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iAh e Press and Banner. |1 ' " * t=> a ~rt szeoohstp. ! f HOW DID HE DIE? New York Police Have Failed to Solve Mysterious Death. HELD UP AND ROBBED j And Later Fooad Dfead in His JKoon At the Waldorf, One of the Swel Motels of New York. Letter H< Wrote Indicates He Expected DeatI Bat His Injuries Plainly Evidenc< a Murder. New York has another mysterious murder or suicide case that the polic< fled difficult to solve. Herman Brad ley Potter, an insurance agent ol Doylestown, Pa., a man of excelleni social standing and comfortable means was found dead in his room: on the fourteenth floor of the Wal dorf-Astoria Wednesday night, witl his skull fractured in two places,. hi* nose broken and Dieeamg, aaa uruu> es about his legs and feet, showing that he had been horribly beaten. Whether the man was murdered ir the hotel or whether he was beatei in the street, and went to his room t( die, Is not yet determined. A ques tion of possible poison also figure: in the extraordinary mystery. Then is a suspicion that a jar of whit< powder found in the room containe< cyanide of mercury. An autopsy wil be held to reveal whether or not then are traces of the drug in the man'.' stomach. At the same time then was a mysterious letter written be Mr. Potter to his wife in Doylestown which puts the whole affair in a dif ferent phase. ~ ' wo< It lias been proveu mai ruuci na. attached by1 thugs on Saturday night find that he received a cut in the nos< from a blow. He did not receive however, the wounds that appeare< on his body when he was found dead There are sufficient in themselves U have produced death and the physi cians declare they were receive< only a short tjme before death. When the man's body was exam 3 tied by the coroner he said: "This man .has been beaten t< death. Can't say that he was kille< In the hotel, but a murder has beei committed." < On a table in his room was a lettei addressed to Mrs. H. Bradley Potter Jr., of Doylestow^, Pa. The lettei was on a letter head of the Michigai Commercial Insurance company, o Doylestown. The letter in no waj threw light on the mystery. It read "My Dear Wife:?In the left hanc drawer of the bureau you will find ai envelope of every insurance com pany I represent Write to every on< of them and ask them to appoint yoi agent. t . "Everything I own is in the bo1 -on my desk. ""Good-bye to you aud the children I forgot to say last Saturday night ~was put out of business on my wai "home to the hotel. "I was attacked by three tough: and I had quite an experience. I ac tually. put two of them to sleep, bu the third ducked and hit me with ; sandbag on the left side of the head and put me to sleep. "He took my watch, lockat, cigar <ette case, ring and pocket book. "I was picked up by an officer Iyin; In the gutter^ Fortunately I had m: room key with me, -and the Waldor means a great deal in New York. "Farewell to you all. Good-bye. "(Signed) Herman " While the letter would seem to in dicate Potter knew death was ap proaching, it was agreed the wound! on his body could not possibly hav< been self-inflicted. It was shown th< letter was written in a strong banc and by a man, who, if in physica suffering or under a nervous strain showed no sign of it in his writing A comparison of the writing to th< signature on the hotel register, prov ed beyond doubt that Potter hat penned the note. Further examination of the roon disclosed the jar of white powder. Ii the trousers of the dead man wai found $6131 in cash together with pa pers and other effects that proved his identity. N SWAM A RIVER. To See His Sweetheart Rather Thai Be Quarantined. At Philadelphia impatient to se< his sweetheart, Lieutenant John B Richardson, second lieutenant In th( TT1 ? * ? (nfontrv dpflpfl th f 1 WCULJ-Clguiu quarantine laws and plunged into t.h( river. A row boat carried him ashon After drying his garments, he pro ceeded to the home of Miss Heler Elizabeth Grady, daughter of Mr. anc Mrs. John C. Grady, at 320 Wesl Lancaster Pike, Wayne. They ar ranged for their marriage in St Mary's church. Houtomiant was a nassengei on the transport Sumner. He was vexed when he found that one of the ship's company was thought to have thei yellow fever, and he was more vexed when he was held up on the gang-plank and told he would have to stay aboard until the sickness ol the suspect could be properly diag> nosed. j MEETING OF LAYMEN Of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, In Columbia. Some of the Most Prominent Laymen I in the State Were Present and Discussed A frail's. Some of the laymen of the Methodist Church, South, held a meeting in * Columbia last Wednesday evening to % consider certain things connected with the management of the 1 church. The notice of the meeting s was very short, or no doubt there would have been a larger Attendance. The Columbia Record, from which 3 paper we take this account of the 5 meeting, says Col. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton, life president of the board r of trustees of Clem son, College, was 1 called to the chair, and Mr. W. W. ' Watson, of Batesburg, was requested * to act as secretary. As stated by the chairman, the ob1 ject of the meeting was "to consider 3 the state of affairs in Methodism and r to take such steps as may vseem fit > toward remeding existing evils." i The raising of preachers' salaries was i discussed, as was also the question > of the adoption of a fixed salary for . the presiding elders, (who are now 3 paid on the precentage plan. ? Col. Simpson, speaking for his as? sociates, said that he was a loyal 1 Methodist, and wished to see a res1 toration of the church in this'state. 3 "There are too many mere sermon3 izers," he declared, "among the min> isters, we need a few more Christian j gentlemen." Col. Simpson thought it. hnt 1uBt that the lavmen. who pay - the expenses of maintaining the church, should have some represen3 tation. He thought the laymen should , at least have an advisory commission > in touch with the bishop's cabinet. , Col. Simpson had a set of resolu1 tions drawn up, which he offered as . suggestions. The first of these were > adopted. It is In substance, to the - effect that the laymen present were 1 loyal Methodists and would stand for the ultimate and highest good of the - church of their fathers. The object of this was to make it clear in tke > outset that its framers were not seek1 ing the disruption of the denomlnai tion nor planning an insurrectionary campaign. > , r Col. Simpson's second resolution , brought forth comment of one kind r or another from almost everyone i present. It was practically this: f That the laymen present view with r sorrow that spiritual decadence of : the church and the "misanagement" 1 of ts affairs. l There were some opposed to this - and some in favor of it. The party ? that seemed to be n the majority l thought the resolution too sweeping, and were of the opinion that so small ? a Doay 01 men, at so eany ct mage ui the contemplated campaign, could . not safely and wisely take such radi[ cal measures, lest they frighten away from thier standard "the more conservative of the laymen who are in 3 sympathy with them, but not as yet - aligned with them openly. t There was discussion ad libitum x upon this resolution. Members rose , and debated the question at length, and hotly. 'Col. Simpson offered to - amend his resolution, by striking out the words "mismanagement" and in; serting 'unsatisfactory management.' j However, this did not meet with the f majority's favor, and after considerable more debate, a new resolution was drawn up and adopted. "Resolved, That the chairman of this meet ing appoint one or three men .'from - each presiding elder's district to3 wards organizing the laymen of the 1 South Carolina Conference." 2 Early in the meeting Colonel 1 Simpson, enumerating a few of the 1 laymen's grievances, said one assess, ment of $20,000 was for the support . of two negro colleges, one in Georgia 5 and the other in Tennessee. "I ask ed one well informed minister why i we were paying this urn," said Colonel Simpson, "and he said he cbuld i not find out any reason except that 1 it was to pay the salaries of the pres3 idents." Another assessment of $15, 000 is for the education of prachers' 3 sons. Mr. P. L. Sturkey, who had been one of the promoters of the meeting, said that he recently saw a letter that made him blush for his church. It i was from one of the presiding elders to a minister, and contained a statement in regard to collections that he had "worked the rabbit's foot on 'em," and "things" were "fine." Tho mppHne' fldimirneri flt half " past eleven o'clock. It Is expected x that another meeting will be held as I soon as the appointments are made [ In the several presiding elder's dist tricts and an organization will then I be effected. , b HE HAD NERVE. Young Boy Carried His Own fevered Limb Home. 5 Riding a horse near Elida, N. H., i Thursday Ben Johnson, a sixteen> year-old lad, ran the animal into a i barbed wire fence and completely s severed his own foot, but carrying the severed member, he rode into town, a mile away for treatment, and did not faint. CHASM OPENED And Engulfed a City and AH of its Inhabitants. J ONLY TWO ESCAPED. Fifteen Thousand People Was Burled in the Rains of the City of ; Karatagh, Which Was Destroyed j by .a Terrible Earthquake, Which ] Was Followed by a Mountain Sljfle ' Fears Felt for Other Towns. The earthquake in Italy, an ac- 1 count of which was published by us | last week, seems to have been worse i tko. M i. ?..i. ? -A ? J T * ucouui;uve iiiuu di iii&L repuneu. 