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Une file Qui n du nerf c'est Miss
Carrie Bowling, de Marvel, Ark. Son
frere Bonnie await 9tait condamn6 au
p6niteDcier q Clarksdale, Miss, pour
vol 81 Carrie est alice ie voir, sous pre-
texts lie ini faire ses adieux ct de lni
donner IN peu d'argent. En- pabsence
du sheriff. ellie a trouv6 III deput6 nom
me Shaw ct lui a polimeDt demand6 la
permission dune entrevae de gnelques
minutes avec son frere. Shaw s'est em
press6 de satisfaire au d6sir 81 legitime
de Ia jeune file ct I'd condnite a la
celluIe du ~prissonuiet quill ouyerte.
A peine ravait il fait guam cri parti
derriere lui Pa fat SO retouner ct il
s'est trouv6 en- presence de deux pie
toilets que tenait f'aimable Carrie. II
vonlu parlsr, ellie lni ordonna dc so
taire cit de- lever les mains, puts lie d6s-
aFma ct remit an revolver son frare
Qui sen ALA traHQuillement ct prit la
flute. Lorsqa'il s'est trouv6 libre, Miss
Carr6 s'est livr6e aux antorites en- de-
clarantQue son bnt etait accompli ct ellie
q 6t6 emprissonn6e d son tour et garde
CONNIE otage. Dea rnmenrs n cir
cul6 qu'une force arm6e so pr6parait d
venir Ia remetfre en- libert6 ct La vile
a ste an probe a nna vive ~excitation.
Mais ayant que le conf1it red0nf6 ent
lieu, lea antorit6s de Clarksdale ont ing6
q prop0s de remettra Ell libeft6 Ia
prisOuni6re. Carrie Bowling est une
file de eeize ans settlement.
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The Mason Dixon Line.

Elkton, July 27.-The States
of Maryland and Pennsylvania
have jointly agreed to restore
the stones with which the fam
Gus Mason and Dixon's line,
which forms the boundary be-
tween them, was once marked.
Macy of the stones have disap-
peared and the location OF the
line was in danger of total oblit-
GRAFTON at certain points. The
work will be begun about Sep.
TENDER /.
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Rob iris Reports a Boer Repu' Sc.

Rob iris Reports a Boer Repu' Sc.
London, July 23-The War
Office has received the following
dispatch from Lord Roberts:
"Pretoria, July 23.-The
Beers made a determined attempt
yesterday to destroy a post at tho
Rail Head, thirteen miles east of
Heidelberg, which they attacked
with three guns and a 'pompom'
and surrounded.
sThey were, however, beaten
off after a sharp engagement be-
fore reinforcements summoned
from Heidelberg had arrived"
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al of them in the coming season.
Adams persists in her deter
to play "L'Aiglon," despite
any anger Bernhardt may display,
but Miss Adams is to have a new
version, which will be adapted to her
personal characteristics.
Although everything points to the
choice of Mr.. Odell as Republican
nominee for Governor of New York,
that gentleman himself insists that
he will not take it. Governor Roose-
Welt, despite his experience at Phila-
delphia, thinks Mr.. Odell is sincere,
and that he cannot be made to &C
cept the nomination.
Apparently it is going to be a
great year for the map makers. just
as we were putting the old atlas
away on the shelf satisfied that Rob
erts in South Africa and our own
forces in the Philippines had finish
ed disturbing geography, it has to
; come down again for us to follow the
course Of war in the bloody valley
of the Pei-Ho; and the fear now is
that we shan't put it aside again for
some time.
Clarence Mackay did a great and
commendable act in refusing to be
overcharged by the proprietor OF a
fashionable restaurant in Paris.
where he and his wife had dined.
But when the millionaire, after the
police had been called in and Other
noise and racket created, finally woI
his point, he went far towards spoil
ing it all by finging ten notes for {
hundred francs each into the res
taurant keepers face. Everybod.
would have known without THU
waste of money that Mr.. Macka.
was willing and financially able t.
pay his just bills. AS it was, the pro
l prietor of the establishment quietl.
, picked up the money and put it il
I his pocket.
, Mrs. Daniel Manning, in Paris. ha
aroused a fine feeling Of interest b
defending a basal principle in tn
. constitution of the Daughters of tn
. Revolution. A lady member of tina
: body who has married a foreign t
: tie asked her to set the day and il
: dictate the general arrangement for
l feast to the Daughters then in Pa,
y is, but Mrs. Manning declined to az
= because the proposed hostess ha
. made an alliance at once disloyal
the order and to the sacrifice of
whole lot of good American spiri
This is healthy discipline and cannt
s. fail of being highly commended. .
vt teaches not alone a lesson in high
It patriotism, but establishes a cane
in the ethics of the society whie
reads like this: IF you are going
is be a Daughter you must be n d
t. spite the temptations of corone
and princely woers.
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CHINA APPEALS FOR AID
Wants Mckinley to Use Good
Offices to Extricate the
Government.
Government

