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TIMES SATEI THE! LEAYENWORTH KANSAS: FRIDAY 14,1900. Ing rthe relief committee which, was con STRIKING COAL MINERS nniiv tributed through, the Merchants' nil 1 NIL ft in nil HE! ISSUE A STATEMENT A dispatch, purporting be from New Or leans and giging the information tnat a Southern Pacific company train which lefc PRESIDENT MITCHELL TELLS New Orleans for Galveston last Friday had been struck by the hurricane and wrecked and eighty-five people killed was pronounced WHY HE ORDERED THE STRIKE. Russia Has Decided to With draw Its Legation from Pekin. Galveston's Authorities and Business Men Awake to City's Interest. untrue by C.

H. Tweed of the company today. Mr. Tweed today reiterated his statement that his road would not' abandon Galveston but would in the immediate future proceed with further Improvements planned. He thought the Southern Pacific's loss by the hurricane at G'alveston would' come inside of $400,000.

i Chinese Capital Will Bb Left in Charge of the Allied Forces. pathy for the down-trodden and oppressed in this or any other land. We know the great power of the public press in moulding public sentiment. With an abiding faith in the justice of our cause and a consciousness of the knowledge that whosoever else may villify and abuse us, the Great Jehovah knows and understands the rectitude of our purpose, we appeal to the American people and to the American press as the greatest arbiters on earth to assist us and sustain us in our hour of trial. "On behalf of the national executive board, united mine workers of America.

(Signed.) JOHN MITCHELL, President. W. B. WILSON, Treasurer. Today was a busy one at headquarters.

All day long telegrams were being received and sent out. Secretary-Treasurer Wilson and his force of clerks were busy answering the heavy mail that came in, touching upon strike matters, and throughout all of the offices there was an air of subdued excitement. Frequently the the chief executive officers of the organization were closeted together In consultation upon some phase of the situation brought up by the news from the lieutenants in the field. Eestoration of Confidence Depends Upon Policy of the Railroad Companies. SATS AVERAGE WAGES OP ANTHRACITE MINER HAS BEEN LESS THAN $250 ANNUALLY COMPELLED TO TAKE CHILD-KEN FROM SCHOOL AND BUT THEM TO WORK TO KEEP FAMILY FROM STARVATION OPERATORS REFUSED TO MEET THEM FOR ARBITRATION.

JETTIES ARE NOT SERIOUSLY DAMAGED Troops Repress All Attempts at Lawlessness and Give En Galvestcn, Texas. Sepr. 13. Capt. Charles Knssian Commander Has Announced That Fifteen Thousand Russian Troops Will Remain During the Winter Empress Holding Prince Ching's Son As a Hostage Uneasy Feeling Over Germany's Attitude.

S. Riche, T7. S. after he had completed a tour of InspectiCTi of the government works, said to a News rerorter: couragement to the Law Abiding Death List Increasing as Ruins Are Cleared Away Bodies Burned to Avert Pestilence. "Jetties sunk nearly to a mean, low tide level, but not seriously breached.

Channed Indianapolis, Sept. 14. In order to place before the public the conditions existing in the anthracite Selds of Pennsylvania, President John Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson the United Mine Workers of at least as good as before, perhaps better, twenty-five feet certainly." "The damage at Fort Crockett, Capt.

Riche says, is not serious. The shore line more difficult thereby and the oppor tunity for looting greater. original proposition in the manner im dicated. at Fort Crockett has moved back six hundred feet. Fort San Jacinto appears to be badly wrecked.

The San Jacinto batteries could not be reached by land, and inspection was The motormen deserted their cars, when the fury of the wind and the America, issued today to me dudiic stalernent giving the causes that have led up to the strike. After the statement had been given out for publication, President Mitchell said: "At this time I do not believe anything will take place between now and Monday that will prevent the strike. i from a distance. The sand around these bat PEKIN RESUMING ITS NORMAL CONDITIONS London, Sept. 14.

4 a. m. No further light Is thrown this morning upon Li Hung Chang's Intended movements. The Times has an interesting dispatch from Pekin dated September 4, which says in part: teries is pretty well levelled off to about rush of the water made it no longer possible to operate them. Attempts are being made to get the cars in shape again.

