Des Moines Leader (Newspaper) - October 4, 1900, Des Moines, Iowa SETTLEMENT OF CHINESE MAT TER ON HIS LINES LIKELY In and Git Booa Jala Washington Oct news has reached Washington from the Eu ropean chancelleries Indicating that a complete agreement aa to China iri Bight The agreement will be on the basis of the propositions laid down by Secretary Hay In of July 3 and the subsequent notes treating of that subject TJie accord with United State IB more complete than was first and lite show that al of the European nations probably placing them selves n position advantage of the opening made by the States and soon will LQ begin for a settlement with the Chinese government The Russians have given such purpose and while of French note on this subject referred loin todays press dispatches has department the officials are satisfied that thla Is correctly reported and that France Russia is ready to negotiate at once V As for Germany position of has been misunder stood Or It has sustained a chanee of mind Possibly he former ease but however that may beH la quite certain from the have reached Washington today that the German government upon careful In of the plans for a settle men t projected by the Untied States finds therein Inconsistent the German aspirations Therefore It may that Germany too will be prepa red soon to Join fa th IB co movement toward a settlement It be stated that altogether the cros of the Chinese resort to formal war ere very much brighter than they were ago The news of he day few being a cablegram from iir Conger the departure of the minister and suite from and an authentication by Min for the edict for the punishment of Tuan and the sullty princes uce o pour a on the altar Tlie commercial su of the have been ordered to talte the needful measure the conveyance of tho of the ile When it reaches a cond le made on an af r has always friendliest relations China We therefore entertain the hope thai your will renounce att eo that peace may he arranged aa soon as possible and that universal harmony rendered possible or time This our most anxious tope and our most dent wish replied as followe the China I orman have received the tel egram of your majesty the emperor of China 1 have observed with satis your is anxious to expiate according lo the custom and precepts of your religion the shameful of my minister which set at all civilization yet as the Gcr man and a I cannot regard that abominable crime for by a my murder ed minister there have gone before th of martyrs and are accusers of your majesty the luxations commanded by your suffice for all these In nocent ones I do not inake your ma jesty responsible for the outrage against the legations which are held inviolable all nations nor for the grievous wrongs done so nations and faiths and lo the of your of my Chris Ian belief But he advisers of your CHINESE Park by Associated Press Sept 28 via Taka Saturday Sept 29 and Shang hai Ocf The German column con sisting of J 700 men under General i on encountered a small Boier forts south ol the Imperial Deer nart ana forty ot Chinese fluring a fiehl which followed The Chinese vere put to flight and scat Four wounded Chi Hta a member ot the It yamen of notorious ten ond a patron of the Boxers bis captured In the Imperial city by the HII fate has not been apop Sept via Oct nwi enrol south of the hunting park WRB punish the Chinese for on i German patrol General v on ner s fofte burned several villages where arms Jound The commander lo Nin and a tody of the lonn Halt wert with riflen and UK others Some of them to within twenty yards of the Boier and mowed down Oct Official advices from Pawn September 23 thai a of the Chinese officers accused of the murder of Baron von re In this June 21 I and my people received from a prince to shoot eri wherever we came across Hen The accused It appears denied thai the order was to shoot a minister or the German minister and he declared ent Than Wash Dot1 haa slate de of the degradation of Prince Tuan and fih Tne statement made A was received from Dl Sheng at Shanghai and that by an Imperial edict 1s September Princes Chwang Van are deprived of all I heir rank and at flees Prince Tuan deprived of office and handed over to the Imperial rlan court will decide upon a penalty hla salary to he stopped Duke president of at Xlnc the civil board ot dent of board of punishment at Chaou Shu are to be handed over to the board of censors who will de cide upon the penalty Minister Wus information appears to put all an to the Jail of the reactionary element headed By Prince Tuan and Including the prw of the censorate and board of punishment II Is shown however lhat the punishment of Prince Tuan was more severe than heretofore reported as he is removed from office a fact not stated in dispatches The clan court ia directed also lo decide upon the of In ad dition lo tht