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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
LAST STANDAT PDKING
British and Russian Legations
Battered Down by Artillery.
NEWS FROM CHINESE SOURCES.

Every Foreigner In the Capital Reported
to BE Dead-Boxers Under Prince Tuan
Make Successful Attack-Prince Ching
Meets Death In Battle.
LONDON, July 13.-A terrible veil Of
silence enshrouds Peking and there is
nobody but believes the worst has hap
pened. 1t is taken for granted that the
powers have exhausted all resources to
get news from their legations and
that all their efforts have been in vain
leaves but one Interpretation.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
Daily Mail says the following story re-
garding the position in Peking emanates
from Chinese official sources: "The
two remaining legations, the British
and Russian, were attacked in force on
the evening of July 6, Prince Tuan be-.
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B0ERS SCORE VICTORY.
Capture Nitrars Mex, Two Guns and
Squadron of Scots Greys-Roberts
Fears Casualty List is Large.

LONDON, July 13.-Lord Roberts re-
ports to the war office under date of
Pretoria, July IL. as follows:
"The enemy made determined at
tack upon our right flank yesterday and
regret to say, succeeded in capturing
Nitral's mex, which was garrisoned by
a squadron of the Scots Greys, with
two guns of a battery of the Royal ar
tillery, and five companies of the Lin
colnshire regiment. The enemy at
tackled in superior numbers at dawn,
and seizing the hills commanding the
mex, brought a heavy gun fire to bear
upon the small garrison.
''Nitral's S nek is about 1S miles from
here near where three roads cross the
Crocodile river. 1t was held by US in
order to maintain communication with
Rustenburg.
THE fighting lasted more or less
throughout the day and Immediately on
receiving information early this morn
ing of the enemy's strength, dis.
fore, however, they reached the spot the
garrison mad been oYerpoWereu and the
guns and a greater portion Of the squad
ron of the Greys had been captured,
owing to the horses being shot. alsc
about 80 men of the Lincoln regiment.
A list of the casualties has not been
received, but fear they are heavy.
simultaneously an attack was made
on our outposts near Durdepoort, nortl
of the town, in which the Seventh
Dragons We're engaged. The regi
ment was handled with considerable
skill by Lieutenant Colonel Low and
kept the enemy in check until they re-
tired on their supports and would prob
ably have suffered but slight loss had
not our troops mistaken some Beers il
the bushes for our own men.
''Smith-Dorrien had small engage
ment with the enemy yesterday neal
Krugersdorp and inflicted heavy losses
upon them.
"Buller reports that the Beers who
were destroying mis- line of railway neal
Pardeekraal were driven off yesterday
after short action
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ing in command. The attack COM
menced with artillery fighting, which
was severe and lasted until O'Clock in
the morning, by which time both lega-
tions We're destroyed and all the for.
eigners We're dead while the streets
around the legation We're full of dead
bodies of both foreigners and Chinese.
Upon hearing of the attack Prince
Ching and General Wang Wen Shao
Went with troops to the assistance of
the foreigners, but they We're outnum-
bered and defeated. Both Prince Ching
and General Wang Wen Shao We're
killed. Two foreigners are said to have
escaped through the gates, one with
heavy sword wound i'll his head"
A courier from Sir Robert Hart in
Peking has arrived at Che Foo, bring
ing this message, dated June %: ''Close
to good by. Near the end"
The Chinese representative in Berlin
denies the statement that Lii Hung
Chang had sent to him hopeful tele-
gram. He says, on the contrary, no
direct telegram has been received by
him from LII Hung Chang for some time.
The days news is again restricted to
the usual crop of untrustworthy Shang-
hal rumors, the most serious of which,
reported by the correspondent of the
Express, is to the effect that Europeans
are directing the Chinese military oper-
ations. The correspondent asserts that
Captain Bailey distinctly saw Il man in
European garb directing the Chinese
artillery operations outside OF TienTsin
Foreign refugees from Tien Tsin
openly accuse an European official
whose name the Express correspondent
suppresses, and Colonel Won Hanneken,
who was formerly employed to drill the
Chinese troops, OF being parties to a
plot to procure the escape of General
Chang and themselves from Tien Tsin
before the bombardment, leaving the
other foreigners to their fate.
Statements are in circulation in
Shanghai accusing the Russians of in
discriminate slaughter of friendly Chi
nese noncomhatants without regard to
age or sex.
1t is asserted that the Buddhist
priests throughout the empire are prop
agating Prince Tuan s antiforeign Cos
pei.
News is circulating throughout the
Yang-tse valley that General Ma has
inflicted crushing defeat upon the al
lies at Tien Tsin and that the foreign
army has been cut to pieces east of Pc
king. The actual impotence for the
moment Of the allied forces gives color
to these stories with the worst results
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Express gives Tien Tsin advices to July
8, when the superior range of the Jap
anese artillery enabled them to relieve
the Russians, who We're hard pressed at
the railway station.
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TELEGRAMs TERsELY TOLD,

