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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE' Oyster Bay, X. YPivsiRoosc elt's letter of acceptance. wlii? h Las just been reteased for :i i?~*u. is a document of nearly words. In its preparation a numoer <>t uepuiuican leaders from various > * 'tions were called into conference, and 'hen the entire letter was carefully g oe over l?v Elihu Root and Senator Lt..|gs?. of Massachusetts, who sugges'-.-.l certain change?, which were made. The President deals larg'-iy with the record of the Republican [ arty for the last eight years, and after reviewing the acts of his own and President McKinley's administrations he- "stands l?at." Aside from this history >i' the Republican achievements, the tariff, the Philippines, the Panama Canai. the Northern Pacific merger, the now famous pension order, the money question, the coal strike, the army and ihe navy are the chief topics discussed. The Panama treaty is defended, as is also the age pension ruling. The letter is, in part. follows: "We base our appeal upon what we have done and are dotug. upon our record of administration and legislation during the last seven years, in which we have had complete control of the government We intend in the future to carry on the government in the same way that he carried it on in the past." Referring to the ue^ problems which arose after the campaigns of 1S96 and 1000. the President says: "We are content to rest our ca?e before the American people upon the fact that to adherence to a Iqfty ideal we have added proved governmental efficiency. .Therefore our promise may surely be -trusted as regards any issue that is now before the people, and we may equally be trusted to deal with any 'problem which may hereafter arise." Taking the Panama Canal question as an instance, the President declares fho nnnnnpnts of the administration ? can only criticise what was done ou condition of mis-stating if. and goes on say: "The administration behaved 'throughout not only With good faith, Jjut with extraordinary patience and large generosity, toward those with whom it dealt. It was also mindful of American interests. It acted in strict compliance with the law passed by Congress." "Neither in this nor in any other matter has there been the slightest failure to live up to the Constitution in letter and in spirit. But the Constitution must be observed positively as well as negatively. The President's duty is to serve the country in accordance with the Constitution, and I should be derelict in my duty if I used a false construction of the Constitution as a shield for weakness and timidity, or as an excuse for governmental impotence." The President says of the pension order, which is ordinarily referred to as an encroachment of the Executive on 'the legislative or judicial functions of government, that it was made in the performance of a duty imposed by Congress on the President, and supplemented the regulation* of Presidents Cleveland and McKinley. The point is made that, while the opponents of the administration make efforts to show that the coal strike settlement and the railroad merger suit were acts lor which it should be thrown out of power, yet they dare not openly condemn either aci. the President saying: "It is perhaps natural that I an attack so conducted should be made I sometimes on the ground that too much, sometimes on the ground that too little, bus been ilone." Of the monetary policy of those who oppose the continuance of the present administration, the President says: "On some of the vital Questions that have confronted the American people in the last decade our opponents take the position that silence is the best possible way to convey their views." "The record of the last seven years proves that the party now in power can be trusted to take the additional action necessary to improve and strengthen our monetary system, and that our opponents oaiuiot be so trusted." On the question of the r:giits of capital and labor the President says: "So far as the rights of the individual wage worker and the individual capitalist are concerned, both as regards one another, as regards the public, and as regards organized capital and labor, the position of the administration has been so clear that there is no excuse for misrepresenting it, and no ground for opposing it unless misrepresented." Doubt as to the Democratic meaning In regard to the great question of the tariff impels the President to say: "Of course, if our opponents are uot sincere in their proposal to abolish the t-re+Am r\f nrnfontira taHfP thorp is no I njQb^Ul V4 |/4VW\'VM? >? ??w. use in arguing the matter at all, save by pointing out again thnt. if on one great issue ihey do not mean what they say it is hardly safe to trust them on any other issue. But if they are sincere in this matter, then their advent to power would mean domestic misfortune and misery as Widespread and far reaching as that which we saw ten years ago." "To uproot and destroy that (the protective) system would be to insure the prostration of business, the closing of factories, the impoverishment of the farmer, the ruin of the capitalist and the starvation of the wage-worier. Yet, if protection is indeed 'roobery,' and if our opponents really brieve what they .jay, then it is I precisely to the destruction and uprooting of the tariff, anil, therefore, of our business and industry, that they ' are pledged.'' "It is a matter of regret that the smrtrctivc tariff policy, which. EAKL OF DARTMOUTH HERE, Will Lay Cornerstone at College Bearing His Name. New York City.?Th?