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GOOD NEWS CONFIRMED.

WASHINGTON, July 30-The Sec
rotary of State received at midnight
last night despatch from Mr.. Fow-
Ter, American consul at Chefoo, dated
noon, July 20. Mr.. Fowler says:
"A letter from the German legation
dated 21st instant, received at Tien
Tsin. German loss is 10 dead and II
wounded Chinese ceased their at
tack on the 18th. Baron Won Ket-
teler's body said to be safe. The
Austrian, Italian, Dutch and Spanish
legations destroyed and the French
partially. A letter from the Japanese
legation dated 22d, arrived at Tie1
Tsin on 25th. Ten battalions of Chi
nese shelled the legations consecutive
ly from the 10Th of June and stopped
on the 18th of July, out may renew.
L ne enemy are decreasing. The Ger
man, Russian, American. British AM
half the Japanese and French lega-
tons still defended. Japanese say
they have food for six days, but little
ammunition. The Emperor and En-
press are reported at Pekin"
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SITUATION IN INDIA.
Lord CurzOn TeIegraphs That the
Outlook is Extremely Discourage


LONDON, July 30.-The following dis
patch from the viceroy of India, Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, to the secretary of
state for India, Lord George Hamilton,
was received to-day:
Considerable anxiety is felt owing to
the weakness of the monsoon. The situa-
ton is serious and critical in Gujurat, Ba-
roda and Rajputana West, which are not
sown. No fodder whatever is available
in the southwestern part of the Punjaub.
Sown crops are in imminent danger, as
rain continues to hold off. Fodder is
scare and cattle are dying in the central
provinces of Therar and Hyderabad..
Good crops are possible only in case the
monsoon improves.
"One quarter of the inhabitants of the
central provinces are on relief. The total
number receiving relief is 6,266.OOO, with
incomplete Bombay figures"
The governor of Bombay telegraphs that
there were S,607 cases of cholera in the
famine district during the week ending
July q, of which SOB resulted fatally.
In the native States there were 1924 cases,
$40 proving fatal. The total deaths in
the relief works of the British district
were 6,753, or 4 2-5 par 1000.
There has been good rainfall in North
Jugarat and Kathiawar and favorable
agricultural rainfall and encouraging
prospects in the remainder Of the affected
tracts. The numbers on relief works are
decreasing and gratuitous relief Is in
creasing.
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BASIS OF CONFIDENCE.

BERLIN. July 30.-The German con-
sui at Tien Tsin has telegraphed I'M
der date of Saturday. July 2Sth, to the
foreign Office as follows:
The German secretary Of legation at
Pekin, Herr Below, writes, July 21st:
Thanks for your news. July 18th the
condition of Cordes satisfactory. The
remaining members of the legation are
all right. The detachment of the
guards lost ten killed and fourteen
wounded. The houses of the legation,
much damaged by cannon fire, are held
by the guard. The attack of the Chi
nese troops on us ceased July 10th
Speediest possible advance of relief
troops urgently necessary.
According to trustworthy report the
body of Baron Won Ketteler has been
buried by the Chinese government"
The Cordes mentioned in the above
dispatch is the second interpreter Of
the German legation. He was with
Baron Won Ketteler when the latter was
murdered, and himself was wounded.
He escaped to the legation.
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Special to the Register
CUMBERLAND, Nd, July 3d.
There having been many published ru-
mors lately that Senator Wellington
would support Bryan, he was seen this
afternoon and asked to state his cor
rect position on the approaching cam
paign. He said with warmth:
Il am forever opposed to imperial
ism, which 1 shall fight with all my
power. l am opposed to President Nc
Kinley, because he has deceived me in
national affairs, and 1 shall oppose his
reelection. | am not prepared to
state just what part | shall take in the
campaign, but | will attend the liberty
congress at Indianapolis.
He was then shown dispatch sent
out from Washington which stated
Gnat it was rumored there that he
would take the stump for Bryan. He
said that was correct in part, but that
there were some things about Bryan
that he didn't like.
1t is admitted that Wellington carried
this State against Bryan four years
ago, and that he defeated Lowndes and
elected Democratic governor last
fall. The fact that he will work to
carry the State against Mckinley has
set the Democrats here wild, as they
feel with his aid the State is safe for
Bryan. Wellington has a large Ger
man following in Maryland.
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TO KILL THE KING.
Cnrbone speranza Was Selected TO
the Task, but Could Not Fulfill 1t,

