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SIEM REPUBLIC SUNK BV COLLISION HI SEA Other Vessels Called by Wireless Telegraphy. 2 PASSENGERS, 4 SAILORS LOST Two Ocean Liners Crash in Fog Off Nantucket ? Florida Disabled, tile Other Goes to Bottom? Thrilling Story of Rcscue. New York City.?With 1650 survivors of the collision between the VThite Star liner Republic and the Italian Lloyd steamship Florida on board, the White Star liner Baltic was reported by wireless telegraph at 1 a. m. off Sandy Hook. On board the vessel also are the bodies of sir persons, who lost their lives in the collision off Nantucket, R. I. There was no one on board when the Republic went down. She had been headed toward this city In tow of the revenue cutter Gresham, and when it became evident she could not keep afloat her captain and crew were taken on board the cutter. It was difficult work getting the men on the Republic into the small boats sent from the Gresham. There was danger of the lifeboats being smashed against the side of the iiner, and the Gresham's men had to maneuvre _carefully to keep out of dan ger. rrne captain or tne snip ana nis first mate, who were the last to leave the steamer, were compelled to jump Into the water, the captain sending the mate ahead. They were picked up by the men in a lifeboat. Twice, in the thick fog that hung over the sea, the passengers on board the Republic were transferred to other vessels. First .they were taken on board the Florida, which also was suffering from the collision. It became apparent, however, that the Italian vessel was in danger, and the captain decided he must send away not only the human load that had been taken from the Republic, but his own passengers as well. In the second transfer the wireless messages that had flashed the danger of the Republic for hundreds of miles played an important part. The mist that shrouded the ships made it impossible to distinguish the outlines of objects fifty yards away. The clicking of the instruments in the rooms of the wireless operators told of the position of the vessels, however, and uie sevuuu iidusiet vtaa mnus saicij. The men, women and children who had been carried through the fog from the Republic to the Florida again were taken off in the small boats of the Baltic. When all of them had been transferred safety, the Florida's passengers were taken off. There was no panic, not even disorder. though it took all night to make the second transfer. Altogether the Baltic carries 1650 passengers she took from the Florida. Those who were on the Florida when the collision occurred will receive their baggage, for that ship is coming into port under her own steam. But the belongings of the men and women on the Republic probably are lost, for it is not regarded as probable that the vessel will be raised. In the exciting incidents that followed the collision, seven ocean liners took an active part. They were the Baltic, New York, Furnessia, La Lorraine, Lucania, Republic and Florida. Wireless messages flashed between the ships, keeping officers and passengers in a high .state of excitement. While the telegraph instruments clicked their messages, four of the ocean liners vainly were searching for the injured steamer. La Lorraine was so close to the Republic .that the disabled vessel's bell was heard, yet her outline could not be seen. When La Lorraine arrived in port her captain said it was entirely possible that he passed within a hundred yards of the sinking vessel. The victims of the accident were Mrs. F. Lynch, of Boston; W. J. Mooner; of Langdon, N. D., and four seamen. It Is believed they were crushed to death when the prow of the Florida cut far into the Republic's side. Mrs. Lynch's husband and M. J. Murphy, also passengers on the Republic, were injured. Officials of the White Star line sent word to t*ie relatives of those who had been killed or injured, and replies were received that members of the famines would start for this city. Mooney and his wife and the Lynches were on a pleasure trip to the Mediterranean, and they occupied staterooms on the top deck, on the port side aft. In the absence of definite information, the White Star officials cannot figure how the Mooneys and Mrs. Lynch met death, as the "Republic was struck amidships. A thrilling story of the search for the endangered vessel was told by Captain Edward Tournier, of La Lorraine. The .heavy fog had caused him to remain on the bridge throughout the night. Early on Saturday the operator received the ominous signal, "CQD," which means "Come quick! Danger!" All his sleepiness fled and he waited anxiously for the more definite information he knew would follow. "Republic wrecked: wants assistance," the instrument clicked, and the operator carried the message to the captain. " A clr fViam Ti'^cra fTioxr oro foil them I'm coming," Captain Tournier replied. "Latitude 40.17, longitude 70," the message came from the Republic. A reply was