VOL. I. N0.20. CAMDEN, S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 16, 10O4. $1 .50 PER YEAR. MARINES HAVE LANDED ipted States Caari a! Mgiaa Ufa tin at Taagkr. AMPLE PIBCCTPT PH ill ACT1W. Alatal flrtwrt Italian Ih Navy DtHrt* scat That ths Pmm Wm LaM at Koqaest at tfcs U. 8. Caasal Oaacral? Ths First That AaMricaa Marian Hav? Bna LaaM la Africa la Half a Ccatary. Washington* D. C., { Special),? American marines have landed "in Africa. Admiral Chadwick cabled the .navy department from Tangier as follows: "I have placed a guard at the Bel Sian legation, having been asked to o ?o by our consul general here. An Ample Precedent. R is said at the state department that there is ample precedent for the employment of an American naval force lor the temporary protection of the exposed interests of another pow er which has no available force at hand. A few years ago it was _ the common understanding that British vessels should protect American in terests in South American ports when the United States had no warships, and that the United States gunboats should look after British interests exposed hi the same way. Wir also have looked after German interests in Santo Domingo and else where. It is stated that Admiral Chadwick in landing his marines in Africa for the first time in half a century thlrefore was but meeting the requirements of international comity. It is supposed here that the Belgium legation is in an outlying section of tne city, easily accessible to the tribesmen of the interior. Sultan Will Meet Bandit's Demands. Tanuier. Morocco, (By Cable). ? The Sultan's letter in reply to the diplomatic representations! made in regard to the kidnaping of Messrs. Perdicaris and Varley has arrived here. It is said by a person in the Sultan's confidence that the Sultan lias given orders t<> grant all the conditions de manded by Raisouly, the bandit leader, in order to expidite the release of the captives. The Sultan, in his letter, appoints Herid El Barrada to be Governor of Tangier, which step was included among Raisouly's demands. Barrada was a member of the coun cil of Mohammed El Torres, the rep resentative of the Sultan here, and formerly \va9 Governor of Mazagan. The authorities state that the raid made by armed Anjera tribes on the .home of an Englishman here, during which they obtained several riHcs, was only a co.nmon robbery and had no political significance. Chadwick Will Send Surgeon. Washington, D. C., (Special).? The: navy department received a cable-] mm from Rear Admiral Chadwick at Ttngier to the effect that he has been informed that I'erdicaris and his stepson- Varley, are in need of medical assistance, and that the con sul general has sent to Raisouly to Inquire whether a surgeon will be grv*n safe conduct. The admiral says that, if so, one will be sent in cotii Ditiy with ' the shereef of Wazan. liaisouly's reply is expected June p. The rumor wnich is agitating certain European newspapers to the effect that the United States government intends to permanently possess itself of a coaling station on the Moroccan Cf*ast, as an incident to the settle ment of the Perdicaris affair, is re garded officially here as a jest. There never v. a* mid ia not now the slightest intint'on 0:1 the part of this govern ment of making any such demand. Moreover, it is stated that it is not contemplated by this government to seize even temporarily any Moroccan port and custom /onse in connection with the I'erdicaris case. DENOUNCES DYNAMITINQ. Western Federation Will Join In Offering Reward for Arrest of Qutlfy Parlies. Victor, Col., (Special).? At a meet ing of the Mineworkers' Association the dynamite assassination was dis- I cussed. Deepest indignation was ex pressed and it was the unanimous j opinion that under no circumstances should the murderers escape. Many of the members pledged their in dividual support to run clown and punish the conspirators and a large leward will be offered by the associa tion. The county commissioners and dif ferent mine managements will offer 1 individual rewards also. The local committee of the Western Federation of Miners has authorized the statement that they deplore the wholesale murder. The following is 1 a Matemcnt given out by them: "'No men who deserve to live would or could approve the awful deed. The fiends who planned and carried out the devilisn crime should be detected and punished to the full extent of the law. The crime must be unearthed ami the perpetrators punished. The committee and all the local members of the Western Federation of Miner < are ready and willing to assist in un covering the guilty ones and will use every endeavor to assist the autrorities in their cftort?