Cnrbone Speranza Was Selected for
the Task. but Could Not Fulfill 1t.
NEW YORK, July 30.-Ten days ago
an Italian in Patterson, n. j., Car
bone Speranza, laid down his life and
so abSolved himself from the pledge
to kill King Humbert of Italy. He
killed Guisoppi Pessina and then took
his own life. 1t was said that he held
high place in the Malta. The two
quarreled and Speranza shot Pessina
and blew out his own brains. A very
strange letter was found in the murd-
erer's pocket.
In the letter which Speranza had pre-
pared he set forth that he was chosen
by his anarchist comrades to kill the
king of Italy, but that, owing to the
fact that he was in this country on the
date set for the attempt at assassina-
ton he could not fulfill the obligation.
This is not of my bidding" wrote
Speranza, "hut the good and brave So
ciety wills it. On February 2nd, in
Italy, it was my lot and my order to
kill the king. My number came out in
America and l could not do it. They
gave me liberty. but ordered that the
will of the society must be obeyed.
They have said that because | was
in America that could do nothing but
| will show them that l do not talk
only. Companions either renounce the
society or in silence obey the oath of
blood"
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and went across the ocean to carry
out the decree that Humbert should


die.
In manners Bressi was quiet. Men
who worked beside him in Hamilton &
Booths mill says he was the last one
they would select as an assassin. Each
saturday night he left the mill and hur-
ried away. He went to Hoboken where
his wife and little girl are said to live.
He never brought them to Paterson. He
remained until Monday morning. To
some it was known that his radical
ideas were extreme and he was of the
inner circle of the anarchists.
Bressi entered the employ of Hamil
& Booth on April 8th, 1899. H work.
ed steadily there until May 4th, 1900,
On that day he left the mill and was
in Paterson but seldom afterward. On
May 22nd last he sailed on the French
line steamer Havre for Europe. Where
he spent the intervening time Is not
known.
Among the better class of Italians,
nothing but words of regret were
heard to-day over the killing of King
Humbert. A leading merchant of
Paterson, who admitted his reason for
not wanting his name mentioned was
that he feared the anarchists and the
Malta, said he hoped the murder of
the king would lead all nations to take
vigorous steps to stamp out the organ
ization. He said no ones life was
safe if he incurred the enmity of any
man in the organization. In discuss
ing Bressi he said he believed there
had not been a drawing but that Car
iboni had been vouched for by Bressi,
that Cariboni lad weakened and
iboni killed himself.
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WASHINGTON, July 30.-The view
which the Washington Cabinet has
taken from the beginning, that with
the exception of Baron Won Ketteler,
the legations at Pekin were alive long
after the date which was said to have
marked their massacre, is being
slowly, but surely confirmed.
The most important contribution in
support of our governments position
since the receipt of the Conger auto
graph letter, representing the foreign
ministers TO have been alive on July
4th, came to-day from United States
Consul Fowler, at Chefoo.
The letter referred to by the consul
as coming from the German legation
at Pekln is supposed here to have
been an autographs letter and as
such, absolutely removed from the
possibility of fraud.
The Japanese report also Is under
stood to have come down to the sea
without having passed through Chi
nese hands. 1t was one of the first
results of the private messenger sys-
tenn inaugurated by the commanders
of the allied forces Taken in con-
junction, the two reports submitted by
Mr.. Fowler added overwhelmingly 20
the weight of testimony in favor of
the existence of the legationers.
Gen. Chaffee, whose arrival is re-
ported by cable this morning from Che
Foo, certainly has made remarkable
time in going from Nagasaki to Taku
in two days, showing that the trans
port Grant must have been pressed to
her utmost. The generals horses are
expected to arrive there in about
week when the forward movement on
Pekin probably will begin.
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Has a Message Saying the Legation
ers Were Safe July ~.

LONDON, July 30.-In the House OF
Commons to-day the parliamentary
secretary for the foreign Office, Mr..
VIM. st. John Broderick. read the dis
patch from the British consul at Tien
Tsin. saying that the foreign ministers
at Pekin were safe July 22nd. Mr..
Broderick also read a dispatch in which
the statement was made that a strong
body of troops. composed almost entire
ly OF Hwang-Sus was around the lega-
tons, and that the Chinese were fore
ed 10 block the river with sunken craft,
with breach on the left bank in or
der TO food the eastward
Mr.. Broderick added that the council
of admirals decided July 18th, that the
railroad between Taku and Tien Tsln
should be guarded and managed by the
Russians. The government has inform
ed Russia 1t acquiesced, as the ar
rangement might be most convenient,
but that it must be clearly understood
that the line would revert to its form
er management. G., the British-on
the termiaatlon Of hostiifties. Mr..
Broderfck added that he did not yet
know who was 10 have supreme COM
mand. British troops would be avail
able to cooperate with the allies. but
no arrangement has been made 10 put
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EVEN BRITAIN CONVINCED.

