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CARNESVILLE ADVANCE.
VOLUME II.
WAR STATUS IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Roberts Reports Two Small En¬
gagements With Enemy.
IN BOTH BOERS WERE BEATEN
Within the Last Few Days British
Have Captured 5,000 Rifles
Belonging to Burghers.
•' Lord Roberts has sent bulletins to
London of two small fights occurring
on June 26th and June 27th in which
the Boers were discomfited. In a dis¬
patch from Protoria dated Thursday
ne says:
“A small force of mounted troops,
with mounted guns, commanded by
Lieutenant Colonel Dreiper was at¬
tacked by the enemy under Prefers
and Nel, on tho morning of June 26tb,
seven miles north of Sonekal. They
beat off tho enemy and burned their
laagers. Onr casualties were three
wounded and ten killed.
“Hunter, temporarily commanding
Ian Hamilton’s, made a march yester¬
day from Heidelberg toward Frankfort
without meeting any opposition.
“The euemy attacked our Koodeval
spruit post on the railway yesterday,
(Thursday), but were easily beaten off
by a detachment of the Derbyshire
light infantry, the West Australian
mounted, a fifteen pounder and an ar¬
moured train.
“fiaden-Poweil reports the capture
of an influential Boer named Ray, who
was endeavoring to raise a commando
/ in tho Rustiuburg district. A patrol
brought in over a hundred rifles.
More than 4,000 rifles and 1,000 infe¬
rior pieces have been taken during the
last few days.
“He states that thirty Boers have
nrrived at Rustenburg, going to their
homes from Delareys Icffpbefore commando. They
would have if ihey had seen
the proclamation which wafT carefully^
withheld by the Boer authority.”
Lord Roberts says that Wednesday,
Juno 27tli, was a record market day
in Pretoria for Boer farmers selling
produce.
Parties of Boers are still hanging on
General Bullet’s flanks. F. R. Burn¬
ham, the American scout, is invalided,
Ou June 20th the war office cabled
Lord Roberts that disquieting reports
regarding the hospital were accumu¬
lating, and asked him if anything
couki be done, and particularly if
more nurses were needed.
On June 25th Lord Roberts replied,
saying that he did not wish to shirk
responsibility or to screen the short¬
comings of the medical corps, and he
suggested a committee of inquiry. He
said that there had been an abnormal
number of siek at Bloemfontein due
to the exhausting nature of the march
and the terribly unsanitary condition
of tho camp at Paardeburg, There the
only water available for drinkiug flow¬
ed from the Boer camp higher up,
where the river was crowded with de¬
composing animals and also with a
number of wounded after the fight on
March 10th.
To improvise accommodations at
Bloemfontein for such a number,
which had become 2,000 before he left
Bloemfontein, was no easy task, said
Lord Roberts. No tents were carried,
and tho pnblic buildings had to be
turned into hospitals. Jn three months
there bad been 6,369 admissions to the
hospiffils of patients suffering deaths from
enteric fever, while the num¬
bered about 1,370—about 21 per cent.
Lord Roberts observed that he did not
know - whether this would be an ab¬
normal bate in civil hospitals in peace
times, bnt if the rate was abnormal it
was due to the exhausted state of the
men, and not to the neglect of the
medical corps.
RUSSIA MAKES PREPARATIONS.
All Military and Civil Authorities Secretly
Ordered to Get Ready.
The „ Vorwearts (German newspaper) , ,
says: “From an absolutely reliable I
source we hear the Russian war min-
rter has sent to all military and civil
authorities iu Russia secret orders to
prepare everything for mobilization.”
RUMOR CAUSES APPREHENSION.
Alleged Discord Between Russians nnd
Anglo Americans Worry Officials.
The officials at Washington receive
with regret and concern the reports
from Che Foo that discord exists be¬
tween the Buscian and the so-called
Anglo-Americans. Coming from the
officers of tho Terrible, it is considered
as largely “sailor talk.”