# niid wo herewith tender thr ? ervices of all our members "We will also join in offering a suitable reward for the arrest and conviction of the guilty persons " Mi?? LeUhmaa U Wed. Paris, ( Hy Cable).? The Figaro an nounces the engagement of Mi-*? Martha Lcishman, daughter of the United States Minister to Turkey, to Count Lorn* de Gontaut-Biron, eldest ?on of Count Antoinc Gontaut-Biron. An Eo*H?hman Sospected. Havana, (Special). ? The Governor of Santiago telegraphs the secretary of the government that rural guards have arrested James Stewart, an Eng lishman. who is suspected of having caused ?he dynamite explosion which wrecked two engines and a large sec tion of the tracks of the Cuban Eastern Radway at Guantanamo. Stewart was formerly an employee of th? road, but was discharged. HEWS W SMT Ml Hi Latest ChIimiI tertofM Counsel for Edward H. Harriman and Winslow S. Pierce filed in the United Slates Court in Trenton, N. J., amendments to their bill against the ^Northern Securities Company. The King and Queen of Portugal attended a Ball given by United States Minister Bryan in Lisbon in honor of officers of the American squadron. , Bank-wrecker George M. Valen tine, of New Brunswick, N. J., was released after having served out a term and was immediately re-arreated. Fire that broke out in the seven story drug warehouse of McKesson & Robbins, in New York did $100,000 worth of damage. Edward F. Rooney cut his wife's throat at the summer home of the Mystic Shrine, on the Connecticut River, near Hartford. Members of the Russian war party in St. Petersburg are trying to force" the resignation of Foreign Slinister Lamsdorff. The town of Northampton, Mass., celebrated its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. / Judge Wickersham, of Alaska, has ruled that Russian half-breeds and set tled tribes of Indians in that territory are citizens of the United States. Albert* Pouch died in the hospital at Elizabeth, N. J., making the fourth victim of the murderous frenzy of Joseph M. Pouch. The Department of Physical Culture of the World's Fair will present Alice Roosevelt with a souvenir belt. The biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Lgcomotivc Engineers was concluded at Los Angeles, j 1' rami in a contract regarding ir [ rigative lands has been charged' against F. C. Rutan, of Chicago. The annual meeting of the stock t holders of the Pennsylvania Railroad was held at Pittsburg. Bad weather mterfcied with the Maccabee jubilee celebration at Bat tle Creek. The Minesota Building at the St. Louis Exposition was dedicated. Incensed over their failure to see a Spanish bullfight, which the au thorities had stopped, a riot took place near the World's Fair grounds, in- 1 volving 2,500 men and boys who were I unable to get their money back, and the building was burned to the ground. . Mrs. Eliza Ross, of Cincinnati, sue tor service in surpressing the riot I ill the V ictor and the Cripple Creek district. The Sheriff is empowered to call out such troops in his own county as are available for service within that county. Under this law the Sheriff has called Company H, of Cripple Crccck, and 178 of these men orders of Lieut. James L. Wallace, are mobilizing in the armory to obey who will be under direction of the Sheriff for the present. The Mayor has sworn in and armed 500 citizens to assist in the suppres sion of violence and quelling the, ciotera* ? ' The Western Federation of Miners will investigate the dynamite outrage at Independence. At the session of! the Federation's convention a com- 1 mittee was appointed to go to the I Cripple Creek's region lo make a thorough investigation of the affair and to spare no one in its report. 13 Blown To Bita. ; Cripple Creek, Col., (Special).? Thirteen men were killed and six were severely wounded by the explo sion of au infernal machine at the railroad station in Indepen Jence. Eleven men were killed outright. 1 being blown to pieces, and two died i later from wounds. All the killed and | injured, with the exception of two : j men from the Deadwood mine, were non-union miners employed on the I ni^ht shift of the Findlcy mine. fhe infernal machine with which j t lie murder was committed consisted of a quantity of dynamite, probably .too pound*, a loaded revolver and a long, fine steel wire attached to the1 trigger. The revolver was fastened so that the pulling of the trigger j would not draw it away. The wire ran from under the station platform to the cribbing of the Delmonico property, about 400 feet away, where 1 its end was fastened to a rung of a cliair. The dynamite was placed close to the muzzle of the revolver, which was discharged by pulling the wire. The hall from the revolver and the re sultant concussion exploded the dyna mite. Bloodhounds On Trail. A man was seen running down the hill from the Delmonico property after the explosion. The troops in Victor who were ordered out by Mayor French were so stationed as to keep people from passing over the path taken by this man, and bloodhounds were sent from Canyon City and 1 1 rinidad to trail the assassin. The infernal machine used was similar to the one exploded in the Vindicator Mine on November 21, igo.t, killing two men. The men quit work at 2 o'clock in the morning and were waiting to board a suburban train on the Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad to return to their homes in Cripple Creek and Victor. A Gruesome Scene. Fragments of bodies were hurled several hundred feet. Several bodies