Show SH03T STORES The only troops of the United States now In China are the legation guards at Peking in command of Gen Chaffce The Philadelphia Pn Evening Call made an assignment for the benefit of creditors and ceased publication yes terday At Delaware O the Marlon Presby tery votxfr In favor of a revision of the creed of thcPresbyterlan church Only two votes wero cost against It The transport Sumner sailed from Nagasaki yesterday for Manila with four troops of the Sixth cavalry and four batteries of the Third artillery The Prince Edward Island Provincial Legislature has been dissolved and December De-cember 12lh appointed election day The present local government Is a Liberal administration Owing to a reduction in wages In the cotton mills at Puebla Mex 3000 op eratives have struck and the authori ties have taken measures lo prevent trouble which Is expected Four companies of the Fifteenth in fantry left Taku yesterday bound for Manila The troops mentioned comprise com-prise the lust of the United States army In China withdrawn from service In the Philippines t Miss Clara Barton left Galveston for her home In Washington yesterday nc compnnlcd by her associates In the Na tional Red Cross society who have been assisting her In the Galveston re Hot work American Linseed Oil prices showed no abatement In activity yesterday and was quite as erratic in its Muctuntlorts as on Tuesday The stock opened higher sold up to iS down to 12 and closed at 43V = The population of the city of Tien Tsln now reaches COOOOO Chinese and the allies are strengthening the garrison garri-son as against a possible surprise It in Hupjiubeu mat pneimru oi me allies are Boxers A dispatch from Capt Halley of the tug Teaser at Providence R I Is to the effect that the coal barges Hudson Hud-son and Robert Ingnl Carter had been lost The barges In tow of the Tensor left Philadelphia a week ago for Providence All on board were lost A meeting of J the organization committee com-mittee of the Rational Asaoclnllon of Automobile Manufacturers of America was hcld jn Nen York and thcmem bors talkea ltength over the udVlsa bilfty of making lime association similar to that of the League of American Whiiclmen t I |