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i sky is clouded, the rocks are bare!/ ; spray of the tempest is white in anr; i winds are out with the waves at p/W? d I shall not tempt the sea to-day. j ? trail is narrow, the wood is dimf ; panther clings to the arching lirinfv; rit the"lion's whelps are abroad alt play, 4 I shall not join in the chase toS-day. ; the ship sailed safely over tlw sea. i the hunters came from the/chase in glee;* / d the town that was buildrd upon a rock / 5 swallowed up in the earthquake shock. ?B^et Harte. NIGHT ON/THE PIIV-tLALLASl. "*? ?C?zj? O?*3?By OTIS LANMEE3 SEIBERT. ??99&9?9*?9i I ' Wg LL 'wild beasts are now muofh more afraid of men \hsjr\ in former times, and tb/.s dread of mankind lias increased as liuman weap> have grawn more deadly. nee and/ once only have I seen a ither that w?>3 other than a skulk. timorous brute, intent only 0:1 I ape it was fifteen years ago. on > Olympic shore and range, south the J^trait of Juan de Fuea. I then d a Kind of roving commission from Smithsonian Institution. I was twenty-two, and was thus put on ?vAnofM nnricito^ nil51V ItrlllC IV ^CUCUUIC u?. .W4VVV. ! ?- , f tb? world and keep my eyes that time the region was a verterra incognita. On tbe map it qoed Clallam County, but for a ed miles east and west, particu.mong the mountains, it was then aiirive and savage as when our > rst set foot on the continent, as one vast taugle of brush and j tree trunks, which gave way ret paper underfoot, letting the y explorer through into unsusholes, where he might, very posfiud himself in the lair of a grizat had never yet learned guuBears and panthers were the chs of this solitude. ianly speaking, too, ,'t was a law>ast. Scattered along tbe shore, leagues apart, were a few tits" of otter-hunters, who were into themselves, and did not beso send a far-killing bullet after ivho intruded on their 'Tanges." I'he flakes of a few Victoria nsnern might be stumbled on during the son. About the river mouths one uld at times catch glimpses of an Lian canoe, or a thin line of smoke ng at sunrise or sunset. But the ?st was too dense, rank and tangled good hunting, and the Indians and C-br?eds here were mainly those 5m murder or other crimes had rensd outcasts. l some expectation of finding tb? :ious metals, I had been trying to ;h a high mountain valley, visible n t,he coast, by ascending the gorge ie Puy-Clallam, from Port Town1, in a sailing dory, which carried small kit and stock of provisions, little way up the tidal portion of river I had come upon an old log | in a secluded nook of the shore, ad evidentlv been deserted for sev II years, but it s?rved rue as a base tmy tramps up the gorge. On the It of my story I had returned to it jer late and thoroughly tired, after llitary jaunt of twenty miles or p. I put on half a salmon to boil nay porcelain kettle, over a fire |eh a rock and the end of the hut Itered, and I also made a skilletful lot "breakfast food;" this, -with sutand a spoonful of diluted canned [, appeased my hunger a little, till salmon was cooked. eanwhile dusk had fallen, and the rming mosquitoes drove me to don and gloves. The hum of thousands hese insects blended with the dis; roar of rapids up the river. To my salmon in pence it was necesr to smoke out/the hut and retire ie?for the insect pests dashed dly into my platter and into my ie moon was not yet quite in sight the wooded mountain across the am. but its light was slowly diffusitsolf athwart the wilderness: and leutly I heard two sea-otters iniauat each other down in Little Bay. y seemed to be close in to the e: and as my supper had revived considerably, I took my carbine stepped outside. It was possible, ought, to get a shot at them as th? n came up: and a sen-otter pelt I^e worth a couple of hundred dol7 little cooking fire had burned n. and I scuffed some loose sand it with my foot ns I stopped to n to the otters again. But a dense of mosquitoes dashed into my as I stood there; and reflecting I might have to lie or stand quiet seme little time if I stalked the s. I went back inside for my bead and gloves, standing my carbine ust that end of the hut as I did so, he door was at the other end. took me a minute or two to find put