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The Florence tribune., 1900-08-18
'a f.'a -sa SAN PEDRO LUMBER COMPANY L. W. BL1NN, General Manager, Wholesale Dealers and Jobbers Oregon Pine or Douglas Fir REDWOOD,
 SPRUCE,
 SHINGLES.
 SHAKES, ETC.
Yards and Wharves at San Pedro, Cal

City Office Douglas Block ce ,o.oIoc C1
 Srd and Spring streets, 11Oo AllS lScIcS Odl.
The Florence tribune., 1900-08-18

Branch Yards at Long Beach, Compton, and Whittier
 California.
The Florence tribune., 1900-08-18

NoTE-A1um baking powders are low priced, as alum costs but two cents pound but alum is a corrosive poison and it renders the baking powder dangerous to use iA food.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08
EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE
1T PRACTICALLY WRECKS THE
TOWN OF EvELETH, MINI.
Several thousand Pounds Touched on
Town In BADLY Shattered and
About 200 Persons Arc Injured.

DULUTH, Mimi. Oct. IA special from
Eveleth, Mimi. tonight reports one of the
greatest explosions ever occurring in the
State. Seven thousand five hundred pounds
OF dynamite In the powder magazine at the
Spruce mine, about half a mile from town
blew up about $50 o'clock this afternoon
A hole one hundred feet square and twenty
feet deep marks the spot where the maga-
zine stood. The force of the explosion was
so great that there Is not piece of glass
over a foot square within a radius OF two
miles Of the mine. Practically every win
dow and mirror in Eyeleth was broken.
while in saloons all bottled goods were de-
molished In addition. The loss in the city
is estimated at $4,000. The damage done
to the Spruce mine was about 5000, the
mine, laboratory and warehouse being
wrecked.
At least two hundred people were hurt
more or less from being thrown down by
the shock or hit by shattered glass. The
explosion was plainly felt at Biwabik,
twelve miles distant The cause of the ex-
plosion Is hard to ascertain. An unknown
man was seen near the magazine a few
minutes before 1t occurred, and it is be-
lieved that he was responsible, although
that Is pure guess work. AT any rate, the
fellow has not been seen since.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08
MISSION BOARD.
congregational Commissioners VIII
Meet Soon I'm st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Oct. Next week the
American Board OF Commissioners for
Foreign Missions will begin its ninetieth
annual meeting at Pilgrim Congregational
Church In this city. The meeting will be
in session three days. and will be replete
with matters of interest and great import.
President Samuel B. Capen, OF Boston, will
preside. Between two and three hundred
corporate members. returned foreign mis-
sionaries and workers In home fields and
their wives. officers OF the various womens
missionary boards and theological students
will be present. in addition to many promi-
nent Congregational ministers and laymen
from different parts OF the country.
These will be the most important of any
meetings ever held by the board since its
organization, in 1910. owing to the famine
in India and the crisis in China. Matters
relating to the work in those and other
fields will come UP for discussion and ac-
tion. and officers for the ensuing year will
be elected. Owing to the splendid record
made by the present officers it is believed
that all will be reelected. The annual re-
ports will show the boards financial condi-
ton the best II has been in many years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08
German Force Is Checked by a Body
of Chinese, and Rebels Attack a
Town in Southern China.
OPINIONS OF DIR. MORRISON
DE GIERS AND EARL Ii MAY NEGO.
TIATE AT TEIN-TSIN.
Exodus of Troops from Pcking-
Washington waits on Presidents
Return to Answer Delcasse.

