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p PARKER AND DAVIS The democratic Nominees For President and Vice=PresIdent. St. Louis, Mo.?The Democratic National Convention placed tlie following ticket in nomination: For President?Alton B. Parker, of New York. I'Ifto.PrAclrlonf- ITaurr C T^o vie of West Virginia. This result was reached after events that will ever be memorable in the history of National conventions. Parker had been selected on the first ballot after an all-night session at ."5.30 a. in., aud then the delegates were so worn out that the selection of a Vice-President was deferred until 2 o'clock in tbq afternoon. Upon reassembling the con* vention immediately proceeded with th? work of completing the ticket. Cue by one the men were placed in nomination until the list read: James R. Williams, ex-Senator George Turner, of the State of Washington; Henr$ G. Davis, of West Virginia, and exSenator W A. Harris, of Kansas. The roll-call of States for a vote had ju.it been ordered, when Senator Cul? berson, of Texas, interrupted the proceedings by his suggestion that the convention adjourn until it discovered who its candidate was for the Presidency. The reason for this remarkable suggestion was that Judge Parker had telegraphed his managers that he was Irrevocably in favor of the gold standard, and suggested that the convention 3hould be intormed of this fact and be given an opportunity to select some ather candidate should his views be l. nf flift 11UL lil UL'lyi a >?nu iuvov, vi. v?v?v gates. An adjournment was immediately taken in order that the leaders alight confer. Two minutes after 9 o'clock p. m., when nearly all the leaders and nearly all the delegated were in their seats, Chairman Clark called the convention lo order amid breathless silence. Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, was recognized by the chair, and he read to the delegates the message Judge Parker had sent. After discussion it was agreed to ask the convention to send this telegram to Judge Parker: "The platform adopted by this convention is silent on the question of the monetary standard because it is not regarded by us as a possible issue In this campaign, and only campaign Issues were mentioned in the platform. Therefore there is nothing in the views expressed by you in the telepram just received which would preclude a man entertaining them from accepting a nomination on said platform." As the roll call proceeded it was evident that the motion to send the mesBage to Judge Parker would be carried by an overwhelming majority. The result was announced to be 774 yeas, ; 1S1 nays, and the message was ordered j sent by the convention. The vote closed the incident, which 1 when it was born at the afternoon ses- j Rinn nromised to be more than ser:sa- I tional. The order of business now went back to the point where Governor Vardaman sprung the Parker telegram rumor and Rsked for a recess just as the roll of States was about to be called on the nomination of a candidate for VicePresident, and the chair directed that the roll shou!d be called. The nomination of Davis was made unanimous. Al'ter transacting some routine business the convention, at 1.30 a. m., adjourned sine die. How Parker v\"as Nominated. St. Louis, Mo.?The National Demotretic Convention assembled for its tominating session at S.03 p. m. There was not a vacant seat in the vast auditorium. From platform to topmost gallery it was packed with delegates, alternates and spectators. "\yhen the applause had ceased Senator Daniels, of Virginia, read the plat- ! form. He concluded at S.?")5 p. m. j Chairman Clark then put the motion to ; adopt the leport, and a viva voce vote carried it. "The clerk will now call the roll of States for the nomination of a candidate for President," shouted the chair- j man. Chief Judge Alton Brooks Parker, of j New York, was placed in nomination j by Martin W. Littleton. Borough Presi- ; dent of Brooklyn. Senator Carmack, ! Df Tennessee, seconded the nomination, i E. M. Del mas, of California, nominated William Randolph Hearst, of New York. L. Iriving Handy nominated ! Judge George Gray, of Delaware, i David Overmeyer, of Kansas, placed : General Nelson A. Miles in nomination, i Champ Clark placed in nomination j Senator Francis M. Cockrell, of Mis- ! souri.' Mayor Patrick A. Collins, of ! Boston, nominated Richard Olney. j David S. Rose nominated Wall, of Wisconsin. Cole, of North Dakota, nominated John Sharp Williams. The roll call for a vote began at 5 a. m. Parker was nominated on the first ballot. The first ballot was ended at 6.30 a. m.. with the following result: Parker, 658; Hearst, 200. The nomination of Parker was then made unanimous. Policing Seal Fisheries. The Russian press commendation of the gracious act of Great Britain in offering to police and protect the seal fisheries of the Kommandcr aud Copper Islands, off