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PARKER'S' LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE Esopus, X. Y ?Judge Alton I?. Parker's letter of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for the Presidency was given out here. The letter is addressed "to the IIou. Champ Clark and others, committee, etc.,'' and is in part as follows: "Gentlemen?In my response to your committee, at the formal notification proceedings. I referred to some matters not mentioned in this letter. I desire that these be considered as incorporated herein, and regret that lack of space prevents specific reference to them all. I wish here, however, again to refer to my views there expressed as to the gold standard, to declare ac.iin Kiv unonalified belief in said standard, and to express my appreciation of the action of the convention in reply to my communication upon that subject." In discussing: the much talked of issue of imperialism Judge Parker says: "While I presented my views at the notification proceedings concerning this vital issue, the overshadowing importance of this question impels me to refer to it again. The issue is oftentimes referred to as Constitutionalism vs. Imperialism. "If we would retain our liberties and constitutional rights unimpaired, we cannot permit or tolerate, at any time or for any purpose, the arrogation of unconstitutional powers by the executive branch of our Government. We should be ever mindful of the words of .Webster. 'Liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of political powers.'" Taking up the tariff question the Judge enters into the subject at some length. He says at one place; "Tariff reform is one of the cardinal principles of the Democratic faith, and the necessity for it was never greater than at the present time. It should be undertaken at once in the interest of all our people. "The two leading parties have al ways differed as to tne principle 01 customs taxation. Our party has always advanced the theory that the object is the raising: of revenue for support of the Government whatever other results may incidentally flow therefrom. The Republican party, on the other hand, contends that customs duties should be levied primarily for protection, so called, with revenue as the subordinate purpose, thus using the power of taxation to build up the business and property of the few at the expense of the many. "In the words of our platform we demand 'a revision and a gradual reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses, and for the common weal, and not by the friends of its abuses, its extortions and discriminations.' "I pointed out in my earlier response the remedy, which, in my judgment, can effectually be applied agaiust monopolies." he states, "and the assurance was then civeu that if existing laws, including both statute and common law, proved inadequate, contrary to my expectations. I favor such further legislation, within constitutional limitations, as will best promote and safeguard the interests of all the people. "Whether there is any common law which can be applied and enforced by the Federal courts cannot be determined by the President or by a candidate for the Presidency. % "The determination of this question was left by the people in framing the Constitution to the Judiciary and not to tbe Executive." < The candidate repeats the demand of his party for reciprocity treaties with foreign nations, declaring "That the benefits of reciprocal trade treaties would inure to both. That the consumer would be helped is unquestionable. That the manufacturer would receive groat benetit by extending his markets abroad hardly needs demonstration. His productive capacity has outgrown the home market."' The Philippine question is gone into at some length, and the Judge reiterates his approval of that plank in his party's platform which favors giving the islanders their liberty when they u'fc reauy ior u. The Judge discussed the Panama Canal treaty fully, approving of the project itself, but objecting strenuously to the present administration's method of acquiring the rights to the territory. * He says in part: "An isthmian canal has long been the hope of our statesmen, and the avowed aim of the two great parties, as their platforms in the past show. Tiie Panama route having been selected, the building of the canal should be pressed to completion with all reasonable expedition. "Our commerce in American bottoms amounts to but eight per cent, of our total exports and imports," he states. "For seventy years prior to 1SG0. when the Republican party came into power, our merchant marine carried an average of seventy-five per cent, of our foreign commerce. By 1S77 it had dwindled to twenty-seven per cent. Now we carry but a contemptibly small fraction of our exports and im? ports. "American shipping in the foreign trade was greater by over 100,000 tons In 1S10?nearly 100 years ago?than it was last year. In the face of the continuous decline in the record of Ameri-< can shipping during the last forty-three yeafs the promise of the Republican party to restore it is without encouragement. The record of the Democratic party gives assurance that the task can be more wisely instrusted to it," he declares in a summary of this question ?