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CHINESE BOXERS STILL MURDERING. Admiral Xemp?'s Report is Relner Disquieting. Washington, June 5 -The secretary of the navy has received the following cablegram from Admiral Kern : ff com mandina the U S. S Newark, lying at the Taku fort ac the meath of the Pel Ho ri* er, dated Taku. June 5 : "Es- . gagemect has commenced Rave landed | force of 50 seamen more-battalion of ? marines. Ketcpff." Tbe cipher message is not entirely legible and is supposed at the navy department the admiral means that ne ass landed 50 seamen to reeoforee the battalion of marines already ashore. LONDON NEWS OF TBE SERIOUS SITUATION. London, Jane 6 -The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Times, telegraphing yesterday, says : "The boxers are within three miles from Tien Tsin In addition to the marines the defensive force ioolodes volunteers ander the command of Maj Higgs, Ute of the Sixteenth Lancers. The town is practically under arms." The Da?ly Express has a dispatch from Shanghai, dated Tuesday, which says: "Russian troops have been ordered frora Port Arthur to the neigh? borhood of Pekin to ouoish the boxers for killing two Cossacks and wounding two." A dispatch to The Daiiy Maii from Tien Tsin dated June 4th, says: "The i situation is very serious. The boxers j are approaching Tien Tsin on all j sides " Minister Conger Reports Sit- j uation Worse at Pekin. W&sbigtoo, June 6 -Minister Conger, ?t Pekin, cabled today that the situation was worse at Pekin, and this statement, taken in connec? tion with Admiral KemprT's alarming cablegram of yesterday announcing that an engagement bad began, de? cided the stale department to strengthen the naval forces nearest the scene of trouble. Accordingly, a cablegram was sent to Admiral Remey, at Manila, directing him to dispatch at once to Admiral Kempff s command the gunboat Helena, or if that craft ie not at Manila and ready for immediate service, then some craft of correspondingly light draft and power. The purpose is to place ' at Admiral Kerapff's disposal sn effi 1 cient warship capable of ascending the Pei Ho river as far up as Tien Tsin. Admiral KempfFs flagship, the Newark, drawing 23 feet of water, cannot ascend the river safely .beyond the Taka forts, near the en? trance ; but the little Helena, draw- I ing only ll feet, can safely ascend io i 'Tien Tsin, 40 miles above She was Bpecia-ly designed for service in i these ("hi?ese rivers, and so is likely 1 to prove much more effective than I any other of the foreign warships ; which can pass the Taku forts and < reach Tien Tsin She carries a bat tery particularly adapted to dealing 1 with such half organized mobs as the . boxers Beside h*?r eight 4-inch l rapid fire guns she carries four 6 pounder rapid firers, four one pound I rapid firers, two Colts and one three- 1 inch rapid-fire field gun She is < ccmminded by Commander Swin- I borne, and her complement is 10 officers and 166 men In view of ? the cervice ahead of her, it is ex- t pected that Admiral Remey will add I to th?3 one or two companies of ma? rines If the Helena shaves Manila i today she should reach Taku next i Sunday night or Monday morning i Secretary Hay cabled Minister I Conger, at Pekin, an authorization to i cail for reenforcem'-nts from Admiral i Kerapff and to make such disposition of his naval force at) he deems proper i to protect the American legation and COD s s^tes and American interests generally The administration is still determined that the United States i government shall continue ou its in dependent course, respecting the Chinese situation ?hough wilting to go HS far as possible to aid in the restoration cf peace and order in China Therefore Admiral Kempff has not been instructed to join the other naval commanders in the Pei Ho river in concerted action. JAPAN PROTESTED Shanghai. June 0 -The soldiers dispatched to attack the boxers have fought an engagement quite close to Pekin Many were killed on both sides. In consequence of the representa? tions of Japan, the landing of a large force of Russsians at Taku is alleged to have been stopped. It is believed here that should Russia persist in ?ending a preponderating military force to the front a collision with Japan will i ne viably result. Alarming reports are current here of the harried completion of the mob