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BIG EQUITABLE SHAKE-UP' i Paul Morton Chosen as Head of Lite Assurance Society. \* HYDE AND ALEXANDER RESIGN Tar bell and Ct~ier Former Cflicer* AI?o Out?Grover Cleveland, Ccorje West- ' in^hoiiRc and Justice O'Brien Are ^ Askc.l to Serve as Trustees?Hyde Ke- t tains Seventy-five Shares oi His Stock t e New York City. ? Matters of the [ greatest importance to the policy baldtire r>r tiio Fnnit.iblp Life Assurance Society and to tiio public generally ] were announced after the meeting of , the society's Board of Directors, j Briefly, they were: ( 1. James Ilazen Hyde. the society's first vice-president and the controlling j factor in its management, lias sold n c majority of the society's capital stock t to a group of policy holders represented i by Thomas F. Ryan, vice-president of ? the Morton Trust Company. t 2. One of the conditions of the sale is that the stock shall be placed in the t hands of trustees in perpetuity, these i trustees to bp vested with power to I elect twenty-eight directors as dosig- i nated by the policy holders. t o. Paul Morton. Secretary -of the Navy, has been elected Chairman of J the Equitable Board of Directors, with ^ plenary power over all the officers and t affairs of the society. a 4. The resignations of James W. i Alexander, president; James Hazen c Hyde, vice-president: Gage E. Tarbell. a second vice-president; George T. Wil- i sou. third vice-president, and Win. H. t Mclutyre. fourth vice-president, have been placed in the hands of Mr. Mor- i ton. subject to whatever action he may t deem necessary after State Superin- i tendent Francis E. Hendricks has c made public his report on the iuvesti- r gation of the Equitable's affairs. s Secretary Morton was the almost c * ?> i.!.. unanimous cnoice 01 iiil* uuaiu. xjiujton Ives, who was a member of the 2 Frick investigating committee, voted 1 against him. It was reported that t Charles Stewart Smith also voted s against Mr. Morton, but he said that as s soon as the move was fully explained a he joined the majority. 1 August Belmont voted for Mr. Mor- i ton. He had opposed in every way in 1 the meeting of the nominating com- i mittee any chtnge which would load to a the selection of Paul Mcrton or of the trustees who are to rehabilitate the so- \ ciety, and it was not until Mr. Belmont a saw that ho could not stem the Nia- ( gara which insisted on a thorough i house-cleaning so that the society may I; begin all over again with economical d measures and strict life insurance methods that he succumbed. As a mat- a ter of fact it was only at the very last t momeut that Mr. Belmont seemed to v see the handwriting on the wall and o accepted it. b Mr. .Morton was escorted into the ii board room by a committee of three a directors, and accepted the place after s he had made it plain that lie would I come into ihe society only with the uu- V derstanding that there should b? no strings on him and that he would be 0 free to recommend the retirement of J the present officers as he saw fit. > Mr. Morton announced after the b meeting that he would resign the posi- 3 tion wllic-h he accepted recently as head of the Metropolitan syndicate for the h construction of the new subway in this i city. At that time he said that he J would retire from the Cabinet on July b 3. and it is understood that he will not d assume control of Equitable affairs un- 5 til after that date. , V lean's Eleven Associate*. h Associated with Mr. Ryan in the s group of policy holders who have a bought Mr. Hyde's stock are eleven vi men. Among them are George West- \ inghouse, who carries $100,000 insur- a unco in the Equitable: Samuel New- 5 lionse. of Salt Lake City, who has a U policy for $430,000. and Justice Mor- :> gau J. O'Brien, of tht- Supreme Court, 5 ?cinAAOii I i IWIU IS UJdUU'U JLV/l V1UV,VW\'. ? The exact number of shares which the group bought from Mr. Hyde is 501. the total issue of tho capital stock l>oing 1000 shares. The price paid was c not stated officially, but it w:is reported to be between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. On behalf of Mr. Hyde it was said that he was well satisfied with the u deal, although more than he got from P the policy holders' syndicate had been 11 offered by two other persons, both rep- * resenting railroad interests. E. H. . Harriman and George J. Gouid. It " was said that each had offered Mr. '' Mr. Ilyde $5,000,000 for his holdings. ~ Hyde Keeps Seventy-five Shares. P Mr. Hyde retains seventy-five shares of stock and is himself a member of the policy holders' syndicate. If Mr. Morton decides to accept Hyde's resig 1 nation, and it was said that Mr. Hyde was pretty thoroughly reconciled to the belief that he will, Mr. Hyde will f continue to be a director of the so ^ ciety. ? Mr. Ryan announced later the j names of the men who had been asked to serve as trustees of the stock with s power lo elect the twenfy-eight direct- .. ors designated by the policy holders I They