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GERMANY IN LINE.
the Governments Acceptance of
the American Plan.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The victory of
American diplomacy in China appears
to be complete. Secretary Hay on
Saturday received a cable dispatch
from Ambassador White at Berlin
stating that the German government
had decided to recede from its de-
mands upon China and to accede to
the suggestions made by the United
States. Baron Fava, the Italian am
bassador, later called at the state de-
partment and stated that his govern
ment had decided to withdraw its de-
mands and to accept the notifications
presented by the United States.
Inasmuch as it is known here that
Great Britain was Withholding a Sim
liar expression only for the purpose of
permitting Germany to speak first.
and as Russia, France and Japan had
already signified their acceptance of
the American programme, the agree
ment appears TO be complete, and an
other great triumph has been scored
by Secretary Hay.
One feature of the demands to
which Germany stood committed was
that they should be final and in the
nature of an ultimatum. The United
States government was opposed TO
this because in the event of China S
refusal to comply on the grounds
that the demands were excessive the
powers would be committed to an en-
forcement of the demands. This gov
eminent therefore sought to have the
ultimatum excluded or modified, and
several days ago received encouraging
and Franco
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WON'T VISIT BERLIN.
In timatiOn That Emperor VIII Not
Receive Him Causes Kruger to
Abandon Trip.

Berlin, Dec. 3.-Mr. Kruger has
abandoned his proposed visit to Ber-
lin owing to the receipt of an official
intimation that Emperor William re-
grets that in consequence of previous
arrangements he will be unable to
receive him. The Boer statesman will
therefore proceed direct from Cologne
for Holland. He telegraphed to this
effect Sunday afternoon.
The significance of the stand taken
by the emperor is as tremendous as the
snub TO the aged Boer chieftain was
unexpected. England and the enemies
of England alike had been waiting
eagerly to learn the nature of Ger
many's greeting to the exile. Its eff
feet on the fortunes of the embattled
burghers and on the relations of Euro
pean nations to each other was regard
ed as of the greatest import. As usual
with him. Emperor William in making
known his decision left no room for
misunderstanding as to his attitude.
Another step toward the solidifying
of the Anglo-German alliance" is the
verdict of Europe on the kaiser's ac-
ton. 1t is source of jubilation 10
Great Britain and of keenest disap-
point ment to Krr gers friends. who had
expected from Germany, if not the en-
thusiastic welcome that France had ex-
tended. at least a warm tender of hos
pitality.
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MISSIONARIES MASSACRED.
Vites Them to His Home and
Then Murders Then.

Berlin, Dec. 4.-Aspecial dispatch
from China to the Volks Zeitung re-
ports a fearful mission slaughter in
the province of Shan-Si. The first VIC
Tins, the dispatch says, were Catho-
lie bishop and his coadjutors and four
European priests, Franciscans, Italian
and French
The governor invited them to his
house, pretending to give them better
protection; but when they arrived
their hands were tied. Then the gov
ernor himself poniarded them all.
Next the governor went to the bish-
ops residence with number of sol
diers and seized six Marseilles sisters.
He promised them money and distin-
guished husbands if they would re-
nounce Christianity, which offer they
unanimously rejected. Thereupon the
governor poniarded them and also a
number of Chinese priests, 30 Chinese
sisters and 200 orphans from three to
sixteen years of age.
Fifteen seminarists. who had hid
den themselves in cistern, were, the
dispatch says. tied to stakes and
forced to drink the blood of the first
victim. They were then killed.
A Chinese priest and two Christians,
who attempted to escape, were caught
and put in a small hut, where they
were burned
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LAWMAKERS MEET.
short Session of the Fifty-sixth Con-
gress Observation-Disclosures
Message Read.


