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BIG EXPLOSION;
MINERS KILLED
flany Workmen Entombed
In West Virginia Pit.
BODIES BADLY MUTILATED
Limbs Were Scattered la Every Directioa.
Ugly Rumors Were Afloat Regard*
ing Cause of the Disaster.
One of the greatest calamities in the
history of Barbour county, West Vir¬
ginia, occurred Saturday morning at
1 o’clock at the mines of the Southern
Coal and Transportation Company, at
Berrysburg, six miles from Philippi.
As a result a score of miners are dead
and many badly injured.
The explosion was so great thai
mules were killed at the mouth of the
mine and cars blown forty feet from
the track. One man was blown iu twe
at the loins and bis body thrown
against a pile of lumber at the mouth
of the mine.
The night shift went on duty at 7
o’clock. Everything went on smoothly
until about midnight, when the explo¬
sion occurred. The dead were muti¬
lated beyond recognition, and the
scene was calculated to make the
strongest heart faint.
The explosion was probably the re¬
sult of an accidental discharge of dy¬
namite caused, perhaps, by the con¬
cussion of a blast. The property loss
is light.
The force of the explosion was so
great that two men were found sixty
feet from the mouth of the mine. An
hour after the explosion hundreds had
visited the mine. The call for relief
brought every The physician in Phillip: to
the scene. sight was a most horri¬
ble one. Strewn along the main channel
and about the opening were the arms,
legs, hands and other portions of the
bodies of the dead miners.
Fathers and mothers were frantically
hunting for sons, and as fast as a body
was recovered they would glance at it,
and recognizing it would give hysteri¬
cal screams. The hotel has been
turned , into . . a , hospital ... and , those still
ahv.e when brought out were taken
there. There is a great deal of com-
rnent about about the cause of tlje ex¬
plosion. The authorities refused to
discuss the matter further .than to say
it was caused by,s(n eX’CSssive charge
of powder it beirfig used. The miners
Insist that was caused by fire damp
The mine was recently inspected and
pronounced to be in good condition.
John W. Green, who was in the
mine at the time of the explosion
and escaped injury, gives the follow-
ing account of it:
“I went into the mine at 7:30 o clock
and went to room No. 1. I had been
at work an hour or so when I smelled
black damp. I noticed my lamp flicker,
I went to the mine boss and told
Vbout it. He tagh.,1 Rod »id it «,
all right. I went back to work and
about midnight heard a terrific noise,
which knocked me down and put out
my , amp. vas s unneci __ 0
ment and then realized what had hap-
pened. I was close to the entrance
and crawled over the bodies of two
ine As f" *1 the work of removing • the ,, au ead i
wen on mgs oo e v or . o
men were brought out within an er o ui
and the searchers reported that a dozen
were still in the mine. Most of those
brought out were mutilated beyond
description. The mi... of Berrj.bnrg
have only been operated a short time,
They have had a great deal of trouble.
First the mines were flooded and then
the men struck. Last week the stables
were set on fire and twenty-six horses
burned. Now comes the explosion.
Most of the miners had been at
work but a few weeks, and as they
were almost unknown to each other,
consequently it was hard to recognize
a man when he,was found. Most of
the men came from North Carolina
aud District of Columbia.
A later message from the mines stat-
ed that the bodies of twelve men had
brought out, eight of whom were
INESE AND GERMANS FIGHT.
Troops Capture Five Guns
and Holst the German Flag.
The Chinese question continues to
overshadow all else in Berlin. The
Tageblatt, Saturday, printed a special
dispatch from Pekin saying:
“A detachment of the Second Ger-
man infantry, under Major Von For-
ster, has fought a victorious engage-
ment against a Chinese force of 800 iu
a mountain pass near tbe Chinese
wall, not far from Tsi Ting Quan.
Five gun3 were taken and the German
flag was hoisted. Major von Forster
was wounded, seven other Germans
were wounded or killed and the Chi-
nese lost fifty killed.”
PROMISCUOUS FIGHTING.
