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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17

I posite Biagovestschensk. Yes, because
 of" and he pointed across the riv- CT; and because of--,' and he point
 ed down into its depths, then laughed because he had said nothing, yet told all. How, no one knows how 1t oc- cured, why it occurred; even when 1t
 occurred seems to be a matter of doubt. It was last summer, of course, rather
 more than year ago. And the people
 of Blagovestschensk have had to do
 their own work since. That they know,
 and that seems about all
 But there exists telltale series of
 photographs taken at the time, at the
 request of Governor Gribsky, as it
 would appear, very striking looking personality, and the head Attaman of all the Cossacks of the Amur district.
 It appears that the Chinese at Aigun, some forty versts lower down the river, fired at a passenger steamer, and that was the beginning of it all, and for nineteen days no steamer arrived at Blagovestschensk coming up river
 There is a photograph of the steamer that was fired upon, and of the steamer that started full of Cossacks to take reprisals upon the people of Aigum, with a solemn religious service being held on board of it, priests and digni- taries present. Then there is photo graph of the first steamer to come back from Aigun, dresed with captured Chi nese flags, bringing back prisoners and wounded and with the whole population of Blagovest schensk turned out to vel come it, all in high exultation. Blago- vestschensk is quite a large place, stretching for miles along the river front, with roads as wide as the widest roads in Peking-with quite as big pools in them, too, when it rains--and with very grand emporiums rather than shops, but, like the rest of Siberia, without any upper class poulation; cu- riously enough for a Siberian city, without even museum. But it is full of people, and the crowd in the photo graph was prodigious. Then there is photograph taken by the request of the governor of Aigun as the Cosacks left it. utterly destroyed, only the great, strong chimneys standing upright, not one inhabitant left in it, a city of thousands,I was told. Then there were of the Chinese city of Sahaline, exactly opposite Blagovest- as it was before the massacre, the finest house of the richest merchant,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17

could buy land for three dollars al
 acre, and the old man bought ten thou.
 sand acres. He also stocked it and put
 it in charge of Ned" who took OCon-
 nell into partnership with him
 Med" conceived the idea of starting a
 sort of Kindergarten on the ranch for
 Englishmen, and took trip across the
 water. In a few months he returned
 bringing with him few dozen of tn
 younger and wilder sons of Yorkshire
 and Devonshire gentlemen; also a eprig
 or two of the gentility of Ireland and Scotland. With each one he received one hundred pounds, the proposition
 being that for that sum as tuition, and
 an additional sum for board and wash | ing, he would teach them to be Ameri-
 can farmers and ranchmen.
 | The fame of Runnymede soon spread 1 through the British Isles and scores of
 the young men of her majesty's empire came to Kansas and joined the colony A town site was laid out and lots sold | like hot cakes in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. A fine hotel was built with all modern improvements. A
 I 1autiful Protestant church was erect ed and W ashamed in honor of St. Pat rick-the only Protestant church in America so named Golf clubs, cricket teams and football elevens were organ ized. A great many of the students brought hounds from England with them, and master of the hounds was elected. As the curriculum of the agrarian university was limited to the milking of one COW, and there were about eighty students to milk that one, a great deal of time was put in at horse racing, cock fighting, rabbit chasing and other sports and pastimes peculiar to Englishmen.
 As a diversion, they would import few lusty prizefighters for a week or two at a time, at the end of which there would not be a man capable of even milking a COW. The younger son of Sir Charles Palmer, whose firm built most of the Spanish navy, was student at Runnymede, and one night after get ting beautifully licked by Paddy Shea in a friendly bout he took two hun dred and fifty dollar watch from his pocket and gave it as present to the man who knocked him out. This same "LaF' Palmer is now an officer of dis tinction in the English army, serving in South Africa, as are also half dozen of the other students of Runnymede.
 Early in the nineties an anti-foreign sentiment began to manifest itself in legislation seriously affecting aliens and Runnymede began to wane. About this time also the death of Colonel Turnley made Med" heir to the Irish estates. and his departure was practi- cally the end of the colony and uni versity" He writes to some of his friends in Wichita occasionally, and the last letter contained the news that he sas been slated for Parliament.
 Several years ago the original pur- chase made by MT. Turnley was divi- ded into farms and sold, but the town site of Runnymede did not cease entire ly to exist until last week.-Wichita Correspondence of the Kansas City | Times
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17
MASSACRES IN MANCHURIA
4 TELLT1LE SERIES OF PHOTO
 GRAPHS.
The Awful Reprisals of Cossacks Upon
 the People of Aigun,