The great destruction of livestock has eliminated carriages and There is practically no means of arriving at any estimate of the resources of the miners available for the maintenance of the people to be called out by the strike. President Mitchell and Secretary-Treasurer Wilson, the latter, the official head of the finance department of the organization have firmly declined to give out any figures on this point. "It would be a simple matter for the operators," they said, 'if they knew what amount of money we command, to wait until it is exhausted. More two or three feet above mean low tide. A London, Sept.

14. According1 to tlie'xaily! Mail's St Petersburg correspondent, who At Fort Travis, Bolivar the damage is great. The shore line has made back about one thousand feet cn the line of the rear of these batteries." All the iruormation co.ninjr to my office today predicates the struggle is practically on. "I have been receiving messages all day from the anthracite region, which indicate clearly that the indorsement of "Russia has decided to withdraw her to be able to indicate the exact diplomatic situation, "the attitude of the United! BODIES BURIED AT SEA FLOATING BACK over it would be folly on our part to make public at this time any informa cabs as a means of transportation and tne need of the trolley promises to become a most pressing one when rebuilding begins. Among the worst sufferers by the disaster were the churches.

Nearly every one of them felt the effect of the storm. Some of them are entirely wrecked, beyond repair. The work of relief continues. Mayor Jones and his associates are bending every nerve to open a direct line of transportation with Houston by which States Is so Indefinite that tiere Is no absolute certainty whether Wahlngton will ac cept or reject the Russian proposal." tion upon which an estimate of our financial strength could be based." Germansy, according to the same authority; legation from Pekin, leaving a rurely military command. An official announcement of this is expected today.

The other cowers will also presumably withdraw their legations, leaving Pekin under the military control of the allies during the winter at least. At the close of last year, there were 3,134 bonafide members in the mine- was the first power to reply. She based hem refusal principally on the ground that the withdrawal would lead to further trouble workers' organization. At the convention in January it was decided to levy upon each of these members an assessment of 25 cents a month to be placed and to the massacre of thousands of other the strike and the issuance of the order has met wita the approval of the -ners her There arc a few details to be arranged, but the men are prepared for the fight. I have not received today ary information direct or indirect to show that the operators have receded from their position." The statement follows: "Indianapolis, Sept.

13. The members of the national executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, realizing that the material welfare of a large number of the American peoples will be injuriously affected by a suspension of work in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, knowing the issesistible power of a concentrated public opinion and having a profound respect fcr the opinions of their fallow Galveston, Sept. 13. Galveston Js beginning slowly to recover from the stunning blow of last week and although the city appears tonight to be pitilessly desolated, the authorities and the commercial and industrial interests are putting their forces to work and a start has at last been made toward the resumption of business on a moderate scale. The presence of troops has had a beneficial effect upon the criminal classes and the fear of a brief but desperate reign of anarchy now no longer exists.

The liquor saloons have at least temporarily gone out of business; every strong-limbed man who has not his own abode to look after is being pressed into service, so that, first of all the water service may be resumed, the gutters flushed and the streets lighted. The further the ruins are dug into, the greater becomes the increase In the list of those who perished as their houses tumbled about their heads. On the lower beach yesterday a searching party found a score of corpses within a small area, going to show that the bulwark of debris that lies straight across the island conceals many more bodies than have been accounted for. Along the beach bodies are constantly being washed up. Whether these were those who were swept out Into the gulf and drowned, or are simply the return ashore of some of those cast into the sea to guard against ter-T-iM nesHienee there is no means of converts.

"At a meeting of the generals the Dallas, Texas, Sept. 13. The cry still comes from Galveston fi.r disinfectants. It is the one hope of saving- what Is left of the population. Telegrams are pouring into Dallas and every other Texas city asking for lime, carbolic acid and anything else that will operate to purify the air.

A new horror Is confronting Galveston; the second disposition of many of the dead. Bodies thrown into the sea are floating back to the city. They must now be disposed of by burning. Disinfectants become more needful as a consequence of this new feature in the situation. Russia and Prance," says the correspon the hands of the national executive board for use as a defense fund.

Part of this money has been used in small Russian commander announced that dent," are finding their position awkwardl and are likely to hurry to quit Pekin en-masse. The Japanese general, YamaguchI, strikes, but the bulk of it is prob he may be enabled promptly to receive the great quantity of provisions which are now on the way to the city. "I wish to say, however," said Mayor Jones, "we have "made such arrangements as will make it possible for us to feed the needy until we can get in our supplies. We are relieving every case presented to us. I think within a day or two our transportation facilities will be sufficient temporarily to meet our needs.

