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CHINA DEFIES THE WORLD
Her Forces At Taku Open Fire on the Com
bined Fleets of Other Powers.
ACT MEANS BLOODY WAR
Battleships In Turn Bombard and
Capture the Forts—Two Brit
ish Reported Sunk
In the Action.
Tlio German consul at Obe Foo
telegraphs Berlin that a Japanese
boat from Taku has brought the
following:
“The Chiucso laid torpedoes in the
Taku river and collected troops from
Shan Hei Kwan. The foreign com
manders assembled on the Russian
flagship aud addressed an ultimatum
to tho commanders of tlioTaku forces,
commanding them to withdraw their
troops before Juno 17.
“At 1 a. in., Juno 17, the guns of
tho fort opened lire, to which tho Rus
sian, British, French and Japanese
warships replied. Tho bombardment
lasted seven hours. Two British ships
in the river between tho forts are re
ported to have been sunk.
M Tho telegraph line and railroad be
tween Tien Tsin and Taku wore de
stroyed. Communication by water is
also threatened.”
WAR rRAOTIOALLY DEOt/ARED.
A London speciul says: China declar
ed war against the world when the Ta
ku forts opened upon tho internation
al fleet. The accounts of what took
place are still unsatisfactory, the best
semi-official information being the dis
patch received at Berlin from Che
Foo.
The unofficial narratives, coming by
way of Shanghai, vary widely and bear
internal evidence of supplementing
the nrniu facts with guess work. One
dispatch says that the Yorktown par
ticipated in the bombardment. An
other asserts that American marines
formed half of the storming force of
two thousand.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Che Foo dated Monday afterunoon
says:
“The forts on both sides cf Tukaare
now occupied The Chinese opened fire
unexpectedly. The casualities to the
mixed force were as follows:
“British, 1; German, 3; ltusaiau, 1;
French, 1. Wounded—British, 4;
■German, 7, Russian, 45; French, 1.
Chinese torpedo boats were seized.”
The Shanghai correspondents of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing Monday
says
“The forts began iiring in observ
ance to orders from Pekin, conveyed
in a personal edict of tho empresa
dowager, by advice of Kang Yi, presi
dent of tho ministry of war. Several
warships were struck by shells from
the 12-inch gnus of the forts.
“Tho heavy Russian losses were duo
to the blowing up of the magaziuo at
Mandsluirn.
“Four huudred Chiuoso are report
ed to liavo been killed. The Chinese
when retreating fell into the hands of
tho Russian land forces.”
The Daily News has the following
from Che Foo:
“Two of the forts wore blown up.
The tbirty-two warships at Kau aggre
gated 200,030 tons and carried more
titan 300 guns.”
I’OWEUS TAKE ACTION.
The failuro of Admiral Seymour’s
column aud its retreat to Tien Tsin in
crease, it is presumed, the peril of the
legations in Pekin, which is still iso
lated, although Shanghai forwards
Chineso rumors that the legations
were attacked by mobs who were
mowed down by machine guns, aud
also that the members of the legations
were massacred.
The situation at Niu Cliwang is re
ported eritical. The British consul at
Kiu Ivwang has ordered all foreigners
to leave Ku Ling aud Nau King Chang.
The powers are taking prompt action.
Four thousand Germau troops have
CENSUS COUNT COMPLETED.
lU-gult, However, Will Not Be Known
For Fortnight.
Director Merriam, of tlie census
bureau at "Washington, said Monday
that the work of the census enumera
tors would not be kuown for two
•weeks. Enumerators are strictly for
bidden to give out information of any
kind in regard to their work.
The count of the population in the
large cities is practically completed,
and about 15,000 enumeration dis
tricts have been reported as fiuished.
The number of cards received from
numerators up to date is about 89, •
000.
| been ordered to China; 10,000 French
i troops are waiting to embark at Saigon,
( capital cf French Cochin China, and
from 3,000 to 5,000 more Russians
have been ordered from Port Arthur
to Taku. The morning papers con
sider that a state of war practically ex
ists and that the issue is between East
ern aud Western civilization. The
Times says that the latest news infin
finitely increases a situation already
sufficiently serious.
