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JAPANESE SHIP BLOWN UP Scores of Lives Reported : ' Lost on the Mikasa, Flagship of Admiral Togo. HORROR HAPPENED AT NIGHT At Half-Fast Tiro O'Clock ia the Mjrning the Vessel Cau;ht Fire anil ITei Magazines Ex|tl?de<l ? Was Heavy Loser ia the Recrct War-Ij tajinc In Slialloir "Water?Hope of RaUibe Her? Admiral Togo Nat on Boar;! Japan in Mourning* Tokio. Japan.?The Japanese battleship Mika6a. which was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Togo during the Battle of the Sea of Japan, caught fire and s?uk. The destruction of the battleship was attended with a dreadful loss of life. The Navy Department announced that the battleship has been destroyed by fire and the explosion of her magazine. causing the loss of scores of lives, including men of other ships who went to the rescue. The fire started from an unknown cause at midnight. Before the officers eoaia oe rescued the fire reached the aft magazine, which exploded, blowing -?J- - O hft. a HOie in rue pore siue 01 iue *e=>oci u~3ow the water line, and causing: the ; ' *hip to sink. The destruction of Admiral Togo's flagship, the Mikasa, has cast a feeling of gloom over Japan, which was relieved somewhat by the fact that Admiral Togo himself was not on board at the time of the disaster, f The battleship sank in shallow water, and it is believed she can be raised and restored to the navy. Various conjectures have been current as to the cause of the fire. Some attribute it to an overcharge of electricity. An investigation is being lield. Sasebo, Japan. ? This little town, which has suddenly risen to a prominent eminence since the outbreak of the war. had spent a peaceable day. Suddenly, a little after midnight, while the people were dreaming ot peace after an unparalleled series of victories, which culminated in the Battle of the Sea of Japan, the quiet was? iriolently disturbed by a terrific explosion accompanied by a severe shock. A great crowd assembled on the coast only to discover that a terriDie i disaster had overtaken the beloved IMikasa, the flagship of the great Togo, (who led his men to victory iu the life and death struggle in which* the nation has just been engaged. : Words are powerless to describe the profound sorrow attending this great catastrophe. The absence of Admiral Togo from the ship at the time of the explosion and the hope that the vessel can be repaired are the only redeeming features of the calamity. A deep feeling of sympathy for the unfortunate sufferers after a cessation of hostilities permeates every class. Washington. D. C.?The Bureau of Naval Intelligence received advices by cable from the American Naval Attache at Tokio that the loss in killed and missing on the battleship Mikasa was over 200. The wounded numbered some 300. The cause of the accident cannot be ascertained until the Mikasa is floated. Admiral Togo was not on board at the time of the disaster. N ' At the Battle of the Sea of Japan Admiral Togo, as the engagement was about to open, flew the following sig nal: "The destiny ol' our empire uepeuu:: upon this action. You are all expected to do your utmost." In that battle the Mikasa was the heaviest loser of all the Japanese ships liaving sixty-three killed and wounded. She approached nearer to the Russians Than any other battleship. DEATH IN OKLAHOMA TORNADO Two Persons Killed. Nine Injured and Several Houses Razed. Lawton, Oklahoma.?A small tornado passed near Walter, seventy miles south of Lawton at night, killing Mrs. E. H. Childers aud John Ross, and severely injuring nine other persons. Several houses were blown down. Strike in Warsaw. A general strike began at Warsaw Poland, owing to the execution of n Socialist leader. Cossacks and infantry began patroling the streets. Tokio Under Martial Law. Tokio. Japan, has been put undci martiai law ia consequeiice of auti peace uiaiuruuuutTfc. General Grant Entertains Witte. M. Witte was entertained at Gov ernor's Island, New York Harbor, b; General Grant. To Return Czar's Favor. It was said at Washington, D. C.. that Congress would be asked at its next session to rednce the duty on Russian sugar in return for the Czar's cur tailment of the tariff on American goods. Strangled His Child. J. Albert Martin, who was devoted to his children, suddenly strangled tc death his sis months' old girl in Mon treal. Quebec, and the police believe ht v,'<i a insane. The Field of Sports. New York riflemen won the national team match