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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-07
CHOATE INTEREsTED.

London, July THE Chronicle this
morning announces that United States
Ambassador Choate is in constant COM
munication with Lord Salisbury regard
ing the Chinese crisis.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-07

The vote Of the Maine delegation at
Kansas City yesterday stood two for
Towne and ten for Stevenson.
Agent McArthur Of the Pepperell mills
OF Biddeford says that half their product
goeg to China and the recent disturban-
eaa kAye cut off their market.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-07

the army besides slaughter of the civil
lans left at Tien Tsin. Enough soldiers
are necessary to defeat the Chinese
army, maintain communications with
base Of supplies and guard the hospitals
en- route. The water supply is an inn
portant problem in a country furnishing
none except river HWells, which are be-
ing poisoned.
The Chinese are committing terrible
atrocities upon the wounded. They are
mutilating all the dead which fall into
their hands.
General Tung Fuuh Slang with 10000
OF the best disciplined troops In the Chi
nese army of Mohamedans, Is marching
for the southwest towards Pekin. The
army thereabOut numbers 90 900. The
empress has fled to her summer palace.
The Mohamedan Boxers are fighting
IN Pekin. Ten regiments of General
Nieh command north of Tien Tsin are
reported to have deserted and gone pilIag-
ing the country.
WILD RUMORS FROM FAR EAST.
London, July 0, 1.47? p. m.-There is
mass of wild rum0s from the far east.
Though so contradictory on most points
1t continues unanimous as to the consum-
nation of the tragedy at Pelxin. TO per-
sIstent reports of the massacre of the
whites are now added the additional hor-
rors that savage soldiery butchered at the
capital five thousand native Roman
Catholic converts. This comes in a Shan
ghai despatch OF July 5, which onlv adds
to the reports given by respectable Chi
nese, who have arrived from Chan Fu
and who describe Pekin as an inferno,
the streets literally running with blood.
THE MISSIONARIES.
New York, July 6.-Dr. Halsey of the
Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby-
terrain church, mas received word from
Chefoo. The cable reads:
"Chefoo, Hodges. Sinc0xes, Taylor at
Pao Ting Flu. L0Wrie at Yien Tsin.
Mtlers Cores. None left Pekin. Shang
lung missionaries safe. Elterich."
AN OAIINOUs DESPATCH.
London, July 6.-In response to in
quires cabled to Shanghai in regard to
the situation at -PekIn, the following
cabiegra1n has been received from an au-
thoritative source:
Shanghai, Thursday, July Prepare
to hear the worst.
ALL FOREIGNERS PERISHED.
Bremen, July 6-The firm Of Melchers
& Co of Shanghai, telegraphs under
date of July 8:
1--WE have reason to believe that all the
foreigners in Pekin have perished The
rebellion is spreading in North China.
The foreigners at Yien Tsin must quit
that city as fresh Chinese attacks are ex-
pected.
'The disturbances are increasing in
Shang Tung. We see at present no occa-
sion for apprehension in the Yang Use
territory at Shanghai The vicerOys OF
WI Chang and Nankin do not recogni ze
the present holders of power at Pekin.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-07
THE MISSIONARIES.
ny OMINOUs DEsPATCH.

London, July EN- response to in
quires cabled to Shanghai in regard to
the situation at .Pekin, the following
cablegram has been received from an au-
thoritative source:
Shanghai, Thursday, July 5.-Prepare
to hear the worst.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
BARKER NAMED FOR PRESIDENT
middle of the Road" Men Choose
National Ticket.

For President. WHARTON BARKER
For Vice President. IGNATIUS DoNNELLY
Wharton Barker Of Pennsylvania was
nominated for President on the second
ballot by the middle-of-theroad Populists
in national convention at Cincinnati. Ig-
natius Donnelly of Minnesota was unan-
imously nominated for Vice-President.
The three nomina tons for President
were NJ. w. Howard of Alabama, Whar-
ton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly How
ard attempted to withdraw, but the dele
gates refused to listen to him. The first
roll call resulted: Howard, 81 Clio; Bar
ker, 303 40; DonlAelly, 20; Norton, /.
Barker was nominated on the second bal
lot, which stood: Barker, $40; Howard,
$3.50; Donnelly, Z; Norton, 2.
The platform adopted declares for the
Omaha platform of 1896, demands the
initiative and referendum and public own
ership, opposes trusts, monopoly in land
and alien ownership; declares for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1 for an
income and Inheritance tax, and the cleo
ton of President, Vice-President, Fed
eral judges and United States Senators
by direct vote of the people.
The national committee met and organ
lied as follows: Chairman, 10 A. Parker,
Louisville; secretary, ]. E. Mcbride,
Grand Rapids; treasurer, Milton Park,
Dallas. 1t was decided to establish the
national headquarters in Chicago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
DON SOLDIERS GARB.
SwEETHEARTS SEEK TIC. ACCOM-
PANY TROOPS TO CUBA.
Two of Them Discovered Hiding in
Cars and Set Down at Way Stations
Near Chicago-Indian Squaw Beaten
10 Death by a Half Breed.

