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IRS. MAYBRICK SET FRE(
Lib-rated After Fourteen Years o
Penal Servitude.
END OF A REMARKABLE CASt
S?n(enced For the Dealli of ITcr Hu*bani
AVJien She Was Twenty-six Years Oli
?I/eft Truro, Cornwall. on Her Wa;
to France?Many Kfforts to Securi
Tier jrjaruon c 101a xti^u
Truro. Cornwall.?Mrs. FlorenceMay
wick :s free. She l?Ct here on iiei
sv;!.r to Franco.
.Mrs. Ma.vbrick's imprisonment oJ
uioro than fourteen years oC lier life
;Iu?ed before the arched doorway of th(
Donwnt of the Sisterhood of the Epip
iiany iu tbls little town, with the black
robed Sisters softly uttering theii
blessings and good wishes for her fu
ture. With two companions Mrs. May
i>rk!; entered the carriage of ^liss Dal
rynsnle, secretary of the Sisterhood,
anu was driven rapidly to Staustell,
i small station fourteen miles away,
whore, alter exchanging good-bys with
iier companions, she boarded a train
and started on her journey to France.
She will not go to America until bet
presence there is considered necessary,
The greatest secrecy was throwu
about her departure. Mother Superior
Julian of the convent said to a representative
of the Associated Press
that under her instructions she- must
refer al! inquirers to the Home Office.
Otksrs at the convent were equally uncommunicative.
At the railroad station orders were
issued forbidding the employes to discuss
Mrs. Maybrick or even to admit
that she was at the convent.
When Mrs. Maybrick tirst arrived
here she was kept under strict surveil!*ucc,
never leaving the convent
walls.
Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Florc:i'-e
Elizabeth Chandler. a member of
a well-kuown and prosperous Southern
family, was married July 21. 18S1,
in Sy. .Tamos' Church, Piccadilly, to
James Maybrick, of Liverpool. She
wms then eighteen years ?ld. Her busbaud
was more than forty years of
In the spring of 1SS9 Mr. Maybrick
bet-time ill, and in a few days he died.
His brothers investigated his death,
and charged Mrs. Maybrick with the
murder of her husband. A long trial
followed, and a number of doctors
sv.ore that the deceased died of arsenic:3.!
poisoning. The defense proved that
for twenty years Mr. Maybrick had
been a confirmed user of arsenic, and
that he daily took doses large enough
to have killed a dozen ordinary men.
Mrs. Maybrick was eventually sentenced
to death by the judge, Sir Fitzjames
Stephen, who spoke for two
days in charging the jury. He said
it was impossible for them not to find
her guilty in the face of the medical
evidence. The judge died some
time later in a madhouse.
From the time of Mrs. Maybrick's
conviction, her mother, the Baroness de
"Eoques, was unremitting in her efforts
in behalf of the prisoner. She succeed
ed in having the- death sentence commuted
to penal servitude for life, and
finally ha*; obtained the freedom of her
daughter, to whose release from prison
she had devoted her life. The
Baroness was ai(Jed by influential
friends on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 1900, after the death of Lord Russell
of Killowen, Chief Justice of England.
a letter, which he had written
to Mrs. Maybrick was discovered. It
showed that he was convinced that she
ought never to have been convicted,
and it has been generally understood
that all the recent American ambassadors
to the Court of St. James have
done everything possible to obtain Mrs.
May brick's pardon.
The fact of her probable release" was
used as the reason for securing the
postponement of a trial last year of
lawsuits bearing on Mrs. Maybriek's
interest in land in Kentucky, Virginia
and West Virginia until she was able
personally to testify. If sise was not
k able to testify in these suits Mrs. Mayk
brick and her mother would have lost
A all title and interest in many thousands
of acres of land involved in the
case.
RUSSIA ADDS TO WOES OF JEWS.
\\E.Ttends Oppressive Laws Governing
\\ Hebrews "Within the Tale."
* &t. Petersburg, Russia.?A law was
affiYially promulgated providing that
a\l Jfcws settled in the western fron ftiVi*
k^'/u-firntoonfc! otirl in htn
wi\hiw 1 lie radius of thirty-two'miles
cf wie\frontier, shall be sublet to all
the Maws governing the residence of
Jews\within the regular zone of settlement.
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.Tewsv arriving subsequent to July 20
Tv-ill be prohibited from settling outside
the towns ?r villages or moving from
village to village.
Ammunition l''or Canada.
Sir Frederick Barden, Minister of
Militia, of Canada, has uuder "way a
contract witth the English firm of
which Sir WiWiafu Armstrong is head,
for the construction of an ammunition
factory in Ottawa capable of turning
out twenty Wllion rounds of ammunition
a year. \
Kentucky Jutige Drowned.
Judge Upton W. Mr;;, of Louisville,
Ky., was drown?d \while bathing in
the surf at Cape May, N. ,T.
Vo Protect Auromobilists.
Two i.utomobilisls, clad in fifth century
armor, visited Magistrate Cornell's
court, in New York City, to seek
his advice regarding prote&ion against
those who, as he advises, shoot at
chauffeurs. \
Sabbed by Negro. \
At Stcphensport, -..y., Franks Blaise,
a white man, was stabbed in tlrn throat
by an unknown negro. A molV gathered
and when the negro tried \to escape
he was shot to death. \
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Newsy Gleanings. \ " \
Sf-rvian railroads are being extended
Boston newsboys are petitioning f<>;
more free public baths.
