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i. nnTTTn JLHE MORNINQ, Fesf. RALEIGH, N. C TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1900 No 101 cTRSKFRS STANO FIRM p1? suhrrp, ilumi-liU U I nil J I IIIIBI America and the American Federatioi ;f Labor was mailed last night by th :...i:..n i ..in P .. Second Week of Struggle oe organization Opens Without Wavering of ion individuals who will pre.senf tho case :! Presidents Mitchell and Gompcrs of THEIR RANKS ARE SOLID jbt re Mines Working Are Operated A Non-union nan'i Logic . Mahanoy' 'Plane, Pa., Sept. 24i Very little if any coal is going over the big plains here. Kehlcy Run, William Pcnn and other bis: collieries are idle. It is hardly probable that 200 cars of coal will be pulled over the mountain today. One of the conservative non-union miners said: "Myself and friend did not go to work, JEALOUSY AND CRIME Young Lady and Guest Shot bv Her Lover. ' in a Miuti Hay by Mine Foremen and I AVe have a regard for our- families and .-t .' no dsire to be shot or assaulted, neither -B-Meln ine TiiUesbarr ReSioBj(lo we w.,nt any strji-er!, sbot on our , account. He would 'rather continue idle ; all the time than have one drop of blood sued over us. If may be true that Ave would not be molested, but what of the l future, when soldiers arc not here and the deputies are all ;rone home? No: we will keep away." .h. not r lore Will JIakean Effort to r Krume tork Wednesday ffomm anj ifoyn ton Son-nnion Men, Sept.. 24. Lackawanna's -s began the second week z with the coal operators DEED DONE IN DARKNESS TOIas Jennie IQoore and Roiana Hobl, at WHliamston, the Victims of Joseph Bennett's Evil PassionThe Yonns Lady's Wound Serious -The Criminal atLargeand Supposed to Ba Hiding In the Swamps. ' n ::n ... : the an.l I' !' wanna Tiro Collieries Working Hazleton, Pa., Sent. 24. Although the 'strikf lrmlfi-i ti!i- mull. ttn niiiel- wf-TiiTiii- i. rminatiou than ever. The us efforts to close down the Markle and ;r.-:i :iiarked their ranks ail the C. Pardee collieries at Jeddo and Latti- : F.:W City to t-nkkshinny mer' riw"ively, both were working to- , . day. The developments of tomorrow at ii. -k remains unbroken. the darkle collieries are looked forward v i 'i:nrnis which managed to to with much interest, as the firm will toda- were the 'Oxford thon Pve an answer to the list of griev , t . , anees submitted by its men. What it :... washeries of the Laeka-. be ig stil, conjectured, but it is rni'.uiv au.l the Columbus J alleged that the firm will agree to some juino. I;ne foremen ana other bosses ( concessions. ... ir- '.: ':- tn hi boring work at these, ex-;rut;-i- :h- i '.Inmbus. .but tbis may not; ,,rt:i . i -.xr. Several of the local un- Afrald of the Slavs Shenandoah. Pa.. Sent. 24. The whis- 'Hii -cd principally of Lacka-. Mew as usual at 7 o'clock, but not a sin v ; ,a m-:.. tir nionnug requested the OIM cula start, as very few miners , N V!!iivc hoard to get word to - responded. Everything in the Shenan- f.v.-:sie!i and bosses to withdraw-, doah Valley is tied up tonight. The ' .,;n tiu- !h t ies immeuiately, as oth-1 miners refused to. work because of the ,.-v - .1 ft.-ial fithMiient of ihe stake ; fr that the Slavs would resort to vio w . i il ino:ve the retention of their pence, and because of their opposition to places. I being escorted by the militia. I (Jenral (fobin had out his Gatling Teat of Strength Fxpected Tomorrow i guns early in the rooming, commanding , u . 01 . . ,lall approaches to the Slav districts. l,..,!s,rre Sppt 24.- operators Sqnads Qf mmXfi ned the roads th: in -n ,i:ig d.'.-idl to ma-.- no effort . to ; e.,ding to the various collieries, but not ' sm-n to the workings. At the, a mjnor flpPeaivd in his working clothes. M-isw.U watery .in Ashley, p. crowd of , So long as the strikers make threats M-.i a:i l lvs ,m,.,l the road with, the m-( the miners will not work, no matter t.n ri.n of ;.:-vt-ntmg the non-union men ; j,ow n,ycn they aie .WSIlrtyj that they r!r.c ro v. ;!;. but n.ine appeared. . At i ampiv protected or that the th.. P..