Kamchatka, during the war, are regarded as highly significant. An Italian Dreyfus Affair. Captain Ercoless, of the Italian Army, and his wife were arrested on a charge of high treason, in selling to foreign agents plans for the mobilization of the Italian forces in Sicily. % The National Game. Gilbert's fielding continues to be a feature of the New York's work. It is next to impossible to double the speedy Bay, of Cleveland, at first on an infield hit. Pitcher Breitenstein has been appointed manager of the Natchez Club, of the Cotton States League. O'Leary, of Detroit, is showing the way to all short stops of this year's crop, with an average of ,940. Not long ago the Washinugton Club jwas offered $15,000 for Coughlin and fatten, but turned the offer down. \ i t I CROP AVERAGES ARE HIGf | Wheat, Corn and Rye Make Good Showing. j Conditions Are Most Favorable and th Fast Ten Year Status Is Upheld According to Government Report. ? i Washington, D. C.?Preliminary rc ; turns to tht? Chief of the Bureau o 1 Statistics of the Department of Agri culture show the acreage of corn planl ed to be about 91,5)30.000, au increas of about 2,130,000 acres, or 2.4 pe cent., on the area planted last year a i revised in December. The average condition of the growin; crop on .iuiy J. was au.t, as compare' j with 7!).4 on July 1. lf>03. 87.5 at th i corresponding date in 1002, and a ten ; year average of 8S.4. The average condition of winte wheat on July 1 was 7S.7. as compare* with 77.7 last month, 78.8 on July 1 1903, 77 at the corresponding date ii 1002, and a ten-year average of 78.3. It should be borne in mind that thi report relates tc conditions on July 1 and takes no note on the effects o storms that have occurred in certaii i States since that date. The average condition of sprinj ! wheat on July 1 was 93.7, as comparet with 93.4 last month. 82.5 on July 1 1903. 92.4 at the corresponding date ii 1902, and a ten-year average of SG.S. The average condition on July 1 o ' spring and winter wheat combinec ! was 84.5, as compared with SO on Jul: ; 1. 1908, and S2.9 at the corresponding date in 1902. j The amount of wheat remaining ii the hands of farmers on July 1 is es timated at about 30.030,000 bushels equivalent to about 5.7 per cent, o the crop of last year. The average condition of the oa crop on July 1 was S9.8, as compam with 89.2 last month, 84.3 on July 1 1903, 92.1 at the corresponding date ii 1902. and a ten-year average of 87. j ^ The average condition of barley oi I Julv 1 88.5. against 90.5 one montl ! ago. S6.8 on July 1. 1903. 93.7 at tin i corresponding date in 1902, and a ten j year average of S7.1. The average condition of winter r.v< on July 1 was 8S. as compared witl 90.2 on July 1, 1903, 91.2 at the corres ponding date in 1902, and a ten-yeai average of S9.7. The average condition of spring ry< on July 1 was 90.8. as compared witl 85.3 on July 1, 1903. 91.2 at the corre sponding date in 1902, and a ten-yeai average of 87.4. NO MARTIAL LAW ON TRAINS Railroad Companies in Colorado Will Defy General Bell's Orders. Denver, Col.?There will be no. mor? martial law on trains in Colorado. The Denver agents of the various railroad companies operating in this State have been ordered to instruct all employes to refuse to move trains where an at tempt is made to enforce martial law as defined by Governor Peabody and General Bell. This order is the out ! come of the conduct of General Bell's j men in a Santa Fe dining car one nighl | recently. The soldiers practically toot I possession of the car. They threw theii rifles across the seats and threatened to "shoot up" the car if they were in terfered with. DISASTER FALLS ON MANILA. Cloudburst Causes Loss of Life and Wrecks a City. Manila, P. I.?A cloudburst over the hills northeast of Manila caused a flood which has destroyed San Juac del Monte. Two hundred lives were lost. The low lying districts were inundat ed. The homes of Americans and for eigners are isolated. Transportation through the streets is carried on ic boats only. Rain has fallen for twen ty-seven hours, totalling seventeen and one-fifth inches. The damage tc property is estimated at $2,000,000. Good News of the Crops. The crop returns to Dun's Review indicate steady progress in the agri cultural sections. The total yield ol all crops promises to be very large un less future weather conditions art much worse than average. The recenl heavy rains worked some damage ic several States, but were beneficial else where. The indications are for a good yield of corn, despite tardiness, and cotton dispatches are unusually en couraging. Commemorate Hamilton's Death. Services to commemorate the lOOtb anniversary of Alexander Hamilton's death were held in Trinity Church yard, New York City. Dr. Bullock Acquitted. After three hours' deliberation a jury in New Haven, Conn., acquitted the Rev. Dr. Bullock of the charge broughl against