The Czar has sanctioned a reduc
tion in the excessive number of holi
days observed in Russia.
German norse butchers are about t<
open a restaurant in Berlin to educati
the upper class in the use of horse
flesh.
One of the results of the recent An
slo-Fren^h agreement is a renewal o
the scheme for tunneling the channe
between France and England.
:[ BIG MEAT STRIKE ENDED
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j Chicago Employers Agree to Take
f Back All Union Men.
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Wa;c Scale Will Be Arbitrated?Other- |
7 wise Conditions Are Same as Before
the Strike?Settled Pcaceably.
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j Chicago. III.?The strike of packing
house employes, which hatl lasted nine
days, ami which has demoralized the
t?
packing industry throughout the country,
was settled here at a conference '
- between representatives of the pack*
ers, the officials of the Meat Cutters'
Union, and representatives or ail tue
I allied trades employed at the Stock
? Yards. The whole controversy will
, be submitted io a board of arbitrators,
l>oth sides agreeing to abide by whatever
decision this board may reach.
Pending the decision of the arbitra- j
tion board the men will be taken back
. to work as rapidly as possible by the
packers. It is agreed by the packers
that all the old employes are to be
" reinstated within forty-five days from
, the date work is resumed. If any of '
, the former employes are still unem- j
, ployed at the expiration of that time, |
i such persons are to have the privilege
i of submitting their cases to the arbitration
board tor settlement.
The strikers will return to work as i
. soon as they can be notified of the
i peaceable adjustment of the trouble.
Half an hour after the decision had
been reached. M. J. Donnelly, the
> striKe leaner, naci secured commumra:
tion by long distance telephone with
the leaders of ilie strikers in outside
cities., He notified them that a satisfactory
settlement had been reached
* and directed the strikers to return to |
work as soon as possible.
The settlement of the difficulty by
arbitration was brought about by the j
allied craft at the Stock Yard?, who
would have become involved in the I
; controversy had it continued much ;
longer. The representatives of these
unions, which represent about 14,000
men. ?ot together and sent a final ap
peal to the packers, asking for a three
sided conference between the packers,
the strikers, and themselves, in a
1 final effort ro set both sides of the con
troversy. together again and arrange
some sort of agreement which would
prevent the strike spreading to the affiliated
unions. This appeal of the A1
: lied Trades Unions received r. favorable
response from the packers and j
the conference was the result.
MAY RESCUE YOUNG SIM'S.
Boy in Biddle Outrage May Havt j
Mercy Shown.
Mount Holly, N. J. ? Wheu public |
clamor has cooled off and the bare
facts of the case come to the surface i
it it> probable that eCforts will be madf
to rescue Jonas Sims from the fortynine
years of imprisonment to which
he was sentenced with Austin and
Timbers, the brutal assailants of Mrs
Biddle. Sims was the sixteen-year-old
boy who iguorantly accompanied the
other two hardened fiends to the Bid
die house, but all the evidence goes t(
show that he was but a tool in tlieij
hands and had no knowledge of whal
was done.
When Sims was taken to the Cour!
House under military guara, 11 e was
so frightened to nod assent to anything
that did not lead to lynching. He
has constitutional rights that were denied
him because lie was not convict
ed by any confession. Timbers and 1
Austin, in their confessions, exonerate
him, and his presence with them has j
been explained. Sims went to the
house at the solicitation of Timbers,
who said he wanted to collect some
money for work he had done.
In view of these facts, it is said.
Judge Gaskill and Prosecutor Atkinson
have decided to appear before
the Board of Pardons at the proper
time and ask for the release of the
boy.
NEGRO CALVARYMEN SLASH. ^
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Ruled Out of Action in Mancuvrqg,
They Charge Upon Troops.
Tacoma, Wash.?During the army '
maneuvres at Steilacoon, after Troop '
E, Ninth Cavalry (negro), hail been
ruled out of action by the umpires they
charged on the Washington troops and
Nineteenth Infantry on their front and
with drawn sabres slashed right and i
left among the infantry, causing a
reign of terror for a few minutes.
In the melee three members of the
Second Washington and one regular
were severely injured.
Cholera in Persia.
A report from Baku, Russia, says
that refugees from Teheran, Persia,
tell terrible stories of the ravages of
cholera. They say that on some dr^'8
the mortality reached 900. The Europeans
are abandoning their property
and are fleeing to a camp in the mountains.
Boats From Norge Washed Ashore.
Two more of the lifeboats of the
Danish steamer Norge (which foundered
June 28 off Rockall Reef. 290
miles from the Scottish mainland)
have been washed ashore on the Ork-'
ney Islands. They were both empty.
Driven Back to Europe.
Weary of turmoil and hardships encountered
while struggling for a liviug
in the face of strikes and lockouts,
forty-five families of the meat strikers !
left Chicago to return to Austria-Hungary.
Canal Test Made.
A test ot the electric "muie' was |
made in Schenectady. N. Y.. for the j
benefit of the joint Legislative Com- '
mission to investigate the matter of ,
; electrical towage of canal boats and I
for the enlightenment of the Isthmian
Canal Commission.
