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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
I'nllt llnlil tlii. Itr-rmrd.
Mine. Pntli Iiiih for sonic time held
tlic record for tliu lurgost mini that
litis been earned In n year by a woman.
Her hlghcRt total for 12 months U
X 70,000.
Wlu-rn CJI'ivim (Siiinn I''om.
The clove Kiipply of tlie world V.
produced in the iHlandH of Zanzibar
and I'emba, which coiiHtitntu the
principal producing territory of the
Hultunulc.
Truvnllmr Ipnn of IlWImp
Jfinliop MeCabe, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, proves from actual
figures that the average t reveling ex
penses of each bishop for a year are
only $4G3. t
Mio-rlml Mnr Ttinn 7 Vniirn.
Mr. and Mrs. Klishn Ilrown, who live
half a mile from Hngorstown, Ind
liave bt--n married over 70 years, and
arc still comparatively hearty. They
tire the parents of 11 children, six ol
whom arc mill alive.
rrmr V iip of Knr-t PriMliin'p.
The amount of lumber now used it
(5,000,000,000 cubic feet for making piv
er, while three times that amount, oi
16,000,000,000, is burned In stoves, lire
places and furnaces, and the use ol
wood in fences and for railroad ties
in increasing. The forest products
annually consumed in the United
States arc cstimuted to be worth
$1,000,000,000, nearly twice the value
of the output of the mines, quarries,
petroleum wells and other mineral
products of the country,
Tli- Kxuct A'vn of I'urto It leu.
A- bulletin has lately been issued
by the war department on the census
of l'orto Kico, showing a population
of 053,243 for that Island, which with
the dependent inlands of Micquc,
Culebra, Mona and Muertos, has an
arcn of 3.C0C square miles. There aru
but two cities in Porto Kico with a
population exceeding 25,000, namely
San Juan, with 32,042 inhabitants, and
l'once, with 27,952. The urban pop
ulation is 21.4 per cent, of the total
number of inhabitants of the island.
ICnnrmnii. IlHllnii(l IMmlni'im.
An Idea of the enormous extent of
the- railroad business Is to be gained
from the report of tho Interstate
Commerce commission for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1890. It states
that the number of people employed
"by the railroads of tho United States
Is 923,024, an increase for the year of
G4,4G8. The last census gave the num
ber of persons in gainful occupations
at 22,000,000, and this would mean
that about one person in each 2t is
dependent, for support directly upon
the railroads.
WIiimIki; lit n TrnuiPtiilnnit Clit.t.
The statement of casualties in
South Africa issued by the Tiritisli
war ofllcc shows the tremendous cost
at which the English armies have
reached their present position In the'
Transvaal war. The total losses ex
clusive of the sick pud wounded have
been 29,700, of which 21,057 were hilled
in action. Those who died of wounds
numbered 080; missing and prisoners,
2,089; died of disease, '1,337; invalided
home, 19,277. The total loss of ef
fective men is nearly 57,000, not count
ing Vclensed prisoners.
IiturointnttM of IS.'ly Iuto.
The approach of a new century has
brought forth much discussion of
chronology and has served to call at
tention to tho inaccuracies of early
dates. 1 1 Arbuthnot, for instance,
who has made a lifetime study of
thorn, asserts that little credence can
bo attached to any dates in England
before the sixteenth century, while all
the early documents of Euro pa nre
regarded as unreliable down to the
end of the twelfth century, when the
Vatican records first begin to wear an
nppearance of genuineness.
S'nlrrtlnir I'nmnui Amttrlo iiih.
About half the men who have been
invited to act as judges in the selec
tion of namcB of Americans who are
entitled to the distinction of having
their portraits hung: In the Hall of
Varna of tho New York university
hnvo already said they will serve.
Among them nre the presidents of
Harvard, Yale, the University of
Michigan and Northwestern univer
sity, Chief Justice Fuller, Grover
Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles
Dudley Warner, Edward Everett Ilalu
and Dr. Moses Colt Tyler.
Wrltlnc u Wonmii'M II l,i.
Abraham G. Dixon, an old boolc
worm of Omahn, is now nt work writ
ing whnt he terms a woman's Dibits.
