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THE ?AMD EN 0HR0NI6LB. -- VOUJMK XVI. OAMDKN, S.C.. FRIDAY, ,M!!.V '.'I, liMW. * > NO. 2K. PEACE IS NOT YET ASSURED M. Witte Will Act in Strict Accordance With Instructions Prom the Home Government DOESN'T FAVOR GREAT CONCESSION The Senior Russian Peace Plenipoten tiary Declares That Russia Is Not Willing to Make Peace at Any Price, and That the Ultimate Decision Re mains with the Emperor ? Ths Mis sion of the Plenipotentiaries Is To Ascertain Whether It Is Possible To Conclude a Treaty of Peace ? Russia Is Not Crushed, and the Russian People Would Be Willing To Con tinue the War Indefinitely If Nec essary, St. Petersburg, By Cable.? M. Witte, the senior Russian peace plenipoten tiary, received the correspondent of the Associated Press at his villa on Yela gin Island. M. Witte spoko in French. After greetings, which were cordial, the conversation gravitated quickly to the high mission with which the Russian statesman is charged, and tho disposi tion of tho foreign press to interpret his appointment as an indication that Russia has decided to make peace at any price. "No, no," said he, straightening? up in his chair and speaking slowly and ^distinctly, as if weighing the value of each word. "In the first place, I have been designated by tho Enjperor as his ambassador extraordinary for pour par lers with the Japanese plenipotentia ries to ascertain whether it is pos sible to conclude a treaty of peace. My personal views are of secondary importance, bu-t my ideas are in entire i accord with those of my friend, Count Lamsdorff. In serving my Emperor I have received precise Instructions from his majesty and shall follow them. "The ultimate decision remains in tho hands of the\ Emperor, and it is for him to decide the destinies of Rus sia. The Emperor is a friend of peace and desires peace, but I very much fear that the Jauanese terms will be such that we will be unable to reach an accord. "Secondly, the world should disabuse Its mind of the idea that Russia wants peace at any price. There are two parties in Russia. One favors the con tinuation' of the war? a outrance ? this Is a large and Influential party. The other, to whom 1 belong, favors peace. I avow it frankly, because telling the truth has always been my rule in poli tics. I was for peace before hostilities broke out. When the war began, the situation changed. Even thoughi there are these two parties as to the advis ability of ending the war in the pres ent circumstances, both would be unit ed if these Japanese demands wounded the amour prtJpre of .the Russian peo ple or jeapordized our future as a na- , tlon. I am sure that if I report that | the conditions of Japan cannot be ac cepted. Russia will accept the verdict and the Russian people will be ready to continue the war for years if neces sary "Thirdly, Russia is not crushed, as the foreign press liafl led the world to befteve. The interior situation is very ' serious, i do not deny, but In Europe aad America the true significance of what is happening is not understood. Correspondents come here and talk with a few hundred people in St. Pe tersburg and Moscow, misinterpret what is happening and fill the worlcf -with fatafc impressions as to Russia's future. Russia is not on the verge of dissolution as a great power and is not obliged to accept any conditions offer ed in spite of the military reverses she has sustained. "We are passing through an Internal crisis, which has been marked by many grave events, and which may have others still in store, but the crisis will pass, and in a few years Russia will I again take her place as a preponderant power In the European concert." Body To Be Exhumed. New Y?rk. Special ? The body of Mrs. Mary Gorman Carlton, the second wife of Frederick K. Carlton, of Brooklyn, to die lockjaw, is to be exhumed r.nd subjected to minute examination for traces of poison. An order :o this effect was signed by Supreme Court Justice Sewell, in Brooklyn, up on request of District Attorney Clark, of King's county. Carlton is now in Rrjmond street jail, bold on a tcchni cai charge of grand larceny. Charges Against a Woman. Washington, Special,? Secretary Wil son, of the Department of Agriculture, has begun an investigation of a report that a certain female employe* of his Department has sold questions to be Jpusked in civil service examinations prior to the holding of such exantfna tiona. A complaint has been made n*fat this woman for several years has beoii aiding applicants for