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JAPANESE US[ fflO SHIPS One Battleship Sun:< by Russian ines, a Cruiser in Collision. HEAVY BLOW TO MIKADO'S NAVY OdI.v 300 Men, Oat of Crews of 1000 v Men, Saved From Death in the \ Double Disasters Off Blocked Harbor? Battleship Was One of Latest Pattern?Happened Off Port Arthur. London.?In the midst of its victorious career Japan c navy has sustained a most severe loss off Port Arthur. one of her greatest battleships, jthe Hatsuse, going dowu after striking a mine, and the powerful cruiser xosuino sniKing unci' a i-uuiswu m a fog with the cruiscr Kasuga. ; Only ninety of the crew of COO carried by the cruiscr Yoshino and but 300 of the Hatsuse complement of 741 men were saved. | According to dispatches received 'from various war centres it would appear that the battleship Hatsuse fell victim to a Russian mine much in the same manner as the Japanese trapped aud sank several Russian vessels. After the Petropavlovsk was destroyed. with Admiral ..IakarofT. the Russians at Port Arthur attempted the same plan as the Japanese?that :?f sending out torpedo boats at night .(to place floating mines where the eu.emy had appeared a few hours before. Mines were especially planted off the :Liau-Ti-Shan promontory, which was a favorable point from which Japanese armor clads bombarded Port Ar'thur. { It would appear that the Hatsuse ,Btruck one of these mines, was partly icrippled, signalled for help, but al'mo^t instantly struck another mine 'and went down. , Yice-AUmirai logo in ms oraciai report to Tokio on the disaster to the {Hatsuse and Yoshino says: ! "A report from Rear Admiral Dewa [says that the cruisers Kasusa and Yosiiiiiio collided during a fog off Tort (Arthur. The Yoshino sank, only ninety .'of her crew being saved. j "On the same day the battleship 'Hatsuse struck a Russian mine and ieank." Oiving details of the disaster, Vice 'Admiral Togo says: "At 14 minutes past 1 o'clock in the afternoon, in a deep fog off Port Ar'thur, the Kasuga rammed tho Yoshino. Linking the latter in a few minutes. [Ninety of her crew were saved. i "The same morning' the Hatsuse (while cruising off Port Arthur, covering the landing of the soldiers, struck a mine ten knots southeast of the harbor entrance. She signalled for help and instantly struck another mine. !6he sank in half an hour. Three hundred of her crew were saved by the torpedo boats." JAPS DRIVEN BACK. Advanced Guard is Defeated By the } Cossacka. ' St. Petersburg, Russia.?The following report has been received from Gen. Konroputkin, the Russian Commandcr-in-Chief in the Far East: "Liaoyang.?A party of Cossacks engaged a detachmeut of the Japanese advance guard in the mountainous district northward of Fengwangcheng. The fighting began at 8 a. m. and lasted until 2.30 in the afternoon. The Japanese were successively dislodged from four positions extending over twenty kilometres, and were pursued to Datiantsy, eighteen kilometres north f Fengwangcheng. "Our loss was six Cossacks wounded, two horses killed and eight wounded. "We found no trace of ths enemy in the Tsauhoka Valley as far as the road leading to Changoulin Pass, twenty-five kilometres north of Fengwangcheng. or in the Aiho Valley from the Saimatsa-Ivurfbtien road as far as Dountsianlintsa, an area of twenty kilometres. "A squadron of"Japanese cavalry Iwhich left Kuantien for Saimatsa repulsed one of our patrols at Schaogo. fifteen kilometres from Kuptien. The patrol retired without loss." The General Staff attaches importance to this Russian success against the western wing of the Japanese advance, believing that they have out flanked a movement that was destined to circumvent G?n. Kouropatkin. The newspapers treat the engagement as a great victory. They say that the Ku ssians made four bayonet charges against the Japanese. LOSSES ON THE YALU. The Japanese Buried After the Battle , 1303 Russian Corpses. Washington, D. C.?The Japanese legation has received a despatch giving an account of the Japanese losses in the battle of the Yalu River, and of the guns, munitions, etc., captured there. It says: *"Gen. Kuroki reports the exact number of casualties in the battle of the Yalu on the Japanese side as 21S killed, including tive officers, and 7S3 . wounded, including thirty-three officers. Thirteen hundred and sixtyithree Russian corpses were buried by the Japanese forces and G13 Russian prisoners were taken. Gups and munitions of war captured consisted of twenty-one three-iuch quick-firing field guns eight quick-firing machine guns, 1021 rifles, a number of horses