11 ( seems to have been more severe in i other countries than it was in Italy, j Later reports say that the entire city ef Karatagh, in Bokhara, has , been destroyed by the terrible earthquake which was followed by a mountain slide, in which the entire population, numbering 15,000 were buried. Only two persons survived the disaster, these leing the governor of Karatagh and his mother. Details of the convulsions are as yet unavailable, but the news so far received leads to the belief that a great chasm opened in the Valley where the city stood and that almost the whole vicinity was engulfed in one pile of ruins. There is also reason to believe that other towns and cities in the 't neighborhood of Bokhara were badly ( shaken by the same convulsion of nature and it is expected that the full 1 tale of death will reach a total which , will make the disaster as one of the | greatest in the history of all Asia Minor. -i \ ;A dispatch from London says an- . nouncements from the seismic bur- . waus in Various world's centers, it is , learned that the preliminary tremort began at about 11.00 p. m., and the strong motion at 11.48 p. m., on 'October 20. The shocks continued until 1.15 a. m., October 21. The origin of the earthquake, it is ! believed, is quite different from those ; rjicorded October IS, and 17, and ; may, perhaps be near the antii)pdes . of Washington. The same day, October 20, prolonged seismic disturbances whlch\ ! lasted several hourq during the morn ing of the next day, were announced from the London bureau. The in- ! strumfent on the Isle of Wight and J Lai Bach. Austria clearly recorded the earthquake, which was supposed at the time to be at a distance of 000 miles. On October 21, when Karatagh was ' ' destroyed, ! dispatches received in London from St. Petersburg stated that there had been severe earthquake /shocks in Central Asia, at 5 Latakurgan, Khokand and other i places, as well as at Samarkand, 1 which caused more or less injury. 1 Karatagh is in Russian Turkes- I tan, one hundred miles southeast of i Samarkand, which place suffered ' great damage by earthquake on Oct. ' 21. The shocks lasted for nearly the i entire day at Samarkand, toppling over many houses, but so far as 1 Irnnwn nnlv twn wpro lrillpri Thfi 1 population had ample time to flee from their houses before the greatest shock came. The weather bureau at Washington, announced on October 21, that an earthquake had been recorded, beginning at 11 o'clock the previous night lasting until early in the morning. Its origin was believed to have been a point'west of Australia in the southern Indian ocean. VERY PATHETIC CASE. ! Kept the Body of His Sweetheart for ( Two Weeks. A pathetic story comes from Naples. Italy. Eliza Scallisi. a beauti ful young woman, was engaged to be married to a young man named Alessandro, but she died a few days before the date set for the ceremony and was buried in a local cemetary. Alessandro was heartbroken over his bereavement and one night he dug up the body and carried it to his lodging. He embalmed the corps of the young woman dressed it in its bridal clothes and kept it in his rooms for a fortnight. Neighbors finally grew curious ? from the fact that the young man never went abroad, and peeping one * day through his shuttered windows ^ they saw Alessandro seated alongside t the dead body of the woman who was 1 to have been his wife affectionately 3 holding her hand. The police were c informed and Alessandro was arrest- y ed. The body has been buried a second time. t KILLED BY CURRENT. * e Hole Four Inches in Diameter Was v Burned Through Body. Will Templeton, an employee of _ the Southern Power Company, was accidentally struck by a current, 30 miles south of Charlotte, N. C., and a hole four inches in diameter was burned through his body from side f to side in the center of the trunk, v Templeton was the son of Postmas- i ter Templeton of Mooresville, N. C. o LENDING MONEY To Stock Gamblers By Cortelyou to Be Investigate! Congressmen Say the Sonth Could Get No Such Keller from the National Government. When the resolution ofi Inquiry