-i'Ivv?i:ii:i wiisnenes. in 1'ittston. ,i . !.. i i Miiivn mil iijiif if mt l infill. Early this morning a tew miners were set upon and teaten, but tbey were not going to work at the time. TEXAS SUFFERS AGAIN jr. ' , Nueces River Valley Flooded by a Cloudburst MANY LIVES WERE LOST Sheep Herders Drowned with Their Flocks Towns or Brown wood, Ulanket and San An?eIo Under Water Bridges Swept Away, Railroads Kn suited and Telesraph Wires Down i i . p-m:; nf :r.Kers were on guara. out u:a !it havo : . ;r.n back any workers, the TiPT bavin.: ven-ivxl word to rem.iin at h m. A; tiu1 Stanton Xo. .7 washery. I-' rh:- ;.v. t'.ie situation was the fcame. M.a wh Av.:-ked . aturxT.ay were, stoned ii a i -row-! . f women and boys as they ,fr th'!r v i.rk that evening and tbey r.al no .t to repeat the exptrience t-iay. T'u- w iu n and bboys were on rho w.Ti-h :iry this morning. . An at :'vn?t of t'ne onvpanies to enca opeT :re one -f their ollerie is expected to !"msd W ,!neslav or Thursday of this v(H, n?A ';novlelgt of this fact is cre rr'.az a ir': ilal of excitement 'among f,e ytr'si-7 hre. They re 'jlrtnz all rhfj- can i-onvince men they know to U d:safff.-ii to .emain away from the mhv-s t'i attcr - is made..' They ff;!-. tint some of the foreign tdo- J n?.nr. cx. :'! hy tne attempt, ma cause a In .vnri all tho churches yesterday :i:ter poke of t.ie trike, pray .i -..-e ly en. ling of it, runnse-ling :i t remain orderly -d fidvocat- Striker Score a Victory i .:inr.k;n. Sont. "4. The strikers .l a .l.M-iiled victory against the i ! I; Ir.a and Heading Coal Compa t"!;,v. Th:' North 1'rankMn collierv i" fr, wi'k solid -as bepn one v foniPii. in this district hl'-h rt.! -not leen crippled by' the f-rkf- i- ::w .suffering for lack of men. O'u of .72u employed aU are on strike ex c. ;.- : o t;;ft. This reat change oc '""! tnornin. These latter who .it -.vn'k -v ill ikolv strike tomorrow. Tn-y -,ve;- jn the mines totlay tt.dan ii;i .:oj, :V to laying down their t'Wi. TrN r.ii'.if.i-v snips forty-fire cars 8 fa'- Sixtivn cars were shipped this !''U this was coal mined Sat- runeral ofa Strike! Pienri.l ah. S-i.t. 24. The funeral of Kikr. n victim of Friday's riot, ,vas -'"''1 tiii- mon:ing at Shenandoah ."!!! f r. onn strikers attended. Of ' .:!s v.x; j. rn. m 7. cent were for- '"it they maintained good onler j 1 !! ( vn-v i;:u-' . n ioi.iicrs wa doubieu ani I'tti.n was taken by fJcneral i: -tatitly heck any -outbreaks, a niorninar thre. comnanies 0i R!; i'ia were sent to McAdoo. where l;a;l!:nices havt occurred dur-pa-t few davs find serious tron- na ft.nt;intlv brn fenretl. The hi; rh.- Me nave bee-i miUi1irel t STipnan- ......v iiii.-. tun ii la i r ii t tvi veil ''tliV, :li,t ii Mil .i fnii- Ainni... 41 .hi n l i XI 11 hi o v .ii. an be nlaced anvwhere in the : region. "riTie'.t' "e triki:i: ln Worker Hold a ncetln: ' Aftblan ;-i,t. 14. A meeting of mine K i " !l,,,'".i-.ig. Addresses were .!vore.i i... tI,0 oa,ers The attend- J w-as verv lai-e Te I'p in lshanoy Talley c,ph;hnn.ov Va.. Sept. 24. Every rn'"" n th Mahanoy Vallev is tied i "n. Ii, r" M,,, tiirardville. The in th'"Un-' ""'l'h-te. Not a colliery Hi 5"! T r,v 1P-i"n is working full for -- , iifr' io ni.nr.il it. I. . . - I'iriiui 111 llf 1 -'".ii. Knriy this morning all rni.r. . dert. i sf ven collieries here were H s v 11 "v soldiers and depu th..v a r ,U1" !S turned out. yiany said M ri. ""t to 1)0 targets for spent a t. f,V,'.r1",s or stones. At Ashland rf fu.iienes started shorthanded. . iii:i,. rs turned out. Many said hort handed. need by Presence of Soldiers thror l'T"51'0- 1a- Sept. 24. Between "" rrike thousand nipn nnd hovs i here and resolved not to it , . 'uies somiers were sent. VlsKf of miners at Gillerton it t. ( , ,1,.t u strike. Advices from sti "k ... K'ate tUafc there mav be bou-v h-,k"n,'! of xhe collieries tWe-a'-tl hsv company stcfres Queatlon or Title Raised r;?: J,r,r .?4--A movement has "''n J!?;, 1 Chl,'go to bring an in-f;-atH J . , a-;,l"st the owners and lKvimn: ;"'thracito coal fields of rn.