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i It xf if- BUfilED THEIR GODS. Chicago Chinamen Protect Deities from Profane Hands. of Desecration by Americans Cause of the ActionDenude Joss House of Images Revered for Many Year Two wag-on loads of Chinese godsa motley assortment, including dragons rampant, idols quiescent and images ancestral by the basketfulw ere removed shortly before daybreak the other morning from the Chicago josshouse, 319 Clark street, and, under a picked guard of heavily armed Mongolians, were taken 23 miles in to the country in a southwestern direction and buried for safe keepi ng in a deep pit on a pretty hillside near Mou nt Greenwood cemetery in Morgan Park. In that ug broad and lined with tawdy silk stuffs, inclosing rice and fruits for food, the artificial divinities will a secret hiding place from "vandal han ds should an uprising occur against Chicago's colony of celestials because of the atrocities perpetrated upon Christians by anti-foreign revolutionists in the far-away empire of China. Having placed beyond harm's reach ancestral statuettes or idols which worsh ip as deities, the delegation of Chinamen who attended the quaint ceremonial returned to their customa ry haunts in the street, ready to await with the stoicism of their race any fate which may be their portion.

or they had discharged their whole duty to their gods. Them they ad to the "best of their ability placed safeguards about. Having in this respect displayed their piety, they are careless alike of death and all other misfortunes, knowing that so long as their gods are not desecrated the very swiftest or most terrible of the winged TWO CHINESE IMAGES. Fu-Hsi Founder of China, and CheoLeu, God of Longevity.) devils cannot get hold of them after they" die. Unusual hubbub prevailed in the josshouse when the two wagons of Sing Law.

a Chinese expressma backed up to the perpetuallj guarded doors and the squad of selected Mongolians whispered the sacred passwo rd in the dimlighted hallwav The vestibule of the temp le was thronged with vellow men conversing in low tones. Sentinels were posted in the balconies, upon the roof and in the streets outside. It was designed that no profane eyes of the Caucasian neighborhood should witness the sacred rite of the hegira of the godsor, at least, should not comprehend it if seen. But all precautions were useless, says the Chicago Chronicle From a window across the street Inspector Hartnett and four officers of his command saw all. The scenes and incidents enacted before their eyes convinced the observant and interested police officials that Chinatown is utter ly panic-sticken from fear of a massacre in retaliation for the "Boxers'" deeds of slaughter in the orient.

From a conspciuous place in the altar of the inner shrine of the temp le the great drag on of leather and sawdust that had been brought hither from China many years ago had been displaced in preparation for the removal ceremony, and in its stead was a dragon Image cut from a sheet of paper, pigmented in gaudy hue. This last representation of the sacred reptile of the Mongolians was about all that remained of the plethora of divinities usually crowding the niches and pedestals of the fane. The whole array of waxen go ds had been carefully taken from its moorings the previous afternoon, and the eidolons, after being dusted reverently, were hidden or packed away in baskets of fruit nampers of raw rice. These waxen images represented the departed ancesto rs of the worshipers, and after a short ritual service was read over them by high priests of the joss they were lifted up by the Chinese expressman and borne to the wagons at the street doors. Not having any interest in the proceedings, except that of the curious spectator, the secreted police inspector and his squad of officers took no measures for a pursuit of the picturesq ue caravan.

I was long after the breakfast hour when the Chinese party returned "to the city. I the afternoon its members were in council, taking measures for maintaining a secret guard at the grave of the gods they "had buried, as well as at the Chinese lots at Oakwoo ds andKosehillthe two cemeteries where have been burred all the children of the sun a nd moon who liave died in Chicago. Yarn front Wool Pulp, i A Hungarian has discovered a methof wood pulp into yarn, ao that it can be woven into a fabric that may be converted in to various articles of clothing. CHINESE WIDOW'S ARCH. When a Woman's Husband Dies and Sbe Remains Faithful One Is Brected In Her Honor.

gm I China when a woman's husband dies she as the choice of a second husband, that is if she can get one, or of a widow's- arch at her death. A few take the ante-death prize, but many of them prefer the beautifully carved gateway. The accompanying picture shows a group of American missionaries standing about one of these arches. A widow's arch, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a very common sight in China. It matters not what part of the Celestial empire one visits these "works of art" are noticeable many times in large numbers.