in- j to Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou's action In aiding the Wall street banks in the New York crisis in money matters is introducted in the bouse by Representative Sims of Tennessee, one of its most ardent advocates and supporters will be Representative Oscar W. Gillespie of Texs, joint author of the Tillman-Gillespie resolution that resulted In a federal investigation of the ownership 1 of the coal mines by the railroads. , Mr. Gillespie, who has always been apposed to the encouragement by the j government of Wall Street ventures, , 3aid recently: . , I "What is all this but using the , people's money in the stock market j af New York. It appears to me to be j a case oi tne government going u> , Lhe aid of the stocfe gamblers of New ; York. The defense of this action J which may be made the subject of { congressional inquiry, is that New York is the m6ney center of the conntry, and that deposits of money there ! will relieve the; situation throughout the country. ' "But I don't believe this ts so. Did the sending of money to the few ( Tot-k banks relieve the situation in other parts of the county? Certainly not. Banks are closing in other-parts of the country right along. The remedy for all this panicky feeling in Wall street and throughout the country, without straining for anything strange or new or novel, is to re- i luce the tariff to , a revenue basis ( strickly, and force the government to refrain hereafter from going, into , Wall street with its funds. That the tariff change is needed Is certain. If , It is not needed, why doesn't the Dingley tariff, hailed as the maker of ( prosperity, save the day instead of , having your Uncle Sam held up?" While Southerners and democrats , are attacking Mr. Cortelyou's policy In the Wall street fpatter, the,republican statesmen refuse to take these onslaughts seriously. They do not believe any resolution of inquiry , -on ho ronnrtPrl favnrahltr hv a com mittee, or be passed by either the bouse or the senate. They are grate- , tul to Mr. Cortelyou for having re< lieved the situation in Wall street, and they believe the country, feels the same way about it. ]. ' [ , His SKULL CRUSHED. -. 1 \ Darlington Man Fatally Assaulted by Two Negroes. > ? " * A special from Darlington to The 1 News and Courier says Tolly Boseman, of the Swift Creek section* w?is 1 fatally wounded by two blows struck by two negro boys, Abraham Evans I md Abraham Cooper, Thursday 1 morning. One blow was on the front 1 and one on the back of the head, i rhe skull is crushed and no hope is felt for Mr. Boseman's; recovery. 1 The trouble came about when Mr. 1 Boseman, who is overseer on Mr. T. ' P. Rhodes' plantation, spoke to one > if the negroes about cursing and fir- 1 Ing a pistol at his son. It is the, busn ' mess ui mr. ooswiuau a sou lo vnug > up the cows at nigtyt and the duty of i sne of the negroete to draw water for them. One night he failed to do 1 it, and when spoken to by young i Boseman about it he cursed him and < 3red a pistol at him. 1 When Mr. Boseman spoke to the I aegro about it the negro cursed him, ind when Mr. Boseman stooped to s sick up a board he was struck down 1 by one of the negro boys and the oth- < ;r one struck him after he had fallen. 1 ENDED AT LAST. Dase That Has Been in Court Over a 1 Hundred Years. A case that has been occupying the ( ?aiiffo of Qtoiinfnn \To fnr nvnr nnn lundred years was ended on Thurslay in the circuit court by Mayor W. j i. Landis, receiver, entering a decree j vhich is considered final, showing all lisbursements in the case of Pock vs. ( Borden and Borden vs. Borden. Over 5100,000 was involved and various t lecrees have been entered by almost (Very lawyer there. The heirs, number four hundred, vere from all pats of the country. Phe final decree approving the set- * lement of the receiver, Hon. Wil- ^ iam H. Landis, involved only about ^ >6,000. One heir, represented in the j. riginal suit as an infant, died some ^ ears ago, at the age of 96 years. Nearly every lawyer at the bar for he past century, has represented ^ ome heir. The papers in the case i'ere so numerous that no man living, ven judge or clerk, was familiar nth all of them. . A A nrjA v i o.ioi. fe Is Eight Months Old and Weighs 110 Pounds. n S W. H. Banes of Matoaka, Chester- t ield county, Va., is the father of Ed- c yard Banes, a eight-months old boy a weighing 110 pounds. The infant was t if normal weight at birth. . SOUTH VILIFIED By a Woman Detective Sent Out By tin Government MAKFS nilPPP PFPflPT 1 She Says Labor Conditions Here Are A Worse than Slavery, and That We s 0 Are Trying to Dupe Innocent For- n eigners to this Part of the Country * to Xioidjrhem in Servitude, all of. t Which Is Untrue. 