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FOREIGNERS ALL MURDERED
Allied Forces Powerless to Act Until
Reinforcements are Sent.
GERMANY DECLARES WAR
In a Speech to Departing Marines
Kaiser Declares he Will Dic
tate Terms to China From
the “Palace in Pekin.”
• A Berlin special says: Addressing
the detachment of German marines
which sailed from Wilhelmshaven for
China Tuesday, the emperor made a
remarkable speech, during which he
notified the world of Germany’s inten
tion to avenge the murder of Baron
von Ketteler, the late minister of Ger
many at Pekin, and the missionaries,
and to dictate terms to the Chinese
from the palace at Pekin. His ma
jesty spoke as follows:
“The firebrand of war has been
hurled in the midst of the most pro
found peace. Unhappily this was to
me not unexpected. The crime is
unspeakable insoleuce;horrifyiug in its
barbarity, that has bseu committed
against the person of my trusty repre
sentative and has taken him from us.
The ministers of other powers hover
between life and death, and with them
comrades sent for their protection. It
may be that while I speak they have
already fought their last fight.
“The German flag has been insulted
and the German empire treated with
contempt. This demands exemplary
punishment and vengeance. Events
have moved with frightful rapidity and
have become profoundly grave Bnd
eti! 1 graver. Since I called you to
arms what I hoped to effect with the
help of the marine infantry has now
become a difficult task which can only
be fulfilled with the help of the serried
rauks of all civilized states.
“I will not rest until the German
flag, joined to those of the other pow
ers, floats triumphantly over Chiua’a
flag and until it has been planted on
the walls of Pekin to dictate peace to
the Chinese. You will have to main
tain good comradeship with all the
other troops whom yon will come in
contact with over yonder. Russians,
British and French, all alike, are
fighting for one common cause —for
civilization.”
The emperor's address is commented
upon enthusiastically by a majority of
the press.
Foreigners All Killed.
“Not a single foreigner now alive in
Pekin,” is the Chinese report whieh
has reached Shanghai. Other Shaug-.
hai reports describe the condition of
the British legation as awful. It is
eaid that the rooms of the legation
were filled with sick and wounded,
the killed lying unburiod in heaps. It
is believed that mauy members and
officials of the tsung li yamen perish- j
ed when the German guard, maddened ;
Ly the murder of Baron von Ketteler,
the German minister, set fire to the
building. That the foreigners at the
Chinese capital have been abandoned
to their horrible fate uo longer seems
open to doubt.
Advices from Shanghai, under date
of July 4tb, were, in effect, that three
Chinese servants of foreigners have
escaped from Pekin, and report that
all the foreigners, 1,000 in number,
including 400 soldiers, 100 members of
the Chinese customs staffaud a unmber
of women and children held out until
their amunition was exhausted in the
British legation. The legation was
finally burned and all the foreigners
were killed.
Relief of Pekin Impossible.
A dispatch received in London from
Taku dated Saturday, June 30th, aud
Che Foo, Tuesday, July 3d, says that
the British aud Russian admirals, at
a council of war held on June 30th,
decided that it was impossible to at
tempt to relieve Pekin without greatly
increased numbers. They also con
clude that it would be possible to hold
Tieu Tsin, but in the eveut of this not
proving feasible, they will endeavor to
retain possession of Taku.
It is beginning to be felt in London
that the plausible fiction that no state
of war exists is no longer tenable, and
a fully equipped modern array belong
ing to a single nationality is necessary
to deal with the situation instead of
the expedition of a dozen nationali
ties. Hence arises the demand that
Japan shall be given a mandate to
complete the work left undone in 1894,
with proper security that she shall be
again squeezad oat when the costly
task is over.
Shanghai reports that the interna-
I tional forces at Tien Tsin are suffer
! ing from lack of good drinking water,
owing to the Pei Ho river being
choked with the corpses of Chinese
and other victims of the bombard
ment.
According to the same dispatch, the
international troops, so far from be
ing strong enough to advance toward
Pekin, are not sufficiently numerous
to attack the Chinese still surround
ing Tien Tsin and keeping up a desul
tory fire on the place.
hay Receives Cablegrams.
Secretary Hay ha3 received cable
grams from Consul Goodnow from
Shanghai dated July 3 and United
States Consul MrWade at Canton.
The one from Goodnow is as follows:
•‘On June 27th there were two lega
tions standing. Prince Tuan and his
force of boxers are in control of every
thing. Complete condition of anarchy
in streets.”