They are found in the WIDOW'S ARCH IN CHINA. (Peculiar Structure Popular In All Parts of the Empire.) streets, near the gates of a city or out in the open field. The object of erecting the structures is to show reverence or esteem for the departed. Sometimes they are erected to other than the widows who refuse to marry again. Distinguished men are allowed to rear them to themselves.

ma however, can build one without the permission of the emperor. When such permission is granted a note of it is made, in Chinese characters, on the top part of the arch and the man's name becom es famousifrom that time. The arch to thememdry of a widow is usually built by her friends. A in the case of burial, the elaborateness depends upon the wealth of relatives to at great extent. The difference in a great measureis noticeable in the carving, especially in the number of carved characters placed thereon.

I is seldiom that an arch more than 25 feet in height is found. The one shown in the accompanv ing illustration is about 15 feet in height. These arches are built of either wood or stone. The stone ones, like those of wood, are fastened by mortises a nd edges. I country places a number of them will often be found side by side forming a straight line for some distance, though it is more of an hon or to have them built near a temple.

The widow who decides that she will win an arch at her death at once goes in to the fa mily of her deceased husband and begins a life of servitude in many cases. She is xmder the direction of her mothe rin-law from morning till night. RETIREMENT HALL. Old Mansion In Which Revolutionary Patriots Hid Is to Demolished Very Soon. The growth of business interests threatens soon to remove an interesting relic of revolutionary days which now stan ds on the Jers ey shore of New York bay, and which is known as "Retirement hall." During the British occupat.cn of New York city, after the Dattle of Long Island and until the close of the revolution, the friends of the new republic were pretty closely watched.

Often it beca me necessary for them to go away for awhile to avoid imprisonment or even worse punishment at the hands RETIREMENT HALL, (Revolutionary Relic on Jersey Shore of York Bay.) of the military or Tory sympathizers. Just across the bay, at Greenville, N. below Communipaw, which in those da ys was a rich farm district, th friends of liberty found a safe haven a nd the old mansion soon became known as "Retirement hall." There, in 1760, Capt. Tom Brown, a prosperous seafaring man, with a heart to the federal cause, built his home, which in war times was a shelter for patriots, and, afterward for two generations was the scene of many political conferences of importance and much social gayety. It was a grand mansion in those days, with, broad lawns down to the water's edge, pretty gardens, trees a nd shaded walks.

Although the walls of the house are as thick as a fortress and the building would stand years, the railroads are getting closer and closer to it, and, according to the Little Chronicle, it will not be long before "Retirement hall" will exist only in history. St. IiOnls Burglar Alarm. A pistol, an electric bell a nd a cat- o'-nine-tails are the moving forces in a burglar alarm invented by a St. Louis grocer.

THE SAGE OF CHINA. Li Hung Chang, Newly Appointed Viceroy of Pe-Chi-Li. Is Clev er and Cunning, an Adept in Oriental Statecraft and Fast blaster in the Art of Deceiving? His Best Friends. "Dreaded and obeyed," said an English writer, "Li Hung Chang is the powerful arbiter, whose word is law to 450,000,000 human beings." Li Hung Chang is now 77 years old and he is both beloved and feared. "Nev er can it be said," wrote a HongKong correspondent borne time ago, "that up to the present day jany foreig minister has succeeded in outgeneraling this astute Chinaman in anything relati ng to Chinese affairs." Li Hung Chang is descended trom a race of conquerors his high muscular stature shows it.

In his expressionless in the furtive depth of his intelligent look, in the studied reserve of his words, in his unimpulsive courtesy to strangers, pace is evident and the politician is revealed. In his thin lips, his wrinkled forehead, looking like a block of carved ivory seasoned by time in his drooping lids, veiling when necessary the expression of the eyes in his features, drawn and puckered by the incessant preving on the mind of a single aspiration, ever keenly alive ut cautiously restrained, one can triace the working of that powerful mind which guides the destinies of the celestial empire. A the outset of his political career Earl Li followed in the footsteps of Tseign-kwo-Fan, whom he was designed to succeed as viceroy of and who died without leaving a single enemy behind him having, according to some of his satirical countrymen, suppressed them all while he was alive. Li Hung Chang is, in everv sense of the word, a self-made man. His father was an official of one of the lower ranks and held an unimportant civil position in Peking, and out of his small pittance LI HUNG CHANG.