positions ia?.tms manner, and that in a numJ^pj^ofraaes the applicants MTTiranr liberally for the service. jpbe examinations alleged -? *i9 fifty a bylfn thus manipulated .were for positions requiring technical Icnowl & edge and the questions were prepared In. the Department. Private Soldier Killed. ~ " Baltimore, Md., Special.? Private Patrick Cummings, of Company EL United atatea Engineer Corps, waa k jnardcrod b* Hayes Donaldson, of thim city, at a email landing place oa Cor tS^Criek. altfut 10 lallea from thte ?IV, pwUr- ^ ^Sorderar escaped. had beenleft oathe wharf , atartad tke disturbance by His Instructions Arc Full. St. Petersburg, By Cable. ? M. Wltte spent an hour with Mr. Meyer, the American ambassador, at tho Kieon michel Palace, discussing the forth coming peace conference, o Before, leaving for Paris next Wednesday, M. Wltte will have still another audience with- the Emperor. In the meantime he must pay a round of official^ visits to all ? tho Imperial ministers. M. Wltte is''oxpected to bo the bearer of a pesonal message from tho Emperor to President Roosevelt. Tho press Is authorized by Mr. Hart wig, director of the first department of the Foreign Office, to deny in the i most categorical fashion, the report of the alleged contents of the instruc- { lions to M. Wltte, published in Paris by The Echo de Paris and elsewhere abroad. "Reports pretending to reveal the character of the instructions to the Russian plenipotentiaries are more guess work," said M. Hartwifc. "These instructions have been seen 'by only I four persons, the Emperor, M. Witte, j Foreign Minister Lamsdorf and my self. The Echo de Paris' report says they consist of five pages, whereas tho fact is that they cover over twen ty pages. Tho paper says tho instruc tions are very vague, whilo on the con trary they are very detailed. On one ! point only, according to the Echo de I'aris, are they absolutely specific, namely, as to the leveling of the forti fications of Vladivostok; but I can-; say to you that thero are many oth ers." M. Hai l wig also pronounces the sto ries that M. Muravieff's displacement was tho result of intrigues by Foreign Ministo Lamsdorf to be pure inven tions. Tho Novosti says it believes that the desired of tho anti-German coalition, which Great Britain is trying to engin cor, to restoro Russia as a threat against German aggression, should be a powerful diplomatic wefcpou in the hands of the Russian plenipotentiaries. "Europe wants to end the war," says the paper, "as Russia's preoccu pation in tho Far East destroys the equilibrium. Austria is in danger from Germany, which seeks a thor oughfare to tho Asiatic, in exchange j for tho compensation in the Balkan peninsula. Germany has pretensions j now whichjslio would not have dream ed of before tho Russo-Japanese war. It is evident from tho Morocco inci dent that Europe wants peace in order that Russia may safeguard her againbt German aggression:" Grand Army Commander Dead. Boise, Idaho, Special. ? Gen. W. W. Blackmar, commander-in-chie? of the G. A. R., died Sunday of intestinal ne-i phritis. / His wife was with hiih during his illness. ffce, body will be embalmed and taken to the home of the family In Boston. General Blackmar arrived here on Jnly 10 on an inspection tour of Grand Army posts throughout tlto Northwest. He was ill when he ar rived, and gradually failed. The se riousness of his condition was kept from the public at the request of his wife. General Blackmar was bom July 25, 1841, at Bristol, Pa. He enlisted in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Calvary and subsequently joined the ' First West Virginia Cavalry. He Served with dis tinction throughout tho war and at Five Forks was promoted on the field by General Custer to the rank of cap tain. Splendid Horseback Feat. Mceteese, Wyoming, Special, ? Three men were killed and four were injured here by an explosion in the Kirwln gold mine. There was no doctor near er than Thermopolis, 1 00 miles to the southeast, but Br. Richr.rds, at that place, covered the mountainous dis tance in a little less than eleven hours. Four relays were used by him in mak ing the trip, ranchmen along the route supplying the horses. * Prisoners Reach Birmingham. Bihningh.ini, Ala., Special. ? Sheriff William Chandler, of Ktowah county, accompanied by deputies, arrived In Birmingham Monday nigtyt with Vance Garner. Bunk Richardson and Will Johnson, three of the nogroos charged with the murder and criminal assault op Mrs. S. K. Smith, near CladHden, Saturday