> Earl and Countess of Darlmou ?. accompanied by >he Earl and Countess of Litchfield, arrived in ibis citj on the White Star Line steamship Cedric. The object of Lord Dartmouth's visit is to lay the cornerstone of the new Dartmouth Hall *1.~ U.i mntiiilT. cntlo"A Hp it L liiU iJiti ?i v r.-- ?will also visit the St. Louis Exposition! cad some of ihc larger Western cities. Sporting Brevities. i The First Regiment. New Jersey National Guard, wou tlie Columbia trophy at Sea Girt. ' The Albany, N. Y., polo team defeated Saratoga, N. Y., in the final 'ound for the Grand Union cups. Frank L. Kramer won the quarter mile cycling championship race at Vailsburg, N. J. Time, 33 seconds. M. J. Sheridan, of New ifork City, made a world's record discus throw at the Olympic games, St. Louis, Mo. The Maydick, the Bagheera, the 2saiad and the Ogeemah were the winin iha A HrtnftA Vii HIitK ?or*o?i ' ' I . J (luring the last forty odd year?, has j ... become part of the very fibre of tho j U country, is not now accepted as dell* | III nitely established." The President claim* that tiic Demo- | crats have occupied three entirely dif- i ferent positions in regard 10 Philippine ! Ui independence within fifty days, and ! directs attention to the extreme unwisdom and wickedness of deceiving the I Filipinos if they do not mean what j they say. and says: -If our opponents | . came in power and attempted to carry ' JA out their promises to the Filipinos by j giving them independence, and with- j drawing American control from the isl- , amis, the result would be a frightful rit calamity to the Filipinos themselves, j and in a larger aspect would amount to | an international crime." '"Of course, i the practical difficulty in adopting any | such course of action?such a 'polky | of scuttle.' as President McKinley | . called it?would be found wellnlgh in- ! superable." "It would be a criminal ; P? absurdity, and yet our opponents have j pa pledged themselves thereto. If sue- i cessful in the coming election they I ' would either have to break faith, or else do an act which would leave at indelible stain upon our National rcpu- Ri tation for courage and for good sense."' | caj "We did not take the Filipinos at will, and we cannot put them aside at will. Any abandonment of the policy which I we have steadily pursued in the isl- <Zo ands would be fraught, with dishonor an and disaster; and to sv.eh dishonor and T, disaster I do not fcr-rieve the American "vl people will consent." I ; In conclusion, the President says: j ^ "We believe that the progress that we i JV*' have made may be taken as a measure * V of the progress we shall continue to ill1 make if the people again intrust the government of the Nation to our ! . hands." "There is not a policy, foreign i or domestic, which wo are now carry- i . k ing out, which it would not be disastrous to reverse or abandon." "We . have striven both for civic righteous- | , ness and for National greatness, and we have faith to believe that our cu hands will be upheld by all who feel . love of country and trust in the uplift- . ing of mankind. We stand for enforce- . ment of the law and for obedience to r , the law; our government is a govern- . ment. of orderly liberty, equally alieu |Vl to tyranny and to anarchy, and 'its foundation stone is the observance of _ f the law, alike by the people and by , ^ the public servants. We hold ever ^ before us as the all important end of J,e' policy and administration the reign of peace at home and throughout the ar' world, the peace wLich comes only by doing justice." GOVERNOR DURBIN I.OST. Ye On South Dakota Flains?Foung by In- vi{ dinns?Nearlv Starved. tin Indianapolis. Intl.?Governor Durbin, sia who has been in the West for two ?01 weeks, was lost on the plains of South Dakota for two (lays and nights and / his friends were greatly alarmed over his continued absence. ^ i It appears that he left the camp to make some investigations on his own ca' hook and rode over the plains, giving ' free rein to his horses. Finally he dis- jjF1 covered that he must have ridden a _ great distance, for he had lost sight ju'j of the camp and nothing about him ??' seemed familiar. .ir Night again overtook him. but the n? nest morning he was discovered by some Indians who were assisting in the ?.01 search for him and was taken back ^ * to the camp. During the entire time fia he had nothing to eat but a couple of sandwiches, with which he had pro- ? vided himself before he left the camp. thf RIO GRANDE IN A FLOOD. 100 Houses of Presidio del Norte Said pj, to Have Bee a Carried Away. Alpine, Texas.?The Rio Graude is oc a rampage and great destruction of property lias occur led at Presidio del Norte. Ojinito and many other settle- . 