Galveston has helped oth Russia would maintain 15,000 troops curing the winter. ably available at this time. Since Jan telegraphed to his government from Pekin, "The German commander said that September 6, that the emperor's chamberlala had Just arrived. This probably means that some negotiations are on foot for the return Germany keep the same number and the Japanese commander announced that Japan would have 22,000. The British general was not in a posi of thie emperor.

er cities in their distress despite her AID FROM TOPEKA. tion to make an announcement. Other Japanese advices report that Pe-knl is returning ti Its normal condition. Order Is being restored. Native refuges are coming back and foreign residents arc leading to recuperate." "There is every indication, however, that Lord Salisbury has decided that Topek.i, Sept 13.

A fund of $2,500 has been raised here for the Galveston sufferers. In addition to this several carloads of provisions will be shipped tomorrow over the Rock Island. uary of the present year, there has been a very material increase in the membership, which of course carries with it an increased defense fund. Aside from the money in the hands of the national executive board, local unions in a number of states have accumulated large sums of money in their treasuries, which, while not at the command of the executive officers of the organization will probably be placed in the strike fund. Contributions from other trades' unions can be counted an and from these facts it can be seen that the miners are prepared for a long fight.

Tomorrow will be spent in preparations for such emergencies as may arise during the strike. Saturday night, President Mitchell will go to Hazelton and from there to different points in AMERICANS CAPTURE GUNS size and we are consoled by the generous response of the country to our appeal." The relief committee is striving to systematize its work, and there is undoubtedly distress here which ought to be promptly relieved. Weazen-faced, bare-footed children were engaged yesterday on the streets in eagerly appropriating spoiled and cast-off stocks of food. The committee has instructed the local drug stores to provide the poor and needy with medicine at the expense of the relief fund. our present subordinate position in Pekin must become still humbler.

In the best informed quarters the opinion is expressed that Russia and Ger 7 men, have decided to maK.e a general statement for the information of the public. "No one can have a greater appreciation of the far reaching effect of a strike of the anthracite coal miners. The coal miners and tneir families, the coal companies and the coal carrying railways are but a portion of the vast multitude whose interests are so directly and indirectlv connected with the roal trade that a conflict of such magnitude will affsct their welfare. "The domestic fuel supply cf the west; the great manufacturing industries of the east; the wholesale and retail business establishments, the great ocean, lake, canal and railroad transportation interest, men anl LIFE SAVING MAN REPORTED MISSING many are acting in accord, Russia seeking the definite allienation Taku, Sept. 13.

Thirty imperialists were killed and one hundred and twenty capturedi by a troop of American cavalry near Pekin on the 5tu. The Americans were convoying cattle and surprised three hundred, imperialists at the Temple Shao. of all territory north of the great wall and Germany the annexation of Shan Tuner. Iiansr Su and the Yang Tse provinces. xne neid tor the purpose of holding SAN FRANCISCO SENDS MONEY AND SUPPLIES mass meetings.

WAITING FOR EARL LI. Russia also seeks to restore the of the empress dowager and the capitalists, will all be affected by such a gigantic struggle. That the world MINE TROUBLES FEARED emperor, in order to be enabled to wield her influence through them over Washington, D. Sept. 13.

General Superintendent Kimball of the life saving service has received telegrams from the superintendent of the gulf district dated last night In which he says that keeper and five of the crew of the Galveston life saving station had landed at Texas City. One surf man and the keeper's wife were missing of the San Luis station on the west end of Galveston island, wife and two children and two surf men have arrived at G'alveston in life boats and report the station wrecked. Fiuir surfmen were left in a portion of the wrecked building. may know that we have dono all that the rfmalnins Tu-ovinces. The dismni- ON PACIFIC COAST btrment of China seems almost inevi table.

The empress dowager has retained Prince Ching's son as a host ncnorable men can do to avoid the the conflict, we herewith submit a few facts for careful consideration. "The average wages of the anthracite miner for many years have bevr. less than $250 annually. During that (Copyrighted, 1900, by the Associated Presp.) Pekin, Sept. 9.