at Sea Girt, N. J. New York riflemen were prize winners in every match decided at Sea Girt, N. J. Squadron A, of New York, won the revolver team match on ranges at Sen Girt, N. J. Sadie Mac. favorite for the $10,00( Charter Oak trot, dropped dead in on? of the heats. Henry Ford's speed machine traveled one mile at Atlantic City, N. J., in 38 3-5 seconds. ! SLAYER HANGS HIMSELF Charles Herzig-, After Commiting Murder Years Ag-o, Takes His Life, A Guilty Confidence Can?etl Hi<? Confession?Noted Cane ifl. Ohio at the Time. Mi not, S. D. -Wiili a piece of the preen roil he used thirty years ago to strangle pretty Lizzie Brombacher, near Youngsiown, Ohio, tied around liis neclr, and a paper containing his confession of the murder for which hp permitted an innocent soul to be smothered out on the gallows piuned to his breast, the- dead body of Charles Herzig, a modern Eugene Aram, was found hanging from a trp-? in a secluded ravine near this town. After thirty years of torment, dreading discovery every moment of all that terrible period of time, and haunted nightly by the face of his victim distorted by his strangling clutches, tl^rzig in bis confession says he was be ginning to overcomo nis oonscu-nce when inexorable fate throw in bis path a magazine containing ihe story of the crime, and the hanging nf Charles Sterling, a supposed tramp, for it. Th? story emphasised what was at the time regarded as the one redeeming feature in the character of the. condemned man. Sterling had denied his identity to his mother when she visited him in the death cell in order that she might ! be spared the pain and disgrace attendant upon his conviction and death. Herzig for the first lime realized that the blood of two innocent persons was ou his head. The fortitude displayed by Sterling, who was a young man of good family, so impressed him that the agony he had endured for years returned with renewed force, and he. could suffer it 110 longer. A few days ago he left the bouse of Frank Byej\ a farmer here, with whom he had been employed. He walked into tlie woous a icw nines awu.y, uuu, choosing the most lonely and dismal spot ho could find, be ended his miserable life. Before ho started on his way to death Herzig wrote his confession. He addressed it to Byer and placed it 'in a soiled envelop? on the table in his room, where ho was sure it would be found when search for him was begun. On the outside of the envelope was a piece of paper containing the following request: "When my lifeless body is found notify my mother, Mrs. Catherine Herzig, Girard, Ohio. The inclosed letter will reveal my identity and the awful secret of my wretched life. I could enI dure it no longer." In telling of his terrible crime Herzig related all the details. Following .'s the text of his letter: "Dear Mr. B.rer?In early seventies, Charles Sterling, a supposed tramp, was tried for the murder of Lizzie Brombaclier, residing near Youngstown. Ohio. The trial resulted in his conviction on purely circumstantial evidence and he was hanged. Charles Sterling Avas an innocent man. "I am guilty of the murder of that young girl, and I have paid the penalty in a wretched, haunted life for many years. Her face, distorted by the strangling clutches of my then powerful hands, made stronger by the power of brutal beast passion, haunts me, and for years nightly has that face appeared at my bedside until now I am a physical and mental wreck, who cau only find relief ia death, which will soon be mine. "At the time I murdered this girl I was twenty. A few weeks before committing the crime I removed with my family from Lockport, N. Y., to Girard. Ohio, where I believe my mother still lives, although I have not heard from her for years. , J '*[ visited Youngstown one week prior to the murder with the hope of securing employment, and with a number of other men, Sterling being in the crowd, went to Poland for work two days before the woman was killed. "I was standing in a secreted place along the roadside when the girl came aiong unaccompanied. The devil must i.ave taken possession of me. I grabbed her by the arm and puiled > - - '--t- - 1 ,<a. ner 11110 a ciusici ui. uushct. wmfused to yield to my desires, and. clutching lur by the throat. L strangled her to death, while I accomplished my purpose. "I left the body where it had d'ed and where it was later found. Sterling passed the scene of the murder in a search forme while I was committing the awful crime. "I found him later nnd