Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 July 1900 — Page 6

®ht fib; County Jennwat M. McC. STOOPS, Editor Md Proprietors PETERSBURG. t INDIANA. Gov. Roosevelt has informed the Republican national committee, through its vice chairman, H. C. Payne, that he will give three solid weeks to *!ampaign work in the state of New York. Speaker Henderson was renominated by acclamation, on the 28th, by the Third Iowa district republican convention for his tenth term as representative in congress. The nomination wa* made amid great enthusiasm. cThe department cf state is advised by Minister Powell, at Port-au-Prince, that he. had been informed that the government of Hayti has adopted the gold standard, and thatdhe unit'of value is the American gold dollar. * The prohibitionists of Illinois met in Chicago, on the 26th. and nominated a state ticket headed by Judge V. V. Barnes for governor, and adopted a platform the two planks of which are prohibition and woman suffrage. It was asserted in Shanghai, on the 28th, that Liu, the viceroy of Nankin, had received instructions from Pekin to inform the foreign consuls there immediately that the legations at Pekir “have been arrangii'g peace terms.”

The China restriction bill, increasing the tax on Chinese immigrants from $50 to $100, was practically adopted by the Canadian house of commons on the 26th. The measure also restricts the immigration gt Japanese to 12 per month. Two deaths were caused in Chicago by excessive heat and humidity on the 27th. Antonio Shoggens dropped dead on-the street, and Oscar Berzner, overcome while sitting in a second story window, fell to the ground, sustaining fatal injuries. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gener-al Bristow, who for the past five weeks had been in Havana investigating the Cuban postal frauds and initiating reforms in the administration of the Cuban postal service, returned to Washington on the 2Sth. Gen. Chaffee left Washington, on the 27th, for San Francisco, accompanied by Lieut. Harper, his aide. He is due at San Francisco on the morning of the 1st, and sails for Nagasaki on th<r transi>ort Grant, with the Sixth cavalry, the same day. The president and Mrs. McKinley left Washington for Canton, O., in a private car attached to the regular 7:45 p. in. train on the Pennsylvania railroad, on the 28th, accompanied by Dr. Rixev, Secretary Cortelyou and Assistant Seci tary Barnes. A dispatth from ( he, Foo, on the 27th, said; “The American mission at Wuh Si En, Shan i'ung province, China, has been destroyed. The missionaries escaped. The governor has notified foreigners inland that he is unable to protect them.” It is reported on good Chinese authority that the government, alarmed by the foreign military preparations, has issued an edict ordering the peremptory suppression of the Boxers, and announcing, a decision to protect the legations at all hazards. More definite and complete returnt lately received concerning the beach strike at Topkuk, 55 miles beiow Nome, Alaska, leave no reason to doubt that this is one of the greatest strikes ever made in that vicinity, and as important as that at Nome itself. Victoria crosses have been bestowed on Maj. John Philipps Hornby, Sergeant Parker and Driver Glassock, of “Q” battery, Boyal artillery, for conspicuous bravery in saving four guns from the convoy disaster at Kronspruit, Orange Free State, March 31. The Prohibition National convention in Chicago adjounivd sine die, on the 28th, after having placed in nonfination for president John G. Woolley, of Illinois, and for vice-president Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode Island. The nominations in each instance were made on the first ballot.,