are Grover Cleveland. ex-Frcsident of the United States: Justice Mor gan J. O'Brien, and George Westing Lfruse. of Pittsburg. Justice O'Brien and Mr. Westing 1 house, as stated above, are members l1 of the policy holders' group which pur chased the stock. These trustees, il .was said the other night, would be vested with the power of electing theii ? successors. * The details of how the policy holders directors are to ue uesignateci uave noi been arranged yet. but. whether it is bv a proxy committee or by a direci t rote, ample precaution? will be taken a it was declared, to prevent the contro j of the election from falling into th< hands of the society's agents or cx ecutive officers. Mr. Chcate Home. Mr. Joseph H. Choate. who had jusi completed six years of service as Am bassador to the Court of St. .Tames, re turned to New York City on the steam cr Caronia. 1 Labor World. 'All of the mines of the steel corpora ( tion in the Hibbing (Miuu.) district an closed. The Sterling Colliery, at Siinmokin Pa., has resumed operation after at idleness cf five months. The Cudahy Company, of Soutl Omaha, Neb., has put 150 Japanese a Twork in its meat packing plant. \ v T. C. Wheaton & Co., or Millville, N J., will operate their glass factories da; " and night, instead x>f day alone. I I VUTOMOBILE HIT BY TRAIN S. Sayer and Wife Killed, Theii Two Sons Injured. Lccideut Occurred Near Goshen, X. V.? rarty Was on Way to Summer Camp. Goshen, Is". Y.?An automobile in vhich Richard S. Sayer. Treasurer of he Rider-Ericsson Engine Company >f New York City, his wife and twe ?ns, were passing over the Erie Raiload tracks at Seeley's Crossing, neai lere, at night, vras struck by a fast rain. Mr. Sayer and his wife were nstantly killed. The two sons. Rich ird, Jr.. aged thirteen, and Ray. sever rears old. were injured. The colored hauffeur escaped unhurt. The family were on their way from 2nglewood, N. J., to Goshen, where nembers of the respective families . e \Trc Snror rpsirlp. It was PL 4U1 . UliU 4U4M he intention of tlie party to spend the light at Goshen, leaving for Mr. Sayt's camp in the Shawangunk Mounains. Ulster County, the next day. The party loft Englewood early in he day, intending to spend a few lours at Walden, N. Y? where the ilider-Ericsson engine factories are sit latcd. They left for Goshen late in he afternoon. How the accident occurred is not 'et known, except that the automobile vas in the middle of the tracks when lie fast train of the Erie road came ilong. The heavy train struck the car n the middle and shattered it. The iccupants were thrown for a distance, tnd parts of the automobile were carled for several hundred yards along he track on the pilot of the engine. When the train was stopped the lews of the accident was telephoned 0 Goshen. A special train was imnediately prepared, but Dr. D. T. Conlict, the regular surgeon of the Erie oad stationed here, arrived at the icene of the accident in an automobile ihead of the train. Dr. Condict found that both Mr. and "" ? ' ?5 ino+onllxr urs. sayer uuu ut-cu iwucu. riae young son, Ray, it was feared, lad also sustained a fracture of the kull. Richard. Jr., was found in a lemi-conscious state, and was only ible to ask for water when picked up The chauffeur was standing near by. inhurt, but too frightened to speak. Dhe baggage which the party had had n the automobile, was scattered fai md wide. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Sayei vere placed in a car of the relief trair ,nd brought with the injured boys tc Joshen. When the train arrived here t was thought best to send the injured ads on to the Thrall Hospital at Midlletown. Mr. Sayer was fifty-five years old and native of Goshen, where his father he late William M. Sayer, was a wealthy and much-respected lumbei aerchant. Richard Sayer and his irother; William M. Sayer, Jr., wenl Kntlnoco nhniit Hrontl* ve.irs aSTO UlU UUOIUCOO Uk/wu u w .. ?w nd were successful. William M; layer, Jr., is now the President of thf lider-Ericsson Engine Company, of 33 barren street, New York City. Mrs. Sayer was before lier marriage 'ranees Lowe, drughter of the late udge Lowe, who was prominent in liddletown law and politics. The two oyx were the- only children of the ouple. Besides the aged Mrs. Sayer, who as lived here for the last fifty years, Ir. Sayer leaves three sisters, Mrs . W. Gott and Mrs. Joseph Coates, oth well-known in Goshen and Midletown, and Mrs. Hitchcock, the wife f Dr. Hitchcock, of St. Johnsbury, rt. "We were coming down a slighl ill." said Chauffeur Charles F. Jackon. "As we approached the crossing re were warned by people on the sideralk that there was a train coming. Ir. Sayer, who was o*i the seat with ie, told me to go on, as there was lota f time. As we hit the track I saw tie train and tried to turn, but instead f sheering clear of the track the autc lid in front of the train. I jumped USl in urne auu wus uui nan. SOLDIERS LOOTED. Jause of Fatalities iii Fight at Brest Litovsk. Warsaw. Russian Poland.?The