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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
MISSION.
Cabinet Names Him as Special
Commissioners to China.
WILL INVESTIGATE AFFAIRS.
Former Secretary of Legation at Pekine
Will Endeavor to Ascertain the Status
of Matters In the Orient-Administ ra-
tion Is After Information.

WASHINGTON, July 2O.-The cabinet
meeting yesterday developed nothing of
Importance regarding the Chinese situa-
tion beyond decision to send W. w.
Rockhill, formerly secretary of the le-
CATION at Peking and assistant secretary
of state, and now director of the Bureau
OF American republics, to China to in
vestigate the situation and report to the
authorities here, Mr. Rockhill will go
as special commissioner to ascertain
the extent of the responsibility of the
Chinese government, if any, for the ex-
listing disturbances and to otherwise
furnish the administration with infor-
nation upon which the case of the
United States against China for in
demnity and reparation will be based.
He is we'll equipped for the mission,
having been secretary of the American
legation in Pelling for several years
He speaks and writes Chinese fuently.
LONDON, July 20.-'The Washington
idea of sending Mr. Rockhill to China, :"
says the Standard, sis an excellent one
and might adyantageously be initiated
by the British and other governments. :"
The Standard then proceeds to COM
ment on the great ignorance prevalent
i'll Europe, not only of recent events
but OF Chinese affairs generall,.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
Worst storm In Years.

HICKMAN, Neb., July 20.-The worst
wind, rain and hail storm i'll years Wis
ited this locality yesterday The hail
was the most destructive between Roca
and Saltillo, totally destroying some
fields of corn. In Hickman and imme-
diate vicinity the window lights in the
west side of all buildings We're broken
ont The hailstones We're the size and
shape of door knobs.
Inc southern industrial convention
met i'll Atlanta Tuesday.
The Wachusetts four won at the
Harlem regatta and will go to Paris.
Hugh O'Connor, was nominated for
congress by the Republicans or the
Third district of Indiana.
John j. Gardner was renominated
for congress by the Republicans of the
Second New Jersey district.
Advices from Guatemala are that
much distrust and apprehension exist
over the breaking out of a revolution.
The greatest drought in the history
of Arizona was broken Thursday by
showers in the upper part of the Salt
river valley
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
confesses to Cattle Rustling.

ALLIANCE, Neb., July 20.-Hank
Mathews, who is awaiting trial on the
charge of numbering Ed Wait, jeweler,
at this place, has made a confession to
cattle rustling which duplicates the
Watkins brothers, who are prominent
and wealthy cattlemen. 1t is reported
that he led several officers to a hiding
place in the hills where stolen hides
were found. He states that Watkins
was his side partner in the business.
William Watkins was arrested at Sid
ney yesterday The affair has created
a great sensation here.
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Win Dig Cold in BOLIVIA.

Fort DODGE, Ia, July 20.-A COM
pany of Fort Dodge capitalists has been
formed for the purpose of developing
gold fields in Bolivia. The company
has had agents in the South American
countries investigating its mine eral
resources and claim to have discovered
mineral wealth of incalculable value.
The members of the company are local
capitalists. They have had concessions
from the Bolivian government, so will
have no difficulty in developing their
mines. Some of the members of the
company will leave soon for South
America so as to give the company's
interests personal dlrecG,s.
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Americans Badly Handicapped.