ilization of the Japanese fleet. The Russian minister at Pekin, M. de Giers has made another attempt to induce the Chinese foreign office to formally request Russian assist? ance to restore order, but the offer has not yet been accopted. Violent dissensions are reported to exist between the Chinese Command? ern, chief of the forces, Jung Ia, aod Prince Ching Tuan, who in ac? cordance with the wishes of tbe dowager empress, is strongly sup? porting the cause of the "boxers " The mobs who murdered the Eng [iso. missionaries. Robinson and Row? an, mutilated and disemboweled the bodies. The station at Yan Tin, 3 miies from Pekin, bas been burned. The British minister, Sir Claude MacDonald, is reported quite ill. A Thousand Foreign Marines Protecting Legations IQ Pekin. London, June 8-The situation io China, as measured bj abundant unof? ficial telegrams, condones Juli of in? teresting possibilities, but apparently it has not grown worse during the last 24 hours, although the favorite adjec? tives of London and continental com? mentators are "perilous," "grave," and "dangerous." The naval commanders in Chioesa waters have received identical instruc? tions as to procedure, the question of an emergency being left to their dis? cretion. No fear is entertained for the safety cf the legations at Pekio. Earopeao residents, however, are escaping from the capital to the coast. Pekin is un? der control, accordiog to a dispatch to The Morning Post, dated yesterday, but m a very excited state, a thousand foreign guards were garrisoning the legation houses. Cr Six hundred international troops are at Tien TP?D, with six guns A dis? patch to The Daily Mail from Shanghai dated June 7, takes a gloomy view of things, which are pictured a9 going from bad to woree The correspondent says: ''The authentic? are displaying palpably guilty supineness ia dealing with the "boxers" and the powers are more and more taking matters into their own hands. The "boxer" revolt is spreading and ?3 rapidly changing its character. The "boxers'* are get? ting arms, preparing to meet force with force. "There has been no communication between Pekin and Tien Tsin since Tuesday, although one miserable half hearted attempt has been made by Chinese soldiery to reach the capital. The troops were fired upon and the train had to come back. Another sta? tion has been burned on the line ?' ? Dews agency dispatch from Tien Tsio dated yesterday says : "The 'box? ers' are still raiding and pillaging over a wide area. They have wrecked and burned the stations at Locgfoag aod L?cgoo. Ic has been deSoitely ascer? tained that Mme Astier and Messrs. Os3ent and Cades have been murdered. Gen. Nieh claims to have defeated the .boxers,' killing 500." Weather Bureau's Weekly Summary of Local Reports. Washington, Jene 5.-The weather bureau's weekly summary of crop coa iitions says : The drought continues existing at :he close of the previoos week over a large part of the lake region, Ohio val? ley and portions of the middle Atlantic ind central Gaif States have been geo ?rally relieved by abundant ratas. Tba unusually heavy rain fell over a iarge portion of the central and western , Salf States and io the lower Ohio val? ley, portions of Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas receiving from 2 , io 14 ioohes. They retarded farm work and washed oat crops. Tempera? te conditions as a whole were favora? ble Generally corn has made satisfactory idvaocement Cut worms are causing iamage in South Carolina and other States Winter wheat has begun as far north ats southern Kansas and wheat is ripen ing in the southern portions of Missouri aod Illinois. The heavy rains ia Texas have seriously interfered with harvest? ing and injared wheat in shook. Short straw is generally reported from the middle Atlantic States but the beads are filling well, except ia Pennsyi vania. General condition for spring wheat is 1 unpromising io the Dakotas and Minne? sota, but very favorable reports come from Washington and Oregon. Oats are more favorable. Harvest? ing continues io the southern States Rad as far north as North Carolina The bay crop io the Ohio valley ai well as in the middle Atlantic ooast dis triot will be abort Over th? central and eastern portions of the eotton belt there has been a general imprevement in cotton, al? though slow growth is reported