Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 August 1900 — Page 6

She §ikt bounty mortal M, MeC. STOOPS, Editor »od Froprloto* PETERSBURG. : INDIANA. —a^m.fai "—, _■.:■■■...'.JiUUaB Four companies of the Fifth infantry arrived at San Francisco, on the 14th, from Fort Sheridan, en route to China. Diamonds, considered .by London dealers superior to those from South Africa, and rallied jat from twentyfire, to fifty per cent, higher, hare been discovered at the diggings of the Mazaruni river in British Guiana. The war department, on the 15th, made public the Filipino correspondence captured some months ago by Gen. Funston’s command in Luzon. It makes interesting reading, from whatever point of view it is considered. President Diaz of Mexico has pardoned J. A. Clark, of Mobile, Ala., who, on March 17 last, was sentenced to*14 months’ imprisonment for causing, as a locomotive engineer, an accident in which the Mexican fireman was killed. At the launching of the Russian cruiser Novick, at Dantzic, on the 15th, which was witnessed by M. Lockroy, former minister of marine for France, Pierre Maltzeff, captain of the Russian cruiser, significantly referred to the “Russo-German” comradeship in China. The largest consignment of gold bullion ever exported in a/single day was •hipped from New York by the steamers Teutonic and St. Paul, op the 15th, as follows: Baring, Magoun & Co., (7,562,000; Heidelbach, Ickelheim Co., $500,000. Total, $8,162,000. The gold was consigned to London. Official confirmation of the capture of Pekin by the allied forces and the relief of the foreign legations and white and .Chinese Christians from their long imprisonment and suspense, was received by the state and navy departments on the 17th. One report •ays that the Chinese offered strong resistance.

Collis P. Huntington, president ol the Southern Pacific railroad, died at Pipe Knot lodge, his camp in the Adirondack region, on the 14th. When Mr. Huntington went to the lodge, on the 9th, he was in his usual good health, and remained bo up to an hour before his demise. He was probably worth $20,000,000. A messenger from Col. Hoare, com manding the British garrison at Elands Kiver, who reached Mafeking, on the 14th, reported that the garrison was still holding out when he left, although Col. Hoare had sustained 67 casualties. Gen. Ian Hamilton, with a force of cavalry, had been sent to relieve the garrison. United States Ambassador Choate, attended by the full embassy staff, visited the United States cruiser Baltimore, at Greenwich,on the 15th. The party was received by Rear-Admiral Watson and Capt. Forsyth; and the guns that did so well at Manila boomed out over the Thames in the ambassadors honor. The list of awards to American exhibitors at the Paris exposition was made public on the 17th. The United States, in all, secured 1,981 awards. Cf these 220 were grand prizes, 486 gold medals, 583 silver medals, 422 bronze medals, 270 honorable mentions, and a long list of gold, silver and bronze medals for collaborators. It was reported in Hong Kong, on the 16th, that the Canton customs de(mrtment had received a dispatch sayng that Sir Robert Hart, director general of Chinese imperial maritime customs, accompanied by his staff, had left Pekin, under Chinese escort, and that a cruiser would be sent to meet, him on his reaching the coast.

Dealtng with the question of American coal imports, on the 17th, the London Daily Chronicle said: “American coal owners seem bent on gaining an entrance into the British market. We wish them good luck in the name of free trade. Let them do their best in the open market and bring certain greedy folk on this side of the water to their senses.” Three delegates from the Mosquito territory of Nicaragua have arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, to request the exiled prince, Chief Clarence, a pensioner of the British government, to return to “his country.” They complain of oppression and injustice on the part of the Nicaraguan government. The chief has, it is said, communicated with Lord Salisbury on the aubject. District Attorney W. B. Johnson ot the southern district of Indian territory has received instructions from the department of the interior to prosecute all persons concerned in surveying or laying off new towns in the territory since the passage of the Curtis law. This includes speculators, boomers and private surveyors, but not bonafide purchasers who are building on their lots. Brig.-Gen. Dorward, the British officer in command at the taking of Tien Tain, in a letter to the commanding officer of the United Statea forces, praises the American soldiera for their “ready and willing spirit,” which, he says, makes their command easy, and for the steady gallantry and power of holding on to exposed positions. He frankly takes the blame for their extra exposure and ]>oints out many instances of personal valor of •fleers and men, which he intimates he will mention in his official dispatches.