Washington, Dec. 4.-The opening OF
the session in the house was brilliant
but not exciting. There we're the usual
throngs in the galleries and the usual
display Of floral pieces on the floor, but
the proceedings we're purely formal
consisting of the rapping to order by
the speaker, prayer by the chaplain
the roll-call of members, the appoint.
ment of the formal committees to wait
on the president and the reception and
reading of the presidents message
Despite the fact that great presiden.
tial campaign had concluded within
month. the best of feeling seemed to
prevail between victors and vanquished
The reading of the message, which nat
urally was the feature of the day, oc'
cupied over two hours. 1t was listened
to with respectful interest by both
sides. The deaths of the late Repre-
sentatives Daily On. j. and HotfeckeT
(Del.), and Senator'S Davis (Minn.) and
Gear Qa) were announced, and. as
further mark of respect TO their mem
cries, the house adjourned until to-
day
Washington, Dec. 4.-When the sem
ate convened it was thin the shadow
of the death of two of its most dis
tinguished members. Since the SEN
ate last convened a great national
campaign had been inaugurated and
conducted to a conclusion, and as
senators assembled they exchanged
political greetings as well as the
warm handclasps of personal friend
ship. A notable meeting on the floor
just before the session opened was
that between Senator's Hanna (O.)
and Jones (Ark.), the ehairmen, re-
spectively, of the republican and dem
ocratic national campaign commit
tees. Surrounded by many of their
colleagues, they exchanged cordial
greetings and laughed and chatted for
eral minutes.
The presidents message was read
and the death of Senator's Gear and
Davis was announced. Appropriate
resolutions were adopted and as an
additional mark of respect for the
memories of Senator Gear and Sena-
tor Davis, the senate at 3:45 p. m.
al iourned
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
Some Extracts from the Annual Re-
port Made by Attorney
General Gri9gx.

Washington, Dec. 4-Attorney General
Griggs Monday afternoon sent his annual
report to congress. 1t opens with state
ment of the condition of the work of the
United States supreme court which shows
that $40 appellate cases were docketed and
81 were disposed Of leaving 80 cases still
pending. On July |, 1899, there were 3157
United States conviets in the various pris-
ons and reformatories of the country.
against 1882 at the close of the last fiscal
year. In 907 of the 1,602 civil suits termi-
mated during the last fiscal year judgments
were for the United States, in 206 against
the United States, 4S9 were either dismissed
or discontinued and 2S were appealed.
The aggregate amount of the judgments
rendered in favor of the United States in
civil suits during the last year was 1868, 299,
and the amount actually collected on these
judgments was $751; 95. while $52.74S was OBJ
tanned during the year on judgments rem
dered in former years for the United. States.
and $27 100 was otherwise realized in civil
suits.
The aggregate amount of fines. forfeit
ures and penalties imposed during the year
in criminal prosecutions was $705.l37 and
the amount of these fines, forfeitures and
penalties collected during the year was
s1O4 ,O20, while $500 was realized on fines,
forfeitures and penalties imposed in former
wears
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THE EAST.

At the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges
during the week ended on the 3Oth
nit. aggregated $1,782, 744.033, against
S2,246.117.s34 the previous week. The
increase compared with the CORE
spending week of 1899 was 240.
In the United States there were 1S4
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 30th. nit, against 23S the
week previous and IL the correspond
ing period of 1899.
In New York The Abbot. champion
trotter of the world, with record OF
2:O3A, was sold for $4,000.
To lead the crusade against vice in
New York committee of IS has been
appointed.
At Lowell. Mass, Louis Gilmore
captain of a football team, died of in
iuries received in a game.
Max Billigheim and Max Eichter.
sheimer. two university students, left
New York on trip afoot around the
world.
IL. +. Goodman, manager of the
Goodman Manufacturing company in
Chicago, lost both legs in an accident
at colliery near Johnstown, Pa.
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A BIG ADVANCE.
Standard oil Shares Go to SIO-Rocke-
felIer's Holdings Are Worth
1886, 100000.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE Standard Oil
certificates made a sensational adj
vance Monday, passing the 500 mark
and selling at $40, an advance of 30
points for one day. The Mail and Ex-
press says:
THE companys capital of s1O0. 900, 900 now
has a market value of over $500, 900 900. The
stock is the second highest priced industrial
in the country. The rise in the price OF
Standard OIL this year has been phenom-
email. Last January it sold at ATS. BY the
middle of October Ii had reached $600, 600. 600
A gain OF over $500 snare has beer made
since then. with the last 100 points occupy
ing less than a fortnight. When it is con-
sidered that John ID, Rockefeller owns AZ
per cent of the total capital of the com
pany, the amount of the increase of his
fortune within a year is tremendous. In
the company which he controls his invest
ments are worth at least $3.50. 600 900 The
company has paid about $45 O0O, 900 in divi-
dends the past year"
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HORSES NEED HAIR REVIEWER
Uncle Reuben Thought There Wasn't
Much TO Brag AboutIn
the show.