Prince Ching, during the course of Interviews with the ministers yes-terday, informed them that, while he has power to r.cgotiate, he cannot act without Li Hung Chang. An urgent request has been telegraphed Li Hung Chang, asking rfficial to come to Pekin. Marquis Tsiang states that nothing can he done until the arrival of the emperor. ban Francisco, Sept. mine owners tin this coast aTe apprehensive of troubles with their miners in view of the present age for his father." The Shanghai correspondent of the San Francisco, Sept.

12. The work of raising a fund in this city for the relief of the Galveston sufferers is progressing rapidly, the subscriptions to the fund being received by the newspapers, the banks, the board of trade end the mayor. In three days nearly $8,000 had been collected and of this the board of trade has already forwarded to the mayor of the stricken city $1,500. Several car loads of supplies are being; prepared for shipment and' it is the intention x.uuuii.L.ii i ouiius in eastern coal mining mstnets. The coast miners according to knowing.

In any event, the Associated Press correspondent in a trip across the bay yesterday counted seven bodies tossing In the waves with a score of horses and cattle, the stench from which was unbearable. In various parts of the city, the smell of decomposed flesh Is still apparent. "Wherever such Instances are found the authorities are freely disinfecting. Only today a babe lashed to a mattress was picked up under a residence in the very heart of the city, and burned. The city still presents the appearance of widespread wreck and ruin.

Little has been done to clear the streets of the terrible tangle of wires and the masses of wreckage, mortar, slate, stone an glass that bestrew them. Many of the sidewalks are impassible. Some of them are littered with debris. Others are so thickly covered with slime that walking on them is out of the question. As a general rule substantial frame buildings withstood better the blasts of the gale than those of the brick.

In other instances, however, small wooden structures, cisterns and me owners are not dissatisfied with the amount of their wages, but threaten trouble if the working day is not reduced frcm ten BRITISH AT HONG KONG. CUTTER LOADED WITH PROVISIONS. Washington, D. Sept. 13.

A telegram has been received at the treasury of the collectors of customs at Mobile, saying that the cutter Winona had sailed for Galveston with twenty-five tons of provisions and that the Algiiquln and Onodaga would be loaded as soon as they arrive. of the theatrical managers of this city to cisui, u'juis, a. move -wmen tne owners assert is not feasible and which, if persisted in will result in the price of eoal on give a monster benefit in aid of the fund. this coast being materially increased and period of time the cost of many of the necessaries of life has been increased over twenty per cent. An increase in the cost of living without a corresponding increase of wages is equivalent to a reduction in wages.

"The laws of the state of Pennsylvania make 2,400 pounds a ton of anthracite coal yet anthracite miners are compelled to mine 2,700 to 4,000 pounds for a ton and in addition to that are docked exorhitant amounts, often reaching twelve per cent of their daily earnings for any impurities which may be sent out with their coal. Where they are paid by the car instead of being required to furnish a well rounded heap on the car at the break The Oympic club directorate Is also working upon a plan for an athletic tournament and expects to realize a handsome sum. from the output considerably decreased. Hong Kong, Sept. 13.

The British Indian officers on he transport which recently arrived here have been ordered to debar hi at this place. The cavalry will probably' proceed north. Times wiring Wednesday confirms the reports of the uneasy feeling there concerning Germany's intentions toward thii Yang Tse provinces and esp-cialiv the ang Nin forts. The St. Petersburg correspondent the Tiities says he is in a position to assert positively that the Russian troops in Manchuria are preparing for a winter campaign.

The Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press wiring Wednesday and confirming the report as to three of the four conditions proposed by a certain power as the basis of negotiations, says he has it from a Pekin source, usually reliable, that Prince Ching has already begun to negotiate, but that the second condition is the treatment of the Manchurian provinces, including the Liao Tung peninsula, as a buffer state. this source. MISS ANTHONY WON VICTORY FOR WOMEN CHICAGO SENDS A EARL LI ORDERS MISSIONARIES PROTECTED SPECIAL RELIEF TRAIN CLARA BARTON STARTS. Washington, D. Sept.

13. Miss Clara Barton, president, of the Red Cross society with an assistant, left here tonight for G'alveston to assist in the relief work. (Continued op pag-e 8.) PRESIDENT M'KINLEY Rochester, IC. Sept. 14.

