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Rebel. defeat ImperlaI troops.

London. Oct. IA special dispatch
from Tientsin. under date of October
-, announces the arrival at Pekiag
of Ii Hung Chang. According to a
special dispatch from Hong. Kong the
rebels have again defeated the army
Of Admiral Ho. who was pursuing
them in a northeasterly direction
from San Chun. killing 80 and captur-
ing many of the imperial troops. The
dispatch adds that the condition of
Canton is shaky. as the troops there
have been greatly depleted.
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Panama, Colombia. Oct ie. - Dis
patches from Costa Rica tell OF the al.
most total destruction by Gre OF Port
Limon. the principal port OF the re-
public. The business section OF the
city was entirely wiped out. The FIRE
started Saturday night aud very soon
got beyond control building after
building and block after block we're
swept by the flames and in a short time
more 'haE saooe.oo0 worth OF property
wAa burned np.
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The weather prophet IL now IN esl.
denee. One meteorological proguosti.
Gator has graycly assured the country
that we are IN for one of the coldess
winters ever known and that the mer.
eury 10 likely TO hover around the
zero mark almost constantly until II
IL time for the birds To return. An.
other. VITA just as much earnestness,
aAseSerates that the winter will be
very mild and that We will have hard.
~ touch Of winter Until the year
1901 i well along In days, One man
knows quite as much about IL as the
other--and that's nothing. fortunately
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The machine invented by = Chicago
woman TO measure the emotions Ger.
tainiy ought 70 All a longfe want.
but u will have 60 be strongly built.
When II comes TO measuring some
feminine emotions on some occasions
Il will have 10 do mighty quick work
and measure good many conflicting
emotions NJ practically the same mo-
ment. However. IL ought to be n
good thing for lovers Heretofore
there has been little reliable evidence
40 60 the exact amount Of love that
one person feels for another.
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81. Johns. y. ". Oct. iT.-The ~.
Pierre schooner Fiona drifted ashore
In Fortune bay during the recent
gale aud her entiFe crew OF 20 men
were drowned. The schooner i a
total loss. The schooners Amelia.
Kose6vd and Angler, with crews ag-
gregating Is Uaen, were also host. The
schooner Huntress Is sshor~ ON The
Labrador coast. Five Of the crew
were drowned.
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Berlin, Oct. ls.--The Kolnische Zei-
tung asserts that Prince Hohenlohe
has rendered his resignation as imperi-
al chancellor, and that 1t has been ac-
cepted. According to the same au-
thority Emperor William has desig-
mated as the retiring chancellor's sue
eessor Count Won Buelow. minister of
foreign affairs. The reasons which
induced the prince to insist upon re-
firing were, in the main, his rapidly
growing infrmities and his distinct
disapproval of the emperor's personal
policy in China.
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Judge Robinson, OF Raleigh, N. c.,
apparently thinks that clergymen have
In their own hands the power 60 keep
order during divine service, There
have been some hints OF unseemly do
ings in one Of the churches there, and
his honor in charging the jury said:
''Be careful how you indict men for
disturbing religious worship. II the
preacher IL the sort of fellow he ought
20 be people will be paying too close
attention 10 him TO disturb anybody"
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Nickerxon. Mimi. Oct. is.--Lanndie
Hoyt, aged Is. was killed in hor-
rible manner at = sawmill here
Wednesday. He was attending TO n
conYeyor which leads 10 the slab
burner and in some manner became
fastened to the endless chain. Before
help could reach him he was conveyed
90 the furnace and burned TO death.
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Not Vet Declared on.