(Newly-Appointed Viceroy of the Province of Pe-Chi-Li.) could give his son but little opportunifor an education. But these chances Li took everv. advantage of and chose literature as his profession. When he arrived at the age of manhood he saw that he did not have the time to waste in continually studying the classics necessary to a successful literarvr career, so he abandoned litera- ture and turned hist attention to the profession of arms'. Having successfully passed the requisite militarj exa mination he entered the imperial army and thenceforward his rise to his present hi gh positi on has been rapid.

He is ore the very few instances of a Chinese military mandarin rising to eminence in civil life, and gaining the title of the "grand old man" and the "Bismarck" of China. In I860 he cooperated with Gen. Gordon in suppressing the Tai-Ping rebellion, being th en governor of the ThiangSin province. The other Thiang province being added to his rule he as created viceroy of the united countries in May, 1S65. The following year he was appointed minister plenipotentiary and in 1867 viceroy of HongKuang and a grand chancellor in 1868.

as the mediat or for fixing the indemnity for the murder of Mrs. Mangary, who was killed in 1876 while endeavoring to explore southwestern China, and was prime minister of China up to the late war with Japan. It may be here explained that Li is his fami ly nam while Hung Changmeaning "vast merely a personal name, or, rather, the official form of his personal name. He uses it when he addresses the emperor, and the officials use it when speaking to the emperor of him, otherwise it is improper for his colleagues to use it in his presence it is also printed on his visiting cards. His literary nam however, i9 Shaots'uan, or "young and this is the one by which he is known to his friends and by which he is spoken of in the native press.

He is also chung-tang, or "central hall," which is the complimentary title of a grand secretary. Li is a man of liberal views and has, on the whole, been a fair partisan of British commerce in the empire of the east. Interesting: Life Statistics. A statistici an has estimated that a man 50 years old as vorked 6,500 days, has slept 6,0,00, as amused himself 4,000, has walked 12.0CO miles, has been ill 500 days, has partaken of 000 meals, eaten 15,000 pound's of meat and 4,000 of fish, eggs a nd vegetables and drank 7,000 gallo ns of fluid. TocJs of German Barbers.

The barbers in some towns in Germany are compelled by law to cleanse and disinfect their combs, brushes and razors immediately after use and before they are applied to the hair or head of another custome r. Famous Scholar Chosen President Pro Tern, of Northwestern at Evanston, 111. Dr. Daniel Bonbright, who has been choen to serve as president of Northwestern university ULtil that position is filled permanently, has twice been asked to become the head of the institution. was offered the presidency upon the retirement of Dr.

Fowler and again in 1890, when the place was made vacant by the dea tn of Dr. Joseph Cummings. Upon both occasions he told the trustees that he was not adapted for the work which they wished him to assume, and pos- DR. DANIEL BONBRIGHT. (Temporary President of Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.) itively not accept the place, preferring to continue as professor of Latin.

Dr. Bonbrig ht is the oldest living professor connected with the university. as been head professor of Latin, language and literature since prior to 1860, and now occupies the chair of Latin, language and literature endowed by Gov. John Evans, the first president of the board of trustees a nd after whom Evanston was named. Since the dea th of the late Oliver Marcy, LL.

Dr. Bonbright has been dean of the faculty of the college of liberal arts. was quite ill early in the winter, ut has entirely recovered his health. "Not only when the university, during the last 40 years, has been directed by an acting president," said Trustee J. H.

Raymond, "but also during the periods when it has had an actual president Dr. Bonbright's quiet, ut forceful, personality has been a power in the direction of its affairs." Dr. Bonbrig ht married the daughter of the late Joseph Cummings, D. LL. who for years was president of the university, and, while somewhat reserved in his social relations, has the confidence and respect of all his neighbors in Evanston and of every member of the nine faculties of the university.