0 ments 011 both sides of the river for a 'ar distance of 300 miles. j* The valley is narrow along the river through the Great P.end region of "! Texas. According to information re- , ceived from ?lie mounted courier who came direct from Presidio del Norte, more than 100 houses of that town, iu- Lo eluding the United States custom Pla house, were washed away by the llood. V5 The flood is said to have swept away j ( whole settlements- of houses occupied by Mexicans between Presidio del Norte and Boquillas. No reports of loss of life have been received. be MASKED MEN HOLD UP TRAIN. ? Jli Six-Thousand-Dollar Robbery ou the Qe Canadian Pacific. , Winnipeg. Man.?The Canadian Pa- j cific west-bound transcontinental express was held up by four masked men j*, at 9.30 o'clock at night four and a half ? 1 miles west of Mission Junction. At ^ the point of revolvers the express messenger was compelled to hand over the t . valuables and the safe was blown open ? with dynamite. The registered mail .. was also ransacked. , The robbers escaped to the bush and ~ are supposed to have crossed the boundary. They secured about $0000 from Lr the safe. BALTIC FLEET SAILS. n Leaves Ivronstadt For the Far East? Twelve Ships. all Kroustadt. ? Tha Baltic fleet sailed exi for the Far East. The vessels of the fleet are as follows: The battleships Kniaz Souvaroff * (Vice-Admiral Rojestvensky's flag- P01 ship); Navarin, Sissoi Veliky. Borod:- th< no, Alexander III.. Orel aud Oslnbya Tjj (Rear-Admiral Voelkersam's flagship): chi the cruisers Admiral Nakhimoff. Oleg. Dimitri Donskof, Aurora and Altuaz. (Rear-Admlial Enquist's flagship?, and I several torpedo boats and destroyers. to ; Pa Official Self-Slain. The dead boJy of David r. Leib- j hardt, Superintendent of the Dead r Letter Office. was found in the Post- .. office Depiirtmeut at Washington. D. C. There was a bullet hole in the right j an temple, while a pistol with one or more barrels discharged lay 011 the floor. at Jap Prince Coming Here. pa Prince FusLlm', one cf Mu generals at Nan-Shan, will sail from Japan in j October to visit the UnU'ni Sv.tes as ci rj special representative of th-i Emperor. sj. bo Molba'* Auto K:!!> Man. Mme. Me'/oa, the singer, while driving: in an automobile n<*ar Paris. France, accompanied by her two con- ia: sins, the Misses Walker, tea over a man eighty-four years *. Id and tilled ^ him instautiy. L< Russiaus Reach Mukden. The Russian rear guard, according to be a dispatch from Mukden, succeeded Ai in reaching that town with most of in its transports and g-;ns. The Japanese under Kuroki were said to be in the Su bills east of Mukden m iu 03SIAN GENERAL TAKE! sutenant General Sassulitcn Re ported Captured With 3000 Men, PANESE ARE MOVING RAPIDU tie Inlormnlion of an Official Sourc Ha* Been Received, But It Is Believei That Indications Point to n Wint-e Campaign ? Chineao Officials a Mukden Break Willi Russia. London. England. ? The Morninj st states that official Russian dis tc-hes received in London announo it Lieutenant-General Sassulitch 10 commanded the portion of thi issian rear guard south of the Hui ver. has been severely wounded ant ptured with 0000 ont of his u00< ill. t is added by the Morning Post tha n era Is Zaroubaieff. Kondratovilcl d Bilderling have checked Genera iroki's advance. V. correspondent of the Daily Mai 10 was with the Japanese army re iits, in a telegram from Tien-Tsin ? report that Lieutenant-Genera novitc-li with 50(100 nipn. invadet >rtlieustern Korea and out Genera iroki's communications with Feng ing-Cheug. ?t. Petersburg. Russia. ? The Birz vlya Viodomosti's correspondent a s? Pass telegraphs to his paper as fol vs: The Japanese, who had been ac sed of moving forward slowly, an w advancing very rapidly. 'Little avails the Russian increase o >ops, for the Japanese are recoivinj nforcemcnts from Niu-Chwnng. "The initiative will remain in th nds of the Japanese, and their tac s will always he repeated." V dispatch lias been received fron eutenant-General Sakharoff report j that no large Japanese force ha en seen north of the branch railroa< Yeu-Tai. but that south of it ther i many large camps of Japanese. L'he three armies of Marquis Oyami s reported to have united north o j Tai-Tsc River. Russian correspondent telegraph it General Ivuroki has fallen back 01 n-Tai, but he points out that pre >us experience has shown that whei i Japanese withdrew from the Rus n front this usually was the precur of their appearance on the Russiai nk. The correspondent thinks that the in ations point to a winter campaign >reovei\ he says, there remain tw< >1 months, the best of the year, fo mpaigning. Jnofficial information tends to con m the reports that General Kuropat 1 is withdrawing the bulk of hi: ny northward from Mukden. Tbi >t unofficial opinion is that Kurop?at 1 does not contemplate making a se us stand at Mukden. L Russian correspondent at the fron isiders it to be extremely significan it the Chinese officials at Mukdei ve already broken off relations witl t> TUa +>, ^ Phinoci r lut' tuivi V*. viae V.U1IIW91 icials saj's he has received order ira the Japanese to pay the taxes ti >m. MAINE AGAIN REPUBLICAN. irality of Over 30,000. But Les: Than in 1900. 