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been destroyed. He does not know what

been destroyed. He does not know what
has become of our men.
The Chinese have modern field guns and
are battering the foreigners In their strong
holds. He says the line can be Travelled
from here to Ching Chang Chan. half way
to Tien Tsin.
"a few Russians are there. He says I may
be attacked here tonight, but l have sent
all the marines. as l can look out for my
self. This place will be deserted again to-
night. 1t is very important to preserve the
rolling stock of the railway. When train
has got far ahead as it can the troops
will press ahead afoot and the train will be
sent back for reinforcements.
Il seized here. at daylight. dispatch
boat l could start more locomotives If 1
had competent firemen.
(Sigred) WISE,
Captain of warship Monocacy."
Lieut.. kempff. U. S. N, through the Brit
ish consul at Tien Tsin. sends the following
by special courier:
"Reinforcements are urgently needed. The
casualties are heavy the ammunition is In
sufficient and machine guns are required.
The Russians at the railroad station are
hard pressed. The Chinese troops keep up
an incessant fire from large guns on the
European concessions, nearly all of which
have been burned"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
ComInis.ion Revoked.

Upon the recommendation of the chief of
police, the District Commissioners have re-
voked the commission Of Charles Rodgers,
an additional private of the police force
Rodgers was charged with having knowl-
edge of an Illicit sale of liquor and with re-
fusing to assist in the prosecution Of the
offender.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
CHIcAGOANs AT TEN TsIN.
Thirteen MissiOnaries. Including Sew
eral Women, May Have Perished.

eral Women, May Have Perished.
CHICAGO. June 23-The Chronicle says:
IF the news which comes from Tien Tsin
10 true. thirteen Chicagoans have persisted
under the Boxer sword. If Tien Tsin Is de-
stroyed. the mission workers of China have
lost their central station. including the
two largest and oldest hospitals in the
north.
OF the Chicagoans who have gone to
north China missionaries the best known
are DIR. Henry Porter and Rev. Arthur
Smith These men, with their families. are
supposed to have gone to Tien Tsin from
their station at Pang Chuang five weeks
ago, for safety. With them was Mr.. Por-
ter's sister. Miss Mary II. Porter. foremost
among the representatives of the women S
board of the interior in China
Misses Grace and Gertrude WyckOf left
Pang ChuanR last spring to make their
permanent station at Tien Tsin until the
trouble further south should cease. Miss
Nellie Russell. who. while not Chicago
girl. studied here and went from this dis
trct, notified friends at Bessemer. Mich,
recently that she had left her station. some
In the city. Last of the list of those whose
fate Is uncertain is Miss Frances b. Pat
terson, whose permanent station Is in Tien
Tsin.
Rev. Mr.. Smith. who is perhaps the
best known of the American mission force
In China because of the books he has writ
ten concerning the country and its people
has had charge of the congregational
agency at Pang Chuang-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
RELIEF COLUMN LOSES HEAVILY.
Qieut. KempG Sends Urgent Request
for ReinfOrcements.

SHANGHAI. June 23.-Ths American
consul here. John Goodnow. has received
from the consul at Chefoo. under date of
June g. a bulletin from Commander Wise
of the United States warship Monocacy, as
follows:
June 2O.-On the arrival Of the marines
this morning started fires In the locomo-
tives and got cars and two field pieces
Just now. 1 pm. trains with 400 Russians
and one field piece and 40 marines are
leaving. French officer has just arrived
having left Tien Tsin yesterday at 7:3O
o'clock when troops were attacking the
foreigners and the American consulate had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
FRENCH ADvIcEs FROM CHINA.
Burning of American Consulate n
Tien Tsin in Confirmed.

PARIS. June 23.-The French consul gem
eral in China telegraphs. under date of Fri
day, June 10, follows:
THE Chinese have bombarded the Tien
Tsin concessions and have destroyed the
American consulate
A dispatch received here from the French
consul, VI. Francois. sent from Yunnan-fu.
under date Of Sunday. June H. expresses
fear OF an insurrection against the man
darins in Yunnan-sen owing to apprehen-
sions Of a war He explains that this Is
the reason why he Is detained
Another telegram. dated Wednesday. June
~ announces that the mandarinS had re-
established tranquility in Mongtse and
that the situation In Yunnen-sen was I'M
changed. 1t was added that two Euro
peans from the latter place had succeeded
in reaching Mong-tse without having en-
countered great obstacles and that four
Chinese convicted of participating In the
burning of a church and five european
houses June Is had been executed
baron Ketteler In Safe.
BERLIN, June 23-The Chinese minister
here, Lu-Hai-Houan, today informed the
foreign Office that the German minister at
Pekin. Baron Won Ketteler. who. 1t was re-
ported. had been killed by the Boxers. was
safe and well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
Estate Goes to Near Relatives.

