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EICHTARE MANGLED" In Crash of Auto and in Collision With Train. WAS PECULIAR TRAGEDY x Automobile Containing Nine persons i Dashes Over High Embankment Onto Railroad Tracks in Front of Train. ! i I Driven at the rate of 25 miles an j hour, a three seated touring car, containing nine persons?four men*' and five women?dashed over an embankment at the southern end of Jerome avenue, in New York city, early Friday morning, landing on the southbound track of the New York Centra! i and Hudson railroad. Just at that moment a southbound local tram, running fast to make up tinffe, rounded a curve and struck the automobile. Three persons were killed, two instantly; two were seriously injured and the other four, although badly bruised, were able to go home. The dead: Allen Ncyes, chalfeur of the automobile, killed instantly; Madge Corcoran, age 30; Eella Perse,, died in hospital. The injured: Mrs. Kitty Wads worth, age 35, skull fractured, will die; Moses Spiess, fracture of the Jaw; Jeannette Tavis, Cnarles Doran, j Emma Perez and Thomas Murphy, | slight bruises. The party were returning to the River Side Casino from a trip to Mount Vernon. Whether the chaffeur knew of the short extension of Jerome beyond One hundred and sixty-first Btreet or not will never be known. The corner at that point is brilliantly lighted, but the extension. leading to the edge of the embankment above the New York Central is paved with brick, and the car tracks run down to a picket fence at the edge. Warning Given Too Late. Several persons, including two policemen, saw the automobile rushing down the avenue, and were surprised when it kept straight ahead. They shouted a warning, but it was too late. With no apparent slackening of the speed, the big car crashed through the fence, cleared a dirt embankment, ex< tending about five feet above the stone retaining wall, and then clearing the wall, made a sheer drop of 25 feet to th6 railroad track. In its descent the car half turned and several of its occu- i pants w^re spilled out. When it struck j the tracks, Noyes, Bella Perez and Madge Corcoran were thrown to the tracks, the others falling to the side of j the rails. rrrViof >> o nnon oi in tho fpw cer. I onds that preceded the crash of the 10- j cal train the survivors themselves i were unable to relate. They were | Btunned and bleeding and trying to re- j cover themselves when they heard the j | roar of the train and then the fright- j ful crash. . The tower man in a switch tower ! about a hundred feet north of Jerome j avenue heard the automobile as it j broke through the fence, and running to his window, saw the car strike the track. The Croton local was but 200 feet away, and the engine about fifty feet north of a block signal. Jumping j to the switch mechanism, he dropped j the lever that worked the arm of the signal which was working the green light, and instantly the danger signal flashed before the eyes of the locomotive engineer, who just caught the red glare as his cab passed the signal ! post. At once ne reversed his engine j and put down the air brakes, but his ! speed had hardly slackened when tne j train struck the automobile. The train came to a stop in a distance of about eight hundred feet. On the train was j Health Commissioner Thomas Darl- j ington, who took charge of the work of caring for the injured. The locomotive engineer was arrested, but was released on his own recognizance, j BANK VAULT IS LOOTED. Robbers Secure Booty to Amount of $20,OOP in Indiana Town. Robbers dynamited the bank at Freeland, Ind., early Saturday morning, and it is reported secured $20,000. The 1 safe was blown open and looted and the entire side of the bank buiiding J was blown out. The noise awakened the people of the town, who hurriedly gathered at the wrecked buiiding, but the robbers were gone and no clew had been obtained. Everything of value in the safe was taken. THROWN INTO BANKRUPTCY. Alabama Round Lap Bale Company Goes Into Court's Hands. The Alabama Cotton Products Company, handling exclusively , roundlap bales, receivers for which were appointed Thursday, was thrown into involuntary bankruptcy Friday on petition cf the Consolidated national bank of New York and Samuel G. Bogert, also of New York, and Michael Flynn, of Pike Road. JAPS ARE OUTFLANKED. For Once Russians Seem to Be Making Successful Moves and are Taking the Offensive. , A St. Petersburg dispatch under Monday's date says: General Kuropatiiin's order of the day announcing his determination to take the offensive is ' 1 /-kf. supplemented oy mg usws mac aa uifensive movement has already begun and that the Japanese line has broken at Bentsiaputze. The Japanese occupied a front of about 52 miles, stretching from Bentsiaputze on the east through Yentai and across the railway to the banks of the Hun river on the west. The Russian force has been moving south in close touch .with the Japanese advance since October 4. The Japanese outposts were driven back in a series of skirmishes, and on October 6 the Russians reoccupied the station of Shakhe 15 miles south of Mukden, the railway battalion restoring the bridge across the Shakhe river the next day in order to facilitate the advance. Meanwhile General Mistchenko's Cos- j sacks moved southwest as far as the Yentai mines, defeating the Japanese in a series of warm skirmishes. The most important action, however, occurred on the Japanese right at Bentsiaputze. Here the Japanese held a strong and important position, but it acquis tuizy mauc tuc iavAi/uvuw.v j omission to fortify a commanding hill i which was the key to the whole situa- j tion. A portion of General Kuropat- j kin's force made a strong attack on | Bkntsiaputze and, taking a leaf out of ) the Japanese book, occupied the hill from the east and flanked the Japanese out of town, causing a 3erious loss in a rear guard fight. The Russian casualties are reported to have been inconsiderable. While these operations are progress- j ing south of Mukden, it is reported j that two Japanese divisions, under j General Fugi, are marching west up I the Liao river and are now 22 miles ! south of Sinmintin. General Kuroki is expected to make j a similar movement eastward. A dispatch from Mukden says: A ; crossing of the Taitse river east of Ben3ihu by Russian cavalry shows that the Japanese are retiring on their position at Liao-Yang and in ..he nest j of hills east of Yentai, as though they | were still desiring a decisive action 1 near Liao-Yang. The inactivity of the Japanese is not | unusual. It recalls their retirement i from the vicinity of Kai-Chou before j the battle of Vafangow. It also recalls ; General Kuroki's strategy throughout the firing line in Motien pass. I DEATH CLAIMS GEN. RANSOM. Distinguished North Carolina Soldier . and Statesman Passes Away. General Matthew W. Ransom, con federate general, ex-United States senator and minister to Mexico under j President Cleveland, died unexpected- | ly at his home naer Garrysburg, N. C., Saturday. He was 78 years of age. He represented North Carolina in the United States senate for twenty-three years, being defeated for re-election by the fusionists in 1895. ? His death was entirely unanticipated and his family was at Blowing Roclc, his summer home, when he died. He owned an immense plantation and his property is estimated at nearly a million. General Ransom was by far the most distinguished North Carolinian. He died on his 78th birthday, having been born October 8, 182G. In 1852 he became attorney general of North Carolina, being the youngest man ever elected to that position. During the civil war he rose to brigadier general and in 1872 he was elected to the United States senate, where he served for 22 years, being succeeded by Maricn Butler, when the Populist-Republican wave swept over the state in 189G. Aftr leaving the senate he was appointed minister to Mexico by President Cleveland, and on the expiration of that term returned to his farm in Vnrtiiamnt-nn rrmntv. where he has been exceedingly successful, being the largest cotton planter in the state. PREDICTS A LONG STRUGGLE. Count Okuma Tells Japs to Prepare for a Stupendous Outlay. A Tokio dispatch says: In addressing the members of the united clearing houses of Tokio, Thursday, Count Okuma, the leader of the .progressive party, warned the people to prepare for a long war. He predicted that the cost to Japan for a two years' war, including the loans which had already been placed and the expenses of the war, at its termination, would total $1,000,000,000, which would make the per capita share amount to $20. Rumor Results in Run on Bank. An idle rumor that the Dime Sav ings Bank in Canton, Ohio, lost $75, 000 by the failure of the Aultman company, started a run on the bank Monday. All creditors were promptly paid. The bank was not affected. i ! irnrtun.