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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
LABOR MENACED
BY BRYANISM.
EX-COmptrOller EChOlS Points Out The
Democratic Candidates Danger
Gus Policy.
TRUSTS As A POLITICAL ISSUE.
Bryan'S Indiscriminate Attacks De-
clared to Be Founded On lgnOr-
anee and Injustice.

Chicago, Oct. 6.-James Ii. Eckles, ex-
Comptroller of the Treasury, spoke in the
Auditorium tonight to an audience that
crowded the great hall.
The meeting was under the auspices of the
Business Mems Sound Money Association
and embraced men of all parties who op-
pose the l6 to l plank Of the Democratic
platform.
Mr.. Eckels was introduced by William
Davis, of Chicago, president of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, who made a short address. The
iron and steel industries were strongly rep
resented in the meeting.
Mr.. Eckels' address, which was directed
particularly to laboring men, was, in part,
as follows -
81 propose in this campaign, as a Dem
ocrat, to support William Mckinley, the
nominee of the Republican party for re-
election to the Presidential Office, and or
that behalf, am upon this platform.
"The fact may well challenge the
thoughtful attention of every laboring man
that no where do the declarations Of prin'
ciples of the Democratic party as today
constituted, or the utterances of the Dem
ocralic candidate appeal to any business
interest, whether that interest be small OF
great.
"The question which submit with con-
fdence to the laboring man is, who has
most at stake in this country, the business
man whose energy, thrift and venture Of
capital. has made possible its greatness, OF
the political demagcgues who are going up
and down the country preaching gospel
of discomfort, arraying class against class
and proclaiming doctrines which, if in
forced, would bring widespread and far
reaching disaster.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
WOMAN SCORES BRYAN.


st. Louis, Oct. Among the holiday
visitors to the city is Mrs. james 9. Gra-
ham, of PappiIlion, Neb. She says, in
her opinion, Mr.. Bryan will fall to carry
Nebraska at the coming election and that
he is far from being the popular idol
among his own people that he was four
years ago. "While he was in Pappillion, "
said she, che spoke from platform ad-
joining our harness shop. l had quite a
tilt with him while he was speaking, and
| got more applause than he did when l
closed by telling him he could thank God
for good crops, but he must thank Nc
Kinley for the good prices, when corn is
selling for 32 cents a bushel when it only
brought 8 cents bushel short four
years ago. Mr.. Bryan did not like my
interruption, but the crowd enjoyed it.
~ have seen Mr.. Bryan clad in worn
and shabby suit Of clothes, with shabby
gray slouch hat pulled down over his eyes.
and with a red handkerchief tied about
his neck, when he came to our town to
speak to farmers, and when he got away
from the farmers he had other clothes
ready and then made himself look like a
gentleman. In the rig in which he spoke
in our town farmer would not have
thought himself well enough dressed to
come to town, but there was the Demo.
cratic Presidential candidate masquerading
with a red handkerchief about his neck in
order to catch the votes of few farmers. 3"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
CHINA MUST PAY IN BLOOD.
Forelgners in Pekin Think that Twenty
Boxer Chiefs Should Be Beheaded.

Peking, Oct. (via Tientsin, Oct. 6 and
Shanghai, Oct. IAN edict in reply to
Lii Hung Chang's memorial to the Empress
Dowager, has just been published in the
Enperor's name. 1t lays blame on GER
tain princes and Ministers for the trouble
with foreigners and says that the Emper-
or himself is blameable for having listened
to their advice.
The edict orders that Prince Tuan and
Prince Chung shall be stripped of the in
sigma of their rank, and that Kang- II
and five others shall be consigned to a
board Of deliberation, which shall decide
on the punishment to be meted out to
them. Nobody is ordered to be decaI l.
tated.
The edict is doubtles issued as test OF
the foreign sentiment. If it is agreed to
by the Powers, the degraded mobiles will
doubtless sooner or later, be restored to
their rank. Nothing short Of the decapita'
ton, of at least twenty Of the ringleaders,
princes and Ministers, included, will have
any lasting effect. China has too long
been allowed to pay for Western blood in
silver, and all Of the foreigners here fee
that the recent outrages here cannot bt
paid for with money.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
MARCH TO THE LEGATION.

