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The Bamberg Herald. ; ^ ' ' ' Jfe- ' ' ' '-SrW& t, I - .v- -:1| fer . ^ jf " -*/ -^'sgfis If KTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23.1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. gggg ^ . -j?o9& ?????? ???I?^????1? I w t /**i nmrvtT A I 1 FOREIGNERS i Allied Forces Ent Without Serio LEGATIONS RELIEVED; S " The weloome newt was received at i Washington Friday morning of the ' > espture of Pekin and the rescue of the besieged legationers. 1 The rescue was effected on Wednes- , day, August 15, the allied force enter] ing Pekin apparently without opposi Son. j * TELLS OP BK8CUB. The acting secretary of state ma de public the following plain telegram received Friday evening from tlie United States consul at Che Foo: / Chi Foo, Angnst 17, (Received Angnst 17, 7:55 p. m.)? x Secretary of State, Washington: Seventeenth?Japanese admiral reports allies attacked Pekin east 15th. Obetinate resistance. Evening Japanese entered capital with other foxces. Immediately snrroanded legations* Inmates safe. Japanese loss over 100. Chinese 800. FOWLEB." The navy department received the following cablegram from Admiral Bemey: "Taku, Angnst 17, 1 a. m.?Bureau Navigation, Washington: frnm Tion Tain dated 16tb, 10 p. m.: | "'Pekin was captured on August c ^ 1Mb. Foreign legations are safe. Details follow shortly.' . | "rem*t.m j lokdok is adyiskd. j , A special dispatch received in Lon- j don* from Shanghai, says: c 'The allies entered Pekin August 15th. It is believed that fi Ynan Shi Kai's troops have gone ] thence to Shen Si to protect the j empress, who, according to re- 8 ports received by local officials f here, with Tuan, the imperial t household and the bulk of the army and boxers, left Pekin An- c gusth 7th for Hsian Fa." 8 xabi> iii huabs ksw8. ? k . Li Hung Chang, who is at Shang- fl hai, received a telegraphic dispatch announcing that tike allied forces en- ? tared Pekin Wednesday, August 15th, e Without opposition. All is quiet in a Shanghai and in the Tang Tse valley, ?j Sao nomas yon bkblix. i The following received from the German consul at Shanghai was given $ out by the Berlin foreign office at 1 ( p. m. Friday: g fians, British and American. The French contingent was obliged to remain at Tang Tsun on aoeoont of its : inadequate commissariat. J 3 MW0 ELUDES KITCHENER. Been Imp* By Marching at Night Orer 1 Known Buads. A Pretoria dispatch sajs: General Dewet has managed to elude General 1 Kitchener in spite of the fact that all 1 the British wagons had double teams i of picked animals. The Boers evaded i the British by marching at night over ' grounds known to them, while their 1 pursuers were obliged to march in the < Say time. J i STRIKE A FAILURE. Mtmbw. Go.. Carpenter* Allowed to Seek Work By the Union. The strike of carpenters and joiners at Columbus, Ga., came to an offioial end* Thursday. The following was given out to the public by officials of thd Union: "By request of the triple cities we desire to say to the public at large that we hereby declare our men at liberty to seek work wherever they can procure it." This is a clear victory for the mill men an djoontr actors. j juoxxxmt, Angtut 17.?*'xne at- . g lice here entered Pekin without f lighting, the legations are relieved J end the foreigners are liberated." The oollapse of Chinese resistance 1 Is explained in dispatches from Shang- g hai as being due to the failure of the t Chinese to flood the country below 1 Tung Chow. The earth-works con- \ aeetad with the dam at the Pei Ho e were unfinished and the canal at Tung Chow was fall of water, facilitating \ boal transport when the allies arrived i there. 1 Previous information which has been f received in Washington showed that a the allied armies took possession on f August 13th of Tung Chow, twelve j i TOWKE TO CHASE ROOSEVELT. rspaTtat teeder Intends to Stick Clocoto ^ tlto Boaak Rider's Trail. Char lee A. Towne, it it stated, will epea his campaign at Duluth within 1 ten days.. Later he will tour Idaho, 1 Oregon, Washington, California and 1 other western states, keeping close to 1 the path of the Roosevelt itinerary. ? Mr. Towns will also tomr the south, speaking at Atlanta, Louisville, Mem- 1 Waahville and other important | e dtiea. Throughout, it is stated, it will 1 be Mr. Towne's mission to pay special a attention to the Repnblican vice presi- i dential nominee and to answer arguments made by the latter during the J campaign. 