KEWS IN BRIEF. . Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Secretary Gage received a telegram, on the 14th, announcing the death, on July 25, at St. Paul- island, Behring sea, of apoplexy, of Special Agent John If. Morton, a son of former, Gov. Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana. He was buried on the island. The city council, chamber of commerce, cotton exchange and deep water commission of Galveston, Tex., on the 15th, passed resolutions of regret at the death of Collis P. Huntington. Col. Victor C. Dubois, First California volunteers, died in San Francisco, on the 15th, after a long illness from disease contracted during the Philippine campaign. ° The prince and princess of Wales left London, on the 15th, for Homburg. > Immense throngs awaited their arrival at the Liverpool station and cheered them along the thoroughfares through which they passed. They are expected to return September 1. A special from Las Vegas. N. M., on the 15th, said: “Ex-United States Senator John J. Ingalls rested well last night and he ate fairly well this morning. His condition is not materially changed from yesterday." The depot battalion of the Eighth infantry, U. S. A., started from Fort Snelling, Minn.,on the 15th, for China, via San Francisco, under command of Mnj. W. L. Pitcher. There were 500 men in line. Fifteen Italian detectives, according to the Rome correspondent of the London Daily Mail, sailed for New York, on the 15th, to shadow the movements of anarchists in theUnited States. At Lincoln, 111., Thos. Christy was knocked down by a team of mules, run over by the wagon and instantly killed, on the 16th, while endeavoring to save* Mrs. Stephen Tuhhan and a child who were in a carriage drawn by runaways. Christy was a farmer, 50 years old, and a prominent politician.

Forest fires are burning east of Southfork. Col., in an area from five to twenty-five miles wide, and destroying valuable timber, mine machinery and buildings. The monetary damage will run into the millions of dollars. A dispatch from London, on the 17th, said: “The consensus of opinion expressed by the morning papers tends to the belief that thq. legations' at Pekin are now safe with the allies/’ The pressed glassware factories throughout the country re§pmed work, on the 16th, giving employment to over twelve hundred men. The steamer Monarch, with 1,150 horses for the British army in South Africa, cleared from New Orleans, qp the 16th, for Cape Town, John Pritzlaff, of Milwaukee, one of the largest wholesale hardware merchants in the west and well-known throughout Wisconsin, died, on the 16th, of diabetes, aged 80 years. The department of state has been notified by Minister Buck, at Tokio, that the Japanese government has given permission to the United States government to establish a United States hospital on Japanese territory wherever the United States government may select a site. In view of the advices from China, received at the national capital up to the night of the 16th, one of two thigns was certain—either the legationists in Pekin were safe, in the hands of the relief expedition, or they were dead, .having been put to death as the allies entered the city. Li Hung Chang made an abject appeal to Washington for a halt at Tung-Chow and an armistice, pending peaceful negotiation, in order to save Chinese pride; but the indications were that the crisis had already been reached. Two thousand children accepted the invitation of Russell Sage and attended a picnic at Upton Lake park, in Duchess county, N. Y., being carried there on a special train, provided by Mr. Sage, on the Poughkeepsie & Easton railroad. The children were happy and so was their benefactor.

Revenue officers, led by J. E. Alton, after a desperate bush fight in the • mountains of Polk county, Tenn., captured Moonshiners Riley Headon, Gus Headon, Henry Norwood, Coot 0\yens and Silas Goforth. A* large stiil was destroyed. Garrett Headon, • leader of the outlaws, escaped. The recent murder of Express Messenger Lane by Rosslyn Ferrell, in Ohio, has called the attention of the Adams Express Co. to violations of its rules by' messengers kt carrying persons on their cars, and the result is becoming apparent in discharges and suspensions. Will Ha^k, a young man of Wichita, Kas., writes to friends from Cape Nome under date of July 30, stating that the gold finds there are mostly hatched up in the minds of the transportation companies, and that the alleged fabulous finds are all a fake. He has to p^§r $3 per meal for his grub. Gen. DeWet, the Boer commander whom the British have been unsuccessfully trying to.capture for a long time, has retreated northwest of Rustenburg. Eighty prisoners who escaped from him report that his strength is now 7,000 men. Former President Steyn of the Orange Free State, according to a dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Lourenzo Marquez, is reported to have died, as the result of a severe wound, while endeavoring to join President Kruger at Machadodorp. Samuel Amidon, a prominent business man of Ashtabula, O., while playing ball, on the 16th, was struck on the head by a pitched ball ant instantly killed.

Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kan* saa. died at East Las Vegas, N. M., on the morning of the 16th. The direct e»use of his death was bronchitis, complicated by heart troubles. The remains were forwarded to his old home in Atchison, Kas., for interment. Two Italians. Xatabe Maresca and Michil Ouida, hare been detained at Quarantine, New Vork harbor, -their deportation to Naples, Italy, being recommended to the secretary of the treasury. They had been reported from Rome to be anarchists who might attempt the life of the president. The statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of t he $150,000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 17th, showed: Available cash balance, $141,550,6S4; gold, $72,900,418. K. G. Dun & Co.’s Trade Review, issued on the 17th, reported: “Failure* for the week were 161 in the United States, against 156 lost year, and 24 in Canada, against 24 last year.” LATE NEWS ITEMS. The entire plant of the Kelly Ax Manufacturing Co., at Alexandria, Ind., valued at $800,000, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 19th. It was the largest ax factory in the world, employing some eight hundred or a thousand men when running at full force. The company had just enlarged the factory, increasing the output fully one-third. The wooden steamer Argonaut sprung a leak, on the 19th, after taking on a cargo of iron ore, and sunk at her dock at Escanaba, Mich. One of the steamship’s boilers blew up under pressure, and A, A. McFarland, a fireman from, Port Huron, was severely scalded. The Argonaut was ready to go to sea when the leak was discovered. \ J. D. Besler, general superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, was injured, on the 19th, by an explosion of escaping gas in the company’s office building, caused by a lighted match. Mr. Besler was severely burned, but was able to go to his home in a carriage, where his burnB on the hands and face were treated

The order of commander of the Legion of Honor has been bestowed upon M. Pichon, French minister to China. On the 19th M. Delcasse, the foreign minister, visited M. Pichon’s mother m Paris, announced to her the safety of her son and handed to her the decoration for him. The steamer Amur arrived at Victoria, B. C., on the 19th,from Skaguay. Advices were brought that Hon. Richard Mansfield White, of New York, explorer and mine-owner, in an interview given at Skaguay, contends that the Klondike is in American territory. George Cabot Lodge, son of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Miss Matilda Frelinghuysen Davis, daughter of Judge Davis, of the court of claims, Washington, were married at the Church of the Advent in Boston on the 18th. At Philadelphia while frightening a crowd of negroes, on the night of th£ 19th, by pretending she was a ghost, Florence Almond, aged 15 J ears, was struck on the head with a brick thrown by one of the negroes and killed. Geronimo, the noted Indian chief, recently reported to have become insane, is, it is now said, about to marry a young girl with a bank account of $40,000. The old warior is declared to be in his usual health. CURRENT NOTES. B. F. Stevens, of Fort Dodge, Ta^ has presented to the citj’ a complete pewet, light and heating plant, which he built at a eost of $30,000. St. Louis county (Mo.) farmers have organized for protection against melon thieves. Mrs. John Kelcher gave the first St. Louis shirt-waist party. None of the men wore coats.

Princess Christina, grandaunt of King Alphonso of Spain, has become insane and is confined in an asylum. United States Consul Roosevelt, at Brussels, has informed the state department of a lockout in Belgian glass works involving 6,000 men. • Cotton is opening prematurely in Arkansas on account of dry weather, and picking will be general by Seuttnr'ber 1, witich is about ten days earlier than usual. > William Dawson, an employe of the Cotton Belt shops at Pine Bluff, Ark., dropped dead, Friday afternoon, at the Lamport hotel. His home was in Carlinville, 111. Mrs. S. M. Hirseh, wife of one of Ilighee's (Mo.) most prominent tntrchants, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, widow of the late .'Benjamin Hunter, died at Olney, 111., aged 70 years. She was the wealthiest woman in Richland court;. Lawrence Johnson, aged 76 years, a well-known retired farmer of Medora. III., died suddenly from an attack of cerebral apoplexy. He was a native of Isew Jersey. A quantity of counterfeit silver money has been put in circulation in southwestern Texas. The coin is such a perfect imitation that it fools experts on casual inspection. Edgar D. Aiken, known in Denver as “The Colonel,” died in so sudden and unexpected a manner, Friday, that the coroner has been called on to investigate. Robert Clemmens, one of the wealthiest young men in Fayette county, Ky., son of Frank Rankin Clemmens. committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. The death, from consunqptiom. of Dr. Lawrence E. Elrod at Longmont, Col., is announced. Dr. Elrod was for years a leading physician and surgeon of Flora, 111., and ranked high in his profession.