' fti this work, which he has almost
completed, the author plnces woman
np nn equal footing with man. In
speaking of 1i1b new Bible, Mr. Dixon
nays: "What tho so-called civilized
nations need is n woman's Uiblo, one
that represents her as she is in tho
eyes of God, and not n,s the insignifi
cant sorf, not as the secondary ele
ment of humanity she is pictured to
bo by the orthodox creed."
MET "WITH DEFEAT.
Allied Forces Driven Back from the
Attack on Tion Tsln.
With 7.000 Troop tint Fiiriilcimr. Worn
Ovcitm ht'liiH U liy n Glilinn Army of ISO,-
OOII A linn lean- Ijtml (Ivor MO Klilvri,
liiiiiudlui; Col. I.Imiuiu.
Washington, July 17. The nnvy de
partment has received olllelal con
firmation from Admiral Homey of the
reverse of the allied forces at Tien
Tsln on the morning of the 13th. The
dispatch is dated Che Eoo, July 10,
and says:
"Reported that allied forces at
tacked native city on morning of the
13th. Russians were on the right,
with Ninth Infantry and marines on
the left. Losses allied forces large:
Russians, 100, Including artillery col
onel; Americans, over 30; Hritish,
over 40; Japan, 53, including colonel;
French, 25. Col. Lisouni, Ninth in
fantry, killed; also Capt. Davis, mu
rine corps. Capt. I-cmley, Lieuts. Hit
ler and Leonards wounded. At seven
in the evening allied attack on native
city was repulsed with great loss.
Returns yet incomplete; details not
yet confirmed"
The defeat of the allied forces at
Tien Tsln seems to place that town
in desperate straits, and if retreat to
Tnku is necessitated, observers con
sider that it will be likely to decide
the policy of wavering viceroys. Tho
departure of Admiral Seymour from
Tieu Tsin, and the movement of war
ships toward Shau-lIni-Kuan, on the
gulf of Liaotunn, arc taken to Indi
cate that HiIb route may be adopted
for an advance on l'ekln, which is dis
tant 170 miles from Shan-llai-Kuan.
AIIIpiI Tr..op Niunltarml 7.000.
Tien Tsin, July 13 (Friday), via Cho
Foo, July 15, and Shanghai, July 10.
At two o'clock this (Friday) after
noon 7,000 of the allied troops were
attempting to storm the walls of the
city. The attack, began at daylight.
Its success is doubtful. The Chinese
on the walls are estimated conserva
tively nt 20,000. They are pouring a
terrific hnil of artillery, rifle and' ma
chine gun fire upon the attackers.
The American, Japanese, British and
French troops nre attacking from the
west and the Russians from the east.
I.l-rnm h IIr Ofllr
Washington, July 17. Col. Emerson
II. Llscum, of the Ninth infantry, who
was killed at Tien Tsin, was one of
the most gallant of the old civil war
veterans still in the service. He was
from Vermont.
hlnncHixr Occurred .Tnlr (I or 7.
Washington, July 17. Without ex
ception the foreign representatives
in Washington accepted as practically
certnin thnt the foreign legations
and ministers at Pekin had been
wiped out. The conclusion is based
on the accumulating unofficial data
that the slaughter occurred about
July 6 or 7. Even among the high
Chinese officials hope has been about
given up.
Siilnliln ICuthr Thn On truer
Berlin, July 17. The correspondent
here of the Associated press has re
ceived private information from Lon
don that a letter wan received there
from Lady Claude Macdonald (wife
of the British ambassador at Pekin),
written when the situation was grow
ing threatening, baying that all the
ladies of the legation had supplied
themselves with poison.
EXCITED AT WASHINGTON.
Navfft from Otilnn Itou.fx it Spirit of Klorco
liiillRimtlon uiul i HmiiiuiiiI for
Vunci'uiiru.
Washington, July 17. A degree of
excitement, reminiscent of the days
of the Spanish wnr, prevailed at the
state, war ,and navy departments
Monday. Early In the day came Ad
miral Hemey's dispatch conveying the
ill tidings from Tien Tsin, and for
the time this obscured the Pekin situ
ation. The Ninth infantry is one of
the crnck regiments ot'the world, and
the terrible story of tho fatality in
its ranks aroused a spirit of fierce in
dignation and a demand for vengeance
among the officers of the army and
navy hero that could not be re
pressed. Coiiiitrfltltnr Nllvnr Alnnrr In Mnulln.