Washington, July 23.-Presi-
dent Mckinley has received
what purports to be a direct APP.
peal from the Chinese Imperial
Government to uss his good Of
fees to extricate that govern>
ment from the diff ;uls and dan
gerous position II which it has
been placed as a result of the
Boxer uprising AID the ensuing
hostile attitude Of the great
powers.
Although the exact text Of the
appeal made by the Emperor OF
China to France, as outlined in
the cable dispatches of yester~
day, has not been made known
here, it is believed that the ad-
dress to the President is similar
in terms to that communication.
To our case the communication
was made through Minister WI
! to the State Department. Thus
far a final answer has not been
returned.
, The French Government an
swered at once, but that answer
will not serve us. The United
States Government is conscienti-
ously proceeding upon an en-
y tirely different line Of policy in
$ the treatment of the case. Un'
fortunately, the State Depart
D ment fnds itself alone in this,
but nevertheless it is convinced
that it's plan is the best, and i
q has behind it the consoling as
~surance that at present all Of ths
s European governments have tao
lily admitted that an error wa
9 made in the beginning ia no
. following the common sense ad
vice of the United Statas nava
commander.
81 The point of difference be
tween the State Department AM
It the European governments i
d that the latter are proceeding
10 upon the belief that all the fol
a elgu Ministers and missionarie
t. and guards at Pekln have bee
D. killed and insist upon dealin
L. with the Chinese Governmen
= upon that basis, thereby assum
- ing a hostile attitude that tend
To to destroy the last chance C
e. availing of whatever friendl
is sentiment may yet exist amou
the powerful Chinese Viceroy
and the imperial governmer
itself. This the French reply, E
indicated in the four condition
laid down by M. D~9lcasse ye
IS, terday, sets an impossible tas
G. for the imperial government
it's present straits, and tends
~ drive it at once to make tern
ou with the Boxers and P.int
4? Tuan's party.
,g
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Gilbert Lien Dead.

Sioux Falls, S. D., July 3D.
Gilbert H. Lien, a brother of the
Fusionist candidate for Governor,
died suddenly to-day of congestion
of the brain.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-22
MISSIONARIES MURDERED.

Washington. Aug 20-The state
de- .s this morniog received q
dis tch from Consul Fowler, dated
Chefoo, Aug Is 1t relates to the
massacre of missionaries aud others at
Pao Tiog Flu, which has been referred
to a number of times 10 the press
dispatches abd bas generally been COD
ceded to have occurred on June 30.
The 6rst part of the dispatch is so
badly mangled ia transmission that 1t is
impossible to make much Of it TIE
tex, ia as follows:
Cbefoo, received Aug Is, 1900
Secretary Of State. Washington
Evening 13;b. Reported all Peesoy-
teriao missionaries Pao Tiog Flu killed
June 30; premises burped-same
(aight?) Catholic mission. Rain
stopped york July Isl. attacked
Aeericao (board y (Pl;k;o = shot
dead trying 10 keep gang or. Misses
Mo:reIi Goc!d taken Boxer beadguar
ters. kiiied (Bagna!l y killed near
(reupie y Cooper aud Beigiaus fate
Uncertain Officials bad scot ali home
from Ysmen All natives connected
Foreigners suffer like fate. Authority
special messenger sen; BY Tieu Tsir
nis ss:onaries. Fowler.