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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 "/ doctored with two of 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 fered terribly, could not sleep nights and thought sometimes that death would be such a relief, “ To-day 1 am a well wo man, able to do my own 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. 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