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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18
AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
The Japanese Rout the Chinese at
Wi Ju and Capture the Place.
FUNNY CHINESE STATE DOCUMENT.
The Chinese Emperor Issues Decree About
Chinese Victories Translated Copy
Sent to Washington by Min
lister DENLY.

LONDON, Oct. ia dispatch from
Toxic says that Il detachment of Japan
ese cavalry and infantry has made an
attack upon and routed force of 1000
Chinese at Wi Ju, and that the place
remains in the hands Of the Japanese.
1t is reported to the japanese officers
that 10000 Chinese troops occupy the
north bank Of the Value river, where
they have completed eight batteries
and are building more.
Field Marshal Count Yagamata has
established a base Of operations at Ping
Yang, which is near the sea and easy
of access to the supplies.
1t is generally hoped that the Japan
csc will be in possession of Moukden by
the early part of November. Other
important military operations are
under way, but their objects are as yet
kept secret. Early results, however,
are expected.
China has been formally notified Of
the surrender and dispatch to Nagasalsi
of the steamship Tenkyomaru, to-
gether with her European and Chinese
crew.
A state Of siege has been declared in
the district of Hiroshima under article
NV. of the Japanese constitution.
A FUNNY STATE DoCuMuNT
WASHINGTON, Oct. l2.-In the Chi
nese mail which reached the state de-
rartmcnt yesterday was communities
ton Of date of August 20, from United
States Minister Denby, inclosing q
translated copy Of a decree issued by
the Chinese emperor in relation to one
of the battles of the war. The min
lister says the Chinese general seems to
have reported to the throne that he en-
codntered superior force of Japanese,
The date Of this engagement Mt Kung
Chow is not given and it has not been
confirmed from official sources The
decree is as follows:
Some time since our forces under command
Of Gen. Yeh Cheh Chico gained u victory in
battle against the japanese and us stimulus
to vul0r her majesty, the empress dowager,
graciously bestowed upon chem gratuity OF
10000 tacls
We have now received tolcgrNphc memo
rial stating the forces Of our army while NOV
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Highest Of all in Leavening Power-Laes U.S. Govt Report
q! RBs'!a&s Rsxa:sE

the only remaining item that can be
cut to meet the altered conditions.
just how much wages will have to be
reduced may not be asccrtained for
awhile yet, but whatever be the extent
necessary it must be submitted to, or
the workers will be minus situations
because of the inability of the employ
or to manufacture and sell his goods
at n loss
Doubtless most OF the men who must
submit to the wnse reduction voted
two years ago to curry out the demo-
cratic policy Of tariff reform as re-
quested by the demagogues who prom
ised them good wages with lower
prices for what they had to buy. Now
they are reaping the fruit of their
blind acceptance OF democratic prom
ises and pledges Are they going to
vote this fall for another cut
in their wages, To be necessitated
by still greater competition from
abroad, as the party leaders intimate
will be worked forif the country shows
It's approval Of what has been done
in the recent past9 BY next November
the employees in the knitting industries
OF Toledo will be receiving far smaller
wages per day and week than two
years ago, or even than were paid
them just previous to the passage Of
the new law, win the adult male en-
ployes, and the fathers ind brothers
and husbands OF the rest vote for can
ddates whose policy has brought 80
much mischief already md threatens
to deepen 1t II allowed TO dominate the
industries OF the country in the fu-
ture? Can they be such noodles, ~
utterly idiotic, ns not TO learn quickly
from this bitter experience that demo-
cratic rule means low wages, depressed
industries, and hercer competition
with European toilcrs and their prod
ucts? Surely a large proportion OF the
workers who voted the democratic
ticket in 1899 will vote next time for
restoration Of the republican policies
which gave them full work vt good
wages by providing home market
for their products, and protecting that
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

vINIrA, |. T., Oct. 1l.-Three men
robbed the express agent at Choteau
last night, tbking two mail bags, what
money the agent had and his express
money order book. Ten Or eleven per
sons in tht, depot were also robbed.
The robbers were not masked and were
all Indians, supposed to be the Cook
gang. Robbers held up the Missouri
Pacific station at claremore last night
and got about $50.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

CLEVELAND, O., Oct, l9.-Letter Car
rier Smith, Of Chicago, who Is trying
to beat Searles' record from Chicago TO
New York on a bicycle, arrived in this
city at noon yesterday. Smith has
been out Of Chicago only two days, six
hours and thirty minutes, which beats
Searles time two hours and forty-ilve
minutes. The plucky letter carrier
has slept only two hours since he left
the worlds fair city.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18
KANSAS ODD FELLOWS.
The Grand Lodge Renounces All Interest
y. the De Boisslerc Orphans Home.