1 HOW ADVANCE WAS HADE. riUm General Ma tluppnired Dorinx 1 She flghttec at Tan* Tina.' Extracts from a long dispatch from Tokfcs Japan, describing the advance of fbe allied forces from Tien Tsin my General Ma disappeared during the fighting at Yang Tsun; that the immediate advance on Pekin was decided upon at a council of war in which 385 officers took part, held at Yang Tsnn, August 2d, and that the advance columns were drawn up in ifc* fotlnwitiff nrrlpr; JtmnAM. Rns IRE RESCUED ;er City of Pekin us Opposition. ; MINISTERS RESCUED miles from Pekin. After a halt of three days for rest and preparation the army attacked the capital. Contrary to the press reports, Consul Fowler's dispatch shows that the ittack on the city met with strong resistance. The Japanese force engaged with the advance numbering 10,000 men. The president was overjoyed on bearing the news of the safety of minister Conger and his associates. Be has been hopeful all along that their rescue from the perilous position, in which they have been for so long, would be successfnlly accomplished. Fridav'a news confirms that hone and ??m A brings a feeling of great relief to him. The German press, while express' ng joy at the happy discharge of one [Art of the program, the papers point >nt that there is much left to do. The Berliner Post says: "A great thing has been done, but i greater must be done before the alied powers will be satisfied. It renains to obtain redress for attacks lpon the legations and other wrongs, particularly the assassination of the Jerman minister, and to install a govjrnment which will pnnish the guilty knd give guarantees against a recurrence of similar crimes." The National Zeitung, The Freislinige Zeitung and The Yossicbe Zeisung, express themselves in a similar drain. Referring to a number of special lispatches appearing in German pa>ers, which claim that the United Itates government, now that the mem>ers of the foreign legations are reieved, is about to withdraw from the nternational undertaking, a high offi:ial of the German foreign office said: "The Washington government has issured the other powers of its willingless to co-operate in carrying out a oint programme. This assurance has mfficed'so far and will oontinue to sufice in spite of newspaper stories to he contrary." John B. Jackson, United States harga d'affaires in Berlin, when his attention was called to the specials, aid: 4 The United States government has ,cted with the greatest harmony regarding China with Germany from the utset. In fact, np to Pekin the pow- i its are all agreed, bnt beyond that no greement has even been attempted, lite future must be left to new diplomatic negotiations." WILL PROTECT NATIVE CHRISTIANS. A cabinet official said that the native Christians in China, said to number everal thousand, will be included in i arrangement made between this , government and China incident to the , cessation of hostilities. At the present stage of the Chinese lituatkm this subject has not yet been leriously discussed by the cabinet, but here is no doubt, according to this nember, that the United States is in tonor bound to protect them and will tacredly look out for their security. It was stated that, while the matter iss not been formally considered, the ndemnity to be collected by the Jnited States will be not only for the 1 amilies of the victims, but also probibly to compensate this government or the expense it has been put to in trosecuting the campaign. 1KTIST W1LKI5S0X BEAD. was on staff or Atuaia tonauntiaa ana Well Known In the South. Ernest Wilkinson, an artist on the itaff of the Atlanta Constitution, died Tridaj morning at 4 o'clock in Afton, 7%., of heart failure. Mr. Wilkinson ras spending his vacation in the Virginia resort. Ernest Wilkinson was one of the >est known newspaper artists of the outk. His work had attraoted wide attention since be began his sketches md portrait work on the Constitution n 1899. He was born in Atlanta Juno 24th. 1873, and was 27 years of age at the , ixna of his death. carter still hopes. Ill Relatives Working Hard to Secure Pardon From President. Oberlin M. Carter, serving a sentence in the military penitentiary, [ieavenworth, has renewed hopes of >btaining pardon. The prisoner was risited Friday by Dr. Carter, of Chicago, his brother, and L. D. Car:er, of Oakland, 111., an uncle. After i conference Carter's relatives are (noted as saying they have strong lopes of securing a pardon. Hottest Pay In St, Loo is. Friday was the hottest day of the rear in St Louis. Maximum, 99. Fourteen infants died from heat was ko Race war. Captain Wade Explain* tha Recent Excitement lit Screeen County, 6*. Captain Jesse T. Wade, who was ihot a week ago in Screven county and wrought to the hospital in Augusta, gave out what he says is the only cor* rect story of the shooting. He says it the outset there was no race war ind nothing like it. The trouble was jaused by attempting to effect an ureal BRIAN AT IRISH PICNIC. Nebrmakan Spent* nt Annual Meeting of United Irfeb Societies. Mr. Bryan, Mr. Stevenson and others made speeohea Wednesday at Sunnyside park, Chicago, at the annual meeting of the United Irish Societies of Cook county. Mr. Bryan's speech was the first of the series, but before he was heard the assembly adopted an address saying that this country should not share in seizure of territory and should not have an allianoe with any European monarchy; and particularly :vne with England, j . ' BLACKS TERRORIZED New York Mob Uses Tactics Similar to One In New