VOL.. I. NO. 13. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 19Q4. $1.50PER(YEAR.
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Was ? tenter It Km Fire.
Toronto, Ont., (Special). ? The fire
that raged throughout Tuesday night
in Toronto's wholesale and retail bus
iness district was the most disastrous
in the history of the city. The total
loss is conservatively estimated at
$12,000,000 ; insurance $8,360,000. The
principal warehouses of the city were
rcduced to ashes, and nearly 250 firm*
were put out of business. The area
covered by the fire is three blocks in
length and varies from half a block
to two blocks in width.
Every building up Hay street, from
Melinda street southward to the Es
planade at the water front, was wiped
?out, and the fire spread on Welling
ton and Front street! and the Esplan
ade, along the water front, from their
intersection with Bay street for dis
tances of a few hundred feet to a
whole block.
The total number of buildings de
stroyed were: Bay street, east side
20, west side 30; Wellington jtreet,
north side 12, south side 7; Front
-street, north 2 2, south 27; Esplanade,
4; Piper street 1.
Early in the evening, when the fire
assumed alarming proportions, appeals
for assistance were sent to London,
Hamilton, Montreal and Buffalo.
Special trains were at once started
from these points, but it was long
after midnight before the first of them,
began to arrive, and in the meantime
the local firemen were having the fight
of their lives. From the time the fire
started on the north side of Well
ington street, a short distance- east
of Bay street in the E. & S. Currie
Neckwear manufacturing plant, until
it burned itsftlf out at daybreak, there
was not a moment when a shift of the
wind to the north would not have re
sulted in the destruction of the greater
part of the city.
Despite the crashing of walls and
the confusion, only 011c serious acci
dent occurred. At an early stage of
the fire Chief Thompson got trapped
by the flames and was forced to jump
itom the top of a building. A net
work of wires broke his fall and save J
his life. He escaped with a broken
leg. When the chief made the leap
for his life a traveler from Montreal
was on the roof with him, and no trace
?of him has since been seen. It is
robable that he perished in the
ames.
The fire started in the elevator shaft
in the rear of the Cnrrie Buil.ling.
Thence the (lames spread across the
street to Brown Bros., and thence east
to Bay street. The wind, which had
been brisk, increased to a gale. A
general alarm was sounded, but before
all the force had reached the scene the
fire had leaped to the high buildings
occupied by Ansley & Co. and Pugs
ley, Dingman & Co. Then Suckling
& Co.'s building,, adjoining Currie's
on the cast, caught tire. Almost sim
ultaneously great forks of Haines be
f,an to shoot out from |he Brown
building, and the firemen were oblig
ed to split their forces. The roof of
Dingman & Moncypeuny's building
on the northwest corner of Bay and
Wellington streets, was the next place
to burst into flames: In an incredibly
short ( time Suckling's, Currie's,
Brown's and Dingman an.l Money
penny's were all a mass of flames, and
the streams of water thrown into
them had no apparent effect.
Sie.0M.9M Fran Klondike.
Seattle, Wash. (Special) ? A dis
patch to the Post Intelligencer from
Dawson snys: "The Klondike will
produce at least $10,000,000 this sea
son. Nome has done more work this
winter than ever before and will swell
the total several millions more. The
first sluicing of the year in the KI011
- dike has begun. The clean-up will be
in full blast in three weeks.
D. A. R. Against Smoot.
Washington, (Special). ? The laying
of the corner-stone of Memorial Con
tinental Hall in this city, a protest
against the contiuance in office of
United States Senator Smoot of Utah
and the defeat of two proposed con
stitutional amendments to relegate lo
cal controversies to intermediary
boards were the features of the con
gress of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution
Mr. Harriman Loses.
St. Paul, Minn., (Special).- -In the
United States Circuit Court Judge*
Sanborn, Thayer. Van Dev.mter and
Hook unanimously denied the appli
cation of E. II. llarrimau and \\ . S
Pierce and the Oregon Short- l.ine
Railroad Company for leave to inter
vene in the case of the United States
against the Northern Securities Com
pany.
Sixty Persons Killed.
Armenticres, France. (By Cable), ?
A Nationalist demonstration held in
a big factory provoked a Socialist
counter demonstration. When the
meetings were over the rival demon
strators started a free fight in the
streets. Three-score of persons were
injured, and. two were stabbed. It
was late at night before order was
restored.
Captain LMn Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Special). ? Capt.
Robert J. Linden, formerly superin
tendent of police of this city, a famous
detective, died at his home here of
pneumonia, after a month's illness. He
was 60 years old. Captain Linden
was instrumental ;n breaking up the
notorious Molly Maguire gang, which
committed so many murders in the
anthracite coal regious a number of
f?at s ago.