At the same time .it has been recog¬
nized from the outset Hint such a
heterogeneous force gave opportuni¬
ties for serious division, as it is woll
known that the sailors and soldiers of
certain conntries do not like to serve
UDder a foreign superior.
LIGHTNING KILLS TWO GIRL*.
Sleeping In Different Beds, But Were
Struck By Same Bolt.
Tho residence of John E. Estridge,
in Lancaster, S. C., wns struck by
lightning Monday night after the
family had retired. Two sisters, eigh¬
teen nnd fifteen years, sleeping in
separate beds in the same room, were
WOOLEY FOR PRESIDENT.
Prohibition National Convention
Finishes Work at Chicago
and Adjourns.
The prohibition national convention
at Chicago adjourned sine die Thurs¬
day, after having placed in nomina¬
tion for president John G. Woolley, of
Illinois, and for vice president II. B.
Metcalf, of Rhode Island. The nomi¬
nations in each instance were made on
the flrst ballot .
The candidates for the presidential
nomination balloted for were Mr.
Woolley and Rev. S. 0. Swallow of
Pennsylvania, Ilnle Johnson of Illi¬
nois withdrawing his name at the last
moment and throwing his strength to
Mr. Woolley. This undoubtedly had
a great effect upon the result, as the
convention earlier in the day had by been
nearly stampeded for Swallow an
eloquent speech of Homer Castle of
Pittsburg, and had tho friends of the
Pennsylvania clergyman forced a bal¬
lot at that time the result might have
been different.
For vice president three candidates
were balloted for—H. B. Metcalf,
Thomas R. Oaskardon, of West Vir¬
ginia, Air. and Rev. L. Eaton, of Iowa,
Metcalf receiving au overwhelm¬
ing majority of the votes cast. Imme¬
diately after the announcement of
the result of the ballot for the
tho presidential nomination Dr. Swal¬
low was proposed as the vice presi¬
dential nominee. The convention went
wild over the suggestion, but Dr.
Swnllow, after a hurried conference
with the Pennsylvania delegation, re¬
fused to accept the nomination.
Dariug the last day’s session Chair¬
man Stewart, of the national commit¬
tee, called for contributions for the
campaign and over $7,000 was realized
in a few minutes.
John G. Woolley is descended in a
direct line from Emannel Woolley, an
English Quaker and friend of George
Fox, who came to New England in
1058 and later became a largo land
owner in New Jersey, which is still
tho family 6eat. Dr. Woolley was
horn at Collinsville, O., February 15,
1850. He was graduated from the
Ohio Wesleyan university in 1871,
practiced lawiu Paris, III., Minncapo
lis and New York u ntil 18S8, when he
became a Prohibitionist, and from ac¬
cepting occasional invitations to speak
upon the liquor traffic, drifted out of
(he practice of his profession into tho
lecture field. He has resided in Chi¬
cago since 1892.
Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode Islaud,
prohibition nominee for vice president,
was born seventy-one years ago. He
is president of the Providence County
Savings bnnk. Mr. Metcalf was for¬
merly a Republican, but joined the
Prohibition party several years ago,
and has been prominently identified
with that party since. He has been
tho candidate of his party for governor
several times.
BLACK HOOT IN COTTON.
South Georgia Planters Threatened With
Loss of Crop.
An Atlanta dispatch says: Commis¬
sioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens
snys that black root, a very damaging
disease, hns been discovered iu the
cotton crop in South Georgia.
Reports have been coming in from
the farmers telling him of a peculiar
color the cotton has and describing
the roots of “the cotton plant to be
black. Remedies for the disease were
asked for. Mr. Stevens fcn speaking
of the black root says:
“Black root is a terrible thing for
cotton. It always destroys it and if
the reports that I have been getting
for the last two days are true, the cot¬
ton crop in this state has been greatly
damaged and the loss will amount to
thousands of dollars.”
FROM LI HUNG CHANG.
