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HRONieLE 71 VOLUME XVI, CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, SKI'TKMISKU 2'.), 1905. NO. :j8 OK MIS III KM Meelioi Broken Up and Stormy Time At Synagogue jpv CIY ?D0WN WITrt M, WWTE" | . * * I While Adolphuo Kiaus Was Keport- j ing an 'Interview With M. Witte ^Meettog Breaks Up In Riot... Chicago, Special. ? The pollco were called to quell a riot Monday night in the Russian synagogue, Clinton and judd streete where Adolpb Kraus was addressing a Jewlfjh meeting. Several perspns lycelved slight wounds and 10 men and women were arrested. Mr. Kraus was giving an account of his interview with M. Witt?, tho Russian envoy at Portsmouth, ut which ho e&ked justice for the Jews through Mr. Witttj's good offices. "We may trust the word of Mr. Witte that 'die will do all within hl3 power to arme^lowrto the suffering Jews. Mr. Krau was saying, when suddenly a member of a Jewish socoty sprang to his feet. "Do you trust a Russian politician?" ho s?iputed. Before Mr. Kraus had time to an swer there was a shout from several hundred men and women In the audi ence. "Down with. Witte!" "Down, with tyranny!" came the shouts. While the excitement was at Its height, the doors of tho synagogue wore locked and some ono telephoned for the police. In a few minutes sev eral patrol wagons filled with ofilcers were on hand. The leaders were ar rested and the meeting was dispersed by officers with drawn clubs. To Buy Singapore Docks. lion don, By Cable ? The government's Intention to purchase the doeW at Sin g?^K>re has been an open secret for liiany months, and according to good authority the British government is simply facing the result of the new strategic situation in the far East, and providing her navy with convenient docks at Singapore, which Is the cen tre of the far East. Tho Japanese alliance permitted the withdrawal of five battleships from the China seas, and there is- no intention in times of peace to despatch any battle ship to the fax* East. The three chuls or groupe ? tho China, tho East Indies, and the Australia squadron ? will re main as before. ' * Meanwhile the extensive docks of the Tanjong Pagar Company will be pur chased at a price to be fixed by the ar bitrators now in tho far East, of which board Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is the umpire; and Great Britain will have one of the finest naval bases. In the ?world and ono which in tho event of war, would be of the highest strategic value. Building Collapses. Buffalo, Special. ? With a crash that could be heard for blocks, a three-story brick building under course of con* struction on West Ferry Street col lapsed this afternoon, carrying down with it thirty bricklayers and carpen ters who were at work in and on top of the structure. A score of the men were injured, eight of them seriously. The men were working on the third story when the west wall went down, carrying with it a portion of the front of the buildLng and a section of the rear wall. That there was not serious loss of life was due to the fact that the mass of bricks fell out towards .the street. Attempt to Explode Jail. Sooaervllte. K. J.,. Special.? An at tempt w*ji made for the second time in '% tew weeks, to release the prisoners Id the eoonty Jail here. A charge of - ftjihlli wan exploded on a window iWy hliwtac a hole hi the waU, through tm nhn? wore ahont tor finAiih , a Uav wwvinfwpvo wmx* An Attempt Assault. St. Louis, Special. ? A negro at tempted assault on the wife of Deputy Sheriff A. J. Shores, at Clayton last night. The assailant was shot by Shores and badly wounded. The Rhoot ing attracted a mob of negroes who at tempted to lynch the negro, but were prevented and the fiend was lodged in wiifl on a trolley car wh^n ' he heard A scream. He saw the neg^o* running aid tired and the negro fell. Afterwards Shores learned that his wife was the victim, who was found In a faint on the sidewalk. Negro Trouble in New York. New York, Special.? After - entering the house of Mrs. George Crossmati, at West One Hundred and Forty-sec ond for the fourth time with four days, a* -unknown negro bru Ily attacks fuiss Irene, Mrs. Cross T-year-old daughter, and fore he could be ?htjght. r^c ___ lere the man'iKfntenTTDir on ^eaeh occasion was robbery. Several | detectives and police are hunting the MANIAC BURNS HIS FAMILY Indiana Farmer Murders Wife and Three