on the net in the dark interior le hut; but I was coming out wlieu. twenty feet away. I discovered e large animal with eyes that red like coals in the obscurity! It in the very act of crouching to Qg at me! I heard the sough of its [th as it drew itself together to p. and I leaped back into th.? hut |slammed the door. had no time to spare. The beast p plump against the door with a pee that nearly hurled it back and pith it! One paw came at the crevby the door-post. I s-t my back mst the door and dug my heels into Ijarui xo lioiu 11 iast, yeiuug mi me 0 to scare the creature away. But shouts (lid not frighten it in the With eager growling it dug and at the door with its nails. It even L to dig the earth away beneath it. en it coursed eagerly round tlie hut ng bounds, and leaped 011 the roof, e slight smell of my fire lingered lie farther end of the hut, and my ine. too. standing there, must have n off odors: but thes* smells aped not to deter the animaJ. Ith low growls it dug at the poles 1 boughs of the roof. The old dry \ rattled through on me as I groped 1 / I I for a log bench in tlif but to set against the door. I feared that the beast would tear a bole in the roof and spring down on me: but tbe thick, matted mass of sodden boughs embarrassed itAll the time I was shouting savagely, and I made haste to strike a whole card of matches, hoping that the odor of brimstone or the gleam of light would deter the beast from its attack. But immediately it cam? digging at the door again, as if transported by ferocity, nud again I threw my weight against the inside of the door, for I dared not trust to the bench. My disgust with myself for bcin^ such a fool as to leave my carbine out- ! side can easily be imagined. I was al j my wits' end to know how to beat the j creature off. Plainly it was bold from j huncrpr. and had no doubt smelled mv i salmon, half of which was on a shelf ! just inside the hut door. I had J thoughts of throwing (he flsh out to it, | and then an idea came into my mind, j For preserving the skins of birds and j small animals I had taken along a J quantity of arsenic in a bottle. When ! the violence of the creature's efforts at j the door had subsided and it was rac- i ing round the hut again, I hastily cut | a deep gash in the fish with my knife; | then, striking another match. I put iu j as much as twenty grains of the poison, j By this time the animal was on the | roof again, scratching and snarling and j snuffling. Opening the door a little, I | flung out the salmon. I had scarcely j done so when, pounce! came the beast i to the ground. With a sniff and snarl j it seized the fish and ran off a little way. Not so far. however, but that I could hear it eating, its teeth gritting on the backbone. There must have been five or six pounds of the fish; but within half a minute the animal was back, sniffing about the place for more. I listened anxiously. It jumped on the roof again, then prowled round the hut. Presently there came an interval of frightful staccato screech! Then followed some lofty tumbling all over the ground about the hut, enlivened by i the most blood-er.rdling yells it is pos- | sible to imagine! Peeping out. I i * caught glimpses of what occurred. Sometimes that poor brute went ten 1 feet in the air. then it clawed up the earth and brush, turned wild somersaults. and tore and bit its own flesh. It tried in vain to vomit forth the j poison. If not hard-pressed in self-defense, I | would never administer arsenic to any J living creature. Pathetic moans succeeded the screeches, and then the suffering animal dragged itself to the stream, j where I heard it noisily lapping water; and after that Ihe end came very soon. Fancying that its mate might have been attracted by the yelling, I hastily s?cured my carbine and stayed inside the hut till morning. At sunrise I found the creature dead, less than a hundred yards from the place where it drank. It was, as I had supposed, a mountain-lion, or panther. a big male that would have . wpi??hpfl two hundred nnd fiftv nounds I am sure, and probably one that had never before seen a human being, or learned aught of the deadly guile of man.?Youth's Companion. Cultivate a Pleasant Voice. Kind hearts are