The Worthington advance., 1900-07-13

The American tourists in Edinburgh
celebrated the Fourth by dedicating
q statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Dispatches from Shanghai are prac-
tically unanimous in the declaration
that the entire European colony in
SPeking, numbering nearly. 900 souls.
has beenswiped out BY the Boxers and
the Chinese soldieraat the ainstigation
of Prince Tuan. China's emperor was
forced to commit suicide by Prince
Tuan and the dowager empress was
made insane by poison Rebellion 10
spreading to southern and central
provinces and there is tank Of the civ
ilized world having to tight all China.
The Chinese are reported TO- have
butchered 5000 persons II. lPeking, and
it is feared the Boxer. revolt wit
spread throughout the empire >if the
allied army is defeated. Russia has
given Japan free rein to end the war
and the mikado' probably will send co.
coo more troops to China. -
The emperor has offered reward OF
$7oo for every foreigner in Peking
handed over alive to q German magis-
trate.
For cause unknown Rufus T. Wright
poisoned his wife of three days at
Columbia, S. c., and then poisoned
himself. ,
A weeks scouting in Luzon resulted
in II Americans being killed and 166
wounded. One hundred and sixty Fill
ipinos were killed during the week.
In 1899 Manila imports were $17, ,4s0,
412. of which $1,35O,364 were from
America.
Little light can be she'd on the fate of
Peking legations and foreign residents
in, the Chinese capital. Report comes
that the legations were. still safe on
July 4, but it is generally discredited.
There is a strong belief that no for
eigner is alive in Peking.
LATER NEWS
The Chicago Daily Democrat, for
merly the Dispatch. has suspended
publication.
VIM. Nexille, populist congressman
from tie Sixth Nebraska district, was
unanimously rcnominated by the
fusion convention.
The strike of dock laborers and car
men at Rotterdam has assumed a most
serious aspect. The strikers fred on
the soldiers, woun6ing 10 of them.
The garrisons have been reinforced,
and warships are protecting the water
front.
A delegation of full-blooded Indians
were received by President Mckinley
at Canton, o.
The inventory of the personal estate
of the late Vice President Hobart was
filed at Paterson, N. j. 1t appraises
the late vice presidents wealth at $2,-
628, AL.
Rev. Coutlee,a a Roman Catholic priest,
was married to Miss. .Perrier, school
teacher from Ontario. The ceremony
occurred in the Baptist church at
Worcester, Mass.
The whole Fink family at Little
Rock, Ark, eight in all, were killed
from eating poisonous toadstools, sup
posed to be mushrooms.
]: F. NeRreen, an 1s-year-old stamp
dealer in Omaha, Neb., was arrested
for having used cancelled stamps for
mailing letters.
Peter Nissen, Chicago, or Mr.. Bow
ser, as he styles himself, went through
the whirlpool rapids Of the Niagara
river in the presence of about 10000
people, in his craft, the Fool-killer.
He was badly scared. but came through
safely.
With the foreigners in Pek,ng prob
ably safe amid civil war, with Prince
Ching on their side, with the powers
united and their forces constantly in
creasing the outlook in China is now
rather more hopeful than has been for
a month past 1t appears from the
|cautious statement given out by Tao
Tai Shanghai, that the reason the
heavy guns bearing on the legations
at Peking were not used is that Prince
Ching. who is served by 10000 troops,
seized all the artillery ammunition.
Minister WI at Washington has
cabled to Sheng, the director of the
imperial posts at Shanghai, and to the
and to the vlceroy at Marking a re-
quest that they take steps to have it
made known in Peking and vicinity
that heavy rewards will be paid by the
American people for the salvation of
the people in the legations