night. The prisoners were placed in the Jefferson comity 4?tl for safekeeping. r - Jap Victory on Sakftolin. Tokio, By Cable. ? It is officially an nounced that the Russian center, hold ing Darllne and vicinity, was attack ed July 11 and offered stubborn re sistance. The attack was renewed at dawn of July 1$, when/ the Japanese dislodged the Russians, \drlving them in tl^e direction of Maufta. This vic tory assures the complete occupation t>f South Sakhalin by the Japanese. Eighty prisoners were taken by the Japanese, among whom was Lieutenant Maxim'ta. Four field pieces, one ma chine gun and the ammunition ware houses were captured. The Japanese loss was about seventy men killed and wounded. The Russians lost about 160 men. Jerome GetawCapy of Testimony. rv Now Tort, Speclafv-Aii official copy <*f the testimony takW) by Superin tendent or\ Insurance Hendricks in his Inquiry Into the affairs of the Equit able Life Assur&ace Society, which Dis trict Attorney Jerome made unsuccess ful attempts to secure last wsok, has ww receiTSa WL x M district wtontj w offlcsL Mr. Jotoom has aaaouaood that he will saaka a careful examination of ?the tsstlss? y had that if condlttoas seem to wantat, criminal actipa vlll . ? * % r.. ? . !OHBI PALMETTO CROP CONDITIONS1 i i Conditions For Past Week ?? Qlven Out by the Department. |- Columbia, 8. O., July 18.? The week ending Monday, July 17th, was slightly cooler than normal. The temperature ? extremes were a maximum of 94 at Al lendale on the 10th, and a minimum of 65 at Greenville on the 11th and 14th. I The temperatuij^ condition* were fa ( vorable. Thero were a numl>er of damaging high winds, especially in Greenville and neighboring counties, J accompanying thunder storms. There 1 was an excees of cloudiness over the ! entire State. I With an exception of a deficiency In ' the central counties where there were j numerous showers but little rain, the ; precipitation for the week was copious J and In many places excessive, ranging from ono to over five inches. In the extreme western and places in the northeastern counties lands were wash-, j ed and bottom lands flooded. The rain fall was heavy along the coa*t ami ex cessive In Ileauforrt county. Over the greater part of the State the numerous showers and the cloudy weather kept the ground too wet to work, and delayed the laying-by of field cropB. Some fields of corn and cotton have again become grassy and are in urgent need of cultivation. Cotton grew very fast in all sections, but did not fruit In proportion. The plants have generally attained normal growth and in many places have grown too large, but, with the exception of Hampton county, where the rains caus ed the plants to turn yellow, they have a good, healthy color, but are soft and sappy. There are some complaints of usheddlng squares, and .of black-root ?and rjist on sandy lands, and of dam age from insects, but on the whole a general improvement is noted. The crops need fair weather. flome bottom iand corn was damag ed, otherwise thore was a general im provement in the condition of corn, especially of late plantings. Tobacco curing is general; lato tobacco made rapid growth, but the crop promises to be short. June rice is receiving its first cultivation. Gardens Improved. Peas doing well. Peaches rotting. | Pastures have improved. Cane grow ing well. Watermelons generally plen j tlful and shipments heavy. J. W. BAUER. Section Director. A Big Scandal Developing. Columbia, Special.? The spccial in vestigating committee appointed by the last Legislature to inquire Into the finances of Greenville county, with special regard to the supervisor's of fice, is rapidly developing a sensation of large proportions. Following the arrest, on Saturday as he was about td board a train for ..North Carolina, ofr-young Arthur Speegle, son of the ex-aupervisor, whose books are said to shbw various forms of criminal ir regularities, on a warrant sworn out by Chairman Avery Patton, of the in vestigating committee, charging young Speegle with obtaining money under false pretenses by fraudulently draw ing more salary than the act entitled him to, Governor Hey ward has receiv- ' ed a request from the committee for requisition papers for the father, Mr. J. "fc. Speegle, who is at Henderson vllle, where he is said to be In a dy ing condition. The committee did not mention any particular charges against J. E. Speegle. The Governor was merely informed that the requisition tfas desired in connection with the investigation. Young Speegle