Children in Their Homo. Ucurg* Kortl Thought He Would S**? Ilia I>e?r One* From Wmit, ?? lie IuiMuluett lilntaelf I'oor, 1 Vevay, Ind. ? paying his wife and | three children iif a' frenzy of lunacy, George Ford, ono of the most prosper ous farmers In Switzerland County, who Imagined himself a poor man, hound the bodlos to beds In the sceoud story of his handsome home, eight miles from this town, then set Are to the house and speedily transformed It Into a funeral pyre for his four vic tims. Mrs. ford's body, terribly black ened, was found at the foot of her bed. The bodies of her children? Everett, ' fourteen years old; Ernest, twelve, and Ruby, eight? lay in an adjoining room. All the little ones wwc burned so frightfully that only by their sizes could their bodies be distinguished. Tliyy lay In a triple embfaco, as if they had died In one another's arms. > Yet. from indications found on the bod ies, the children must have been killed separately. Ford's insanity was apparent from his conduct even before the awful fate of his family was learned. Itc stayed under his own roof until the llainef burst through and neighbors hastened to tile place from miles around, -Then he half staggered out of the house, muttering to himself. It was bit by bit and by slow degrees that the horriflcd neighbors obtained from him the story of his four-ply crime. He was not too crazed to recall his deed, and lie ap peared to bo pathetically proud of it. The farmer Buffered exceedingly from delusions for weeks preceding the murder of lii& wife ami children, llis chief hallucination was that he was in extreme financial dlMiculties, and; that his household must retrench close to the starvation point. At times when NMrs. Ford knew he had a large balance In bank he forced her and their young sters to live on a diet that would have been scorned by the humblest laborer In his employ. The fact is that Ford grew richer year after year ? thanks still to the foresight of liis wife, who advised him in his Investments. The man dreaded the poorhouse, and was haunted by the fear of going there. The deed was goHe about with pre meditation, and it is1, thought that ho had been planning it tor weeks. There also is reason to believe ho was jeal ous, without cause, of Mrs. Ford, and that he planned the wholesale destruc tion from two motives. Mrs. Ford was forty years old, Ford lil'ty. It required eight men to overcome Ford when it became apparent that lie was insane nud had killed his family. NO BOSS TICKET FOIt QUAKERS. Philadelphia City Tarty Names Antl / Machine Candidates. /Philadelphia, Pa.? In a convention vthich was without parellel In Phila delphia's history for enthusiasm, earn estness and uutramihelled freedom, the city party, representing every phase of good citizenship? work ingmeuA bank ers, merchants, lawyers, manufactur ers, churchmcn? nominated a county ticket which stands for Mayor Weav er's administration and for tlio rights of tho people as against what Secre tary Itoot called the "corrupt and. crim inal combination masquerading as Re publicans." At night in another enthusiastic con vention ! the Democrats, without at tempting a deal $r asking a favor, ayd without having one of their own. party 011 the ticket, unanimously indorsed the candidates of the city party and pledged themselves to make common war against the Durham McNic'liol Penrose gang. Following the nominations by the city party the nine hundred and six teen delegates marched through the rain to City Ilall and pledged them selves to- tight to the last ditcli in-.sup port of Mayor Weaver. Tho Anti-Ross ticket Is as follows: For Sheriff, Wilson H. Brown; for Coroner, J. M. R. .Term on: for County Commissioners, Rudolph Blankenburg and E. A. Anderson; Judge of Common .Pleas Court No. 1, Craig Riddle; Judge of Orphans' Court, Morris Dallett. FIVE KILLED, EIGHT HURT. One Engineer Jumped Down Embank ment; Other Lost Life at Post. Ilarrlsburg, Pa. ? Five men wore killed rind eight others seriously in jured In n collision bit ween n pay train and a combination paK'tfnger and milk train on a branch of the Phlladel phia and Heading Railroad at Mount Holly Springs. None of the passengers was injured. Tho cngiuner of tho pay train jumped and landed at tho foot of a steep embankment with a fractured skull. The engineer of the milk train was found dead in his locomotive with tho whistle cord In his hand and all the