A detachment of the Sixth cavalry arrived at San Francisco, on the SCth, an route to Nagasaki, from which place the soldiers will doubtless be sent to the scene of conflict in China, by Gen. Chaffee, who has been assigned to Command the American troops operating in that quarter. The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon bt Kedleston, cabled, on the 26th, that the monsoon had considerably improved the west coast. Six inches of rain had fallen at Bombay city, extending to Berara and the central provinces, while there had been frequent showers in the 6ub-montane districts and the northwestern provinces. At the annual meeting of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in London, on the 27th, about seventy members of the American society were present. President-C. H. Morgan, oi Worcester, Mass., replied to an address of welcome, and Mr. G. C. Hemming, of Nov York, participated in the discussion of the papers read. Nine of the insurgent leaders, including Generals Pio del Pu*», Concepcion, Garcia and Alvarez, were released at Manila, on the 27th, upon taking the oath of allegiance to the government and renouncing all fornu of revolution in the Philippines, to gether with making formal acknowledgment of American sovereignty.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Mrs. J. B. Cassody, v.-ife of the chief justice of the Wisconsin supreme court, died at Madison on the 26th. The government was officially notified, on the 23d, by Rear-Admiral Kempft', that the international column forced its way into Tien Tsin, on the 23d, and started the next day to succor Admiral Seymour’s column, which was reported to be ten miles from Tien Isin, without provisions and surrounded. The steamer Cottage City arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 26th, from Skaguay with $200,000 in dust and drafts and a number of passengers from Dawson. If war is declared by China against the allied powers, or if a state of war is found to exist, one of the first acts w> ich have been decided upon is the seizure of Shanghai as a base of supplies. The Boer commandoes in the eastern part of the Orange River Colony appear to have been broken up by their leaders for the time into small parties, that harrass large colunis of the British incessantly, cutting off scouts, sniping pickets, etc. The newest and most important underground electrical railroad, running from the Bank of England to the western suburbs, beneath the central portion of London, was opened by the prince of Wales, on the 27th, in the presence of a distinguished gathering. The prince greatly admired the handsome American ears, and the elaborate elevator service from the streets to the station platforms, 80 feet under

ground. * The Italian armored cruiser Vettor Pisani, and the protected cruisers Stromboli and Yesuvio were, on the 27th, ordered to Chinese waters. The emperor of Japan has sanctioned an outlay of 50,00u,000 yen towards the cost of military operations in China. The composite brigade of 2,300 men who raised the investment of Tien Tsin and pushed on tp help Admiral Seymour has probably saved him, but tjae news had not, up to the 27th', reached Che Foo, the nearest telegraph point. Persons going into the Kiowah-Co-manche and Apache Indian reservation for the purpose of acquiring mineral lands will be ejected as “Sooners-’ and kept off the reservation until it is formally declared open to settlement by presidential proclamation. Seventy-one millions of silver dollars, coined to represent the last issue of silver certificates, have just been transferred-from the old mint, in Philadelphia, to the new bullion building in that city, the vaults of which have a capacity of 110,000,000 silver dollars. General heavy rains were reported, on the 27th, as having fpllen ^Wisconsin, Minnesota^and North and South Dakota. The rain came at an opportune time in the last-named states, and it is believed the wheat crop can now be saved. ' Ex-Gov. Taylor and wife, of Kentucky, reached Indianapolis, Ind., from the east, on the ?7th. Taylor had shaved off his moustache, and his appearance was much changed. lie looked ill. A severe storm swept over southern Indiana, on the 27th, and creeks were swollen and many bridges swept away. The wheat crop was almost totally destroyed and other crops were damaged. A spark entered a dust collector in the factory,of the Standard Starch Co., at Kankakee, 111., on the 27th, and caused an explosion that injured six girls employed in the packing department and a boy, who was blown from a second-story window. r1 Miles Ogle, the celebrated counterfeiter, died, on the 27th, at Mount Carmel hospital, Columbus, O., aged 66 years. A wife and several children reside at St. Louis, but they have been estranged £or many years.

, me navy uepartreent received a cablegram from Rear-Admiral KemptT, on the 27tli, at *~he Foo, saying-: “Pekin force and ministers reported with Pekin relief expedition, intrenched eight miles from Tien Tsin,” Six children were injured, one fatally, and the house of Ed Bullard, a farmer, wrecked by a most peculiar and destructive freak of a storm, two miles south of Whiting1, la., on* the 27th. Lightning struck the house, and it was demolished as if blown up by dynamite. ! » A terrific wind storm struck Pender, Nhb., on the 27th, doing considerable damage. One larg? barn was wrecked, the railroad depot was partially unroofed and telegraphic wires were blown down. Several houses were partly unroofed. Other tow ns in the path of tho wind suffered also. Horace Sedger, a well-known theatrical manager, and his wife, EtheT, an actress, w'ere arraigned and remanded at the Bow Street (London) police court, on the 28th, on the charge of fraudulently obtaining goods by m^ans of worthless checks. / J