him by Miss Shailer. Foreign Crop Report. The United States Government is sued the foreign crop report. whicL showed shortages in many Europeac countries. Steamer Lost With Thirty-one. The steamer Nemesis, with all hands on board, numberiug thirty-one. has been lost in a gale on the coast of New South Wales. To Reward Tug Captain. Seventy-five passengers on the Gen oral Slocum, saved by Captain McAl lister, of the tug Director, wiil givt him a diamond studded badge. Test Contract Void. A Wisconsin judge declared void i contract between a labor union and a firm, by which the latter agreed to em ploy none but union workmen. Broward Ran Buockade. N. B. Broward. Governor-elect oi Florida, was a Cuban blockade ruunei just before our war with Spain Waitresses to Unite. Now York City waitresses are abou to organize jn o unions. -?? News From the Far East. Cholera threatens to put a check o: military operations in Manchuria. Japan's second issue of exchequei j bonds was more than three times over j subscribed. The Japanese again captured Motiei Pass, repulsing the Russians after three assaults. The news that the Port Arthur flee was badly crippled was suppressed ii St. Petersburg. General Stakelberg barely escapet being drowned in his tent at Tatche kiao by a flood. ERIE RAILROAD WRECK Express Crashes Inta Excursion a' Wanaqus-Midvale, N. J. Train on Way From Hoboken t? Greenwood Lake Taking: Water at Tank is Telescope New York City.? In a' rear-end collision at Wanaque-Midvale, N. J., on the Greenwood Lake branch of the Erie Railroad a score of persons, mostly res. idents of Hoboken, were killed and a large number were injured. Disregard of a block signal caused the wreck. The blame lies between an operator, an engineer and whoever is supposed to keep the signals in order. General Passenger Agent Cooke puts the blame ou the operator. At 8.30 in the morning the First Plattdeutscher Verein of Hoboken started on its annual excursion, the destination being Greenwood Lake, N. J. It was a big excursion, for the club is popular in the region about Jersey nii-OT n nrl 4- ttt/n! i?/\ /in nc r^ir?r? rrn liv fn-rt '! 1EAT MINE THREATENED! ; i Butchers, Cutters and Drivers Vote to Strike. i GIRLS 'JOIN WITH THE MEN! j - Packing: House# in Chi?a;o. St. Louij ? j nnd St. Joiipph Are Already Affected? i* ! Strikers Are Orderly and Both Side? -k- ' Are Determined to Stand Firm? 0 18,000 Have Quit in Chlc?j?o. r : ' s | Chicago, III.?As the result of a stub- j born disagreement, chiefly over wages ! | | for unskilled labor, one of the most ex- J e i tensive strikes in the b&tory of the j 1- | meat packing industry of the United j j States began in Chicago. Kansas City, j J i Omaha. St. Joseph. Mo., and other citI ies where large* pickinu plants are loj cated. The unanimity of tl e strike was s ' complete. More than 4"),000 employes i ! f are directly involved. In Chicago alone 1 3S.000 men are on strike. The waikout here was started by the i I employes of the killing departments ' at the various packing houses. The j i killers were followed by the workers in other' departments as fast as the f current work left by the slaughterers 1 could be cleaned up. Thus, as the r workers in each department disposed j of their part of the work, they threw off their aprons and departed. i A picturesque scene was presented - when the sausage factories and canneries were left by their forces. There f are 1000 girls employed in. these two departments of the meat industry. This t army of feminine strikers was roundly j i cheered as it emerged through the . gates. i j Arthur Meclcer. of Ar incur & Co., said: i "We consider the demand of the i union for an advance in wages of un skilled labor entirely unwarranted by industrial conditions. We could not concede it, and proposed to submit th? ; Question to arbitration, which the 1 union declined. Every department is kept running, however. We have had r applications from hundreds of uneml ployed men for positions at less wages i than we have been paying, and every 1 day expect to increase oiv output." President Michael Donnelly, the r strike leader, said: "I wish to make it clear that we are not fighting for an increase of wages. but against a decrease. Our original " ? * uemanu was iui u luiuiluuui ui mcuv i cents an hour for laborers. After our second conference with the packers in | i June, we agreed to a scale of eighteeu , ? and a half cents an hour, except in ! I Omaha and Sioux City, where the scale ? is nineteen cents. The packers, on tbe > j other hand, refused to pay more than j seventeen and a half cents an hour . and declined to sign any agreement at 1 all, except with a small proportion of the workmen. J "The question of wages to skilled t men was not discussed. To unskilled ^ workmen the average was eight een and a half cents, but when we ! asked that this be made the minimum ! wage they cut it