When the uni versiry or Kocnester opens this fall, for Chicago, Sept. 14. Chicago's first offering the first time in the history of the insti of food and clothing for the Texas suffer ers left here nt 6 o'clock tonight over the tunon -women will be admitted. A couple BACK AT CANTON of years ag the trustees of the university voted to admit women, on the condition that $100,000 should be raised. The women got CRISIS OVER EVACUATION HAS BEEN AVERTED Paris, Sept.

13. The French consul at Shanghai telegraphs that at his request LI Hung Chang wired the governor of the province of Shansl to take measures to protect the Belgian missionaries who were in great trouble. The governor replied that measures had been taken and a detachment of cavalry had been despatched for their de fense. Earl LI, the consul says, Informed himt that he had given urgent orders for the protection of the missionaries at Cheng Ting Fu southwest of Pao Ting Fu, an Hin Kia In the province of Chi LL ers as Avas originally agreed to, they have gradually been compelled to increase the amount of coal in each car by building the same perpendicularly from six to eighteen inches above the edge. They are compelled to purchase the powder used in mining from their employers, paying $2.75 per keg, and w'-L'h wholesales for about $1 per keg.

They are required by many of the companies to deal in pluck-me-stores or leave their employment. They must pay the company $1 per month for a doctor whether they need him or not and have no voice in who the doctor shall be. "The smallness of their earnings, together with the great cost of living, has compelled them to take their chil kock lsiana in a special train or six cars that has the right of way over all other trains as far as Fort "Worth. Other cars packed at Rock Island, Davenport, Muscatine, Topeka, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Wichita will be picked up en-route and it is expected the train will consist of twenty-three cars when It reaches Its destination.

The train is expected to reach Fort Worth at 11 o'clock on Saturday, whence it will be taken to Houston over the Houston and Texas route on a special schedule. the trustees to lower this sum to $50,000, and ever since 'hen the women of Rochester have been engaged in a heroic attempt to raise the money. They have held" fairs, lawn fetes, and other functions, frm all of which they realized fair sums, but yesterday morning they fared almost certain do-feat. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the Canton, Sept. 13.

President and Mrs. McKinley arrived In Canton this evening in a special train from Somerset. They expect- to remain here for some time. Both seem, to be in excellent health and spirits, the president especially showing that he has kept up well under the strain of the five weeks of almost incessant hard work since he left for Washington. The special train made no stops after changing from the Baltimore and Ohio to the Pennsylvania lines at Johnstown, but notwithstanding this crowds lined up nlnng the station platforms at every station.

There was no formal demonstration at Canton, oub of respect to the president's wishes. board having in charge the collection of mhney was to meet, and, if all the cash was not raised by that time, the doors of whole sides of houses have been plumped down in streets or back yards, squares away from where they originally stood. Here and there business men have already put men to work to repair the damage done, but in the main the commercial interests seem to be uncertain about following the lead of those who apparently show faith in the rapid rehabilitation of the Island city. The appearance of the newspapers today after a suspension of several days is having a good effect, and both the News and the Tribune are urging prompt succoring of the suffering and then equal promptness in reconstruction. It Is difficult to say yet what the ultimate effect of the disaster is to be on the city.

Many people have, left and some may never return. The experience of others still here were so frightful that not all will remain, if they can conveniently find occupation in other cities. The bulk of the population, however, is only temporarily panic stricken and there are hosts of those who helped to make Galveston prosperous who look upon the catastrophe as involving only a temporary halt in the advancement of the city. What is most bothering the business men at present is what attitude the railroads, and especially the Southern Pacific will assume with respect reconstruction. The decision of the transportation lines will do more than anj'thing else to restore confidence.

Big ALLIES TO FORM A MIXED CORPS Washington, Sept. 13. The crisis that was near at hand yesterday over the evacuation proposal of the Russian government has been averted for a time at least, and the diplomatic side of me matter has become again the object of attention. The order to Gen. Chaffe to leave at once, which was expected in some quarters did not issue today.

Instead, earnest efforts are making to arrange the preliminaries for the negotiations which are expected finally to settle the Chinese troubles. Li Hung Chang's message today removed perhaps the last obstacle to the speedy beginning of these negotiations and the only doubt that now exists is as to his abil SANTA FE'S LOSS Rome, Sept. 13. A dispatch from Taku dated September 7 confirming the (report of the formation at Tien Tsin of a mixed corps of four thousand troops, including two hundred men of the 15th United States Infantry, to march against bosers threatening' the New York, Sept. 13.