Score Injured in Excursion.
A score of persons were injured near
' Frecport, L. I., when a construction
. car and a church excursion car ran !
into -jacli other.
Sporting Brevities.
Columbus will have a new kiter
shaped track built inside the present
mile track.
The Eastern Yacht Club's squadron
faced in a fog for thirty-seven miles of
the third run of its cruise.
i Walter J. Travis defeated Findlay
? Douglas by 2 up and 1 to play in the
- lin\ai tor the chief cup over the Apawatois
.inks.
T^e Wren brothers defeated W. A.
f LarnW ^ g p Dewhuret in the first
I matcAin the jpwn tennis tournament
at Westchtgter.
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'SWIFT NEW JERSEY JUSTICE |
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Assaulters of Mrs. Biddle Each Sen- j
ienced to Forty-nine Years.
RECORD TRIALOFTHREE NEGROES !
Only Sixteen Minuted Elapsed in th?? I
Court Proceedings at Mount Hotly, I
N. J.?Company of Stnte Militia Kacort j
tlie Prisoner)! rrom Camden to the
Court and Thence to the Tenlteutinry
Mount IloIIy, N. J.?At fifteen minutes
after 1 o'clock in the afternoon
Aaron Timbers, Jonas Sims, and William
Austin, the three negroes who ten
days previously assaulted Mrs. Charles
RIil.-Uo i:i lior linnia npnr Rnrlincrton.
tvere placed on trial before Judge Gas- i
kell. Exactly sixteen minutes later
ill three had pleaded guilty to four 1
jrimcs charged against them, the inlictmentis
had been read by the County
Prosecutor, and all thre? given the I 1
?xtreme penalty allowed by the law, I '
the cumulative sentence in each case i
oeing forty-nine years. Not only was 1
the trial remarkable for its brevity, ]
but also for the splendid management
)f the whole affair, not even Sheriff ]
Grower nor any of his deputies know- 3
.ng that the negroes were to be <
Drought here and tried until about
aalf an hour before the special train f
:hat brought them from Philadelphia I
pulled into the statiou. 1
Every precaution had been taken. 1
md even if it had been known through t
jut the county that the negroes were <
to be tried, it is quite certain that no 1
mob could have reached the prisoners. 1
Judge Gaskeil, who planned the whole 1
iffair. telephoned to Governor Mur- 3
phy at Trenton that he was going to t
cry the negroes, and the Governor, af- <
ter a long talk, said that he would
irder Company A of the Second Regi- 1
ment, then in camp at Sea Girt, to *
proceed to Camden and accompany the *
prisoners on the train to Mount Holly. *
When the train arrived the soldiers 1
promptly filed out and took a posi- s
tiou on eitner oc tue roau mat
pads to the Court House, which is a t
little over a block distant from the
station. The presence of the soldiers t
sf course attracted the attention of all r
the village folk, and iu less than five 1
minutes a crowd of about 500 had as- *
sembled in front of the Court House, c
In the crowd were many women, and
although the men in the crowd were n
very outspoken as to what should be ^
done to the negroes, the women were s
even more outspoken and did not bes- c
itate to voice their sentiments in the *
most positive terms. J
It was a strange scene in the quiet F
little court room, the soldiers standing I
like statues on all sides, the negroes
trembling like aspen :eaves, while tbe b
faces of the spectators indicated the k
kind of punishment they considered t
just in the case. Amid absolute silence '
Judge Gaskell called the court to or- ^
der, and Prosecutor Atkinson arose t
and read tbe charges against the nc- t
groes. George M. Hillman, of this
place, had been assigned to defend n
the negroes, and he advised them as to f
the gravity of the charges, and told t
them that if they were guilty the best f
thing they could do would be to say }'
so. i'
The negroes followed his advice, and r
Ia voices that were sua icon wiin icar <
they admitted in open court that they s
had committed all four of the crimes t
that had been laid against them.
Judge Gaskoll then pronounced sen- n
tence, which was fifteen years for as- k
sault, fifteen years for rohbery, twelve b
years for assaulting an officer, and seven
years for breaking and entering a t'
dwelling-. b
As soon as the proceedings at Mount S
Holly were over the prisoners were c
escorted back to the station and the D
train started for Trenton, going via
Kinkora as a matter of precaution, in- t
stead of via Burlington. The news of I v
the trial had reached Burlington before I b
the train left and a large crowd was E
at the depot there who thought that a
the special would pass that way. The g
train arrived at Trenton at 2.15 p. m.
and ten minutes later the negroes were b
in the penitentiary.. P
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TO RAISE HULK OF MAINE. ?
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Object is to Improve Navigation in the 1
Harbor of Havana. ^
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Washington, D. C.?The Navy Department
has been informed by R. H. h
F. Sewell, of New Orleans, that ha A
has made a contract with the Cuban p
Government to raise the wreck of the ?
battleship Maine, which was blown up
In Havana harbor February 15, 1898. .J
Before proceeding with this work, 11
Mr. Sewell says, he desires to know
what claim, if any, the United States F
Government has in the wreck.