Manila, June 10. (Correspond
ence.) The large circulation of silver
money in the Philippines litis made
nn opportunity for counterfeiters,
and there is evidence of one or more
"gangs" in Manila and the provinces
who manufacture spurious coins. The
counterfeiters make Mexican dollars
from a baser nnd cheaper metal, the
American nickel is counterfeited nnd
tlie urown : mils nave been suc
cessfully imitated.
AiMrcH to Dnmonritiln Clnlx.
New York-, .Inly 17. W. R. Ilchrst,
president of the National Association
of Democratic clubs, has issued an ad
dress to the clubs, in which he calls
on them to "publicly rnt.-y the nomi
nation of W. .1. Bryan for president
and Adlai E, Stevenson for vice presi
dent and prepare to defend the re
public against tlie corrupt and cor
rupting spirit of imperialism." Tlie
address arraigns the republican party
bitterly for its attitude toward "im
perialism" nnd trusts.
DEATHS IN A CLOUDBURST.
riflrnii I.lvn Kin.ri to Hnvo Hnmi I.oit l
tllelU.ll, TrX -t't t'llllin l)UIHl(i'A
1'ropiTlv ot Miiiio.
Coleman, Tex., July 17. Fifteen
lives arc known to have been lost In a
cloudburst here yesterday.- Ten
bodies have been recovered but only
two were identified. It is feured that
many more lives were lost in the
valley below Coleman. The cloud
burst, which followed three days' un
precedented rainfall, caused FordV
creek to burst its banks and rush
tluough Coleman, a village of less
than 1,000 inhabitants. Bewildered
citizens, roused from their slumbers,
rushed into the streets and were
swept away. Many were saved by
catching hold of pieces of timber and
navigating them into eddies formed
by the swift current, where they were
drawn ashore.
I. ino, 'tVx , Struck l- it (Svclom.
St. Louis, July 17. A special to the
Republic from Austin, Tex., says:
After several hours of Incessant rain
a cyclone struck Hie town of Llano,
200 miles north of here, Sunday night
about 7:35 o'clock. The storm came
from the sen and was wholly unex
pected. It demolished a number of
buildings and a large number of peo
ple were Injured, a few of them se
riously. CROKER'S COUNSEL.
Tha Tn ill iimtijr Chlftf Ailvldcil HHakrt In
tho Cn in pn Inn to 14)1 ut Out th Lkhiuii-
lnir Utiunro of Younn Mou.
New York, July 17. The executive
committee of the Tammany hall met
In the Wigwam last night, Richard
Crokcr presiding, and took action rel
ative to indorsing the democratic
national ticket. The general commit
tee of 0,000 members will meet July
23, when resolutions will be ndopted
and the ticket ratified. Mr. Croker,
peaking at the meeting last night,
advised all speakers in this campaign
to show the interests of tho young
men as opposed to the administra
tion of MelCinley. Eighty per cent,
of the people of the country, he said,
were governed by 20 per cent. He
pointed out that the chances of the
young mun for advancement in life
were becoming less and less.
TEN THOUSAND MORE TROOPS.
That Miiiit from iho United tutc Will 1J
lliirrlnil to Clilnn Mcltliilny to Uv
'turn to Wii hliictoo.
Washington, July 17. The cabinet
council lasted for some time and the
situation in China was discussed yes
terday. There is reason to believe
that 8,000 or 10,000 troops will be got
together as rapidly as possible and
hurried to China. Some of these prob
ably will be taken from Cuba. If
the situation requires more men con
gress will have to be called together
to provide for them.
IUcKiiiIxv lititttMii to Wit4tiicrtiiri.
Washington, July 17. Word was
received at the white house Monday
afternoon to the effect thnt President
McKinley would arrive here some
time Tuesday, probably in the after
noon. MiMY Di-nrlm In l'liuilno DU'rlniH.
