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MORE FIGHTING
IS PREDICTED
j—
England Is Preparing to Send
More Troops To China.
AMERICANS ENGAGE BOXERS
Russians Favor the Destruction
of Pekin Before Evacuation.
Everything Is Chaotic.
A Londou special of Buutlay’s date
says: In connection with the prediction
by Sir Robert Hart that there will be
further hostilities in China in Novem
ber, the Associated Press understands
that the British government is already
considering the transfer of troops
from South Africa to India in order
to make it practicable to send more
British troops to Ohiua. The military
authorities consider the war in South
Africa so far ended that troopu may
now be safely moved.
It is probable that the Russian le
gation has already been removed from
Pekin to Tien Tain, but there is no
definite news as yet as to whether Li
Hung Chaug will, after all, go to Pe
kin.
The Americans have begun at Ho Si
Wu, a permanent telegraph line be
tween Pekin and Tien Tain.
Chinese officials estimate that 20,000
disbanded Chinese soldiers, by the
simple expedient of turning their
coats, managed to remain behind iu
Pekin. Other dispatches confirm the
report that, in addition to Hsu Tung,
guardian of the heir apparent, Yu Lu,
viceroy Chi Li, and Wang Yi Yung,
president of the imperial academy,
■with 200 members of official families,
committed suicide when the allies en
tered Pekin.
The Shanghai correspondent of The
London Times, writing Saturday, says:
“Li llnng Chang has been notified
from Berlin that he must submit bis
credentials to tho German minister at
Shanghai, who will then communicate
with Emperor William aud await the
result.”
It is reported from Shuughai that,
the Russians have seized valuable
railway property at Tien Tain in defi
ance of protests of the British com
manders.
AMERICANS ENGAGE UOXIIUH.
A British signal officer reports from
Tien Tsin a sharp engagement be
tween n company of the Fourteenth
United States infantry aud 2,000 box
ers at. Mo Tao on the road to Pekin,
The Americana made a gallant stand,
and a detachment of tho Bengal Lan
cers nearby, hearing the firing, came
to iheir rescue aud charged the box
ers iu the rear. The Chinese were
routed, leaving 200 dead. The Ameri
cans had no casualties.
The Germans report an engagement
with a heavy force of boxers west of
Pekin Thursday. Tho German loss is
said to have been twenty.
Indications now point strougly to
the withdrawal of all tho powers from
Pekin to Tien Tsin.
General Fukishima is already ar
ranging winter quarters for the Japa
nese troops.
The Germans are pouring into Tien
Tsin, ami all nationalities are scram
bling for buildings. One British bat
tery anil 200 Australians have arrived
MAT DKSTROY PRXItt.
The Russians, it is reported at Tien
Tsin, are rapidly pushing troops into
Manchuria, where all indications
point to extensive operations before
the arrival of winter.
They have suspended work on the
railroad to Pekin, which adds to the
complications. It is believed that
their object in this is to compel the
other powers to consent to the de
struction of Pekin.
Tn Lin expedition has returned to
Tien Tsin. The march back was un
opposed and it is reported that, the
boxers have retired in force to a vil
lage thirty-five miles up the Grand
canal.
The Americans did not partisipate
in the burning and looting of Tu Lin,
and this caused considerable comment
among the other commanders.
ROOSETBIiThS LRITF.K
Accepting the lUpubllomi Nomination For
Vic >*r<*ldeut la Given Out.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt has trans
mitted to Hon. Edward O. Walcott,
chairman of corannUeoou notification,
his letter of acceptance of the nomina
tion as vice-president of the United
States.
The document iR devoted mainly to
a defence of bis jiarty’s policy of im
perialism, especially as regards ex
pansion. lie defends the trusts and
e capitalists, and s-tys the fight
laninst them is wrong. Speaking of
* nd usiou, Mr. Roosevelt reviews the
•'nt acquisitions and declares them
re as the Philippine purchase.