persuaded him to change shirts with me by offering him twenty-five cents in money. He accepted the offer. There were blood stains on the shirt from that innocent girl, and they proved one of the strongest circumstances in the chain of evidence against Sterling. I was not seen in the vicinity of the spot where the murder was committed. "Sterling was arrested shortly after the crime. I fled. "My real name is Charles Herzig. I will endeavor to die in some place where my body will never be found, but if it should be, notify my mother. I make this confession that the grave of Charles Sterling may no longer be looked upon a^ that of a murderer." Plot of Murder Discovered. Advices from Belgrade said that a plot for a general rising in Macedonia and the murder of King Peter and Prince Ferdinand had been discovered. Jumps Bridge to Death. Frederick VV. Llansing, a retired dry goods merchant, committed suicide by jumping from the Washington Bridge, New York City. ' Rioting in Yokohama. Rioting, in which thiri.v-seven policemen and many police boxes were burned, followed an anti-peace meetins at Yokohama. Japan. Troops were sent from Tokio and quiet was restored. Effect of Schools Op?ning. Cooler weather and the ending of the vacation season, coupled with the partial reopening of schools, has made for more activity in retail linos r.orth west and east. Newsy Cleanings. A Yankee circus was reported strand ed in Grenoble, France. Portsmouth. England, has passed an ordinance for the suppression of cock crowing. The debt of France, including the debts of communes, amounts to about ?<;.(x>o,ooo.ooo. The losers in the Provo (Utah) land drawing seem to be the ones who are getting the land. Leeds, England, has established a municipal department for the mainteuance of automobiles. "I" GAR HLLS TO STREET Worst Accident in History of New York's Elevated System. MANY KILLED; SCORES INJURED Ninih Avenue Train, Itanninjt At Full Speed, Hit* Fifty-third Street Curve, Where Switch HhiI Been Set, ftnd Two Cam Topple Cver the Structure, Cra^hinjr Into Corier Building. New York City.? Twelve persons were killed and forty-two injured, five of them mortally, a few minutes after 7 o'clock in the morning in the worst wreck in the history of the elevated railroad in this city. The accident was one that had Ions been feared?the plunging of a car laden with passengers from the structure to the street below. The accident was also at a point which had often been picked out as a likely place for such a disaster? the curve at Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue, where the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines diverge. The wreck was the result of the Acting of the switch just north of Fiftythird street curve so as to allow the soutb-bouni? Ninth avenue train, rimniiiR r.t full speed toward the station at Fiftieth street to take the curve rounding into Fifty-third street and intended for the Sixth avenue trains. Who will have to bear the blame lor the accident was not determined. Occurred Rush Hour.The Ninth avenue train left the Fifty-ninth street station at 7 o'clock. It consisted of five cars, all of which were crowded, many passengers* standing in the aisles and on the platform. These trains take the crossing and switches at Fifty-third street without slowing up, as there is an up-grado to the station at Fiftieth street. The order to Sixth avenue trains Is that they come to a full stop at Fifty-fourth su-eec anu rvuimu shuiuiuhj umn mvj got the signal from the tower that the line is clear. They are supposed to round the dangerous curve at very slow speed. The train was running at full speed. The switch was set for the curve. The first car cleared the curve. Then there was a grinding and crunching of timbers, and the second car slewed around and was torn off its trucks. The third car with the weight of the remaining two behind it bumped with full force into the one ahead and sent it flying from the tracks into the street below. As the car fell it turned completely over, and its forward platform struck the sidewalk with a crash that could be heard for blocks. The rear platform remained suspended against the framework of the elevated road. The trucks of the third car were hurled from the track through the bottom of the second car, adding to the havoc, and the bodies of the first and third oars came together with a crash. Tho car which had been thrown from tho structure remained suspended at an angle of forty-five degrees, and