"a the DE BOisslero Orphans hohe'
WICHITA, Kan, Oct. ll.-At this
mornings session of the Kansas grand
lodge of Odd Fellows resolution in
troduced by j. j. Buck, of Emporia,
was adopted renouncing all title or in
terest in the De Boissiere Odd Fellows
Orphans home, resembling all former
actions of the grand lodge in
accepting it, and instructing the
grand officers to give quit claim deed
to the property to the corporation
which is composed of the five so-called
trustees who have already received
$4,000 of the last assessment. The
home may continue to be operated in
the interest of orphans of Odd Fellows,
but the order has no longer any hnan-
cial interest in it. The levy for the
current year will be As cents per capita
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

Sioux CITY, Ia, Oct 70 A crowd Of
fully $500 people assembled here yes.
terday to witness the great race be.
tween the two PAGERS, Robert }. and
Joe patchcn. Robert j. won easily,
finishing the first mile heat in 2;O6 and
the second in 9iO3J1, within second
OF his record.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

rB-lt seems to be Mr., Cleveland's
studied purpose to break down and
sweep away everything which has
been established beyond the seas for
the protection Of American interests
in foreign parts We are building
great and expensive navy, not because
there Is danger Of collision with other
powers, but because American trade
Is expanding and American inter-
ests are springing up all over the
world. But the Cleveland admins
tration discourages everything which
tends TO sustain wise foreign policy.
Mr. Cleveland truckled to England In
the BehrIng sea matter, as he is now
trucking to Germany in the Samoan
matter 1t places the country In hui
initiating light before the rest OF the
world. Albany Journal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

LAWRENCE, Kan, Oct, l2.-The regu-
lar Kansas yearly meeting Of the So
ciety Of Friends began here yesterday
afternoon. Already many delegates
are on hand and II is expected that
many more will be present The meet
ing will last ten days, The clerk of
the meeting, who Is the presiding Off
Ger, is Prof. Il. Stanley, OF this city.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

WASHINGTON, Oct. l2-Emphatic de-
NAL was made by Commissioner of PEN
sions Lochrcn Of statement published
in the west that he had sent letters to
democratic postmasters stating com
munications concerning pensions will
be held as confidential If requested, or
If Of a nature requiring it to be held.
lie said; 81 never sent out such let
ter, nor do know Of a communication
of that character being officially sent
out from here. We have never sought
records of pen toner's in that way, The
story is purely fabrication"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. lie. W. lloch's
boom for state printer has been re-
vived, and the claim is made for him
that he will have strong following in
the legislature. lie himself is not
active In the movement, but his friends
are doing some quiet work for him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18
BEUZETTA'S RICH PRIZE.


Won the Great Futurity stake.
LEXINGTON KY, Oct. 1.-THE rich
est trotting stake Of the year. the Ken
lucky Futurity, worth S22,4i3 to the
winner, was contested for at Lexing-
ton yesterday before a crowd Of about
10000 people. 1t was won by +. W.
Ayers 3-year-old filly Beuzetta, by On
ward -Beulah, and she placed to the cred
it of her owner the largest amount of
money ever paid to the winner of trot-
tingrace. The total accrued value OF this
rich stake was S3l, ,430, but by its orig
inal conditions IS, 900 was raced for in
1893, leaving the amount yesterday
SEQ, 43o, still, by long odds, the capital
prize earned in harness race. Futur-
ity earned second money, $1,000, and
Celaya third money, $1,000, and Mr.
Ayers $1,000 for nominating Beulah,
the dam of Beuzetta,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

