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r IRS. MAYBRICK SET FRE( Lib-rated After Fourteen Years o Penal Servitude. END OF A REMARKABLE CASt S?n(enced For the Dealli of ITcr Hu*bani AVJien She Was Twenty-six Years Oli ?I/eft Truro, Cornwall. on Her Wa; to France?Many Kfforts to Securi Tier jrjaruon c 101a xti^u Truro. Cornwall.?Mrs. FlorenceMay wick :s free. She l?Ct here on iiei sv;!.r to Franco. .Mrs. Ma.vbrick's imprisonment oJ uioro than fourteen years oC lier life ;Iu?ed before the arched doorway of th( Donwnt of the Sisterhood of the Epip iiany iu tbls little town, with the black robed Sisters softly uttering theii blessings and good wishes for her fu ture. With two companions Mrs. May i>rk!; entered the carriage of ^liss Dal rynsnle, secretary of the Sisterhood, anu was driven rapidly to Staustell, i small station fourteen miles away, whore, alter exchanging good-bys with iier companions, she boarded a train and started on her journey to France. She will not go to America until bet presence there is considered necessary, The greatest secrecy was throwu about her departure. Mother Superior Julian of the convent said to a representative of the Associated Press that under her instructions she- must refer al! inquirers to the Home Office. Otksrs at the convent were equally uncommunicative. At the railroad station orders were issued forbidding the employes to discuss Mrs. Maybrick or even to admit that she was at the convent. When Mrs. Maybrick tirst arrived here she was kept under strict surveil!*ucc, never leaving the convent walls. Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Florc:i'-e Elizabeth Chandler. a member of a well-kuown and prosperous Southern family, was married July 21. 18S1, in Sy. .Tamos' Church, Piccadilly, to James Maybrick, of Liverpool. She wms then eighteen years ?ld. Her busbaud was more than forty years of In the spring of 1SS9 Mr. Maybrick bet-time ill, and in a few days he died. His brothers investigated his death, and charged Mrs. Maybrick with the murder of her husband. A long trial followed, and a number of doctors sv.ore that the deceased died of arsenic:3.! poisoning. The defense proved that for twenty years Mr. Maybrick had been a confirmed user of arsenic, and that he daily took doses large enough to have killed a dozen ordinary men. Mrs. Maybrick was eventually sentenced to death by the judge, Sir Fitzjames Stephen, who spoke for two days in charging the jury. He said it was impossible for them not to find her guilty in the face of the medical evidence. The judge died some time later in a madhouse. From the time of Mrs. Maybrick's conviction, her mother, the Baroness de "Eoques, was unremitting in her efforts in behalf of the prisoner. She succeed ed in having the- death sentence commuted to penal servitude for life, and finally ha*; obtained the freedom of her daughter, to whose release from prison she had devoted her life. The Baroness was ai(Jed by influential friends on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1900, after the death of Lord Russell of Killowen, Chief Justice of England. a letter, which he had written to Mrs. Maybrick was discovered. It showed that he was convinced that she ought never to have been convicted, and it has been generally understood that all the recent American ambassadors to the Court of St. James have done everything possible to obtain Mrs. May brick's pardon. The fact of her probable release" was used as the reason for securing the postponement of a trial last year of lawsuits bearing on Mrs. Maybriek's interest in land in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia until she was able personally to testify. If sise was not k able to testify in these suits Mrs. Mayk brick and her mother would have lost A all title and interest in many thousands of acres of land involved in the case. RUSSIA ADDS TO WOES OF JEWS. \\E.Ttends Oppressive Laws Governing \\ Hebrews "Within the Tale." * &t. Petersburg, Russia.?A law was affiYially promulgated providing that a\l Jfcws settled in the western fron ftiVi* k^'/u-firntoonfc! otirl in htn wi\hiw 1 lie radius of thirty-two'miles cf wie\frontier, shall be sublet to all the Maws governing the residence of Jews\within the regular zone of settlement. \ .Tewsv arriving subsequent to July 20 Tv-ill be prohibited from settling outside the towns ?r villages or moving from village to village. Ammunition l''or Canada. Sir Frederick Barden, Minister of Militia, of Canada, has uuder "way a contract witth the English firm of which Sir WiWiafu Armstrong is head, for the construction of an ammunition factory in Ottawa capable of turning out twenty Wllion rounds of ammunition a year. \ Kentucky Jutige Drowned. Judge Upton W. Mr;;, of Louisville, Ky., was drown?d \while bathing in the surf at Cape May, N. ,T. Vo Protect Auromobilists. Two i.utomobilisls, clad in fifth century armor, visited Magistrate Cornell's court, in New York City, to seek his advice regarding prote&ion against those who, as he advises, shoot