the passengers in it were hurled as through a great shute to the forward end, which rested on the sidewalk. The great mass of men and women hurled forward fought for freedom and screamed madly. Under the wrecked forward end of the car lay the bodies of several men who had been caught under the wreck when it struck the sidewalk. In an incredibly short time an ira,-nense crowd had gathered. Volunteers set to work to extricate the dead and injured ljring in a huddled mass in the forward part of the car. Men and women, frightfully injured, crawled through the car windows and through the hole in the roof and fell to the street unconscious. It was a bedlam of confusion in which the rcscuers worked as best they could. The forward end of the car tore a hole in the flagging in the sidewalk in front of the drug store at the southeast corner of Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue. A part of -the car tore its way through the double show window, smashing the. glass and sending a shower of sharp missile* over persons in the street and the passengers imprisoned in the car. By a margin of only a few inches the car escaped striking the main pillar of the fourstory house cn the corner. Had the car struck this pillar there is little doubt that the whole four-story structure on the corner would have tumbled down. The third car of the train, hurled forward by the weight of those behind it, was shoved over the elevated structure and its forward end was forced through the window of the apartment of Mrs. James G. Crowe, who lives above the drug store. The car rooked for a moment and seemed as if abo\it to fall into the street. Then it settled, its forward end held by the sill of the window and the fire escape, and hung suspended like a bridge across the street. The frantic passengers clambered out of the windows and along the roof into the apartments o" Mrs. Crowe, and thence to the street. When the wrecking crew arrived, all the injured had been taken out of the car and hurried to Roosevelt, New York, Bellavue and Flower Hospitals, the greatest number going to Roof.evelt, which was only six blocks away. The dead were Jacob W. Anspach, Joseph Bach, John Corcoran, Emma Couenlioven, James Cooper, Louis Eberle, William Lee-, Theodore Morris, Cornelius McCarthy, Solomon Neugass. Ernest P. Seheibl rnul Albert Weilster. The number injured ran into scores. Russia Discontinues Tariff. M. Witte. while at Oyster Bay.'N. Y., informed President Roosevelt that the Czar had ordered the discontinuance of the retaliatory tariff duties 1CV1CU III lVU3?>Iil Uq-U11CL ivuicuvuii !??.* ducts. Commercial Treaty With Japan. Baron Kaneko, at his hotoi in New York City, announced that the United States anil Japan had completed a commercial alliance. Feminine Fancies. Mme. Duse has n strong aversion tc being Interviewed. Mrs. Mary Ramsay Wood, of Port la no. Ore., is 3 IS years old. The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia is known us "The Princess of Peace." Helen Gould has given ;*4o,000 for r Y. M. C. A. building at Leavenworth Knn. Ainthildc Serno, wife of a Naples edi tor, is one of the most popular Italiai novelist*. Mrs. Abbe Gardener Sharp is th< sole survivor of the Spirit Lake massa ere of 1857. ' BURGLAR SHOOTS VICTIM Mrs. W. C Morrell Attacked in Hei House at Greenwich, Conn.4 Halle t Enter* Her Jaw-Narte Knocked on the Hcnd.-9ufpecto<l Man Ai-roHted Later. 1 Greenwich, Conn.?A masked man, probably a burglar, broke into the house of Mrs. Antoinette Morrell, the daughter of Edmund C. Converse, early iu th? morning, knocked out a irurse maid with the butt of a pistol, and shot Mrs. Morrell in the jaW, disfiguring her for life. Within an hour John Crown, a hostler, who has been making love to the Morrell cook, was arrested,: chargedwith the crime. The local police began looking for another man who was ; supposed to be in on the job. Edmund C. Converse owus a big country estate at Stanwicb, a few miles from Greenwich. His daughter, j Mrs. Moirell, who has been separated j from her husband for a year and a half, has been living in a house on his estate. Of late Mr. Converse has been altering his mansion. ITo closed it, went to live in Mrs. Morrell's house, and rented for her the Anderson farmhouse, on the Boston road, just over the Cos Cob line from Greenwich. This is a large, old fashioned place, set back from the road and in rather a lonely situation. Mrs. Morrell lived there with Mrs. Piaisted, a companion, and four