Five lovcsick young women living in
Waukegan, H.. donned the uniform of
the United States army and started with
the battalion of the Fifth infantry, on the
way TO Santiago, in order 70 be with the
soldiers who had won their hearts while
the battalion was stationed at Fort Shcr-
idan. Two OF the young women We're dis
severed before the train reached Ham
mend, Ind. Jessie Sherwood, aged II,
was discovered by one of the officers just
before the train reached the Indiana line.
She had cut off her hair and donned the
uniform in order to 90 to Cuba with her
sweetheart, Sergt Michael Langmeyer
of Company K The traiu was stopped be-
fore the line was reached, and without
giving the lovers tine to say goodby the
officers removed jess lie from the train and
turned her over to the police at Grand
Crossing. Emma Winoski, IS years of
age, accompanied Jessie, so that in Cuba
she could marry sergeant Of Company
L, but was discovered crouching under
The seat occupied by her lover just as the
train reached Hammond, Ind. She was
elected from the train, while the soldier
sweetheart was borne away under ar
zrcst. Three other girls who succumbed
10 the soft speeches of the boys of the
Fifth were not discovered, but it is ex-
pected they will be detained in New
York
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
FACE DEATH FROM BALLOON.
Boys Accidentally Caught in the Ropes
Hauled Skyward.

Boys Accidentally Caught in the Ropes
Hauled Skyward.
People stood helpless and viewed with
horror an accident that occurred at Potts
yille Pa. when the lives of an aeronaut
and three boys were in imminent danger
during an exhibition at the Lowery cir
Gus. David McDade, an aeronaut, was
preparing 4 trapeZe act from Il bar at
tached 10 balloon and parachute
Among the thousands near him were
three boys The balloon was inflated and
at word from McDade the guy ropes
were severed. In an instant the big air.
ship left the earth and simultaneously
there was an cutlery of horror from the
crowd as the three boys were discovered
dangling among the ropes. In their
eagerness to watch the ascension the boys
had unconsciously stepped among the
ropes attached to the ship. The balloon
had risen probably twenty-five feet when
two Of the boys squirnied through the
meshes of rope and dropped to the ground
unhurt Soaring up with the big ship,
however. rose the third boy, Wallace
Cartwright, aged 10 years, until he APP
peared but mere speck in the sky.
Young Cartwright chung with his hands
to the dangling rope with tenacious en-
ergy. When lie had risen 1000 feet the
hot air in the balloon became exhausted.
The boy hung directly above McDade's
head, and the latter was fearful lest the
boy, if he fell. would strike him and both
would be dashed to death. BY promises
and threats the aeronaut induced Cart
wright to cling to his fiimsy support I'M
til the airship dropped safely upon
field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
COUP BY CLARK.
Resigns His Seat and Named for the
Vacancy.

rs MS seat anu @NaIAEU lOE the
Vacancy.
w. A. Clark. practically expelled from
the seat given him in the United States
Senate by the Montana Legislature be-
cause members of that body We're bribed
in his support, asks for membership in
the upper house on the appointment Of
the Lieutenant Governor of Montana.
Tuesday Senator Clark announced in the
Senate that he had sent his resignation
TO the Governor of Montana Tuesday
night the coup developed, when he was
appointed by Acting Governor Spriggs to
fill the vacancy created by his own resig-
nation. which was announced just in time
to prevent the Senate from considering
motion 10 act on the committees report
to expell him.
The appointment by Lieut. Gov Spriggs
provides that Mr.. Clark shah serve until
the next Legislature shall elect his sue
eessor. Senator Ciark's resignation was
filed early in the day with the Lieutenant
Governor.
Lieut.. Gov. Spriggs has been a parti-
san of Senator Clark during his candi-
dacy for the senatorship and since Gov.
Smith, partisan of the DAILY people, left
the State two weeks ago for California
TO attend to some mining cases in which
he is attorney. This left the way clear
for the resignation and the appointment
by Spriggs. Smith wired frantically that
he was coming right back. but Spriggs
FASTENED to reappont William A. Clark
as United States Senator That gives
Clark new and valid title to the Senate
seat and completely routs the opposition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
notes Of Current Events.

