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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
LIEUT.. TAYLOR
LEAVES TODAY
Starts on His Long Journey TO the
Orient, Sailing on the
Twenty Eighth,

Captain Charles f. Taylor left for
Washington this morning to bid his son,
Lieutenant Charles 3. Taylor, goodbye
Lieutenant TAYLOR has just been as
signed TO duty in China, and left Boston
yesterday, whence he had gone from his
station in Portsmouth, n. H., and will
reach Washington this morning with the
Fifth Battalion, Marine Corps. This bat
talon numbers FIVE hundred men. who are
going to China rush orders. under
command Of Major Randolph Dickins, who
has been on duty at the Marine Barracks,
Navy Yard, Washington.
The Fifth Battalion will leave Washing
ton for San Francisco. over the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad and connec-
tons, this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock ana
will sail for China on the 18th instant. on
the transport Hancock, reaching Nasasaki,
Japan. little over month later.
Other officers assigned to duty with the
battalion are Captain T. H. Low. at
Portsmouth: Captain L. II. Moses, at
Boston: Captain w. n. McKelvy, from the
Kentucky; First Lieutenant Harry Lee.
from the Vermont; Second Lieutenant F.
]. Schwabe. at Boston; II. L. Matthews,
and T. E. Backstrom. at New York; H. r.
Lay. at Annapolis; H. D. Long and +.
c. Lander. at Washington.
Lieutenant Taylor is twenty-five years
Ola ana II d 81 i'fuoite VI toetiiel aSdoehis,
and of the law department of Georgetown
University, and in last February was COM
missioned second lieutenant in the Marine
Service by President Mckinley. after hav-
ing passed a most severe examination. and
stationed at the Portsmouth On. H.) Navy
Yard.
He stands high in the estimation of the
officials of the Navy Department and has
lust been commissioned first lieutenant,
as recognition of his soldierly worth and
hearing. He~-has been entrusted with
many. important duties during his short
service and his rise has been rapid.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
CONFIRM NATION.
Chinese Minister Receives Two Mes
sa~es of Encouraging Tenor.

SaGeS of EncouraGin. Tenor.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. July 2L-The Chinese
Minister, Wu Ting Fang, communicated
to the Secretary OF State this morning
two important telegrams. The first is
from Sk eng. the Director of Posts and
Telegraph in Shanghai. and says:
Fortunate that Minister Conger's tele-
graphic reply has come Imperial decree
of tho I'D, this moon. corresponding to
July 1Sth), stated that all ministers were
safe Insurgents are fighting and killing
each other Ii Hung Ching is proceeding
northward to suppress the riot, and will
find it difficult to 60"
The second telegram was from Lu ku
II, -Viceroy of Nanking. dated the 2st
of July and received by Minister WI at
10 o'clock the same day. 1t is as follows:
According to edict OF 22d, this moon
July. 18TH, with the exception of the Ger
man Minister. who was killed by anar-
chists, with regard to which rigorous
measures nre being taken to investigate
and punish tho guilty parties, all the other
minister's for whom strenuous efforts are
being made for their protection, are for
tunately unharmed.
Ii Kui Vi, the Viceroy of Nanling, is
one of the great officials of China and
stands next in rank among the diplomats
TO Ii Hung Chung.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

National Retail Druggists Association
and has been the means of impeding the
reckless squandering of profits by the So
called price-cutters.
The druggists of this city were addressed
last night by Mr. Simon NJ Jones, OF
Louisville, KY, Who is a member of. the:
National Retail Druggists Association
Mr. Jones told his hearers OF how the plan
had been adopted by which associations
are being organized to break up the det-
rimental work of cutting the prices on all
proprietary articles. manufactured by the
companies. which have become members
of the association and agreed to abide by
the plan adopted for their protection. Mr.
Jones said that as many as sixty-five per
cent of the druggists OF the country have
become members OF the association and
heartily interested in the movement.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
MESSAGE FROM REMEY.
Reports Tien Tsin Quiet When Last
Heard From.
Ry Associated Press.)

GBy Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 21.-The Navy De
partment has received the following cable
gram from Admiral Remey, dGteo Iahu
July 20:
"Tien Tsin quiet latest report, Russian
sources July 18th. legations Pealn stu
holding out Reliability of this informa-
t:on uncertain. Major Regan, Captains
Noyes and tBookmiller, First L;eutenants \.
Tawton and Schoeffel wounded. Ninth IN
fantry officers; and Second Lieutenant .Jol-
". Marine Corps. sick, now aboard soiace;
Expect about thirty wounded men. VIII
then send all to Yokohoma Hospital.
~ ,,.o,,nded for the first time by Admiral
Remey. is Francis schoffel. He was DOR, porn
- sNsw York, and was appointed from
that tn State in 1883. Was appointed seeont 7c;ast
Lieutenant July, 1885. He was ,sol n'aue I, nas
II lieutenant September 9Th, 1887 n "as
With the Ninth Infantry when it was Or
dered TO China.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
Tho Chinese Driven Ont.