The Protective Order of Elks will
meet next year in Milwaukee.
Harry Vardon defeated Champion
Will Smith at golf in Chicago.
United States Consul Adelbert S.
the United States.
General Butler reports that $50 pris-
oners, released by the Beers, have ar
rived at Ladysmith.
The town of Maxwell, l. T., was al
most destroyed by fire Thursday Six
stores are reported burned.
By the explosion of an Oil tank in
Somerville, Mass. Thursday, nearly
100 persons We're more or less injured.
The Italian chamber of deputies
Thursday approved the commercial
treaty between the United States and
Italy.
The dates for the trial races for the
would-be defenders of the Seawanhaka
cup have been set for July 81, %, "a
and 25.
The Southern Pacific has taken the
steamers Chalmette and Algiers from
the New York line and put them on the
Havana line.
Two cars collided on the Dayton,
Springfield and Urbana electric road
Thursday and telescoped. Twenty per-
sons We're injured.
The Speartish Cyanide company has
lost its cyanide plant by fire, the loss
being about $4,000 The plant will
probably be rebuilt.
The California Cured Fruit associa-
ton Thursday issued bulletin in which
it states that the June crop of prunes is
unprecedented in recent years.
Charles r. Westervelt, secretary and
treasurer of the Dime Savings bank of
Newark, N. j.. is under arrest charged
with stealing between 1913, 5000 and $4O,.
900 from the bank.
Mike Conley confessed to Chief Ma
honey OF Cairo, Ills, that he assisted in
holding up the Illinois Central train
Wednesday, He says there was only
three men concerned in the hold up and
that they were all drunk.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Find Moman,, Bodv in River.

MARsHALLTowN, Ia, July l3.-The
body of an unknown woman about 40
years old was found floating in the
Iowa river She was we'll dressed and
Wore jewelry. The body had evidently
been i'll the water two weeks or more.
Her death is surrounded with mystery.
Queen l. Breaks State Record.
MARsHALLrowN, Ia, July l3.-Queen
l., owned by w. w, Walsworth of Ash.
ton, Neb., yesterday broke the half
mile track record of the state in half
mile and repeat in so seconds fat. May
Abbott won the 2:25 trot in 2:24l1
Queen Lii won the 2:40 pace in 2:4O14
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Robber. Hold LIN nenot.

PLATTsMoUTH, Neb., July 13.-About
! a. m. two masked bandits entered the
Missouri Pacific depot here and showing
revolver through the ticket window
ordered Night Operator Becker to
cough up" He permitted them to
enter the office and help themselves.
Not knowing the combination to the
safe he could not open if, as they re-
quested. After taking all the money
in sight they accompanied him about
one mile up the track and returned his
pocketbook minus its contents and his
watch
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Trial of Mrs. Fiyr,

PAP1LLIoN, Neb., July l3.-The trial
of Mrs. Louise Figg, the religious en-
thusiast who is charged with being in
sane, began here yesterday. The court
room was crowded and it was expected
that Mrs. Figg would create sensation.
but she retained perfect control of her
self and the trial was uneventful. The
witnesses We're mostly from Gretna,
where Mrs. Figg and Mrs. Bert Dona.
hue disturbed a religious meeting a
short time ago,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
rrohibitionists in session.

LINCOLN, July l3,-The first session
of the Prohibition state convention was
held here last night. After adopting a
platform, the convention adjourned UNI
til today, when state ticket will be
placed i'll the field. The platform re-
at1irms the declaration of the national
convention and scores the ruling of At
torney Griggs on the army canteen, de-
clares for the enfranchisement of
women and the initiative and refer.
endum
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Trentanov. Awarded the Contract.

