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VOL. I. NO.23. ? CAMDEN,S. C.,THURSDAY, JULY 7.1904. S1.50PEK YEAR
japs capture ocrrosrs
1t(M Vwls, leeway to kfMt fm
li ? Smtaj Mde.
wssuib mo n ktuut.
Tokyo, (By Cable).?It is unoffi
cially reported that the Chik-Wan
Sihan Chit-An-Shan and So-Cho
Shan forts, southeast of and ? part of
the Port Arthur defenses, were
captured Sunday after an all-day fight,
beginning with an artillery duel. So
Cho-Shan, it is added, was the first
captured and the other forts fell
soon afterward.
The Russians retreated west, leav
ing forty dead. The number of
wounded has. not been ascertained.
The composition of the Japanese
forces has not been learned beyond
the fact that it is said to have con
sisted of all branches of the service.
The Japanese lost three officers and
100 men killed or wounded and cap
tured two guns and a quantity of
ammunition. The officials here do
not confirm the report.
To Gates of Mukden.
Hai-Cheng, (By Cable).?The Jap
anese are continuing to advance from
Siu-Ycn and Feng-Wang-Cheng. Gen
eral Oku is also moving north from
Senu-Chen. General Samsonoff is
contesting his progress, but is not
offering serious resistance
The Japanese force advancing from
the Mo-'lien pass (?) is composed of
at least three regiments and ten bat
teries of artillery. A force of equal
strength is advancing from l*en
Sluii pass, on the high road to Liao
\ang. The fiank move on the latter
Is supported by a column marching
from Saimatsza.
Which Mo-Tien Pass?
It would7appear that confusion has
sriscn through the use of the words
'Mo-Tien pass" in General Kuro
patkin's dispatch of June 27. The Mo
Tien pass, known as the "Gale of
Mukden," is easily located, but troops
would not be likely to advance from
(here on Hai-Ch?ng, or Ta-Tche
Kiao, as they would have to move
pearly one hundred miles southwest
ifter getting, through the pass.
On the other hand there is a Mono
Tien pass near llai-Cheng and about
forty miles from that town. It is
possible that Mono-Tien pass has been
meant when Mo-Tien pass was men
tioned. It also seems probable that
the reference to Ta pass in General
Kuronatkin's dispatch meant "Dal
pass/ or "Daling." otherwise Da
pass, which , is about twenty-five
miles southwest of Ta-Tche-Kiao.
It was announced from Hai-Cheng
that a heavy engagement was ex
pected n?ir the village of Si-Mou
Clieng, fifteen miles south-southeast
of Hai-Cheng and an equal distance
due> east of the railroad.
Si-Mou-Cheng is about thirty miles
from Mono-Tien pass.
Battleship Rammed,
Cronstadt, (By Cable).?The Rus
sian battleship Navarin while re
turning to her anchorage was rammed
by the Russian ironclad Netron
Alema. which struck her amidships.
.The damage to the Navarin is not
serious, though it may be necessary
to dry dock the vessel. It is believed
that the period required for the re
pairing the battleship will not be a
long one.
The Navarin is a battleship of io,
20b tons displacement and 9000 indi
cated horse power and carries a crew
of 630 men. She was completed in
1895 and was last commissioned on
Saturday. The wafship had a belt
of compound armor sixteen inches
thick, twelve inches of the same armor
above her belt, twelve inches on her
bulkheads and twelve inches over her
heavy gun positions. Her armament
consistcs of four twelve-inch guns,
eight six-inch guns, fourteen quick
firers and four smaller guns.
The Netron Mcnia is a coast dc
fense ironclad of 3340 tons displace
ment. She is an old vessel, having
been completed in 1865, but was sup
plied with new boilers in 1897. The
armament of the Netron Mcnia con
sists of fourteen six-inch guns and
probably a few smaller quick-firing
guns. Her armored belt is 3.5 to 4.5
inches in thickness and she has the
same thickness of armor over her bat
tery.
Whirlpool Clalatd Three Victim*.
Halifax, N S., (Special).?An awful
tragedy occurred at Montmorency
falls, when hundreds of persons,
powerless to aid the victims, saw
Nicholas Ansaloin, of St. Roche, and
two unknown women swept over the
falls to death. The party was en
joying a day's outing and had descent
ded the natural steps at the falls to
secure a drink of water. A moment
later all three were seen to lose
their balance and fall headlong into
the swiftly moving waters. They
were carircd quickly over the falls
and into the whirlpool below.