Lord Roberts Reports Many Small
Engagements With the Boers.
Lord Roberts in a dispatch from
Johannesburg, dated November 2, re¬
ports no less than eight fights at dif-
different points, all unimportant, but
significant of the activity of the Boers,
Prisoners in the hands of the British
say the Boer losses in the fight with
Gen. BartoD, October 25th, were 140
killed, wounded or missing.
FELLOWS TO DIE
ON THE GALLOWS
Negro Is Convicted of Criminal Assault
on White Girl.
TRIAL WAS A QUICK ONE
Prisoner Was Closely Guarded
By the State Militia.
The trial of Gus Fellows, who as¬
saulted Dolly Hood, was begun at Jef¬
ferson, Ga., Saturday morning.
A company of soldiers accompanied
the prisoner from Atlanta.
Soldiers surrounded the court house
all day, but there were no threats or
disorder, as the citizens of the county
are williug for the law to take its
course. Ouly jurors, witnesses, par-
ters, attorneys, ministers and report¬
ers are allowed in the court room.
This rule was adhered to strictly.
Tho case was sounded at 9 o’clock.
Both sides announced ready and the
jury was stricken in tw r enty-eight min¬
utes. The general opiniou is that no
better jury cculd have been had in
the county. The first witness for the
state was Miss Dora Hood. She said:
“At 10 o’clock Wednesday ruoruing,
October 24th, I went to the turuip
patch, and had just finished getting
salad arid started home, when some
oue grabbed me.
“It was the negro who sits there,”
pointing to Gus Fellows.
“I was carried to Athens jail to
identify him, but I was so excited and
nervous and the jail was so dark,
when they took me in I made a mis¬
take and pointed out another mau,
but when they brought him in the
yard I pointed out that man. The
negro had on a black square cut coat
torn on the left pocket. Gus Fellows’s
brother came before me aud I knew
he was not the man, but I knew he
bad on the coat my assailant wore. I
knew that was the coat as soon as I
saw it. I never saw Gus Fellows be¬
fore that day.”
Here the state rested the case and
the defense introduced a number of
witnesses to prove an alibi for the
prisoner.
Gus Fellows in a lengthy statement
denied being the assailant of Miss
Hood. He recited his movements
from the time he left home, after
whipping his wife, up to the time of
his arrest.
After charge, delivered, by Judge'
Rdssel] t hejury 'deliberation re ti,eJto their room,
wb after the- over the
.evidence', they returned a verdict of
guilty without recommendation. Tho
court immediately sentenced the de¬
fendant to be hanged on November
24th, just thirty days from the com¬
mission of the crime. Gus fellows
wag returned to tbe tower in Atlanta,
g a turday night ou a special train sur-
rounded bv a stroug giJard of the
s ^ ate militia
Fellows is spending his time in the
q i ower praying. He stoutly asserts his
innocence. He believed he was going
to be acqnittedf and he had S3veml
-witnesses to swear he was far from the
scene of the crime at the time it was
coramitted .
NEWS FROM PHILIPPINES.
-
Past Week Was Devoted to Scouting.
Large Stores of Rice Burned.
A Manila special says: Last week
was devoted to active scouting. Tho
insurgents, having failed to crush a
single garrison, are now experiencing
a reaction.
Lieutenants Wilson and Dority, of
the Forty-fifth volunteer iufantry, de-
stroyed ]arge stores of rice, four gran-
ar j e s and a barracks near Bato.
Captain Atkinson, with thirty-four
m0n 0 f t he ot.„ck,/l50 Thirty-seventh volunteer
iof „ tty , insnrgenl,
der Colonel Valencia, recovering two
American prisoners and capturing a
cona j derab i c quantity of ammunition
and supplies.
A native orchestra lured the United
States troops from their quarters near
Dagupau, while the insurgents attack¬
ed the rear, killing two Amercans and
wounding three. Deueamina,
Sunday Senor repre-
senting the principal insurgents in
Manila, requested Judge Taft to for-
ward to Washington a signed expres¬
sion of their loyalty.
