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U F0LLET1E WINS FIGHT By Decision of Supreme Court of Wisconsin Cook Loses, nnwcownD ncpi Aarn pawninATP VJV y L. 1111 VII ULULnilLLI \jr\ 11 DIL/n I L. State Committer ii Uphold mtri the Xa? , tlonal Republican Convention Is Finally Over-ruleil?Head ot Stnlwart Ticket i "Will Keslgn ? Senator Spooner Kx- : pressed His Opinion of the Outcome. I Madison. Wis.- By a vote of throe to j ono the Supremo Court of Wisconsin 1 decided that Governor Robert M. La i Follette and his followers are entitled 1 to be called "Republicans" on the offi- ; cial ballots of the State at the Xovem- i ber election. In accordance with his decision, announced some time ago. to withdraw if | the decision went against him, S. A. j Cook, Stalwart candidate for Governor, ,was expected to resign. He had a conference here with Senator Spooner, but I be said that he liad not then decided j (whether or not to withdraw. It is j known that he will and that ex-Gov- 1 ernor Edward Scofiefd will be appoint- ! ed by the Stalwart State Central Com- : mittee to succeed him. The Stalwarts ' have decided to continue the campaign j against La toilette witn a tmru ucKer. i Justices Dodge, Winslow ami Mar- j sliall supported the La Follette faction, j Chief Justice Cassoday dissenting. Jus- ! tice Siebecker. the fifth member of the | court, who is La Toilette's brother-iu- '< law, refused to sit in the case. The action was brought in equity by, J adherents of S. A. Cook, the Stalwart ; nominee for Governor, and was to restrain Secretary of Stace Houser front certifying to the County Clerks the j names of the La Follette candidates as i the regular Republicans.*' In answering the suit the Governor's ! followers contended that the proceed- j ings of the convention which renom- ! inated La Follette were regular, that i the convention was the only body with j power to name candidates, and further i that the court had no jurisdiction iD ' the matter. The opinion filed by Justice Marshall asserts the right of the court to con- j sider a controversy "oi so grave a eu;u- > acter aiiu of such public importance," j * and proceeds to base its decision on j this section from the Wisconsin slat ! utes: "When two or more conventions oi I caucuses shall be held and the nomina-; | tions thereof certified, each claiming to j be the regular convention or caucus of j the same political party, preference iu: designation shail be given to the noin- 1 inations of the one certified by the : committee which had been officially i certified to be authorized to represent j the party." The decision then goes on to uphold f the right of the State committee chosen j at the convention of 1D0U to decide j wliich of the two Republican conven i tions of, 1004 is regular. Milwaukee. Wis.?Senator Spooner in I a speech said that the Supreme Court j did not decide the merits of the Repub- j lican case, but merely defined the pow- j er of the State Central Committee to j decide disputes. Senator Quarles spoke j at Racine. He said that the Stalwarts are still the regular Republicans, and IUUI IUC ?? VlUU V?J. PORTUGUESE FALL IN AFRICA. Many Casualties in Fight With Cuanhama Tribe. ; * Lisbon.?A severe disaster has befallen a detachment of Portuguese ! troops at Cuuene River, Southwest; Africa. The Government having j trouble with the Cuanhama tribe. ! neighbors of the Herreros. who some time ago revolted against German rule ! it sent a column to restore order. The | detachment numbered 49!) men. con j manded by Captain Aguiar. They werecrossing theCunenc River, i which is the boundary between the Portuguese and the Germau posse's- J sions, when the Cuanhama surprised ; them from ambush at night. The j tribesmen attacked the detachment ; fiercely, killing or wounding *J54. of j whom 10U wire Europeans and 113 natives. 120 NEW JAPANESE WARSHIPS. ! Report That Government Will Flace Orders iu This Country. San Francisco, Cal.?Information re- j ceived by steamer shows that Japan j has decided to place contracts immedl I ately for twenty warships, to be com- ! pletcd as soon as possible. Several ol ; these wHl be built here at the Uniow Iron Works. The source of this information ii ' . Yukowa K\^an Ichl. manager of the ! New World, a Japanese daily published ! here. He said: "I have definite infor- j mation that Japan will soon place . orders in thi& country for twenty wai ! vessels." v DEATHBLOW TO BULL FIGHTS. ! Social Reformers Vote For Prohibition of Exhibitions on Sunday. Madrid, Spain. ? The Institute o! Social Reforms, after a heated discussion, decided by thirteen votes to eight to ratify the absolute prohibition of Sunday bull fights. This is considered to be the deathblow to bull fighting iu Spain. Minister Barrett Home. John Barrett, United States Minister to I'aiiama, arrived in New York City j on the Allianea from Colon. Says British Trade is in Danger. Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Lu- 1 ton, Bedfordshire, Eng.. said that trade ' in Great Britain was in a precarious j condition, and that unless the mother j country and the colonies worked together the empire's disintegration was in sight. Episcopal Convention Opens. The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States Avas opened in Boston. Mass. World's Fair Jottings. Eleven millionr. nf nonnln imnr seen the Fair. An inlaid table made from 1000 hard i broods is exhibited iu Nicaragua's paTilion. One hundred varieties of Mexican cactus are growing in that country's exhibit. A fine display of redwood furniture Is exhibited in the San Francisco building. A large tapestry made in 1630 is exhibited in the Belgian section of the Art Falace. v * *.,v ?. . A * X t DIES VICTIM TO SCIENCE | t, I [ Peculiar Disease Caused by X-Rays Attacks C. M. Daliy. Was Edison'* Chief Aid For Over Sixteen j Years?Both Arms "IVere Amputated But Death Finally Claimed Martyr. New York City.?As a result of con- i istant exposure to the X-rays in perfecting the fluoroscopy. Clarence M. Dally, an electrical engineer, died at his home. No. 103 Clinton street. East urange, i\. .1. seven years aso .nr. Dally became Thomas A.Edison's chief J assistant in the experimental depart- j ment of the Edison laboratory. West ' Orange. In pursuing their experi- 1 meats Mr. Daily's liand$ and arms : were continually exposed to the Ko<?nt- j gen rays, and lie constantly handled highly fluorescent materials such as calcium tungstnte. After more than two years a cancerous growth appeared on Daily's left wrist, and he had undergone no less | than seven surgical operations in the course ol' which as the growth reappeared again and again both arms were j amputated. Throughout his sufferings i he maintained his mental faculties, ilis | brain was active until a few honirs of ! his death. Edison himself felt ill effects from ! similar exposure. But he is convinced, and Dally was assured, that the danger from the rays does not exist when they . are employed as in ordinary medical i practice. j The first indication of the affection in Daily's case, which has intensely interested the'medical profession, was when his hands.became inflamed, then denuded, as if he had been severely scalded. In February. 1902, more than I 150 pieces of skin, taken from his legs, j 1 .... 1 1.. TJ.,4- : were Kraiieu 011 ijin jam, uc?? i skin did not spread from the minute j islands thus implanted: the operation [ was unsuccessful: it seemed that the i vitality of his hands was lost. After both hands liad been amputated Mr. Dally gained greater courage. With the healing of liis wounds he ap- ! peared to be recovering and sought to continue his work. Artificial hands I were provided, but within a week he , succumbed. The mysterious disease had affected his system. From that ; time he lost strength. Greater compii- j cations followed, and finally his physicians saw plainly lie could not live. Mr. Dally was thirty-nine years old. He enlisted in the United States Navy when he was eighteen, and became j chief gunner 011 the Enterprise. He | had been connected with Edison for > sixteen years. A widow and two sons | survive him. CONNECTICUT ELECTIONS. * i Results in the Towns Show Little Change Over Last Year. Ilartford, Conn.?The town elections held all over the State showed little ! material change from the elections oi' u year or two years ago. What lew differences there are from last year's results are in favor of the Republicans, with one or two exceptions. Not more than fifteen towns in the I State changed their politics. The license question and personal popularity had much to do with the results, as was shown in New Britain where j Mayor Bassett, Democrat, was elected selectman by "?