- " test thoir titto tho Pn 3rt i0r ;, 1 no necessary financial sup 4 uudtrtakiug has bwu us- Fntlle Attempt to Work Alines Shamokin Sept. 24. Every colliery in Shamokin and vicinity remains idle and only two in the- county are working. They are the North Franklin at Trever ton and Ix)cu.st ring at Ixcust iap, op-era ted by tlie Ihiladelph1a and Re.nl iug Ooal nnd Irri Company. Both arc somewhat crippled. At the former about 2(H) men joined tne strikers this morning and U the. latter all. the minors employed from Movrr,t Carinel remain ed -away, probably 300 in number, -ue mine workers claim i hat lxth these Traces will -be orapIetcly tiol up wifh in n. day -or two nd inost of the men now working are finishing up certain important work preparatory to layiug down their tools. A futile attempt was made hei- thi morning to operate the Cameron end Ivuks Fiddler cxdlderies, ov.ned by thJ Mineral Tiailrod and Mining Oompmy. The strikei-s had committees out along the roads leading to the workings, and the comparatively few men whe were en route to work were easily persuaded to remain away. There was no violence. A more determined effort to work these collieries is scheduled for tomor row moining; and trouble is then feared. However, it. is doubtful if any miners will respond to th? whistle summoning them to work, as the majo :ty are mere encouraged by the outlook since their ranks have been f.o greatly increased by strikers iu the S.-huyikill region.where onlj- three cclli-eries are working totlay. These are the PoTts nd Bast at Ash land and the Preston ''No. 3 at (Jirard ville. The first named is working fu!l handed, while t the two other? not enough men are idle- to impair the opera tions. In Schuylkill' there rre over thirty collieries, chiefly owned by the Philadelphia and Ihigh companies. The accessions to the strikers ranks there reach nearly 20,000. Miners Present Their Grievances Heading, Sept. 2 J. The production of coal by the Read'ing Company is grow ing -alarmingly Jess ami tonight very lit tle is going down -to tide water.. Every thing in the Schuylkill rtegicms is practi callv bare except the coal That is being hoisted out of the thirteen coljeries that were in opertition today. The two larg est bins of the company an the regions are emptv; The new center of interest in the Scbuvlkill resrions is now about Rirardville; St. Clair and M-inersrille, on this side of the Broad Mountain. At a very Jarg meeting of miners at Girard ville thev drew up a set of . grievances to bo presentel to the Reading company, including the abolition of the ?2.50 ba is of (paying wages and for an increase of 20 per cent of wage for all'men get ting from ?1.r0 to $1.73 per day, and 15 per cent advance for all others. The companv is to le given some time to an swer. However it .13 likel that Snas uuch as. Shenandoah and.jlahanoy City ore lied up, the closdug np'of the Read ing Company's collieries south of the mountain will begin in earnest tomorrow Gil'berton has closed. Trainmen aTe be ing laid off an -all directions. By Tues day not over 450 cars of coal will be min ed. Nearly every colliery is crip-pled ex cept the big Brookside and a few others in the west end. The opinion seems to be that fit is only "-a question of . a short time when all miners will quit, until the strike is settled one way or the other. The action of the miners today in the Schuylkill recions looks like the begin ning of the end. 'Probably 5.0C0 train men will be idle (before the clos of b S" ; Tod Sloane to Bide for Prince, ol Wales London, Sept. 24.A.S a culmination of the ascendency of American jockeys, it is announced this morning, that the Prince of Wales has enraged Tod Sloane at a lare retainer, . for 1901, Many horse owners who have . hitherto hesi tated to desert the borne talent wUl doubtless follow the royal lead. Harannah Crowlns; Rapidly TVa shington. Sept 24. The popula tion of Savannah, Ga - 54.224,. as igainst 43,1891S0. This is aa" in crease, of 11,955, or 25.G0.Der sent. Williamston, N. C, Sept. 24. Special. A most awfully brutal and cowardly shooting affair occurred here Saturday night, when at about half-past nine o'clock some one shot both . Miss Jennie Moore, daughter of the late Hon. James Edwin Moore, and Mr. Roland Hobbs, her guest. The young couple were seated in the parlor on the sofa when they heard a noise, through the window, of something in vthe shrubbery outside and went out to investigate the cause of it, think ing it probably a cow in the yard. When reaching about twenty feet from the front steps the noie in the - bushes be came intensely louder, and Miss Moore exclaimed that it was ji cow, and a voice replied, "No, it is me." followed by