to seventeen and a half cents and fifteen cents. Men could live on fifteen cents if they got steady work, but in some plants men , have been able to make just thirteen hours a week at this wage scale. They could not live on it. No one could." i The employes of the Union Stock t Yards here are not affected by the i strike, and, while in view of the no tices sent by commission bouses to their country customers shipments may fall off to some extent, it is ex pected that cattle, hogs and sheep will L still continue to arrive from the West l and South. St. Joseph, Mo.?More than 5000 em1 oloyes of Swift & Co.. Nelson, Morris Jc Co., and the I-Iammond Peeking Company, in South St. Joseph, went out on a strike at noon, and the plants have closed down. Representatives of ' | the packing companies say that at I present no attempt will be made to re! I sume killing. j St. Louis, Mo.?Eighteen hundred i | butchers and cutters, members of the ; Amaigamateu 31 eat tuueis uuu i Butchers' Association, struck work. In East St. Louis more than 5000 butch1 ers and cutters employed by the pack! i iug houses stopped work. I ; ! LIGHTNING KILLS PLAYERS. 1 j A Loft Fielder and a Second Baseman j Struck Down?Others Injured. New York City.?Charles F. Jeffries, i left fielder of the Johnstown (Pa.) Baseball Club, was struck by lightning k at McKeesport, Fa., and instantly [ killed. With the sun shining through a small cloud, the 500 spectators in the stands | were startled by the loud report of | thunder that accompanied a flash of lightning that struck Jeffries on the 1 i head above the left ear. 1 | Jeffries was walking across the diamond when he was killed. Two other players were knocked down and badly shocked. ' Joseph Barrett, a son of Samu-l Bar1 rett, of South Cumberland. Md.. was r also killed by lightning while playing second base on the Baltimore and Ohio roundhouse ball grounds. The bolt entered Barrett's ear and passed through his body. His hair was singed and his face and body disfigi ured. Charles McGowan and James T. Wigg. two companions with whom he was playing, were badly shocked. ! nnnvnrT nnnurnn n\*AVT?n i TP TV ^ n l i\ ?j.viir.it i j Chartreux Scandal Ended by Vote of Chamber of Deputies. j Paris, France.?The Government has ; j weathered the storm aroused by the i C I Chartreux affair, and Prime Minister r i Combes has been exonerated. The Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 334 to l.">4. set aside the Investigation Committers adverse report and adopted a j resolution declaring that no suspicion Jtrai-hes to the Prime Minister or Gov rninent because of the scandul. Private Kills Sergeant. William Syphert, a private in tiie [ "iflli Infantry, shot and killed Sergeant San>u"l Philpot, also of the Fifth Infantry, stationed at riattsburg (N. l'.t harraclis. There had been bad 1 feeling between the men because of the alleged attention Philpot had been paying to Syphert's wife. t i Socialist-Labor Party. The Socialist-Labor party named 1 Charles H. Corregan, of New York City, for President of the United States, and W. W. Cos for VicePresl* dent. _ ; a LIU lUCiYC imo, uianu uj %. v engines, were found necessary. What with this load and a defect in one of the engines the excursion train made poor time. The regular morning train to Greenwood Lake, which started nearly an hour afterward, had almost caught up by the time it reached Midvale, thirty-three miles up the line. This was also a heavy train and a double header. Engineer John Landwasser drove the leading engine and Engineer McKeown the trailer. The excursion train rounded the sharp curve into Midvale and drew up 700 feet beyond the station for water. Just back of the Midvale station there Is a block signal. The curve Is so sharp and the intervening buildings are so placed that a train has to pass the Midvale station for some distance before the engineer can see what is happening at the water tank. The signalman, knowing that the regular train was due, set the block for "stop," or says he did. Some of the excursionists tumbled out to pick a few flowers or gathered on the back platform. But it was a cool morning, and most of them stayed in their seats. Down the line came the regular train. It makes no stop at Midvale. Whether or not the signal for a "clo?ir track" was displayed, Landwasser thought it was. He threw on a bit of speed to hrinir her level with the water tank. A man, yelling like mad, rushed from the station and waved his arms. People on the platform were waving their arms and pointing. Landwasser looked ahead. Four hundred feet away, just in sight around the curve, stood another train. Landwasser reversed, put on the airbrakes so hard that rhey pared the wheels, and threw out sand. He would have made a stop but for the engine behind him. His helper did not reverse until the drag in front showed him that something was wrong. The leading engine was