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The age-herald., 1900-12-29
Dry Coco

New York December 2S.-There has been a poor attendance of buyers in the dry goods market today, and only slow trade has been done in all departments prices of brown cotton continue irregular but hot quotably lower than before. Bleached and coarse colored goods dull but steady Print cloths contiue inactive; business in prints and ginghams of ordinary charac- ter. Linens firm. Burlaps are dearer, with very small available supplies.
 Cotton Letter.
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Cotton Letter

New Orleans. December 2s.-During to
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Ala. Great Southern B. B.

Shortest and quickest line to Cincinnati, Louisville and the North; also to Shreve- port, New Orleans Texas and all points southwest.
 Schedule in effect December g. 1900
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PLANT SYSTEM

Schedule in Effect November 25, 1900.
 No. 5S No. 7S
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New York Stock Market. fBy Private Wire to Murphy 6 Col
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Scene Of an Episode last III
Years AGO.

nominally contains about 800 900 de-
scendants of the Manchu conQuerors
and their allies. says the Tribune's
Washington correspondent. The num-
Der maintained on a war footing is
from so 900 to 100 900. The whole force
is subdivided into three groups, con-
sisting respectively of Manchus, Mon
gols and Chinese. and forms a sort of
hereditary profession, within which
intermarriage is compulsory. About
81 900 are stationed in garrisonS in
Manchuria; the imperial guard at Pc
kin contains from 5000 to 1000, and
these are the troops that were expected
to defend the foreign legations and
protect foreign interests from the
mobs.
The Wing Ping, or national army, is
called also the Green Flags and
The Five Camps This army con-
sists of eighteen corps, one for each
ernor-genera1- The nominal strength
is from $40, 900 to sec, 900 men, OF whom
about 100000 are available for war,
never more than one-third being called
out
The most important contingent is
the Tientsin army corps. nomina1ly
100, 900 strong, really about $4,000,
with modern organization, drill and
arms, employed in garrison duty at
Tientsin. and at Taku and other
forts
Besides these forces there are mer-
cenary troops raised in emergencies
and Monaghan and other irregular
cavalry, nominally zoo. 900 strong, real
ly about 20. 900, but of no military val
ue- The total land army on peace
footing is put at 800, 900 men and on
war footing at about 1,OO0, 900, but the
army as a whole has no unity or CO.
hesion; there is no proper discipline
the drill is mere physical exercise, the
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
BURNED DROWNED INJURED.
Fifteen Hundred Lives in PERIL
Unknown Number Lost.
FOUR GREAT OCEAN STEAMERS.

New York. July 3.-Almost ten mil
lion dollars worth of property was de-
stroyed, many lives Were lost, many
persons We're injured and at least 1.5oo
lives were inperilled by fire that
started among cotton bales under pier
3 of the North German Lloyd Steam
ship company in Hobol<en, N j. In
less than 5 minutes the flames covered
an area of a quarter of a mile long. ex-
tending outward from the actual shore
line to the bulkheads, from 600 to /. 900
feet away, and had caught four great
ocean liners and dozen or more
smaller haroor crafts in its grasp.
Stories in regard to the loss Of
life are conflicting, the number having
been variously estimated at from so to
200. Up to midnight ten bodies had
been recovered, but they were all so
badly burned and b1acl1ened that iden-
LITIGATION was impossible. The hos
pitfalls in New York, Hobolxen and
Jersey City. are crowded with the
wounded, and men are being brought
in by scores
Men working in the holds of the four
steamships were shut in by walls of
flame, and it was impossible to reach
them. 1t probably never will be
known how many men persisted in the
ships. the flames were SO fierce they
would leave few if any remnants of
the human body.
The burning or smouldering remains
of canal boats, lighters and barges are
scattered all the way down the river
and bay to Staten Island and Govern
ment's Island Each of these crafts
will add something to the list of the
dead. The loss to the North German
Lloyd docks alone is placed at So, OOO,
900. The value of the great quantities
of cotton, oil ans various other mer-
chandise on the docks has not been
estimated. The loss to the North Ger
man Lloyd steamship company alone
will probably come close to SO. OoO,-
600.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