four pistol shots, the first striking Hobbs in the right hip and the second found its mark under the right shoulder of Miss Moore, going through the body, piercing the lung and lodging in the right breast. Returning from the house, where, he ran for his hat, Hobbs met M'Us Moore coming in, saying that she was shot, and askiug him to go for help, which he started to do, but saw a man standing under a' lamp at the corner of the -yard fence, arranging a pistol, who, when he saw Hobbs, advanced towards him' and chased him up the dark lane in front of the house towards Hobbs' father's house, snapping the pistol at him, which would not fire. The pursuer chased, him to Church street, when, seeing some ne groes, he turned oil and went down this street. Hobbs states that he recognized the voice es that of Mips Moore's lover, Joseph Bennett, and knew it was Ben nett whom he saw chasing him. Ben nett immediately disappeared and has been seen only once since, when he came to his home yesterday evening, heavily armed, and soon escaped again. The sheriff has been unable to ret Bennett, but thinks he is hid in-the swamps on the. liver near town." He is making an earnest effort to capture the assassin, but the latter is evidently re ceiving help from citizens here, and it will 1 difficult to get him. ; Hobbs' wound is slight, but. Miss Moore's jnay prove seriou; though she fs still living. The. shooting is supposed to have been the result of jealousy. MANY ENTRIES 1ESTEKDAV Progress of Preparations for the Var New Dary Premium' In the matter of entrle.3 for the State fair a number of Raleigh -boys are coin ing to the front and setting older exhib itors an example by being prompt. Some of. them have beon carrying- off pre miums in former jears and they are again in the field, among them are Jas. I.- Johnson", Jr., Danl. Allen. Louis Pe gram, John (J. Ash and Billy Boylan, all have entered some of their pet birds, chiefly of the game variety. Th Messrs. Beckwith have " entered a very line seven-year-old stallion Lord Malebic. A large number of entries of cattle wero made yesterday Dutch Belted stock chiefly: also Poland China pigs. The attention of darymen and butter makers is called to the following special premium: To the buttermaker scoring highest on butter colored with Alderny Butter Color. $5.00. To the second highest un der the same conditions, $3.00. To dairies scoring three highest' scores re gardless of color used, ' each, one gallon Alderny butter color. In addition" to the above, the. buttermaker scoring sweep stakes, if "Cutter entered is .colored with Alderny butter color will be sent to any buttermaker on request, .addressed to Helleu Merz Co., 55 Maiden Lane, Tscav York. " : . Chicago, Sept. 24. A dispatch to The Times-Herald from Dallas, Texas, says: "A cloudburst in the Neuces river coun try, ninety miles west of the Southern Pacific Railroad, resulting in a terrific flood and much loss of life, is reported Meagre details have been received, but it is claimed that from thirty to forty Italians employed on the sheep ranches were drowned and all the ranches swamped. Many flocks of . sheep have been. lost and a large amount of prop erty damaged. "From the most reliable information obtainable last night extensive storm damages have been inflicted on the upper Colorado' and the Concho river valleys, particularly at and near Brownwood, Blanket and San Angelo. Wire commu nication with all these places is cut off, and the railroad lines are damaged so that trains cannot reach them. "Reports indicate that the heaviest damage is at San Angelo, although many bridges in Brownwood have been wreck ed or injured. It is fearejl that many lives have been lost. The last telegram from Brownwood went out about 10 o'clock' and stated that the town was flooded and entirely surrounded by water and that people and goods were being removed to places of safety ia rowboats and rafts. "Bulletins from Temple state that the tracks of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa; Fe Railroad are under water to the depth of fifteen feet $.onth of Brownwood, and that nothing can be fieard from places up the line. The rain is pouring .down and streams still rising. The country dis tricts cannot be heard from. "It rained hard for approximately one hundred miles in all directions from Brownwood, and, as the streams In that part of Texas are now very treacherous in the matter of sudden rises, a disaster is feared." , Information Is Wea;r ei S. Jorrisji .Sept.