ALL OVER THE STATE Brents in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. •>nm» from a Train. Michigan City, Ind., Aug. 1?.—Twen-ty-six prisoners from the state reformatory were transferred to the states prison here as incorrigible*. They were chained together two in a seat. As the train was leaving Otis, eight miles from here, two prisoners. Turner and Miller, grand larceny men, sentenced from two to fourteen years, jumped from the window' and escaped. Excitement among the other prisoners was quelled and they were brought here safely. The other two are stiU at large. It is supposed one sawed hit manacles on the train. Kew Trank Line. Marion, lnd.. Aug. 17.—Arrangements have nearly been completed to move the Toledo. St. Louis & Western railroad sihops and division headquarters from Frankfort to this city. The road w;as formerly the Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas City, but was recently sold and the name changed. The purchasers are the owners of the Chicago & Erie and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. The object of the company is to make a trunk line from Jiew York to San Francisco. Convict In Dead. Jeffersonville, Ind., Aug. 17.—William Kennedy, formerly a/hoted convict of the prison south, is uead at his home in Cincinnati, of consumption., Kennedy was sentenced in Decatur county, in 1884, for life, for the murder of David Baker, recorder of the county, at Greensburg. in October of that year. Through the untiring efforts of his sister he was paroled in 1897. Severe Storm. , Whitestown. Ind., Aug. 17.—A severe wind and hailstorm swept over this section of Boone county and much damage was done to orchards, and to corn and other growing crops. " The corn was broken and twisted by the wind, and stripped by the hail. The storm took a southeasterly course, cutting a swath a half-mile wicle.

Involuntary ManitlauKhter. Richmond, Ind.. Aug. 17.—William M. Gates, in the county jan for killing Rariden Meek, the Abington township farmer, will be tried during the September term of the Wayne circuit court. Prosecutor Bond will file information in the court, charging the defendant with involuntary manslaughter. Aulced to Pay. Marion. Ind,, Aug. if.—An action in $5,000 for alleged breach of promise has been filed in the superior court by Miss Mae Yassar against Charles L. Mead, a prominent and wealthy business man of Marion. It is alleged that last November Mead promised to marry the defendant, and now has refused to do so. Prtaoier Paroled. Indianapolis. Ind.. Aug. 17.—Gov. Mount granted a parole to Michael Bugler, who was sentenced to the Jackson circuit court. May 11, 1898. to a term in the state prison of from one to three years on conviction of petit larceny. Bugler is suffering from tuberculosis and is not expected to live. Fell Dead. 4£vansville,Ind.,Aug. 17.—Astranger, well dressed and apparently a man of culture, fell dead in front of the Victoria hotel. No papers were found on his person that would lead to his identification. All efforts to learn his name^have thus far failed. Shot Himself. Sullivan, Ind., Aug. 17— Robert Ladson. superintendent of the Paxton, canning works, attempted suicide at his home in that village by shooting himself below the heart with a revolver. Ill health of his wife is the sup-* posed cause. He will die.

Bonds Redeemed. Rochester, Ind.. Aug. 17.—The county commissioners have redeemed $32,000 worth of courthouse bonds, which still had 15 years to run. The cash was in the treasury, and by making the purchase nearly $17,000 of future interest was saved. Tank Blown t'p. Muncie. Ind., Aug. 18.—The new continuous flint tank just completed at the Muncie glass works was completely demolished by an explosion of gas while being fired. Gen. Manager Jacob Waymire. who applied the torch, was seriously burned. Muncie Wins. Marion. Ind.. Aug. 17.—The second game of the Muncie and Marion Golf clubs in the triangular championship that is being played by Muncie. Richmond and Marion was contested on the Marion links and resulted in a victory for Muncie. Lut of Seven Brothers. Sullivan, Ind.. Aug. 17.—Phomton Mahan, the oldest resident of Jackson township, Sullivan county, is dead at the age of 88 years. He was born in Kentucky in 1S12 and was the last of ©even brothers, all pioneers of the county. W»*ob Works Burned. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 17.—Fire almost! destroyed the wagon works of David G. Becker, causing a loss estimated at about $20,000. Church Struck by Lightning. Richmond, Ind., Aug. 17.—The St. Andrew's Catholic church was struck by lightning and burned. Loss, $50,000; partially insured. Lega Broken. Laurel, Ind., Aug. 17.—Ed. Loper, of ,Brookville. while at Fairflelu, had both >legs broken, in a runaway accident.