The news from Philadelphia spread
through the entire region with al
most lightning rapidlity. Everywhere
satisfaction was expressed by the
striking miners and others. II is con-
fidently believed that the strike will
be officially declared off this week.
and that all the men will have a
chance to return TO work by Monday.
President Mitchell. OF the United
Mine Workers. when informed OF the
Reading company's action. was pressed
for a statement on this acceptance of
the miners proposition. Az he would
venture TO say however, was that he
would be glad indeed to know that the
anthracite operators had decided to
change the notices previously posted
so as TO comply with the provisions OF
the resolutions adopted at the Scran-
ton convention. Mr.. Mitchell de-
clined to say whether the union wonld
let the men return To work at those
collieries where the operators had ac-
eepted the miners proposition before
all the companies had fallen into line.
1t is generally believed that the big
coal carrying railroads that mine coal
will quickly follow the Reading com
pany and grant acceptance Of the
proposition and that all other opera
tors will do the same.
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Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. ia spe-
cial dispatch to the Times from Ia
coma, Wash, says: A typhoon caused
great damage last month on the
coasts of Formosa and southern
China. Numerous towns were de-
stroyed, Nineteen hundred houses
were washed away or inundated at
Taipeh, Formosa, and many lives lost.
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A new method has been discovered
whereby halloonlsls may communicate
while at an altitude of over 5000 feet
with those ON the ground, The meth.
od consists Of huge drum placed some
90 feet below the ear which il beaten
by electricity. The dots aud dashes
OF the Morse tclegraphic code have
been adopted with complete success.
This will prove great advantage la
warfare. Hitherto hallooniAtn have
been limited TO an ascension OF /, 900 10
1900 feet ON account OF their telegraph.
ic wires. and have thus been unable 10
escape the range Of fire.
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to the house Of representatives. he resigned
that office and took his seat December /.
1883
mittee in 1883 he had much to do with franz
ing the Mills tarin bill. passed In that ses-
sion, and as chairman Of the same commit
tee In 1888 he was the principal author Of
the tariff bill known popularity by hts name.
He was nominated and confirmed as
postmaster general TO succeed Wilson s.
Bissell. resigned.
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On the run from Seattle 10 San
Francisco recently the new battle.
ship Wisconsin made the 500 miles
in 50 hours and broke all existing
records. Heretofore the best record
made between the two ports was by
the steamer Queen in eS hours. The
Wisconsin was nnraed In the cradle
that held the Oregon and IL starting
out 90 become equally famous.
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Manila. Oct. is.-capt. Dcvereax
Shields. who. with 81 men OF company
\. Twenty.ninth regiment. United
States volunteer infantry. was cap
tured by the insurgents last month
In the island of Marinduque, was res
eued Sunday by the American rescue
force with all the members OF his
marty
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ceal rrle~. Aasanee.

Dalasa, MINI. Get. as,-Ia spite of
the end Of the coal strike. hard coaI
went up IS eents per ton Wednesday
and Is now held Al ST2a Local deal
era say that stoeka are very short
here. and that they do not besieve the
settlemens OF the ssrise viii make
prices auy lower.
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F.re caa.e. rre peath..

Detroit. Mich. Oct. tT.--As a result
of a are which started soon after one
o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the
building al No. IS jefferson avenue. oc-
eupied by the witchell Brothers Com
pany. Limited. manufacturers Of elk
skin shoes. two men are dead and eight
persons are more or less seriously hurt.
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roRnIas rsrnLIlasscn.

The rescue il reported Of Capt.
Shields and 81 Americans captured
by the Filipinos. Insurgents losi 20
men killed ard 20 wounded In an at
tack ON Americans al Iloilo.
On the coasts Of China and Fnrsnosa
q typhoon destroyed 1900 honses and
many lIvea were iosl
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Western capitalists propose 10 tnn-
mel the great continental divide 20
miles west OF Denver and operate an
electric road through H. The tunnel
will be IA miles long. and win be
built TO facilitate mining operations.
II takes more than a mountain range
20 battle the Yankee engineer.
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Europe has recorded q most un-
usual race. IL was nothing more nor
less than q balloon race from Paris
Go Berlin won by Comie DE Las
Nsuix. who made the trip In ~ hours.
The fastest express train between the
two cities requires - hours for the
journey One object was TO land as
near as possible to the points Axed
In advance. Comte DE Las vallstte
won that prize. he landing within
e,e2t feet Of the appointed place. 1,
IL plain that navigation OF the air
is not 30 far OF aa Go be hopeless.
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Examiners In the patent Office were
inclined TO poke fun at a eontrivanee
deaigned TO frighten wolves on west.
era prairles. but Il has come into con.
siderable use in the sheep-growing
diatricts OF that part OF the coun.
try. The device Is an automatic gun.
which goes on At regular intervals.
scaring the wolves away from the
aockA. II consists Of sort Of box.
containing a clock.woFk arrangement.
with . small steei barrel projecting
from one end. Wolves do not attack
sheep In the daytime. aud the gun
nesds 70 be In operation only At night.
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BATS LAID ASIDE.
season of the National Baseball
League Closes with brooklyn
as Champion.