By the terms of the will of Henry H.
Tilghman, dated August 8. 1899, the estate
.he testator Is 'bequeathed to near rela-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23

Reappointed Dental Examiner.
Upon the recommendation Of the board
DR.. Chas. w. AppIer has been reappoint-
ed by the District Commissioners a men,
Der Of the board Of dental examiners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.


Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co. bankers
and brokers. 1419 F ST.. members New york
stock exchange. correspondents Messrs La
denburg. Thalmann Co. New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23

dispatch Is believed to be the son of Mr.
Price c. Claflin Of the Clafiin Optical Com
pany, this city, although the latter has
heard nothing personally of the tragedy.
The young man was stenoxrapRer and
typewriter. and was believed by his father
to be in New York. whittier he went from
here ten days ago.
Mr.. CIahin knew his son intended going
to London and Paris later in the year. He
says he fears the suicide can be none other
than his son. He can assign no cause for
the rash act,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
RONA-FIDE CIRCULATION.

reference to the statement be-
low will show that the circulation
sworn to is q bona-fide one.
1t is easily possible for a news
paper with an elastic conscience to
swell its legitimate circulation enor-
mously. in order to deceive adver-
tisers, by sending out thousands Of
papers to newsstands which are re-
turnable, and which are, In fact, re-
turned, but nevertheless are in
Guided in what purports to be an
honest statement OF circulation.
Intelligent advertisers, however,
judge by results. and bogus circula-
lions don't give them.
The family circulation of The Star
is many thousands in excess of any
other Washington paper.
SATURDAY June l6, All
MONDAY June is, 30 800
TUESDAY, June 49, 30 800
"WEDNESDAY June 20, $780,. OF
THURSDAY, June2i 6O2
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .19O $50
Daily 756
solemnly swear that the above statement
represents only the number OF copies or
THE EVENING STAR circulated during
the six secular days ending Friday, June
d. 10O0-that Is. the number of copies
actually sold. delivered. furnished or mailed,
for valuable consideration. to bona-fide pur-
chasers or subscribers. and that the copies
so counted are not returnable to or remain
in the office unsold.
J. WHIT. HEBRON,
Cashier. Evening Star Newspaper Company,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
twenty-third day of June. A. d. 1900.
JNO. c. ATHEY,
Notary Public, D. c.
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NAVAL FIGHT REPORTED.

German Cruiser Runs Chinese War
ship Ash0re-Cnptures Another.
KEEL. June pa rumor is current In
naval circles here that a German cruiser
has forced one Chinese ship ashore and
captured another, and that fifty Chinese
we're killed and seventy wounded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
e. E. CLAFLIN KILLS HIMSELF.
Son of Washington Optfcfan Dead IN
London Hotel

London Hotel.
LONDON. June pa man. apparently
E. E. Clafiin Of Washington. has, it ap-
pears. blown out his brains In a hotel of
this city. According to the hotel people,
Claf1in arrived here Wednesday. accom-
panied by a man named Muirhead. who
went to Paris Thursday.
Claf1in was last seen alive yesterday. The
door of his room was forced open this
volver grasped in his hand and a wound in
his right temple. An inquest will be held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
Souvenir for Mrs. Mckinley,

Mr.. Heath, assistant postmaster general,
called on Mrs. Mckinley this morning and
presented her with a beautiful fac-simile
souvenir of the badge of the republican ma
tional committee. The fac-simile Is Of solid
gold and Is handsome specimen of the en-
graver's art Mrs. Mckinley has a yalua-
BILE collection of convention and committee
badges representing the campaigns of forty
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-04