1 ' ' ;.r The Washington correspondent of ? The- News and Courier sends this ^ queer tale to his.paper: I Declaring that all through . the f Southern States negroes by the hundreds are held slaves in stockadeg, h that peonage is a common occurrence, e and that the whole scheme of imml- t ^ration is planned to dupe unsuspect- c ing foreigners and to get them into a the cotton fields and the mills of -the a South, where they will be held in a servitude. Miss Mary Quackenboss, a special attorney of the department of a Justice, has filed with the department g a sensational report, after having e made an alleged investigation of la- e bor conditions in the South. Some time ago Attorney General 0 Bonaparte decided that It would be a a good idea to send a woman ihvesti- i gator through the South to makja a c personal inspection of labor* condi- j tions. Miss Quackenboss w^s1chosen, j, and after. ? spending two or three t months in North and South Carolina, c Alabama and Mississippi she .has made her report. She has filed with ^ the department of justice wh^t she t calls an abundance of evidence tend- i Ing to prove that labor conditions in c the South are intolerable and worse, t If possible, than they were at tte p time negroes were freed. > ? It is understood tbpt Miss Quack- t enboss is very pessimistic an to the success of the movement that has f been started to divert immigration in that direction. This view is based & upon the fact that as alleged lmmi- r grants have been alarmed through s learning about peonage ca3es disclos- ( ed in the South, aliens and negroes in \ several instances having, it is declared, been captured on various' pretexts and held In stockades In a con- ' dition bordering on absolute slavery. <] (Another obstacle to immigration to the South, she says, is the wages paid to laborers and mechanics there. It is reported that wages in the North . are from 40 to 75 per cent higher, and that unless there Is a change in 1 the attitude of Southern employers c both in the wages paid and In the c treatment of aliens, it will be' diffl- a cult to induce immigrants to go to : the Southern States- * The general question of immigra- y tion is touched upon in passing by * Miss Quackenboss, who devotes the " major portion of her report to a discussion of peonage cases in the Caro- 8 Unas, Alabama and Mississippi. It * Is understood that she advises the Attorney General that conditions are a bad in several localities notably in 3 the Sunnyside colony in Mississippi, v which was established for Italians. 8 3he reports that it is nothing more or 5 less than a large plantation, and that 0 the Italians who live there are very 8 much dissatisfid with their envivonment. ' ? While Miss Quackenboss declines to talk about her visit to the South, 0 ind the officials likewise refused $o liscuss her report, there is reason to g believe that she has made a report 8 :hat is startling in many particulars. y Why the department of justice should have chosen a woman to make 8 these investigations is not yet dis- 1 closed. The report is undoubtedly ? aadly colored. ^ Cl BLACK HAND KILLS o ' o V Man Who Refused to Blow Up a o Victim. Because he failed to carry out an ;rrand of vengeance, Vito Greinaldi, i member of the black hand society, vas stabbed to death by members of lis own band early Thursday on liiuu OLI CCI, XJL uwniju. * A dynamite bomb was found seireted beneath Greinaldi's coat, tc vhich the police say would have ^ >lown up an entire block had it ex- e< )loded. A loaded revolver was found w n his pocket. r< Papers found on the dead man iroved that Grienaldi was a member B if the black hand and had started to [ynamite a man's home who had re- b' used to pay tribute to the society. Jetectives says that members of the ilack hand followed Greinaldi on his nission and when he balked at his bl ask killed him. A stiletto lay near sc rreinaldi's body there were nine tab wounds in the body. of b< WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. SE at L Little Girl Assaulted and Choked t0 to Death. ti< The body of Mary Donnelly, aged si' ine, was found on the bank of the w, lugqueh ana river at Reneva, Pa., pj ho; hnvjnp' hPAn assaulted and ed boked to death. There is consider- pc ble excitement and men declare fii hat a lynching will follow if the di uilty party is found by the mob. iu i v FOUND AT LAST. . ' - ' A"- * ; > / v >' * . ' Aoscow Sees the End of aMov/ big War Tragedy. / \ lf * ? ' , i tich Officer and Wife Who Lost Littie Daughter During Root of Laic Tang Finds Her in Bags. An Associated Press Dispatch from Moscow. Russia, tells a Bathetic tory-. The dlBpatch says the crowd < promenaders on the Tverskayl witnessed recently the ending of a wai ragedy which had its beginning at he battle of Laio Tang. A smart landau drawn by .a fine earn of faprses drew up to a ,restauant. The occupants, a handsome oficer and his wife; stepped out and ,t that moment a little, beggar girl, attered and torn, drew near,' extendQg her hand with a piteous appeal or alms. The woman fumbled around is ier pocket-book, drew out the desird coin and was about to hanji it to he beggar. But upon catching sight >f the girl's face she uttei*ed a scream nd rushing forward threw her arms round her neck and began hugging nd kissing her. After this the officer and his yif? nd the little tattered and torn beg;ar girl drove away. ' The following Explanation of the scene was obtaind later. ' j Daring the battle or Liao Yang the ffice was in -command of a regiment ,nd lived with jhf.s wife and daughtei o a Chinese hut near the scene oi iperations. When the fight of the liigrflan soldiers began they were folo-vir'ed by bands of roving bandits whe turned and looted everything thej ould lay their hands on. In the panic which followed the lisordered retreat, the daughter o| he officer's/ a .very young giri, wat ost. A few dayB later a detatchmenl if Russian soldiers put. the banditi 0 flight and regained much of the >1 under. They also found the little firl,. whom they took along wltl hem. One pf the soldiers took a great ancy to her and when he was wound id and sent to recuperate at Moscov be went with him. In Moscow th< nan died and the little girl was left done to gander the streets and beg Jood fortune led her to the streei rhere her parents were driving. WEEKLY PAPER PROBLEM. Phey Must Raise the Price of Sob sorption or Quit. In discussing the increasing serous, problems which now confronfe tewspaper publishers all over the ountry. The Fourth Estate, whose tame sufficiently Indicates its nature a a nnMlnoftnti ovnrooooc A Anln. ? ? Jfc/** voovo VUV VJJ1U on that the worse sufferers will tx hose weeklies and Beml-weekliet /hlch several years ago reduced subcrlption from $2.00 and $1.50 tc tl.00. "This unfortunate cut In price," aysourcontemporary "occurredwhen he country was In the clutches ol iard times, and the people were nol ,ble to pay their bills. Now every ubscrlptlon taken at that price is /ell night a financial loss. It will be t a loss when the npw price of paer goes into effect. ' There is but ne thing for small publishers to do ijd that is to increase the price of heir paper. They should not exect to make the advance less than 0 cents on $1.00 subscription, and he same amount on $1.50 rates. * No subscriber ought to expect to et a paper nowadays for such a um as $1.00. The print paper alone rill be worth nearly that." "That's the way it looks to us," ays the Charlotte Observer, "Is lookig to more and more weekly and emi-weekly publishers and should hortly look to all the subscribers oncerned. 'If the laborer is worthy f his hire and these particular labfa kaaaIva on/1 film of oil nft ICIO QIC WJ ICVOll^ BUU V wv **W ther course remains." SHOWER OF HITMAN FLESH. I . !xplosion in Pennsylvania in Which Four Men Are Killed. i Fragments of human bodies pepered with particles of rocks ?\nd irth fell in a shower over the little >wn of Gwendolen, Pa., Thursday, hen 500 pounds of dynamite explodi with a terriffic report. Four men ere torn to pieces and six othera jceived Injuries. The dead: Micholas M. Breeden, foreman, ennett, Pa. v Tilton Thornton, a negro, Pittsurg, Pa. Stephen Olshafshy, Bennett, Pa. Andrew Michaelvich, Bennett, Pa. The six injured men, stunned and eeding, ran aimlessly from the ene and have not been located. Little is known of ftie exac^; cause ' the explosion, but a passjcby just ifore the accident occurred teays h nail fire had been lighted, nresura)ly to warm the dynamite. Thcrnn, who was powderman, went to ork Thursday morning with instructs to dynamite a portion of a hillde above the Wabash tracks, which as unsafe, the earth endangering issing trains. Thornton, surroundI by several of the men, it is suptsed, got the explosive too near the e and it exploded. The shock was stinctly felt in towns within a rads of over ten miles. .1 TURNS PIRATE J ' Russian Torpedo Destroy* Captured by Her Crew and : BOMBARDS TffiCITY j 1 VUdivofitook, and a Severe Battle -J I Takes Place