The communication has been referred J
to the Judge Advocate-General of the
Navy for consideration. What puzzles
the legal officers of the navy is ?
whether the wreck has been actually )
abandoned. The Cuban Government,
it is understood, makes no claim of
ownership to the wreck and simply
desires to improve the navigation of ?
the harbor.
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Priest Stricken at Mass. b
The Very Rev. Stephen Kealy, Fro- n
rincial of the Order of Passionists in
this country, died suddenly while of- f'
ficiating at mass in the monastery of ri
the Passionist Order in West Iloboken, ?
N. J. Death was due, it is supposed, n
to heart disease. fc
Man is Drowned; Doc Swims.
Timothy Lyden took his pet dog into
the river, at Trenton, N. J., to give him h
a bath, and to compel the animal tor 11
swim ashore he swam ont some dis- p
tance. The man was taken with a Pcramp
and was drowned. The dog li
swam ashore, - b
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Itiot at Stock Yards.
There was a riot at the Chicago
stock yards, and strikers charged that
the strike was the result of a conspir- p
aey to deal union labor a death blow. ^
Commerce Records Broken.
All records in commerce were broken
by the United States during the {;
year ended June 30, and exports e^- tj
ceeded imports by more than $75,000,- i,
000. p
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Ball Stand Collapses. jj
Two hundred persons fell Willi a []
stand that collapsed at a ball game
in Cleveland, Ohio. Ten had aruis or
legs broken.
Old Panama Machinery. S
Abandoned machinery to the value of
^50,000,000 now lies along the site ot t]
the Panama Canal ?
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CYCLONE NEAR If Mil
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Houses Blown Down at Chappaqua, R
N, Y., Bury Victims.
STORM SWEEPS HARLEM VALLEY L
IIalhtotte? an Inch And a Half ia Diam- g{
eter Fall ? Kenslco Cemetery Badly
Damaged ? Live Slock Killed and
Barns Destroyed ? Hndaon Itlver at
Os?lnlnjj Sucked Dry by the Wind.
New York City.?A tornado with a
vvuiei ?jh)ul auacuwem uuiue miauuiei. qj]
on the Hudson River and at Chappa- ,je
qua, a few miles above lier?. No re- th
ports of it were heard from the north pe
Jersey shore, and its westernmost ap- sij
pearance was when it began to suck pr
up wat:r from the river opposite Os9ining.
The weather Lad been lowering th
in the middle of the afternoon, with a m
brisk wind driving the black clouds U1
furiously, but no rain fell. Suddenly vc
the waterspout, apparently fifty feet
in diameter, appeared, and rising cc
high in the air in funnel shape, swept j p(
ivest across the river to the upper cr
N'yack shore. People along shore say ?e
the volume of water was so great that a.,
;t bared the river bottom for a long
listance. cr
A large new wharf building, at the sa
summer heme of Joseph Hilton, at Up- th
jer N^ack, w: - swept : way, and ]
jieces of boards and timbers were re
tvhiried off through the air. The wa- aE
erspout rushed through Crumbie's co
jleu, tearing away a number of trees, 2o
jut after it struck ihe land it soon pr
jroke, the water falling in large volime.
People for miles along the lower ga
Hudson watched the waterspout from th
he time it formed until it broke and Br
lisappeared.
Chappaqua, which lies in a valley, hi]
vas hit at 3.45 o'clock in the afternom. vv<
?ov half an hour before the storm Qu
)urst the people of the town knew
hat something was going to happen. 0tl
leavy, awirling, dark clouds from the Ca
:outhwest and northeast traveled rap- he
dly toward each other, meeting over Et
he northeast corner of the town. '
The currents carried along with th
hem great clouds of dust, and the cur- ?ti
ent^ met, it is asserted, with a crash th
ike a clap of thunder. Tlien tiiere su
vas the sound of falling walls and tei
rashing timbers.
Five houses were razed and a great
lumber of barns and outbuildings
vere demolished. The al.* currents
eemed to meet almost over the house
>f 1/Irs. Anna Washburn, in which
me Mrs. Washburn and her mother, 1
ilrs." Hibbs, of Philadelphia, who was m<
taying her daughter a v)sit. Mrs. thi
libbs was eirhtr years old. wi
The building went down like a j :r<
louse of cards and Mr;. Hibbs was iv
:illcd by falling timbers. Mrs. Wash- wt
iuvn was seriously injured. The others 1
njured in Chappcqua were: Warren ?ei
.'ompkins, Walter Sarles, Mrs. Hos- au
er Cox, Cyrus Dodge and Mrs. Mar- to
ha Morrow. 2d,
Chappaqua is located thirty-three :ej
niles from here in a valley which fri
ormed a pathway for the storm. The :ai
own was in complete darkness and a to
errific wind raged while the rain and 1
:ail fell in torrents. Hailstones an iai
iicli and a half in diameter fell. Many mc
ushed from their houses and threw to
hemselves flat on the ground. The
torm passed over them as they lay
here. Few of them were injured. j
In the barns that blew down were
nany horses, several of which were 5e]
illed or so badly injured that they
ad to be shot. " frc
Considerable damage was done at ({lr
lie Kensico Cemetery, where the fall- |qa
iig hail completely shattered the
lass in the big conservatories. All the
onservatories in the path of the tor- ,
ado were ruined. .