Mrs Elizabeth w Bellamy, GO, author
ess, died. Mobile, Ala.
Chicago ice dealers have formed a trust.
Prices have been raised.
The German coal famine is causing
many factories to close.
Miss Lizzie Pentler, Chicago domestic,
gets $4,000 left by an uncle in New
York.
Mrs. ZELDA Moore, 60, Williamsburg,
KY, burned to death while fighting for
est fire.
Patrick Carey, a Chicago politician,
was killed by VIM. Maxwell, a saloon
keeper.
DIR. j. X. Parker, Lexington. KY, in
self-defense shot and killed Y. a. Anton
ala, tailor
Postofiee at Lake City, S. c., where
the colored postmaster was murdered, has
been re-established.
Believed the Germans will agree On a
compromise meat bin which VIII be less
obnoxious 10 America.
Bob Mckinley, 40, was hanged al
Greenyille, Texas, for numbering Simon
Smith and Maggie Leslie.
Helen Gould, New York, receives more
than 1000 letters a week from persons
asking financial assistance.
Bishop Merrill Of the Vermont Meth
odists, says Mckinley never drinks wine
at banquets. he drinks appolinaris wat
er.
United States Navy Department has
declared a number OF vessels out OF ser
vice because there are not enough officers
to man the ships.
American tourists in Japan number
three times the total Of all other foreign
travellers, and the United States are held
in high esteem By the japanese.
The records show that since the New
York City Cemetery, OF potter's field, was
founded. in 1863 110,751 bodies have
been buried there. Last years e0Ltribu-
Ton was 4,317.
GovernnFcnt viii blow up Shag rock, 10
Saa Francisco bay. Eight tons Of dyna-
mite viii be used. The work viii cost
$4,000.
The circulation Of the London news
papers has increased from 20 70 100 per
ce=t since the beginning sf the war N
--Gh Africa.
Twelve master plE-----4zTs. whose aggre-
gate wealth amounts 10 millions. went
10 work in new bank buildings II Chicago.
where union men went on strike
Hazel Wright and Nellie Black, in
mates Of the Lakeside House AZ Ielina.
Ohio. testify that wealthy John r. Dilley
was murdered in the place and thrown
into reservoir
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $500; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $40; sheep. fair to choice, $500
to $5.T75; wheat. No. > led, Zoe to 66c;
corn, No. ,, See 10 SIC: oats, No. ;, PIC
TO 23c; rye, No. ,. 53e TO soc; butter,
choice creamery, 19e TO poe; eggs, fresh.
lie TO 12c; new potatoes, Bermuda, ST.25
TO $T.75 per barrel.
Indianapolis-C shipping. $500 10
$500; hogs. choice light, $500 to $3.50;
sheep, common to prime, $500 to $500;
wheat. No. >. lie to re: corn. No.
white, 40c TO Ale; oats, No. , white,
26c TO 2Sc.
St I.ouis-Caitle. S3.25 to 5000; hogs,
$500 To $3.50; sheep, So 90 10 S5.25;
wheat, No. ,, zoe TO re: corn. No. ,
yellow, 36e TO 3Sc; oats. No. ,, 23c TO
23c; rye. No. >. 54c 10 56e.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $50 TO $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $3.50 10 $500:
wheat. No. >, re to 73e. corn. No.
mixed. zoe 30 41c. oats. No. mixed, 25c
to 26c: rye, No. >. 6oc 70 &c.
Detreit-Cattle. So to $500: hogs.
$500 TO $500: sheep, $500 to $500,
wheat. No. >. re to T4c: corn, No.
yellow. Zoe to 4lc: oats. No. : white, sc
To pc: rye. ttlcato &c.
Toledo Wheat. No. > mixed. ne TO
74e: corn. No mixed. 81 10 Zoe: oats.
No. mixed. -;ic 30 24c: rye. No. =, 5Sc
10 aTcs clover seed. new, S4.S5 10 S4.95.
Milwaukee Wheat. Ne , northern.
&c 10 67e; corn. Ne. :. she 10 44~s cats.
Ne. > white. 25e TO a6cs rye. "a. ,. J6e
To Sc; harley. No. . 4ae 10 sle: pork.
mess. SHE'S 10 S1fT5.
Buaslo-Castle, choice shipping steers.
S3.Ga to 500. hogS. fair to prIme. SEQ
to $50; sheep. fair to choice. $500 10
$500: lsmhs. COMMON 10 extra. $50 20
S7.e3
New YoTk-Cattle. SS.25 70 S6.o0. ho->
$500 IL $50. sheep, S2c0 IL S5.75:
wheat. No red. zee to Saes corn. No. ,,
4s,c 10 lie. oats. M. > white, - 10 soc;
butter. creamery. 1sic to 3ic; eggs. west
err, lSc 70 lie.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
WINTER CROPS LOOK WELL.
Wheat Acreage Three and Half Mil
lions Less than in 1899.