'ortiand. Me.?The Republicans ex ded their expectations in the Stati ction in carrying the State for Will 11 T. Cobb, of Rockland, the caudi te for Governor, by a plurality o :>ut 30,000 over Cyrus W. Davis, o iterville. his Democratic opponent. Complete returns will not be re ved for several days, but 300 out o \ cities, towns and plantations giv< bb, 59.075; Davis. 38,399. The sami .ces in 1900 gave Hill (Rep.), 51,707 rd (Dem.), 29,302. These returti: >w a Republican gain of abou *en per cent., and a Democratic in of about thirty-one per cent, ove: )0. "he vote for Governor will probabl: the largest since 18S8. ^NEUVRES A1 DIJON OPENED rman Attache Attends For Firs rime Since Franco-Prussian War. 'aris, France.?Tiie grand maneuvrei jned at Dijon with 60,000 men en ?ed in an attack and defense simila Garibaldi's operations against Ger ins in 1870. There was a continuoui ir of cannon during the attempt t< the defenses of Dijon. The Russian milatry attache, wh< ended the maneuvres, was receivec th shouts of "Long live Russia!" 1 rman attache attended the man vres for the first time since thi anco-Prusslan War. Trouble in New Guinea. ?en German Catholic missionariei re murdered by natives in Gerinai w Guinea. There was a plot to kil the whites. Sixteen natives wen scuted. Engagement in Uruguay. Lnother severe engagement is re rted to have taken place in Uruguay i Government troops being defeated ,e situation iu Paraguay remains un inged. Trincess Louise Examined. ?rincess Louise of Coburg has gom the house of an expert alienist ii ris to be examined for her sanity. Pray For Victory, rhe Russian Holy Synod made pub a special prayer for the conversioi d destruction of the Japanese. Russian Ship Here. The Russian transport Lena arrivet San Fraudsco, Cal., in need of re irs. Riots in Russia. Two anti-Jewish riots occurred in Rus t, many persons being injured am use* and shops pillaged. Personal Mention. Hie German Emperor spoaks severs nguages fluently. Ambassador Choate is regarded a e wittiest and most brilliant convei tionalist among the diplomats i: >ndon. Professor William II. Goodyear ha en made an honorary member of th rchitects' Society of Koine by a unar ious vote. H. O. Havemeyer, of New York, th igar magnate, is said tc possess th oat magnificent collection of violin the world. |! ROBBED BY TRAIN BANDITS | Reek Island Passenger Train Held - j Up and Express Safe Looted. I j rhleren Keep Up a Fusilade Alongside of Train to Keep Paasenjfer* From Inter* l' | ferins ? Bloodhound* on the Trad. * i n i Chicago. III.?Five robbers held up a * i Hock Island passenger train near Letts. r ! In., a small town near Davenport. * i shortly after 12 o'clock in the morning. ' The express messenger was compelled to open the door. The car safe was * blown open and after securing its contents. the robbers made good their es" cape. The amount of booty taken is not 8 known, but one report places the i amount at $10,000. Express officials \ ' here, however, say that the safe was a ^ | Iocs.} one and contained little money. " j A reward of ?1000 was offered by the Rock Island Railroad and the Unitt | ed States Express companies, jointly, , ! for the capture of any one of the rob. i bers. Posses brought by three special trains and reinforced by scores of cit1 izens in the neighborhood pursued the " I Ave men. Two packs of bloodhounds assisted 1 ! the posses. One pack near Columbus * ! Junction .struck a trail three hours 1 j after it was made by the robbers. xuetc >vcie aiuic uiuu aw uitu a?? regular organized party, and twice that many more were searching separately t with more or less diligence. The rob" bers were supposed to have left the line of the railroad near Letts, toward which place they started on the loco* e motive of the train which they had robbed. The passengers were not mof lested. None of the trainmen showed ? ; fight, and no one was hurt. The train was one which left Chlcap I go at 6.05 at night. As it was passing '* on a sharp curve a few miles east of Letts the engineer stopped in answer 1 to a red light. Five men covered the * | engineer, fireman, express messenger 5 | and conductor with revolvers, uncou1 j pled the engine from the rest of the e ! train, entered the express car and blew J open the safe. They took the contents * | of the strong box and ran to the engine, f [ on which they at once started toward [ Letts. s ! There was no way in which the traini | men could pursue the robbers, -or get " word ahead of them. By the time the * J conductor could w'alk to the nearest * i telegraph office, the robbers had at ' least an hour's start. 1 The robbery was committeed at exactly the point a similar hold-up was * carried out two years ago by the Chi' cago car barn bandits. 