Toraado Kills Two.
Holmesville, Neb., (Special). ? A
tornado near this place killed two
persons, fatally injured a third and
causcd the severe injury to five others,
all members of one family. The tor
nado folowcd a sultry afternoon.
Great damage was done to crops and
several farm houses were destroyed.
Mora Pay to Olasa Workers.
Tittshurg, Pa., (Special). ? The
'American Window Glass Company
has advanced the pay of the cutters
and flatteners 20 per cent, and has
also given the guarantee of $15 per
week market money. A revision has
been made in the wage scale and the
wages are now almost as high as the
original Philadelphia scale. The
American Company proposes to oper
ate all of its machine-equipped plants
throughout the summer.
NEWS n
L.W *Sri?nifir"! b*'ore ?h? H.n-.rd
c Association at Cam
bencfrH A>ry ?f War Tmft de
the Philifii r?11!. government of
out wh.i?? I*Und?. and pointed
SLjtob. *?Vern,nent ?>?
tr/^*y,er? who was believed
<tier&A you?ypst Confederate sol
J,l[? ,n ^n>cago. He enlisted
when 12 years old as a cavalryman.
a_j5f^Jter ^co"? an Alaskan miner,
on . p..naS r?bbedof $12,000 in gold
"d'H^rifbuV" ,WeeD Pitt'ba"
?rX^> ?.f Pe?"#ons are ready to
make the rush into the new tract
brash" ?Pen *? homc*teaders in Ne
Z 1w;.^r8<?l^5Ute of the ???? Levi
$M66,6ia Chicago, is appraised at
K-F5!ir?ew. Collieries wil be opened
by the Reading Company.
1?nBe.r to "PPOft her
three children, her husband being in
an insane asylum. Mrs. Fred Kolodzik,
?hf Ch'cago, laid down on a bed with
-SS e ??es? turned on the gas and*
neighbors found them all dead.
romantic marriage one month
pCaH.i il" o? v,r?inia Diver, of
Philadelphia, to Shinzo Morita. a Jap
Bysf^At,antk city'
Ca^'SM?^le/lewartt ?f Los Angeles,
W r q? d her< mother-in-law, Mrs.
for th, ? ?WaV' f?r, ^S.000 damages
h?r h?,tand 01 ,he ?"?<??? ?<
Governor Green McCurtain, of the
den/rtm ?at,??- has written to the
th? liStn authonties claiming that
white ?ra?(er?.re bC,"g robbc<! ?hej
?ener";i Hartsr^ff. inspector
fnff thl Ci i w ?y the ?hio dur
in PortSZZ"\'^a " "is h??'
vlte. I,.cdera! Grand Jury in New
ast? ,i|f,J!ve8t,|fating the Slocum dis
5? manslaiighter.n<1'n* ^
smallpox prevails, were detained at
quarentinc i? New York aCla,ned at
dfiSTSftS^ES o.. Z3V3K
1 LaW Sho- ?
liaf'TnL ?wVCr' r?,( Plymouth. Pa..
?>r I-ZL E,,*abe?h Alspaugh
&j&r damiB" ,or b">?h
; gSSg
A mKI Party for president.
in^^f Kram .was ?"?ceivcd in Wash
biSonP <* a-"
A LL "e^nt^v Vo'JZ",i
ac?d H ^krS<i!' an<* taken carbolic
F x?Cruhusband i3 wealthy.
hi<
Wabanamp? a"d E<|win Gnskey, of
JV?a,a.n*' were electrocuted bv an
cherry0 tree? h ran through their
.t,^, Party %of. ProsPectors who lost
were lhe Death Vall^ region
lapse. When ?n the verge of col
1ST w"e tilled ?id a^um'btMn"
Marcus Crahan, of Providence R
yea?afn teh!.tenCed in St* Louis to 15
^citing! penitentiary for counter?
Yo^k ^JSuDrem^11 r^Um* ?f the New
Norfolk c C?urt* enjoined the
Norfolk and Southern from niacin?
BS?-tf?sea?S
?slJwp ?(.,hc ?ni<>'' wood
in
TKotia Hr,led States revenue cutter
CT^f"11 57 shipwrecked
rhf p!-*? poacrer* ?n an island in
tS /5Jin?C a" WUI 8Cnd them ba<*
France'tf/U?SK.?r?rd' embassador of
rranee to the United States, waa a
passenger on the steamer La SaJSie
Havre. " fr?m Ncw York for'
framed f^a!fntT' a N?rth Carolina
kiflTd himiu w1 h,s wife and then
Killed himself. He was temporarily
insane from alcoholism.
