If the Christiaa religion cannot conquer an entrance to the Chinese i people on its merits through persua1 sion, I see no warrant in Christianity forcing it on them at the point of the bayonet; that religion is the religion of love and not of force." South Carolina's Flrit Bale. The first bale of the new cotton crop of this state was produced by L. W. Youmans, of Barnwell county. Its weight was 560 pounds. i i Completing the State Home. The contraot for completing the , state house will be signed, a repre; sentattve of the Pittsburg contractors i being in Columbia for the purpose. I THa wrvrlr rnnut "ha nnm'nleted bv De , cember, 1901, and the contractor will L be liable to a dailj fine of $100 for every day over contract time. I Commemorative of Last Flfht. There wae a celebration at Shiloh 1 chnroh, ten miles from Piedmont, in Anderson county the past week, comi memorative of the last fight between organized bodies of the contending' sides in the civil war, at least the last fight between such organized bodies east of the Mississippi river, i On May 1, 1865, a company of South Carolina Arsenal Cadets, under Captain J. P. Thomas, and a squad of [ militia returning to Anderson county to disband, were met by a company of federal cavalry. Of course, it was after ) the surrender of Lee, but neither of the confederate organizations mentioni ed had either surrendered or been paroled, although they were part of the confederate army, and when the fed( erals showed fight, the boys deployed into the woods and a sharp skirmish j ensued, the blue coats finally fleeing leaving more than one man on the ground. The celebration was prepared by a committee appointed months ago and ' was a big affair. Several thousand ' people gathered from the adjoining counties, and there was an immense basket pionic. Colonel John P. Thom? as, who commanded the cadets, was r\t 4lio nAnaainn A snftftoh i was also made by Captain Ellison A. ^ Smyth. I It is proposed to erect a monument on the spot. ) ** . Faraon Score* Charleston. News comes from Charleston that t F4r some time the Rev. Arthur . Crane, pastor of the First Baptist , church, has been pounding the erring } citizens of the metropolis and telling things in the pulpit that many be. lieved best unsaid. Rev. Crane did t the Parkhurst act, and before he dep livered his first sensational sermon he , got two of his deacons to show him the j wild places in the city. He visited the I resorts and then dropped in at the . gambling houses and saw the little j ivory ball spinning while the men stood by and played. He took in everything and then he told about it at his church. \ After his first attack on the city, i Rev. Crane got scant courtesy from I the press. The News and Courier r ignored him altogether, and he has , hammered the paper in thediope that it would take note of his work. So far as Rev. Crane has gone he has predicted the utter failure and collapse of the' Charleston exposition because, he charges, that every other . house in Charleston is a place where liquor is sold. . After the newspapers refused to give him unlimited space Rev. Crane established a sheet of his own, wheref in his sermons have have been printed. Family of Ofllce Holders. A Columbia special says: With four I dispensary and one prohibition candil date for governor, Senator Tillman > has gone so far as to espouse the cause ' of one of the dispensary men and opposes the re-election of Governor Mc^ Sweeney. "A politician," he says, "would not mix in state quarrels in his own party, but I claim to be a statesman, not a politician." While openly lighting Uolonei ttoyt, , the prohibitionist, Senator Tillman is pulling for Frank B. Gary, the presf ent speaker of the house of represen. tatives. With a clean record and evidence of personal speed, Mr. Gary L finds himself heavily handicapped in this race by the astonishing record of e his family as officeholders. He is be0 ing attacked on this line and it will be a heavy weight even for the combined ,{ strength of himself and Seator Tillman to carry. Here is a summary: Mr. Gary is hin^elf a member of the house and speaker; Ernest Gary, a brother, was promoted from member 1 of the house to circuit judge, a position he now fills; Eugeue B. Gary, a - brother, was likewise advanced from . member of the house to associate jusr tice of the supreme court, where he e now is; John Gary Evans, first cousin, . was a member of the house, theu pro, moted to the senate, then made goverI nor, and finally ran against Earle and 1 then McLaurin for United States senY ate; John Gary Watts, another of the house of Gary, was assistant adjutant and inspector general, then adjutant general of the state; W. D. Evans, another of the blood, a member of the railroad commission; Barney B. Evans, of the same line, is a candidate for railroad commissioner; H. H. Evans, another of the honse of Gary, was promoted from the legislature to be a member of the state board of control; W. Boyd Evans, of the same blood, was the last governor's private secretary and was since made