The brutal murder of the German Min
lister ran like wildfre over the entire for
eign community. The missionaries who
were endeavoring to stihe their fears and
pack small trunks, as commanded do by
Minister Conger for the afternoons start
to Tientsin, gathered few things into the
smallest compass possible. Some took
steamer trunks, some hand bundles,
mothers took baby food.
Captain Hall, in charge of the Twen-
tieth United States Marines, sent by Min
ister Conger for defense, ordered all to
march to the American legation, the ma
tive Chinese refugees to follow in the
rear.
Out through their own barricades
thrown up by Francis Gamewell, of the
Methodist Episcopal mission, the man
who, by his skill in fortifying, became the
great man of the siege later, down HAut-
amen street almost to the great Haut.a-
men Gate, over whose second.story balus-
trade hung thousand Chinese soldiers,
the long procession of men, women, chill
dren and babies, nurses, servants and 600
native Christians moved. Fifty foreign
guards stood motlonlees by the roadside.
But the American Legation, distance
Of half mile, was reached in safety.
From thence all removed to the British
Legation, and that afternoon Of June 20,
at p. M, which was to have seen train
of 1000 carts full of half.armed men, help.
less women and babies insufficiently
guarded by 40O marines, found almost
every foreigner IN Pekin safe in the British
Legation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
RECOVERED HER DEAD.

Many unknown to her mourned with
the young Baroness Won Ketteler, and
many an eye filled with sympathy when
after the troops for relief came she was
seen, tall, slender, statuesque, her face
drawn with suffering, moving about like
one from whom the spirit almost had fled.
And more than she felt glad when, nearly
nine weeks after his death, the Baron's
body, lying in a magnificent Chinese
coffin, was recovered from mound in the
Tsung.li-Yamen, identified by friends and
physicians and laid to rest in the German
Legation.
Not only his young wife's sad heart was
comforted with the privilege of laying her
dead away, but many, many more rejoiced
in the decent burial of Baron Won Kettel-
er, whose death at the murderous hands
of the Empress Imperial soldiers saved
from general massacre thousand souls.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
MISSION TURNED INTO FORT.

The missionaries had been throwing up
inttenchments, digging bitches, building
walls, barbwire fencee and making loop
holes for two weeks, in fact, had made an
excellent fort Of the Methodist Episcopal
Mission property, but not one foot Of cod
had been turned up for defense in any Le-
cation OF the 100 optimistic Ministers.
-Four O'Clock found foreigners and native
converts under command Of MIR. Game
well, into whose hands Sir Claude Mac
Donald gave the entire work of fortifying,
all hands busy preparing to make stand
against the imperial troops that had been
promised as the safe escort to Tientsin,
for upon news of Baron Won Ketteler's
murder the Ministerial body stood aghast
at the thought Of their contemplated and
arranged for journey and hurriedly or
dered all to the British Legation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
MINERS CONVENTION CALLED.
Offer of Advance to Be Considered al
Scranton Friday.

Shenandoah, Pa, October 8.-President
Mitchell today Issued call for e conyen-
ton of mine workers Of the districts COM
prising the anthracite coal field to meet in
Scranton, Pa, on Friday next. The text
of the convention call is as follows:
"To All Miners and Mine Employees Of
the Anthracite Region:
Brothers-In view Of the fact that the
mine operators have posted notices offer
ing an advance in wages formerly paid,
and believing it to be our plain duty to
consult your wishes as TO our future action,
we deem it advisable to ask you to select
delegates to represent you in convention.
"You are therefore notified that con-
vention will be held at Scranton, Pa, be-
ginning Friday, October II, at 10 a. m.
"The basis of representation will be one
vote for each 100 persons on strike, or If
desired one delegate may represent as
many as 500 mine workers; but no dele
gate will be allowed to cast more than five
votes.
Each delegate should have credentials
signed by the chairman and secretary of
the meeting at which he is elected; and
whenever possible credentials should bear
the seal Of the local union"
The call is signed by John Mitchell,
president Of the United Mine Workers of
America; I. D. Nichols, president of Dis
trict No. /; Thomas Duffy, president of
District No. Z; John Fahy, president OF
District No. 9.
Philadelphia, October 8.-President
Mitchell issued his call today for the much
talked of miners convention to consider
the operators offer of a ten per cent in
crease in wages. 1t is the general expec-
tation that the decision Of the convention
will be to accept the increase and return
to work.
Quietness prevailed throughout the an
thrscite region today, the call for the con-
vention being generally accepted as sig
nal for cessation Of hostilities all around.
There we're many expressions Of satisfac-
ton by mines and operators and mer
chants and others in the mining section
today over the prospects Of an early set
tement of the troubles.
Today completed the third week since
the strike officially went into effect. The
miners will have parades and mass meet
ings at Shamokin tomorrow and at Scran-
ton on Wednesday. President Mitchell
will be in attendance, and is expected to
speak at both places.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
FEAR OR THE ALLIES.

