The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, April 21, 1904, Image 1
VOL. I. NO. 12. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 19Q4. $1.50 PER YEAR.
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Tarta ml Wmt kn.
London, (By Cable). ? The St.
Petersburg officials announce that at
daybreak Wednesday the battleship
Petropavlovsk was destroyed at Port
Arthur, with 700 men and officers,
including Vice-Admiral Makaroff.
The Russian advices declare' the
^re#4e' ^as blown up by a mine that
?ad drifted from its moorings, but
dispatches from Wei Hai Wei induce
the confident belief here that a naval
engagement occured off Port Arthur
of a severe character and that later
telegrams will show that the Russians
suffered a severer loss than is yet
admitted.
A rumor has reached Rome that
Vice-Admiral Makaroff's squadron
was attacked by the whole Japanese
fleet, concealed behind Miatoao is
lands. His retreat was cut off and
he was forced to fight against odds,
with the result that all his shipj were
damaged, while the Petropavlovsk was
surrounded by torpedo boats, struck
by five torpedoes and blown up.
Another report is to the effect that
Rear Admiral Molas is among those
killed aboard the Petropavlovsk.
RUSSIAN STORY OP CATASTROPHE.
?' tie Less ?f the
Pttrepavtovafc.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). ? All
Russia wai stunned by dispatches
trbm Port Arthur telling of the blow
ing up and sinking of the first class
battleship ,Pethopavlovsk by a mine
and the death of Vice-Admiral Maka
roff and all^ut. a, score of the 700
men and officers on bis flagship.
The wliole population of St. Peters- I
burg is awake, uniting for furtlior
particulars of the disaster; and ex
citement throughout the city, and par
ticularly artiqng the crowds of thous- 1
ands who throiig the streets, is at
fever heat.
Despair prevails everywhere Th?>
streets arc patrolled by largely in
creased; guards. '-rgeiy m
pa,ace t?,c high officials of
?? ?' constant con
rHHZ ?* . Jhc censors arc planning a
8Hrve??ancc of war news,
with thTly ?,r.cu"?tance in connection
DukeVylil n,. ',' "V* ,ho Grm<l
c I: ?. t,le Czars cousin nwl
Mvca? M ,,,c.
tfattiirl 1 .s"st?''ied injuries, the
" n<" k"??" "is
ccXij r"h" formal dispatches re
wh^r ?l, ? d? ,IOt n,akl*
whether the mine was a Russian r?r
t'*i.neS/e' ^ thought it was one
of plac<?mCr' W,"ch ,,?J <,riflC(1 OMt
?hi? i9 a,S<i l'ncertain as to whether
ftion Wa*u ^tcr tho dcslruc
dhMtch inrf- ?tr^fv,ovsk> ,nit
oispatCh indicates that a severe .-n
rfagement Was on
^The account of ihe disaster is dra
#l,jll-^ussira,.\ flcef steamed out of
-v? * ?{ , orl Arthur ot daylight
Vice-Admiral Makaroff, the 11
Sail 2?. # -I the ?u*??n Pacific fleet.
' 'pltn t ^ls a,f on t,le formidable
Petropavlovsk and led tl,e big arraJ
?a*e thl"* Shl,,H as tI,en we,,t to <??
,? R*g? the enemy.
!?*. Admiral Togo's vessels were f-ir
SSn^h^'h ',0ri^'V ,nancuvering
??!. ? f8t P?s,t"?n to meet their
oncoming foes. The great hulks of
the Russians moved in dignified
" ^^akal-nff canned for acti?
firM ofliccr of his
jikovleffraa?n. ?Ukc Syril CW*'?
yakovleff and the other officers the
* course ^ ,ayii,? thcir
course and planning the expected bat
: th? man WM at ,lis P?*t and
the fjaj! gM0S W?rC bei,'K ran?**d for
" sam* VfRSC,S of thf n?ct the
same methodical preparations were
fecrtV"^oha,"?- "u''r
thi ifs officers eagerly watched
ahead gnfVC/l? "J l,,e morninK niist
we^ilw? rm fr?ni which signals
were being displayed for their disoo
V,?.n ?n the line of battle. P
ihl ul ?** fi?,,ters werc well out 01
eJs on Z rhn SUJ(,cn|y ^e watch
ers on the trailing boats saw an im
2 . column of water spout up
t starboard side of the
S 'caclnnvf far above the
fighting masts and desccndinir in a
deluge on the stripped deck *of th?
vessel. There was an accompanying
muffled roar. ?