()0 majority, although the rest of the ticket was llopublicau. CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED. Four Men and an Elephant Injured and a Lion Badly Frightened. Wilkesbarrc, Pa.?Four c-ireus men and an elenhant were injured, a lion badly frightened, ei?lit' cars of meat thrown over the embankment and two circus cars wrecked in a collision between a special train of the .Tobn II. Sparks tent show and a fast freight on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Xanticoke. The circus train was trying to reach a siding at Xanticoke, where it was to appear, when the fast freight dashed into it. RAID RUSSIAN CONSPIRATORS. Police Charge Eight Persons With Issuing Seditious Pamphlets. St. Petersburg, Russia. ? Eight per- I sons are being tried here in camera on the charge of forming a secret society, j maintaining a secret press and issuing ; seditious pamphlets. A Jewess, aged sixty years. In whose ! house the press was found, is charged j with not divulging its presence. One I of the accused lias confessed. Columbia's Annual Report. President Butler's annual report said tliat Columbia University needs S2.000,000 for buildings, and that great interest bad been shown in the School ( f Journalism. Floor Collapses. Injuring Many. At a corner stone laying at Adams, Mass., a lloor with 130 persons collapsed. Many, including Bishop Beaver, of Springfield, Mass.. were hurt. Russian Empress at Copenhagen. The Russian Empress Dowager arrived at Copenhagen. Queen Alexan- | dra was among those who met her at the station. Navy Report Given Out. The Navy Department gave out RearAdmiral Rodgers' report on the attempts to wreck the battleship Connecticut. Hay Welcomes Peace Congress. Secretary Hay welcomed the peace ! congress delegates at Boston. Mass.. lwilioir tlwi t Hoar is Buried. The nation. State and home city paid tribute to Senator Hoar, whoso funeral was held at Worcester. Mass. Barley. The market in the West was quiet, i with a slow trade and prices were unchanged. Sporting Brevities. New York athletes won all the championships at Montreal. Squadron A defeated the polo team of New Haven at Van Cortlandt Park, Nv.w York City. The Yingt et Un II. won the gold challenge cup of the American Power Boat Association. Columbia opened the local New York i football season by defeating Union by the score of 10 to 0. The yacht Ingomar returned from Europe, where it scored in nineteen out of twenty-two races. POSTMASTER GENERAL DEAB Henry C. Payne Succumbs to- Heart Disease in Washington. SKETCH OF HIS LONG CAREER Mr. I'ayne In His Illness Displayed Kcmnrkable Powers of Keslstance to Disease?Family at Bedslfle?rresldeut Calls In the L,a?t Hour?Cortelyou His l'robatjlo Successor. Washington, D. C.?Ilcnry C. Payne, Postmaster-General of the United States, died at his apartments in the annex of the Arlington Hotel at G.10 o'clock p. in., after a 'week's illness. The cause of death was officially stated to be disease of the mitral valve and dilation of the heart. Mr. Payne had been in poor health for some years, but his last illness lasted only seven days. Death came after nearly six hours of unconsciousness. The iast official caller was President Roosevelt, and he had only been gone about ten minutes when the rostmaster-General died. Secretary Hay had called a few minutes before the President. Neither entered the sick room. Around Mr. Payne's bedside when he died were his wife, Major and Mrs. W. S. Cameron, of Jamestown, X. 1".; Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Cameron, of Milwaukee; Charles L. Jones and Miss t .<-?? i so .Ton pb. relatives: the Rev. Dr. Dunlap, pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church; Private Secretary Whitman; Miss Marie Barbieri, an old companion of Mrs. Payne; Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Mason, of Washington, and the colored messenger at the department of the Postmaster-General. It is the understanding that George B. Cortelyou is to become rostmasterGeneral. The law provides that in case of a vacancy of this character occurring from death or other cause during the recess of.the Senate the President may designate the head of any other department^ or any other oftlcer in any department whose appointment is vested in the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to perform the duties of the vacant office until a successor is appointed. But sueh designation is limited to thirty days. The law provides that the First Assistant shall act unloss otherwise di reeled by the President until a successor is appointed, but this temporary service can be performed only for the period stated, which will expire three days before the day lixed for the Presidential election. If Mr. Cortelyou should be designated at that time he would be holding the office of Postmaster-General as well as serving as Chairman of the National Committee. Had Henry C. Payne lived until November 23 he would have been sixtyone years old. He was born at Ashlleld, Mass., on November U3. 