Creek ?,I,ZCnS.' AJ,iance of Cripple
ton. 1 ordered 3.000 lapel but
tons bearing the iocription "They
can t come back. '
Three Italians held up O. C. Lonir
BlSeStPonyam"tCr ?f the Hudson Riv"
of $a7^S comPa,,y. a"d robbed him
Forelga.
It is semiofficially stated in Berlin
that the satisfaction which Germany
and France will demand from the gov
ernment of 11 ayti for the attack on the
respective ministers of those countries
by the palace guards at Port au Prince
will consist of the punishment of the
guilty persons.
Gustavo Flamm, a passenger on the
steamer Kaiser YVilhelm II .furnished
the American officials at Paris with
a written statement to the cffect that
he saw Kent Loomis on the gang
plank going from the steamer to the
tugboat at Plymouth the day that
Loomis disappeared.
Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain,"
sailed for New V'ork from Naples on
the Hamburg-American Line steamer
Prinz Oscar with the casket contain
ing the remains of his wife, which will
be interred at Elmira, N. Y.
Colonel Bloomfield Gough, who
during the Boer War was ordered
home for refusing to obey General
Lord Methuen's order, was killed in
a carriage accident in Scotland.
Ion Perdicaris, the American who
was released by the brigand Kaisuli,
tells an interesting story of the cx
f>eriences of Cromwell Varley and
limsclf during their captivity in the
brigand's camp. Raisuli, he says, is
posing as a patriot, who offers to ac
cept the responsibility for clearing
N >rocco, from Tangier to Fez, of
robbery and crime if he it backed up
by the powers.
the sum MSAsm
mA Wc^Bffoe it Cfavgd
mate B BAOO AS a GIWAKH
W Wm Ptaai far SUMS Back tor
*? PnhM at Oaca?Captalr
Vm Sctafcfc b a
New York, (Special).?The con
oner's jury in the Slocum inquest re
turned a verdict finding?
That the immense loss of life on th*
General Slocum was due to the mis*
conduct of the directors of the Knick
erbocker Steamboat Company.
That Captain Van Gchaik i?
criminally responsible.
That Captain Pease of the Grand
Republic, as captain of the steamboat
company's fleet, is criminally responsi*
ble in that he failed to properly equip
the Slocum with fire apparatus.
7hat Mafe Flannagan acted in ?
"cowardly manner."
That the action of Inspector Lund'
berg should be brought to the atten*
tion of the federal authorities.
Coroner Berry has issued warrant!
for the arrest of the director* and offi
cials of the Knickerbocker Steamboat
Company. Inspector Yundberg and
Mate Flannagan have been held io
$1000 bail each.
The charge in each case was man
slaughter in the sccond degree. Bail
was fixed by the coroner in amounti
varying from $1000 to $5000,
The directors of the company are1
Frank A. barnaby, president; Charlet
E. Hill, vice-president; James K. At
kinson, secretary, and C Delancej
Evans, Robert K. Story, Floyd S
Corbin and Frank G. Dexter.
The mate, Edward Flannagan, whe
was under detention as a witness, wa?
the first arraigned. He pleaded not
guilty and his bail was fixed at $1000
No bondsman being on hand he waj
committed to jail.
Inspector Lundberg pleaded not
guilty and was released on $iooc
bonds.
Bail was fixed at $5000 each for
President Barnaby and Secretary At
kinson, and bonds were furnished a!
once.
Captain Van Schaik is a prisoner in
the Lebanon Hospital. Captain Peasa
may not be arrested until tomorrow,
when it is expected that the directors
of the company will also be taken into
custody. At the assistant district
attorney's request the coroner com
mitted the assistant engineer, Edwin
-Brandow, and^the deckhands Coakley
and Trembly as witnesses, sending
them to the bouse of detention.
Captain Van Schaick Testified.
The jury was in session until 4.45
o'clock in the afternoon. Captain Van
Schaick, the commander of tbe Slo
cum, was called as the first witness.
He was wheeled into court in an in
valid's chair. He and Captain Pease,
looked after the equipment of the
Slocnm each season. He said t%e
government inspector had condemned
sofne of the life preservers since 1891,
and he, personally, had thrown out
about thirty.