loss of office salary and servants The slate received a dis patch from conger today an nouncing departure of the from Peking this there Is little additional the Chinese situation i t It Is staled officially thil the reported French note to regarding the opening of negotiations and ncr or China has nol received It H proves true such a note has been is said tho for disarmament can hard considered wilh favor by ihla commercial and recognized sovereign au hority of China as Thus there have been rio protests on the of this government of Yung Lu as one of IIB Attme fur Von Oct The following Is the of the to WUllam of That your Ister has a to the suddenly broke oat In our being Abie lo pre vent It whereby our friendly relations were fa deeply deplored and By order that sacrifice be on an altar for the deceased and Chief Secretary Kun ge eore e of God a large number of our of and children ho for the sake of their faith which also have died a violent death PRIOR 50 CENTS PER YEAR IN THEIR RANKS STR MINERS CONTINUE TO I 50 NT SOLID FRONT uf at loti tho la Woo Philadelphia Get break has yet occurred in the ranks ot the ing mine though ot offer of an Increase of 10 per cent In wages were posted throughout Die region In tact there today of an In on iart of the strikers to in eist on other concessions and to remain out operators give recognition The feature of the day was the parade ond mass meeting of mine at arranged tiie object o demonstrating tie at United Mine A conservative estimate the number of strikers In the procession at 15000 and the day was generally Blven up as a holiday by the people of and other Luzerne county The maBS addressed lj Mitchell and other officers of the miners organization his speech con grain la led the strikers on having already received of 10 ier cent Increase In weges Ie said their cause had been recognized everywhere aa a righteous one ami that lime was not far dis tant when they would receive proper ready tho great have agreed to increase your M per cent which is a victory In True it is hot enough It does not satisfy us but la not far distant when the anthracite coal miners wiil receive aa much their any other cla a of workmen in the In this struggle do place utc faith in John or one matt rat In the organ Work hard for Its prosperity for the stronger it fs your are armed for the you are now engaged This strike shall not tin declared oft by me It eh all not be fended until a of anthra cite miners i so Every union and every colliery will be asked to eend uie ol more delegates to a convention to determine the or themselves interests are greater trine not decide the filiation o going back to work must ote on that selves I not pretend to determine your fate or that ol jre directly affected by this Mr Mitchell briefly the struggles of miners durns the past forty that miners cannot expect to Hayie all the evils been heaped upon them during last hair of labor righted al once Con Mr I vctor wiil be achieved by the men p land jig together Do not let one of move until all move If you together we will achieve a greater victory than was ever attained by labor in anthracite coa region The national was followed of James of both of the executes e hoard Mother CRIES FOR HELP UNHEEDED TOWNSEND A NEGRO BURNED AT THE STAKE railed lo With Applied Torch to Foe Tounsend Floyd a negro was a town mlles rom hefe a half hour after midnight this morn ins The nas an at tempted assault oh Her eel lo the fuel which reduces E body to ashes f attempt to ion was made yesterday afternoon at 1 o clock iir Harringlon WHS at a col on gin n Eclectic and one mile out of negro came to the house end told Mre Harrington that her hacl him to get 20 her She told him she had no change left hut about ten minutes The screams vere heard by Bob negro who was along atthe lime He ran to the time to see the negro es rape As goon as Sirs ored to Vichols the The Alt the at nert and saw mills shut the people left irf the road and In the field and gathered fora pursuit of negro The crowd eome k of perfecting the organization rural police which Is now an have betti out council o Santiago has do he funds for and has eJ the amount with a trust Iu In J t Oct The total number of member or parliament so far elected is 178 as follows 15 na 13 The elected Include East Clare and James Daly South The o In East Manchester is the reelection of A J by by votes the majority he secured at the general election In The ng Arthur rj Calfour Scolt liberal Jm Mr majority 2153 In Battersea Joan radical has defeated Mr Garten the conservative candidate i At both liberal candi dates iir HEnry and Dr town Sir John T D Llewellyn who represented the con in the late parliament in the conservative interest has beon defeated By Sir George The feature ot the election so far IE that Thile actual o parties is only slightly there Is undoubtedly Jti