wmn.
DETAILS OP THE SITUATION
ARE TERRIBLE.
THOUSANDS PERISHED
Corpeee Are Thrown Into tha Sea
or Cremated Without Any
Indenttficatlon.
Galveston, Tea. (Special.) The last
ay of Pompeii were not as terrible
as the last days of Galveston. Bon
ares are burnin.'all over the city. There
are the funeral pyres of a thousand
sorpses cast back on shore at tide yes-
terday. The cremation has been a ne
cessity to prevent epidemic The ne
groes refuse to work and the towns
people ara paralysed with fright and
suffering, or are making preparations
to leave the doomed island.
This morning the Brut train la an
Vounced to carry refugees to Texas
; City, seven miles across the bay, and
since daylight a thousand men, women
aad children have been crowding into
eatboata, lifeboats, sloops, schooners
and a single steamboat, the Lawrence,
' all bent an escaping from the city.
Nearly' all of .them have lost some
member of their family. Not one of
them carries a valise. The women
wear no hats, are unkempt and ill-clad.
They look as If haunted.
NINETY NEGROES SHOT.
Last night ninety negroes were shot
by the citlxen soldiery while looting
and mutilating the bodies of the dead
for plunder. The ninety probably do
aot represent a tenth of those who were
engaged in the ghoulish practice. The
situation has got beyond the control cf
the authorities. The powers In control
kave been quarreling. Last night at
T o'clock every citizen soldier under
command of Major Fayllng was call'd
in, disarmed and mustered out of the
service. Chief of Police Ketchum then
. took marge and the major was re-
Meved of his command. During as hour
aad a half the city Was unguarded, and
the looters held high carnival. As the
major's work was unusually brilliant
the cltlsens are furious. Last night
the main thoroughfare was Intensely
ark and deserted, not a lamp In the
aity being lighted.
LIFE IS HELD CHEAP.
Life Is held cheap In Galveston. The
awful pretence of death of the great
and the small has made men callous,
and a shooting or killing attracts little
ar no attention. No one walks the
streets unarmed and no one is permlt
" ted to be about at all except on a pass
rst obtained 1 from the mayor. This
morning the situation from the police
standpoint is improved. A hundred ot
the state militia of the Houston light
!nd of
the city. General McKlbben, U. S. A.,
commander of the department of the
gulf, and Adjutant General Scurry of
Texas are on the ground and are ad
vising with Mayor Jones and Chief of
Police Ketcbum. ,
In al to the r respects the city is worse
eft than on the morning after fne trag
edy. A terrible stench permeates the
sx movpuei e. tx wunm tiwu tu
of a thousand unburled dead festering
ha the debris that cannot be removed
or wee as on account. 01 me paucity ui i
laborers.
DEAD MAT NUMBER 8.008.
The loaa of life this morning Is esti
mated by conservative people at 8.000.
Besides the thousand or more bodies
yet ptnneed beneath the wreckage, hun
dreds of cadavers, all putrid and bloat
ed, float beneath amaahed-up piers.
Hundreds of bodies are floating in full
view In the hay. Every tide brings
. mi krk In the shore. Darius the
. early part of yesterday trenches were
dug and bodies thrown into them, but
ft soon became an impossibility to bury
I Una dead, and Use health authorities
decided upon cremation as an expedi
ent. Funeral fires were built and
torches applied.
Houston, Tea. (Special.) Summaris
ing the situation aa it now appears, ev
ery business fdlflce in Galveston Is
prebably destroyed or damaged. The
entire shipping In port is wrecked, the
grain elevators demolished In part, the
wharves almost totally destroyed, food
applies damaged by water, fresh-water
supply eut off. 10,009 persons home-
lass, LMv to 4,000 persons killed. Com
mnlcation is destroyed and destruc
tion svsry where.
STORY TULlt UT MR. SPILLANE.
Richard BpiUaat. a well known news
paper saaa of Galveston, reached Hons
. ton after a terrible experience, and
atvee the following account of the dis
aster at Galveston:
"One at the moat awful tragedies of
ssiasra tt has visited Galveston.