brakes on the train set. \ The dead: John Hill, fireman of pay train, Heading; Edward: Lnuchs. pay master's clerk. Itcndlny; Thomas Ma rion, conductor of pay-train. Pottsvllle; Ephraim McCleary, engineer of pas senger train, Harrlshurg; CVJ. Shear er, passenger flrenian. Ilarrisburg. A Campaign Contribution Policy. President Roosevelt, with Secretary Root. Joseph II. Choate, Senator Lodge nml Secretary Cortelyou. conferred on the attitude of the Administration on corporation contributions to political campaigns. Unprecedented Demand Fpr Steel. Mills manufacturing structural steel have been receiving contracts at tjie rnte of nearly 1000 tons a day stnee September 1. This , indicates that the building trade Is unnsuslly active. The almost unprecedented demand for steel la a guarantee that the wave of pros pirlij 1ms sot yet began to mode. JPacUte Wheat Crop. -WWlHia. Idaho nib AMERICAN PIRATE CAUGHT ! Arrested in Victoria by the Canadian Authorities, CAREER OF CAPT. ALEX.' McLEAN C A*le Hum lla* Uten After If I in l<*or *l?ny Months For ]>e|HU|u Heulli,*, Hut Ho Kvariea Arret l,y Chan*. Jrnr Hie Nairn* of lil? Viatrl an I Hylii* n Foreign , ^ Washington, D. C.-Captaln Alexan der McLean, the only known living American buccaneer, who sailed the PaciOc with a crcw matlo up or men said to be as "choice a hand or rob bers and cutthroats as liavo manned a pirate craft since the days of Captain Kidd," has been arrested in Victoria, C., by the Canadian authorities. This news wa s very gratifying to the oftleers of the Department of Com merce. McLean has been indicted in San Francisco on it charge of conspiracy in lilting out tho schooner Carniencita in violation of the sealing Jaws. The America a Federal authorities have been after him for many months, and It took the combined efforts of four ex ecutive departments to land him. Complaint against McLean of pelagic JGiUlys was made to tho Department or Commerce several months ago. The case Wits submitted to tho Department of Justice. Later McLean was indict ed. Kfforts were made for a long time to catch him, but they were futile. Xhen Chief Wiikie, of tlic Secret Ser vice, was aske<l to help out. Iufoi matlon reached here a week or that McLean and his crew were anchored near Victoria. A revenue cut ter was sent after him. Tho Attornev Crtmeral handed down an opinion that McLean's offense was not extraditable and then the otiicials decided to resort to diplomacy. Negotiations were opened up with the Canadian authori ties, with the result that McLean was arrested, and lie will be handed over to representatives of the United States at once. He will he taken to San luancisco and there tried on the in dictment returned against him more than a year ago. Captain McLean has had an excitlnrr career. Iio was master of a ship * 11 as. Carniencita, sometimes of San I< rancisco and sometimes of other ports. The Cannencita had nu regular abiding place oxeept the hjsrh seas According to information in the bauds of the Department of Commerce McLean has been engaged for at least a year In unlawful sealing in the Ber ing Sea and adjacent waters. But lie was not to be caught easily. He was aware that the law provided that the United States may take into custody any American vessel detected in un lawful sealing or suspected of operat ing In violation of the law. After tho authorities began looking ror the pirate crew under tho command of McLean that worthy changed the name of his vessel. She was regis tered under the Mexican laws, flew the Mexican flag, and was called the Aca pulco. The United States authorities could not lay hands on a vessel of a foreign nation and McLean, well satis fied with his cleverness, sailed to the prohibitive 7.0110 and slaughtered seals In season and out of season. On his last trip ho brought back 250 skins, which were offered for sale In Victoria. II10 Mexican registry of the Acapulco vvas a complication that seriously bothered the officials here for a while, but the matter was finally adjusted through diplomatic channels, and Mc Lean will soon bo back In San Fran cisco. ? search tov McLean was begun In May, 39(>4. His movements were known a greater part of tho tLuie. but his course in his pelagic sealing cruises was conducted so cleverly and with such sharp observance of ilic^tter or ! the law that, it Is said lie made these very technicalities cover his allotted evasions. From Seattle there sailed