When Dr. Bonbright was graduated from Yale in 1850 he went to Europe for two years before coming to Evanston with President Woolsey of Yale, and the two became fast friends. In 1870, while in Berlin he purchased the Schultz library, which had been collected by a member of the Prussian ministry, and the valuable collection is now a part of Northwestern university library. POLITICS IN KENTUCKY. There Will Be a Hot Time in the Bine Grass State from Now Until November G.

The state election in Kentucky promises to be a hot one this year, and fears are expressed that shotguns will play an important part in the settlement of the issues before the Blue Grass voters. The only sta te office to be filled is that of governor, made vacant by the assassination of JOHN W. YERKES (Republican Nominee for Governor ol Kentucky.) Gov. Goebel and the flight of Gov. Taylor, the republican claimant.

The present governor, Beckham, will hold this according to judicial rul- ings, until his successor is elected and qualifies. A he as been nominated by the democrats, he stan ds a fair show of being his own successor. So much has been written about him that his personality is familiar tp nil newspaper readers. John W. Ye'rkes, the republican candidate, on the other hand, is comparatively unknown, although a man of great prominence in his native state.

lives in Danville, and' is a gradute of Center college. is a prosperous lawyer a nd is a professor of law in 'enter college. is worth about $200,000, is a typical Kentuckian, six fe et tall in his stockings. is handsome a nd popular, makes a good speech, a nd tells good' stories. is collector of internal revenue in his district, a nd is the attorney for several railroads.

is regarded as the strongest man in the republican party of Kentucky, MINNESOTA NEWS. Decides Lav is TaUd. You can't get a man's property without giving him notice some way. That is the burden of a decision handed down by Judge Cray, of Mankato, in the case of Hiram B. Cole against Leo S.

Lamm, brought to determine adverse claims to a lot in that city. The decision is of statewide importance because it affects the forfeited tax law passed by the last legislature, in that the court finds that the plaintiff is the owner in fee simple of the property in controversy and that the defendant has a lien for the amount of the taxes, penalties and interest assessed against the land and paid by him. The court holds that the law is invalid in as far as it attempts to divest the original owner of the right to a notice of expiration of redemption provided for by the law which was in force when the original taxes were sold to the state. Therefore the court also holds that certain defects are not sufficient in themselves to defeat the title. Pillsbury Monument.

The foundation for the monument of ex-Governor J. S. Pillsbury has been completed and occupies the most prominent position on the university campus. The base is of St. Cloud granite, 39x15 feet.

The approach to the statue will be by three steps. There will be a stone bench around it. The statute itself, which is to be of bronze, is almost completed, and arrangements have been made for its unveiling Sept. 12. The alumni association, which raised the money for the statue of the university's benefactor, is very proud of its success.

The program for the unveiling has already been decided upon. It will consist of a presentation speech by some member of the alumni, an address of acceptance by President Northrop, and the address of the day by Senator C. K. Davis. Relief Association.

The state auditor, Mr. Dunn, has received from the insurance commissioner a statement of the amounts due fire departments and firemen's relief associations under the provision of the law that devotes to such organizations one-half of the tax of 2 per cent on premiums received by fire insurance companies. The figures in this state are as follows: Minneapolis, $15,003 51 St. Paul, $6,292 35 Duluth, $3.77103 Winona, $784.26 Stillwater, Mankato, $398 38 St. Cloud, $262.74.

The total is about $4,000 greater than last year. Half of the regular state tax aggregates $32,83311 the retaliatory tax from Michigan and Ohio companies amounts to $461.41 and retaliatory Wisconsin tax is $1,834 44, making a total for distribution of $35,128.86. Killed by a Blow. A controversy over the administration's Philippine policy was the cause of the death of Joseph La Porte last evening He became involved in an altercation with Morris Hayes, an ex-soldier, while eating supper at their boarding house, Minneapolis, and dared Hayes to fight. The two angry men left the supper table and at once started fighting in the little hotel office Hayes struck La Porte a severe blow on the left jaw, breaking the jaw and sending him to the floor.

Spectators rushed to his assistance and found that La Porte was dead. Hayes walked to the North Side police station and gave himself up. Children's Pranks. Four children broke into the residence of W. B.

