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there must be due to political causes.
They contend that the attitude of the
Chinese is peaceable, and does not
call for the taking of extraordinary
measures. They say that there have
already been landed $500 Indian, sou
French and $50 German troops, in adj
dition to 500 volunteers and 1000 naval
men who are available. There are nine
teen foreign warships at Shanghai, in
Guiding the United States gunboat
Princeton, and fourteen at Woo-Sung,
including the United States cruiser
New Orleans.
To-day comes the news that the
Japanese representative at Shanghai
has informed his colleagues that Japan
is sending troops to participate in the
occupation of Shanghai. pending their
arrival, 1t is added, six hundred Japan
csc sailors will be landed.
A despatch from Pekin says that al
ter the allied troops traversed the pal
ace August rs, the foreign ministers
and generals returned and visited the
audience halls, where they found six
mandarins, including an official Of the
sung-Li-Yamen. The royal apartments
and the rooms set apart for the women
were not entered Magnificent marble
stair-cases, costly bronzes and valuable
vases were encountered everywhere.
The emperor's throne, situated in
small building, is surrounded by Pc
destals on which are caskets containing
written wishes, to be opened after his
death,
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party headed by Capt NJ Theriot Sew
eral of them were badly hurt. Coming
back to fremont street, and going
out TO avenue P, by climbing over the
piles of lumber which had once been
residences, the rescuing party observed
four bodies in one yard and seven IT.
one room in another place, while as
many as sixty bodies were to be seen
lying singly and in groups in the space
of one block. A majority of the bodies.
however, that have not been recov-
cred, are under the ruined houses, and
1t will take several days hard wort.
to get all of them out. The body Of
Miss Sarah Summers was found near
her home on the corner OF fremont and
avenue F, her hands grasping her dia-
monds tightly. The report from ST
Mary's infirmary shows that only eight
persons escaped from the hospital. The
number of patients and nurses could
not be ascertained. but the number Of
inmates was seldom under a hundred.
Rosenberg school house, which was
chosen as place of refuge by the peo-
pie of that locality, collapsed. Some Of
those who had taken refuge there
escaped, but
Many Were Crushed TO Death
in the ruins.
AS Sunday morning dawned the
streets were lined with wounded. half
clad people, seeking the aid of physi-
clans for themselves and for friends
and relatives who could not move. Po-
lice Officer John Bowie was found In a
pitiable condition. the toes of both CT
his feet and TWO ribs broken, and his
head bruised. He reported that els
house. with wife and children, had been
swept into the gulf.
The beach resort OF Pat O'Keefe, who
is known to every visitor to Galveston,
was annihilated. not a vestige Of the
building remaining. Mrs. 0'Keefe was
drowned. The great bathing pavilion
known IS the Pagoda. the big pleasure
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GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. TO-
Starting as soon as the waters began
to recede, the work of rescuing the
wounded and dying from the ruins OF
their homes began.
Screaming women, bruised and
bleeding, some of them bearing the life
less forms of children in their arms,
men broken-hearted and sobbing, be-
wailing the loss of their wives and
children; streets filled with floating
rubbish, among which there were many
bodies of the victims of the storm, con-
stituted part of the scene.
The first loss of life reported WAS
that at Rietter's saloon on the Strand,
where three persons lost their lives,
and where many others were manned
and imprisoned.
The dead were Stanley G. Spencer,
Charles Kellner and Richard Lord.
These three were sitting at a table on
the first floor, when suddenly the roof
caved in, killing all of them instantly.
Those in the lower part of the build
ing escaped with their lives in a mi
raculous manner. The falling ROOT
and flooring were caught on the bar,
the people standing near it, lodging
under the debris. 1t required several
hours of hard work to get them out.
The negro waiter who was sent for
the doctor was drowned at the corner
of Strand and Twenty-frst street, and
his body was found a short time after.
The next place visited by the rescuers
was the city hall. Here were congre-
gated fully 700 people, most of whom
were more or less injured. One man
from Lucas Terrace reported
The Loss of Fifty Lives
in the building from which he escaped.
He himself was severely injured about
the head
On avenue M several ladies were i'm
prisoned in residence by the water
and debris. They were rescued by a
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On the water front the destruction
OF property was almost as great as on
the beach, though the loss OF life was
not nearly SO large The wharves Of
the Mallory company were completely
destroyed. The big steamship Alamo is
lying among the ruins of the piers. The
wharves of the Galveston wharf COM
pany are also gone, and the great
wharves of the Southern Pacific Com
pany which have been in course Of
construction for several months, are
damaged to the amount of 5000. The
Norwegian steamship ella, engaged
in the Cuban trade. was stranded up
the bay beyond where the railroad
bridges once stood
The British steamship Taunton IL
lying on Pelican island hard aground.
The Mexican. big British steamer, was
driven up the bay, and is fast in the
mud. Another big ship Is lying out
near Quarantine station. The Kendall
Castle was driven up as far az Texas
City, where she is now stranded. OF
the small shipping. only a few boats
are left Many OF the little schooners
were lifted bodily out of the water and
flung up on the island. The wrecks OF
others are scattered along the bay
front The Charlotte NJ Allen, the
steam ferry boat to Bolivar. is safe.
The big dredge used ar Texas City
Was Driven Inland for HALF a Mile
and cannot be saved. The Pensacola
was in port when the storm began. but
Master Simmons put TO sea IN the teeth
Of the storm. and Il is feared that the
boat and her crew OF thirty-six men
was lost
The three grain elevators and Rey-
merschoffer mill are wrecks. Their
roofs and the top stories have gone and
grain stored therein has probably been
ruined by the rain. The damage TO
the ships at this time. when the de-
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resort known as the Olympia, and Muir
doch's bath house are all swept ava,
into the gull.