dropped into the pit made by the ex plosion, but heads, hands, ears, legs, arms and trunks were strewn about on all sides. Pieces of flesh were found on buildings 500 feet away, while splashes of blood were found on every thing within a radius of 50 feet. The force of tin* explosion was felt, throng out the camp, the crash awakened everybody. The approaching train was stopped and the trainmen rushed ahead to the scenc of the disaster. They were joined in a few minutes by hundreds of persons and relief work was begun at once. Railroad Bridge Fell With Train. Wilkesbarrc, l'a., (Special). ? With a terrific crash the massive iroR Le high Valley railroad bridge, at Tow anda, gave way shortly after ti o'clock in the morning and eight load ed cars of a passing freight rtain were plunged, together with one section of the structure, into the Susquehanna river, which it spans. No fatalities are reported. The accident occurred but an hour after the fast No. 8 pas senger train from the West had cross ed th? Undue. UTE WASHIiW AFf AHBL * PMMHterncy. In answer to a summons from the state department^ John Barrett, minister to Panama, came to Wash ington and had a long conference with the Panama canal commissioners, and afterwards saw the President, Secretary Hay and Assistant Secre tary Loomis. all with reference to the settlement of the pending Panama cur rency proposition. It appears fropt advices just re ceived that final artion by the Panama Legislature is expected shortly, and in the event that the decision is adverse to the adoption of the gold standard some action will be required im mediately on" the part of our govern ment. It developed at ihe conference that, although indirect, the interest of the United States in the adoption of the Kold standard by Panama in no less than $25,000,000. This is based on the belief that with a fluctuating and un stable currency in Panama, closely interwoven as it certainly will be with the isthmian canal strip popula tion, the contractors who must dig the canal will be obliged, in order to make themselves safe, to adJ at least 25 per cent, to their bids in order to guard against changes in the cost of labor and supplies which must be ob tained from the surrounding country, as are incident to currencies not placed on the gold standard. Caae Cm* Beet Satar. In a report to the Department of Commerce and Labor Consul Hossfeld at Trieste, Austria, says that those who hoped that among the beneficial effects of the Brussels convention would be a large decrease in the pro duction and corresponding advance in the price of sugar have been disap pointed. Mr. Hossfeld says the production of beet sugar has decreased about 13 per cent, during the last two years, while cane sugar has increased about 9 1-2 I per cent. The Consul says the ten ,n.cy ,?* prices for sugar is again decidedly downward and a change for the better deed not be looked for as long as the world's surplus of 2000.000 tons remain unabsorbed. He adds that a foreign market must be found for a surplus of more than 000,000 tons of Europe's production and that within two years the world's production of cane sugar has increased from 4,063,000 tons to about 4,438,000 tons. The increasing production of cane sugar, the Consu! says, has warn ed the manufacturers of beet sugar that they must be prepared to meet an increasingly critical condition of the market. Ts Save CMaa Whole. No matter how the war in the Far East may eventually result, the JUwjF^L States government Minds ?>fo insist upon the integrity of the 1 Chinese Empire. ! This fact was !earned from the 1 best of official authority. I f 'i?1* some time there has been a 1 feeling in official circles that Euro pean powers were planning to seize parts of China at trie termination of the war between Russia and Japan, I and that no matter which won, plans were being laid by outside countries to take slices of China, as was t lie case of the end of the Japan-China I war. All of the now powerful infl ! encr of the United States will be used to prevent such a grasping pol | icy. and there is every reason to be lieve that if Japan is victorious she ; iV1! wfjrk in harmony with the j L nited Sta?es to save China. Should Russia be victorious the sit [ nation would be more complicated, but even so, the State Department would hope to save China, with the possible exception of being forced to recognize the. special Russian inter ests and domination in Manchuria. Vessels Par Medlterraaeaa. Rear Admiral Chadwick reported to the Navy Department by cable that the British battleship Prince of Wales has arrived at Tangier. He also re ported the return of the Baltimore to Tangier from Gibraltar. Rear Ad miral Chadwick, by direction of the j Navy Department, will make reports! to Rear Admiral Barker on the situa tion at Tangier as well as to the de partment, Admiral Barker being the senior naval officer in European waters. I lie Illinois, commanded by Captain Bradford, has been ordered to Gibral tar on die completion of target practice at Martha's Vineyard, and the Missouri, commanded by Captain Cowles, has been