The Taking of Pekin and the Relief of the Legations is Fully Confirmed, ONLY THE DETAILS ARE NOW LACKIN6. Only Eight AntrtcM* Wounded Daring th* Amall-ri|kll*| Caatlim at Pakln—Th« Empr«w Dowapr Said to Ba a FrUoaar la th* Inner or “Forblddoan City. Washington, Aug. 19.—From Gen. Chaffee to-day the war department received official confirmation of the fall of Pekin, and the rescue of the besieged legationers. Break* Mis Losg Slleaee. The dispatch of the American commander was not long, and contained but few details, but the unconcealed satisfaction with which it was received by0 officials of the a^hninistration indicated clearly the anxiety that had been engendered by his prolonged silence. His last communication to the government, prior to the receipt of yesterday’s advices, was dated August 11, at Matow, almost thirty miles from Pekin. The explanation of his silence is suggested in advices received by the navy department to-doy from Admiral Remey, who, telegraphing from Taku oh -the 18th, says the telegraph line between that point and Pekin is interrupted. Admiral Remey’* Dispatch. The cablegram from Admiral Remey contains some important information not mentioned by Gen. Chaffee. He makes the startling statement, on Japanese authority, that the inner city of Pekin was being bombarded by the allied forces. Admiral Remey says, also, that the dowager empress is detained in the inner city by Prince Yungedo. 8 Advices received last night from the foreign office at Tokio, Japan, by the Japanese legation in this city, confirm and amplify previous accounts of the capture of Pekin by the allied troops.

Dispatch from Geo. Cholfee. Following is the text o&the dispatch from Gen. Chaffee, *as made public by the war department: Che Foo, Aug. 19, 1900. “To Adjutant General, Washington;! Pekin, August 15th, “We entered legation’s grounds ai, five o’clock last night with Four teenth and light battery. Eigh wounded during day’s fighting; other - wise all well. [Signed] “CHAFFEE.” I The President Gratified. The dispatch, which was receive t during the morning, was transmitted immediately to the president at th: White House. He expressed his gratification at the news contained, pa: - ticularly at the small loss sustained by the American troops. A copy of the dispatch likewise wj b sent to Adjt.-Gen. Corbin, who was in New York. Aa Error la Transmission. It will be noted that the dispatch -indicates that the American trools entered the legation grounds at fi. a o’clock on the evening of the 14 h instant. By the Washington officials and by several legation officials ;o whom it was shown, the date of Gen. Chaffee’s communication is regard *d as an error of transmission. It is 1 elieved that the word “fifteen! i” should be “sixteenth.” AIL previous advices, official and unofficial, have indicated that the legations were elieved on the evening of the 15 ;h, Wednesday, after a day of sh« rp fighting. Minister Wu, the Chinese minister, and Minister Takahiro, *ot' Japan, were quite positive on tiiis point, all their official advice be ng that the entrance to the city of Pe an was effected early in the evening of Wednesday, the 15th.

umaea his Forces. The fact that only the Fourteenth infantry and Riley’s battery entered the city, as shown by Gen. Chaff ie's dispatch, does not indicate that the Ninth infantry and the marines, vho were so conspicuously gal ant throughout the advance upon the { a;>ital, did not participate in the engagement which resulted directlj- iu the rescue of the besieged legal loners. It is pointed out as likely/hat Gen. Chaffee, acting in conson: nee with the other commanders, div ded his forces, leaVing the Ninth inf a itry and the marines without the "-alls of the city to act as a rear guard to pre- , vent the escape of Chinese troor * by other gates than those through which the allies entered, or for some* C ther excellent reason. Only two batta ions of the Fourteenth regiment are with Gen. Chaffee. They comprise afbout eight hundred men. ' Small American Losses. This would indicate that only about one-third of Gen. Chaffee’s force Actually entered the city at the tinie he sent his dispatch. The fact that/ only eight of the American force were wounded, none being killed, is regarded as notably fortunate. Admiral Remey’s dispatch, which contains much interesting information in few words, is: Dispatch from Admiral Res ej. Che Foo, (no d: ,te). “To Bureau Navigation, Wt shington: Taku, Eighteenth. Tel graph line to Pekin interrupted. In ormation, Japanese sources. E apress dowager detained by Prince Yunedo in inner city, which is bein bomr barded by allies. Chaffee repo rts, entered legation grounds evenin' 14th. Eight wounded during day’s fii hting; otherwise all well. [Signed] “EE* KY ** Startling Feature of the Dh tailck. The startling feature of tAe dispatch is that fighting within he cit} of Pekin was continuing, according -

