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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-13
A New Haven Party Headed by Prof.
Bcecher of Yale starts To-day,

Professor Charles e. Beecher, Phi. D.,
professor in paleontology at Peabody
Museum and residing at 610 Orange
street, who is the successor to the work
left by the late Professor Othniel G.
Marsh of Yale, leaves to-day for Ari-
zona partly for pleasure but chiefly for
professional research and will take with
Haven. Those who will accompany
him are DR.. George Eaton, the botan-
list, son of the late Professor Daniel G.
Eaton, who for years occupied the
chair of botany at Yale; George ID. Sey-
mour of the firm of Seymour & Earle,
at Yale, son of Henry r. Sargent vice
president of Sargent & Co.. Eugene A.
Callahan, general agent for Home Life
Insurance company, and Mr.. Moore, all
of this city, and two young scientists of
Hartford, the Messrs. Robinson. The
members of the expedition will COM
bine Investigation in the various fields
in which they are specially interested
They will visit the Grand
Canyon, the petrifed forests and the
Mok Indian reserve an expect to ar
rive in time to witness the famous
Snake dance; and will also visit the
locality made famous by the Cliff
Dwellers. Professor Beecher's re-
searches will no doubt yield valuable
scientific results and the party will
have trip of rare interest.
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TeIegrnphic Briefs.

New York, Aug 12.-Herman Meyer, fifty
years old, and his daughter Agha, twenty
years of age, of this city, were drowned
In the East river this afternoon by the
capslzing of the catboat in which they were
sailing. The father was a good swimmer
and tried to save his daughter, but she
seized him around the neck and they both
sank.
Halifax, n S., Aug. 12-John r. Curran
was murdered last night In the wealthiest
quarter of the city and William Cox, aged
twenty two, Is held for investigation. The
police say the crime is the outcome of a
family fued.
Halifax. n. S., Aug. 12.-Logan & Suther-
lands extensive lumber mills at NIusquado-
bit harbor. thirty miles east of Halifax,
were burned this morning. There Is very
little insurance,
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NINE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
All Taking Shelter Under Tree Three
VIII Die.

New York, Aug. 12.-Nine persons
enjoying a picnic, who hurriedly sought
shelter under some trees and bushes in
the woods in the Bronx section during
the storm of this afternoon were struck
by the same flash of lightning. The
persons injured are:
James Brown, thirty years old, a
Hungarian tailor of this city. His right
leg was scorched and part of his right
shoe was burned off. Lena Brown,
twenty-eight years old. wife of James
Brown. Rosa Brown, ten years old.
Eta Brown, eight years old. Louis
Brown, four years old. Emil Brown,
four months old Martha Brown, two
and-a-half years old Bertha Las
cowitz, seventeen years old, neighbor Of
the Browns Bertha Silverman, eleven
years old. neighbor of the Browns.
All the injured persons were taken to
Fordham hospital. At late hour to-
night the attending physicians said
they thought Mrs. Brown, her children,
Rosa and Ettat, and Bertha Silverman
could not possibly live. The Sllverman
girl was the worst injured of all. Of
Bertha Lascowitz the physicians said
she would either die or if death did not
relieve her that she would probably
become hope1essly insane.
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China AGAIN WARNED
France Makes Stern Reply
to Proposal That En-
voys Leave Pekin.
CHINA'S DUTY POINTED OUT
If Casualty Occurs the Imperial Cow
ernment Will BE Held Responsible
Washington Also Firm -WiH Not
Enter Into Negotiations for Peace
Until Safety of Envoys is Assured.

Paris, Aug. 12-10:30 p. m. - The
Tsung Ii Yamen has forwarded through
the Chinese minister In Paris, Yu Keng,
a message to the French government
complaining of the Hardness of the
for ign ministers in Pekin In replying
to the offer of the Chinese government
to conduct them under escort The
message proceeded to say that the
Tsung Ii Yamen declined to be respon-
sible for any casualties which might fol-
low these delays and insisted that the
European governments order their rep
resentatives to leave Pekin.
To this communication M. Delcasse,
minister of foreign affairs, sent the fol
lowing reply:
No order to depart from Pekin will
be given to cur minister so long as the
route is unsafe. If a casualty occurs
the responsib lity will be entirely with
the Chinese government. Its strict duty
is to protect foreign ministers even more
than its own.
''If it is true that the Chinese gov
ernment has great difficulty in defend
ing them and defending itself against
rebels, it shou d order it's troops to stand
aside before the allies This would rem
der free the road from Tien Tsin to the
capital and would accomplish the work
of protection which IS encumbered
'Tha Chinese gov rn:nent should un-
derstand that the only means of prov
ing the sincerity of it's designs and of
limiting It's responsibilities is a cessa-
tion in the placing of obstacles in the
way of such an arrangement"
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TRAIN ROBBER CONFESSES.
Committed Murder to Get Money with
Which to Marry.