ST. LOUIS, July l3.-Chevalier Trent
nnove, a sculptor of Washington, was
awarded the contract for erecting the
monument to the confederate dead that
will be placed in Springfield, Mo-, by
the United Confederate Veterans and
Daughters of the Confederacy. The
monument is to be ready for unveiling
by June of next year. 1t will cost $l2,-
600 and will be the only memorial to
confederate soldiers in Missouri.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Oats for the phi,innina..

OMAHA, July 13-The United States
is going to boom the oats market. Yes
terday the quartermaster of the depart
ment Of the Missouri advertised for
bids for the delivery of 5000, 900 pounds
of oats at Omaha. This grain is in
tended for use in the Philippine islands
and will be shipped from Omaha as fast
as it arrives i'll quantities sufficient to
warrant. The proposals must be for
quantities of not less than car lots and
must be delivered free on board cars. {.
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Bryan viii BE Notified at indianapolis.
SHERIFF SELLS PAPER.
The Fort Dodge Times Goes at Public

Fort DODGE, Ia, July l3.-The Fort
Dodge Times, the oldest newspaper of
Fort Dodge and this part of the state
and for quarter of a century probably
the most influential, was yesterday sold
by the sheriff at public auction, the
stock and fixtures being disposed of
piecemeal. Its political fortunes were
tickle. being affiliated with the Repub-
lican, Democratic and Prohibition par
ties and later posing as an independent
organ. Many successful journalists got
their start OH the Times, among them
George F. Roberts, director of the
United States mint.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Keane Not Yet Archbi,hop.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-No official
brief or transcript regarding Archbishop
Keane's appointment to the see of Du.
buque has yet reached the papal lega.
ton here.
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Boy Falls FIFTY Feet.

Fort DODGE, Ia, July 13.-Ear1
Sieber, a l3year old lad, while climb
ing around on the roof of the manufac
turing company's new plant, Slipped
and fell to the ground 80 feet below
The little fellow was stunned by the
fall, but was taken home and after &
time restored to consciousness. The
only injuries he sustained We're 8
broken wrist and a badly bruised body
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
honor ana nonest money shall again tri-

Not satisfied with assaulting the cur
rency and credit of the government, our
political adversaries condemn the tariff
law enacted at the extra session of con-
gress in 1897, known as the Dingley act,
passed in obedience to the will of the peo-
pie at the election of the previous Novem-
her; a law which at once stimulated our
industries, opened the idle factories and
mines and gave to the laborer and to the
farmer fair returns for their toll and in
vestment Shall we go back to a tariff
which brings deficiency in our revenues
and destruction to our industrial enter
nriSeS2
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Lightning at Des Moines.

DIES MoINEs, July ia severe cleo
trical storm swept over this city and
the immediate vicinity yesterday. Con-
siderable damage was done to electric
apparatus. The Postal Telegraph COM
pany's dynamos We're burned out. The
Local Electric Light plant suffered the
destruction of much machinery. A
heavy rain fell for a few minutes only.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Yesterdays Baseball Results.

Omaha, IL: Sioux City, II.
Des Moines, s. Pueblo, =.
st. Joseph, I; Denver, 5.
Cincinnati. 4; Philadelphia, 0.
Pittsburs, 7; Brooklyn, &.
st. Louis, 2; Boston. l.
Detroit, 3; Chicago, l.
Cleveland 0: Minneapolis, 8.
indianapolis, 3; Milwaukee, 8.
Buffalo, s; Kansas City, I.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Rural Free Delivery In Kansas.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-The postof-
fee department. has ordered the estab-
ishment on July l5 of rural free deliv-
cry service at Ottawa, Kan. also addi-
tional rural service at Topeka.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Games Today.

Western League-Sioux City at Omaha Den.
yer at st. Joseph: Pueblo at Des Moines.
American League-Aiinneapolis at Cleve.
land; Milwaukee at Indianapolis; Kansas City
at Buffalo; Chicago at Detroit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Chinese Guns Are Masked.

CHE Foo, July S.-An artillery duel
Is proceeding at Tien Tsin. The Chi
nese guns are so masked that the allies
find difficulty in locating them.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13
Roosevelt Hears the News.