sent saying La LorYOUNG GIRL MURDERED IN SHED j r Found by Her Stepfather Near Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio. ? May Forshoer, fifteen years old, was assaulted and killed in the eastern borders of this city at a late hour at night. The girl was found in the barn on j the Grafton Kennedy estate, where her sister, Mrs. Gephart, is employed. She had been sent to the savings bank late in the afternoon with $9 and a passbook, and her long absence started a search for her. . The World of Sport. The receipts from baseball at La- j fayette College last season were j $2844.29. Clark Griffith is credited with a de- j sire to secure Jake Stahl to play first j base for the Cincinnati Reds. The Massachusetts Institute of; Technology is one of the leading in- , stitutions of the country ia minor sports. Harvard's general improvement in sports is chargeable greatly to the tvork of William F. Gracelon, graduate manager of athletics at the University. ralne was hastening to the aid of the i injured vessel. At twenty knots an hour, dangerous speed in the fog. the ' French liner made for the place i where the Republic said she was. It | was noon when La Lorraine drew j near the sinking vessel. Messages j were flashed between them, and Captain Tournier could hear the bell of ! the Republic. He steamed slowly in , the mist searching for her, but was unable to find her. ! All that time La Lorraine was in wireless touch with the Baltic, which j also had received the message of disj trees and had hastened to the rescue, j i Other liners, in the telegraph rooms of which the ominous "CQD" had ticked, also groped about in the fog, but were unable to make out the Republic. The next night the Baltic by wireless informed Captain Tournier that the passengers of the Republic had been transferred to the Florida. At the same time tne request came tnat La Lorraine follow the Florida into New York. The last message La Lorraine sent to the Republic ran: "Tell your captain we can hear his bell and are steering straight toward you. Also request him to make as much noise as possible to direct our steering, because the fog is so thick." A reply came from the Baltic, which told of the transfer of the passengers to the Florida. In telling of his search for the Republic. Captain Tournier said: "I had been on the bridge nearly all night because of the heavy fog. At 7 in the morning, or a little beI fore, the first wireless message telling of the Republic's distress was handed to me. 'Tell them I am coming,' I said to the operator. Then I took my position as well as the fog would let me. I found that I was 120 miles from where the Republic had been rammed, and at once started full speed for the spot. "Toward noon we reached the vicinity of the wreck, as known to us by the bearings, latitude 40.17, longitude 70 west, given by the operator at Siasconsett, but the fog was so dense that nothing could be seen. We steamed in all directions?north, south, east and west. Meanwhile we had come close to the Baltic, which we never actually saw, so thick was the fog. All this time I was constantly exchanging messages with her and I could hear not only her bell, but also another bell, but also another bell which I took to be the Republic's. I stayed in the vicinity for six hours, and then .the Baltic sent me word that all the passengers were safe aboard the Florida, bound for New York, and asked me to follow her, as she was in need of a convoy. "This I tried to do as well as I could, having only the Florida's whistle blasts to guide me. At about 6.30 I heard four blasts, the Florida's Signal. J. was going ai siuw syeeu and I stee'red In the direction from which the whistle came. I could not, however, locate the Florida in the fog, and I never heard from her again. I then stood in for New York. "The Florida may have been anywhere from one to eleven miles away when I heard her whistle. I had nc means of knowing, as she carried nc wireless outfit." The anxiety that accompanied ths first transfer after the collision was not relieved .when .the passengers of the Republic found themselves on board the Florida. That vessel alsc was in bad shape, and it was feared she would sink. Her captain, realizing he was alnTost helpless, signalled to the Baltic to take every one on board. Fortunately the sea was smooth, or the transfer would have been extremely difficult. The Baltic was unable to see the outline of the crippled Florida in the darkness and fog, and only when the small boats got within a few yards of the Italian liner did the rowers see her. The passengers were lined against the rail, and as fast as the small boats were able to receive them, the men, women and children were lifted Into them and transferred to the Baltic. All night the work of transfer went on. It was done so methodically that the alarm of the passengers was allayed. Officers and sailors went about their work in business-like fashion. After .the last