| Columbus, O., Aug. 12.-Charles r. H.
Ferrell. a former employe of the Adams
Express company, was arrested this
afternoon in this city and has confessed
to the killing of Messenger Charles
Lane and the robbery of the way safe
of the Adams Express company on the
Pennsylvania eastbound train which
arrived in this city at midnight Fri
day. One thousand dollars of the
money which he had stolen was recov-
cred
Ferrell was to have been married
Thursday next to Miss Lillian Costlow,
daughter of Patrick Costlow, an en-
gineer on the Pennsylvania line. He
had been discharged from the employ
of the Adams Express company about
three months ago and had not since
been able to secure employment. He
confessed that the motive Of the rob-
berry was to secure money of which he
felt in great need on account of his ap-
preaching marriage. The money recov-
cred he had given to Miss Costlow to
keep for him, saying that it was money
he had saved from his earnings. He
was at the home of his affianced and
in her company when arrested.
Ferrell Is but twenty-one years of
age and has a splendid physique, being
six feet in height, with dark hair and
an attractive face. When the officers
took him into custody he assumed
careless demeanor, but when he found
that he could no longer deceive the Of
fcers he made a full confession. After
his statement had been taken by Chief
of Police Tyler and he was led to 4
cell in the police station he was In a
state of nervous collapse and orders
were given to watch him closely to
prevent him doing himself bodily in
i,lry
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Strike in B. s. A. shops Settled.

Springfield, Mass, Aug. 12.-The Bos-
ton and Albany railroad boiler-m makers
at the West Springfield and Rensselaer,
shops, who struck eight weeks ago for
10 per cent. increase and time and a
half for overtime, Sundays and holi-
days, were to-day granted the time and
half. with 4 per cent increase in
wages The request Of the men that
non-union men be removed from the
shops was acceded to by the officials.
The sixty-two strikers will return to
work tomorrow morning.
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GEN. DEWEr HARD PRESSED
rs FLEEING BEFORE KITCHENER'S
AND METHUEN'S FORCES.
Also Engaged by Smith-Dorrien In the
Rear Guard Action, August Q, NIethuen
Captured Six Wagons and Two Ann
balances M nfeking Preparing to
Stand Another Siege.

| London, Aug. 12.-The war office to-
day received the following message
from Lord Roberts:
Pretoria, Aug. 1.-THE enemy Gen
eral Dewet) is fleeing In front of Kitch-
eners and Methuens forces. Early
this morning he was trying to cross the
railway at Wolverdeen station, where
he was engaged by Smith-Dorrien.
"Methuen on August fought rear
guard action near Buffelshock He cap
-tured six wagons and two ambu-
lances."
In spite of the fact that General
Christian Dewet is In full flight, South
African kilograms announce a hurried
exodus of civilians from Mafeking and
that Lord Edward Cecil Is preparing to
stand another siege.
James G. Stowe, United States consul
general at Cape Town, has left Jo-
nannesburg for that city. He received
an enthusiastic send-off.
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S1OO.OOO FIRE AT GLTNS FAILS.
Lighting Company and Two Hotels
Among the Heavy Losers.