Minister Wu at Washington Receives
Cablegram From Canton, Chinn.
Minister Wu called at the state de¬
partment Thursday afternoon and ex¬
hibited the following cablegram to
Secretary Hay:
“Canton, June 28.--The legation
ministers having left Pekin are now
twelve miles from Tien Tsin with Ad-
mh , al 8eymmlr . Ll Hung Chang.”
The ® 5lnl8tw . explained . . ...... that the ca¬
blegrnm reached him from the Chinese
minister in London. He believes the
cablegram to be correct.
Rosing To Nominate Towne.
L. A. Rosing, chairman of the Min¬
nesota Democratic state committee
nnd delegate at largo to the conven¬
tion nt Kansas City, will make tha
speech placing the name of Charles A.
Towne before the convention as a can¬
didate for vice president.
Two Instantly Killed.
By explosion of a boiler to a thresh¬
ing machine at Cross Hill, 8. C.,
Wednesday, William P. Fuller, a
young graduate of Clemson college,
nnd Marshal Owens, were instantly
killed. Two others were seriously
hurt.
LISCUM LEAVES MANILA.
Sails On Transport With 1,971 Men For
Scene of Trouble In China.
The war department received tho
following undated cablegram from
General MacArthur Thursday morn¬
ing:
“Adjutant Gekebad, Washington—
Transport left Manila at 8:30 this
CARNESVILLE. GA., FRIDAY. .JULY 6, 1000.
MINISTERS ARE SAFE
Foreign Representatives Were
Protected By Government.
ARE WITH THE RELIEF EXPEDITION
Washington Officials Are Greatly Relieved.
Some Details of tlie righting lie-
fore City of Tien Tsln.
The following cablegram was re¬
ceived at tho navy department Idle
Wednesday afternoon:
“Ohr Foo, June 27.—Secretary
of Navy, Washington: Pekin force
and ministers reported with Pekin
relief expedition intrenched eight
miles from Tien Tsin.
“Kemi-ff."
The developments of the day re¬
specting Chinn wore important and
interesting. The Chinese minister’s
report of the departure of the foreign
ministers and their guards from Pekin
greatly relieved the officials at Wash¬
ington, who took it as the flrst tangible
evidence that the imperial Chinese
government had a full realization of
the enormity of permitting the minis¬
ters coming to personal harm and of
doing all in ih.eir power to observe the
amenities of international exchange.
At the state department it is said
that if it shall be explained that the
imperial government did this, pot with
a purposo of rupturing diplomatic re¬
lations, bnt simply to insure the
safety of the ministers, which they
were unable to guarantee as long us
tiny remained in Pekin, there is still
ground for an amicable understand¬
ing.
The keenest interest is shown by the
officials to learn the conditions under
which tho ministers left Pekin. Min¬
ister Wu’s dispatch was ominously
silent on that point, and though the
minister himself maintains almost ob¬
stinately bis confidence in the non¬
existence of a state of war, it is gen¬
erally admitted that it will be difficult
to aocept his conclusion if it shall
transpire that the Pekin government
itself has sent the ministers away with
their passports or, what inny come to
T he same thing, with a guard ns snf e
conduot.
Notice has come to the government
that the cable companies have again
re-opened communication telegraphi¬
cally with Taku and Che Foo. This
arrangement has been made by meaus
of the Russian telegraphic system con¬
necting with the Siberian railway sys¬
tem. A European agent has managed
to re-open the lines, though the means
of communication between Che Foo
and Taku and Tien Tsin are tortuous
and probably precarious.
NEWS PROM LONDON.
A special dispatch received in Lon¬
don Wednesday from Chee Foo was as
follows:
“The fight of the allied forces
against the combined boxers and Chi¬
nese soldiers barring the road to Tien
Tsin opened at daybreak. One hun¬
dred and fifty Americans were among
the 2,000 international troops. The
Chinese soon broke under heavy shell¬
ing and then the arsenal was attacked
and the guns were gradually silenced.