Mrs. Archibald Little, who has re- gently travelled home from China through Manchuria and Siberia, sends us the following notes with regard to the massacres which took place last summer in Manchura:
 The Blagovestschensk massacre has met with such universal condemnation from the British press that possibly it may interest the general public to hear Of record still extant as to how dif- ferently 1t was regarded t the time on the spot. We should not say anything about it," said a Russian lady belong ing to another city on the Amur, If the people of Blagovestschensk had not killed all their own servants and em- ployes of many ears standing. But that is little to much" q cannot think how it occurred" groaned out Russian official. "Gribsky, the govern or out there, is most charming man, and the governor of Khabarovka, to whom he referred the matter, has the klndest of hearts. I think it must have been mistake about a telegram. You sec when Gribsky telegraphed from Blagovestschensk asking what was to be done, the governor of Khabarovka telegraphed back: Tn war burn and destroy and I think Glibsk cannot have noticed that in war. You see. they just took all the Chinese and fore ed them into the river on boats that could not carry them, and when the wo- men threw their children on shore and begged that they at least might be saved the Cossacks caught the babies on their babies and cut them in pieces, and he shuddered.
 "Gribsky is not sympathique," said a naval officer, in that wonderful Rus sian French they talk on the Amur. He is not born, mais mauvais, tres mauvais." Why mauvais?" asked. Because of" and I pointed over to Sahaline, the one time Chinese city on the other side of the river exactly op-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17
TOWN SITE NOW A WHEAT
 FIELD.

Runnymede, Once Farm University for Englishmen, Now Ploughed Up. Henry Lotta, of Caldwell, has pur- chased the town site of Runnymede, in it's kindred acreage of excellent wheat producing farm land. It was surveyed,
 platted and built to commemorate that
 interesting chapter in English history
 wherein 1t is recorded that a few stout
 listed barons, with broadaxes, held up
 King John for a slice or two of original
 Anglo-Saxon liberty Everybody who
 had the good fortune to know Runny-
 mede in its palny days will wipe away
 a tear or at least heave sigh, when
 they hear that it is now as read as Queen Didos ancient capital. History never knew such town. It was the only town on earth where Englishmen, Welshmen and Scotchmen-no one else lived there-could have lived together for several years without annihilation. Nobody ever resided in the town who was not foreigner, and then only subject of her majesty, the late lament cd Victoria
 In 1882 "Ned'' Turnley, strapping young Presbyterian from near Belfast, wandered into Caldwell, then a cattle town, and enlisted as cowboy. ca the range he met a youth of immense bones and red hair named Charles O'Connell, grandson of the famous Irish liberator. Ned" Turnley's father was an Irish landlord and about as stiff an Orangeman as ever drank to the con- fusion of the Pope. Ned induced the old man to come over, and the old man came. "Ned' showed him where he
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23
admission of women to their ranks
and their deliberations.

1t is because men and women
are loosing confidence in the courts
and in the exponents Of the law,
that the work OF the meeting OF the
national bar association has been
serious and for the betterment Of
the law of the nation? Some such
radical action for wise and beneh>
cient laws sooner or later would
have to be taken, else the practice
of attorneys and the law as pro-
fession would die out.
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23

Sam Strong ended a career
which was sufficiently meteroic to
satisfy the ambition Of anyone.
There was little to the man person
ally to recommend him to the tears
of many people. His opportun>
tiles to make himself a man among
men were many, but his nature, it
all reports are to be believed, was
low and sensuous, with none Of the
higher attributes to lift him up.
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23

A man more often takes his life
in his hand while standing over the
gaming table, than if he was riding
in the track Of tornado.
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23

Limbs Of the law and elderly
branches thereof, now in session in
Denver, do not take kindly to the
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23

Unless the snpply Can be Kept Up by
Artificial Propagation Those Fish
Will All h Taken fron the Columbia
Rivsr
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23
THE ROYAL CHINOOK.

THREATENED DETERMINATION
OF PACIFIC COAST SALMON.
The daily sentinel., 1901-08-23

Wanted-Girl for general housework.
Apply at this Office.
See Lampson l. Close for artistic dec
Grating. Room 6 Eldridge block.
The regular Sunday night dances of
the Turner's will be resumed Sunday
night, August 25th.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
Shaffer Declares He Will Not
be Ousted.
NO-MoVE TO SETTLE YET
Steel Men Have Made No overtures
to the Amagamated Association and
Latter Has not Asked for Quarter
From Employees.