PARIS, July 2o.-The manner in
which the American athletes had been
sweeping the field in the international
games in connection with the Paris ex-
position opened the eyes Of the organ.
hzsls sn S 81 ts Mas ay yh9WRc praS ss
tically left the Americans out in the
cold. The effect upon the Americans
was demonstrated by the fact that
whereas on the previous days they had
secured four-fifths of the games, yester
day out of nine events they captured
only one first, with four seconds and
five thirds
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
WORD FROM BARON NlssI.
Situation In Peking on June 80 was
Desperate.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-The Japanese
communication received from Baron
Nissi, the Japanese minister to Pelling.
This telegram was received yesterday
at the legation from the Japanese min
lister of foreign affairs and is important
because of the dates given, The tele-
gram was dated July l3, by the sender,
the japanese consul at Che Foo, and is
as follows:
Received at 10 a. N. on the 18th q
dispatch from Baron Nissi, dated
Peking, June 80 The letter was
brought by a special messenger
Chinese-who left Peking July and
managed to make the journey with diff
ficulty. The substance of the letter is
as follows:
"'The situation at Peking is extremely
critical The foreign legations are sur
rounded on all sides by Chinese soldiers
and are being bombarded night and
day. The members of the legations,
the guards and residents are resisting
to the utmost, but the overwhelming
uuuiUeIS VI Uuc cuculy iluhc oppOo1lloll
hopeless. Our ammunition is being ex-
hausted, and our lives are in such dan
ger that we may be massacred at any
moment. We earnestly request dis
patch of reinforcements for our rescue
from our precarious condition.
The japanese consul at Che Foo adds
that he communicated this letter to his
colleagues of the consular body there,
and also the commanders in charge of
the forces of the powers.
Another cablegram received through
the foreign office from the japanese
consul at Che Foo reports that Tien
Tsin castle was captured by the forces
of the allies on the l4th and the safety
of the foreign settlements is assured.
japanese troops took possession of
Suze- Reng. the Chinese naval station
on the 14th.
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Reichman Makes Denial.

LEAvENwoRTH, July 20.-Captain
Carl Reichman. United States military
attache with the Boer army, denies that
he took part as Boer leader in any of
the battles i'll South Africa. The first
word of direct denial was received in
letter to Adolph Lange of this city,
written by Captain Reichman at Preto-
ria. May 10. He says: II have been
an observer in several fights and they
We're very interesting. Was also at the
battle of Sannas Post, of which you
probably heard that I was the leader
on the side of the Beers. That report
was silly canard. was only plain,
but much shot at observer"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
Mid-Roaders at Grand Island.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb., July 2O.-Not
over hundred delegates had arrived
last night for the middle-of- -the-road
Populist state convention which meets
here today, but leaders declare there
will not be less than 400 bona fide dele
gates on hand when the convention is
called to order Wharton Barker, the
nominee of the Cincinnati convention,
is here. Delegates on the ground say
full state ticket will be nominated.
Two names are prominently mentioned
for governor-John H. Powers and
eX-State Senator j. X. Stevens.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
SHOT THEIR OWN WOMEN
Shanghai Correspondent Tells Some Hair
raising Stories He Has Heard.

Shanghai Correspondent Tells Some Hair
raising Stories He Has Heard.
LONDON, July 20.-The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express says:
"Li Hung Chang is looked upon in
Shanghai as the originator Of the whole
flendish anti foreign plot. A Chinese
merchant who has just arrived from
Peking gives horrible details of the
massacre. He says he saw European
women hauled into the street by Shrek
ing Boxers, who stripped them and
hacked them to pieces. Their dissev-
cred limbs were tossed to the crowd and
carried off with howls of triumph.
Some were already dead, having been
shot by foreign civilians. He says he
saw Chinese soldiers carrying the
bodies of white children aloft on their
spears, while their companions shot at
the bodies. He gives other details too
horrible to be particularized here.
est seems that the Boxer leaders had
organized plan including the offering
of rewards and rich loot for the annihi-
lation Of Europeans throughout China
and that Prince Tuan's generals have
been emphasizing the opportunity the
soldiers have of seizing the bodies of
white women"
The cabinet council convened by
Lord Salisbury yesterday came day
earlier than usual, and it is expected
that it will be followed by statement
in parliament throwing light on the
situation. The Chinese assertions that
the members of the foreign lega-
tinns are still safe have been so often
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
ANDREE AGAIN HEARD FROM.
Indians Tell of Finding Bodies and
Wreckage Similar to That of Air Ship.

