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New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
POSTAL SERVICE FOR CHINA,
MADE BY THE WAR AND
PosToFFICE DEPARTMENTS.

Washington Aug s.-The War Department has
arranged TO permit Mr.. Robinson. superintendent of
the new military postal service for China. and Mr..
Hunt, his financial assistant, TO proceed on the
transport Warren sailing from San Francisco on
August Is, for Nagasaki The four other postal
experts for China will have to wait for transporta
tion.
The special instructions of the Postmaster-Gen-
eral in relation the military postal service in
China were made public to-day. The superintend-
ent of this service will have supervision over all
military postal stations connected with the service
and of the transportation of the mails. The rela-
tions between the superintendent and the postal
agents will be the same as those between the Post
master-CieneraI and postmasters except as specih-
cally modified. The superintendent is to report di
the Postmaster-General and important
communications and orders to be transmitted
through him. He may incur all expenses necessary
to the due conduct of his office subject to the ap-
proval Of the Postmaster-GeneraI The superin-
tendent, If necessary, may employ, subject to the
Postma ster-Cienerars approval temporary clerks
or laborers He is to employ all means necessary
for the safe transportation of the mails between
the postal stations in China. subject to the Post
master-Generars approval such terms and at
such compensation he may deem proper, and
may authorize the postal agent any military
ton pay for such service when the proper
vouchers duly approved by the superintendent.
The salaries and expenses of all employees in the
military service in China shall when so stated in
the order of appointment be paid out OF the reve-
nues OF the service, and all expenditures shall be
made from the receipts at the several military
postal stations. The postal rules and regulations in
the main will apply TO the new service.
superintendent Robinson will receive $500 a year
and 81 per diem. An interesting paragraph in the
instructions is the following: The Postmaster
General enjoins upon all the officers and employees
of the Department who have. by reason of their
special qualifications been detailed for duty in the
military postal service in China the careful OBJ
servarce OF these regulations and the faithful per-
formance of their responsible and important duties
that they may reflect credit upon the postal
vice
The. United states Government has requested the
use of the port of Nagasak as a transfer point for
the mails
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
MISSIONARIES FLEE TO RUSSIA
ACTING SECRETARY ADEE SENDS WORD
TO THE ALLIANCE-oTHER NEWS
OF SAFETY

II has been learned at the Offices OF the Christian
and Missionary Alliance. at No 6s2 Eighth-ave.,
Manhattan. that eleven OF the Swedish missionaries
OF the alliance. with their families. party OF
seventeen in all. who stationed beyond Peking
in the neighborhood Of Kaigan. have found their
way into Russian territory. The came
through Acting Secretary Adee OF the Department
OF State. who sent the following dispatch to the
offices Of the alliance:
The Department has received the following tele-
gram from the United States Embassy at St.
Petersburg, dated the 6th inst: Have been IN
sionaries. with their families, seventeen in all.
claiming association Christian Alliance. New-York,
piled to him for 5000 rubies. Swedish. Minister
and to what extent"
In the absence OF F. s. Bell. the business man
ager. the message was received by the acting man
ager. George Martin. Mr.. Martin communicated
the contents to the president Of the alliance. the
Rev. A. b. Simpson. who is at Old Orchard. Me-,
conducting the annual revival services Of the ai-
The sum OF 5000 Is 10 be forwarded for the
relief of the missionaries.
The alliance has twenty-nine missionaries sta
toned in the neighborhood Of Kalgan and in the
shan-se Province, from whom nothing has been
heard heretofore since the Boxer movement be-
came active a ma jority Of them Swedish. The
names of those composing the party which mas
escaped not known and cannot be determined
as nothing appears in the dispatch by which to
identify them.
terday from Consul General CSoodnow at Shanghai
TayI a, that lat the Me5aodsy ssI99 cannot be
found on the maps The Methodist Missionary So
IS IN the tbe Kinkia2g district Kiakiang is town
on the Yangtse-Kiang. one hundred miles above
: a cable dispatch was received yesterday by the
EeG Epscopa 45 MissonarY socet no $50
from the Rev. W Il. Lacy. Of the Foo7Chow Mis-; Mis-
the safe arrival there Of the Rev. and Mrs James
Simester, Mrs. Julia w. Plum. Miss Sarah NJ Bos-
wife all OF the Foo-Chow station.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
WANTS TO WE'D 4 CHINAn4N.
WITH AN OLDER MAN SHE MET IN
SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Florence NJ. Marks, seventeen years old, a
pretty blond haired girl living at No. 81 Varick-
ave. Brooklyn, and Charles ChOnk Tnow, a
Chinaman thirty years old. walked into the law
office of Mark Alter at No. 115 West Tenth-st.,
yesterday. and announced that they wanted 10
be married. The girl explained that she had
met the Chinaman and loved him. and that she
knew he loved her.
Tnow dressed like Japanese college
student. He wore high double collar with a
red bow and his hair short. He used to be
a laundryman at No 1041 Flushing ave, Brook
lyn. The girl took linen into the place once in
a while and there the love match was made.
II is six months only since they first met.
The meeting came about through the Sunday
school of the Washington Avenue Church Mis-
sion, at Tompkins-ave and Kosciusko- o-st.,
Brooklyn, where the young couple met and
walked home after the sessions.
The girl said that she had obtained the con-
sent of her father and mother to their marriage
She said, however. that she had told her mother
that she and the Chinaman already mar
red. The lawyer promised to see that an Alder
some one else married them this morn
ing. The couple then went away. saying they
would see him this morning surely and accept
his advice as TO the man to marry them.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
Ii HUNG CHANG DEsPoNDENT.
FEARS THE ANT1-FoREIGN ELEMENT HAS
GAINED COMPLETE AsCENDENCY
AT PEKING