-* Pair! for Hamhnrn. . ? ? - ? The stallion Hamburg, one of the 1 stud of the late William C. Whitney. ; was sold for $70,000 to Harry Payn* ' Whitney at New York Monday. < TWENTY-EIGHT DIE! Another World's Fair Train; in Frightful Crash. | DASHES INTO A FREIGHT1 i i Disaster Occurred on Missouri Pacific ! Railway and Was Caused by i Freight Engineer Being Deluded. Twenty-eight persons were killed and sixty injured by a head-on colli- j sion by Missouri Pacific trains 3 j miles east of W&rrensburg, Mo., Mon- | day. The trains were the second sec- j tion of a passenger train from Wichi- | ta, for St. Louis, and an extra freight i train. Most of the dead were resi- | dents of Missouri and Kansas, as are j the injured. ffl The passenger train, consisting of ; two day coaches, a Pullman and a caboose, was loaded with world's fair excursionists from southeastern Kansas and southwestern Missouri. The Wichita passenger train had been cut in two at Pleasant Hill, on account of the heavy load, and a lo comotive attached to the front car without a baggage car as a buffer. The extra freight had been sidetracked at Mount Serratt for the first section of the Wichita train, which carried signals that a second section was following. A local passenger train passed and the freight crew took the local for the second section of the Wichita train and pulled out of the side track. Three miles west the freight met the second section. The impact telescoped the tender of the passenger locomotive and the front car, which was full of passengers, and it was here that the sacrifice of life took place. The passenger conductor, E. L. Barnes, ran all the way to Warrensburg to report the wreck. Every physician in Warrensburg and hundreds of citizens hastened to the wreck to assist the wounded. Twenty persons were killed outright and eight died within a few hours. A coroner's jury is now seeking the person responsible for the wreck. The conductor of the freight train says he was dozing while his train was at Mount Serratt, and when the local train passed Engineer Horton believed that it was the second section of the Wichita train, and thinking the track clear, pulled out on the main track. E. Drexel, postmaster at Kansas, was taken out from under a heap of seven bodies, suffering only a broken leg. GEN. RANSOM LA:D TO REST. State Capital at Raleigh Closes and Flag at Half Mast. The funeral of the late ex-Senator Matt Ransom, of North Carolina, was held Monday afternoon at his country residence, "Verona," near Garysville, in Northampton county. The body was interred in the old burying ground with Masonic honors. The services were conducted by Rev. John A. Weston, of the Episcopal Church, of Hickory. General Ransom was a member of that church. Notable men from many sections of the state were present. In Raleigh the state capitol was closed and the flag was at half mast. RAILROADS ARE HELD UP. Atlanta to Grant No More Privileges I Until Freight Rates Are Adjusted. The Atlanta y>eight bureau won during, the special -session of council j the first of the series of fights it will wage agsinst all railroad interests un til Atlanta is given oetter ireigni rates. The ordinance of the special committee on the Washington street viaduct matter an-J the proposition of the Louisville and Nashville and other j railroads tor terminal facilities, was i re-referred to a committee with in- ' struciions to report during council's ' first November session. WYNNE SUCCEEDS PAYNE. Office of Postmaster General to Be ; Temporarily Filed by Assistant. j President Roosevelt Monday an- ' nounced the appointment of Robert J. ' Wynne, acting postmaster general, as postmaster general. The appointment i is temporary, and George B. Cortelyou ! will succeed to the office about Jan-1 uary 1, Mr. Wynne resuming the position of first assistant. Chief Clerk ; John J. Hawley, of the first assistant's office, will become acting first assistant, and no new appointment to that place will be made. Mr. Wynne was inducted into his new otnce Mon- ( day afternoon. TAGGART SURE OF MONTANA. ! I Labor Organizations Pledge Support to ; the Democratic Ticket. I Chairman Taggart. cf the democrat- j ic national committee, received a dis- j patch from Montana Saturday, stat- |' ing that the labor organizations oi j hat state had indorsed the Parker ind Davis electoral ticket, which Mr. raggart says means the electoral vote Df Montana for the democratic ticket 1 - V '?yW *"' *: N vk;'. v- &<;' ;> \ JAPS CONTINUE RETREAT; i Forward March of Russians Against i Their Foe Eegins Auspiciously, I But Result Is Speculative. Advices of Monday from the Far East indicate that v/hHe General Ku- | ropatkin has continued to advance his I entire front against the armies of | Field Marshal Ayama ,he has roc | met with any formidable opposition, j However, the expectation is that