both and a The m urn as sets and liabilities of slate and savings banks ia as follows ma Here you Kwang Hsu dont you try to play with those foreign devils throne and the on whose heads the blood guilt of a crime fllte all with horror must expiate their deed When your majesty bring them to the punishment have de served will regard as tlon which vrill satisfy lie nations of Christendom If your majesty wit use your Im power for thla purpose accept ing to that end the of ail the Injured nations 1 for my part myself agreed on thai point I should also gladly welcome the return of your majesty to Peking For this my gen eral Field Marshal von will be Instructed not only to receive your with the honors due your rank but also afford your majesty military protection you may desire and which you may need against the rebels I also for peace which atones for the which makes wrongs dwie and which offers lo alt In China life and property and above tne tree service ot their religion Signed William I STARTS IN RUSSIA Dane Chant Mind Abool to Peking by Associated Press Tlon Tsin Seel Taku SepL 29 via Shanghai Hung Chiang has abandoned decision to proceed to and will il is an hegin with the Kusian minister to China M de Glers upon tho arrival at Tien Tsin General liaa the Infantry the Third ot cavalry Battery F to remain at Peking He estimates It will take a month to get the American troops out Washington stale de is in a dispatch from Minister Conger formally an nouncing the and departure of the Russian legation from Peking LIST OF BOXERS Official Imre of Chinese O racial San Francisco Freder ick Brown presiding elder ol Oie Meth odist mission in Tien Tsin who guided the forces into the Chinese capi tal arrived here on the Coptic He was one of the last persons lo leave Peking before with the outside world liad been cut oil left reking June 4 and with great difficulty reached Tien He immediately organized an expedition for he relief of Pel Tal IIo where a party ot seventyfive for eigners mostly women and children were the Chinese About Americans were in the parly Dr Browns family lie sent his family to Tor safety and himself succeeded in getting throush to Tien Teln on an American As Dr Brown was familiar with the of Peking his advice was asked regarding tlie best means of it was on his suggestion that the under the citys wall chosen by the Americana nnd The result of their arrival several be fore and Pr said The capture of Tien Tsin on July 15 by tne Allied forces was ao unexpected the various treasuries and did not have time lo hide their treasures or de stroy their documents 1 ivas requested by to search the dockets nnd files of the various Chinese depart ments and so came across many accounts which clearly incriminate the highest officials A Complete register of till Rogers In the villages around Tsin was also found giving names and so when the suppression of 50 undertaken the list be of great assistance compensation for their labor He ad vised them lo stand together HP the shall not be ended py him only be closed when a convention of miners every union and ever shill O decide He hoped that not one man will desert the rants until victory is complete Mr Mitchell uas to indicate in his his of the 10 per cent Increase conceded by he operators but beyond noting it as a victory he naa nothing to say on that point Neither did he Intimate am thing as to the ol an com en Ion of miners and after the meeting when on that subject r eaid that not a local union had request ed the calling of n convention A significant move In this direction however developed tonight at Shenan doah where all the of the Mine Workers held meetings and toa convention to be called later by President Mitchell Ine first announcement of the selection of The entire region was quiet today ana very few were in operation WAS A MONSTER In j pa Oct pa rase and meeting of the miners in this was the great est labor ever held in northeastern Pennsylvania Early the morning he sleam and the route of the parade were dec orated with flags and and the city a holiday appearance Mitchell and party arrived from shortly after 1 oclock and metat the by a laree and crowd were a nnd then driven The parade headed by President Mitchell nnd trie officers of executive board started at 3 oclock IVis there were fully In line The was furnished by about for ty anJ drum corps Many were car ried by the The paide over thp streets of he city and of pople tli sde walks President reviewed the great army of marchers Business was al a in the city all he afternoon The superintendents of the coal com panies clerks viewed the pa rade from their office buildings It was I oclock when the lasi of Hie marchers swept dent Mitchell Then he and hLs col were driven to West Side park the big mass irae held For several hours a crowd had been there and it nearly people were masse of