There is considerable excitement
over the presidential election, with a
good deal of betting on the result.
AGUINALDO AGAIN DEAD.
Soldier In Hospital Gets the News
From a Sick Filipino.
James Hussey, of National City,
Cal., has received a letter from James
Thompson, a private of company E,
Twenty-seventh infantry, written
while he was in the hospital at Manila
and dated September 1st, in which
the writer says that the Filipino occu¬
pying the bed next to him in the hos¬
pital stated that Aguinaldo was really
shot dead as reported some time ago,
hut that it was to be kept quiet for
political reasons.
Ex-Councilman Sk-ps Out.
O. J. Reed, au ex-councilman of
Sbamokin, Pa., who was recently con¬
victed of conspiracy in connection with
borough paving contracts and admitted
to bail upon the decision of the supe¬
rior court for a new trial, has disap¬
peared. __________
Costly Tannery Destroyed.
A. large tannery at Rancho del
Chopo, near Mexico City, has burned,
with a loss estimated at $500,000. It
was owned by a stock company iu
which were Aimerican, Mexican and
German shareholders.
HANY STILL MISSING.
Eighteen Alleged Victims of Tar¬
rant Fire In New York
Not Located.
A New York dispatch of Friday
says: The police department has been
investigating the list of persons re¬
ported missiug iu connection with the
Tarrant tire for the purpose of getting
at a correct list of persons supposed
to have lost their lives in the lire.
The persons reported were investigat¬
ed through the station nearest the ad¬
dress given for them, and in many
cases they were reported as safe. In
some cases the police cculd not find
the supposed missing person at the
address given. The list as revised Fri¬
day shows eighteen persorts reported
as missing and not accounted for.
Of those, six are not knowm at the
addresses given by the persons who
reported them missing.
On the list is the name of Benjamin
Moorehouse, a clerk for Tarrant & Co.
The authorities persist in declaring
their belief that he is alive and pur¬
posely keeping hm whereabouts se¬
cret.
“We have detectives out after Moore¬
house and expect to land him soon,”
said Assistaut District Attorney Walsh,
who is assisting the fire marshal’s in¬
vestigation. and neignbors,
Moorehouse’s family
at Mont Clark, N. J., are convinced
that he perished in the disaster. The
fire department’s investigation of the
explosion closed Friday, after the tes¬
timony of Louis Patterson and George
C. Thompson, employes of Tarraut &
Co., had been taken.
Dr. Lederie, health department an¬
alyst, who examined the seven drums
found in the ruins, said that they had
contained analyuejwhich is a little less
explosive than kerosene.
FAMILY HONOR AT STAKE.
The Goulds Will Pay Debts Contracted
By Count Castellans.
A New York special says: On the
authority an an “intimate friend of
the late Jay Gould,” The Evening
World of Friday’s issue announced
that the debts of Count Boni de Cas¬
tellano will be paid in full by tho
Gould’s at ouce.
“The scaudal attending the claims,
amounting to 84,000,000, against the
spendthrilt husband of Countess Anna
is to be stopped.”
The.Evening World adds: “A lump
sutn probably'will be contributed by
George, Helen, Howard, Edwin a.bd
Frank Gould to wipe out these eights,
as they consider the honor of' the
Gould family is involved.”
Incidentally The Evening World ar¬
ticle says, “It was elicited that the
Gould millions have nearly doubled
since Jay Gould’s death, and Anna’s
share is nearly $18,000,000, and her
income nearly $1,000,000. Thp total
value of the Gould estate is uow over
$125,000,000.”
KAISER’S TROOPS ASSIGNED.