more plentiful than persistency kind and g?ntle voices, and yet love loses much of its power when the voice is sharp and harsh. Try, therefore, most earnestly to acquire a pleasant tone in speaking, and guard yourself carefully from falling into careless and bad habits of voice. Often a sharp voice shows far more ill-will than the heart feels: but people do not know that the speaker's "bark is worse than her bite," and they believe her to be ill-tempered and disagreeable. It is very easy to pick up a sharp J and snappish manner of speaking. Very e often it is acquired in mirth, and in the playful battles of words, in which 8 ooys ana girls delight. There is 110 c malice in their sallies, and a great i deal of fun; but. meanwhile, the voice c is often acquiring a sharp and shrew- i g ish tone, which clings through life, c making it stir up strife and ill-will ' I among its listeners. j 1 So be careful of the tone in which ! [ you speak, and be certain that it is j I gentle and sweet. A kind voice is iike j ^ music in the home, and is to the heart t what light and beauty are to the eye.? ! New York Weekly. ; i t Doss in the Ambulance Service. i ( The Austro-IIungariau War Dogs' j Club has just held its first show of | * dogs for war and ambulance service. Tile highest officers of the army wit- { nessed the performances of the dogs, t Soldiers had dispersed all over the Held of action, and were concealed behind hedges, among shrubs and bushes. These were supposed to be the wounded. The 'dogs found them all, and either stnyed with them and barked if the trainers were near enough to hear them, or ran for the trainer when the distance was toa ]ong. Then they were sent with messages contained in a locket fastened to their collars, to which they had to bring answers.? New York World. Sincere Quackery. A rather remarkable case of sincere quackery, which perhaps may not be as rare as is generally supposed, occurred in London some time ago. An old lady sued Sir William Broadbent a lendins? London because lie refused to buy or try her elixir. This '"was no common remedy, being free from those minerals which are the root of all evil, but the skillful blending of s.n herb of which medical men know nothing." Needless to say, the old lady lost her case, which she pleaded in person. Her sincerity was as obvious as her stupidity, and made her a pathetic rather than a ridiculous figure. Russian Diplomatic Sirens. The Russian Government, too, is also represented abroad, not only by its am bassadors, but by unofficial diplomats of a most interesting description, "a corps d'elite of ladies who are despatched to the various capitals of the world. In Washington Czardom has no less than ten of these ladies. They entertain lavishly, and their drawing rooms, with shaded rose-colored lights and luxurious furniture ana Hangings, are palaces of ease for "weary iegis-at ors and Senators." These fascinating sirens then dictate in -whispers what laws shall or shall not be passed by Congress.?Joubert's Fall of Tsardoia, IN THE PUE K wk> HENRY H. I - (Standard Oil and Cqpii AN IMPR3VEMENTJN THE AX. Besides being the instrument on vbich is based one of the most 1m>ortant industries of the country, the voodcbopper's ax now takes its place j imong the physical culture accessories *; >f the gentleman's home. Tbe visitor it the suburban bouse may occasionally r~ >ee a shiny, nickle piated ax, with a ^ land painted and highly polished landle, reposing behind the vestibule, ~ xnd inquiry reveals the fact that the lead of the house is given to chopping lown a tree every morning before ireakfast. If, perchance, he is noninated for road supervisor, or sonle simlarly important office, he has his pboograph taken in the act of wielding the ax, and it is published in the local i laper for the edification of Lis constituents. Until the ax achieved the dignity of / losing in the front hall little change L vas made in its shape. The implement v lurled at the sturdy tree trunks by the irawny arms of the Plymouth Rock ? )ioneers is in every respect the same as pr las done service through the succeed- til m IMPROVEMENT IN THE AX. W G(] ng generations until recently, -when a m ilight improvement was made. _ A