and large quantities of ammunition, clothing, tents, etc. At Fengwangcheug quantities of ammunition, clothing and provisions were captured." democratic Electors Resigned. Tnniftc T WnnHwnrrl TT iirrv Pnrnn Whitney and Isidor Straus, electors, nvigned from the Democratic ticket on the decision of the Legal Committee that their relations with the government ;'s national bank directors brought them within the spirit of the law. Gas Suit Dismissed. The suit of the Bay State Gas receiver against H. II. I cgers and others .was dismissed iu Boston. ' News From the Seat of War. Viceroy A1 xieff moved to Harbin. It was officially announced that General Kuropatkin would remain for the present at i,iao-Yang. The Russians now estimate that they were outnumbered by the Japanese six to one on the Yalu. Japanese drove the Russian troops from their supposedly impregnate fastnesses at Fengwangcheng. The price of meat in Moscow has risen twenty-five per cent., owing to the heavy shipments to the Far East. - _ . ">?- . .,1 -- v- I SOCIAL FEUD IN CN1CAC Woman Discovers Rival's Husba to Be an Ex-Convict. Mra. Springier. Rejected by the D. A. Blumeri It on the Lawyer's Wife and Set Out to Get Even. Chicago.?A feud between two an" tious womeu has exposed a skele long bidden in the family of Julius Coleman, a successful attorney a author of the Mechanics' Lien 1 of Illinois. Mrs. Coleman, his wife, is the St R-egent of the Daughters of the Am ican Revolution. She is a brillii woman with an interesting fam She has written a history of the Am ican Constitution, which is publisl this week in St. Louis. Mrs. Warren Springer applied admission to the i). A. R. and was jected. Theu she began war on 1 ^jOlC'UlUUS. Now disbarment proceedings hr been takeu against Mr. Coleman fore the Supreme Court of this Sta It is alleged that in 1SS1 Coleman v found guilty of an insurance swin itr Indiana and sentenced to the pe tentiary. Tlie Grievance Committee the Chicago Bar Association brouf the proceedings. The charge agaii him is "evasive omission" in not mi tioning the Indiana trouble when signed an affidavit of good moral ch acter which obtained him license practise law here. Charges of ext tion also have been made in the d barment proceedings. Mrs. Springer is the wife of a proi nent real estate operator. She I taken a leading part in women's cl affairs for ten years, and is at pr ent President of the Illinois Chap of the Daughters of the Revolution, organization distinct from the Dauj ters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Sprinjer had a double interi in finding out all she could about Co man, because a suit which the atb ney brought against her husband w over property that she had decided present to the local chapter of t Daughters of the Revolution. Afi this suit had been won by Mr. Sprit er Attorney Coleman had him iudi ed for perjury, and it was then tt Mrs. springer assumeu. iu seii.-i fense, as she avers, the role of det tive. Charles C. Gilbert, who has und taken to defend Coleman, says: ' is true tkat Mr. Coleman was cc victed of crime in Evansville in IS but he was sick and could not defe himself. He was brought into c?i on a stretcher. He never went to t penitentiary, for he fled to f?rei lands, and later returned and obtain a pardon. There has been no effc to conceal the conviction." Coleman was accused of inducing man named Richardson to insure 1 life for $20,000 and disappear. Co man escaped from the prison hos tal. Mrs. Coleman nuTsed her hi band through his trial, and when escaped she supported her young fa ily by her own endeavors. Mrs. Springer collected all the e dence and obtained certified copies the court records. Then began t movement to expose and disbar Co man. He is now a man of inidi age. Mrs. Springer says: "This troul grew out of my gift to the Daught( of the Revolution of the ground Nos. 173-189 West Polk street for r as a playground and workshop 1 poor children. We knew notlii whatever of Coleman's past until woman, a prominent member of t Daughters of the American Revo tion. of which Mrs. Coleman is I gent, came to my house and inform me that Mr. Coleman was an ex-c< viot. She said that other facts coi be had at Evansville. We collect the facts." FOR A MENTAL SHOCIv-$iO.OOi Bay State Supreme Court Sustai Verdict Against New Haven Road Boston, Mass.?A verdict of $40.