They Are D.stnbuted Around In Chi-
nese hmpire By Waldersee.
official telegrams from Count Yon
Waldersee show that all the German
’3‘ J™ , ”™’ . , . , ,
distributed. lhe lirst aud second
m armes, le ns- in an iy ligate am
“ 8ma “ J° TCG a » d artllier y
are stationed , at Pekin. lhe second
j infantry J brigade, illery, with engineers a corresponding and
force art cav-
j ft j r o’ne y p ao Fun.
battalion is at Shan Hai Kwnn.
| The third infantry brigade, with a
| company o{ s harp-shooters, Wo squad-
1 f cavalry and several batteries is
ronB 0
: at Tien Tain. One battery and sev-
eral howitzers are at Taku al’oSg and a force vaT
: the
”,LrJhe wav f rom Pskin "ork to I'ancr omon.HultioT Tsun stmer-
ACCEPT FRANCE’S PROPOSALS.
Foreign Ministers Continue the Dis¬
cussion of Peace Negotiations.
A dispatch to the Havas agency at
Paris from Pekin, dated 31st, says:
“The foreign ministers continued
today the discussion of the peace
proposition to be presented to the
Chineso. The French proposals were
accepted. Additional specifications
will be discussed Monday. On ae-
count of the necessity for thorough
accord between the different cabinets,
the final vote will not be prestnted for
several weeks.”
FREEDOM WAS SHORT.
Alvord Dismissed By Magistrate and
Is Immediately Re-Arrested.
City Magistrate Flammer at New
York discharged Cornelus L. Alvord,
the defaultering note teller of the
First National bank, from custody
Friday. The magistrate said he was
satisfied that he had no jurisdiction iu
the case. Alvord was allowed to leavo
the courtroom, but as soon as he
reached the corridor he was re-arrest¬
ed by a United States marshal and
taken before United States Commis¬
sioner Shields. The commissioner
held Alvord in $150,050 bail for ex¬
amination. Bail was not offered, aud
Alvord was taken to jail.
WAS WASHINGTON’S SLAVE.
Negro Reputed to Be 123 Years Old
Dies In Long Island Poorhouse.
George Washington Freeman Hor¬
ner Green, a former negro slave, died
in the almshouse Rt Hempstead, L. I,
Thursday at the reputed age of 123
years. Green is said to have been
born on a farm near Elizabethport, N.
J., on January 1, 1777. He was sold
to a Virginia planter named Horner,
by whom, it is said, he was sold to
General Washington.
GEORGIA GROWS.
Official Census Figures Places
Her Third Tn Population List
of the Southern States.
The census figures just made pnblio
at Washington show that Georgia’s
gain in populat on in the Inst ten years
is greater than any other of the fouth-
ern stntos except Missouri nn<l Texes,
ami that she is new the third largest
state iu the south iu population.
She haR beaten out Kentucky for
that position in the past teu years.
The Blue Grass state had nearly
20,000 more people in 1880 than
Georgia, but Georgia has swept ahead
of her with wonderful speed.
Georgia’s gaiu is Inrgest of all the
southern states save Missouri aiul
Texas, whose population 10 years ago
was larger than that of Georgia’s uow.
The following figures show liow
the state has grown during the past
twenty years:
1880: Population...........1,837,353 Population..........1,542,180
1890:
1900: Population...........2,216,329 1880-1500. 295,173
Increase between
Increase between 1890-1900. 378,976
If the basis of representation in
congress under tbe newly completed
ceusus is placed at 184,000, which
would be an increase of 10,000 over
the present apportionment, Georgia
will be entitled to a new congressional
district, giving the state twelve mem¬
bers in the houso of representatives
and fourteen votes in the electoral
college. This fact was made clear on
the announcement of tho census bureau
that the population of the state has
gone to 2,216,329. The existing pop¬
ular basis is one congressman to a
fraction over 174,000 persons.
To the Georgia public which has
confidently lo iked forward to twelve
congressmen under the 1900 census
the question of interest is, will Geor¬
gia increase tho ratio of people over
184,000? If not, then Georgia is cer¬
tain of twelve representatives, and the
re-apportiomnent committees to be ap¬
pointed in the state legislature will
find plenty of work to engage their at¬
tention iu defining the limits of the
new congressional district.
