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I CALL FOR CARNEGIE!
s iron Master Summoned to
I Appear Before Grand Jury.
I TO VIEW FORGED NOTES
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is Dawning on the Gigantic
Crooked Financial Dealings En'\jL
gineered by Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick.
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Andrew Carnegie has been subpoen'
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?' aed to appear before the United States
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grand jury at Cleveland. ..Ohio, to
swear that he never signed any of the
famous Chadwick securities which
have now reached the astounding total
of $15,996,000.
That this will be increased to $20,000,000
before Carnegie appears before
the grand jury; seems certain,
for the United States secret service
agents are now on the trail of other
notes disposed of by Mrs. Chadwick.
The $15,990,000 represents only
* the forged paper that has been recovered
by the officials. There are positively
known to be in existence another
note for $500,000 disposed of
somewhere in New Jersey and anoths
. er one for $&UO,OO0 somewhere in
Pittsburg. In addition to all of these
tuere are said to be approximately
(I $3,0o0,000 more forged notes in existence.
To get Carnegie's testimony on the j
alleged forged checks District Attorney
Sullivan notified United States
* Marshal Henkel, of New York, to
- P^ice a suboena in the Iron Master's
hands returnable in Cleveland
Wednesday, and word was received
later that service had actually been
made.
When the contents of the "myste.rious
securities" held for Mrs. Cassie
L. Chad wick by Iri Reynolds, in the
Wade Park bank, are revealed to the
outside it will be found that the signature
of "Andrew Carnegie" has appa;
rently been forged on notes and other
papers to the total amouat of $13,750,000.
The securities held by Reynolds,
together with those that were held by
the Citizens' national bank of Ober*
Iin, and have already been made public,
aggregate this amount.
The mysterious "securities" held in
trust by Iri Reynolds, concerning
which there has been so much futile
\ speculation during the past two weeks,
consist of the following items:
First. A note bearing the signature
of Andrew Carnegie.
Second. A certificate of trusteeship
, "1 which states that Andrew Carnegie
has-- in his possession bonds to the total
amount of $7,500,000 held by him
in trust. This paper also bears the
signature of Mr, Carnegie.
I These securities, supposed to represent
the vast amount of $12,500,000,
t s hare been for the past three years the
' \ n principal basis on. which Mrs. Chadwick
has conducted her financial sysP?
tern and on which she has borrowed !
j sums which, it is conceded, run up to |
; | millions.
And these same securities are the |
I I ; rock which wrecked the Oberlin bank j
I j and caused the. ruin of hundreds of I
iJ families and losses to- business men !
almost without number.
r, ? Iri Reynolds, after his long course
of faithful gaurdianship for the woman
whom he trusted, now considers himself
a dupe. It is said as a fact that
I < Reynolds loaned Mrs. Chad wick prac- ;
tically all ..the money he possessed, i
His entanglements, however, involve !
only himself, the Wade Park bank be- j
\ j ing in no way affected.
It is understood the cerificate of !
trusteeship states the securities held j
by Andrew Carnegie for Mrs. Chad- j
wick consist of United States Steel
Central railway stock. Consolidated
and Northwestern railway stock,
in England, the- three aggregating as
\' above stated, $7,500,000.
To put it briefly the great: Chadwick j
bubble has burst. Unless help should
i ' arrive from some unseen source the i
creditors are hopeless and Mrs. Chad- !
wick has no resources. She must now '
face the storm that has been steadily
i growing in intensity.
; NO EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
President Settles Important Question.
h WH| Visit South in the Spring.
No extraordinary session of con''
gress will be held next spring for a
revision of the tariff. That has been
, decided definitely. The question o 1
* 4 an extraordinary session next fall 13
in abeyance. j
President Roosevelt announced this
: v decision to several of his caliers Sat- ;
urday.
I In view of this decision, the pres- j
ident told Representative Cooper, ol
Texas, that he had decided to make a
southern trip early next spring.
MINERS MEET DOOM.
Fifteen Lives Probably Snuffed Out in
Coai Pit Explosion.
A Tacoma, Wash, dispatch says:
Eleven miners have been killed by an
j explosion in the Burnett coal mine,
i land it Is believed that the death list
j will total fifteen. Searching parties
were immeriately organized, and after
j working incessantly ' for about eight 1
14 hears,. eleven burnt and mangled ]
corpses were recovered. j
MRS. CHADWJCK NABBED |
Manipulator of Millions Must Answer I
for Alleged Crooked Dealings
Before the Courts.