The fight was practically over at noon.
“The keen friendly rivalry for the
honor of first entering the city result¬
ed in the Americans and British going
iu neck and neck, with the others
close up.”
The composite brigade of 2,300 men
who raised the investment at Tien
Tsin and pushed on to help Admiral
Seymour, has relieved him.
SULZER GOES TO LINCOLN.
l*arty of New Yorkers Confer With Bryan
Hegarding Yiee Presidency.
A special from Kansns City says:
Congressman William Sulzer, who is
being boomed for vice president on
the Democratic ticket, and Richard
Croker and ex-Seuator Murphy, of
New York, will have a conference at
LincoiD, Neb., with W. J. Bryan be¬
fore attending the convention.
Sterling Price, of Texas, who has
opened headquarters for Mr. Sulzer,
received a telegram Wednesday from
that gentleman saying he had left New
York for Linooln. Another telegram
stated that Messrs. Croker and Mur¬
phy would be in Lincoln on Friday
night.
GERMAN OFFICER TALKS.
Predicts a Bong and Bloody Struggle Be¬
fore Boxers are Suppressed.
General Stahl, of the Imperial Ger¬
man army, who has been investigating
conditions in the Orient under a spe¬
cial commission from the German gov¬
ernment, arrived at Vancouver, B. C.,
Thursday ou his way home. When
asked if he thought the Boxers would
be quickly suppressed, he said that in
his opinion the powers had started in
upon a long, bloody conflict. In the
end, the Boxers would be disbanded,
bnt the destruction of life would be
appalling for the movement was
spreading like wild fire, throughout
China’s vast territory.
ALLIES NOT FRIENDLY.
British Officers Say Russia May Decide
to Act Independently.
The officers of the British first class
cruiser Terrible at Che Foo, China,
assert that discord exists between the
Russians and Anglo-Americans and
they say they believe the Russians nre
planning to break the independent¬ Concert and
take possession of Pekin
ly, They assert that Vice Admi ral
Seymour's command sulking, lacked nation,
the foreigner*
COL. TRAMMELL DEAD.
Chairman of the Georgia Railroad
Commission Passes Away
At Harietta.
After an illness of six weeks Colonel
Trammell, chairman of the railroad
commission of Georgia, died at his
home iu Marietta early Friday morn¬
ing.
All members of his family were at
his bedside at tho time of his death.
They had been thero all night, waiting
and hoping for some signs of return¬
ing strength. The beginning of ths
end came at noon on Tliursd ay. Pre-
vions to that time he had rallied con¬
siderably and it was believed by his
family and friends that he would re¬
cover.
that It was caused a complication tho death of of diseases Colonel
Trammell. Chiof among them was an
acute stomach trouble. This, com¬
bined with extreme nervonsness nnd a
sluggish circulation, so cufeebled his
constitution and sapped his strength
that the restoratives of the physicians
had but littlo effect.
Colouei Trammell has been a mem¬
ber of tho Georgia railrond commis¬
sion since 1881, and during tho term
of his service his headquarters havo
been in the capitol building. He was
probably one of tho best known men
in the state, and being at the head¬
quarters of the state government for so
many years, wns iu touch with prom-
iuentmeu from all sections in Georgia, •
and being a member of the railroad
commission, he was known also
throughout the United States.
As soon ns Governor Candler heard
the nows of Colonel Trammell’s death
he ordered the flag to float at half
mast.
GUERRILLA WARFARE
Is Now Being Adopted By Boers to
the Discomfiture of Brit¬
ish Tooops.
According to London advices Boer
guerilla operations are reported from
points on Orange river colony.
The war office has reoeived tho fol¬
lowing from Lord Roberts:
“Pretoria, June 29.—Pagotreports
from Lindley ho wns engaged on Juue
26th with a body of the enemy strongly
re-eufoiceu dining the uny.—A CGiT-
voy of stores for the Lindley garrison
was also attacked op June 26th, , bnt
after a heavy rear vruard action, the
convoy reached Lindley in safety.