I TABLETS ARE PRESENTED
!To Battleships Kearsarge and
Alabama at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire.
The iuitial day’s celebration of the
presentation of the tablets to the Kear
sarge and Alabama at Portsmouth, N.
If., althongh ushered in by gloom and
storm, nevertheless proved a great suc
cess through the fortunate clearing of
the weather, and Tuesday night the
two bronze emblems were in the cus
tody of the commanding officers of the
great battleships.
The storm of Monday night disar
ranged llie program planned by the
committee for the day, so that the
formal exercises of the presentation
went over until afternoon, while those
arranged to be held on board the Kear
sarge, at anchor in the harbor, were
postponed altogether.
The exercises on shore, however,
were a great success, and the different
speeches by prominent officials were
warmly received by a large gathering.
The exercises were held shortly after
3 o’clock. Mayor Edward Mclntyre
opened the. proceedings with an ad
dress of welcome and then introduced
General Charles H, Burns, of Winston,
as president of the day. Mr. Burns
presented Miss Mary Thornton Davis,
of Boston, niece of Lieutenant Thorn
ton, executive officer of the old Kear
sarge, aud Mrs. Henry Bryan, of Ala
bama, daughter of Rear Admiral
Sesames, of the old Alabama, Miss
Davis unveiled the tablet destined for
the Alabama, while Mrs. Bryan per
formed a like act with that for the
Rears arge.
Governor Frank W. Rollins was then
introduced and made a brief address,
presenting the tablets to Captain
Folger, of the Ivearsarge, and Captain
Brownson, of the Alabama. Secretary
of the Navy John D. Long responded
on Uehalf of the navy department.
Governor Johnston, of Alabama, ac
cepted the Alabama’s tablet.
Because of the inclement weather,
the proposed exercises on board the
battleship Kearsarge were omitted,aud
Captain W. P. Folger, of that vessel,
was introduced and accepted the tablet
in behalf of the officers and men, ex
tending to the state aud the city their
appreciation for the gift.
Captain William H. Brouson, com
mander of the Alabama, was also in
troduced aud spoke on similar lines.
The exercises were concluded with a
historical address by former Secretary
of the Navy Herbert.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Hackett, a Portsmouth man, also
spoke. At the conclusion of the cere
monies cheers were given for the gov
ernors of Alabama and New Hamp
shire, and the audience was dispersed
after singing “America.”
The day’s celebration concluded
with a grand banquet at the Hotel
Wentworth, at. which many officers of
the fleet were present, as well as all
invited guests, including Governor
Johnston, of Alabama, and his staff.
A number of the guests made speeches.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Many New Industries Estnlil I slu'd During
the Past Week.
Among the more important of the
new industries reported during the
past woek are a $50,000 asphalt paving
company at San Antonio, Tex.; barrel
factories in Georgia and Virginia; a
bod spring factory iu North Carolina;
n brewery at Norfolk, Va.; a $25,000
brick works at Nashville, Tenn.; a
broom factory in Alabama; coal mines
in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and
West Virginia; a cotton seed oil mill :
iu Texas; a SIOO,OOO distillery at Wei- :
don, N. C.; electric light plants at!
Pembroke, Ky.; Dyersburg, Tenn., j
amt Marion, Va.; a furniture factory
in North Carolina; hosiery mills at Tal
ladega, Ala.; an ice aud cold storage
plant iu Texas; au iron bedstead factory
in North Carolina; a $25,000 kuittiug
mill iu South Carolina; lumber mills
in Florida and Louisiana; machine
shops iu Alabama and West Virginia;
a mattress factory iu North Carolina;
a nitroglycerine manufactory in West
Virginia; a $50,000 salt works in Texas;
a shingle mill iu Alabama; a stationery
and office supply manufactory in Geor
gia; stave and heading factories in
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and
Louisiana; a sugar mill in Georgia;
telephone exchanges at Girard, Ga.,
aud Woodville, Miss.; a trunk factory
in North Carolina. —Tradesman (Chat
tanooga, Tenn.)