( against the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad, given to Frank Cashin, of Springfield, by a low court for mental injury resultiug fr< an accident, was sustained by the f bench of the Supreme Court. The plaintiff was the victim of a c lision at Avon, Mass., in which i persons were killed and about foi injured. It was contended that J Cashin sustained a serious men shock which has resulted in mel. cholia. LIFE SENTENCE FOR $3 THEF 'Twas Oliver's Third Offence a Judge Takes Advantage of theStatd Mason, Mich.?Lewis Oliver, w with Frederick Lesarge. stole oiwi liiiu fi-Atn <> hntrliM' slii has been sent to the Marquette pris for life by Judge Wist. It was Olive third otfence for burglary. Judge Wist says that the stati provides that where a prisoner L been twice sentenced for felony a is again arrested he may be senteni for life. He says a life sentence not made mandatory, but he belief that in this case it is ,'ustitied. Knockout Blow to Poolrooms. The most powerful blow ever de to the poolrooms of New York C was struck when the police in seve precincts descended simultaneous on twenty-two suspected pool-rooms Manhattan, arresting seventy pris* ers and seizing 132 telephones, flftc telegraph instruments and a large ( lection of racing charts and Otl gambling paraphernalia. Negro Lynched by Wegroes. Ed. Whitehead, a negro, was tat from the officer in whose charge was and hanged to the limb of a t; by a mob of negroes at Seaboard, C. Little- Mattie Standi, colored, L been attacked by Whitehead. Southern Teaches rromrse Well. The fruit outlook is generally pr< ising. except for peaches in the in northerly sections. In the South ; States, however, a good crop peaclies is promised. Many Maine Divorces. In his address at the annual c vention ot' the Maine Episcopal I cese at Portland, Bishop Codman 1 , particular stress on the prevalence divorce in the State. He said t during the past year there had b one divorce to every seveu uiarria iu Maiuc. . i:j ; Incendiary Burns Bauk. Fire burned every store but Iwt Waverly, Va. The loss is $48,000. 1 '< blaze was of incendiary origin. r; 1 Bank of Waverly was burned, 1? iug the vaults iutact. i0! FIDE SWEEPS WOO CITY" .nd ? i i Entire Business and Much of the Residence Section Destroyed. B. ' i LOSS ESTIMATED AT $2,000,000 ibl^0Ij The Burned Area In the Mississippi Town j ? I is Twelve Blocks Lour by Three ' in(j Blocks Wide?In All Twenty-eijiht j i Blockg Are in Ashes ?State Militir. Guard the Ruins. a*e Jackson. Miss.?Yazoo City. tlie ! ier*. wealthiest town in the Mississippi j ?,nt delta, located fifty-five miles north of iiy. 1 er^ this city, was swept by tire, and not j ied single business house in the town j is left standing. Over 200 buildings for Were destroyed and the loss is estiIjjJ | mated between two million and two ; and a half million dollars. The first ive figure will probable cover the total de- j ^e" ' structiou. Hundreds of people are | homeless and destitute, and the town ! > tlS . (jie j is under military guard. ni. ; Three persons are known to have ! 0f ! been seriously injured, and rumors are i r[it I current that several negroes perished j . I !?> Bumnj !->?(- flirtCrt Mnnrli! nnnilfll" i list I "?> ? "f j ' be confirmed. ^ ! The devastation of the business dis- | ar. trict is complete. Twenty-eight blocks j t0 were licked clean by the flames and j or. ! only the blackened brick walls and ; iS. j smoldering embers mark the spot j | where handsome buildings once stood, j nj. i Of the total number of buildings de- j ,as I stroyed. about fifty were magnificent | Ulj : residences, many of old Colonial archi- j es. i tecture and occupied by some of the I ter ' wealthiest citizens of the South. au Soon after the fire started in the r]|_ i residence of John Wise, at Main and J j Mound streets, realizing that it was i ?st ! beyond control of the local Fire De- j le. j partment. Mayor Holmes sent out ap- | or. ' peals for aid. and the Jackson Fire De- j -as ! partment, headed by Mayor Hemming- I t? | way. and the Greenwood Fire Depart_he ment, headed by Governor Vardamnn. | hurried to the scene 011 special trains, j The Jackson special made a recorded breaking run. covering the distance of iat forty-five miles in forty minutes. An i hour after the arrival of assistance it BC- j seemed that the fire was almost under : control, but shortly after noon it er. ; broke out afresh at the Calumet Club. 'It ; destroying that structure and moving )n. thence to the Magi: >iui Iun. ?1> | Every white church in town, the Methodist. Baptist, Episcopal, Presirt t hyterian and Catholic, was burned; ]je both telegraphic offices, the Cumber?n | land Telephone Exchange and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley passen)rt ! ger depot. The four banking ir./;titu- j j tions, the Elks Club, the express i a j offices and Tostoffice were swept away, lis I awayle. j The only buildings of consequence dipi. I rectly exposed to the holocaust which us- escaped were tlie Court House and the lie Fannie J. Ricks Memorial Library, m. and through some queer prank of fate both of these were unharmed, although rf. surrounded by fire on all sides. 