Orleans. AVENGING DEATH OF POLICE OFFICER Many ir?groei Were Badly Beaten and Special Detail of 400 Policemen Were lfecesaarj to Qnell Blot. A New York dispatch says: A mob of several hundred persons formed at 11 o'clock Wednesday night in front of the home of Policeman Robert J. Thorpe, Thirty-seventh street and Ninth avenne, to wreak vengeance upon the negroes of that neighborhood because one of their race had cansed the policeman's death. Thorpe was stabbed Sunday night by several negroes while be was attempting to arrest a colored woman. The man who is said to have inflicted most of the injuries is said to be Arthnr Harris, a negro who reached th& city several weeks ago from Washington. In a few moments the mob swelled to 1,500 people or more, and as they became violent the negroes fled in terror into any hiding place they could find. The police reserve from four stations, numbering 400 in all, were called out. The mob raged throngh the district, and negroes, regardless of age or sex, were indiscriminately attacked. Scores were injured. It took the combined efforts of the reserves, with as many more policemen on regular duty in the four precincts, to restore order. Clubs were used until the policemen were almost exhausted. 'Be vol vers were emptied into the air and in one or two instances fired at the upper stories of the negro tenements from which the negroes defensively threw bricks, paving stones and other missiles. For the next hour the streets were filled with a rioting, surging mob. It was a scone of very much the same order as took place a few days ago in New Orleans. New York has seldom had its equal. The shouting of the men, the shrieking of the women, the lamentations of the children, the shooting of revolvers, crashing of windows and all made a perfect pandemonium. There were at one time more than - -- f? J TT? J o,WU persons m uroaaway. up auu down, into and ont of hotels and saloons, into Herald square and aide streets the mob went looking for negroes. Any unfortunate black was set upon and beaten. Many were hustled into the West Thirty-seventh street station for protection. TELEGRAPH OPERATOR SLEPT. Disastrous Wreck Occurred, Seven Lives Crushed Out and a Dozen Or More Injured. A special from Grand Rapids, Mich., says: A dense fog, a changing of train orders and a moment's drowsiness of a telegraph operator combined Wednesday morning to cause a collision and wreck. two of the heaviest and finest trains it the service of the Grand Bapids and Indiana railroad, and the loss of seven lives and the injury of about a dozen more persons. The fog was so dense as to hide from sight every object, no matter how large, outside a radins of a hundred feet from any given point. Train orders had been changed the night before, but after the northbound express, a resort flyer containing through sleeping coaches from Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis had left the city at 4:05 o'clock, a. m? the train dispatcher's offices decided to cancel the arrangement. rnViflar Vila nil V/UV VW? ? wv? MAW v* ? w.. right, the other did not. The opera* tor at Mill Creek, a small station five miles north of the city, had been asked if the express had passed him, and upon replying in the negative wan told to flag it ana give new instructions. Bat it had passed him unnoticed a few minutes before, while he slept. He is an experienced operator and had always been one of the most trusted employees of the road. He discovered his awfnl mistake a moment too late, bat rushed to his instrument and notified the Pierson operator just as the flyer went whizsing by his office. NEEDS CONFIRMATION. Cablegram Received at Vienna, Austria, Announce* Fait of Pekln. A cablegram received in Vienna Thursday from Hong Kong a% nounoed the capture of Pekin, but the Austrian government, like other European powers, was without confirmation of this report. An official telegram dated Taka, August 14th, was received at Rome, which asserts that the attack ou Pekin began on Monday; that Sir Claude MacDonald, the British minister, had opened communication with the relieving force, and that the allies had established their head<jnarte*s at Tung Chan. ROBERTS MAKES THREATS. Burgher* are Said to Have Broken Their Oath of Allegiance. Advices from Pretoria state that Lord Roberts' proclamation, after reciting the fact that many have broken the oath to maintain neutrality and that the leniencj extended to the burghers is not appreciated, warns all who break their oaths in the future that they will be punished by death, imprisonment or fine. WALI>ERSEE>8 FAREWELL. In Taking Le?T? of Hli Army Corps He Hints at Big War. Count von Waldersee, in bidding farewell to the officers of the Tenth army corps at Hanover, Germany, said, according to a correspondent: "Upon the pluck of my soldiers I shall rely to carry out my mission for the welfare and glory of the. Father- j laud, and I know that if the present difficulties should engender new entanglements, the Tenth army corps, to