to tine advices of Admiral Remey. Tb<^ In ter, or as it is popularly known, the F< rbidden City, evident!” had not be in taken. It is surrounded by a m isidve wall of solid masonry, more tl in twenty feet highland *v is not rt yarded as surprising that the Chim se should make their final stand w thin its shadows. ] XhoDKht to Hare Left Pekin. jPrior to the receipt of the dispatch it was accepted generally as a fact ti'ut the dowager empress, m e»>mp ay with the emperor and a large s ite, had left Pekin. While nothing i: said in Admiral Remey’s advices as t;j> the whereabouts of the emperor, i; is deemed scarcely probable that he lift the city without the empress v >wager. Some doubt of the accuracy < f s the information receive*! by Admiral Remey is expressed, particular* If' as the Chinese minister, Mr. vYu, is v sry positive that the emperor, em- $ ress dowager and the entire Chinese dQfUrt left Pekin before the arrival at i he gates of the allies. *. SETTLEMENT COMES NEXT. i 'Mu Has EUtm Nation* to Reekoa with In SatUlas for Her Fool* tokBM*. Washington, Aug. 20.—Now that the primary object for which the allied trades marched upon Pekin, vis., the rescue of the besieged iegationers, has oeen accomplished, the drift of discussion in official and diplomatic circles .reverts to the next step to be taken. Necessarily many of the predictions as. to what this will be are purely conjectural, as it is realized that complete and definite information regarding the condition of affairs in Pekin must be awaited before-any positive action can be taken by the governments whose interests have suffered as a result of the Chinese troubles. New Condition* and Aspect*. “We are on the threshold of an entirely new condition of affairs; a new aspect confronts us,” said a well-post-ed official of this government last night. “The efforts of the several governments during the past few weeks have been devoted to the rescue of the Iegationers in Pekin. Now that that lias been accomplished the course of i he governments whose interests have been affected is for the present one largely of conjecture.”

An Armistice Probable. The presumption here is that the next,move will be an agreement for an armistice. This may be undertaken by the commanders of the Chinese army, and those of the allies on the spot, where the fighting, according to the latest reports from Pekin, appears still to be in progress. This accomplished, the question of the withdrawal of the foreign armies, the payment of indemnities and many other problems may be left to commissions duly appointed to adjudicate them. LI Hug ChBBg’p Mlitlon. Li Hung Chang has already been appointed a plenipotentiary by .his government to negotiate terms of peace, and in this capacity, he made an ineffectual attempt to stop the progress, of the allies in their march on Pekin. Whether Earl Li will be continued in that capacity by the imperial government is not known here, but such seems altogether probable, as, with his well-known ability and his acquaintance with the world, he would be able to make possibly better terms than any other Chinaman. * Eleven Nations Have Suffered. There are 11 nations, pointed out the same official, which have suffered as a Jesuit of the Chinese disturbances. All will expect a settlement of damages which have resulted from the Boxer outbreaks, the murder of missionaries, and the destruction of legation property. Spain is one of these, and, although she has not par- | ticipated in the relief expedition, she has suffered alike with the others, and will expect to be indemnified foi her losses. Sole Interest of tbe United States. It can be stated authoritatively that up to this time, there have been no exchanges between the United States and other powers regarding the steps to be taken in the future to bring China to terms. for the losses that have been incurred. The<sole interest of the United States up to this time has been the rescue of the legationers, which is now an accomplished fact. Ho Definite Conclusions Reached. Informal discussion has taken place between the president and jiis cabinet as to what this government will do to secure reparation for losses, but the conclusions reached are purely tentative, and in no sense definite. -

THE DROUGHT IN KANSAS, All Previous Estimates of the Corn Crop Must be Materially * Modified. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 20.—Twothirds of Kansas west of the three eastern-most tiers of counties, is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in the history of the state, and the general opinion is that the Kansas corn crop will be the smallest is proportion to its requirements for feeding that has beei^ made in many years. In 1899 it was 225,000,000 bushels. Secretary Coburn’s report of conditions on August 24 indicated a yield this year of about 145,000,000 bushels. Since then there have been two weeks of hot* dry weather which has further materially reduced con-, ditions, and the most liberal estimates of well-informed men on ’change do not exceed 100,000,000 bushels, while many place the crop at not over 75,000,000 bushels. The plowing for winter wheat is delayed by the dried condition of the soil. The pastures are' dry, and stock water in many sections is scarce* \