lias been released on a bond of $1,000. Half a dozen other arrests of promin ent people are expected to follow at Greenville this week A storm of local politics has been raging about the supervisor's office for some time. At the last election the friends of tho defeated condidate, Walker, who was counted out in tho primary, and in whose behalf neither the State executive committee nor the courts would interfere, went into the general election, after Senator Till man had taken a hand in the matter and advised them not to do so. and elected Walker on the independent ticket. Speegle's friends claim that the work of the committee Is largely inspired by politics and that he will bo able to satisfactorily explain every thing and account, for all moneys^Jlfv the meantime tho committee [^"pro ceeding. to unearth things. A liveryman called upon to explain why ho was given $1,145 for a certain Job, showed his books to prove that he had received only $340. The com mittee Is looking for the $805. and is also trying to find out the wherefore of an employe of the county receiving pay, at $20 per month, for 19 months in 1902 and 18 months In 1904. The compaiitee is also trying to find out why ^40 hashels of corn meal a month was cTRiifged to tho county alms house, whereas the present, supervisor on\y^ uses 16 bushels at this place; why Blacksmith J. Rowley Smith, son of a well-konwn politician, was paid $l,fi?9 for 750 f>alrs of shackles and how it was a county physician got in $2,000 worth of services to a gang of 20 men In the course of a year. Taken to Columbia. Columbia, Special. ? Sheriff ? Epper son of 8umter county, arrived in Co lumbia Sunday night with Jim Fay lor, a 19-year-old negro *>oy. In custody. Tho negro la charged with attempting orfnlaal a aafeault upon Mlsa Wilson it the Betta lumber all! about threo Biles from Sumter, and was J>rought here and placed t? the penitentiary tor Mft h? pi? . v ?- . ? - -- -? . Ill Occurrences of Interact In Various : Part# of the State. ; Geneal Cotton liflarket. Galveston, steady . . . .up I07? Now OrleaiiH, steady 1 ?) Mobile, easy Savannah, dull * ?>-V? Norfolk, quiet 10% Baltimore, nominal 11.00 New York, quiet 10.80 Boston, quiet 11.30 Philadelphia, quiet 11. 05 Houston, easy 11 .<'0 Augusta, quiet 10% Memphis, quiet 10 13-10 St. Louis, quiet 10 13-10 Louisville, llrm 10% Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to Wagons: Strict good middling 10% Qood middling JO f>-li> Strict middling 10V4 Middling lovM Tinges !>% to '.t-% Stains 7 V4 to Ji.00 Died on Engine. Aikon, Special. ? Mr. W. 10. MCCar tor was found dead on his engine at Hath Wednesday night about 7 o'clock. The engine was moving in tho direc tion of tho chalk beds, to which it. ran, when Mr. McCarter was found. Some negroes saw the engine moving, and thinking that there was no one on it, jumped on and found Mr. McCarter lying on the floor dead with a slight bruise on his head. It Is thought that his death was caused by heart disease. The bruise on his head is supposed to have been caused by falling. .. Mr. McCarter was about 70 years of ago. Ho was an engineer oh tho old Augusta, Columbia and Georgia railroad for a number of years, and only left It a few years ago to take charge of an engine running from Hath to the kaolin beds, situated near there. He has been living at Hath for a number of years. Ho was a Confederate veteran and a member of the IJarnard E. camp at Aiken. Ho was also a prcWiinent member of the Masonic lodge. The Dargan Case. Columbia Special. ? The coroner's jury in the case of It. Keith Dargan, the former president of tho Indepen dent Cotton Oil Clmpany, of Darling ton, who committed suicide Monday, returned a verdict that tho deceased came to his death by taking carbolic acid. It was developed at the inquest that Mr. Pegram Dargan, the brother of the dead man, was in the room with tho sulcldo when he took tho poison, and stayed with him until ho died. This brother wad placed on the stand, but dec'ined to mako a statement, saying that the note left by Dargan would explain all. ^Thls nolo was read, and In it the dead man said that although ho had mismanaged he was not a coward. The physician who was called to the dead man's aid testified that Pegram Dargan said that he bought the add and saw his brother drink it. Pegram Dargan made no reference to thiB, however in his testimony. The parents of the suicide are ill, suffering from shock. Charged With Assault. 