(By Associated Press.)
ST. PETERSBURG, July 21.-The Chinese
positions on the Anus have been cleared
from BlaSovestachensk as far as kha-
berofsli.
Eight thousand japanese troops arrived
All Tien Tsin from Taku Monday. July 18th
Twenty-one hundred japanese troops are
commanding the position at Che Foo, and
1,S09 at Shan Hal kuan-
Navigation of the Pei Ho River from
Taku to ITen Tsn is now easy and free
from marauders.
Owing to the lack of houses 500 tents have
been pitched for the wounded at Tien Tsin
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
NARROW ESCAPE.
A Practice She'll Barely Missed sayan-
nah lime Steamer.
{By Associated Press.

tBy Associated PreSS.)
NEW YORK. July 21.-Captain Burg. of
the Savannah Line steamer City OF Bir-
minghan. reports that when passing Sandy
Hook shortly after noon yesterday. bound
in from Savannah, a shell which was fired
from the Sandy Hook proving grounds,
struck the water between his vessel and
the shore, about one hundred and fifty feet
from the vessel and ricochetting, passed
over his vessel about mdships There was
great excitement aboard the vesse! at what
was considered very narrow escape; and
many of the passengers were very much
frightened.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
General Chaffee's Staff.

I5V --ASSOCistttSI Itss.J
WASHINGTON. July 21.-The War De.
partment has announced the names of the
following officers who have been ordered
to report to Maior-Genera1 Chaffee for
duty on his staff:
Lieutenant-colonel Heisland, assistant
adjurant- general: Colonel Hunphries, as
sistant artermaster-Senerai; Major Gal
ligher. commissary; Lieutenant-Colonel
7Dickman. Twenty-siXth Infantry; q. S. w.
Major Muir. Thirty-si1th Infantry, q. S.
"; Major Stephenson. surgeon; Captain
Crozier, ordnance department.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
THE DELAGOA BAY ARBlTR RATION
Portugal Has Deposited Sum Ncccs-
sary to Pay the Awards.
DIV Associated Pressl.

(I3y ASSOC1ateu FTtSSl.
WASHINGTON, July 2L-he Delagoa
Bay arbitration closed To-Day, SO far as
Portugal was concerned. by tho announce
ment to tho State Department by Senor
Duarte that his government had deposited
the amount of the award, about S:,5 zoe,
with tho Contra Discounta, a Partisan
banking institution. with which the Portu-
Guese government does business. 1t will
remain for thu British and American
claimants to arrange for an equitable dis
trlbution OF these funds, ard negotiations
to that end are under way with promise OF
success.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
Duty in China for General Wilson.

IEy 1ssoclated ffess:5
WASHINGTON, July 21.--Favorable ac-
ton has been taken upon the application OF
Brigadier-General James Wilson, u S v,
for active service. in China. An order was
issued to relieving him from duty in COM
mand of the Department of MatanZas and
Santa Clara, Cuba. and directing him to
procaed without delay to Taku, China. and
report to Major-General A r. Chaffee. U.
S. V. commanding the American military
force in China. for the assignment to one
of the origades of his division.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
THINK IT AUTHENTIC.
Washington Officials Unshake" in
Their Belief III Copger's Message.

By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. July 21.-After mature
deIbsration, and after giving due consd-=
Grafton to the incredulous criticisms OF
the European authorities as to the Conger
message, the State Department remains
mistaken in its first conviction that the
message was authentic and that Minister
,Conger was alive on July 18th Corrooo-
5rative evidence came to the department
this AFTERNOON through Minister WI from
TWO widely removed sources-the one from
.Sheng at Shanghai and the other from
the yiceroy at Nanking. They make II
clear that an edtct certnin1y has been Is
sued relative to the condition Of the for
eign ministers and certain other matterS
of the greatest value. tf true
q It may. however. be mentioned 4h09
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
Chinese Duplicity.
ny Associated Press

[By- ----------
SHANGHAI, Friday, July ao.-According
to Shens. the administrator of telegraph
most Of the telegrams received previous to
the one from Minister conger to the State.
Department at Washington, took a week
in transmission from tPekin. The date Of
Minister Conger's message IS, therefore.
received in the best circles mere as turtner
proof of Chinese duplicity.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
Rim OVER BY HORSE AND WAGON.
A., @ naker Meets with an Acct

