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CHINA’S WOES
GROW APACE
Desperate Fight Rages Between
Troops and “Boxers.”
SOLDIERS ARE OUTNUMBERED
Situation Seems fto Be Taking
a More Critical Turn—Ameri
can Troops Needed.
Advices of Friday from Tien Tain,
staled tliat 4,000 Boxers surrounded
1,500 Chinese troops between Lofa
and Yong Tsung last Thursday, and
according to the latest news, fighting
■was still going on Friday morning.
Chinese officials say that 500 Boxers
were killed, but give no account of ti e
Chinese casualties.
The following cablegram was re
ceived at the navy department Friday
afternoon:
Tong Ku, June B. —“ Landed forces
to protect American interests with con
sent of China; lifty-six to Pekin, rest
to Tien Tsin. Nations sent force to
both cities; no injury po far. British,
Russian aud Chinese admiruls and
twenty warships here. Our landing
forces under McCalla June 5. Situa
tion most critical. Russian force has
begun fighting; lauded fifty more men;
have requested Helona to be sent im
mediately to protect interests, or ves
sel like her. Consider battalion ma
rines necessary. Need gunboat as a
base inside. Tien Tsin Pekin railwuy
cut. Will 4 act ih coucert with other
powers to protect if necessary. Meet
ing of senior naval officers today,
present English, French, Gorman,
Austrian, Japanese, Bussiau and
American. Arranged for combined
action to protect life aud property if
required, “KbjcFM.”
A New York Herald dispatch from
Tjondou says:
“The anxiety regarding events in
the far east has spread still further.
“Over and over again one hears the
opinion expressed that nothing can
prevent war between Japan and Rus
sia. In diplomatic circles nothing
else is talked about. There exists
now an excitement among diplomats
such as has not been known for years
aud which has entirely eclipsed all the
ettentiou hitherto given to the war in
South Africa.
“A visit to the city revealed the in
crease in anxiety.
“There exists in financial circles all
the preliminaries of a panic, which
sentiment has affected all the markets
aud quite neutralized the anticipated
effect of the good news from South
Africa.”
DISCtrasED BY CABINET.
Tlie crisis of the orient was the sub-
J&ot discussed to tlie exclusion of all
others by the cabinet at Friday’s meet
ing. There were massages from Min
ister Conger and Admiral Kempff, both
indicating that instead of improve
ment the conditions are worse thnn
at any time since the boxer outbreak.
Conger asked for additional instruc
tions, presumably upon the extent to
which he should go toward joint aetiou
with the representatives of other pow
ers.
the cabinet meeting Secretary
Hay stated that there would be no
•change in instructions to the minister,
■who is left to act largely on his own
discretion, the government policy of
independent action so far as it is pos
sible being impressed upon him again.
It is understood in official circles,
liowever, that he is given practically
baud to do what he thinks best
in any extreme crisis.
CHINA -IS IMPOTENT.
At the Chinese embassy it is esti
mated that China’s total land army on
a peace footing amounts to 300,000
men and 1,000,000 men ou a war foot
ing. It is estimated that the army as
a whole has no unity or cohesion;
there is no proper discipline, the
weapons are long since obsolete, and
th*e?e is no transport, commisskriat
or medical service.
At the ead of the war with Japan
the Chen Hai and the Kang Chi alone
remained te China of her boasted Pel
yang ?qu*dron.
MANY AMKBICANS IN THE EMPIRE.
At the 6tate department it is estima
ted that there are 12,000 American
citizens living in tbs empire of China.
More than one : third are missionaries.
Those not in the missionary field are
engaged in mercantile pursuits, ship
ping, mining and railway construc
tion.
The missionUrios fcrte scattered.
Abfcuft three htondred. are Tien
Tsin district, where the Boxers
concentrating. IJnloss the missiona
ries in the oountry reach Tien Tsin
City, where marines and blue jackets
from the Newark are, their lives are in
peril.
INVESTIGATORS AT WORK.
Atlanta Council Committee Prob
ing Charges of Alleged Hiscon
duct of Mayor Woodward.
The official investigation by the At
lanta, Ga., city council's committee
into the alleged reprehensible acts ol
Mayor James G. Woodward com
menced Friday.
A number of witnesses, among them
prominent citizens, were called upon
to tell what they knew concerning the
alleged couduo* of Atlanta’s chief
executive.