resort known as the Olympia, and Muir
doch's bath house are all swept away
into the gulf.
There were few bodies on the beach.
They had been swept INTO the gulf or
drawn up into the rubbish by the
waves. Only half dozen Of them
were in sight from the site where the
workers were. All the residences which
have escaped destruction have been
turned into hospitals. as have tie lead
ing hotels. There is scarcely one of the
houses which are left standing which
does not contain one or more of the
dead, as well as many injured.
The Rain Began to Pour Down
in torrents and the rescuing party went
back down fremont street towards the
city. The rain added greatly TO the
general distress. Stopping at small
grocery store, the party found It pack
ed with injured, clamoring for food
but the provisions in the store had
been ruined Further down the street
a restaurant. which had been submerg-
ed by water, was serving out soggy
crowd. On returning to the fremont
hotel the Houston Post correspondent
found the death list to be swelling rap
idly, the accounts coming from every
portion OF the city Information from
both the extreme eastern and extreme
western portions of the city were diff
cult to obtain, but the reports which
were received indicated that those two
sections had suffered fully as much as
the rest of the city. Fifteen men, con-
shutting all that remained Of COM
pany of regular soldiers stationed at
the beach barracks were marched down
Market street. The loss of life among
the soldiers in the barracks, which
we're destroyed, must have been fully a
hundred. At 1870 Sunday morning,
the water had receded from the higher
portions of the city, but the streets near
the bay front sill contained from 21a to
3 feet of water.
The Galveston News Office on Me-
chanic street was flooded, and the back
cno of the building oaved in.
At the Union depot were scenes sim
liar to those met with in other por-
lions of the city Baggage Master Hard
ing picked up the
Lifeless Form of a Baby Girl
within a few feet of the station. It's
parents could not be located, and are
supposed to have been lost The sta
tion building had been selected as a
place of refuge by large number OF
people. All windows in the building
and a portion of the wall at the top
were blown in. The water around the
station was probably twelve feet deep.
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TWO FAILURES.

NEW YORK, Sept 10-Two failures
were announced on the cotton exchange
to-day. One was that of Gay R. Schif-
fer and the other that of his father. l..
G. Schiller. one Of the Oldest men in the
cotton trade in this city. The failure
of L. G. Schiller is supposed to have
been due to his efforts to help his son.
who has been heavy trader for some
time. The failures, however. produced
no material effect on the market.
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TERRIBLE DROUTH.
West Fork River Has Gone Dry
stencil From Dead Fish Menaces
Health.