OYSTER Bay L. L., July 13.-On the
eeze-swept veranda of Sycamore, his
country home, Governor Roosevelt yes
terday was notified of his nomination
for vice president on the Republican
ticket. The ceremony was so simple as
to be almost informal. Senator VOL
colt delivered the notification speech.
Bryan Will BE Notified at Indianapolis.
WASHINGTON, July l3.-William Jen-
nings Bryan and Adlai q. Stevenson
will be formally notified of their selec.
ton as the presidential and vice presi-
Dental nominees of the Democratic
party on Wednesday, Aug. s, at Indian
apolis.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-13

ilNCOLN, july lo.-NeDrdSkfb luSlOu-
lists in state conv entions, beginning at 8
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, completed
their work at $50 o'clock last evening,
after an almost continuous session. The
above ticket was nominated.
The three state central committees, to
whom had been delegated the selection
of presidential electors, reported the
following before the conventions ad-
journed and their action was ratified:
Frank Ransom. J. H. Felber, W. A.
Garrett, w. G. Swan, Peter Ebberson,
Robert Oberfelder, L. M. Wente, j.
Hughes.
The conventions were the most re-
markable since fusion became factor
in Nebraska politics. National politics
was injected into the proceedings and
at one time threatened split between
the Democrats and Populists The
question was over the Endorsement for
vice president by the Populists, purely
sentimental one, but it provoked a
storm in that convention which prac.
tically blocked all business from IL
O'Clock Wednesday night up to the
Thursday morning. The excitement
developed by the dispute over the ap-
por tionment of state offices among the
three parties was heightened by the
springing of the vice presidential ques-
ton and it reached the climax at 4 a.
M, when NJ. F. Harrington, one of the
leading Populists of the west, warned
party if it indorsed the withdrawal of
Towne from the ticket and conceded the
other Democratic demands. Mr.. Har-
rington asserted that the way to in
| crease the middle-of. the-road movement
was to throw Towne over and put in
his place one who had not been in SYM
pathy with the Populists. He said
Towne's withdrawal would lose North
Dakota. South Dakota and Kansas and
the fusionists would have to fight for
| their lives i'll Nebraska.
J. H. Edmisten, chairman of the Pop
ullst state central committee and vice
chairman OF the national committee,
was even more radical He declared if
the Populists did not stand their
Slou1et, IO1.i eiiSlI lllttCc Ou ulG utlblOldl
ticket and insist on the bulk OF the
state officers they could never hold an
other national convention.
Just at Il time when the sentiment
seemed strong for breaking away from
all outside influences the convention
took a recess. The Democrats ad-
journed at the same time and the lead
ers got together with the result that the
Democrats yielded everything but one
office on the state ticket and dividing
with the Populists and Free Silver Re-
publicans the eight presidential cleo
tors.
So far as the delegates generally were
concerned, they We're glad to know that
fusion had been effected in some way,
and after sitting up all night were not
disposed to court a longer fight, even
though it meant the disarrangement of
the plans of divers favorite candidates.
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FUSION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Moore and Lee Nominated For Congress
Lien For Governors.

Lien For Governors.
YANKToN, S. d., July l3.-Late yes.
terday afternoon the conference COM
mittee from the Popuist and Demo-
cratic conventions finally agreed upon a
substitute The Democratic convention
then marched into the Populist tent
amid great enthusiasm. Joseph b.
Moore and Andrew E. Lee We're nomi-
mated for congress. B. H. Lien of Sioux
Falls was nominated for governor
Lewis n. Critt was selected for chair
man of the state central committee
The Popplists nominated the remain
der of the ticket as follows: Lieuten-
ant governor Abe Vanosdel; attorney
general, A. E. Hitchcock; superintend-
ent of public instruction, Miss Lena
Aasved; railroad commissioner, w. T..
Lafollette.
The Democrats nominated the follow
ing: Auditor, L. j. Tracy; secretary
of state, Fred B. Smith; treasurer,
Charles D. Tiedrick; superintendent of
schools and public lands, Edmund
Cook.
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Veterinary commissioners Named.

DEs MONIES, July 13.-The governor
announced the appointment of the
three veterinary commissioners of the
state yesterday. They are: Samuel
H. Johnston of Carroll, Henry G. Tai
bott of Des Moines and w. A. Heck OF
Maquoketa The commission was Gre
ated bv the last general assembly.
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FUSION STATE TICKET.
Governor Poynter and Lieut..
Gov. Gilbert Reaominated.
OLDHAM FOR ATTORNEY GEKERAI.
Same Arrangement Regarding Distribu-
tion of Offices Adopted as Was Made In
1s96-National Politics Injected Into
the Pro ceedings.