LONDON, July 30.-At last the
British government is convinced that
the ministers at Pekin are safe.
Brussels, Berlin and Washington adj
vices were regarded with a certain
amount of doubt, but once the British
consul at Tien Tsin officially confirm
ed them all doubts vanished. At this
hour (5:30 p. m.) the good news has
not become sufficiently known to the
public to cause rejoicing, but the feel
ing of relief and gladness shown by
officials who have read the dispatches
can scarcely be described.
In the same breath that they express
their delight they say this afternoons
dispatches may be regarded as a strik-
ing vindication of the United States
Score airy Of State, Col. John Hay. and
almost as much triumph for him as re-
lief from international anxiety.
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MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY
Sent by the United states to the Ital.
inn Authorities

sent tht suites W the
ian Authorities.
WASHINGTON. July 30.-The fol-
lowing message of coincidence upon the
death of King Humbert has been sent
from this country to Italy:
Department of State.
Washington. July 30. 1900.
Ills Majesty. Vittorio Emanuela,
Roma
In my name and on behalf OF the
American people. I offer your majesty
and the Italian nation sincere condol-
ence in this hour OF deep bereavement.
(Slgned)
WILLIAM MKTNLFY."
The following message has been sent
10 BARON Fava. the italian ambassador
10 this country:
Department % State.
Washington. July 80. 1900.
His ENcellency. Italian Ambassador.
The OctagOn. Seshright y. J.
The tidinEs OF the Kings assassin
alton has profoundly shocked public
sentiment. The President has tele-
graphed 70 his majesty. Vittorio En-
anuela. Offering in his name and on be-
half of the American people. sincere
condolences in this hour of deep be-
reavement. Permit me to add the as
surances OF my personal sympathy.
(Signed) JOHN HAY"
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FROM MISSIONARIES.

NEW YORK, July 30.-Rev. Homer
Eaton, treasurer of the NJ E. Mission
airy Society, to-day received two cables
from Shanghai. One read
Urge Bishop Moores immediate
coming.
''WARNE-LACY-J ELLISON."
The signature shows that the mes
sage was sent jointly by Bishop f. w.
Warne, of India; the Rev. w. H. Lacy,
of Foo Chow station, and e. R. Jelli-
son, M. D., of Shanghai. Bishop
Warne is now on his way home from
India.
DR.. Eaton at once telegraphed 20
Bishop Moore, who is in Cincinnati.
He was recently assigned by the gen.
eral conference to Shanghai.
The other cablegram received by
Dr. Eaton, from the Rev. A. J. Bowen,
of Nankin, treasurer of the Central
China Mission, reads: Notify rela-
tives. Am In pressing need of funds.
Mission Japan, Shanghai"
The fact that Mr.. Lacy, whose sta
ton is at Foo Chow, is now in
Shanghai, is accepted as proof that the
missionaries from Southern China
nave also Ieu " SHduShdls LII A-dIbsl
cabled $4,000 to Mr.. Bowen to-day.
Mrs. Fl. B. Skidmore, treasurer OF
the Womens' Foreign Missionary Soci-
ETY. of the Methodist church, also re-
ceived a cable to-day from Shanghai.
from Miss Kate Osborne. OF the Kin
Kiang station, asking for 81 500. The
money was cabled.
The Presbyterian board received a
despatch from Shanghai as follows:
American consul from Chinese Off
cials, Shanghai and Pao Ting Flu, con-
sidered authoritative, learn Hodges,
Mackey, Pekin."
This information considered authori-
tative is taken 10 mean that the Hodge
family, consisting OF Courtlandt Van
Rensselaer, Hodge, NJ. D.. his wife
and Miss Maud Mackey. NJ. d.. are at
Pekin at last accounts and not at Pao
Ting Flu, as previously reported.
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WAS BRITAIN'S FRIEND.
The Death of King Humbert Caused
Deep Sympathy and Indignation.