Special to the Register.
WESTON, w. Va. September 10
The public schools of Weston opened
this morning with an attendance much
larger than last year. Owing TO the ex-
cessiye heat the school board has or
dered that for the present the days
session will begin at eight O'Clock in
stead of nine, and close at twelve, in
stead of four.
All tributaries of the West Fork,
south of Weston, are dry and there is
very little water in the West Fork river
here. Near the head it is perfectly dry
Stock in the upper end OF the county Is
suffering intensely for water. The
COWS all going dry raised the price of
butter here 10 twenty-five cents per
pound The stencil from the dead fish
lying in the bottom OF the river bed here
will certainly soon be a matter before
the State health board. Fish weighing
from eight 10 fifteen pounds can be
seen lying dead by the hundred along
in the bed of the West Fork.
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sTEUBENvILEE PROSPERITY"
Three Hundred Men ON Hand Wait
ing for Six Jobs

Special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE, o., Sept. 10.-This
city was furnished with prosperity"
scene this morning. Just at present
there are many idle workmen here, due
to the fact that iron and glass workers
are not settled. On Saturday evening
advertisements were inserted in the
local papers for workmen to apply at
the summer plant, which is to be start
ed up. This morning at Z o'clock there
was a crowd of 800 men at the Office,
and OF these, only six men were given
jobs. Many had been there since day.
light. and there was much disappoint-
ment, and many hung around for
hours, expecting to be put to work.
One man put them all in good hu1nor
by saying: Bryan ought to be here to
talk about the dinner pail"
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He May Settle All Questions at Issue With the
Powers Without Referring Them
to the Emperor.
HIS JUDGMENT is ABSOLUTE
These Credentials Are Believed to Be Adequate
to Satisfy all Objections Heretofore
Raised Concerning His
Authority to Act.

WASHINGTON, September 10.
The Chinese minister has re-
ceiyed an imperial edict con-
ferrinE on Lii Hung Chang extra
ordinary power for the COM
pIete settlement of the Chinese
trouble. 1t gives him authority
to his own discretion without
referring them to the emperor.
This is unusual authority and it
is claimed at the Chinese lega-
ton, gives Lii HING Chang ere
dentiais adequate to meet all
the objections heretofore raised
as to his power to negotiate for
peace. The edict is dated two
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weeks ago, but is just forwarded
from Lii Hung Chang. Minis
ter Wu delivered it to the State
Department this morning.

LONDON, Sept. 1O.-The Chi
pese minister in London, Sir Chih
Chen LO FenG Luh, it under
stood, has received credentials
authorizing the opening of
peace negotiations. 1t is init
mated that similar powers have
been conferred on the Chinese
ministers at other capitals, and
that their credentials are such
as viii satisfy the American
and European governments.
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THE ANTHRACITE MINERS
ORDERED TO GET READY

SHAMOkIN, Pa. September 10
George w. Hartlein, secretary of the
Shamokin district United Mine Work
ers OF America, received the following
despatch at o'clock tonight from
President Mitchell at Chicago: If ef-
forts now being made TO settle fail.
strike will de declared In few days.
Advise miners to get ready"
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WILL NOT EVACUATE.

LONDON, Sept 10.-A special de-
spaitch from Berlin says that Great Brit
ain and Germany have agreed not to
evacuate Pekin until full satisfaction
for the recent outrages has been OBJ
tanned.
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WHEELING W. VA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER Il, 1906
A PLAIN SIMPLE Wedding
IS WHAT BROTHER Amer AND
HIS FOLKS SAID THEY
WANTED

For the Presidents Favorite Niece,
But 1T is Attracting a Great Deal
of Attention, and Has Caused
SerfOus Congestion in the Little
Town of Somerset, Pa.-A New
York Clergy to OTicfate-He
Confirmed the Bride Fifteen Years
Ago When She Was a Girl of Thir-
teen.
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Important Notification.

PITTSBURG, Pa. September To-
The officers of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation to-day notified all independent
iron manufacturers who had signed the
original scale and who for The past two
months have been paying $6.1z1a a ton
for pudding, that dating from to-day
they will be required to pay but S. a
ton, the latest compromise ofsar made
to the combination.
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PEKIN FOREIGN ARMY CAMP
Till Settlement Is Made Elsewhere
Russian Legation Goes to Tien
Tafn


Russian Legation Goes to Tien
Tsin.
WASHINGTON, September 10.-The
following despatch has been received at
the War Department:
TAKU, no date.
"Adjutant General, Washington:
1.-TWO afternoon fourth. Evidence
accumulates that diplomatic relations
will not be resumed here for a long
time. Russian legation leave very soon
for Tien Tsin. Appears to me certain
Chinese government will not return
here whilst foreign army remains, and
if this is true our legation can transact
no business. My opinion Pekin to be
merely camp for foreign army pending
settlement by powers at other points.
"CHAFFEE."
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ENGLAND rs PLEASED
With the Prospects OF an Early SET
tIement-Her Prestige Seriously
Threatened.