Prince Tuan is said to be publicly
beheading all the legation guards cap
tured by the Chinese.
Foreigners Fought Desperately.
Couriers who are arriving at the
seats of government of the southern
viceroys from their agents in Pekin
give vivid, bat fragmentary pictures
of what is being enacted in the orient.
They report that the heads of some of
the captured legation guards were be
ing borne through the streets on the
top of spears, fo’lowed by zealots
chanting ‘Tapi Wang Kuei Tse Tapi
Tapi” (Kill the foreign devils; kill,
kill.”)
The city’s millions have been rous
ed to patriotic fervor, breaking out
into the wildest excesses, while over
half the city could be heard fighting
aronnd the legations.
One of these couriers who was in
terviewed by the correspondent of the
London Express at Shanghai, sup
plemented the tragic sentences of the
dispatch he bore by a narrative of
some things he saw. He says the
foreigners were making a last stand
in the extensive buildings and in
closures of the British legation. They
Lai many dead and wounded. Among
them were some women and children.
All were short of food, even for the
commonest necessaries. The women
were starving, as they gave a part of
their small allowance to the children.
The foreigners, nevertheless, were
holding out under a terrible fire, up
held by the hourly expectation of re
lief. They knew they would not be
abandoned, and that the armies of
their governments were advancing.
Sometimes they thought they could
hear artillery in action beyond the
wall.
They were unable to return the fire
of the Chinese, except at moments
when an assault seemed imminent.
Then the machine guns and repeating
rides tore the storming parties to
pieces. The messenger expressed the
belief that it would be impossible for
the foreigners to exist much longer, as
the Chinese were preparing to batter
down the walls of the courtyard and
ammunition was running low.
Orders were given by Friuce Tuan,
the messenger says, that since some
had been killed, not one other for
eigner should be left alive. The
Chinese soldiers were exhorted to sac
rifice their lives without hesitation, if
by doing so they could help extermi
nate the “wang kuei tse.” Extreme
precautions had been taken to pre
vent the foreigners from communicat
ing with anyone outside the city, and
a number of runners who were sent
out were killed by the Chinese. This
messenger succeeded in getting
through by smearing bis face aud
clothes with blood aud joining in the
outcries against the “devils.” He
passed the remains of foreigners of
Admiral Seymour’s force, who had
been killed between Lang Fang and
Lo Fu. Their bodies bad been cut to
pieces and their heads were carried at
the ends of bamboos.
CHINESE WA.lt DECLARATION.
Imperial Dacrao Ju*t lamed Urges
Bloody War Agtn*t Foreigner*.
A New York Herald dispatch from
Shanghai, July 3d, says: The follow
ing Imperial decree, dated Pekin,
Juue 25th, has been sent by the
courier to Pao Ting Fu, aud thence
telegraphed broadcast:
“We are now warring with the
foreigners. Boxers, patriots and peo
ple, combined with the government
troops, have been repeatedly victori
ous in battle with our foreign ene
mies. We have already sent im
perial commissioners to transmit the
imperial praise and exhortation to re
peat these successes.
MONETARY LEAGUE ROW.
Warner, of Ohio, Hakes Caustic
Reference to “i6 to i” and Is
Denounced By Members.
The placidity of the meeting of the
United States Monetary League at
Kaasas City Monday was considerably
ruffled in the closing hours by state
ments from General A. J. Warner, of
Ohio, who was a volunteer speaker,
taking the time and place which had
been assigned to Mr. Sulzer, who fail
ed to appear.
General Warner was introduced by
ex-Governor St. John, who called him
thu father of the cause of free silver.
General Warner caused the first flutter
of excitement by saying that so far as
he knew there was no proposition to
change the ratio of coinage. The live
question of the hour, he added, is to
get silver restored to its place, where
it would have the same rights as gold.
“I don’t care anything about the
ratio of 1G to 1,” he said. “Get silver
restored,” he added. “Catch your
hare first, then cook it. Regulate
silver automatically and you settle the
question. I sometimes think we have
laid too much stress on 16 to 1. lam
in favor of it, but there are and must
always be conditions which may
change the ratio.”
Mr. Berry, of Pennsylvania, inter
rupted and asked if General Warner
was not giving away some of the se
crets of the platform. Before General
Warner could reply, Mr. Harvey asked
him:
“Do you understand the history of
free coinage?”
