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, 1900-07-26
PARIS EXPOSITION TICKETS.
They Are Down to -Four Cents Aples

They Are Down to -Four Cents Apiece
Paris, July 23.-The weather had n
very unfavorable influence on the at
tendance ut the exposition. Parisians
kept away entirely. The big drop in
the number of visitors brought about
an instantaneous slump in the price of
tickets which sold at - centimes when
the show opened. They gradually
dropped to 43 centimes. at which price
they have been standing for the past
few weeks. Yet, however, the hawk
ers had difficulty in securing buyers at
p centimes, and some sold tickets at
20 centlmes, equal to 1 cents in Amer
lean money
This slump Is n serious matter for the
Paris banks, which, on the opening of
the exposition. look over Il large proper
ton of the 65,0O0,000 tickets issued at
so confines, half their issue price. The
exhibition reaches the halfway post OIL
Thursday next, and thus far only TO-
100000 tickets have been disposed of.
There remain. therefore, 5O,0OO.OO0 tick
cts. Allowing for the natural Increase
in the consumption during the holiday
months, it is still calculated that the
banks will have mt least 15.0OO,OOO tick
FITS left On their hands. This explains
the fall in the price of tickets, which
eventually will probably be obtainablc
at 2 cents each.
, 1900-07-26

Berlin, July 23.-All reports agree
that the Russian government now con.
siders that Russia is actually at wal
with China; that the shilly -shally pol
Icy hitherto maintained will he
dropped; that Russia is now hurrledly
preparing for Il serious campaign in
North China. separate from the other
powers, and that Russia will not he
able, or willing, under these altered cir.
cumstances, to bear an adequate share
IN the Tien Tsin-Pekin campaign.
The Russian forces available along
the border and throughout North China
T. said to comprise twenty-six bat
talions of the line. twenty-seven bat.
talions of reserves, seventeen regiments
and seventeen field batteries, maxim:
a total of about 5000 men.
The Lloyd line steamer Sachsen,
which has arrived at Genoa from Chi
ma, reports being fired upon by Chimes
coast forts and slightly damaged
while going from Yokohama home
ward.
, 1900-07-26

London, July 1S.-The war office has
received the following frc.n Lord Rob
erts:
Pretoria, July 17.-yesterday the
enemy made a determined attack on
the left of ole-Carew's position and
along our left flank, commanded by
Hutton. The posts held by the Irish
Fusiliers and Canadian mounted infan-
try, under Colonel Anderson, were most
CALAMITY defended. The enemy made
repeated attempts to assault the posi-
tons, coming in close range, and call
Ing to the Fusiliers to surrender. The
enemy suffered severely. They had
fifteen killed, fifty wounded and four
taken prisoners. The British casualties
were even killed, including the Cana
dian ~lieutenants, Borden and Birch,
thirty wounded and twenty-one miss
ing.
Fifteen hundred Beers, with five
guns, managed to break through the
Gordon formed by Hunters and Run
dies divisions, between Bethlehem
and Ffcksburg. They are making to-
ward Lindley, closely followed by
FACETS ard Broadwood's brigades."
, 1900-07-26
JUDGE DOUBTS LEGALITY.
Nebraska's transportation Board VIII
Convene supreme Court and Find Out.

Nebraska's transportation Board VIII
Convene Supreme Court and Find Out.
Omaha, Neb., July 20.-At the re-
quest of Governor Poynter, Attorney
General Smythe and other members of
the Nebraska State Board of Transport
tation, the justices of the State Su-
preme Court meet at Lincoln to-mor-
row to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of at
once holding n special session to deter
mine the constitutionality of the law
creating the board in 1889.
Last Wednesday, Judge Munger of
the Federal Court in chambers here,
granted n temporary injunction to the
stockholders of the Burlington to pre-
ven the state board from enforcing
the order making n cut on live stock
rates. He held hat the board had no
legal existence. because the title of the
bill as 1t passed both houses of the Leg
islature provided only for the repeal OF
existing laws, although the title was
changed to include new laws, then sent
to the governor.
The state board finds that the consti-
~tutionality of the law has never been
passed upon by the Supreme Court,
and believes that if 1t is upheld by that
body, the Federal Court will dissolve
the injunction. Governor pOynter
calls attention to the urgent necessity
of securing action Mt once, so that If
the state board still has power, its or
der for reduced rates may at once be
enforced.
, 1900-07-26
COLD AIR
winter About the Best stimuinnt Pessae
Can Have.

