New-York tribune., 1900-08-31
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-A medal will be struck COM
naemorating the siege Of Pekng; on the night
the city captured memora BILE celebration
was held in the grounds OF the British Lega-
ton; a detachment Of British marines was
landed at Annoy. - The British prisoners at
Nooit C;edacht Transvaal, have been released
by the Beers and are marching to join Lord
Roberts at Machadodorp; President KRUGER is
said TO be at Nelspruit. on the Delagoa Bay
Railway. - Eleven persons are now suffer-
ing from plague at Glasgow, which examina-
tion has shown to be Of the bubonic type. -
General Gomez has been nominated by the
National party in Cuba as a delegate to the
Constitutional Convention; II is not known that
he will accept - A halfbreed brought to
Winnipeg a story of fighting between Ameri-
cans and Canadians in the Great Slave Lake
district, one man, American, being ratally
wounded. - Paul Kester's play, Sweet Nell
Of Old Drury,'' was produced at the Haymarket
Theatre in London, Miss Julia Nelson assurn-
ing the title part. - General Tribe, chief of
the insurgent forces in Colombia, is reported
10 have surrendered to the Government.
pOMESTIC-The American and Russian
troops are soon to be withdrawn from Peking,
and the United States Government has sent a
sons for this action 80 The Navy Department
made public a report from Commander b. /.
Tilley, describing the condition of analrs IN
Tutuia as satisfactory. =The Census OnlVe
announced the population of Detroit and several
other cities. Thomas ]. Powers Cornmls-
sioner Of Banking for Pennsylvania and an ac-
49, 19e2,ItIican noIitician fell from a train in
the outskirts of Philadelphia and was killed.
- The Grand Army of the Republic Encanp-
electing Judge Leo Rassieur, Of st. Louis, COM
mander-in-Chief, and deciding 10 meet in Den
yer next year. - George R. Peck, OF chi
cago. discussed The March of the Constitu-
ton and John Barrett Moore "A Hundred
Years Of American Diplomacy" before the Amer
ican Bar Association at Saratoga.
CITY-stocks were dull at small price
changes - Winners at Sheepshead Bay
were Sandpper Kamara, Demurrer David
Carrick Maxine Gomez and Montanic. -
There has been talk Of the establishment OF
line of ocean steamers by the New-York Cen
tral to follow the completion Of Improvements
al Weehawken. - 1t is said that ex-senator
Hin would fight for Coler to the last IN the
Democratic State Convention. =" The he
publican Club gave reception for its presl-
dent Senator Depew, in honor OF his return
from Europe - There was talk OF Arthur u.
Wade of Chautauqua, for the Repuollcan
nomination for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -
Several Barge Office employees received WORD
from Washington that charges had been pre-
ferred against them as the result Of the re-
cent investigation Of the local lmmleratloh
Bureau. - The police announced that they
had established a motive for the Eenoonle
Hotel tragedy. - The Misses Hoyt, Griscom,
Curtis and Terry were the winners in the second
day of match play in the women's annual Ma
tional Golf Championship on the ShinnecocK
Hills links.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair and warm. The temperature yesterday
Highest, 81 degrees; lowest, 73; average |o7s