Pennsylvanian lias recently devised l new type of ax-head adapted to reluce friction between the ax and the vood by reducing the bearing surface . >f the ax to a minimum. A series of oc grooves or recesses are cut in the face if the ax, close to the cutting edge, and >ack of the grooves the face is bolowed out as indicated la the accom>anying illustration. This innovation s claimed to permit a much deeper cut, vith no more exertion on the part of hr lie chopper.?Philadelphia Record. Unawarded for a long time, and herefore still on the list of the Lom- If rnrdy Institute, is the special prize by hi 3ommeno for the discovery of hydro- he >hobia poison. 1? es The region about Tuxpam, in the $t State of Vera Cniz, Mexico, is the na- m ural habitat of the vanilla vine. cb Admiral Roji mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmrnmrnm ' ' > > Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, eomman stroyed by Togo, won the St. George's C when with a small gunboat he had the t ship and then get safely away. In appei late Admiral Sampson^of the American I sLIC EYE. jjf' ST r'r^ -'^^^IBSX^B^^I ! MVH a^. V v ??/*'.'v ,^HBB1 S@r - ' >?&. . ROGERS. >er Multi-millionaire.) POCKET SCALES. A pocket scale for weighing mail atter lias been recently awarded a itent to a Philadelphian. Most imements of this character are usually ther bulky and not at all suited for ie purposes of stowing away in the >cket; but this device has the admtage of being quite compact. The I jj i = ji J * o; N\) (im J. m u ' SCALES TO CABBY IN THE POCKET. incipal part being made of tliin sheet a, celluloid or similar material, it ay be easily carried in the pocket. The device consists of an improveent on the well-known Roman steelird, and primarily constitutes an efcient and convenient weighing maline'; and, incidentally, furnishes a itable medium for advertising purges. The inventor accomplishes this r nrovidincr a nlane surface for the | (am instead of the ordinary bar by nfining the movable counterpoise in horizontal slot instead of by a proberance at the extremity of the long m by having a spring clip provided ith an eye or hook at the extremtiy ' each limb at the end of the short m to hold the matter to be weighed place of the usual hook or pan, and ' providing an index, which eonstites part of the hanger, to correspond ith a fixed mark on the surface of the luillbrium in lieu of the separate eans ordinarily employed to that end. Philadelphia Record. ShakoJ What the French call "le shake inds" has its importance in psychol;y. A student has given the fruit of s inquiries into this branch of sciice to a Paris journal. When a ranger does not grasp the hand you for him. you are entitled to doubt his nesty. If he favors you with a couple fingers, you may set him down as lughty. If his band lies limply in ?urs, he is timid. If he gives you the American squeeze," he is audacious, his hand slips away he is indolent; it if lie is good, loyai, sincere, veell- j ilanced mentally and physically, he J ts you have a grip, ample, firm, modt and yet genial. These simple inructions should be very helpfyl in the aklng of new acquaintances. ,^nd the loice of friends.?London Chronicle. ESTVENSKY. ' " ' ' der of the Russian Baltic m:et, ueross for bravery in the Turkish war, lardihood to attack a Turkish battle trance he is said to resemble tlxe \Tavy. BIG PACKERS INDICTED Federal Grand Jury at Chicago Finds True Bills Against Besf Trust. TWENTY-TWO OFFICIALS ON LIST Four Corporations Also Indicted?Nelson morris ami Michael Cndaliy Left Out on Account of Their Ajje, But Their Manager* Must Answer to Criminal Charges in the Forleral Courf. Chicago.?'Twentytwoofficials of the big packing companies and four corporations were indicted bv the Federal Grand Jury. Then the jurors filed into Judge Bethcn's court, reported their findings, and were dismissed with the thanks of the Court. Four corporations and eighteen individuals are named in the principal indictment. which charges a conspiracy in restraint of trade and a conspiracy to monopolize or attempt to monopolize any part of such trade or commerce. in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. Penalties for violations of either of these charges, which appear in different counts in the principal indictment, are a line not to exceed ."53000 and imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the Court. 