In the course of the hearing Captain
Van Schaick was asked what he did
when informed the steamer was on
fire. He said he ordered full speed.
"I ran to see what the fire was
like," be said. "I ran back to the
pilot house and said tq the pilot: 'Ed,
she's gone; beach her.' He said:'
'Where?' and I pointed to North
Brother island. 'Shave that dock and
put her starboard side on the beach.'.
Then I started to ro aft. but the
flames were coming like a volcano and
my hat caught fire. That's where
my fact and hands got burned. There
was no chance to move."
Captain Van Schaick said that he
and hip men looked over every life
presenrar on the steamer this spring,
united States Inspector Lundberg al
io examined some of them, but he did
not test any of them by putting them
in water, nor did he test the weight
carrying power of any of them in
water. Neither the witness nor In
spector Lundberg or the other in
spector *ho visited the General Slo
cum ever test the hose at the forward
standpipe, which burned. No test of
the lifeboats was made. He did
hold three fire drills prior to June 15
between decks, when the men were
ihown how to use the hose.
Attorney Called to Order.
A number of times during the ex
amination of Captain Van Schaick,
Counsel McManus, of the Knicker
bocker Steamboat Company, inter
rupted with advicc to the witness and
protests to the court against the man
ner in which the examination was be
ing conducted. Finally the coroner
told Mr. McManus that he would be
refuted the courtesy of the court if
he did not desist.
After Captain Van Schaik had left
the stand several persons who were
on the steamer at the time of the fire
were examined.
Augustus Lutzen said he first saw j
the fire when off Ninetieth street, and
notified one ofi the crew.
Prank Prawdziki, the only survivor
of a family of six, said he saw the
fire when off Eighty-sixth street, but
did not report to the captain until the
steamer had rrached One Hundred
and Twenty-ninth street. At that
time the captain told him to run away,
and mind his own business.
Fire at League Islaad Yari.
Philadelphia, (Special).?Work on
the new dry dock at the League Is
land Navy Yard met with a serious
setback by a fire which destroyed the
cable tower on the west side of the
dock. The tower is a huge timber
construction about fifty feet high and
connected with another similar tower
on the east side of the dock by a four
inch wire cable, forming a great trav
eling crane on which the blocks of
granite for the dry dock are conveyed
to their places.
UTBfAMWWB tHinS.
Rear-Admiral Ifanney, chief of the
Naval Equipment Bureau, entered in
to agreement wiifc Abraham White,
president of nerican De Forest
Wireless Megreffc Company, for the
acquisition by (hi Navy of five of
the longest wireless telegraph cir
cuits in the worfel up to this date,
two of them b?iM| over 1,000 miles
in length. | >
The navy ha* Mt keenly the neces
sity of a wirelee*. collection between
its naval bases at Guantanamo, Cule
bra and Key WdML reslizing that in
the event of hoetBtty with a foreign
power the emitting* cable system
would be the Mt point of attack.
-The necessity of JWQtecting the canal
zone has enlarMp the problem of
finding a secondary means of com
munication, and the General Board
has learned a lesaon from the isola
tion of Port Arthur in the present,
war. Therefore some time ago the
Equipment Boreas began a series of
competitive tests -npder the immediate
direction of Uentenant-Commander
Jayne, and the retdt was the arrange
ment today betweep'Admiral Manney
and Mr. White to sign a contract for
the supply to ttfc Government of
wireless instruments, guaranteed to
maintain reliable* service on these
circuits: Key West to Panama, 1,000
miles; South Cuban Coast to Panama,
720 miles; Pensacola to Key West,
450 miles; South Cuba to Portp Rico,
600 miles.
The service proposed is exceptional
In that the wireless current must
traverse not only the ocean, but to
leap over conaidetfcble islands, such
as Cuba and Haiti, and in the lat
ter case, and perhaps in the others,
run a risk of crossing currents set up
by apparatus on islands not a part
of the United States. The contract
ing company assumes full responsi
bility for the workim ?f the system
in such cases.
On its part, the Government agrees
to operate in harmony with such sta
tions and vessels as now use the De
Forest system and this is said to ex
tend to Panama. The Government's
instruments will be attuned to har
monize with those of the company
to prevent interference. The navy
will have the company's kev, so the
two may work interchangeably with
out the possibility of their messages
being picked up or stolen or sup
pressed by vessels or stations equipped
with other kinds of apparatus. The
enormous value of wireless teleg
raphy in naval operations, as revealed
by Admiral Togo's last exploit off
Port Arthur, has hastened the Navy
Department to conclude this contract.