General Warner replied without
perturbation that he had made a study
of it, and he begged leave to say to
Mr. Harvey and others that there had
been no legal action taken by congress
on the question of ratio.
Interruptions followed with rapidity
and exceptions to the speaker’s views
became heated. Waiting a moment for
quiet, General Warner continued:
“I tell you the question of 16 to 1
is going to cut little figure in this
campaign. The issues .will be anti
imperialism and trusts, and what we
should do for humanity, and the ques
tion of ratio will sink into infinitesi
mal insignificance.”
Mr. Harvey leaped upon a table,
and repeating former statements, he
added:
“If the people do not instruct con
gress before election on the question
of ratio, congress would never agree.
And I stand here to say to you,” point
ing to General Warner, “16 to 1 has
been demanded by our leader, Colonel
Bryan, and we will follow hi3 lead.”
BROWN SUCCEEDS TRAMMELL
Governor Candler Fills Vacancy
In Georgia Railroad Commission
With a Pulaski County Man.
Hon. Pope Brown,of Pulaski county,
has been appointed railroad commis
sioner for Georgia by Governor Cand
ler to succeed the late Colonel L. N.
Trammell.
Mr. Brown has been in close touch
with the governor for a number of
years, and in addition to that he is one
of vhe strongest men in the state. The
governor intimated he would appoint
a farmer on the board and that the
man would come from middle Georgia
and Mr. Brown was picked out as be
ing the next commissioner.
The appointment of Mr. Brown will
be until the next meeting of the gen
eral assembly in October, when he will
again be appointed by the governor
aud his name sent to the senate for
confirmation. Mr. Brown will fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Trammell,
which is for five years.
The salary of the office is $2,500 per
annum.
Hon. Pope Brown’s personal history
began on a farm in Pulaski county,
but he was given a good education and
graduated at Mercer university. After
that he went into the cotton business
at a Hawkiusville warehouse, where
he was quite successful. About twenty
years ago Mr. Brown, then a young
man, decided that business methods
applied to farming would reap as good
a reward as in other pursuits. Accord
ingly be bought laud ou credit aud
went to farming.
Since that time, out of the products
of the soil, he has bought and paid
for 5,000 acres of the best land in Pu
laski county. He spends most of his
time on the farm in active charge of
its operations.
Virginia’s “Jim Crow” Car Law.
What is known as the “Jim Crow”
car law, providing for the separation
of whites and blacks on railway trains,
went into operation in Virginia July
Ist, and so far seems to be working
smoothly. No trouble is reported on
any of the lines centering in Rich
mond.
Cnlver Calls For a Conference.
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Culver, of Alabama, has issued a call
for a conference of baukers, ware
housemen, commission men and plan
ters to meet at Montgomery on July
18th.
SNELL PAYS PENALTY
Former Georgian Hanged at the
National Capital.
KILLED A TfIIRTEEN-YEAH OLD GIRL
Owing to Snell’i Heavy Weight, the Rope
Cat Through and Almost Decap
itated Him,
Benjamin H. Snell, formerly of
Georgia, paid the death penalty on the
scaffold in the district jail at Wash
ington Friday for one of the most
fiendish murders ever committed
within the confines of the District of
Columbia.
His victim was Lizzie Weisenberger,
a little white girl, thirteen years old.
Snell vas a clerk in the pension ofiice,
a giant in size, measuring six feet six
inches and weighing nearly 200 pounds.
The drop fell at 12:07 and his neck
was broken by the fall of 5 feet, and
the rope cut through to the spinal col
umn, almost decapitating him.
There were only a few present at
the execution, but among them was
Karl Wiesenberger, the father of the
murdered girl.
The crime for which Snell paid the
penalty was committed August 6tb,
1899, at the residence of the victim’s
parents. The evidence on the part of
the prosecution tended to show that
Snell went to the house of Karl Weis
enberger, father of little Lizzie, that
morning and asked for a drink of water.
There being no water in the house,
Mr. Weisenberger went to a hydrant,
some distance away, to procure some.
Thereupon Snell passel through the
house and entered the kitchen, where
Mrs. Mary "Weisenberger, the wife of
Karl and mother of Lizzie, wa= pre
paring the morning meal. Snell greet
ed her in his usual manner, to which
she responded by ordering him out of
the house and accusing him of having
seduced her daughter Lizzie.