ordered to sail Thursday from Newport News for Gibraltar. These two vessels belong to the North Atlantic fleet, and are being sent to Gibraltar direct, where they will report to Rear Admiral liarker, commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic, and rejoin the fleet wherever he may direct. A Cart for Milk Perer. riic successful treatment of milk fever in cows by the injection of "fil tered atmospheric air" into the udder is announced in a bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture. The air treatment described is sim ple, and the experiments have been successful in every instance. Milk fever, heretofore, has been a fatal malady, indicting great havoc in all large dairy districts. The treatment, according to the bulletin, has reduccvl tlie mortality from the disease to al most zero. Congrcstloaal and Departments. Minister John H^rrett had a con ference with the Panama Canal Com missioners in reference to the settle ment of the pending Panama cur rency proposition. Thomas W. Hnskins, of California, lias been appointed Chinese secretary of the United States Legation at Peking. Chief VVillkie, of the Secret Service, announces the discovery of a new counterfeit $roo gold certificate. No change will be made in the itinerary of the fleet under Rear Ad miral Barker. Dominic J. Murphy was elected sec retary of the Panama Canal Com mission. Large increases have been made in the salaries of postmasters through out the states. BOMBARD WEST COAST Chiacse Keptrt Big tattles at Part Artfcar, IEFEAT OF TIE JAPANESE REPORTED. News Ftm Part Artlar ta4 the Pealauli Cat Off hy JiputM Skips Ei|i(t4 lathe She (lag ?f the Caast at the Pealasala Betwtta Hlaaf Ya Tcheag a ad Kalphlag? A Battle Expected at Klachaa. London, (By Cable). ? That great operations have heen begun or arc imminent at Port Arthur is. apparent by the persistent rumors and uncon firmed reports received during the past 24 hours. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Company from St. Petersburg an nounces that a telegram has been re ceived from Mukden, saying: "According to information here, a Japanese squadron of nine vessels has been bombarding the coast between Siung Yu Cheng (tliung Yo Tcheng) and Kaichou (Kaiphing, on the west coast of the Liaotung Peninsula, just below Niuchwang) since June 7." Another dispatch to Renter's Tele gram Company from St. Petersburg transmits the following from, Liao yang: "The Japanese June 6, according to Chinese reports, made several sus tained and stubborn attacks on Port Arthur simultaneously by land and sea. They were repulsed with severe loss. , "The position of the Japanese in Kwantung is said to he precarious. "There are rumors from the same sources that the Vladivostok squadron has effected a junction with the Port Arthur fleet, that a naval battle took fdacc, and that the Japanese lost four arge ships." The Shanghai correspondent of the Morning Post telegraphs: "General Stakelberg's Russian bri gade marching in the direction of Port Arthur, suffered a reverse on Saturday, near Wafangtien, and re tired to Tashichiao." . Direct news from Port Arthur, the T.iaotung Peninsula and the Yalu River is cut off from Russian sources by the Japanese- who are between the Russians and the territory mentioned. It is officiality asserted that the cables connecting Japan with China are not working, which would prevent Tokio also from having knowledge of events in that section of Manchuria. The "interruption" of the cable work how ever. is more likely to "be official" and due to a censorship at Tokio. Tokio, (By Cable). ? Pour Japanese gunboats which made a close recon naissance of Port Arthur Harbor at midnight, for the purpose of examin ing the entrance, were exposed to a severe canonnade. Gunboat No. 4 was hit eight times and sustained some damage. One of her sailors was killed and two others were wounded. ELECTRIC CAR WRECKED. Pasaeager and Package Freight Cars Met Head'Oa. Norwalk, O. ? (Special). ? In the most terrible, accident in the history of the Lake Shore Railway, six per sons were killed and many others badly hurt late in the afternoon as a result of a collision between an east bound fast electric passenger car and a westbound "package freight" car at Wells Corners, a few miles cast of this city. The accident occurred at a point quite distant from any immediate means of communication, and assist ance was sent from Norwalk, where every physician and nurse in the city was called into service and hurried to the place of accident 011 a special car. When the injured had been attend ed to they were placed 011 a car and brought to this city. All those who were killed were in the smoking compartment of the pas senger car. and death came instantly, the bodies showing no sign of life when the rescuers went to work after they had recovered from the fir^ shock of the accident. The injuries ?