New YoRK, O.t 1.-THE general
strike of the Cloakmakers' union, which
was ordered by the vote Of the union,
promises to be more extended than
was at first thought. The cutters be-
longing to the United Cloak and Suit
Cutters union, numbering 1000 will
go out tomorrow, and this action, 1t Is
believed, will paralyze the trade.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

OTTAWA, Kan. Oct. ll.-Maj- Atkin'
son, of the state militia, and Mr.. George
Persol have been successful in raising
the $3.50 necessary to pay the expenses
of the national guard encampment.
The question has been settled and ar
rangements will be completed at once
for the encampment in Forest park
next week.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. l2,-The Santa
Fe tax department has succeeded in
obtaining a reduction from the state
railroad commissioners Of Illinois Of
$500 per mile in the assessed valuation
OF the Santa Fe line in that state, the
total reduction amounting to about
Sj6 900. An effort is being made TO Sc
cure a similar reduction in Colorado
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

MARSHALL, Mo-, Oct la.-Niss Daisy
Bond, IS years old, Of near Marshall,
was bitten by a mad dog yesterday,
making very dangerous wound. Mr.,
Murrells mad stone could not be found
and the family are fearful that hydro
phobia will result.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18


Democracy,
When the democratic national con-
vcntion, held nt Chicago In 1872, dis
cusscd the tariff question: the plank
from the Randall platform Of 1894 was
brought forward This was ON the
lines Of modified protection But IL
was howlcd down by Henry Waiter
son and othor FREQ trade fanatics, and
for 1t was substituted the Ncal-Wat-
terson plank, which denounced the
system OF protection" as "unconstitu-
tlonal' and as IA fraud-a robbery OF
the majority Of the American people
for the protection Of the few" 1t was
with this tariff plank in their platform
that the democratic party went before
the people pledged to free trade
How have they carried out their
promises? They have struck down
wool and protected coal They have
freed salt and protected raw sugar
They have freed tin ore and protected
iron ore. They have laid before the
people bill which is not free trade
bill, or even u bill for revenue only,
but protective tariff which differs
from the republican tariff only In de
gree, but not In kind.
II has been estimated (by democratic
statisticans) that the grand average
OF duties under the republican McIiin.
ley tariff was Afty per cent. 1t is csti.
mated |also by democratic statisti-
cians) that the grand average Of du.
ties under the democratic sugar trust
tariff is thirty-clght per cent. This
makes difference OF twelve per cent
II, as the democratic platform alleged,
"protection is unconstitutional, q
fraud and n robbery" how about
this sugar trust tariff II fifty per
cent. protection is unconstitutional, is
thirty-eight per cent constitutionalY
Does twelve per cent make the differ
cnce between honesty and dishonesty
II fifty per cent. protection is fraud
and robbery, is not thirty-eight per
cent protection a robbery and fraudP
II Is small wonder that Grover Cleve-
land hcsitated to ailix his signature to
this humbug bill II is not an honest
hill IL is taintcd with all manner OF
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18
Hic DAVIS business In Cattle.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Oct. ll.-Yester-
days trade in cattle at the stock yards
was about the biggest on record. All
together ig,l55 head Of cattle were
sold. The Kansas city dressed beef
men bought 1869 head That is s49
more than they ever bought before in
q single day.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18
Abilene S Fraternal Societies.

A F.ANDA A. M.-Beney0lent Lodge, No.
"A. 9s, meets first and third Monday eve
nings In each month at Masonic hall, corner
Third and Cedar. John NJ Gleissner, W. NJ;
J. l.. worley, secretary visiting brethren
welcome
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

NAODERN w0ODMEN OF AMERICA
lVl Camp No. a59, meets every Friday night
OF each month in X. of 7. hall. Visiting
neighbors welcome, A. l.. Russel, V. o.; Y
j. Murphy, Clerk.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
" Abilene Post No. Us, meets at the Odd
Fellows hall, second and fourth Monday
evenings of each month All comrades are
Invited to meet with us. d. II. Metzger, 2.
U.;,w. 5. Anderson, Adjutant.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

INDEPENDENT ORDER ODD FELLOWS
Western Home lodge, No. 90, meets every
Tuesday evening In Odd Fellows hall. ON.
GERS Noble Grand II. kummerlKnd; Sec.
retary, l.. Lips. Visiting brethren cordially
welcome.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