Indians Tell of Finding Bodies ana
Wreckage Similar to That of Air Ship.
Fort WILLIAM, Ont, July 20.-Indi-
ans have brought word from the Hud-
son Bay company's post on the west
coast of James bay, that they found q
vast amour of wreckage, the bodies of
two men and man in the last stages
of death struggles. The indians re-
ported that they could not understand
the language he spoke, but that twas
not English. He died while they We're
there and they returned to the trading
post without bringing any evidence of
the strange occurrence.
1t is believed by the officials of the
Hudson Bay company that the Indians
witnessed the ending of Andree's at
tempt to reach the north pole by bal
loon. They had never seen balloon,
but from their description of the wreck
age the officials are firmly convinced
that it was the remnants of Andree's air
ship. A party guided by the same In
dlans has been sent out to bring evil
dencc to establish the identity of the
party.
Early last fall people near Moose fac
tory asserted they saw large balloon
passing over to the northward and this
tends to confirm the story of the Indian
hunters
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Yesterday,s BASEBALL Kesult..

St Joseph 3; Pueblo, 4.
Sioux City, 5; Denver, 0.
Philadelphia, 4; Pittsburg, 8
Boston, 81 Chicago, l.
New York, 8: St. Louis, 3.
Brooklyn l2: Cincinnat,s so
Indianapolis 3; Kansas City,o.
Buffalo, l; Milwaukee, 6.
Detroit, 9; Minneapolis, 4.
BY cloudburst at Herick, o., Thurs.
day Long run became raging torrent
carrying off several houses and drown
ing three persons.
Frank Erne Thursday deposited
$1,000 to bind a match with Terry
McGovern for the lightweight cham
pionship of the world.
General Joseph Wheeler, commander
asked the war department to assign
him to duty in China.
Cardinal Francis Satolli, first papal
delegate to this country. from 1898 to
1897, has been appointed project of the
propaganda by Pope Leo NIII
The report of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow Oh the Cuban
postal frauds was submitted to Post.
master General Charles Emory Smith
Thursday.
James Nicol, vice president of the
Chicago board of trade, was suspended
for one year at a meeting of the direc-
tors Thursday The charge was bucket
shopping
A match race between Tommy Brit.
ton (2:0S} and Cresceus (2:07l4) has
been arranged The two famous stall.
lions will meet at Washington park,
Chicago. Aug IL.
The latest reports show that the
Straits of Belle Isle are still blocked
with ice foes Almost 1000 fishing
vessels are ice bound and unable to
reach Labrador fishing grounds.
At Chatteld, o., Thursday lightning
struck church i'll which funeral was
i'll progress. The eqitice was packed to
the doors and panic ensued Twenty
five persons We're injured, three fatally.
Charles B. Cross, the lS,year-old boy
murderer, was executed at Wethers-
field, Conn, Thursday Gross killed
Mrs Sarah King, 80 years of age, his
benefactor, near Stamford, November
T. 1899,
Hon sydney Edgerton, aged 50, died
first justice of the Supreme court Of
tana, having been appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln
In the Northwestern cricket tourna-
ment at Chicago Thursday Omaha
played its last game and was defeated
by Denver by 33 runs on the first in
nings. 1t was the fourth straight de.
| feat for the Nebraskans aud relsgates
them to the last place.
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DEN1soN, IOWA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1900.
BLUE AND GRAY REUNION.
Shaw and Gosdon Given Greetings by
Union and Confed ederate Yeterans

Shaw and Gordon Given Greetings by
Union and Confederate Veterans.
ATLANTA, July 20.-Five thousand
members of the Grand Army of the
Republic and the United Confederate
Veterans Justify cheered the command
ers of these two organizations-Gen
Albert E. Shaw and General John B.
Gordon-as they sat together uEon tho
stage of the Grand opera house at the
kindling of the camp fire of the Blue
and Gray reanion here last night. The
occasion was the formal beginning of
the reunion of the surviving veterans of
the union and the confederate armies
who fought in the battles aronnd At
lanta, in July, 1864. President McKin-
ley, unable to be present, sent his re-
grets.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
CROP CONDITIONS IMPROVE.
Reports From Counties on Union Pacific
Tell of the Good brought by Rain

Reports From Counties on Union Pacific
Tell of the Good Brought by Rain.
OMAHA, July 20.-Union Pacific
freight headquarters has received en-
couraging reports from the counties
throughout the state on that line rela-
tive to crop conditions They indicate
that there was no over-estimation of the
wonderful good accomplished by the
recent rain. These reports came from
the agents located in the county seat
towns. They indicate an acreage of
wheat. corn, oats, barley and rye fully
as large as had been anticipated and the
average yield promises to bring the
years crop of all these products up to
the expectations of the early part of the
season, when the outlook was consid-
cred particularly bright
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
AsToR MAKES AN APOLOGY.
Expresses Regret in His Paper that b.
Insulted Sir Berkley Milne.