Can Have.
Many persons regard the winter sea-
son as an unfortunate visitation. 1t is
considered both uncomfortable to the
body and harmful to health. This is
an error. Cold is a most potent agent
for the restoration and preservation OF
normal activity on the part of the or
gans of the human body. 1t is a wise
plan of providence which gives us a
change of seasons. The winter cold
comes as a tonic to repair the injuries
done by the ~enervating heat of sum-
mer. Summer, 1t is true, has many
wise uses in the matter of health. It
Induces outdoor life, rids the system
OF poisons through copious perspira-
ton and through the scorching rays of
srn destroys germ life. Winter is the
great bracer of the system. 1t sim
ulates activity in every organ. When
cold attacks the surface of the body
the blood is set into more free circula-
tion as a means of bodily warmth. 1t
is through the circulation of the blood
that the human anatomy is kept In n
state Of repair. When the food has
been digested and converted into
LIQUID form. it is taken up by the
blood and carried the rounds of the
system for the purpose of repairing
the waste places. When the cei
causes increased circulation, 1t also
brings about more perfect nutrition.
Mans face and hands illustrate how
wcather-proof the body becomes when
exposed to air. Continued activity IN
circulation oil the surface, caused by
the air coming in contact with tire
skin, tends to nourish and thicken ti-e
skin. Thus mans skin grows thicker
in winter just as animals are supplied
with a double coat of fur. The SAT-
ages who dwell bareheaded in the open
air, are seldom, If ever, known to Re
afflicted with bald heads, while, with
the civilian who shields his scalp from
air, badness is prevalent. The In
dams, who, If not now in former days
canned u western borders, practical
ly without clothing t shelter their
bodies, became, through long er-
posure. SC Injured to the cold that 1t
CAV them but little discomfort.-SE-
Louis Globe-Democrat.
, 1900-07-26

Peoria, ILL.,, July 20.-George Shl-
moon, a Persian student who has been
attending college in Illinois for several
years, today received n cablegram
from his home at OrOomiah, Persia,
stating that his brother had been muir
dered by Mohammedans, and that n
general massacre of the 5000 Chris
tlans In. Oroomlah was expected. The
cablegram states that the feeling Of
the Mohammedans against the native
Christians is growing, and that there
have been several hand-to-hand battles
with fatalities on both sides. Mr.. Shi.
moons father is n native missionary,
and this fact adds to the wrath against
him and his family.
, 1900-07-26
POLICY REGARDING CHINA.
Dur Government Wants to Settle Present
Troubles First.

Dur Government Wants to Settle Present
Troubles First.
Washington, July 2O.-As n result of
the Cabinet meeting held Tuesday and
Thursday, the policy of the United
States concerning the great world crisis
In China, 1t is said, is fully and def
nitely decided upon. The substance
of this policy is:
First-The United States will in no
circumstance join in the partition of
China among the powers.
Second-The United States will use
all its influence to the utmost extent,
short of war with European nations, to
prevent the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Chi
nese empire.
Third-The United States proposes to
have n voice in the settlement of the
Chinese trouble, and its voice will ever
be raised against spoliation and in ia
vor of preservation of China's terrific
rial and governmental entity along the
lines set forth in Secretary Hays note
to the powers, dated July Bird.
Fourth-The United States will not
declare war upon China on the present
showing Of facts, no matter what 9TH
er powers may do.
Fifth-The United States, acting in
dependently, and for itself, will coop
crate with the other powers in restor-
Ing order in China, Furnishing all Off
Gals, high or low, found guilty of
crimes against human life, and in set
ting up a stable government that may
give guarantees of security of life and
property and freedom of trade.
, 1900-07-26
CHINA APPEALS TO FRANCE
AND AMERICA FOR HE'D