PEKING, Oct. 8, via Shanghai, Oct. t.
BY an imperial decree issued at Tai-Yuen-
Flu. capital of the province of Shan-Si,
dated Sept. 25. Emperor Kwang Su de-
nounces the Boxer" movement and desig-
mates for punishment nine ringleaders. He
acknowledges his own fault and rebukes
himself; but he places the chief blame
upon the princes and mobiles. who partici-
pated in the movement and protracsed it..
Prince Tuan, Prince Chung, Prince Tsai
Lien. Prince Tsai Ying, Duke San Kang,
Ying Men. president of the censorate. and
Chao Shu Chiao, president of the board of
punishment, are all deprived of their titles,
removed from office and turned over to
various trial boards for further penalties.
is to be tried by the board of clans. Copies
of the decree have been received here and
are accepted as genuine.
1t is reported that Tung Flu Hsiang fed
to the province of Shan-Si. fearing punish
ment.
The impression Is growing that the i'm
perial government is making an effort to
disperse and punish the Boxers" The
imperial troops. who were seen Monday
near PeI-Ta-Chu are believed to have been
concerned in this movement. The acting
viceroy at Tien-Tsin was notified that or
ders had been issued to disperse the BOX
ers," but said he feared to send out troops
because Of the presence Of the allied forces.
An extended Japanese reconnaissance
south Of Peking uncovered the enemy.
This afternoon the American troops were
reviewed by General Chaffee in front of the
Temple of Heaven. All the foreign stafrs
were present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08
QUIET AT WASHINGTON.
Chinese Matters Are Waiting ON the
Presidents Arrival.


WASHINGTON, Oct 7-Developments of
any consequence in the Chinese situation
are not looked for until after the return
of President Mckinley to the capital He
is expected Tuesday morning, and on the
afternoon of that day Cabinet meeting
probably will be held, when the questions
presented by the French note will be gone
over in informal way. The French
note. which recently has been addressed
to the powers. Is not regarded as just now
of pressing necessity for action, as several
of the nations interested already have in
structed their representatives in Picking
TO ascertain whether the imperial edict
completely names the persons deserving
of punishment. and other features of the
French note contain proposals which can
remain In allegiance.
This government may not consider SER
iously the propositions which look to the
prohibition of the importation OF arms
into China and the dismantling of the forti-
fications. Interest, meanwhile, centers in
the report which Mr.. Conger will make
regarding the adequacy of the punishments
to be meted out by the Chinese govern
ment to those persons who were instru-
mental in the Boxer revolt, and the future
course of this government may depend
largely on what the Investigations now be-
ing conducted develop. No advices have
come as yet from Mr. Conger on this SUBJ
ject, but this is not surprising as the work
to be undertaken is of considerable mag
nitude.
The War Department officials expect that
ali the American troops which are TO be
sent from Peking TO Manila will be out OF
China by the 21st inst.
Such efforts as have been made by the
State Department. urging the return of
the imperial family to the capital city
seem. up TO this time. to haveLr,een inef-
fectual The last official ad1ssHss of Min
lister WI. now about Vice. odbfd. indicated
their intention OF going TO Si-Nan-Fu. in
the province OF Shen-Si. which is farther
TO the West than they now are The
fact that the acting governor Of the prov
ince was directed to refrain from all ex-
travagant preparations in making ar
rangements for the imperial family Is
TO Mr.. wu's mind. an indication that their
sojourn at Si-Nan-Fu is to be but tenn
porary. Conditions respecting the ques-
ton OF food and telegraphic comrnunica-
ton were unsatisfactory in Tsai-Yen. in
shen-Si province. where the court has been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08
Part OF Miners Helpers I'm Proposed
Advance IL to BE Considered and
May Cause Trouble.
SHERIFF WILL STOP MARCHERs
STRIKERS MUST TAKE THE CONsE-
oUENCEs IF THEY TREsPAss.
Harvey's Patience Exhausted-Mines
Under Extra Heavy Guard-Move-
ments OF the Day.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Tt is the gen.
eral belief that President Mitchell. of the
United Mine Workers, will tomorrow issue
q call for miners to consider an offer OF in
creased wages, to be held at Scranton. and
the supposition Is that Thursday next will
be named as the time. Mr.. Mitchell. how
ever. declined to give publicity to the mat
ters discussed by himself and other OFF,
cials Of the organization at a secret confer
ence to-day at Hazleton. and he gave no in
timation as to when the convention will be
held This and other questions to be con-
sidered are supposed to have been duly dis
cussed at to-days conference
Indications are coming to the surface that
hasty action probably will not be reached
on the question by the convention. and that
recesses will be taken pending conference
of committees with the operators These
conferences viii be requested with the pur-
pose OF obtaining a clear understanding as
r the permanency of the increased pay, II
accepted, and also 10 ascertain the opera
tors view on the proportion OF the increase
to be respectively allowed to miners and
mine laborers.
Sheriff Harvey. OF Luzerne county, to-
day. through President Mitchell, issued his
ultimatum to marching strikers. He says
he has been lenient with them heretofore
but that they must refrain from marching
or take the consequences. President Mitch
ell assured him he would endeavor to have
the men preserve the peace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08
Demands that the Law he Complied
with and Illegal Registration Pre-
vented in the TenderlOin.
IRELAND Is NOT FOR BRYAN
HE SETS AT REST A STORY IN THE
HEARST JOURNALS.
Cardinal Gibbons Also Not Favorable
to the observation-disclosures Dem.
ocrat's Opinion of Organism.