CX atty M b rotes, and the Sand will
Satetwr proa ably MM. I ant Just from
fta atty, kevtaa; fcaea eossailasloasd by
SMyw and rider' ooasmlttos to
C ft ttaak with Um eertatde world
' tz I'tml Urn ash. Ueaatsa waa the
,'-? trt at HticS working teie
" x fJfis eoeai so towed, and
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ICJsgOa
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bursas records shew tkat tka wlad et
talned a veracity of etghtr-ssar saHsa
an hour, when the measuring Instru
ment was blown away, ao It is Impossi
ble to tell what was the maximum.
"The storm began at 2 o'clock Satur
day morning. Previous to that a great
storm had been raging in the gulf and
the tide was very high. The wind
first came from the north and was in
direct opposition to the force from the
gulf. While the storm' In gulf piled the
water upon the beach side of the city
the north wind piled the water from
the bay on to the bay part of the city
"About noon It became evident that
the city was going to be visited with
disaster. Hundreds of residences along
the beach front were hurriedly aban
doned, the families fleeing to dwellings
in higher portions of the city. Every
home was opened to the refugees, white
or black. The winds were rising con
stantly and it rained In torrents. The
wind was so fierce that the rain cut
like a knife.
ENTIRE CITY 18 SUBMERGED.
"By 3 o'clock the waters of the gulf
and bay met, and by dark the entire
city waa submerged. The flooding of
the electric light plant and the gas
plants left the city In darkness. To go
Into the streets was to court death. The
wind was then at cyclonic velocity,
roofs, cisterns, portions of buildings,
telegraph poles and walls were falling
and the noise of the winds and the
crashing of the buildings was terrifying
in the extreme. The wind and waters
rose steadily, from dark until 2 o'clock
Sunday morning. During all this time
the people of Galveston were like rats
In traps. The highest portion of the
city was four to live feet under water.
while in the great majority of cases the
streets were submerged to a depth of
ten feet. To leave a house was to
drown. . To remain was to court death
in the wreckage.
WORK OF THE WINDS.
"Such a night of agony has seldom
been equaled. Without apparent reason
the waters sudednly began to subside
at 2 a. m. Within twenty minutes they
had gone down two feet, and before
daylight the streets were practically
freed of the flood waters. In the mean
time the wind had veered to the south
east. Very few, if any, buildings es
caped injury. There is hardly a habit
able dry house In the city. When the
people who had escaped death went out
at daylight to view the work of the
tempest and floods they saw the most
horrible sights Imaginable. In the
three blocks from avenue N to avenue
P, in Trenmont street, I saw eight
bodies. Four corpses were in one yard.
The whole of the business front for
blocks In from the gulf was stripped
of every vestige of habitation, the
dwellings, the great bathing establish
ments, the Olympla and every structure
having been either carried out 'to se-i
or its ruins piled In a pyramid far into
the town, according to the vagaries of
the tempest.
LARGEST BUILDINGS WRECKED,
'The first hurried glance over the
city showed that the largest structures,
suppose dto be the most substantially
built, Buffered the greatest. The Or
phans' home. Twenty-first street and
avenue M, fell like a house of cards.
How many dead children and refugees
are in the ruins could not be ascer
tained. Of the sick in St. Mary's in
firmary, together with the attendants,
only eight are understood to have bee"n
saved.
"The Old Woman's home," Tri Roseh-
""" "
house is a mass of wreckage.
The Ball high school is but an empty
eheil, crushed and broken. , Every
church In the city, with possibly one
or two exceptions, is in ruins.
SOLDIERS REPORTED DEAD.
"At the forts nearly all the soldiers
are reported dead, they having been in
temporary quarters which gave them
no protection against the tempest or
the flood.
"No report has been received from
the Catholic orphan asylum down the
Island, but tt seems impossible that It
could have withstood the hurricane. If
It fell all the inmates were no doubt
lost, for there' was no aid within a
mile, r
"The bay from end to" and Is in ruins.
Nothing but piling and the wreck of
great warehouses remain. The eleva
tors lost all then superworks and their
stocks are damaged by water.
"The life-saving station at Fort point
was carried awayi the crew being swept
across the bay fourteen miles to Texas
City. I saw Captain Haines yester
day and be told me that his wife and
one of his' crew were drowned.