The New York board of health has deckled to thoroughly disinfect the Chinese quarters in Manhattan, Brook* lyn and Coney Island, as a measure of precaution against the plague. The Colorado state board of health advises the maintenance of the quarantine against Chinese and Japanese on account of bubonic plague at Saij Franc! «co. Prof Ferdinand von Ritchoffen has been appointed director of thy newlyestablished Museum of Oceanography at Berlin. . At the permanent automobile: exposition in Berlin, applications for space have been so d\imerous that an enlargement of the original area was necessary. When the British ship Hudson leaves the port of Philadelphia, for Japan, within a few dav-s, she will carry an oil plant, the first ever shipped to that country. Queen \ictoria will present to tht" municipality of Dublin, in memory of her recent visit, a gold loving1 cup, weighing 160 ounces. LATE NEWS ITEMS. • It was reported, on the 25th, that as a result of negotiations between the powers, an agreement had been arrived at which provides for the maintenance of the statu quo in China as regards spheres of influence and commercial agreements, and also respecting the nature of the guarantees and compensations which will be demanded from China. The California and Hawaiian delegates to the democratic national convention at Kansas City, Mo., started east from San Francisco on the /9th. The delegates were escorted to their train by the Iroquois club of that city. A large consignment of fruits and wines had already been shipped to the California headquarters in the convention city. The New York Life Insurance Co. settled a claim of several thousand dollars apparently about to become due on the policy of Howard C. Benham, of Batavia, X. Y., who had been convicted of killing his wife and sentenced to die in the electric chair.v Benham got a new trial, later, and Ivas acquitted. Senator Wolcott lias received notice from the national republican committee of his appointment as chairman of the committee to notify Gov. Roosevelt of his nomination as vice-president. The ceremony will take place at Oyster Bay, at ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th. The steamer Zaiindia, which arrived at San Francisco, on the 29th, eight days from Cape Nome, brought word that smallpox had 'broken out on-board the steamers Santa Ana and Ohio, and those vessels had been placed in quarantine at Egg island.

The statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 29th. showed that the available cash balance on that day was $152,424,200; gold, $70,331,S43. A landsilde occurred at Hartsell Hill, 13 miles below Decatur, Ala., on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, on the 29th. Is is known that three men, one negro ahd two whites, were killed, and it is thought several others shared the same fate. , . \ Early delegates arriving at Kansas City, Mo., did not take kindly to the proposition to nominate Mr. Bryan on the Fourth. They admitted the sentiment contained in . the idea, but thought the sentiment came too high. An awful conflagration visited the docks of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co., in Hoboken,' N. J., on the 30th. The docks, with all the valuable freight piled Iherecn, were completely destroyed; several of the palatial steamers of the company and more than a score of other craft were destroyed or greatly damaged, causing losses aggregating $10,000,000. The horror of the catastrophe, however, was found in a dreadful loss of life— 200 persons being supposed to be drowned or burned to death, while hundreds.of the rescued crowd all the hospitals.in the vicinity of the fire. ‘Scenes, horrible btvond description, were witnessed during the conflagration. In the competition ft>r the World’s championship for professionals under the auspices ot‘ the racing club of Franpe, in Paris, on the 1st, the American, Schoenfiekn won the weight-throw-ing contest, covering 11:31 metres. The high jump was won by Sweeny, of New ttrleans. who cleared 1:80 metres, with Sehoenfield second, clearing 1:75 metres. Sweeny also won. the long jump, with 5.99 metres; and Schoen-field-was second, with 5.65 meters. The League of American Mothers sent out a call for a national conference to be held in Chicago, August 1, 2, 3 and 4. The four days will be given to the study and discussion of bhildraising and how to create right neighborhood conditions for the upliftment of the young. The London morning papers, of the 2d, generally published editorials speaking sympathetically of the terrible lire at Hoboken, and pointing out the liability to a similar disaster in English ports. All allude to the-hero-ism that relieved the sombreness of the tragedy, The1 United States transport Short Creek, from Cuba, on the 1st, landed 308 Cuban teachers at Boston, all men, who are to study at Harvard this summer. They came mostly from Havana and adjacent portions of the island. They were taken at once to Cambridge. The patent medicine plant of Kilomore & Co., in Binghampton, N Y., was destroyed by tire, on the 1st; loss. $150,000. The imports of dry goods and merchandise at the port of New York for the week ended on the 301111, were $9,509,100.