whom I am speaking, will render brilliant service," i LIFE SENTENCE FOR POWERS The Jury at Oeorgetowa Reached Conclisioi ii Short Order. A SURPRISE TO THE PRISONER Only Republican Member On the Jury Expressed Himself as Favoring Hanging. A. 4 TT? fl.in.J.. at uwrgoiunu, aj., uaiui u?j afternoon, Caleb Powers was found guilty of eonspiring to kill William ?: Goebel ani sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The jury was ont only about 45 minutes, when the following verdict was returned: "We, the jury, And the defendant guilty and fix his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for the rest of his natural life." Juror Craig stated afterwards that the yerdict could haye been returned eren sooner,but considerable time was taken up in reading the instructions. The rote in faror of a life sentence was unanimous. When the jury retired the belief was general that it would fail to agree and in this opinion the defendant himself was firmly convinced. When the verdict of guilty was returned, Powers for the first time du ring the weary six weeks of the trial, betrayed bis feelings. Under all of the trying incidents of the trial, he had maintained a changeless expression, the same whether things were going favorable or against him. The verdict of gnilty, however, staggered him. Always pale, he grew ghaciuy as the verdict was read, and hisrface betokened great mental angnish. This was for only a few seconds, however, and then somewhat regaining bis composure, he turned to the Misses Dangerfield, who had been in conversation with him, and said: "I was not expecting that. The verdict is nnjnst." There was no sort of demonstration following the verdict, and the crowd filed out of the court house alintist in silence. Powers remained in the court room for some time after the verdict was rendered, in conference with his attorneys, who will at once move for a new trial, and, failing in that, will take an appeal. Juror Porter, the only Republican on the jury, was the first to speak and said: "Gentlemen, I am a Republican and I have said that 1 did not believe Goebel's murder was the result of a conspiracy. I did not think Caleb Powers conld be guilty, but I have heard the evidence and I am convinced he is." Others also made talks, and it is said that one of the members of the jury intimated tnat no tnougnt rae death penalty ought to be inflicted However, when a ballot was taken; aft twolve of the jurors voted for life imprisonment. The jury which sat in the ease was composed of eight Democrats, three anti-Goebel Democrats and one Republican. One of the jurors said afterwards that the jurymen were influenced in making up their verdict by many things in the evidence, but that some of the chief points were Powers' admission on the stand that he organized the crowd of 1,200 armed mountaineers which came to Frankfort January 15th, his corroboration of parte of the testimony of Noakes, Golden and Cuftob; the proof that he gave Yontsey the key and that the shot was fired from his office. ' FIOHTIXtt IX PEKIX. Rome I* Informed That AH lea Are Uiinc Artillery. A dispatch received in Rome from Taku, via Che Foo, August 18th, says: "Fighting continues in the streets of Pekin and the allies have bombarded the point that is still resisting. Prince Tung prevented the departure of the empress dowager." ^ * A FORTY-YEAR 8EXTEXCE. Private Boakea DeMrtod In Face of Enemy and Joined Their Bank*. Private Chester A. Boakes, of the Fourth infantry, was convicted by courtmartial at Imus, P. L, of deserting in the faoe of the enemy, and also 01 aavisiug Uiucr DViuiCJD ?u ucaci i. He was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the service of the United States, forfeiting all pay and allowances dne or to become due and to be confined at hard labor for a period of forty years. General McArthnr approved the sentenoe and designate^ Bilibid prison, Manila, as fhe plaee of confinement. WU SENDS MESSAGE TO SPAIN. i Chinese Minister Transmit Dispatch From the Pekln Envoy to Madrid Ofleials. The Chinese minister at Washing* ton, who is also the accredited minister to Spain, received, in company with the Conger message, a cable dispatch from the Spanish minister at Pekin to the government at Madrid. It was in the Spanish code and was promptly forwarded to Madrid. ARTICLES OF CONSOLIDATION Of Railroads Forming the Atlantle Coast Line System Are Recorded. mi- - ?it.. JLHU aruuico ui wuouuuomuu w? iuc various lines of railroads forming tbe Atlantic Coast Line system, was recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Wayne county, N. C.t Monday. The revenue stamps attached to the instrument amounted to $18,000. CirtU Doesn't Want It. Ex-Representative George M. Curtis, of Iowa, has declined the offioe of first assistant postmaster general. < GEN. CORDON REPLIES To Resolution of Criticism Adopted By Army of Tennessee. SATS BE IS SUBJECT TO NO DICTATION Yeteran Commander Will Attend Reunions of Old Soldiers Where and When His Conscience So Inclines. General John B.Gordon, commander of the Confederate Veterans' Associa?