London, July 17. The governor of
Bombay telegraphs to the secretary
of .state for India that there were
9,928 cases of cholera in the famine
districts during tlie week ended July
7, of which 0,474 were fatal, and that
in the native states there were 9,526
cases, of which 5.S92 wens fatal. The
total number of deaths on the relief
works was 5,870, which was 3.9 per
1,000. There has been a good rainfall
in Surat, Khandersh and the western
part of the Deecan and rain has be
gun in parts of North Gujcrnt, where
the numbers demanding relief is con
tinuing to increase.
Wuklnir thn lltwt of It.
Prescott, Ariz., July 17. A large
number of business men whose
plnces were burned out on Sat
urday night opened up yesterday in
temporary quarters. A more cheerful
view pervades the town than on Sun
day and a large number of losers have
stated that they would rebuild at
once. The town will be built up in a
more substantial manner than before.
IimiIhIoii hy thn Interior llnpn tmoiit.
Washington, July 17. Tn a decision
announced yesterdny tho Interior de
partment holds that this Curtis act
docs not relieve non-citizens purchas
ing town lots within the Indian nn-'
tious In the Indian territory from
paying the permit tnx or license fee
imposed by the tribal authorities.
Threw u l.lirhrcil Mutnh nt l'li.p
Oklahoma City, Ok., July 17. The
12-year-okl daughter of J. M. MeCor
miek was perhaps fatally burned
while playing near her home. A
small boy throw a lighted match up
on her and her clothing was nearly
all burned on" her back before her
screams attracted help.
.Mr Ciillil Di'iiHii.' Ih OII1..H.
Waslrington, July 17. Curtis Guild,
of Boston, who was tendered the ap
point nient of first iihslstant post
master general to succeed Perry S
Heath, has declined to accept the of
flee.
AS AN ACT OF MERCY.
Report from Tien Tsin Says Sey
mour Killed His Wounded.
Ilnlnc Iliird 1'rtiiMCil ly tho Clilnrsr, llo
Could NiI.oiiBTl3irry Ihii 1)1 iiblfd
unci Would Not l.ntTUMlil llo
Tori II roil.
New York, July 17. A special to
the Journal from Tien Tsin, dated
July 8, via Shanghni, July 15, says:
We are fighting hordes of Chinese day
and night, but nre unable to beat
them oil'. They nre approaching closer
to the foreign settlement after each
battle. No quarter is givcu or asked
on either side.
Ineffectual attempts have been
mnde to conccnl the horrible fact that
Admiral Seymour was compelled to
shoot his own wounded during the
recent disastrous retreat ot the Pekin
relief expedition. All the wounded
and prisoners who fell into the hands
of the Chinese were frightfully tor
tured. The bodies of two marines
who were captured by the Chinese
were recovered. The bodies had been
cut to pieces. First the eyes had
been hacked out; then the cheeks,
arms nnd legs cut off, until death
ended the sufferings of the poor fel
lows. When Admiral Seymour in his re
treat found himself so hard pressed
that he was unable longer to carry
his wounded with him, he asked
them: "Which do you prefer, to be
left to the mercies of the Chinese or
to be shot by your own commander?"
As Admiral Seymour put the question
the tears were streaming down his
cheeks. "We prefer death to tor
ture! Shoot us now, thnt we may
die like men!" was the piteous re
sponse of the helpless men.
A firing squad was told off, and
while the allied force stopped and
bent ofT with gun fire the Chinese
horde that surrounded it, inside its
lines nn act of mercy was performed
as the firing squad carried out its
orders. A few merciful volleys from
the rifles in the hands of friends and
the harassed expedition was relieved
of its burden of wounded, the fanat
ical Chinorie horde was cheated of
victims for its torture and the suf
ferings nnd fears of the unfortunates
were brought to nn end in nn honor
able death under their own flag.
SERIOUS DROUGHT BROKEN.
Iunu, nli iihvh Hud M snourl VMtml by
Cop iiuh MiowxrH, Which Itroiiifhi Killof
to ritiiunrs Who Uiul Corn Crop..