state agent to collect war claims. A recapitulation shows that in the last six years the Gary family has held something like a "lead pipe cinch" on offices, Nine of them have in that time held fourteen offices and j are either now candidates or have contended for seven more. Summer Schools. The state summer school for ooiored teachers opened at Benedict college on the 15th inst. The teaohers are whitte, v m the faculty being composed 01 superintendents of public schools in several cities of the state. The Richland Teachers' school was opened on the same day. Prof. W. M. Clyde, Prof. Wallace and Miss Graham will compose the faculty. The Cotton Warehouse Scheme. Reference has already been made to the proposed Cotton Growers' Convention to be held in September for the purpose of regulating the marketing of cotton so as to increase the price. The warehouse feature of the plan is thus described: The warehouses are to be be situated at some central point accessible to all the farmers of the community, and on a rai road with side track facilities. They are to be bonded institutions, which is a guarantee that the cotton is safe, and will be forthcoming promptly on demand upon the surrender of the warehouse certificate. The cotton is'to be stored for the convenience and economy of the farmer. The cotton receipt, showing the date it was signed, the mark, the weight, and grade, is issued for the same. Beidg amply covered by insurance, ^ . ^IAMUIA oaAnuifv eflTnr/1 o/l UKU&CU UJf kUO UUUUIO WUV4UVU bj the bonded feature, the ware house receipt becomes immediately negotiable. The next step is to organize the ginners into an association, with an executive board, each ginner promising to furnish to that body each week a report giving in substance the condition of the cotton ginned, whether the cotton is backward or forward, and the number of bales ginned each week. These reports are to be condensed and the total number of bales ginned weekly will be furnished each ginner. The ginner will post it in a conspicuous place in the warehouse, where the farmers can judge for themselves whether it is wise to sell or hold. These associations to be inaugurated in each cotton state. PERFUME POISONER Trios to Pat an End to the Chinos# Minuter at Paris. A special dispatch from Paris to The J New York Evening Telegram, says: "An artful attempt at poisoning by the use of perfume, which recalls memories of Luoretia Borgia, is exciting all the gossips of Paris. "Thursday the Chinese minister, Yukeng, received a letter. It was signed 'Julie Czerwinska,' and contained some dried, flowers which the writer asked the minister to accept. The secretary to the legation, Armani di Parma, opened the letter and was immediately overcome by the deadly odor emanating from the flowers. He fell in a faint and was with great difficultv revived. '? MERCY 18 REFUSED. Georgia Prison Commission Turns Down Application For Clemeacj. The Georgia state prison commission Thursday refused to recommend to life sentence James L. Baker, of Atlanta, and Dillard Herndon, of Wilkes county, both of whom were under sentence of death for murder. The action of the commission leaves the men without the shadow of hope unless the governor interferes in their behalf, and as it is not Governor Candler's custom to make recommendations against the decisions of the commission, it is likely that both the men will be hanged on the date named by the courts. Guarded By Military. Guarded by 100 picked military men, Sam Bobinson, the negro charged with assaulting Mrs. George Inzer, was taken from the Atlanta jail and carried to Marietta. Ga., Fridaymorn x.: PROMINENT PEOPLE. Tho Prince of "Wales has been made a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Samuel W. Trombley, dean of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, is seventy-eight years old. Former Mayor Josiah Quincy, of Boston, will hereafter reside in London, retaining American citizenship. The Czar and Czarina received the Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage at the Peterlioff Palace in St. Petersburg. President Loubet of France, according to rumor, will pay a visit to St. Petersburg, Russia, early in the falL The Pope has written a Latin hymn in memory of all the martyrs who I have died in advancing the clvillzaj tion of the world. Judge William A. Hojt, of Kentucky, I who lias been appointed Chief Justice | of Porto Rico, is one of the best known i lawyers in his State. Prince Sheng, the Chinese director I of telesrranhs, is said to be one of tho j best telegraphic experts in the East and I has had a long, practical experience. I The new provost marshal of Manila, Brigadier-General Bell, began his career as a soldier in 18G2 as a lieutenant of the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunters. Henrik Ibsen Intends, should his health permit,to pay a visit in Septemt ber to Orkney and Shetland, where several relatives of his are reported to reside. Former Governor William Marvin, ; of Florida, now ?a resident of New i York State, has sent his portrait