The climax ia the affairs of Mrs
Cassie L. Chadwick came at Now York
Wednesday, when she was placed under
arrest in her apartments at the
Hotel Breslin, charged with aiding and
abetting a bank officer in embezzling
?12,500. The arrest was made after a
lengthy conference between United
States Commissioner Shields, Assistant
United States District Attorney E.
E. Baldwin, Secret Service Agent J.
.Flynn and United States Marshal William
Henki. Commissioner Shields
issued the warrant, which charges a
violation of section 5209 of the United
States federal laws, relating to conspiracy.
There was a scene in the woman's
room when the officials announced to
Mrs.- Chadwick that she was under
arrest A maid opened the door, and
when asked by Agent Flynn for Mrs.
Chadwick, the woman appeared. Her
son stood by and witnessed with a
blank face the scene that followed. He
stepped to his mother's side as she
burst into tears, but said nothing.
Marshal Henki. who with his deputies
and United States Secret Service
Agent William J. Flynn, grouped in
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lue auur 01 aits, uuauwivi s apartment,
had entered without knocking,
found her in bea. Ke said:
"Madame, I have an unpleasant duty
to perform. I am obliged to serve a
warant for your arrest, issued by
United States Commissioner Shields,
at the instance of the federal authorities
of Ohio."
"I'm very nervous and ill," repliedMrs.
Chadwick. "What shall I do? I |
certainly am unable to get up."
"In that case," said tae marshal, "I
shall be obliged to remain here and
keep you under surveillance. You
will realize that unpleasant as this is
for both of us, you are a prisoner and
I have no right to leave you here alone.
I will do everything I can to relieve
you of any annoyance, however."
Y*Tien the conference was in progress
a man, belfeved to oe Mr. Powers.
one of Mrs. Chad week's counsel.
entered the room, and began to advise
her. He advised her to stay in bed,
and under no circumstances to leave
the room. Marshal Henki took exception
to the advice, and said:
"It Mrs. Chadwick needs any advice
as a prisoner I will give it to her. No
attempt will be made to move her
from here tonight, but she must go before
Commissioner Shields in the
morning."
The secret service men engaged a
room adjoining Mrs. Chadwick'" suite,
and established themselves there for
tne night.
CARNEGIE NOTE PHOTOGRAPHED
Facsimile Copy of Mysterious Paper
is Shown at Cleveland.
A phootgre.ph copy of the famous
note for $250,000 drawn in favor of
C. L. Chadwick and signed "Andrew
Carnegie," was shown at Cleveland,
O.. Wednesday. The photographic
copy and the plates from which it was
made are In the possession of District
Attomey Sullivan. A feature of this
note is the fact that the date, figures
and signature are all in the same
handwriting, while the words "two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars"
were evidently written by another person.
Following is the exact wording
of the note:
"New York, January 7, 1904.?One
year after date I promise to pay the
order of C. L. Chad wick two hundred
and fifty thousand (.250,000) dollars
at ray office in New York city for va|ile
received, with interest at 5 per I
cent. ANDREW CARNEGIE."
Upon the back of the note is endorsed
the name "C. L. Chadwick."
' < POTTER SHORTAGE GROWS.
Affairs of Davisboro Bank Delved Into
By Accountants.
Vl^atest reports from the statement [
of-expert accountants in regard to the
Davisboro, Ga., bank indicate a shortage
of $20,000.
M. S. Potter, the cashier, left Davisboro
on November 16, after having
been asked to resign by the directors
on the 13th, and has not returned.
SENATE DOWN TO BUSINESS.
At Wednesday's Session First Regular
Call for Bills, Etc., Was Made.
When the senate convened Wednesday
the regular call for business was >
made for the first time in the session |
and a large number of petitions, bills j
and joint resolutions were introduced. !
Mr. Dillingham presented the creden- j
tials of his colleague, Mr. Proctor,
for the term beginning March 4th,
next
Among the bills introduced was one
by Mr. Piatt, of New York, reducing
the apportionment of congressional
representation.
SALE OF BONDS BARRED.
Macon, Dublin and Savannah Road Re- i
strains Coast Line.
Papers have been served at New
Haven, Conn., on Goodwin Stoddard,
of Bridgeport, by Deputy United States
Marshal Parmalee, in a suit brought
in the United States court restraining
the sale of bonds of the Macon,
Dublin and Savannah, of Georgia, by
the Atlantic Coast Line, one of the
mortgagee of the road.