The giant vessel paused as if stayed
by an unseen hand, lurched, sprang
forward and began to settle to star*
boards
The nearest ships lowered boats,
which pulled away for the distressed
battleship. A score of such rescuers
were in the water in a few minutes.
On the Petropavlosvk there must
have been scenes of the direst horror.
Of the 700 men all but a score were
below decks or in the turrets.
When the explosion occurred the
officers immediately divined the cause.
A mine had been struck and a great
hole torn in the side of the vessel be
low the water line. Into this the sea
poured, listing the vessel rapidly.
Orders were issued to flood the
compartments on the port side of the
ship in order to bring it to an even
keel, but these instructions could not
be carried out.
Graduslly over went the big battle
ship. Into a few boats scrambled
such of the men as were above deck.
The first thought was for the Grand
Duke Cyril and he was helped to a
boat by his lieutenants.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). ? Barely
recovering from the shock of the
catastrophe to the battleship Petro
palvlovsk. the city and nation were
again plunged more deeply plunged
into grief when official telegrams were
?iven out announcing the sinking of
the torpedo-boat destroyer Bezstra
s-hni, with a crew of forty-five, and
the damaging of the battleship Po
bieda on a mine in the Port Arthur
horbor.
No news was received from Port
Arthur until 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, when a long cipher message
was received and hurried to the naval
officials and translated. The message
was from Hear Admiral Prince Ouk
tomsky, who tersely told of the new
misfortune which had overcome the
squadron. The message after con
firming the loss of t lie Pctropalovsk,
said:
"The torpedo boat Vestrashni was
sent out with other*, 011 a night ex
piditioii, and was unable to return,
i.wing to the stress of weather. She
was surrounded by the enemy's tor- I
pedo boats and sank fighting, I'ive j
men were saved.
"After the sinking of the Petro- 1
pavlovsk I took over temporarily the
command ot the fleet.
"While surrounded by the enemy's
squadron, the battleship Pobieda ran
into a mine, which struck her star
hoard side *amidship. The Pobieda
succeeded in making the harbor with
out aid. No 011c 011 board was hurt."
The Pobieda is a battleship of !<?.-;
(>74 tons displacement and of 14,500;
horsepower. She i* 401 (4 feet long,
has 71 fee| beam and draws ib feet
ot water and is heavily armored with
steel. She was completed in 1001 ;
has a complement of 732 men. Her
estimated speed is tK knots. The
steel armor of the battleship varies
in thickness from four to nine and a
half inches along her belt, he arma
ment of the Pobieda consists of four
ton-inch gun.*, eleven six-inch guns,
sixteen three-inch guns, ten i.K-inc'n
tuns and seventeen t. 4-inch guns.
Slie lias six torpedo tubes.
T lie official bulletin conveying the
information of Prince Ouktontsky and
telling ot the destruction of tlie des
troyer and the injuring of another
battleship was almost as severe a blow
as the news of the first disaster. The
people of the city had been up all
night anxiously awaiting news from
Port Arthur, and despite the blinding
.-.nowstorin that prevailed the bulletin
hoards were besieged by large crowds
during the day. The posting of the
bulletin in the afternoon caused acute'
anguish among the waiting pe? >pl?\
and many groaned and sobbed a?
they read of the new disaster.
'1 he Rusisan word in the text of
the official dispatch describing the
accident to the Pobieda means either
"mine" or "torpedo," but the quali
fying verb indicates something mov
ing toward the ship. This dispatch
puts an end to the idea prevailing here
that there had been an engagement
following the disaster to the Pctro
pavlovsk.
It is considered remarkable here
that the Japanese did not take ad
vantage of these terrible accident*
to attack Port Arthur.
The Novoe Vretnya reproduces a
lecture delivered by Armiral Maka
roff in i?i>4 011 the subject of the
Victoria and Campcrdowu catastro
phe, in which he pointed out the in
herent weakness of battleships and
their liability to turn turtle even
when their water-tight compartments
rre closed, because their armor and
guns make them top-heavy.