Neither Mayor Woodward nor his rep
resentatives were presftnt, being barred
from the deliberations of the commit
tee. The investigation was conducted
mnch in the manner of the sessions of
the county grand jury, the object of
the committee being to ascertain if
there is sufficient evidence among the
witnesses for the prosecution to war
rant the holding of an impeachment
trial, in which event the mayor will
have an opportunity to defend him
self.
The testimony of the witnesses ex
amined at the first session of the com
mittee was in effect that Mayor James
G. Woodward was so drunk at a recent
rneotiug of the board of education as
to interfere with the transaction of
business; that it was necessary upon
one occasion to detain the mayor at
the pumping station of the waterworks
because of his intoxicated condition;
that the mayor had telephoned for a
policeman to meet him at the honse
of Eva Clark, a white woman, aud had
stated to the officer upon his arrival
tliat Eva Clark had taken 3100 from
his clothes while the clothes were
hanging upon the back of a chair; that
the mayor had interfered with the
workings of the police department in
reference to the place of residence of
a house of ill fame; that the mayor
had been seen in an intoxicated condi
tion at th 9 city hall.
“WAR OVO,” SAYS OTIS.
General Talk* For Chicago I’aper* On Af
fair* In Philippine*.
Major General E. S. Otis, of the
United States army, arrived in Chi
cago at 7:20 o’clock Friday morning
from San Francisco aud Manila, and
left at 1:30 for Washington. Mrs.
Otis and daughter arrived in Chicago
Thursday night from New York, and
the general and his wife aud daughter
spent the hours between trains to
gether—the ending of a separation of
two years. General Otis said, among
other things:
“The war is over. The guerrilla
warfare oau’t last long. To be sure
we will have to repress those people
for a number of years, but there is no
organized force of Filipinos. The
depredations that are going on are
conducted by robbers nnd drones.
The United States troops are now en
gaged in defending the inhabitants of
the Philippines against the robbery
aud murder committed by their
own people. But the conditions are
generally improving, and in some
parts are better than they have ever
been.
“Wo have 55,000 effective troops
under arms in the Philippines. Esti
mates regarding the number of inhab
itants iu the islands are all wild, but
the number is between six and seven
millions. The great majority of the
people desire peace aud wish to again
take up their business pursuits. Busi
ness in Manila has again resumed ac
tivity aud the inhabitants are peace
fully pursuing their avocations.
“I cannot see that the administra
tion of our distinguished secretary of
war has made any mistake in this
campaign. We may have made a mis
take over there, but, if so, they have
been the result of human liability to
commit error.”
VISITED KRUGER’S HOME,
Wife of the President Exchanges Greet
ing* With initial) Officers.
A special dispatch from Pretoria
describes the visit made by of
Lord Roberts’ staff to the Kruger resi
dence in, Pretoria. It says:
“We wore received by a Dutch pas
tor, and short!} joined by Mrs. Kru
ger. She composedly exchanged greet
ing? with her visitors, notified
her of their intention to replace the
bungher guard by a grnard of British
troops. The burghers thereupon laid
down their arms on the asphalted
porch of the building.”
Van Wyck on the Rack.
Mayor Vau Wyck of New York was
called to the witness chair Saturday
in the proceedings agaiust the mayor,
the dock cuapuussiouers and Charles
W. Moire? president of the American
Ice Company, which werebeguu some
time ago before Supreme Court Jus
tice Cfaynof, ia Brooklyn.
Boers Demolish Railway.
A Lioyjlon sayp: The
Boers nnve torn up twefliy-tine iniles
of Lord Roberts’ vital line of railway,
between America siding and Roodeval.
It is a bold raid and vexatious, but it
does not disquiet the military author
ities as yet.
POSSE SHOOTS
INTO STRIKERS
Three Killed and Several Others
Wonnded In St. Louis Streets.
DEPUTIES DO BLOODY WORK
Strikers Were Returning From
Picnic When the Unlooked-
For Trouble Occurred.
Last Sunday, in St. Lous, was one
of the most eventful and bloody since
the great striko of the Transit com
pany began, more than one month
ago. There were numerous encount
ers between strikers and other riotous
persons and the constituted authori
ties, resulting in throe deaths and
wounding of five or more persons,
mostly strikers. One of the latter will
die.