Given t. = HAN Who Wovered De-
tween Religion and Politics.
a well known western representa-
tive in congress, pleading an engage
ment. left small groop Of takers in
an up town hotel lobby, and an elderly
man, whom he had introduced to the
party, made bold to tell story about
the departed.
81 have known him." he said, lever
since he was boy, and when he came
out of college he was undecided wheth-
er to become lawyer and politician or
60 to theological seminary and be-
come a clergyman. He was fond OF
politics and thought that with little
law and more religion on the side he
might become a great moral refOrmer.
You know that's the way most all very
young men feel when they undertake
politics for the first time.
However, before he had had time to
determine finally what he would do,
his friends came after him to run for
the legislature, as he had the availa-
bility and pretty fair amount of cash.
This brought him face to face with
the question he had been much dis
turbed over. and he went to Judge
Blank. a veteran in politics and n man
of the highest character, for assistance
In solving the problem. He stated his
case In full to the judge, and the grand
old man put his hand on the young
mans shoulder.
"'My boy he said, as only he could
cay II. 1t can't be politics and religion.
1t must be one or the other. You can't
fit yourself for heaven and for the leg
islature at the same time, and there s
no use trying. That Is all l can say,
and you viii have to make your own
choice "-washington Star.
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Snow Flcns.

One of the stranGest of all specks on
show is the snow iea-nO mimic flea,
but an actual living and very lively
midget, whose swarms sometimes COW
er the snow in patches as black as ink
or convert large spaces of its surface
to a dark. gray color. They are crca-
lures of the thaw. have seen patches,
says William Hamilton Gibson. two
feet in diameter moving like dark
shadow across the meadow. and l re-
member once when Il boy walking on
the SNOW crust over n field of several
acres that was everywhere peppered
with their millions.
The books tell us that the insects live
in moss and iichans and the rocks and
bark of trees. from which they emerge
for exercise In mild weather This
theory Is prol1bly warranted by the
facts. but it viii be no easy task so to
convince many rustic philosopher
whom l know and to whom these feas
are as much n celestial shower as the
snow itself.-Boston Transcript.
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Limits to His Gratitude.

II feel that | ought to make some ac-
acknowledgement to the people who were
SO kind to us during my late wife's last
sickness" said Mr.. Phroogle, land |
would like to have you insert this card
of thanks in a prominent place in this
weeks paper"
1--WE are obliged to make n charge
for these notices." replied the editor of
The Weekly Blizzard. looking over the
manuscript land this will cost you
81"
Then you needn't publish it." re-
Joined Mr.. PhrOOgle. II am not quite
as grateful as all that comes to."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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between evils. II would seem
practicable to party, and they wiH
naturally answer by reciting what
it has done for the whole body of
workers, whose wages have been
largely increased for the business
men, whose transactions have emore
than doubled; for the great indus
tries, whose progress has beensuch
that diagram of them for the
last three years looks like the pro-
file of the Palisades, and in victor
ious war for the honor and future
safety of the nation. How large a
proportion of them will have these
fruits of their wise action in 1896
recalled to them every day for five
months and then vote the other
way. Of course, there are cranks
so constituted that it is to them in
tolerable to ageee with sensible
men, even with their sane selves OF
yesterday. But are they more
numerous than the Democrats VINO
have learned something from the
last four years.
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THE EkBY'S LITTLE JOKE.
IL Worried the Fat Man, bEt lie Tried
10 enjoy 1t.

IL W orrfco the Eat NAH bEt lie T-Ico
40 Enjoy 1t.
1t happened in one CT the late trains.
Everybody was trying to get to sleep.
and when the voice Of 4 baby was sud
denly lifted up ia Il rcbus; wall 1t was
not met with expressions of joy. 1t
cried steadily from Spring Garden
street TO Columbia avenue. Then It
accidentally dropped Il pas;eboard box
It had. \ very stout and. like his kind.
very .Table man across the aisle
stopped heavily and picked 1t up.
The child stopped crying as it took
1t and promptly dropped 1t again. The
man. thinking 1t an accident. picked
II up once more. This time the baby
actually smiled. and as he threw it
down audibly cooed with delight. The
man looked distinctly uncomfortable
and became interested in something
outside the window. The child looked
at the box moment, then at the man,
and, seeing nothing else, resumed his
wall. with much added wind. The
look of despair resetled ON the face OF
the woman with the headache. and she
gave 4 conyulsive shudder as she felt
her head beginning TO jump.
She gave one awful glance ut the
baby and then leaned over to the stout
man, back of whom she was sitting.
my dear SIR" said she, Il have n vio-
lent headache. and | am in misery.
Won't yoa please pick up that box
again?" And with O highly artificial
smile he complied. Out of pure cour-
tesy he became box lifting autom-
atom, his piles Of adipose making each
stoop come harder. But when he wip-
ed the perspiratiOn from his brow and
staggered out of the car at German
town he got q grateful smile from the
afflicted woman, rs we'll as every other
passenger. that he felt paid him.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-04
"A STORY OF DAN HIcE.
The Great Clown Did Not Forset the
Tent Mans Bill.

