Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-11-17
SWEEPING DEMANDS ON CHINA.
They Include the Execution of Ihe
Boxer Princes.


Boxer Princes.
London, Nov 13.-Dr. Morrison.
wiring to The Times from Pekin on
Sunday, says:
Pressed by the common desire for
a speedy termination of present con-
ditions, the foreign ENJOYS have final
ly agreed TO the following terms, to be
presented in a conjoint note which,
subject to the approval of the govern
ments, VIII be pressed upon China as
the basis OF preliminary treaty:
China shall erect a monument to
Baron Won Kettler on the site where
he was murdered and send an imperial
prince to Germany to convey an
apology. She shall inflict the death
Poca'ty upon II princes and cetctcls
already named and suspend provincial
examinations for FIVE years where the
outrages occurred. In future all Of
ficials failing to prevent anti-foreign
outrages within their Jurisdiction shall
be dismissed and punished.
Indemnity shall be paid to the
states, corporations and individuals.
The tsung-li-yamen shall be abolished
and its functions vested in a foreign
minister. Rational intercourse shall
be permitted with the emperor, as in
civilized countries.
The forts at Taku and the other
forts on the coast of Chi Ii shall be
razed and the importation of arms and
war material prohibited. Prominent
legation guards shall be maintained
and also guards OF communication be-
tween Pel1in and the sea.
Imperial proclamations shall be
posted for two years throughout the
empire suppressing Boxers.
The indemnity is to include COM
pensation for Chinese who suffered
through being employed by foreigners,
but not compensation for native Chris
tians. The words missionary and
Christians do not occur in the note"
Wheeling, w. Va, Nov. S.-After
operating its plant for years with nom
union labor the management OF the
Riverside plant OF the National Tube
company yesterday signed the scale of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers and resumed in full
today The men were organized
last June and on July went on strike,
when the management refused TO re-
cognize the union. Three thousand
men are affected. Several efforts have
been made to run the plant non-union
and several small riots have resulted.
Jacksonville, Fla, Nov. 9.-News has
reached here or serious election day
row at Keystone Park, Hillsboro coun-
ty. George Mobley and Thomas Moody,
well known citizens of that section,
quarreled at a primary polling place
and in a fight which resulted one of
the participants was badly stabbed.
They were then separated, but a few
minutes subsequently, 1t Is alleged,
Mobley shot Moody while standing in
the doorway Of the building in which
the election was being held. 1t is re-
ported that Moody will not live.
Atlanta, Nov. 1.-THE Georgia leg
islature being unable to adjourn Nov.
8, unanimously elected Hon. William
Jennings Bryan president OF the Uni
ted States. Mr.. Bryan has acknowl-
edged the compliment and letter from
him was read in the senate yesterday
by order of President Howell. Mr..
Bryan says: while the returns show
that the decision rendered in my favor
In Georgia has been overruled in the
higher court, which includes the en-
tire nation, yet l beg to express my
appreciation of the confidence and good
will expressed by the members of the
Georgia legislature"
Montgomery, Ala, Nov. 13.-The
seventh annual convention of the uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy will
be held in Montgomery this week,
commencing tomorrow morning. Two
questions OF live importance will come
up. First will be the question of pur-
chasing the White House of the Con-
federacy" as museum for southern
history, and the second will be the
taking of some action looking to the
introduction into the public schools of
histories treating of the civil war in
q manner acceptable to the organiza-
ton. 1t is expected that all the old
officers, with the possible exception of
the first vice president, will be re-
elected. They are: General president,
Mrs. Edwin G. Weed OF Jacksonville,
Fla; first vice president, Mrs. w. w.
Read of New York; second vice presi-
dent, Mrs. S. T. McCulouch OF Staun-
ton, Va; recording secretary, Mrs.
John ]. Hickman of Nashville; corre-
spending secretary, Miss Mary F.
Meares Of Wilmington, N c.: treas
urer, Mrs. ]. Jefferson Thomas of At
ianta