HAVOC BY JAP GUNS]
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Russian Warships in Harbor
at Port Arthur Riddled.
ANOTHER FORT IS TAKEN!
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Doom of the Great Fcytress Draws i
Nearer With Continuous Successful
Onslaughts of Mikado's j
Determined Bsseigers.
Advices from Tokio, under date of
Wednesday, Dec. 7, state that the Jap- j
anese troop3 occupied Akasaka hill, <
fronting oh Port Arthur Tuesday.
The commander of the Japanese j
naval guns in front of Port Arthur, tel- j
egraphing on December 6, says:
"An observation taken from 203- j
Meter hill, shows that the turret ship I
Poltava is sunk and that the battle !
ship Retvizan is listing heavily to j
port.
"Observations taken December 6 i
covered the results of the bombard-1
ment of December 5. Are now taking I
observations from a hill near Shuis- j
hiying.
"Since December 2 we have daily i
bombarded the enemy's fleet lying j
south of Paiyu mountain. From that
point only the masts and funnel .tops
of the battle ships Pobeda, Retvlzan
or the cruiser Pallada could be seen,
but it was impossible to count the !
number of our shells taking effect
"On other ships explosions resulting
from our shells could be seen, but
owing to their positions behind the
hills, it was difficult exactly to identify
them.
"The total of our shells taking effect
on the enemy's ships were as follows:
"On a vessel of the Pobieda type,
thirty-four; on the battle ship Retvizan
or the cruiser Pallada, thirtyfour;
on the turret ship Poltava, elev-1
en. Besides these, fifty other shells j
struck from which explosions fol- j
lowed. On December 5 fifteen shells !
struck the battle ship Pobieda and I
about 3:20 p. m., a big explosion was j
observed south of Paiyu mountain, re- j
suiting from the- effect of our shells, j
evidently on a powder magazine.
"The successful result of the bom- j
bardment oil December 5 is inspiring |
our men to take greater efforts."
A dispatch from Tokio under Thurs- J
day's date says: Imperial headquar
ters has made the following announcement:
"The result of the bombard
ment of Port Arthur by four large
caliber guns on the 7th instant, was j
very good. Many effective hits were
made against the battle ships Peres
viet and Pobieda and the protected
cruiser Pallada. In consequence the j
Peresviet caught fire and at 3:15 j
o clock the Pobieda listed to star-!
board."
From St. Petersburg.
Foreign telegrams received in St. j
Petersburg stating that the Japanese !
have succeeded in mounting heavy j
guns on 203-Meter hill, are regarded :
as seriously significant, and have created
a deep impression at the war of- j
fice. If the reports of the sinking of
the Russian warships in the harbor |
of Port Arthur are confirmed, it de- i
stroys the last hope of a sortie, and j
when the end comes nothing but. to J
sink those that remain in deep water j
to prevent them falling into the hands :
of the enemy. \
The importance of 203-Meter hill j
to the garison is evidenced by General J
Stoessel's desperate effort to recap- j
ture it.
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GOOD ROADS BILL REPORTED, j
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Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, |
Presents Pet Measure in Congress.
Senator Latimer, from the commit- j
tee on agriculture and forestry, re
ported favorably to the senate Wednesday,
his bill for national aid to good
roads. The bill provides an appropria-:
tion of $24,000,000 to be divided;
among the states according to popula-!
tion.
The states are to do the work of i
constructing and improving the road? j
and pay one-half of the cost, the gov- j
ernment paying the ether half.
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CALL TO COTTON GROWERS. |
Effort to Be Made to "Tie Up" Product ;
Until Prices Advance.
President Harvie Jordan, of the \
Southern Cotton Growers' Protective
\
Association, has issued a call fcr mass
meetings of farmers in everf county,
In all of the cotton states east of the
Mississippi river, fcr December 17.
The purpose of the meetings will be to
reduce farmers "to tie up between
2,000,000 and 3.000,000 bales of this j
crop until prices advance to 10 cents j
per pound.'
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CHILD LABOR LAW EFFECTIVE. I
Boys Under Sixteen Cannot Now Work !
in Illinois Coa| Mines.
Beginning Monday, the child labor I
law of Illinois began to be enforced iD
'all the coal mines of the state. Un- i 1
der the interpretation of the law, nc !
boys under 16 years of age will ue j :
permitted to work in the mine3.