female servants. A gardener aAd a coachman lived in the barn, a little apart from the house. There were no men in the house nts uight. Isabella Bums, a family servant, was roused by the sound of some in her room working at the fastening of her window, which opens on the root' of a back piazza. Supposing something was the matter with the children she sat upright and saw a man fumb ling with tne eaten. Miss Burns screamed at the top of her voice. The man whirled, flashed in lier face a little electric searchlight, and cracked her over the* head with the butt of a revolver. She raised her hands to defend her head, when he otruclc her again, breaking one of her fingers. Then hr> turned and started ('own the hall toward the staircase. Pandemonium broke loose in the house. Mrs. Plaisted, who slept on the second floor, toward the front of the house, was the first out of her room. As bivs. Plaisted, running by instinct toward the children's room, popped her head above the stairs she. almost ran 1 into the burglar. He4fired straight at' her. It was a complete miss, but. she fell /mi lini- foAii fvr.in fhft frifrlif <\f if .Tlisf back of ber. and cutting off approach from the staircase, came Mrs. Morrell. The burglar raised bis gun and fired straight ir.to ber face. Ho was so close that the powder marked her - law. She fell, and as she fell he gave ber the butt of the pistol on the bead. The burglar hurdled over ber. ran down the staircase, through the house, and banged out of the kitchen door. The maids, who slept in the back part of the house, say they heard a voice saying: "Quick! Boat it," and the sound of buggy wheels. Mrs. Morrell was lying in the dim light of the ball, bleeding terribly. Miss Burns, the nurse, bad the forethought to get to the telephone, and call up Deputy Sheriff Ritch, who represents the police force of Greenwich ind Cos Cob, and a doctor. , Ultch, realizing that the burglar Wuuld try to get out of the region as quickly as be could, telephoned to officers along the line of (lie New York, New Haven and Hartford for three or four stations up and down, telling them to get to the railroad and arrest any early morning passenger whose, clothes were wet. It was raining heavily at the time. He sent Jack Creamer, bis deputy, to bold down the Greenwich station. n smnll inoffensive and very wet man plodde 1 through the dark anil wet to the station and sat down oh a bereh, as though' waiting for the early train. Creamer looked him over, drew his gun and put him under arrest. He was taken to the town jail, protesting loudly. The police searched him and found two suspicious facts. The first was that lie was drenched to the suspenders. lie had been traveling with, out regard to the rain. The second was that he carried on his person a letter from Kale Tierney, the Morrell cook. It was not au incriminating document, simply a love letter with a little gossip, but it established at once his connection with the Morrell home. He gave his name as John Brown, a hostler, and that was the name on the love letter. FALLS THROUGH TRESTLE. Several Passengers Injured Near Head of Tide Station in Maine. Alna, Maine.?A mixed freight and passenger train on the Wiscaset. YVaterville and Farmington Railroad went through a trestle near Head of Tide station. Several passengers were injured, but none were killed. The engine, mail car and a combination freight and baggage car, which comprised the forward part of the train, . left the rails. The passenger cars were j uot derailed. ??????? Two Die in Fire. Two persons were burned to death j Ln a lire WUICU ueauujreu. 1UU euuiinvi Lome of William Thompson at Harmony Grove, N. H. The victims of the Cre were William Thompson and Mrs. Lydia Thurston. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. Killed by Discarded Lover. Helen Godfrey, a colored' waitress was stabbed to death by Jesse Gibson her discarded lover, while she was asleep at her lodgings on Doughty ave 1 nue, Atlantic City, N. J. The murderer was captured. Wife-Beater Shot. Defending her sister, Mrs. Josephim Maze, of Edwardsville, 111., shot anu L mortally wounded Ilenry Scit, hei 1 brother-in-law. Tho two women saj Seit was abusing his w'fe. With the Toilers. t Steps are "being taken to organize the workers in lasuiuniii. The Sydney S. W.) Labor Counci. has a union iabel for tbo State of Ne\1 South Wales* New South Wales trade unionists are dissatisfied with the present Stati Arbitration act. Women are rapidly supplanting