0f Congressman John Sharp Williams, i lie the Democratic minority leader, was a 1 ie. I heavy loser, several buildings belongHe j ing to him being destroyed. His resii deuce was fortunately spared, as was j also his magnificent library, said to be ;rs | one of the finest private collection of at | books In the South. lse Mr. Williams was one of the heroes f jor j of the day. and his cool head and quick n? judgment was of valuable aid to the a | fire-fighting force. He was busily en- I be i =ased with the workers carrying fur1U. j niture from burning bouses, and doubtie. | less performed as much work of this j ^ I kiud as any man in the city. >n* i jld | -'atal Fire at Greenwood. S. C. ed Columbia, S. C.?Half of the business j part of the city of Greenwood was : wiped out by tire. The property loss 3# will approximate $133,000. Mrs. Annie Mose ley, proprietor of the Central Hon3 tel. where the fire started, lost her life. * | TEX SUFFOCATED IN TUNNEL. >00 & | Mine Workmen Killed by Fumes From j ^ I a Stalled Engine. )m Wilkesbarre, Pa.?A tralnload of j ull sixty men was stalled in the Williams| town Tunnel in Dauphin County and j ol- ten were suffocated by the fumes from I six 1 the engine. The others were rescued | 'ty barely in time to save their lives. Jr. j The tunnel connects the two shafts til : of the Williamstown colliery in Bear in- ! Valley with the breaker in Williams Valley and the town of Williamstown. where most of the mine workers live. T. i The tunnel, which is the only means ! of communication between the two val- I nd leys, is a mile long and so straight 1 te. that it ventilates itself. ^ j Sixty of the workmen caught a heavy coal train between 5 and (? o'clock * and started homeward. The train ; stalled In the tunnel either because the , load was too heavy or the engine lire 'r ? ? | l iuw. Jte | Among the dead is Michael Golden. ias : general inside foreman of the mine. n(j . who was one of the best known uiin,e? ing officials in the region, jg " " " ,ea ; Good Jobbing Business. A decidedly healthy tone has developed in the dry goods jobbing trade ; due entirely to the warm and bright : ait weather that has prevailed, and the ^ty : indications now are that the summer j : business will he good, and possibly betSly I ter than usual. in I 5U. i Good Year For the Farms. ytl I Unless the crops suffer an unusual >0j. j setback hereafter it should he a good ier j year for the farms, and all other iudus| tries will feel the stimulus. young Shad For the Hudson. :en : The officials in charge of the Goyhe j ernment fish hatchery station in the ree ! Susquehanna River, near Perryville. N. I Md? will ship in a few days about ; lad ' 4.000.000 young shad to Catskill. N. Y., i i iu uu ufi>u*iu'u in tue nuusoii itivvr. Coal Trust Testimony. >in* ' Contracts wore made public at the j ore i Coal Trust's inquiry showing agree- I pni j mcnts among'tUe roads to divide busij ness according to percentages fixed j | by Hie Temple. Iron Company. Sportiug Brevities. oil- j Patsy McCue has signed to ride for j >io- | E. E. Sniatliers. !l'(* I Harry Vardon is playing golf once . | more in b.s old time form. 11111 ? ? . een Syracuse University has a new ?.,s | eight-oared shell for the Poughkeepsie ? ! regatta. The hour of Sunday church service , in an English parish has been changed . j to suit golf players. L'lie As tlje number of fast racing cars inFhe creases in number the makers find ,uv. cycle riders of experience and reputnI tlon more and more scarce. mm?? RESIDENT TO STUDENTS Roosevelt Admonishes Groton School boys to Be Plucky arid Decent. Delivers an A<lil rem fit the Mtvisachufletts Ino.'itiite Where His Two Son* Are Studying For College. Groton. Maaa.?Groton School welcomed Theodore Roosevelt, who came rot as President of the United States, hut as the proud father of two of her sons. A pair of prancing bays whirled the President from his private car through the picturesque Willow road and up the hill to the school. There 150 bareheaded youngsters barked out the school yell in rattling chorus. Avitu a sonorous ' tiger'' in the shape of the distinguished guest's name. Then Mr. Roosevelt had a quiet hour with his sons, after which ,a leisurely stroll through shaded paths to the chapel was followed by half an hour in the atmosphere of quiet reverence beneath its painted windows'. Another half hour was spent in the gymnasium, where, with Dr. Pea body, the head master, and Bishop Lawrence. he spoke to the boys. Dr. Pea body made a brief address, devoted particularly to reviewing the history of the school, of which that clay was the twentieth anniversary. Ho also referred in somo detail to the methods followed at the school in the development of the boys instructed there. Dr. Peabody, in introducing the President, said: '"We like him as a parent, we admire him as a President, and we love him as a man.