NEW YORK, Oct. John McCullagh,
state superintendent of elections for the
metropolitan district, to-day sent out sew
eral letters to the authorities Of this city
touching on the coming elections. In a let
ter to Chief of Police Devery, Mr.. Nc
Cullagh calls that officials attention 10
the fact that the days of registration will
fall on Oct. u and 1S and Oct 10 and 20.
and says: 1.-THE past experience of this
department demonstrates very clearly that
the sources of the debauchment of the
franchise in the city of New York are
chiefly found in the poolrooms, gambling
houses, dsorderly houses, houses of pros
titution, saloons run under the guise OF
hotels in order to evade the provisions Of
the excise law, and dives of even baser
Sort
Mr. McCullagh then at some length de-
tails the successful prosecution Of illegal
voters and their sponsors after the elec-
tions of November, 1899, and calls atten-
ton to the fact that the evidence in those
cases showed that they were engineered by
persons having official connection with the
city government and that the illegal voters
were drawn from the sources quoted In the
abstract OF the letter given above. He then
says that he has lately caused investi-
CATION to be made of such resorts in the
city of New York, and has in his possession
sworn affidavits establishing violations Of
almost every provision of law and
ordinances relating to such places, a ma
jcrity of which are located on the East
Side below Fourteenth street, and from
which are recruited the gangs Of loaters
o,,5 re1aatare xvba uor< f, connection wi n
the habitues. employees and hangers-on Of
similar resorts in the old and new Tender
loin' and other parts of the city. From
the evidence that has come into my possess
sion 1 am convinced that an organized at
tempt is being made to colonize Illegal
voters for the next general election. and
from these places"
Mr.. McCullagh then submits the ad-
dresses of over two hundred saloons or
other resorts alleged to be of the charac-
ter mentioned, and says that if prompt ac-
ticn is not taken by Chief Devery in sup
pressing these resorts he will invoke the
aid of the State authorities, who are spe-
cifically empowered by law to proceed in
these matters. He also calls the atten-
ton OF the chief to the law which directs
the police officials TO cause an investiga-
ton of each name registered. and the pen-
atty for neglect of such duty. His letter
closes with a demand that the chief and
the members of his command shall give to
the superintendent OF elections all the aid
in his power in this direction.
This communication to the chief is fol-
lowed by another to each police captain
in the territory named. which practically
covers the same ground, and also a sim
liar letter to Mayor Van Wyck.
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ippine agitation than those which I gave