A majority of the Georgia . >ers
mem
iu congress have expressed tho opin¬
ion during the last few months that
the new basis of representation, pro¬
dded of course the old one is changed,
will not bo fixed at more than 190,000.
ONE IS WRONG ?
Cleveland Denies an Interview
While tll£ R e P° rter Firmly
Sticks to His Story-
The Philadelphia Times editbFbdly
says:
‘ < The following dispatch was re-
ceived by tbe editor of The Times
from ex-President Cleveland relating
to the alleged interview from him in
the national presidential contest and
published prominently iu this journal.
i i ( Princeton, N. J., October
30.—Editor Philadelphia Times:
The alleged interview with me,
, published in this morning’s Times,
is au absolute aud outrageous
fabrication.
“ ‘Grover Cleveland.’
“Mr. Cleveland’s emphatic den,a ,
of the interview in the president,a
situation, published in this ,o, rnal
yesterday morning, is accepted as
Ct Ts
soon as R. J. Black, whose
initials were signed to the dispatch,
heard that Mr. Cleveland had denied
the interview,’he voluntarily went to
The Times office and made the follow-
ing sworn affidavit:
“ ‘Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1900.-
I, Robert J. Black, had an interview
with Grover Cleveland on the 23d day
of October, 1900, in his home, in
T. Princeton. • * xr N. J., t and .in.; during „.i a lengthy
talk with him in his-parlor he told me
that he favored Bryan, and said: “My
boy, you will see a landslide for Bryan
on the day after election;” that he also
said Mr. Bryaa was a great orator.
«< i li. J. Black, Vinton, Iowa.’
Editor Hearsey Dead.
A New Orleans dispatch says: Ma-
ior Henry J. Hearsey, editor of the i
Daily States and one of strongest
1 newspaper writers in the south, is
dead. He was born in the Western
Feliciana parish iu 1840, and was ed-
ucated privately. His journalistic ca-
reer began when he was only 21 years
of ago.
SHERIFF EVADED M 03 .
Hid Alleged Negro Rapist Until He
Saw lhe Way to Jail Clear.
Sheriff W. T. Stevenson, of Jackson
county, Ga., arrived in Atlanta, Tues-
Jay morning with Gus Jones, the
alleged negro rapist, and placed his
prisoner in the Fulton county jail for
H afe keeping. Jones is charged with
assaulting Dora Hood, a white girl,
near Harmony Grove.
Jones made his escape directly after
the crime, but was captured last Fii-
day night. Sheriff Stevens had kept
him concealed, fearing mob violence,
as indignation was at fever beat, until
be saw au opportunity of reaching
Atlanta iu safety.
BRAINS KICKED OUT.
Unmanagable Horse Causes Death of a
Young Woman ond Probably Escort.
At Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday as
Lon Laswell and Miss Lillie Henley
were out riding in a buggy the horse
became unmanageable and literally
kicked the vehicle to pieces.
Hl8 , hoof , 8truck . , ... Ml8a Henle tho
y on
head, dashitfg hei brains out. Laswell
was fatally injured in the same way.
WHEELER REPLIES
TO PRESS CRITICS
Declares His Undying Fealty to the
Democratic Party.
ROOSEVELT TALK DENIED
Says His Resignation Prom Con¬
gress Closed Political Days.
lli a speech at Decatur, Ala., Friday
night, which was a number not ou his
programme in tho district, caused by
the stinging animadversions appearing
in The Huntsville Mercury on his al-
>e?ed bad Democratic faith, General
Wheeler declared his undying alle-
gianee to the Democratic parly, an¬
nounced his fealty to W. ,T. Brynn.nud
completely refuted Governor ltoose-
velt’s statement that ho was supporting
the Republican platform.
The general emphatically declared
it the duty of overy Democrat to turn
out and vote the ticket, to give Judge
Richardson a large majority, so lie
would not be handicapped iu obtain¬
ing legislation. He replied to criti¬
cisms made l>y The Mercury, saying
the Huntsville papers, through enmity
to him, bad not treated him fairly,
and had not reported liis speech at
Huntsville as he had delivered it.