After the storm had partly abated, lie
fire department turned out, and,
rith the assistance of many summer jv,
oarders, formed a rescuing party. j
)rs. Miils, Hatch, Champlain, Sazel " *
nd Cox joined the party and did
ood work caring for the injured.
In the night the firemen of the vil- 1
lge formed a vigilance committee and pa
atrolled the streets and guarded the ^r;
ouses which blew down, as some of "U
liem contained valuable property. A : Fei
onservative estimate places the loss
f property and crops at .5100,000.
.'his amount, it is feared, will be dou- ^
led when full leports of the disaster | pr:
re in. fr:
The path of the tornado is about [ So.
alf a mile long and 300 yards wide.
ifter snendinc its main force at Chan- !
aqua it passed on to Unionville, de- | G
troying many farm houses. Then it j me
raveled down the Bronx Valley to bo;
Zensico Lake, where it seemed to lose riC
;s force.
ELL FIVE STORIES; NOT HURT. (
anitor Went Back to Finish His In- en
terrupted Uap on the Roaf. Gr
New York City?It was :<o warm in
William Barrisch's home, at No. 337
last Mnety-seventh street, that he J
rer.t up on the roof to sleep. Soon
liere came ihe noise of ' ?.e snapping as'
f a clothesline, and an irate tenant
n the fourth flood yelled, "Stop breakig
my lines!" J
But Barrisch coulrlr't stop. :.* tre
roke every line he struck as he fell
ve stories. When he landed in the
:ar areaway he was suffeiing only =
rom a slight scratch on his forehead, qj
aused probably by contact with a
lothespin. He picked himself up and
nnounced to the anxious crowd that ,
e was alive. cj.
Wife Gone, Hanged Himself.
Hyman Slock, fifty years old, hanged j
iiuself at Port Chester, N. Y. He jp|
lade a rope out of a she^t and lay ^
own on his bed with his head a foot CC.J
bove the bedding, and in that posi- jcj.
on strnn?rlnd to death. Slock had r-r
e:?n despondent since his youthful >r
*it'e disappeared six months ago.
Woman Drowned in Lake George. ^ei
Miss .Toxic Fiedler, twenty years old, eei
f Orange, Is*. J., was drowned in Lake nu
leorge. en
Russia Replies to England.
Russia has informed Great Britain 1
lat it is impossible to open negotia- go
ons for the settlement of questions ,
1 dispute until after the war with Ja- f0^
an. Good Anil is shown by both nu
ons, and a iJi'itisu protest regarding
lussian cruisers in. the lied Sea i? m(
lought unlikely. v,?
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Ex-Senator Sloan's Will.
The will of ex-Senator George B. 0f
loan, of Oswego, N. Y., divided an
state of $1,000,000 among relatives, J
riends, employeu and. charitable iustU st|
atious. ....
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UD IfllL PROTEST1
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ussia Must Cease Holding Up
British Merchantmen,
I AY CAUSE GRAVE CRISIS
Delist. Warships at Alexandria, Suez
and Aden?Russian Ship* Regarded as (
Pirates?Two Vessels Fro:n Mediter- <
rauean Squadron Ordered to Port Said ;
?Ilnsxirt to Give Up the Slalacca.
London. England.?It is believed by
ival officers cognizant of certain orts
issued to British warships that
e British Government means to comil
the Russians to give up the steamlip
Malacca, which they seized as a
ize of war and are taking to Libau. i
It is also confidently expected for
e same reason that it has been deterined
to put a complete stop to the
llawful operations of the Russian
ilunteer cruisers.
The Malacca was reported as proeding
through the Suez Canal toward
>rt Said, navigated by a Russian
ew and flying the Russian flag. One
veloprnent was the detaching by
imiral Domville, who commands the
editerranean squadron, of two cruiss
under orders to proceed to Port
lid, which is at the northern end of
e Suez Canal.
tt is assumed that these cruisers will
ach Port Said ahead of the Malacca
id be there wben she arrives. It is
nsidered probable that they will c
mpel the Russians to give up their a
lze. r
'Are our warships going to Port i
id just to w.itch the Russians sail r
e Malacca past them?" queried a i
itish naval captain, adding: i
'How foolish that would be! How (
imiliating! In heaven's nauie, what t
)uld tae British people say of such t
. operation? I can't believe those c
uisers are sent to Port Sai-l with any f]
tier purpose than to take the Malac- 0
away from the Russians and send 1
r oft again on her voyage to the Far f
ist." (.
rhere is no question whatever that d
e British Government would ii
engthen itself tremendously with i<
e people of this country by a course t
ch as naval officers think it has de- a
:miued to follow.
TWINS BORN IN CAR.
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vo Steinmetz Boys First See Light
in Public Conveyance.
Sew York City.?When the Stein- 1
?tz twins want to show their friends P
eir birthplace in time to come they n
11 have to liuut up Fourteenth street z
jsstown car No. 1306, at the Second ii
enue crossing, for it was there they o
:iu tjum. v.