a few davs ago a revenue cutter, whose command er was instructed to capture the pirate craft and to make her strike the "Jollv Koger" if the Acapulco displayed it. xno officers unci men of tlio revonuo cutter spent hours cleaning their pis tols and polishing their "swords, am! had visions of a hand-to-hand encoun ter with the pimte chief and his crow. But they were disappointed, as Cap tain McLean and his gang were placed under arrest in Victoria. The men and the ship will be turned over to the United States for whatever action this government deems proper. According to reports received here. Captain McLean has been guilty of pi ratical acts other than killing seals in violation of law. At one time he Is said to have fought a brief engage ment with a Kussiau war vessel In which, he was wounded. McLean had another encounter with the natives at Copper Island, near. Unalasku. The authorities here attach great Impor tance to the capture of McLean and every effort will be made to punish him to the full extent of the law. GIP8IES DEPOSIT $20.0ty>. Leave Their Thumb Prints nt the Bonk For Identification. ' Chicago. 111.? -Carrying the money In gunny sacks. nine gipsies visited the First National Bank and deposited $20, 000, most of whk-h was In currency. Each depositor pressed his thumb and finger* on an inked card and then left an impression with the cashier fov Identification. AH the gipsies were poorly clad. They had ended a boT*? ' trading season. ' To Teach Art of Preaching. The Itev. Dr. Frank W. Ounsaulus has accepted n chair in the Chicago Theological Senilnary which has been; established especially for him. TW$ new chair carries with It the title of j professor of the science of the art of | preaching. PWIc* Guard Mayor Johnson. Mayer Johnson, ot CtertUnd. Ohio, guarded t?jr.? sqnad of poltcewwv nuale gwrtwto the. THE INSURANCE TANGLE Astonishing' Admissions Made by President MoCall. Saj'? Money II Mil 't Hem Iiii|iru|>?.>i'l ? ISut Admlta That Hamilton Got ?'i.15,000. Now York City.? John A. McC'tl! president of llio New York Life lnsurl ftneo Company, was on the rack of tli o legislative investigation for nearly two hours and a half. Ho denied that the New York Life ever bad inado political campaign eon trlbutions during tli0 period of his presidency except in the three in Sliveti Y -!Ci Mr' Jiatl al readj detailed, aud lie could not ex lain to what account theso donations had been charged to. , volunteered the additional state ment that Alton ]?. Parser, when Dem ocratic rhalrinan in this state had "ever missed a chance to collect Cor ind'VhnV f",r n""P"lK" purposes, ?> i hat even during the National earn P?l?u of last year the Parker mnna fat i s-wimong them some of the verv men recently Quoted as his critles had bt.,. n a source of continual annoy n'li i * dogging him with their solicitations for money. iimV' M,c?an denied with Vehemence a Jo'tor of the New York Life's money had ever been used, wit 1 is knowledge, in the effort to inllueneo ? ?isla<lon in this or any other State, but admitted that hundreds of thou sands of dollars of the company's money had been advanced solely on iii.s Vorl- t?lfV l'?W 1JIa,nllt,i"' of ,ho *ew M ? rr ,n n department, and that in 'm\?- .*!?" r^resp,,<s "?e company b'Kislrttive and taxation" matters s:Kr?n,iis^?? ""acZuTd,r,ov- """ " >? n) in * I1" '"'ltoii to report bis ex pendltures exclusively to Mr MeCail ; Mr. ir:u,uito?'? i4ecl])l? an voucheis. JLbe witness admitted that tbe comptfTfT ,.ns on record no vouei,! f 1 sl"3' ?f these expenditures made : Jl.,m a,ul ,,n* "Ot had since the be ginning of "Judge" I fainiltou's coa neetion with it. Sums aggregating this amount S23r? fllmnvVer0 ril;,rffpf! 10 th0 home Of II c'o S i vMU,nt W,th tI,c 0Xception of ?,<><>,000 which was carried in the "sus drew' iVC"?V|,;t " T,IP ,)l,?v,,,outs <0 An were m"/i !0,V 5235,000, m.,de between December, 1003, and March. 1004. ? ' ?Just as Mr. MeCatt was about <0 ho S2?j| for lhVlny 110 f'8kwl tho l'rlv sion as fh? lM>P",n?' inipres 0 ,ws 'arge wealth. He said I, if i? Uot ,M ,llft ln"lionaire class; hat the greater part of his estate ir ",V,'rr" V' '?"0)' w?"1" ronSllt of r?vJ, i"??rance, and that he had , Per?onally participated in one of lh,\'u,'"'-v ??<IcnvritlnK e.v.ullcato. In r?rSVSm?.W l0rk Uf# o!