ippine agitation than those which 1 gave
out
THE original letter Is In my possession,
and there is no doubt whatever Of its au-
thenticity. except in the minds Of those
whose prejudiced views are combated by
its honest statement of the true condi-
tions In the Philippines. If 1t becomes
necessary the entire letter may be made
public. but there is nothing suppressed in
1t which will give comfort to those who. in
the bitterness of a political campaign. are
driven to the extreme OF personal abuse in
their efforts to discredit its force. General
Lawton was undoubtedly one of the bravest
officers and noblest men in our army. Ev-
erybody who knew him loved him, and no
one can sincerely question the honesty of
judgment voiced by this fearless. noble
soldier. Without political ambition and
with no object purpose In life beyond
that Of faithfully serving his country, he
wrote me in confidence the feelings that
welled up in his big heart.
FROM LAWTON'S LETTER.
1.-The extracts from his letter which i
originally included in my New York speech
In December. 1899. as follows:
az" . / would to God that the truth
Of this whole Philippine situation could
be known by every one In America as
know 1t. If the real history, in
spirations and conditions of this insurrec-
ton, and the influences, local and external.
that now encourage the enemy, as well as
the actual possibilities of these islands and
peoples and their relations 10 this great
East. could be understood at home
We would hear no more talk of unjust
shooting Of government into the Filipinos
nor of hauling down our flag in the Phil
ippines. If the so-called anti-im-
perialists would honestly ascertain the
truth on the ground, and not in distant
America, they, whom believe to be honest
men misnformed, would be convinced of
the error of their statements and conclu-
sions, and Of the unfortunate effect of their
publications here.
"~ If / am shot by Filipino bullet
1t might as we'll come from one of my own
men, for I know from observation, con-
armed by captured prisoners. that the con-
tinuance of fighting is chiefly due to reports
that are sent out from America. 80
''You ask me why I, as Democrat, am
supporting President Mckinley. Four years
ago I was a Gold Democrat, and in this
election am supporting President McKin-
ley because from my own experience. study
and observation in the Philippines and far
East l know he Is right. Although / was
appointed minister by President Cleveland
and was succeeded in Office by an appointee
Of President Mckinley. 1t would be abso-
lutely impossible for me to support Mr..
WONTINITED ON FIENTH PACEl
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FLOODS IN MEXICO.


ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Oct. Telegraph ad-
vices from Tampico. Mexico. state that the
Panuco and Tames rivers. which empty
into the gulf at that place. are on one of
the biggest rises in their history and great
damage has been wrought by the floods In
the populated and cultivated valleys above
here. AT one point near Chila Station. on
the line OF the Mexican Central Railroad.
the Tames river is over fifty miles wide
and has swept TO destruction hundreds OF
houses occupied by Mexican farmers and
laborers. Many deaths by drowning are re-
ported.
All the tributaries OF these rivers in the
south and eastern parts Of the state OF San
Luis Potosi are out OF their banks and
have washed away whole villages and
ruined thousands or acres OF growing crops
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NINE PERSONS KILLED
LATEST REPORTS OF THE TORNADO
AT BIwABIK, MINI.
Many Others Inj1-ed-Locomotive
Lifted from the Tracks and Re-
duced to Scrap Iron-I.osses.