- ? ? 1 - _ _ _i j lion, iias repueu in a vigorous auu iudependent card to the recent criticism of his participation in the bine and gray reunion in Atlanta, at well as his acceptance of an invitation to attend the annnal encampment of the Grand Army of the Bepnblie in Chicago. Some weeks ago the Army of the Tennessee in session in New Orleans adopted a resolution introduced by General Cbaleron which, after criticising the fact tLat he had taken part in the bine and gray reunion, protested against his acceptance of the Grand Army of the Republic invitation. General Gordon replies as follows: "Kibkwood, Ga., Aug. 21, 1900. "To the Confederate Association of the Army of Tennessee: "Comrades?A resolution recently adopted by your association at the instance of General Chaleron criticising certain acts or supposed acts of mine entirely escaped my attention at the time of its appearance in the public press, and I have just seen it for the first time. I understand this action of your association to mean a formal and publio notice that you disapprove nf mv narticination in the Bine and Gray meeting which recently occurred in Atlanta, and also that it means a formal and public protest by yonr association against my acceptance of an invitation extended to me by the Grand Army of the Bepublio and by the executive committee of the citizens of Chicago. "The object of this reply to your resolution, which you failed to'send me, is not to call in question the right of your association to criticise any official act of mine which does not meet your approval. I do wish, however, to state, kindly but frankly and plainly, that* my own conscience and my own conception of duty mnst be my guide in the future as in the past. "As to the courteous and cordial invitation of both the Grand Army of the Bepublic and of the executive committee of Chicago's citizens, I have to state that I greatly appreciated the oompliment paid me by that invitation, and the spirit which prompted it. Circumstances, however, rendered it'impossible for me to accept, and I so notified the officers and committees nearly two months ago when that invitation first reached me. But in this connection also I wish to say that I must be the judge now and hereafter of the propriety of accepting invitations from any section of the eonntry or any class of my follow countrymen. "In order that there may be no possible misunderstanding of my position on these and all kindred matters, I repeat that my sole guide must be my own convictions of duty to this whole country, and to the southern people, whose glorious record in ell the pest, whose traditions, dignity end honor I here endeavored to defend and uphold et ell times, in ell sections end under ell conditions. "In conclusion let it be definitely understood thet so long as Providence permits me to speak or labor I shall continue the efforts which I have made for 30 years in the interest of sectional harmony and unity. Whatever I can do will assuredly be done for the truth of history, for justice to the south and to all sections, for the fostering of our cherished memories,for the obliteration of all sectional bitterness and for the settlement of all sectional controversies on a basis consistent with the honor and manhood and the self respect of all. "I am as ever, fraternally yours, "J. B. Gobdos." Bryan Seeks Quiet. In order to escape the numerous visitors at his home in Lincoln W. J. Bryan slipped away to his farm early Monday morning and occupied the time with Secretary Rose, working upon his Topeka notification speech. KNIFED HIS FAMILY. Minnesota Farmer Slays Wife and Fonr Children and Then Uses Torch. Theodore Wellert, a farmer living eight miles from Arlington, Minn., slaughtered his wife and four step-, children with a butcher knife. A fifth child was badly wounded. Wallart married a widow with a family. The couple recently separated. It is understood Mrs. Wallart had taken steps to secure a divorce. After committing the crime Wallart set fire to the barns, which were destroyed with their contents. Wallart escaped with a sheriffs posse in hot pursuit. MINISTER BUCK HEARD FROM. Oar Representative to Japan Secures Concession From Mikado's Government. The state department has been notified by Minister Buck at Tokio that the Japanese government has given permission to the United States government to establish a United States hospital of Japanese territory whereever the United States government may select a site. WHOLE FAMILY JAILED, Father, Mother and Two Sons Charged With Mnrder of an Old Man. At Hardinsburg, Ky., Nicholas Mercer and his wife and their two boys, Frank and John M. Mercer, aged twelve and fourteen years, are in jail, charged with the murder of Thomas Ganaway, an aged neighboring farmer. The boys are charged with beating the old man with rocks at the ~ - - a _ a XI instance ot tne iatner ana motcer, i from the effects of which he died I several days later. ANTIS MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS Hold Liberty Congress and Set Forth Their Convictions. t DENOUNCE ADMINISTRATION Ex-Governor Boutwell Is Hade Chairman?Many Eloquant Addresses Are Heard. An Indianapolis special says: The first day's session (Wednesday) of the liberty congress of the National AntiImperialistio League were somewhat disappointing so far as the attendance of delegates was concerned. About 300 accredited delegates were present, and more were promised for the morrow. In spite of the small attendance, the speeches of Edwin Bnrritt Smith, the temporary chairman, and George S. Boat-well, the permanent president, brought forth much enthusiasm. The public meeting in the evening was much better attended, and the reading of Bourke Cockran's letter was the signal for tremendons applause. , But the greatest demonstration of the convention so far came in the afternoon, when the venerable George S. Boutwell, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and secretary of the treasury In the cabinet of President Grant, concluded his address as permanent chairman with the declaration that he had turned his bach on the Bepublican party, and would support Bryan for president. The delegates rose in their seats and gave the ex-governor | an oration that lasted several minutes. Tomlinson ball, where the meetings were held, was elaborately decorated with American flags and with portraits of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Thomas A. Hennricks and Oliver P. Morton. There were two huge ban* ners containing excerpts from the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and three containing parts of the "Behold a republic," peroration of Mr. Bryan's Indianapolis speech of acceptance. Swung directly over the speaker's platform was an immense banner with the following inscriptions: "I speak not of forcible annexation, for that cannot be thought of. That by our code of morals would be criminal aggression.?William McKinlby." "Behold a republic standing erect with the empires all around her bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments?a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.? William Jxknikgs Bryan." George G. Mercer, of Philadelphia, called the convention to order, prea an tin it Fitwin "Rtirritt Rmith. flf Ghi cago, as temporary chairman. Professor A. H. Tolman, Qf the Unirersity of Chicago, read the declaration of independence. Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, of Cincinnati, invoked the divine ble? sings on the deliberations of the body. After a short recess for Innch, the convention met again at half past 2 o'clook. Chairman Smith called for short addresses from delegates. Governor Boutwell, in bis speech, asked the negro workers to work against imperialism for the sake of ten million colored population in the Philippines, and claimed the fact that some negroes were deprived of their rights in the south was no excuse for the oppression of the Filipinos. With reference to protection the governor said there were many things better than money, and that in his judgment prosperity would not continue long with the markets of China closed to American products and with 'the cheap labor of the orient and Cuba and Porto Rico brought into competition with American labor. The business session adjourned until Thursday at 10 a. m. A well attended public meeting was held Wednesday night at Tomlinson hall, at which addresses were delivered by Moorfield Storey, of Boston; Sigmund Zeisler, of Chicago; Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, of Cincinnati, and Captain Patrick O'Ferrall of Washington. JAPS OCCUPY PALACE. After Entering Pekin They Hadu Straight For the Imperial Edifice. The Japanese legation at Washington has received several important dispatches. One received Monday says: "After entry into Pekin was effected by the allied troops the Japanese troops on Angnst 15 betook themselves to and remained in the imperial palace. A body of Japanese troops was told to guard the palace and they met with obstinate resistance by the Chinese troops. Fighting is still going on. The headquarters of the Japanese army is in the legation and the division is mainly quartered in the villages outside of Ka-Ting-Men." ? ? ? ?. n wn^Ti-io ODDAVPVV DEATH KCAVTC9 vnviijjiut ?. P. Huntington Was Greatest Enenr of the Canal Project. A Washington dispatch says: The death of Colli8 P. Hnntington removes, perhaps, the greatest obstruction to the passage of the Nicaragua canal bill by congress. It is confidently expected now that practically all organized opposition to the canal bill will cease. The death of the great magnate certainly eliminates the greatest factor of the opposition. ESCORTED BRYAN TO TOPEKA. Topeka Notification Committee Met the Nebraskan at Atchison. The details of the Bryan notification meeting at Topeka were finally arranged Monday. A special committee composed of ex-Governors John W. Leedy, L. D. Liewellyn and John P. j 8% John, Judge