5 A fusillade of shots was fired along r the sides, of the train to prevent inter! ference by the passengers. The mes senger of the express car was com* pelled to open the door. The manner 3 in which the robbers handled the en5 gine, their knowledge of the fact that * Letts was a closed station at night, * and the selection of a point contiguous to Columbus Junction to abandon the t engine, convinces the officers that the t robbers, or some of them, arc experi* i euced railroad men. i | f j LONGEST DROUGHT IN 20 YEARS. ; I 1 I Talbot County. Md.. Suffering From Lack of Rain. Easton, Md.?'Talbot County is experiencing the longest and most disass trous drought iu the pa?t twenty years, while the adjoining counties of Caroline, Queen Anne's and Dorchester * have frequently been blessed with nu nierous and refreshing rains. The tomato crop is .suffering greatly. * and a shortage is much feared. The ? corn is also suffering, and the dry f ground is hampering the plowing for wheat. | >veus ana rumnug sucjuu* aic sums f dry. making it a serious matter in - some cases for farmers to water stock. ? : ALBANIANS REVOLT AGAIN, s ? Turkey Mobilizing Militia ? Rebels r Have 30,000 Martini Rifles. Satlonika.?Sixteen battalions of Pa' ves (local militia) have been ordered to mobilize in the districts of Kilkish, Seres, and Berat. They wHl be dls' patched to Prizren to suppress the insurgent Albanians. A Salonika Ilave battalion left here for Prizren. 5 The Albanians are again revolting, . and are demanding the acceptance of r their demands iu full. s A FOUNDRY DYNAMITED. Much Damage Done at Watervliet? j Man Shot by a Watchman. Troy, JN. I.?me west oiue rounary, ^ at Watervleit. was dynamited at night. Considerable damage was done, and ? James McGlynn, who rushed to th scene, was shot in the right foot by a watchman after the explosion. The explosion was heard for miles. 1 Employes of the foundry have been J on strike for some- time past. I i Steerage Rate Cut. A cut iu steerage rates from London and Liverpool. England, to Quebec Canada, was mude by the Allan, Dominion and Canndiau Pacific stenm? ship lines. Rioting in Silesia. The military had to be called out ai Sosnowice, Prussian Silesia, to suppress anti-Jewish rioting. Twelve oi ? j fifteen Jews were injured with stone? 1 and others were stabbed. Gives $50,000 to Y. W. C. A. John D. Rockefeller has given th? Cleveland (Ohio) Young Women'? * Christian Association $50,000 in addition to a like sum previously given if the association completes a fund ol $150,000 by November 1. I Chinese Troops Gathering. | Reports that Chinese troops wor? ! concentrating in the Valley of the Liac Itiver save concern at .St. Petersburg ~ the view being taken that such actior i makes China an active ally of Japan News of the Toiiers. There will be no strike in the anthra1 cite coal regions. Nearly all of the 4000 journeymet s bakers in Chicago, 111., are union bak ers. n There are 10,438.210 people engaged in agricultural pursuits in the United s States. e Rochester, N. Y., employs between l* 8000 and 9000 in the garment making industry. e In Trenton, N. J., there are abou* e 200 men idle in the pottery trade be 3 cause of a strike. ENO OP AMY 1UANEUVRE3 Grand Review of the BIub and Brown Divisions. SUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S WORK Thirty Thousand Troop* Fanaed in Iteview of Major-General Corbin and Hi# Staff ? What the Maneovrea Itealljr Mean? Damage Done to Farm Property a Feature. Corps. Headquarters. Gainesville, Va.?The Septeml^r maueuvres of the army ended with a grand review bf the. men of the Blue and the Brown armies, nr.d Ihe third battle of Bull Pain has passed into histoty as not less Interesting, if less important, than the two other conflict!:, waged on the same field forty years ago. Tiie troops of tlit? raaueuvre corps were assembled early in the morning on a great plain near Wellington, about three miles from Manassas, the reviewing position being at the head of a gentle slope 100 yards wide. It was estimated that about 20,000 of the 30,000 men in the maueuvre corps participated in the ceremony, the other 10,000 being held at camp on account of their condition resulting from the hard work and long marches of the -week. Lieutenant-General Chaffee, Chief of Staff of the army, was the reviewing officer. He took his position on horseback in front of the grand stand, surrounded by the members of his staff. Major-General Cor bin and staff, the foreign military attaches who have been guests ut Camp No. 3, and many prominent visitors from Washington. The grand stand and the ground back of the reviewing party was packed with people from all over Virginia, who had come to see the review. Not since the Spanish-American war has such a large body of regular and citizen soldiery been assembled in one spot for review. At the conclusion of the review the troops were marched back to their respective camps. About 3000 of them were entertained at Thoroughfare. Now that the meneuvres are over and the 30.000 regular troops and military which made up the Brown and Blue forces are scattering to the various States from which they came to Jjtiruuipilic: ill lui' wax i^auic, lunc AO apparently a vastly better general appreciation of the value of properly conducted raaneuvres as a method of practical military education. A maneuvres problem is not primarily a sham battle, and a sham battle does not necessarily occur during the working out of the maneuvre problem. According to the high officers of the army who have been guests of General Corbiu at the headquarters mess during the past week, a sham battle, pure and simple, is ordinarily of no