BIWABIK, Mimi. Oct. THE tornado
which ragged in this vicinity last evening
was the most violent ever experienced
hereabouts. The storm cut pathway
l5G feet in width through the northwestern
corner of this town, completely wrecking
the buildings struck. The shaft houses and
buildings of three mines, which stood in
the path of the storm, were reduced tc
kindling wood. The property loss is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to 100000 and the
known fatalities number nine, with score
or more injured-some severely, others
cnly slightly.
The storm swept in a northwesterly d.
rection after leaving here and struck a
little Finnish settlement near Pike lake
where number of buildings were wrecked
in one Of which an entirely family, con-
sisting of husband, wife and four children,
were instantly killed. So far their names
have not been obtained. 1t is believed that
when the more remote districts are heard
from further casualties may be reported.
The list of those killed and injured, so far
as learned, follows:
Killed
MR. AND MRS. MAROWITZ.
WILLIAM HILSTROM.
FAMILY OF SIX, near Pike lake. names
not known.
Severely Injured
ANDREW ANDERSON, locomotive
fireman, severely scalded; will recover.
f. MURRAY, locomotive engineer, Sc
verely scalded and otherwise injured; will
recover.
ANDREW DEBBo. laborer, severe scalp
wound; will recover.
JOHN MORRISTON. foot badly crushed
About twenty-five others were more or
less severely cut and bruised.
The home In which the Marowitz family
lived was completely wrecked and the body
of Mrs. Marowitz was found fully four
hundred feet away, every bone in her body
broken and her clothing completely strip
ped off, The body of her husband was
found, to-day, in the debris of their home
horribly mutilated.
William Hilstrom was struck on the head
by falling tree and his skull crushed. He
afterwards died at the hospital.
The engine house of the Duluth, Mesabs
& Northern Railroad was completely
wrecked and a number OF locomotives and
cars were shifted from the tracks and
pounded into scrap iron.
The engine on which Murray and Ander.
son were when the storm broke was blown
from the track and the men were pinned
beneath it and horribly burned by the es-
Gaping steam. Other men at work near
them had narrow escapes. Several cars
blown from the D., NJ. & n. tracks were
found In the Duluth mine pit, hundreds OF
feet away. Many of the buildings destroyed
were owned by the mining companies and
occupied by their employees. The duration
Of the tornado was less than five minutes
but it was preceded by ar unusually severe
thunder and rainstorm, and the heavy rain
has flooded many OF the open pit mines and
they will be unable to operate for some
time.
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TIEN-TSIN. Saturday, Oct. eli Hung
Chang, whose visit to Peking had appar-
entity been postponed indefinitely. left this
morning for the Chinese capital.
The five Belgian engineers and fifteen
missionaries who had been kept prisoners
for many weeks at Pao-Ting-Fu, but were
recently released under orders from Ii
Hung Chang, who directed that they have
safe escort to Peking, refuse to start, fear
ing treachery on the part Of the Chinese
escort. According to native reports both
soldiers and people have fed from Pao-
Ting-Fu. The expedition to Pao-Ting-Fu
is scheduled to start tomorrow (Sundayo
1t is reported Boxers have placed improved
gunboats in the Grand canal to defend the
town, although already practically deserted
in anticipation of the projected attack.
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several hundred men in running across the
property OF Calvin, Pardee & Co. at Latti-
mer yesterday has had much TO do with the
decision to be more stern hereafter. To-
night carload of the sheriffs deputies,
fully armed. lies In the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road yards, ready TO start at a moments
notice. A locomotive is near by with steam
up. and all the telegraph operators on the
Lehigh Valley system in this region are
on duty for the purpose Of sending mes
sages to Sheriff Harvey and to the chief
Of the coal and iron policemen
II was also learned that owing to the
rumors OF the contemplated marches to-
morrow morning all the companies in this
region have extra coal and iron policemen
on duty tonight. All the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company's collieries in this city are
heavily guarded. This company had squads
of its policemen brought here tonight from
Wilkesbarre, Mahanoy City, Centralia and
Lost Creek
Sherin Harvey called on President Mitch
ell at strike headquarters this afternoon
and requested him. as president OF the
mine workers. to use his influence to have
strikers refrain from making further
marches, and that, II he did not, then
Mitchell would be held morally responsible
for whatever happened. Mr.. Mitchell. it is
understood, informed the sheriff that or
ders for the marching did not emanate
from headquarters, but nevertheless he
would do all in his power TO have the men
on strike preserve the peace in every pos
sible manner.
AS far as could he learned tonight there
will be no marching tomorrow morning, in
which event there Is hardly likely to be any
trouble. The sheriffs deputies are sworn
in by him and are paid by the county. and
the coal and iron police are commissioned
by the State to act as special policemen.
but are under the orders and pay Of the
coal companies which employ them.
w. J. Elliott. an aid on Major Miller's
STAFF. was called on tonight by President
Mitchell. The two were together for short
time. The object OF conference is not
known, as neither would have anything to
say regarding their talk. President Mitch
ell will go to Shamokin Tuesday morning
for the purpose Of participating in the Ia
Dor demonstration at that place. From
Shamokin he will go directly to Scranton,
where another labor demonstration will be
held on Wednesday.
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NOT FOR BRYAN.
Archbishop Ireland Sets ut Rest .
story started by Hearst.

CHICAGO. Oct. THE New York Jour-
nal. on Sept. 23. printed a cable dispatch
from Paris saying that Archbishop Ireland.
who was on his way home from Rome.
where he had had long interview with
the Pope would not support Mckinley this
year. The Chicago American, the Chicago
branch OF the New York Journal. printed
the same dispatch Archbishop Ireland's
alleged utterances have been circulated in
every State and Territory. and Bryan's
friends have taken much comfort from
them. The Hon. Richard c. Kerens Re-
publican national committeeman for Mis-
souri,, an old and intimate friend of Arch
bishop Ireland. put himself in cable COM
rrunication with the archbishop. The arch
bishop cabled that he would sail on the
Majestic on Oct. 10. and would stop few
days at the Fifth-avenue Hotel In New
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