^u^.',k. V,e ent,re portion of the sos J<"'ome Wfls " "oCo11 1"? testimony .m mIK' l""',lc"1 '-"ntrltm. tho ral,lV"r,.!VOtrkirS r s??'cs3 O C mlttcd /Mr- ^cCall ad iTnlcWo 10 K,d not cbMllt the poller, holders about contributing to the Itooscvclt campaign fund, adding "I dldn t care what they thought " 5'r MrCi.11'8 ol.arBe? that he had been "worn out" with tlx* pai,I,cnls of the campaign man agers of ex- Judge Alton Ii. Parker to contribute .New York Life Insurance money to the Democratic campaign fund former Judge Parker says ? OV, dent Mr. McCall was laboring r "p v' foraiVfXClt0,n<>,I't IU, niftk,n? 1,ls if Men . vory '"eoherent. Bnt f his answer is intended to convey the mprosslon that in the campaign o? 1^ lher d,rectly or indirect Iv, so anv oth10U> ' or his corPoration, or any other corporation, any monev or lutoij Sis"!-"8' U,s 18 abso President Iioosevelt callcd to a coh B'.ltation in oyster Ray Secretaries Jo sei )h* 1 1 1' ? frM 1 y 0,1 ? Kf'";"or Lodge and the i,I > CUoa,?- discussed tne nse of corporation monev in cam ? ?M It i? .lecl..,o,l llwt Pro". Iciit Itoosevelt believes that to avoid scandal the $18,000 col ec cd from the New York Llfo'in tho last campaign should he restored. WITBOIS TAKK A CONVOY. German Escort Wiped Out and Thou* sands of Cattle Captured. Capo Town.? It is 'officially an nounced that the Wlthols, evading tho ^sweeping columns of General Von Trotha. commander in chief in Ger man Southwest Africa, surprised a German convoy near Ivtfetniannshoop, N'amaqualand/ practically annihilated its escort and captured thousands of cattle, 122 wagons, many rillcs and a quantity of anmrunitjon. Death of a Famous Philanthropist. Dr. Thomas John Bnrnardo, tlie well known founder and director of philan thropic institutions, died in England. He rescued 00,000 waifs from t)ie slums. * ? May Be Treaty of Washington. It is likely that the exchange of rati* flcations of the treaty of pence between Russia and Japan will take place in the White House at, Washington. Castro's Reply to France. F resident Castro of Venezuela replied to tho French protest hy calling it an act of persona! hostility on the part of tite French charge d'affaires at Car* acas and refusing to treat further with th* French Government through that representative. f Fir* Destroy* 10Q0 House* in India. New* h*s been reduced of the atroctfcmby Are of 1060 bouse* at Bar* i? the G**hmer* totikt ?f J*? \VA?tl!Nri I ON. S?eretary of th * Navy Bonn pare will become Attorney < < ?* 1 1 ? rai it s successor to who will retire from the l"*ii i?iiu't next spring. The Failed States Atlorwy-Uenor* nl's office refused t h offer of (J. W. Heavers, charged with complicity lit llio postal frauds, to confess aiul thus obtain a f;cntonee. The count of tin? cash, notes, bonds and other securities in the United States Treasury, incident in the trans fer of the ofllee from Fills II. Roberts to Charles 11. Treat, was found to ag gregate exaell.v with the Treasury books. The total, as of July 1, was found to $l,'.?.Vj.f?l)S.r>8 2-U. Wade S. Stanfidd has been appoint ed I idled States District Allorney for the Northern District of Indian Terri tory in plaee of 1'. 1.. Soper, resigned. OFK ADOPTFD ISLANDS. First Lieutenant Sydney S. Burbnnk, Sixth Infantry, I". S. A., is U),he court inartialh d. lieutenan^, Hdrbank, who is now in the Philippines. is the oflleer who brought suit in the District Court, Leavenworth, Kan., I < > annul an alleged ?marriage with Mrs. Concepclou Vas Jpiez, a* Filipino woman. The suit is siill pending, and after many delays, eovci'ing a period of nearly two years, is sot for trial in October. DOM FSTIC. It was chained thai a gang of New York City wire tappers robin d the Fdison Company of $7o,000 worth ?> f electricity. A fourth tunnel has been planned to connect .Manhattan. New York City, and Jersey under the North River. Witnesses in the suit of Venezuela to recover $lI,ooo,0i)0 from the New York and Bermuda Asphalt Company testified that the company assisted the Venezuelan revolutionists. Colonel /.ack Mnlhall, ranchman and railroad live stock agent, convicted of shooting and wounding Finest Morgan, in the World's Fair Pike, on .Tune IK, ]!