HEWS M SMKT HMK.
Because of disappointments between
the truck drivers and. teamowners,
Chicago is again threatened with a
strike of great dimensions.
Emit Roeski, one of the Chicago
car bandits was found guilty of mur
der in the first degree and was sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
High winds, cold weather and
snowstorms are reported in the North
and West. Traffic was impeded by
snow at Charlotte, N. C.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society is
in session in Rochester,^ N. Y.
A petition against a St. I.ouis un
ion ot carpentcrs has been filed charg
ing that it is against public policy.
A Chicago judge has declared that
nonresidents are eligible to be office
holders in that city.
The Democratic State Convention
ot Pennsylvania refused to instruct
the national delegates to vote for the
nomination of Judge Parker for presi
dent.
The Chicago police are searching
for'George William Miller, of Brook
lyn, -who is. the sole heir to a large
fortune left by his father.
The annual meeting of the National
Association of Manufacturers and Dis
tributors of FooJ Products was held
in New York.
The joint funeral of Midshipman
Ward and Neumann, who. were killed
on the Missouri, was held at Oswego,
N. Y.
The United States Steel Corporation
has made a proposition for the pur
chase ot the Clairton Steel Company.
Monk Eastman, the East Side thug,
was sentenced to io years in the peni
tentiary in New York.
Five hundred mineworkers of the
Katydid Colliery at Moosic have
struck.
The University of Chicago will
si art the Oxford idea of teaching.
The Klondike will produce at least
$10,000,000 this year.
Vice Chancellor Bergen, in Jersey
City, dismissed the application for an
injunction against the Northern Se
curities meeting and the distribution
of stock, sustaining the Northern Se
curities contention that the* suit was
unwarranted.
The death of President Hugh C.
Dennis, of the Rialto Grain and Se
curities Company of St. Louis, is at
tributed to brooding over the convic
tion of Senator Burton.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stone, of Ogdeu.
Utah, were found dead in each other's
arms. . The woman is supposed to
have poisoned her husband and
herself.
Postmaster General Payne and his
party have Sailed from Galveston for
the North on the revenue cutter
Onondaga.- -
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy
was filed in New York against the
Globe Security Company. Fraud is
alleged.
Julius Eckel was sentenced in New
Jersey to 60 years in State Prison for
killing his wife and Mrs. McDermott.
The coal operators and miners of
Iowa signed a two-year agreement
that provides for a slight reduction.
Two Chicago negroes caused the ar
rest of several Chinamen for violation
of the Civil Rights Law by refusing
to serve them in a restaurant.
Six men were injured by a collapse
of a building at Eighth avenue and
Thirty-fifth street, New York. Four
of the injured were passersby.
Two St. Louis physicians are using
a new drug in the treatment of con
sumption with promising results.
Four persons were injured by a
gasoline explosion in an automobile
factory in Detroit.
W. H. Kemvortliy, an American
Express Company messenger, and
Harry Drake, a haggagemaster on the
Big Four Railroad, have confessed to
the Cincinnati police that for a year
i they have been robbing trunks and
I express packages.
! A settlement was reached in the
sheet and tin-plate wage dispute and
a strike avoided that would have in
volved thousands of men.
"Monk" Eastman, the leader of a
notorious g*ng of thugs of the East
I Side, New York, was convictcJ of as
i sault in the first degree.
Forelga.
j The Academy of Fine Arts proposes
j to create a free scholarship in memory
! of Vercstchagin, the painter, who lost
1 his life at the time of the I'etropav
i lovsk disaster.
A train on the Trans-Caucasian
Railroad was held up near Novo Seu
aki by four armed robbers, who es
caped with loot valued at $50,000.
Ludmila Rcniianikoff, one of the
Russian "Terrorists" who was im
prisoned for complicity in an assas
sination plot, has been released.
The Russian Ambassador i-? >ai<l t?
have insisted on the payment <>t tho
.s^.ooo.ooo war indemnity due from tho
Sultan to Russia.
Emperor William climbed Mount
Etna, declining the u>e ot the mules
v hich had been provided ^>r him and
1 is party.
Emil Paur signed a contract in
Dresden to direct the Fittsurg Or
chestra for three year.-.
I Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of
; the British exchequer, in presenting
j the budget to the House of Com
; nions, stated that the markets m which
Great Britain had heretofore been
supreme were increasingly threatened
llis proposal for increased duties upon
tea and tobacco were adopted.