'I'ho fino nnlr is nnnlircililo tr? rornnivi tions. Four other individuals are nauied in a separate indictment which is based jn the provisions of the interstate commerce law, making it unlawful to solicit or receive auy rebate or concession in respect uf the transportation of any property interstate or foreign commerce. The penalty prescribed under this charge is a tine of from ?1000 to $20,000. Originally the interstate commerce law provided a punishment of both tine and imprisonment for such violations, but the imprisonment provision was stricken out when the law was amended. After a session extending intermittently over a period of three months the Federal Grand Jury finished its investigation into the pi cking industry. The head officials of the packing companies anticipated the Grand Jury's action by sending their attorneys to the office of the United States District Attorney to make arrangements for bonds. The indictment forms contained the names of Nelson Morris*, head of Nelson Morris & Co., and Michael Cudally, nroslrtmif- nf flip Pnrtnlic P/ifkinir pany. District Attorney Morrison made an address, in which he conveyed to the Grand Jury his impression that because of the advanced age of these two men and the fact that their concerns are practically in the hands of a younger generation the Government was disposed to be lenient. After taking the matter under advisement the Grand Jury decided to have the names of the two aged packers stricken from the indictment. A list of those indicted follows: J. Ogden Armour, president; P. A. Valentine, vice-presidenl: Samuel MMcRoberts, secretary: Arthur Meeker, mflnnw hoof ilnnnrtmpnt: Thomas; .T. Connors, a director;' Charles W. Armour, manager Armour & Co.. Kansas City, all of Armour & Co. Louis F. Swift, president: Edward P. Swift, vice-president: Charles Swift, manager export department; Laurence A. Carton, treasurer; D. Eilwin Hartwell, secretary, and Albert H. Veeder. general counsel, all of Swift & Co. Arthur F. Evans, special counsel; Robert C. McManus, special counsel; Edward Morris, vice-president, and Ira N. Morris, secretary, all of Nelson Morris & Co. Edward A, Cudahy. vice-president of the Cudahy Packing Company. Edward Tilden, of Libby, McNeill & Libby. Samuel Weil, secretary and former vice-president; Beth S. Cusey, general traffic manager; \ Vance D. Skipworth, traffic manager in Now York, and Chester E. Todd, traffic manager in Kansas City, all of Schwarzchild & Sulzberger. Corporations indicted?Armour Packing Company, Swift & Co.. Fairbank Canning Company, Cudahy Packing Company. SWEDEN CLOSES WAR PORTS. Proclamation Issued, to Become Effective Immediately. Stockholm. Sweden.?The apparently peaceful aspect of affairs which followed the excitement after .Norway's declaration of her secession from the sovereignty of King Oscar was broken suddenly by the issuance or a proclamation. to become effective immediately, declaring Stockholm, Karlskrona, Gottenburg and Farosund to be war ports, and denying entrance to all foreign warships. This will be followed by a notice to the Powers, through the ambassadorial representatives, announcing the action taken by the Government, so that all ships of war of other nations now within these ports will be withdrawn. The proclaiming of the four ports as war ports is the most serious and significant actiou taken since the Norwegians announced their intention to secede and is in effect the first step in preparing for an armed conflict to force the secessionists to return to their allegiance. Oyama and Linevitch Negotiate. Oyama and Linevitch were reported to be negoti-fing to arrange an armistice in Manchuria. Moroccan Negotiations Progress. The ^egotiauon: between France and Ccrmany on Morocco were said to be moving toward an agreem.