"City folks is easily pleased" remarked
Uncle Reuben, who has a farm down in
Egypt, relates the Chicago Chronicle Il
went in to see that there horse show, and
there wasn't a single critter there that had
more than a stump of a tail. What they need
is hair remover for those prize animals. A
stiff young man that kept looking al moth
ing and holding his arms out as if he das I
let his coat sleeves touch his coat says to me
when | asked him about those poor tailless,
stuck-up looking animals that they were that
way on purpose because it's the fashion.
Queer what will come in for style. looked
round and most Of the big men they said was
millionaires didn't have any hair on their
heads The bald spots was about as numer-
Gus as the bob-tailed bosses. The young
dudes that ! see promenading about with
big flowers in their buttonholes didn't one of
them have a sign OF mustaehe or even
prospect Of any whiskers. 1t was queer
horses without hardly any tails, men with
out any hair OIL their heads, and boys with
out any mustaches. it do beat all"
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over 800 Killed.

Tacoma, Wash, Dec. 3.-The steamer
Energia brings details of the terrible
powder explosion at Marking, China,
which killed over 300 people last month.
During violent thunder storm light
ming struck a gunpowder magazine,
which exploded. The result was to Ut
terly obliterate the small valley where
the magazine was located. Throughout
the district were formed heaps of man
gled and twisted bodies. The rescuing
of the bodies was carried on for week
by Chinese soldiers, 100 being recovered
the first day
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WEST AND SOUTH.


way will pay $1,000 reward for train
robbers and has placed armed guards
on trains.
Marion Snyder lost his arms and
both eyes by an explosion while fish
ing with dynamite in Johnson county
Tenn.
In and around Galveston, Tex, As
bodies of storm victims were found.
At Burlington, Ia, w. H. Inter, of
Cedar Rapids, was murdered and his
wife fatally shot by robber.
At Havana, Cuba. Evangelist Sam
Small was placed in Jail on charge OF
swndling.
The death of David Whitney, Jr., mil
lionaire lumberman and vessel owner,
occurred at Detroit, Mich, aged 20
years.
In San Francisco 10 persons were
killed. IS fatally injured and several
others less seriously hurt by the cav
ing in of roof over whitehot glass
furnaces.
In Iowa the official canvass of the
vote cast al the last election on the
proposition TO hold a constitutional con-
vention shows it was defeated by $50
votes.
The state Of Illinois has As cities with
populations between 5000 and $4,000
and 95 between 1000 and 5000.
During a football game in Chicago
Preston Todd, aged %, was killed,
making the fourth victim during the
past season.
Emma Van LEV, wife of a banker in
Toledo. o., pleaded guilty to murder
ing Miss Alice Hammell and was
given ten years in prison.
At Spokane, Wash, four men were
drowned by the capsizing of ferry
boat in the river.
California's official vote gives Nc
Kinley a plurality of 14.254.
John w. Campbell, chief of police
in St. Lonis. Mo-. has accepted the
post of chief of police of Manila.
Kelley Heaton, Upton Moore and
Charles Mohr were killed by a boiler
explosion near BeIlefontaine. o.
Northern Pacific railroad will sup
plant its telegraph system with long.
distance telephones.
In Chicago fat stock show opened
| with 100000 worth of animals or
view.
| In Toledo. o.. sneak thief stole
$4,000 from the offic of J. n. Poe.
| In ST. Paul 10000 persons viewed tn,
body of Senator Davis. lying in state
Highwaymen held up crowded car
in Chicago. beat the conductor ant
robbed Edward Wright. passenger
Of SJ17
By an explosion ia Davenport. la.
James Coleman. engineer, and u. c
| Cook. mechanic. were killed.
The Nebraska popuiiets are plan
ming a wholesale emigration 10 indian
territory
For 1860 the product Of the Cripple
Greek fCol.j gold ramp aill ~ ~
7Js.sO0. an increase IT sf6ts,(s9 9ast
1898
Alnost she entire hasabsss portion
~ Fulton. Ky zas destroyed ~ ~
imeemdiarg Ere.
At the age 81 - tssts Joseph w
McCiurg. the last repabslesa governor
Of Missouri and congressman for tire,
terms. died in Lebanon.
The .iiehigan game warden say,
5000 deer were killed during the oper
season OF - days.
Six hundred miles north of Nome
on the southern shore of the Arctic
ocean. has been located the richest o
all Alaskan gold discoveries.
The remains Of Col. Lisenm. WHIT
met death while leading the Ameri
can troops before the walls Of lien
tsin. arrived in San Francisco.
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SOMETHING OF A TRAVELLER.
j. busy City Man Who sim Finds
Little Time to Cover Few
Thousand Miles.

