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| the source OF my message asking me Il
forward the Conger message to him.
MY message came by way of the
Shanghai Taotai. and the telegraph com
pany has been asked to repeat it, so that
one or two obscure or omitted words may
be verified.
These words are not important. The
fact that the message from Minister Con-
ger came in the State Department cipher
is the main thing Now we know that he
was alive July IS. We know that he was
not safe by any means. bat alive. yes.
The thing now is to go to the rescue.
Il am much gratiaed TO have been able
to get this reply so soon to Secretary Hays
cipher message sent a week ago to Minis
ter Conger. When she ediet was received
a week ago Wednesday Secretary Hay
asked mo If l was willing 20 try TO get
a message through TO Minister Conger. 1
replied that l would DO everything in my
power TO do so. But said to the secre-
tary that :here would be no use perhaps
in my send lng message 10 the American
Minister. When it reached him he would
likely ask Who are your Who is he2'
He might have thought hat / was an
agent CT the Boxers and made no reply
so suggested that the safe way would
be for me to forward a State Department
cipher message which Minister Conger
would know came direct from his Govern
ment. and could not come from any one
else. This I did for Secretary Hay. and
the whole circle is complete. showing the
course the message took from your Sec
retary of State through me 70 Pekin and
10 your Minister and the course his mes
sage took In reaching Secretary Hay.
Those who would impeach all of the
Chinese on account Of the wrongdoing Of
some Of them cannot now. il seems to me.
have any doubt that / have done my best
and that am anxious to serve your Gov
erument to the utmost Of my ability dur
ing these unfortunate troubles in China
Some people would impeaeh that grand
old man. Ii Hung Chang. who has left
Canton where be was perfectly safe and
risked his life in his old age by proceeding
to Pekin to DO what be can to save the
foreigners there. He is progressive man
and better known by the civilized world
than any other Chinaman. yet when Jrou-
bic comes some people doub, him.
I have asked that judgment be withheld
until we could get definite information as
to the attitude Of the leaders Of the recog-
nized Chinese Government. think this
message today viii be an object lesson to
those people in Europe and IN this country
who have thought evil OF the real Chinese
authorities.
This Government has treated me with
the highes: consideration. don't believe
that the German Government has forbid
den my colleague sending cipher messages
because I received one from him three
days ago.
"See how such action would have af-
felted ne had your Government taken such
a styp2
1t would have prevented my sending
through messages 10 keep in touch with
affairs so far as l have been able, and no
course would hava been open for me TO
have forwarded Secretary Hays message.
deeply appreciate the consideration that
has been shown me by the Sta:e Depart
ment and by the United States Govern
ment"
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MUST PROTECT THE CHINESE.
Police Ordered to Jse the Utmost
Vigilance in Their Behalf

In an order issued to the police force
today. Major Sylvester says
Referring 10 the recent order relative
10 the protection CT the lives. limbs. and
property Of the Chinese in this jurisdic-
uon, the Major and Superintendent directs
the members Of the force 70 90 their Ut
mcst TO AFFORD these people the protection
guaranteed them by law.
1t would be 4 serious reflection On our
institution were cTankS and persons who
may be ill-diSpOsed OF vicious. permitted 70
take advantage Of or inhict injury upon
these helpless residents
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DIR. George EdeImaan Dead.

ST. LOUIS. July 2e--Dr. George Eiel-
mann, who always asserted that ne mace
the experiments that resulted in the dis
eoyeTy Of ehloroform. died az the City
Hospital YESTERDAY lie was a graduate OF
jefferson Medical College. n civil wa sur
geCa, and studied medicine and made cx-
periments under the leading Ea- opzan Sc
entists. he had TO known relatives.
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The Queen Leaves windsor.

LONDON, July 2o-The Queen left
Windsor for Osborne this morning. In cen
sequence of the excessive heat. Her Majes-
~ wore white dress and white hat in
stead Of the black dress and hat in which
she has invariably appeared since the
death Of the Prince COnsort.
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ALLENTOWN. Pa. July 20.-At noon
yesterday While Alfred Benringe=. aged
eighteen years. and Irwin Heller. aged
twenty-Cne years. were driving In a hay
wagCl across the Lchigh Valley tracks. al
Lehigh Gap. The team vas struck by a
passenger train. and BsnninSer- was
thrown high into the sir and killed Hell
Ter was hurt about the head and other
iured
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CANTON IN GREAT PERIL
OutrageS by Chinese Pirates Follow
VicerOy Lis Departure.