lions Less than in 1899.
Returns to the statistician of the De
partment of Agriculture made up TO May
l show the area under winter wheat in
cultivation on that date TO have been
about 26,5S5, 900 acres, or 3.563, 600
acres, or lis per cent, less than the area
estimated to have been sown last fall.
The reduction in acreage in the principal
States, owing 10 winter killing and the
ravages of the Hessian fly, is as follows:
Indiana, 1.6oS,0O0: Ohio, 969,000 Mich
igan, 317 200: Pennsylvania, 13S,000. and
Illinois, $4,000 acres. For the area re-
naming under cultivation the average
condition on May l was $50.
The high averages of condition report
ed last month for Kansas, Missouri, Tex
as and other more or less important
wheat-producing States that have escap-
ed the ravages of the fly have been fully
maintained, and on May / nearly one
half of the entire winter wheat acreage
remaining under cultivation reported
full normal or still higher condition.
The average condition of winter rye on
May / was SS.5, as compared with $50
on May ], 1899; $40 on May /, 1898, and
o0'd, Inc hleah VI tAe May averages lor
the last ten years. The average condi-
tion of meadow moving lands on May /
was sos, against $40 on May /, 1899;
92.9 on May 1, 1898, and 91.3 the mean
Of the May averages of the last ten years.
The average condition of spring pasture
was 91.3. against $50 on May l, 1899;
91.2 on May /, 1898, and 900 the mean
Of the May averages Of the last ten years.
Spring blowing is more or less late in
almost every State in which it's condition
is a matter of any especial significance.
The only notable exceptions are Pennsyl
vania, Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas. In South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi and Texas the work
is later than in any year for which rec
ords are available
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
PUTS HIS JAILER IN A TRANCE.
Prisoner in Indiana Hypnotizes Turn
key and Walks Ont 10 Freedom.

Prisoner in Indiana Hypnotizes Turn
key and Walks Ont 10 Freedom.
4 peculiar case of Jail delivery is re-
ported from Geneva, Ind. where Frank
Steed was arrested and placed in jail on
a charge of assault with intent to kill.
AT noon the other day Turnkey Johnson
went to Steed's cell TO serve him with
dinner. Afterward, when Johnson was
found, it was several inmates before he
could be induced to talk, and when he did
so it was with great effort that he could
be understood. He finally said that all
he remembered was that Steed had fixed
his eyes upon him and had told him TO
unlock the door and let him out. He did
not know why he did so, but he obeyed
the request and was powerless to stop
the prisoner as he walked out through the
door, though he knew that he should not
have done so. 1t developed later in the
day that Steed, who was a stranger in
town, was hypnotist, and had practiced
the art in the country before going into
the town where he got into fight with
81 loouE apner
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
WHARTON BARKER.

Wharton Barker, named for President
by the Cincinnati Populist convention,
was born at Philadelphia, Pa, May ],
1916. He is the grandsoa Of Jacob Bar
ker, who was relative of Benjamin
Franklin. He was graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1866, and
since 1880 has been trustee of that in
stitution. In 1869 he entered the bank
ing firm Of Barker Bros. & Co of Phil
adelphia, which was carried down by the
failure of Barring Bros. of London. Since
1890 Mr.. Barker has devoted most Of his
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

sity of Michigan. In 1894 he was given
the Republican congressional nomination
for the Duluth district, and was elected
by an overwhelming majority. In the
early summer of 1896 he declared him
self in favor of free silver. In the fall
he was nominated by the Democrats and
Populists as their candidate for Congress,
but was defeated. In the fall of 1898 he
was again nominated by the fusionists.
and was again defeated. In the summer
of 1898 he was chosen as national chair
man of the silver Republicans.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