The Taku forts occupied by the in
ternational forces, just forty-one years
ago were the scene of episode which
gave the world that famous phrase,
''Blood is thicker than water
A British fleet of eleven small gum
boats. under Admiral Hope, was en-
gagged in an assault on the mud bat
teries lust inside the Pei-ho river bar
June rs, 1859. when the tide went
down and left them helpless in the
mud under the fire of the Chinese
smoothbores.
Capt. TatnaII the flag officer COM
manding the United States China
squadron. which was anchored off the
bar, nominalIy guarding American in
terests, perceiving the plight of the
British Admiral, lowered his barge and
with his nag lieutenant and twenty
men rowed up the river to show the
Englishman how to point his guns. The
flag lieutenant, Stephen Decatur
Trenchard, was badly wounded and
one man in the barge was killed in
passing through the fire from the forts.
Once on board. however, the British
guns were so well served by the Amer
leans that the forts were silenced and
Tatnan himself piloted the gunboats
by a channel he had discovered until
they found the protection of the feet
outside
TatnalPs action was regarded by the
authorities at Washington as tanta-
mount to disobedience of orders, as he
had been strongly cautioned by his
government to preserve neutrality and
limit his activity solely to the protec-
ton of Americans. He was detached
from command and brought home, and
did not serve On an American ship
thereafter.
: From carefully prepared information
at the war department, the Chinese
army called the Eight Banners
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
H1V 1SO&

Brigadier-General Alexandra Rodr1.
guez, who has been elected mayor of
Havana. polling 1903 votes, against
6,O34 cast for Senior Estrada Mora, was
one of the first to join the insurgent
forces after the landing of Gen. Go
meZ in Cuba. He is the husband of
Sonora Lola Rodriguez, who became
famous through the prosecutions and
indignities heaped upon her by Gen
Wey1er. Both had discussed the join
ing of the insurgent forces previous to
Comes landing, and fully weighed
the possible consequences. Gen. Rodri-
guez was for Cuba. and his wife was
with him in thought and feeling and
babe him godspeed. Gen. Rodriguez
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
The storm in Nebraska.

Omaha, June 3o.-Details of the
storm in northeast Nebraska show it
to have been more widespread and to
have caused greater damage than at
first supposed. 1t swept over a sec
ton of country 100 miles square and
while no lives We're lost and large
buildings were destroyed, immense
damage was done in the aggregate
Wakefield suffered the worst. At this
point two residences were wrecked.
All through the storm swept section
windmil1s and outbuildings We're de-
stroyed. Crops are blown down, but
it is thought they will come out all
right.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

inburgh, June 29--The worlds
Women's Christian Temperance Union
congress reelected the president, Lady
Henry Somerset, and the other officers.
Mrs. L. NJ N stephens, of Maine, was
elected an additional vice president.
The congress heartily approved the
action of the Womens Christian Tenn
perance Union of America relative to
the temple in Chicago, and greeting
was cab1ed to Mrs Stewart, of Spring
field, o., and Mrs. Thompson, of Hills
bOrO. o.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
FOR Bad sou ana Gn,,.

The report of the educational coun-
Gil of the Iowa State Teachers asso-
citation answers the question: What
shall be done with ineorrigible and
neglected Children" It makes recon-
mendations that are along the usual
lines, but they are interesting, as they
form q summary of all the generally
approved suggestions for the improve
ment of this class Of the population
The council urges the general
strengthening of the parental respon-
sibiIity and of the discipline OF the
home The schools should emphasize
those subjects and methods that tend
to strengthen character, aD1 give more
place to music, art, literature, history.
manual training and gymnastics.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
WHY THE LEGATIONS STAYED.
Army And Navy VIII BE Used To Relieve


Washington, July 3.-A1though
less that four accounts have come to
the state and navy departments re
speeding the condition of the foreign
ministers at Pekin no one of the
messages gives the slightest intimation
of the reason who the ministers failed
to leave the Chinese capital when
given days time in which to do so.
One assumption is that the misisters
declined because they would have gone
out of Pelzin to certain massacre to the
hordes of Boxers outside. Another is
that they declined to leave until the
other foreigners were safely removed,
something beyond the capacity of the
tSung Ii yamen to accom- p1iSh. A cab
met council decided that the plans for
the dispatch to Pelxin an expedition to
bring the ministers away are to be
pushed. The decision amounts to a
practical declaration that as yet there
is nothing official that will warrant
the assumption that the Chinese gov
eminent itself directed the uprising
and attack Secretary Hay is still
hopeful that there will be found sat
isfactory and peaceful solution of the
present difficulties Apparently the
Chinese minister here, Mr.. WI, has the
same belief
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
RoosEvELT's TRIP COMRADES.
a Trail or Receptions Such AS Only
Kansas Gives

