Horrible Scenes In China

lonclon: A dispatch from Tien Taiii says tliat Manchurian princes have taken the defence of the country Into their own hands in order to prevent the intrigues of the Chinese officials. The central government is bewildered and helpless. Chinese who have arrived frora Manchuria bring ghastlv reports of the desolation of the country bet ween the Yalu river and the LiaoHo, recalling the worst horrors of the Taiping rebellion. Xot a house is standing. Everything has beenburned and whole populations have perished. Only ncatteredgroupsof frozen corpses are secn, nppareatly those-of entire families. Neither food nor fuel is procurable. trayglers from the Chinese array wlio hnve taken refuge in the hills have become savages. lost to all human feelings. The sufferings of the wounded are terrible. The movcments of both the Chinese and Japanese troops are hindered by the faihire of supplies from the terrified populaee. The prospect of an extensión of such scènes appalls even the stoüd Chinese. At Lodi, O., a limitecl express train on the B. & 0. railway crashed throug-h the center of a freitrht train on the Wheeling fc Lake Erie railroad, overturning- several loaded coal cars. Heyond being badly shaken, the passengers eacaped injury. The express was running at a high rate of speed. Three oil men were instantly killed on the Prosser farm. tliree miles west of Wapakoneta, O. Frank Logan, John Pettigrew and W. J. McNally endeavored to thaw out 100 quarts of frozen nitro-glycerine with hot water when it exptoded, tearing them ali into fragments r with a team of BOT