Deep >! anu
LONDON, July 30-Perhaps in no
country was the news Of King Hum
bert's assassination received with deep
er sympathy and greater horror than
in Great Britain. For the last few
years and more, especially for the last
few months, during the South African
war, the Italian ministers, rejecting
the attitude of the throne, have shown
an undertaking friendship for Great
Britain, even when the rest of Europe
was inveighing against England and
her policy.
Queen Victoria, naturally, was hor-
rified at the receipt of the news. She
Immediately telegraphed her condol-
ence to Queen Margherita.
1t is stated in official circles that
the recent release of Sipido, the assail-
ant of the Prince of Wales as he was
passing through Belgium, has been fol-
lowed by an enormous increase in the
circulation of Anarchist literature adj
vocating regicide. 1t Is thought ex-
cedingly likely that the assassination
of King Humbert is directly traceable
to misplaced leniency.
Diplomatists and officials generally
visited the Italian embassy in great
numbers to-day. Among the early
callers was the Prince of Wales, who
expressed keen regret at the loss of
personal friend.
AS Victor Emmanuel Ill, who mar
ried in 1896, is childless, the heir to
the throne is the kings cousin, the
Duke of Aosta. The Duchess of Aosta
was Princess Helen of Orleans, daugh-
ter of the late Count of Paris, and she
and the Duke are generally consider
ed the handsomest royal couple in Eu-
rope.
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SERIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 31.-The
Russian general staff has received dis
patches from various commanders indi-
eating a serious state of affairs through
out .danchuria. The revolt in the
neighborhood of Mukden and the dis
trict northward has assumed such pro-
portions that the Russian column has
been compelled to retreat from Muk-
den southwark. Fighting continuously,
the column with difficulty reached the
station at Ajasandzian, where on July
Sth, it was surrounded by Chinese
troops. Reinforcements were sent and
the withdrawal of the column was af-
fected to Daschizao, with IS casualties,
killed wounded and missing.
The railway from Mukden TO Telin
and Dashizao has been completely de-
stroyed, and the fate of the workmen
and railway officials north of Mukden
is not known. The whole Mukden dis
trict is menaced by large bodies of Chi
nese troops with artillery.
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SERRANO SAVED THE DAY.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 3d.
News by the steamer Trent to-day
from Colon shows that the capitula-
ton of the Colombian rebels at
Panama was due entirely to the ar
rival of Gen. Serrano with 1000
troops from Savanilla. The rebels
fought desperately and would have
won, but that Serrano's troops turned
the day against them, they being
caught between two fires. The major
fty of the rebels, it is reported, have
left Panama to join the rebel forces
at other points. A number of the
best families at Panama are mourning
the loss Of relatives in the recent bat
tie The premium On gold remains at
100 per cent.
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TROUBLESOME AFRICAN DEAD.

PARIS, July So.-M. De Crais. the min
lister of the colonies, has received a de-
spatch announcing the junction of the
expeditions organized by Danny against
Sultan Rabah. A hard battle occurred at
Kousriin, in which Commander Lami and
Captain De Cointl were killed. Rabah's
troops were put to fight. Rabah was
killed and his head cut off by sharp
shooter, who brought it into camp
Rabah was the principal chieftain of
the Central Soudan and for many years
he had given the French there a great
of trouble. He was formerly slave of
Sobehr Pacha, but raised himself to
position of power by defeating one chief
after another.
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THE USUAL DISCREPANCIES
Regarding Dates, Between German
and Chinese kilograms.

Regarding Dates. Between German
and Chinese kilograms.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-Baron Won
Holleben, the German ambassador,
called upon Secretary Hay this morn
ing. He said he had not received any
word from Berlin on the receipt of the
important letter from the German le-
cation at Pekin, described by Mr.. Fow-
Ter.
AS is always the case with these
Chinese advices, a discrepancy appears
Immediately upon comparison of the
German and the Japanese advices. The
German report says the attack stopped
on the 18th; the Japanese report places
the cessation of firing on the 18th. The
State Department officials believe this
is easily explainable by a consideration
of the differences between the Chris
tian and Chinese calendars. Another
curious statement, however, is contain
ed in the Japanese report to the effect
that six legations were being still d.
Tended on the 22nd. This is in appar-
ent conflict with Mr.. Conger's last re-
ported statement that the legationers
were ''in British legation under con-
tinued shot and SHE'LL" etc.
1t is understood that Mr.. Conger
meant that all the legationers were in
the British legation, though this might
have been a strained Interpretation of
his message and the various legations
mentioned in the Japanese despatch
may be still peopled.
Military men here are amazed at the
statement that the legations success
fully resisted nearly months inces-
SAINT Smelling by ten battalions of Chin
csc. That any trace of a brick build
ing should remain after such bonn
bardment is utterly inconceivable by
them.
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THE JESTER TRIAL