at chauffeurs. \ Sabbed by Negro. \ At Stcphensport, -..y., Franks Blaise, a white man, was stabbed in tlrn throat by an unknown negro. A molV gathered and when the negro tried \to escape he was shot to death. \ \ Newsy Gleanings. \ " \ Sf-rvian railroads are being extended Boston newsboys are petitioning f<>; more free public baths. The Czar has sanctioned a reduc tion in the excessive number of holi days observed in Russia. German norse butchers are about t< open a restaurant in Berlin to educati the upper class in the use of horse flesh. One of the results of the recent An slo-Fren^h agreement is a renewal o the scheme for tunneling the channe between France and England. :[ BIG MEAT STRIKE ENDED I j Chicago Employers Agree to Take f Back All Union Men. I Wa;c Scale Will Be Arbitrated?Other- | 7 wise Conditions Are Same as Before the Strike?Settled Pcaceably. I 1 j Chicago. III.?The strike of packing house employes, which hatl lasted nine days, ami which has demoralized the t? packing industry throughout the country, was settled here at a conference ' - between representatives of the pack* ers, the officials of the Meat Cutters' Union, and representatives or ail tue I allied trades employed at the Stock ? Yards. The whole controversy will , be submitted io a board of arbitrators, l>oth sides agreeing to abide by whatever decision this board may reach. Pending the decision of the arbitra- j tion board the men will be taken back . to work as rapidly as possible by the packers. It is agreed by the packers that all the old employes are to be " reinstated within forty-five days from , the date work is resumed. If any of ' , the former employes are still unem- j , ployed at the expiration of that time, | i such persons are to have the privilege i of submitting their cases to the arbitration board tor settlement. The strikers will return to work as i . soon as they can be notified of the i peaceable adjustment of the trouble. Half an hour after the decision had been reached. M. J. Donnelly, the > striKe leaner, naci secured commumra: tion by long distance telephone with the leaders of ilie strikers in outside cities., He notified them that a satisfactory settlement had been reached * and directed the strikers to return to | work as soon as possible. The settlement of the difficulty by arbitration was brought about by the j allied craft at the Stock Yard?, who would have become involved in the I ; controversy had it continued much ; longer. The representatives of these unions, which represent about 14,000 men. ?ot together and sent a final ap peal to the packers, asking for a three sided conference between the packers, the strikers, and themselves, in a 1 final effort ro set both sides of the con troversy. together again and arrange some sort of agreement which would prevent the strike spreading to the affiliated unions. This appeal of the A1 : lied Trades Unions received r. favorable response from the packers and j the conference was the result. MAY RESCUE YOUNG SIM'S. Boy in Biddle Outrage May Havt j Mercy Shown. Mount Holly, N. J. ? Wheu public | clamor has cooled off and the bare facts of the case come to the surface i it it> probable that eCforts will be madf to rescue Jonas Sims from the fortynine years of imprisonment to which he was sentenced with Austin and Timbers, the brutal assailants of Mrs Biddle. Sims was the sixteen-year-old boy who iguorantly accompanied the other two hardened fiends to the Bid die house, but all the evidence goes t( show that he was but a tool in tlieij hands and had no knowledge of whal was done. When Sims was taken to the Cour! House under military guara, 11 e was so frightened to nod assent to anything that did not lead to lynching. He has constitutional rights that were denied him because lie was not convict ed by any confession. Timbers and 1 Austin, in their confessions, exonerate him, and his presence with them has j been explained. Sims went to the house at the solicitation of Timbers, who said he wanted to collect some money for work he had done. In view of these facts, it is said. Judge Gaskill and Prosecutor Atkinson have decided to appear before the Board of Pardons at the proper time and ask for the release of the boy. NEGRO CALVARYMEN SLASH. ^ 11 * Ruled Out of Action in Mancuvrqg, They Charge Upon Troops. Tacoma, Wash.?During the army ' maneuvres at Steilacoon, after Troop ' E, Ninth Cavalry (negro), hail been ruled out of action by the umpires they charged on the Washington troops and Nineteenth Infantry on their front and with drawn sabres slashed right and i left among the infantry, causing a reign of terror for a few minutes. In the melee three members of the Second Washington and one regular were severely injured. Cholera in Persia. A report from Baku, Russia, says that refugees from Teheran, Persia, tell terrible stories of the ravages of cholera. They say that on some dr^'8 the mortality reached 900. The Europeans are abandoning their property and are fleeing to a camp in the mountains. Boats