-nt. A dis patch from Fez indicated tnat 1110 Moors were beginning to show less admiration for Germany. Our Squadron Reaches France. The American squadron, under Admiral Sigsbee. reached Cherbourg, France. A catafalque to receive the body of John Puul Jones has been greeted 011 the cruiser P'/ookiyu. Killed in Theatre Fire. Henry Baker, a ticket taker, was suffocated and several firemen overcomein a fire in Keith's Theatre, New York City. Taft Party Starts. Secretory Taft's Philippine parly, in eluding Miss Alice Roosevelt, started for San Francisco, Cal., from Wash ington. C. General Porter Honored. General Porter was mad' senior spe cial ambassador to receive the body ol John Paul Jones from Paris, France. - ....... ?-w . ! IINOR EVFtnm THE WEEK II WASHINGTON. resident Roosevelt announced that Mu the peace envoys chosen are Komura and Takahira for Japan, Muraviefl Cl and Rosen for Russia, who will meet . in Washington as soon as, possible after August 1. I The Acting Secretary of the Treasury , OF i received and accepted the resignation j of sixty draftsmen employed in the bu, reati of the Supervising Architect. I I These employes had to be laid off on j account of lack o;.' work in the office, I there being only enough in hand to ' keep about forty men busy. Since 1901' $50,000,000 has be<?n expended on new public buildings and for improvements to old ones, but the work of preparing o plans has been done with such rapidity that drawings For only two or three 1 e buildings are now in progress. Unless rIa there is another public building bill at Wi the coming session, the force In the she drafting room will be still further reduced. pe Former Secretary Morton was at the Navy Department to introduce bis 15531 successor. Charles .T. Bonaparte, to the Ru ' hief officials of the department. Mr. cai Bonaparte assumed his new duties th? same morning. - spi OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. tra There is overy indication that Ihe tln sugar season in the Hawaiian Islands all will be one of the best in recent years, on Tbe coffee growers of Porto Rico to feel much encouraged by tb<> efforts y which are being made to popularize their product iu tbe United States. ^ There is a big crop iu prospect. A sergeant and six men of the Sec- jn ond Cavalry have killed Felizardo, the jju ! scourge of Cavite, Philippine Islands. of He was the boldest bandit in tbe isi- ac) and, and was tbe hero of numerous es- ?o capes. as] Judge Warren Ickis. formerly a lieu- tin tenant in the Fifty-first Iowa Regi- Po ment, died of septicaemia on Mindanao ac( Island. ' " the DOMESTIC. go< Two white women. Mrs Mary Jay, ra;1 thirty years old. and May Woodlirg, lja twenty-eight years old, were murdered *1" in a bouse in tbe Tenderloin section of do ' Scranton. Pa. In each case the worn an's skull was crushed with a hatchet. wi Art The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals has finally decided to wear P7 robes, and will appear in them for the first time at tbe next term. Gentiles organized in Salt Late City, ^n) Utah, to defeat a Mormon plot to atf seize the choice tracts of the Uintah Indian reservation about to be opened cr{ by the Government. tjj( The Rev. Dr. Wylie, of the Scotch of Presbyterian Church. New York City shi in a sermon suggested jail as the pro- the per place for "high finance" directors wa who juggle with trust funds. cai Congressman Driscoll, attorney for Superintendent Hendricks, of New ' York, in the Equitable investigation, th< replied to James H. Hyde's defense of m? his father, and showed how the elder ha man made huge profits at the expense in* of the policy holders. fla Joseph M. Terrell, Governor of Georgia, has offered rewards of $500 each ^ for the arrest and conviction of the ~? first five members of the Watkinsville I?' mob and $200 each for every other *za member. Uniform food laws for all the States W!l were considered by a convention of wholesale grocers in session at MilwAu- an kee. Wis. pi( The American Institute of Homoe- Pi pathy. meeting at Chicago, 111., elect- bu ed William E. .Grc-en, of Little Rock, an Ark., as president. be Because of ill-health. George H. Wi- rai taty, a prominent attorney of Fremont, an O., killed himself at Bellevue, O. bu Gold has been found at a depth of , 200 feet in the public square at Carson. ',a Nev., where borings were being made for an artesian well. ?E frc A boiler explosion on former Con ers gressman Isa^c Stephenson's yacht at j)U' Menominee, Mich., injured