to Tallahassee, where It is now displayed in the executive chamber. He is ninety-two years old. The Due d'Acos, Spanish Minister at Washington, who sharply refused an invitation to the Dewey celebration at Chicago, has accepted an in| vitation to the G. A. B. encampment | <0 be held in Chicago. HEAT'S FATAL WORK i Hundreds of Lives Cut Short In Big Cities of the North. NEW YORK CITY LEADS THE RECORD Intensity of Hot Were Equals Any Ever Experienced Heretofore For the Month of August. Thirty persons died in New York City and vicinity Saturday from heat prostrations and three from falling from fire escapes on which they had crowded to get relief from the heat All it all, it was the hottest continnons 11 "VT 1 w earner new Aor* una ever experienced. The local forecaster said that it surpassed the heat record of 1896. The thermometer reached ninety-five at 2 p. m., and registered the same figures an hour later. This was the official record in the bureau, high above the street, and ia several degrees cooler than the temperature on the streets. While ninety-five was reached on the seventh and ninth days of August there was a higher range Saturday and the thermometer hardly wavered below the highest figures for many hours. Death afwr death resulted. The fact that it was a half holiday enabled nlllnv to escape the heat of offices and factories.* On Friday eleven persons died from the excessive heat. The greatest suffering was endured by the thickly populated east side. In these neighborhoods numerous families occupy a sin-, gle apartment and many of tbem sleep on the pavements to get a little fresh air. RECOBD BBOKEN AT PHILADELPHIA. The temperature at Philadelphia Saturday broke all reoords for August, when at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the government thermometer on top of the postoffice building registered 100.6 degrees. This was within 1 degree of the highest temperature ever officially recorded in the city. Five deaths and twenty prostrations occurred Friday. The maximum temncrntnrn was 97. FATALITIES Rl CHICAGO. Six deaths in Chicago were dne to the heat Saturday. It was the eighth day of the torrid spell and there were twenty-five prostrations, three of which will prove fatal. Nine deaths and fifteen prostrations was the record for Friday. The maximum temperature was 95 degrees. The heat of Sunday resulted in seventeen deaths in Philadelphia and scores of prostrations. After a week of almost unprecedented hot weather a wind and electric storm Sunday night caused a fall of 24 degrees in the temperature. NOT YELLOW FEVER. Drs. Porter and White Make Statement as to Illness at Tampa, Florida. Drs. Porter and White issued their valedictory to the people of Tampa, Florida, in the recent "scare" Saturday night in the following signed statement: "The house to house inspection indicated in the last statement to the public has this day been completed. Ocular examination has been made of all febrile disorders and many others ? Ml M \ 111 by either the united states neaiui authority, Dr. J. H. White, surgeon of the marine hospital service, or state health officer, and often times by both co-jointly with- negative results as to doubt or suspicions of yellow fever existing in Tampa in any of those sick | or seen. Wigal's agglutination test of the blood of Baker and Parker made in the laboratory of the marine hospital servioe at Washington gave a reaction positive in both specimens, thus confirming the diagnosis made at first of typhoid fever in Parker and suspected in case of Baker." Dr. Porter, as state health officer, addressed the following order: "The quarantine restrictions on travel to and from Tampa will be re* moved at midnight this date." Bailroad and steamer lines resumed 1 their regular schedules Sunday morning and the cordon of special guards about the city was called in. WALUERSEE TO LEAD! German Flel<l Marshal to Command Allied Forces In China. The Cologne Gazette's Berlin correspondent is the first to announce, from an anthoritative source that Field: Marshal Count von Waldersee lias been appointed commander-in-chief of the allied troops in China. The German foreign office in confirming the report to tha correspondent of the Associated Press said this i referred only to the temporary command of the German forces in China and that the question as to whether he would command all the international forces had not been settled. MORE NOTIFICATIONS COXINti. Monetary Leicnc and People'# Party Hare Santa Date For Bryan. William J. Bryan will receive notification of his nomination for president by the Monetary Leagne at Topeka, on Angnst 23d, the date of the People's party notification exercises. Judge Backer, who is chairman of the nomination committee appointed by the Monetary League's national committee, notified Mr, Bryan of this plan by wire Monday and Mr. Bryan assented to the arrangement^ HART PLEADS FOR RELIEF. "The Sooner We Can Be Got Ont of Thla, the Better," Says He. "The sooner we can begot ont of this, the better, for it is inconvenient for the Chinese