From Norge Washed Ashore. Two more of the lifeboats of the Danish steamer Norge (which foundered June 28 off Rockall Reef. 290 miles from the Scottish mainland) have been washed ashore on the Ork-' ney Islands. They were both empty. Driven Back to Europe. Weary of turmoil and hardships encountered while struggling for a liviug in the face of strikes and lockouts, forty-five families of the meat strikers ! left Chicago to return to Austria-Hungary. Canal Test Made. A test ot the electric "muie' was | made in Schenectady. N. Y.. for the j benefit of the joint Legislative Com- ' mission to investigate the matter of , ; electrical towage of canal boats and I for the enlightenment of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Score Injured in Excursion. A score of persons were injured near ' Frecport, L. I., when a construction . car and a church excursion car ran ! into -jacli other. Sporting Brevities. Columbus will have a new kiter shaped track built inside the present mile track. The Eastern Yacht Club's squadron faced in a fog for thirty-seven miles of the third run of its cruise. i Walter J. Travis defeated Findlay ? Douglas by 2 up and 1 to play in the - lin\ai tor the chief cup over the Apawatois .inks. T^e Wren brothers defeated W. A. f LarnW ^ g p Dewhuret in the first I matcAin the jpwn tennis tournament at Westchtgter. ?1??1? 'SWIFT NEW JERSEY JUSTICE | I Assaulters of Mrs. Biddle Each Sen- j ienced to Forty-nine Years. RECORD TRIALOFTHREE NEGROES ! Only Sixteen Minuted Elapsed in th?? I Court Proceedings at Mount Hotly, I N. J.?Company of Stnte Militia Kacort j tlie Prisoner)! rrom Camden to the Court and Thence to the Tenlteutinry Mount IloIIy, N. J.?At fifteen minutes after 1 o'clock in the afternoon Aaron Timbers, Jonas Sims, and William Austin, the three negroes who ten days previously assaulted Mrs. Charles RIil.-Uo i:i lior linnia npnr Rnrlincrton. tvere placed on trial before Judge Gas- i kell. Exactly sixteen minutes later ill three had pleaded guilty to four 1 jrimcs charged against them, the inlictmentis had been read by the County Prosecutor, and all thre? given the I 1 ?xtreme penalty allowed by the law, I ' the cumulative sentence in each case i oeing forty-nine years. Not only was 1 the trial remarkable for its brevity, ] but also for the splendid management )f the whole affair, not even Sheriff ] Grower nor any of his deputies know- 3 .ng that the negroes were to be < Drought here and tried until about aalf an hour before the special train f :hat brought them from Philadelphia I pulled into the statiou. 1 Every precaution had been taken. 1 md even if it had been known through t jut the county that the negroes were < to be tried, it is quite certain that no 1 mob could have reached the prisoners. 1 Judge Gaskeil, who planned the whole 1 iffair. telephoned to Governor Mur- 3 phy at Trenton that he was going to t cry the negroes, and the Governor, af- < ter a long talk, said that he would irder Company A of the Second Regi- 1 ment, then in camp at Sea Girt, to * proceed to Camden and accompany the * prisoners on the train to Mount Holly. * When the train arrived the soldiers 1 promptly filed out and took a posi- s tiou on eitner oc tue roau mat pads to the Court House, which is a t little over a block distant from the station. The presence of the soldiers t sf course attracted the attention of all r the village folk, and iu less than five 1 minutes a crowd of about 500 had as- * sembled in front of the Court House, c In the crowd were many women, and although the men in the crowd were n very outspoken as to what should be ^ done to the negroes, the women were s even more outspoken and did not bes- c itate to voice their sentiments in the * most positive terms. J It was a strange scene in the quiet F little court room, the soldiers standing I like statues on all sides, the negroes trembling like aspen :eaves, while tbe b faces of the spectators indicated the k kind of punishment they considered t just in the case. Amid absolute silence ' Judge Gaskell called the court to or- ^ der, and Prosecutor Atkinson arose t and read tbe charges against the nc- t groes. George M. Hillman, of this place, had been assigned to defend n the negroes, and he advised them as to f the gravity of the charges, and told t them that if they were guilty the best f thing they could do would be to say }' so. i' The negroes followed his advice, and r Ia voices that were sua icon wiin icar < they admitted in open court that they s had committed all four of the crimes t that had been laid against them. Judge Gaskoll then pronounced sen- n tence, which was fifteen years for as- k sault, fifteen years for rohbery, twelve b years for assaulting an officer, and seven years for breaking and entering a t' dwelling-. b As soon as the proceedings at Mount S Holly were over the prisoners were c escorted back to the station and the D train started for Trenton, going via Kinkora as a matter of precaution, in- t stead of via Burlington. The news of