It is estimated the enforcement of 1
the statute will take 2,200 boys away i
froui employment under grouud.
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LOOKS BAD FOR SWA'YNE
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High Criir.e3 are Charged to Florida
Jurist By Congressional Investigating
Committee.
A Washington special says: The
sub-committee of the house judiciary
committee, iyhieh has been taking testimony
in the case of Judge. Swayne.
of Fiorida, reported* to the full commit
tee Friday the evidence heard since
the adjournment of congress.
Representative Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
chairman of. tixe -subcommittee,
was directed to submit to the house a
report for the full committee,- embracing
the following:
"The committee on judiciary respectfully
report to the house the testimony
taken in the case of ChaTies
Swayne since congress adjourned,
with the conclusion that in their opinion
said testimony strengthens the
case against the said Charles
Swayne.'
Representative Palmer, in the report
which he submitted Saturdaysaid
that the testimony showed that
Judge Swayne, while the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West railway was in
the hands of a receiver, appointed by
him, accepted the free use of a private
car belonging to the company, stocked
with victuals out of the funds of
the company, with the company s con
ductor and cook, and; traveled over
Florida; also that Judge Swayne accepted
the use of the same car to carry
himself and a party of friends from
Florida to California and back, and
that he- accepted passes for the car
and its occupants over other roads.
Mr. Palmer's report will further-say
that the testimony shows that Judge
Swayne charged $10 a day as 'expenses
actually incurred for every day he was
away from home, while it will be added
that the testimony of witnesses
shows his expenses to have been les3
than that amount
Mr. Palmer will incorporate in the
report the testimony given by Judge
Swayne in his own behalf, including
that part in which Mr. Swayne justifies
his use of the car.
AFTER CARTER'S BOODLE.
District Attorney Erwin Impounds Securities
in Various Parts of Country,
United States District Attorney Marion
Erwin, of the Savannah, Ga., district,
has been in conference recently
with officials of the department of
justice at Washington, and the war
department in regard to the legal steps
to be taken for the recovery of certain
claims of the United States against
the estate of Oberlin M. Carter, formerly
a captain in the.army, who was
convicted of embezzling funds of the
United States in connection with the
improvement of the harbor of Savan
nah.
Certain securities held by Carter,
which it is alleged were purchased by
money embezzled from the United
States have been impounded in various
parts of the country, and are held by
the courts pending adjudication. It is
said that the amount involved is considerable.
WOMAN HAS NO FRIENDS.
Mrs. Chadwick Forced to Spend Another
Night in the Tombs.
After a day full of disagreements
with her counsel as to whether she
should waive examination and go to
Cleveland, Mrs. Chadwick finally consented
to remain another night in the
Tombs.
Mra. Chadwick had made up her
mind to ignore the advice of her New
York counsel and go to Cleveland to
stand trial there, when late Friday afternoon
she received a telegram from
her Cleveland counsel, Judge Albaugh,
asking her not to return to Cleveland
just yet. His telegram caused her to
remain over night.
better prices their object.
Many Mississippi Farmers are Refusing
to Sell Their Cotton.
The checking of the cotton market
decline during the past few days has
given growers in Mississippi a renewal
of confidence, and many of the
largest holders announce that they are I
not in the market to sell ?t existing
prices. . 4
FEUDIST HARGIS A SICK MAN.
Carried to Court on a Cot to Answer
in Suit of Mrs. Marcum.
At Winchester, Ky., Thursday morning,
Judge Hargis, noted feudist leader,
was carried to court on a cot for
the trial of the case of Mrs. J. B. Marcum
against Hargis and others, in
which she asks $100,000 damages.
Hargis was too ill to be brought into
court, otherwise, and there was much
delay while his attorneys held a conference
with him in his room at the
hotel. After the conference, Judge
Ttonfron hoo-or? /-.rv. ? XI
?? cmyiiucnu^ me jury I
for the trial of the case.
MEETING OF EDUCATORS.
Southern Association to Gather in
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 29-31.
The Southern Educational Association
of which Chancellor Walter B.
Hill, of the University of Georgia, Is
the president, will meet in Jacksonville,
Fla., December 29, 30 and 31.
An elaborate and interesting program
has been arranged and a large
attendance of teachers is expected.