“Our casualties were ten killed and
four officers nnd about fifty men
wounded.
“The fight reported yesterday was
under Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell,
not Dreipci. Brabant came up during
the engagement.
“Total cnsnaltiesof the two columns,
three killed, twenty-three wounded.
“On the previous day near Fioks-
burg, Boyes’ brigade was in action
with a body of tho enemy.
“Our casualties were two officers
killed, four men wounded nnd one
man missing.
“Methuen found yesterday that the
Boer laager near Vachkop and Spitz
Kop had beeu hastily removed in the
direction of Lindley. He followed the
enemy twelve miles and captured 8,000
sheep and 500 head of cattle which the
euemy had seized in that neighbor¬
hood. Our casualties were four men
wounded.
“Hunter continued his march yes¬
terday toward the Vaal river unop¬
posed. A few farmers along the route
have surrendered. Springs, the term¬
inus of the railway from Johannes¬
burg, was attacked early yesterday
morning. The Canadian regiment,
which garrisons the place, beat off the
euemy.” „
Boer official reports from Machodo-
dorp aver that a part of the British
convoy was captured on June 23d,
near Winburg.
Tho Lourenzo Marques correspon¬
dent of The Times says:
“Both the burghers and the foreign-
ers who are arriving here profess a
strong belief that it will take from
three to six months to subdue the
Boers.”
Another dispatch from Lourenzo
Marques says:
“A consignment to a foreign firm
marked ‘Dutch cheese damaged’ prov¬
ed on lauding to contain army boots
for tho Boera; it passed the customs
nevertheless with unusual dispatch
and the British consul is making rep¬
resentations to the Portuguese govern¬
ment.”
MINISTERS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR.
Navy Department Receive. Important
Message From Knmpflr.
The navy deparment Friday morn¬
ing received the following cablegram
from Admiral Kempff:
"Che Foo, June 29.—Secretary of
Navy, Washington: Pekin relief ex¬
pedition now in Tien Tsin with 200
sick and wounded. Ministers and
Pekin party not with them. No news
from them. Kempff.”
The department was also advised
that Admiral Remey, on the Brook¬
lyn, had arrived at Hong Kong en
route to Taku.
CHAFFEE LEAVES WASHINGTON,
General Aulgn.il to China One. to Ran
Francisco For Kmbnrkation.
General Chaffee, who has been or¬
dered to commaud the American troops
in Chinn, left Washington Wednesday
morning for San Francisco, accompa¬
nied by Lieutenant Harper, his aid.
Ho was due at Ban Francisco at 0
o’clock Snndny morning and to sail for
Naga-aki on the transport Grant with
the Sixth cavalry the earn* day,
SNEIX PAYS PENALTY
Former Georgian Hanged at the
National Capital.
i
KILLED A THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD GIRL
Owing to Snell's Heavy Weight, the Hope
Cut Through ami Almost Decap¬
itated lllm,
Benjamin H. Snell, formerly of
Georgia, paid tho death penalty on tho
scaffold in the district jail at Wash¬
ington Friday for one of the most
fiendish murders over committed
within the confinoB of tho District of
Columbia,
His victim was Lizzie Weisenberger,
n little white girl, thirteen years old.
Snell wnB a clerk iu ths pension oflice,
n 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 6 feet, and
tho rope cut through to the spinal col
urnu, almost decapitating him.
There were only a few present at
the execution, bnt among them wns
Karl Wiesenborger, the father of the
murdered girl.
The crime for which Snell paid the
penalty wns committed August 6th,
1890, at the residence of the victim’s
parents. The evidence ou the part of
the prosecution tended to show that
Suell want to the house of Karl Weif,-
enberger, father of littlo Lizzie, that
morning and asked for a drink of water.