pushed into the standing train. * .John R. Thompson, of New York, was smoking on the rear platform. Looking up, he saw the other engine towering above him. "Wreck! Get out for your lives!" he cried, and jumped. Pale men and screaming women looked out, saw the danger, rushed for the front door of the car and piled up in a confused crowd. At that moment the monster struck them. It scarcely dented the back platform at all. It drove the car, as the cue drives the billiard ball, into the second car, through it, and into the end of the first car, where was that struggling, fighting mass of humanity. Church \wis just out at Midvale. The village people strolling home noticed that the morning train was slowing up as it passed the station. Then they nearu a noise as mougu a. ie>v ncisui cars "were bumping together, but accompanied by a singular ripping noise. "Never beard freight cars sound that way," they said. Then a moment of silence and then the murmur of a crowd and over it all the shrieks and wailing of women. They tore to the station. There was the wreckage, and there a mob surging back and forward in panic. By 1 o'clock, when the company's hospital train arrived, they were making the injured comfortable on stra*r couches in two empty bos cars. CITY-OWNED NEWSPAPER. Iowa Town Ptons to Run a Daily to Be Called the Graphic Herald. Webster City, Iowa.?Webster City's jenchant for municipal ownership is to lake a nc-w form?that of a city-owned laily newspaper. The paper is to be fcnown as the Daily Graphic Herald, ind will be issued from the present )ffice of the Weekly Graphic Herald. Webster City began her career, as a municipal ownership city many years lgo. She first acquired possession of r.er waterworks. iacai i-uiijl- me cnx(ric light and power plant. Then came (he city heating plant. NEGRO SLAYER'S PLEA. Convicted of Killing Cell Mate, Begs Judge to Withhold Death Sentence. Trenton, N. J. ? Sentenced to be Banged for the murder of his mate in i cell in State Prison, Henry Jones, a legro, cried, "Oh, Judge, don't do it; Gon't say I must bang. I gave my band to save myself, and it is not right lo take away my life." Jones and his fellow prisoner fought with knives, nud after his hand had been severed rt the wrist Jones stabbed his opponent in the heart. Ex-Postmaster Takes Life. Ex-Postmaster John Field, of Philadelphia, a leading business man of that city, committed suicide by skooting himself at Vernon Park, a suburb of the Quaker City. Connecticut Peaches Scarce. The peach crop of Connecticut docs not promise to cut much of a figure this season. The long, cold winter was too much for the buds, and inauy trees were killed. Five Killed by Derrick's Fall. The traveling derrick ou the false work at the Thebes Bridge, Cape Girardeau, Mo., was struck by a wind, driven back 200 feet and then tumbled 130 feet to the ground. There were seven men on the derrick. Five were killed and two were seriously injured. General Toral Dead. General Toral, who commanded the Spanish forces at Santiago in the SpanA Wor /Ito/1 in on InconA lau-ALuer aau ?i?i, asylum at Casa Baachel, Soain, , . : | A SCORE KILLED IN CRASH Excursion of a Sunday-School r Ends in Disaster. Train on the Chicago and Eastern Iflinoi* Railroad Returning to Chicago Crashes ^ Into Freight at Chicago Height*. ? y Chicago. III.?A score of persons were n killed and about twenty-five injured in a collision on the Chicago and Eastern e Illinois Railroad at Glenwood, II!., twenty-three miles south of this city. ^ The collision occurred between a picnic train which was returning here from Momeuce, III., and a freight train, into the rear end of which the excursion L" train dashed at high speed. n The picnic was the annual outing of e the members of Doremus CHiurch. Aftor aniinr^inr* Hid Hnv rvn of v"?' -s * T? ^: " JAPS SLOW CLOSING II Russ'an Armies in the North Re ported in Danger. RUMOR OF JAPANESE LOS! General* Oku and Kuroki Are Gradual!; Closing . In Upon Their Fooa ?A Unconfirmed Report From St. Peters burs Says .Japs Lost 30,000 Uefor Port Arthur Fortifications. St. Petersburg. Russia.?Steadily an cautiously General Oku's array froi the south and General Nodzu's arm; from the east are closing in upon Ta shi-Chao. where General Kuropatki is reported to be entrenching;. On hundred and thirty thousand men ar involved in the movement. Lieutenant-General Sakharoff report that General Kuroki is massing hi troops near the Pkhanlin Pass, am moving out by both roads upon Hal Cheng. Heavy pressure from thi quarter would render Tashi-Chao us tenable. All the Japanese energies now sees to be concentrated on Tashi-Chao am Hai-Cheng. The operations to th north, which throughout may hav been feints, have been suddenly sus pended. The growing activity of Chinese ban dits in the Valley of Liao River at thi critical moment means additional em barrassment to General Kuropatkin. The