><>!, was sentenced in Sf. Louis, to serve th* three years' penitentiary tyfin specillod by ilie trial Jury. Fnroule to a ehtmh ieefure in New York City a Bronx Zoo moccasin gave birth to seventeen little ones In an ele vated train. United Slates District Attorney Mor rison annumiced that the next step in the Beef Trust eases would be the prosecution of the railroads for. giving rebates to packers, Homer 1/. Castle declared in Pitts burg, Pa., that'Stato funds were depos ited in a bank on condition that one half the yS'tm should he loaned to Uni lectin en Senator Boise Penrose. Franco asked the United Slates to co-operate' In preventing ocean steam ships from crossing t ho Newfoundland Banks during the fishing season in or der to protect the lives of llshermen. The Citizens' Union asked Borough President- ..Littleton, of Brooklyn, to lie in reammyss to accept a posslblo Fusion nomination for Mayor of the city of New Yorki The price of nlngrndcs of crude oil. except Raghu^-Wity advanced again by the Standoff! Oil Company, making the third adv/tnee In quotations in two "Svecks. As iwsunl, the higher grades of oil were raised three cents and the lower graded two cents. State officials in Chicago took action' toward recovering land worth $1,000, <>00 .paid to have been uiijawfully oc cupied by a steel company. Thomas H. McManus defeated (?oo. W. Plunkltt in the fight for leadership, iu the Fifteenth District, New York Cily. . Charles A. Seton ami Harrison H. McKlhiney, claiming to be brokers, were arrested in New York on a charge of swindling. By the Mayor's order Boroujrh Presi dent Ahearn revoked the permit for the "Stelnway tunnel" from Long Isl and City to the Ornnd Central Station, New York City. By the formation of flic Metropolitan News Company, of Louisville, pool room keepers throughout the country received full returns of the races from t ho (iravesend track. Representatives of subordinate coun cils of the ltoyal Arcanum took meas ures to test the new rates in the courts. * ^ Hotel men of Richmond, Va., are angry because the committee appointed to arrange a reception for President Roosevelt, who visits there next month, have obtained the services of a Wash i,,.. caterer. FOIIKK4N. 'in Cuban (iovornujent apologised for (ho (1 cli I r in ci i ( of the os oh to I iron of the American Consulate at Clenfuegos. Toko's 'flagship was destroyed as tlio Maine was, if)lx now believed in Toklo, Japan. More troops lmve been ordered to Baku and a quantity of arms intended, for the tran*cauoaslan .revolutionists has been found In liatouni. ? Frederic Flore* fialindo, a noted Pe ruvian poet, died at Lima, lie was the son of I ho celt-bra ted ICngllsh (Engineer, James Watson Kgglcston. and of tho Inefl Princess Pineal, a descendant of tho conqueror of Peru. The Ontario Fisheries Departmont will nuiko a rigid investigation Into al leged Illegal fishing by American firms in (ioorglau Bay and Lake Erie. It is said that thousands of tons of Qsh ille gally taken are shipped to the United States </ery week. American Arms, it is Mid. make 'use of the services of Il04*nsed Canadian fishermen. The North tSerman Lloyd steamer Bremen broke her shaft when two days out from Now York and was towed Into Halifax. All on board were ro porled well. The Russian Imperial yacht anchored off thp port of Wlborg. _ Thc.C?tr iIl ftpected the i*w battleship ISlava and received Prince John Obol?Mkyr OoV ernor-CJonersl of Finland. NORWAv MAY BE REPUGLIO Sentiment Grows in Favor of That f orm ul Government. Mom r|ii;tll? S<,OII I u llol.I ii II.-MmU. to Droltlo on ili? Future of Tlit'lr Country. | I.ondon.? Norwegians are to hold a plchlscltc to decide on a future form of government. Tlit* Miitlu'.ent in favov of a republic Is Increasing. The Kin?; lias dually decided (tint no Swedish prince will accept tho tli rone of Nor way and It Is under-stood that Den inark has reached a similar decision. , yThe prolonged nature of tlio Carlstnd eonfereneo Indicates at onee the dif ficulty tin' delegates of Norway and Sweden found in coming to an agree in <*ii t and tin* extent to which t hoy realized the importance of so doing. Tito nows that the separation of the twin kingdoms will he effected w 1 1 li on t what would really have civil war is received with general relief, 't'lie four of such a war seemed in the circumstances unreasonable; perhaps it wan so, hut it cannot he denied that the fear existed and it was not Inex plicable. Now. however, it has been happily removed. When the King of Sweden Iiiir ap proved tin1 terms of the treaty for pre si'iitatimi to thi> Itigsdag it can be ful ly effected without recourse to a for eign chief of Stale as an umpire. The ?cope of the arbitration is a compro mise between Sweden's limited and Norway's wider proposals, nnd the treaty comprises also an alliance in re gard to the independence of the Se&ntJI naviaii Peninsula. The peoplfr of Sweden have suspended judgiuem on the agreement until the terms oCMbc ?ett lenient, are understood. FIKK ItAYACHS BUTTE. Heavy llain Saves City From Dcstrue tion? I huuage, $1,250,000. Butte, Mont.?