TO SHIELD A “FRIEND.”
Shortage of *30,000 In Found After Sal
cl(l9 of i* Bank Teller.
A shortage of $20,000 iu the Union
National bauk at Chicago was discov
ered Monday through au investigation
prompted by the suicide bunday of
George S. Forbes, atelier of the bank.
Forbes wrote a farewell note to his
mother, in which he said.
“I was weak and let the one I con
sidered my best friend get me into
trouble. I have not seen him since
the Ist of September aud do not know
whore he is.”
Forbes’ sole crime, the bank officials
believe, was in covering up the ac
counts of the “friend” refered to.
GREAT STRIKE
IS UNDER WAV
Over a Hundred Thousand Coal
Diggers Lay Down Picks.
ANTHRACITE FIELDS SILENT
Great Struggle Between Opera
tors and Miners In Pennsly
vania Begins In Earnest.
The great struggle between the au
thracite coal miners of Pennsylvania
and their employers was begun, as
scheduled, Monday. Each side is con
fident of winning, and neither of the
contending forces shows any disposi
tion to yield: The exact number of
men who stmek could not bo ascer
tained, as only estimates of the num
ber of men who did not start work
were made during the day.
R ports received by the United
Mine Workers officials from the entire
anthracite regiou were to them satis
factory. In the Hazleton district there
are 16,000 men employed in and about
the mines. Of this number it is con
servatively estimated that about 50 per
cent, or 8,000 miners, quit work. Five
thousand of these belougsp eolleries
which did not work at all, aud the re
maining 3,000 to mines which worked
short-handed.
The district south of Hazleton,
known as the South Side, was tied
up completely with the exception of
Coleraine, Beaver Meadow aud Car
sons washeries. In this territory the
United Mine Workers are very strong.
On the north side, the upper Lehigh'
Minesville, Ebervale and Drifton No.
1 collieries, employing about 1,500
men, are shut down.
The mines at Lattimer and Pond
Creek, employing 1,200 men, are
working full, bnt every other mine in
that big territory is working with bad
ly crippled forces. Three of the Mar
kle mines, over which there has been
so much contention, worked all day
with about G 5 per cent of their meu.
Ou the west side every colliery started
up minus its union meu except tlie
Hazleton mines, where the miners
went to work in consequence of a
misunderstanding.
About 100 foreign speaking miners
left Hazleton for New York, where
they will take a steamer for Europe.
These meu expect a long strike, and
rather than remain idle in this coun
try, they preferred to go their former
homes.
President Mitchell gave out the fol
lowing statement Monday night:
“Information received up to tonight
is that 112,000 mine workers are on
strike in the anthracite region. Of
this number 72,000 are in district No.
1, 30,000 in district No. 9 aud 10,000
in district No. 7.
“Reports received are to the effect
that large numbers or those who went
to the mines today will join in the sus-
pension tomorrow.
“We feel confident that the entire
number of men employed in and about
the local mines of the anthracite dis
trict w ill be idle in the next few days.
“Tbe men appear determined to
continue on strike until their demands
for justice have been acceded to. Tbe
number of men now out on strike ex
ceeds that of auv other industrial
contest iu the history of our couutry.
“John Mitchell,
In speaking of the charge that poli
tics might have something to do with
the present strike, President Mitcheil
said Monday:
“Politics will not, cannot and must
not enter into the strike. Personally,
I approach the contest as a mother
would a babe iu its first illness. The
sole object of that mother is restora
tion of her baby’s health. Tho men
who are called leaders in this strike
are animated with the same considera
tion. There cannot be and shall not
be any contention in a political sense,
as to the declaration of the strike. The
leaders feel, and they want their men
to feel, aud they want the public to
know, that this is a tight for hninau
liberty. It w’ould be nonsensical, it
would be cruel for any oue to inject
politics. ’’
RESULT IN PALMETTO STATE.