Tent Mans MIL
Cne s;e:. Of Dan Rice, the veteran
circus clown, illustrates his strict sense
OF honesty and gratitude for favors.
/, Once lie was stranded in Cincinnati,
the story goes, and was unable to start
n show on the road because be had no
tent aud could not raise money to buy
one. The tent Rice needed would be
worth 81 500 The manager CT a tent
concern sent for the clown one morn
ing and, taking him to his factory.
showed big tent that was just finish
cd. Rice looked at it with hungry eyes.
He turned away. with d sigh.
Zine tent, don't you Think" asked
the canvas maker
RICE looked back at II over his shout
der. with another deep sigh.
Its yours" said the tent man.
Rice was like a playful kitten in an
instant.
az believe there is a let of money in
, you yet" said the canvas man. You
| take that tent nnd start your show.
/ AMI if you ever get money enough to
pay me for IT tie price is $4,000
Within two weeks Rice was On the
road with show and began success
full career. Fer 10 years he fever re-
ferred to the tent. although he often
met the man who made 1t. One after
neon lie asked the tent man to be his
guest at one Of his shows, then in Gin
cinnati. The two sat looking on. and
Rice remarked:
Fine show. cent You thiEkT'
M
ta'nly was.
"By the way" added Rice, 'i.ere's
that $3.50 owe you" He took Il roll
of bills out of his pocket and handed it
to the tcrtnlaker. who pocketed ii with
! out urroliing it. The old tent man low
ell to relate this story and always de-
clGrcd that the great men of this coun-
try were L. Y. BarnuIl. John Robinson
and Dan Rice.-Ncw York Mail and
Express.
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why did Mrs. FriZZington, the rich
widow who furnished all the money
for the business she and you have
started, want the name Of the firm to
be 'Rootle & Frizzington' instead Of
'Frizzington & Rootle.' as 1t ought to
be, seeing that she is much more heav
lily interested than you?"
'She didn't want to be referred to as
the senior partner '"-Chicago Times.
Herald.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-04
LEGAL.
CAUTION NOTICE.

KNOWLEDGE has come to the Com
nissioners of Juniata county of the con-
slant violation of the caution notice i'm
riding or driving faster than walk ov-
er the County Bridges. All persons
are warned hereby that all future viola
tions of these regulations will be visited
by the penalty of the law.
II. CLoYD HoRNING, Pres,
ROBERT LONG. $Com.
J. w. HOSTETLER,
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xsFFLINTowH GkAI" aAaKk1s
MIFFLINTOWN. APR. 4. 1900.
PuILADELpuIa MARKETS,
Apr,i 2. 1900.

Wheat "a Cam 43c; Oats 3lc;
Potatoes As to 53c; butter % to q
eggs l2:; tai.ow A.; live chickens
TO lis; drcEs 12c; geese 10 to IL;
sugars A to SIZE; onions 65 10 Toe d
lu-bei; apples 1925 to 81 25 bar.
re-; cabbage by this ton S45 20 $50;
Florida tomatoes 81 so Il craft ;
cheese 8 to i4c; smoke d beef Is to
1Sc: smoked po,k hams IL TO 12c;
shoulder rs 7c; pickeIed bellies Z to Sc;
pare lsId 6c: hay S14 to SIG So; cats
straw SIS; wheat straw 50 to Sl0 II
tol; East Liberty ci:'le 81 to 54c;
L"-s 80 t. s5-4p; sheep 3ac to 6ic;
lam bs 81 50; veal calves 81 to Sc 25
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-04
COURT PROCLAMATION.

