| Show new york s chinatown on verge of outbreak new august 23 extraordinary precautions are being taken by the police to prevent another outbreak of the bloody rt airfare which has been recently wage between tha rival societies in chinatown last night uniformed officer were thick in the crowded stress of the district and patrolmen agre stationed about fifty feet apart along the principal thoroughfares ough fares precinct detectives and private agents in the employ of the chinese bonsu were everywhere at the chinese theater there was a performance for mance given under a guard of five policemen in plain clothes and uniformed men on the stage in the aisles and in front of the building tom lee the old leader of the ong leong tong was not to be found at his haunts and the young leader of the ival society mock duck of the Hop Sing ton did not stroll about within shooting distance A 1000 prize forlee head of mock duck is held odeh W Is said by the ong leong tong pickpockets Pick pockets and crooks of ever class have rushed back to their old resorts about the opium dens and the police say tho Is in a fit stage for a bloody outbreak at any moment pawnshops stores about chatham square have almost exhausted their stocket stoc kyt deadly weapons es pec lally rey of large calibre late last night a detail held up and searched abou tOO on ono of the leaders ras found a new calibre pistol fully loaded news of the search quickly spread and not another weapon was found despite the danger thousands of sight seers bopf whom wera from out of town chinatown during the night and the guides did a big business WAS STUDYING consumption when he was killed by an explosion of benzine chicago aug 23 A dispatch to the chicago tribune from st louis mo says dr william a member of the faculty of marion sims medical college was killed by an explosion of benzine in the laboratory of his home yesterday the sacrifice of his life was indirectly due to his zeal in prosecuting a systematic study of the symptoms and cure of consumption he was cleaning the lens of his microscope cro scope by the light of a gas jet when the fumes of benzine which he was using as a cleansing agent became ignited and the explosion followed dr was an enthusiastic ml and in the last six months had devoted much leisure to the study of consumption christians KILLED BY CHINESE vancouver B C aug 23 word Is received by the empress of china 0 an outrage in province showing the revival of fanatical antagonism to christian colonization official advises advices reaching peking state that a mob of 1000 buddhist lamas by a move arranged to drive the christians out of their province attacked the various french roman catholic establishments on the coast of wrecking one church and killing many priests the number being stated at between 18 and 23 with others wounded the french minister at peking has made barong protests to the chinese minister demanding effectual punishment WON OCEAN YACHT RACE halifax N S aug 23 the schoon ery act elmina II 11 of the new york yacht club owned by F F brewster Bre weter of new haven cotin won the ocean yacht race of from marblehead to halifax crossing the finish line at a m today FAMILY OF SEVEN DROWNED maysville ky aug 23 A family ot seven named bates have been drowned in the river between here and dover their shanty boat having been run down and demolished in midstream by a towboat the family consisting of gates his wife and five children were asleep when the accident occurred the shanty boat had been tied to ahorn but had broken loose during a storm ADJOURNED AT 3 P M portsmouth N H aug 23 the peace envoys returned to the conference room at 2 half an hour in advance ad vanc of the ume beet for the afternoon the peace conference adjourned adjo at |