8partanburg, Special ? B. A. Lowe, a white Baptist minister living at Lolo, has taken out warrants for Robert Gossett, superintendent, and Dan Moore, Ed. Tanner and Jack Gaines, operatives of the Valley Falls mill, charging them with assault and bat tery on his person. The warrants were Issued by Magistrate Kirby, of this city. Lowe alleges that on July 0 Gossett struck him on the hoad sever al times and subsequently on tho same day the others encountered him on the highway. The trouble appears to have arisen from Ixmo writing an official of tho cotton mlil In Columbia that Gossett was not a lit person for the management of the mill. The case will be investigated in Magis trate Kirby'u court. New Enterprises. The Secretary of State Issued sever al charters and commissions Thurs-" day. The Colleton Cotton Warehouse Company received a commission. This concern will have a capital of $3,000 and will, be located at Walterboro. Tho corporators are: W. B. Gruber, I J. W. Hill and G. W. Wray/' \ The Sputhern Realty and Invest ment Company is a Columbia concern, /with T. C. Williams. F. H. Weston and J. P. Matthews as corporators. Tho capital will bo $50,000. The Sumter Colored Dry Goods Com pany received a commission, the capi tal being $6,000 and the corporators being R. H. Richardson, E. G.. Jones, Z. E. Walker, M. J. Frederick and W. Andrews. The Lynchburg Mercantile Company received a charter, the capital being $5,000 and the officers being J. W. Tarrant, president?*?, d. Smith, vice president, and J. F. Mcintosh, Jr., sec retary and treasurer. Died Whiu Plowing. Union, Special. ? A special from Cross Keys In this county says: A tragic death occurred near here when Andrew Lamb, a farmer about 75 years old, dropped dead while plow Ins alone In a Held. Hie fniLfrt*ht 'ened the horse, which immediately ran home. The fiwQy, thlnhtng aome thla* most be wnmg, neat l4t mice to lareatlfate, and found the old man, who had apparently boon foiling well whan leaving heme, lying deed to Ma f HE EDIIORS HOLIDAY The Editors Had a Good Time, and Much Business Was Transacted. While Stone Springs, Special. --The thirty-first annual meeting of (he South Carolina Press asslciatfon is perhaps the largest jn attendance In the history of the association. And in point of in terest it is second to no other. The pa per* presented have boon remarkable for their force, breadth of thought am) patriotism. Mr Bingham's paper on "The Press and Morality" and Mr. Jordan's plain, practical talk on the business side of a country newspaper were the features Wednesday. Thursday Mrs. Virginia 1). Young and Col. Jas. T. Ha eon painted bright sketches which were amusing and at times touched a chord of patriotism and sympathy by their references to matters close to the heart of nil South Carolinians. Rev. Dr. Ja cobs made an address of great power and Itev. Mr. Witsell read Mr. Hrlce'a paper on ethics. At the night session Senator J. K. Purlfoy read Senator Christensen's papers. The association was very much amused at the embarrassment of Col. James T. Dacon when Mrs. Young made some bright sallies of wit at his expense, and when she told the asso ciation that she wanted to show them a new picture of the colonel the mem bers were convulsed with laughter. I3ut Mrs. Young hastened to explain that tlie phofogruph was not given to her by Col. Dacon. Mrs. Young's paper brought out the fact that while many South Carolina men have been distinguished poets, authors and journalists yet they re ceived their inspiration from thelr< mothers, intellectual women. She also gave the names of intellectual women of South Carolina who had written. Dy the time she hail concluded the asso ciation was ready to agree with her that man Is but secondary. Mrs. Young's beautiful references to the dead editor of The State made a profound impression, which provoked applause. Her tribute to Carlyle Me Kinley also gave great satisfaction to his many friends and admirers. Mrs. Young was given a vote of thanks and was asked for a copy of her paper to publish In the minutes. A very interesting paper was read by Mr. St. Elmo Massengale of Atlanta on the subject of the relation of the ad vertising agent to the newspaper pub lisher. Mr. Massengale's paper will bo published lA the minutes. There were three places put in nomi nation for next year's session and the vote stood, White Stone 1G, Isle of Palms 14, Harris Springs 1. The vote was close. Mr. Kohn, of Digham and Mr. Freo man spoke In* behalf of the lse of Palins. Mr. Knight of Ramberg thought the chungc every years would be pleasing. Mr. DeCamp