TWENTY-FOUR MEN AN!) FIVE OFFICERS KILLED.
Uiited States Battleship Missouri Was HoMtag Its First Target Practice
VIm Cm ExpMed? Big Warship Barely Escapes Destractioa.
l'ensacola, I'll., (Special). ? The
newest battleship of the navy, the Mix
.souri, had a narrow escape from be
ing blown to pieces by the explosion
of a magazine and also being beachcci
has just come to light.
Capt. William S. Cowlcs prevented
?he latter when the vessel was within
250 yards of the beach by giving
crders that the ship's course be cnang
ed. Chief Gunner's Mate Monson
save.! the ship and the lives of over
600 men by jumping into the open
magazine and closing the door behind
him.
It is stated, though nn? by officers
of the Missouri, that when the officers
heard the explosion in the turret and
saw the fire lapping through the top
they realized the hot magazine would
next explode and headed the ship for
the beach, intending to belch her
if por-sible before the explosion. Cap
tain Cowles quickly stopped the plan
?.nd put the snip back to sea.
Wnen the first explosion occur ted
in the turret the men in the handling
room knew i? an instant what had
occured. The big magazine door wa?
open and standing again*! it wore
lour rharges of powder. Without a
moment'!! hesitation Gunner's Mate
Monson shoved these aside, and jump
ing into the magarine pulled the door
closed after hint.
The maga/inc was totally flooded
with water, and when the men opened
the door found Monson barely alive,
the water having reached his neck.
The damage to the battleship is
much greater than was stated at first.
In addition to the large amount of
ammunition ruined by the magazine
being flooded, which will amount to
thousand* of dollars, the after turret
is badly injured, the top being bnrne.l
jiway and all brass work melted in
side. The hoist is a charred mass,
and the mechanism of the guns is
completely ruined.
The estimated damage caused by
;hc explosion will reach $30,000
The total list of the dead now
numbers thirty-two.
The Missouri will not conclude hor
target practice, b'ut will go to New
York to be docked as soon a* the
court of inquiry makest its findings*
PINNED BOWK IT UUI
Ufenrf TotMi Safftr
tt Wnr.
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TWy KMt TMrOvaUvn k Tt-ytai toSm
IMrlnttirlNw Bi Mm, Uatar If
of Wafer, at tho IMm o< tfco Jtntj
Oty Koaorvolr-Slfaaln Ptmb DimK
Mm OtMrPMr aa NU Strtoftfc Fate.
? Boonton. N. J., (Special). ? Pinned
down by his foot by two tons of lead
in the darkneaa and ailence of 72 feet
of water at the bottom of the big
reservoir of the Jersey City Water
Supply Company, at this place, a direr
has lain since 2 o'clock Monday after
noon. At intervals during the 24
hours of his imprisonment he signaled
to the men at the air pumps on the
shore of the reservoir, letting them
know that he was still alive. The
last signal was received at 1.30 o'clock
P. M. The movements of the signal
line grew fainter and fainter, and
imally ceased.
While it seems certain the man
is dead, after suffering terrible agony
for hours, the men at the air pump on
the raft still pumped away, with the
forlorn hope that they were still giv
ing him the breath of life while he
was unconscious.
The efforts of skilled rescurers in
cluding four divers and other experts,
aided by scores of landsmen, to save
this one man's life have been cease
less for about 35 hours, and are al
most unparalleled in the history of
marine dangers.
Every wrecker device known to
the most experienced diver, if it could
be brought into use in this emergency,
| has been tried, without avail. And
if it were possible to tear away the
very walls of the reservoir without the
loss of other lives in the flood the
wreckers would not have stopped at
the loss of property.
Thousands of spectators watched
for the end of this strange tragedy
under water, a terrific pressure of two
atmospheres which brought blood to
the eyes and finger nails of the heroic
rescuers who dropped overboard from
the raft to try to save their bother
diver.
A special train was secured at the
yards of the Luckawanna Railroad at
lloboken. Two expert divers wer /
procured and brought to the reservoir
ii> all speed.