^ ciUmrvttiof infnrnefe VI UUL Oixip^/xn^ im.viv.oio, PHYSICIAN GETS FIFTY YEARS. Convicted of Assaulting Sixteen-YearOld Office Girl. St. Joseph, Mo.?Dr. J. C. D. Heflln, a young physician, who was found guilty of attacking Myrtle Dowler, his sixteen-year-old office girl, was sentenced by Judge Casteel to fifty years in the penitentiary. The jury which found Hefiin guilty could not agree upon the punishment. Eight members favored the death penalty. Personal Mention. Nelson A. MiJes first went to work In a crockery store. The King of Spain is passionately fond of horseback riding. J. Pierpont Morgan started life with 510,000,000 left him by his father. Mrs. Annie C. George, widow of Henry George, died at her home. Merry Wold, Sullivan County, N. Y., of heart disease. Among New York's successful lawyers is Mrs. Charles Truax, wife of Judge Truax, whose practice briugs in a handsome incom?. - - -f->- . - - .. Regarding to conduct of tlio Arn and Xnvy Department the letter co tends that favoritism has prevail* throughout, and that promotions ai court-martials have been conducted < an unfair basis. The Republican attitude toward tl Pension Department is severely cri cised by Judge Parker, particular the famous "Order No. 78." which po sions all veterans of the late Civil W; who are now over sixty-two years age. lie says in part: "The national Democracy favors li eral pensions to the surviving soldie ancl sailors and their dependents, < the ground that they deserve liber treatment. It pledges by its phitfor adequate legislation to that end. B it denies the right of the Executive usurp the power of Congress to legi late on that subject. Such usurpatk was attempted by Pension Order X 78. and effect has been given to it by Congress that dared not resent tl usurpation. It is said that 'this ord' was made in the performance of a dul imposed upon the President by act < Congress,' but the provision makir the imposition is not pointed out. "The old inquiry. 'What are you g ing to do about it?' is now stated in new form. It is said by the Admini tration, in reply to the public criticis: of this order, that 'It is easy to test 01 opponents' sincerity in this matter.' "If elected I will revoke that ordc But I will go further and say that tin being done, I will contribute my edo toward the enactment of a law to I passed by both houses of Congress an approved by the Executive mat wj gi\e an age pension without referent to disability to the surviving heroes t tlie Civil War.'' Extravagance in the conduct of t.l business affairs of the Administrate is charged, and a curtailment ot' e: penses all along the line is promise should he become the Executive. An investigation of the conduct t the various departments is demandc in lieu of the recent frauds uncovere in the Fostal Department In concluding the letter he says: "I have put aside a congenial worl to which I had expected to devote m life, in order to assume, as best I cai the responsibilities your convention pi upon me. I solicit the cordial co-ope: ation and generous assistance of ever man who believes that a change r measures and of men at this tini would be wise, and urge harmony c endeavor as well as vigorous action o the part of all so minded. The issue are joined and the people must rende the verdict. Shall economy of admii istration be demanded or shall extrav? gance be encouraged V Shall the wrons doer be brought to bay by the peopl or must justice wait upon political ol garchy? Shall our Government stan for an equal opportunity or for specii privilege? Shall it remain a goveri ment of law or become one of indivit ual caprice? Shall we cling to the rul Ul iu,t; iieupir in ??t- v-ui..i..vt eficcnt despotism? With calmness an confidence we await the people's vei diet. "If called to the office of President shall consider myself the Chief Maj istrate of all the people and not of an faction, and shall ever be mindful c the fact that on many questions of ni tional policy there are honest diffei ences of opijflon. I believe in the pt triotism. gooil sense and absolute sir cerity of all the people. I shall striv to remember that he may serve hi party best who serves his country bes 'If it be the wish of the people tlm I undertake the duties of the Pres dency, I pledge myself, with Hod' help, to devote all my powers and ei ergy to the duties of this exalted offici Very truly yours. "ALTON* B. PARKER." PUNISHES MILITIA COMPANY. Alabama Governor Musters Out Me Who Failed to Protect Negro. Montgomery. Ala.?The military com which met at Huntsville to investigal the conduct of the military company c that city in not protecting the negi T-T/-vro/-.a MunloS from the llfl lldS Of molt on the night of September 7 n ported to the Cover nor that the eon pany was inefficient and should be mu tered out of service. Acting Govcrnt Cunningham approved the findings. The testimony of the ni^'ht jailc showed that the soldiers acted .1 though they were frightened. He test fled that when the mob broke into tli jail some were in the closets, some ui der the bed. and others on the floe smoking. The court in its conclusio declared that there were sufficient 111c and ammunition to protect the negr "if they had been intelligently an courageously commanded and used Thp testimony of Captain It. T. Haj that lie was wounded by glass from window broken by a bullet comin from the mob is discredited. 