A. F. Walker, chairman of the board of directors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway, said today that the companies due to the Galveston hurricane would not exceed Mr. Walker was confident of the future of Galveston as a shipping port. BRYAN AND STEVENSON GET OTHER ENDORSEMENT Tien Tsin region, says that the boxers had dren from school before they have reached the age prescribed by law and place them at work in the breakers, in order to keep the family from starvation.

"When any miner, feeling the burden of these conditions, has gone to the management and asked to have them removed, he has been told that if he does not like it. he can quit. When they have organized at any colliery, and have sent committees to the management, asking to have their grievances remedied, the committee have either been discharged, or they have been told that the evils could not be remedied, because of the competi ity to redeem his pledge to protect Am- artillery and were molesting boats In charge of the victualing service on the Imperial DENVER GIVES FREELY. the university wouid be closed to women for a year at least. Eight thousand dollars still had to be raised It was in their dire need that Susan B.

Anthony came to their aid. She contributed of the amount. Then from friend to friend Miss Anthony passed. Miss Anthony used her persuasive argumpnts to bring thf dollars from unwilling pockets, the result being that before the hour set for the meeting she had pledges amounting to an even' The women gathered to announce to the committee that they had failed, when into their midst walked Miss Anthony, and simply and unostentatiously she laid the required pledges upon the table. "Thank God!" was the exclamation that came from the lips of almost every woman present.

The committee from the board of trustees of the university is now preparing its report on the pledges, including the forma! Chicago, Sept. 13. The American anti-trust league with headquarters in Chicago todny issued a public address officially endorsing William J. Bryan and Adlai E. St pvati inn canal.

IVnver, Sept. 13. Denver's cash con tribution to the relief of the victims of the Galveston flood disaster was increased today by subscriptions amounting to $3,500. FRENCH WIN VICTORY IN SOUTHERN SAHARA erican interests and stop the outrages upon the missionaries and native converts. If he can do this, and thus manifest the existence of a defacto government, there is no reason to doubt that negotiations will be immediately in order.

The notice that Russian troops will not evacuate Pekin until some arrangements have been made for the installation of a government to take charge This raises the total amount sent from' this and pledging them the active support of the league. The statement describe the present administration as the friend of the trusts ar.d Mr. Bryan as the "uncompromising foe of private monopoly." city to $9,500. ships, new arrivals, rode at anchor today in front of the city. They had Paris, Sept.

13. The French minister of the colonies, M. Decrais has received a dispatch announcing the defeat of the last CATHOLIC KNIGHTS APPEAL tion from other companies. When the representatives of the miners of the whole region have met and asked the coal companies to meet them in joint convention to arrange wages and con CHICAGO CAPITALIST INVESTS IN ENGLAND St. Louis, Sept.

14. The Catholic eights of America today issued an urgent ditions upon an equal footing so that statement that the women are to be ad of affairs is directly in line with the rembant of forces of Rahah, the fa-aim of the state department has been raous Arnb chief who was long a thorn la pursuing in the exchanges with LI the cf the French in Southern Sahara Hung Chang, and if this Russian de- and vho was recently killed in a batlf- ki mitted the coming year. each would know what his competitor was paying and no advantage could be cision is auntreu iu, il ueriainiy win which his main army was dispersed by a rpeal for aid for the Texas storm suffer-s. All remittances will be sent to Vice President Hotel Law-r. Houston, Texas will see to their -rornpt and practical distribution.

taken of anyone, their petition for a conference has been completely ignor- facilitate the ultimate withdrawal SECRETARY ROOT column. I all of the foreign troops, in the opinion UrfcnATLU UPON', of the officials here. An inference from 1 London, Sept. 13. There is considerable comment here upon the New York cable dispatches announce that Charles T.

Yerkes of Chicago has purchased the franchise of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead railway and that it is proposed to construct another electric underground rad. The company's secretary, Mr. Smith, denied the siatement, adding however, that there was no one he would sooner see In control of the undertaking than Mr. Yerkes. Just reached the port and found the docks and pier damage so widespread that no accommodation could be giver They found sheds torn away freight cars overturned and planking ripped off.