- 24.-Dispatches. from, tbjfttecesRive Valley ui ;Texa say tiny Mexican village, J-.a Aigle, ,on tne Gallardo creek, a branch of Uueces, was destroyed by the recent flood. A Mexi can family of four, and to American campers, supposed to have been deer hunters, from Eagle Pass, perished. Loss of life is reported to have; resulted on the Circle X Ranch, and at Dos Pasitos, but this cannot be verified. All efforts to gpt word from Brackettsville have failed, owing to tho washing away of telegraph wires. , BOOM PBOVfiS A BOORIEBANG ' been appointed members of the Grandi A' vjouiicn, inus oeing given greater power 3n state matters -n nd having rlieir nreis- 1 V tige materially added to. ., , Advices from Chinese, sources are to the effect that the removal of-the Tao Jad of Shanghai, as announced Saturday, is only the beginning of Prince Tuan's plan of vengeance against the officials iu the south and central provinces who have manifested a friendly disposition towards foreigners. It is stated that ' Viceroy Liu-KIn-Yi may be. transferred from Shanghai to Canton and succeeded here by Governor Lu-Chwang-Ling, a notorious reaction ary. It is further said that Prince Tuan and the high officials supporting him are preparing for further fighting." Tney have been telegraphing to the southern provinces ordering soldiers ta go north. The Boxer clans realize that so long as they can fight and deceive the Dow ager Empress their own lives will be safe, but if there is no fighting it will be only a question of a short time before the throne will be compelled to accede to the demands of the powers and behead or otherwise punish the leaders of the Boxer movement. The provisional treasurer of Chili and WANING SANDS Missionaries for Their Lives from Northern China ESCAPE THROUGH SIBERIA Hardships and SufTorlng Endured. Sarins Their Long Jenrney Every where Informed that an Enemy Was at Their Heels .Frightful Experi ence ofa Party of Swedes Kind nest Shown hy Russian Officials custodian of the seals of the vieeroyalty nas, since me aeatn ox tne viceroy. General Yung. Lui, upheld the Boxers at Pao-Ting-Fu and Tien Tsin, where he intended to deliver the sealsJr: Li Hung Chang, however, compelled him to return to his post. He has telegraph ed Li Hung. Chang that he would send the seals to Pekin, where he would de liver them to LL Hung: Chang's messen gers. This may possibly delay Li Hung Chang's arrival at Pekjn. WILL NOT TRUST CHINA The German Idea In Kesrard to Pun isblns Boxer Leaders Cologne, Sept. 24. According to a semi-official Berlin dispatch to the Co logne Gazette, Germany as far from de manding that the culprits in China shall be executed at pleasure of the ministers. On (the vntrary the minis ters should ' impersonate fid constitute a public prosecution and the accused should be tried, before -an international court of justice, which would determine the -amount of punishment to be inflicted "The chief question is," the dispatch says, " that the trial ...of the guilty par ties should be conducted by the powers and not by the Chin ase. A Chinese trial of the ringleaders would simply be a ju dicial farce. The policy advocated by the United States,' to. quietly 3ook on the developments from a distance, would- be conducive to fresh massacres. 'The guarantees demanded from Chi na would also benefit America but the fact (remains that the power of the Uni ted States in their first attepmt to nlaee themselves in -a great international un dertaking on a line with -the other pow ers has failed an. remarkable degree." TTILI PLAY IN NORFOLK. A TEMPERANCE LECTURE miss Belle Kearney at the Academy or IVlasic October 2 Miss Belle Kearney, a national lec turer of the Woman's Christian Temper ance Union, who is now in this State and lectures in Greensboro and at Guilr ford College this week, has made an en gagement with the Raleigh "V. C. T. U. for October 2d, at the Academy of Mu sic. All who can should avail themselves of the opportunity to hear her, as she is a -brilliant and talented speaker. Miss Kearney