Washington Aug. 9.-An important dispatch
has been received in diplomatic quarters in
washington forwarded from the Foreign Office
of one Of the Powers taking part in the interna-
tional movement in China and giving with much
detail a conversation with Ii Hung Chang in
which he expresses his despair over the condi-
that the anti-foreign element has gained COM
was with the Consul Of the Power receiving the
dispatch and. as he is an intimate friend of long
standing of Earl Ii, the latter spoke unreserv-
edly OF the deplorable condition OF affairs among
his people. The dispatch as received in
Washington is long and quotes Ii Hung Chang
as saying that he is satisfied the conservative or
progressive element to which he belongs no
longer has any influence at Peking The ascend
ency of Ii Ping Heng. the anti-foreign leader is
referred TO, and it is said that 1t was due 10 his
proposition that the two conservative members
of the Tsung li-Yamen were beheaded The
names Of the beheaded Ministers are given in
the dispatch Yuen Chang and HsIe Chin
Chang. This last affair appeared particularly
to depress LII Hung Chang. who regarded IL as
proving that the progressive element favorable
to the foreigners. could expect no mercy. He
even expressed the belief that he would be
among those to suffer. He said that. although
summoned to Picking, he had asked for twenty
days delay on the ground that he was not able
TO travel.
The substance of this dispatch has been com
munlcated to the State Department. 1t iS not
strictly official, as the conversation to a GER
tain extent confidential but 1T none the less is
from the point of view OF the noted Chinese
statesman. "a asmS fn4aR7W
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10

International forces in North China will not
suffer any lack even with Shanghai and the
Yangtse country shut against them
IMPORTANT RESULTS EXPECTED.
What VIII be the moral effect Of the Chinese
defeats at Pei-Tsang and Yang-Tsun as re-
CARDS the safety of the Ministers and other for
esgners In Peking and upon the policy of China
toward the Powers. is a question TO which of
icials in Washington hope for and apparently
expect a speedy and satisfactory answer 1t
is recalled that after the legations had been
continuously bombarded for nearly a month
the Chinese commander suddenly proposed a
ruce 10 which the besieged agreed. The
,ruce was proposed two days after the capture
and occupation Of the walled city of Tien-Tsin
by the international forces. and about as soon
as the news of that event reached Peking.
Since that time the condition of the Ministers
and other foreigners in Peking has undoubtedly
been less precarious and less intolerable than
it was for a month before. May not the steady,
resistless advance Of the relief force toward the
gates of Peking yield even better and more
satisfactory results? Some high officials in
Washington answered that question in the af-
firmative to-day after they read General Chat-
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
THE BATTLE OF r1ES-TsrN.