The day was quiet until the after
noon, when the police were taken off
a number of street car lines for the
purpose of giving them a rest, and to
test the ability of the Transit company
to operate without friction. Cars were
in operation during the daytime on all
the lines of the Transit company ex
cept the southwestern. At night cars
were ruu under police protection until
midnight on the Park avenue, Olive
street, Lindell division and La Clede
avenue line.
The most serious trouble broke out
at 7 o'olock p. m. in front of the six
story store building on Washington
avenue occupied by the sheriff’s posse
comitatus as a barracks aud headquar
ters. Several hundred striking street
car men had gone to East St. Louis
earlier in the day to attend a picnic
given for their benefit at Wolff’s
grove. Toward evening they began
returning home singly, in groups of
two or three, or in companies of a
hundred or more.
No trouble occurred until
one of these companies, composed of
nearly 150 street car men in uniform
and headed by a drum corps, came west
on Washington avenue. In their caps
some of them had cards bearing these
words':
“Union or nothing; liberty or
death.”
The men were marching along the
sidewalk on the south side of Wash
ington avenue opposite the posse bar
racks. They were in a jocular mood,
aud as near as can be learned, had no
intention of making any trouble.
Just as they were passing the bar
racks a car at the Park avenue divis
ion was going west. A number of the
men broke from the line and rushed
toward the car, with the intention, it
is said, of boarding it and taking a
ride. Another statement was made
that it was the intention of the strik
ers to assault the motorman aud con
ductor, whose car was without the
usual police guard. A brick was
thrown through the car window and a
shot was fired. Members of the
sheriff’s posse swarmed from the build
ing and surrounded the crowd of strik
ers about the car, calling upon them
to disperse.
Other shots were fired and then
some of the deputies turned loose
their repeating shotguns loaded with
buckshot. As far as can be learned
only four of the men in the strikers’
ranks were hit. Not a deputy was
wounded.
Under the commaud of Colonel
Cavender the deputies arrested twenty
of the strikers and took them into the
barracks, where they were searched.
Three revolvers and a number of
pocket knives were secured aud the
prisoners were locked up. The other
strikers lied.
DEATH IX EXPLOSION.
Tbr People Killed and More Fatally
Hurt In West Anniston, Ala.
Fearful havoc was wrought Saturday
morning by the explosion of a huge
boiler at the Duke brick works West
Anuiston, Ala Two persons were
killed instantly by the explosion; one
died a few hours afterwards, two others
are expected to die, aud six others are
tjured more or less severely.
HOBSON COMING HOME.
Hero of tha Merrlmac Sulfur* From Lonf
Sorrier In the Tropic*.
Naval Constructor Richmond Pear
boq Hobeon, who became famous
through the sinking of the Merrimac
at Santiago, has been condemned by a
medical survey board on the Asiatic
station aud recommended to be re
lieved from his present duties and
ordered ibnWntouce. i iff,
It is uot believed that his health is
necessarily undermined, but he is suf
fering from long service in tropical
slimates. It may not be to
order his retirement.
OFFICIAL RECEPTION
Is Given Boer Peace Envoys At
Omaha, Nebraska—All Par
ties Are Represented.
Envoy Weasels, of the Orange Free
State, was given a big official recep
tion by Omaha, Neb., Saturday. It
was marked as being of a wholly non
partisan character. Governoar Poyn
ter, Populist, presided over the mass
meeting; Mayor Moores, Republican,
welcomed the envoy for the city; Cap
tain H. E. Palmer, chairman cl the
Republican state central committee,
was secretary of the meeting aud read
a number of communications; T. J.
Mahoney, a Cleveland gold Democrat,
made a stirring speech, and William
J. Bryan was present and on call
the audience expressed his sympathy
for the struggling republics. At the
Creighton theater a crowd of several
thousand greeted Mr. Weasels.
“You don’t hear the truth about
us,” said he. “England has all the
cables ard holds the ear of the world.
You know the history of the Boers,
for the Americans, I find, have read
more than any other people on earth.
You know how Kruger went to Europe
twice aud begged and entreated for
liberty; you have read how Steyn has
studied about the free nations of the
world; he knows all about the Ameri
can government, and when the English
people say that we were the aggressors
and threatened to drive the English
people into the sea, do yon think that
those two men would think for a mo
ment that they could do such a thing?
Why, there are only 250,000 people in
both our republics, from the smallest
infant to the men bigger than I am.”