There being no water in the bouse,
Mr. Weisenberger went to a hydrant,
some distance away, to procure some.
Thereupon Snell pns,el through the
house and entered the kitchen, where
Mrs. Mary Weisoubergor, the wife of
Karl and mother of Lizzie, was pre
paring the morning meal. Snell greet¬
ed her in his usual raanuer, 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 kin-h¬
en iuto tho adjoining room, where Liz¬
zie Weiseubergor was sleeping, drew a
razor from his pocket aud cut her
throat, inflicting five wounds and
nearly severing her head from her
body. When the mother, nearing me
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 lireak for liberty nnd was
chased several blocks before being
captured and disarmed. Ho at once
feigned insanity, and made that his
plea in the trials that followed.
SEYMOUR’S CASUALTY LIST.
Allied Tronpe Killed In lt.ttlA. With
lingers snml Chinese Soldiers.
According to a message from Ad¬
miral Seymour, casualties iu tho bat¬
tles with Boxers aud 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. Italiaus
killed 5, wounded 3. Japanese killed
2, wounded 3. Austrians killed 1,
wounded 1. Russians killed 10,
wounded 27.”
AS AN OBJECT LESSON
LI Hung Chang Orders Over a Hundred
Pirates and Boxers Beheaded.
The Canton correspondent of Tho
London Daily Telegraph, iu a dispatch'
dated Thursday, says:
“One hundred nnd thirty pirates
nnd boxers were beheaded yesterday
by Li’s orders to terrorize law break-
ers. The United States steamship
Trinceton has beeu ordered to Can¬
ton."
BATTLESHIP OREGON AGROUND.
l»K Naval Vessel Reported Asliore Fifty
Miles From Che 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, aud that a steamer of the Iu-
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 iu Chinese waters.
DOERS STILL IN EYIDENCE.
Their Renewed Activity Gives Britons
Plenty of Work.
Telegrams reaching London from
South Africa indicate that the renewed
Boer activity increases in proportion
with Lord Roberts’ acquiescence, so
tho completion of the commander in
chief’s enveloping movement supposed
to be in progress is anxiously awaited.
The latest news supports tho reports
that Boors succeeded in piercing Gen¬
eral Bundle's lines nnd penotrated
southward.
WILL SPRING SURPRISE.
I’ro.ecntlon In Goebel Murder Ca.o Ha.
a Sensation In Store.
A Frankfort, Ky., dispatch says:
Governor Beckham, at the instance of
T. Campbell, lias made Virginia, requisition on
Governor Tyler, of for a
Goebel suspect whose name is with¬
held. It is said this arrest Will sur¬
prise the defense. Franklin comity
officers left Thursday night hr Bieh»
mead,
ENVOYS ISSUE AX ADDRESS.
Tliank I’fi-plo of United Staten ami Only
Ask For Cm tin uod Sympathy.
A Now York special says: Tho Boer
euvoyB who havo been in this country
for the past two months, havo issued
an address to tho poople of tho United
States.
After expressing regret at their ina¬
bility to accept invitations extended
fo them, they expressed their thanks
to the American pnblio for the “doep
sympathy they have shown for the
causa of the two struggling repub¬
lics.” The address snys:
“Wo now feel convinced that tho
boastful allegation of tho colonial sec-
remry and other British statesmen
that thiB great country sympathized
with the British in its attempt to
crush the liberty and independence of
our two small states, is absolutely de¬
void of truth."
The address then goes at great
length into the history of the rela¬
tions between grent Britain and the
Boers, which it characterizes as one of
violated faith and broken pledges un¬
der the display of magnanimous and
irropronohnble principles.
The address dcolares that the capi¬
talists control the press of South Afri¬
ca, and that the leaders of these sub¬
sidized journals were appointed special
correspondents cf the principal London
dailies.
The broad charge is made that Mr.