S. H. Allen, John [ W. Breidenthal, John Madden, Senator W. A. Harris,Colonel E. C. Little, ! D. T. Boaz and Jerry Simpson was I selected to meet Mr. Bryan in Atchison and acoompany him to Topefca. ALUfcb fAit raw r Report That Walls of the City Was Reached Monday. GREATEST ANXIETY IS NOW FELT Chiffee Send* Meuage From Maton?Opposition of No Consequence, lleat Prostrate* Many Men. A Washington special fays: It is evident that the crisis has already been reached at fefcin, or win oe reached within a few hoars. Wednesday's dispatch from Bemey tells of Chaffee being at Maton on Satnrday. This seems to confirm a Paris dispatch of Wednesday morning, which told of the allies being within sixteen miles of Pekin. Great anxiety is felt by war department officials oyer the question whether the Chinese made a stand at Tnng Chow or did not. The bureau of navigation has made the following dispatch public: . Taxu, Angnst 12.?Jus I received, undated, from Chaffee: "Ma tow yesterday; opposition of no conseqaence, yet terrible heqt; many men prostrate. Please inform secretary of war." Remit. Matow is about eleven or twelve miles beyond Ho Si Wu. The road between Ho Si Wu and Matow is indicated on the war department map as the worst section of the road be tween Tien Tsin end Pekin. It ires expected tbet the Chinese would make a stand at Tung Chow. If they did, it would require very prompt work- on the part of the allies to dislodge them so as to getun to Pekin intime to save the ministers, for it will be recalled that on the 6th Sir Claude MacDonald wired his government that there were provisions only for ten days. That ten days is up, and unless relief has reached the ministers by this time the chances are they will be beyond the need of relief. It is a realization of this crisis that makes everybody in Washington anxious. THE NEWS IX LONDON. "The allies are reported to have reached Pekin Monday," says the Shanghai correspondent of The London Daily Express, wiring Wednesday. He adds: "Chinese official news confirms this statement, but without details." A Paris message repeats this, but the statement, especially as it emanated from Shanghai, must be accepted with considerable reeerve. Other London morning papers, basing their remarks upon Washington dispatches, which, with the exoeption of the foregoing from Shanghai, form the latest news regarding the advance, are divided in opinion, some preferring to believe that the relief will not be accomplished until the end of the week. Telegraphing from Yang Tsun t l / *?- - it i ...... M.. .I August Utu i/uuj acws vunoD{n/uueut says: "Sir Alfred Gaselee hopes to keep the enemy ruining and to follow him right into Pekin." Ngan Ping was occupied without firing a shot, according to a dispatch to The Daily Express from that place dated August 11th. "It is believed," the message adds, "that Generals Tnng Fnh Siang, Ma and Chang are entrenching 40,000 strong at Tnng Chan. The allies may avoid Tnng Chan, pursuing the route northwest from Chang Kai Wan." FRENCH 1CINI8TEB HEARD FROM. The French foreign office at Paris has received the following dispatch from the minister of France at Pekin, M. Pichon, dated August 9th: "We have been advised that Li Hung Chang is charged to negotiate telegraphically with the powers. We are ignorant of the events occurring ontside the legation. It is surrounded by hostile defenses. How could we negotiate without the diplomatic corps regaining its rights and the legation grounds being evacuated? If the negotiations prevent the march of the allied troops, which is our only salvation, we risk falling into Chinese hands. The section wherein lies the French legation is occupied by imperial troops who have not entirely ceased to fire. We are reduced to siege rations. We have provisions, home, rioe and bread for fifteen days." YIC?ROY PROTESTED. Transports With British Troops Arrive at Shanghai Roads.' Transports with British troops arrived at Shanghai roads Tuesday and Wednesday. The viceroy protested to Admiral Seymonr against the landing of the troops, and according to a Shanghai cablegram dispatch at midnight, Admiral Seymonr wired to his government for instructions aa to how he should act. The British residents of Shanghai are indignant and attribute the viceroy's action to intrigues on the part of the Frenoh and Bussian oonsuls. BELATED CONFIRMATION Of Reported Massacre of Missionaries at Pao Tina Fa In Jane. The state department Monday morning received a dispatch from Oonsul Fowler, at Che Foo, August 15. It confirms the massacre of missionaries and others at Pao Ting Fn, which has been referred to a number of times in the press dispatches and has generally been conceded to hav'e occurred on June 30.A !f ARC HIST YARN DE5IED. Chief Wllkie of the Secret Serriee Depart* meat Exposes Canard, Chief Wilkie, of the 4Jnited States secret serriee, in speaking of the report that instead of two there had been fourteen arriring anarchist detained in New York charged with a conspiracy to assassinate