The Navy Department has received
permission from the iV>epartment of
Commerec and Labor to establish a
wireless telegraph station on Farell
ton Island, off San Francisco, and is
now arranging to erect pole and equip
the station at once,
Gil tree Was Prose to Negotiate Loan.
The Postoffice Department gave out
a statement *of the charges and the
results of the investigation thereof in
the case of William "B. Gaitree, who
has just resigned the office of divi
sion superintendent of the Rural Free
Delivery Service of the Postoffice De
partment, with headquarters at Cin
cinnati. The statement says that
Gaitree was charged by a number
of persons at Marietta, O., his home
town, with refusing to pay money
borrowed since his employment in the
service, of intemperance and dissolute
habits, and of accenting shares of
stock in a rural mailbox company as
a gift, and of borrowing money from
subordinates io his office. It adds that
investigation showed he frequently
borrowed money, apparently without
intention of repaying it. "It says that
Gaitree denied a loan transaction
which he subsequently admitted, and
that while the Postmaster General
was convinccd he should be removed,
he was permitted to resign at "Gai
? roe** personal rennest made to the
Postmaster General."
Probing Colorado Troable.
The Bureau of Labor is making an
investigation erf the labor difficulties
in Colorado, under the organic act
of the bureau, which charges the Com
missioner of Labor to investigate the
cause of and the facts relating to
controversies between employers and
employes.
The investigation, which is already
under way. ipay last for some time, as
it is the intention of the bureau to go
to the very beginning of the trouble
*nd try to learn exactly what the
rliffirulties are and the causes leading
io them.
For State Militia,
Acting Secretary Oliver, of the War
Department, has made the usual al
lotment of the $i.ooo.ooo appropriated
by Congress to provide arms and
equipments tor the organized militia
>t the United States. Among the
amounts appropriated to the several
?states are ttic following: Maryland,
It5.938; North Carolina. $23,0:17; Dis
trict of Columbia. $18,884; Pennsyl
vania. $67,822; Virginia, $23,937; West
Virginia, $13,963.
Congressional and Departaeots.
Admiral Manney, chief of the Naval
Equipment Bureau, entered into an
lgreement with Abraham White, of
\ wireless telegraph company, for the
icouisition by the Navy of five of
the longest wireless circuits in the
world.
President Roosevelt was obliged to
decline an invitation to witness the
maneuvers of the Pennsylvania Na
tional Guard on tiie battlefield at
Gettysburg July 23-30.
Wiiliam B. Gaitre?, divison super
intend-out of the Rural Free Delivery
Service at Cincinnati, has resigned.
Charges had been made against him.
Berin W. Taylor, chief clerk of
the Postoffice Department, has re
signed, and will return to his home in
West Virginia.
Secretary Hay received a cable
gram from Perdicaris expressing his
thanks to the United States govern
ment for securing his release. The
Secretary of State instructed the
American Ambassador at Paris to
thank the French government for as
sisting in the negotiations.
Acting Postmaster General Wynne
has adopted a scale of allowances to
be made to postoftices throughout the
country.
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Philadelphia, (Special).?Three per
sons lost their lives and a half a dozen
others were injured as the result of
the explosion of a small bundle of Arc
works in the storeroom of the Dia
mond Fireworks Company. 826 Arch
street.
The fireworks concern occupied the
fifst floor of the building. The second
floor was vacantr~k~nd the third story
was occupied by the French Hat and
Bonnet Frame Company. Jancovitch
was the proprietor of the hat and
bonnet concern and Betman and Miss
Simpson were his employes. These
three were the only persons who were
above the first floor. About a dozen
persons were employed by the fire
works company.
The cau3e of the fireworks explod
ing is not known. Thomas Conway,
one of the firm of the fireworks com
pany, was wrapping up a small bun-:
die of fireworks for a customer when
it exploded. Almost instantly the en
tire room full of fireworks became ig
nited from the flying rockets and fire
crackers. All the employes on the
first floor escaped without scriotts in
jury. The front of the first floor was
blown out by the explosion of powder
and soon the entire building was in
flames. Every effort was made to
reach those on the third floor.