WRECKAGE AT TEXAS CITT .
"The shore at Texas City contains
enough wreckage to rebuild- a cfty.
Eight persons who were swept across
the bay during the storm were picked
up there alive. -Five corpses were also
picked up. There were three fatalities
In Texas City. In addition to the liv
ing and the dead which the storm csst
up at Texas City, caskets and coffins
from one of the cemeteries at Galves
ton war being fished out of the water
there yesterday. t
DANGER OT PXSTILBNCE.
The cotton saJlls, the bagging fac
tory, the gas works, the electric light
works and nearly an the Industrial es
Ubllssuaeats 'of the city ara ' either
wrecked or crippled. The stood left a
aUsM about one lack deep over the
waste dty, aad naliss last prograas fa
saea la tsjrjrlsa eorasea aad
eg aaTaanOa tfcare to isaasr af
WCn KSUCVU0V9 ESCAFCS.
af I atari at the eecaae
WtthMs Hlehatt,
. zt t C wmzzt Id s savrJaw
,.ftr --ry tt Cs
khj house eerteaaas, tot waa re
vived y the water and waa earrief
ten blocks by the hurricane. . i - -
"A woman who had Just given blrtk
to a child was carried from bar home
to a house a block distant, the men whe
were carrying her having to bold hei
high above their heads, as the watei
aiwas five fret deep when she waa moved
"Many stories were current of houcej
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
N. Ousley, editor of the Evening Tr!b-
une, had his family and the familiet
ot two neighbors in-his house, when
the lower half crumbled and the uppet
part slipped down Into the water. Not
one id the house was hurt.
"The Mlstrot house, In the west end,
was turned into a hospital. All of the
regular hospitals of the city m-ere un
available. Of ths new Southern Pacific
works little remains but the piling. Half
a million feet of lumber was carried
away, and , Engineer Bcschke says as
far as the company Is concerned it
might aa well star over again.'
"Eight ocean steamers were torn
from their moorings and stranded in
the bay. The Kendall Castle was car
ried over the flats from the Thirty
third street wharf to Texas City and
lies in the wreckage of the Inman
pier. The Norwegian steamer Gyller. Is
stranded between Texas City and Vir
ginia Point. An ocean liner was swirl
ed around through the West bay.
crashed through the bay bridges and
is now lying in a few feet of water near
the wreckage of the railroad bridges.
The steamship Taunton was carried
across Pelican point and Is stranded
about ten miles up to East bay. The
Maliory steamer Aiamo was torn from
her wharf and dashed upon Pelican
flats and the bow of the British steam
er Red Cross, which had previously
been hurled there. The stern of the
Alamo Is stove In and the bow of the
Red Cross Is crushed.
'Down the channel to the Jetties two
othei ocean steamships lie grounded.
Some schooners, barges and smaller
craft are strewn bottom side up along
th; ulips of the piers. The tug Louise
of the Houston Direct Navigation com
pany is also a wreck.
It will take a week to tabulate the
dead aud the missing and to get any
thing near an approximate idea of the
monetary loss. It is safe to assume
that one-half of the property of the
city Is wiped out, and that one-half of
the residents have to face absolute pov
erty.
. RUIN AT TEXAS CITY.
"At Texas City three of the residents
Kfre drowned. One man stepped into
well by a mischance end his corpse
was found there. Two other men ven
tured along the bay front during the
height of the storm and weie killed.
There are but six buildings at Texas
City that do not tell the story of the
c:orm. The hotel Is a complete ruin.
The office of the Texas Clly company
Ii4t some of the walls standing with ail
th- upper wallB stripped off. Nothing
remains of the piers except the piling
The wreckage from Galveston litters
tne shore for miles, and is a hundred
yards or more wide.
"For ten miles inland from the shore
It H a common sight t ) see small craft,
such as steam launches, schooners and
ojFter sloops. The life-boat of the life
saving station was carried half a mile
in'und, while a vessel that was an
chored in Mores bayou lies high and diy
five miles up from Larnarque."
II COUPLE OF PROCLAMATIONS.!!
Americana and the Filipinos Both
Make Declaration.