outreak of rioting at Brest-Litovsk durQg which, according to reports, many ersons were killed or wounded, origuated in a conflict between Jews and rmy reserve men bound for the Fat Jast. The soldiers are said to have x>ted provision stores, and the Jews, a defending their property, are alleged o have fired on the troops, who reurned the fire. The town is now occulied by the military. BURSTING SHELL WOUNDS IS. Explosion on British Battleship Due to Defect in Gun. Gibraltar.?Eighteen men, including our officers, Avere wounded by the ursting. inside the gun. of a six-inch hell on board the first-class battleship lagnificent. The accident occurred at ;un practice off Tetuan. The explosion was due to a defect in he breach. All the wounded were irought ashore here. Russia's Reply Forwarded. Russia's formal response to President Roosevelt's appeal to the belligerent owers was forwarded to Tokio, Japan, Oyama Advances. Oyama was ready to attack Line-itch all along the line and began to idvance. Emperor Postpones Congress. The reception of the delegates from he Moscow Congress by the Emperor it St. Petersburg has been postponed, wing to a disagreement. West Pointers Graduate. The annual graduating exercises look >l.iop nt the Military Aeademv at Weal ?oint. X. Y. Fire at Syracuse University. A serious fire at Syracuse (N. Y.) .-Diversity was narrowly averted. The Field of Sports. William B. Leeds and Andrew Miller vill dissolve their racing partnership. Governor Higgins, of Hew York, has retood tne Frawley boxing bill. St. Bartholomew's Athletic Club won he point trophy at the games at Celtic /ark. Mr. Eben D. Jordan won four blue ibbons .it the Philadelphia Horse show and Mr. Alfred G. Yanderbilt >ne. Bryn Mawr, on its own field, defeated he Country Club by 17 goals to 9, in he opening match of the Philadelphia :olo season. _____________ ACCIDENTS PROVE FATAL Brooklyn Girl Killed and Others Hurt in Collision, DRAWBRIDGE BREAKS IN JERSEY Baby Injured in Runaway?Trolley Car Smashes into Wagon Throwing Out Simon Michaels and His FamilyChild Has Narrow Escape at Dover, New Jersey. New York City.?A Franklin avenue car, in Brooklyn, dashing over slippery rails at high speed collided, with a wagon containing Simon Michaels, a Gravesend fruit vendor, and his wife and throe daughters, at Avenue V and Coney Island avenue. The wagon was smashed and the occupants thrown wagon literally aemonsuea ana me occupants thrown in all directions. The scene of the accident is in the centre Df a residence district, and in a few minutes scores of women were at hand trying to aid the injured ones. Oppo site the place is the home of Mrs. 1 James Blule, and it was in her house that Sadie Michaels died. The police reserves from tho Sheepsiiead Bay station were summoned with ( an ambulance and a surgeon. Dr. Clay found that Sadie Michaels' skull had ' been fractured and her spine broken. 1 He found that both of Sara Michaels' ' legs and both of Essie's arms were bro- ' ken, in addition to serious internal injuries and contusions of the head and j body in each case. Mrs. Michaels was ' internally iujured and suffered from severe shock. Michaels escaped un- 1 hurt. The motorman and the conductor of ' the car were arrested and locked up in J the Sheepsbead Bay station, charged 1 with homicide. Hansen told the police ?' that he tried to stop the car, but was 1 innhln +/-V <7rt Crt /->n-inrr tn Mio Elinnoi' llllll UlC IV uu OU, v>.. W.B ' l-l--- . iness of the rails, due to the rain. Drawbridge Demolished. Dover, N. J.?A down grade, slippery i tracks, and defective air brakes were , factors in the destruction of a draw- ^ bridge over the Morris Canal lock east j 3f the Dover station on the Highbridgo j branch of the New Jersey Centra!. Incidentally a camel-back engine i tender and gondola were wrecked and ( the after half of a canal boat was j sunk. In the cabin of the boat was a child four years old, who was barely saved from drowning, after an equally narrow escape from beiug crushed to ? death by the trucks of the wrecked tender. The drawbridge was at an angle of about 45 degrees, and a loaded canal $ boat was in the lock when an engine i drawing nine loaded coal cars came t along. Seeing the signals set against ] him. Engineer Schaffer tried to stop f his train, but the brakes failed. 1 Within about fifty feet of the draw ? Schaffer leaped, and in the next in- t stant both engine and draw came to a t stop about a car's length the other side \ Df the lock, the engine bavins carried t the bridge with it. A new bridge will \ have to be built. 