II travelled 5000 miles last year" said the
mud clerk OF the ribbon counter, land
had no idea we had so extensive country"
lie looked around with conscious pride
and a swelling bosom A veteran in the
shoe department took him up, says the New
Five thousand miles!" said lie, with
scorn. Only 5000 miles? Why. bless your
innocent young heart, Travelled is, 720 miles
last year, and viii do it again this yea, and
all | know about the extent Of our great
and glorious country is cleaned from the
map. How did | do it: Easy enough.
twenty years ago | married, and for
the Deneht OF future generations | bought
q llttle place 80 miles in he country. Twice
day Tor six days in a week | have been
gong up and down To that little place for
- years, not counting side trips. That is
10 say | have travelled 800 miles week.
winch, multiplied by 50, makes 46S. 600 miles.
Nearly 20 times around the world, that is
ana almost from here TO the moon and back.
Oh. my. boy, you don't know what travelling
Is until you he in the suburbs and be-
e2me a eommuter. Five thousand miles ?
hy soul and body, that's hardly constitu.
tional"
And the ribbon clerk shrunk into himself
and wished be hadn't mentioned his Jour
ney.
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GARRISON sURRENDERs.
Lord Roberts Tells OF a Victory by the
Observation-Disclosures Succeeds
Roberts.

London. Nov. 3O.-Lord Roberts
cables from johannesburg, under date
of Wednesday, November rs: THE De-
wetsdorp garrison, Of two guns of the
Sixty-eighth field battery, with de-
tachments of the Worcestershire reg
iment, the Highland light infantry and
Irish rifles, 400 in all, surrendered at
$3.50 d. m. November %. Our losses
were Is men killed and AZ wounded, in
Guiding Maj. Hansen and Capt. Digby
The enemy is said to be $500 strong
Four hundred men were dispatched
from Edenburg TO relieve Dewetsdorp,
but they did not succeed in reaching
there in time. Knox joined this force
and found Dewetsdorp evacuated. Sew
enty-five sick and wounded had been
left there. Knox pursued, and is re-
ported to have successfully engaged
Steyn and DeWet near Vaalbank No
vember 81. They retired west and
southwest. Knox's messenger failed
to get through, so have no details"
London. Dec. 1.-The war Office an
nounced Friday evening that Lord Rob-
erts handed over the command of the
British troops in South Africa to Lord
Kitchener 1t is further asserted that
the queen approves Lord Kitchener's
promotion 10 be lieutenant general,
With the rank of general while in COM
mand in South Africa.
London. Dec. 1.-The Statist is the
greatest and most influential weekly in
England. and is often selected by the
ministry as a medium for testing pub
lie opinion on a line of policy it is
meditating. The Statist proposes that
the government will open negotiations
with Gems. Botha and De Wet for end
ing the war. 1t will suggest that the
civil authorities make the proposition,
as the Beers might misunderstood the
overtures if made by the military COM
manders Sir Alfred Miner, j. Il. Hof-
meyr or the chief justice of Cape Colony
are the names suggested. 1t charges
military incompetence, saying military
harshness should be avoided and the
Beers be conciliated.
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Information for Homeseeker.