unusually well-informed militar; critic of the Russky Viedomosti be lieves that General JKuropatkin is de liberately surrendering his southen positions, like that of Kai-Chow, fo the purpose of, drawing on the Japan ese into the open country at or abov Tashi-Chao, where the Russians wil be able to deploy large forces and t 4-ll /-v -f 11 1 ] orlt lit.11 t c lucj luii auvuuiagc jliislll tun superior cavalry. He attributes Gen eral Oku's advance to the necessity o helping General Nodzu, whose divis ions are stalled in the Cliapan and Da lin passes on account of transport dif Acuities and the stubborn resistance o General Zaroubaieff, commander of th Fourth Siberian Army Corps, whos forces will have to be cleared out be fore a southern advance is made. The critic thinks that the Japanes game of strategy is to effect a junc ture between Is'odzu and Oku in orde to force Kuropatkin to the northward and if this plan should be successfu to combine with Kuroki near Llac Yang. The General Staff has received a dis patch from General Sakharoff, report ing that the Japanese have commence* to construct field works on the height between the railroad line and the roa< from Kai-Chow to Tashi-Chao. Skirmishing occurred between thi advance guards near the village o Siadian-Tsia. The Japanese retire< when the Russians were reinforced. General SakharofT adds that a num bc-r of outpost engagements have oc curred in different directions, wit! trifling losses on both sides, but indi eating the persistent advance of thi Japanese. A special dispatch received fron Mukden repeats the story of a Japan ese repulse at Port Arthur with thi loss of 30,000 men. The dispatch says "News has Been received from reli able sources that the Japanese Thin Army attacked Port Arthur and wa: heavily defeated, an immense numbe: being killed by Russian mines. Th( total loss is about 30,000." It has developed that the official re port, which was at first supposed t< emanate directly from Viceroy Alex ieff, was not specifically fathered bj him, but was given out as a repor reaching his headquarters from "Jap anese sources." SIX TIMES MEXISCO'S CHIEF. Diaz Re-Elected, But He is Bendin* Under Weight of Age and Care. Mexico City, Mexico.?The elector! of the Republic of Mexico met, can vassed the returns and declared Per firio Diaz President for six years anc T7?! niAn Hnrra I Vi^o-*PrAQ?flonf The election took place two week! ago, but it amounted to simply mak ing the returns, as there was no oppo cition. Corral will soon be the real Presi dent, for President Diaz is aging rap Idly (he is nearly seventy-four) ant feeling the strain of office. General Diaz has guided the Mexi tan ship of state for twenty-sever years. Elected President in 1877, li< I Las held that office continuously, ex rept for four years. When he was I first chosen the Constitution forbid his | Succeeding himself. So at the end 01 Ms term he had G neral Gonzales elect fd, while he himself directed affair: from another post, meanwhile havinj the Constitution so changed that h< ! Las been re-elected six times witl Striking regularity ever since then. | THREE IN AUTO KILLED. hun Into by Train They Were Tryinj to. Catch. ; Roekville Centre, L. I.?Struck by s pying locomotive which they were try ;ng to overtake at a crossing, three mer I 111 a liUlUiiiWCllL ?| tic UIW1 ally ground under the wheels. The shocking accident happened or the Montauk division of the Long Isl find Railroad. The victims were Frank J. Correll. of Amityville, who had rea estate offices in Brooklyn; G. F. Jew ! I'll and James Snyder, both of Brook lyn. Drowned in Cloudburst. Mrs. Bethune, ninety years old, anc Martin Smith. ninety-one. were drowned near Mitchell, Wheeler Coun ty. Ore., in a cloudburst, which swepl away twenty-eight houses. Gambling Law Valid. The Appellate Division, in New YorL j City, decided against Jesse Lewisohn i holding that Jerome's gambling law | compelling a subpoenaed witness tc testify, ia constitutional. Sporting Brevities. I'Ted Clarke says New York is tilt only club entitled to first uivisioi i honors. The Ilaverford College cricket tean defeated an eleven of the Marylebont Club at Lord's, London, Engiand. Seven thousand persons saw Edge wood defeat A. J. D. and Anna Lit tel in a trotting race at Empire Citj Park. Commodore T. L. Park's Mimosa, 01 the American Yacht Club, won th< Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup foi thirty-fwtera. Momence the trainload starred on the return trip, running in as the second s section of the regular passenger, which s is due in Chicago at S.25 p. in. When ^ the picnic train reached Chicago Heights, four miles beyond Glenwood, l* where the accident took place, it was 8 switched to the regular southbound l* track, and though it was coming north a clear track was given to it by the I operator at Chicago Heights until it should reach Glenwood. e The train