The important feature of the message is
the confession that the court is restrained
by fear If the allied forces from returning
to Pekin.
The movement takes the Emperor and
Empress Dowager about three hundred
miles further away from Pekin, though
according to the statements contained in
the message, by reason Of direct telegraph
ic communication with Shanghai the court
practically will be nearer for purposes Of
negotiation with the outside world, than
it Was at Tai Yuen.
Minister WI has been informed also
that yiceroy Yu, Of the province just va
Gated by the court, has been impeached
because of his antiforeign tendencies,
which is the first step toward his degrade
ton. 1t is said there are no Boxers in
the newly chosen locality, so that the
court will have thrown off the hostile in
fuence recently surrounding it.
The only disquieting feature of the
move comes from japanese advices stating
that the new point Of location is strongly
fortified, which is some indication that
the imperial family is still in fight and 10
seeking stronger defense; but the friendly
viceroys and Minister WI do not share in
this view.
The minister considers the question Of
punishmenta practically disposed of by
the edict of the Emperor and the German
and American notes exchanged last week.
The only difficulty he apprehends is in
case the foreign ministers Seek to desig-
nate certain persons who shall be pun
ished in addition to those which the gov
ernment itself marks for punishment.
Such a course by the ministers, he says,
would be hard to comply with, but he
looks to the ssgacity of Ii Hung Chang
and Prince Ching to overcome any such
difficulty.
TRIADe DEFEAT CHINESE TROOPS.
London, October 8.-"Fivs thousand
Triads," says dispatch TO the Daily
Telegraph to Canton, dated October 2,
shave defeated the imperial troops and
occupied several places between Mrs Bay
and Deep Bay. They are now moving
southwark. The viceroy today dispatched
Admiral Ho and General Tong 10 oppose
Them"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