Firemen climbed ladders m the
midst of the pyrotechnics and finally
reached those on the third floor. Miss
Sempson and Jancovitch were found
alive, but died in a hospital, lierman
was dead when he was taken from the
building.
During the ^rescue three firemen
were injured and three other persons
were also cut and burned,.but their
injuries are not considered serious.
The flames spread to the building
occupied by H. S. Kilner & Co., pub
lishers of Catholic books, and that
occupied by J. L. Gibney & Bros.,
dealers in automobile supplies, but
j did no- serious damage. The entire loss
on all three buildings, including sto.ck,
is estimated at $30,000. There was
1 no insurance on the fireworks estab
lishment. .. *
MANY SLAIN BY TURKS.
Reported Armenians Pat to the Sword By
Wholesale.
London, (By Cable).?The Paris
correspondent of the Daily Mail
claiins to have indisputable authority
for the following details of recent
events in Armenia:
The villages ? of Darmet, Adekel
poum, Arnist, Kari, Vcrtok and Mek
rokon were sacked an 1 burned. The
inhabitants in many cases were mas
sacred and the corpses cast into the
wells of Mouradson.
Mekrokon was pillaged by Kurds,
wtio were accompanied by Turkish
soldier*. Its church was plundered
and profaned. The objects of wor
ship were sold at auction. Every
able-bodied man was stabbed, most
of them in the back.
During the night Turkish soldiers
entered nouses and assaulted women.
On the arrival of the British and
French Consuls, women, streaming
blood, rushed to them, begging for
mercy.
Mouch is occupied by Turkish sol
diery. More than 2000 women and
children from the destroyed villages
have taken refuge there. These are
wretched and wander through the
streets half dead- from hunger and
fear.
Judging from a trustworthy esti
mate founded on an inquiry made bv
the British and French Copsuls. 28
villages have been destroyed and 6000
persons massacred.
SAYS IT IS ILLEOAL
A Salt for the Dissolution of tbo Standard
Oil Trust.
Trenton, N. J., (Special).?Charles
D. Henderson, Jr., of Jersey City,
and Joseph M. W. Nctwin, of Phila
delphia, counsel for George Rice, of
Marietta, O., filed in the Court of
Chancery a bill for the dissolution
of the Standard Oil Company, a New
Jersey corporation, charging that the
company is illegal, and that it exists
in violation of the anti-trust laws of
the United States and of the decision
in this state relating to monopolies.
The bill charges that the Standard Oil
Company i*i Ohio was declared illegal
by the courts of that strite, but that
the company, instead of dissolving
in obedience to (hat decision, has by
subterfuge evaded the Ohio decision,
and th.it the New Jersey corporation
is merely a holding company for th ?
Ohio concern. The bill asks tha? vm?
only the company be dissolved, '
that its assets be distributed among
its stockholders, after paying off i?<*
outstanding securities. For fhe ac
complishment of this purpose it' is
asked that a receiver be appointed.
Mayor Fired 00 Cracksman.
Cleveland, O., (Special).?Three
robbers blew the safe in the postoflice
at Rocky River, a suburb. The ex
plosion awakened Mayor Mitchell and
his son, living near by, and they
opened fire on the cracksmen. One
of the men was wounded and fell to
the ground. Me was picked up and
carried away by his compani >ns. Tlie
robbers escaped, and no further trace
has been found of them. They were
frightened away before securing any
thing from the poitoffic? safe.
swept st ammsT.
VwWmM Away?
Pittsburg, Pa^ (Special).?Over 500
homes, business houses and school
houses, a short distance from Pitts
burg on the Pan Handle railroad, were
inundated in from two to ten feet of
water in Robinson's run hollow and
the Charities valley by the cloudburst
there. Many buildings and bridges
were washed away, horses and cattle
were drowned and at least one life
was lost. It wu rumored that others
had perished, but the reports have not
been verified. There were many nar
row escapes.
In the Bastian Hotel, McDonald,
Charles Hayes, the engineer, was
caught in a room in the basement.
Almost without warning the water
poured in upon him. Escape by way
of the door was cut off. He rcached
safety by crawling through the tran
some.
The Murchland sisters, who conduct
a millinery store at McDonald, nar
rowly escaped death in .the flood.
Their store was washed from its base
with the three women in it. They
were rescued by Charles Cameron,
who waded out to the building and
carried out the sisters one by one.