of the passengers was taken from the Florida the Baltic started on her way to this city. KILLED BY LONDON BANDITS. Robbers Loot Pay Auto and Flee, Firing Rapidly. London, England.?A policeman and a boy ten years old were killed and twenty-one persons were injured in a chase after two Russian highway robbers, who, after snatching a money bag from a man who was taking it to a Walthamstow factory, tried to make their escape by using automatic revolvers and forcing the drivers of a surface car and a milk wagon to speed them through the city. While the chase was- going on the bandits fired their revolvers. Most of those shot were bystanders who took no part in the chase. After being surrounded in a marsh by the police and an army of duck hunter3, one of the robbers killed himself with a shot and the other, after making for a cottage, tried to commit suicide. STUDENT KILLED BY LIVE WIRE. Cornell Festivities of Junior Week Marred l>y Jersey Boy's Death. Ithaca, N. Y.?A cloud was cast over Cornell University by the accidental killing by electricity of Parkman LeaVitt, of East Orange, N. J. Walking with a companion, Walter S. Otto, of Milwaukee, he struck the guy wire ana aiea irora xne shock. Leavitt was a member of the class of 1912 in mechanical engineering. During junior week last year a student was burned in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house fire. Professor Lowell Confirmed. The board of overseers of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., confirmed the nomination of Professor Abbott Lawrence Lowell as president of Harvard University, to succeed Charles W. Eliot. Editors and Hammerstein Fight. Employes of the New York Press and Oscar Hammerstein, of the Manhattain Opera House, New York City, and his sons engaged in two fistic encounters. Among the Workers. Galveston (Texas) teamsters recently formed a union. It is proposed by the Northumberland (England) miners to abolish piecework in mines. Samuel Gompers. in a letter to the Central Federated Union, declared his confidence in the vindication of his conduct. Women are employed as ordinary day laborers in the construction of buildings, mixing the mortar, sifting and carrying bricks, in Prague and elsewhere in Bohemia SAVED FROM TIE SEA IIP GREAT PER Survivors of Steamship Repub Welcomed in New York. MANY STORIES OF HEROIS Collision Due to Error of Sleepy O cer of the Florida, Who Steer to Starboard When Order "Hard to Port." New York City. ? Mingled wi tales of heroism, In which the hi courage of women shone, stories cowardice of men were told when t White Star steamship Baltic broug into this port and put safely asho I tho onruimrc nf fho acn f>nll ion of the steamships Republic ai Florida off Nantucket, R. I. Putti: together the thousand bits of narr tive, there was built up a great drau of sea, full of shifting scenes, wi self-sacrifice side by side with p< troonery. On the black side of the pictu were two of the moBt prominent mi on the Republic, who tried to for their way to lifeboats ahead of woi en and children and had to be beati back. On the other hand, there ro a dozen figures that typified humi courage and endurance in their fine aspects: such figures, for instance, thoBe of Binns, the doomed ship wireless telegraph operator, and Tb tersall, the operator on the Balti who, for fifty-two hours of nerv racking anxiety, stuck to his post ai kept sending words of hope in a through miles of fog to cheer the ii periled hundreds. High up in the list of those who heroism stands out clear in the disa ter also is Captain Sealby, who stu< to the injured Republic until si sank under him. He seemed dete mined to go down with her, for 1 clung to the masthead on which 1 bad climbed until the water touch< his feet. Then he released his ho and he was picked up by a lifeboat i the revenue cutter Gresham. Captain Voltolin, who brought tl crippled Florida into port, also r ceived the praise of the survivor "The man at the wheel of the Flo Ida was half asleep!" was the star ling explanation that came fro many seamen of the Republic and tl Florida. They repeated the accus tion after the Baltic docked. Th< asserted a quartermaster of the Flo ida was at the wheel, while the ca tain was on the bridge navigating tl vessel. The captain saw the outlii of the Republic and ordered the qua termaster to put his wheel to sta board. Instead, he put the whe to port and the Florida crashed in1 the Republic. The quartermaster, it was said, wi dozing at the time. The angry ca] tain picked up an iron spike ar struck him on the head just as tt two vessels came together. The qua termaster fell to the floor unco: scious. It is certain his head ws swathed in bandages as he walke down the gangplank of the Balti but hp insisted he was asleen in h bunk at the time of the accident. When the Baltic reached her pi< at West Eleventh street cheers can from the throats of 5000 men an women who were waiting for the a rival of the