He said he had made practically the
same speech there that he hud made
here. They criticised him because he
had not used Mr. Bryan’s name. If
he had not it was merely because ho
had forgotten it in the earnestness of
his talk. He could have done it with
perfect propriety. No two men had
stood closer than he and Bryan in
congress. Only once lmil they dif¬
fered, but that could not keep him
from being for him.
He had never seen a man with such
iiulomitablo will, such a clear, analyti¬
cal mind; such power of persuasion,
and such influence over men. If elect¬
ed, Mr. Bryan would make one of the
distinguished presidents of the cen¬
tury. Ho had said in his Huntsville
speech that tho two great parties, uu-
der normal conditions, had been nlter-
nating in control of the government,
taking up tho beginning of the alter¬
nation from the time of tho whigs and
swinging tho pendulum ou down to
Cleveland’s defeat of Blaine, Harri¬
son’s defeat of Cleveland, Cleveland’s
second victory, and the last swing of
the pendulum to McKinley iu 1890.
In 1900 it should be Democratic, un¬
less you can show the conditions are
not normal. “Was that a Republican
speech?” he asked.
General Wheeler said that when ho
resigned from congress he had turned
1 upon political life forever.
In a-'-HtFiiCt conversation Friday
night hearing of hve citizens „ Ed-
m
itor Grubbs, of Nowb,
denied the statement ever
invited General Wheeler \n Alalnim*.
General Wheeler has a letteiH'gned
by Editor Grubbs, as secretary or^-no
district committee, inviting him N®
make speeches iu the eighth district.*'
SCHEME IS SATISFACTORY.
flail Box Delivery In Rural Districts
Will Be Extended.
The annua , ori , of w . s . sbaHen-
b Becou d assistant / postmaster
» , . nftde publio * rid jL It
hoW£j that on Jnne 30tU lagt t aQ .
lim |! r at ° of it * r e *° r inl * ad
R vi*! 6 l /’ . \ , °*
’
«9 m 4 .1 588; tolul exl>Cl,dl r '
'
tu oy »,•
lhe «P er >“«»* , . box delivery on
. ron « 8 : whe eb y P 6 **™* w?
ne could hare the . mail brought from
the next office by the star route earner
a,,d le ft in n bo* erected by such per-
, ] satisfactorily far
* oa ?> so
aQ J Ihe next star route contracts will
P 10Vlcle f Ior BUcU , Hervi(lp «ervice.
SOCIALISTS JUBILATE.
They Have a Turbulent Demonstration
In the Windy City.
Socialist labor orators raised the red
flag in State street, Chicago, Friday
night and were driven off"the thorough-
f al p by the police, who were compelled
interfere to stop a riot. It was so-
cia Ustic labor night, and the Debs
8 P ea k e ^ H used half a dozen wagons to
fl P ea k from along the street. Ihere
were frequent clashes between the
8 P ea kers anil lhe big crowds which
gathered around the stands.
TAXES NOT PAID.
F ulton County Grand Jury May Indict
Many Professional Men.
An Atlanta special says: Unless all j
indications point in the wrong direc¬
tion, there will shortly be a large
number of lawyers, doctors and den-
tints urrested on indictments for prac-
ticing their various professions with-
out having paid their professional tax.
The law provides a professional tax
of $10 from all doctors, dentists, law-
yers and other professional men. The
tax collector, A. P. Stewart, has a list
of nearly 100 who have not paid this 1
tax, some for several years. The
grand jury has called upon Mr. Stew-
art for this list.
Quarantine Is Extended. j
Tbe summer quarantine in Florida
generally terminates at midnight on
October 31st, but according to an or-
der issued Wednesday by the Florida
state board of health the quarantine
restrictions will be continued until
further orders.
Senators Objected to Recess. I
The Georgia senate refused to con-
cur in the house resolution providing
for a recess in order that the members
might vote in the national election.
DOOR m 77
NOW ASSURED
British *Gerrnarj Compact
Meets Our Approval.