Kansas Gives
Kansas City, July "A few promf-
nent officials and citizens of Kansas
took the Roosevelt special here The
Kansans invited We're: United States
Senator Lucien Baker, Governor w. E.
Stanley, Congressman Charles Curtis
Congressman Chester l. Long, Con-
gresham Miller, ]. r. Burton, NJ A
Mulvane, Colonel Wilder s. Metcalf,
Cyrus Leland and Morton Albaugh.
General Passenger Agent w J. Black
was one of the party Senator Baker
and Congressman Curtis We're unable
to go on account of other engagements.
Short stops of from 10 to Is minutes
We're made at Lawrence, Topeka, Usage
City, Emporia, Florence, Newton,
Wichita, Winfield and Arkansas City
on the way down, and Colonel Roose-
ve1t spoke briefly at each point, from
the rear of the train, except at Win
field where platform had been con-
structed close to the Santa Fee depot
At Topeka the people assembled up
town and, headed by brass band,
marched to the Santa Fe depot to
receive Colonel Roosevelt.
At Usage City and Emporia there
was the same kind of a reception
1t was the purpose of the people at
Newton to arrange a big meeting in
the auditorium near the depot but the
stop was only 10 minutes and this plan
was abandoned Wichita turned out
in force Arkansas City gave the train
rousing parting as it left Kansas.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Death Rate in Havana Reduced.

Washington, June 2s.-The deaths
in 1898 in Havana numbered Fl 1852
among population estimated at ESQ.,
O0O- The rate of mortality was eighty
five per 1000. In the first month of
American occupation, January, 1899,
this was reduced to sixty-seven, and
by December, 1899, to twenty seven
per 1000. The decrease continued
until April, 1900, it was less than %.
per LOO,
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Eighty Feet Under Ground.

London, June 29.-The newest and
most important underground electrical
railroad, running from the Bank of
England to the western suburbs, be-
meath the central portion of London,
was opened by the Prince of Wales in
the presence of a distinguished gather
ing The Prince greatly admired the
handsome American cars, similar to
those in use on the New York elevated
railroads, and the elaborate elevator
service from the streets to the station
platforms, eighty feet under ground
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
The President Takes a Ke.t.

dent leaves at 7:45 p. M today for Can
ton, Ohio The president will be ac-
comPanied by Dr. Rixey, Secretary
Corte1you and Assistant Secretary
Barnes.
During their absence the executive
Office will be in charge of Assistant
Secretary Pruden- Only the most inn
portant matters will be transmitted to
Canton, and while the president will
be at all times in direct communication
with the White House and members of
the cabinet, he will be relieved as much
possible of matters which should be
disposed OF in Washington
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Women Strikers Fined In st. Louis.

ST. Louis, July Mrs Maggie Hya-
mas and Mrs Ruth Henry Were con
victed in the First district police court
of assauIting and partially disrobing
Julia Ray she stepped from a Tran
sit company car at Tenth and Brooklyn
streets. Each was fined $50 and costs.
The case will be appealed Julia Ray
is a negro domestic.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

stronger Than the Mayor ROdrigueZ-
democratic party, which is composed
of those who formerly were autono-
nists, separatiSts and conservatives.
Like all the candidates named by the
nationalist, Gen. Rodriguez held no
Office, and in a measure the contest
was one between the ms and outs.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Captain Powers Arrested Again

Harlan Court House, KY. June 30
Captain John L. Powers was again
arrested here charged with being an
accessory to the murder of Goebel.
Powers at once instituted habeas cor
pus proceedings He holds a pardon
issued by Governor Taylor while in
Office and was released once before on
habeas corpus proceedings in Knox
county
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
ee'HO REV. Levy II.