vessel. Within flftee minutes after the gangplank was li down the pier was a human whir pool, in which the half hysterical pa sengers were swinging around, hui ging and kissing friends and reli tives. Out of the stirring recital thei stood the figure mentioned befor that of the wireless telegraph open tor on the Republic. He is J. I Binns, twenty-five years old, an Eni lishman who has been in the emplc of the Marconi company for five yean He was on the Blucher at Kingstc when the earthquake that destroyi part o' Jamaica occurred and he wj in Genoa at the time of the upheavj in Italy, In both of these eartl quakes he Sashed messages of assis ance. While the Republic drifted helj Iessly off Nantucket, Binns remain* in the little telegraph room clickic the "C Q D" that informed all vesse and wireless .stations within seven hundred miles of the danger of tt boat. When the passengers and mo: of the crew of the Republic were b ing transferred to the Florida, Bini stuck to his post. He left the ship i the last lifeboat headed for the Flo ida. When Binns was transferred to tt Baltic he walked into the telegrap operator's room and said calmly 1 the man at the instrument: "Hell Tattersall. I'm Binns." "Glad to see you," replied Ta tersall. "We've had a lot to say 1 each other, but we haven't met unt now." How coolly the men and women c the sinking Republic remained in tt face of danger was illustrated \ their treatment of a man who mac his way into the first lifeboat thi started for the Florida. When th man was forced out of the boat ar compelled to climb up the ladder the deck of the vessel almost evei one on board jeered him. Alice Morse Earle, of Brooklyn, writer, fell into the sea as she wi being transferred from the Florida a small boat. She lost the bag i jewels she had clutched, but her li was saved. Her icy bath made h< ? *11 DolUrt eurcronn fn 1 3U 111 II1C iJUiklO OUiCjVVM kw M tend her. TO PAY $2,000,000 IN SILVER Waters-Pierce Company Fine to Gii Work to Texas Clerks. Dallas, Te.cas.?According to tl Waters-Pierce Company's Texas re resentatives and attorneys, the jud ment obtained by the State throus the Federal Supreme Court will 1 paid in silver dollars and delivered , the State Treasury. The award and interest call fi nearly $2,000,000, and the countii ?.:n i.flfinirQ mnr?h lnhnr Si* f?XL1 Win 1C4U1IV iuuwm . clerks will be employed to count tl money. MAX KILLED, WIFE L3FT DYINi Small Restaurant in Dutchess Coun Looted by the Murderer. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ? With h skull crushed by a blow with a ra road draw-bar, John Kliff, fifty-3ev< years old, w*s found behind the cou ter of hie little restaurant in Hop well Junotio?, Dutchess County. Mrs. Kiifl, thirty-nine years old, wi of the murdered man, was found wi her skull crushed, evidently with tl same weapon. Botn . were unco scious, and two hours later the m: died. The woman was taken to Va sar Brothers' Hospital. to ^ aa It ' "'"z~ ?Week's cleverest cartoon, by C E CAPTAIN TLLL5 n g? Ship Sank Under Him and He JJ Williams, the Second Officei as Fished From the Water Fij it- For the Captain?Praise ic. e- New York City.?Captain William id I. Sealby, of the wrecked White Star ,ir liner Republic, told the story of the n- disaster. One thing he did not tell was why he had elected to stay with se his ship until it sank. Being an offis cer of ;the Royal Naval Reserve and a commander for the White Star, ie Captain Sealby presupposed that this r- act needed no explanation. , ie "Before 6 o'clock on Sunday night 10 we knew that the Republic would >d never live to reach Martha's VineId yard," was the way Captain Sealby of began his tale. "By 7 o'clock she was way down in the stern, and walie lowing with long, painful rolls, that e- meant there was very little more life lpff in hpr Williams fR. J. Will r- iams, the second officer) and I stood t- on the bridge and kept our eyes m ahead on the lights of the Gresham le and Seneca, which were towing. The a- ship was so low in the stern that the ?y waves were breaking over her at that r- point and the water was swashing p- clear up to the ladder of the saloon le deck aft. ie "X think it must have been just r- about 8 o'clock when we both saw r- that she was going to drop under us el within a very few minutes. First to thing we did was to prepare a Holmes distress light, which burns when it is touches water. This we left on the p- bridge with'us so that when we went id down the men dn the revenue cutters ie could be directed to the spot where r- the Republic went down. While we a- were working over the light Willis iams, who has a bit of sporting blood id in him. joked about our situation, c, " 'What do you make of it, Willis iams?' I had asked him. " 'I don't think it will be a long ?r race to the bottom,' he laughe-1. ie 'When you are ready let her go and id we 11 mane a sprint ui it. r- "Before we had finished with the in Holmes light we began to bear a roarst