River Thieves Seize HonSkOn=
Passenger Launch and ImPrisOn
the People ON BOard-GeneraI Out
break Expected at Any Moment.
Celestial FreeboOterS Rob Il YES
Land Soldiers to Protect Cha1nien.
Russia in an Awkward Position
Because OF Developments in Man.
BE Compelled 10 Declare War.
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BRITISH CONSUL DEAD.
Reported To Have Been stabbed nj
BeirR by an American.

LONDON. July 2o.-The War once has
received the following despatch from Lcri
Roberts
Pretoria. July 19.-CarriugtOu re-
ports that The British Consul al Beira.
died yesterday Of the wound he receiv-
ed on Monday"
y despatch from L0ur saeo Marques. Of
July IS said that Mr. MacMaster. the Brit
ish Consul al Beira, had been stabbed and
that his aSsailanI Was an American who
came from Nashoraland.
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MR.. WI GRATIFIED.
Happy at Having Received the Con-
ger Messuze.

WI Ting-fang was in state of great
satisfaction when he returned to the Chi
nese Legation after leaving the Conger
message with Secretary Hay. The Minis
ter has been insistent from the first that
Minister Conger was safe He said to
reporter for The Times:
To show Secretary Hay my message as
it originally came to me and was trans
lated here at the legation. took with me
my code. so that the Secretary of State
could have no doubt as to what my mes
sage was OF course I could not know
until the State Department had translated
the message from Minister Conger by its
own ipher what his message contained.
but I wanted to assure Secretary Hay Of
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-20
MOVEMENTS OF The BRITISH.
General Hunter accommodating the
Free StateTS' Position.

LONDON. July 20--Lord Roberts re-
pc-ts TO The War Office under yesterdays
date that General MethCe1 has occupied
Heckpoort without opposition.
Gen. Ian Hamilton and CoioneI Nakon
have continued their march north OF the
DeIagOa Bay Railway. while General Hun
ter is reconnOitrins the position Of the
Free Staters between Bethlehem and
Ficksburs.
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sent to the President.

The contents Of the message were wired
TO the President shortly after his arrival
at Canton and an answer is expected to-
day The words quick relief can only
prevent massacre" have aroused the de-
partment officials and it is believed that
any further delay means the death of 10th
Mr.. COnger and those with him. 1t was in
timatcd at the State Department today that
word had been received from some source
that the Imperial Government had secret
y been feeding the inmates Of the British
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THE OLD MAsTHoUsE FIRE.
Loss EStim&ted by Naval Construc-
tors At $4,000.

BOSTON. July Z0.-The old mast house
in the CharIescOwn Navy Yard. Vhich ,o2k
FIRE shortly before midnight last night.
was destroyed wiki nearly al its con
tents
The building was al the extreme north
ern end of the yard next 20 the Chelsea
Bridge l. was four hundred fee; long
sixty feet wide al the southern end. s1d
cle hundred feet wide on the Chelsea
Street end
Rear Admiral Samn&on would give no
estimate Of the damage but several uaval
constructors thought $3.50. .006 vas a low
figure
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-20
A MILITARY CONFERENCE.
Miles Discusses the Chinese SItua-
tiOn With OmciaIs

General Miles had a conference with
departmental officials tbs afternoon over
the military situation in China with re-
gard to the chances for the relief Of the
foreigners al Pekin al an early date.
1t is General Miles opiEion that with a
sufficient force the allies should be able to
reach Pekin by forced marches in two and
half days This, however. is on the sup
position that there would be no considera-
bio opposition.
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DESTROYED BY A VOLCANO.
JapareSe Villages EnEuifed RE
Hundreds of Lives Lost.

