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REPLY VERY EVASIVE
Li Hung Chang Mikss Bitiff of
Answering Hay’s Demand.
i VEILED THREAT SHOWS IP
Advance On I’ekin Will Ha Oppoaed.
Umibk* From Conger la Hhown to Ha
Authentic and Genuine.
A Washington special says: Another
move was made Friday in the diplo
matic situation by the return of an
evasive answer by Li Lung Chang to
Secretary Hay’s peremptory demand of
August Ist to be put in communica
tion with the foreign ministers at Pe
kin. Li’s answer is not final and
loaves the matter open to diplomacy.
But Li’s actions, as reported by Con
ml General Goodnow, are unqnestion
ibly siuister and will amount to a final
rejection of tbe Americau proposition
if persisted in.
Mr. Goodnow’s dispatch contains
some further information bearing on
the question of responsibly for Pe
kin conditions in the statement that
tbe commander of the Chinese troops,
by inference answerable to the Chi
nese government, ordered the Pao
Ting massacre.
It is learned in Washington that Li
Pi Hong, the commander referred to,
is a civil ollicial and well known to all
the Chiuese officials abroad as one of
the roost rapid anti-foreign leaders in
China. He is a close friend of Prince
Tuan, and the association of these two
in Pekin affairs, with power euough
behind them to cause the iguominious
death of two high officials, is regarded
as n bod sign.
Simultaneously with Mr. Goodnow’s
dispatch came a characteristically dip
lomatic message from Yuan Hhih Kai,
governor of bhang Tung, repeating the
story of two days previously that the
Chinese government was arranging to
deliver tho ministers in safety to Tien
Tain. No effort is made to reconcile
the statement with Earl Li’s refusal
to allow communication with the min
isters.
ADVANCE WILL HE OrPOHED.
General Chaffee’s message as to the
unexpected resistance offered to the
Japanese reconuoisauce is regarded by
military men as forecasting a greater
degree of opposition to the Interna
tiona! advaroe than baJ been antici
the Chinese troops will furnish mate
rial for at least one severe battle be
fore the way is clear to Pekin.
The navy department issued an or
der Friday for the co-operation of its
officers abroad with the officers of the
army in landing and transporting
troops destiuiued for Chinese service.
This revives the situation that existed
in Cuba when Shatter's army corps
was landed largely through the efforts
of the navy.
CONGER MESSAGE GENUINE.
The state department, Friday, is
sued following:
The state department has received a
dispatch frorh Mr. Fowler, consul at
Chee Foo, duted at night on the 2d of
August, stating that when ho learned
from the Shanghai papers that doubts
were entertained of the genuineness of
the Conger cipher telegram he wired
on the 27 th to the governor of Shan
Tung to send him the original by
courier. The governer at once com
plied with his request, sending a spe
cial postman, who, by traveling night
and day for five days, made the jour
ney, wLich in ordinaly times would
have required twelve days. lie deliver
ed to Mr. Fowler the original of the
Conger cipher dispatch. It is signed
by Mr. Conger aud dated the 17th of
July. It is preoisely the same as the
message received at the state depart
ment, with several words prefixed,
which came iu au unintelligible form
to t!io Chinese legation here* The dis
patch in its complete form says that
the members of the American legation
had been beseiged for a month in the
British legation. Mr. Fowler has no
doubt of tho genuinenoss of the dis
patch."
Military Postal station in Chinn.
The postmaster general lias issued
an order establishing a military postal
otation in China on August 25th, to be
known as Military Postal Station No.
1, China.
NOT YELLOW FEY Fit.
SCx]H<rt I’id-s on Sn.plclnus Cnne* of 111-
in*., at Ttmpi, Fla.
A special from Tampa, Fla., says:
An official statement signed by State
Health Officer J. Y. Porter aud J. H.
White, marine hospital service, issued
Monday night, declares two suspected
casco to be not yellow' fever. One is
reported as typhoid. They state that
no- htr ing seen the man who died they
cannot say about it and do not care to
discuss the diagnosis made. Hun
dreds of persons were near him during
his illness aud aflor a lapse of five
days all are reported well. No uew
or even suspicions cases are reported.