ing and cracking of the deck seams 1- back of us. It was the air driving s- out ahead of the advancing water. I- That is the last call of a sinking ship, a- I directed Williams to burn two blue lights, the signal to the revenue cut'e ters that we were going down and for e, them to cast off. Then I let loose a- five shots with my revolver. "We were going down steadily I- then and pretty test. I jelled at >y Williams to make for the fore rigs' ging. We both dropped down the n iafoder to the saloon deck, each carryid ing a blue light in one hand. By the *8 time our feet touched the saloon deck al it was at an angle of nearly thirty 3- degrees, wet and slippery. We could t- not keep our feet, so we grabbed the rail and crawled. The water was P- rushing up on us from behind and !d the explosions and rending of the timlS bers from 'midships told us that alls ready the stern wa3 under water. *1 "We had reached the forecastle ie head when Williams slipped to the st deck and grabbed a post of the rail e* with his elbow. That was the last I 18 saw of him until after it was over. 1 'n managed to get forward to the forer* mast and'to climb the rigging as far as the forward running light, aboutie 100 feet up. Below me about half 111 of the ship was visible and she was ? tipped up like a rocking chair about ?? to go over backward. "My blue light would not burn because it had become wet, I fired one :o more shot from my revolver, the last. Then everything dropped and I w?s in the water with the foremast sli *lD ping down beside me like an elevator ie plunger. >y "There was a boiling, yeasty mass 'e of water about me and a great roaring. I went under, but came up (a t __ a il _ _ _ nnttinfo,1 ?r. " again, lor tut; an uau 4pr my greatcoat and buoyed mo iip. '? I guess I went around spinning for a "y timei then I hit a spar. From the spar I managed to get to a hatch cover. a Things were flying around in the wat18 er and I came near being badly ^ banged up before I managed to pull ? my body up on the hatch cover and *e lie there all spread out with nothing Jr but my head and shoulders above the '* waves. "It was very cold. I saw the No Refuge On Earth Now For re Embezzlers and Defaulters. Washington, D. C.?The last haven le of refuge on earth for American bank p- wreckers, embezzlers, defaulters and g- other criminals of that class was rejh moved when the Senate ratified an )e extradition treaty with Honduras, at It is believed that under this treaty Honduras may be persuaded to sural rendor many old offenders who have ig taken up residence there, although ra that country has found them desira36 ble because they always had ready cash. 1 Hnlla of ConprpM. I ty Senator Tillman insinuated that some Federal Judges were on the payrolls of corporations. The House Naval Committee was " defeated in its efforts to replace ma' rines on board warships. e. The urgent deficiency bill was passed and the postal savings bank ft bill was considered in the Senate. tl? The President appointed a national lib council of arts, consisting of eminent n- architects, painters and sculptors, in under whose direction national is- works will be planned and erected in l.he future. ONVOY. || J. R. Macauley, in tbe New York World. OF THL WRLCK i Was Rescued From the Sea? ; r, With Him to the End? rst, He Directed the Search For All the Ship's Men. searchlights on the Gresham and Seneca trying to pick me up, but they went around and around and mis?ed me. I managed to load my revolver , again and it went off, although: It had j had a ducking. Soon after that a boat manned by four of the Republic's crew and four sailors from the Gresham commanded by Gunner's j Mate Johnson slid up near me. I waved a towel I had picked up out of the water. They saw me and came and picked me up. I was weak and cold?quite finished. Williams was in the boat when it picked me np, I was glad to see. He was quite done up, too. We were quite back on our feet again after the men on the Gresham had ministered to us. T cannot speak too highly of the work the revenue cutters that were trying to tow us: it was magnificent." ! Caotain Sealby had a word to say ' V*ip. nfflnopfl onri /*rpw auurn, uio wiin.oio v .. . "I have nothing but praise for the 1 } actions of the officers and crew of the Republic both at the time of the col- 1 lision and subsequently duriug the very trying task of getting the passengers transferred to the Florida. J The success of this roaneuvre 1 at- 1 tribute to the remarkable discipline ' and cohesion between officers and crew. The passengers themselves 1 aided greatly by their conduct. There 1 was absolutely no panic among them | and the women behaved splendidly.1' : The Republic's commander alsc Daid a generous compliment to Binns, J the wireless operator, who had stuck j to his key although part of the wireless cabin on the boat deck had beeD ' carried away by the Florida's prow. 1 Second Officer Williams told of his : experiences