th? owner (jil and several guests, among them for- ]j0 mer Governor Hood and Congressman <] Jenkins. The California Limited, on the At- of chison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, pr< collided head on with a heavy Kansas foi City Southern stock train in the sub- lo^ urbs of Kansas City. Mo. Two persons de were killed and three injured. thi While crossing a gangplank to a Gc schooner moored at Sayreville, N. J.. flfteen-year-old Annie O'Connell fell K' overboard and was drowned. . of A plank on which he was "see-saw . ing" fell on Walter Tiot'akeu, seven Uf vp.irs nld. at Savreville. N. J., killinc 0 liim instantly. Ki re FOREIGN. * cv, Japan will soon offer $150,000,000 R? more of her bonds in New York and 11a London. an The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of at Selangor. Malay Peninsula, will take tll; up the boycott of American goods. :ls Emperor William lias promoted Admiral von Koester to be Grand Admiral , of the German fleet. a The Russian transport Anadyr ar- ta] rived at Diego Suarez. Madagascar, with survivors from the Russian bat- a? tleship Orel, which went ashore dis- "Dj abled in the battle of the Sea of on Japan and was surrendered to the tlll Japanese. lo, Gen. Gripenberg. who formerly com- th manded the second Maucburian Army, bli but was relieved from the command j sq on March 20 by order of the Czar, J re has been appointed Inspector General i nu of Infantry. . vvl A Norwegian officer, whose move- tw inents caused suspicion at Trosa, Swe- Gt den. was escorted to the frontier, it sp being believed he was a spy. bo The Arabs have risen in the province as of Assyr and Turkish communication witb the port of Cumfuda is intercept < ed. Abba, the capital of the province of Assyr, bas been invested by the rebels for some time past. Turkish reinforcements are being despatched to Assyr. , A dozen vessels that formerly be- ar* longed to German linos and were purchased by Russia for enormous j * prices are lying at Libau awaiting the j f . disposal of the naval authorities, who j are undecided whether to sell them at | on a heavy sacrifice or turn them orcr . to the volunteer fleet. 'Q^ In a dispatch to St. Petersburg. Russia. Gen. Linievitc.'i reported that the whole Russian front was secure. The British Government lost another seat in the House of Commons iu a bye-election in the east division ol by Finsbnry, when J. A. Baku', liberal { and free trader, defeated N. L. Cohen, th< the Unionist candidate, by a majority an of 70S. 3 The King and Minister of Commerce attended a lecture before Ihe Comruer- {* cial Association, at Rome, Italy, illus- gj! tratiug a scheme to render the Tiber navigable for big vessels as far as Rome. The estimated cost of the pro- f1' ject is $5,000,000. A company has * teen started to commence the work. ' ua ua ; IE POTEIiNE I PIRATE 1 ' ^ itinesrs Issued Proclamation Dearm? War on All Russian Ships. FICIAL STORY OF TROUBLE' * l'otempkitie Ignited Notice to Powers That She Would Attack All VeMeln of the Czar?Mutt Join Mutineer* or Rink a Sinking ? Rebel Battloahip Seized Coal From an Italian Collier. / ?fe dessa. Russia.?The mutineers on battleship Kniaz Potomkine dered war on the Russian marine. tli a desperation born of necessity seized an Italian collier and renislied her empty coal bunkers; and :li a boldness that passes neiier sne ned a proclamation of war on all issian vessels refusing to join the lse of mutiny. lennwliile the spirit of mutiny V'/s-i :ead to tbo merchant marine. A nsport crew n?ar Sebastopol muied and murdered its officers, and Russia has been fervidiy called np- f by the ever-active revolutionaries rise in a general revoiution. / '-J ["he Government story of the eventsOdessa, as published in the Official ?ssenger, lias been in great part alidy covered in the statemeuts madeofficial quarters and cabled to the iit?d States siuce the commencement the outbreak. After detailing the tivity of the-Socialist Revolutionary mmittee in stirrin? up the striker* lore and the arrival of the muous crew of the battleship Kniaz teniKine ar uaessa on juue uic?ount proceeds: ' Mutiny of the war ships provided * Revolutiouary Cou;niictee with a )d opportunity to influence the isses. The