5 Knnaway Upset Babies. ( Mount Vernon.?A horse attached to 1 a road wagon driven by E. T. Nord- ' m.inn, of Wakefield, ran away at West ( Mount Vernon, throwing Mr. Nord- t mann out. It then upset two baby carriages, spilling out the infants. Next the horse knocked down a boy and had smashed a picket fence be- 1 fore it was captured. The horse became unmanageable on North Hiprh street when a bolt dropped ( out of the shafts, causing them to j strike against its legs. It swerved to ,the sidewalk in front cf^the residence I of Henry Eckert. The wagon crashed t into a lamppost, and Mr. Nordinann f was thrown t? the sidewalk. j In front of a flathouse on South High street was Minnie Lampus tak- ? ing care of Mildred Rayman, ten ^ months old. and the four-months-old -j baby of James Fallon. The girl tried x to drag the carriages one of the path of the animal, but was not quick enough, j One of the babies fell on .1 pillow and escaped with a gash in the head. The ! other was more seriously injured. i TIGHT WITH CATTLE THIEVES. ] Ranchmen in Sixty-Mile Chase?Three Dead, Several Wounded. t P.! n fonf .V lintHn irnc 5 fought near the edge of Jackson's ( Hole. Wyoming, between cattle rust- 1 ler.s and ranchers. The outlaws rounded up ninety f steers. The ranchmen to whom the < cattle belonged pursued, and there was a running tight for sixty miles. Two rustlers and one ranchman were killed and numerous wounds were sustained, 1 No New Trial For Patrick. The Court of Appeals at Albany. N. i'.. handed down a decision refusing to ; grant a new trial to Albert T. Patrick, convicted of murdering Albert Marsh Rice in New York City in 1000. David B. Hill announced that a move for a Hfttv i 1 ii-fi'il/l Kr\ oi-irln i ut ?> Uiai *? UL IXitiUV . I Deputy State Controller Resigns. Deputy State Controller Tim merman anne-.incod at Rult.ilo. X. Y., that he wou.d resign on July 1 nest. ( Education Brevities. 0. A. Molateh and V/. M. Kelsey are appointed assistants in chemistry at , Cornell. The class of 1904. college, is to present to the University of Pennsylvania j a statue of Benjamin Franklin, the founder. The Modern Language Association 1 of America will hold its next annual ] meeting at Haverford, December 27, -!S and 2[). i The appeal to the senior class to con- ' tinue the time-honored custom of wearing caps and gowns has met with a hearty response at Harvard. out. Sadie Michaels, one of the girls, was so severely injured that she died a few minutes after the accident. Michaels and his family left the Gravescnd race track about G o'clock for their home, on Avenue T, near East Seventeenth street, Homecrest, Coney Island, iu their one-horse wagon. Mr. Michaels drove down Avenue V, and when he came to Coney Island avenue, turned east, to drive across the tracks, remembering that all cars are required to come to a stop just before reaching this crossing. He was in the middle of the south-bound track when Car No. 318. in charge of Motorman William Hansen and Conductor James Wall, came along. The car did not stop, and a moment later crashed with a terrific impact into the wagon. The horse was killed instantly, the MILLIONS LOST IN FLOODS Western Territory Deluged?G real Damage to Crops. Rapid liise iu Mississippi Kiver Forte, Water Through Levees and Covers the Lowlands Chicago, 111.?Millions of dollars in crop losses, the probable sacrifice ol several lives, the sweeping away ol miles of tracks and many bridges ol the Rock Island, Burlington and othei voads, were reported in the flood ter ritory covered in the rapid rise of waters at Keokuk, Hannibal, Quin?y and other Mississippi River cities. From Keokuk came word that Riiey Small wood, seventy-five years old. was drowned in a flood that covered twenty thousand acres of farm land in Mis souri. Seven persons living near Alex andria were unaccounted for aftei making a flight for their lives from the advancing deluge. The loss of crops in Chirlc County. Mo., aione is estimated at a million dollars and the railroads entering Keokuk are said to have iost as much more. The Wabash is the only line at Keokuk that escaped damage. The flood, which raised the waters of tin Mississippi eight and half feet in six hours, swept away three miles of the Burlington tracks. The Rock Island bridges were said to be gone as far west as Eldon. Iowa. Alarming reports came from Major M. Meigs, Government Engineer, who made a trip to the Lima Lake levee on the Illinois side of the river. He said water was sweeping through the levee, although hundreds of men were working day and night to strengthen the weak placcs. Farmers in the low lands fled for their lives, taking as much property with them as possible. Captain Caperton. of the Government lighthouse tender Lily, had an exciting i>vnpvinnr>o when tlif? hn.