NEWS FROM INDIANA. Latest Happenings Within the Borc dctrs of Our Own State. Foundry Renames. Hammond, ind., June 29. — The Simples -Railway Appliance company re* opened its plant here, fewer than 50 men goi:ng back to work. Two hundred strikers patrolled the vicinity of the factory, but no disturbances occurred, none of the strikers applying for their old job-s. Superintendent Moore announces that he can secure more men than he can employ, and that in a few days the factory will be running as before the strike. A detail of police was on guard at the building all day, and will be continued until the strike is settled. Cannot Pump Gan. Indianapolis, Ind., June 29. — The Indiana supreme court in a decision in the case of the Manufaet urers’Gas and Oil company vs. the Indiana Natural Gasand Oilcompany.appealed from the Grant county circuit court, held that natural gas cannot legally be pumped out of gas wells. The case was one*of four suits brought to prevent the Manufacturers’ company from pumping gas out of Grant county to tojvus and cities at a distance. Train Runs Away. Logagsport, Ind., Ji&e 29. — The Wabash passenger train from the west went through the city over crossings and past the station at CO miles an hour. In starting down the Clymer hill, three miles ’svest, the engineer found the air brakes would not w6rk. He began sounding distress signals and the train of ten coaches thundered down the steep grade like a rocket. The train was got under control without damage. Fatal Quarrel. Hartford City, Ind.,-June 29.—At the factory of the Hartford City Flint Bottle company Lon Sticks and Walter Boykin, blowers, quarreled- and Sticks dealt Boykin a terrible blow on the head with a hot snap, an iron tool shaped like a cowbell, with a long handle. Boykin’s skull is fractured, his teeth knocked out and he will probably die. ' Have All Settled. Indianapolis. Ind., June 29.—All of the 92 counties of the state have now made their settlements witjh the autor of state, paying into the state treasury money collected at the May payment of taxes assessed in 1SG9. The collections have been unusually good, and the totals will probablv^how them to be the largest in the history of the state.

“As Yon Like It.” Terre Haute. Ind.. June 29. — Members of the gradtiating class of the Indiana state normal school produced ‘"As A on Like It” before an audience that filled the Grand opera house. There were more than 50 members of the class in the play and the rendition was highly satisfactory. Refuses to Vacate. Rnshville, Ind..^ June 29.—The city council removed from office City Treasurer Mattox for alleged refusal to comply with the orders of the council. Orla Harrison was elected treasurer to succeed Mr. Mattox, but the latter refuses to turn the books over to his successor. Forced Check. Greencastle, Ind.. June 29.—Safnuel Cox. living near Russellville, tried to* pass a forged check at the Central national bank in this city, but was detected and arrested. The check purported to have been drawn by the brother of the president of the bank. Csed Confederate Rills. Martinsville, Ind., June 29. — John Mann, of Brown coubty, was arrested at. his home three miles south of Mahalasville and confessed having bought two horses of John Gabon, near Bloomington, a week ago, and .paying for them with confederate bills. Must Xot Spit. 'Lebanon, Ind.. June 29.—The city council has passed an anti-spitting ordinance making it unlawful for any person to spit on any public sidewalk in the city and fixing the fine for-such an offense in a sum not exceeding five dollars. Death of a Pioneer. Hartford City, Ind., June 29.—John Lancaster, aged 94 years, died at his home here. Air. Lancaster was one of the oldest men in northeastern Indiana and was a pioneer resident of this county, < The Centennial. JndianapolTsTlnd., June 29.—The centennial celebration of this state will take place on the Fourth of July in this city in the hall of the house of representatives, beginning at ten o'clock a. m.

Was Well Known. Indianapolis, Ind., June 29.—Gottlieb Ecker, for many years president of the Indianapolis Maennerehor, and known to German singers throughout America, died at his home here, aged 56 years. >o Fireworks. Peru, Ind., June 29—The mayor has issued an order declaring that the ordinance against fireworks, etc., will be rigidly enforced on the Fourth of Juiy. _____ Ex-Dul»linites. Dublin, Ind., June 29.—The fourth annual reunion of ex-Dublinites was held here with a large attendance of old settlers and former citizens. Killed by Lightning. Hamilton, O., June 29.—A terrific thunderstorm swept over this city Thursday. Frank Leugers, a molder, was killed by lightning on the street -while going to dinner. Four companions were shocked, but will survive.

One Fireman Killed and Elevea Others Injured, One Finally, by Falling Walls. LOSS ABOUT THREE HUNDRED 7SI0USAND, Ike Machine Shco of the heat Man* ufacturinic Co. Entirely Xi>cstroyed , by Fire, Toaether Wit,, All the Machinery anil Stock 021 Pattern* Many of Which Can’t he l leiilaced. IMttsburgli, Pa., June 30.4One fireman was killed and 11 other firemen Injured, and nearly $300,00) worth of property was destroyed in it fire that broke out in the machine shop of the Best Manufacturing Co. oa Twenty* fifth street.