With an electric lighting apparatus
one of these divers descended and
found that the great ball of lead had
slipped into place suddenly and that
the diver's foot had been caught be
tween the ball and the edge of the
aperture leading into the pipe. The
second diver went down at once and
an effort was made by the two to dis
lodge the ball. Their puny strength
was as nothing, and after hours of
work, at short intervals, with rests be
tween, they conveyed the knowledge
to the imprisoned man of the hope
It ssness ot his condition and went to
? he surface.
At intervals the two divers descend
ed and tried to help the poor fellow.
Finally they became exhausted and
two other divers volunteered to en
gage in the hopeless and perilous task.
They reported it was impossible to '
resist the suction of the water within i
15 feet of the mouth of the pipe,, en- J
cumbered as they were by their armor
and tools.
They described the doomed diver
as lying on his back on the bottom,
Aith his left foot securely pinned be
neath the ball of lead, whose whole
weight rests upon it. They said that
the man must have dislodged the ball
by his first efforts and been drawn un
derneath it by the suction at the same
time. They reported that they thought
that the doomed man's leg might have
been broken and that his suffering was
probably greater than can be ima
gined.
BALTIMORE WILL LOSE S2t.Ne.M0
Insurance Companies to Pay Oaly $J4.9M,800
to Ibe 258 Losers.
P.alliinore, (Special). ? The total loss J
by the great fire on February 7 and I
was heteewn $45,000,000 and $50,000,- '
roo. The number of losers is
| The insurance companies will pay a
trifle over $.10,000,000 to the losers,
of which amount over $ J.;. 000.000 has
been ?>:ii<t already.
These are the figures that will i
Maud out most prominently iu the i
report of Chairman Paul Turner, of
the General Insurance Committee,
called to Baltimore to deal with the
recent calamity-. .His report is rapidly
rearing completion and will be sup
plemented by an cxhautivc report on
"fireproof" buildings. It will admit !
the claims made by builders to be
justified by the experiences of such I
structures over which the tianies pass
ed in Baltimore.
exposition Hall Collapsed.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Special).?- Expo
sition Hall, the main building of the
Ktoup at Thirty-third and South
?.tree's, that served to house the Na- 1
tional Export Exposition iu iHty), and J
11 which the republican national con
vention met one year later, collapsed,
burying several workmen in it ? ruin*.
Three of the injured men were so
1 adly hurt that they were taken to the
Philadelphia hospital for treatment.
! -a bile a dozen others, although bruised
? n I shaken up. refused to go to the
hospital, and hail their wounds attend
1 d to at their homes.
Gift to Tabercalosls Cs.np.
New York, (Special). ? Mrs. An- )
drew Carnegie has offered to equal the
highest donation to the Speedwell
Country Home Society for the open
ing of a tuberculosis camp for the I
poor children of the tenements, with
in e.T?y reach of New York City. The
announcement was made by Mrs.
Donald Sage MacKay, the president,
at the annual meeting, which was held
at the home of Miss Helen Miller
Gould The Speedwell Society hr\s
homes in the vicinity of Morristown.
N. J., and in its work it recogt?izes
neither race nor creed distinctions.
rest*? *r'
of the CM lmtl Law by refusing
to serve them m a reataurint.
Si* nicq' w?n injured by a collapse
of jp building at- eighth avenue and
Thirty-fifth street, llew York. Four
of the ' injured were passersby.
Two St. Loaia physicians are using
a new drug in the treatment of con
sumption with practising results.
Four persons were injured by a
gasoline explosion in an automobile
factory in Detroit. ?
The first trip through the new sub
wajr of Nfy York City was made.
Six men were injured by the col
lapse of a building in New York.
W. H. Ken worthy, art American
Express Company messenger, and
Harry Drake, a baggagemaster on the
Big 1 Four Railroad, have confessed to
the Cincinnati police that for a year
tliey have been robbing trunks and
express packages. -
A settlement was reached in the
sheet and tin-plate wage dispute and
a strike avoided that would have in
volved thousands of men.
"Monk" Eastman, the leader of a
notorious gang of tht^p of the East
Side, New York, was convicted of as
sault in the firat degree.
A fine of $3,000 was imposed on R.