I v the trial had reached Burlington before I b the train left and a large crowd was E at the depot there who thought that a the special would pass that way. The g train arrived at Trenton at 2.15 p. m. and ten minutes later the negroes were b in the penitentiary.. P r: h TO RAISE HULK OF MAINE. ? o Object is to Improve Navigation in the 1 Harbor of Havana. ^ a Washington, D. C.?The Navy Department has been informed by R. H. h F. Sewell, of New Orleans, that ha A has made a contract with the Cuban p Government to raise the wreck of the ? battleship Maine, which was blown up In Havana harbor February 15, 1898. .J Before proceeding with this work, 11 Mr. Sewell says, he desires to know what claim, if any, the United States F Government has in the wreck. The communication has been referred J to the Judge Advocate-General of the Navy for consideration. What puzzles the legal officers of the navy is ? whether the wreck has been actually ) abandoned. The Cuban Government, it is understood, makes no claim of ownership to the wreck and simply desires to improve the navigation of ? the harbor. li Priest Stricken at Mass. b The Very Rev. Stephen Kealy, Fro- n rincial of the Order of Passionists in this country, died suddenly while of- f' ficiating at mass in the monastery of ri the Passionist Order in West Iloboken, ? N. J. Death was due, it is supposed, n to heart disease. fc Man is Drowned; Doc Swims. Timothy Lyden took his pet dog into the river, at Trenton, N. J., to give him h a bath, and to compel the animal tor 11 swim ashore he swam ont some dis- p tance. The man was taken with a Pcramp and was drowned. The dog li swam ashore, - b w Itiot at Stock Yards. There was a riot at the Chicago stock yards, and strikers charged that the strike was the result of a conspir- p aey to deal union labor a death blow. ^ Commerce Records Broken. All records in commerce were broken by the United States during the {; year ended June 30, and exports e^- tj ceeded imports by more than $75,000,- i, 000. p H Ball Stand Collapses. jj Two hundred persons fell Willi a [] stand that collapsed at a ball game in Cleveland, Ohio. Ten had aruis or legs broken. Old Panama Machinery. S Abandoned machinery to the value of ^50,000,000 now lies along the site ot t] the Panama Canal ? I CYCLONE NEAR If Mil ? Houses Blown Down at Chappaqua, R N, Y., Bury Victims. STORM SWEEPS HARLEM VALLEY L IIalhtotte? an Inch And a Half ia Diam- g{ eter Fall ? Kenslco Cemetery Badly Damaged ? Live Slock Killed and Barns Destroyed ? Hndaon Itlver at Os?lnlnjj Sucked Dry by the Wind. New York City.?A tornado with a vvuiei ?jh)ul auacuwem uuiue miauuiei. qj] on the Hudson River and at Chappa- ,je qua, a few miles above lier?. No re- th ports of it were heard from the north pe Jersey shore, and its westernmost ap- sij pearance was when it began to suck pr up wat:r from the river opposite Os9ining. The weather Lad been lowering th in the middle of the afternoon, with a m brisk wind driving the black clouds U1 furiously, but no rain fell. Suddenly vc the waterspout, apparently fifty feet in diameter, appeared, and rising cc high in the air in funnel shape, swept j p( ivest across the river to the upper cr N'yack shore. People along shore say ?e the volume of water was so great that a., ;t bared the river bottom for a long listance. cr A large new wharf building, at the sa summer heme of Joseph Hilton, at Up- th jer N^ack, w: - swept : way, and ] jieces of boards and timbers were re tvhiried off through the air. The wa- aE erspout rushed through Crumbie's co jleu, tearing away a number of trees, 2o jut after it struck ihe land it soon pr jroke, the water falling in large volime. People for miles along the lower ga Hudson watched the waterspout from th he time it formed until it broke and Br lisappeared. Chappaqua, which lies in a valley, hi] vas hit at 3.45 o'clock in the afternom. vv< ?ov half an hour before the storm Qu )urst the people of the town knew hat something was going to happen. 0tl leavy, awirling, dark clouds from the Ca :outhwest and northeast traveled rap- he dly toward each other, meeting over Et he northeast corner of the town. ' The currents carried along with th hem great clouds of dust, and the cur- ?ti ent^ met, it is asserted, with a crash th ike a clap of thunder. Tlien tiiere su vas the sound of falling walls and tei rashing timbers. Five houses were razed and a great lumber of barns and outbuildings vere demolished. The al.* currents eemed to meet almost over the house >f 1/Irs. Anna Washburn, in which me Mrs. Washburn and her mother, 1 ilrs." Hibbs, of Philadelphia, who was m< taying her daughter a v)sit. Mrs. thi libbs was eirhtr years old. wi The building went down like a j :r< louse of cards and Mr;. Hibbs was iv :illcd by falling timbers. Mrs. Wash- wt iuvn was seriously injured. The others 1 njured in Chappcqua were: Warren ?ei .'ompkins, Walter Sarles, Mrs. Hos- au er Cox, Cyrus Dodge and Mrs. Mar- to ha Morrow. 