*' The President gave what lie called a '"hoiucly. heart-to-heart talk with the boys." lie expressed the desire that lie should not be directly quoted and that 110 extended report of his,speech should be made. He said that if a boy has not pluck, common sense and decency he is of a pretty bad sort, and a man without those qualities is even worst. He admonished them that they must not become prigs, and urged theui# to be strong, to be decent and to be resourceful. "Boys and men." ho said, "possessing such qualities will not be snobs. There are in our civic and social life worse creatures than snobs, but no creature is more contemptible." The President referred to the advantages of training in public schools, which trainins he believed to be most beneficial because of its democratic character. "It is necessary." he said, "for boys in school and in college, and for men in civic or social life, to demonstrate that they have power to accomplish things and to be able to do their part in life. The boy or the man must be able to accomplish something for decency. or lie must stop aside for those nrlin on n " The Presidential party left here in the afternoon at 5.32, returning to Washington by tiie same route. Hartford, Conn.?President Roosevelt passed through here about 10..10 p. in., on his way to Washington. Station Master Readett presented to him a basket of flowers from Elm City Lodge. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of New Haven, of which organization the President is a member. At Willimantic the President made a brief speech, in which he said: '"I have been to Groton to see two of my hoys. I have others, six in all. and I wish I had a dozen children." MET DEATH BRAVELY. Japanese Officers Who Attempted to Blow Up a Siberian Railway Bridge. St Petersburg, Russia?Details have been received from Harbin of the exe cution of Ukoko and Otti. the two Japanese officers who attempted to blow up a railway bridge near that city. The prisoners said they belonged to a band of 100 uipii to whom had been entrusted the work of destroying the railway. When they were told that they must be extremely brave to ntiertake such a task they rep'ied: "Not at all. We are only doing our duty in carrying out the orders of the Emperor." They were put to death in the presence of a large crowd. Gen. Kouropatkiu had giveu orders that they should be shot instead of hanged. The younger officer refused to have his eyes bandaged. When he was told that this wns the Russian mode he asked that an exception be made in his favor. The elder officer displayed less fortitude, and calmly allowed his eyes to be bandaged. One of the officers -was a Christian. No photographs of the execution were allowed. Boy Saves New York Limited. The New York Limited on the Pennsylvania Railroad would have been wrecked at the Auglaize River, three miles east of Delphos, Ohio, at midnight, had it not been for Charles Peltier, a boy fifteen years old. Al about 10 o'clock, while he was under the bridge fishing for eels, he heard two men above making plans to wreck the train, which is due there about 11.15. He ran to the nearest telephone and notified people in Delphos, who telegraphed the officials in Fori Wayne. They in turn notified the po lice in Van Wert to board the train when it reached that city. When the train reached the river a pile of ties was found on the track. Dr. Fowler Missing. When the case of Dr. Richard C Fowler, the "get-rich-quick" pro motor, was called before Recordet Goff. of New York City, his lawyers said they had no idea where he was and his bond of $23,000 was forfeited Governor Off to Europe. Governor Odell sailed from Xe^ York for Europe on the Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse. to be gone about twc months. Rest and pleasure are his onh objects. Before sailing he denied tin statement that he would ask Aiubas sudor Porter to run for Governor. Freight Handlers' Strike. President Curran. of the