Whereas. the Hon. JEREMIAH
LYONS, President Judge Of the Court
of. Common Pleas, for the Forty-First
Judicial District, composed Of the cOun-
ties of Juniata and Perry, and the Hon
Orables VIM. SWARTZ and w. Il.
STERRETT. Associate Judges of the
said court of Common Pleas of Juniata
county, by precept duly issued and to
me directed for holding Court Of Over
and Terminer and General Jail Deliv-
cry, and General Quarter Sessions of
the Peace at Nifflintown, on the
FOURTH MONDAY OF APRIL,
1900. BEING THE 23RD DAY OF
THE MONTH.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, to the
Coroner, Justices Of the Peace and Con-
stables of the County of Juniata, that
they be then and there i'm their proper
persons, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
said day, with their records. inquisi-
tiOns, examinations and Oyer re-
memberances. to do those things
that to their offices respectful
ly appertain. and those that are
bound by recOgnizance to prosecute
against the prisoners that are or may
be in the Jail of said county, be then
and there to prosecute against them as
shall be just.
BY an Act of Assembly passed the
9th day of Nav, 1854, it made duty of
Justices of the Peace of the several
counties of this Commonwealth, to re-
turn TO the Clerk of the Court of Quar-
ter Sessions of the respective counties,
all the reeognizances entered into be-
fore them by any person or persons
charged with the Commission of any
crime, except such cases as may be
ended before a Justice of the Peace, un-
der existing laws, at least ten days be
fore the commencement of the session
of the Court to which they are made
returnable respectively, and in all cases
where recOgnizances are entered into
less than ten days l'efore the COM
mencement of the session to which they
are made returnable, the said Justices
are to return the same in the same
manner as if said Act had not been
passed.
Dated at Mifflintown, the 28th day of
March in the year Of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred.
s. CLAYTON STONER, Sheriff.
Sheriff 's Office.
Niffiintown, Pa. March g, 1900.
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DIED..

EsT.-On the End inst, In
Walker township, Robert West,
aged about 20 years. Interment
in Lost creek Mennonite cemetery.
KAUFFMAN.-On the 31st ult.,
at the home of her husband.in Har-
risburg, Pa, Mrs. John Kaufman.
Interment will take place in West
minister Presbyterian cemetery at
. D. m., on the 9th of April 1900.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-04
WASHINGTONP POST INTELL-
XGENCER

Mr.. Mckinney prefers, as the
"Post Intelligencer" prefers, entire
Free Trade between the United
States and Puerto Rican. He has
not changed his mind on this sub
.iect nor have we. We do not re-
gard the difference between Free.
Trade with our new possession and
a duty of Is per cent. of the rates
carried by the Dingley act as vital
either way. 1t will make no great
difference to us or to the Puerto
Ricans, except that it will put
money into their treasury and none
into ours. But Free Trade between
US is the ideal condition.
The party in the House was
forced from this position by the
radicals on the other side, rein
forced by few of its own extre-
mists. By the speeches of these
men another issue than contended
by them that Puerto Rico must
have absolute Free Trade, not i'm
fairness, but as d legal right. 1t
was held to be the due of those
people under the Constitution and
acquiescence in this doctrine would
have bound us for all time to come
with reference to the Philippines
as a.: to Puerto Rico.
It was impossible to ratify this
theory. Yet the course of the de
bate and the attitude of the press
were such that there was only a
choiceileft between two extremes.
Either wemust impose some trihing
duty, or we must announce that all
territory acquired came within all
of the provisions of the Constitution
as applied to the States of this
Union, reverse the policy and pre-
cedents of century, and tie our
hands in the important work that
we have to do in the Far East.
This is the argument which con-
strains President Mckinley, as it
has constrained us, to agree to the
imposition of a slight tax to vindi-
cate general principle rather than
to hold to Free Trade with Puerto
Rico at the price of cOnceding the
new false and fatal theory of the
Constitution which the Democratic
party have bound up with it.
1t is still possible that the Senate
may fine a way out of this choice
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-04

A nations flag represents its sover.
fignty and is prominently displayed in
all army and navy battles. To "strike
the flag" is to lower the national col.
ors in token Of Submission to the op-
posing forces.
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NOME CITY, ALASKA,

Is twenty eight hundred miles from
Seattle, via ocean, thirty-three hun.
dred and eighteen miles overland
Is sid to be the richest gold field
discovered up to this time. The first
steamer will leave Seattle on or
about May 10, 1900. For full psr.
ticulars. maps, &C.. address Geo. H.
Heafford, General Passenger Agent,
Coicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
way. Chicago, Ill.