nominated White Stone. Mr. Hnnks, Mr. Calloway and others spoke in favor of Whlto Stone. THE OFFICERS. The following officers were elected: E. H. Aull, Newberry Herald and News, president; William Hanks, The State, first vice president; Dr. J. C. Mace, Marion Star, second vice presi dent; C. C. LangstojL Anderson Intel ligencer, secretary; August Kohn; The News ami Courier, treasurer; Rev. W, P. Jacobs, Our Monthly, chaplain; Ed H. DeCamp of Oaflfney Ledger, C. M. Galloway of The State and W. W. Hall of The News and Courier, members of the executive committee. Mr. P. H. Fike, chairman of the committee on reports of officers, re ported with recommendations to the effect 111 at the executive committee be empowered to select a permanent badge and that the minutes from the year 1888 to 1894 inclusive be collected and printed. This was adopted. At morning session, tlve first paper read was by Mr. P. 11. Fiko on the subject "("Jetting the News." This was followed by the paper by Mr. William Hanks on the "Lights and Shadows of a Reporter's Life." These papers were ordered printed in the. .minutes. Mr. Fike is city editor of the Spartanburg Herald and his paper was full of inter est. The committee on the memorial on the life of Mr. Carlyle McKlnley re ported the following through Mr. Hanks and on motion of Oftn. It. R. Hemp hill the report was spread on the min utes: "Resolved, by the Press Association of South Carolina, That It Is due to the memory of Carlyle McKlnley that we Inscribe upon our minutes a tribute to his memory, a memorial all too in adequate, for words cannot frame ex pression for th.o measure of usefulness of this man of ginnt soul. "Fearless reporter In the days of po litical fury, student, teacher and scholar of wonderful masterly mind, stored with only the choicest thoughts of the world's best literature; editor of power, spirit, loyalty to country and love, for all mankind; poet whose fu gitive verses, all too few, will rank him in senti'ment if not in fecundity with Hayne, Lanier and Timrod? it is to his memory <hat the Press association of South Carolina will pause at this moment from its sessions and will putc upon record a declaration of faith in the works aud a declaration of rever ence for the spirit so tender and yet so true, so strong and so brave. This we do, knowing fhat though not a member of the association, he had ten der sympathy for and keen human In terest in the labors and in the welfare of his fellow workers of the press." At the afternoon session the selec tion of a place of meeting was held and Mr. Hardwick's address was heard with great pleasure, the association be-# lng assembled in the routunda.? Wil liam Boulrs in Columbia State. New Enterprises. The Secretary of State hu chartered the Yorkville Hardware Company with a capital of $8,000. Tho offloers are W. !. Withers, president; W. B. Moore. Tire- president, and George W. Brown, secretary and treasurer. A commission was issued to the Andersps Farmers' Union Warehouse Company, which will * capital of - * * STARTS FOR NORTH POLE Commander Peary Sails Irom Now York in The PoostvelL Ki|ll<tvfl ('mill Irnt Hint Wllliln inn Y?*i?rl lie Wltl IMiUll flio A ill e ill- i n I'Ik; mi 111** IviiHi'm Vrollf Knit. New York <ily I .i?* n I i>ii :i n t Hobert E. IVary beamed with happiness when Ins polar steamship. Tli?' Hooseveit. weighed anchor In North Hlver ami atuek her nose (own id ilic ocean and t lu> far oft' Nuri li ] 'die. 'I'lii* water front about Thirty -first nl reel and North Hiver was lined for blo< ks with friends and admirers of the lirave eoinniainler. ami scores of women and girls kissed their hands ii i ut wished hon voyage to tli.i man who heads the first expedition in many years to start from New York io search for the coveted Pole. l-'lauiitinu a large American tin gr, and wilh no ? her (tag, signal* or uamU displayed. Yhe Hoosevell sailed smooth ly down the hay, accompanied by (he fug I'entueket, of the Navy Yard, to which (he guests were transferred o(T flie Narrows. Lieutenant i'eary, although lie di rected the start, did not sal! on his ship. He left New York at midnight for Sidney. The commander expects The Hooseveit to arrive in six days. Mrs. I'eary did not go. Her mother, Mrs. Magdalen Diebilsch, and Mrs. Peary's children, ltober( l?Jn Peary, .Jr., and Marie Anighnlto, will go as far an Sidney and return by rail. Anighnlto was born In the Arctic /one, and hence the Esquimaux name, which means a "high pointed mountain." Itefore . V.onvniander Peary said: "1 have) (he best equipped expedi (ion that ever started out to plant a flag on the uppermost pari of (h# globe. Every possible thing that would facilitate the work of discovery and every comfort for my men have been attended to. and the start is none too soon for me." Commander Peary assured all that he would return to New York three years hence with a "piece of the Pole." ? He will sail from Sidney, Cape Hre ton. and expects to reach the Pole within eighteen months. This will al low six months for the night the party will have to rest. Those who will accompany Com mander Peary, to the furthest point north are Ross K. Marvin, a graduate of Cornell University, who will assist In geological work; I>r. Louie J. Wolf, who for the past six months had been in t,he dispensary at Hellevue. Dr. Wolf, applied for and received the ap pointment as ship's surgeon without notifying his parents, who are wealthy and live In Sllverton, Ore. He Is u graduate of the Cooper Medical Col lege, San Francisco. Chief Engineer Oeorge E. Wardell, Steward Charles Percy, a veteran explorer, and Mat thew A. lletisen, a negro, who has been with Peary on all his previous dashes for the Pole, will also go. Among (lie friends of Commander Peary who accompanied The Itoosevelt down to the Narrows were: Professor Monroe Smith, of Columbia University; I/. L. Dela field, Frederick P. Delatield, (Jeneral J. Russell Lowell, Charles Mil II ken, Herbert L. Hridgmnn, secre tary of the Peary Arctic Club;. Fred K, Wnlcott, Wallace Downey, Mrs. Mag dalen Diehitsch, mother of. Mrs. Peary, ? ml Mrs. Peary and children. As The Hooseveit moved down the river every craft that carried 11 whistle put It In use, and the shrieking and screeching of tugs ?nd steamers made a deafening roar. As the vessel passid Sea (bite she received n salute from the Atlantic l'acht Club, which was returned, as were all the other Salutes, by the constant dipping of the colors. As The. Hooseveit passed the RuttCry* on the way down the lyiy Secretary!0 Ifrfdgman made a Inricf address. "Command* r Peary, '/said he, "you take with you the best wishes of the Peary Arctic Club* Everything has been drop to make the trip a success ful one, and we hope when you return you will bring back the news that the long sougt.l goal has been found." Dr. Wolf will meet the ship at Sid ney. (J. A. H.'S CHIEF DEAL). General Blaukmar Seized Witli Fatal Illness at Boise City, Idaho. Boise, Idaho.? General W. W. Black mar. of Massachusetts, Commander in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Re public, died here of nephritis, after an Illness of several days. Ills wife and her sister. Miss Alice Brewer, were at his bedside when the end oame. At the National Encampment of (he G. A. It. in Boston last August General Bhiekmnr. distinguished as a soldier and in public life since the war, was elected Commandcr in-Chlef by accla mation. He made a tour of the coun try soon after his election, and on July (I, accompanied by his wlfQ, and her sister, left Boston for a second tour. He was in fairly- good health at the time. General Black mar was born July 25. 1841. at Bristol, Pa. tJeneral Blackmar is succeeded by John It. King, of Washington, senior Commander-in-Chief.* BLOWS HIMSELF UP IN COURT. Prisoner Commits Suicide With Dyna mite and Injures Court Officers. Wellington. New Zealand. ? During the hearing of a civil case here the de fendant, a man named Murchlaon, blew himself to atoms trltlx dynamite. The magistrate and a police inspector were badly iujured. and the front of the court house was blown out. DON'T WANT CHINA IN. Japauete New spa pen Against Having Third Power la Peace Conference. Toklo. Japan.? The Japanese press strongly reaenta China's request to be allowed to join in tbo peace negotia tion*,. and- - will etreaoeoaiy object to any third power taking part la the conference. Tbo newspapers think that Hotaia induced China to preflfcr her requeat Wdflbt object U creatine IH-feeliag through Japaa'a raCuaal ta grant it ^ - WASIII N(M ()X, v' *' President Roosevelt lifts decided Hint (lie cotton report scandal shall not end Willi tllP dismissal <>l' III:* Kimlnlici;)*, 1 1 4 ? 