possible value to either regular soldiers or mili^ia organizations in training them to meet the conditions of actual warfare. In the working out of maneuvre problems, however, particularly in those conducted on a large scale like the present, when 30,000 men maneuvre over a territory comprising nearly 70,000 acres, and when the camps of the opposing forces are more than fifteen miles apart, experience of great value is gained. "If we had 30,000 regular soldiers on this ground for the purpose of the war game l ctouot very mucn wuemer ;i single blank cartridge would have been fired. The whole problem would then have resolved itself into something very much like a game of chess played on an immense board, the various companies of the regiments and brigades of tte opposing armies b?ing the chess men, aud the roads, hills and various strategic positions of the maueuvre field being the squares. "The solution of the problem and the ultimate victory or defeat of one of the sides would have depended entirely on their respective positions at the close of the war period. This, I said, could have been done with regulars, but we realized when drawing up the plans for the war games that with only 6000 regulars, and all the rest of the troops made up of militia organizations from seventeen oiates, in order to keep up the interest of militia men as individuals it would be necessary to burn a good many thousand dollars' worth of powder and endure a great amount of noise." An estimate was obtained on a feat' ure of the week which may have an important bearing on future appropriations by Congress for maueuvre purposes. According to the estimate, which has been most carefully made by army experts, it .appears that after expenditures for commissary supplies and railroad transportation, the biggest item of expense in connection with the maneuvres will result from damages inflicted by the troops. a nwiR a T. TTTv'RTOMSKY SHOT? His Return to Port Arthur After Defeat Results ia Court-Martial. Paris, France.?It is reported that after Rear-Admiral Prince Ukhtomsky was deprived of his command for disobeying the order of the Czar not to return to Port Arthur after the sortie of the Russian fleet, which resulted in its practical destruction by Admiral Togo, he was tried by a court-martial and sentenced to be shot, which sentence was executed. Japanese Hardships. The Japanese fought two battles without anything to drink and with only dried rice for food. Oyama's Plan Failed. A correspondent with Oku's army cables that Oyama's plan to end the war at Lino-Yang was upset by Kuroki's failure to flank Kuropatkin. The Laio-Yang Losses. The Japanese estimate of their own losses at Liao-Yanc foots up 17.500 and of the Russian losses more than 23.000. Czar Calls Out Reserves. The Czar called out the reserves in twenty-two military circuits. From the Seat of War. The Baltic squadron returned to Cronstadt. It was reported in Tokio that a great conflagration was raging at Liao-Yang. The Chinese Government has stopped the repairs on the two Russian war vessols at Shanghai. The Russian cruiser Diana, which escaped to Saigon after the battl? of August 10, will be dismantled. It wa9 reported at St. Petersburg thai General Korspatkin was obliged to abandon 200 guns at Liao-Yang. f. . . - / ' * I RUSSIAN SHIP AT 'FRISCO Auxiliary Cruiser Lena Drops Anchor at Facific Port h Anxiety Felt by Merchants and Jap*?President Decides That the Ship Must Dismantle. ^ ? ; Oyster Bay, N. Y. -The Russian auxI fliary cruiser Lena, which put into San | Francisco some days ago. must leave that port within a brief time prescribed by this Government to make necessary repairs, or must be dismantled. This, in brief, it can be said on authority, is the decision of President Roosevelt, to whom the question was referred by the officials at Washington, D. C. The President spent most of a day reading the reports from Washington bearing on the case. The special wires running into the executive offices were kept warm with messages between the department heads at the capital and their chief at his home in this village. The President, of course, would prefer to adjust the affair so as to satisfy both of the belligerent powers, but he will not under any circumstances swerve from the letter of his neutrality proclamation issued at the beginning of hostilities. If he is convinced that the commander of the Russian ship merely wishes to make sufficient repairs to enable him to take the vessel to the nearest Russian port, he may do so. If, on the other hand, it appears that the Russian officer entered the Golden Gate with the intention of putting the Lepa again in fighting trim, he will be ordered to dismantle the ship and must remain in the harbor until the war ends. In other words, the harbors of the United States are not to be used as navy yards by any foreign power. President Roosevelt has ordered the Lena to be thoroughly inspected by the chief engineer of Admiral Goodrich's fleet and the United States steamboat inspectors at San Francisco. Until their report is received no drastic action will be taken. If the report shows that the Lena's boilers and en gines can be repaired, within a reasonable