The steamships reported ashore ir early reports are, save two, the Nor wegian steamer Gyller and the British steamer, Norma, still high and dry No examination is yet possible as to the condition of those still on the sand. Apparently Galveston has no immediate need for ships. The destructio-of the bridges of all the railroads entering the city make it well nigh impossible to furnish outgoing cargoes. These bridges were each about three miles in length, and the work of reconstruction will be a stupendous undertaking. One of the most serious results of the storm has been the wrecking of the The remnant under his two sons, has now been finally routed in two battles by an expedition commanded by Capt Reibell.

who, with eight hundred native troops and three cannon took two camps of the enemy by assault. One of Rabah's sons was killed and th'e other fled. A large quantity cf arms and ammunition as well as rich treasure fell into hands of the French. New York, Sept. 13.

Secretary of War Hoot is confined to his summer residence at Southampton, L. as the result of an operation for the removal of a carbuncle, and will not be able to leave his home for ten days or two weeks. The secretary is not confined to his bed and appears In fine health. 'JEW YORK'S CONTRIBUTION TO GALVESTON SUFFERERS New York, Sept. 13.

The subscriptions to date for the relief of the Galveston sufferers are: Merchants' association $52,099. Mayor's fund New York Mercantile Exchange fund $2,000 Cotton Exchange fund New Yrk Stock Exchange New York Produce Exchange fund Chamber of Com-rcierce fund $25,000: miscellaneous subscriptions total $134,394. ed. 'When the business men, clergymen, and other outside- influences have appealed to the local companies to correct some of the evils complained of. their requests have been denied, and when as a last resort, the officers of our organization have wired the presidents of the great railroad companies who control the anthracite coal fields, offering to submit the whole question to arbitration, the proposition has been treated with silent contempt.

Having exhausted all other means of adjustment we have reach3 the point where we must either advise the miners of the anthracite region to continue working under these unjust and tyrannical conditions or counsel strike. "We have chosen the latter, and, having done so, we encourage a thorough, impartial and public investigation of the conditions existing: in the anthracite coal fields. We believe that the great Amercan heart throbs La srm- BOERS POWER BROKEN Berlin, Sept. 13. The German papers, dis the Russian statement is that Li's coming to Pekin will be forwarded by Russia in the hope of making the desired arrangement for the establishment of a Chinese government there.

As Li cannot reach the capital from Shanghai, starting tomorrow, inside of a week, it may be that there will be no developments In the international situation within that period of time. Our government has not been advised even yet that all of the answers to the Russian note have been returned. It is said that all of the powers have been heard from on the subject, but the disposition is to regard their communications not as answers but rather as argumentative statements which 'eave the main issue still open for discussion. This point, however, becomes of diminished importance in view of th announced purpose of the Russian government to modify the terms of its PORT HURON HAS QUARTER MILLION FIRE COL. MEADE RETURNS.

cussing Mr. Kruger's arrival of Lorenso Marques interpret it as tantamount to the electric light and street car plants. The' end of the wer. The National Zeitung says: The transport McPherson will leave this "This remains true even if Kruger is only temporarily absent to make efforts for the port at noon Monday next for Galveston city has been in darkness for several nights, and only a few concerns which operate their ovn illuminating service enabled to do business. The ab-sence of street lights drives all who San Francisco, Sept.

13. The hospital ship Soalce has arrived from Yckohamn via Gaum. The Solace has on board fifteen officers and two hundred; and fifty men frorr the naval vessels in the Orient. Among thf officers is Col. Robert Meade who command: the American forces at Tien Tsin.

There av also seventeen sick and wounded men on the Solace carrying supplies which have been contribut intervention of Europe." Port Huron, Sept. 13. Fire at noon today destroyed the entire plant owned by McMoran Milling company, the port Huron and Northwestern Elevator company and D. McMorman and eompnnyi The loss will reach $225,000, covered by Insurance. One hundred and fifty thousand bushels of grain stored in the elevator were destroyed.

ed through the Merchants' association. The vossische Zeitung observes: "The friends of the Boers must reconcile them The steamer El Sud, of the Morgan line salied this afternoon for Galveston with a selves to the fact that the Boer power of have no imperative business on the streets to their homes at nightfall, but the work of the patrol system is made reslstence Is definitely broken." large contribution) of food supplies amd coth-.