a j battle of magnitude must he fought within a few days. it is Dcuevea mat i the Japanese %'ill make a stand at I Liao-Yang. Several positions east of j that place have been abandoned by the ! Japanese. At Petersburg it is surmised that Field Marshal Oyama's forces have been weakened by the dispatch of ! troops to aid General Nogi in reduc- J ing Port Arthur, and that this con- j dition has afforded General Kuropat- j kin an opportunity to recover ground j lost during the month of August. According to the Associated Press, the advance by. fhe Russians actually begun October 5 and the preparations were enveloped in the greatest secrecy. Sunday night a correspondent of the Associated Press telegraphed the first news that the forward march had begun auspiciously for the Russians. the Fapmese having lost a most Important fortified position. Bentsiapulze, the key of the Benishu road, and the ford of the Taitse river, and having exposed their right flank. Monday morning came the news that the Japanese were being driven back along the whole front. But these are only advance guard successes. The heavy work is still ahead and a Russian victory will only be certain when the Russians re-enter Liao-Yang. The Japanese armies are prepared to meet the Russians and the advance of the latter is expected to develop quickly. The decisive moment of the campaign is close at hand. Japs Si t'< Russian Ships. It is reported in Tokio that the Japanese recently centered a fire from the land positions and from the fleet blockading Port Arthur on the west harbor with the object of destroying The Russian fleet and succeeded in sinking three vessels, the names an 1 character of which are unknown. The failure of the Port Arthur fleet to make a sortie is creating the impression that the Russians intend to destroy their ships just before the fall of the fortress in preference ta taking the risk of a sortie. PROMINENT CLUB MAN SUICIDES. ?u~-e' 1 Ulall DAtnrts r do I lllj oiiamciui viioiywa II ? .. . ..... ? to Self-Destruction. Frank dePeyster Hall, a member of several prominent clubs, Monday shot and killed himself. A suit brought by him against two other clubmen alleging slander and demanding $100,000 damages, was to have come up in court during the day. The suits were against Alfred H. Bond, president of the Calumet Club, and George A. Carmack, secretary of the New York Yacht Slub. Hail alleged that both men, in conversation with others, had accused him of. disgraceful practices while he wa3 a member of the Calumet Club. BRYAN TOURING MISSOURI. Nebraskan Takes Clp Cudgels on Behalf of Parker and Davis. William Jennings Bryan addressed an open air meeting at Marysville, Mo., Monday, pleading for the election of Joseph W. Folk, democratic candidate for governor of Missouri. Touching on national affairs, he i?id he believed his hearers would give him credit for courage enough to oppose Parker openly if he did not regard him as the best man for the place, and that he hop'fi his -eputatic*i for truth and veracity was such that his friends would believe him when he said he was supporting the democratic nominees hi' every means in his power Bean Eaters Win Pennant. Boston vanquished New York on the baseball field at New York Monday, winning the American League championship pennant for the second time. COUNTY OFFICER SLAIN. Deputy Sheriff In Florida Shot Dead in Public Road. About 4:30 Friday afternoon Deputy Sheriff Garrett V. Chamberlain was shot near his home at Tacoma, Alachua county, Fla., by a negro while in a wagon with his wife. He died, instantly. His wife was prostrated and could not talk, consequently particulars are lacking. The people are very indignant and big crowds went to guard the roads and approaches. Sneriff Fennel, of Alachua county, sent to Fairbanks for bloodhounds. MAY WINTER AT PENSACOLA. . Atlantic Training Squadron Officials | Favor Florida Port. Rear Admiral Wise, commander in chief of the Atlantic Training squadron, has recommended that the squadron spend the greater part of the winter in Pensacola harfJhr and that vicinity. He says the facilities for boating there a.re good. Officials are disposed to favor the recommendation. /T J / watson's letter: Populist Candidate Accepls; Nomination' of Party. I A SCORCHING EPISTLE. ! Both. Democrats and Republicans are Spiltcd on the Same Pitchfork. i j An Appeal to the Voters of the Country. I Hon. Thomas E. Watson made pub- j lie at Birmingham, Ala., Sunday night j his letter accepting the nomination of j the People's Party for the presidency. I The letter is very