Washington. D. C (Special.) The
postmaster general has received from
F. W. Vallle, director general of ports
in the Philippines, copies of two un
dated proclamations, one by the Amer
ican peace commissioners and the other
by the Insurgents, Issued presumably
Just before the last mail left the Isl
ands for the United States.
T1 American proclamation was of a
pacific character, but warned the na
tives that they had nothing to expect
from continued opposition to the Amer
ican occupation. It promised free trans
portation hme to all Insurgents who
surrendered their arms and directed
the confiscation of all money and hemr
belonging to the insurgent government.
The natives were notified that th
American soldiers were expected to pay
for everything they obtained from tb-;
Filipinos In the way of food and sup
plies, and requested the natives to re
port any case of looting or extortion
to the nearest military commander.
The Filipino proclamation. Issued 1c
reply to this, announced that fir a per
iod of ten days amnesty would be ex
tqnded to all Filipino spies In the em
ploy of -the American forces If they
presented themselves t' the insurgent
military or civil authorities.. A- sing!?
exception was made In tfie rase of one
Marcello Ablnsay, who was denounced
as an outlaw beyond the pale, and a
reward was offered for hit apprehen
sion, dead or alive, while the death
penalty was pronounced (gainst any
3B found la his company at the time
of his capture. The proclamstlon fur
ther declared that all the threats of thr
Americans of pursuing the Insurgent
to the bills wars idle, as the American
were short of food and ammunltlot.
and had received no reinforcements foi
.tiany months. '
FLOUR MILL TRUST IN COURT.
Milwaukee, Wis. Jpeclal.-The Cen
tral Trust oompany of Maw Torh thl'
sTtsmaoa Instituted foraaloaara pro
isidlagi aamlaat all tfce property of tlx
VaMed States flear Mirtlaf eoavpany
kaewa as tka Sear trass. Tke km
asks tmt aS property ka seta, th
ivanjr tatted la ataka tka firs
3 af tadsiaat swear s asariiag-
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COLLIER1ERS IN LACKAWANNA
DISTRICT SHUT DOWN.
WANT LIVING WAGES
Ail the Miners Obty the Order ot
tn President of the United
Mir.o Workers".
Indianapolis, lndf. (Special.) In order
lo place before the public the condi
tions existing In the anthracite coal
fields of Pennsylvania, President John
Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer VV. E.
Wilson of the United Mine Workers of
America, issued to the public a state
ment giving In detail the causes that
have led up to the strike.
The statement is as follows:
"Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 13. The
members of the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers cf
America, realising that the material
welfare of a large number of American
people will be injuriously affected by
a suspension of work In the coal fields
of Pennsylvania, knowing the Irresist
ible power of a concentrated public
opinion, and having a profound respect
for the opinions of their fellow men,
have decided to make a general state
ment for the information of the public.
"No one can have a greater appreci
ation of the far-reaching effect of a
strike of the anthracite coal miners.
The coal miners and their families, the
coal companies and coal carrying rail
ways are but a small portion of the
vast multitude, whOBe Interests are so
directly and lndi.'ectly connected with
the coal trade that a conlict of such
magnitude will affect their welfare.
"Tht- domestic fuel supply of the
west; the great manufacturing Interests
of the east; the wholesale and retail
business establishments; the great
ocean, lake, canal and railroad trans
portation Interests, laboring men and
capitalists, will all be affected by such
a gigantic struggle. That the world
may know htat we have done all that
honorable men con do to avoid the con
filet, we herewith submit a few facts
for careful considers tion.
PITIFULLT SMALL PAY.
The average wages of the coal miner
for many years has been less than $250
annually. During that period of time
the cost of many of the necessaries of
life has been Increased 20 per cent. An
increase In the cost of living, with a
corresponding Increase of waeti, Is
equivalent to a reduction in wages. The
laws of the state of Pennsylvania make
2.400 pounds a ton of anthracite coal
yet anthracite miners are1 compelled to
mine from z.iOO to 4.000 pounds of coal
for a ton, and In addition to that are
dock'd exorbitant amounts. often reach
ing 12 per cent of their dally earnings,
for any impurities which may be sent
out with their coal.