The house of Arnold Glaser was over
turned by the force of the rushing
wafer. The five members of the
family had .sought safety in one of the
upper rooms. All succeeded in reach
ing l^nd by swimming and wading.
Miss Blanche -Bush, a clerk in a
news-stand at McDonald, had a nar
row escape. The store was listed
from its place and swept into the
stream. Miss Bush was caught in the
structure, and as it floated away she
screamed for help. Her cries were
heard by George Hemmerling. an oil
operator. He plunged into the water
and swam out to the building and
hack again, taking Miss Ilush with
him. Both the electric light plants at
McDonald were flooded and the town
was in total darkness.
' The flood did not subside until day
light, and many families slept out
doors all night.
The oniv fatality reported so far
was the drowning uf an unknown
Italian, whose body was found float
ing in Robinson's run. The damage
will reach $100,000.
"del Married Young Men".
I<thaca, N. Y., (Special).?At the
thirty-sixth annual commencement of
Cornell University President Schtir
man, in his address to the graduates,
said, among other things: I have no
patience with the college graduate
who deliberately elects bachelorhood,
whose social circle is the club, and
whose religion is a refined and fas
tidious epicureanism. It would not
be worth while maintaining colleges
and universities for the production of
froth like that. The family is the
germinal principle of our nation and
the soul of our civilization: it were
treason in our educated young men
to shirk the primary duty of bread
winners.
President Alters Summer Plana.
Washington, I). C., (Special).?Tlie
summer arrangements of the Presi
dent have been modified by the decis
ion of the notification committee of
the Chicago convention to inform Mr.
Roosevelt officially of his nomina
tion for the presidency on July 27,
The President had expected to return
to Washington several days before
that date. He will await, however, the
formal notification of^ the committee
and return to Washington July 28.
After remaining here about three
weeks he will return again to Oyster
Hay to stay until the latter part of
September.
Iikken Used Dynamite.
Houston, Tex., (Special).?Thieves
worked a successful scheme for the
robbery of a gambling-huosc. About
9 o'clock a piecc of dynamite was ex
ploded under a poker table and the
LTowd of 100 immediately made a
rusli for the exit. A second explosion
j followed, and the crowd was frantic.
During tine excitement some one grab
bed the bank roll at the faro table,
getting between $1,200 and $1,500 out
of the drawer. Men had been station
ed at each of the crap tables and all
the roulette wheels, but tlie rolls were
not touchcd. *0 it is presumed the
robbers weakened.
Satb bltis Diss of PalL
Cincinnati, (Special).?Seth Ellis,
who was at one time a Union Reform
candidate for President of the United
States and who was once master of
the National and -Ohio Granges, fell
from a cherry tree on his farm at
Waynesvillc, anJ died. For many
years Mr. Ellis served on the Ohio
Board of Agriculture and was a
wealthy farmer, being also largely
interested in co-onerativc manufactur
ing of farm implements.
FINANCIAL.
The Bell Telephone Company pf
Philadelphia has declared the usual
<|Uartcrly dividend of t'/j per ccnt.
For the third week in June the
earnings of the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburg Railroad decreased $5,195.
I'-irne s?ys: "The new wheat will
ho ?>( good quality and tlie yield will
;>" much better than was anticipated.
' manipulation of Wabash was
.icn.Tiil comment in the failure to
;n> i Ik- interest on the debenture "A"
Apropos of the Seaboard Air Line's
tinar.'Mi^, former President John Skel
ton Williams says: "The company is
in a thoroughly healthy condition."
Harrimin people are still buoying
up Southern Pacific and Union Pa
cific. A lot of London buying in the
latter was supposed to be for those
interests.
There are only $3.500000 of the
Wabash Debenture "AV and the
interest for a year amounts to but
-210.000 Ah the interest has been
>ai.l regularly for ten years it seems
i^d to (iMCotifinue it now, the stun
? -volved being so small.
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Tokio, (By Cable).?Admiral Togd
reports that last Thursday his patrof
boats discovered the battleship Peres*
viet and seven other vessels, ac^
companied by torpedo-boat destroyers^
near the entrance of Port Arthur har*
bor.
They warned him by wireless telegj
raphy and he immediately advanced!
his fleet except those engaged upon!
special duty. The Admiral discovered'
that the Russian fleet, which con-j
sisted of 6 battleships, 5 cruisers an
14 destroyers, evidently planned
dash southward by sundown. .