Washington, July 22.-President Me
Kinley received what purports to be a
direct appeal from the Chinese imper-
ial government to use his good Offices
to extricate that government from the
position in which it has been placed
as n result of the Boxer uprising. AL
though the exact text of the appeal
made by the Emperor of China to
France. as outlined in the cable dis
patches of yesterday has not been
known here. 1t is believed that the dis
patch to the President is similar In
terms. In that case, the communica-
ton was made through Minister WI
to the State Department. Thus far n
final answer has not been returned.
The French government answered at
once. but that answer will not serve
us. The United States government is
proceeding upon an entirely new line
of policy in the treatment of the case.
Unfortunately the State Department
finds itself alone in this. but neverthe-
less it is convinced its plan is the best,
and it has behind it the consoling as
surance that at present all of the Eu-
rOpean governments have tacitly adj
mitted that an error was made in the
beginning in not following the com
mon sense advice of the United States
naval commander at Taku.
The point of difference between the
State Department and the European
governments is that the latter are pro-
ceeding on the belief that all of the
foreign ministers and missionaries and
guards at Pekin have beer killed and
insist in dealing with the Chinese gov
eminent on that basis, by Assuming
a hostile attitude that tends TO destroy
the last chance of availing of whatever
friendly sentiment may yet exist
among the powerful Chinese viceroys
and the imperial government itself.
Thus the French reply, as indicated in
Ii four conditions laid down by NJ.
Delacasse yesterday, sets an impossible
task for the imperial government in its
present straits II ENDS to drive 1t at
once TO make terms with the Boxers
and Primo Tuan's party.
On the other hand, our government,
, 1900-07-26
NEWS FROM MIR. CoNGER
Dispatch Purporting to he From Pekin
Received at Washington.

Received at WhshtnBtOu.
Washington, July 20.-The State De
partment to-day received through the
Chinese minister the following cable
kin:
'In British legation.
Under continued shot and shell from
Chinese troops.
Quick relief only can prevent gener'
al massacre"
The message is not dated, but 1t Is
understood was sent from Pekin July
18th.
This reply was in the State Depart
ment cipher, and it is regarded by the
State Department as genuine, mas
much as forgerles seem under the cir
cumstances impossible. 1t was in re-
ply to n message sent by Secretary Hay
July 18th, in the State Department ci-
pher, which Minister WI undertook to
get into Minister Conger's hands.
This morning Minister Conger receiv-
ed n telegram from Consul General
Goodnow, at Shanghai, saying:
"The governor of Shan Tung informs
me that he has received to-day n cipher
message from Congcr Of the 18th"
4 few minutes later Minister WI ap-
peared with a telegram from Taotai
Sheng, dated July Goth, received ut $50
this morning. reading:
"Your telegram was forwarded as re-
quested; l send reply from the Tsung
Ii Yamen, as follows:
"'Your telegram of the 18th day of
this moon 9th July received. The
State Department telegram has been
handed to Minister Conger. Herewith
is Minister Conger's reply to the State
Department
, 1900-07-26
omcers ordered to chlnn.

Washington, July 21.-The applica
ton of Brigadier General James u
Wilson. U. S. ", for active service U
China has been granted, and an ordu
was issued to-day relieving him from
duty In Cuba, and directing him TO pre
coed without delay TO Taku, CHINA
and report to Major General Cha1er
commanding the military forces y
China, for assignment to the comiHanu
of one Of the brigades of his division
Other officers who have been ordeitu
TO report to Major General Chaifee i'
duty on his staff are: Lieutenant o@
onel Heistand, assistant adjutant gene
al; Colonel Humphreys, assistant qua,
termaster general; Major Gallashg,'
commissary; Lieutenant Colonel plA
man, Twenty-sixth infantry; MsJ"
Muir, T~hirty-sixth infantry; Major eT
phenson, surgeon; Captain Crozler' O'"'
nance department.
, 1900-07-26

Cleveland, o., July 1S.-Captam
Charles Q. Holmes, master of the
schooner yacht Idler, which capslzed
on Avon Po'ut, with all her standing
canNas set, July 9TH, drowning five wo-
men and n baby, was arrested to-day
by the United States marshal on the
charge of manslaughter. Bail was fix.
ed at $1,000, which was furnished.
At the c%oroner's inquest to-day, the
mate of the ldler testified that he sug-
gestcd TO the captain that he shorten
sail when the squat was approaching,
but that Holmes said not to do so, as
the squat would not he heavy and
they would have n little excitement
with the canvas up. 1t was the testi-
nAnnN nf ihn mnAn ,rIinh LII ~ L.
, 1900-07-26