-it iv,is pfllisrht in a Vortex and came near being dragged to the bottom of the river. He saved the lives of his wife and laughter and the crew. The river is five to eight miles wide it Quincy, III. The gage the other night was eighteen feet. Water was breaking through the Indian Grave levee just north of the town, and, as i twenty-foot rise was anticipated, there was scarcely a hope that the janks would stand the strain. The rise in the lasl twenty-four hours it Hannibal, Mo., was five feet and a :wenty-foot stage was predicted, which s seven feet above the danger line. t\u tue lowianus were suoiuerfceu, ailroad traffic was badly interrupted md three* bridges near Hannibal were ivnshed away. The greatest damage around Burington, Iowa, has been caused thus far >y the small streams swollen by roin:all. The Wisconsin River at Portage, CVis., and Kilbourne was at the liighest stage known in many years. A hunIred feet of the Milwaukee'road have >een swept away 0:1 the Madison & Portage branch. , Part of the city levee at Hardens. Wis., was washed out for a distance >f a hundred feot. and the entire lowands in that vicinity were submerged. CHILDREN DIE ON BEACH. ["hey Had Dug a Cave in a Jetty and Were Smothered by a Fire. . % Atlantic City. X. .1.?Ordney Delaney, ipvpn vp.qps nlil son nf O. .T_ DflnnPV. rice-president ami general manager of he Wliarton Fisheries Company, of Philadelphia, Pa., and William Jcf'rit?s. four years old, son of .Mrs. Elizajctli Jeffries, a widow, left their homes ibout 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and ook with them a hatchet with which hey cut into a jetty on the beach. A ire in the cedar bush which concealed hem attracted a squad of liremen. who lsed sand in smothering the flames. While stamping out sparks Foreman >tephany discovered a skuli. Later lie charred bodies of both children vere uncovered. It is supposed that hey started the fire in the cavity they lug into the jetty and that it set fire :o their clothing and smothered them. 52G MILES IN 470 MINUTES, Lake Shore Special's Trip From Buffalo to Chicago. Chicago. 111.?On a Lake Shore special, consisting of an engine and three leavy private cars, General Manager MarshaII. Chief Engineer Handy and /ImmcIah c-nnnvi nfftiir'Ante inOfln tfl?* iiict: ui) ioiun cii|/viiiiivuuriiio *?*w un l'rom Buffalo, N. Y.. to Chicago in .oven hours and fifty minutes?a (Usance of ">2<? miles in 470 minutes. Included in this time are the usual .tops and slow-downs made by the rwontieth Century and Lake Shore Limited trains, in addition to ten miiiites lost at Cleveland. No efforts were made to break any records or to see iow fast tne trip could be made, the larty being on an ordinary inspection rip. iVORLD ASSEMBLY OF FARMERS. international Agricultural Conference Decides on a Permanent Organization. Rome, Italy.?The International Ag icultural Conference concluded its .sessions. A permanent assembly will be o if Pntr/jrc n ?i juu, ji iuw represented in the conference approve. The delegates were feted daily. The general public doubt the- success of the colossal undertaking. Mont Telee Active. Mont Telee's dome collapsed amid enewed volcanic activity. New Hungarian Premier. Baron Fejervary kns appointed Hungarian Premier in succession to Count risza at Budapest. Robbed of $123,000 in Securities. Col. Comstock. miw* owner, was n/\1 r\f iii crmirifioo ni> n Fall River steamer. R. H. Plurul) Dead. Ralph H. Plumb, president of the Buffalo (X. Y.) Fine Arts Academy, lied in that city. People Talked About. Whistler is said to have had 100 sittings tor one portrait. Samuel Bowles, a banker, will establish a school of modeling in Rutland, Vt. Charles Lindley Wood, second Viscount Halifax, will visit this country next fall. George S. Elgood. an English artist, is said to be the greatest living painter of gardens. Colonel "Bill" Sapp, a leading Kansas Democrat, is a descendant of a royal French house. ' ' ROOSEVELT WAITS PEACE Direct Plea to Russia and Japan to Cease Warring. NEUTRAL POWERS ARE BARRED Jupan Would Not Consent to Any Intervention?Mr. Koonevelt Learned That a >'ote on tbo Possibilities of a Peace, ful Settlement Would Be Acceptable to Both Powers Before He Setat It. Washington, D. C.?The text of a note sent by President Roosevelt to the Russian and Japanese Governments "was made public at the White House. This note was dispatched ; through diplomatic channels as the re- : suit of the President's various conferences with diplomats during the last . week and of cable messages interchanged with the two Governments 1 concerned. The note Is as follows: "The President feels that the time ! ' has come when in the interest of all mankind he must endeavor to see if it < is not possible to bring: io an end the \ terrible and lamentable conflict now < being waged. With both Russia and j Japan the United States has inherited ] ties of friendship and good-will. It < hopes for the prosperity and welfare ( of each, and it feels that the progress of the world is set back by the war ] between these two great nations. "The President accordingly urges the | Russian and ."Japanese Governments not only for their own sakes but in the interest of the whole civilized world, to open direct negotiations for peace with one another. "The President suggests that these peace negotiations be conducted directly and exclusively between the belligerents; in other words, that there be a meeting of Russian ana Japanese plenipotentiaries or delegates without any intermediary, in order to see if it is not possible for these representatives of the two powers to agree to terms of peace. "The President earnestly