5000 INDIANS TO GATHER. Will Honor Chief Joseph's Memoi and Elect His Successor. Lewiston, Idaho. ? Indians from a over the Northwest have been sun moned to gather at North Lapwai, c the Nez Perces Indian Reservation, i order to celebrate with a feast and wj dance in memory of their late leade Chief Joseph. At the same time a su cessor will be chosen to rule the tribe Summonses by mail and messengi have been sent to all the wanderii] bands, including Nez Ferees, Lapwai Blackfeet, Spokanes, Colvilles an other tribes. Five thousand Indiar will be invited. The date for the affa ? will be fixed later by the sub-chief A week will be devoted to feastin dancing and balloting for a new chief Major L. C. Norman Dead. Major L. C. Norman, twice State Ai ditor, and one of the best known pol ticians in Kentucky, died at Frankfoi Ivy., of heart troubles. England and U. S. Silent. No further representations regardir contraband have been made to Russ by the United States or Great Britai It is believed that Russia may, if r quested, yield the point regarding co ton. British Secretary Arrested Here. The arrest and fining of Hugh Gu ney, Third Secretary of the Britii Embassy, by a justice at Lee, Mas: 1 was Dionintly taken up by the Sta Department. World's Fair Notes. A party of 200 Italians, headed 1 Italian nobles, visited the Fair. Two thousand cattle entries for tl World's Fair Live Stock Show hai been received. Karl Komzak, of Vienna, Austria, conducting the Exposition orckestra i the World's Fair. The process of making turpentii and rosin is shown in the Georgia se tion of the Palace of Forestry. The openwork tablecloths in en lace and white damask of French ma ufacture are particularly beautiful. . * , _ i ?.V - ... liDOTTE WRECKS TOWN ki 5,1 i i,c Train Hits Wa?on Load of Hisrh Ex: piosive Causing Havoc. of; TWO Mfc'N KILLED. OUTRIGHT b. j rs < )I1 Widespread JJestrnclIon at r>ortii t>rancn, "1 j Md., Caused by Concn*sion, and Many J'trsons Hurt ? School Children lit Thrown Into Panic ? Kngine DemoS ; llsliod?Wajon Stopped on Track. g1 ! Cumberland, Md.?The village of a | North Branch, four miles cast of Cuiiiic J borlaiul, was wrecked by dynamite, ^ ! Hie explosion having been causcd by a Baltimore and Chio eastbound fast ig ! freight train running into a wa^on j loaded with dynamite at a crossing. ?" I C. Walter Whitchair, a brake man, of 1 Brunswick, and Nelson Pike, engine ui j driver, of Martinsburg, wsre killed. A. ir R. Sanders, lireman, of North MounI tain, W. V?.; Charles Hamilton, o?-j?Lit; tie Orleans, Md.: James Aslikettle, of i i Little Orleans; Mary Twigg, of Oldi town: Raymond, the three-year-old son |(l 1 Oj! Charles Hamilton; Claude Seibert II j niul James Lain.c, driver of the dyna,e i mite wagon, were the most severely ! injured. The Baltimore and OIjio tower was wrecked, as were the residences of Adam Seibert, Charles Hamilton, ^ ! Charles Bloss, J. Lewis Seibert, ! Stephen A. Bloss and John Coleman, | and the commissary of Michael Elyf more, a "Wabash sub-contractor, and ,(j i office, stable and hospital buildings. ^ Windows of the school house and of the residence of G. A. Zimmerly and others on the mountain half a mile . away, were all broken and the school y | children were thrown into a panic. ^ i The dynamite was being hauled for ! Mr. Elmore, for construction work in r. ! progress near by. There were fifteen v eases on the wagon, aggregating 750 ,'f ! pounds. Laing was crossing the track e | with the load when he saw the train I coming. He became panic stricken n i and stopped on the track, according to ,s | eyewitnesses, and then deserted the ,j. j team and ran. The train struck the j. ! rear of the wagon, which lacked only j. three feet of clearing the track, but j the engine ran on fifty feet before the 'e i terrific explosion occurred. j. ! Grant Hamilton and James Ashkettle (l were in the tower with the former's | brother. Realizing what was coming, ; they dropped down and the tower l_ ' toppled upon them. They were cove ! ered with cuts from glass and splinters. (X j The engine was stripped of its trimL.. j mings and turned over at right an! gles, a total wreck, while .seven freight j I cars were badly broken up, the forej most cars being destroyed. The track y was torn and twisted in all directions, if and heavy steel rails were broken in i- two. The concussion was terrific, an f. j unusual incident being the breaking of t. wires nair "way oeiweeu ieii-{jiuiju i- poles by concussion only. o Laing was some distance away, runlS ning down in a ditch when the engine t. struck the wagon, and escaped with ,t various cuts and a fractured eardrum, i- The horses were hardlv scratched, als though thrown fifty yards into a field, i- It required the strength of four or ?. five men to lift Tike, the engine driver, from the throttle. His body was on top of the overturned boiler, under broken iron, and his hand grasped the throttle in a death clutch. The house of Charles Hamilton was torn almost inside out. The furniture n was wrecked