The Dead. David Williams, killed ay falling walls. The Injured. Ctpt. Robert Edwards, jf No. 23 Engine Co. l*eter Tantlinger, may die. George Slagle. Timothy Murphy, Lieut. William Zipe. Fireman Ziegler. ^ Fireman Cavanaugh. Capt. IVIeGuire. Marry Hart. George Prenter. vf Bert Lenox. The Flames Spread Rapidly. The fire was discovered 8': 5:18 a. rm, nnd the flames spread so rapidly that in less than a half hour heo enlire plant, four stories high n.nl 100 feet square, was burning, and it was feared that adjourning property would go. Ihree ’districts of the fire department were quickly on the ground however, and by hard work the fire|was kept within the original limits. By 7:30 o’clock, the large structure was in ruirs. The Injured Firemen. The firemen were injured by falling walls. They were standing on the fire escape inside of the building. They had two streams of hose oi.t. and were playing on the fire when suddenly the wails began to topple and n spite of the shouts of warning given, the men were eaught and ea-ianed to the ground by the masses of brick and timbers which fell :;s the wall collapsed. One or two of the firemen jump eel, but even they were struck and cut ay the falling bricks and timbers. Williams, was taken out dead from under a mass of brick and stone. His hear was badly crushed, arid he was otherwise cut and mangled The Property Lena. The property destroyed was valued at ii-UO.ooo and the stock of patterns and machinery probably $1)0,000 more. Many of the patterns can not be replaced. The company manufactured pipe fittings and valves. At nine o'clock the tire was t?rder control. About 250 men will be thrown out of ?mplovment by the fire. The insurance will fully cover the. loss. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The fire rendered three families homeless, the walls of the burned building making it unsafe for them to remain in th< house. LIEUT. DRAPER DROWNED. An Officer Who Earned iliN Promotion From the Itnnki, Drowned in Luxe it. Washington, June 30.—Gen. Mac An thnr has cabled the war department the following account of t i.e death of Lieut. Draper: “Manila, June 29.—Second Lieutenant Paul Draper, Twenty-second infantry, was drowned on the morning of June 28, working on ferry near Sari Antonio, Neuva Ecija, Luzon, body not 3’et recovered. Mae ARTHUR.” Taul Draper was born June 24, JS78, at Valley View, la., and served with the-Sixteenth infantry as private, corporal, sergeant and first sergeant of Co. D from-sJuly, 1S97, to November. 1899. He was serving on‘tbd Philippine . islands as an enlisted man at the date of appointment as second I rietenant of the Twenty-second infantry, and was continually with his regiment to Junt 28, 1900, w hen he was drovmed. IT IS AGAINST THE LAW. _ Citizens Not Allowed to Make or Possess Pictures of Uncle Sam’s financial Obligations. Washington, June 30.—Two handsome oil paintings were received, Thursday, by Chief Wilkie, of the government secret service. One of them was seized in a saloon at Baltimore. It is a perfect representation of three small casks' stuffed so frill of national bank notes that they are piled high and fallibg over the sides. The other is about nine inches square, and is a representation of a $5 bill. On : of the pictures cost $225, and the other $90. Both have been confiscate^ by the government because of the statute prohibiting the reproductions of certificates of tlie government’s obligations. AN INJUNCTION REFUSED. The English Chancery Court Relate* to Enjoin Janette Steer at W. 3. Gilbert’s Behcet. London, June 30.—The chancery court has refused to grant the injunction applied for by W..S. Gilbert, the dramatist, to restrain Jai.ette Steer, the American actress, fro n continuing the production, at the C omedy theater, of the former’s play of “Pygmalion and Galatea,” on :lie ground that she had materially altered the business as arranged by him.

