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FOREIGNERS i
Allied Forces Ent
Without Serio
LEGATIONS RELIEVED;
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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
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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."
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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?- ?
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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 *
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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.
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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.
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A first mortgage bond of 075,000,000^ |
was recorded in Charlotte, H. O.,
Wednesday by the Seaboard Afr Linn
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