asks that the (Japanese) (Russian) Government do now agree to such meeting, and is now asking the (Russian) (Japanese) Government likewise to agree. While the President does not feel that any ifitermediary should be called in in respect to peace negotiations themselves, he is entirely willing to do what he properly can Jf the two powers concerned feel that his services will be of aid in arranging the preliminaries as to the time and place of meeting. "But even if these preliminaries can be arranged directly between the two powers, or in any other way, the President will be glad, as his sole purpose is to bring about a meeting which the whole civilized world will pray may result in peace." . Before sending it the President had ascertained that such a note would not be offensive to either Government. Japan Wants No Interference. , All efforts to learn Japan's peace ! terms have been talked by' the deter- J mined opposition which Japan has presented to any such course. At every 1 stage of the negotiations she has ab- ^ solutely assumed the position that she could not admit the intercession of any other power nor present her peace terms in any \vay except directly to , Russia. The President's identical note . is framed in accordance -with this attitude of Japan. At the first attempt nfffle by the President to broach the stibject of ( peace, a difficulty was found in the , suspicion with which Japan regarded \ every attempt made by any other na- ?( tion than Russia to bring about peace. The President learned that from the 1 very outset of the war Japan had been . determined that the peace of 1S95, , when mediation robbed her of the fruits of victory, should not be re- ( pcatcd, and she was ready to look ( askance at even the friendliest offers. Three different cable messages have J come from Japan to Minister Takahira . in the last three days. In two of them Japan's attitude on this question was set forward with sufficient clearness \ to enable tlie President to frame his ! note in connection with it. ( Japan's final message on the subject . was delivered by Minister Takahira , after the President's departure. The Minister arrived at the White House ] in the afternoon with the message from ] Tokio and Secretary Taft, as acting j head of the Government, was at once sent for. He came to the White House, , received Mr. Takahira's message, and , communicated with the President by telegraph. It was as a result of that communication that the President au- J thorized the publication of the note. BOY KILLS TWO GIRLS. V 1 i Lad Whom Victim's Father Had Aided 1 Then Euds Own Life. Hillsboro, Ohio.?Madge Dines, fourteen years old, and Nellie Hart, .sixteen years old. the former the daughter and the latter the servant of Edward Dines, a farmer, living a mile from here, were killed by David Baldwin, a farmhand, nineteen years old, who 1 then blew off his head by means of a < shotgun. Investigation showed that it < was thought at first that all three had been murdered by some unknown as- ( sailant. 1 The girls were found shot dead in their nisht clothing in their bedroom. There was evidence of a desperate struggle. Baldwin, who had been ( taken in as a tramp by the farmer, was , found in the living room with a dis- , charged shotgun by his side. He had , tied a small bottle on the trigger to aid him in discharging tho weapon. ( Bandit Gets Fifty Years. Clarence Young, who tried to rob an express car on the Northern Pacific road, near Bearinoutb, Mout., on May 27, after dynamiting the car. has been sentenced to D<br Lodge Penitentiary for fifty years. # Big Kansas Apple Crop. B. F. Combs, of Parker. Kas.. says bis prospect for a big apple crop this year is tbe best be ever bad. He expects to raise 500 cars, which represents S7.500 barrels. The National Game. Hillebrand, though left-handed, bats from the right. George Schlei has turned out to be a first-class first baseman. Fred Tenney is the best run getter among the Boston Nationals. Manager McGraw has turned over Neal, his utility man, to Baltimore. Manager Selee thinks that the two major leagues should take some action the spit ball. The Brooklyn Club has released Pitcher Poole and Catcher Jaekiitsch. Both have signed .with Providence, ? - ' " ; ' / ? t > PERISH IN A SUBMARINE 1 Over a Dozen Men Killed in British War Boat Disaster Occurs Off Plymouth, Knj;.? Third Accident of the Kind. Plymouth. England. ? Fourteen officers and men of the British Navy perished under the waters of this historic harbor when submarine boat A-S, in which they had been sent down to participate in some naval maneuvrcs, exploded. Only four of those in the craft escaped. The saving of one of them adds another heroic deed to the many recorded to the honor of officers of the royal navy. The loss of submarine A-8 is the third disaster that has happened to these freak vessels in English waters within a year. Eleven men were entombed at the bottom of the English & Channel in one and six were killed off t [>neenstown in