"Where they are paid by the car,
instead of being required to furnish a
well-rounded heap on the car at the
breakers, as was originally' agreed to,
they have gradually been compelled tc
rncreaee the amount of coal In each
car by building the same perpendicular
ly from six to eighteen inches above the
edRe. They are compelled to purchase
the powder used In rnlninK from their
employers, paying t2.75 per keg for a
prade of powder that can be purchased
elsewhere for about II per keg, and
which wholesales for about tl per keg
They are required by many of the
companies to deal in pluck-me stores or
leave their employment. Tney must
pay to the company tl per month for a
doctor, whether they need him or not.
and have no voice in saying who the
doctor ehall be.
ENSLAVES THE CHILDREN.
"The smallness of their earnlngB, to
gether with the great cost of living, has
J . - , , . , . U . . 1. ,k.l. V. 1 1 .4
I from school before they have reached
them at work In the breakers, in order
to keep the family from starvation.
"When any miner, feeling the burden
sf these conditions, has gone to the
management and asked to have them
removed, he was told that If he did not
like It he can quit. When they have
organised at any colliery and have sent
committees to the management, asking
to have their grievances remedied, the
committee has either been dlschargeo
or they have been told that the evil
could not be remedied because of the
competition from other companies.
When the representatives of the miners
at the whole have met and asked the
roal companies to meet them In Joint
convention to arrange wages and condi
tions upon an equitable Basis, so that
each would know what his competltoi
was paying and no advantage could be
taken of any one, their petition lor b
conference has been completely Ig
nored. APPEALS AKS USELESS.
"When the business men, clergymen
and other outside Influences have ap
pealed to the coal companies to correct 1
tome of the abuses complained of, their
requests have been denied: and when
is a last resort the officers of our or
ranlxatlon have wired the piesldent
jf the great railway companies, who
:nntro! the anthracite coal fields, offer
ing to submit the whole question to ar
bitration, the proposition has ' been
-.rested with silent contempt. Havlns
xhauste dall other means of adjust
ment, we had reached the point where
we must either advise the miners of
ihfc anthracite region to continue work
Ing under these unjust and tyrannical
;ond1tlons. or counsel strike.
"We have chosen the latter, and hav
Ing done so we Invite a thorough, Im
partial and public Investigation of the
condition existing in the anthracite coal
fields. We believe that the great Amer
lean heart throbs In sympathy for th
downtrodden and oppressed, whether
In this or any other land. We know the
great power of the public press l.i
molding public sentiment. With an
abiding faith In the Justice of our
cause, a consciousness of the knowledge I
that whosoever else may villlfy and
buss us. the Oreat Jehovah knows and
understands the rectitude of our pur-1
boss, wa
appeal to tha American people
a to tha A overt can press as the great
est arbiters on earth to assist and sus
tain as la our hour of trial.
"On behalf of tka executive board.
United Mine Workers of America, w
an, sincerely yours,
"JOHN MITCHEL4a President.
"W. B. WILSON. aec-Trsaa."
POftTUOAL lENDS TROOPS.
Lisfcoa, Seat U. Tke Fartagvast
tra assort BeaaWller exiled for Lorensc
Maraaaa today wttk UN troops, pre
ta areteet tka
free-
n to
Propaots of the strtka In Pen.
ylvannia,
Scranton. Pa Sept. 11 The strike of
the anthracite miners of the Lacka
wanna valley Is now psrctlcally on, for
every mine that Is working Is -running
short handed. The Dodge and the
Bellevue collieries of the Lackawanna
company were entirely shut down. TIm
Manville colliery worked only a portion
of the day and all through the upper
valley there was almoA complete stop
page excepting that the men obeyed
the order of National Committeeman
Dilcher and President Nichols of this
district to clean up their places and
remove their tools. Tonight every local
union In the region Is directed to rrtet
in special sersion, and they will with
out doubt quit work
It is expected mat not a mine will
operate anywhere between Forest City
and Shlcksfcinny In this district, and
It it said at headquarters ' here that
the same Is expected from other dis
tricts. The United Mine Workers' officers
here deprecate all stoppages In ad
vance. They want the order properly
carried out, but will not restrain the
men from Immediate action. They ar
assured that on Monday there will be
a complete response to the strike order.