GEN. CHAT FEE REPORTS
Concerning the Battle With Chi
nese at Pietsang—Previous Dis
patches Confirmed.
The war department Tuesday re
ceived the following cablegram from
General Chaffee :
“Cue Foo, August 7. —Adjutant
General, Washington: Tien Tsin, Fri
day, August 3.—Conference today de
cided on battle Sunday. Chinese in
trenched east and west through Piet
sang. Rest of Chinese protected by
tlooded ground practically unassaila
ble. Japauese, English and Ametican
forces, about 10,000 strong, attack
Chinese right, west of river in flank.
Other forces, Rnssian and French,
about 4,000 slroi g, opposite side be
tween river and railroad. Chinese
position strong. Amy reported 30,000
between Peliang and Yang Tsun or
crossing of road at Pei-Ho. Yang
Tsung oljective. Our force 2,000 and
battery. Conemaugh arrived. Sixth
cavalry left at Tien Tsin for guard of
city and awaiting mounts. Ministers
safe on 28th of July. “Chaffee.”
MESSAGE IS EXPLAINED.
The dispatch of General Chaffee,
written before the battle of Sunday,
coufirms the dispatch received at the
navy department Monday and also the
press dispatches received Tuesday con
cerning the attack on the Chinese at
I’eiltsang. General Chaffee’s dispatch,
dated Friday, was not sent from Che
Foo until Tuesday, an inexplicable de
lay. The most interesting feature of
tho dispatch is the information regard
ing the positions of the Chinese army
and the fact that the advance upon
Ptkin is made by two columns, one on
each side of the Pei-Ho river. The
international force, as given by Gen
eral Chaffee, would aggregate about
14,000 men, while the other dispatches
say 10,000, but this difference can
easily be accounted for, as more men
might have been available when the
movement began than when the con-
I ference was held on the third instant.
| This conference is supposed to have
been between the several commanders
present at Tien Tsin.
It is evident the foreign comman
ders do not underestimate the task
which they have before them, as the
dispatch shows that a thorough recon
noisauce of the Chinese position had
been made and that even before the
advance of tho international force from
Tien Tsin the commanders were in
possession of full information relative
to the Chiuese position. This is one
of the most welcome features of the
dispatch, as it proves that the inter
national column did not blunder upon
According to the war department map
the town of Peitsaug covers both sides
of the river, but the main portion of it
is on the left side where the Japanese,
English and American forces had ar
ranged to attack the enemy.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Many New Industrie. ICatnhlUhed Daring
the Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past
week ending August 4 inclndo a SJO,-
000 brick aud tile works aud a 8100,000
builders’ supply company at Norfolk,
| aud a 8400,000 chemical compauy at
■ Richmond, Va ; a clothing factory iu
j Kentucky; two coal and coke compa
nies in Alabamu and four in West
Virginia; two cotton mills in South
Carolina; electric light and power
plants at Dothau, A’a.; Hot Springs,
I Ark.; Parksville, S. C.; Abingdon,
Fredericksburg aud Newport News,
Va.; an excelsior factory in South
Carolina; a fiber factory in West Ten
nessee; flouring mills in Kentucky,
Texas and West Virginia; foundries
and machine shops in Alabama and
Arkansas; a grain elevator and a hard
ware company in Texas; a knitting
mill iu Georgia; lime kilns in Virginia;
lumber mills iu Alabama. Tennessee,
Texas and Virgiuia; a mining company
in East Teunessee; natural gas aud oil
companies in West Virginia; a $*500,000
onyx quarrying company in Kentucky;
a pulp mill in East Tennessee; pyrites
mines in Georgia; a roofing aud cor
nice company at Wheeling, W. Va.; a
stave factory in Keutueky; supply
companies in South Carolina and Vir
giuia; telephone companies at Har
rison, Ark.; Williamston, N. C.; Falls
Church, Va., aud Romney, W. Va.;
two tobacco factories in Kentucky and
one in Virginia; a wood turning fac
tory (rebuilt) at Charleston, W. Va.;
zinc mines in Arkansas.—Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Tenu.)