Expresses Regret in His Paper that He
Insulted Sir Berkley Milne.
sssooDoN, July 20,7-William Waldorf
Astor has apparently reached the con-
clusion that he made gSave blunder
when he publicly insulted Captain Sir
Archibald Berkley Milne. Yesterday
Astor published in his newspaper, the
Pail Mall Gazette:
"We desire to express regret that q
para graph which appeared in this col
umn j uly with regard to the presence
OF Sir Berkeley Milne at Mr.. Astor's
concert the preceding Thursday even
ing should have been published under
a misrepresentation of the exact circum-
stances. Explanations of complete
categorical kind now show that Sir
Berkeley Mines presence was due to a
misunderstanding that entirely absolves
him from any intentional discourtesy. !"
Astor's apology was without doubt
forced by the action Of the Prince of
Wales, who, when the matter was
placed before him, unhesitatingly ex-
pressed his Indignation and declared
that unless an ample apology was. forth
coming Astor could not be permitted
to retain membership i'll the Marlbor-
ough club. Though this apology is
now forthcoming it is widely asserted
that Astor's forced repentance will not
save him from being -shouldered
by all who are not dazzled by his wealth
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repeated that they are again beginning
to raise hopes in some grounds

repeated tllaG Cney are again beginning
to raise hopes in some grounds.
According to the Daily Telegraph's
st. Petersburg correspondent the Rus.
sian government is already in possession
OF definite news that all the foreigners
in Peking We're massacred on July 6.
M. Delcasse,s circular only goes to
prove that SO far the powers have failed
to arrive at any concerted plan of
action.
Very little further news is available
this morning. The Yokohama CORE.
spondent of the Daily Mail, who repeats
his statements regarding the jealousy
felt among the allies OH the subject of a
japanese commander-in chief and the
general lack of unity among them, adds:
"Ihe Japanese correspondents charge
the Russian soldiers with appalling bar
barity toward the Chinese. They de-
clare that the Pei Ho is full of corpses
OF women and children, and that the
Russians loaded 300 bodies on a Junk
and burned them
Shanghai reports that three mission
stations on Po Yang lake have been de.
stroyed, but it is believed that the mis-.
slonaries escaped. The missionaries in
Chinese Manchuria have arrived in
safety at Vladivostock.
Lii is rumored that Yu Lu, the missing
viceroy of the province of Chi Lii, has
committed suicide.
Various conflicting stories. are pub
Eshed OF the manner of General Nieh' S
death. 1t is stated that when the allies
entered the native city of Tien Tsin
they found the Chinese dead piled
breast high and it was feared that this
would result in an outbreak of pesti.
lence. Sixteen of the captured guns are
quite modern.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times expresses doubt that the southern
viceroys will be able to withstand the
pressure OF the provincial officials to
join the anti-foreign movement He
thinks already there are signs of waver-
ms on the part of the viceroy of Nan
kin, Lu Kin Yuh, and says ut is ad-
mitted at Nankin that LUIS authority is
now insufficient to guarantee the main
tenance of order. Hence the consuls at
the Yang-tse ports are arranging for the
departure of the women and children.
1t is inevitable that the mandarins as
body should sympathize with Prince
Tuan S movements"
This correspondent confirms the state
ment Of the correspondent Of the Daily
Express regarding the indignation
caused by the British reception of Lii
Hung Chang at Hong Kong. He says
it is interpreted by the natives as weak
ness on the part of the allies and he
asks why Ii Hung Chang could not
have been detained until information
had been received from Peking
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Chatfee ~ Major General.