The University of Glasgow confer
red the honorary degree of doctor of
laws on United States AmbassaJor
Choate.
The world's fourth Sunday school
convention opened in Jerusalem 111 .1
huge tent outside Herod's Gate.
PIUMCltL
Philadelphia banks and trust com
panies officially reduced the call mon
ey rate to jVj P" cent. Since Janu
ary 18 the rate has been 4 per cent.,
but many loans have recently been
made at y/j per cent. Money is ex
tremely plentiful in that city.
It is expected the United States
Steel Corporation will turn out about
1,000,000 tons of steel rails tln> year,
against J,. 161 ,000 tons last year..
Missouri, Kansas and Texas' net
earnings for February were $jj(v)Ho>.
increase, $55>-*4J
MINER'S FAMILY BURNED
Two Waaoa aai fmr QMm hd?
crated ii Their Ink.
TWt ITALIANS AKE AWESTED.
LOrtgia d tkc Rrt is Uriam-li May Never
fee Kuti, M Knar Coaaccts It with tkc
Orawiag oat of tke Mian's Strike? Oae Sltcy
is Tkat Evldcaccs of aa laccadlary Fire Were
DtKavcrrf ia Ike laterior ?! tkc BaOitaf .
Somerset, Pa.. (Special). ? The strik
ing coal miners at Garrett, Pa., are re
ported to have taken posession of the
town.
Armed men are patrolling the streets
and a m%b armed with rifles and shot
guns are reported to hive surrounded
the works of the Garrett Coal Com
pany.
An outbreak is momentarily ex
pected between the strikers and the
miners in the company barricade.
The new workmen are nearly all
Italians and are said to be armed and
prepared to resist an attack if made.
Sheriff Colepian organized a posse of
2$ and lias started for the scene of
trouble.
At 3 o'clock in the morning the
dwelling of Jerry Meyers, a miner,
who has been out of employment for
several months, but who formerly
worked for the Garrett Coal Company,
was discovered on fire. The inmates
of the building were not aroused un
til the fire, which, it is claimed) started
outside the house, broke th-ough the
wood.
The flames were driven by a fierce
wind, cutting off escape, and Mrs.
?deyers. her two daughters, one son
and two small children perished in the
fire. Mr. Meyers and a boarder
named Jonas Sullivan dashed through
ilic flames to safety. Reports of the
origin of the fire are conflicting, but
:<!! agree that it was the work of in
cendiarics. Coroner Louther has been
notified of the holocaust and went
to Garrett to hold an inquest.
The Meyers house occupied a site
on a bluff outside the borough, in full
view of the town, and the hundreds of
people who rushed to the scene were
helpless to rescue the woman and
children.
tA least 200 shots were exchanged
between the inoh and men at the
mines, but so far no fatalities have
been reported.
At the house of Joseph Jocko, an
Italian grocer, the lamps were extin
guished by shots fired through the
windows and the family spent the
night in terror. Shots were also fired
into the. house of George Hamlin, a
mine foreman for the W. A. Merrill
Company, and John Nelson, a non
union miner.
Coroner Louther reached Garrett in
the afternoon and wired the Sheriff
that the situation was extremely criti
cal. All the officers are armed with
Winchesters and will be prepared to
enforce the law.
Garrett is a mining town situated at
the intersection of the Berlin branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
two miles west of Meyersdals. The
town has a population of about 1. 000
President Frank B. Black, of the Gar
rett Coal Company, is here consulting
with the Sheriff.
BANK ROBBER KILLED.
, Em inert Stewart Sbet By tbe Watcbaaa at a
Richmond Bank.
j Richmond. Va., (Special). ? Detect
ed in an attempt to rob the True
i Reformers' Bank, Lininet Stewart wa?
j riddled with bullets by Joseph Ward
I the night watchman, and insfontl)
killed. The dead man was the butlei
of Hon. llenry Stuart, who owns a
splendid estate in Loudon county
] but resides here as a member of the
| Corporation Commission.
Ward heard a noise in the bank
: about J.20 o'clock A. M. He listened
! and waited and beheld Stewart prowl
J i it < around the desks. He slippeJ
j back to hi -i room in the building and
got a ri >t gun loaded with five shells
each having u buckshot. On thf
I mound floor in '.lie bank was a simi
? !ar gun.
j Stewart ev'dertly heard the wacth
! man. for he picked up this gun anc
started for the >treet, going through
j tin- front window, the glass of whicl
1 he had broken i:i order to enter,
j Ward wa* as quick and reached th<
j street through the main entrance ii
I time to meet the burglar. He .or
dered him to half, and in reply Stew
;?rt brought the riot gun to his shoul
der and aimed. Ward fired, the 1.
buok.-ih ?t -.trikiug tile burglar tmdei
the left n-r.i. killing him almost in
? v.antly.