Glens Falls, N. e., Aug. 12.-The most
destructive fire since the burning of the
Glens Falls Portland Cement company
a year ago this month occurred early
this morning and resulted in loss of
over 100000; partly covered by insur-
ance. The losses are estimated as fol-
lows: Glens Falls Electricity and Gas
company, $35000; A. S. Rugge $50, 900;
Heffron & Linehan, $4,000; d. L. Rob
ertson & Co., 5000; Park hotel, $10-
900; Central house, $4,000: McGregor
park, $1,000. AS the electricity and gas
company supplied the light the city is
In darkness
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Washington, Aug. 12.-The volume OF
appropriations, new officers, ETC., res
quired by law to be prepared and pub
lished at the end Of each sessior of
congress under the directions of thei
committees on appropriations of the
senate and house has been completed
for the first session of the Fifty-sixth
congress by Thomas P. Cleaves and i
James C. Courts, chief clerks, respec-
lively, of the committees. A summary
of the appropriations shows the grand
total of $710, 150, ,S62.S8.
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Hartford, Aug. 12.-Fred Fl. Ulrich, a
clerk in the State bank in this city, was
drowned in the Connecticut river, just
below Colts dyke about noon to-day.
He was in swimming and was seen to
throw up his hands and disappear. Two
men jumped after him, but lie had sunk.
The body has not been recovered. The
young man was twenty years old.
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$4e,O5S R4ISED IN A DAY.
Success of Rev. DR.. Simpson at Christian
Alliance Camp Meeting.

Old Orchard. Me-, Aug. 12.-The sum
Of $42, ,O5S was raised to-day for foreign
missions at the Christian Alliance camp
meeting. Rev. DR.. A. B. Simpson of
New York, the Alliance president, read
a paper on missionary work in China,
Japan, India, and Africa and South
America. He spoke of the exceptional
opportunities for missionary work in
Cuba and the Philippines OF the $42, ,0j8
raised, $32,f51 was pledged during the
forenoon. The aggregate Of cash receiv-
ed during the day was less than $1,000.
The largest pledge was $G,0O0 The only
articles of jewelry contributed were a
ring and q locllet.
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London, Aug. 13.--It is reported here
that Cheng Yin Huan, the Cantonese,
who was the special ambassador of Chi
ma at Quneen Victoria's jubilee, and
who is now in banishment at Iii, had
been ordered to commit suicide, an i'm
perial edict having been issued to that
effect
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Dwight l.. Bill Dead.

Bridgeport, Aug. 12.-Dwight L. Bill,
aged eixty-one, died here to-day at the
residence of his brother, DR.. c. H. Bill,
after a long illness. Deceased was for
many years emigrant agent of the Chi
cago Rock Island and Pacific railroad
and established many colonies in the
west and southwest He leaves a wife
and three daughters.
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According to dispatches received to-
day from Vice Admiral Courrejoles,
French naval commander in Chinese
waters native Christians and missiona-
ries on the line to Hankow, 500 kilo
meters from Pekin, are in great danger,
the point being entirely outside the
sphere of the allied operations.
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BRITISH SOLDIERS STARVED
GEN. RUNDLE'S MEN NREPORTED rs
WORN TO SH1DOWS.
Suffering Severe Hardships While Great
Stores of FOodstufrs Lie Rotting i'm
Warehouses Many So Weak They Cam
Hardly Bear Their Equipment Red
Tape the Cause.

Correspondence The Associated Press)
London, Aug. A. G. Hales, repre-
sentative in South Africa Of the Daily
News is the latest war correspondent
to attack the methods and the red tape
4 of the British war office. He says: Let
me tell you how our army in Africa is
treated by the incompetent people in
the good city of London. l pledge my
word as a man and a journalist that
every written word is true. / will add
nothing, nor detract from, nor set down
aught in malice. If my statements are
proven false, then let me be scourged
with the tongue and pen of scorn from
4, every decent Britcn's home and hearth
| forever after, for he who lies about his
country at such an hour as this is of all
traitors the vilest. / will deal now par
| ticularly with the men who are acting
| under the command of lieutenant Gen
eral Sir Leslie Rumble. This good SOL
der and courteous gentleman has to-
hold frontage line from Winburg via
Senekal, almost to the borders of Basu-
toland. His whole front, extending
nearly hundred miles, is constantly
threatened by an active dashing, deter
mined enemy-an enemy who knows the
country far better than an English fox
hunting squire knows the ground he
hunts over season after season. To hold
this vast line intact General Rumble has
to march from point to point as his
scouts warn him of the movements Of
the tireless foe.
General Rundle's task is a colossal
one, and any sane man would think
e,;o io off ha do to
keep him amply supplied with food for
his soldiers. But such is not the case.
The men are absolutely starving. Many
of the infantrymen are so weak that
they can barely stagger along under the
weight of their soldierly equipment.
They are worn to shadows and move
with weary, listless footsteps on the
march. People high up in authority
may deny this, but he who denies 1t
sullies the truth. This Is what the SOL
diers get to eat, what they have been
getting to eat for a long time and what |
they are likely to get for a long time to
come, unless England rouses herself i'm
regard to the people who are RESPONSE
BILE for it.:
zone pound of raw flour, which the |
soldiers have to cook after a hard days |
march, is served out to each man every |
alternate day. The following day he |
gets one pound of biscuit. In this coun-
try there is no fuel excepting IA little OK
dung dried by the sun. | ia soldier is
lucky enough to pick up little he can
go to the nearest water, of which there
is plenty, mix his cake without yeast or
baking powder and make some sort of
wrat toha1 ,1thf11l
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FRENCH WAR VESSEL SUNK
Il COLLISION DURING N1T1L NH
NOEUTERS OFF CIPE TINCENT.