after ./he had become sep- ; arated from his superior on the slant- : ing deck of the Republic. He said: "When I fell down on the saloon deck on the port side I hung onto the ' rail with my elbow. In three minutes it was all over. I felt her lift straight up in the air and saw the prow right ! over my head; then she just slid down. I felt the stern strike bottom. for there was a jar and then I , felt something give. I believe she broke in the middle where she had been rammed by the Florida. "I was pitched off the deck before the last of her dropped out of sight. I just caught a glimpse of the keel dropping past me as I hit the water. I tread water for a second to get my balance, then I struck out for about a dozen strokes before the boil of the water got me. "A grating hatch hit me and I held on. I couldn't climb onto it because ! the seas rolled me off every time I scrambled up. I was getting tired of trying when another grating came along. I grabbed it with one hand and held on between them. I guess I was in the water almost half an hour when the boat from the Gresham came along and pulled me out. I directed the men where to look for the captain and we found him in another five minutes." Williams saved a brier pipe and a pocketDiece out of the wreck and that . was all. Jack Binns, the wireless operator who flashed the news of the Republic's ramming to Siasconset wireless | station and who subsequently kept at ] his place communicating with the ( ships hastening in relief, seemed to | believe that the loss of 500 cigarettes he had with him when the Republic < left New York on Friday was one of | the most serious features of the | wreck. I "Part of the wireless cabin was | tnrn nwnv In thf? prflah " nairt Ritms. I I "but the instruments were not hurt. ] As soon as the captain heard what < the damage was he sent me orders to < send out the distress signal. T found < that the instrument was dead. The < electric motors had gone bad with i the flooding of the engine room. I , knew where the accumulators?stor- | age batteries you call them?that are canried for emergencies just such as that one were kept, and I groped for them in the dark. When I got them coupled up I tried the key and found that the spark was right." j Virginia Railroads Lose Two-Cent Case Again. Richmond, Va.?The right of ap- '< peal to the State Supreme Court of t Appeals in the two-cent rate case was ; refused to the railroads. The roads ( now have two courses open to them. ] They can either go into the United x States Circuit Court of Appeals and have the case heard at length, or they can go to the Corporation Commission and make application for a revision . of the rates on the ground that the roads are losing money. Meantime , the two-cent rate prevails. Feminine Notes. ? j- I i ne iviooay Dime msuiuic, vm.cago. plans to erect a building en- j tirely for women students. ( Girls attending the Lakeview high C school in Chicago receive lessons in c the art of jumpingfrom a moving car. Mrs. Eleanor Relyea, a clerk in the ugnal office of the War Department. ' will be the next social secretary of g the Wnite House. t Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the British member of Parliament, has made a reputation for eloquence in the interest of the suffrage propa- < ganda. 1 <LWZII IN JAPANESE BILLSTi Sovernor Urges California Legislature to Omit Laws. Suggests That Provision De Made For Census to Determine Whether Japanese Are Increasing in the State. Sacramento, Cal. ? Governor Gilett sent to the Legislature a special p nessage urging that an appropriation o je made for taking a census of the 43 Japanese in the State, in which he ;ave warning against any anti-Jap- su inese legislation. ~ The Governor received a telegram :rom President Roosevelt, stating % :hat a letter is on the way. The Gov- 4 irnor said he did not know the nat- "j ure of the communication, but it ? probably deals with the Japanese juestion, and will throw more light ty lpon the negotiations between Japan ?j md the United States. After stating that the bills intro luced by Assemblymen Drew and fj Johnson and by Senator Sanford are | musing a serious agitation both here gz md in Japan, and have been the sub- I lect of an address to the National authorities by the Japanese Govern- sh nent, the Governor reviewed the ne- fr ;otiations between the two powers to C< ?top immigration. The message was 21 In part as follows: M "There is certain legislation now pending before you which I believe to In be of grave concern, not only to our th State but to the Nation as well, and V fvhich should be most thoughtfully ei x>nsidered before it is acted upon. "Certain bills have been intro- fan luced, some of which have been fav- nc jrably reported by your committee, tb Indirectly intended to affect the Jap- V' anese people?at least such is the he Impression abroad. These bills have attracted the notice of the whole Na- to '.ion and have caused Japan to