2d, Chappaqua is located thirty-three :ej niles from here in a valley which fri ormed a pathway for the storm. The :ai own was in complete darkness and a to errific wind raged while the rain and 1 :ail fell in torrents. Hailstones an iai iicli and a half in diameter fell. Many mc ushed from their houses and threw to hemselves flat on the ground. The torm passed over them as they lay here. Few of them were injured. j In the barns that blew down were nany horses, several of which were 5e] illed or so badly injured that they ad to be shot. " frc Considerable damage was done at ({lr lie Kensico Cemetery, where the fall- |qa iig hail completely shattered the lass in the big conservatories. All the onservatories in the path of the tor- , ado were ruined. . After the storm had partly abated, lie fire department turned out, and, rith the assistance of many summer jv, oarders, formed a rescuing party. j )rs. Miils, Hatch, Champlain, Sazel " * nd Cox joined the party and did ood work caring for the injured. In the night the firemen of the vil- 1 lge formed a vigilance committee and pa atrolled the streets and guarded the ^r; ouses which blew down, as some of "U liem contained valuable property. A : Fei onservative estimate places the loss f property and crops at .5100,000. .'his amount, it is feared, will be dou- ^ led when full leports of the disaster | pr: re in. fr: The path of the tornado is about [ So. alf a mile long and 300 yards wide. ifter snendinc its main force at Chan- ! aqua it passed on to Unionville, de- | G troying many farm houses. Then it j me raveled down the Bronx Valley to bo; Zensico Lake, where it seemed to lose riC ;s force. ELL FIVE STORIES; NOT HURT. ( anitor Went Back to Finish His In- en terrupted Uap on the Roaf. Gr New York City?It was :<o warm in William Barrisch's home, at No. 337 last Mnety-seventh street, that he J rer.t up on the roof to sleep. Soon liere came ihe noise of ' ?.e snapping as' f a clothesline, and an irate tenant n the fourth flood yelled, "Stop breakig my lines!" J But Barrisch coulrlr't stop. :.* tre roke every line he struck as he fell ve stories. When he landed in the :ar areaway he was suffeiing only = rom a slight scratch on his forehead, qj aused probably by contact with a lothespin. He picked himself up and nnounced to the anxious crowd that , e was alive. cj. Wife Gone, Hanged Himself. Hyman Slock, fifty years old, hanged j iiuself at Port Chester, N. Y. He jp| lade a rope out of a she^t and lay ^ own on his bed with his head a foot CC.J bove the bedding, and in that posi- jcj. on strnn?rlnd to death. Slock had r-r e:?n despondent since his youthful >r *it'e disappeared six months ago. Woman Drowned in Lake George. ^ei Miss .Toxic Fiedler, twenty years old, eei f Orange, Is*. J., was drowned in Lake nu leorge. en Russia Replies to England. Russia has informed Great Britain 1 lat it is impossible to open negotia- go ons for the settlement of questions , 1 dispute until after the war with Ja- f0^ an. Good Anil is shown by both nu ons, and a iJi'itisu protest regarding lussian cruisers in. the lied Sea i? m( lought unlikely. v,? ????? f Ex-Senator Sloan's Will. The will of ex-Senator George B. 0f loan, of Oswego, N. Y., divided an state of $1,000,000 among relatives, J riends, employeu and. charitable iustU st| atious. .... 5 UD IfllL PROTEST1 , ussia Must Cease Holding Up British Merchantmen, I AY CAUSE GRAVE CRISIS Delist. Warships at Alexandria, Suez and Aden?Russian Ship* Regarded as ( Pirates?Two Vessels Fro:n Mediter- < rauean Squadron Ordered to Port Said ; ?Ilnsxirt to Give Up the Slalacca. London. England.?It is believed by ival officers cognizant of certain orts issued to British warships that e British Government means to comil the Russians to give up the steamlip Malacca, which they seized as a ize of war and are taking to Libau. i It is also confidently expected for e same reason that it has been deterined to put a complete stop to the llawful operations of the Russian ilunteer cruisers. The Malacca was reported as proeding through the Suez Canal toward >rt Said, navigated by a Russian ew and flying the Russian flag. One veloprnent was the detaching by imiral Domville, who commands the editerranean squadron, of two cruiss under orders to proceed to Port lid, which is at the northern end of e Suez Canal. tt is assumed that these cruisers will ach Port Said ahead of the Malacca id be there wben she arrives. It is nsidered probable that they will c mpel the Russians to give up their a lze. r 'Are our warships going to Port i id just to w.itch the Russians sail r e Malacca past them?" queried a i itish naval captain, adding: i 'How foolish that would be! How ( imiliating! In heaven's nauie, what t )uld tae British people say of such t . operation? I can't believe those c uisers are sent to Port Sai-l with any f] tier purpose than to take the Malac- 0 away from the Russians and send 1 r oft again on her voyage to the Far f ist." (. rhere is no question whatever that d e British Government would ii engthen itself tremendously with i< e people of