[WOMAN INTOOMBS
!Mrs. Chadwick is Unabie to
Secure Rail of $15,000.
iIN MOST PITIABLE PLIGHT
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A,t Preliminary Hearing in New York
on Conspiracy Charge, Juggle.*
of Millions is Bound Over
for Trial.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Shields in New York Thuiouay
morning and held in $15,000 bail,
which she. was unable to furnish. All
day long lawyers representing her interests
had sought in every quarter
for some one own.ng real estate in
Manhattan who would sign her bond,
and the marshal had, out of sympathy
for the woman, kept her in his office
hours after she could have been removed.
The endeavors of the lawyers
were unsuccessful, rendering her imprisonment
necessary.
To add to her cup of wee, it was
learned that a charge of forgery
would very likely be made against the
woman in Ohio, based on the Carnegie
notes and other papers given as
securities for loans.
Thursday night Mrs. Chadwick occupied
one of the scantily furnished
cells in the Tombs. After a truitless
search all day for bail, her attorneys
gave up the fight.
Mrs. Chadwick was wan, tired and
j almost fainting. They were driven directly
to the Toomb3. Arriving there
Mrs. Chadwick was half carried up
the steps into the building. Warden
Flynn met the party, and after the
usual preliminaries had been attended
to, the woman asked permission to
have her nurse remain with her. This
was denied, the warden saying that
she should have no privileges not allowed
other prisoners.
Already the country has been startled
by the disclosures which have followed
one another in quick succession
since Mrs. Chadwick's affairs were
brought before the public view, less
than two weeks ago. Since that time,
Mrs. Chadwick's known indebtedness
has grown from less than $200,000 to
more than $1,000,000, and her counsel
has said that claims against, her may
amount to $20,000,000, for all he knows,
j The validity of some of the claims,
however, said the attorney, was another
matter.
The strangest feature of the mystery
has been the use of the namo of
Mr. Carnegie. What reason was offered
to explain why Mr. Ca negie,
who has an income of more than $10,000,000
a year from United States
Steel bonds alone, should be giving
notes has not been brought out.
Probably not in the history of the
United States has there been anything
i similar in the unusual cireumstanres
! and magnitude to the Chadwick borrowings.
It is known by the statement
of President Beckwith, of the failed
Citizens' national bank, of Oberlin,
Ohio, that notes for at least $1,250,000,
indorsed by Mrs. Chadwick, are
outstanding; the securities said to be
iieid by Iri Reynolds, of Cleveland,
figure to the extent of $5,000,000; Herbert
Newton, of Boston, has claims for
$190,800, and Thursday it was asserted
by those conversant with the
strange case that a number of banks
not yet mentioned in . public made
large loans to Mrs. Chadwick.
NO JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
Proposition Does Not Meet the Approval
of Congress.
The house committee on industrial
arts and expositions, at its meeting
Thursday, decided not to recommend
to the house the authorization of an industrial
exposition to be held at
Jamestown, Va.. in commemoration of
the first English settlement there or
to report my bill authoribing the appropriation
of money for an indusj
trial exposition there.
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' MANY CHANGES PROBABLE. |
President Expects Resignations of All j
Ambassadors and Cabinet Members, j
That there may be changes in the
diplomatic service and possibly in the
cabinet is evident from a statement
made by a high official of the state department
Friday replying to an inquiry
in which he said that the president
expects all the members of his
cabinet and ail ambassadors and ministers
to send in their resignations be
tiveen now and the 4th of March next. I
I\o o.Sicial announcement of this expectation
has been made, nor is one '
deemed necessarv.
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SECURITIES ARE WORTHLESS, j
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Mrs. Chadwick's Five Millions Shrink j
to Less Than Five Cents.
According to a story publisned in
Cleveland, O., the package of securities
belonging to Mrs. Chadwick and
in the possession of Iri Reynolds, supposed
to contain $5,000,000 worth of
collateral, was opsned Friday morning.
It is declared that while the face
value of the securities was $5,000,000,
the actual value is rot one cenL
DOWN WITH TH? CZAR! 1
! Gigantic Demonstration in St. Petersburg
Against Further Continuance
of War?Heads Battered.
I A St. Petersburg special says: A
| popular anti-government demonstrai
Uon, the participants in which in- - Jg
j eluded large numbers of students of
both sexes, began at midday Sunday
in the Nevski prospect and lasted
: about two hours. Hundreds of police /
i and mounted gendarmes, who were
i hidden in the court yard of the public
: buildings, emerged suddenly and
! charged the crowd at full gallop, driy* ffigj
j ing the demonstrators in headlohg jam
* confusion upon the. sidewalks and into
! adjacent streets. This led to serious |j
j encounters, fifty persons being mors ,
or less severely injured. Large numi
bers were arrested.