Valuable information concerning Lands,
Locations and Climate Of Tennessee, Ala.
bama and Georgia may be found in 'Infor
nation for Homeseekers" recently issued BY
the Passenger Department of the Nashville
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railway 1t gives
detailed information regarding prices paid
for farm products, varieties of soil, climate
elevation, rainfall, etc. Homeseeker's Elk
cursion tickets to this territory at very low
rates. For maps, printed matter and other
information can on nearest ticket agent oil
address Briard F. Hill, n. p. A, 1923 Mar
quette Bldg, Chicago, NJ, j. B. Killibrew
immigration Agent, or w. L. Danley, G
p. A, Nashville, Tenn.
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The transport Sherman ar,;ved in
Manila with troops.
In Luzon the Third infantry was
ambushed by Filipinos and two nri-
Yates were killed and three wounded
\ note was sent by Russia TO the
ENJOYS at Picking that il would insist
on an amendment to the conioint note
making II acceptable To China The
rebellion in the south was sa;d - ba
increasing. The Fifteenth United
states infantry started from Tientsin
for Manila.
Nearly 1000 lives were lost and 1000
people rendered homeless by atyphoon
at Tourane, Japan.
The number of saloons in Manila has
decreased 80 per cent. under America n
rule.
report from Lord Roberts saws that
400 British troops with two guns sur
rendered TO the Beers al Dewetsdorp.
southwest of Bloemfontein.
Kruger has reason To beI;aye I'm.
peror William of Germany is ready TO
join other powers in insisting on arhi-
tration.
In typhoon which swept Guam is.
land in the Philippines The Tinted
states cruiser Yosemite was lost and
nve seamen persisted. The island was
devastated. two towns wiped out and
hundreds of natives killed.
The death of Oscar Wilde opce
known as the apostle of estheticism. .
occurred in Paris from an abscess in
the ear.
Lord Kitchener succeeds Ford Rob-
erts In command of the British troops
IN South Africa. London papers urge
the government TO try to arrange
terms OF peace with Boer generals.
Kruger paid farewell calls in Paris
and left for Berlin, Germany.
The American missionaries in China
write the state department insisting
upon the burning of cities and the
killing of the emperor. empress
dowager and high court officials.
Near Marking lightning struck a
powder magazine and 300 Chinese
were killed.
Dispatches from China say that me
allies have proposed to the empress 10
return to Picking, and that a project
was on foot to restore the emperor
and retire the dowager.
A dispatch from Manila saws 2.2O0
bolomen entered Vigan. island of
Luzon- and surrendered to Capt.
Green, OF the Thirty-third infantry.
For the sixth time President Diaz
took the oath as president of Mexico.
Kruger was informed that the Ger
man emperor would be unable to re-
eeive him, and he will proceed from
Cologne TO The Hague.
In the wreck of the steamer ST.
Marie, trading between Naples and
Marseilles, As of her passengers and
a part of her crew were lost.
In a collision of passenger and
freight trains near Jimulco, Mexico.
20 persons were killed and many
wounded.
The president. has started the civil
service system in the Philippines.
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Fairly reliable statistics show that
$4,000, 100000 of hens eggs will have
TO be laid in the United States during
the year 19O0-a startling estimate
truly, inasmuch as these eggs. stood
one on top of another. point to butt,
would make a column 461 ,64S miles in
altitude-nearly twice the height of
the moon from the earth when that orb
is seen overhead. The annual value of
this product exceeds that of any min
eral except coal, and is greater even
than that of our pig iron.
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President Dinz sworn In

City of Mexico, Dec. 3.-President
Diaz Saturday morning took the oath
as president of the republic for the
next four years. When he entered the
chamber of deputies all rose and he
took his stand in front of the speaker
of the house. who asked him if he prom
Used to observe and comply with the
precepts of the constitution. The pres
ident answered in the affirmative and
the speaker said: ''If you shall do so
lnay the nation reward you. and if you
do not may it call you o account"
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1t has been decided by the United
States court of appeals that the ordi-
nary predictions of the weather bu-
reau are not trustworthy and that men
are not bound TO consider them. The
master Of a ship unloaded his cargo
of rice at Charleston. putting it on an
uncovered wharf, where it was spoiled
by rain, which had been predicted by
the weather bureau. Litigation fol-
lowed as to payment and a lower court
found against the sea captain He APP
pealed, with the result noted above.
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Among the most curious election
bets on record is one made by John
7. Courtney. democrat. and Harry
Wallace. republican, two plumbers do
ing business in Minneapolis. The
agreement was that the loser must
for life cast his vote as the winner
shall dictate Courtney. who was q
candidate for alderman in the recent
campaign. was of course the loser, and
is now engaged in earnest but SO far
unavailing efforts to substitute some
other penalty. Wallace is obdurate
and swears that Courtney must in fu.
ture vote the republican ticket
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A Horrible Death.

Cartwright, Wis. Dec. An eight
year-old daughter of G. +. Riley, a
farmer living about 16 miles from
here in the Mad Brook settlement. was
carried away by huge panther and
devoured. Only few fragments of
the remains could be found. The girl
was walking in the road near the
farm when the beast sprang from the
woods and, taking the girl in his
huge jaws, carried her into swamp.
where she met most horrible death,
being torn limb from limb.