from Georgia and South Carolina, where rain if needed. In Texas planting is not yet completed and the crop has suffered much from excessive rains, is meek in need of cultivation, and is being dam? aged by insects. The week has been exceptionally favorable for transplanting tobacco in the Ohio valley and middle Atlantic States, the bulk of the crop in Kentucky having been set. Fruit outlook for apples continues promising. - mum A Powder Mill Kxplosion Removes e vt ry thing in sight : so do drastic mineral pills, but both are mighty dangerous. Don't dynamite tho dciicaie machinery of yuur body with calomel, croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr King's New Life Pilis, which aro gentle as a summer breeze, do the work per? fectly. Cures headaches, constipation. Only 25c at J F W DeLornie's drug store. 2 j Gocd hammocks e'eap-oetter ones for a little more-at H. G. '.'steen & Co's. McCa?ia May Command ali Foreign Foi ces. IF TIEN TSIN 13 ATTACK? ED BY VAST NUMBER OF CHINESE. Washington, Jane S -The foi in Ti? ing cablegram was reeived at the navy dsnarimsot this morning from Admiral Kenn ff. on board the Newark, cir the Taku forts : Yong Ku, June 8. 1900. Battle yesterday between ChiGC5o and boxers near Tien Tsin. Luirse numbers of boxers expected to reach Tien Tsin tomorrow. Kempff. Minister Conger, at Pekin, also has been heard from today. His message to the state department caid there was no improvement in the situation, and asked for instructions. Secretary Hay took the message to the cabinet meet? ing, where the answer will be framed. The state department is steadfastly pursuing the lice of polioy laid down at tho beginning of ibis boxer trouble -of avoiding any interference with Chinese internal affairs beyond such measures as may be absolutely neces? sary for the protection of American life and property there. Especially is it determined to avoid commitment to rhe policies of any of thc European powers i which might involve the United States j in trouble. Therefore, notwithstanding j the ominous news conveyed in Admiral j Kempff;s cablegram, it seems entirely probable that Minister Coogar will be j directed to stick ro the same iine of policy which he had pursued to this time. It ?3 not to b? understood by this that the United States is desirous of evading any proper measure of respon? sibility, sod the state department effi- | cials are careful to point out that, j while retaining our independence of i action, our government is really acting j concurrently with the European gov- ; ernments respecting this boxer agita- j tion. Thus at Taku, Admiral Kempff is aoting in a similar manner to the commanding offioers of the foreign navy there assembled, although bis orders are subject to the approval ot no one. At Tien Tsin, 40 miles up the river, which the admiral expects j to be attacked tomorrow, the foreign Daval commands are acting together. | It is said that in case of an emer? gency involving jeopardy to the lives of foreigners the United States forces i at Tien Tsin might even be directed j in the:.r general movement hy the senior naval officer ashore, even though that cffio?r should hapnec to be a Ger? man, a Russian, a Frenchman or zn Englishman. This temporary subordi? nation of authority might be brought about and io fact would exist solely ! through a military exigency. If Tien Tsin is to be attacked by a vast horde of boxers, it is entirely conceivable, according to military practice, that a successful defense of the foreign lives and property io the city can be main 1 tainod only through the assumption cf the command of the foreign naval forces by one competent chicer ; too many captains may mean defeat ; io view of this possibility, the assumptioo of the command of the American forces ashore by Captain McCalla may be sig? nificant. lt is an uousual course for a j captain of a ship himself to take com? mand of a ?anding party, as bas been done by Captain McCalia Hi? rank I would correspond with that of a colo? nel of marines, and it may be that he woald himseif be the senior officer at Tien Tsin and thus be obliged io as? sume command of the European naval parties landed there. AMERICAN MISSIONARIES. Loodon, June 9-The Pekin cor? responded of The Times says : ''The American missionary conference today sent a dispatch to Presideot McKioley appealing for protection and asserting that the missionaries at Pao Ting Fa and other places are io extreme danger tbat tbs Tung Chan mission station bas been abandoned, that chapels have everywhere been burned and that hun? dreds of native Christians have been massacred i^- ? II - Oom Paul's Future Home, Elmira, N Y., June 7.