Calls were heard for Mr. Bryan and
he finally responded in an impassion
.ed address, fie spoke in part as fol
lows:
“I came as a citizen, an American
citizen, to be present with other Amer
ican citizens to meet the representa
tives of the Boer republics; to join
with you in expressing to them our
sympathy for their cause and, as I
earnestly believe, the sympathy of a
great majority of the American people.
I trust that the day will never come
when a nation fighting for liberty will
look in vain to the American people
for sympathy and aid.”
AUDITOR’S REPORT
In the Southern Mutual Building
and Loan Case—Papers Con
stitute Four Volumes.
An Atlanta dispatch says: Four
larg* volumes of closely printed type
written pages constituted the report
in the Southern Mutual Building and
Loan Association, whioh was filed by
Auditor T. A. Hammond in the su
perior court Friday.
As there are several hundred per
sons directly aud others indirectly af
fected by the finding of the auditor,
the report is more than ordinary in
terest.
The auditor decides that stockhold
ers who had filed notices of withdrawal
should not be allowed any preference
over other stockholders.
Another interesting point decided
was that the withdrawing members
were not entitled to be classed as
creditors. He held further that if
directors and officers of the association
were receiving salaries from the asso
ciation not warranted by its assets, the
conduct of these directors in receiving
the salaries was not such a wrong to
the stockholder as would warrant a
judgment being entered against the
various directors to recover back the
salaries paid.
In his report Auditor Hammond also
makes an important decision in fixing
the liability of the borrowers. He re
ports 816,000 against the Bates-Farley
Savings bank in favor of the associa
tion.
me Southern Mutual case is one of
cousiderable magnitude. It is be
lieved to be the largest of its kind in
the country, and has attracted more
than local attention ever since the col
lapse of the association several years
ago. The amount of money that the
stockholders will get will depend
largely upon the sum collected by the
receivers. Auditor Hammond has
listed the amounts standing to the
credit of all.
According to the report, between
the time of its organization and until
the appointment of receivers some
three years ago, the association lost
about £150.000.
FIRST SUB-ORGANIZATION
Of the "Cotton Grower**’ Launched By
Troup County, Ga., Farmer*.
At LaGrange, Ga., last Saturday
the farmers, merchants, bankers, cot
ton manufacturers, ginners and other
trades and professions of Troup coun
ty assembled at the oonrt house for
perfecting the first sub-organization
of the state association of “Cotton
Growers.
The meeting was largely attended
atffl great enthusiasm mirked th| pro
ceedings, whicti' enltmiHited ra
to Troup county the distinction of first
leading off in a movement which is
perhaps the most important ever yet
undertaken in the interest of the
southern farmers.
PoTorty.
Here a frail woman in a tot* ,
flhawl entered and laid a Pen ]!***
the counter. “Give me two^nJ 1 ° Q
half pounds of Sunday newgpaj,* *
she said, in a hollow voice, iftal i
had gone out the proprietor of th°
pl.ce told that ,Z
such a meagre supply of this , U p 2
necessity suffice for a family 0 f
teeu persons,—Detroit Journal.
Revolution in Water Travel.
Experiments have proven that venil
with propellers which Imitate the Ash’? S'" 1
develop a remarkable propollin* * V
will cause a revolution in water trave7 w
gradually learn that Nature’s wavs , Mea
One cause of the remarkable suc7V V.? 1 ’
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then she will see how much I loved her’” ia *
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Biggs—Miss Cheepster says every lme
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New York Press.
Happlasss cannot be bought, but one of
the great hindrances to its attainment can
be removed by Adams’ Pepsin Tutti FruttL
His Opportunity.
Miss Elderly—l’m very s-irry, Mr. Wood’v
hut I can never be anything more to von
than a— J “
Woodby (Interrupting)—Yes, that’s Just my
beastly luck—and I’ve got two grandmother,
already.—Chicago News.
Carter’s Ink Is Used Exclusively
by the schools of New York. Boston and many
other places, and they won’t uso any other.
Side Eights on History.
’•Crossed in love!” exclaimed Leander, as be
looked back at the Hellespont, shook the water
from hts hair, and made a bee line for Hero.-
Chloago Tribune.
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Mrs. Vrn Blumei —What is the latest newel
Mrs. Wlthorby I don’t know. I haven’t seen
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