Wood, St. Paul, and practically wrecked the house. They tore up the carpet, smashed the furniture and left hardly an article intaqt. Later the children were found hiding in a tree near the house. They had on several suits of clothes taken from the house.

Their names are Annie and Willie Kusehke, 11 and 7 years old Harry and Margaret Moulton, 5 and 8 years. They were taken before the police court and all released with the exception of the oldest girl, who will probably be sent to the training school. Lost His Sunday Clothes. While at work in the harvest field near St. Cloud, James Feidler, an honest old farmer, was robbed of his "Sunday-goto-meetmg" clothes and shoes.

The house was left alone and the thief had a good opportunity to help himself. The sheriff is investigating the case. It is believed that the robbery was the work of the young man who escaped from the reformatory earlier in the day, and who has not yet been recaptured, but this is by no means certain. Battle With Tramps. While Marshall J.

O. Svennes was trying to arrest three tramps at Heron Lake who had been offering clothing for sale, the men pulled revolvers and warned him to leave them alone. He called for assistance, and the tramps started out of town closely pursued by the marshal and a posse. A mile out of town the tramps made a stand, and a number of shots were exchanged, after which the tramps surrendered and were lodged in jail. News In Brief.

Eugene Moran fell from a Great Northern tram near St. Cloud, and had a leg crushed by the car wheels. He is a lad who had ran away from his home in Minneapolis and has been working about Fargo and Moorhead. In a fight in Moorhead one man bit off another's thumb. Lightning struck the creamery at Alma City and burned it to the ground.

Redwood Falls will have an increased water supply for the city. The new Minneapolis directory will contain 101,250 names, an increase of 7,763. Only one of the nine flour mills at the head of the lake was operated last week, and it made 12,500 barrels. There were receipts of 126,500 barrels, shipments of 120,000 barrels, and there are now in store here 244,500 barrels. Carl Nelson, a deaf mute living in Ottertail county, had the grit to chop himself out from under a fallen tree that had pinned him down, and with a broken leg to hamper him he improvised a crutch from a limb and one of his shoes, and walked home, a mile.

Some boys found a bittern's nest with half fledged birds in it down near Fergus Falls, and began feeding frogs to them. Allan Hollen, 14 years, had stopped over the nest when one of the birds darted out its beak and picked out the lad's eye. Minneapolis saw mill owners are not as they were a week or two- ago, in "that the water in the river is reported to be still falling and to be now lower than at any time for the past fifteen years. The new city directory of St. Paul has been issued.

It contains 94,226 names, showing an increase over last year of 4,027 names. The ratio of interest applied to the government census of 1890, will make the present population of St. Paul 160,139. TtfTSEWSTff BRIEF. 4 For the Week Ending: Jnly 30.

Ex-Congressman E. E. Meredith died at his home in Manassas, Va. United States, following France, forbids shipment of arms to China. A constitutional convention will be held in Havana.

Cuba. November 5. Strikers blew up five cars with dynamite in St. Louis, but no one was injured. The severe drought in the New England states has been broken by copious rains.

Iowa republicans decided to hold their state convention in Des Moines on August l. The Massachusetts republican state convention -will be held in Boston October 4. Edward Bowen, of Lincoln, Neb has arrived in Pans on his trip around the world on a bicycle. A hailstorm damaged crops in North Dakota over a territory comprising 100 square miles. A gigantic plot to release prisoners from the western penitentiary in Allegheny, was discovered.

American soldiers killed 89 Filipinos in northern Mindanao for the murder of one of their number. Prince Alert broke the world's pacing mark at Cleveland, covering a mile In competition in 2 02. An official dispatch received at the state department tells of the collapse of the revolution in Panama. Bartholomew Ruello, an Italian, the king of silver dollar counterfeiters, was caught in Philadelphia. Nathaniel C.

Bordwine, a soldier of the Blackhawk war, died In Lewiston, 111., at the asre of 101 years. D. Sheldon has been renominated for congress by the republicans of the Twelfth district of Michigan. It is estimated that the new census will show the population of the United States to be between 76,000,000 and 77,000,000 The United States transport Warren, from Manila, reached San Francisco with a number of discharged men. Four hundred persons were poisoned by eating ice cream at an Evansville (Ind church social.