mei ~ as station agents on the railroads run ning out of Chicago. Five men were killed and one so riously injured at a mine explosion a Kpsitan fPa > shaft ENVOYS' AT OYSTER M Peace Plenipotentiaries of Both Nations Dine With President. FAREWELL AT SAGAMORE HILL i RtiBftinuH find Japanese Meet Separately at Mr. Roosevelt's Summer Home? Tlie Mikado's Representatives Enter* talned in the Afternoon and the Czar's In the Evening of the Same Day. Oyster Bay, N. Y.?President Roosevelt entertained the pence plenipoten tiaries of Russia and Japan at Sagamore Hill. Baron Koraura and Minister Takaliira, the Mikado's envoys, were the.' guests r.t'luncheou.. M. Witte and Baron Rosen, the Russian envoys, dined at Sagamore Hill in the evening. There was as little ceremony as possible aVout the visits. At the sr.me time, there was one official purpose for the envoys?that of taking leave of the President, and expressing to him In person their thanks for what he has done to bring about peace. The trip to Sngamore Hill was mode in response to invitations extended by the President on the historic day. just five weeks ago, when the four envoys were introduced on board the Mayflower. On that occasion neither the President nor the envoys could foretell the*outcome of the conference. That I his guests might be at ease, in any event. Mr. Roosevelt arranged then to | receive the Russians and the Japanese separately. The Japanese envoys came from New York City on tbe nuval yacbt Syiph. It was 12.30 o'clock when the; vessel came to anchor off the J. West Roosevelt pier, which generally is used by the President. The demeanor of the two Japanese visitors was very different from that noticed on the occasion of their welcome on board the MayfloweK Jaunty assurance seemed to have given way to a gravity of manner. The first one to greet the' envoys at the President's home was Secretary .uueu, tvnu leceiveu tuuui in me library. A moment later the President and Mrs. Roosevelt came in. The luncheon served at 1.30 o'clock was a purely Informal affair. All t-.rough the meal the President chatted gayly with Baron Komura, whose acquaintance he made when both were Harvard students, and Minister Taka.hira, with whom he has established most cordial relations since he became the Mikado's Minister at Washington, D. C. The luncheon ended with a toast to the Mikado and peace proposed by the President, and a toast to the United States and its President, proposed by Baron Komura. After about two hours spent at Sagamore Hill the two envoys again boarded the Sylph and returned to New York City. The two Pkussian envoys arrived at Oyster Bay on the train due at 6.41 o'clock. The private car of President Peters, of the Long Island roaid, had been attached to the train for their usp. On the train were Secret Service Agents Byrnes and Gallagher, from the New York office, and Detective Sergeants Toy and Downing, of the Cen? tral Office, who generally act as the President's body guards on his trips to New York. There had been no body guards?with the Japanese. The train was several minutes behind schedule. In the gathering dusk a crowd of about 200 persons, ma"ny women among them, had assembled 011 the platform. The envoys' private car was at the rear, and in the minute or bo that elapsed before the President's carriage from the other end of the platform, -Mr. Witte, towering above his colleague, Liosen. formed the centre of an interested group. There was no demonstration. The envoys were driven rapidly to Sagamore Hill, where they arrived a mne arter v ociocic. tiair an nour later dinner was served. As at luncheon, no member of the family except the President and Mrs. Roosevelt sat at the table with the guests. The President kept up an animated conversation in French with the two envoys, M. Witte not having mastered the English language. The health of tha Czar was drunk standing. As the dinner was brought to a close, Baron Rosen, in proposing the toast of the United States, rendered ackuowledgment of the great service performed by the President in the interest of peace and humanity. The envoys returned to New York on the train which left here at 10.03 o'clock at night. M. Witte and Baron Rosen, on returning from Sagamore Hill, ran into n larger crowd than before at the railroad station. As the train drew out from the station a large group of women waved handkerchiefs and the two envoys raised their hats and bowed repeatedly in response. TANNER HEAD OP G. A. R. Chosen