Not since the riots of 1901, when "M
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I Cossacks stretched across the Nevski
! prospect from building to building,
charged down the boulevard from the -vis .Vj;
Moscow station to the Neva*, his the
'Russian capital lived through such |
J a day of excitement as ibis. The an- j^|S |
| thorities previously got wind of <
! big anti-government demonstration
| planned for Sunday by the social demi
ocratic labor party to demand an im- -Mgm
I mediate end of the war and the con- '
! vocation of a national assembly and in -j
I every leading paper in black-faced i
: type was an explicit warning to the
' people at their peril to desist from
I congregating to the Nevski prospect
; near the Kazan cathedral. . J5 v
The newspaper warnings, however,
| by giving notice to those not apprised
I of the prospect of a demonstration,
I defeated the very object for which
i they were designed, attracting seem* JmK
i ingly the whole population of the Jg ^
! vast city to the broad thoroughfare;
j and long before the hour fixed, ^ :
spite the pleading of the police, who 'fjj
literally linfd the' sidewalks, the
throngs on the pavements were so
dense that movement was almost im
Iii throngs on the sidewalk were
practically the whole student body
of the capital, including many young
women, who have always been promi- ^
nent in Russia in liberal revolutionary
movements, and thousands of work- z'M J
men belonging to the social labor parThe
police recognizing that the critical
moment was approaching, tried 1n ?jj >3
vain to keep back the human tide. . ^
| Then, when there was not a single
mounted policeman in sight, on the 51
stroke of 1, from the heart of the
thickly wedged crowd a blood red > jjral
flag like a jet of flame suddenly shot ?|S:|
i up. It was the signal. Other flags
| appeared in the crowd, waving fran- 7|B
j tically overhead, and they were greet- |?S
ed with a hoarse roar, "Down with anj
tocracy." The students surged into . '-J|| J
| the street singing the "Marsellase." : % ^
Dismounted police made a single |
; attempt to force their way into the >|j ?
j crowd to wrest the flags from the
! demonstrators but the students and ^
| workmen, armed with sticks, stood -WtK
j close and beat back their assailants. / J . :
Then, like a flash, from behind the
! Kazan cathedral, came hordes of gend- M :Jj
i armes. The doors of adjoining court- la -!
| yards were thrown back and batal- '^|
| ions of police came out and furiously 2?|
| cnarged the dense throngs. -
ONLY HULKS ARE LEFT.
i Japs Have About Annihilated Russian
Fleet at Port Arthur.
A Tokio dispatch of Sunday says: ;:3S
j The Japanese continue to batter the .*;Jj ;
I Port Arthur fleet, and there is little .
ground for expecting that it will ever -3#
! again engage the Japanese.
A majority of the sunken warships
received the bulk of the fire across
their port sides. To make sure of
the destruction of the Rusian warships
the Japanese continue to drop
shells into the sunken hulks. .
Rusians Are Fleeing Hither.'
Eight hundred Russians, most of if?
whom allege that they fled form their
homes to escape military service in
Manchuria, left London a few days $|
ago for Liverpool on their way to ^Jg
America.
ROOT AND CORLON WINNERS.
Six-Day Bicycle Race at New York
Comes to a Whirlwind Finish. ;v|g
Madison Square garden was crowded
with bicycle enthusiasts Saturday
night to see the finish of the six-day
bicycle race for the purse of $2,500.
The teams finished as follows: Root .Ja
and Dorlon, Stol and Vandorstuyft,
Samuelson and Williams, Keegan and ,
Logan, Krebs and Fogler, Breton and
Gougoltz.
TVn .A/in.J ~ n n??
auv- icuiu xwi uxc ciuiu was
miles and four laps. The teams were " i;
on the track 342 hours and the race 3
was concluded at 10 o'clock Saturday .4
SEEKS CONFISCATED DIAMOND*
Woman Appeals to Roosevelt for Return
of Valuable Gems.
President Roosevelt has now under p
consideration the application made by
a woman, Mrs. Phyllis Dodge, for remission
of the forfeiture and the res- ^
toration to her of the diamonds aggre*
gating in value about $40,000 brought
to this country by her about five yean
ago and seized and confiscated by the
custom officers at New York.