The Rev. DR.. Edgar NJ. Levy of Phil
adelphia, who made the opening
prayer at the Republican convention
at Philadelphia, also officiated in
similar capacity at the first republican
convention which was held at Phil
ade1phia in 1856, and at which con-
ventiOn Fremont was nominated
for president and Dayton for
vice president. In his letter of
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

Chicago, July 2--The Pennsylvania
railroad has notified Mayor Harrison
through its law department that the
company will accept the track eleva-
ton ordinance passed by the city coun-
Gil on June 49, The acceptance means
the elevation of 100 miles of railway
track within the city limits of Chicago
in the next two years at total cost of
about 81 900, ooo
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Rear Admiral PhilIp Is Dead.

New York, July 3--Rear Admiral
John p Philip, commander of the
Brooklyn navy yard, died at the navy
yard During the war with Spain
Admiral Philip commanded the battle
ship Texas and participated in the
destruction of Cervera's feet as well as
other important naval movements dur
ing that war Upon being raised to
the grade of rear admiral by the pass
age of the naval personnel bill he
became commandment at the Brooklyn
navy vars
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05
Gold Receipts At seattle.

Seattle, Wash, July 2.-The gold re-
ceived at the United States assay office
since June 1, 1900, amounts in value to
over $1,000. OoO- From information
now at hand it is possible to make the
certain prediction that the receipts of
the Office during the month of July
will amount to over 81, 900, 900.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

is the leader of
the n a t i Ona1iSc
party, composed of
the r e vO til o n
lists and those of
anti Anne ric a n
sen timentS. This
party, in Havana
as well as through
out Cuba, is nu-'
merica lIy f ar
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

invitation Chairman Hanna noted the
fact that the first prayer ever offered
for the success of the republican party
was made in Philadelphia on June 10,
1856, by DR.. Levy. and declared it par
ticuIarly appropriate that forty-six
years later to a day the same clergy
man should again ofdciate-
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

Paris, July 3--Arshbishop Ireland
will deliver the Grafton on tomorrow
at the unwilling of the Lafayette
statue An exceedingly offensive attack
upon him appears in LIE Journal The
writer of a long article taunts the
arch bishop with his British sympathies,
quotes passages from speeches he de-
ivered in England on June 8, last
year, and assumes that he is not fit
representative of the American people
to figure at the unwilling of the La
fayette statue.
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

weapons are long since obsolete and
there is no transport commissariat or
medical service
The Globe-republican., 1900-07-05

It's surprising how full life is of con-
trasts. You are so good, you know,
and other people are SO ve-y bad
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-15
POstOffice Makes New Money
Order Arrangement.
RULE Is NOW IN EFFECT
Scheme Permits Cashing hmm diate-
ly Upon Receipt of Original
Waiting is Eliminated and Trav-
elers Accom- m odated.

Postmaster Sampson yesterday announc.
ed that foreign as we'll as domestic money
orders drawn. on the Skagwav office will
be paid here hereafter Immediately upon
receipt.
For a long time it has been necessary to
wait the arrival of adyices from the office
OF issue BY the Skagwav Office before the
payment would be maid, The new arrange
ment makes 1t so that one may 90 straight
to the office as soon as thew receive their
order and have it cashed.
This new arrangement" said Posts
master Sampson Yesterday, twill be a saw
ing of three to four weeks, in some cases.
1t is especially valuable as regards the
orders drawn in the interior on Skagway.
1t will be great accommodation for trav-
elers and others who have not time to long
remain in the CITY.
The government, of course takes more
risk In making the payment before recely-
ing the advice but ii is now willing to
take that hazard, and If necessary to stand
the loss by whatever discrepancy NAV he
found to occur. However, new methods
of keeping records, by duplicating, have
been introduced, and we are better prepared
to protect the government"
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-15
BANK NOTE DECISION.
Institutions Paying Out Canadian
Money to be Taxed.