after leaving Chicago e Heights, gradually increased its speed, l" and when half the distance between the two stations had been covered it '* was plunging along at forty miles an 8 hour. Just halfway between Chicago l* Heights and Glenwood there is a sharp curve. As the picnic train tore around y this on the southbound track a freight y train was backing from the southbound to the northbound tfack. It was partly II on both tracks and no train could have r passed it in either direction. l* The bend is so sharp that the engineer e of the picnic train did not see the 1 freight until he was about on it. It 0 was too late to do anything except set r the brakes, and before they could take * effect the passenger train smashed into ? the freight at full speed. The engine i- and the baggage car of the passenger - train went through the freight and were piled up in a heap of wreckage ? on the further side of the switch track, e The first coach of the picnic train e plunged into the wreckage and buried !- itself in a mass of kindling wood. Nearly all the passengers in the first e coach were caught beneath the debris. ! and it was here that the loss of life r occurred. The people in the rear 1. coaches were hurled from their seats. 1 and many of them were bruised, but ?- all the serious casualties occurred in the first car. The uninjured passeni gers and trainmen at once hastened to the relief of those who were pinned I under the wreckage. s The accident occurred two miles I from anywhefe, and, much delay ensued before some of the injured, who 3 were held down by heavy timbers, f could be extricated. Nothing could be i done for them until lifting machinery came from Chicago Heights. The first - train to arrive was from Chicago - Heights, and it carried six physicians. i A short time afterward a second train - arrived from Glenwood, bringing ads ditional physicians and a number of nurses. l Darkness had fallen and reccue work - went on by the light of bonfires. A e regular relief train was made up at : Glenwood, and it brought the dead and - wounded to Chicago. 1 In explanation of the wreck, Hoxie, s the engineer, and the crew of the r freight train say that their train 3 parted at Chicago Heights, and the Dreait was not nouceti unui uie nam - was near Glenwood, causing delay, j vhe engineer knew that the excursion - train was coming, but believed that it T was on the northbound track, and was t switching his train from the north bound to the southbound track in an effort to Leep out of the excursion train's way, when it came north on the southbound track and smashed into the freight train. * ABOLISHES ARBITRARY EXILE. 3 - Political Suspects in Russia No Longer to Be Condemned by Order. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The system j of condemning political prisoners by administrative order has been abolished by imperial decree, and persons accused of political crimes henceforth will be tried by the courts under the regular procedure. This reforn. is most far reaching, ending forever the arbitrary condemnation to 'jxile or even death of political suspects without the intervention of the courts. It is considered to be one of the most sweeping reforms of this generation, and it is understood that it was recommended by the Coun. cil of the Empire with the acquiescence and approval of the Minister of 5 the Interior, M. de Plehwe. I SLOCUM VICTIMS NUMBER 039. i Revised Lists Show S97 Out of 95S Bodies Identified aud 02 Missing. New Yolc City.?Inspector Schmitt? berger sent to Commissioner McAdoo a revised list .of the dead injured and i missing in the General Slocum (lis. aster of Juue 15 last. Tlie report t shows: . Identified dead S97 Number of adults 421 ! Number of children 470 . Unidentified dead 01 : Missing 02 j Injured 180 . Escaped without injury 23.1 Total dead and missing 1020 | For Metric System. L A petition in support of the bill for ? the adoption of the metric weights and measures, which will be introduced in the House of Lord.', is being t extensively sisued throughout the British kingdom. Reappointed District Attorney. : William M. Byrne, formerly United . States District Attorney for Delaware, . was appointed Assistant United Statos > District Attorney for tlio Southern bis met 01 .m'w iuik. Fromineil People. ? The Sultan of Morocco shammers I fearfully, it is said. Governor and Mrs. Odell returned j to Albany, New York, from St. Louis, ; where they have been visting the Fair. Jane Addarns, of Hull House fame, . has been selected by the University . of Wisconsin for the honorary degree of LL. D. C The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale ; is now an LL. D. of Williams College, I from which his father graduated just 100 years ago. I MURDEREDATTELEPHONE I ^ Neighbor a Kile Away Heard Shrieks For Help. Mother and Baby Brutally Killed at >*ewca?tle, Ind -Two S aspect* Tracked by Bloodhounds. Newcastle, Inl--The fantastic play, "At the Telephon;-." of a French dramatist was enaccoJ in real life in the atrocir-us murder* of Mrs. 