the stand whm the ahor president to speak was en T D Nichols of District No 1 comprising the and Wyoming regions was of the meeting After George Purcell of In diana member ofthe national execu tive board and Rer P J Dunn of had made short addresses Mr was introduced He said Mitchell man would go further to avoid a strike than I but when all honorable ii ihen 1 favor strikes I Vork lo call on the op era tors at the Sacrifice of personal dignity to yet a Hut men who you turned me away and even to receive a committee of their own men for the purpose ol talking over The greatest In the history of the world is drawing to a close At Mary Jones the meeting Ident driven through cheering crow a to his hotel where he remain until 8 oclock when he return to Hai ton Mr Mitchell had nJ news touching ctr for to give put there was absolutely no change In the situation President Mitchell in answer to a direct question tonight that Hat one local union in entire cite con field had calling a convention of the miners Hi The board pi contra els today rejected for the second time the bid of the Springe field Coal association of per ton mine run to furnish coal toUbe state for the ensuing two years Coal years ago only cost cents mine nin The advertise for bids The bid field Coal the only Governor Tanner this evening This of he coal trust to up the stUe of will not he sub mitted to as long aa I to do with finances ofthe state if I can help H and I IcanI They askus per ton mine deliver ed tere one of the mines while we get the quality at state at from lo per ton delivered after nauls by ralL The Minnesota and Wiscon sin where they have fo haul EW miles get coal cheaper than the people of Springfield at the mines coal sells at to Si 0 ton adhered people of Springfield pay fla Insist on of Union Pa Meetings of all the local branches of the United Mine Workers here tonight to elect delegates to the convention tobe later by President chell One delegate waa every 200 members Organizer wcreadopted at all tbe meetings ex pressing the strikers determination lo remain away from the mines until the operators decide to uhe union It was also Pottier asserts the men will to work in a body Rumors were prevalent here today that strikers had upon Sergeant Anthony of the governors troop General and Capt Olt of the troop the men were hunting and that there Is no to show that they tried to sabot Anthony Gen tonight as un certain when the neit movement of troops here place He is making every effort to secure defi nite Information the condi tions In alt parts of region before sending more away Toiled of Pa Oct The coat operators of the Wyoming valley who posted notices at collieries last night notifying their employes of a 10 per in had no from today us to whether the offer wouldbe or not The striking moo gay It Js useless lo talk of a settlement unless the dents of the big coal companies make UP minds to thf union Oct 2 Mr consul general of the United States at Shanghai reports to tbi of stale in hte rof August 95 received the murder of two American MifS J Rice nnd lfcs Mary of the China and stationed at Lu Chenp m Shan S scouring the the ot the crime and others going to the peni for The dogs nere uol brought ft until lo disappeared and an exciting The finally stopped st a tree ol Odious slore north of Eclectic coming up flop the negro a limb He was brough doun at once and taken to the of bis crime There he ras confronted by hte him Word to the other searching parties that the mgro haM been found And about 11 o clock of several hundred was In MUe The negro wks taken to the edge o the tillage and preparations for his death were quick iy A rope was limb ofa oak and a stood ready to Then a rall was sailed and the man ner of dea by the A vote was taken aM the balloting showed a majority to fi at was prepared and negro was bound to Pine piled about him cna were by husband of victim As they lo he uttered lo God and help The looked on his cries and tr an hour the body was It Tonnsand befog bound con fessed the he was also Implicated Alex Floyd who was hanged two ago for ed en Pearson He planned for er character CALLED FOR TRIAL for for m n Ky Oct 2 hen the cae ot Herr charged with be ing tn he Uon was before Judge Cantrill to day the s attorney asked for A Scott the Frankfort Vout sey conferred with him concerning his al the assassination entered he courtroom accom by his his X N ana the Jailer being to be In health The commonwealth called sixty wli Tieases pniy twentyone of whom an swered present but all but three or four of absentee were accounted for and winbe on hand when The eom asked forthwith attachments for absent and It was reatly for the trial to proceed BOERS REID OFF M Blond to Com mand London Oct Redvers Dul ler says the Daily Malls denl at P return to England I hear Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener will remain In chief Sri South Africa Durban Oct consequence of Boers convoy ot Natal rs between De Jage t a d rift and Blood river burning several wagons and Iht escort of the Natal vol had poet This has a painful m throughput the colony tiolet la Cuba Oct negr Inspector general accompanied by Major om cer and of ru police has lion ot the ol The were found to be In a dUton and the country was in a tran quil feier wis dfs in the department Tht t Is to IQ the the are that the would enter the ne x par with Increased strength j Goschen s old St Square London ivon by Colonel the H with a of The first lord thp admir Is a liberal unionist re for that In general Of 159 i Mr James Bryce liberal elected for South Aberdeen IS I me at Complexion of Elec total College Kew York Oct a sued from head the votes certain in the electoral college for McKinle 112 for Bryan and four were put donn v in Tne to Bryan ace Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana the Tennessee la column fe put do Idaho Kentucky Mon tana Nevada Nebraska and Everything put down for itc which with ils fif teen votes to be fn doubt r this republican claim Mr Richardson for the democrats II as only so much He added that the demo which was very hul that It would not be Indiana Oct to 1000 visitors have arrived for the na tional convention of the democratic which will open tomorrow ater 2 oclock in Tomlinson halt at a the convention following official pro gramme oi speeches for the different arranged p m to club delegates welcome address Mayor Thomas response U ft the As ol Ad Hon Janies K Jones chair man democratic national committee Hon mayor of Toledo James Lewis of Hon Benton gov ot Tennessee Wednesday p 01 hall 9 p m by Sovereign mas workman Labor Captain Patrick of Washing ton ID CHon Sigmund of j Thursday 10 a G Stevenson v Illinois Augustus U Lock president of the National AntiTrust league Hon P W New York representing com G B Tork Hon J L Slayden o Texas E Stevenson and Hon William J Bryar Thursday S p r o York is In for th convention Elaborate have been the of delegates and Albert Albert of Bt helt to the oi married today 10 of civil took plate in the throne room knd was 1 bj a religious mice In there was a BIG GROWTH OF DEPOSITS BANKS ARE SHOWN TO BE PROSPEROUS by tho Auditor Showing at the of on ap Total J The madea the September 6 1900 ills re ASSETS Credits subject to Total asset LIABILITIES I Total liabilities increase In lie de of the ioa banks Is shown bv n statement June SO of 1890 f M cf ate SSSSS Uie report to the one P CJ OI 5 of 1 It wa beeeen from this the increase and IDM arc not The deposits class of forty was by the bj the supreme court The uri examination was conduced and and SnK was a ex amination before the members of the supreme court The committee in charge or he examination mil con duct oral examination also af The members of are A G Bush of Davenport Mitt H Al len of and Thomas H Smi b 01 If MUs Allen Work the is busily ea ii i la j ins plans for her future work aid and of John on state librarian Miss Ty ler s time promises to be pretty well filled for to come She will fo to and will appear afternoon before the ers ot Luca Margaret give Miss Tiler EV reception in city to her to meet the study clubs of Charlton short time Tyler will lo Eldora to remain a or two assisting Miss Estabrook librarian there In cataloguing library reiri a paper at the annual of the Staid Library asso at Cly October IS her subject On the same date a meeting of state library commission whl be held at Sioux City A this meet ing was sent out to commissioners by Mlw Tyler yesterday In speaking of her work Miss Tyler said yesterday she believed the eom would prove of the greatest value In building up the libraries of Iowa She discussed the good results brought about in Wisconsin by there and said she felt certain in view ofthe high stan dard or here the was even Letter I ban in Wisconsin Three Filed The social democrats the Social labor parly and the United Christian party petitions with the secretary of yesterday to have their slate and electoral tickets placed on ballot to be used at the November election The democratic slate central commit tee filed the democratic for officers and electors AH the demo cratic nominees have filed their nomination papers with tha exception or the the district I The issued a char ter yesterday la Sav in cs hank The of the barS Is s ami cashier C S Dairy appoint ed as milk Inspector In to succeed Herbert latter Is a course Is unable to give hia time lo the office A D Scougal of Stoux CHy the pres ident of the Typographical union there is in the city the of A E Hold er deputy commissioner of labor lie is taking the or the bar Oct the estimates or total r an ot upward ol roubles over those lor ths current vc The ordinary of r bles Is to the for hartor nOrk Rt roubles to and at P