Coinuinnder-in-Chief by National Encampment. Denver, Col.?Corporal James Tanner, of New York, was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic by the National encampment. The vote was as follows: .Tames Tanner, 4-iy; uenerai rtoderc c. Brown, of Oliio, 187; Judge Charles G. Burton, of Missouri, 42; George Ston?, 15. A demonstration followed the announcement of Corporal Tanner's election. The G. A. R. election was held in the Broadway Theatre. Minneapolis. Minn., was chosen as t!"1 mooting place in 11)00. Auto Race at Night. An auto race on the roads around Washington, N. .J., took place at night without judges or stewards. Jap'Mob Destroys Churches. A mob in Tokio, Japan, burned niu1 destroyed ten churches. Marquis lie was stoned. Russian Envoys Dined. Colonel Harvey entertained the Russian envoys at dinner in New Yorl Cily. Prominent People. Mr. Edison has out one speech to hh or edit. The Shah of Persia has now becora< .1 o.rtKMno POSSPSSL'U lil. IIYU auiuuiuuatc. A telephone lias been installed in tb? Fapal apartments In the Vatican. Tl.onias W. Lawson's daughter U engaged, ana formal announcement iJ made. * Sir Jonkin Colos lias just been re elected Speaker of the South Aitstrn linn Parliament. The King of Spain is a versatif? sportsman. His skill with the autorno bile is well known. IINOR EVFNISOF THEffEES WASHINGTON. The President gave out the report of the Keep Commission In the investigation of the Government Printing officeStatistics issued by the Bureau of Labor show that food prices have increased faster than wages have advanced. Rear-Admiral Charles J. Barclay was retired after forty-five years of service in the navy. The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Ethan Allen Hitchcock announce the engagement of their daughter, Anne E., to Lieutenant-Commander William S. Sims, U. S. N. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Since the leave-takings with SecT_. tary Taft and-his party. Manila and the Philippines In general have settled down to their-usuatfltfe of business and toil. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani recently celebrated her seventieth birthday at Honolulu. A. reception attended by natives was held at her home. A dead man held the wheel of the schooner Charles Levy Woodbury during several hours on her trip to Honolulu from Laysau Island. He "was a Japanese member of the crew and died clutching the wheel. Reports of an extensive volcanic outbreak on the island of Savaii, in the Sarnoan group, were brought to Honolulu by the steamship Sierra from \ Australia. The eruption is ten miles south of Matantua, and a new mountain has been created 1000 feet high. Prom the base of this mountain lava flows for several miles. Secretary of War Taft started on his homeward trip from the Philippines on the steamer Korea. DOMESTIC. The Erie Railroad Company gave aa ' order at their main office in New'York: City for the construction of 3500 steel under frame box cars. More than 247,000 children attended the opening day of Chioago's public schools. An expenditure of $10,000,000 for extensive Improvements of the entire system is contemplated by the Boston and Maine Railroad, it was reported in Boston, Mass. * Mrs. Halstead Smith, wife of City Clerk Smith, of Rome,. Ga... accidentally shot herself through the temple. She thought she heard some oce prowling about the premises, and securing a pistol went out to investigate, stumbled over a rug and the-pistol discharged. The North. Carolina Suprpme Court nrHor<w1 fnrmor Mflvnr - nf ' Durham, to serve tne thirty days imposed for assaulting a Justice in court. Baron Kaneko announced in New York City there will be a commercial alliance between Japan and the United States for the development of the B'ar Bast. ' ' Mayojr McClellan, of New York City, stopped the building of a half mile track in Pelham Bay Park by Commissioner Schrader. W. B, Hemstead, a nephew of Senator Blackburn, eloped to Frankfort, Ky., from Louisville, with Miss Grace Greer, an eighteen-year-old schoolgirL They were married in that city. Theodore A. Shurr, of Baltimore, Md., naturalist and taxidermist, aged sixtyfive, committed suicide by scooting himself twice in the head. At the age of more than seventy years, John Bradley was released from Charlestown (Mass.) State prison, on the understanding that he would leave the country immediately. Bishop 0'Conr.2ll, of Maine, was appointed Papal En re," to Japan by Pope Pius at Rome, Italy. At a dinner: given