PRESSING THE SULTAN.
Mr. Grltcomb Renew* Effort* to Secure
Tlmt Settlement.
It is stated at the state department
that Mr. Griscomb, the American
charge at Constantinople, is renewing
efforts to secure a settlement of the
Turkish government. The instructions
from Washington to Mr. Griscomb
were to the effect that the matter be
pressed constantly for settlement. Mr.
Griscomb appeared to be keeping up
the semi monthly reminder with great
regularity, and word comes about everr
two weeks that he has presented au
ther demand.
Some Wonderful Wounds.
Quartermaster Sergeant Johnson,
Second Beds, writes from Bloemfon
tein: "I went to see Sergeant Shim
mans In the hospital here. A bullet
hit him on the outside of the knee,
passed out at the top, slightly graz
ing the kDeecap, and then again passed
through the knee on the left side and
through the thigh cf the left leg, so
that one bullet made six holes, but did
not damage any bones seriously. Some
of the other men in our regiment have
had really marvellous escapes. One
man was shot In the lert side of the
head, the bullet passing out at the
front. Just above the ball of the eye,
and without hurting the eye at all. An
other man was shot through the body,
Just above tbe heart, and was appar
ently none the worse, except for a hole
through his wheat.—London Leader.
•
Why Do You Scratch ?
When you can cure yourself for fifty
cents? All skin diseases, such as tetter,
salt rheum, ringworm, eczema,etc., can
be surely cured by au ointment called
Tetterine. Any number of testimouials
shown for the asking. Nothing else is
as good. Unless yo ir druggist has it,
send 50c. in stamps to the manufactu
rer, J. T. Shnptrine, Savannah, Ga.,
for a box postpaid.
Soapsuds For the Crops.
Soapsuds are to be had on all farms,
as wash days occur everywhere. They
are usually thrown away, but can be
used with advantage on the rows of
celery and asparagus. If thrown around
the peach trees, so as to soak down
to the roots (or the soil loosened for
that purpose), they will destroy the lar
vae of insects which sometimes dam
age the trees at the roots.
Do Your Feel. Ache and Burn?
Shake Into your shoes Allen’s Foot-Ease,
a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New
Shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Ingrowing
Nails, Itching, Swollen, Hot, Callous, Sore
and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and
Shoe Stores sell it 25a. Sample sent FREE.
Address, Ali.en 8. Olmsted, Lelioy, N. Y.
Familiar Experience.
Cutton—Were you careful when you took
your bicycle apart and cleaned It not to lose
any of tbe ports?
Dryde—Not to lose any of th n m? Why, when
I put the machine together again I had nearly
a dozen pieces loft over.
The Best Prescription for Chilli
and Fever Is a bottle of Gnovs's Tasteless
('dii.lTokic. It Is simply iron ami quinine la
a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price Sue.
A Word to Brides.
One little simple song we sing.
To brides but newly wed;
Just make the best of everything—
Especially of bread
—Detroit Free Press.
If you wamt ӣood digestion to wait up
a bar OI Adams i’epsiii Tutti'Fruttt.
What the Eye Doesn’t See, Etc.
De Auber—“l am thinking seriously of do
nating one of my paintings to some public in
stitution. Which one would you suggest?’’
Critlcua—‘•Well, it strikes me that the blind
asylum would be lust the caper."—Chicago
Dally News.
! The eyes of horses and cattle,
| equally with the eyes of mao,
| are cured by
Mitchells Eye Salve
which
was favorably known in this
region as far back as 1849.
You may place great confi
dence in this remedy.
Price 25 cents. All druggists.
HALL & RUCKEL,
Hew York. 1848. London.
Malsby & Company,
39 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
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free by mentioning thia paper.
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DENTAL DEPARTMENT
Atlanta College of Physician* and Surgeon*
Oldest College in Stat. Fourteenth An
nual Session opens Oct. 3; closes April 30th.
Those contemplating the 6tudy of Dentistry
should write for ca alogue.
Address S. W. FOSTKR, Dfn.