Chicago, Oct. 15.--The playing Of
the National Baseball league closed
Sunday with the game at st. Louis.
Brooklyn wins the championship with
total of so games won and 81 lost.
The following table shows the num-
ber OF games won and lost and the
percentaVe of the clubs:
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Another family has been wiped out
of existence through dinner OF
mushrooms. largely because the mem
bers lived in an inland town in Mis-
souri, and never had chance to rock
4. I.aat
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A New Jersey man has been trying
TO hypnoiize a girl TO get her to play
the violin. In most instances one would
be inclined to use that power to get
her to Ston.
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STRIKE Is SETTLED.
Operators Aecede to the Demands
Of the Miners.



Philadelphia, Oct. is-The great
strike Of the anthracite mine workers
Of Pennsylvania. which began septem-
ber II, practically ended Wednesday,
when the PhIladelphia Il Reading
Coal and Iron company and the Le-
high Valley Coal company agreed to
abolish the sliding scale in their re-
spectiye regions and to grant an adj
vance in wages of ten per cent. net,
the advance to remain in operation
until April 1. 1901. or thereafter.
This action meets the demands of the
Scranton miners convention. The de-
eision was arrived at after confer
ence between representatives of the
Individual coal operators and the large
coal carrying companies. The confer
ence began Tuesday.
Victory IL Complete.
II is conceded that the result of
Wednesdays conference is complete
victory for the men. All the demands
of their convention are acceded TO
and. as one OF the individual operators
put ii after the conference, the oper-
ators go a little further in agreeing
to maintain the wage advance after
April !. just how soon the official or
der notifying the men that the strike
is ended and TO return TO work will
be issued by President Mitchell can
only be conjectured Ii is believed
here that no order to return will be
issued until a notice similar to or in
line with that of the Reading and Le-
high companies Is posted ut all the
mines.
The Reading eompany's notice
reads:
"It hereby withdraws the notice posted
October g. 1860. and. To bring about prac-
tical uniformity In the advance Of wages
In the several coal regions. gives notice that
II will suspend the operation of the sliding
scale. will pay ten per cent. advance on
September wages till April !, 1901. and
thereafter until further notice; and will
take up with Its mine employees any griev-
ances which they may have"
This meets all the demands of the
strikers and means the immediate
ending OF the strike.
strike Figures.
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A examination ef the eensaa re-
turns shows that the greatest gro ~th
Ia the population et the country has
been in the eastern states and that
most of she cities which have had the
largest peFeentage Of increase aEe in
New England.
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Brooklyn and Pittsburgh will now
play a post series of games for the
worlds championship and $500
trophy,
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strike Figures.

Following is an estimate of the cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-02
THE WEATHER REPORT.

Yesterdays RECORD AND To-DAY's FORECAST
Washington March Since Wednesday night the
storm has moved Western Tennessee 10 Eastern
NewYork with steadily increasing intensity the harome
at New-Yor reading tonight 29l6 inches The snow
attendant on this continued in the Upper OHIO
VALLEY and lower lake region and there have been general
and heavy rains except Northern NewEnBana wnere
there was and At Portland. Me. there Were
on inches Of rain since Wednesday night zVZ
iches AT Albany and inches of rain at Boston In
,a Of the storm weather has generally cleared
tbrogh the South and Lower OHIO al
In Southwest fair weather has beeh
.enerai during Thursday The temperatures have fallen
degrees the Ohio Valley southwark ana In
tbe extreme Northwest and the line OF freezing tepers
extends into Northern Georgia over ule
temperatures nave risen te rise
ranging from 10 20 degrees the Southwest ana
In Pacific Coast and plateau regions IaiF
weather has prevailed with slightly higher Temperature
clear Friday morning In the HllddIe
Atlantic states and New-FnBland. and VIII be followed
Nv fair weather Friday with much lower temperature ex
cent near the Maine where snow VIII continue
her. will also furrtes IN the lower lake region
and nrobaby showers In the Southwest II VIII be warmer
FRIDAY in the Ohio Valley and Gulf States. ana
the Western upper lake region eho
the Northwest. Atlantic Coast there win be west
northwest gales gradually diminishing during FRIDAY
on the South Atlantic Coast W, -. .h,-... A., ho,ra
Owing To heavy during the last thirty houIs
In the South Atlantic States the rivers IN mat 1lsuc'
are Using rapidly flood warnings nave been oisHo-
utad along the rivers of South Carolina.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-02
LIMITING LIFE INSURANCE.
WHAT is THOUGHT OF SENATOR BRACKETS
BILL.