The Russians stopped outside thei
entrance to the harbor. After night-J
fall a fleet of Japanese destroyers rcson
lutely attacked the Russian .ihips and!
succeeded in torpedoing and sinking!
a battleship of the I'eresviet type and;
disabling the battleship Sevastopol. A
cruiser of the Diana type was observ
ed being towed into the harbor on
Friday morning, and it was evident
she had sustained serious damage.
The Japanese ships sustained little
damage. The Shirakumo was hit by
a shell, which fell in the cabin, and
had three men killed and three others
wounded. The Chidori, a vessel ol
the same class, was hit behind the en
fine room, but no casualties resulted,
orpedo boats (14 and 66 were slightly
damaged.
Facts About The Ships.
The Pertsviei was of the same type
as the Po?>ieda, which was reported
disabled by a torpedo April 13. the
day the IVtropavlovsk was destroyed.
The Sevastopol is in the same class
as was the IVtropavlovsk. The Diana
was a sister ship of the Pallada, which
was torpedoed in the first attack Ad
miral Togo made on the Russian fleet
at Port Arthur and has not appeared
since, except occasionally in Russian
dispatches as to the progress of the
repairs upon her.
Of the fleet of battleships at Port
Arthur, supposing the Peresviet and
Sevastopol out of action, only three
remain?the Tsarewitch, the Pobieda
and the unfortunate Retvizan. These
were all dainaorcd in the early days of
the war, and while many reports have
been disseminated that they had been
fully repaired, no confirmation of this
has been obtained.
I6.00U Reported Killed.
Chicago. (Special).?A special cable
gram to th'? Daily News from Tien
tsin. China, says:
"Ofticcrs arriving at Niuchwnng
from the front say that the battle
fought on Thursday at Simcnting,
about 40 miles cast of Kaiping, was
the hardest blow the Russians have
yet received. The Muscovites lost.1
according to these accounts, 16.000 in
killed, wounded, missing and prisoners.
"That the Russian retreat did not
turn into a rout was due to the doggedj
bravery of the men of the Ninth Fasti
Siberian Rifle Brigade, under General,
Kondratsvitch. who covered the flyingi
troops, contesting every inch of the
way. *
938 BOOIES FOUND.
Vktlait of Slocaa Mutter Tboogbt to Num
ber Oy?t IjNt,
New York, (Special).? Inspector
Schmittberger submitted to Police
Commissioner McAdoo ? report of his
investigation into the General Slocum
disaster. The results obtained by tho
100 policemen and a staff of clerk^
give the total number of bodies re
covered as 938. The missing number
93, the injured 17a and the total num
ber of uninjured persons is given ai
"The persons classified as missing,
numbering 93, and who arc positively
known to have been on board thtt
steamer at the time of the disaster
have not returned to their homes and!
can be considered having also
perished," said the inspector.
In the death of Rev Dr. Edwarcf
Frederick Moldenke. one of the best
known Lutheran clergymen in this
country, another name was added ta>
the list of the victims of the Slocum
disaster. Grief for 20 members of hig
own flock who went on the excursion
and never returned and his compas
sion for the bereft families of St^
Mark's Church so afflicted Dr_
Moldenke that he died of a broken)
heart.
Dr. Moldenke was pastor of Sti
Peter's Lutheran Church, at FiftyJ
fourth street and I^exington avenue. .
It was thought that a few daya' rest
would restore the clergyman to hi
usual health, but he became sudden!
ill on Friday and his death followc
His wife and three sons were with hi
at the last. Dr. Moldenke was 7.
years ofd. .
Site For New Zloa City.
Highland Falls, N. Y., (Special).?*
John A. Dowic, of Zion City, IIU.#
camc here in a special train from Newt
York and, according to report, pur-t
chased sonic land near Fort Mont*
com cry for the establishment of a new
Zion City. Dowic was accompanied
by some officials of the West Shorn
Railroad and several other gentlemen.
After viewing the property the partw
returned to New York.
Woaao Holds Office.
Suffolk, Va., (Special).?A peculiar
state of affairs exists as to the post
mastership of the ofticc of Buck horn,
Va. W. T. Barrett recently was com
missioned as postmaster, but whetit
he called on Mri. M. II. Holland,
whom he nought to succecd, she de
clined to turn over the office. Later
Barrett got a Government order giv
ing him the custody of the office^
b'it Mrs. Holland again refused to
surrender, saving she was acting upon
the advice of counsel. Mrs. Holland
remains in control. \