>f several of those hurt are so serious that they may re sult fatally. Just why the accident occurred is not known. Superintendent Strclau, of the Fre mont division of the road, arrived shortly after t lie accident and will make a thorough investigation. Head-On Collision. Kansas City, Mo. (Special).? Nine persons arc reported to have been killed and many injured in a collis ion of passenger trains on the Mis souri Pacific Railroad, near Martin City, fifteen miles south of Kansas City. The trains, which met head on, were the westbound Colorado limited No. i and the eastbound Ifoi siugton (Kan.) accommodation No. 36. A message received by Mis souri Pacific' officials here ordered them to send a relief train as soon as possible and to get all the sur geons obtainable, from which it is inferred that many passengers were hurt. SI* Hurt la Fxptoaloo. Akron, O. ? (Special). ? In an ex plosion at the plant of the B. P. Goodrich Company six persons were injured, sonic seriously. The door of a steam chest, weighing about a ton, was blown off and it struck a pillar supporting the floor above. A por tion of the upper floor fell with a number of employee.*. Murderer Lynched. Grangcville, Idaho (Special). ? T. M. Myers, who killed George Brown Ice and wounded Wallace Bennett, near Crooks Corral, three weeks age., was taken from a party of officers near White Bird and lynched. Tli. lynchers were masked and outnum bered the officers three to one. The officers rode on to Grangeville. The method of death is not known. Mycr < was being taken to the county jy?! when the lynching party overtook I the officers. _ | ?ASKCI MEN IYN AMITE CAKS. PassMftr Trala ? Dearer ami M* Oru4? tlcM Up By ? Denver, Col., (Special). ? Denver and Rio Grande passenger train No. 5, westbound from Denver, was held up by five masked men three miles west of Parachute, a small fruit sta tion midway between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs. One sealed bag containing species was taken from the express car safe, which was dynamited. The express car was badly wrecked by dynamite, but the robbers were forced to take to the mountains before they could gather up the valuables in the car. Sheriff W. G. Struthers and Deputy Sheriff D. M. Hardy, of Grand Junc tion, are now on the trail of the rob bers with a posse of farmers and ranchers, quickly summoned from the vicinity of Grand Junction. Sheriff Frank Adams and another posse from Glenwood Springs are al so scouring the surrounding country. When the train reached a point three miles west of Parachute two masked men crawled over the tender of the engine. They placed pistols at the heads of Engineer Allison and his fireman, and made them stop the train. Three men, who were wait ing on the tender, then jumped down and uncoupled the express and bag gage cars. These cars, with the en gine. were run two miles farther west. The train crew received orders to remain behind on pain of being shot. When the point averted for the dyna miting of the express car was reached Messenger D. M. Shea refused to open the car and piled the baggage up in front of the door. The robbers, with a stick of dyna mite, blew away the side door of the car and half a dozen trunks were de molished. The great iron combination safe was the only one in the car. The robbers showed that they were con versant with conditions on the road, for they did not even ask the mes senger to open the safe. They knew that he did not have the combination. This safe can only be opened in Den ver and in Salt I.ake City. A stick of dynamite was then placed against the lock on the. safe. At this point Brakeman Shellenharger who had been ordered to remain with the passenger coaches two miles be hind. caine running up with a lantern. One of the robbers shot him in the leg. He is now in a hospital at Grand Junction. When the robebrs saw that the train crew was coming they fled to the mountains. One of them as he jumped from the express car grabbed one sealed bag which had been blown clear out of the safe. This was the only plunder which was taken. After the holdup the engine, bag gage and express cars were backed to Parachute, when the alarm was given. PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE. Colorado Flyer Crashes Into the Accommoda tion-Tramp Killed. Kansas City, Mo., (Special). ? By the headon collision of two Missouri Pacific passenger trains near Mastin, 22 miles south of Kansas City, one >erson has been killed and 19 have >een injured, in. 1st of the latter being passengers. The trains were No. 1 the Colorado Flyer, westbound, and No. 36, a Moisington, Kan., accommo dation train castbound. Both trains were behind their sched ule and were trying to make up time. No. ^6 had orders to take a siding at Mastin, but had not reached that sta tion, and was met on a culvert a mile beyond Mastin by the flyer. Both en gines were demolished. The day coach on the accommodation train was telescoped, as was the mail car on the flyer. All the cars of both trains were thrown from the track and the track and roadbed completely wreck ed. A relief train was 9ent from Kansas City with ?. dozen physicians. Some of the injured were made comfortable at Mastin, and others were brought to Kansas City. Apparently Deed Child Revived. Custer, S. D., (Special). ? 