WHAT Is THOUGHT OF SENATOR BRACKETS
BILL.
tonsiderab bic interest manifested Yesterday In
ne insurance circles in regard State Senator
Dtache't Oil amending the Insurance law pro-
vidng that no corporation shall issue risks exceed
ing In amount S1,50o00O 600. There are three COM
panies now having each than ST. 900 900 900 of
insurance in force. II is supposed that primarily
Inc Dill was In the interest Of the smaller COM
pahies The big companies. far heard from
nave not made objection to the change The time
"hen such a limit be reached is still so far
distant in any OF the companies as to leave ample
opportunity to adapt its business to the law. The
tremendous pressure OF competition for new insur-
ance, which has been characteristic of these COM
panies for many years past. will naturally and
gradually be slaCkened the limit Is approa ched
When II is reached by any company Il will have
vast field for its enterprise and energy In supply
ing vacancies left by examinations OF every descrp
ton-by death. maturity, lapses and surrenders
indeed, In so vast company the examinations each
year VIII require TO supply their places an amount
or new business which hot many years ago would
nave been thought beyond the ambition OF any
company to secure III a year. It will employ a
large agency force. while the administration of
the funds OF the company will tax the abilities OF
the ablest managers II. is likely to be the case
an even larger amount of new insurance should be
offered to the company 1t will have the opportunity
OF selecting Its business by higher standard than
before. and all its energies will be directed, no
longer TO obtaining the first place furious race
for magnitude but TO rendering the best service to
its members and the public. This is the opinion
or conservative conducting the business OF life
insurance.
An officer connected with one Of the smaller
companies said yesterday general principles It
is a fair question how far the life insurance inter
ests should be concentrated in few hands. The
great companies have probably already attained
great size could be desired for tho purpose Of
determining an average OF mortality and of cheap
enins the cost OF their business by transacting It
wholesale 1t is evident that such legal Limitation
VIII be cordially welcomed by the smaller com
panies, which, however well managed, have been
handicapped by their smallness in the effort to
secure business This limit will place before every
company goal, which 1t will be the ambition Of
every one to reach, and which every that is
conducted with the highest ability and integrity
may hope some day 20 attain.
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the five hundred high schools-and take them
away from the Regents. The Regents were deter

the I'VE hundred high schools-and take them
away from the Regents. The Regents deter
mined he should not take them. The fight went
on. and is not ended yet. The men who are most
Interested in education do object to putting
all these institutions under one body. but they
not in favor of putting them under who
has absolute power They in favor of
putting them all under the Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction. That is the stand took in the
matter-that we are in favor of putting the whole
school system OF the State under the Regents,
VINO have been fair and Just and honorable; who
are men of experience. and who discuss all these
questions with due elaboration. and decide by
majority vote. We believe Ii our duty TO do all
that we can for unifcation under the Regents of
To continue the good work already begun, and to
extend 1t all along the line of educational progress
from the kindergarten to the university the Re-
gents should have more power conceded by act
or the present Legislature. It time to abolish
the central despotism exercised by the State
Superintendent Of Public Instruction and to subor-
dinete his office to the general welfare Of the peo-
pie In the city well the country districts thus
of citizens > $3.50 90 -''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-02
THE PASSING THRONG,