- Hutle was visited by the worst tire in its history. The flames swept through the central busi ness portion of the city and destroyed property valued at about $1,250,000. The heaviest loser is the Symons Dry Coed's Company. Its building and con tents, valued at about $t!tX),(X)0, being a total loss., Nothing is left to mark tj.ie spot but a smoldering mass of .tim bers and twisted Iron. Lj? Flying enihers alighted on the roof of the Unite Public Library Building, a four-story structure, one of the liiicst buildings in the city. It Is now In ruins. The loss on the library build ing, together with nearly 000, 000 vol umes, is about $">00,000. The other principal losses are: Atlantic saloon, about $20,000; Walkover Shoe Com pany, about $0000; Ogden saloon, about $3000; California bakery, about $1200; Clark Itloek. $000. 'i^^Syinons Com pany carried Jj&lO.OOt^msurnnce. The Walkover Shoe Company had a $15, (MX) stock, on which $0000 insurance was. carried. Several firemen, painfully, but not seriously, hurt by falls, were taken to hospitals. The night watchman In the Symons Building discovered the tire a few minutes benyc J) o'clock p, m. The smoke was so dense that the firemen were compelled to tight the flames from the sides of the building. Fanned by tho stiff wi^d, the embers Hew for Wocks(>and It was only by tho hardest kind of work that tho six story CJJark Building, just across (lie street, was saved. A heavy rain which began soon after the Are was discovered enabled the firemen to gain control of the flames and prevent the destruction of the city. <fl HCUS TKNT BLOWN DOWN. Thousands Caught When- It Fell? One Killed. Many Hurt. Mnryville, Mo.? Fifteen thousand persons were enveloped In iho folds of the great main, tent of the Kiugltng Bros/ circus, which collapsed udder the strain of a severe wind. Charles Robinson, ol' Maryville, received In juries from which he died, and hun dreds of others suffered bruises and minor Injuries. Panic followed the collapse of the teht. II was dining the middle of the night performance, and the crowd, In tent upon what was going on In tho ring, had scarcely noticed that the wind, which had been blowing a gale all day. had increased in violence. With the collapse of the menagerie tents wild animal cages were over turned. ar.d the roars of the beas'ts frightened the crowd. . * When the tent was finally raised the people stampeded to get out, nnd those on the outside blocked the en trances In an attempt to get to their friends. Inutile jam some of the in jured were trampled. NEW CYCLONE IN CALABRIA. Large Numbers of Bodies Found in "Ruins -20.000 Cattle Killed. ' Rome. Italy.? Another cyclone caused enormous damage In Calfibrla. A gradual clearance of the ? buildings ruined by .the recent earthquakes shows that the number of persons to perish was greater than Riven In the first es timates. Large number of bodies are being discovered dally. The work est con structing wooden cabins under (fovero loont supervision is proceeding rripidly Two thousand have already been com pleted and 4000 more will be necessary to shelter the homeless people, wljo are sleeping In the railroad depots. Statistics sffovr *20.fj00 ca t tie perUhed during the earthquakes. leaves $5,0ttv000 to Charity. * The will of lOTon Nathaniel Roths child, who died In Vienna on Juno 12, has been probated In London. Tho Baron bequeathed over $3,<0OO,*XM> to charity, chiefly devoted . to tbe relief of Kiifferers from chronic Inerrable maladies. 1 - ?? ? ? ii ??' ? 1 Girl* a* Lluotypers. j. : JW Wt ?trooemplymi . nctLv at strikebreaker* .Ta lha prtators1 -In CbLrago, and ore Hffiiim Mj typeseura* a*c1itm4. Tlifc m&qfmfr BEEF M EH PLEAD GUILTY Trust Packers Fined $25,000 For Acceptine Freight Rebates# VICTORY FOR THE GOVERNMENT our Hcl? w?i^(lillil Si Sul*bertfer Official* rnnKTuul^tritttr I.Hwyor Kuid 1,'liat ll?e 1 1 1'tOili of Vlce-l'retldent Well, of N?w V?