To the surprise of the male passen- tl
rs, when the car reached Second ave- J
e, the conductor requested them all li
get off. He seemed terribly excit,
and all the men and women, ex- p
it Mrs. Anna Steinmetz and her v
end. Lizzie Singseck, hustled off the si
Mrs. Steinmetz had given birth ti
twins. g
L'he conductor rushed to an ambu- m
ice call, and a few minutes later the tJ
.ther and her two boys were taken
thD Maternity Hospital. is
li
Offers Transportation Free. d
L railway interested in forestry in E
chigan has afforded a number of Cl
liors in the forest course at the
chigan State Agricultural College
je transportation to the forested
ids in the northeastern part of tbe ?
ver peninsula.
Will of Suicide Broker. ni
JVashburn, the Buffalo broker, who F
led wife, daughter and self, trans- f<
red to h.is partner $10,000 life insur- h
ce payable to his wife, the death of m
i wife making her signature unnec- n
>ary. h
Henry S. Crocker Dead. hi
Tenrv S. Crocker, of San Francisco. 01
1., pioneer stationer, millionaire, and 111
)ther of Charles Crocker, railroad 111
ilder and owner, died, seventy-two r(
ars old.
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Germany Protests.
The German Government entered a>test
against the seizure of mails j
>n the Prinz Heinrich in the Red
a by Russia. I]
ir
Heavier Machinery For Boats. pi
Che Naval Inspection Board recom- j a
mds heavier machinery for torpedo to
ats, even though 3peed must be sac ^
iced. m
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Our Officers Pleased. to
iccrs and men of the United States ^
naJrri in the Mediterranean are ?
thusiastic over their reception in *
DCCO,
Federal Commission at Work.
riio Federal Commission appointed
investigate the General Slocum dis:;r
began its work.
Man Lives in a Tree. R
Ln Urbana (Oliio) man lives in a tj?
o '.r> pnrr> mnsumotion.
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Earthquakes in Ecuador. g
Sever? earthquakes w?ve at Cuaya* flc
il, Ecuador. ' ev
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Shearing by Electricity. tv
n Franco sheep are bciag -beared by PI
ictricity. Ki
American Suicide in Paris.
Ln American stulent named Shr p- J .
Cb, said to l.ave been a relative of [U
> American Ambnssaicr in France, Fi
emitter, suicide in Paris, leaving an
ters addressed to V. Shapleigh- 01
;st Lebanon, Me. es
A Trofcssor is Honored.
^rofjrcor KjcIi, tbe well-known bac Iolofist.
bas been elected to sue- .
xl the late Professor Virehow as
mber of tLe Bewlin Academy of Sci- J."
ces- \i\
Labor World.
Boston (Mass.) union lathers have
on strike against the open shop. jj(.
V pension system is to i/e established at
r employes on the Intercolonial Rail- a
i J. pr.
Albany (N. Y.) union printing press- m
?n now receive a minimum weekly iti.
ige of $17.
rhe percentage of chad labor in tbt
uth is greater than in any other pari , (
the country. sir
\bout 500 union painters returned to toi
>rk in Boston, after u several months' Ct>i
rlke for higher wages, wiich were 001
nerallT granted. Ui
RUSSIAN ARMY REPULSED
joneral Kuropatkin Admits of a
Terrible Defeat
Die Japaneae Northern Army U?iier
Gonoral* Karokl and Ha?ejravra Drivs
the Enemy From Mountain*.
Tokio, .j.-.pan,?General ivxiroKt, In an
official bulletin received by the War
Office, confirms the news of an importint
Japanese victory near Motien
Pass. An extensive report was relei
ved by the General, but the military
lutlioritics Lave divulged nothing berond
the bulletin. It is announced the
ull Russian loss is not yet known, but
Here is 110 doubt in Tokio that it will
otal 2(X)0 in killed, wounded and capured,
with ten guns and many stands
>f small arras. The battle was won
jy Lieutenant-General Baron Hasejawa.
commanding the Imperial Bodyguard
division of General Kuroki's
irmv. who met and repulsed a desperite
attack 011 the Japanese positions
11 and about the pass made by a large
iussian force under Lientenant-Gen?ral
Count Keller, on whom General
vuropatkin relies for defense of Ihe
teninsula railway northeast of Ilai:hen.
General Husegawa's division
vas divided into two columns, both of
vhich received high praise from Geniral
Kuroki.
A heavy fog shrouded the Russian
tttacfc, which was begun at daybreak.
5ix brigades of Kussian infantry, with
l Iarere number of heavv field batter
es, several Cossack horse batteries,
wo lighter mountain batteries and
iglit squadrons of Cossack cavalry
idvanced rapidly in three columns on
he Japanese position. The first colluiii
of the Imperial Guard Division
eceived the brunt of the attack, retirng
slowly in the eastward and drawng
the Russians into a position where
Jeneral Hasewaga's second column
tegan a flanking movement. When
he fog cleared away the Russian genral
found himself confronted by the
irst Guard column and soon afterward
iscoversd the second column was
urning his right. He attempted to rercat
toward the Sliir.g r.Iountains, but
Jeneral Hasew.iga had placed a strong
letachment of infantry, with six guns,
a a position commanding General Ivel?r's
intended route of withdrawal, and
he Russians were compelled to return
long che road toward Liau Yang.
PER J'S PACi WITH BRAZIL,
'rotocol Calls For Divided Adminis
tration of Acre Territory.
