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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.
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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,
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! 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.
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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?
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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. When this tube is inflamed
you have a rumblingsound or imperfect
hearing, and when it !s entirely closed
DimfnAaa ia t.hA roan It nnH Mnloaaf-h?alnflam
rnation can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine oases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, whioh is nothing but on
inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. >
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by c-atarrh)that canaot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. F. .J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists. 7oe. .
Take Hail's Family Pills for constipation.
Employes in Japanese cotton factories
get only ei;;bt to eighteen cents
for a day's work of eleven or twelve
hours. This work, however, is muchless
strenuous than in this country,
and much time is wasted in loafing,
talking, laughing and drinking tea.
Aak Toar Dealer For AJlenM Foot-Bats
A. powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns,
Bunions. Swollen, Sore, Sot, Gal lous,Aching
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's
Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes eaay. At
all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Aceopt
no substitute. Sample mailed Fbxs,
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. I.
A faint heart is more apt to win the fair
Jady than a faint bank account.
Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup forohlldm ,
teething, soften the gums,reducesinflamm?lion
allays pain.curvswind colic. 25c. abottle
Conscience doesn't make cowards of literary
romancers.
I do not believe Plso's Cure for Consumption
has anequal for coughs and colds.?Johh
F.Boyeb, Trinity Springs, Ind.; Feb. 15,1900.
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Some men nave a Keen sense 01 nomw, \
judging by the pointless stories they tell. |
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Especially
Mothers
The Sanative, Antiseptic,
Cleansing, Purifying,
and Beautifying
Properties of
w
i Mr
Assisted by CUTICURA
Ointment, the great
Skin Cure, are of
PricelessValue.
For preserving, purifying, and
beautifying; the skin, for cleansing
the scalp of crusts, scales, and
dandruff, and the stopping of falling
hair, for softening, whitening,
? ? 4
and soothing: red, rougn, a:;a sore m
hands, for baby rashes and cha- n
fing?, in the form of baths for an- H
noying- irritations, ulcerations, and fl
inflammations of women, and I
many sanative, antiseptic pur- I
poses which readily suggest them- |K
selves, as well as for all purposes S
of the toilet, bath, and nursery,
CUTICURA Soap and CUTI- B
CURA Ointment are priceless. I
Sold throughout the world. Cutlcura Soap. 25c~ Oiirtment,
50c., Reaolvcnt, 50c. (In form of Chocolate Coated
Fllla, 25c. p?*r vi&l of CO). Depoti: London, *7 Charterhou?o
S<j.; Parii, 6 Rue de la Pal*; Boston, 1.17 Coiunibuj 3H
Are. Potter UruK ft Chcm. Corp., Sole Proprietor!. ral
OfT Seud for LI jw to Prwrro, Purify, ud I^autlM