Pittsburg, Aug. 15-President Shat
fer today made the following state
ment: II will say officially the Anal
gamated Association has submitted no
proposition to the Steel corporation
nor has the Steel corporation offered
any proposition directly to the. Anal.
gamated Association. l will say, how.
ever, certain men are interfering in
this matter-interfering without a
fight. They had better keep out of it
or they will get the worst of it. Per-
sonany l wish the fight was settled
but now we are forced into the fight
and called upon to defend ourselves
We are fighting on successfully.
know of no plan for a settlement and
can assure you no representative oi
the Steel corporation has been to these
headquarters. The statement in the
morning paper that there is a move
ment to depose me and that we are
not working in harmony is lie"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
AMALGAMATEDO OFFICER
is WORKING OVERTIME
ENoEAvoRlNG TO GET MEN TO
STAND BY STRIKERS.
Leaves Chicago Today for Joliet Ac.
companied BY the Only Man in
Chicago Who obeyed shaffer's
Order to Quit.

Chicago, Aug. 15.-Michael Fl. Tighe
assistant secretary of the Amalgamat-
ed association, left here today for Jol,
let, to endeavor to persuade the steel
workers there to stand by the organi-
Zation. He was accompanied by Vice
President Davis. of the Fourth dis
trict, the only man in Chicago who
obeyed Shaffer's strike order. From
Joliet they go to Milwaukee. In Meth
er cities have the men formally re-
fused to obey the command to go out.
Three Hundred Go Out.
Pittsburg, Aug. 1870 men en-
ployed in the seamless tube plant of
the National Tube company at Christy
Park, short distance above McKees-
port, came out this afternoon The
men are not organized but struck out
of sympathy with the employees of the
other McKeesport plants of the COM
pany.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
Some Portions ofNew Orleans
Flooded.
HURRICANE CONTINUES
Weather Forecaster Gives Warming
Says the Wind Will Come Again To-
day and Will Strike Between New
Orleans and Galveston.

New Orleans. Aug. 15.-The storm
which developed here yesterday after
noon continued throughout the night
and heavy wind is still blowing to-
day. The wind and rain is general OF
the coast and many trains are belated.
Considerable damage was done small
bridges, bathing piers and wharves.
Small boats were damaged but no
lives We're lost. Much of the rear sec
tions of New Orleans is under water.
A number of manufactures are in
vaded and temporarily put out of bus
mess. A foot of water is in many
houses. The Treme market is flooded,
scows were brought into requisition TO
enable people to get from their homes
to higher portions of the city. Re-
ports from the rear of the city say an
area of about two miles in extent
and thiclSly populated is flooded to a
depth of two feet There is much suf-
fering in consequence among the
poorer classes.
Local forecast official Cline gave
out the following today.
May Be Another Galveston.
Hurricane signals along the Louisi.
| Louisiana coast is undoubtedly great
in intensity and is moving northwest
4 will strike the coast between the
mouth of the Mississippi river and Gal
weston, causing hurricane winds from
an easterly direction on the Louisiana
coast and northerly on Texas coast .
Mobile Inundated.
Mobile, Ala. Aug. 15.-The average
velocity of the wind in Mobile since
daylight has been forty-two miles ant
the greatestforty-fve miles. 1t has beer
raining necessarily since late last
night. All the mills, foundries ant
bolier making establishments in the
southern part of the city were forced
to shut down. Houses and wharves
along the bay suffered considerably
The wholesale district is being inun
| dated
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
A PRETTY WEDDING.
A. Stuber United in Marriage to Miss
Gene Dixon at Chillieothe.

Chillicethe, Aug. 15,-(Special)-At
exactly o'clock last evening at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. ana
Mrs. C. A. Dixon Of this city, A. STU
her. of Ottulnwa, was united in mar
riage to their daughter, Miss Gene
Dixon To the strains of beautiful
wedding march the young couple TOOK
their places under canopey OF flow
ers in the parlors, of the Dixon home,
and Rev Coggeshell, of Chillicothe,
said the words that made them one.
Afterwards a supper was served i'll
honor of the bridal couple, aftec
which reception was given. Mr. and
Mrs. Stuber will go to Ortltmwa this
evening, where reception will be civ
en- by the parents of the groom. They
will make their future home in that
city, although as yet a home has moi
been selected.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
:, MONTANA PLANS LAND -sAGE--
Oklahoma to Be outdone by "stubs.
toe" State.