Shall we have suffrage restricted in vir.
ginia so as to put all political power in the
hands Of few That is what restricted
suffrage has done in Mississippi and Louis.
lana.
The illiterste and poor men Of Virginia
are more interested in the right to vote
than any other question. Remember the
Virginia Democracy will have constitu.
tional convention next year, for the
avowed purpose Of depriving uneducsted
men Of the right to vote.
The Bryanites are too much startled by
the list OF prominent Democrats who are
announcing that they will vote for Nc
Kinley TO say anything about the few Re-
publicans who have gone over to Bryan.
For one desertion from the Republicans to
Bryan, there are ten from the Democratic
ranks to Mckinley.
The charges made by w. F. Rhea
against the postmasters Of the Ninth Con.
gressonal District were CT general char
acter. He made no specific charges against
a certain postmaster. For that reason the
Postoffice Department declined to send
any inspectors to the district. The very
fact that Rhea did not prefer charges
against any certain postmaster is proof
positive that bic story was an exaggerated
creation Of his own mind. For what pur-
pose he alone knows.
j. Taylor Ellyson, State Chairman OF
the Democratic party, was at Bristol last
Saturday, and bad conference with the
Machine men of this district. He told
them how he wanted the machine worked
and we may look for all kinds Of tricks and
frauds at the approaching election. The
Republicans should be prepared to meet
the gang that will work for Rhea, and
prevent a repetition Of tho frauds that
were committed two years ago.
Senator ]. K. Jones, Chairman OF the
National Democratic Committee, has been
Indicted in the State Of Texas, as one OF
the officers of the Cotton Bale Trust, for
violation Of the laws Of that State. Texas
is Democratic State, the strongest Demo
cratic State in the Union. How does it
look for the National Democratic Chair
man, who is conducting such bitter cam
paign against trusts, to be indicted in
Democratic State as an officer OF trustr
Mr.. Charles /. Stewart, four years ago
editor of the Roanoke World, but now
editor of the Louisville Dispatch, has writ
ten a letter to the president Of the Young
Mems Democratic Club, Of the latter city,
Withdrawing from that club and also from
the Democratic party. He gives as bis
reason therefor the endorsement Of Beck
and the Goebe machine by Mr.. Bryan, In
his recent speech at Louisville. The Louis
vile Dispatch was started rs Bryan
organ in 1897 and in opposition to the
Courier.Journal. MIR. Stewart is an able
writer, and was valuable to the Democrat
ic party.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
CHINESE RULERS
FEAR TO RETURN.
On Account Of The Allies Presence In
Pekin.
THE FACT OFFICIALLY STATED.
Another VicerOy lmpeaehed on Account Of
His Anti.FOreign Tendeneies-Ques-
tiOns OF Punishment.

Washington, October 9.-The effort to
induce the Chinese imperial court to re-
turn to Pekin has failed after weeks per-
sistent effort on the part of the powers.
News to that effect was brought to the
State Department today by the Chinese
minister, who received it via st. Peters
burg from Viceroys Liu Kun Yih and
Chang Chih Tung under date Of October
4. Minister WI received the message last
night. 1t was as follows
"The departure Of their Imperial Ma
jesties for Shensi [proyince] was due to
distressing conditions at Tai Ynen Flu.
There is a scarcity of food supplies in the
province Of Shansi on account Of long con.
tined drought and the provincial capital
[Tal Yuen] is almost deserted, the trades
people having left on account of disturb
ances caused and continued for months by
the Boxer rebels, who have invaded that
province with the encouragement of Gov
ernor Yu. Their Majesties, therefore,
we're obliged to proceed to Shens, where
telegraphic communication with Shanghai
and other parts Of the empire is opened,
and rapid communication with their Ma
jesties may therefore be carried on; thus
court and official business may be trans
acted more expeditiously by their presence
in Shensi than in Shansi. The reasons for
temporary postponement Of their Majes-
ties return to Pskin are the presence Of
allied forces there, on account of which
fear is doubtless entertained, besides a
dread Of the outbreak Of epidemic diseases,
which usually follow after great disturb
ances, destruction Of property and military
operations. 1t is hoped the powers will be
considerate in their judgment in this mat
ter"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
A TELtTALE POLL.
Croker Is Angry on Finding Ms Party
Losing Ground.

New York, Oct. 9.-Chairman Frank
Campbell, of the Democratic State Com.
mittee, has received polls from about 1900
election district chairmen outside Of this
city. The results are being kept a close
secret at State headquarters. 1t has been
learned that these reports show that the
Democratic vote will be less in the country
districts than it was four years ago. The
poll of st. Lawrence county shows falling
off of 1900 votes.
The result of the poll was given to Mr..
Croker last week, and be was very angry,
limiting that it was about what he ex-
pected from the Hill people. 1t WAS re-
marked today that Mr.. Croker is not bet
ting as much as formerly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
REPORT CONFIRMED.
Sixty Americans Captured by FlIiplnos
oE MariniuqIe Island.

Manila, Oct. 8'-The report of the cap
ture of sixty men of the Twenty ninth
United States Infantry on Marinduque
island is confirmed through communica-
tons from General Macarthur and Ad-
miral Kempf. They marched 10 Santa
Cruz, which was the proposed route of the
captured party without encountering the
enemy or learning anything definite re-
garding the captives, except that they
bad entirely disappeared,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
MURDER OF Won KErrLER.