TUE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
China continues to overshadow na
tional politics at Washington. Tho
orief cablegram received at the navy
department Monday from Admiral
Remev, in command of the naval
forces at Manila, containing informa
tion to the effect that he had received
an official report from Commauder
Taussig, thnt the Chinese fortifications
at the mouth of the Takn river bad
fired upon the war vessels of the allied
powers, aud had subsequently sur
rendered, occasioned intense interest
in diplomatic circles.
It i3 difficult to get a precise official
view of tho status of our relations
with China since this last news. The
couclusion that we are in a state of
war is emphatically negatived by the
officials best competent to speak. The
Chiuose minister, Mr. Wu, was an
early visitor at the state department
Monday. He does not believe that
we are at war with China. He said
there had evidently been a great mis
understanding aud waß confident if it
were -true that tho Taku forts had
fired upon tho international fleet, it
was either because tho commander of
the Chinese forts there did not un
derstand what was wanted, or he had
failed to receive proper instructions
from his superior through an error.
He had himself received uo word of
news from his home government and
will remain in Washington until
further developments.
At the state department the view
prevailed that notwithstanding there
had been a bombardment aud that our
forces wore on Chinese soil, still there
was not war up to this stage. So
far the state deportment has had no
proof that the Chinese government at
Pekin hus sanctioned or ordered any
attack upon the international column
or upon the international fleet. It is
possible that the Chinese commandant
at Taku himself may have revolted
with his troops aud joined the boxers.
Therefore it cannot be assumed that
we are at war until formal assurances
to that effect has been received from
competent authority.
Secretary Hay was asked if the
latest developments had made auy
ehaugo iu tho policy which the United
States had adopted toward the Chi
nese trouble. He replied:
“Our naval forces iu that region
have been directed to act concurrently
with tho forces of the other powers
foi the protection of all Amerioau in
terests.”
Owing to the eccentric action of the
telegraph wires aud cables which in
terferes with Admiral Kempff commu
nicating with tho navy department
and also with his superior officer, Ad
miral Remey, at Manila, the navy de
partment may givo Admiral Kempff an
independent commaud in the interests
of quick dispatch of business.
Great apprehension exists at tho
navy department as to the fate of the
United States marine guard of fifty-six
men which was lauded at Tien Tsin
and dispatched by rail to Pekin before
the railroad was interrupted. They
went forward to Pekin under an au
thorization granted by tho Chinese
government to the United States
minister at Pekin iu common with
other ministers to employ a naval
guard at the legatiou. Just before
the wires from Pekin were cut word
came that Minister Conger had de
taohed twenty of these marines from
his legation and placed them as a
guard at the Methodist compound.
This is an inolosure of some ten acres
situated nearly a mile distant from the
legatiou, where many missionaries and
their families as well as a large num
ber of native Christians are believed
to have taken refuge.
WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Colombian Aovernment Force. Badly
Whipped By Revolutionists.
News has been received at Kingston,
Jamaica, of a battle which was fought
Juue 13 and 14 on the Bejuca plain
and Antom hill, Colombia, between
the government forces composed of
three battalions numbering about
1,500 men aud a force of revolution
ists uuder General Belazario Parras.
It is asserted that 403 soldiers aud 35
officers of tho government force were
killed aud that the remainder of the
government army was divided. One
portion, it appears, retreated to Em
prador, on the Atlantic side of the
Es phins.
ARMISTICE WAS OFFERED.
Roberts Suggested That Boers
Surrender Without Dishonor,
But Proposal Is Refused.
Lord Roberts, according to a Boer
dispatch received in London Monday
from Machadodorp, sent a message to
Commandant Goneral Louis Botha on
Jnue 13th suggesting disarmament
and complimenting the bravery of the
burghers. It was pointed out that
the surrender would be without dis
honor to the burghers and would pre
vent much suffering. General Botha
asked for a six days’ armistice in order
to confer aud consider. Lord Roberts
consented to five days. Finally Gen
eral Botha declined to accept the pro
posal and hostilities were renewed.