Threatened.
LONDON, Sept. 10-The announce
ment that the Chinese ministers at the
capitals of the powers have received
satisfactory credentials authorizing
them to open peace negotiations taken
in conjunction with the indications
contained in dispatches from the far
East that China is developing better
disposition to arrange peace terms, IS
welcomed here, for the desire TO ex-
pedite the settlement of the trouble is
Increased by dispatches received from
hanils-,g to-dar spponncing that Ger
many will send two additional de-
tarhments of 5000 and 5000 men re-
speetively to China early in October.
These troops, it is reported, have al
ready been ordered to prepare for their
journey.
Shanghai dispatches dated September
s. insist that the great display OF force
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4S,762, and Frank, Dem, 19,439.
This shows n Republican loss
of IL per cent. and n Democratic
gain of 20 per cent.
On this basis it is estimated
that the Republican plurality
this year Will be about 32,2o1.
PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. TO-
Returns from 12o towns and
plantations out of 512 In the
State give Hill, Rep, 2S,3s2, and
Lord, Dem, 16,IS1. Compared
with four years ago, this shows
Republican loss of twelve per
cent. and a Democratic gain of
twenty-thrce per cent.
On this basis, IL is estimated
that the Republican plurality
this year VIII be about 3O.434.
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GENERAL CLARIFIES DESPATCH.

General Chaffee's despatch, received
this morning, is in line with that Off
GERS former declarations respecting the
advisability of Withdrawing the Amer
lean troops from Pekin and undoubt-
eddy will cause the government to in
crease its efforts to effect some sort of
a settlement that will permit of an
early withdrawal from China.
The conditions reported by General
: Chaffee appear to warrant the conclu-
sion that Mr.. Conger viii speedily leave
Pekin for one of the ports on the coast,
where he can act more effectively, and
that the United States troops will not
respond to the German invitation to
make a further offensive campaign out
side of Pekin. 1t is believed that the
objects that remain to be accomplished
can be secured without further military
The idea OF removal of the diplo-
operations, so far as the United States
troops are concerned.
matte center to Shanghai meets with
objection from those familiar with the
conditions. 1t is said that Shanghai is
practically cut off from Pekin as soon
as winter sets in, full month being
required to exchange communication,
so that it would be inadvisable TO thus
suspend the chance of ready communi-
cation With the capital.
Baron Sternbery the German charge,
had a talk with Secretary Hill this
morning, but it led to, no material
change in the situation. 1t is under
stood that Count Won Waldersee will
arrive at Hong Kong, go thence to
Shanghai and then to Tien Tsin, which
will be his military base. He is due at
Hong Kong about the end OF this week
and at Shanghai three days later.
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THE STORM DESCRIBED
BY RICHARD SP|LLANE.
THE CITY OF GALVESTON Is IN
RUINS AND THE DEAD NUM-
BEERS A THOUSAND.
HALF THE HOUSES IN RUINS
AND NOT A DRY, HABKRABI.E
BUILDING LEFT IN THE
WHOLE TOWN.