Victoria. B. c.. Aug 9.-Accounts Of the battle
of Tien-Tsin in Chinese papers show that the
Chinese made a determined resistance. and
fought from house to house, making the last
stand in a fort at the northeast corner Of the
native city. They had a battery in the ruins of
the Western Arsenal which sent we'll directed
FIRE into the attacking party. who divided into
two columns, the first composed of British, Jap
anese and Americans and the second of Ger
mans Russians and French, with flying col
umn of Japanese. The first column took the
which there a heavy loss IN killed. Chinese
bodies being breast high in the stockades- The
second column took the battery the railway
embankmeut with the bayonet in the face of Il
heavy fire. and after destroying the guns took
mud fort to the northeast of the city, despite
perfect hail of lead. In the mean time the Jap
anese flying column got to the city gate, where
they placed explosives These failed to explode.
and Japanese, selling torch, rushed forward
and fired it, He was blown 10 pieces as we'll as
the gate. The japanese then entered the city.
The other allies could not move till morning,
owing TO the heavy fire. The British made for
the waterfront when they entered the city, capt
uring steamer and a hundred junks. The Jap
anese captured the treasury and a million taels
of silver, which was given TO the Americans
The Russians took eight guns. They were re-
pulsed when they attacked the fort where the
last stand was made, and were going to try
again in the morning. but the Japanese fore
stalled them
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
THEATRICAL MANAGER SHOT
JOHN MARBLE WOUNDED IN A BROAD
WAY SALOON BY A BAND MAN
IN HIS CONP4NY

John Marble. theatrical manager was shot
in the abdomen last night by Harry Collins
band man. in Frank Guldner's saloon on the
northwest corner Of Broadway and THIRTY
ninth-st. The shooting was done about II
o'clock
Marble Is about ffty-eight years old. Col
lins is not more thar half that age. Both men
were connected with the a Milk White Flag
company, Marble as manager and Collins as
member of the band used in the play Marble
has managed the production for the last two
seasons. and previous 10 that was with Mat
thews & BulgeT. He is well known IN theatri-
cal circles.
According to the men in the saloon at the time
OF the shooting. Marble. Collins and James and
Harry PealSe. two singers. were at table hav-
ing drinks together. After some time Marble
and Collins began to harp on an old contro-
versy, and the Peakes say Collins was abusive
James Peake told him to shut up and Collins
turned his abuse on him. Just then Collins
drew a revolver from his pocket and fired Mar
BILE rose from the table and staggered over to
the bar Leaning against IL. he said quietly:
Il guess I'm shot There's something bose
in me-" Blood tricx!ed down his trousers leg.
He led TO a chair and a few moments later
a policeman sent for an ambulance
After the shooting Collins ran into Broadway
and back into the Thirty -ninth-st. entrance Of
the saloon. He tried to escape through the
kitchen, but was caught and held by one OF the
Peake brothers A policeman then took him in
charge.
Several hundred persons were attracted BY
the shooting, and there mUcn excitement
There were many theatrical men in the crowd
and all seemed to know both Marble and Col
Inns Many persons followed the prisoner TO The
station. Collins acted as If he were drugged or
drunk He was unable or unwilling 20 answer
questions and seemed unable 10 realize what he
had done.
DR.. Kenyon of the New York Hospital re-
sponded to the call for an ambulance. He hastily
examined the wound in Marbles abdomen and
stanChed the flow OF blood Marble was perfectly
calm. He declined TO get into the ambulance
he began to puff away, and said:
been doing
A policeman got into the ambulance and tried
10 get the injured man 70 tell what had caused
the shooting. The only thing Marble would say
"Oh. to hell with hirnr'
He repeated this in reply to every inquiry
The surgeons removed the bullet and managed
to stop the hemorrhage. The danger now IS
from blood poisoning. Some of the witnesses
procured by the police were Frank StoddaFd.
W. N Nichols and Frank Durnell all theaJrcal
men. They were in the room at the time, 0gt
had no details. Marble lived at the Aulic- Cor
linS would not give his address
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
BOXING.
MFADDEN WHIPS MPARTlAND IN SIN
TEEN ROUNDS

George McFadden and Kid MCFARLAND met in
a bout that was to have been for twenty five
rounds at lSS pounds, last night, At the Broadway
Athletic Club. McFadden beat mis- rival so hard
that the referee stopped the fight the sixteenth
round. The contest started with McFadden the
favorite at TO 1. Charlie" White was the ref
cree. In the seventh round McFadden was eau
toned about using his elbow and In the following
round threw his opponent to the floor. In the
eleventh round he staggered Mcfarland with left
on the jaw, and followed it up with a right upper
cut which sent Mcfarland to the floor The
latter arose. and his knees with an
other left the jaw. McFaddeu was again
warned for using his elbow in the thirteenth
round. Both indulsed In clinching throughout the
round In the fourteenth round Mcfarland re-
ceived bad cash over his right eye, and in the
fifteenth round was dropped with right on the
jaw He received some hard punches in the next
round, and wObbling when the round ended.
In the sixteenth round he the floor
with right on the jaw. He s,rambled to mis-
the Jaw. The referee then put stop hosti-
tiles, and awarded the decision to McFadden. Tne
time Of the round two minutes and one second
In the preliminary bout which scheduled
for twenty rounds, "Hughey' Murphy, the former
amateur featherweight, met Austin Rice. Murphy
fought Rice TO standstil in the twelfth round,
and the latter gave up the fight, saying his hands
had heen disabled. The bout far as il went
fast.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
CROWD ATTACKS PRISONER
POLICEMEN HAVE TROUBLE IN SAVING
COLORED MAN FROM MoBs FURY
IN MADISON SQUARE.