At the offices of the Lackawanna
company today It was stated that the
decision to stand together In refusing
the miners' ' demands by the operators
will hold unbroken. The refusal is
based almost wholly upon the claim
that the bituminous Interests are be
hind this movement. No dealings will ;
be had "with the men who represent
such Interests, declared General Su
perintendent Loomls.
Sharnokin, Pa. (Special.) There was
a great stir among the miners and
mine workers at the different collieries
near this place because of President
Mitchell's strike order. Thoe who were
In favor of obeying the command en
thusiastically applauded his action,
while others were disappointed. A
careful canvass last night Indicates
that, despite the claim of the operators
that enough men will report for work
to keep the collieries in operation after
Monday, all the mines between Traver
ton and Mount Carmel, employing over
14,000 men and boys in a district em
bracing fourteen miles, with Shamokin
In the center, will likely be Idle before
seven days have elapsed.
John Fahey, president of the ninth
district, said today that Instead of the
executive board holding a meeting on
Friday to act on resident Malchell'a
order, the' board would assemble 'to
night and adopt an important resolu
tion, to be Issued for the guidance of
strikers during the struggle.
FOR ROADS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
New Commission Appropriates
One Million Dollars.
Manila. (Special.) At the first public
legislative session of the Philippine
commission, bills appropriating tl.OOO.
000 gold from the funds of the island
for highways and bridges and 12.500 In
part payment of surveying expenses,
were passed.
Eenor Torres, attorney general, asked
for information as to the method cf
disbursing the appropriation, reminding
the commission of Spain's practices in
coi nection with public funds.
General Luke E. Wright of the com
mittee, answering the inquiry, ex
plained that good roads for the mili
tary were an economic necessity, and
that General MacArthur was aided by
tra'ne durmy -engineers. The army was
thus the beat and only machine for su
pervising ably and economically the
construction of such public works. The
commission, be said, desired to give the
Filipinos, in this way, an object lesion
and this would be all the more effective
because It was the army's honest sd-
ministration that had created the sur
plus and the appropriation of $1,000,000
possible. Senor Torres expressed him
self as entirely satisfied with the reply.
It was suggested that specially Inter
esting details of construction would be
referred to General MacArthur.
Other matters before the commission
wst the consideration of a report e-
gadlng the extension of the Manila-
Dagupsn railroad to Bangued, province
of Abra, where it Is proposed U estab
lish a sanitarium and a commercial
bu'esu In the spirit of President Mc
Kinley's Instructions,
EFFECT OF THE STRIKE ON POLITICS
Causes a Discussion By the Repub
lican committees, ,
Chicago, III. (Special.)-Tho anthra-
cito coal miners' strike was the subject
r,f tonslderable discussion at republican
headquarters today. Senator Hanna
and Vice Chairman Payne held a long
conference with the resident members
of the advisory committee as to the
best steps to Uke that a political color
be not given the strike. At the close
of the conference neither Chairman
Hanna nor Vice Chairman Payne mads
a statement, but Perry B. Heath, chair
man of tha press committee, said:
"We are not yet sufficiently advised
p., lo th, ,u.i,on , rtnn.9,v.nlt
Pennsylvanlt to
warrant tbt expression of aay view.
and It Is not a matter to be talked of
without careful consideration of all tka
facts."
At democratic headquarters, nrwevtr.
there was no disinclination to talk. Sse.
rotary Walsh was la a happy frame of
mind, aad said ka was sura tka ooal
strtka weaM keneflt Um Bryaa ticket
will spa aa ta, demonstrate to tka
working people tkat somMaattoaa af
aatta! ara aaagaroaa sad aeaatltata a
ta laker. Tka atsiks
will saase afHaOea, "t srlnHss u
AT PE
NEGIOTATIONS for peace ARS
AT A STANDSTILL.
PRINCE ClllliG TALKS
The Chinese Prince Declaraa Ha
Connot Act Without Conour
ence of LI Hung Chans.
Tekln. (Special.) Prince Chlng. dur
ing the course of Interviews with the
ministers yesterday, Informed them
tfctt, while he has power to negotiate,
be cannot act without LI Hung Chang.
An urgent request has bees telegraphed
Li Hung Chang asking that official Is
ccme to ekln.
Marquis Tsiang states that nothing
can be done until the arrival of tka
tnioeror.