freigl. handlers, ordered on strike all the mei of his unions all along the line of tl: New York, New Haven and Hart fori Railway. Newsy Gleanings. More guiu ls aULouu. Chile is selling lier warships. Spain is building a new navy. Cold is still coming in from Japan Pessimism is again rampant in Wal Street. America has furnished Japan 30 locomotives. The city of Glasgow makes STiit, year profit out of the waste paper col lected in the streets. California's raisin crop has practl call.v driven all other sorts from Hi market in this couutrr. , BANKER SACRIFICES LIFE | R. H. Plant Kills Himself That insurance May Be Available. SAVES DEPOSITORS $800,000 ... _ . i Southern Financier Atones Through Death For Crash of Two Banks of Which Ho TVas Head?Revolver Ends Bis Troubles?Ha<l SI,015,OOO Insur< Ance, Which is Incontestable. Macon, Ga.?A tragic sequel to the I crash of the private bank of I. C. Plant's Sons and the First National i Bank came, when R. H. Plant, the head of both institutions, committed suicide, thereby making available over 51,000,000 life insurance for payment on liabilities of about $S00,000 of the two banking institutions. That Mr. riant deliberately 1 sacrificed bis life that the creditors should j not suffer is believed by his most in: timate friends and by banking and in! surance men who knew him here. During the last twenty-five year3 ! Mr. Plant had accumulated life inI surance amounting to $1,015,8S8, on which he was paying an annual premium of about ?4:i,000. As a result of his death the indications are that the creditors of the two banks will not lose a single penny. Many of the creditors are working people, whose dej posits represented years of self-denial and saving. At least $800,000 of Mr. Plant's life insurance is now made payable to his estate, and this amount, it is estimated, will fully cover his liabilities. Mr. Plant had been ill for two months past. When the banks collapsed ugly charges were circulated and much indignation expressed because he failed to make any statements as to the cause. During his illness. especially since the failure of his institutions, he had been closely watched at his home in College street here by his family and nurses, for fear he would commit some rash act. He told his nurse he wished to lie down. Twenty minutes later he asked to be assisted to the bath-room. While there he sent the nurse for a glass of milk. In her absence he secured his revolver from his room, returned to the bathroom and stepped out a small doorway leading to a porch in the rear j of his home. There he placed the ! weapon to his head and fired. The I nurse, returning with the glass of | milk, heard the shot, dashed into the bathroom and out on the porch, where she found the capitalist dead, the l smoking revolver still clenched in his hand. The bullet had passed through the right temple and out of the left, flattening itself upon the house wall. Death was probably instantaneous. The Coroner was at once summoned, and upon the testimony of the nur9e and of a physician a verdict of death by his own hands was rendered. Mr. Plant leaves a widow and nine children. Wallace E. McCaw. President of the McCaw Manufacturing 3 TT.-. n company, anu iui. rniuu nuiuuci, a prominent attorney, are sons-in-law., The Plant banking institutions are the oldest in the city. The receiver of the private institution has reported a deficit of over $844,000. The National Bank Examiner has as yet made no report as to the First National's affairs. Mr. Plant, in addition to being identified with various manufacturing enterprises. and formerly largely engaged with the New York Life Insurance Company, was known throughout the trotting world, and his horses for years have raced in the grand circuit. He owned Grattan Boy. Duloe Cor, Miss Willamont and other well-known horses. George H. Plant. Vice-President of the First National, is a brother. Girls Die In Quicksands. Two Louisiana girls. Laura Walton, of Oklona, and Lena Hillard. of Lamont, aged fifteen and sixteen years, respectively, who attended the Columbus, Miss., Industrial Institute and College, were swallowed up by the quicksands of the Tombigbee River, at Waverly, while endeavoring to rescue a Mrs. Holmes, who had fallen into the sand pit. New York Usurer Sentenced. David Rothschild, the East Side "Napoleon of Finance" and salary loan usurer of New York .City, late President of the wrecked Federal Bank, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison by , | Recorder Goff for nine years. The , maximum punishment for his crime is ten years. He secured a