Several hundred men took part IN the a-,..,
OF eolored man in Madison Square last pi1n,
Vigorous swinging OF nishtsticis by Policsrs7
Eugene O'Sullivan and several other patroIr,s1
saved the colored man from injury severa1 -
the men went horne with headaches. and +vro :
three had considerable scalp wounds.
The concert by the 18th Regiment Pas
brought several thousand people 70 the sor.-s
It was one Of the largest crowds Of the w.
Policeman O'Sullivan was at the Twenty-tbIra
ST. side and when a man told him that ,h-o.
colored men. at the Twenty-sixth-st end os ~.
Square. were ogling white women. he and ,vo
other policemen went to the place The coIorad
men saw the policemen approaching and ran
O'Sullivan chased one under the Dewey srcb
and into the Square the fountain Trica
the policeman slipped and fell. tearing his uni
form. He got his man near the fountain Sew
eral hundred very much excited men who haa
Joined in the pursuit. surrounded the police
and his prisoner. and some cried Lynch
hini"
The colored man was terrified He cIunz m
OsuIlivan and begged for protection. The DO
liceman swung his night stick. and knocked ssv-
eral men down. The crowd gave way. but sew
eraI men managed TO land on the coIored mans
face. and blood flowed from several cuts which
they inflicted Policemen reinforced O'SulIivan
and the prisoner was taken TO the station Sew
eral hundred men followed the policemen and
their prisoner up Broadway. some shouting from
time to time: Lynch himi"
The colored man described himself as William
Jackson, twenty years old. porter. Of No. 225
West Eighteenth-st. He was locked up as a
disorderly person
The crowd did not know why the coIored man
had been chased but somebody started the story
that he had assaulted white child This ac-
counted for the mob's fury
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
ToN WALDERsEE's APPOINTMENT.
REGARDED AS SATISFACTORY BY WASHING
TON OFFICIALS.

Washington. Aug. 9-The subject of the ap-
pontment OF Count Won Waidersee to command
the international forces in China has been pre-
sented to the United States Government, but no
answer has yet been returned. Count Won Wal
dersee is regarded by the authorities here as an
eminent soldier and it is believed that he will
be satisfactory. 1t IS said that his selection
would be for campaign of much broader scope
than that in which the American forces are en-
gagged. as the present movement is for the relief
OF the Ministers in Peking, and Count Wal
dersee, who is now in Germany, cannot possibly
reach China until that object has been accom-
pIished defeated 1t is thought by this Gov
ernment that 1t is not necessary to decide imme
datey OH commander for future campaign
The matter will be taken up when President
Mckinley arrives in Washington next week.
member of the Cabinet said to-day that there
question as TO the acquiescence of this
Government in the selection of Count Won Wal
dersee as the comnander-in-chiefo Of the allied
forces in the Chinese Campaign, IL the Counts
appointment to command the German troops
meant such selection. The appointment. IL was
suggested. doubtless meant that the Berlin Gov
ernment proposed largely to augment !ts forces
in China in the near future. The same official
added that in all probability the allied forces
would be in possession of Peking before Count
Won Waldersee could land In China.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
fees dispatch announcing the fall of Yang
Tsun.
ALLIES LOSE TWO HUNDRED.
CAPTURE OF YANG-TsUN MARKED BY MANY
CASUALTIES.