Husband's Duty to Protect.
Saginaw, Mich, t Special). ? Charier
| Valoi, v. as sentenced by Judge Snow
5 > not more than one year nor k\o
j than six months t #r manslaughter
\ n'.ois o'i February 1 last attempted
t-? commit suicide with his youiiti
wife. She succeeded in her attempt.
I. ut the man recovered, and a charge
< t manslaughter, under the cotiimoi
taw. was brought against him. Tin
t ? ia! lasted nearly a week, and th<
jury brought in a verdict oi guilty
Judge Sn-'W charged that the law re
quired the husband to take care of hit
v it'c t?> the extent of protecting bet
against herself.
Hcafeaad a ad wile Dead.
Ogdeu, Utah, (Special!. ? Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Stone were found dead in
each other's arms at their room in a
lodging-house here. It is believed by
the police that the woman first poison
ed her husband and then herself.
Stone had refused to let her have
charge of his children by a former wife
and this had been the cause of fre
quent quarrels between the two. Jeal
ousy of Stone's sister, who had charge
of the children, is supposed to ha.-.*
t)??u jb > cause of the quarreli*
UTE f ISaMTM AFf A1IS.
Geological Surrey statistics just
made public place the world's proJuc
tion of petroleum in 1902 at 185,151,
089 barrels. Of this the United States
and Russia produced 91.44 per rent.
For years Russia* has led in point
af production, but an increase of 19.
177, 723 barrels in the production of
:he United States .in iQoa, and a de
crease amounting to 4.6^515 barrels
:n the production of Russia, caused
ihese two countries to change places,
and puts the United States at the head
of the list.
More than double the quantity of
the higher grades of refined products
obtained from the average crude
petroleum produced in the United
States than is obtained from Russian
ail. The United States produced near
ly 2.6 barrels of refined products in
1002 for every barrel produced by the
rest of the world.
Civil A(C Liarit 79 Years.
The House Committee tn Reform
n the Civil Service authorized Chair
iiau Gillett to introduce the following
51II with reference to superannuation
in the Government service:
? "That upon the 30th day of June.
1907, every office in the classified serv
ice of the United States helJ by a per
son who is then over 70 years of age
?ltall become vacant.
"After the 30th day of June, 1907,
every office in tht classified service of
.he United States shall become vacant
?when the person holding it shall be
:ome 70 years old."
The committee directed Mr. Gillett
to report all pending bills granting
tensions to civil employes of the Gov
ernment to the House, with the rec
ommendation that -they lie on the ta
o!e. Also that he draft a bill reclassi
fying the clerical service of the Gov
ernment. with a view to providing for
.iiore frequent promotions in the
smaller salaried positions.
CMmm Exclaslaa.
The General Deficiency Appropria
tion Bill, as reported to the Senate,
contains as an amendment the Mitt
Chinese Exclusion Bill, which was ac
cepted by the House before the bill
was passed. The llitt bill was
introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Penrose and referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. In this
committee the discovery, it is said, has
been made that the bill will affect the
introduction of Chinese coolie labor
Into the Panama Canal zone, and to
1 considerable extent affects the im
migration to this country of Koreans
and Filippinos, and the deportation
:rom the United States, Hawaii, Porto
Rico, and any territory "subject to
the jurisdiction of Oie UniteJ States,"
any person held to come within
.lie definition of the words "Chinese
person," and objection has been mads
:o the far-reaching effect of the bill.
Why a Warship is There.
To prevent any possible misunder
ttanding the British Government,
through its Ambassador here, has ex
plained fully to the State Department
the object of the dispatch of the
British warship Retribution from Ja
maica to the Mosquito coast of Ni
caragua, and this explanation is said
to be satisfactory.
The British Government is anxious
to have the Nicaraguan Government
protect the Mosquito Indians formerly
under a British protectorate, and also
to' inquire into the claims of the cap
tains of certain small turtle-fishing
vessels, now detained at Bluefields,
that they may have been wrongfully
arrested.
Philippine Laaa Awarded.
Secretary Taft has directed the ac
ceptance of the bid of the American
National Bank of Kansas City for the
entire issue of $3,000,000 Philippine
certificates of indebtedness at the rate
of $iot.i8i.
Kansas City, ? The American Na
tional Bank, which was granted the
entire $3,000,000 government issue of
Philippine certificates, received tele
grams from bankers of Chicago, Bos
ton, New York and other cities asking
for portions of the issue, the amounts
ranging from $25,000 to $100,000, aiul
representing nearly $1,000,000 in the
aggregate.