Helena. Mont, Aug. 15.-Montana
Will shortly have land sale that will
eclipse the recent government affair
IN Oklahoma. where about 100000
acres were disposed of to homeseek-
ers. About 100000 acres, distribute
ed through every county in the state,
will be auctioned off by Land Regis
trar Long. This course was decided
upon at meeting of the state board
of commissioners. A state law pro-
hiblts the sale of any lands at less
than $40 per acre, and where Regis
trar Long fails to receive bids of at
least that he will only lease the lands
to the highest bidder. The board de-
cided that purchases by any one per-
son shall be limited to 100 acres agri-
cultural or $40 acres grazing land.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
MOVE TO STOP FIGHTS.
Indiana Governor Evolves Plan to Kill
Glove Contests.

indianapolis, Ind, Aug 15.-Gover-
nor Durbin and Attorney General Tay-
lor have decided on policy which,
they say, will put an end to prize
lighting in Indiana. The sheriffs of
the several counties will be instructed
to attend in person or send a reliable
deputy to every sparring match held
in their respective counties. and if
there is the least show of brutality to
stop it and arrest the principals and
those connected with the exhibition.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
STORM RACES ON
FLORIDA COAST
REACHES HIGHEST POINT LAST
NIGHT.
High Tides Damage the Water Front
to a Great Extent-No Vessels
Can Enter the Harbor or Pass
Over the Bar.

Pensacola, Fla, Aug. 15.-The Gulf
storm that has been raging in this
section for the past two days, reached
the highest point last night. The of
ticial wind velocity is given at thirty
eight miles an hour. High tides have
injured the water front property to a
great extent. No vessels can enter
the harbor or pass the bar.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
PICK MONTAGUE FOR GOVERNOR.
Virginia Democrats Select Head for
Ticket by Acclamation.

Norfolk, Va, Aug. ia. J. Mon
tague was nominated for governor by
the democratic state convention here
yesterday. No other name was pre-.
sented Mr.Swanson having withdrawn
from the race early in the day. The
nomination was made by acclamation.
IJ. Taylor Ellison was elected chair
man of the state organization for his
eleventh successive term. The most
notable incident of the day was the
lack of applause which greeted H. r.
Pollard, of Richmond, when he said:
Free silver is dead issue. 1t met
its Gettysburg in 1896 and it's Water.
loo in 1900"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
IOWA SIS $-ORIAL CON
NENTS $ DEADLOCkED
TAKE Se .R 1900 BALLOTS WITH
Y luT NOMINATING.
Takes Five Hundred and Three With.
out change-Bcdy in Session at
Eagle Grove Can Come to No
Agreement.

Eagle Grove, Aug. 15.-The senator
ial convention here has taken over
l,5O0 ballots without making nomi-
nation. Senator Joseph Wallace con-
tinues to receive the solid twenty votes
from Hardin county; M. H. Brinton of
Ellsworth has seventeen from Hamll-
ton, and f. G. Hartshorn of Clarion has
the sixteen from Wright county. Five
hundred and three ballots were taken
without a change. So far there have
been no breaks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
CHARGES ARE GRAVE.
DR.. Slominski With Others Brought TO
Time,

Chicago, Aug. 15.-Four men who
charge Bishop Anton Zozlowski the head
of the Polish Catholic church with
contriying to murder patients in hos
pital under his jurisdiction, that he
might gain their possessions, faced
Justice Martin in his courtroom yester-
day morning. The defendants are DR..
Ladislaw Slominski B. Wodzinski, S,
Sajewicz and Fl. A. Podgorski. and the
bishop seeks to send them to the peni-
Tertiary for their extremely sensation
al charges.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
SHAMROCK IL. IN DOCK.
Carried Longest Boom of Any Racing
Graft

New York, Aug. 15.-The sky-scrap
ing mast of Shamrock IL. was com,
pletely rugged yesterday and the bow
spirit placed in position. The main
boom which arrived from Glasgow on
Tuesday, is in one of the shops at the
Erin basin. 1t is, without exception
the longest boom ever carried by any
racing craft-schooner of single-stick
Grand the mainsail of the challenger
will be the largest ever set. 1t is be
lieved it will probably have to give the
cup defender time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
MUCH CRIME IN DEs MONIES.
More BursIaries Reported Than ir
History of City.