and all the china and crockery broken.. Parts of the engine .f. tvere hurled many yards, and picklcs and whisky, with which several of the :ars were loaded, were scattered in all ,0 3ircetions. One of the tires of the dyu;i jmite wagon was hurled to the top ' )f a telegraph pole, where it hung fast. s. The explosion emptied pillows of )r feathers in several houses. An oak | :ree was entirely denuded of leaves. ,r | IS j To Head Second Army, i- j The Russian Emperor has placed ic I General Grippenberg in command of i- j the Second Manchurian Army. The )r tmperor in a letter 10 me uenerai >n pays a tribute to the warlike qualities n the Japanese. o. id Desertions From the Lena. Frequent desertions are reported s from the Russian cruiser Lena, at a San Francisco, Cal., in spite of the 'g parole given to this Government; it is believed the gunners arc attempting to return to Russia. Loft Nearly All to Cornell, y Opening: the will .of the late Professor Daniel Willard Fiske the executors found that he had left nearly the en11 tire estate to Cornell University, a- amounting to about $1,500,000. n in Hope For Russia's Poor. ir Jacob H. Schiff said the recent utterr? duces of Prince Mirsky, Russia's new c" Minister of the Interior, gives much hope for the poorer classes of Russian ;r Jews. US ? [(j A Record Divorce Case. iS Mr?. Anna R. Cummins obtained a ir divorce and $50,000 alimony in a Chis. cago (111.) court twenty-four minutes o- * after tiling her papers asking for a de.' creo. Ship Loses Live Stock, u- On a voyage from New Orleans, La., li- to Cape Town, South Africa, tlie Nort, wegian steamer Nordkyn lost 000 head of live stock. French Officer Beaten. 1ST Pnmmgndnnt T nrilio n Vrnnnli nffifpr >:l of the Legation Guard in Pekin, China, ? has been beaten -with sticks by Chinese soldiers, and a strong complaint t* has been lodged with the Imperial Government. Steerage Rate War Not Over. r* There were no further increases In >h transatlantic steerage rates, but the Hamburg-American Line issued n tt* statement that the war was not at an end. Sporting Brevities. )y Five thousand persons attended the society horse show at Lenox. ie Afr^ander at 20 to 1 won the ,-e Brighton Cup Preliminary Stake. The Whippany Club opened new js grass tennis courts at Morristown, N. J. at Seawanhaka's oldest members steered and manned boats in the club's reunion ie races. ?. John Bedell vgon the five mile professional cycle race at the Vailsburg track in llifl. 3 2-5s. C. F. Watson, Sr., won four cups at the invitation golf tournament of the Esses County Country Club. . I . . 1 [long drouth in europe j Food For Cattle and Horses Will j Have lo Coma From America. i | Dry Woatlirr Has Had Disastrous Kcsaltr j t in Various Countries?Lir'C Conllat;r j . rations Have Keen lrrecjuent. 1 Washington, D. C.?George II. Mur- j phy, American Yice-Consul-Geiicral at ( Frankfort, says in a report: "The severe drouth which is afflicting ; European countries has had various injurious effects. It has caused frequent I. and large conflagrations; it has stopped | river navigation entirely in many districts, causing a scarcity nf fruits and | garden truck, coal, -wood, etc., and j greatly advanced prices; it has forced | works operated by water power to ' cease running. But it is particularly : the insufficiency of feedstuffs for cattle ! and liorses which causes anxiety in | agricultural and commercial circles. "The Governments of* Bulgaria and j Roumania have already issued decrees i prohibiting the exportation of corn and i other cattle feed. Servia and Austria- J Hungary also have issued decrees pro- i hibiting the exportation of corn, hay ' and other feedstuffs. ?The order of j the Austro-Hungarian Government is J most rigid and sweeping, as it includes, { in addition, bran and barley, potatoes I asd beans, oil cake, clover, and the j husks, dregs and waste materials *of ; malt and sugar beets; in short, every- j thing, even including swil!, which can ! serve as food for animals. "Roumania and Austro-Hungary : have heretofore been the principal European supply sources for corn and feedstuffs for the other countries of Western Europe. This source of supply now being closed, Germany, taly, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and England, as well as the Scandinavian countries, -will have to depend principally upon the United I States, and, to a smaller extent, upon j Argentina for food for their cattle and ! horses." Consul-General'Mason,at Berlin, Ger- i many, also says the United States will ! have to help feed Central Europe dur- ' ing the coming autumn and winter on ; account of drouth in Russia, Austria, I uerraany, switzerinnu and * ranee. The Consul-General states that a careful inquiry as to the grain crops and the general agricultural situation has been made by the central station for Trusslan agriculture, and its re- ; port shows that there was a falling ' off from the yield of last year in spring j wheat* winter rye, spring rye, barley 1 and oats. Winter wheat furnished the | only exception among these leading ; cereals. Mr. Mason says the effects of the I drouth on pastures, meadows and root , crops of all kinds, both for forage and : for human food, are still