-- It is report? ed by the Canton, Pa, Sentinel tba: President Kroger, if he succeeds io evading the British, will 'locate in or near Brownlee, Tiaga County, Penn- ' sylvania. Henry Mailes, a relative of Kroger, who lives in Brownlee, wrote Kruger at the breaking out of the war, inviting him to locate there io case eventualities made it necessary for him to leave the Transvaal. Mailes recent? ly received a letter from Oom Paul accepting the invitation, and representa tives have made inquiries concerning the price of farms io the vicinity of Browlee, which has a large number of Datch residents. St Louis, Jane 7.-Cars were run on the Liodell division of the St Louis transit system tonight for tbe first time since the strike was declared, almost a mooth ago. Every oar carries a police guard, and the thoroughfares along the entire four miie route were patrolled by police cftbers and companies of the posse comita'Ui3, thc latter armed with I riot shotgun?. Sheriff Poblman's posse i comitatus has crown tn 1,277 men. | Twenty-five stioks of dyott m i tc were unearthed by the police and detective department today, buried under tracks o.' in sheds io the neighborhood of j tracks. Filipinos Not Conquered. Aguinaldo Not Dsad and Hts People SUll True to Tneir Country and F?SS: Manila, June 6 -A dispatch from Canoon, dated June 3, eays, Major P. C. March's men of the 33d regi? ment returned <o Candoo that day by steamer from Parri A majority of the men cr? ready for the hospital. They are thin and weak, havir:g trav? eled 250 miles in the mountains, dur ing which they suffered greatly from hunger. Of the fifty horses which started with the battalion thirteen survived. The remainder died on the march or fell into canyons The battalion practically collapsed at Piat thirty miles from Meguegaro, as the result of fevers and exhaustion. Eighty-eleven of the men were con veyed from Piatt to Maguegaro in bull carts and those falling on the way were carried in litters by the Ingrottis with the column The cSB cere accompanying Major March were. Capts. Henry L Jenkiuson and Edward Davis ; Lieuts Carroll Power and Frank L Case, and Dr. J 0. Greenwalt, assistant surgeon. They say it ie all guesswork as to whether Aguinaldo was shot Be fore the Americans struck Sagat the insurgent chief divided his forces into parties of ten. following differ? ent trails. The officer shot was pet haps Aguinaldo's secretary or adju tant The report among the natives of the region is that Aguinaldo was wounded ia the shoulder. The papers showed that nearly all the presidents installed by the Amer? icans in Gen. Youngrs territory are treacherous, and have been making regular reports to Aguinaldo for the disposition and movement of the American tromps, and the}7 have been collecting and forwarding taxes The captured papers also prove the dis loyalty of the native telegraph ope rators, whom the Americans retained on the Cayagan Valley line. When Tirona surrendered the Filipino forces in that sectioo these operators pro fessed loyalty and took the oath of allegiance. But it is now shown that they bad beer, sending Aguinaldo copies of important telegrams ex changed between the American offi? cials Letters were also found relating to large contributions forwarded to Aguinaldo from Spanish and other foreign business men ^tfj>? CUSAN 0 : L cures Cuts. ^ P/urnSj Bruises, Rheuma? tism and Seres. Price, 25 cts Sold br iluphson-L:.?oo Co. Walter J Swingle, agriculturist explorer for the United States' de? partment of agriculture, is in A!ge ria buying two hundred date palms, which are to be shipped to Arizona - - M l>- ????^IPI? - The F;rst Baptist. Tabernacle cf Cincinnati. O , will be connected by telephone with church members who may wish to listen to their pastor'? words while takio? their ease at their own firesides The cburoh has been wired hy the Citizen's Telephone Com? pany, aod a large transmitter will be bung io front of the pulpit, to which private lines will be connected. 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