1S43. For thirty-two years Mr. Payne was a politician by inclination and profession, and the most skillful one the State of Wisconsin ever saw. Henry C. Payne was nominated and confirmed as Postmaster-General on January 8. 1902, succeeding Charles Emory Smith, who was the first member of President McKinley's old Cabinet to resigii. He had acquired National prominence by his influence and activity in politics and through his identification with great corporate interests in Wisconsin and the Northwest. Trained 011 a Yankee homestead to habits of great industry, ipid admission being refused to the army because of his diminutive stature, he pushed out to his future home in Wisconsin when he had only attaiued the age of twenty. From 1876 to 1SS(? Mr. Payne was postmaster of Milwaukee. After that time he held no public office until he became Postmaster-General, but devoted himself to large business enterprises. The Wisconsin Telephone Company. made him its President in 1SS3. Previous to the consolidation of the street railway companies of Milwaukee under a syndicate, ho was already officially connected with certain lines, and was made Vice-President and general manager of the whole system, which represented a capital of $5,000,000 aud embraced 130 miles of track. KILLED HIS COMPANION. Fatal Shooting While Two Young Men t?a.. M vi e vju&iijiijg iui .u/uv.no. Bath, Me.?Jerry Hall was killed instantly at 8 o'clock a. in. by his companion, William Palmer, while gunning for ducks in Merry Meeting Bay. The young men were out sculling in a small boat. Both had agreed that Hall should fire the first shot and Palmer should fire two. As Palmer went to discharge the second barrel ot: his gun Hall suddenly lifted his head, receiving the full force of the discharge in the back of the skull. Palmer was nearly overcome by the accident, but managed to scull about two miles to shore. Hall was twentyone years old. He was a general favorite about the city. rainier is only seventeen years of age aud is nearly crazy with grief. Seven Men Lost With Bridge. Seven men are missing of a party of eigne WHO wrill liu^u >yjiu me n a^uu bridge between Lexington, Oklahoma, ami Purcell, after battling with the swift rush of water for many hours in a vain attempt to prevent the bridge from being carried away. The bridge was the only connection between the two towns. Higgins Notified. At Oloan, X. Lieutenant-Governor Frank W. Higgins, the Republican candidate for Governor of New York, and his associates on the ticket chosen i?4- y-ip.ifnffi mnivonfinn YVOl'A f nr. mally notified of their nomination. The ceremonies took place at Mr. Higgins' homo at 4 o'clock p. in. Big Japanese Loss. Twenty thousand Japanese fell in I Ik latest ineffectual attempt to storm Fori Arthur. Newjy Gleanings. Locusts have become a plague in Spain. British coal is now shipped to Jerusalem. The war has already cost Japan $300,000,000. Many people were killed this year In gathering edelweiss 011 the Alps. Ex-Senator W. E. Chandler broke ar nrm trying to start his automobile at Warner, N. II. In a fit of melancholia Mrs. Eessif Feck drowned her three-y ear-old daughter and herself at Kansas City, Mo. r ?. SSjfri.'Aiwij j RUSSIAN CAVALRY ROUTED j Genera! SamsonofF With His Cos* sacks Forced to Retreat. 11 BLOODY HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTS j The Czar'n General JLccl a Brilliant Charge, But u GalUnj; Fire of Machine Gnns Crli>plc<l 111* Forced and Coini j pelled a Withdrawal?Japanese Sharp; RhootcrR Do Good "Work. Mukden.?Couriers arriving early In jtlie morning after a forced ride from .General Samsonoff's field headqu.iri Iters, bring information of a sudden retreat by that general in the face of a strong and rapid movement by Oku's entire army. Instead of advancing jvvlth their customary caution, the Japs I tushed into action in a way that indicated either a sudden Accession of recklessness or extreme confidence in their strength. General Oku attacked Samsonoff's Cossacks with infantry and dragoons, and in less tlmn twenty minutes the entire Russian front at that point was raked by a severe crossfire from the enemy's batteries. Several Cossack horse batteries were dismantled "before they could be swung into action. Two sotnias of cavalry fighting dismounted -? ? - xl?? ? ? ~n lncc Wtl'tf ILllUWU Ull me ccuuc iulu II IVBH of more than tliirty-five in killed and wonnded, and in a quarter hour the enemy followed that success by turning back both wings of Samsonoff's division and weakening his centre with a concentrated rifle and machine gun fire. .Samsonoff in person led a cavalry charge, which, while