Conditions ia Caaga Stale.
In the Senate Mr. J. T. Morgan
presented a memorial from mission
aries laboring in ilie Congo Free State
praying for an investigation into the
unsatisfactory condition of the na
tives and of American citizens in that
country and in connection with a reso
lution referring the question to the
Committee <>11 Foreign Relations, with
instructions i<> investigate and report
t'? the Senate. The resolution was
agreed t<?.
The conference report on the Army
\ impropriation bill was agreed to,
winch prrsses the bill.
Congressional and Departments.
During an examination by a com
mittee of Congress Representative
Roberts confessed that he ha I been
married three times and that he lias
three. wives living.
The House Judiciary Committee
will report favi rably the resolution
?>t the minority asking the Attorney
General to transmit certiiu informa
tion to the House.
The State Department is in rooeipt
pi information that Mr. Ritsr.el, Uni
t? ?1 States charge d'affair.- at Panama,
v. ho has been ill, is slowly improving.
Senator Lodge introduced a bill
committing t?< the Secretary of the
Interior the care of all historic and
prehistoric objects.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations authorized a favorable re
port on the extradition treaty with
Cuba.
Representative Gillct, of Massa
chusetts. introduced a hill for the re
: nrement of government clerk'*.
I Senator Cockrill introduced a bill
irohibiting the importation of adultcr
ited tea.
John Wurts. a professor in the law
school of Yale University, gave tot i
nony against Judge Charles Swayne
before the House Committee on
ludiciary.
TRIED TO CHEAT fiALLOWS |
Ctr-lan Infit's lesperate Atttays
at Sakdfc.
WttfllE MET?IS AT jESTtPCTION.
He Jahs ? LutptmM lata Mb Wrist mt Twtoto
ami Tim Uatfl Me Tear* m Artery -Be*
aMcs This, Ik Eats the Heats ?! a Nmhcr
?I Matches N? Hat Accanalatetf for
Tkat ParpMt. ?
Chicago, (Special ). ? I'eter Nieder
meyer, the leader of the car bandits,
condemned to die on the gallows
Friday, made two desperate attempts
at suicide Monday. His condition a?
a result is so precarious that it i.1
feared he will not survive. Should
he still be alive next Friday he wil'
be carried to the gallows and execut
ed. Niedermeyer planned his attempt
ed suicide carefully. First he masti
cated and swallowed the heads of 75
or 100 sulphur matches. While the
phosphorous was burning his stom
ach he sawed the radial artery of his
left wrist with a sharp-pointed lead
pencil. Striking a bone in the wrist
he gave up trying to sever the artery,
and turned the weapon to the large
veins on the outer side of his left fore
arm, and with jabs and a seesaw mo
tion he lacerated the flesh and mus
cles of the arm and tore open the
veins, leaving a large, jagged wound
exposed, through which the blood
gushed in streams, dyeing his bed
clothing and running down over the
cell floor in pools.
His second attempt came after the
wound had been dressed and closed
by the county physician. Niedermey
er was lying apparently unconsicous
ir. the hospital under a guard's care.
His right arm and hand were hidden
by the bed-clothing, and with hardly
a discernablc motion he slipped the
bandage off his left arm and with his
sharp fingernails tore away the
threads in the wound, and inserting
his forefinger into the ragged hole,
lie worked again at the veins and
sought to reach the artery.
lie unconsciously uttered a groan
and made a convulsive movement,
which attracted the attention of the
physicians, nurses and the guard, and
on throwing back the coverlids the at
tendants saw with horror that Nie
dermeyer had torn away the bandages
and re-opened the wound. Nie.ler
meyrer opened his eyes, and with
a leering, wan smile exclaimed:
"Let me die, Doc. Go away anJ let
me die. You were almost too late
the first time. Now why do you try
to save my life?"
Niedermeyer lost a large quantity
of blood and was almost pulseless for
a time. The principal danger, however
is that the poisonous phosphorus has
burned him so severely that his life
cannot he saved for its final snuffing
out on the gallows.
Niedermeyer says he got his idea
c.f swallowing phosphorus when a
prisoner in the jail committed sui
cide in that manner while Niedermey
er was awaiting trial. For the last
two weeks Niedermeyer has been sav
ing the matches he was able to filch
and beg. He even gave up smoking
to some extent so he could hoard
them. In getting at the veins and ar
teries in his arm he first sawed three
long gashes. Then he pushed the
;>harp end of the pencil int ?> one so it
would pass under the vein*. Then he
twisted the pencil around and around
until the veins were twisted and hurst
In doing this the pencil was broken
into several pieces.