Washington, D. C (Special.) Minis
ter Wu has received a cablegram front
LltHung Chang, answering the hope
expressed in the American note ot a
few days ago that his powers are suffi
cient to protect American lives and In
tel t Us In China. Earl LI says he has
that power and will see that the pro
tection Is given.
The Chinese government has mads
swift answer to the latest communica
tion from the state department relative
to the recognition of LI Hung Chang
as an envoy competent to negotiate a
peace settlement. There had never been
any doubt here as to the sufficiency of
Li's credentials as a plenipotentiary,
but the effort of the state department
has been to cause him to use any ex
traordinary powers he might have for
the protection of American life and
property In China, pending a final set
tlement. It has succeeded In attaining;
this object, as Is Indicated In the re
iponse from Li Hung Chang presented
to Assistant Secretary Hill by Minister
Wu. The department asked Li Hung
Chang "without further delay lo give
assurance that the life and property of
Americans will henceforth be respected
throughout the Chinese empire."
The viceroy nas given the assurance
asked for. Ills word came In the
shape of a cable dispatch to Minister
Wu. Mr. Wu called at the state de
partment and presented this answer to
Mr. Hill. He In turn sent it forward
to the president. It wili be for tbe lat
ter to decide whether Li's assurance la
sufficient to meet the needs of the case.
It is believed that if the powers can
fret together themselves and through
commissioners arrange for certain com
mon bases of compensation for certain
ciiiKKi's of outrages good progress can
be made toward a final settlement.
However, if the attempt to secure un
ity of action In this direction la no mora
(ucccssful than that directed lo the
evacuation of Pekin the United Stales
government will look to Its own Inter
;mb, and, appointing Its own commis
sioners, proceed to deal directly with
the Chinese commissioners.
It Is believed here that LI Hung
Chang already has been advised by
r-rince Chlng of the urgent necessity
fjr his attendance in Pekin to Initiate
lh noenilattnns hence bis annnunwd
Intention to . sail lmmedaLelv from
Shangha for the capital.
It was stated at the state depart
ment that no further orders bad gone
forward to General Chaffee touching a
withdrawal. He is ready, however, end
walls but the word from Washington
to begin his march seaward.
KETTEIERS ASSASSIN CAPTURED.
Confesses His Crime and Blamee
Imperial Oovtrmsnt
Pekin. (Bpeclsl.) The Japanese kave
arrested the assasln of Baron von Ket
teler, the late German minister to Chins-
Tbe assassin has been handed over
to tbe Germans by the Japanese, and
confessed guilt He waa arrested for
trying to sell a watch with Initials,
which be admitted Uklng from the
body of Baron von Keteler. He after
ward admitted the crime, saying Jhat
the Imperial government ordered tha
commission of the crime.
Colonel Prletkoffs party yesterday en
gaged 500 Boxers seven miles from
Maehlpo. Tbe Boxers were armed with
swords and spears. The Russian caval
ry charged on them, killing many of
them with sabres. The charge waa
made through the cornfield, and the
Russians succeeded In killing the com
mander of the enemy's forces. The
casualties among the Boxers are es:l-
mated at 200. A Russian officer waa
wounded and two dssacks were killed.
I.-ndon.-Bpeclal.)-There Is a gen
eral disposition here to accept as main
ly correct the statement that all the
powers have now replied lo the Russian
proposal, that Great Britain and eGr.
many have declined to evacuate Pekin,
that Austria and Italy have decided to
be guided by Germany's decision and
that tbe others have agreed ta a mora
or leas modified withdrawal, aa denning
tbe attitude of tka powers. It Is de
duced therefrom, perhaps, because tbe
British wish la father to tbe thought,
that the esar will sgret to allow kla
troops to remain at tha Chinese capital
vnUI ka sees tha result of the present
aasotlations looking to tke establish
went of a basis aeon which peace set
tltmenu aaa ka diseases! and whlek
ara said ot oeatala tka raaveatioa af a
oesjatosslse ealealatad te ataiatala tka
Mr af tka awwara, wklla eetlafytaa
katt 'taa advesatea tad eraeata mi
tke a4aaaal af C tract tpaaa fa
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