Chamberlain’s revival of the suzerainty
claim in 1897, bin i>ublic utterances,
Sir Alfred Milner’s speeches nnd in¬
flammatory dispatches, and the efforts
of tho South Africnn league, under the
direction of Cecil Rhodes, were ail
directed towards the ultimate destruc¬
tion of tho two Dutch republics.
Taking up the campaign to date, the
report says:
“The Boers may be in tho end de¬
feated by overwhelming numbers and
may ultimately he forced to surrender,
owing to tho difficulty of securing
ammunition and provisions, but the
conduct of the present war, as well as
tho history of the past 100 years, jus¬
tifies us in saying that ihey will never
be conquered.”
The address concludes by saying
that tho envoys do not ask the direct
or forcible intervention of the United
States, hut a continuance of publio
sympathy and support
VICEROYS TURNED DOWN.
They Appealed to United States to With¬
draw Troops From China.
The six great viceroys of China, act¬
ing through the Chinese minister, re¬
newed their efforts to have foreign
troops kept out of China until Li
Hung Chang reaches Pekin. The re¬
quest was a formal document signed
by tho six viceroys, including Li
Hung Chang, presented to Secretary
Hay Tuesday.
The answer of the United States
government was the same as that to
the formal request of Minister Wti
Monday, and amounted to a declina¬
tion.
The viceroys are informed that there
can be no abatement of efforts to se¬
cure the safety of onr officials and citi¬
zens. Minister Wu Ting Fang looked
gloomy on leaving the department.
ARKANSAS DEMOCRATS ACT.
Nmne State Ticket and Indorse the Chi¬
cago Flutform.
The Arkansas Democratic state con¬
vention at Littlo Rock, Tuesday, nom¬
inated the following partial state
ticket:
Governor—Jeff Davis, Pope county.
Secretary of State—John W. Crock¬
ett, of Arkansas county.
Attorney General—George W. Mur¬
phy, of Pulaski county. E. Little,
State Treasurer—Thomas
of Sebastian county.
The report of the committee on res¬
olutions favors reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform, opposes imperialism
and contains a vigorous anti-trust
plank.
TO HOLD REUNION.
Survivors of Forty-Second Georgia Regi¬
ment Will Meet In Atlanta.
The Forty-second bold Georgia regiment reunion
has decided to its annual
in Atlanta, July 21st, and arrange¬
ments looking to holding a barbeoue
are now being made.
Congressman Livingston will be in¬
vited to act as orator of the day. The
date of tho reunion, July 21st, was
selected on account of the fact that
tho reunion of tho bluo and the gray
will be held at that time.
Germans and Russians Confer.
A Berlin special says: It is evident
that Germany has been interchanging
opinions with Russia and other pow¬
ers, and that the foreign officers have
been receiving new instructions from
Count Von Buelow, German minister
of foreign affairs.
Appealing For Rig Army.
According to advices from Che Foo
the foreigners everywhere are urging
tho immediate concentration of au ar¬
my of 100,000 men or at least 60,000
men for au advance on Pekir.
GENERAL CHAFFEE’S FORCES.
He Will Have In the Neighborhood of
Right Thousand Troops in China.
The transport Grant, which sails for
China from 8an Francisco will carry
800 men of the Sixth cavalry, which
in addition to a hospital corps, made
up nt the presido, 300 recruits and 200
marines will constitute the force going
to China. Tho Ninth infantry and
a signal corps from Mauila and the
marines already In China will com
plefe General Chaffoe'tt making
6,009 to 8,000 in all.
NUMBER U.
CHAFFEE IS ASSIGNED
To Command Our Troopa In the
Oalestial Empire,
GOES WITH SIXTH CAVALRY
News That Ninth Infantry Goes at Onoe
to Taku Greatly Pleases the Offi¬
cials at Washington.
President McKinley has assigned
General Adua It. Ghaffeo to the com¬
mand of the American military forces
operating in China. Tho plana of the
war department were somewhat clear¬
ed up by the announcement.