63-63 Inman Building, Atlanta. Ga.
fort ALL ELseTaIlS.
M R at Cough Syrup. Taste* Uoo*i. Ce r?
AMERICANS TR .PPED
Filipinos Either Capture or Kill a
Scouting Party of Fifteen Men.
rflE FIRST SERIOUS CHECK SO FAR
Insurgents Become More Active In Au
bashlns and Attacking Small Ite
connoilering Parties.
The first serious check which the
American troops have met in the Phil
ippines during the last two months is
recorded in a dispatch received in
Washington Saturday morning from
General MacArtbur.
There has been an increase of insur
gent activity during the last three
weeks, especially in the way of am
bushes and attacks upon small parties.
First Lieutenant Alstetter, of the en
gineer corps, with an escort of fifteen
men, was taken in ambush in the
province of Ecija, Lnzon, by a large
force. The Americans fought until
their ammunition was gone and as
they were surrounded, there was noth
ing to do but surrender. One man
was killed and three wounded.
General Lacuna, in command of the
insurgents, returned the wounded
with a letter promising to treat the
prisoners well. Lieutenant Bocton
HneDberg was ambushed and killed
near Santa Cruz, province of Laguna.
Five men of the Twenty-fourth in
fantry were captured in Nueva Ecia,
but Sergeant Schmidt, of the Twelfth
infantry, with seven men, trailed the
captors and killed five.
Captain Lara, of the Manila native
police, was dangerously shot by an
unknown assailant Saturday while on
the street. He had been effectively
engaged in enforcing regulations, and
had made enemies among the Filipinoe,
some of whom have long threatened
vengeance. Lara had been generally
accused of gioss corruption in office
and specific charges were made against
him by American officers.
At the suggestion of Archbishop
Chappell©, Judge Taft has been exam
ining the beads of the religious orders
as well as Monsignor Nozaledas and
other ecclesiastics, preparatory to the
time when it shall be necessary to
take definite action regarding the af
fairs of the friar* and the church.
It appears that the real estate hold
ings of the friars are smaller than had
been expected.
CHARGED WITH PATRICIDE.
Poirtonlng His Father.
On the afternoon of July 28th last,
while John I. Tindall, who wras a
highly respected and industrious farm
er, living t\fo miles south of Gordou,
Ga., with his wife, were visiting neigh
bors, his daughter . Ruby, aged ten
years, was shot and instantly killed
by her oldest brother, aged seventeen
years, with a shotgun, which shooting
at the time was supposed to hate been
accidental, but in the light of subse
quent events is now thought by many
to have been intentional. The motive
for the shooting is supposed to have
been revenge for his sister having pre
viously told his father of the brother’s
misconduct, causing his father to whip
him.
On Friday morning, August 3d,
John I. Tindall, who had been slight
ly indisposed for several days, woke
up complaining of a headache, and as
he had been taking medicine some
time, took a dose for this ailment, and
was seized within fifteen or twenty
minutes afterwards with violent con
vulsions, one convulsion succeeding
another in rapid succession, ending iu
death within fifteen minutes from the
first seizure.
The coroner’s jury, after a thorough
investigation and autopsy by physi
cians, rendered a verdict in effect that
Tindall came to his death by strych
nine poisoning, the drug have been
mixed in the medicine he was taking
by liis eldest son, James Tindall, with
intent to kill.
The motive for this deed is supposed
to have been furnished by a whipping
given the boy by his father a week or
two previous to his death.
Boers Continue to Give Up.
Lord Roberts telegraphs to the war
office in London that General Hunter
reports that 3,348 men have surrender
ed to him altogether. General Hunter
also secured 3,046 horses and three
gnus.
POISONED BY TOADSTOOLS,
Seven Perenne Mletnok Them For Mush
rooms and Three Are Dead.
Three persons dead in the home of
J. A. Norris, near Harvey, 111., and
four others seriously ill, was the re
sult of eating toadstools which they
mistook for mushrooms. The dead
are: Mrs. Edith Norris, Maud Norris
and Thomas Norris.