this country by a course t ch as naval officers think it has de- a :miued to follow. TWINS BORN IN CAR. r vo Steinmetz Boys First See Light in Public Conveyance. Sew York City.?When the Stein- 1 ?tz twins want to show their friends P eir birthplace in time to come they n 11 have to liuut up Fourteenth street z jsstown car No. 1306, at the Second ii enue crossing, for it was there they o :iu tjum. v. To the surprise of the male passen- tl rs, when the car reached Second ave- J e, the conductor requested them all li get off. He seemed terribly excit, and all the men and women, ex- p it Mrs. Anna Steinmetz and her v end. Lizzie Singseck, hustled off the si Mrs. Steinmetz had given birth ti twins. g L'he conductor rushed to an ambu- m ice call, and a few minutes later the tJ .ther and her two boys were taken thD Maternity Hospital. is li Offers Transportation Free. d L railway interested in forestry in E chigan has afforded a number of Cl liors in the forest course at the chigan State Agricultural College je transportation to the forested ids in the northeastern part of tbe ? ver peninsula. Will of Suicide Broker. ni JVashburn, the Buffalo broker, who F led wife, daughter and self, trans- f< red to h.is partner $10,000 life insur- h ce payable to his wife, the death of m i wife making her signature unnec- n >ary. h Henry S. Crocker Dead. hi Tenrv S. Crocker, of San Francisco. 01 1., pioneer stationer, millionaire, and 111 )ther of Charles Crocker, railroad 111 ilder and owner, died, seventy-two r( ars old. * Germany Protests. The German Government entered a>test against the seizure of mails j >n the Prinz Heinrich in the Red a by Russia. I] ir Heavier Machinery For Boats. pi Che Naval Inspection Board recom- j a mds heavier machinery for torpedo to ats, even though 3peed must be sac ^ iced. m 01 Our Officers Pleased. to iccrs and men of the United States ^ naJrri in the Mediterranean are ? thusiastic over their reception in * DCCO, Federal Commission at Work. riio Federal Commission appointed investigate the General Slocum dis:;r began its work. Man Lives in a Tree. R Ln Urbana (Oliio) man lives in a tj? o '.r> pnrr> mnsumotion. " XJ Earthquakes in Ecuador. g Sever? earthquakes w?ve at Cuaya* flc il, Ecuador. ' ev Gi Shearing by Electricity. tv n Franco sheep are bciag -beared by PI ictricity. Ki American Suicide in Paris. Ln American stulent named Shr p- J . Cb, said to l.ave been a relative of [U > American Ambnssaicr in France, Fi emitter, suicide in Paris, leaving an ters addressed to V. Shapleigh- 01 ;st Lebanon, Me. es A Trofcssor is Honored. ^rofjrcor KjcIi, tbe well-known bac Iolofist. bas been elected to sue- . xl the late Professor Virehow as mber of tLe Bewlin Academy of Sci- J." ces- \i\ Labor World. Boston (Mass.) union lathers have on strike against the open shop. jj(. V pension system is to i/e established at r employes on the Intercolonial Rail- a i J. pr. Albany (N. Y.) union printing press- m ?n now receive a minimum weekly iti. ige of $17. rhe percentage of chad labor in tbt uth is greater than in any other pari , ( the country. sir \bout 500 union painters returned to toi >rk in Boston, after u several months' Ct>i rlke for higher wages, wiich were 001 nerallT granted. Ui RUSSIAN ARMY REPULSED joneral Kuropatkin Admits of a Terrible Defeat Die Japaneae Northern Army U?iier Gonoral* Karokl and Ha?ejravra Drivs the Enemy From Mountain*. Tokio, .j.-.pan,?General ivxiroKt, In an official bulletin received by the War Office, confirms the news of an importint Japanese victory near Motien Pass. An extensive report was relei ved by the General, but the military lutlioritics Lave divulged nothing berond the bulletin. It is announced the ull Russian loss is not yet known, but Here is 110 doubt in Tokio that it will otal 2(X)0 in killed, wounded and capured, with ten guns and many stands >f small arras. The battle was won jy Lieutenant-General Baron Hasejawa. commanding the Imperial Bodyguard division of General Kuroki's irmv. who met and repulsed a desperite attack 011 the Japanese positions 11 and about the pass made by a large iussian force under Lientenant-Gen?ral Count Keller, on whom General vuropatkin relies for defense of Ihe teninsula railway northeast of Ilai:hen. General Husegawa's division vas divided into two columns, both of vhich received high praise from Geniral Kuroki. A heavy fog shrouded the Russian tttacfc, which was begun at daybreak. 5ix brigades of Kussian infantry, with l Iarere number of heavv field batter es, several Cossack horse batteries, wo lighter mountain batteries and iglit squadrons of Cossack cavalry idvanced rapidly in three columns on he Japanese position. The first colluiii of the Imperial Guard Division eceived the brunt of the attack, retirng slowly in the eastward and drawng the Russians into a position where Jeneral Hasewaga's second column tegan a flanking movement. When he fog cleared away the Russian genral found himself confronted by the irst Guard column and soon afterward iscoversd the second column was urning his right. He attempted to rercat toward the Sliir.g r.Iountains, but Jeneral Hasew.iga had placed a strong letachment of infantry, with six guns, a a position commanding General Ivel?r's intended route of withdrawal, and he Russians were compelled to return long che road toward Liau Yang. PER J'S PACi WITH BRAZIL, 'rotocol Calls For Divided Adminis tration of Acre Territory. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, via Galveston, 'exas.?News of the signing of, the rotocol for tlie preliminury s'ettlelent of the Acre dispute between Brail and Peru ha*; been officially eonrmed. Theue are the principal points f the protocol: The contested zone r regiou. extending from sources of he Iiiver Puras to the source of the urua, will remain neutral until a dcnite settlement of the question. Brazil and Peru are to settle the roperty r ghts by direct negotiations ritiiin tive months, but if it is imposibl? to arrive at a satisfactory soluon both countries will request the ood ofiices cf a friemVy Power, or Lib Mt the matter to arbitration; hut his only if abs.lutely necessary. Meanwhile the zone is to be adminK.. % ntwi HCltU UJ Di.UjlIiillt illiu 1 ClU.'lilll ULclals. The rents are to be equally ivided. The new Mini.ter of Peru, ?r. Seoane, has just arrived to sucked Dr. Vellardj. [EMPHIS POLICE CHIEF CONE. udden Departure During Reform Crusade Causes Sensation. Memphis, Tenn.?Without any nnouncement of hi? intentions, Chief of olice Mason suddenly left Memphis >r Chicago. No reason was given for is departure beyond the bare state- J tent from his physician that he was ' ot feeling well and took the trip that p lpight get a rest. The sudden departure of the Chief | as created a sensation here, and the ( tizens are at a loss ^understand the ; leaning of the move. Mayor Williams [ laintains that he has not received the | ssigr.ation of the Chief. TRrjRnnTzrxa FINLAND. ussia Arrests Prominent Men Without Explanation. London, England?Advices from ielsingfors show that during this lonth three of the most distinguished rofessors of the University, Horaen, scientist of European reputation; Estndei, a law lecturer, and Baron i /rede, professor of Roman law, a ember of the House of Nobles and le of the most respected men in Finnd, were suddenly arrested and de>rted in manacles to St, Petersburg, othing has been heard of them since, he houses of other professors were ! (arched. LANS FOR THE BALTIC FLEET. ' / ussian Admiral Says It Will Start iu i September. Paris, France.?An interview with ead-Admiral Rojetsvensky. Chief of e General Staff of the Russian Navy, published in one of the newspapers, lie Admiral airily dismisses any iggestion of difficulty in taking the altlc fleet out to the Far East. The set will start in September, call wlier- | er it uiay be necessary, including the j erman port of Kiaocbau, and stop I rep.ty-four hours?the legal limit?at J lymouth, Cartagena and possibly ; aples. Trestle Breaks With Train. A. Big Four freight train went j rough a trestle at Sharon, Ohio, j reman Metzgar. of Delaware, Ohio, I id Breakuian Casead, of Osborne, j ]io. were killed. Engineer Wilsou j caped by jumping. A Nov,- Governor in Tangier. Kaid Benhimaa, chief of police, lias j en appointed Governor in Tangier, j neral satisfaction is expressed at ; e change, which was one of Itaisu* 1 5 stipulations. For New Water Supply. Hie Niagara County (N. Y.) Irrigahi and Water Supply Company tiled Hie county Clerk's office in Lockpovt map for a new power canal enterise. involving an ^expenditure of $10.0.0(H); New York persons are tiunucthe affair, it was asserled. To Protect Folk. }wing to a rumor of a plot to assaslate Joseph W. Folk, the Circuit Atrney of St. Louis, a bodyguard was ' rmed to protect him during the Demratic State convention, jn Jefferson tv Mo ' ' '. T,<:>m ' ' "v " llfiliMElS' WASHINGTON ITEMS. In an effort to locate three offender? who are wanted in Washington, D. C., 12,920 letters were .sent out by the capital police. The Navy Department has arranged for the official trial. July 23, off San Francisco, of the battleship Ohio. ... The Navy Department officials have fixed upon .the new uniform for the Navy, including officers and enlisted force. i General Davis, Governor-General of the Panama Canal Strip, has advised the Panama Canal Commission that he I Tffllifc 1 fifl fWV\ vnr/Iu rvf ??lrA crnn?7r* if* prevent mosquito invasion of the zone. Captain J. It. Edwards, of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, has been-transferred at his own request to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, where he win have charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. The marriage of Senator Clark has caused considerable comment at the Capital and it is '-xpeotid that th couple will ent **tain on a lavish seal' ne-t season. OUR ADOPTED INLANDS. The export trade in bananas-.from Porio Rico to the United States began in 38S1. and has grown from 3500 bunches to upwards of 4,000,00# bunches