government and unsafe for ourselves," reads a message received Snnday evening from Sir Bobert Hart, dated Pekin, August 5, and sent in cipher to the Chinese Maritime customs office in London. ROBBERS DIE GAME Corraled In a Mud House, One Is Shot and the Other Burned to Death. Three miles east of Good land, Kan., Friday morning the two men who robbed a Union Pacific train in Col- 0 orado on Angnst 5th and killed a - ^ passenger, were snrronnded by looal officers. A fierce exchange of shots ensued, daring which one of the robbers was shot and killed. J. B. Biggs, owner of the Commercial hotel of ' 'jM Goodland, and George Collins, members of the posse, were severely wounded and another of the panning party, name unknown, was wounded -0 slightly. The second robber barricaded him*elf in a kitchen, which was fired^by the posse nnmbering fifty men, au armed with Winchesters, and the robber was burned .to death. The Union Pacific Kansas City,Denver train was robbed between Limon Junction and Hugo, Colo., ninety miles east of Denver. Many persona were relieved of their money and valuables. and W.J.Fav. an aged man who resisted, was killed by one of the rob* Jj| The robbers dropped off the train at ,- Jjj Hugo and escaped. It was later leers* ed they went to the ranch of D. XL Bartholomew, three miles ost from . -M Goodland and one hundred milee overland from Hugo, and asked for food ^ and lodging for frfew days. They saia they did not want to go to town as their clothea were raggoa,." /-^9 Thursday night a boy whom they sent to Goodland to get the Denver papers, |j reported the circumstances. From the ; /? boy's description the men wore believed to be the Hugo robbers, and s s||| posse went at once to take them In charge with the result stated. FULL TICKET liXEI Uy L?m Star State Democrats la Otavsa t * tion At Waoo. The Texas Democratic state oonTon* tion, after a two days' session, nominated a fall stale ticket Friday and adjourned sine die. The tioket ia: Governor?Joseph D. Bayers. Lieutenant Governor J. K. BrownAttorney General?Thomas 8. Smith. Lead Commissioner?Charles Be- Sjj Comptroller?B, M. Love. Superintendent of Public Instrnetion?J. 8. Kendall. Chief Justioe Snpreme Court?B. 8. Associate Justices?A. L. Williams Jfthn V. H>ndaraoA. Railroad Commissioner?L.J. Stoisr. HONEY ORDERS ON CHINA* J Soldier* ot Vtv tad?. ' ''k The poa toffioe department announces.. vJ| the completion of arrangements herobj remittance may be made to the "fi troops operating in China or those,/\ who will hereafter be sent to that k>A money order office has been eetablished at military postal station No. 1, China, and intending remitters may safely purchase money orders drawn as above and their payment will be provided for notwithstanding ; the troops maybe 'ocated at rations^ * points in China. For this serties the domestic rate is charged, namely 80 cents for 1100. being the same rate ae - 'M, for the issue of orders op load points in the United States. |?9 XOXUXEKT IS CXTEHJtft Tribute of the Women ot Myil?U, lntS Carolina* to Confederate Dead. A work begun daring the lifetime of the late Mrs. Lucy Holoomb Pickens was consummated at Edgefield, 8. C., ' Thursday when a monument to tho confederate dead from the oounty wse unveiled in the presence of 3,000 There were three speakers?Qui el - ' j: M. C. Butler, Oongreesmaa J. W? ; Tolbert and ex-Governor John O* Shepard. The women of Edgefield ^ have been working to secure fundi-for i v this monument for many years. Waldersee Is Acceptable. It is authoritatively stated that tho United States government will accept Count Waldersee (German) aa tho commander of the international forces in China if the necessity exists at the time of his arrival in that eoantry, BRY1X USES PHOXOGRAPH. ~ '0 Part* of Hi* Spooch of Acocptaaca Is Talked lata the Xachiao. At Chicago Monday Mr. Bryan ?located himself with a phonograph and -^j delivered over again parts of the speech - J| of Acceptance he made at Indianapolis, Mv. -Those seotions in which the-candidate '>4? promised to call an extra session of congress to deal with the Philippine problem and the closing peroration were the principal parts of the speeoh "A that went into the phonograph. It.ia expected that the Bryan speech, ea ground out by the phonograph, will play an important part in the campaign. STILL AT OUTS. A Nashville special says: The efforts which here been mslrfng some weeks to yetch up the differences between in* .bftAB add UW1rmOV Motions of Tmbmim Republicans rt- ^ suited in absolute failure in a conference Thursday, and it new looks liko both factions will maintain thair party organisations and keep two electoral v ^ ana stats ticket* in the field. w :&gm SUMNER REACHES NAGASAKI. 1 t ... ... Transport With Battalion of 15th Intent*? Will Soon Arrlro at Takn. The war department xeeoiysd ttm&f fallowing dispatch from General Barry "Nagasaki, August 12.?Adjutant General, Washington: Transport Sumner arrived this port on the 10th. No casnaltfos occurred. Health of oeiaa- ^mH znand excellent. Will proceed to Taku '