Thomas, thirteen years old, un
doubtedly saved those yet alive. Half
clad aud suffering fearfully, he rode
bareback to Homewood, three miles
aw ay, and fell exhausted as he reached
the house of a physician. He died
soon after the doctor reached the Nor -1
ris home, in time to save four lives. |
Naming a Kaffir hoy.
The war In South Africa hn<? p ro .
duced some strange results in the
nomenclature of children, but it has
been left to a Kaffir to devise the most
curious combination—Bullor Churchill
Lal.oucbore. Lest he forget, or there
should be any mistake, the proud fath
er had written the three names ou a
piece of paper, which he handed to the
baptizing minister. Certainly the
Kaffir boy with tbe three names will
be a strange hotch-potch if ne pos
sesses all the qualities of those after
whom he is named.—Westminster Ga
zette.
Return of the Undersleeves.
The ultra fashionable woman Is full
of apprehension at the threatened re
turn of “undersleeves.” It is many,
many years since they were fashion
able, and the probable reason is that
they are so ungraceful and generally
unbecoming. Now they are called
"lingerie” sleeves, and where the dress
sleeves reach a little below the elbow
short lingerie sleeves, extending to the
wrist and terminating in a band or
ruffle, have been Introduced. If wide,
open sleeves are adopted, then the un
dersleeve Is a thing assured, but to be
dreaded.
The American Working Man.
Much comparison has been made between
the endurance of tbe Chine-eaud the Amer
ican working man. Those witn authority to
Hpeak say that the average working man of
America is as superior to the Chinese as Hos
tetter’s Stomach Bitters is to any other dys
pepsia cure. The Bitters does not claim to
cure everything, but it does cure constipa
tion, indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness,
liver and kidney troubles, and prevents ma
laria, fever and ague.
Profitable Politeness.
Those New York shop girls. to w om Mrs.
Kmma A. Schley bequeathed $5,000 occh, mere
!y because they were courteous to her while
selling goods to her, are living proof that po
liteness pays.
To Cur* a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU
druggists refund the money tf It falls to cure.
E. W. Ghove’S signature is ou each box. 2je.
Friends Heunlted.
“What’s your game?” asked the man with
the b g cigar in the l’ullman.
“If you mean my profession.” replied the
other with dignity. "I’m a maker of books.”
“And I'm a bookmaker,” oiled the tirst heartl.
ly. “Shake!”
Carter’s Ink
Is so good and so cheap that no family rat
afford to bo without it. Ia yours Carter's I
Accounted For.
"Jimmy, take this awful looking cabbage
straight back to the grocer, and toll him to
send'ine a respe -table one ” "He won t take
it back, nia: me and Dicky Jones placed ball
with It all tho way home.” —lu Unapolls Jour
nal
Each package of l xjinam Fadeless DtZ
colors cither Bilk. Wool or Cotton perfectly
at one boiling. Sold by oil druggists.
Value of a Good Appetite.
Mrs. Skinner — l’m glad bo hear you say you
have such a good appe t’e.
Mr. Newboar ler—Landladies generally fear
a good appetite.
Mrs. Skinner -I don’t. When a rain has a
good appetite he eats almost anything.
Look at your tongue.
Is it coated ?
Then you have a bad
taste in your mouth every
morning. Your appetite
is poor, and food dis
tresses you. You have
frequent headaches and
are often dizzy. Your
stomach is weak and
your bowels are always
constipated.
There’s an old and re
liable cure:
ris
Don’t take a cathartic
dose and then stop. Bet
ter tsfcp a laxative dose
each night, just enough to
cause one good free move
ment the day follo^ng..
You feel better the
very next day. Your
appetite returns, your
dyspepsia is cured, your
headaches pass away,
your tongue clears up,
your liver acts well, and
your bowels no longer
give you trouble.
Price, 23 cents. Atl droßjßts.
•* I have taken Ayer’s Dills for 35
years, and 1 consider them the best
made. One pill does me more good
than half a box of any other kind l
have ever tried.”
Mrs N. E. Talbot,
March 30,1899. Arrington, Kans.