LONDON. July go despatch to the
-'Evening News" from Yokohama says the
volcano OF A-Ima has suddenly become
active.
Huge streams &C lava have rushed down
its sides fCT distance CT i've miles en-
galdng many villages Hundreds Of lives
have been lost and there has been vast
damage 10 property
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Legation so that they could hold out This
was done by throwing sacks of rice over
The city wall and into the legation en-
closure
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New York Iron Dealer Assigns

NEW YORK. July 2e.-Hugh W. Adsms
trading under the name Of Hugh W. Adams
& Co, wholesale dealer in pig ircn. at
15 Beekman Street, to-day ass gned for the
benefit OF creditors, TO William 2. Nc
AdCO.
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A MESSAGE FROM FOWLER.
Chinese Papers Reported the Pekin
Massacre on July I6.

chinese Papers Reported the Pekis
Massacre ON July I6-
Just previous to the receipt Of the Con-
ger message, Secretary Hay received tn,
"Chefoo July 19.
Secretary Hay, Washington:
The Shanghai papers of the 10th
stated that all foreigners in Pekin had
been slaughtered. / wired the Govern
or of Shantung for the truth of the
matter.
He replies that his courier left
Pekin on the 11th and that all the
ministers were alive. Pekin (the east
city,. he states, had been broken into
with intent to kill rebels.
FOWLER"
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SI25 To baltimore and Re SI.a3
turn Via Pennsylvania RafIroad.

| Tickets sale Saturday aud SUNDAY. July p
! ard - good 10 return until Mondav. Ju,v 23
All trains except Congressional Limited
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Final instructions for Mr. RoekhtII.

Final instructions for Ar- RocLhflI.
". W. Rockhill, Chief Of the Bureau Of
American Republics. who has been ap-
pointed Special Envoy to China, left early
this morning for Connecticut. He will re-
turn next week to receive final instruc-
tions before proceeding to China.
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50 To the scashcre nnd Retur, Q,
via pennsylvania RaiIrc,.

Tickets or Gale fo- al trains Fridavs and 81.
uIdays 20 Atlantic City. Cape NAY. ocean CIV
and Sea Isle City. Nj. good 10 return ,,at;i
following Tuesday. Tickets good via DcI,yrars
Bridge Route TO Ausntic City.
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WI NOT ALARMED.
Regards Threatening Anonymous
Letter as the Work of = Crank.

The fact that Minister Wa yesterday
received an anonymous letter warning him
that he and his damned Chinamen' had
better get out OF the District within the
next forty-eight hours. did not disturb his
sleep last night In fact he laughed whez
spoken TO about the letter this morning.
The officials CT the Chinese Legation re-
gard the letter which was signed The So
olety Of Whitecaps,'' as The work Of a crank
or DracticaI ioker.
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c. .E. Interstate Gathering

Al Mountain Lake P2rz. Md irtm July zS to 50
Prominent speakers have ben secured, and is-
rercstiEg programme arranged. No Endeayorer
can afold 70 miss this gaihesiue Rate via b. &.
q. Z. K. $500 .or the rou1d trip.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-20
EXPORTING WAR SUPPLIES.
Mr. BaIfour Says There Is No Law
to Prevent 1t.

LONDON, July 2o.-In The House O;
Commons today Mr.. Balfour the Govern
ment leader. said it was impossible in the
present state of the law TO prevent the
expectation Of munitions Of war 10 Chi
na.
A bill giving the Government thar power
however. would. he said, be introduced n
the House of Lords today
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-20
NOTIFICATION OF BRYAN
Ceremonies TO he Held in Military
Park at Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS. July 20.-The Demo
cratic National Committee has decided 70
hold the Bryan AID Stevenson notification
meeting in Military Park. August S
The city has no hail large enough 20 ac-
cCDmOdate the crowd which is expected.
The park is within walking distance % the
centre CT the city
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SI.Oo To Frederick. H.EcrStogyn.
NincEester. SEd Na=tiESbu-=.

sunday July -, from r. 81 O. Statioa. a. a. m.
Rctgruing. lflvc Niuche-jer and Hs-uFstran az
D. M; Na-,i1-eur-. 5-l5, aud Frsderjes. --Jj
p ul.. same l-v- It's splendid oppl. ,unitv .l-
a Ene trap cEclp-
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II. & o. weeE-End seashore Exeur.
sfens