AIR. 4. G. Baker Meets With an Acct
dent on the Street.
Mr. A. c. Baker was run over by a
,,apon AT Twenty-third and Dock Streets
at ( o'clock yesterday afternoon and quite
seriously hurt. He was first knocked
down by a horse, and wns then run over
by the wa gon. He was badly bruised about
the body. air. Baker Is slightly deaf
badly.
Mr.. Baker was treated by Or. W. A..
ellis, OF the ambulance corps.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
THE DRUGGISTS
WILL ORGANIZE
Movement to Break Up
Cut-Rate Selling.
MANY FAVOR PLAN.
Mr.. Jones, of Louisville, Addressed
Them at Jefferson Last Night.
COLONEL PURCELL'S REMARKS.
He Makes an Appeal in Behalfof Orr
ganization Here-nIr. Polk Miller
on the Movcment-Will Meet
Soon to Perfect Per-
manent Orsani-
cation.

About one hundred Of the representative
retail and wholesale druggists OF the city
met last night at the roof-garden OF the
Jefferson Hotel for the purpose of con-
sidering a method of organizing an asso-
ciatior to break up price-cuttins on patent
medicines and articles manufactured by
patent-rledicine concerns The movement
with this end in view was started by the
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
Trying to Sieze hi Hung.
31n.A Associated Press

--- = - --
SHANGHAI. Friday. July 2o-The Brit
sish cruiser sRonaventure left Woo Sung.
early this morning. It's reported to
seize the An Ping with witsl-i Il Hung Chang on:
board. "A tr.umphal :;t, arch erected II
Hung Chang,s honor mas oeen 'Aa ordered by
the council to be RENE oYed,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
VOL..l5. NO. l3s. Is PAGES.
RICHMOND. VA. SUNDAY. JULY %. 1900.

AT this. juncture he proclaimed that he
aaa done his work, and called en- all the
prisoners Tor assistance. Howard made a
Iuhse at Guard 8. T. Smith and Mr.. Moss.
Mr Moss was cut on the hand. The negro
was again told to put down what was
thought to be knife. He vowed that
ne would not do so: that he would die
nrst' mat he had done his duty, and talked
tmpudently.
A VICIOUS LUNGE.
MI. Moss and Mr.. Smith came to my
assistance and the prisoner made vicious
lunga at Mr.. Smith and cut him in the
hand, and as he did that Mr.. Moss struck
at him with club, which the guards use.
THE club fell from the hand of Mr..
Moss and the negro was in the act Of
stabb.ns him in the back, when I pulled
my pistol and fired in the ground to try
to scare him, but he picked up tho club
and came to me just as / fired the second
shot. The second shot entered his left
arm.
Il shot the third time and the ball en-
tered the breast on the left side. After
shooting the third time he cut me on the
head, resisting to the last. He was final
ly overpowered by the guards, who came
to our assistance
The revolver used in the shooting was
a 32-calibre Smith and Wesson.
Prince Howard was sent to the -.eniten-
tiary from Brunswick county. He WAS a
negro preacher, and was found guilty of
bgamy. He was sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary. lie has been there
since November o. 1897.
Howard threw a knife over one Of the
prison walls which was afterwards found
and turned over TO guard by 4 little
white boy named Raymond Grown.
Superintendent Morgan is Painfully hurt
about the forehead and arm.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
SAFE ON TWENTIETH.
Ministers Under Protection of Chinese
Authorities.
CBy Associated Press.)

By Assosiated Press)
BRUSSELS; July 1.-THE Minister of
Foreign Affairs. Mr. Frabreaux, has re-
ceived the following telegram from Shang-
hal, dated to-day:
"a telegram from the Governor of Shan
Tung announces that the ministers were
safe July Goth. They are under the guard
ianshir of the Chinese authorities.
Iii Hung Chang has arrived at Shans-
lnai
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22

The plan is that If any druggist cuts
the. price of any OF the articles named and
manufactured by the proprietary concerns
now members OF the association 1t VIII
bar him from purchasing any more sooes
from any of the concerns.
FORF,EITS HIS AGENCY
The jobber IS compelled 70 stop seii!ns
to the price-cutter or else forfeit MS
agency Mr. Jones said that the druggists
of this city should get together and staho
by the price-Iists. The plan is to get 20
per cent of the retail druggists or a city
together and in favor OF the movement
before an organization IS perfected iheTe
are s:xty-nins proprietary manufacturing
concerns on the list whose articles are
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
CONDITIONS OF MEDIATION.
Reply Of French Foreign Minister TO
the Emperor of China.
fpv Associated Press.)

pARIs sJi1,y a.-At the Council OF Min
;sters today the Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs N. Delcasse, read telegram from
the tbs. Emperor of China, asking the media.
stien- Of France with the foreign Powers
5.rbs 1.b.. ta,epnlm was signed by Kwang Su.
and not by Pu Chan. the son OF Prince Prince
#Tuan. The reply given by M. Delcasse
was that the request would be considered
only Apon absolute knONledga that the.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
THE ADVANCE DELAYED.