to W. J. Bryan by Chicago's Jefferson Club he was suggested as the candidate for 1908. When the New York City public schools opened more than 71,000 chit dren were put in part-time classes FOREIGN. The American Minister at Tokio said the acts of the mobs there were not due to anti-foreign oc antl-Chrislian feeling. Following the discovery of a store of arms on an island at the northern end of the Gulf of Bosnia, a steamer loaded with guns and cartridges was blown up off the Finnish coast to escape capture. Conditions in Baku wfre reported improved, bnt the revolt appeared to be spreading in the country districts. Timely rains in the Rajputana and other drouth stricken districts of India are relieving the fears of an acute famine. Wliile the Governor of Finland was driving with the chief of police at Tasastehus an unidentified man threw a bomb beneath the carriage. The bomb did not explode. The Soo Express ran into the Imperial Limited, on the Canadian Pacific Railroad at Hammond. Five persons were seriously injured and several others received cuts and bruises. Exhaustive experiments with the use of oil as fuel on battleships have proved so satisfactory that the British Admiralty has ordered the erection of a great depot at Plymouth, with jetties at which tank steamers can mooi\ A dispatch from Gsdzyadani, Russia, says that on August 14 thfre were 20,5GO sick and wounded officers and men in all the military hospitals. The results of the legislative elecViaM QnoSn a ccni'A thrv flnunrn. i inent a large majority in the next Cortes. Forty were killed in a small engage- | inent in Manchuria recently. Marshal Oyama and General Linevitch each named a representative to establish a line of demarcation between the two armies in Manchuria. King Victor Emmanuel has been taking measures to relieve the distress caused by the earthquake in Southern Italy. The Russian soldiers in Manchuria ;oyously celebrated the conclusion of peace. An imperial ukase, putting the government of universities in the hands of tlie professors.,was issued oy tne uzar, at St. Petersburg. Telegraphic communication has been , established betweei- Caracas and Bogota, the capital of Colombia. The Royal Mail steamer La Plata arrived at Colon, bringing 550 laborers from West Indian points under contract for work on the canal. The Shah of Persia, while in Russia, gave $2500 for the relief of the Russian wounded. A bomb thrown at the Commissioner of Poliee at Bielostok, Lussia, wounded him slightly. Grand Duke Michael Nikolavitch has been made honorary president of the Russian Council of the Kmpire, . i , '>7"c LIEUT. F. S. DAWSON. PE-RU-NA flRENGTHENS THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVtA^t%%^ > F. 8. Davidson, Ex-Lient. 0. S.! | s Army, Washington, D. C., care U. S. | > g Pension Office, writes: ; [ | "To my mind, there is no rem- !| S edy for catarrh comparable to i> Peruna. It not only strikes at <[ ythe root of the malady,' but it-yt ' < tones and ' strengthens ' the*'ays- ; [' item in a truly i&onderfut ivay. \ > < That has been Us history In \t 5 my case. I cheerfully and unhesi- <; S tatingly recommend it to those afflicted \ \ < as I nave been."?F. S. Davidson. | \ Ju%i\uv%vi\^wwvmvvuwv%vwS If you do not derive prompt and saUstaetory results from the use of Peruna: write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state l. _c i c. rli l. ?i j meat ui /our case, anu ue win w piawcu to give you hi* valuable advice gratia. Addre^w Dr. S- B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Colambiw, Ohio. 7 SOIiDERKNH?Instnntl vcidoni and mood* all houwbold artlclwi and metals .bf matrix applying1 best. Sample ti-e. AjreaU mm Th tnpa n Co, B> Cortlandt Bt.. Not York Pity. HDADCVDISCOVERT; $h* L# IX KJ r O I <?Uk rXfcf u*f nn? wmt waat. Ih( of tattlm?aUl< cad IO dn* ' bialaiat ' \ Free, nr. h E. o?kew'? gong. BoxB, auaata. a?u ? "M GWIS WHEK All. tliC FAJll. 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I Senator from Minnesota, brilliant ora- I lor, clever business man, brainy law- H remedv was r^-commended to mea Tew months ago when I was feeling miseruble; hud severe pains in the back; was restless and languid; had a dull headache and neuralgic pains in the limbs and was otherwise distressed. A few boxes of the pills effectually routed my ailment and I am glad to acknowledge the benetit 1 derived <Sign?d) CHARLES A. TOWXE. l-'ostcr-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Trice, 50 cents per box. __________