CBy The Associated Press)
London Aug 1o-In the capture of Yang
Tsun the losses OF the allies, according TO as
patch 10 THE Daily Express" from Che-Foo'
dated August s. purporting TO give an account
Of that engagement. were 200. the majority OF
these being killed
The report says:
The allies marched on Yang-Tsun at dawn on
Mcnday The position held by 1,50O Chinese was
we'll tntrenched to the east of the river. After
four hours heavy hghting the Chinese were
driven from their defence WORKS
Another dispatch TO the same paper dated
Tien-Tsin. August 6. recounts reconnaissance
that morning by the Japanese beyond Hsiku'
the result being that the enemy was found in
strong force. well fortified. at the wei-Ho. Tho
chinese were SUPERIOR in numbers. and, after
facing the fire Of seven guns, the Japanese re-
tired on Hsiku. with three killed and twenty
seven wounded. but having captured 200 horses
With the exception of these messages Gen
eral Chanee's report is the only account pub
usbed by the London morning papers telling Of
the capture Of Yang-Tsun.
The editorials Of this mornings papers gen
orally view the progress toward Peking as thus
far splendid, but one which cannot be main
tained at the present rapid rate, as the concen-
tration OF supplies and the establishment OF
bases will cause inevitable delays.
The Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai
has received a routine message from Sir Rob
ert Hart, Director-GeneraI Of Imperial Customs
showing that the latter is still conducting the
business of Imperial customs-a rather curious
condition of affairs. when taken in conjunction
with the words happily still alive" which he
included in the dispatch which was dated
Pekng. July 81.
Commenting upon washington's latest com
nnunication to the Chinese Government The
Daily Chronicle describes 1t as "idyilic diplo-
macy" and IT declares the Chinese attempts q
get the Ministers to leave Peking as described
by NJ. Pichon. have convinced everybody except
the Washington officials that steady applica
tion Of force is the only argument Peking can
understand.
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
THE RUHLrN-FITzSIMM0NS FIGHT.

Bob Fitzsimmons and Gus RuhIin will moe,
tonight in the arena of Madison Square Garden in
bout that is scheduled for twenty-five rounds
All arrangements we're completed yesterday by the
Twentieth Century Athletic Club for the hght 1t
is expected that there will be large crowd pres
ent. as many out OF town sportsmen have arrived
In the city within the last two days. The betting
on the outcome of the battle so far has been light
but what betting has been done has made Fftzsim-
mons sliSht ravorite. IL Is expected though that
at the ringsde there will be plenty Of wagers laid
Both men slackened In their training Yesterday
and are said 20 be in fne condition Each Is con-
hdent OF victory. FitZsimmOns will enter the ring
weighing about lIO pounds. and Rubin will weigh
about 49, Charlie White will be the referee
There viii be pictures taken
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
LOSSES OF THE ALLIES.

London Aug a-The losses of the allies in the
recent operations are now said to be 1,13O men,
OF which number the Russians lost 800, the
japanese 40 and the British 100
A news agency dispatch from Che-Foo, dated
Sunday. August 3. says a messenger from
Peking reports that the Empress Dowager sent
four carloads Of food TO the legations on July %
The British Foreign Office is understood to
have suppressed portions Of the last dispatch
OF the British Minister at Pekng, Sir Claude
n Macdonald. on the ground that his explicit
statements regarding the quantity Of food and
ammunition available might be useful TO the
enemy
New-York tribune., 1900-08-10
POWERS AGREE ON A LEADER.
SELECTION OF GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL
COUNT TO GO BY WAY OF AMERICA.

SELECTION OF GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL
COUNT TO GO BY WAY OF AMERICA
peror William some' weeks ago broached the
subject of the chief command to Count Won
Waldersee personally, basing his proposal upon
the condition that all the other Powers should
acquiesce in the appointment. AS to this latter
point diplomatic negotiations have been going
for the last few days Emperor Nicholas.
with whom the Count Is an especial favOrite,
Immediately consented, France following some
what reluctantly. Austria Hungary and Italy
quickly consented. The acquiescence of the
United States and Great Britain was next re-
ceived, and the assent of Japan came last.
At the German Foreign Office 1t was said this
evening that the consent of the other Powers
had been virtually secured to the selection Of
Count Waldersee as commander-in-ch chief.
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee, recently
appointed to the supreme command of the Ger
man forces in China, and looked upon in some
quarters as chosen as commander-in-chiefo of
the international troops. this evening said:
My appointment Is due entirely to the initIa-
tive of Emperor William. I shall start for
in a short time / am fully aware of the great
difficulties l shall have to meet in China and
of the extreme delicacy of my position there,
but ] can only say that I shall do my best TO
prove myself worthy Of the honor and of the
confidence placed in me by the Kaiser. Countess
Won Wal1ersee win accompany to the United
States.
This evening the Field Marshal held confer
ences at the offices Of the General Staff and the
Minister of War