Niedermeyer's first attempt at sui
cide was nearly successful.
Guard John Rocder, passing Nie
derineyer's cell, saw him hurdled on
his cot with a blanket drawn over hi?
head. A moan attracted his atten
tion, and when his attempt to arouse
him proved fruitless he summoned
Jailer Whitman and the ccll was open
ed. Niedermeyer was unconscious
aiid his clothing and the blanket were
tound soaked with blood, which was
flowing from a ragged hole in hi?
wrist. Other guards were summoned
in and he was taken to the jail hos
pital. The artery in his wrist wa?
fastened. Then it was learned thai
he had attempted to poison himself.
In his cell was found a quantity of
matches from which he had eaten the
heads, and Jailer Whitman said most
of those probably had been smuggled
l<> him by other prisoners.
A letter written by Nie lermeyei
prior to the attempt at suicide wa*
found concealed in his cot. In the
letter the writer incidentally expresse
? repentance for his career, an. I he
regrets leaving the few who have lov
ed him, bin chiefly the letter is a
morbid glorification of the writer'*
courage and hi* loyalty to his kind
111 contrast with Niedermeyer'* asso
ciate, Gust a v Marx. The letter says:
"There are four reti*ons why I
should lake my own life.
"First, because of the public boast
that I cannot commit suicide while I
Mil sm closely guarded.
"Second thai I cannot cheat the
scaffold.
"Third, that they cannot say they
I executed nie and made me pay for a
I crime.
"Fourth, to have another tuvstcry
for the ignorant police to -?olve."
The letter conclude* as fii'low.*:
"It seems very pleasant to hav?
this everlasting enjoyment of rest
I am an atheist and do no? believe in
any religion.
"I'ETER N IEDERM EVER."
Tbe Michigan Water Scaidal.
Allegan, Mich., (Special).? Thomas
F. McGarry, a prominent attorney who
was convicted of bribing former City
Attorney I. ant K Salisbury and turn
ing over to him the bo idle fu.id in
the I.akc Michigan water deal, was
sentenced to four years in the State
Reformatory at lotiia. McGarry'.i
conviction was recently affirmed by
the State Supreme Court He is the
first of the men ar. :sted as a result
<>l ihe water deal to rcccive a priion |
rintance.
SAlUMtS FIGHT POLICE.
KM at UmbciIi QkM By the Marlaes ?
Oat Was KIM aai Fear Ujawi
Pensacola. Fla., (Special). ? In a riot
here between police and bluejackets
from the warships and a few artillery
men from Fort Barrancas. Private
Banks, of the Seventh Company of
Artillery, was instantly killed and four
bluejackets from the Iowa and Ala*
bama wounded, though not seriously.
The riot started over the arrest of
a bluejacket. Three police officers
were at the patrol call, when a petty
officer from one of the ships blew a
whistle signal in use on the ships to
call the men to assemble. Fully 300
gathered and rushed the policemen.
Two of the police officers backed
away from the crowd, firing as fast as
possible at the advancing bluejackets,
who were hurling stones, bottles and
other missile* at tlieni. It was during
this shooting that the artilleryman was
killed.
Reinforcements front the police sta
tion arrived at this juncture and partly
disbanded the bluejackets. Later, ow
ing to many threats of the men from
the warships to kill tlie policeman. Ad
miral Barker ordered marine guards
from two of the ships ashore, and they
quelled the riot and prevented fur
ther trouble.
Caplala Wheeler Killed.
Manila, (By Cable). ? Capt. David
P. Wheeler and Corporal Perc/ Ilcy
velt, of the Twenty-second Infantry,
while reconnoitering the Moro works
iilong the Taraca River, in the Lake
Lanao district of the Island of Min
danao, April if, were stabbed in the
abdomen. Captain Wheeler died at
Marahui. April ij. Corporal- lley
vclt is fatally wounded.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERINO.
A woman 5 feet 3 inches high should
'vcigh \xj pounds.
In Sweden there is but one drug
store to every 15,000 people.
Pens arc polished with emery
powder in a large revolving drum.
The Southern States are producing
half the lumber cut in America.
Public benefactions in America dur
ing ten years aggregate $610,410,000.
The Russian population of Siberia
now numbers not far from 8.000,000.
We have now twelve battle-ships in
service, and fourteen more building or
authorized.
That the cost of living has increased
.*o per cent, in ten years iu shown by
Dun's Index.