more serious. | "All this has reacted disastrously . on the dairying industry," says the i Consul-General, "and milk, cheese and | butter are reduced in quantity and ad- i vanced in price. The standard fruits, j apples, pears, plums and peaches, j which in early summer promised a full i average yield, have to a serious extent ! been ripened prematurely by the pro- | longed intense dry heat and have sbriv- j eled and fallen off in such quantities j that the autumn fruit crop is gravely i compromised." ' The Consul-Generai predicts an in- j creased demand not only for corn, I wheat and rye from the United States, but for fresh and preserved fruits, dried and salted fish, and such meats as the present inspection law of Germany permits to be imported. WRECK OX THE CENTRAL. The Western Express Derailed by a i Broken Rail. Rochester, N. Y.?A broken rail on the New York Central track near Lock i Berlin, between Lyons and Clyde, caused the derailment of the three rear sleeping cars of the Western express, due in this city at 4 a. m. The sleepers careened and fell over on the track used by east-bound freight. While the passengers in the three sleepers -were hastily dressing themselves and trying to get out a freight train crashed into the sleepers, badly wrecking them and injuring twenty-five of the occupants. Most of the injured were taken on to Lyons, but eight of the most seriously hurt were brought to Rochester and sent to the hospital. Mrs. Newman Erb, of New York City, wife of VicePresident Erb, of the Pere Marquette Railway, died of her injuries a few hours later. Pope Receives Youths. The Pope received 1000 youths of the Catholic Association of France, referring gently to the religious conflict of j France and the Vaticau. No Argentine Ships Sold. The Argentine Minister of Marine said that no warships had been sold to Russia, and that no negotiations I for their sale were pending. Russia and England to Confer. Count Samsdorff has instructed the ! Russian Ambassador to confer with Lord Lansdowne upon the Tibet I treaty. Lake Baikal R. R. Opened. A dispatch from Irkutsk said that j the railroad around Lake Baikal had \ been opened for traffic. Six Tort Arthur Forts Taken. A belief prevails in Tokio that six \ forts of Tort Arthur's inner defenses i have been taken by the Japanese. ~ * Train Derailed by u Cow. A passenger train from North An- [ son. Me., to Oakland, Me., on the Somerset Railroad, was derailed by strik- ' ing a cow one mile north of the station, j The engine and tender were overturned down an embankment. No one was in- : jure5. Among the fifty passengers was j Governor John F. Hill, who is president ?f the road. Peru's New President. D? Jose Pardo was inaugurated President of Peru. Minor Mention. France lias only gained 444,013 in population in tlie decade from 1890 to 1900. The designs for a big new Cotton Exchange for Liverpool have been accepted. Rev. L. Lochner, of Chicago, lias just returned home after establishing a Lutheran synod in Brazil. The Germans have at last succeeded in breaking the back of the Herrero rebellion in Southwest Africa. Hereafter all the letters of Russian soldiers will be inspected. No letter in Yiddish is to be delivered. > ' * r WGHTING HI PORT ills" Six More Important Forts Are Reported Taken,. 'JAPS CUT OFF WATER SUPPLY j l \ Severe and liloody Fighting AVItli Many j Hand-to-Hand Engagements Mark f the Progress of the Siege?Over Three Thousand Japanese lteported Killed In Latest Engagements* Cliefoo. ? Such steady progress has 1 been made by General Nodi's troops in j their advance on Port Arthur since the J renewal of continuous general fighting ! that they are in possession of enough forts near the inner defenses either to warrant an assault in force or else, at the discretion of their commander, to leave them nothing to do save to sit down before the fortress and starve the garrison into submission. Not only do they hold three main and six supplementary forts ou th^ northwest, north and northeast of Lieutenant' General Stoessel's position, but they have cut off Port Arthur's water supply, and the garrison for days has been compelled to have recourse to the re- J serve. Furious bombardment along the whole Russian position, however, in- | dines military experts to the belief the Japs will not wait for nature to force the defenders to capitulate. So desnerately did the Japanese assault tho positions gained thus far in the six I (lays' battle that 3000 were killed or i wounded, according to the best infor- j matiou, while Russian repbrts place I Nogi's losses at three times that total. It was in the capture of Fort Kuropatkin, protecting the'water supply, that the Japs lost most heavily. Knowledge of the natural weakness of that position led General Stoessel to place an unusually strong garrison in it and to equip its defenders with many of the best guns at his command. The cannonading from three sides continued for twenty-four hours before i Fort Kuropatkin showed signs of i weakness. While shells were flying I over the city, and the big guns on botli | sides were booming through twenty- ! four hours, the water supply fort con- j tributed its share to the thunder and j held the Japs in check through