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, via Galveston,
'exas.?News of the signing of, the
rotocol for tlie preliminury s'ettlelent
of the Acre dispute between Brail
and Peru ha*; been officially eonrmed.
Theue are the principal points
f the protocol: The contested zone
r regiou. extending from sources of
he Iiiver Puras to the source of the
urua, will remain neutral until a dcnite
settlement of the question.
Brazil and Peru are to settle the
roperty r ghts by direct negotiations
ritiiin tive months, but if it is imposibl?
to arrive at a satisfactory soluon
both countries will request the
ood ofiices cf a friemVy Power, or
Lib Mt the matter to arbitration; hut
his only if abs.lutely necessary.
Meanwhile the zone is to be adminK..
% ntwi
HCltU UJ Di.UjlIiillt illiu 1 ClU.'lilll ULclals.
The rents are to be equally
ivided. The new Mini.ter of Peru,
?r. Seoane, has just arrived to sucked
Dr. Vellardj.
[EMPHIS POLICE CHIEF CONE.
udden Departure During Reform Crusade
Causes Sensation.
Memphis, Tenn.?Without any nnouncement
of hi? intentions, Chief of
olice Mason suddenly left Memphis
>r Chicago. No reason was given for
is departure beyond the bare state- J
tent from his physician that he was '
ot feeling well and took the trip that
p lpight get a rest.
The sudden departure of the Chief |
as created a sensation here, and the (
tizens are at a loss ^understand the ;
leaning of the move. Mayor Williams [
laintains that he has not received the |
ssigr.ation of the Chief.
TRrjRnnTzrxa FINLAND.
ussia Arrests Prominent Men Without
Explanation.
London, England?Advices from
ielsingfors show that during this
lonth three of the most distinguished
rofessors of the University, Horaen,
scientist of European reputation; Estndei,
a law lecturer, and Baron i
/rede, professor of Roman law, a
ember of the House of Nobles and
le of the most respected men in Finnd,
were suddenly arrested and de>rted
in manacles to St, Petersburg,
othing has been heard of them since,
he houses of other professors were !
(arched.
LANS FOR THE BALTIC FLEET. '
/
ussian Admiral Says It Will Start iu i
September.
Paris, France.?An interview with
ead-Admiral Rojetsvensky. Chief of
e General Staff of the Russian Navy,
published in one of the newspapers,
lie Admiral airily dismisses any
iggestion of difficulty in taking the
altlc fleet out to the Far East. The
set will start in September, call wlier- |
er it uiay be necessary, including the j
erman port of Kiaocbau, and stop I
rep.ty-four hours?the legal limit?at J
lymouth, Cartagena and possibly ;
aples.
Trestle Breaks With Train.
A. Big Four freight train went j
rough a trestle at Sharon, Ohio, j
reman Metzgar. of Delaware, Ohio, I
id Breakuian Casead, of Osborne, j
]io. were killed. Engineer Wilsou j
caped by jumping.
A Nov,- Governor in Tangier.
Kaid Benhimaa, chief of police, lias j
en appointed Governor in Tangier, j
neral satisfaction is expressed at ;
e change, which was one of Itaisu* 1
5 stipulations.
For New Water Supply.
Hie Niagara County (N. Y.) Irrigahi
and Water Supply Company tiled
Hie county Clerk's office in Lockpovt
map for a new power canal enterise.
involving an ^expenditure of $10.0.0(H);
New York persons are tiunucthe
affair, it was asserled.
To Protect Folk.
}wing to a rumor of a plot to assaslate
Joseph W. Folk, the Circuit Atrney
of St. Louis, a bodyguard was '
rmed to protect him during the Demratic
State convention, jn Jefferson
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
In an effort to locate three offender?
who are wanted in Washington, D. C.,
12,920 letters were .sent out by the
capital police.
The Navy Department has arranged
for the official trial. July 23, off San
Francisco, of the battleship Ohio. ...
The Navy Department officials have
fixed upon .the new uniform for the
Navy, including officers and enlisted
force. i
General Davis, Governor-General of
the Panama Canal Strip, has advised
the Panama Canal Commission that he
I Tffllifc 1 fifl fWV\ vnr/Iu rvf ??lrA crnn?7r* if*
prevent mosquito invasion of the zone.
Captain J. It. Edwards, of the Bureau
of Steam Engineering, has been-transferred
at his own request to the Navy
Yard at Portsmouth, where he win
have charge of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering.
The marriage of Senator Clark has
caused considerable comment at the
Capital and it is '-xpeotid that th
couple will ent **tain on a lavish seal'
ne-t season.
OUR ADOPTED INLANDS.
The export trade in bananas-.from
Porio Rico to the United States began
in 38S1. and has grown from 3500
bunches to upwards of 4,000,00#
bunches annually.
As the result of what appears to> have
been despondency immediately following
a native feast. Lieutenant Gilford
S. Garber, of the Ninety-second. Company,
of Coast Artillery, of the Regular
i Array, committed suicide at Honolulu '
by shooting himself iu the uiouth witlr
a revolver. ?
The orders of tin* Government thai
Lieutenant Stone is carrying out to
keep down the price of foodstuffs- ir
Guam. P. I? are working well,
DOMESTIC,
Two men were killed and Captain
Sharp, Superintendent of the MerrittChapman
Wrecking Company,, was
overcome by gas in the hold of a wrcck
they were raising in Mew York Harbor.