'After lyi".g 36 hours in her colltn, Mabel Fearing, the five-year-old daughter of C. M. Fearing, has been revived. The child was saved through the invention of I>r. E. S. Norton, a relative who was at the house to attend her funeral. Dr. Norton noted the rosy cheeks and unchanged appearance of the child and refused to permit the coffin to be closed. He called other physicians and an effort was made to revive the child. At last signs of returning ani mation were noted. Half an hour later the stethoscope indicated a re turn of strong heart acfion. An hour later the child was sleeping in the arms of its mother. ballet Tea Maotbs In Hit Brala. Watcrtown, N. Y., (Special). ? John A. Powell, of Livingston. Ky., aged 30, a private of the Ninth Infantry, Madison Barracks, died as a result of an operation to remove a bullet from his brain, v. hich had been there with out apparent injury to his intellect for 10 months. The wound was re ceived in target practice. Woraaa Stabbed to tbe Heart. Philadelphia, (Special).? Mary Rich ardson, a young married woman, was stabbed through the heart by May Richardson, lu-r sister-in-law, during a quarrel The women met in a real estate oflicc and after a few words May Richardson drew r? penknife and drove the blade into the other wom an's heart. Jealousy was the cause. FINANCIAL One Wall Street firm bought $.too, 000 United States Steel 5 per cent, bonds and wanted more of them. "It looks." wired a banker to Winthrop Smith ft Co., "as if they were switch ing a big a -count from Steel preferred info the bonds " .statement h r.vs a net surplus <>f $^6.1, Pennsylvania is an empire in itself. Last year its output . It is impos I sible to compute their loss, but if i will amount to thousands of dollars, j The two fermenting houses were speedily food for the flames. They are two structures 01 good dimension? and both of them were practically de stroyed. The firemen got near the fire with difficulty, and the water had little or no effect. A high wind was blowing and fanned the flames in the direction of the Monarch Distillery, and for a time it was feared that the fire would sweep along the entire river bank. However, the heroic work of the fire men began to tell, and at 7 o'clock the fire seemed under control, with no likelihood of a further spread. PRISONER SHOT DEAD. Tried to Throw Captor lato River and Wat Killed. Minneapolis, Minn. ? (Special Two military prisoners at Fort Snell ing made an attempt to escape and one ol litem, Tony Wisch, was shot dead by Private Kennedy. Private Reilly, who managed to get to cover, was retaken later. The men had escaped from the sentinels while at work and had crossed on the bridge leading to St. Paul. Reilly was retaken and led the way to a saloon where Wisch was found. The party started back across the bridge to the fort, and when in the middle the prisoners tried to throw Kennedy over the run into the river below. Kennedy thereupon shot Wisch. who lived only two minutes. West Was a Good Marrler. Washington, D. C. ( ? Special).-? Officials of the pension office hava been considering the case of an ap plicant for government aid who has the most extraordinary matrimonial career, according to his own account, of any man who has ever applied for a pension. The man is Peter West, a veteran of the Seventh Ohio Caval ry. He has been married ten times, and to do so has been compelled to divorce himself eight times. Commissioner Wart recognized in the much married West a comrade of the Civil War. West was born in Prussia and it 63 years old. In his application for a pension he gives the list of hi* wives, the last one of whom is still living. Armenians Reported Massacred. Pari.} ? (By Cable). ? The foreign office hai been advised of the arrival at Constantinople of the Russian consul who took part in the investi gation of the recent Armenian mas sacres. The French and British con suls, who participated in the investi gation, have not yet returned. There fore the foreign office doubts the cor rectness of a Constantinople dis patch. published here, saying that the consuls unite in reporting that 5000 Armenians were massacred during the recent ' conflicts between Turks and Armenian* Killed By Folding Bed. Minneapolis, Minn. ? (Special^. ? Mrs. A. M. Woodward, wife of the president of the South Side State Bank, died as the result of a folding, bed accident. The bed suddenly closed during the night. Mr. Wood* ward got one arm out of t*e bed and beat on the floor until help came, when it wan found that three of Mrs. Woodward's cervical vertebrae were broken. (iet*Fat*Quick Scheme. Chicago (Special). ? The "get-fat quick" contest* were abolished by the Chicago Civil Service Commit ?don. Three candidate* for position} in the city fire department who have been dieting and exercising for a wecV in an effort to roach 140 pounds, the standard required by the civil service rules, failed to accomplish the task* One candidate succeeded, increasing liis weight seven and a half pounds. Instead of following the example ol his fellows the successful candidate tried what he termed the "rest curc.*