All season Tickets good goiHg on all trains
Fridays and Saturdays. valid for return uatil
Tuesday following $500 for the round-tfip 70
Atlantic City, Caps May Ocean City, ami Sea
Isle City.
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80 s..ecIal satars.:y- TrIn. sa.so

70 ''Old Point" Norfolk. Y NirEi MA Beach. and
Ocean View, via N0siolk aud Washington steamer.
Saturday. ESQ p. RoHId tap tickets 10 Fort
Monroe AID NCrfo.k, good lscurn sunday night
$500 Fer st2teroom phoRe 75s. Schedule page :.
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To ID. c. n. G. Camp IA Gnithersburs
- Cents

Except saturday and sunday, when the rate will
be : .ents Trains lcave q. * q. station -
days. s:35 a. m, l2:5J, 3:l5, 4:30 5:O9. $40 and
s.G5 p M. sundays. 900, II 90 fspeci2O l M
I:I5. 500 (speciaD, 500, and 7:0j p. m. Con,
vcuient trains returning
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BECKRAH FOR GOVERNOR
Kentucky Dem0cri Is Nominate Him
by Aeelamatien.

His Opponents Withdraw From the
Contest at O'Clock This Morn
iES-fiEtforEi Recommends That
G"ebei Election Law he Amended.
Representations for Republicans.
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sI.25 to baltimore and Return. Via
v & O. SATURDAY. nna sunanr

July q and -. good for returu until following
MONDAY Tickets good al tIaias except ROYAL
Limited.
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Don't Forget the Bay shore Limited.
Leaves p m daily for Chesapeake Beach.
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t.u.sber has dropned AZ ihc Frienal

Catch the > u. IN. Bay shore Limited
MEsie. dlnc.ag. hat.ing Cha.aneake Beaeh-
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Special Deer Park

Leaves p. & o. station every Saturday night at
Liza. IA. open for occupancy at l0:3J D. m
Corresponding service returning from Deer PIsk
SUNDAY night.
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sound, good. No. Flooring. only ::
peg 100 50 IT.; Nor Car. pine. Frank Libby
& CO.
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Ec~t ana largest sized shinEIeS. sG.O0
Rer l.oaa; made Of cypre=s No. } quality, BY. r.
Llibey < Co
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:i5e To Mt. Vernon and Return RE
And i5c TO Alexantpa and return. after u. m
Electric trains from l3i2 and Pa ave. = NJ
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lowered Rates Novv en- Lunsbev amd
m;ilve-t. rnd cl5=- 5cors oily sLe5 5,h snd
y Y ave
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Izf2-le. dressed & sI6Ss, Shelving,
cents per a. it. Ca. fsr 80 ed psiees on F.
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FIynR's Business College. Sth and II.
Business, Shorthand TypewritiEg So year
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1x12-fe kiIn-dried Boards. only sf.75
per 100 q fl. Of Nerth Caro-iEa pine, too. at
9th and y. y. ave.
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fIaSterinG Laths. $500; fneSt LathS
Al lowered prices AZ Friendly Corner 9th and
n L. ave
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Soryer and sound, bs.t oosfaa, sis1, a sd AMI
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Take the Bay shore Limited at pm.
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was received from Mr.. Conger on June u,
some of which reports had been confirmed.
in part at least. By apparently authentic
Chinese sources.
Those who shared this view said that If
AIR. Cons eT himself had written the mes
sage he would naturally have used code
sfeuatur,.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-07-20

WI Ting fang, the Chinese Minister
called at the State Department at about
10 o'clock this morning and handed to
Secretary Hay a message. written in the
secret code of the Diplomatic service
and signed in plain English with the
name Conger. When translated, it read
as follows:
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-09-14
WEBSTER DAVIS.