a desperate remedy, was the only move he could make to save his whole division from panic. He pushed between the broken halves of his centre at the head of a regiment of cavalry and hurled himself against | the Japanese skirmish line. Continuj ous fire from the machine guns empJ tied many saddles before the regiment j galloped from column to line formaj tion, and one sotnia was almost cut to i pieces when completing the oblique | swing to its position on the left. The gallant Cossacks rode forward al great speed, however, standing in their stirrup-leathers and firing as their horses flew over the stretch of plain that separated them from Oku's iufan* > try and light batteries. Steadily as ! they advanced their number was deci! mated by the terrible fire o? the machine guns. Japanese sharpshooters picked off the officers. 'General Samsonoff's uniform was riddled with gullets and his horse was killed under him in the first shock with the batteries Wn romnnntriil mirl lofl llis llieil thrOUSl) I the skirmish line against battalions ol ! infantry in close formation constituting I the enemy's support. I Hand-to-hand fighting between Cossacks and gunners followed the sweep ' over the skirmishers. The enemy's exj tended formation was scattered and stray soldiers were cut down before they could rally on their companies. I More than one gun squad was wiped out by the cavalrymen. The enemy's support, however, moved on the Cossacks and poured a heavy ritte fire into the regiment. Several sotnias of Cossacks dismounted and tired prone at | the advancing infantry. | Others destroyed the Japanese guns I captured in the first rush and blew up | ammunition wagons. General Oku ap! parently was unprepared for such a demonstration, so his reserve did not come up behind the support quickly as it should have done to repel the charge. | The Cossacks and the Japanese infaui try in the supporting force were about I equal in numbers. Neither side gained I further advantage for almost half an hour, the lighting continuing among and behind the guns. Many were killed and wounded on both sides in that stage of the battle, but no prisoners were taken. When SainsonolFs division was in full retreat Oku threw against his rear a brigade of infantry, flanked by two regiments of diugoons and several batteries of flying artillery. The Japanese riflemen mowed down the Cossack gunners and the enemy's cavalry pursued the retreating division. Oku's batteries advanced rapidly, taking position from time to time and directing a destructive fire at the Russian ranks. General Samsonoff saved a few of his guns, but was obliged to abandon most of them to enable his cavalry to escape annihilation. TWELVE KILLED IX FLOOD. | Half of Watrous, N. M.. Washed Away?Damage at Las Vegas. Las Vegas, N. M.?Half of Watrous I has been destroj-cd in a flood in thp upper waters of the Rio Tecos, and at least twelve persons have been drowned. Many persons were rescued from trees and housetops. The greatest damage was around the junction of Mora and Sapelloire creeks. A rock crusher, an iron bridge and much track at Watrous were washed away. The Gallinas River formed a new channel at Las Vegas. In the Gai'.inas Canyon +lir> ilomc nf tlio A?rnn Pnr.'i flonma 11V ! broke, bringing a terrific flooil 011 the | city. The Montezuma Hot Springs I track went out in many places. Half I a dozen bridges were destroyed and the Montezuma bathhouses were partially carried away. For two blocks in Bridge street every business house was flooded. Freeholder Commits Suicide. James Denton, a Freeholder, of Paterson, X. J., whose official acts are under investigation, killed himself. Jap Boat Sunk? There were reports in Tokio, Japan, that a Japanese gunboat had been sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, and that part of the crew had escaped. A junk was badly damaged by a mine north of Chefoo. Tried to Wreck Ship. j With the evident intention of doing I an injury to the battleship ConnectiI cut some person or persons placed an obstruction on the ways the ship rested on in the New York Navy Yard. 1 News of the Toliers. The strike on the ore docks at Ashland, Wis., has ended. The Chiuese are being rapidly driven 1 out of New South Wales. Typewriter girls of Montreal, Can., 1 are talking about forming a union. a striue or ami minors is on at dux \ Bohemia against the new sorvieo regulations. Saxony, tho greatest seat of German : industry, employs the largest percent1 age of women in proportion to the total 1 population. I MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK WASHINGTON. Thomas A. Edison caused the Post: office to issue a frnud order against his j son's company. President Roosevelt, acting on Sec! retary Hay's advice, decided not to I call a congress of peace until the end i of the Japanese War. Then it may be i asked to meet in Washington. I Miss O. It. Cameron, employed as a j copyist in the Patent Office, has estab' lished a new speed record by writing i 23,000 words on a typewriter in a deJ partmental day of seven hours. The l previous record was held by Miss Mary Bretty, who copied 22,000 words in i seven hours. A wireiess message irom me Aeeiami /summoned a Washington doctor to atI tend Miss Henrletttn Seawell, sister of Miss Molly Seuwell, author. According to Mint Director Roberts I twenty-one States and Territories pro; duced $73,501,700 worth of gold during the year 1903, and $20,322,000 worth of I silver, the value of the silver being ! computed at fifty-four cents per fine i ounce. I OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. ' All but one of the visiting Filipino j delegates on return home favored immediate steps toward independence. The report that Archbishop Chapelle wonld resign as Apostolic Delegate to i Cuba aud Porto Rico was denied. DOMESTIC. L. F. Loree, executive head of the i Chicago. Rock Islawd and Pacific Raili road, resigned. roiice commissioner .ucacoo, acring 011 evidence obtained by the Anti-Poli icy Society, will begin an active war , against poolrooms in New York City. In the arrest of Thomas Dugan New j York detectives believed they caught I a thief who robbed banks by using i the garb of a clergyman, and who is wanted for swindling the People's Na; tional Bank of Boston. Six men were buried by the caving ! in of a mine 111 Georgia. ! A crowd of a thousand persons chased for a mile through Brooklyn, j N. Y., streets a negro who had stabbed a woman. I The Supremo Court of Alabama ren dered a decision which leaves one! third of the State without courts. Rear-Admiral Rodgers retired, and Rear-Admiral Coghlan took command at the New York Navy Yard. New York Day at the St. Louis Exposition was appropriately celebrated, j A Coroner's Jury found that an un1 known person or persons shot to death Frank J. McNally, a saloonkeeper, of i nmntlvn tv v Frederic Augnste Bnrtholdi. sculptor I of the Statue of Liberty, in New Yo*k ; Harbor, died in Paris, France, aged I seventy years. i It was announced at Hartford, Conn., j that by the will of Miss Maria Terry, I who died in Venice, Italy, recently, the I Hartford Hospital would receive about j $300,000. It was discovered that the hole bored j in the bottom of the battleship Coni necticut in the latest attempt to wreck j her was the work of.some person or I persons on the outside of the ship. Governor Odell and his staff were in j St. Louis to participate in the observi ance of New York State Day at the j Fair. Ey the will of L. C. Veits Yale Unii versity obtained for Sheffield Scientific [ School $250,000. J. E. Schermerhorn, of New York, j announced that his son Amos was opI crating the automobile of Hugh Gurney, the British Embassy's Third Seci retary, in Stockbridge. Mass.. on the ! occasion of the alleged violation of j speed ordinance. To a great throng in Trinity Church , the Archbishop of Canterbury preached, enjoining upon tho strong and successful the duty of caring for and uplifting the weak and poor. The Salvation Army has installed a | store in New York City at which a man or woman may purchase a complete j bridal outfit of clothes for ninety-nine ' cents and another where furniture for a three-room flat may be had for $3. Heavy rains caused Las Animas ; River to overflow its banks and flood | the city of Trinidad, Col. Railroads j were tied up in the territory effected. Thirty-live firemen were overcome by ! smoke and fumes of ammonia at an allj night fire on Fourteenth street, New i York City. Joseph Watson, the young negro who j murdered former Police Commissioner | I-Ienry Osborne, of Hartford, Conn., j was convicted- and sentenced to be I hanged. FOREIGN. Russian War Office believes Japanese arc preparing for a general advance 011 Mukden. Chinese bandits under Japanese officers are said to be opposing Russians. M. Guyot, the French statesman, in an interview, praised the Monroe Doctrine and called the "American peril" economically beneficial. The Norwegian bark Sir John Laurence, from London, England, struck sunken rocks off the coast of Norway, and the crew of fourteen men were all drowned. A Somali Mullah is reported from Aden, Arabia, to have attacked and i robbed the Ogadaiu