The Santa Fe will build a roundhouse
and machine shops at Port Richmond,
Cal
The St Paul and Duluth line has be
come the property Of the Northern Pa.
cifc.
The Aurora, Batavia and Geneva Rail
way Company was Incorporated at
Springfield, H.
Net earnings Of the Eastern Illinois
system for the nine months ending March
81 were 81 .90690S.
The Chicago and Great Western Rail
way has decided to run cheap excursions
between Chicago and ST. Paul
Twenty miles have been graded on the
extension Of the Rock Island line from
Mountain View, Ok. west. Track laying
has begun.
The new fast train of the Nickel Plate
Lackawanna roads now makes the run
between Chicago and New York in TWEEN
ty-seven hours.
An effort is being made 10 get the city
Of Topeka to issue $4,000 IN bonds 10
raise bonus to secure the new Santa re
Railroad shops.
Some railroad official has conceived the
idea Of trying to make railway travel on
Sunday popular by the introduction Of re-
ligious services on trains.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail
road and the Cotton Belt will inaugurate
through daily train service via Tkebes,
ILL.,. from Chicago 10 points in Arkansas
and Texas.
The decision Of the United States Su-
preme Court that the Illinois statute re-
curing all trains to sioI at county seats
is invalid will no doubt result in impoF
tant changes IN time tables.
The Rock Islands statement for March
shows material increase in both passen
ger and freight earnings. Net earnings
were larger by Sl3s,ls4 than FOR he
same month last year.
The management Of the Chicago and
Northwestern road has ict q contract Tor
building an extensions - the road from
Perkins. Mich. 70 The timber belt al0n.
the Whitefsh river.
It is reported that the Burlington com
pany has purchased ground for terminals
in Ogden and Salt Lake City. Utah. and
that the road VIII be extendee irons rs
present Wyoming terminal to both cities.
The thirticth annual report 81 The Lake
Shore aud Michigan Southern shows Z
most promising condition Of tie roads
business.
Al troubles existing between tie reads
over arrangement Of rates for sumHef
tourists have been srnoothed cir
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
THREE KILLED IN A STORM.
Two Men and Woman Victims of the
Elements at ST. Paul.


Three persons were killed and two 9th
ers were seriously injured during severe
wind and rain storm at st. Paul. The
wind played havoc with the telephone
wires between that city and Minneapolis.
The poles of the telephone companies
lines for two blocks were strewn over
the tracks of the interurban trolley line.
thus blocking traffic for the night. Side
walks We're displaced by the windstorm,
and buildings in various parts Of the city
suffered by wind and lightning in shat
tering of chimneys, windows. etc. The
day had been extremely hot and sultry.
Patrick Sexton. senior member of the
firms of Sexton & Co.. wholesale cigar
dealers, had been at Como park with his
four children, and they were driving home
when the storm broke. Driving down
Dale street toward their home, they were
right in the path of the fiercest storm,
which dislodged the sidewalk at the west
side of the street and crashed into Mr..
Sections carriage, killing him almost in
stantly, and more or less injuring his
daughter, who was in the seat with him,
as well as his 10-year-old son.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
MEASURE HELD VALID.
Supreme Court Declares Inheritanc,
Tax Constitutional


In deciding that the Inheritance tax
law was constitutional and valid and
that it applied to the legacy and not to
the estate as a whole, the United States
Supreme Court made Uncle Sam a pres
ent of about $60,000,0O0. The decision
was handed down in q test case brought
by Abram NJ. Pence, George A Carpen-
ter and Shirley 7. High, counsel for the
appellants Shirley L. High ct al, in a
suit which sought to restrain the collee-
ton of the war revenue tax on the estate
Of the late James l.. High by Revenue
Collector Frank e. Coyne of Chicago
Millions of dollars collected by the Gov
eminent officials during the last twenty
one months remained tied up in the Unit
ed States treasury vaults awaiting this
decision of the highest court in the land
on the constitutionality of the special in
heritance law raised by the Chicago law
firm. In addition to this large sum there
is due several million dollars from estates
which declined to pay until the right to
levy taxes as taken by Congress was
passed upon by the Supreme Court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
HUNDREDS CHASE MuRDERERs.
Kansas Citizens Likely to Lynch the
Robbers Who Killed a Marshal.

Hundreds of men, on foot, on horse
back and in all kinds of vehicles, have
been securing Neosho valley for two bank
robbers, James Murphy and E. f. Estell,
who murdered Deputy Marshal Edward
Roberts of Dunlap. Roberts was a mem
Der of a party that had been pursuing the
robbers since Murphy and Estell robbed
a bank at Marysville, Kan. After trav-
cling $50 miles the marshal and his men
Unexpectedly encountered the robbers.
The latter were but six feet away when
one of them discharged both barrels of
his shotgan into Roberts chest. The rob-
bers fled in the darkness.