lengthy, and much of it is devoted to a bitter arraignment of tke democratic and republican parties. He devotes considerable space to explaining why the people'3 party, stands for the initiative and referen- j dum, and the imperative mandate and right of recall, under which officials j who fail in doing their duty can be J summarily punished. He declares j strongly for the election of all offl- j cers by the people, which "for one! thing would bring the federal judges to their senses and take out of their inflated souls the ideas that they are J earthly editions of Jehovah." In the beginning Mr. Watson says: j To Hon. Samuel W. Williams, Chair-! man Committee on Notification: j When two great political parties have, j in turn, governed a country, and have j between them brought about unsatis-1 factory conditions, it is but a natural j fact that a third party should arise.! Citizens who have looked in vain to J "the two great parties" fcr remedial legislation lose confidence for both i after a while, and adopt one of twg courses?they either submit to the evils of bad government, or protest by organizing a third party. To the student of history there is 1 nothing more saddening than the ten- j dency of the people to submit. As a ! rule, political education never reaches 1 the masses. Statecraft, like priestcraft, jealously guards its secrets. There is always the inner sanctuary which the people are taught to believe would be profaned by the touch of their unholy feet Again, in organized government, there is a mysterious reverence for j authority. "Whatever is, is right" to j the unthinking multitude; and the votaries of power never cease to deepen j that impression. Thus, partly from j ignorance and partly from reverence ! for established authority, the people, in every age, have shown more in-1 clination to submit to bad government j than to resist it. i In concluding Mr. Watson makes a direct appeal to the voters in the folInwinrr To the courage and the intelligence of the voter I appeal. If you think I j am right, vote that way, or you are a I moral coward. Do not fear that your j vote will be "thrown away." Your vote is never thrown away until it ceases to be the representative of your j honest convictions. | To the extent that the opponents of republican principles support me in 1904, the hands of those will be strengthened who shall make war upon the republicans in 1908. The present attitude of national democracy is an impossible one. They will be driven from it, beyond all doubt. Four years from now the Belmonts, Gormans and Hills should be put into the republican camp where they belong. The real democrats will return to their Omaha and Chicago platform. In some honorable way the Bryan democrats must act with us; the cause demands it; duty requires it; patriotism exacts it, to the success of true democracy it is indispensable To preserve an organization of resistance to the plutocracy, to show them that they cannot play their selfish game quite so easily as they had imagined, to make them feel that there is life in the people yet, to form a nucleus around which the betrayed people could rally, we make this struggle. It has already grown into larger proportions than I could have foreseen It promises to bring forth good fruit without heart sickening delays. I accept the nomination tendered me, and indorse the platform upon which it is made. In this campaign, when plutocracy has captured both the old parties, it seemed an absolute neces sity that some one should erect me standard of Jefferson democracy. Had no one made the effort to infuse the spirit of resistance into the people, four more years of apathy and discontent might have rendered the case hopeless. The leaders in 1908 who would seek to rekindle the hopes of the masses might have been met with the cry, "Too late!" SPAIN AND FRANCE AGREE. Treaty on Morocan Difference Has Been Signed Up. A Paris special says: Foreign Minister Delcasse and M. Leon y Castillo, the Spanish ambassador, Friday signed the Spanish-French agreement relative to Morocco, which has been the subject of extended and difficult negotiations. :-A-~ .. V-jI,, HITCH PLACED ON TRIAL J The "Statcsboro" Courtmartial Begins at Savannah and Case of the Captain Is the First Called. Tho courtmartial ordered by Cover- ' nor Terrell to try Captain Robert il. Hitch and other officers of the Geor- : gia State Troops, on charges of incompetency and dereliction of duty in connection with the Statesboro lynch* :-"3 ing and incineration of two negro prisoners, began its sitting in Savannah . Monday morning. The proceedings were open to the public. The charges against Captain Hitch, who was in command of the troops at Statesboro, were taken up first. Colonel Toomer, of Way cross, repre- 2 senting Captain Hitch, moved that the charges be quashed on the ground of incompleteness, indirectness and irrel- j evancy, but the motion was denied. Captain Hitch entered a plea of not ' -M guilty to every charge. The names of some fifty witnesses were called, and A they were ordered sequestered. Lieutenant Colonel Grayson testified with respect to the orders under which the militia went to Statesboro. 