Friedlander & Co., of Chicago, for
making false affidavits to undervalue
imports.
Dr. George W. Webster, of the Ill
inois State Board of Health, gave
whisky-drinking as one of the causes
of typhoid.
The Standard Oil Company an
nounced another reductionaof half per
cent, on all grades of refined petro
leum.
The Circuit Court, in Richmond.
Ky., threw out as invalid all the vari
ous wills of the late Gen. Cassius M.
Clay.
Harry T. Hill, the veteran theatri
cal manager, died at his home, in
Saratoga. N. Y.
The United States torpedo-boat flo
tilla arrived at Cavite. .
Thousands of men employed in the
cigar factories and breweries of Ma
nila united in a demonstration against
proposed measures of the government
to secure internal revenue.
The San Francisco Merchants' Ex
change has received a cablegram stat
ing that the steamer Colon has been
wrecked at Punta Remedios.
Mrs. Joseph B. Hall, proprietor of
the Catskill Recorder, one of the old
est newspapers in the United States,
died at Catskill. ?
The car barn and paint shop of the
International Traction Company at
Cold Springs, near Buffalo, were de
stroyed by fire.
Former Police Chief Devery has
made demand 09 Commissioner Mc
Adoo for ' $35,000 as damages for
breach of contract. *?'
The flour mills at Minneapolis will
close down for an indefinite period
because of railroad discrimination.
Charles A. Beecher, a friend and
adviser of Abraham Lincoln, died sud
denly at Marysville, O.
A fire in the hold of the steamer
Havana caused a damage of $20,000.
Fordga.
'1 lie House oi Commons sanctioned
by resolution the employment of In
dian troops in th? political mission
to Tibet. It was announced that
Colonel Younghusband had reached
Gyangste. Tibet, which was his goal.
An imposing funeral service was
held oyer the body of Queen Isabella
in Paris, after which the body was
taken to Madrid.
The police in Barcelona have ar
rested an acomplice to Joaquin Miguel
Artao, who attempted to assassinate
Premier Maura.
Colonel Marchand, the hero of the
I'ashoda affair, bitterly resents his
treatment by the French War Office.
Bebel, the Socialist leader, criticised
:n the Reichstag the German govern
ment for permitting the sale of a
| steamship by the. Hamburg- American
I Company to a Russian company.
[ Chancellor von Buelow replied that
| lite sale did not affect Germany's neu
j trality, and that Japan had an equal
! right to buy ships from Germany.
| Emperor William went on board
1 he American steam yacht North Star,
| :it Syracuse. Sicily, and had a chat
; with Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vander
I hilt.
I An infernal machine concealed in
I in anarchist's trunk in a hotel in St.
I Petersburg exploded, blowing him in
to bits and causing a fire in the hotel.
I The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Feaxcr, ''which ran ashore during the
naval maneuvers at Portsmouth, has
been towed off.
The Mad Mullah, whoin the British
have been trying to catch, has es
I ? aped into Italian territory.
The matter of a Zionist settlement
I in Uganda. Fast Africa, has been ar
ranged satisfactorily.
?1! ',e canals and waterways
bills just presented to the Prussian
Diet propose the expenditure of $100.
000,000 on uew waterways, including
? i? canal from Berlin to Stettin, for
I large vessels.
Fiaaaclal.
I Nearly $4.<xx?.ooo of Japanese gold
j has just arrived at San Francisco.
When Lake Superior gets thai $_\
! 000.000 from Canada, things oujfht to
look up.
; There has been better buying of I'nit
! t-d States Steel common this week
than for three months,
j "I'm bullish," s:iys John W. Gates.
I That doesn't <piite carry the wciglu
! such a remark once had.
Export b'.siness of the United State*
Steel Company is falling off.
The "big fellows" are leaving Wall
Street. J. J. Hill and E. II. Ilarriman
have gone West and J. P. Morgan is
on the Atlantic.
American petroleum sold in Europe
! la -?t year was $!7.48<f.uoo worth of rc
| fined and $;,2(>8,ooo worth of crude oil.
Seventy-one railroads in February
earned gros* $80, (>48,000. an increase
of $2,964,000, but net earnings were
$;<). 586,000. a decrease of $1,470,000.