is not a stranger to Raleizh ' thorp, wp m- people, and those who have heard her ;for our coal and we hesitate to fill them. berore win De more anxious to near nerjWe have regular trade in. the -east, that, Soft Coal Operator Not to Profit by the Strike In Anthracite Region Altoona, Pa., Sept. 24. The problem confronting the operators of the bitu minous coal fields of Pennsylvania is whether they wldl be able, after all, to enjoy the business boom resulting from the shut down of the greater part of the anthracite tregion. - AV-hile there is no longer, or at least not at this time any danger of a sym jiathetic strike in the soft, coal regions, the operators have been made plainly to understand that the (bituminous min ers propose to stand by their striking brethren to. the extent of refusing to load cars destined for a market created as a result of the strike. They-will not be parties to any plan .which will re sult' in the supplanting of the anthracite product by the bituminous. ... . ..a . 1 i 1 rine result or tuis is liKeiy to oe a cur tailment for the soft coal operators, rather than an increase. The situation is thus described by a Philadelphia op erator who has just made a tour of his mines in this and sunrounding counties: "Weare told by onr men that we must not ask them to load coal for any mar ket affected by the anthracite strike. We reply that we have always connpeted with anthracite coal in certain of the eastern markets; that our coal and the anthracite have ibeen unloaded at the same wharves, sold to tHe same people, consumed 'by the same people. We point out the fact that It is impossible for us to trace a shipment of 'soft coal to see that it does not eventually sup plant hard coal. ."The miners replied that the safest way then is to stop all shipments of our coal to markets where anthracite has been the .ruling factor, or where one niay supplant the other, v "They agree that uch a course means less work for th soft coal miner, but declare their, willingness to contribute that much to the cause of the striKexs. Orders are pou-ringn Atheletlc Relations Resumed Between , N. C, and Virginia Universities . Chanel Hill. K. CL Sent. 24. Special. Athletic relations between the .universi ties of. North Carolina and Virginia, which were severed in 1898, have been restored, and for the first time since then these two rival colleges will meet, on the grid-iron. The game wail be played m Norfolk, September 24. Manager CaVr has arranged an excellent schedule, and the team will be a great one. Efforts Tverp made to ha Ve the 'Virginia game in Raleigh during the fair, but satisfsctory arransrements could not be made. Excur sions and cheap rates will be given over i he Coast Line. Seaboard,, feoutnern, Chesapeake & Ohio and.otker roads to Norfolk. STRAPPED TO THE POLE A Nesro Lineman Gets a Tumble that Results in His Beath Charlotte, N. 0.. Sept. 24. Special. Ike Jones, a negro lineman, met a hor rible death here today by the snapping of a pole to wiwe-h ' he was strapped. Tones- was at the top of a 50-foot pole stringing new Vires,; when the itnxle snapped just at the ground, falling across the. street with the helpless man strapped to it. The pole fell across the body of the negro whose back and shoul der were broken. Jones lived only an hour after th accident happened. ORBERS DELAYED on this occasion. The public is cordi ally invited to attend this lectur The Uprising in Colombia Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. " 24. The rebels in Colombia have sacked the towns of Calanrar and Turbaco in Mag- )the, importunities -of the newly created according to the miners' argument, we should now throw over. The boom has changed into ' a boomerang." When asked point blank whether the bituminous operators "would listen to the miners, refuse to ship where they have been shipping, and turn a dear ear, to dalena province and now, hold several strongholds on the Magdalena river. , A gang of rebels has also "Withered at C'heppo near Paiama. and government troops have been sent to disperse" them Afters on the islandTare quiet. A Train ' Breaks Into a Walling Room Paris, Sept. 24. There was a serious accident at the Montpamasse railroad" station today. An incoming tram smash' h1 into the buffers., broke - dowh I gates and entered the waiting room; o$ I ly stopping jnst short of the stairs JSev- enteen persons were injured. . : ' r : .' -'. ' i, France and Russia Incline Our War Washington. Sept 24. France " and Russia are aid to be inclined to concur in the position taken by this gov.ern--iuent iu the ..Chinese situation. markets, the operator was non-commit tal. ".That is a matter to be decided by us all, not by an individual man or com pany," he said. "Yes, it will be- decided and 'within a very few days." . , TUAN IN HIGH FAVOR - Late News front: China that Is - Any . thine hut Reassuring; . Shanghai,; Sept. 24.