1 "iti Lieutenant A. J. Fulton, who went with the troops to Statesboro, testi- 'J3k fled that the orders to the men prior to the attack on the militia were that the soldiers were not to shcot even it attached, shot'at and hit, without '11 specific orders from the commander! jM Lieutenant Mclntyre was on the -i|J stand in the afternoon. He stated that .Jl one time he asked Captain* Hitch for |j| permission to shoot, and it wafc denied him. Lieutenant Mclntyre said that when he importuned Captain Hitch to let *|? him follow the mob, and tha: officer v'siS refused, he stripped off his coat, (le- ;5jl daring that he would belong to tiO x>JS such organization, and told Captain -'M Hitch to accept his resignation. Colonel Toemer p.sked Mclntyre if he ' had not testified at the court of in* /igm quiry that Captain Hitch had said. -/-M in answer to his request to let him " shoot, "Jimmie, you can do as yon .|9 please." He answered in the affirm*"Then, why do you change your tcstlmony now?" "Because," and the witness faced the .court, "I did not feel tbat* I was compelled to tell it then; in fact, I was trying to shield Captain Hitch as well as I could. He was my superior officer. But in a courtmartial it is \r% | different" 'v%|f Mayor C. S. Johnson, of Statesboro, ||3 told of his efforts to pacify the crowd, -gm ! Less than 100 men had taken actual '/M part in the rioting. In answer to quea- '..,^9 ; tions by the court the witness thought ' /rJ| ! r. messeneer could have gotten | through the crowd to the jail; in fact, '.'SI i he thought he could have carried such , j a message. I He was one of the committee who sent a telegram to the governor to jgj tne effect that he thought there wonld } be a lynching after conviction. He did not remember if he had cow- pmunicated his fears to Captain Hitch, '*?jH hut thought he must have done so. :|? Dr. Morrison, first lieutenant and a? ^ sistant surgeon, was called. ! He had sent a telegram for Captain P\'tch. He had free access to the crowd as he had on civilian clothes, He first went to Judge Daly aboti?; Wm j asking for help and was referred to Captain Hitch, who told him that it | was not needed. About thirty minutes i|| ! later he made the same round and j|g was told to call for help which he did ' by telegraph. The witness was stand- -j&k i ing not far from Captain Hitch when Ygi I the latter was seized and hustled into ' the crowd. = *^|| j Lieutenant Cone was recalled. Ho 3|| ! said nothing had been said to him ! about loading and firing. As the mob | crowded up the steps the soldiers start* ! ed to use the bayonets as they were j|| i driven up the stairs. | On one occasion he had seen Cap- {fii ! tain Hitch stop Private Rogers from :J| i using his bayonet when he was being j crowded on the stairs. ?. I The force at the camp was entirely ^||i i available as reinforcements. Lieuten- ^9 i ant Cone estimated tnat irom nuy to seventy-five men took part in mob ysjs j violence and that not over 200 men ;||| i were with the prisoners. FEAR OF COURT WANES. . Alleged Lynchers Who Skipped Out from HuntsviJIe are Returning. : A Huntsvrlle, Ala., dispatch says: Finding that the indictments against > them will not hold, because of the de| cision of the supreme court on the ! Lusk bill, sc-veral of the men who i left their homes when the last grand -^j ; jury began its investigation of the ?|jjj| ; lynching c-f Horace Maples, have re- ,.r$j turned, and many others have written jtJlj relatives and friends that they are coming. FATAL FIRE IN HOTEL. ' Four People Lose Life and Two Badly ^sf Hurt at St. Joseph. ! Four persons, three men and one ;s?l3 : woman, lost their lives in the burning ^ of the Travey hom?, South St. Joseph. Mo., Friday morning. Two per-. ...? sons were probably fatally injured. ! The fire started in the kitchen of ^J? the hotel, which was a frame build- J| lng, and the guests and boarders were '"v| ; aroused with difficulty. The three dead men were boarders and unmar- ^