In Which Several P?o* ^ pie Are Killed?Fire loyal War Vessels Engage the Mutinous Boat, s Which Is Riddled and Run Asbom. The Crew Killed or CantnredL '-? Hoisting the red flag at' the signal ., J masthead, the torpedo boat destroyer $ Skory, captured by her mutinous { crew, steamed oat into the harbor pf Vladivostock Thursday and lmmediately opened lire on the ctty. This act, following the mutiny off . a battalion of army sappers, who at- * 'j tacked and almost captured one off *& the barracks, has terrorised the peo-1. pie and the city is under martial I J law. Soldiers are patroling the street* No one' may venture from his hatte cJ&Sm after d&rk on pain of arrest. ^ ''V/'ffia The mutiny on board the Skorr was not even suspected by her commander, Lientennant Stoer, who gave, his life in the defense of his ship , \ when the crew arose at dawn (and overpowred the officers. They wew/^'-'^aH > incited to this act by agitators from the city, who had managed to get on board during the night through |h| the consent of a sympathizer with the revolutionist. > 1 $$ll The moment the mutineers obtains \ ed the upper hand they slipped the cable anchoring the destroyer' near , || four other war- boats, and steamed out Into the horbpr, while a red flag : A was run up the signal halyards. Not only did the Skory shell tha city, but the mutineers returned the ^ fire of the forts, and of the four other destroyers and , two gunboats. Taking a position that would com- / mand the city and regardless of thefy exposure to the fire of the narhor , 7i. 1 fort, and of the other destroyers, the 'fZ? ' mutineers began to hurl sheels 1 the forts and city.1 Every gun of the r $ Skory was worked hy the mutineer*, :V >' who appeared to realise that In the end they were doomed and were determined to wheak all injury thfey \.j> could while they had the power,.. The sheels of the Skory; burst ttt if* many parts of the city. One shell '-'tit . was aimed at the city hall and bursts i Ing near it destroyed one% cornet of ' M > the building. The,'gunners on the h i mutinous boat' were experts, . ' ) many people were blown to pieces ilk ; . the street* by the bursting shells. . V > Many houses were destroyed. / j Fire started in many places in the , . city five minutes after the mutineers r ^ i opened fire. The close range of the Skory, which was not more than ? 7. ' fourth of a mile out, made'the aim t more deadly. > Tho ftrruuln Hno f *J :,f' 4MV vv* ^VUV uvnv UC0V1 vrjr O* D U<U" ; sovoz, Smely and Serdltz and tha ^ > gunboats Mandschpr and Ravy . i steamed out and engaged' the pirate > destroyer, and a pitched naval bat- [-',-<1 . tie began. , /i The harbor fort, manned by the , Twelfth Regiment of Artillery, add' ed Its fire to that of the torpedo boat ^ . destroyers and the gunboats, and soon riddled the mutineers' craft. \ % The Skory's funnels of sheet steel ' -/ ?$& were torn to pieces, the fragments i killing many of the crew. Her armor /ft , plate was pierced by shells, and her ..'cV/J i decks strewed with dead and wound- **8 ed. ' But her pilothouse, encased in steel, was not damaged, and the . steersman, who had been manouever- , ing In short circles, so that every gun could be used, turned tnwar/i th<*. shore when hfe saw that the Story must soon sink. As a last desperate move the Skory was run through the heavy purf and beached. > . When the fpw survivors struggled through the surf from the blood' stained decks they were met by soldiers, who manacled them and dragged them to cells. Some of the survivors were bayonetted by the troops before the commander interfered. Many men were killed and wounded on the loyal boats. Captain Kurosch, commander of the torpedo boat Ravy, was toril to pieces by one . of the Skory's shells. Lieutenant Vassilief, of the Serditz, was wounded. All nf tho Hootrnvaro Vi/->? / ? - W? vuv uvwui vj Vi C IA/1C 1X1 ax XVa Ul the Skory's fire. One American waa wounded in the city. The uprising of the Sappers Battalion was an unexpected as the mutiny. Their attempt to take a barrack was defeated by the use of machine guns by the rifle regiment quartered there. A score of the insurgents were killed and wounded and the others routed. PICKED UP MESSAGE. One Ship Off South Carolina and One at Panama. i The steamship City of Savannah while on her way to New York from ? Savannah got into wireless communication with a steamship at Panama in the Pacific. The distance was too great to decipher more than a few words of the message the other ship was sending, probably to some vea- I sel within a few hundred miles of her* -jM