One of the Most Awful Tragedies of
Modern Times-Wfnd Blew Rightly
four Miles nm Hour, Phen the In
struments Failed to Resist Its
Force-strects of the City Under
Ten Feet of Water.
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THE EDICT DELIVERED.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The Chi
nese minister, Mr.. WI Ting Fang, to-
day delivered to the State department
an Imperial edict comforting on Ii
Hung Chang absolute and uncondition-
al authority to negotiate with the pow
ers for peace and for the settlement
of questions growing out Of the war.
The edict is dated on the last day OF
which is about August "a. 1t is issued
by the emperor, and not the empress
dowager, indicating that the former is
now exercising those imperial func-
tons which some of the powers, nota-
bly, Great Britain, have insisted be-
longed to him, rather than TO the en-
press dowager.
The document does not show the
place at which it was issued, but it was
transmitted through Pao-Ting-Fu, and
probably emanated there, as the i'm
perial household has been at that point
for some time.
An extended conference was held be-
tween MIR. Hill and Minister WI con-
corning the extensive authority with
which Ii Hung Chang is now invested.
The edict makes him the sole negotia-
tor on the part OF China, giving him
discretion to act finally and in a man
ner to bind China, without interference
from the emperor. The edict is prior
to the request sent by Ii Hung Chang
to the throne that the viceroys of Nam
king and WI Chang and Prince Ching
be included with him as negotiators.
This request has not yet been respond
ed to by the throne, so far as the Chi
nese minister here is advised, but if
Earl Lis request is granted, there is no
doubt it will carry the same absolute
authority with which Ii Hung Chang
has now been invested. Minister WI
says the authority is so complete as to
remove any possible question as to the
sufflciency of credentials.
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Oh SAY HAVE YOU HEARD
THE NEWS FROM MAINE :?

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. TO-
Returns from fifty towns and
plantations in the State give
Hill, Rep, 11,107, and Lord,
Dem. 6,O27. Compared with
similar returns four years ngO,
these figures indicate a Repub-
Iican loss of thirteen per cent.
and a Democratic gain of four
teen per cent. On this basis,
the Republican majority will
be about 32,7OO.
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PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. TO-
Returns from 200 towns and
plantations out of 312 districts
give Hill, Rep, 43,734; Lord,
Dem, 24.167. Same places four
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A VIEW OF GALVESTON
AFTER THE BIG STORM.
THE DREADFUL SCENE PRESENTED
TO THOSE WHO BEGAN THE
RESCUE WORK.
BEwILDERING MASS OF DEBRIS.

Houses Wrecked and Rufned-Tele-
graph and Telephone Wires Down
in an Endless Tangle-Dead Scat
tered Everyvvhere-Woun and
Dead Women, Holding Babies in
Their Arms-One Hundred Soldiers
Meet Death in the Barracks.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-20
ViGsRIES or WOMEN.

The vagaries OF the feminine mind are
indeed hard to understand At least they
are hard for simple masculine 20 under
stand, the daughters OF Eve usually SYM
pathizing with each others idiosyncras-
les they don't with each others virtues.
says the Baltimore News.
Perhaps the eternal feminine is more
clearly shown in the matter OF answering
letters than In any. other way. The per-
son who asks questions OF woman I'm a
letter and expects her 60 answer them is.
indeed. a confiding soul who deserves
more recognition than he receives
There Is one young woman known TO
the writer who destroys the eplstles that
come TO her as soon as they are read.
When she wplies 10 them therefore. she
has a very ha2y recollection ol their con-
tents and answers SO much at haphazard
that she drives even the most patient or
her correspondents to despair.
When her family wish reply 20 some
query that they deem really important
they only get It after they send her one
postal card upon another--bad form, pos
tai cards. exceedingly convenient-until
in despair she replies TO the question
written on them To the business man
this trait is maddening
II wrote II client who ~ also n friend,
the other day" said lawyer yesterday.
sending her the receipts from some bills
] had paid for her. In the course of my
epistlc remarked that hoped she would
find IL convenient to acknowledge these
promptly. The very next week ! received
a letter from her. and | was both sur
prised and delighted at such pnwonted
punctiiousness until ] opened the enve-
lopc. when | found that she had written
eight pages about psychology and had
never so much as mentioned the receipts
Now. isn't that enough 10 make even
n selfrespecting man grow profane2'
There be women who have one little
place In their desk ticketod letters unan-
swered" and who keep i'm IL all their
correspondence until a reply n written.
consulting each note before writing that
reply and making the one fit the other.
as the punishment should fit the crime
but this page has no hesitation I'm saying
that these persons are hopelessly unfem-
mime. They are OF that order OF individ-
uals which wear it's hair tightly twisted
back from its face, which wears shoes
without heels and hats without feathers
A woman OF this sort Is OF the stun OF
which DIR. Mary Walkers are made. and
no doubt instead OF signing misslves "af-
fectionately yours" or ''your devoted SAL
le" adds the business-l like superscription,
'your obedient servant" and has con-
sciousness of well-doing I'm the writing.