Des Moines, Aug. 15.-Crime is ram
part in Des Moines and the present po.
lice force seems powerless to prevent
nightly visitations of the homes of the
city by thieves whose bold acts sur.
pass, anything which local police his
tory has recorded for years. One
night this week no less than dozen
homes were picked out to be victimiz
ed by the bold thieves who seem to
have no more fear of the police than
an army would have of popguns.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
DEPUTY PosTMAsTER MISSING. .
MarshalItown Man Disappears When
Shortage Is Found in Accounts.

Marshalltown. Aug. 49, Deputy
Postmaster Max Kruskopf. of this city,
is charged with a shortage of 81 1000,
and efforts to take him into custody
yesterday afternoon developed the fact
that he. had hidden. When Postoffice
Inspector ketcham discovered the dis,
crepancy in Kruskopf's accounts he
sent for marshal, who arrived too
late to find his man Kruskopf at
noon purchased ticket for Cedar
Rapids. but did not board any train.
He had been employed in the post
office ten years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
GO WEST TO WE'D.
Iowa Man and Missouri Woman Marry
in Kansas City.

Kansas City, Aug. 15.-Daniel Davis
of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Gertrude
Clarke of Springfield, Mo-, were mar
ried at the Baltimore hotel here. They
had met here by appointment, neither
caring for large wedding and very
simple ceremony followed. 1t was as
serted that it was no elopement, or
even a surprise. Both are past the
first blush of youth
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
IOWA WRESTLER IN ALASKA.
Is Performing for Purses of Fabu.
lous Size.

Fort Dodge. Aug. 15.-Frank Gotch.
a wrestler well known throughout Iowa
and neighboring states, is now at
Dawson City, where he is wrestling
the best men Alaska can produce
for purses of fabulous size and is al
most invariably successful. Gotch
bars no color or weight in his matches
but takes all comers. He has not been
defeated since be began wrestling.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
Strike Fails to Affect Three
of Them.
THE FOURTH is IN DOUBT
Latter Is a Carnegie concern-Heavy
Rain Storm Keeps Strikers off
streets-No Disorderly Excitement
Is Reported From Any Place.

Pittsburg, Aug l5.-The painters
and Lindsay and McCutcheon mills re-
sumed this morning with the same
force as yesterday. The lower union
Carnegie plant is still running with
the result in doubt. A heavy rain
storm kept strikers off the streets and
no excitement or disorder is reported
from anywhere
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
Take Aguinaldo's Successor,
Who Was Rapidly Ac-
quiring His Prestige.
CHAFFEE WE'LL PLEASED
Second Lieutenant Grant of the Sixth
Cavalry Takes the Filipino While
Scouting With Detachment Near
TaaI in Batansas Province.

Manila Aug. 15.-Second Lieuten-
ant Grant, of the Sixth cavalry, while
scouting with detachment near Taal,
Batangas province, made what mill
tary authorities consider to be the
most important capture since Agui.
naldo was made a prisoner. Grant
captured Col. Martin Cabrera his ad-
jutant, and six other insurgents. Ca
brera, has been growing in power for
some time. He controlled all the in
surgents in Southern Batangas ard
also those westward of the CITY OF
Batangas.
More Surrenders.
Col. Panganiban. a captain and
twenty men with twenty-six rifles and
considerable ammunition surrendered
| to Lieut.. Smith of the Twentieth in
fantry near Luzos. They formed q
portion of General Waivers command.
After taking the oath of allegiance
they We're released.
Captain Policarpio and a. lieutenant
and five men from the Sixth company,
Waivers command, also surrendered
to Col. Baldwin.
chaffee Pleased.
Lieutenant Evans reports he has
not seen or heard of any insurgents
recently on the island of Mindero.
4 lChaffee is greatly pleased by these ac.
counts from the province of Batangas
and the island of Mindero.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
COLOMBIA IN TIE IHROES OF A CIVIL WAR

VULVWDIA TN IT'LL IIINULO UT Il VIVL WAN
Rebels Are Now Advancing the Towns With Army OF
$4,000 Men.
both SIDES ARE COMMITTING SOME HORRIBLE ATROCITIES
andW sAmput to