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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. 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