D0YAL ARCH MAS0NS-Cyrus Chapter
No. 70. meets In Masonic hall ON the
second and fourth Fridays Of each month.
r. u. Jacobs, II. r.; j, l.. worley, secrc
tary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

The war department is arranging to
begin the construction Of a battery Of
dynamite guns at the entrance TO San
Tyspciseo hsrboz
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

ST. JOINS, N. r., Oct lin a north
east gale at st. Pierre last night fifty
vessels were driven ashore and badly
damaged. Ten to twenty lives are re-
ported lost. A fleet Of $50 vessels was
compelled TO leave the fishing banks.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

vHyOMANs RELIEF CORPs-No. O.,
Wv meets alternate Wednesday after.
moons Ut 2:SO O'Clock In X. Of r. hall hrs,
Mary X. Paul, president; Mrs. 0. j Peters,
secretary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

A NOIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMEN
"A Abilene Lodge No. 93, meets every
Thursday evening IN the Knights Of Pythias
hall j. W. Miller N, W.; Richard Waring,
recorder
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-18

NRDER EASTERN STAR-Abiiens Chap
" terlll, meets In the Masonic hall o.
tho first and third Tuesday ovenlngs Of each
month. Mrs Mary NJ, NALL, Worthy Nat
ron. Miss Blanche Fritz, secretary.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-20

ger Randall. of the Philadelphia State
league club, but was declined. when
Mr. Randall asked me IL Hodson could be
bought" said Mr.. st. John, II told him
yes" provided the offer was q substantial
one. He said that the Boston people
would give 81, 900. 1--WE know that Hodson
is worth more than that to us and conse-
quently Mr.. Randall was informed that
it would take at least 81, 200, aud possibly
more, to secure him. That was the extent
OF our negotiation; nothing further has
been said by Mr.. Randall, and certainly
we are not looking for a market for our
players" Mr. St. John stated further
that in the event of Hodson being released
it would be stipulated that the sale is not
to take effect until after the present home
engagements. In reply to the reporters
suggestion that perhaps new pitcher OF
HodsOn's caliber could not be engaged,
the local president stated that Yerkes
gave every indication of being
good twirler, and that with Yerkes and
Flanaghan and some other pitcher who is
available, the Scranton team could still
play winning ball. Mr.. st. John stated
that while the release of Hodson had not
been considered until the Boston offer,
Scranton could do without its star pitcher
for consideration. A further statement
Of Mr.. st. Johns that good pitchers are
scarcer than white mice" seemed rather
ambiguous and would indicate that a love
or the need Of the long green might be
construed as having a bearing on the mo-
tive for Hodson's release.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-20
ECHOES FROM TIE HOME PLATE,


Springfield has released Pitchers Horner
and Sigsby.
The home team won its sixth straight
game today.
Pitcher Pete Daniels, Of the Kansas City
club, seems to have the pitchers record.
He has won twenty out Of twenty-three
games.
Pitcher Moran, of Brookville a left
handler who pitched for Nashville until
the Southern league disbanded, has been
signed by Harrisburg.
President Byrne, according to western
paper, pooh-poohs the idea Of sectional
leagues. He says that the twelve-cub
league has come to stay
Hazleton will meet Scranton at the ball
park today and make strong effort to
break the long string Of defeats it has
sustained from Scranton.
Mar in McQuaid, the Clncinna outHolder,
has been released by Captain Comiskey.
He did not play in championship game,
aud his hardest work has been drawing his
salary.
The New York players complain that
they were not furnished with ice for the
water given them to drink either in Brook
selves.
Scrantonians are now getting the kind
Of ball playing by the home team and they
are appreciating 1t too Fifteen hundred
people saw the game yesterday and ZOO
the previous day.
Mulderig held down position on the
Allentown bench yesterday and before the
game began twirled the ball for several
minutes for the editication of King Kelly,
who acted as catcher.
The Stars of Pine Brook, challenge the
Stars, of Priceburg, to game OF ball on
the Priceburg grounds ON the date already
mentioned. Answer through this paper.
George Ruddy, manager.
John Clarkson has made q novel obiec-
tion to his release to Baltimore, and has
refused to go there unless he ie given a
bonus by the Cleveland club. Thus the
deal made on Saturday for the exchange
Of Clarkson for Mullane hangs fire.
A rumor to the effect that the Scranton
Base Ball association had been offered ST.
900 by the Boston club for Pitcher Hodson
was confirmed last night by President st.
John. The offer was made through Mana
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-20
NATIONAL LEAGUE RESULTS.