tribe, killing UOO i men. Ambassador McCormick will sail for ' lmmo rm fWnhpv 14. find nvnects to be j away from St. Petersburg l'or six weeks. Mme. Yvette Guilbert, a special cable dispatch says, is kept in Europe by engagements for the next six months. Admiral Kamimura and a fleet of Japanese war ships, according to a special cable'dispatch, are watching Vladivostok to prevent any more raiding expeditions by Russian vessels. Desperate attacks by the Russians ! to retake positions captured by the Japanese, thus insuring a water supply, are reported. Great Paris physicians, according to a special cable dispatch, declare that the $20,000 fee demanded by Dr. Doyen from Mr. George Crocker is unprecedented. The sailing of the Germanic from Southampton was delayed thirty-six hours owing to repairs. Messages of sympathy are flooding the family of the late Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Among them was one from King Edward. Two kings and many princes and high officials attended the funeral of Niels Finsen at Copenhagen. The Governor of Arzila, Morocco, was murdered by tribesmen out of revenge for the imprisonment of some of their fellows, whom they set free. Prince Mirsky insisted on separating the Russian police administration from the Ministry of the Interior. POWER BEHIK s SERGE JULIE The assassination of bis ctrongest o questionably, the leader among Russ' , TO AVERT WRECKST a :i A SlUUt'IU U1 iiuu luiuuau accidents and their causes comes forward with an invention which is designed to avert the so frequently re, 'UL ' I THE AUTOMATIC WBECK AVEBTEB. J curring horrors which have stained ! with blood the history of railroading | in this and other countries. When, from any cause or other, it | is desired to stop a train of cars due I at any point, the custom is now to send I a flagman back to signal to the enj gineer of the due train. At other ! times a lantern is set at the side of the j track, and still at other times a torj pedo is placed on the rail. But flagj men have gone to sleep, engineers ! have failed to see the lanterns and | have not heard the torpedoes. The new invention requires the equipment of trains with automatic brake arrangements which are to be operated by means of a "shoo"' fasI +on*wl tn tit a rnll. One of these "shoes" baring been put in place near the point at which it fs desired to stop the train the railroad men can proceed with their duties without fear of the J oncoming locomotive and its cars passj ing many feet beyond. As the train I pa&es over the "shoe" a lever on each I set of trucks is thrown by the "shoe" i and the brakes immediately applied, so that when the whole train has passed every wheel has been set firinj ly and there is no possibility of the | train going any farther. I Samples of wheat of extraordinary ; size and weight have been received | from the country which will be traversed by the Bagdad railway. C-AJ35T Artist (at work)?"Now give me y c Visitor (who fancies himself a critic) Artist (dreamily)?"Ye-e-s?but give D THE THRONE. I ? YITCH WITTE. ! 5 pponent, You riehvc, leaves him, unan statesmen. He Fulfilled the Prophecy. Theodore Stavnrche, living In the town of Hermezin, near "Bucharest, had liis fortune told sixty-five years ago by a cypsy, who said that he would die by the bayonet. He fought through the Russo-Turkisli war, was decorated for conspicuous bravery at Plevna and Smarden, and never received a scratch.-" The other day, however, at the age of seventy-five, he committed suicide with h!c cri'on/lcAn'ft harnnof thlia fHtfllHtlll the ancient prophecy. The TnrkUh Saltan's Title*. The Sultan of Turkey has seventy" one titles, and on the parchment con? taining them are the words "as many more as rnay be desired can be added to this number." Among the titles are "Abdul riamid. the Eternally Victor' ions," "the Eternally Smiling," 'the Eternally Invincible." "Distributor of Crowns to the Heroes Seated on tli4 Thrones" and "Shadow of God oo Earth." -' . Carbide of Calcium. Ordinarily the formation of calcinm carbide requires a degree of heat! which can only be secured in the electric furnace. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences, in Paris, M. Henri Molssan stated that n4?AUl??| calcium, at a red beat, will combine with the finely divided carbon contained in smoke. The product is pure calcium carbide, crystalized and trans- *. parent. Bfcfcj&ray Bifc BF-jl I Xw&m jiBHiKEWB y;i jl nHHn .31 ANTON i, CHIEF Of THIi iuul'.OTK UL.au HTTXTEBS. DOB. )ur honest ophiion of this picture." ?3 ?"It's utterly worthless." 19 it all the same."?runeh. I