President McKinley, said: "The whole story is purely an invention. No arrests hare been made and only Maresca and Weida are detained by the immigration authorities fordeportation." j CHINA WEARIES OF THE WAR Goverameat Now Appeals Fir Quick Settlemeat of TroaWe. ":^|S PEACE COMMISSIONER WANTS Li Hung Chung Makes the Appfi-, 2fs| cation and Is Anxious to Enter Negotiations. A Washington special says: The Chinese government made formal applies* tion Monday through Li Hug Chang as its envoy for the appointment of an American commissioner to bring about ' > the cessation of hostilities in China and the restoration of general peace. " IM This, coming since the.capture of Pekin, is the first showing of China's complete weariness of the straggle and her desire to make terms. The reply of the United has not yet been made known. Li Hung Chang's application came to the Chinese minister and waa de- : :~0 livered by him to the state department . at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Shortly afterward the president was acquainted with China's desires. In the absence of Secretary Hay and Secretary Boot* || the latter baring gone to Hew York, who hare been most sctrre in the Chinese matter, there waa no opportnnlty for a cabinet meeting. The application of Li Hang Chang ?| is that Minister Conger or aome other official be named commissioner to negotiate for a cessation of hostilities, 'M Earl Li expresses a willingness to go * ftiA tnav w uvi vvuu w uu duct the negotiations, and iiisexpeetedthat this will be either Pekin or Tien Tsin. In that event the fcegoti*? tions will occur on what ia practically conquered territory. The eaggeatioat of the Chinese envoy that Minister^ Conger be named as the Asedeas commissioner is said to be due to the ;; fact that as Mr. Conger is now relieved from personal danger at Pekfe iwdjjt ; has theadvantage of being on the spot. The application to the United 8tate? is understood to be similar to that made to other powers. Under these drcnmstanoes it ie probable that there will be a conference in order thai the powers may act injonison. At to this, however, there is no official announcement for Li Hung Chang's appUettion has barely hod time to get before the president and his advisors. Another important development It . that two of the influential viceroys of China bad made application to the powers, including, it is believed, the United States, that no disrespect be shown to the emperor and empress dowager of China. It ia understood . that the government is informed ' at least one of the poVers is prepared . to answer that there will be no per- v sonal indignity or disreapeet to M The condition inside the dty wee-U "S made more clear by a dispatoh from ' ; Admiral Bemey, giving authentic th- ^ ports from ona of his staff oflkMfS, Lieutenant Latimer, as to the sitha- : - jg&j tion on the 15th. It spoke of'the ifjjj troops "moving on the Iapfffid city" and "clearing out the ?arti|t^? 3 city." This latter city contain# the Tarter arsenal and is the beadquarifl^ ^ ' for the vioious Tartar troops. " It is said at the war department thai : Pekin indicate that the allied found a state of anarchy in the city, fgg| with many disorderly people 31 method of controlling them. Thh especially would be the case if the re- || ported flight of the empress dowaw:; and emperor is true. Consequently it; has been found neoessasy for Urn || troops to restore order in the dty and || carry out the instructions under which our forces are acting. - ' Flagae Rages la Vaalla* S The record of the plague in Manila for the two weeks ending July S jnst reported to the marine hospital, ' is seren cases and five deaths. Of Qw : I new esses fonr were Filipinos andtitrw ;.^^g WIFE MURDERER RESPITED, Governor Candler Glvw Time Tor a ae to Jamee L. Welrer*s Sanity. The penalty of death for the murder of his wife was not paid by JamesX*. || Baker at Atlanta Wednesday, as wae : scheduled, nor will it be paid at PR m until a jury of the condemned ma&'t: || peers has passed on the issas of his sanity or insanity. Monday morning ; the only hand capable ot staying tNp | sentenoe of the lew?that of UijiwisS^! , Candler?signed e respite, giving Baker thirty days more of life and th* opportunity of being taken before thn.i? . court in order that his mental respom* sfbility may be determined. | Snodgraas Quits Race. ; Judge D. L. Snodgraas, ohief justict of the Tennessee state 8Qpreme eoav|^ i has formally withdrawn from the tee# ^ for United States senator from Tnntijp see. His action leaves -Hon. Carmack the only avowed candidate 1 Italian Detectives En Bentn. ,^^ '% Fifteen Italian detectives, according to the Borne correspondent of The ^ London Daily Hail, have a^ttod for New York to shadow the movexaanteof anarchists in the United Stake*'' BIfcr lORTOAttE FILED. ???? Mto,F?rST5,M0yNa A first mortgage bond of 075,000,000^ | was recorded in Charlotte, H. O., Wednesday by the Seaboard Afr Linn ?^ +~ ??* ;3&s?r nmruau w ewuro ~ """ . ^ j'jejSi