All will recover Jack Hillsman (colored) -was hanged by a mob near Knoxville. Ga, for ing the young daughter of a planter Advices received at Kingston. Jamaica, announce the renominatioh for a fourth term of President Zelaya of Nicaragua. Estes G. Rathbone, recently director general of posts in Cuba, was arrested in Havana on the charge of misappropriating funds.

The National Woman's Relief Corps will hold its eighteenth annual convention in Chicago during the G. A. R. encampment. A tornado in Traill county, N.

wiped out the village of Forgerings, killed several persons and did great damage to property In other places. Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor of Cuba, who has been in the United States for about a fortnight, sailed on the MexicoSaturday for Havana. Sergt Ed Jackson, writing to his fathet in Wichita, Kan, from the Philippines, says the soldiers there generally believe that Aguinaldo is dead. Lady Randolph Churchill and Lieut.

George Cornwallis West were married in London Saturday. The bride received many valuable presents. Mrs. James Elton, wife of the treasurer of the county, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. J.

H. Bird, were injured fatally a runaway in Grand Forks, N. D. The state clsoed its case in the trial of Caleb Powers, ex-secretary of state of Kentucky, charged with being accessory of the murder of William Goebel. Chauncey Depew in London denied that American railroads are overcapitalized, and says every business in the United States is healthier than ever before Mary Yardley, spinster, 105 years old.

whose life extended through the tration of every president of the United States, died in Chicago Thursday. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, has left Chicago, having utterly failed in his mission to make peace between the contractors and the building workmen. Robbers blew open the safe of the Goodwin bank at Armstrong, 111, and secured $3,300 Most of the money was recovered and one robber was wounded in a fight with residents of the place. Tne treasury receipts of the Philippine islands during May, 1900, according to a statement made Saturday by the division of customs and insular affairs of the war department, were $706,326. ONE YEAR'S BIG TRADE.

Foreign Commerce of the Unit ed States for the First Time in History Exceeds $2,000,000,000. Washington, July 30.The total imports of merchandise during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900. were $849,714,670 the total exports, 186,371. The total foreign commerce of the year surpasses by $319,729,250 that of any preceding year, and for the first time in our histo ry exceeds $2,000,000,000. The exports exceeded those of any preceding year, and have been more widely distributed throughout the world than ever before.

THE MARKETS. a New ork, July 30. LIVE STOCK-Steers $4 50 Hogs 5 75 Sheep 3 00 FLOURWinter Straights 3 65 Minnesota Patents 4 15 WHEATNo 2 Red 80? September CORNNo 2 September OATSNo 2 UTTERCreamery Factory CHEESE EGGS CHICAGO. CATTLESteeis $4 30 Texas 4 30 Stockers 2 75 Feeders 4 00 Bulls 2 75 HOGS-Light 5 20 Rough Packing 4 95 3 10 SHEEP BUTTERCreameries Dairies EGGS POTATOES (per bu 5 5 bO 4 80 3 SO tl 4 50 45 43 27 17 IS) 14 9 11 feiy, loft 5 S5 5 15 3 90 i 4 60 4 50 5 40 5 25 4 50 19 14y(S 16 28 31 PORKSeptember 11 75 10 LARDSeptember 6 75 RIBSSeptember 6 95 22 51i4 4 05 GRAINWheat, August Corn, August Oats, August Rye, No 2 Barley, Feed MILWAUKEE. GRAINWheat.

No. 1 Nor'n Oats, No 2 White Rye, No 1 Barley, No 2 KANSAS CITY. GRAINWheat, September. Corn, September Oats, No 2 White Rye, No. 2 50 ST.

LOUIS. CATTLENative Steers. $4 35 Texas Steers 3 65 sHOGSPackers' 5 20 Butchers' 5 30 SHEEPNative 4 00 OMAHA. CATTLENative Steers $4 50 5 60 Cows and Heifers 3 40 4 40 Stockers and Feeders 3 50 HOGS-Mlxed 5 12 SHEEPWethera a ett 76 2616 54 (o 47 27 55 48 36 27 5 75 485.