time, the Russian commander will be told to go ahead and have the work done. If the inspectors find that drydocking is necessary and the work of repair will consume weeks or months, the Lena must be dismantled and detained. Should the Russian commander refuse to dismantle his ship on receiving orders to that effect, he will be j required to leave the harbor within the ! customary time limit of twenty-four hours. On the arrival of the Lena considerable anxiety was felt in San Fran- i cisco by the merchant marine of that j port, as it was felt that the Russian ! cruiser had come with the purpose of waylaying any ship leaving port for Japan. The Russian commander of the boat desired time to make sufficient repairs to his boilers, which were then inspected and the above decision was made by the President on receipt of the inspection report. San Francisco, Cal.?It seems certain from latest developments in the case I of tUe ltussian cruiser tnat Tne Lena i l will Lave to be dismantled bere. This j ! decision was reached by the experts j j here after a careful examination of the ; | Lena's boilers by Captain John K. j Bulger, United States inspector of j hulls and boilers. Admiral Goodrich's | i fleet engineer reported the day before ! that six weeks would probably be am! pie time for putting the boilers in serviceable condition, but he did not rnako the careful and detailed inspection j that Captain Bulger made. Although ; Captain Bulger will not talk it is understood from an authoritative source that he has reported that the boilers are in such bad condition that it would j be folly to attempt to patch them up in a few weeks. Either extensive re- j pairs must be made, which would re- ! quire months, or new boilers must be ! put in. In either case the work could j not be done under the neutrality laws, for it would mean converting a disabled ship into an effective cruiser. According to Captain Bulger's report the cruiser would be taking great risks in attempting to cross the Pacific at this season with hastily patched up boilers. It is understood tnat tne omcers and men of the Lena will be glad to have the vessel dismantled, as they know she could not hold her own against even a small Japanese ship. | Collector Stratton sent the inspector's report to Washington with his official approval. It is reported here that Consul-General Uyeno, of Japan, received a sharp reprimand from the Japanese Minister in Washington because of the dictatorial tone in which he demanded the right to inspect the Lena. Local Japanese are still greatly excited over tho presence of the Lena. The editor of the Japanese paper waits in the early | morning for the first editions of the local newspapers, and then makes up I his journal from their news. In the | windows of Japanese shops bulletins are posted giving iu Japanese the latest news of the Lena case. If Admiral Goodrich had not posted guards over the cruiser, patriotic Japanese would/have blown the vessel out of the water, as they are greatly incensed against her for trying to secure a haven in this harbor. Killed in Railroad Crash. One passenger was killed and several persons were hurt by one special Ivnlffbts Templar train from San } Francisco, Cal., running down anotner j special near Laughton Springs, N'ev., I on the Southern Pacific. Germany Takes Ammunition. The ammunition of the Russian batj tleship Czarevitch and the three Russian destroyers at Tsing-Cliau has been ! stored in a German magazine, and the I guns of the vessels have been dismauI tied. 4miv of Hereros Escape. J The main body of Hereros. sevoral ; thousand strong, has broken through ' til** German ring encircling it ami ?\sj caped. This means a prolongation of j j the war in Southwest Africa. New-sy Gleanings. The warship Topeka and Navy Yard j f officials wiH test Professor Fessenj den's system of wireless telegraphy. J King Edward and Queen Alexandra j I paid a visit to Mr?. Arthur Paget, of I New York City, who was ill in Engj land. I William Katz, of New York City. 1 aged eight, who killed a playmate by a blow in the solar plexu;, was arrested and paroled. Eight persons were hurt, two women seriously, in a bead on collision of trolley cars on the Patersou line, near Little. Sails. N, j, - 'M l!HOR EVENTSOf THE WEEK WASHINGTON. 1 ho Peruvian Government has ajk pointed Manual Alvarez Caldvron to be Peruvian Minister t? Cuba, while retaining his post of Minister of Pern in Washington. The eighth International Geographic Congress opened in Washington, witW many noted scientists present. Checks for prize money due navalS men as a result of the Manila Bay victory were sent out. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. 1 Major-General .Tames F. Wade, commanding the Philippine Division, was authorized to sail for the United States on the next available transport leaving Manila. The school teachers who visited the United States last summer have begun their year's work, and are putting into r?r o n+l r*Ck fha fhanriafl fhav lanrn<v1 f UV,HV.V- IUCVHCQ Ui^ l^UJL "CVi ?? Cornell University. DOMESTIC. ' fAt the opening of the New York City, schools 579.854 pupils registered, 50,000 more than last year. The steamer Longfellow, of Wilmington, Del., foundered off Highland Light, Mass. Her crew of sixteen were rescued. The preliminary statement of trade for August showed a decrease In exports of $4,000,000. > The steamship Parthian, from Boston, Mass., for Philadelphia, Pa., went aground in the Delaware River near Reedy Island, Del. Two men were killed and several persons injured in a train collision on fha fl/vnfhorn Ponlfin Tr? VAva<x IxUV WV/Utlit/ U A. KV.1UV A LA 4l t f ?U?