The Railway Exchange Building
J list completed in Chicago has office
100m for 5.000 persons.
The Knglish buy $.to.ooo.ooo of egg?
abroad each year, the average price
being it) cents a dozen.
An invention which secures the coin
plete combustion of coal was men
tioned at a bani|uet at Glasgow.
The manufacture t of liquid air foi
scientific and technical purposes ha?
assumed considerable proportions in
Germany.
The reach of a searchlight for
practical use is 700 yards, but torpe
does can be u?.cd effectively from 1.20c
to 4.000 yards.
The result of a cricket match in
Melbourne was cabled to London, 17,
poo miles, through nine relays, in two
end a half minutes.
Dr. Loeb lias created a new specie?
of sea 1 i f ?? by crossing star fish and
seaiirehins by the use oi solution o)
sodium hydrate.
Considering our exports by coun
tries. (he largest total i> to the Uni.
ted Kingdom. $5_\t..?6 ',000; the next
largest ,<> Germany. $iq.t,8 ji.ooo anc
Canada. Si _? l._?67.oou.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
A monster oil well has been struck
just south of Upper Sandusky, (>.
Thus far all levers 01 tlie Mississippi
near Memphis, Tenn., have withstood
the floods.
Quarry owners In Monlpeiier and
Barro. VI.. have locked out hsoo gran
ite cutters.
It is claimed '.hat the total cost of
(he British army this year will be
?140,000.000.
Census bureau reports show that
>.'?4.045 acres of land were under Irri
gation in New Mexico in 1002.
An extensive deposit of coal, acces
sible to the 1'acilh- Oconn. has been
found near Controller liny. Alaska.
Ore unloading barges on the Lakes
will be lower tills season bccause of
the cut in wages of ilie shovelers.
Deaths of babies from convulsions
have decreased neariy sixty per cut
ill the last three decade* in Chicago
III.
The season's catch of tisli .1111011;:
Alaskan Indians have been so smalt
that they will have to b? supplied witli
food.
It was decided that there is r.o pun
ishment iu Colorado for fraud el
special clccliwis such as' the recent
rim Her civctiou iu Deliver.
Fifty of tli.' largest p'wjojljivs iu
the Fulled Stales showed s; net In
crease of thirteen per cent, in receipts
lor March over Hit* sit 1 tie month last
yen r.
A com mi I loc of three was appoiu'ei! i
by the City Councils of lluo'alo. N > j
lo investigate President Smith's as
serlinn that ?2U0,uuu had been spent
illegally.
Count Kaptiist. (lie Russian Am'oas
tador to Austria-Hungary . iu .<11 inter
view on the Macedonian question s.'.vs
lie is convinced the Siav rue S and
States will not move while Itussiu is
busy iu the Fur Kast.
COLLEGE NOTES.
Profe sor Winchester, of Weslrynn,
Kays the university needs 91,000,000,
The Chicago Fniversily is to have a
memorial of Mrs. Alice Freeman Pal
mer. the noted woman educator, who
died last year.
A new course iu Greek history will
be given (his year by William G. All*
rello in the College of Liberal Arts at
Boston Fniversily.
The 8tew?ri-Moiin??? bill appropriat
ing $J."rl).ooo for au agricultural roll ge
at Cornell passed the '*'? i.-tle It now
goes to the tJoveriior.
The 9UO.OUO science building, given |
to llochesI'M* Culvei *ity by George!
Knstinan. will be 100 fee; long und |
eighty-eight feet iu its greatest depth.
FORCES ALONfi THE YALD
_
Ike JafMKse kmj la; Sm* Try It
Cress Ike K?r.
MJSSUNS A1E IEAIY FN THE
tboat >JN |? Resist a '-f? ttti
lavaaioo ml MaadMrtaTfce Raaalaof
Occopyiog StrMfly Fortified PmM? oa
tie MikMu SMc Nwtb of Aitafw
Japaaeae Sataaite Boats.
London, Sunday. (By Cable).? Ad.
vices from Seoul and points near the
\ alu River indicate that the Japanese
will soon make an attempt to cros#
the river and invade Manchuria.
Rumors of a battle at Wiju are not
confirmed, though an engagement may
begin at any moment.
I lie Russians occupy strongly for
tified positions al Chin Tien Chen, on
the Maurlntrian side of the river and
about ten miles north of Antung, and
on I iger Mill, a rock promontory jut*
ti?K out into the Yalu River. Th?
Japanese forces and batteries aro
screened behind the hill between
river and Wiju.