New Torpedo Boat Destroyer France
and the Battleship Brennus Come
Together-Former ut Once Sent to the
Bottom Out of a Crew Of Fifty-six
Only Fourteen Arc Saved.
Paris, Aug 12.-During manoeuvres
of the French fleet off Cape st. Vincent
last night a collision occurred between
the first-class battleship Brennus, fly
ing the flag of Vice Admiral Fournier,
commander of the fleet, and the torpedo
boat destroyer France.
accident was due to the fact that the
France turned to the right when order
ed to the left.
Details thus far received are very
meagre, but only a small portion of the
crew, consisting of four officers and
fifty-six men, were saved. IT is believ-
ed that no fewer than fifty were lost;
and great anxiety is felt here.
The France, which was of 313 tons
displacement was a recent addition 10
the French navy.
Later.-It is now known that out of
the Frances crew of fifty-six fourteen
We're saved. The losses include three
officers.
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1000 CHRISTIANS M4ssACRED.
Reported Extent of the Pao Ting Hor-
rOrs "Details Lacking.

Paris, Aug. 12.-The Patria publishes
the following: THE procureur-general
Of the congregation of the Lazarist
missions, Mgr. Batenbourg, informs us
that he has just been informed by M.
Delcasse that, according to a dispatch
from the French consul-general at
Shanghai, received yesterday, seven
thousand Christians have been massa-
cred at Pao Ting, east of Pekin. No
other details are at hand" Ii such
startling news has been received by the
foreign office it has been kept secret,
as the usual news channels have not
been made acquainted with anything of
the kind.
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Canal Concession Forfeited.

Chicago Aug. IA Times-Herald
special from Managaua, Nicaragua.
says: 1.-The Ehrich-Cragen syndicate's
canal concession was forfeited to-day
becaues of the non-payment of money
due This leaves the Nicaraguan gov
ernment free to deal Independently with
the United States in canal matters"
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Young Woman Kills Herself.

Hartford, Aug. 12,-Mrs. Bertha Hale,
aged twenty-one years, committed sui
eide at her home here sometime during
last night by inhaling illuminating gas
Mrs. Hale and her husband separated
recently and it is supposed that brood
ing over her trouble drove her to the
act,
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Battery G Reaches Now York.

New York Aug. 12-Battery G, Sew
enth United States artillery, which has,
been ordered to China. arrived here to-
day from Fort Adams. r. L., on the Fall
River steamboat Nashua
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AT HOWE & STETSON'S.
New Haven Mondvy the thirteenth of August
Tenth August Sale
OF Blankets.

Fortunately for you one of the largest blankec
manufacturers in the country was willing to closd
out his entire stock on hand, to us. He acceptee
cash Offer hence we able to get this largt
line of sample blankets and odd lots at price
very much below their actual worth. CheapneSs
comes through big buying and always being ready
to buy when manufacturer is spurred to sell.
Although the values of these blankets would
warrant their being sold for cash only, you may
buy your blankets now, pay small cash deposit,
and we shall lay them aside for you until such
time as you may need them-this in accordance
with policy which we have followed for years.
You remember the Sale of Blankets last De-
|cember? Well, this promises to eclipse even
that
Ready This forming at o'clock.
LOT LAT 80 cents, worth 65c.
200 pairs 1914 White Cotton Blankets, with coored borders.
LOT II--At $500, worth $500
so pairs ia White Wool Blankets with dainty colored borders
LOT III--At $3.50, worth $3. Is to AGO.
100 pairs. ia Wool Blankets made clean white carded
WOOL fancy borders-severa kinds in the ot-arge
blankets. M
LOT IV--At $500, worth $4 so to co.
$50 pairs White Wool Blankets l1-4 and l2-4 sizesa su-
pero quality wool, finished silk binding-wonder
full values these Also this lot several handsome bak
etsl1-4 size-in gays
LOT Vat 3.9S, worth S. 50 to 6.
Soft and clean White Blankets superior quality cardei
WOOL nicely finished with wide silk binding These Id
LOT vi AT $4.4o worth 81 to 49,
quality White Wool Blankets IA and l2-4
the finest kndsblankes that regularly sell for 81 to $8
Also few odd lots, where quantities are too small ~
See Show Windows.
4aaA
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Advance Column Rested.