Denver, July pa project Is on foot
to establish in Denver, during the COM
Ing autumn. probably about the list of
October, n Bible training school, mod
eled after the Moody Institute of Chi
cago. There Is no schOOl of his char
acter between Chicago and the Pacific
coast, and the need of 1t has been long
felt by Christian workers. A cOmpe-
tent faculty, headed, 1t is hoped, by the
Rev. DIR. A. s. Worrall of Louisville,
Kentucky. will be secured. The train
ing provided will be along the lines of
both home and foreign missionary
work. Ample opportunity will be af-
forded students during the course for
home missionary work in the city of
Denver. The headquarters of the
school will be in the building occupied
by the City Temple. 1t will be non
sectarian, the teachers representing at
least five denominations.
Tuition in the Bible Institute will be
free. Students of good moral charac-
ter, of both sexes, will be received. A
good home and board for ladies can be
arranged for at about SO per week.
Young men can be cared for at about
the same rates. The school year will
occupy about thirty-six or thirty-eight
weeks, and the entire necessary ex-
pense for the same, including laundry
and books and stationery, need not eX-
ceed $50. Many could get through on
n less sun than this. Persons interest
ed in the work outlined above. or de-
sirious of taking such ii course of
study, are invited to correspond with
A. G. Peck, 1881 South Fifteenth street,
Denver, Colorado.
, 1900-07-26
PHILIPPINE WAR.
Past Week Saw 200 Insurgents Killed
AguinaIdo Gets Amnesty Resolution.

AguinaIdo Gets Amnesty Resolution.
Manila, July 22.-lt is officially re-
ported that last week 200 insurgents
We're killed and 100 surrendered, or
We're captured. One hundred rifles We're
taken
Twelve Americans were killed and
eleven wounded.
This includes the casualties of Col
me William L. Berkheimer's engage
ment with a force of the Twenty-eighth
volunteer infantry, who attacked 200
insurgent rifles. ~entrenched two miles
$ of Taal. killing thirty-eight.
a detachment of the Signal Corps.
while repairing wires, was twice am
pushed.
Captain Charles ID. Roberts of the
T~hirty-fifth volunteer infantry. who
was captured by the Filipinos last
May, has arrived here on parole. He
will not return to captivity.
Senior Buencamino last Thursday
sent to Aguinaldo by means of Agul-
naldo's mother, the amnesty resolution
adopted by the meeting of representa-
tive Filipinos on June 21st. together
with General MacArthur's answer to
them, and other documents bearing up
on the restoration of peace. 1t is un-
derstood that Aguinaldo will summon
his advisers and that n reply may be
expected within n month.
Filipinos here will give a banquet
next Saturday in celebration of Presi.
dent McKinley's order of amnesty.
, 1900-07-26

which n message written with ordinary
spelling on IA machine that has a key
board exactly like the keyboard of the
ordinary typewriter. will be printed II
transmitted over n telegraph wire br
another typewriter in the office to
which 1t is sent, hundreds of miles
away.
The instruments have been tested
over n circuit of 6G5 miles of wire. be.
longing to the Central Union Telephone
Company, connecting Bloomington.
Springfield and Pueblo.
The feature of the invention is that.
while 1t receives and delivers messages
in the ordinary alphabet spelling, it
transmits them by the use of the Morse
Geographic alphabet of dots and
dashes. The t%ransmitter turns each
letter. figure or punctuation point into
dots and dashes and the receiver.
which contains an instrument called a
~"selectOr" turns the dots and dashes
back into the ordinary signs.
, 1900-07-26

while not guaranteeing the truth NJ,
advices from the Chinese goyarnnu e
as to the safety of the foreign MIN
tiers, is willing to accept the stotem"-N
temporarily, In the meantime remi,,iu
none of its efforts to get access 70 WI
Conger, through the use of mIi, ar'
force If need be. ry
Paris, July 23.-At the council of ,.
listers Saturday the minister of fo,ntii
affairs read a telegram from aIsh
peror of China asking the medintioan
France with the foreign powers nv
telegram was signed by Kwnng e."
and not by Pub Chan, the son of pr,na,
Tuan. The reply given by NJ. Delacasse
was that the request would he consis
cred only upon absolute knowIad.r
that the following acts had beon -
complished: "'
First-That efficacious protection nm,
absolute freedom of commnnic,,tae
had been assured between the Franoh
minister at Pekin and his colleagues ~
the diplomatic corps and their rnsnoa
tive governments.
Second-When Prince Tuan and ,lo
high fu~nctionaries responsible for ,Ls
actual events had been dismissed H..
ny
the government to await Inevitable
punishment.
Thlrd-When the authorities and bod
les of troops throughout the entire ON.
pire shall have received an order i,
cease hostilities against foreigners
Fourth-When measures have heen
taken for the rigorous repression of tbs
Boxers.
So long as these necessary guarantees
are not furnished, there is room only
for military action.
The edict which, as stated above Il.
dated Pekin. July Is. was TRANSMITTED
by the ~viceroy at Nankin under date Of
to-day, and Is as follows.
For a month past. with the excen.
ton of the German minister, who was
massacred by rebels who are under nm.
prehension of severe punishment. We
have ordered all foreign ministers well
protected by the court. and, happily
they + safe and sound"
, 1900-07-26