another. This latest disaster occurred about C 10.30 a. m. A-8 had been ordered, in t company with a sister boat, A-7, and a ^ :orpedo boat dcstroyen to proceed outside the breakwater and practice. Just t is she reached the open sea, with only d tier conning tower above the surface, f something went wrong on board. Those 1 >n the destroyer and naval officers s ishore were startled by signals which B read: fl "We are submerged and cannot come i to me sunace. e Divers Sent For. Instantly orders were flashed ashore ? for diving parties and apparatus. While t they were being organized and collectid other signals were made conveying c i message that served to allay the immediate fears of those on the watch $ ind at the same tim$ tell of the cour- ' ige and coolness of the .men who in a few seconds were to be plunged into g iternity. They read: "All right up to the present." I The crew of the destroyer and comrades ashore heaved a great sigh of relief. They redoubled the efforts in ( tiurrying to the rescue, but worked (vitlx lighter hearts. v . a Suddenly a muffled explosion was ieard and all signs of the submarine i ranished. The destroyer on the sur- p face and the A-7, which was following, t svere shaken like leaves. Two other a explosions followed in quick succession, and then four men were shot to r the surface and above it like rockets, i Persons standing on the heights of the Hoe saw them hurled in the air and * Jisappear. Fishing boats entering the 1 iarbor picked them up. They were c Lieutenant Candy, Sub-Lieutenant Murdock and two of the crew. The g 'our were near the conning tower when t the explosion occurred. Qne of the survivors said he was un- j ible to explain the cause of the accilent. The boat suddenly dipped, filled ind sank. The man said: "Lieutenant Candy came to my asdistance when I was almost exhausted t and kept me afloat until we were picked?up by the trawler." j, The bodies of those who were carried f b death in the wreck lay in the shat- c tered hulk, which was under eighteen fathoms of water. Divers were sent for them. They consisted of the regular crew of the A-8 and some men p tvho were being trained for submarine t ivork. fanep of the Accident. The accident, it is believed, -was caused by the explosion of escaping y gasolene. It serves to accentuate the f extreme danger in -which a submarine f crew stands at all times. In each of I the three disasters to vessels of this 6 type the boat was taking part in 0 tnaneuvres to exemplify the mobility and usefulness of the craft in warfare. f The A-5, which was blown up off Queenstown on February 1G, was ac- = eompanled by her convoy, the Hazard. An explosion occurred that was heard f miles away, sent up great volumes of g water and rocked the Hazard as if by t the touching off of a mine. The cockpit of the submarine was above water, and a rescuing crew forced their way through the smoke and gases, to find s every one on board either dead or ^ wounded and only one man able to f speak. While taking out the bodies a second explosion occurred, wounding 0 several of the rescuers. The total re- t suit of the two explosions was six J killed and twelve injured. i The submarine A-l was submerged i near the Nab Lightship, outside Torts- \ mouth, and was run down by a South [ African liner. Nothing was known of . liar- fnta fnr SPVPr.il hours and the steamship's captain reported that lie D liad run into a torpedo. She "was sub- * merged in seven fathoms of water at the time. The crew must have met ileath slowly by suffocation, with no ? means of saving themselves. PRINCE LEOPOLD DEAD. c J His Nomination For Spanish " rone d Led to Franco-German War. 1 Eerlin. Germany.?Frince Leopold (k , Hohenzollern, whose nomination for ' the Spanish throne led to the Franco- i German War, died here at the rcsi- v Jence of his son, Frince Wilhelm. h He came to Berlin to attend the wed- c ling of the Crown Prince. He was n born in 1S35. cj Cigarette Law's Flaw. Judge James Leathers, of the Marion J D County (Ind.) Superior Court, decided ^ that tbe anti-cigarette law is constitu- . tional, but smokers may import cigarettes from other States and smoke n them, but it is held unlawful to sell >r give them away. /< r SMITHSONIAN FUNDS SHORT. ti YV. W. Karr. Disbursing Officer, riaccd Under Arrest. t( Washington, D. C.?A shortage in the I funds of the Smithsonian Institution * * r/vnva m covering a ponou ot over imcc a was discovered and was followed by n the arrest of the disbursing officer, W. ^ W. Karr. j According to statements by officials J" the shortage amounts to about $46,000, Jr and the money was taken from time to 'r time, beginning about fifteen years ago. w I TURNS DOWN STANDARD OIL. British Burma Takes Steps to Protect ai Its Oil Iuuustry. si London, England.?A dispatch to the p Daily Mail from Simla says that the Government of Burma, with the view " to protecting the British Burma oil industry, has refused the Standard Oil b Company a license to establish a pe- fc< troieum' store