call SI [he attention of our Government to cc :hem. They have produced an agita- hi tion not only In our own country, but ti throughout Japan, and the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs has stated ? :o the authorities at Washington that if the bills should be passed the Govjrnment of Japan would consider it rery embarrassing." / th The Governor then reviews wnat la: iia,s been done by the Governments of th the United States and Japan, result- sa ing in a compact for the restriction of qc immigration, the -provisions of which, . . tie says, Japan is now carrying out. Figures are given showing a decrease ?e in the immigration of Japanese, and the Governor says he knows of noth- Vi< ing to sustain the assertion that the tic Japanese population of California is It increasing. The massage continues: m "To-day the relations between the j0( United States and Japan are very friendly. Both are great powers among the nations of the world. Both stand in a position, geographically, *a: to dominate and control the com to: merce of the Pacific. Acting togeth3r, they can dictate the policies Which sther nations must pursue in the Far by East, and can preserve the trade du there. As friendly allies many bene- J fits will inure to both nations and a great commerce can be carried on be- jh< tween them to the advantage of our a* people, but as enemies the commerce fee of both can be driven from the ocean. De Every reason, therefore, exists why there should continue between Japan and our Government the most friendly relations, and it is the expressed ,nf wish of each nation that ihis shall bo } 30." caf FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN. nol cir ? Delegates at V/asbington, D. C., ^ Agree on Cottage Plan. Washington, D. C.?The opinion was voiced at the session of the conference on dependent children that Di :hild-caring institutions should bo ne :onducted on the cottage plan. The by superiority of this over other plans jic was pointed out by Dr R. R. Reeder, Superintendent of the Orphan Asy- __ lum Society, of New York City; Ga- f* len A. Merrill, Superintendent of the Br Minnesota State Public Schools; th< A.dolph Lewissohn, President of the thi Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, tu: New York City, and others. mj A report submitted to President Roosevelt at a subscription dinner 5iven by the conference at the New Willard, requested the President to ta 3end a message to Congress urging aS the establishment of a Federal chil- a Jren's bureau, one of whose objects ?1 shall be to disseminate accurate in- Br formation in regard to child-caring i work and the needs of the children. 0j EMPEROR MENELIK IS DEAD. J? fa; Empress Taitou Said to Have Seized Reins of Power. to Paris, France.?It is announced from an official source that the Era- j peror Menelik of Abyssinia is dead, ind that the Empress Taitou has been 'j* for some days directing public affairs. It is feared that the death of the sti sovereign may produce serious trou- po ale, chiefly at Addis Abeba, the cap- an ital of Abyssinia, and that Europeans w] :here may be in danger. King Menelik of Abyssinia bore in tiis own realms the title of Negus Negusti, or King of Kings. He was p* supposed to be a descendant of the 2ueen of Sheba, who visited King Solomon, and he was a monarch of jnergy and, all things :onsidered, enlightened views. He was born on August 17, 1844, and acceded to the .1 1 Q?? m'.IUUC lu xouvr. V.U w; Killed by Trolley. WJ After ruDnlng down Charles Skin- wl ier and cutting off both his legs, the b :rew of a trolley car speeded away, eaving him to die in New York City. an pu Bristow and Norlands Elected. At Topeka, Kan., the House and Sanate in separate session elected mi Joseph L. Bristow United States Senitor to succeed Chester I. Long. At er Jarson, Nev., United States Senator j jg Francis G. Newlands, Democrat, was e-elected by the Legislature. ke Augustus Purdy Drops Dead. J)? At Los Angeles, Cal., Augustus 'urdy, a retired millionaire wool man m< >f New York City, dropped dead in a ca lotel. He was a member of the firm >1" 0. W. Purdy & Co | rei I pe Leaves >82,000,000 Estate. I ou Mrs. Samuel Mather, sister of Mrs. | wi Fohn Hay. who died at Cleveland, tin )hio, left an estate valued at ?2.000.-1 i00. Of this 5250,000 is set as'IJ: for iharitable purposes. ' _______ ??_ * To Raise the Maine. In his auuual report Governor .Ma w, ;oon. of Cuba, urges the Government o raise the sunken battleship Maine. yo wc Won't Surrender Accused Man. W1 Secretary Root, at Washington. D, ls 3., refused to surrender Christian vil iudowicz to Russia. Re s HER LETTER PUBUSHED or Benefit of Women who uffer from Female Ills Minneapolis, Minn.?"I was a great fferer from female troubles which " | caused a weakness an<* broken down . flHPIp&i condition of the system. 