Historic Valley Forge is to become a
state park. 1t is the purpose to take
immediate steps toward the purchase
of this historic ground by the state of
Pennsylvania. A committee has been
to correspond with all pa
'triotic societies throughout Pennsylva-
mia, and all Americans who have the
good name of Washington at heart are
appealed to for the purpose OF helping
along the crusade. The proprietary
rights of the Valley Forge association
are not to be infringed upon, for the
extensive territory contains many
landmarks that are now falling into
decay. 1t is these historic mementos
of the revolution which will be taken
care of when once the state OF Penn
s~ylvania is the overseer of Valley
Forge.
, 1900-07-26

iz eastward with
AT rapidity. number of sheep
camps are directly in the path of the
flames, and considering the dry con-
ditiOn of the timber and grass on the
range 1t is thought they are in great
danger. The fire started during the
middle of last week from n hunters
camp and 1t vas put III several times
by herders and ranchmen, but the tim
Der was so dry that the flames could
not be eXtinguished permanently.
More improvements will be made by
the Union Pacific on the transconti-
mental line than construction of the
numerous cut-Offs in Wyoming, but
what the new works will be has not
been given out. Several inspection
tours have been made by the officials
lately over the system. President Burt
is now in New York comforting with
the directors of the road. From II semi
official source comes the statement that
the object of Mr.. Burt's trip East is to
lay before the directors certain plans
for additional equipment and improve
ments along the line. If the plans are
accepted an appropriation will be
asked for. 1t is also said that the mon
ey appropriated for cut-offs and track
f'ih III nv iNbthN NlbllllIlH region Is
inadequate for all purposes, and will
be increased.
In case n call for state troops should
be made Wyoming would be in Hne,
and. as was the case in the last war,
could furnish more than her share.
The state militia is nearly full, and If
called out could easily be doubled. Adj
jutant General Sitter does not believe
fhnf tIANF xfEll lao Wooded ~ So. I-N
may be called on In the future II the
Chinese war continues. Governor Rich
ards has received n communication
from Laramie in which n number OF
young men in that city offer to organ-
lie n company for service in China, in
cas- they are needed. They can enlist
q full company of los volunteer sol
diers. which will be otficered by men
who served in the Wyoming regiment
In the Philippines. Other cities will fol-
low Laramie's example when the on
portunity offers itself.
They Cheyenne correspondent of the
Denver Republican writes that State
Examiner II. h. Henderson has re-
turned from an official trip through
Fremont, Big Horn, Sheridan and
johnson counties. Mr.. Henderson
states that the people in the northern
part of the state are in n prosperous
condition. Crops of all kinds will be
large. Hundreds of new settlers have
located adong the streams during the
past few months and all are preparing
to conduct farming and stock raising
on n large scale. MIR. Henderson saws
the country Is in need of rain. The
hay crop In some places has been par
tally ruined, but there will be plenty
OF feed for stock.
, 1900-07-26
Hanna to Have some New Men.

Chicago. July 20.-The Times Herald
says:
Senator Hanna, chairman of the Re
publican national committee, will ap-
point an advisory committee, as an
auxiliary to the national committee,
soon. This committee will represent
the independent non-partisan support
ers of President Mckinley as distin-
guished from the dyed-in-the-wool'
Republicans.
There will be on this committee, 1t
is promised, n fair sprinkling of men
who We're classed as Democrats pre-
vious to 1896, men who supported
Cleveland in 1892, who changed to Nc
Kinley in 1896, ON the money question,
and who believe the money question is
still n live issue. and will be as long
as Democratic platforms continue to
declare for the free coinage of silver al
the ratio of 1G to l.
, 1900-07-26
Cadets Forced to Go Hungry.

West Point, n. Y, July 21.-Irpug'
growing out of the punishment OF Ls
Diet Bunker for hazing Cadet Norl,S
has resulted in severe disclphhn
measures being taken by the conllu'"'
ant.
As n means of punishment for u 4,s,
spect to Lieutenant Lindsay, the o'i' 4
in charge, the cadets We're depriNeu ~
their supper last night, after nn', N,
taken their accustomed seats a II,
table. They We're also pr9luI I,
marched back TO camp and reqlhg" n n
stand mt attention for hair an ig Sn
This was followed by an ORDER nS
the commandment thai the entire '% a5j
consider themselves under arIeSi n
that they he confined to the l1llG
the camp for nm indefinite KIM
There was no hop last night hlu ,rlf
will be nonc hereafter unill TUE