At Cincinnati
Pitt,burg....0 @ 0 l 3 0 O. 6
Cincinnati 80 0 0 0 ! X
Hits-Pittsburg 10; Cianciunati lS
Errors, Pittsburg l; Cincinnati, 0. Bat
taries-ColcoloUga ana Merritt; Dwyer
and Murphy Cmpire-GaGuey
At ST. Louis
Chicago. 0 0 0 0 0 90 l.
st. Louis .....1 3 2 0 D 0 0 X
Hits-Chcago, l. st. Louis, IL. Errors
Chicago, 0; st. Louis 0. Batteries--Ab-
hey aud Schriver; Bretenstein and Twine-
ham. Unpire--Hurst.
At Lcuisville-Cl Louisville game
postponed; wet grounds,
At New York
Washington...5 ! 0 Q | 2 8 O-I2
New York. IL 0 8 2 0 x-l9
lifts Washington, 16; New York, l2.
Errors Washington, =; New York, 8.
Batteries-Sulliyan and Mcclure; Wester-
welt, German and Farrell, Umpire
Emslie.
AT Baltimore
Brooklyn. .....O . . 2 II x-l9
Baltimore. ...i 0 0 l . 0 .
Hts Brooklyn %; Baltimore, II. En-
rors- Brooklyn, 2; Baltimore, .. Bat
teries-Stein and Earle; Inks and Robin
son, Umplre-McQuaid.
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the PRESS cuuB's REGATTA.
Prospeo;s Bright for one Of ths Be-

Prospects Bright for one Of ths Bsst
Evsnts Ever Hid In America.
The regatta to be held at Lake Ariel
on Tuesday, Aug. Ii. under the direc-
tion Of the Scranton Press club already
gives promise of b inV far greater
event than was that of 1893, and which
oarsmen who Were present declared
one of the most successful aquatic
events they ever took part in. There
will DO eleven great contests
during the course of the
day. the first event beginning
about II o'clock. and they will em.
brace everything In rowing from the
Jnnior single scuIl to the great eight
cared senior shell race, and in the
various struggles will appear such men
as Hedley, Aman. DouegAn, Hawkins,
Coughlan and otherS who are famous
in tIe annals of American amateur
oarsmen, the first named now holding
the championship. lie was at Lake
Ariel last year and was prize winner.
He expects to maintain his record.
Another star In the senior singles will
be Oscar Werts, Of Newark, who has
puShe himself 70 the highest class by
the lnost sTuest work. The Plymouth
Stars will also have crews in five DIFF
ferent races. and to show their enthu-
siasm in the regatta they have ar
ranged to run special excursion train
through to Like Ariel from Plymouth
crossing via the Delaware and Hudson
through Wilkes Barre and Parsons.
assuring to the people Of those
places unsurpassed accommodations
for getting to ana from the lake. and
overcoming grandly the Inconvenience
they suffered last year. The Arch bald
Hose company will handle the excur-
sion TO the lake that day from the
upper Lackawanna valley, aud their
sales of tickets will include from Oly-
phant north. They are busters aud
promise to give big turnout. And as
for Scranton aud Pitttton the Press
club will handle the sales of tickets it
self and there is every reason TO believe
there will be great rush Of people to
see the unsurpassed sports. The train
service will be all that may be desired
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-20

You have to swelter in the city
or to be able to flee to the shore
these hot days.
Curse the heat if you will. Far
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You know better than any one
else how it affects you. With most
people it causes irritabiIity, Ian
guOr and Indigestion.
Johann Hoffs Malt Extract
cures all such--.is cooling, too.--
There's nothing better for Sum
mer. Look for signature of
Johann Hof' on neck label.
All others are limitations.