Commissioner George W. Wilson, of
the internal revenue bureau, has Just rem
dered an important decision regarding the
circulation of Canadian bank notes in the
United States. He holds that any bank
paying out these notes. or any foreign or
domestic notes other than national bank
notes, will be required to pay the tax of 10
per cent. under section 20 of the act of
February 8, 1875.
This action was brought about by let
ter written to the commissioner BY H. F..
Lutz, president of the Bank of Clallam
county, Wash, and in his letter replying
to MT. Lutz, Commissioner Wilson says:
whenever Canadian bank notes, or the
notes of any person, firm, corporation.
association or company, whether foreign
or domestic, other than national bank
Ing association, are passed from hand to
hand anywhere in the United States in
payment of debts or In purchase of goods.
it is held that they are used for circulation
in the United States, and that any bank
receiving these notes so used and paying
them out again in the United States Is re
quired to pay the tax of 10 per cent. on the
amount of the notes thus paid out or sold
in view of the provisions of section 20 of
the act of February 8, 1876"
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-15
Bear and Other Big Game
Common Near Caribou.
TROPHY RECEIVED HERE
Dispatcher Mulvahiu Gets a Box
Full of Claws From Down the Line
MONDE of the Bruin Family
Not Seldom Seen From Trains.

An unique present has come to Dispatch
er MulvahilI, working the second trick in
the Skagway train dispatcher's office. 1t
Is boxtul of feet-bear's feet. 1t was a
paper box.
The present is q trophy of a hunt by one
of Mr.. Mulvahill's friends, O. B. Daniels,
operator at Cowlev. one of the new stations
along the railroad, midway between Car
ibou and White Horse. 1t was the desire
of Mulvahlll to have the claws merely for
trophies. so the friend went forth. killed a
bear, and sent in the paws.
This story of Mulvahll having received
his bears claws, while it does not in itself
carry anv remarkable tale, so far as known,
brings up the fact that the White Pass &
Yukon railroad traverSes. beyond Caribou,
what is perhaps one of the best hunting
grounds any railroad in America penetrates.
Reports come everv few days now of the
presence of anv number of bear along the
line between Caribou and White Horse,
and some have seen splendid specimens of
moose within range of the track verv
lately.
M. King,of Kings mll,at Caribou. who
was in the city several DAYS ago says that
all kinds of good shooting is to be had near
there. Bear, caribou, mountain goats and
wild ducks abound. However, hunting is
not carried on to great extent now for one
reason that most of the men in that dis
trict are busy in summer work, and for
another reason that it is out of season for
the killing of ducks and other of the game.
Bear, in particular, are declared BY near |
ly everyone from Caribou, or beyond, to be
common along that part of the railroad.
The members of the bruin family are not
seen from the cars as the
trains pass. They are not of the ordinary
black bruin caste, but include the more
arstocratic grizzlies. silver tips and cnna-
mons. One has become so bold it visits
the railroad men at one of the camps, and
accepts little favors in the wav of scraps
from the table, syrup from plate. and
other such delicacies from the men,
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-08-15
Boat Will Soon Be Put On
the Ways to Remain.
NOT NEEDED JUST NOW
Craft Was the Last of the Steam ers to
Engage in Carrying Traffic on the
Lakes For Dawson-F1eet Dis
placed by the Railroad.

Captain Wallace Langley arrived last
evening from Bennett, and Is at the Occi-
dental. He reports that the steamer Aus
tralian, belonging to the White Pass &
Yukon. has been laid up at Caribou for
the season, and will soon be taken from
the water and put on the wavs there. This
marks the end of traffic over Lake Bennett
by steamer enroute to Dawson.
For years thousands of tons of freight
have been transported from Bennett down
the lakes of the Yukon for Dawson, but
the completion of the White Pass & Yu-
kon railroad along the shore of the lake
and on to White Horse has made 1t no
longer necessary for the steamers to remain
in that trade. All the other large steamers
which have been in the trade have been
taken through thpWhte Horse rapids to
the lower river. The Australian was kept
on the lake to do the last work and may
now be retained there to be used in case of
emergency early in the spring or for some
unforeseen use that NAV possibly arise.
The ste mer Cleaner, the only large
boat still running into Bennett Is In the
Atln trade, and never engaged regularly in
Dawson traffic.
The other steamers on the lakes are
small. and engaged in towing scows down
the lakes or running to Atlin.
The steam scow Omega, belonging to
Contractor Heney, is still at work on Lake
Bennett in connection with the ballasting
of the roadbed alosg the lake side.
Capt. Langley has been captain of the
Australian of late. He now expects to run
one of the Atlin lake steamers. He will
leave for the interior right away.