General Chaffeo was at the war de¬
partment Tuesday receiving instruc¬
tions and will loave for Han Francisco
in timo to sail with the sixth cavalry.
This dutaohmont sails on the Grant,
which has been ordered to touch at
Nagasaki for further orders. It is
probablo that the ship will then sail
direct for Che Foo, with General Chaf¬
feo and the sixth cavalry.
Geueral MacArther, at Manila, was
cabled an order directing the com¬
manding officer of the Ninth infantry
and such other forces as may be oper¬
ating in China by the timo of
tho Grant’s to report to Genoral Chaf-
fee on his arrival. Unless present
plans change headquarters will be es-
tablised at Che Foo.
The nows that the Ninth infantry
sails at once from Manila for Taku
was recoived with pleasure nt the war
department. Gen. Corbin said be reg¬
iment will compare favorably with any
similar organization sent by any of
the othor foreign governments in
Chinn.
The Ninth hns beon recruited to its
fullest possible limit of 1,170 and in
provided with an ample supply of
field gnus, tents and complete field
equipment. It goes to Cliiun prepared
for active service and is thoroughly
equipped in the matter of transporta¬
tion nnd subsistence supplies for a
long campaign. Tho regiment is com¬
manded by Colonel Liscurn, one of the
bravest and most discreet officers in
tho army. Tho trip from Manila to
Tnkn will bo made on the transports
Logan and Fort Albert, the latter car-
ryiug transportation outfit and ma¬
chine guns.
MOBILE FLOODED.
Over a Foot of Water Fell In the
Spuce of Nine Hours in
Alabama Citys’
Tho heaviest rainfall in the history
of the weather bureau of this country
was experienced at Mobile, Ala., Tues¬
day, when 12.57 inches of rain was
precipitated in the immediate section.
It was merely a local, rain extending
only a few miles in almost every direc¬
tion, although the Mobile and Ohio
railroad announced that they had rain
in great volume all along their line to
St. Louis.
The rain began about 4 o’clock, and
the heaviest fall was between the
hours of 5 and 7, the record for the
two hours being five inches. The
rest of the fall was recorded between
7 and 2 o’clock, the entire fall of 12.67
inches being within nine hours. Only
onco before in this country has this
record been nearly equalled, whon on
September 3, 1893, in Donaldsonville,
La., there was recorded a fall of 21.70
inches in thirty hours.
The damage done by the fall cannot
be estimated. The crops are ruined
entirely, and bridges in all sections of
the country are either washed away or
severely damaged. All of the country
roads are impassable. All of the rail¬
roads experienced washouts and there
is heavy damage, as the road beds are
weakened to a great extent.
The section has nover before ex¬
perienced such a protracted period of
heavy rainfalls, and there is no way
of estimating the total amount of
damage done.
The farmers, according to well in¬
formed cotton factors and commission
men, are well nigh ruined, and there
is no hope for them to recover their
losses. The cotton is gone to grass to
a great extent, while the other farm
products arc receiving no attention
whatever owing to the impossibility of
working the Helds in the rain.
HOLE IS INAUGURATED
a* Chief Executive of the Hawaiian Is¬
lam!., In Honolulu.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
fhe lust of the three great epoch-
making events in the history of tho an¬
nexation of the Hawaiian islands
to the United States of America, took
place Thursday morning when Gover-
nor S. B. Dole, first executive of the
American territory, was inaugurated.
The oath of office was taken and the
inaugural address delivered on the
spot that was the scene of tho other
two events—the reading of tho all-
important proclamation of 1893 and
the flag-raising of 1898.
SEYMOUR SENDS MESSAGE.
According to It Ho Had 63 Men Killed
and Over 800 Wounded.
Admiral Seymour, it is said, suc¬
ceeded in getting a message into Tien
TBin on last Monday, according to
which he was eight miles westward,
terribly harrassed, could only hold killed out
,another two days, and had 63
and over 200 wounded.
He did sot mention the minister*
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