annually. As the result of what appears to> have been despondency immediately following a native feast. Lieutenant Gilford S. Garber, of the Ninety-second. Company, of Coast Artillery, of the Regular i Array, committed suicide at Honolulu ' by shooting himself iu the uiouth witlr a revolver. ? The orders of tin* Government thai Lieutenant Stone is carrying out to keep down the price of foodstuffs- ir Guam. P. I? are working well, DOMESTIC, Two men were killed and Captain Sharp, Superintendent of the MerrittChapman Wrecking Company,, was overcome by gas in the hold of a wrcck they were raising in Mew York Harbor. Severe riots and a panic occurred or a barge chartered by a negro church for an excursion near New York City. The police came in launches to Quell the disturbance. - ' </ ': The strike of the employes of the Orange County Traction Company ended at Newburg, N. Y., *ach side . making concessions. A syndicate of .Holland bankers is re J/UI LCU IU IJilli; l/i/U^UL llAU ?VX.r u, UUU M X. Railroad from the Rockefellers. 0 John Palmierl, appointed by Gov- EE ernor Odell a Judge oi! the City Court of New York, is t?p lirst Italian to hold . I a judlciaL position in the United States. H The cotton boll weevil is in. Texap oats. The General Loss Committee in its final reports puts the total losses paid on account cf the Baltimore fire at $^0,500,000. Following a street qr.arrel over Antonio Nardezzo shot and killed Mrs, Filomena C. Piedoiida at East Providence, R. I. Senator Knox and Mr. Root visited President Roosevelt at Oyster Eay and were requested to make ceveral speeches in the campaign. Official announcement was made ol the New York Central's interest in traction properties. The switchman and brakeman were held by, the Coroner's Jury to be re> sponsible for the Midland (N.J.) wreck; warrants were issued. Members of the Federal Commission to investigate the General Slocum dis? aster went over the steamer's course in the East River, New York, and inspect ! ed the steamer's hull. I Lieutenant-General Chaffee Cnlshed cni'.ceil disastrous frrrst fires a!on~ the flEJfi cou:;t of Critii.li I'oluiu'jia ilurius llu rust week. 09 u'lir.v ii-iv'Tnupnuiiti iuii asa mmm ?]r. Ealfouv to sol a date for debate on nH :: vo.e o? censure of the Government. HB The isolated residence of an English ?M nan named Levison. at Eubana, tw< KM miles outside Tangier, was firerl on in HH effectually by Moors. Mohammed E '^Eg Torres, the Foreign Minister, has sen! a strong guard to protect Mr. Levison. France has concluded an arbitration aBl treaty with Sweden and Norway. fSl Emperor William has asked Mr. Johc IdR E. Uerreshoff to submit plans and esti BSIf mates for a yacht similar to the Ingo IRfp mar. owned by Commodore Plant. flg|I It ts announced from Cape Town thai BIB a preferential tariff agreement hat been made between Canada Vli HB routij African urates ! his inspection of the Yeilowstone Park. fl| It is net believed by the St. Lcnis Ex- K position management that Santos Du? ^ H 1 mont intends to withdraw from the ahv ' K | ship contest. MB [ The first messa~> over the Seattle- H Sitka cable line reached Seattle, Wash., ,*3 ; but the lino will not b: complete toi H two weeks. m The five mills of the. Cocheco Manu- H factoring company, at Dover, N. H., H were ordered closed, throwing out of 85 work 2000 operatives. IB New York City real estate valued at EH nearly a billion Collars i3 exennted , H from taxation, according to a state- Ijfl ment made by the Tax Department. PR Tan thousand persons held a memo- W rial meeting at ni~ht in Tompkins 8H Park, New York City, for the Ceneral H Siocum dead. m| Three cattle thiovrs. arte killing a jH constable near Albuquerque, N. M., -H barricade.1 the doors of a house and H exchanged shots with a 00b cf wculd- H| t>e lynchCL'3. . H| Four arrests were n~d? in St. Louis, B SIo., of men,accu:c l jf being in a big 9H aonspiracy to rob Us Exposition Com- ?88 paDy through ticket irregularities. mB The Mcthodiet Episcopal Church ex- Hp r>rlled the iicv. Mr. Cordova, of South JflE Kiver, 2*. J., wu# ciopou wirn iui3a mi Julia Borne, a ucu'ocr of tiij cou- 19 gregatioa. TO FOREIGN. K Count de la Vauli, an aeronaut, fell 8fi into the Meuiterrauean while attempt-.. BH in- a flight frou iloutjoliicr in bis jra stwrable baliooa. UQ The Caronia. of Ibo Cunard Line, the Hj largest vessel ever CQnctruetccl in Great Britain, was lauuehcu o.i the Clyde, BH Mrs. Cboate christening th? new liner. H Dari:i~ a riot of strikers at Cluses. . *nce, several shotc were firod, result' H in? Ln the Lilliiifj cf four persons and Bgj the wounding cf twenty-five. TLo mH gendarmes -\viio attempted to disperse tbe riotei-3 were ctoacd. g5| Bfr. Arnold-Foster annor.neea tL: Ml British Government';; plans f>r army jfflj reduction, including cutting down the force to 227,003 u n and aban-Ioninc jgB the conscription proposal. n| Robert Coclet, cf "ew York, wVjst automobile ran do.?u a boy, a: Hfl mobbed in Austria. ? WW TIi-> tnn>- Iirvrirwl rf ?ins fiSHtt