'William M. Starbuck and her l-aby. Between her struggles with her assailants she made two desperate efforts to call for help by telephone. Kev murderer wrested the receiver from hrr grasp. The nearest neighbor, a mile away, whom she called uj?, plainly heard the sounds of violence and a woman's shriek for mercy. Then followed a silence so intense that the ticking of a clock on the wall mar the telephone was distinctly audible. Haley Gipe, accused of the crime, . was arrested and is in the Henry County Jail here. Tracks through the corn fields were traced*to near his home. He is a cowering, pitiable figure between intervals of protesting his innocence. Hundreds of angry farmers surrounded the jail. R?fnr<i h??r riant-h Mrs Starhnrk said as her husband lifted her in his arms, B "He came in by that window and I dragged me out tliat way." She was g sinking fast. "Who did it?"" asked her husband, B bending down to catch the faintest H gasp. She either did not hear or did I not understand. "Why didn't they an- I swer? Twice I tried to call by tele- 3 phone," were her last words. 9 In the presence of the bodies of his > wife and four-monchs-old daughter, H found and dragged from a nearby cis tern, the half-craz?d husband and fnth- H er made a vow of vengeance. "I will B take no rest until the ones guilty of H this awful crime have been punished," 91 he said, lifting his hands and then kiss ing the faces of his dead wife and H child. The post mortem developed that Mrs. Sffl Starbuclc's death was due. to. hemor- . Q je of the lungs, caused by her re- H peated screams for help when she H stood to her armpits in the water in the abandoned cistern where she waa ' B thrown by her murderer. The baby, H was drowned. It is supposed that, as H she was dragged from the window. H Mrs. Starbuck caught her baby in her H arms. H One other man is suspected. He is BE Frank Warner, a companion of Gipe's, 1 Bj who has also been in til for whipr'ug JBj his mother. He is suspected became B Gipe says that he saw him on the night hB of the murder. The accepted theory te H t-hnt flirt** mpn w!>pa ennrpmpd in thf? crime, though Mrs. Starbuck spoke of H but one. R When arrested Gipe turned pale and B trembled. 99 "I know nothing about that murder," H he said, before the Sheriff told him H bis errand. He told conflicting stories. H When asked regarding the coiitradic- R9 tory character of Ins stories he said H that he had gotten up in the night and H| gone out. "Before (Jod. I am innocent j of this crime," said Gipe, as be peered DC through the bars of his cell. H The crime was committed between 9 and 10 o'clock iu the night The strongest evidence against Gipe is the H tracks that were found through the HS cornfields from the scene of the crime BS to a point near his home. Bloodhounds H followed the scent for a mile and a: Hj half from the cistern to a hitching post. Neighbors say three men were |M seen in a buggy there that night. Ba Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee. B| Henry Gassaway Davis, nominated for Vice-President by the Democrats, |H at St. Louis, was born In Howard County, Maryland, November 16, 1823, |jH * 1? - 1 receiving ouiy u cuuiutrjr otuuui cuuv?tion. At an early age he was left' fatherless, and was forced to begin Hjj work for bis own support, working on, a farm until 1843. For fourteen years ^99 after that period he was In the employ BS of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, HgR working bis way up from brakeman to ^Hj station agent at Piedmont, which IsB now his home. Mr. Davis has one son, John T. Davis, of Elkins. Md., andHw three daughters, Mrs. Stephen B.^^J Elkins, Mrs. R. M. C. Brown and Mrs.HS Arthur Lee. His wife died in 1902. BK He was formerly United States SenatorBB from West Virginia. Japs Take Tort Arthur Fort jRfl The Japanese have captured Ciungta,Bw the key to the Pert Arthur defenses. HS SMALL WHEAT CROP IN KANSAS.^? Estimated Loss of 15,000.000 EushelsBsH Due to Rains and Floods. BgH Topoka, Kan.?Kansas will lose 15,*^R0 000,000 bushels of wheat by rains and^H[ floods, and the total crop will not ex-^BH coed 70,000,000 bushels. This is tha^Hj estimate of General Freight Agent^^B Koontiz of the Santa Fe system, whoHgH returned to Topeka from a tour of the^Dfl Kansas wheat belt. ^^B In Honor of Bancroft. The new building for midshipmei^^H at the Annapolis Naval Academy is t<^^B oe named "Bancroft Hall." in honoi^^H of George Bancroft, the historian^^H who. while Secretary of the Navy unH9| iter Polk, founded the Naval Aeadeuij^HE Fiftieth Republican Anniversary. HHj The tifueth anniversary of the birttBgH of the Republican party was oe!e^HB| brated "under tiie oaks" at Jaeksoi^^ffi Mich. Secretary JoUa Hay was orator of the day. fl9