The Peoria Journal extends its con-
dolence to Webster Davis and says he
is laboring under a serious disadvan-
tage. The Journal says:
Just as he has abandoned his old
party in order to come out as the
champion of the Beers, the people OF
this country seem to have lost most
of their interest in the war in South
Africa. It is too bad, of course, but
1t cannot be helped. Mr.. Davis is dis
covering that he made a mistake,
and this discovery will keep growing
on him.
Webster Davis has made no mistake
and he knows it. he performed the
grandest act of his whole life, when
he abandoned the feshpots of Egypt
and bravely took his stand on the side
of Gods people in South Africa, SO
cruelty oppressed.
Nor is it true that the people of the
United States have lost interest in the
Beers brave struggle for liberty.
That war is still watched with anx-
ious solicitude by millions of Ameri-
cans and the success Of De Wet and
Botha still brings gladness to the
hearts of our people.
Webster Davis has lost nothing and
gained much. Few men are SO highly
honored-great crowds follow in his
footsteps-they want to see the pa
triot that abandoned high Office for
the sake Of principle and the masses
flock to him like doves to the windows.
He is going to support Bryan because
he thinks it will help his friends, the
fighting farmers Of South Africa.
Mr.. Davis has mace no mistake: He
has done a wise and a glorious thing.
He has embalmed his memory forever
in the hearts of liberty loving men.
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THE TRAVELLING MAN.

~ -.#.- s' a% .H
The World-Herald persists in re-
peating the false assertion that there
are not SO many. travelling men on the
road now as there were in 1896. A
census of the manufacturing and job
bling houses of Omaha will produce
figures that show exactly the reverse.
Omaha Bee.
Omaha is not the only pebble on
the beach. The travelling men of this
city mostly represent jobbing houses
and the wholesale merchants have not
yet formed a trust. 1t is hardly an
answer to a general charge to on
tradict it by the statistics of one city,
and a small city at that. The news
papers have been full of accounts of
travelling men being let out by the
trusts and thousands of commercial
travellers say that they have been dis
charged, but the Bee says they are
liars, because the same thing hasn't
happened in Omaha. The Philadel-
phia platform contains a plank against
trusts, yet every Republican news
paper, big and little, is a defender of
trusts, and will not listen to anything
to their discredit.-Omaha Noncon-
formist.
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POLITICIANS NEED REFORMING.

II anything should be reformed, it
should be the politician, and by the
politician We have especial reference
to the professional Office holders, the
men who feed at the public trough.
The chief business in life of these peo-
pie Is to impress the voters with the
idea that they are their Woodworking
servants. without whom the country
would go to the bow-wows. It is es-
sential to their success that they make
a good impression, and in order to
please everyone they blow hot and
they blow cold. When necessary they
perch on top of the political fence,
keeping a sharp lookout, and drop on
either side, and sometimes on both
sides-always, of course, trying to
land on the strong side and on the
proverbial bed Of roses. They are
strangers to consistency, and insincer-
ity marks them as its own.
If the politician did not play such
an important part in Jul government
If they did not shape the course of
the political parties to which the
masses give blind allegiance, their
weaknesses and their vices could be
passed without comment, as they are
not the only ones who need reform
ing; but their influence is SO potent
that would we preserve the democra-
cy of our government we must curtail
their power and their influence, or
else bring about a radical REFORM
Florida Agriculturist.
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REPUBLICANS SCARED.


And now the Bryanites are trying
to make out that Republicans are
fearful. of the outcome in Maine. Re-
publican success in Maine is just
about as doubtful as was Democratic
success in North Carolina.-Omaha
Bee.
What the Republicans fear is not
that the Bryanites will carry Maine,
but that the Republican majority
there may be greatly reduced. In
1896 their plurality was 45,777, and,
o dear, what a racket they made about
it. They claimed it as a sure indica-
ton of their coming triumph, and SO
it was. They did not rejoice because
they had carried the state, but be-
cause they had carried it SO magnifi-
Gently. Now that they see that their
majority is going to be cut in two In
the middle they fear it as the dread
portent of coming disaster. They will
feel mighty bad when the Bryanites
are doing all the shouting over the
Maine election and they are becoming
very sorry that they were so greedy
four years ago as to want all the votes
in that state. They fear that 45,777
majority may be a curse instead of a
blessing.
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as q republic. or go Into the colonial
business and onver the stars and
stripes into an emblem OF imperial
ism.
Again I say, as an old-time aboli-
ZIONIST who shed my blood on the bat
tlefields of this country, lighting for
liberty, l must protest against your
theory and advice that I should be-
come the slave of the party by con-
tinuing to support it. right or wrong.
The cry In the coming campaign
should be-: Bryan and Republican
liberty against Mckinley and imper-
ial tyranny. and l have every conf
dence that liberty will win"