--The reports con cerning the Chinese imperial party that reach here 'continue to be unf avortlble, andif they 'are correct the outlook for an amicable adjustment of the questions at issue between China and, the powers is not favorable; " x . Private advices 1 received today- from Tai. -Yuen-Fir - confirm, the report that Prince. - Juanand Juice -Chuan have Russia Determined Some Time Ago to Remove Troops to Tien Tsin St. Petersburg, Sept. 24. The , Official Messenger says that orders for the trans fer of the Russians to Tien Tsin, dated August 25 and August 20, were not re ceived by M. De Giers, the Russian minister to China, until September 5, and by General Line vitch, the Russian commander, September G, in consequence of the irregularity, of-: telegraphic and mail communication from Taku to Pekin. Some members of the Russian legation and the first part of the expeditionary force started for Tien Tsin immediately on receipt of the orders. The departure of the powers from Pe kin will be gradual but will be complete ly effected so ; soon as local conditions permit -' ' - ' . . - . - , Reernttlns; Soft Coal nines Altoona, Pa., Sept. 24. Following np their announcement to boycott bitumin ous coal shipments, designed to fill orders heretofore controlled by anthracite mar kets, the soft-coal miners have issued . ?TiTMf Hrn tn th anthracite miners to come to this field. . They promise to divide work ? with them if there is not enough for- all, and . pledge that strict investigation will be made of orders like ly to be intended for the relief of the anthracite operators. . The offer cf an asylum for the . strikers is already being accepted. - Anthracite men are dropping into the fields by ; twos and : threes, the great demand-for labor serving to find them employment quickly at wage rates considerably above those prevailing- in the district, they abandoned. This im migration is ;nof discouraged by the op erators, as they see' in it an opportunity to supply skilled labor lacking in this field, since the great rash: began last April. -The operators say they are not disturbed by the movement to boycott them.- . - -- London, Sept. 24. The American mj sionaries, J. II. Roberts, Mark Williams, William Sprague, Mrs. Spraguc aud Miss Virginia - Murdock, who escaped'- from Kalgan, province of Chi-Li, China, in June, were chased across the Gobi Des ert. . Thence they traveled by way of Siberia, and have just reached Loudon in good health." . The missionaries will proceed iminedi ately to the United States. Mr. Wil liams, who has worked in China for thirty-four years, 'gave a representative of the press an interesting story of his experiences. The first assault on tho mission compound at Kalgan was made during the night of July 10, when a' yelling mob attempted to batter down the gate with stones. Seeing the useless-" ness of remaining, the missionaries in the course of 'the night evacuated the compound and proceeded -to the niagis- . trate's yamen. The following afternoon they were ordered to leave, the magis trate declaring that he feared not'onlj for the Missionaries' safety, but alsc for his own, if he continued to protect them. After allowing- the American to draw their money from the nativf bank, the magistrate furnished them with fifty soldiers as an escort through the gate iu the great wall into Mongolia. "We had no idea then of the ; terrible journey which awaited us," continued Mr. Williams. "We had no notion of having to escape across Siberia, and only proposed to remain in some placo. . of safety and return after the crisis. Wherever we attempted to stop, how ever, tlie otlicials ordered us - to