London, Aug 1S-4 a. nfp-The Aus
trian naval commander reports to vi
emma that the allies decided to rest for
three days after the taking of Yang
Tsun.
A dispach to a news agency from Tien
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Tsin says: 1T is believed that some
five hundred have been added to the
expedition by the increase in the num-
bers of the British Naval brigade"
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come at the Same Timo-A Narrow
Escape Mt Savin Rock.
Arthur Jensen and Peter Peterson,
North Haven, were drowned in the
Quinnipiac river there shortly after
noon yesterday. Jensen's and Peterson s
homes adjoin and about noon yesterday
the boys decided to go swimming. They
asked their fathers to go along, but the
elders did not care to go just then but
said that they would GO later. The
boys We're III Il hurry to get into the
water and concluded not to wait for
their fathers. They accordingly started
for the river.
They had been gone about an hour
when the fathers thinking that the boys
had been in the water long enough
walked over to the river and down
along its bank. Near the Stiles brick
yard they found the boys clothes lying
on the bank of the stream, but the boys
were nowhere in sight. This alarmed
the men and they began looking around
for the boys, but did not find them.
Securing assistance they dragged the
river and about o'clock the two bodies
We're found in the river about half a
mile below where the clothes lay on the
bank. The bodies were found lying
close together and it is thought that
one was seized with cramps and the
other tried to save him with the result
that both mara drowned
Young Jensen was the son of Jacob
Jensen, shoemaker who has a shop
on Congress avenue near George street
in this city. Young Peterson was the
son of Christopher Peterson of North
Haven Stahl & Son of this city will
have charge of the funerals, arrange
ments for which had not been COM
pleted last night.
1t is said that both boys could swim
and how they could have been drowned
unless one was seized with a cramp and
the other tried to save him cannot be
conjectured.
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Worcester Mass, Aug. 12.-Alexander
Duyre, twenty years old. was drowned this
afternoon ut Lake Quinsigamond.
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DESTR UC7ION OF PEKIN MISSIONS.

French Minister Cables All Have Been
Burned Except One.
Paris Aug. 12-The French foreign
office received this morning from M.
Pichon. French minister a t Pekin, what
is evidently the delayed dispatch which
he referred to in the first message re-
ceived from him, published here last
Thursday as my cipher No. 1, dated
August g." 1t is as follows
From June 20 to July II Chinese
CONTINUED on Seventh Page)
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LEGATIONS UNDER ATTACK.
Shots Exchanged-One Foreigner Killed
and Two Wounded.

Rome, Aug. 12.-The italian foreign
office has received the following dis
patch from the italian minister in Pc
kin. Marquis Salvage Raggi, dated Au-
gust s.
"Shots exchanged between the defend
ers of the legation and the Chinese. One
killed and two wounded. We have no
news from the allies since July 80 We
hope they will not delay advance to Pc
kim
London, Aug 13.-"The sooner we can
be got out of this the better, for it is
convenient for the Chinese government
and unsafe for ourselves This is a
message received last night from Sir
Robert Hart, dated Pekin, August s.
and sent in cipher to the Chinese mari
time customs office in London.
Commenting on it, the Morning Post
says 1T would seem to indicate that
the Chinese government is anxious for
the safety of the foreigners or, at any
rate, anxious to get them safely out of
Pekin, while Sir Robert Hart evidently
expects that they will get out sooner or
later
Sheng, director-genera1 Of railroads
and telegraphs, according to a Shang-
hal dispatch to the Standard, expresses
grave fears for the safety of the men,
bers of the legations when the defeated
Chinese troops return to the capital.