afternoon, night and forenoon. Its fire j slacked, though, and Nogi's infantry | rushed the works. About the same ! tirno tltA .Tnnnnnar* rir?1it pfintnro/l n I fort from which they soon began an effective fire on the Russians' Etse Mountain pQsltions. All through the night the heavy bombardment of the Russian positions continued, the Japanese fire being directed with particular vigor against another supplementary fort 3000 yards to the west of the fort on Etse Mountain, and regarded as highly important, because of its bearing on the Etse and Anshu mountain ?orts. The next day, after having pounded this position unmercifully and until its fire had slackened visibly, the Japanese delivered their assault. They were exposed to the fire of machine guns and rifles and they made frantic efforts to reach the crest of the slope. They leaped over trenches and embankments and tore down entanglements in their path until at length they I entered the fort. The Russian troops j refused to desert their position, even in the face of the superior numbers which'Confronted them, and desperate hand-to-hand fighting occurred inside the fort. Eventually almost the entire Russian garrison was either killed or wounded. Tokio, Japan.?It is believed here that the Japanese have captured six forts in the second line of defense at Port Arthur within the last few days. The hope of a speedy reduction of the fortress is running higher. PICK COTTON BY MOONLIGHT. Georgians Work Double Shifts Because of Scarcity of Labor. A .. n n Mnt'A 4-IN fr>r*4- *.!n/vn ALIpUJlil, UH. iU Oil \ U U1C la?L 1~1?JC11- j Ing crop of this section the planters have put laborers to work picking cot- | ton by moonlight. These scenes of ac- j tivity in the cotton fields at night were necessitated by the scarcity of labor ; from which the South Is suffering. The pickers are worked day and night, taking a rest during the hottest j part of the day. A prominent planter ! has declared after n visit through the j cotton States that the labor problem will cause much cotton to go to waste I in the fields. The crop in this territory | is very large and in splendid condition, ! only a few fields having been touched by the boil weevil. FATAL AFFRAY OVER NEGRO, j Two Men Killed ajid One Wounded In a Georgia Store. Macon, Ga.?At Naylor, Mannie Car- 1 ter, a young white man, and Gravey Hodge, a negro, were killed and anoth- ; er white man seriously wounded. The negro was ordered out of a store j for insolence. Ben Penny and Reuben Knight, both white, sided with him. ' He returned to the store, renewing the j Pennv shot Carter through the body, but the latter, as be fell, shot j his slayer through the arm. The ne- j gro was killed soon afterward, pre- 1 sumably by one of Carter's friends, j Penny and Knight have been arrested. : Business is Good. Seymour Bell, the British commercial agent in New York City, reported that the general business of this country : was absolutely sound. : Japs Still Active. The .Tapanesfe preparations for a turn- j lng movement against Mukden continued. General Kuropatkin reported attempts by Kuroki's troops to occupy j passes east of the city and the constant movement of reinforcements across . the Tai-Tse from Liao-Yang. Pennsylvania Railroad Wreck. Three men were killed and one was seriously injured in a wreck on the ! Pennsylvania ltailroad, near Greens- j burg, Pa. Peace in Central America. Permanent peace among Central American republics is expected to re- j suit from a broad geueral treaty re -.4.1-. trcuujr auuiutu. Killed 011 Maine Railroad. Two men were killed nnd ten persons seriously injured in a collision J on the Maine Central Railroad near Lewiston, Me. Death List Increases. The death list of the wreck 011 the Southern Railroad was increased on later reports. a uiii[fEiiii WASHINGTON". Ten thousand persons heard tli Archbishop of Canterbury speak a evensong service in Washington. According lo orders given out by lb Department R?ar-Admiral I. B. Cogh lan avill assume command of the Nav; Yard and station at New York City, rr lieving Rear Admiral Frederick Rod gers, who will retire for age. The President has disapproved of tli findings and sentence in the case o Fred H. Skow. who was alleged to i> a member of Company M, Twentietl Infantry, and who. as such. was trie* by court martial and convicted unde two charges of desertion and "of mis conduct in joining the enemy, and sen tenced to death. The members of the World's Pcnc Congress arrived in Washington, am visited Mount Vernon, decorating th tomb of George Washington. It is recommended by the War De prrtment that State companies o heavy artillery be assigned to coas defense forts for drill and iustructic^. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Porto Rico's 1007 public school opened with 00.000 pupils enrolled. Ii the first school year during America! occupation there were S00 schools witJ 25,000 pupils. r Following the establishment of tli new Filipino currency. *here has bee: a rapid outflow of Mexican siiver t China. While a number of fo/.r-inch shell and a quantity of small ammunition surrendered by the Spaniards in ISOi were being loaded on a lighter in Ma nila, in front of the arsenal, prepare tory to being dumped in the bay. ther was an explosion ihat killed two mei and mangled seveD. The victims wer all Filipinos. DOMESTIC. Annie Kanuer. the lifteen-year-oli daughter of the janitor, risked her lif< to crawl through smoke tilled halls am \farn the tenants of 147 Stanton street New York City, that the building wa burning. Three Italians in a pistol duel a Canal ami Centre reels, New Yorl City, created great excitement, but n< one was hurt as far as known. Archbishop Farley promulgated ti his pastors the report of the Commis sion on Revision of Church Music, ac cording to the direction of Tope Tiu X., which bars women from Catholi choirs. Justice Kelly Issued an order an thoriziug the exhuming of the body o Margart Lynch, who was supposed!; murdered in Long island some week ago. it was learned that President I?oosc velt's name wae forged to a letter t Michael Donnelly, of the Butcher? Union; prosecution of the forger wii follow. .'he Eucbaristic Congress, for whie! twenty bishops and more than 100 priests assembled, opened in New Yorl City. Admiral Itivit's flagship, the Frpncl cruiser Duplex, arrived in New Yorl harbor. Alonzo- .T. YThiteman. once a prom! nent Minnesota politicisiu. was arrestei in St. Louis. Mo., for alleged forger; in Buffalo, X. Y. The Aldermen's Celebration Commit tee was informed that the formal open ing of the New York City subwa; would take place 011 October 27. The Valverda Smelter, near Prcs cott, Ariz., was destroyed by an es plosion. Loss, ?173,000. An explosion shook the elevalei structure, in New York City, am burned two employes badly. It was decided that no skilled worli men over thirty-live are to be employe Jiereauer m cmmu ucijuuuichlci << the Carnegie Steel Company plants. I: others the age limit is forty. Freight transfer yards linve bee opened in Wnverly, N. J., by the Peur sylvania Kailroad Company, tft ivliev the existing congestion in-Jersey City Four schooners were wrecked an five lives were lost in a gale off th Newfoundland coast. Two persons were killed outright three fatally injured and twenty-on hurt by the collapse of a new bridg pier near Aftoo, Ark. A score or more of children while a play in a building on school grounds s Mount Pleasant, Ohio, caused thp floe to give way and they fell into a ce Tar. Many were killed. Nine bodie were recovered. FOREIGN. The Japanese are using hand powp t3 propel railroad cars in the trans portation of supplies to Liao-Yanj while waiting for locomotives. Prince Mirsky has been heartily we corned in St. Petersburg by the publi and the press, the latter suggestin abolition of the censorship among r< forms expected "Word has been received from a Doul hobor coiony near Saskatoon. N. W. T that a large body of Doukhobors ha started on a march for the Unite States. This time theyare looking fc a warmer climate. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius which continued with great force, b< came more violent than at any tim since 1872. A special cable dispatch from Pari said that the motorcycle race at uoui dan was annulled, some person bavin strewn tacks over the road. There was a large attendance of Po ish nobles jit the unveiling of the mot ument to Catherine the Great. signit cant of a reconciliation of Poland wit Russia. A belated Mukden dispatch said tha the Japanese continued their advanc northward with extreme slowness. The French Ministry failed to b< come alarmed over Japan's possible ir tentions regarding Manchuria in tli event of final success in war a gains Russia. General Orloff, who was held rospoi sible for the retreat cf tl.e Russian from Liao-Yaug, has been disinisse from the army. Continental steamship liners were r< ported to have decided cn a ylO redu< tion in steerage rates from Ilungar to the United States. Report from General Oku'o hea? quarters said the Chinese had runict that the Russians were cvacuatin Mukden and preparing to sla::d at Ti Pass. * A St. Petersburg paper urgod the in mediate departure of the Baltic llc( for the seat of war. General SakharofC report?:! the d< feat of attempts by the Japanese at ranee guard to occupy Kaoutou ras which commands the road to Fushuu. The Czar's plan to send a secon army to Manchuria to be eommande by General Grippenberg met with tli .warm approval of tLe Russian pres: mm '.mm m ilirDwifFiil J Third Secretary Gurnev's Plea oil Immunity Was Disregarded. -: LOCAL JUSTICE APOLOGIZEsI j ! For Speeding Hi* Automobile Throagh^B ,> ! the Street* of I.ee, Mass., Member offlH I 1 -ft xWMi I Hip British .Embassy-Was Arreated^B and Fined by Justice Phelps?HI* Ke-H 1 call is Possible. HN oBi Lenox. Mass.?Hugh Gurney, ThirdH Secretary to Sir Mortimer Durand, theH| * British Ambassador, who has been^B e spending Ihe summer here, was flnedB for contempt of court and for violating? the speed law relating to automobiles,Bg 1 by Special Justice H. O. Phelps, in the^B ' f ?' niofi-lnt r'nuvt "Yf* C'nrnfir rviia^H I UCV 1/lOliiVV VWUI II viu&uv^ f> charged with running an autbmoblleH through the streets of Stockbridge at aH c greater- speed than ton miles an hour. H3 n Mr. Gurney, when arraigned in coiirf.Ht n positively refused to plead, holding^? li that as he was the Third Secretary toHj