Snell thereupon went from the kitch
en into the adjoining room, where Liz
zie Weisenberger was sleeping, drew a
razor from bis pocket and cut her
throat, inflicting five wounds and
nearly severing her head *from her
body. When the mother, hearing the
cries of her child, rushed into the bed
room to protect her, Snell assaulted
the mother, cutting her twice.
Snell knocked the woman down and
made a break for liberty and was
chased several blocks before being
captured and disarmed. He at once
feigned insanity, and made that his
plea in the trials that followed.
SEYMOUR’S CASUALTY LIST.
Allied Troops Killed In Bottles Wltli
Boxers sand Chinese Soldiers.
According to a message from Ad
miral Seymour, casualties iu the bat
tles with Boxers and Chinese troops
up to last Friday were as follows:
“British killed 27, wounded 75.
Americans killed 4, wounded 25.
French killed 1, wounded 10. Ger
mans killed 12, wounded 62. Italians
killed 5, wounded 3. Japanese killed
2, wounded 3. Austrians killed 1,
wounded 1. Russians killed 10,
wounded 27.”
AS AN OBJECT LESSON
LI ITiing Chans Orders Over a Hundred
Pirate* and Box“r< B-headed.
The Canton correspondent of The
London Daily Telegraph, iu a dispatch
dated Thursday, says:
“One hundred and thirty pirates
and boxers were beheaded yesterday
by Li’s orders to terrorize law break
ers. The United States steamship
Frinceton has been ordered to Can
ton.”
BATTLESHIP OREGON’ AGROUND.
Big Naval Vessel llrported Ashore Fifty
Miles From Clie Foo.
It is reported in Shanghai that the
United States battleship Oregon is on
shore on the island of Hoo Kie, in the
Miao Tao group, fifty miles north of
Che Foo, and that a steamer of the In
do China Steam Navigation company
has gone to her assistance.
Queensland Is Patriotic.
The government of Queensland has
offered the British admiralty a gun
boat for service in Chinese waters.
“SIXTEEN TO ONE”
Name of Special Car Which Carried Geor
gians to Kansas City.
“Sixteen to One,” the famous car
that carried Georgia’s delegation to
Chicago in 1896, was attached to the
special leaving Atlanta for Kansas City
Sunday night. It was on the trip to
Chicago four years ago that the special
Pullman coach which has since be
ceme the private car of superintendent
V. E. Mcßee, of the Seaboard Air-
Line, was rechristened with the euph
onious title of Sixteen to One. The
special attracted a great deal of atten
tion on t-e trip.
Rest Was Denied Him.
His book had been published and
had made a great sensation " “ a
“Now,” they said, “you will be en
abled to rest.’
“Alas, no!” he replied. “I fi nd that
the public demands minute information
as to my habits and mode of life, and
it therefore becomes necessary f OP
to develop some peculiarities and ec
centricities and practice them assidu
ously in order that I may not prove a
disappointment.”
What Will Become of China!
None can foresee the outcome of the n- llr
r3l between foreign powers over t'u* di-isi „*
of China. It Ls interesting to watch the L
mg to pieces of this ancient but unpro-r-C
-ive race. Many people in America are also
going to pieces because of dyspepsia consM
pation, blood, liver and stomach d’is-as-V
We are living too fast, but strength vijor
and good health can be retained if w<> keen
off and cure th> above diseases with H
ter’s Stomach Bitters.
When Coarage Fails.
The bravest man in the world was
probably never brave enough to admit
to his friends that he knew it.
One
Woman's
Letter
SAYS
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the best doctors /;: the city
for two years and had no
relief until I used the
Plnkham remedies*
“My trouble was ulcer
ation of the uterus, S suf
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sleep nights and thought
sometimes that death
would be such a relief,
“ To-day 1 am a well wo
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work, and have not a pain,
“ I used four bottles of
Lydia E, Plnkham's Vege
table Compound and throe
packages of Sanative
Wash and cannot praise
the medicines enough,”—
MRS, ELIZA THOMAS,
634 Pine St,, Easton, Pa,
Mrs, Plnkham advises
suffering women without
oharge,
Lydia E. Pinltham Med. Cos., Lynn, Mass.
His Looks Against Him.
Life: “Sworn ofl? Why? Drink
ing too much?”
“No! just a fit of economy. I
look so good, or something, that no
one ever asks me to drink, aud I can’t
drink alone, so whenever I did drink
it was at my own suggestion, with the
other chaps’ drinks, consequently, on
me. That cost too much, and I
thought I had better stop.” _
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