Enters Upon Its Fourth Week with
Verdict Probable Before Thurs
day.
NEW LONDON. No. July 5O.-Alexan-
der TESTERS trial on the charge Of killing
Gilbert W. Gates In 1871. entered it's
fourth week to-day Attorney Allison, for
the defense. addressed the jury in his
closing plea. insisting that the State had
not even proved that Gilbert Gates is
dead much less that Jester killed him.
Prosecuting Attorney Rhodes. of Mon
roe county. where the alleged crime is
said to have been committed, spoke this
afternoon fer the State.
a verdict viii probably be reached be-
fore Thursday.
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ARE OUT OF DANGER.

LONDON, July 30.-The British con-
sui at Tien Tsin telegraphs to the for
eign Office to-day that a letter from
Japanese colonel in Pekin states that
the legations were safe July % There
had been no firing on the legations
since July IL. The consul odds:
"A reliable messenger who failed TO
enter Pekin, but reached there, re-
turns, stating that there was no firing
on the legations between July Is and
July 10"
In view of this evidence. the British
government is convinced that the le-
cations are safe.
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GOOD REASONS 70 THINK
LEGATIONS IRE safe.
A COMMUNICATION RECEIVED BY
THE GERMAN CONSUL AT
TIEN TSIN
FROM LEGATION SECRETARY
AT PEKIN, SAYING ASIDE FROM
ONE WOUNDED MAN, ALL
WE'RE SAFE.

The Houses of the Legation Were
Much Damaged by Cannon Fire,
but Are Held by the Guard-De-
tachment of Legation Guards Lost
Ten Men Killed and Fourteen
WOunded-ReIief Urgently Asked
FOr-VOn ketteIer Buried by Chi
nese Government.
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THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. July 30-For West vir-
ginia-Generally fair Tuesday and We'd
nesday; northerly winds.
For Western Pennsylvania-Gene
fair. Tuesday and Wednesday; light TO
fresh northerly winds
For Ohio-Fair Tuesday; warmer in
northeast portion: Wednesday fair; light
TO fresh westerly winds.
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wellington IS FOR BRYAN
MARYLAND SENATOR UNEQUIvO-
CALLY ANNOUNCES HIS OPPO-
SITION TO MCKINLEY.

Says the President Has Deceived
Him in National Affairs-We1ling-
ton is Forever Opposed to Imper-
ialism-WiIl Attend Liberty Con-
gress and May Go Upon the stump
for Bryan-A Power in Maryland
Politics, He Insures the Defeat of
the Republicans in That State.
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CALEBPONERS ON THE STAND
THE PRISONER DECLARES ALL
MOVES WE'RE WITH PEACE
Full INTENT,

Says the Mountain Men Were
Brought to Frankfort Merely to
Show Their Interest i'm Political
Affairs and Not to Intimidate Nor
Assassinate Members of the Elec-
ton Board or the LegisIature.
Defense Says State Knows Who
Killed Goebel, but is Hiding the
Mans Identity.
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municated to the foreign Office. states
that the latest news confirms the re-
port that the foreign ministers at Pc
kin are out of danger.
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LIVED IN AMERICA.
Angelo Dressf n Silk Weaver at
Paterson. New Jersey, Where He
Worked for Year.

NEW YORK, July 9O.-Angelo
Bressi, lived in Paterson for over a
year. He was employed in Hamil &
Booths silk mills. His close friend
there was Caroboni Sperandio. the
man who few weeks ago shot down
his foreman and then killed himself
leaving behind letter telling how he
had been selected by lot to kill King
Humbert, and, having choice, owing
to his living so far away from Italy,
killed the foreman instead.
1t 'would seem that his friend, hav-
ing faltered at regicide, Bressi took up
bis burden where Sperandio refused it
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Mr.. c. Schnepf. the Opera House drug
gist, made the following observations OF
a. m. 50: Il m, IS, D. m, so; D. m, SIS.
Weather fair.
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SAFE JULY %.

BRUSSELS, July 80. A despatch
from the Russian admiral, Alexie6.
dated at Tien Tsin, July 80. and com
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GENERAL w. T. DRAPER.

Y. 8. Ambassador to Italy, Profound
" Shocked.
MILFORD, Mass, July S0.-Gen.
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