^ "-cent di>patch from Lioyang said
the Russian intrenchinents on tho
? alu had been completed. The center
of the line of fortified positions is at
Antung. The right flank rests at
1 atuug Koa, about 25 miles south
^.cst of Antung. and the left at
<~nni Tien Cheng. It has been re
ported that there are about 20.000 Rus
sians. composed of infantry, calvary;
and artillery, at Antung ready to op
pose the Japanese if they attempt to
cross the, river, and a recent dispatch
from 1 ?ki? says it is known there that
tne Russians were in force on tho
Manchurian side of the Yalu.
The major force of the first Japan
arn,y land in Korea is near
V>iju. according to a dispatch from
Korea, and the Japanese are said to
be landing at Chulsan. near the mouth
of the \alu.
1 here have ben frequent skirmishes
between Russian ami Japanese troops
m the vicinity of Wiju during the last
w cek.
ALEXIEFF WOULD 60
Viccrey Asks the Czar to Relieve thai a#
Itis Post.
St. Petersburg (By Cable) ?Viceroy
Alexieft has applied by telegraph to
the Emperor to be relieved of his po
sition of Viceroy in the Far East.
It is expected that the request wil/
be immediately granted.
The immediate cause of the Vice,
roy s application is reported to be tho
appointment of Vice- Admiral Skry.
aloft, one of Alexieff's strongest en?
ennes and sharpest critics, as suc
cessor to the late Vice- Admiral Maka*
roff in command of the Russian navy
in the rar Kast. Vice-Admiral Sksy<?
loft had an interview with the Etnper<
or and <liscussed the question of his
relations with Alexieff.
The relieving from command ol
? ?^h,xiclf would not surprise
intelligent observers of the Far East*
crn situation who arc familiar with the
gradual change in the Emperor's at?
titude toward the Viceroy and M.
be/obrazoff, who represented the mil
itant, or advanced element which was
anxious that Russia should remain in
Manchuria.
it was to these two men that the
Anglo-Japanese entente first lost its,
terrors. They believed that Great
Kritam would not go to war and that
Japan could not do so. To the indig
nation of Japan they succeeded in
turning the policy of the Empire from
carrying, out the treaty for the entire
cvact nation of Manchuria, pending
furl her demands on China, on August
After Japan had submitted an in
quiry a> t<> whether Russia was dis
posed to reopen the negotiations re
specting Manchuria and Korea, a vice
royalty in the Far East, a special en
\oy of state and an advisory com
mittee were created, Alexieff being
appointed Viceroy and He/ohrazoff
secretary of State.
Seventeen days after these appoint
ments were made M. Witte, who had
been opposed to the policy of Alex
elf and Rczohrazoff. was relieved of
his portfolio a- Minister of Finance.
Mines I. aid By Japanese.
Chefu. ( liy Cable).? Ft has been
learned from Japanese sources here
lhat I Ik- attack on the Russian Port
Arthur fleet was planned and put into
effect in t he I 'Mowing manner'
At <l.i y i i v; 1; * the Japanese tripedo
boats made a demonstration before
l lie port .-.ml at the same time ia.J
?nines aeros, the outer entrance to
the harbor. i hey then returned and!
Joined I lu- limn squadron. The
squadron then advanced, ^n.l as it
drew near ?.lie Russian :.|I(|)< wcre
seen coming out.
The haUle>;iip Peiropavlovsk struck
one oi the nines laid by f|;,. (apancse
torpedo boat - and was destroyed.
BiS I ire in Annapolis,
Annapdis. \\{\ . , S;?-v i.i i ? . -Fire
broke out Saturday nit-!-- the large
livery >tai>!e bel nitriug to R. (;. Cha
ney. back of Wi-m street here, <>nd de
stroyed that building, aether stable
and it dwelling hou-.?<. Tin? losses
aggrcgared about 912.000 to $15,000,
and the greater part is covered by in
surance. No livestock was lost. Tho
fire was finally controlled bv the citir
fire department and the Naval \ca(f,
emy engine uiar.ued b> midshipmen
and culi-ted unit.
Ready lor Service."
Washington, (S-icciil). _RCi- Ad
miral Cooper, commanding the Asiatic
? cabl-d the Navy Department
from Cavitp that l.n-utetiant Chandler
commanding the to p-do boat flotilla
whieh inst arrived at that port after
m of uab;'"i 1 ?<?'*?? miles from
llan.nton Road., "report.* fl .tilt , readv
lor service y
news is very -ratifying ,,, the
?' Vt! ' n*1!* > 'h partmenf and
speaks well for the "e.iwor'hi ess of
the torpedo boat- and the fine ici.
Hur.slnu of oncers and mcu