committee visited the ttl?ship and assured the mutineers it tiie garrison of Odessa had Liie wn its arms and that the whole lck Sea squadron had joined hand* th the crew of the Kniaz Potemkina cording to eye witnesse.a: oCcers >k an active p-rt ia the councils ou iru the battleship, especially ting cadets. The result of tue an- ' !hi<=t iuivigues among the workmen , d mutinous sailors became immedisly evident. The troops were nnie to use their arms agaiust the >wds of workmen in the vicinity of i harbor for fear of the possibility an enfilading fire from the battlep. The harbor, therefore, was at ? mercy of the mob, which pillaged irehouses and vessels, broached 5ks of wine and spirits and started irunken orgie. 'With nightfall the fires started by, i rioters soon attained terrible divisions. Nearly everything in the rhor was dpstroved. the mob refus I to allow the firemen to fight the mes. Among the property destroyed tre the warehouses and stores of ; Russian Navigation and Commerce mpany, the agency and. stores of ? Danube Navigation Company, the is stores on the Plata noff piers, the lessa Harbor railroad station, the irbor Master's offices, part of the ? irehouses of the Russian Navigation ading Company, and of the Roseysky d Roshnine companies on the new ?r, the shipping office on Platanoff pr, part of the coal depot, all of the ildings of the Quarantine Harbor, v d twenty wagons and sis steamers longing to various companies. The ilway freight sheds were pillaged d many rioters and looters were rned alive while intoxicated. ' 'Several times during the night of ne 28 the mob attacked the troops d police with revolvers, but every ae they were scattered by a vollej >m the soldiers. The number of riot ; killed or wounded is not yet known, t must exceed several hundreds. The mage can only be estimated in milns of roubles. This story confirms the report that i Kniaz Potemkine on the evening June 29 fired three blank shots, as ascribed by the Russian naval cock r the funeral of a sailor, and folded these up with two live shots, stroying part of a house. Otherwise & battleship did no damage. The (vernmeut report then proceeds ta late the arrival of Rear-Admiral uger's squadron during the morning June 30, as follows: As the squadron approached the lessa pier the Kniaz Potemkine fired for action, advanced to meet It d cut through its line. As the iiiaz Potemkine passed the mutters received an ovation from the ?w of the Georgi Pobledonosetz. Mr-Admiral Kruger thereupon signed the squadron to swing around d return to Sebastopol but the crew the Georgi Poljledonosetz prevented nt vessel from following, and put hore all their officers, disarmed, with e exception of Lieutenant Grigorieff, K> blew out his brains. 'On the advice of the revolutionists committee'of twenty was elected to ke charge of the vessel uuder the section of n ooatswam s mnte ami parently against the hitter's will, ssension prevailed among the crew, ly part of which was influenced by e revolutionists and wanted to folx the Kniaz Potemkine. The latter reatened to fire 011 the Georgi Po?donosetz if she tried to rejoiu the uadron at Sebastopol. The autirolutionary section, however, ultiltely gained the upper hand, and len in the afternoon of July 1 the o battleships weighed anchor the ,'orgi Pobledonosetz put 011 full eed, entered the harbor and sent the atswain's mate and some sailors bore to signify her submission." sllir LOST OFF CAPE HOPvN. :rman Steamer Agnes Founders i? Storm. ?an Francisco, Cal.?'The ship Aryac rived"from Baltimore. Md., bringing e captain and ten men of the crew the German ship Agnes, which undered in a snow storm off Cape n*n. me noat's crew picKea up was e of three which abandoned the tnes before it sank. A search for til* iior two was fruitless. Sporting Brevities. Squadron A defeated Rumson at polo a score of lOMs to 7 goals. Sydney Taget's Tradition easily won e .Mermaid Stakes at the Coney Isld Jockey Club course. Mohawk athletes won the point troy at the open games of the Atlas a. , on the "Cove" grounds, West ighton, S. I. [.awn tennis representatives of Eng;id. Australia and Belgium agreed to nerican's terms on time limit foe uiing players for international ton**ment. in