j. G, PATTERSON, president OF the Travellers In
surance Company, OF Hartford, Conn, and head of
the granite firm OF Patterson &
THINKS Eisele, said at the Hotel Bartholdi
FIRMS WILL In this city yesterday that he did
NOT YIELD. not believe there would be any
yielding of the granite firms to the
demands of the Granite Cutters Union although
ten thousand granite cutters In various parts Of the
country had gone strike TO back up the de-
mands.
The granite cutters employed by the day have
been receiving from s. 80 to So so a day.. he said,
and the union demanded that all granite cutters
safe 20 permit the union to dictate TO us the
work by WING could ID h Pay earn 1o ee Day Th
course OF the union has been to prevent good gran
and to demand for incapable more than they
can a earn We have had granite cutters who earned
rule that the men must give to the union all they
cutters would knock Off work when they had fin
ished enough work to make 81 not being willing, to
Of the granite cutters will delay work on the
Hall Of Records in New-Yorl"
1T may OF course have been expressly arranged
by the hand of fate" said A B. Kerr. OF Buffalo
yesterday at the Murray Hill Hotel
THE SUR that exactly nineteen years after
RENDER OF Majuba Hill fought and lost
CRONJE at dawn on the day of that
niversary, at Paardeberg. Cronje
should have been forced to an unconditional sur
render. 1t may, of course nave been "a fixed sen
determined but the force surrendering is all
to accept this state Of affairs as natural The an
niversary Of Majuba Hill but a day or two
That 30 900 men could have been stood off by
placed su not that s If 9 Ss NS
o But be hat as Il
an already famous career. but | would for his own
patch about Majuba a' Hi ie'' 'A' S'
as after s ii Is s4id don't s think hf
Roberts. an Irishman, with the assistance of Lord
Kitchener, also Irishman, turns the depression
failures lure 10Y Of the puFey English
In Cronjes surrender too. the honors go to the
the eampaisn, he authorities were disposed to
as IF % itself fn the rea fh Ssas
a war where England and Englishmen proper are
Thomas q. Nickel. OF Chilicothe, Ohio Is at the
Hotel Cambridge Mr.. Nickel is probably the lars-
est individual owner OF coal lands
THE COAL in the United States. Aside from
FIELDS OF this he is the president of bank
WEST In Ohio the owner OF several
VIRGINIA. thousand acres OF farming land,
the owner OF large tracts OF tim
| Der land and is interested In many other enter
prses.
The world is hungry for American coal" he
market for American COIL The output Of the
on h H of co and
the Carnegie company and other steel companies
there is G FOR coal Now that the Welsh mines are
giving out England Germany am, FTSnee Austria.
can coal The coalfelds In Pennsyvania are nearly
land in the GonnesvilIe district was selling for
about 81 900 acre. The iron: steel and coal men
ere Practically virgin properties The coal there
is as rich as good Il cqking qualities and r! as
West Virginia have been waiting, and nov our
time has % ana s we ae e6 fhn the demand
exceeds the supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-02
AVS IN JAPANESE.
A TRAGEDIAN. A DANCER AND THEIR COM
PANY AT THE BERKELEY LYCEUM

company of Japanese actors last evening enter
tanned audience OF good size the Berkeley
Lyceum. The company is OF which frequent
mention has already been made In these columns
II has already been seen IN San Francisco Chicago
and Boston, making considerable stir in the last
named city, where anything unusual which calls
itself art is always eagerly welcomed The audi
ence Of last night, 1t is fair say, uncom-
monty interested. and found no small ground for
genuine admiration in some parts OF the perform
ance. The company is headed by Otjiro Kawakami
a tragedian, and Sada Yacco, whose chief accom-
plishment is dancing. The programme began with
a short drama entitled ''Zingoro, Earnest Statue
Maker" the plot Of which IS much like that or
''Pygmalion and Galatea-" Then followed play
called THE Royalist," and last thrilling tragic
romance. entitled The Geisha ana the Knight"
In the second piece there remarkably ex-
citing fight with swords. knives hands, head and
feet. 1t has been good many years since the last
act Of Richard III' or OF Macbeth has onered
anything at all comparable with It. Sparks flew
from the swords IN literal showers and the fighters
rolled and fell and over one another The
last play had Just such plot might have been
brought from Paris instead OF from Japan. 1t
might almost be called problem play, but 1t ended
~ II is impossible to Judge such a performance as
was given by Occidental standards. To the West
ern eye much seemed ludicrous when was no oo9pl
meant TO be serious, ana "oulu nave pee le6dd 81
so by a Japanese audience. 1t was IN accoTdahce
with conventions which the actors hnd accepted az
home but not here: The emotion displayed by Ine
TWO stars presumably the best actors OF the com
pany by their standards was grotesqt 10 e.r
New.York audience. For the Judgment OF inns par
Of the world one Of the best performances vas S
that Of blind man. by Watanabe Inc i' sbog
was perfect but the performance ala nor snow snow
anv art that rose above the perfection or imitation
Sada Yaccos dancing was interesting, as i ati,
rating the kind of dancing which Is presuhnaeiy
nonuIar in her country, but 1t would never De per-
nannently so in this Persons present %h9 sh nad
~ aUereR e TO be seen the Japanese stage