On June 10, at 4 p. M, Tsung-li'Ya'
men informed the foreign Ministers by
letter that they would be expected to
leave Pekin within twenty.four hours un-
der protection of Chinese soldiers. The
French Minister, Sir Claude Macdonald
and Minister Conger were all for going,
but Baron Won Ketteler, more suspicious
of Chinese treachery and diplomacy, saw
massacre for all outside the city gates in q
counts swarming with red.handed Box
ers and uncertain soldierY. The following
morning he determined to enter protest
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
HIS DEATH
SAVED ENJOYS.
YOn Kettel0r'S Murder Revealed a Plot
To Slay All Foreigners.
The BOXER OUTBREAK In PEKlE.
One Who Endured the Siege Tells How
The Bloody Knife Fell-MiniSterS
Blamed For Lack of Prepa-
ration.

New York, October 9.-Writing on Au-
gust %, from the Temple of Heaven, in
Pekin, to the Commercial Advertiser, j.
Martin Miller says that the death Of Baron
Won Ketteler, the German Minister, was
the only thing that saved from massacre
all the foreigners in Pekin.
On that day, June 20, the members Of
the legations had decided to accept Chin
ese escort to Tientsn. Baron Won Ket-
teller dissented, and he resolved to enter a
protest with the Tsung-li-Yamen.
He started for the Yamen, and when
nearly there was shot by the Imperial
troops who were to form the escort of the
legations to Tientsin. 1t was afterward
learned that these troops had been in
structed to murder the legationers as soon
as they were in their power.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11
TAZEWELI. VA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1900.

to the Tsung-L g-Li-Yamen. He started on
his errand, but when only two-thirds Of
the way there he was shot down by the
Chinese imperial troops who were to form
the promised escort to Tientsin.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-11

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-04-04
SklAM NEER CATS.

In many places in the extreme south
ern states, especially in what is locally
known as the ''piney woods" one of the
most notable features is the constantly
recurring mounds Of yellow sand which
everywhere dot. and. IL mus be con-
fessed. disfigure the monotonous land
scape. These piles of earth are usually
nearly circular in form, fairly SYM
metrical in contour. from six inches to
tw1 feet in diameter. and. save where
they have been beaten down by rain
or winds or the trampling of cattle.
about half as high as they are broad.
Often these sand heaps are pretty
evenly distributed, sometimes so thick
ly as to cover at least one-fourth of the
soil surface, says Popular Science
Monthly. If you ask native the cause
of this singular phenomenon. which you
will perhaps at first be disposed TO con-
slider kind of arenaceous eruption
whic.i has somehow broken out on the
face Of nature, your informant will
sententiously reply. "Salamanders"
All this Disagreement is indeed the
work OF curious little rodent popu-
larly so named and about the size and
color Of an ordinary rat. He is never
seen above ground II he can possibly
help II. He digs innumerable branch
ing underground tunnels at depths va
rying form one to six feet, and these
mounds OF sand are simply the dump
heaps which, in his engineering oper-
ations. he finds 1t necessary TO make.
After carrying the excavated earth to
the surface this cautious little miner
takes the greatest pains TO cover up his
tracks. No opening into his burrow is
left. How he manages to so carefully
smooth over his little sand mound and
then literally pull the hole In after
him" Is as yet unexplained.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-04-04
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fected with a nervous trembling. which
ceased TO a great extent when they
were used for a definite purpose. Wish
ing 10 see what effect this symptom OF
the malady had on the handwriting. DIR.
Marinesco asked the patient TO write a
few lines from dictation To his aston
ishment he found that the entire pass
age had been written backward with
absolute accuracy. The experiment was
repeated several times with exactly the
same result, and 1t is. in fact, impossi-
bic for the patient 10 write otherwise.
When asked to trace word with his
foot on the ground. it. too, was found
TO be written backward.
The patientbeing a Jew. final expert
ment was made with Hebrew. This Ian
guage. as Is we'll known, is always writ
ten backward, but the patient, reyers-
ing. as usual. the normal process. can
only write Ii from left to right. Partial
cases of mirror writing have been OBJ
served before, but none in which the
tendency was so Irresistible.