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.' Advice. Simply Indicate Preparation (or Wbnt It* Hoped to be Final Operation.. Loiidon, June 29, 2:50 p. an.—Out* siue of tninor conflicts in the Ornngu Kiver colony, showing continued Uoefl activity in the Senekal district, tha telegrams from South Africa merely] indicate preparation for. it is hoped, the fmal operations of the tediously, prolonged Wf»r. ' A Cape Town dispatch reports an at** temp by the Boers to blow tip the ar* tillery barraeks and magazine at Pretoria. It in added that an artilleryman, who frustrated the attempt by withdrawing a lighted fuse was killed by a .Boer whom the soldiers afterWard* attempted to lynch. The British authorities are deporting large numbers of Hollanders to Holland, to be dealt With by their own government for not obgcrvii g the state of neutrality declared by the Netherlands, - =: Pn sident Steyn is reported to be at Bethlehem, consulting with Ger.. De Wet. , Sir Alfred Milner, the British high commissioner, has notified the government to pay the interest on the Free State six cent, loan, due July'.], on condition that there is no further liar bility, either for capital or interest. Cape Town reports that President Kiuger is still at Machadodorpt “Afraid to move for fear the bridge* are undermined.”

•I LIVELY LITTLE ENGAGEMENTS. Fights Here and There that Do Not Amount to Mach. London, June 29, 11:58 p. m.—ihe war office has received the folio-wing from Lord Roberts: “Pretoria, June :0. “Paget reports from Lindley that he was engaged, on June 26, with a body of the enemy, who were strongly reinforced during the day. “A convoy of stores for the Linil^y garrison was also attacked on June 26, but after a heavy rear-guard action, the convoy reached Lindley in safety. Our casualties Were ten killed and four ofticera^and about fifty men wounded“Thp tight reported yesterday was under Lieut.-Col. Grenfell, not Drieper. Brabant came up during, the engagement. Total casualties of the two columns, three killed and. z,'. wounded. “On the previous day, near Fisckburg, Boyes’ brigade was i: action with a body of the ehemy. Our casualties were two officers killed, tour men wounded and one man missing. “Methuen found, yesterday, that the Boer laager near Yaehkop and Spitzkop had hastily removed, in the direction of Llndiey. lie follow-fed the enemy 12 miles, and captured 8,000 sneep and 500 head of cattle, which the ■ nemy had seized in. that neighborhood. 1 Our casualties were four wounded. “Hunter continued his march yesterday toward the Yaal river, unopposed. Many farmers along vlie route have surrendered! “Springs, the terminus of the railway from Johannesburg, due east, was attacked early yesterday morning. I'll? Canadian regiment, which garrisons the place, beat off the enemy. No casualties are reported! *— “Lieut. North, reported missing after the attack on the construction train, is a prisoner of the Boers.’ ACTIVE GUERILLA OPERATIONS. The Orange River Colony the Seen© of Activity. London, June JO, 4:20 a, in.—Active Boer guerrilla operations are reported from half a dozen points in Orange River colony. Boer official reports .frpm Machadodorp aver that a part of a British convoy was captured on June 24, ueur \Y inburg. The Lorenzo Marquez correspen 1ent of the Times says: “Both the burghers and the foreigners who are arriving here profess a strong belief, that it will take from three to six months to subdue the Boers.’* Another dispatch from Lorenzo Marquez says: Marques says: , “A consignment to a foreign nrm marked ‘Butch Cheese—Damaged,’ proved, on landing, to contain army boots for the Boers. It passed the customs, nevertheless, with unusual spatch, and the British consul is ^Taking presentation to the Portuguese government.” —’

GEN. CHAFFEE’S COMMAND. The Transport Grant Will: Carry Thirteen Hundred Men to Xa.vragakt and Onward. San Francisco, June 30.—The transport. Grant, which will sail on Sunday : for Nagasaki, and thence, it is believed, to Che Foo or Taku, will carry 800 men of the Sixth cavalry, which, in addi- v, tion to a hospital corps, made up at the Presidio. 300 recruits and 200 marines, will constitute the force going v to China. The Ninth infantry and a signal corps from Manila, and the Marines already in China, will complete Gen. Chaffee's forces, making 6,000 to 8,000 in a|k Will larreiuler Conditionally. Salt Lake City, Utah. June 30.—The Deseret News prints a story to the effect that Butch Cassidy, for whose arrest is a reward of $500 offered by the state, is now’in Salt Lake and will give himself up provided the governor will agree not to honor requisition papers from Colorado, where he is wanted for breaking jail. Indians Will As«ld in Celebrating. Wichita, Kas., June 30.—At Mountainview, Okla., 2,000 Indians will appear painted and in native attire to asfcist in celebrating the Fourth of July.