The Boer commandos are retiring
on Hiddleburg, followed by the Brit
ish cavalry and artillery, occasional
shells reaching the rear guards. The
Boerß are destroying the bridges and
burning the veldt behind them, carry
ing off provisions and cattle and leav
ing the country barren.
Other advices from Machadodorp
say that the Boers have an abundance
of arms and ammunition with dyna
mite and oxen, and that they are
preparing heavy wagon traius for re
treat to the Lydenburg district, whore
the chiefs, notwithstanding rumors to
the contrary, aro determined to make
a stand.
ihe Boers continue to work the
Barbetou mines, says a dispatch from
Lourenzo Marques,and there are eight
car loads of bar gold valued at £5,000,-
000 with President Kruger.
Mr. Steyn, in his proclamation de
claring the Free Slate still free and in
dependent, says the fact that the army
is yet in the field renders Lord Rob
erts’ annexation contrary to interna
tional law.
In a dispatch to the war office from
Pretoria, dated Monday, Lord Rob
erts said that General Badeu-Powell
had just arrived there.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Many New Industries Established During
the Past Week.
The more important of new indus
tries reported during the past week in
clude an automatic brake company in
Tennessee; brick works iu Alabama; a
broom laotory iu North Carolina; coal
mines in Alabama, Texas and West
Virginia; cotton mills in Georgia and
North Carolina; cotton seed oil mills
in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina
and Texas; a crato and package factory
iu North Carolina; electric light plants
in Georgia, Louisiana aud Tenness.e;
a fertilizer factory in South Carolina;
foundry and machine shops in Ten
nessee; a furniture factory in Arkan
sas; glass works in West Virginia; a
hames factory in Tennessee; a harness
and saddlery works, capital $190,000,
in Texas; a hay press manufactory in
Tennessee; iron mines in Alabama; an
irrigation company iu Texas; a knife
ting mill in North Carolina; natural
gas and oil companies in Texas and
West Virginia; a palmetto fiber factory
in Florida; steel rail mills in Alabama;
telephone lines in Texas; tobacco fac
tories in North Carolina aud Virginia;
a wheel factory in Virgiuia.—Trades
man (Chattanooga, Teuu.)
BROUGHTON’S “SECRET.”
Atlanta Parson Mhßhs Serious Charges
Against Municipal OHirers.
Rev. L. G. Broughton, iu his pre
liminary remarks at a revival meeting
in the auditorium at Piedmont park at
Atlanta, Ga., last Sunday afternoon,
said:
“I have a secret to tell, and I
am prepared to prove it. I never told
anything on the officials of Atlanta bnt
I was ready to prove. Atlanta has not
only gone back on God, but humani
ty itself is below par in this sin-ridden
city.
“Do yon know that in the crematory
which is made for the burning of dead
horses, cows, dogs, cats and rats, the
sanitary men are burning the bodies of
human beings? Yes, my fellow citi*
zeus, burning human bodies after the
medical colleges have got tired chop
ping on them.”
Master Car Builders Iu Session.
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the Master Car Builders’ Associa
tion of the United States began at Sar
atoga, N. Y., Monday, with a large at
tendance.
AMERICANS NOT IN FIGHT.
London Learns Thnt Oar Marines Took
No Part In Taku llombardnieut.
A London special says: Judging
from the German official dispatches,
the American ships took no part in the
bombardment of the Taku forts Sun
day morning. No news has yet been
received as to the relief of the lega
tions at Pekin, aud Europe’s attention
is centered far less on the overwhelm
ing display of naval force at Takn
than on the fate of the diplomatic
staff aud six hundred cosmopolitan
residents guarded by a handful of in
ternational marines within the legation
compounds.