For Governor or.......... ......
WIN. A. POINTER, Boone county, Populist.
lieutenant Governor. .............. .........
E. a. GILBERT, York Co., Silver Rep.
Treasurer .......
IS. B. HOWARD, Holt county, Populist.
foecfetdry Oh otate........ ........................
&C. V SvoBuDA, Howard county, Populst
Attorney General. ........ so. 49,.
WILLIS D. OLDHAM. Buffalo county, Dem.
Auditor of State . ............
THEODORE GRIEss, Clay county, Populist
Superintendent of Public Instruction. 49,.
.......... c. F. BECK. Burt county, Populist
Land Commissioner. Observation-Disclosures.
p j. CAREY, Saunders county, Populist
Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-08-30
Allison to Speak in Idaho.

Senator Allison of Iowa was in the
city yesterday, and the first person he
tell in with was Senator Shoup, of Idaho
who at once insisted on his colleague
going to Idaho this campaign and taking
part in the fight of that state. Senatol
Allison promised he would do as Senator
Shoup wanted, and later it was arranged
that he would speak in Idaho and otl,e,
tar western states. His services there
are especially wanted on account of hi.
acquaintance with the money question
which will be the main issue there.-Chi
cago Tribune
Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-08-30
The Reason Is Plain.

Some one has been asking why
the democratic PARTY is always
''denoupcing and viewing with
apprehension, and never once
pointing with pride. The ques
tion is answered by the Owyhee
Avalanche in the following terse
review of democratic platform his
tory:
a review of the past platforms of the
democratic party will reveal the fact that
the party is short on promises fulfilled
and long on false prophesies. II declared
that the war was a failure. it wasn't. II
declared that free trade would bring pros
pcriiy; 1t didn't. 1t said that the gold
standard would cause a panic; il didn't.
1t promised 10 reduce taxation; it didn't.
1t promised to benefit the laboring man
it di Int. Having failed in all its prom
ises, II now comes up with a new stock
declared to be better than the old and
asks for endorsement.
Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-08-30

Col. Watterson said Of Bryan on
his visit to Kentucky in 1896:
He is dishonest dodger. He is
daring adventurer. He is a pc.
ltical fakir." Col. Watterson,
when he reads Bryan's recent
speech Of acceptance, will find no
reason to change his first impress
ion of the man. Bryan is a dis
honest dodger. There is no issue
upon which he will stand and stand
boldly. He stood for 10 to till
1t was put in the platform for the
sole purpose of catching the popu-
list and free silverites. Since then
he has discovered a new para
mount Issue to use as chaff TO
catch other voters. He told the
the populists that the money ques-
ton was still in politics. but he
wanted to invite their attention to
something else. He raises the
bugaboo Of Imperialism as his
fathers did the same against the
great Lincoln, whom he now pro.
iesses TO love and reverence. He
prates about independence for the
Filipinos, yet winks at the out
RACES IN the south that are taking
away from the negro his right of
ballot. He is adroit and unscru-
pulous. In the west he seeks
votes on his silver utterances; in
the east he obscures the silver issue
with paramount reference to inn
perialism. His consent of the
governed" theory is meant for the
Filipinos and not for the negroes
OF the south. He is all things to
all men, and stands by his own ut
terances convicted. as Mr.. Waiter
SON says, of being an adventurer
and charlatan.
Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-08-30

The development Of electricity as
an industrial adjunct brings a new
credit to the natural assets of the
Lewiston district. There is a
greater aggregate of water power
in this district than In any other
whole state in the United States.
We have half dozen rivers dis
tributed over this district that are
continuous water falls for miles
down the mountain slopes. This
water power in years to come will
drive the wheels of traffic and in.
dustry with inexpensive, mex
haustible and perpetual power.
Our products will be transported
to commercial centers and our
factories will be run by this inner
ent power. We have power
enough in the Lewiston district to
run all the wheels Of commerce in
the United States.
Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-08-30

Bryan's second speech of accept.
ance for the year is now before the
people and still there is no me H.
tion of the paramount issue of l6
to that ON July 4th was to him
OF such vital Importance that he In.
sisted II it were left out of the
platform he would not be a candi-
date. Today Bryan not only de.
clines the free silver issue, but
asserts to the populists that he is
with them on the greenback ques.
ton. But this is not strange.
Bryan is at heart a rag money
man. as his record in 1892 shows,
when he worked and voted for
Weaver.