Severe riots and a panic occurred or
a barge chartered by a negro church for
an excursion near New York City. The
police came in launches to Quell the
disturbance. - ' </ ':
The strike of the employes of the
Orange County Traction Company
ended at Newburg, N. Y., *ach side .
making concessions.
A syndicate of .Holland bankers is re
J/UI LCU IU IJilli; l/i/U^UL llAU ?VX.r u, UUU M
X. Railroad from the Rockefellers. 0
John Palmierl, appointed by Gov- EE
ernor Odell a Judge oi! the City Court
of New York, is t?p lirst Italian to hold . I
a judlciaL position in the United States. H
The cotton boll weevil is in. Texap
oats.
The General Loss Committee in its
final reports puts the total losses paid
on account cf the Baltimore fire at
$^0,500,000.
Following a street qr.arrel over
Antonio Nardezzo shot and killed Mrs,
Filomena C. Piedoiida at East Providence,
R. I.
Senator Knox and Mr. Root visited
President Roosevelt at Oyster Eay and
were requested to make ceveral
speeches in the campaign.
Official announcement was made ol
the New York Central's interest in
traction properties.
The switchman and brakeman were
held by, the Coroner's Jury to be re>
sponsible for the Midland (N.J.) wreck;
warrants were issued.
Members of the Federal Commission
to investigate the General Slocum dis?
aster went over the steamer's course in
the East River, New York, and inspect
! ed the steamer's hull.
I Lieutenant-General Chaffee Cnlshed
cni'.ceil disastrous frrrst fires a!on~ the flEJfi
cou:;t of Critii.li I'oluiu'jia ilurius llu
rust week. 09
u'lir.v ii-iv'Tnupnuiiti iuii asa mmm
?]r. Ealfouv to sol a date for debate on nH
:: vo.e o? censure of the Government. HB
The isolated residence of an English ?M
nan named Levison. at Eubana, tw< KM
miles outside Tangier, was firerl on in HH
effectually by Moors. Mohammed E '^Eg
Torres, the Foreign Minister, has sen!
a strong guard to protect Mr. Levison.
France has concluded an arbitration aBl
treaty with Sweden and Norway. fSl
Emperor William has asked Mr. Johc IdR
E. Uerreshoff to submit plans and esti BSIf
mates for a yacht similar to the Ingo IRfp
mar. owned by Commodore Plant. flg|I
It ts announced from Cape Town thai BIB
a preferential tariff agreement hat
been made between Canada Vli HB
routij African urates
! his inspection of the Yeilowstone Park. fl|
It is net believed by the St. Lcnis Ex- K
position management that Santos Du? ^ H
1 mont intends to withdraw from the ahv ' K
| ship contest. MB
[ The first messa~> over the Seattle- H
Sitka cable line reached Seattle, Wash., ,*3
; but the lino will not b: complete toi H
two weeks. m
The five mills of the. Cocheco Manu- H
factoring company, at Dover, N. H., H
were ordered closed, throwing out of 85
work 2000 operatives. IB
New York City real estate valued at EH
nearly a billion Collars i3 exennted , H
from taxation, according to a state- Ijfl
ment made by the Tax Department. PR
Tan thousand persons held a memo- W
rial meeting at ni~ht in Tompkins 8H
Park, New York City, for the Ceneral H
Siocum dead. m|
Three cattle thiovrs. arte killing a jH
constable near Albuquerque, N. M., -H
barricade.1 the doors of a house and H
exchanged shots with a 00b cf wculd- H|
t>e lynchCL'3. . H|
Four arrests were n~d? in St. Louis, B
SIo., of men,accu:c l jf being in a big 9H
aonspiracy to rob Us Exposition Com- ?88
paDy through ticket irregularities. mB
The Mcthodiet Episcopal Church ex- Hp
r>rlled the iicv. Mr. Cordova, of South JflE
Kiver, 2*. J., wu# ciopou wirn iui3a mi
Julia Borne, a ucu'ocr of tiij cou- 19
gregatioa. TO
FOREIGN. K
Count de la Vauli, an aeronaut, fell 8fi
into the Meuiterrauean while attempt-.. BH
in- a flight frou iloutjoliicr in bis jra
stwrable baliooa. UQ
The Caronia. of Ibo Cunard Line, the Hj
largest vessel ever CQnctruetccl in Great
Britain, was lauuehcu o.i the Clyde, BH
Mrs. Cboate christening th? new liner. H
Dari:i~ a riot of strikers at Cluses.
. *nce, several shotc were firod, result' H
in? Ln the Lilliiifj cf four persons and Bgj
the wounding cf twenty-five. TLo mH
gendarmes -\viio attempted to disperse
tbe riotei-3 were ctoacd. g5|
Bfr. Arnold-Foster annor.neea tL: Ml
British Government';; plans f>r army jfflj
reduction, including cutting down the
force to 227,003 u n and aban-Ioninc jgB
the conscription proposal. n|
Robert Coclet, cf "ew York, wVjst
automobile ran do.?u a boy, a: Hfl
mobbed in Austria. ? WW
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