Kansas City, Mo., July 17. Good
rains were reported Monday in nearly
all of the western corn belt, and the
weather forecaster said conditions
were favorable everywhere for more
showers. The biggest rainfall re
ported was at Baker, in uorthenstern
Kansas, over two inches. Practically
all of Nebraska, so far as heard from,
received heavy rains much heavier
than in Kansas and Missouri is
thoroughly soaked. The rain has
come too late to make a bmnper crop
of corn in Kansas. The crop in nil
the country west of Emporin has
been damaged, and some conservative
observers think that from a third to
a half a crop is all that may be looked
for in that part of the state. But in
the eastern third 'of the state, where
about half the corn area is situated,
the corn has not been damaged at all.
COMING TO AMERICA.
Citpn Town Dtupttch Sv Irlxh-AioitIcihir
Aru Amnionic lo llrlnu' 111, UOO
ISoorH to Tliw I omitri.
Cnpe Town, July 17. When the war
in South Africa is over 10,000 Boers,
chiefly naturalized citizens of the
Transvnal, will emigrate to the United
States. Irish-Americans nre arrang
ing the preliminaries for this move
ment. The latest Machadodorp ad
vices state that President Kruger
will refuse to surrender until his sup
plies are exhausted.
Th Corn In Sluh' In N'-b-u'Wn,
Omahn, Neb., July 17. With the
bounteous rains of the past 48 hours
throughout Nebraskn, Elkhorn roll- '
way headquarters give out an esti
mate of aoo.000,000 bushels of corn
In sight for this year. The same road
also furnishes these figures for the
past four years: Yield for 1899 was
224,373,000 bushels; in 1898 it was 158,
754,000; in 1S97, 211,208,000, and in
1890, the banner your, 29S,000,000.
Ai'O lir Hun on Soo'ct 0iI,h.
Kansas City, Kim., July 17. Roman
Catholics in the Kansas City (Kan.)
diocese, which includes about all of
eastern Kansas, will not be allowed
to nfflliate with the lodges of the
Modern Woodmen of America or the
Maccabees, according to a decision of
lishop Kink, head of the diocese. He
also ordered that all who were mem
bers of those lodges should withdraw
Immediately.
If Will 11m Ycrkoi.
Louisville, Ky., July 17. The repub
lican stnte convention will meet here
Tuesday. E.v-hiout. Gov. Mfirshnll
will preside. John W. Yerkes will be
nominated for governor by nceliuun'-
tion.
PmiaiaS
JP&BBQdi
are overcome by Lydfa -Pisskham's
VogetaEsto
Compound
Fifty thousand happy
women testify to this in
grateful loiters tsjf Mrs
Pin!tham
FJIoMstruatSon Ss a
severe strain on a vso
Mian's vitality Bf ttf is
painful sonnGtSsing 3s
wrong which
Lydia E. Pinkiiam's Vegetable Compound
r
will promptly set right? if
excessive or irrc&stSar
writo to Mrs Pinkham,
Lynn;, Mass, for advice
Evidence abounds tisat
Mrs Pinkham's advico
and medicine have . for
many years itaen helpinrf V
women to ho strong,, No
otiaor advice is so un
varyingly accurate;, no
other medicisvo has such
si record of euro
MURPHY WAS MUCH PUZZLED.
U Mb. ii uk eU to Give Satisfactory An-
Hvrura to the (lucatlona,
IIovrwYcr.
One of the New York enumerators called
on an old Irishman who had his name, Mur
phy, chalked upon his door, lie wa3 very
much perplexed, although he had been
in the country long enough to go through
everal censuses.
" 'The cinsis?' " he exclaimed suspicious
ly. "Phwat is ut?"
I to'.d him that it was a record of tlie tribo
of Murphys in the United States that was
being prepared for the government, where
it he was greatly flattered, and wanted to
tell me his family history as far back as ho
knew it. His memory, however, was defec
tive, especially as to dates.
"The year uv me burrth?" he repeated,
scratching his head. "Sure an' I don t know
at all, at all." Then, after reflecting awhile
he brightened up and Kiid: "Sure, an' it
wur. the year the crops failed in Ireiand." .
"Was it in '37?" 1 supgested, at a ven- L
ture. He looked to be about 00.
"Faith an' it was that very year," he re
plied, and I let it go at that. .
He had forgotten, too, the year of his ar-,
rival in America; "but 1 renumber that Hor
ace Greeley was runnin' for prisident at the
toime," he said.
A practical joke should be handled as.
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