on the Rangoon River. I p Arms For Moroccan Troops. F Arms have arrived at O-Jau for the iioroccan troops, lis Health Was Wrecked, j HON. JOHN TIGHELfl Assembly man Ttghe's letter ?fc?nl| c read by every brain worker leam ng a strenuous life. 1 Hon. John Tighe, No. 98 Remscn Si ^ohoes, N. Y., Member of Assembly frof he Fourth District, Albany County, 4 I., writes as follows: . _. J reruna nas my nearxy inaors?ui v restorative t*?nic of superior merit, j imes when I have been completely brok lown from excess of work, so that n acuities seemed, actually at a fltandsn Jeruna has acted as a healing restOH tarting the machinery of min d.andtwl fresh with new life and energy. "I recommend it to a man tired in mi nd body as a tonic superior to anytfi know of and well worthy serious com ration."?J. Tighe. Excess of wort, so common in our cot ry, causes impaired nerves, leading to < arrh and catarrhal nervousness?a disei hat is responsible for half of all nervo roubles. Peruna cures this trouble because it cui atarrh wherever located. If you do not derive prompt and sat actory results from the use pf Perm /vnrta 4-a TVr? Tloffmon trirnnt* ft I tatement of your case, and \e will ileased to give you his valuable ach ratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of J lartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. A Fly firm. "I raise files on my farm--artlfi( lies," he said, smiling. "I am, in ft in artificial fly-farmer. "That confuses you, doesn't It? t is simple enough. I raise birds tl rive those little delicate bright feath hat compose fishermen's flies. Thai ill. , / "The finest birds I raise are golc iheasants. You have seen sain Ues? You know their beautiful t< >lngs? Well, those toppings can 01 >e got from the golden pheasan rest. "At a certain season of the yeai rather my golden pheasants arou ue. I take one between my knees, duck out his crest How mad he ge wrap the crest in silver paper. A o I go on till every bird has be ilncked. Do vou know what I jfet 1 hese crests? I get $2.50 apiece \ 4 liem. "I raise mynahs, finches, mallard ays and green parrots. I supply t ly-makers with all the feathers th an use."?Philadelphia Bulletin. The Bate of Hainan Growth. "We grow at a uniform rate," said hysician. "There are rules of grow hat unconsciously we all obey. i "Take the average man. He grox is follows: . ' "First, year, eight Indies; seco ear, six Inches; third year, five inch< ourth year, four inches; fifth yei our inches; sixth year, four inch i'rom the sixth year on the growth lower until the sixteenth year?It nly one and a half inches a year. T eventeenth year has a growth of t nches. The eighteenth year has ~owtli of one inch. "At eighteen the average man is fl eet eight inches high. Thereafter Tows no more."?Philadelphia Bul In. , A Farmer's b?m. n A riatte County man once h&dl warm of bees settle on his head, tI armer saw the bees in the air al ollowed them. They settled on a til f grass and he bent over to look I hem. Suddenly they rose al warmed on his head, covering his ll ac The farmer remained quiet al old his son to run and set a hil Vhen the boy brought the box nrmer, by giving a sudden Jerk, thrl he bees into it He was stung ofl nee and that was 011 the back.-pPlal tounty (Mo.) Argus. fl FEED YOUNC GIRLS. I lust Have Bight Food While Growl Great care should be taken at B ritical period when the young girfl ust merging into womanhood that H iet shall contain all that is upbuildifl ,nd nothing harmful. M At that age the structure is beH jormed and if formed of a healtH turdy character, health and happiiB rill follow; on the other hand H ealfehy cells may be built in and ajfl ondition slowly supervene whicEM ot checked, may ripen into a chrcH isease and cause life-long sufferinH 4 vnnnir Inrtv savs: Sra "Coffee began to have such an n my stomacb a few years ago, thflj ras compelled to quit using it rought on headaches, pains in luscles, and nervousness. jug "I tried to use tea in its stead, H )und its effects even worse tban tiaB suffered from coffee. Tben for a lH| me I drank milk alone at my tneH ut it never helped me physically, t last it palled on me. A friend ci^h > the rescue with the suggestion t^H try Postum Coffee. "I did so, only to find at first, th^| Idn't fancy it. But I had heard o^B lany persons who bad been bene^H y its use that I persevered, and w^B liad it brewed right iounu u gruiM| i flavor and soothing and strengtl^H ig to my stomach. I can ords to express my feeling of owe to Postum Food Coffee! "In every respect it has workeM| onderful improvement ?the h^E ches, nervousness, the pains in de and back, all the distressing ?y^| >ms yielded to the magic powe^d ostuui. My brain seems also to slHS i the betterment of my physical R ition; it seems keener, more alert rigliter. I am, in short, in b^H ealth now than I ever was before, am sure I owe it to the use of ostum Food Coffee." Name give^H ostum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. HS There's a reason Hi