Tbe Commanders Conclude it Useless
to Try to Move BEFORE August 10.
Bys Associated Press-)
LONDON, July 21.-1t is reported from
che Foo that the International command
ers have concluded that it would be use
less 10 try to advance on Pekin before
the middle of August
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
DEPARTMENTS CONSOLIDATED.
General Lee to Command in tho West
.(By Associated Press:J

General Lee to C0mmanu III ti'c !"
crn Division
(By Associated Press;)
WASHINGTON. July 21.-Orders issued
at the War Department to-day consohdate
the Deparsments OF Havana and Pinar Del
Rio and sIantanzas and santa cara INTO
one dsnartmeue, to be known as the De-.
e,t ~ western Cuba, with headauar-
tsr. a. ouemados. and designate the De-
.a.+,nants Of Santiago and Puerto Principe
az az tha Department Of Eastern Cuba, with
headquarters at Santiago.
General Fftzhngh Lee Is assigned 70 the
command Of the former. and Colonel
Whitestde. Tenth Cavalry. to- the command
il k06 9aSSSssssS.s &
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
SUMMARY CT TO-DAY's NEWS.

tcontinued on Second Pase.p
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
WEATHER. FORECAST.

FORECAST for Sunday:
vsrginia.L LosaI rains and eoo,sr saaaa ,,,cd.
North f.aro,ina-Local rains and coot-
or in eastern portion: fair In westerrss
lirh, to fresh southwest. shifting to north
westerly winds.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
RANGE OF Thermometer.

Tho following was the range OF the thcr-
,nometer at The Times Office yesterday: .
A az. IS: ae M. es; p. NJ, ss; 6 p. Al. 81;
p. A.. S.: 1e af-. Sd; average, 50 So.
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
The RECON.

The best news that has come out of
the East for a long time is that which
tells of the safety Of the Oregon. The
Oregon is more than a battleship to
the American people. She represents
one of our ideals. She has seemed to
be typical of our aspirations to be
good, and strong and worthy. She
has taken human aspect to most Of
us, and the notion that she could be
lost by some infortultous chance with
out accomplishing the mission she
was sent out to accomplish was intol-
cradle. e the Oregon is ever to go we
want her to go in one Of two ways
only. She must either live out her al
lotted span and die of old age as full
Of honor as Of years, having served
her purpose and done her duty well, or
she must go down in n fight with her
flag waving proudly above her, defiant,
ana to the last to be reverenced for her
strength and for the full measure OF
her duty done.
10 batter her life out upon a rock,
useless and impotent, is no proper fate
for this vessel, and when in future
days she is manned care should be
taken that those who have her in
charge shall be chosen from among
those who consider not only her honor
and safety and general welfare, but
the pride Of the landlubber in the ship
we all love so well.-Harper's Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
Tho Needs Of china.

Here is the key to the whole sltua-
ton, says Mark b. Dunnell in the At.
lantic. The fundamental need of China
is administrative reform, and this can
be accomplished only under foreign
compulsion and supervision. Without
it, the political integrity of China can
not be maintained, nor can foreign
trade largely increase. We cannot rea'
sOnably expect a great increase in the
imports Of China without a proper.
tionate increase in her exports. We
must look principally to the eXploita'
ton of her mineral resources under
foreign direction for the needed in
crease in her exports, and this can
only be done through the agency Of
railroads, which cannot be built and
successfully operated except under
conditions Of political security which
do not now exist The requisite secu'
rlty for foreign enterprise in China can
be attained only by means Of drastic
administrative reforms initiated from
without The Government at Pekin
does not desire reforms, and its ten.
ure is so insecure that it could not in.
troduce them if it desired. The man.
darins cannot be expected to destroy a
system upon which they thrive, and
the people at large are ignorant, indif'
ferent, unpatriotic, and without any
inherited capacity for concerted pollti-
cal action. The decentralization of
the political system has destroyed all
national feeling.
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
TIE LEE oF BIC GUNS.