Commute. Canvnssea Returns of the Re
cent Primary In Sooth Carolina.
A Columbia special says. The state
executive committee Friday uight can
vassed the returns of the late primary.
Total vote for governor was 88,775,
and Governor McSweeney’s majority
over Colonel Hoyt was 13,951.
Colonel James Tillman received 18,-
802 more votes than Colonel Sloane
for lieutenaut governor. J. 11. Whar
ton defeated W. D. Evans, present
chairman of the railroad commission,
by 3,390. Lieutenant Governor R.
B. Scarborough defeats James Norton
[ for congress by 1,071.
IN DIPLOMATIC PHASE
The Chinese Situation Has Lost
Some of Its Recent Acuteness,
SHARP DIPLOMACY NOW IN ORDER
Ruaiiani Receive Li Hung Chung on
Hoard Warship—Gen. Chaffee .Ex
presses an Opinion.
A Washington special says: There
were no developments in the Chinese
negotiations Friday with which the
public could be made acquainted, the
whole matter being still in the diplo
matic phase, and therefore not calling
for military orders.
The war department officials are
awaiting word from the state depart
ment as to the next step expected of
the troops, but it is now intimated that
this will not be taken immediately.
The situation has lost something of
its acuteness owing to the chaoge in
the attitude of the Russian govern
ment as indicated in Thursday’s dis
patches, and although no official con
firmation has reached Washington of
the postponement of the withdrawal,
the fact is not doubted here. But re
gardless of the course to be takon by
Russia, it is now said that there is
nothing in the American note of re
sponse to Russia that demands an im
mediate evacuation in the event that
the Russian troops are called away.
Instead, it is stated that the control
the situation would simply pass from
the state department into General
Chaffee’s hands, aud it would be for
him, after conferring with the other
military commauders, to determine
when and how, and to what extent the
American forces should bo withdrawn.
RUSSIANS RECEIVE EARL LI.
"Li Hung Chang will be taken on
board a Russian warship at Wu Saug
and received by the Ruesiansat Taku,”
says the Shanghai correspondent of
The London Post, “and he will be ac
companied by the Chinese minister of
railways. ”
According to the Shanghai corres
pondent of The London Times, wiring
Wednesday, Earl Li considers that the
preliminary difficulty of the negotia
tions consists in the necessity, which
he realizes, of denouncing Prince Tnan
and his accomplices to the throne. He
is of the opinion that it would be ad
visable for the allies to take the initia
tive by compiling a list of those held
chiefly responsible, aud by formulat
ing their demands accordingly.
The Paris correspondent of the
Morning Post says:
“France and Russia, I have been
assured, have agreed to demand the
complete dismemberment of Chi
na, including the razing of the
Taku forts and the fortifications and
arsenals elsewhere.”
General Chaffee is preparing to
make his troops comfortable for the
winter. When asked his opinion re
garding the situation, Le is reported
to have answered:
“It would be better for the United
States troops to leave; but, in any
event, the Chinese Christians will be
provided for.”
DEMOCRATS TO TACKLE EAST.
They Will Jlke Desperate Efforts to
Capture Republican States.
The chairmen of the Democratic
state committees from the nearby
states were at the Hoffman house,
New York, Friday, in conference with
National Chairman J. K. Jones and
the sub-committee having in charge
the campaign in the east. The con
ference closed after a session of over
three hours. Ex-Governor Stone said
after the meeting:
“We will now make an active effort
to carry New York, New Jersey, Con
necticutt, Delaware, Maryland and
West Virginia. From now on the na
tional sub-committee will co-operate
with the state committees in those
states, furnishing them all the aid and
ammunition for the hardest kind of
a fight.”
Exterminating Catholic Missionaries.
The Cologne Volks Zeituug, the
leading centrist organ of Germany,
has received special advices from
Shankow saying that the war of exter
mination against Cathclic missionaries
in China is assuming greater dimen<
siona.
iJEtiIN WORK IN OHIO.