stay of proceedings. Twenty-five Killed. | In the course of the reconnoissance on I'orc AllLllU uiuu.tr uj auuuai Togo, a shell hit the Japanese torpedo boat destroyer Akatsuki, killing one officer and twenty-four men. Farm Products Report, i The Department of Agriculture made i | public a report giving $4,500,000 as a i conservative estimate of the value of the farm products of the country not fed to livestock in 1903. Complain Against Railroad. New England cities, towns and villages complain of tlie conditions caused 1 by unsatisfactory service of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail road Company. Only Wate~ in Canal Zone. Various temperance organizations ihave begun a campaign to make the ? j Tanama Canal zone prohibition ter ' ritory. President Roosevelt is daily I receiving letters to this end, and is re i ferring them to the Canal Commis j sion. Railway to Spend Millions. 1 , The Now York Central will spent1 1 ! $22,000,000 next year on electrica I ? : * ? ~T *? tvl.inimrl tn run cnh I UlJUIlllIltTlll. It iO I.V Al*** I urbail trains at sevcuty-live miles ar j hour. Tlie National Game. Bob Emslie is in bis fifteenth yeai ! as umpire. Jack Cronin is pitching great bal for Brooklyn. I Tbis is Tenne.v's tentb year witb tbc Boston Nationals. 0 Geler is doing splendid work for tb< 1 Boston Nationals. Pitcher Jack Pfiester, late of Pitts burg, has sigued with the Omahl Club. j. Infielder 'Gene Demontreville, lat< P of the St. Louis team, has signed rriti Atlanta, S ' \ * vc; ! WRECKS TORPEDO PLANT i Many Fatalities Result From Ruin of Big- Concern at Findlay, Ohio. " . ! : Two Terrific Explosions Demolish the I.aUe Shore Novelty Company's ! Works, Covering Ten Acres. ! Findlay. Ohio.?As a result of an ! explosion in the two drying rooms of j the Lake Shore Novelty Company's ! plant seven persons are known to be j | dead, two are missing, five are so I [ seriousiy hurt that recovery is bej lieved to be impossible and twelve or j fifteen are injured badly. From reports : of the physicians ten of the less ser* i iously injured may die as a result of j blood poisoning from the potash that < | was driven into their bodies. The dead are: Joseph Sherwood, j ! twenty-one years olch Jay Sherwood. ! twenty-four years old; Edith Dillon, j J seventeen years old: Deau Shnw, ! ] eighteen years old; Mary Snyder, j | twenly-two years old: Estella Decker, 1 fifteen years old; Frank Grant, twegty, one years old. The injured who it is believed cannot recover: Maggie Logan, nineteen j 1 years old: injured by flying debris. I | Thomas Bock, struck in the back by [ : flying barrel: arms and legs broken: J internally injured. Claude Shaw, twin | brother of Dean: neck severely in- ! jured and ankle broken. Elfie Peter- I | man and her brother Roy. caught in ! ! falling debris and internally injured. ! The less seriously injured are: Carrie j ' Peterman, breast and lungs crushed i ! and head and eyes powder burned; i May Leavis, who worked beside her, similarly hurt; Louis Weingartner. hip j fractured: Minnie Dell, burned: Mrs.. | Dollie. forewoman, cut and burned; l Minnie Quinlan. floorworaan, cut and I bruised about bead and shoulders: J. i S. Leary. B. C. Swisher and William ! Baughman. slight hurts. Three others, whose names could not be learned, were also cut and burned. The two employes missing are supposed to have been blown to atoms. The Lake Shore Novelty Works j plant covered nearly ten acres of ! ground in the southwest part of the ! city and employed nearly two hundred ! men, women and children. Railroad j topedoes and Fourth of July explo- | I sives were manufactured. j Owing to the large rush of orders j the officials of the plant requested \ the employes to report for duty Sun* j day. About thirty complied with the ' j request. The explosion shattered windows j throughout the city. The concussion ! was felt for miles around. Two maga- ; zines, in separate rooms, at the Nov- ; city works exploded simultaneously. The exact cause of the explosion is , i not definitely known. It is surmised i that one of the Sherwood brothers, i j who were the only persons in the dry ins rooms, dropped a large bos of torpedoes. but this theory cannot be confirmed. Twenty persons were on their way to the factory when the explosion occurred. Human forms were strewn considerable distances apart on the factory site. The remains of the Sherwood brothers were found in drying j room No. 1. mangled and almost un- : recognizable. Their clothing was blown from their bodies, save a stocking on the right foot of Jay Sherwood. The body of