> Tjrest fires wore'raging in timber .tions of Northern California and near San Francisco. The city of Santa Cruz was reported in danger, and the situation in .the Santa Crux mountains was extremely serious. The plant of the Eastern Shipbuilding Company, fit Groton, Conn., was v sold to George R. Sheldon, of the reorganization committoe. James J. Corbett. once a champion pugilist, went to a New Ywrk City p*r licemah's assistance in making an ar< rest in Broadway after three of the prisoner's friends Interfered. An amusement park is to occupy thf fifty acres at the northern tip of Man* hattan Islan^, New York City. Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomls delivered an address of wek come at the first session of the Interparliamentary Union in St Louis, Mo. The revolt of students at the Stat* Agricultural College, at Raleigh, N. G., to sectire greater liberty has collapsed. The wrecking of a south-bonnd train near Rocky Ford, Ga., in the same manner aa the north-bound had been derailed the day before, has caused officials to offer rewards for the capture of the train wreckers. The battleship Georgia will launched at Bath. 31?., next month. The salmon pack in Southeastern Alaska is short this year, only 393,800 cases having been made up to September 1. After a quarrel over a p?Io game Sergeant Boyle killed Private Pearl Allen: at Glenwood Springs, Col. Klondike treasure worth $500,000 and upward of 150 passengers reached Seattle, Wash., on two steamers. The United States cruiser Milwaukee was launcheJ. at San Francisco, Cal., Miss Lillian Jeffrey, of. California, christening the ship. Bank robbers got $14,000 from a safe* In Pomcroy, O. The agreement between the New; York City "L" employes and the Interborough Company was signed. Chemists from all parts of the world assembled at Columbia University ini New York City. Seventy-five of the gypsies at Ellia Island, New York Harbor, were placed on the Campania for deportation. The real estate and personal property: of the White Mountain Paper Company, B were sold at auction at Portsmouth, N* K H., for $2,650,000. * Eg Two were killed and four injured in E & freight train wreck at Klttannlng V Point, Pa., on the Pennsylvania Bail- B road. i'B Judge A. Heaton Robertson waff B nominated for Governor by the Dsmo- Hj cratic Convention in Connecticut a| Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, former Minis- B ter to Liberia, was shot twice and se- B riously wounded in a fight with anoth- H er doctor at St. Joseph, Mo. H FOREIGN. || A regular dealer in orders and titles H of nobility has been exposed in Berlin. H West African natives have broken H through the cordon of German troops II and escaped to the south, making it B| likely that the war will be indefinitely, H prolonged. B The German provincial Protestant H press objects to having their future B Empress called Cecilia, the name of a l| Catholic saint, It is reported. -Bfij A Japanese officer at Tsingtau says B the Japanese losses at Port Arthur thtf B! last few days exceed 15.000. and thaiBI their losses at Liaoyang exceeded 20/ H| France upheld Combes in his deter* H mination to separate Church and State. MB The Russian press expresses great H satisfaction at the appointment of^H Prince Mirsky as Minister of the Inte<H[ rior, regarding him as the right man^M for the present crisis. After signature of the treaty atBj Lhasa Coionel Younghusband pointed^H out that the British had avoided inter-^H fering in any way with the internal af<^B fairs of Tibet. 8? Lieutenant-General Prince FushimiMj will visit the United States in October^B as the special representative of the^H Emperor of Japan. aBfl Prince Mirsky, Russia's new Minis-^H ter of the Interior, is said to be the an-^0 tithesis of his predecessor, M. von^H Plehve, being kind and conciliatoryWg and liked by everybody. Sc8 Ex-King Prempeh of Ashantee ad-H| niired Joseph Chamberlain to such a extent that he has ordered for himsel^H a complete suit of clothes and nionocltHB like those worn by the ex-Colonial SecHjE rotary. MHH King Victor Emmanuel of Italj^H has, entirely unsolicited, sent a checi^H for $2000 to the Italian hospital at th<H| City of Mexico. BHj It is otiicially reported that Samue^H Mhafero, the leader of the Hereros, th^M Southwest African tribe that is in re^H boliion against German rule, was cap^H tured by Major Estorff in an enguge^H ment. Fifty Hereros were killed. HOB The Right Hon. James Lowthei^^B Member of Parliament for Kent, IslSjB of Thanet division, and at one timBH Under Secretary for the Colonies anJ^B later Chief Secretary for Ireland, iHB dead. He was sixty-four years old. jBB Russia agreed to pay damages fo^B the deteution of two British colli era. mg