Democrat* Open the Campaign In th#
Hnekeye State at Coluinbut.
The Ohio Democrats opened their
campaign at Columbus Friday with a
meeting iu the afternoon at Goodale
Park, and at the Goodall auditorium in
the evening. W. J. Bryan made
speeches at both meetings, and there
was a large attendance of Democratic
leaders from all parts of the state.
McKinley’s Favorite Flower.
The pink carnation is to be a badge
of the Republican national campaign.
It is President McKinley’s favorite
flower.
Japxojsc Tea Exports.
During the last season the exports
of tea from Jipan to the United States
8 931 4n ada T t 0 no 1e33 th
8,931,-39 pounds. Of this amount 25
&46.020 pound, were shipped
Yokohama, and the rest from Kobe.
Depreciation of Money.
In a silver dollar was . ,
tar „and .U-te.th, to E1J* , ,73n , 32g’
lm ' ei ßbty-flve cents- la
and ’ rStr?* 11 in 1893 - Blxt y
ana in 1896 forty-five cents. Money mav
depreciate but there is one standard stomach
remedy, which has uot changed in half a
Biuer7’ n Qd , th “V 3 Ho, W' Stomach
Bittern. It always has been the one unsur
passed remedy for indigestion, dyspepsia
liver or kidney troubles.
CarelronpM In Brooklyn.
86 T *“ m to have a great many trolley ac
cidents In Brooklyn lately." * ™
"Ye3; people are so cnroless. Tfc-y will
out on the streets.’’—Life *
The Best Prescription Tor Chills
and Fever Is a bottle of Gkove’s Tastki.icm
Chill Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine iu
a tasieless form. No cuio—no pay. Fries 50c.
An Assurance.
The Empress—l’m a little afraid our army is
not up to date. r
LI Hung Chang— Nonsense! Nonsense! ]>
Just mobilized a press censor!—Puck.
Dyeing is as simple as washing when y-v U
use Puts in Fadeless Dies, Bo4d by all
druggists.
Degrees.
“Pnsrmaster of political arts, etit I* there
any higher degree?"
‘ Oh, yes. Postmaster, you know."—Detroit
Journal.
FITS permanently cured. No fits ornsrvous
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. K. li. Klink, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. PktU., Pa."
VVliat He Would Do
Wife—Oh, Henry, if 1 were to die what would
you do?
Hu-hand—l don’t know. I don’tllko to break
away from the old-fasbloued method of burial,
but cremation is becoming popular.
If you want “good digestion to wait up
on your appetite” you should always chew
a bar of Adams’ Pepsin Tutti Frutti.
An Interesting Point.
First Chinaman—l don’t understand the dif
ference between these Christian sects.
Second Chinaman—Neither do I. I wonder
which one controls the most guns.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma
tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
Fiso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used
for all aff'ctions of throat and lungs.—\Vll.
O. Endslly, Vanburen, lud., Feb. 10,1900.
The Achme of Widowhood.
Charitable Old Lady—Poor woman! And are
you a widow?
Beggar—Worse than a widow, ma'am. Me
husband’s living, and 1 have to support him.
The Manufacturers of Carter’s Ink have had
forty years’ experience in making it and they
our tainly know how. Send for "Inklings," f res.
Prompt Retaliation.
“You had a lot of tisitoi-3 last week, didn’t
you?”
“Yes, but when they went back home we sent
our three daughters back with them."
If a woman's crown of glory
is her hair, Jessie Fraser, of
Fine, N. Y., must be a queenly
woman. She wrote us, last
January, that her hair was
nearly 64 inches long and very
thick.
And she gave Ayer’s Flair
Vigor all the credit for it.
Ayer’s Hair Vigor may do
this for you.
We don’t claim the 64 inches
every time, though.
J. C. Ayer Company,
Practical Chemist*, Lowell, Mass-
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