1 read so much of what Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound ilWBSP had done for other m p. suffering women I icii sure it wuuiu help me. and I must 7 stronger, and within three months was a perfectly well woman. i "I want this letter made public to iow the benefit women may derive om Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable impound"?Mrs. John G. Moldan, 15 Second St, North, Minneapolis, inn. Thousands of unsolicited and genu* e testimonials like the above prove e efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's egetable Compound, which is made :clusivelf from roots and herbs. Women who suffer from those diseasing ills peculiar to their sex should >t lose sight of these facts or doubt e ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's egetable Compound to restore their salth. . If you want special advice write > Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass, tewill treat your letter as strictly nfldential. For 20 years she M been helping .sick women in lis way, free of charge. Won't esitate? write at once. ..... Four Months' Annual Hurricane. In the ancient land of Seistan, on e borders of Persia and Afghanis* n, an extraordinary wind blows in e summer. It is called the "Bad-id-o-bist-roz," or wind of 120 days. ilonel Sir Henry McMahon, a Brit- *. 1 explorer, says of this wind: "It ts in at the end of May or the mlds of June and blows with appalling >lence and with little or no eessa>n till about the end of September, always blows from one direction, a tie west of north, and reaches a verity of over seventy miles an hour." ^ New York City hotels are enter[ning eighteen per cent, more cusmers than they were one year ago. n a ueaiucaa viuuiui uc viucu local applications as theycannot reach tha leased portion of the ear. There is only one lv to care deafness, and that is by constinonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an lamed condition of the mucous lining of 1 ) Eustachian Tube. When this tubeis in- med you have a rumbling sound orimper- m :t hearing, and when it is entirely closed 1 afnessis the result, and unless theinikun- < ition can be taken out and this tube re- i red to its normal condition, hearing will destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten j caused bycatarrh, which is nothingbntan lamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any le of Deafness (caused bycatarrh) that centre curedby Hall's (Jatarrh Cure. Send/or cularefree. F.J.Chenky & Co.,Toledo,0. told by Druggists, 75c. ?ake Hall's Family Pills for constipation. i Destruction Caused by Rats. Consul Maxwell Blake sends from mfermline an extract from a Scotch wspaper on the destruction caused rats, as brought out by a deputa>n from the Incorporated Society r the Destruction of Vermin. - J - J OU To tv?oo PrloKfnn ?aueu uy OH uauxco Vi avuvvm owne and, the Duke of Bedford, ey waited upon Lord Carrington at e offices of the Board of Agriculre to urge him to appoint a comssion to inquire into the subject of e destruction caused to crops by * ts. The extract reads: "The depution pointed out the enormous dame done by rats, whiqh amounts, on most moderate computation, to 5,000,000 per annum in Great itain. This is arrived at by allowg only, one rat, to a cultivated acre ground. Assuming that each rat ' es damage to the extent of one rthing a day, this works out on the rty million acres of land at the ;ure mentioned. Sir James Cricha Browne incidentally stated that o million people died of plague in dia, and said it had bee i proved at the rat was the chief cause of e spread of infection. It was also ited that the expenditure on rat m isons in the United Kingdom lounts to ?250,000 per annum, lich is considered many times more k an would be required properly to terminate the vermin if tve camign were systematically conduct ?Daily Consular Reports. JOY WORK And the Other Klpd. Did you ever stand on a prominent rner at an early morning hour and itch the throngs of people on their t ly to work? Noting the number 30 were forcing themselves alonj, cause It meant their dally bread, d the others cheerfully and eagerlj rsuing their way because of love of elr work. It Is a fact that one's food ha.? uch to do with it. As an example: If an engine has poor oil. or a boil- * is fired with poor coal, a bad result certain, isn't it? * Treating your stomach right Is the ystone that sustains the arch of alth's temple, and you will find trape-Nuts" as a dally food is the jst nourishing and beneficial you , n use. We have thousands of testimonials, il genuine little heart throbs, from ople who simply tried Grape-Nuts t of curiosity?as a last resort? th the result that prompted the tesnonial. If you have never tried Grape-Nuts 3 worth while to give it a fair, imrtial trial. Remember there are llions eating Grape-Nuts every day they know, and we know, if you 11 use Grape-Nuts every morning ur work is more likely to be joyirk, because you can keep well, and * th the brain well nourished work a joy. Read the "Road to Wellle" in every package?"There's * ason."