his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador he^E e could not be arrested or held for the of-^l n fense charged. Special Justice PhelpsM 0 said he did not recognise interuiitLonal^B law" in his court, and informed the de-H^ g l'endant that he must enter a plea. 1 Despite this statement Mr. Gurney^R continued in his refusal. Then a tineBB 'm of $25 was imposed for contempt ofSE court, and another fine of $23 for vio-jH e lation of a town ordinance. g&i n Mr. Gurney did not have in his pos^B p session sufficient money to pay the hneflj arid was paroled in the" charge of thai officer, Deputy Sheriff Noble, of Stod^H bridge, who had made the arrest. Th^H officer accompanied Mr. Gurney ^ Lenox, where the money was secured. Bf * Mr. Gurney immediately notified th 1 State Department, in Washington, ofl| the act of the Massachusetts courts^B 8 and the President was notified. Ml Justice Phelps said that be foun^H t nothing in the Massachusetts cominorlB c law which exempted any one froiJH 0 breaking the laws of the State, and b^| acted accordingly. o Boston, Mass.?Governor Bates hel^H a conference with Assistant Uniteo^B States District Attorney Nash and JasH| s tice Phelps, as a result of which ftn^B c apology made by Justice Phelps ha^H been forwarded to Washington, D. C.^H i- and the fine paid by the Third AssistflH f ant Secretary of the British EmbassjJ r has been returned to him. IB s At the same time it is understood? that the Governor of Massachusettt^H while acknowledging the violation ofl| 0 j the statute to safeguard internationaMj ; courtesy, is determined to maintain th^H ! dignity of the Commonwealth, and t^H this end, accompanying the apolog:^B I, from Justice Phelps was a suggestio^M i) from the Governor to the United State^f authorities that the British GoverrHS ment be requested to recall Mr. Gurne^M on the ground that in speeding bis at^H i. tomubile faster than local laws periniH[ ! he failed to comport himself with. th^R dignity befitting his office. * Washington, D. C.?Secretary Mood^R 1 was advised by a dispatch from th^H 7 United States District Attorney at Bo^H ton, Mass., that all the papers lit thfl case of Third Secretaiy Gurney been forwarded by mall. V it is not known whether the MassaH cbusetts authorities Lave asked the reflH call of the Secretary, but in case GotH ernor Bates has made any such reques^H it will get no further than the Stat^H il Department, which will act on its & rogative in deciding whether there IiaHH been a breach of international courtcsJH or not. WB f HERRICK LEAVES THE BENCl^B Sits For the Last Time as a Suprem^B n Court Justice?Bid^ Adieu to the B&r^H ' Albany. X. Y.?Justice D. Cady He^D e rick for the last time sat 011 the bencflH as Supreme Court Justice, when h|H d opened the regular trial term berAH e Just before adjournment he hid the ba^H adieu as a Justice. The court rooi^H t, was crowded with members of the baj^H e | of all political faiths, and William iBz e Rudd, who is mentioned as the Repul^H lican successor of Justice Herrick, r^H t spouded in fitting terms. At Justic^M ^ Herrick's reo.uest neither his nor tb^J ir remarks of Mr. Rudd were reported b^B j. F members of the press. 9sK s Justice Herrick will resign just a^H soon as he announces decisions in cnse^H pending before hitn, which will be iflH about a week. 9 r SLAYS WIFE, KILLS HIMSELF.? 5 " .Couple Separated, and the Woma^H I ' Spurned the Man. Mi c j Raleigh, N. C.?Louis. F. Carmichae^H g : a carpenter, aged sixty-four year^H killed his wife, aged fifty years; ser^H ously wounded his t w el ve-y ea r-ol^H c- step-daughter and committed suicic^H at Kernersville, Forsyth County. SB d Carmichael and his wife separate^M d several weeks ago. He went to h^Hj ?r i home near the passenger depot an^H I *-1.1 i%/v? if she did not consent 1^R IUIU XiCl I1IUV ?, live with him again lie would kill before night. e Those who talked with Carmicha^M a short while before the crime wi^H s committed say he was sober, and' li^H r. sanity is suggested. ^ J Gives $1,000,000 to Public. , f. By the will of Mrs. Sarah Potte^H i. of Boston, Mass., public bequests i- over ?1,000,000 are provided, includiii^H h ?250,000 to the city of New Bedfor^H where she was born, to buy books f(^H t the public library.4* e Collision on Hudson River. After collision between a Jersey Ce^H '* tral ferryboat, the Lakewood, and 0 railroad float, at Cortlandt street sli^H ;t New York City, passengers leaped the deck of the float and climbed i* the pier. s ^ ? 3HH ** Grand Duke Nicholas to Command.^H The selection of Grand Duke Nich^H las as Russian commander-in-chief "" regarded as practically assured. Ir Eg * said that the general staff will act as^H | board of military direction. I * Increase New York's Water SuppIy^^H e Commissioner Oakley, of the Wat^H Supply Department, sent to Mayor mH^ j. Clellan a plan to increase the wat^H ,i. supply of Greater New York SOO.OO^^h 000 gallons daily, at a cost of $90,00^^| 000. the water to come from Esopi^^B ^ Catskill and Schoharie creeks. "" 8H Cossacks Make a Raid. j General RcimenkampfTs Cossac^^B made a dash of eighty miles in llfj^H e two hours round Marshal Oyamj^M ^ right, attacked his line of commnnit^M tions and did much damage.