CHINA TO BE KEPT INTACT
Three of the Most Powerful Nations
Are Mutually Agreed on That Policy
Respecting the Empire.
The state department made publio
Weduesday the British-German agree¬
ment respecting the maintenance of
the “open-door” and territorial integ¬
rity of Chinn, with the answer of the
United States government, sent in du¬
plicate to of the principals to tho
agreement.
Mr. Hay to Lord Poncefote: De¬
partment of State, Washington, Oct.
29, 1900—Excellency: < ( I have the
honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your note of the 23d of October, in¬
closing tho text of an agreement be¬
tween Great Britain and Germany re¬
lating to atfairs iu China, which was
signed in London on the Kith instant
by the Marquis of Salisbury and the
German aml» no sador on behalf of their
respective governments and inviting
the acceptance by the United States of
the principles recorded iu that agree¬
ment.
These principles are: ami
1. It is a matter of joint perma¬
nent and international interest that
the ports on the rivers and litteral of
China should remain free and open to
trade and to every other legitimate
form of economic activity for the na¬
tionals of all countries without distinc-
tion and that tbe two governments
agree on their part to uphold the same
for all Chinese territory so far as they
can exercise influence.
2. Her majesty’s government and
the Imperial government will not
make use of the present complication
to obtain for themselves any territo¬
rial advantages in Chinese dominions
and will direct their policy toward
maintaining undiminished the territo¬
rial condition of the Chinese empire.
The United States have heretofore
made known their adoption of both
these principles. During the last year
this government invited the powers
interested to join in an expression of
views aud purposes in the direction of
impartial trade with that country and
received satisfactory assurance to tho
effect from all of them.
When the recent troubles were at
their height this government once
more made an announcement of its
policy regarding impartial trade and
the integrity of the Chinese empire,
aud had the gratification of learning
ythat all the powers held similar views.
Aiul since that time the most gratify-
i n g-%armony has existed among all
the nat* onH concerned as to the ends
t 0 be p,ysue<J and there has been lit¬
tle diverg once of opinion as to thft
details of there?& witli tu 1IiUcl1 be followed^^ ^H
It is re S!
tion that the president lull direot^gjlg
inform you of tb e
this governiinmt 11
Britunie majesty and
purer iu tin: principles set^HHHH
clauses The third of the clause agreement of the alii9^HHI| agrefl^H|
provides: ^■1
3. In case of another power making
hbo of the complications in China in
order to obtain under any form what¬
ever such territorial advantage, the
two contracting parties reserve to
themselves to come to u preliminary
understanding as to the eventual steps
to be taken for the protection of their
own interests in China.
As this clause refers to a reciprocal
arrangement between the two high
contracting powers, the government of
the United States does not regard it-
self as called , npon to express au opin-
ion in respect to it. I have. et(L
John Hay.
A similar note mutntis mutandis was
addressed on the same day by the sec¬
retary of state to the Imperial German
charge d’affiurs.
[ROCKHlLL IN NEW ROLE.
secretary Hay Appoints Him Coun*
sellor to Minister Conger.
Secretary Hay has cabled Commis¬
sioner Rockbill au appointment ae
counsellor of the American legation at
Pekin. He has been directed to pro-
cee ^ at once from Shanghai to Pekin
t0 insist Minister Conger in that ca-
paedy in the negotiations for a final
settlement. The purpose to appoint
Commissioner Rockbill and General
Vf ilson, fellow commissioners with
Minister Conger to conduct tbe nego-
Rations, was abandoned only because
appeared that no other power was to
appoint commissioners.
Palmetto State Fair Closes.
Tim state fair at Columbia, S. O.,
ended Friday. In three days the
paid entrancos reached about thirty-
three thousaud. Wednesday and Tliurs-
day the electric street railway handled
81,000 people. The fair was the best
that has ever been held.
Fire Destroys Paper Atills.
Fire Friday destroyed the Golden:
paper mills, at Golden, Colorado,
owned by R. C. Wells, entailing a loss
of $50,000, covered by insurance.