EXCITING NEWS
FROM CHINA
London Hears That Foreign Le=
gations Are Destroyed
AND GERMAN MINISTER KILLED
Reports Are Not Confirmed as the
Chinese Empire Is Cut Off
From the World.
A dispatch received in London
Saturday from Hong Kong, China,
was to tho effect that the Pekin lega
tions have been destroyed and the
German minister, Baron Von Ketteler,
has been killed.
A New York Journal and Adverti
ser special of the same date from Tien
Tsin says:
Boxers control at Tien Tsin and
tho city officials have been burn
ed at the stake. A great panic
has arisen among the Chinese.
CONFIRMATION LACKING.
Tho unconfirmed and unofficial ru
mor that Baron Von Ketteler, the Ger
man minister at Pekin, had been killed
soon spread to the diplomatic circles
in Washington, and caused great un
easiness, as the erroneous statement
go. abroad that the state department
had received confirmation of the re
port. Asa matter of fact, neither the
state department nor the German em
bassy knew anything of it. The rumor
was none the less disquieting, for
aside from the grave international as
pect of such an act, Baron Von Ket
teler is intimately known in "Washing
ton, having been first secretary of the
German embassy a few years ago.
Minister Wu, of the Chinese lega
tion there, called at the state depart
ment Friday, but he declared that he
was without auy advice from his own
governmen.
Some of these came from lowa, the
home of Minister Conger, and some of
them from friends and relatives of
other persons connected with the Uni
ted States legation at Pekin. Mrs.
Baldwin, sister of Minister Conger,
called in person at tho department to
inquire into the truth of the story.
The department was obliged to make
answer in each case that it had no
news and that it could not confirm the
report. It was apparent that the offi
cials did not believe that the United
States legation had been burned, and
they were only sorry that they could
not make a denial upon authority.
It is said at the state department
that according to the last report there
was at the United States legation be
sides Minister Conger bis wife, daugh
ter, at least one lady visitor, Secretary
of Legation Herbert C. Squires, of
New York; William E. Bainbridge of
lowa, the second secretary: Lieuten
ant Albert Key, naval secretary, and
F. V. Cheshire, interpreter.
DEPARTMENT GROWS ANXIOUS.
Not a word of news came to the state
department from Minister Conger, who
has now been cut off from communica
tion. Even the United States consuls
in north China ports were silent. Ad
miral Kempff has not been heard from
since Thursday. This absenee of of
ficial reports has given rise to grave
apprehensions.
It was expected that there might be
delay in hearing from Mr. Conger, but
in the case of Admiral Kempff an
early report was looked for, aud it is
feared that the officers of the foreign
fleet at Taku have been prevented from
reaching the cable station there either
by the open hostility of the boxers or
by the sinister orders of the Chinese
government.
Admiral Kempff has been called
upon by direction of the president for
an explicit statement of the situation
and his needs. It was for him to say
whather he required re-enforcements.
If he is cat off from communi
cation the government must then act
without waiting much longer. Of
course in that case it would have to
proceed upon the theory that addition
al forces, both ships and troops, per
haps is needed.
WILL PLEASE M’KINLEY.
Republicans Will Unanimously Carry Out
Wishes of President.
A Philadelphia special says. The
feature of the situation which con
fronts the Republican hosts at the
close of the week’s proceedings prior
to the assembling of the convention is
the absolutely unanimous disposition
to carry oat fully the wishes of the
president in everything.
The overwhelming sentiment is that
haviug served one good term, McKin
ley deserves another, and that good
faith and good politics demand that
the wishes of the candidate as nearly
as can be ascertained, shall be re
spected.
Reciprocity.
She drew a dime from her purse ani
put it between her teeth, while she
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and snapped It shut.
When the conductor came alon~ sh
took the coin from her mouth and ex
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He saw the action, and at once
placed a nickel between his li ps The f
he took the dime and handed her th
nickel. 0
“A fair exchange, ma’am,” he pleas,
antly said.
“Of what?” she haughtily asked
“Of microbes,” he replied, and passed
along.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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