1 1 1 1 o k , Wilt Hint every effort shall bo made to (mulsh adequately all tho Sillily men. ? After resting In tt vnult at Oak Hill < 'einetery slmio Ills (lentil, Inst Decem ber, 1 1 1 ?? body of .1 union N. Tyner, for mer Postmaster-General, Assistant At' torney -General and Representative hi Congress from Indiana, was buried ia tin? family plot at Oak 1 1 1 if. Secretary Bona part** decided against a Saturday half-holiday for employes of the Washington .Navy Yard. During the absence of t Ho President ollU'lal elreles are navigating to va rious summer resorts for the remainder of the season. t OUR ADOPTED LLANOS. OUlf ADOPT 10 1 ) ISLANDS. Secretary Taft and his pnrty arrived nt Honolulu after n plcnsnnt voyage on the Manchuria, and sailed for Mu ni In. A condemnation suit was brought in the Federal court at Honolulu by Uni ted States Attorney Brcckoas to so cure three and one quarter lucres of land on Waikuki beach. The lanjl is owned by Mrs. Along, and it is wanted for forts and fortifications. Preparations are being made in Hon olulu for tlie reception of Secretary Taft and his parly or" sightseers. DOMESTIC. Each of the nineteen routes lajd out for new subways in Now York City was approved by the Hoard of Estl* mate and Apportionment. During a quarrel over cigarette flunking ltaymoiul P. StouglL _,>vas killed at St. Louis. Mo., T/.Tohn Greas ier being accused of the ifiurder. General Horace Port or, former Anier? lean Ambassador to Krajice, has re turned home. It i vii Ik tor the h ind of the same girl and in her presence, William Monrny ?wns stabbed to death at Ashton, W. Yy.. by John Ilnwlhorne. ^ The cruiser Mary hi ml established a new record at Newport, 11. I., when l.'lUO tons of coal were taken on In eight hours. A special Federal Oram] Jury will be summoned in September in Milwau kee, Wis., probably to investigate the Paper Trust, Twenty-live passengers of the steamer AlUnnca, from Colon, were held in quarantine at New York City for fear of yellow fever. To escape the camera In the Rogues' Oallery lu New York City Samuel %&? vine Jumped from the sixth floor of rollco Headquarters and was fatally hurt. --uPrcstdent Kooseve.lt has declined tho Invitation from Australia, extended to Miss Alice Roosevelt, to visit that country as the guest of the Govern"-, ment. Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, in an address at Baltlmore? Mil., warned ngalnsi "graft" in politi cal life in this country. Representatives of the Japanese Gov ernment have, purchased live highly bred stallions In Lexington, Ky., to be sent to the ryyal stud. Two ?e\Vre thunderstorms passed ove<> .Mod way, Mass. .James Jay, a llfteen-yeap-old boy, was struck and in stantly killed by lightning while vuilk ing in the'street with. a coinpanj^n. In tlie cellar of the house she inher* Ited from her husband Mrs. Charles Bluhen, of Philadelphia, Fa., discov ered the body of her husband's house keeper. ? Bob McCoy, a well-kuown ranchman on the Big Horn River, near Cheycnue,' Wyo? Is said to have been killed by as sassins who decoyed hi in to a deserted cabin and shot him in the back as he was about' to enter"; His body was sunk in the river. Silas McDonald, who was caqhlei of the State National Bank at. St. Joseph, Mo., and who went to Philadelphia. Pa., nfter that institution went Into liquidation, committed suicide by cut ting hjs throat in the presenco qf his wife. , V? Frank Hall, aged twelve years, and Charles Bice, eleven years of age, the sons of farmers living near Cowgill, six miles from Dover, Del., >? were drowned while bathing in Simon's Creek. in a battle between excursionists from Clarksburg, \V. Va., on u Balti more and Ohio train and cowboys, members of a Wild West show, Jo? Johnson, proprietor of tho show, and Mexican George, a cowboy, were killed. A tornado hit Navnsotfl. Texas, doing thousands of dollars' worlli of. damage* FOREIGN., A special cable dispatch from Val paraiso said thero were 100 new cases of smallpox dnily, and the mortality at the lazaretto amounts to ninety per cent. The employes of the Vienna. Lods and Kalis/, Railway have decided to use the Polish language in tho trans action of railway business. One entire regiment of Russian sup pers, stationed at a small village in the mountains hear Tiflls, has mur dered all its officers and. It is rumored, has joined the revolutionists. ' A scene of excitement prevailed in the Freuch Chamber of Deputies, at Pqvis, when M. Lasler, an Anti-Semite/ member, attacked tho late Minister of War, Andre, and his successor. 51. Bertsaox, left the Chamber. In th^ltouse of Commons, at Lon don. England, Premier Balfour de? dared feimsslf opposed to eonsnrtpNoft for fllllng the tanks of tie army, and advocated the Government scheme fOT~ army reform. Count Sertlus WM chief Russian prrnce ? place of M. MOravieff. Cfjcsrbox ibkfif iB' other snrtktas -wood HtmM " CMfm