leave forthwith, declaring the Boxers were on our heels. Finally we reached a Mon golian encampment at Haurusa, and saw that flight across the great Gobi Desert was inevitable. Having secured a cara van, .we srarrea .1 une so. i nsi Deiore starting, seven-. Swedish missionaries, ' with their families, who had just escaped with- thejir lives, joined us. One lady had horrible experiences, - She had been- , almost clubbed to ,?eat!i, while some of the -aiaie were frightful, spectacles, .be ing covered' with .bloody . "Our caravan, consisted of twenty camels,-nineteen horses and six camel , carts for the ladies and children. For eight days we traveled over nothing but sand. The air Avas like that "of an oven, and the suffering was intense. .The animals had no grass and no water, and marching in the daytime was impossible. At the few isolated wells Mongols were en camped in the vicinity, and they refused to allow us to draw water,', fearing we would poison the wells. 'After thirty-eight days of trouble and anxiety we reached Urga, on the other side of s the desert. V'e .presented a " sorry spectacle. The Russian consul general was most kind. He gave up to us fourteen rooms in the consulate. But,, to onr dismay, the consul told us we must leave forthwith, as there wero 2,000 Mougok soldiers in the neighbor hood who .might be hostile. He also warned us that .tens .of .thousands o Mongols were gathering for a religious festival, and that if we valued our safety we had abetter clear out-without delay. "A fortnight later. August lo, we reached Kiakhta, and remained there till August 21. In the - meanwhile Air Tower,. United States- ambassador U Russia, obtained permission , from the -authorities at St. Petersburg for our journey over the Siberian Railway. Art. riviug at Irkutsk, September 2,, we tooK a train and reached St. -Petersburg Sep tember 18. "It Is impossible to speak too highly of the great kindness of the Russian ofil cials. Everything possible was done, for U3 by them, even to offering us money. ' On the Trans-Siberian Railway, though, it? was choked with troops and closed to civilians, the authcrities provided a re served car for us.. We passed immense numbers of troops, apparently conscript hastily collected. They wore no unl forms and some had no guns. All of . them wore straw hats. . . . "At the United States' legation in St. Petersburg we expressed the opinion that Russia was preparing to seize Manchu ria, but we were informed , that th American legation had been assured" that Russia had no such intention." -. . . AFFAIRS IN PFJfcB ; Special Envoy RockhlU Oetflos Ready to I.eav the Capital P.Hn Konf On rrtfl 'TV. kit Knt f9 hangai', Sept. 24, 1:20 p. m. The Brit ish force at tne l'eitacnu- temples vr.ii return here Saturday. 45ir Claude Mac- Donald, the British minister, is at that j place now enjoying an outing. , , General Chatfee attended a .picnic t the summer palace today as- the gcest of Herbert G. Squires, secretary of the American legation. He will go to. Tien Tm tomorrow to attend to army inat t&rs ' " ' - " - Mr. , Rockhill, the , spf cial American envoy, ;is busy inteo-vlewinf -pi'bmioent persons and inspecting the city. He in tends to leave here in two days. . Captain Hill died today '.from wounds received in an explosion an th Er-tih magazine at Tungshou. k "' ' - The Russian w'H irtituU their R.l Cross system ' tomorrorw w si. ajproptri t ceremonies. " ; , - Amos Cnqnulaei lo Stanay Nebraska - . .New"- YorV, Sept. - -2. Congressman Amos -J. ; Camming is to start tomorrovy for .Nebrt!1 t "tiwiv bJ SMte in the interest of the electjon of Will ram Jen nings Bryan. . Mr. Cmunrings exects to speax.: in the. pxinci-i 'dties and towns r W S-hitft s-nd wiH Tematn -t-hat part of the. country nearly all the time until election aaj , . v. ; - -, : Conllletlns Claims in Indiana . Indianapolis, Sept. 24. The finaLjoll of the State, taken under direction -ct th l?oTnhliriin State Central Commit tee, '-'has been completed. The poll shows. the Republicans claim, xnat uit p.arauty fw xrTr!n1otr will be larger ha!i fiinr years ago, and that the totki vyti will iwi aKivnt- TWr fttYtt ' ?V7t i r. T!i. Democrats assert that th:a ia abmru, n hir rnorts show a widesnread revolt ajrainst 'McKinley,' : " '