>rk, Demanded Hit Immediate Settlement of the Cai?. Chicago. ? ' Tho II r?t triumph of the Government's prosecution of the Beef Trust, a triumph tliut ourrled dismay Into the ranks of the indicted million aire violators of the Elklns Rebate law, was completed before Judge J. Otis Humphrey irt (lie United States Dis trict Court, when the four Indicted members of the Sehwar/*ehlld & Sulz berger Company pleaded nolle conten dere to the indictments- and threw themselves on. ihe mercy of the court. The four packers who admitted their guilt and left, to Judge Humphrey tho' power of sentencing them to as high a penalty us two years in Jail or a heavy, line, are ax follows: Samuel Well, of New York, vice-pres ident of the company. H. S. Ousey, t radio manager. Vance D. Hklpworth and Chess E.' Todd, assistant traffic managers. Mr. Weil was lined $10,000, t Wither three $5000 each. The lines carried with them the pro vision that tiie defendants be confined in Jail until the money was paid, but la tliow ...oes it was an Idle provision, for scarcely bad tho penalty been an nounced when Max Sulzberger, 'his' sense of relief that It was not worse betrayed by his smiling face, drew a' check for $25,000 In full settlement of all fourjlncs. Tho defendants then en tered thAlr carriages and were driven away. ) / y The plea that has thrown tho pjfcck-' ers upon the mercy of the court was imtdy by Attorney J. K. Boyesen. He declared that the physical condition of Vice-President Well (who is sixty-five years old) was such that tho strain of> a trial would Jeopardise his life. It Is" understood that th^ plea was entered1 with the full consent of Attorney-Gen cral Moody, who was apprised of the condition of Mr. Well. /,{ These four men were not indicted for violation of theSt\orrtian Anti-Trust law, as were tlit? nineteen other lwdl vldual packers and the live corpora- <> tions. They were charged wltli a con spiracy to secure and accept rebates from railroads over which their pack ing products were shlnped. It is by no means certain that oilier packers .will' escape a Jail sentence. ? MISS ROOSEVELT IN SEOUL'^ Rides Triumphantly in Yellow Palan quin to the Legation, Seoul, Korea. ? Through streets " crowded with white-robed Koreans and lined by the imperial bodyguard standing at "present arms," Miss Alice Roosevelt, riding In the imperial yel low palanquin, triumphantly passed from the railroad station to the Amer ican legation. Tile roadways had Been freshly paved and tHe Bhops draped with the Korean and hand-painted American flags. - Miss Roosevelt, Rear-Admiral Train/ Senator and Mrs. Newlands, the Mlssef Boardman and McMlUin and Repfresen tatives J.ongworth and Gillette arrived at Chemulpo during the afternoon.- ? Minister Morgan and his staff and; somo high Koreans greeted the party.' which proceeded to Seoul by a speclkli train. The imperial car v. as placed at I Miss Roosevelt s disposal. i -f The court chamberlain met the patty' at' a halfway station on behalf ot thej Emperor, with Inquiries ns te Mis?V Roosevelt's health. On arrival in Seoul' the party wan hailed by a 'Koreanv band, which played the "Star-Spangled Banner." Korean policemen and Jap tUiefjJe gendarmes guarded the roadway,' /and grotesquely clad retainers bore 'Jong lanterns. The passage of 4he pfttty ajong the streets was everywhere heralded by the bugles of the tq>gp8. i vMtss Roosovelt and Mrs. Newiond* were guests of the American Minister. The rout of the pnrty- stayed in the - Imperial palace. * ?' PAUPERS IN KNIFE DUEL. Bloody Fight to Death Stopped by Keeper. Somorvillc, N. J.?Thc Brldgewater Townwhlp poorhouse was the scene pt a bloody duel with knives between George Potter and Edward RUey, two | inmates of the, institution. Tlie men started to light, but were separated by the keeper. Later tliey agreed to ~ settle their difference in a duel with knivfs, in which they were to fight to the death in the presence of a number of their fellow inmates. They started the tight in a secluded spot, where they were not observed by the keeper, and begun literally to cut each other to plfces. The sight horrified the spectator*, who hurriedly summoned the keeper. David Dunn. Both men wen terribly sloshed about the face and body. Pot* tor, one of the combatants.^Js eighty years old. Japan Lost in All 72,450. Japan's waf losses to date are 48 tol- . lows: Killed, 40,180; died bf wound*, 10,970; died from sickness, 15,300. The * percentage of deaths from slcknef* wij ^ leas than one-foiutl/ of the totnl death# which i? hot paralleled In the annala ot .