Edith Dillon was picked up two hundred yards from where the explosion occurred. The large plant is shattered into fragments, not a single wall remaining. Bricks and timber were strewn ' for a half mile around. The loss on the I plant is $00,000. GREAT LAKE STRIKE. Fifty Ports Affected and the West Facing Commercial Disaster. Chicago.?Almost complete paralysis of lake commerce has followed the strike of the masters and pilots of the Great Lakes, and iu the opinion of local experts Chicago and the West are facing one of the greatest commercial disasters in history. Already more than 100.000 men liave I been thrown out of employment, aud capital estimated to approximate $250.000,000 has been tied up. The strike has affected fifty lake ports. In Chicago alone <1 score of big warehouses are practically closed down. At this time there seems to be no | sign of weakening on either the part of the Lake Carriers' Association or | j the Masters ana i/nous Association. | It was the latter body which precipitated the struggle by refusing to accept the wage scale offered by the em? ploying body. Yale Man Slain at Polo. From the results of a blow .on the head by a polo mallet, which he had j received in the game between Yale i and Princeton in Van Cortlandt Park. New York City. Henry D. Babcock, j Jr.. a member of the Yale team, died I in the New York home of his father. 1 Henry D. Babcock. the banker. The | contest in which the youug man had suffered the mortal blow was the first intercollegiate polo match that has ever been played in this country. Mother and Son Assassinated. Whea driving to their home near Ariola. Col.. Mrs. C. W. Herman and ! her son, Frank Ingles, were shot and , i killed by Marshall Humphreys, who rode into town and surrendered himself. There had been a feud between the two families. Guarding Our Interests. At the request of China, which . j feared Russian invasion through craft, ' I the United States is standing guard over the Canton-Hankow Railroad, an American incorporation. Tornado in Virginia. ! Williamsburg, capital of Virginia i.i * j Colonial days, was swept from end to " j end by a tornado which uprooted magi nirtcpni' trees bv the score and tilled ' the streets with limbs and tlie wrecks j of houses and feuces. There was uo j loss of life. Ulster County Poorhouse Burns. I j The Ulster County (X. Y.) poorhouse. j . ! three miles from New Paltz. was to | I t.nllv destroyed by fire. The loss i? j 1 placed at $.30,000. - 1 Promineit People . James Bryee. M. P.. can speak more i or less perfectly in sixteen languages, j ; i Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria has finished his music drama. "Gyges." ? Santoj-Dumont. the aeronaut, has been made Chevalier of the Legion of j : Honor. King Victor Emmanuel is snid ro b? the keenest lover of horseflesh in royal [ Europe. Right 3ev. .vigr. A. ^ Teeling, of . Lynn, Mass., will receive the degree of . Doctor of Divinity at Laval University next ,Tun? t . Some Lone-Lived Animals. It is believed that the whale hold* the palm for length of years. A reliably correct computation puts the extreme age of the largest of fish at 400 years. It is said in India that ele phants nave boon known to live over three hundred years. Certain species of birds, as the swan and raven, pass the 100-year mark: camels sometimes live fifty years; horses from twenty to thirty. Sheep, oxen and Jogs have less vitality; it is seldom that a dog lives longer -than fifteen years.?Harper's Weekly^ The Curioui* Chinaman.' What a very curious person the Chinaman seems .to us! When he meets a friend he shakes his own hand, not his friend's. He keeps out of step when walking with any one. He puts his hat on. instead of taking it off, when he wants to be polite. He whitens his' boots instead of blackening them. He rides with his heels instead of his toes in the stirrups. His compass points south. utten lie throws away the fruit of the melou aud eats the seed.?London News. Where Czars Are Buried. It is not generally known that the remains of all the czars of Russia since Peter the Great lie iu a memorial chapel built on onr.< of the islands of the Neva. All the cenotaphs are exactly alike, each being a block of *-hite marble, without any decoration whatever. The only distinction by which each is marked is the name of the deceased emperor. Deafness Cannot Be Cored by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of theear. There is only one way to cure deafness, aud that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. 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