Admiral O'Neill Says That Hundred
shots is Far From Being the Limit.
There have been some interesting
and mysterious stories in circulation
about the short lives Of the big guns
that are used ON our battleships and
coast forti6cations. One Of the yarns
most frequently told is that the thir-
teen-inch gun, which carries a ton OF
metal for twelve or fifteen miles, can
only be fred 100 times with safety, be-
cause the tremendous pressure destroys
the cohesive power of the metal and
thus weakens it, and renders 1t liable
to explode, These s;ories have got
into books, and the "1OO-iring fallacy"
is accepted by some Of the ablest au-
thOrities on ordnance. The big Krupp
gun at the Worlds Fair in Chicago
was an object Of even greater interest,
when visitors we're told that 1t had
been fred sixteen times and couldn't
be fired again without danger Of explo-
sion because the metal of which it Is
made had become "nerveless."
Admiral O'Neill, Chief of Ordnance
of the Navy Department, says this is
all humbug. "The only damage suf-
fered by the big guns from frequent
firing Is the wearing out of the rife
grooves" he says, land that is easily
repaired. The gun can either be rihed
over again or it can be tubed'-that is,
a rifleu tube can be fitted into the bore,
as is frequently done in England, and
the gun is as good as new.
"There is no such thing as a gun get
ting nerveless," continued the Admir-
al. "The metal of which it is made is
not injured by firing. Some Of our
guns have been fred 100 times with
out showing any injury or wear. We
do not know how long they will last,
except that the rifing has to be re-.
newed when 1t is worn out, but we
have never had a gun wear out in our
navy, and therefore cannot speak from
experience, and many Of our guns have
been fired several hundred times"
The ordnance experts Of the army
estimate that the twelve-inch guns on
the coast fortifcations can be fired 200
times without being refined, but this
is only speculation. They have never
had any experience in that line. None
Of the big guns belonging to the United
States has ever worn out. - Chicago
Record.
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
IN CALICO.

They've sung the song of the girl in pink,
And the song of the girl in white,
But the singers are few who have praised
the true
Goddess Of love and light;
The household fairy whom we all know,
And knowing her love her the better So
The girl in the garment of calico,
Dainty and sweet and bright.
The bloom of her cheeks, the light in her
eyes,
Is her beauty and title Of health;
And day after day in a modest way
Her neatness is better than wealth.
Old.fashioned? Yes, and we wish her so,
For Just like her mother in calico,
With the gentle traits of the years ago
She's taken our hearts by stealth.
So, in nectar of roses ] pledge
Our dear girls in pink and white;
To their eyes and their hair and their ways
debonair
offer my homage tonight;
Yes, deep in my heart feel and know,
A loftier feeling continues to grow
For the girl in the wrapper of calico,
Dainty and sweet and bright.
John H. Braceland.
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
rnlnue ErposItIon Teatures.

1t is probable that a grand ceremony
viii take place in Paris during the ex-
hibition in connection with the trans
fer to the Pantheon Of the remains of
Diderot, Balzac. Renan, Rude, Ingres
and Delacroix-that is to say, Of three
famous writers and of the same NUM-
ber Of celebrated artists. To this list
It was proposed to add Lamartine,
Michelet, Quinet and the painter, David
dangers, but the descendants OF these
great men refused to allow their bones
to be disturbed for the sake Of postum
nous honOrs, however splendid. The
heart Of the first grenadier of France,
La Tour dAuvergne, is also to go to
the Pantheon, there to join the rest Of
his body. -------
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18
Railroads.
CHEsAPEAKE BEACH RATLWAY

Schedule of excursion trains effective
Sunday, June 3, 1900.
Leave District line depo, for Chesa-
peake Beach 1000, HOO a. NJ. and 2. 90,
500, 6O0p. m. daily.
Leave Chesapeake Beach 1900, noon,
and 2.25, $3.50, 500, 1000 p. M, daily.
Take Columbia line electric cars and
allow yourself 80 minutes to reach depot.
Fifty cents for round trip. Children
half fare.
Parlor car tickets on sale for all excur-
sion trains at District line and Chesa-
peake Beach stations at an additional
charge of only 10 cents extra each way.
OTTo MEARs, A. II. LEWIS,
Pres. and Gen. Mgr Gen. Pas. Agt
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18

The destruction of American forests
has been pitlful, accelerated lately by
the cutting Of commercial woods. A
movement, which would make the re-
plenlshlng Of former growth cOmpul-
sorry would be one Of the highest indus
trial value, which should be backed up
both by State and national legislation,
thinks the Atlanta Constitution.
The suburban citizen., 1900-08-18

A London newspaper has referred
10 Mr.. Astor as a purse-proud Ameri-
can. Mr. Astor's only chance for com.
plete peace Of mind is to become a cit
iEen Of some country whose language
he does not understand.