WASHINGTON, ID c., July 2o.-The
president today appointed Brigadier
General E. r. Chatfee, who is to com.
mand the American military forces in
China. major general of volunteers,
to make his rank commensurate with
his command Although General Miles
recommended that Major General Bates,
now in the Philippines, be assigned TO
the command of troops in China, the
president is we'll pleased with the pro
motion Of General Chatfee,
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TELEGRAMs TERsELY TOLD

Miss Jennie Yeamans, the actre SIS, is
dangerously ill at her home in New
York city.
The North Dakota Democratic con-
vention nominated M. a. Wippoimann
tor governor.
Amalgamation of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Labor is proposed
Lord Mimic, governors general of Can
ada, left Ottawa Thursday on a trip to
the Pacific coast and will visit Dawson
City.
The battleship Oregon is now safe in
port at kure, Japan. The holes will be
patched and the ship proceed tor duty
lit Iaku.
Instructions have been forwarded
from Washington requiring the i'm.
mediate preparation OF camps at San
Francisco requisite for the comfort of
5000 men.
Veterans of the north and south who
are at Atlanta attending the blue and
gray reunion Thursday visited the old
battlefelds on which bloody battles OF
the civil war We're fought
Conferences between committees rep
resenting respectively the Frazer river
Gamers and the fishermen to try to ar.
range satisfactory price for salmon
! have been barren of results.
The Mississippi Valley and the Wis
oonsin Valley Lumber associations, in
meeting at Minneapolis, decided to
maintain present prices because Of the
continued demand for their product,
The New York nautical schoolship St.
Mary's, which left New London, Conn.
with 100 cadets, is at Lisbon under.
going repairs, having suffered severe in
4 juries i'll terrific gales encountered dur.
ing her trip.
The commissioner of internal reve.
nue. has held that persons whose bust
ness it is to sell or buy grain or other
merchandise on commission, on orders
received from customers, are CONNER
cial brokers and required to pay special
tax as such.
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Loses Leg From Gangrene.

SIOUX CITY, July 2O.-Because he
pared his toenails too close, William
Fisher, a wealthy land owner of LIE
Mars, Ia, has had to have his leg
amputated at st. Joseph's hospital here.
Some three weeks ago Fisher trimmed
his toenails with pair of scissors and
cut one to the quick. Gangrene set in
and he consulted surgeon The con-
dition of his foot went from bad to
worse and it was found impossible to
save his leg.
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Sims Feels Confident,

DEs MONIES, July 20.-Jacob Sims of
Council Bluffs, candidate for attorney
general, was one of the many political
visitors in Des Moines. He said: .'The
Ninth district will be solid for me and
| suppose it will be for w. B. Martin of
Greenfield for secretary of state I
have been watching the matter closely
and am sure that the other candidates
will not prove what they claim through
out the state. 1 am sure of blocks of
counties in other sections of the state
besides what shall have at home, but
then no man can tell what a conven-
ton will do l regard the treasurership
fight this year as "a staudaff.'' y
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SMALLPOX At NOME.
Epidemic Has Obtained Fright
fu! Hold and Is Spreading.
RAvAeBs OF THE DREAD DIsEAsE

PeSthOuse Contains More Than ZOO Pa
tients and Victims Are Being Taken
Down at the Rate of Twenty Each Day.
Futile Efforts to Stop Its Progress.
SEATTLE, July 20.-Two vessels ar
rived in port from Nome yesterday, the
transport Athenian and the steamship
Sequoia. The pest house at Nome is
full and overfowing with patients af.
f1icted with smallpox. Every govern
ment and city official in the camp is
working night and day with the dis
ease, but it seems useless to try and
stop it. The people are being taken
down at the rate of II to 20 day.
DR.. j. ]. Tyler of Chicago who went
north on the first boat to follow his
profession i'll the new camp, returned
on the Sequoia and says there are at
least 200 cases of smallpox in the pest
house and around the camp, at a con-
servative estimate. The government
officials are erecting two large struc-
lures, one of which will cover an acre
of ground. The disease has spread
rapidly and many cases are quaran-
tined in the tents where they were dis
covered
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forest Fires Under Control.

PLAcERvILLE, CAL, July 20.-The
forest fire at the chute camp, IL miles
northeast of this city, is now under
control, baving been conquered by back
firing. The American River and Land
company's $4,000 log chute is half
burned OF the lumber company's l,S00
acres of timber about 1000 acres have
been burned over. The loss is probably
$780, 600, but would have reached the
million dollar mark had the fire sue.
ceeded in reaching the pine logs.