I-or eight months of the fiscal year
gross revenue has risen $50,000,000,
and net profits $8.5.15,000.
JBjNMN FOi TOO FUND
4 Rtv U?Mt By Ir. Mnv
CifMfte.
TEW IEWBIWS WMPACIIMU
Ha ftfin b ta PIm Tim Pilwli
PM?W ViciMim WW Maw Bm la)ar
a* la Imk Effort !? Saw haaa Ufe la
aai la PravMafar Ike Defcataats.
Pittsburg, Pa., (Special). ? It was
learned here that Andrew Carnegie
has created a fund of $5,000,000 for
the benefit of "the dependents of those
losing their lives in heroic effort to
save their fellow-men, or for the
heroes themselves if injured only."
Provision is also made for medals to
be given in commemoration of heroic
acts.
The endowment is to be known as
"the Hero Fund," and consists of
$5,000,000 of first collateral 5 per cent,
bond of the United States Steel
Corporation. The trust is placed in
the hands of a commission composed
of the following gentlemen: VV. L.
Abott, Edwin H. Anderson. W. W.
Blackburn, Edward \1. Bigelow,
Joseph Buffington, Wm. N. Frew. Rev.
W. J. Holland, John B. Jackson.
Thomas Lynch, Charles G. Mellor, T.
N. Miller, Thomas Morrison, Fred
erick C. Perkins, Robert Pitcaim, H.
Kirk Porter, James H. Reed, W. L.
Scaife, Willaim Scott, VV. II. Steven
son; F. M. VVilmot, secretary.
The commission held its first meet
ing here and made known its pro
ject. It is learned that the scheme was
conceived by Mr. Carnegie immediate
ly after the Harwick mine disaster,
when he summoned to New York
Charles L. Taylor, chairman, and F.
M. Wilmot, manager, of the Andrew
Carnegie relief fund, to discuss with
them plans for the relief of the suf
ferers from this catastrophe. On this
occasion Mr. Carnegie announced to
Messrs. Taylor and Wilmot his in
tention to endow a fund for heroes,
outlined his plants and asked that
;hey consider the project and write
him regarding it, making such sug
gestions and giving such ideas as
might occur to them. This they did,
and on March 12, just before his de
parture for Europe, Mr. Carnegie for
warded a letter to Mr. Taylor an
nouncing the plan, and stating that
the certificates of the bonds had been
placed in his hands.
In a letter to the hero fund com
mission Mr. Carnegire outlines tJhe
general scheme of the fund, which in
.his own words is "to place those fol
lowing peaceful vocations who have
been injured in heroic effort to save
iiuman life in somewhat better posi
tion pecuniarily than before until again
able to work. In case of death the
widow and children or others de
pendent to be provided tor ? the widow
until she is remarried and the children
until they have reached a self-sup
porting age. For exceptional children
?exceptional grants may be made for
exceptional education. Grants of sums
of money may also be made to heroes
or heroines as the commission- thinks
.'?dviseablc, each case to be judged
on its merits."
It is provided that no grant is to
be continued unless it he soberly and
properly used, and recipients remain
respectable, well-behaved members of
the community.
A medal shall be given to the hero
or widow, or next to kin, which shall
recite the heroic deed -it com
ine'moratcs. The medal shall b? given
for the heroic act. even if the doer he
uninjured, and also a sum of money,
should the commission deem such
a desirable.
APPROPRIATION ASKED.
I I
Tea Thousand Dollar* Is the Amount That is |
Requested.
Washington. ( Special ?. ? Secretary ]
of the Navy Moo.lv trausmiMed to
the House a request tor a $10,000
appropriation to provide for the proper
rare of the remains of the victims of
the explosion 01; the battleship |
Vlissottri.
The buieau of navigation of the 1
navy department announces that the :
W. J. Bogard, named in the dispatch
of Admiral Barker of the i.tth inst., as
i having heen kilhul in the Missouri
I explosion, and whose name could no!
he found on lite record*, has heen
I 'dentitied a* William Joseph Botigard,
I of Mrooklyn. N. Y.. whose next of kin j
' is James Bongard, a brother, who live;
j ;it Prospect avenue. Brooklyn. N. j
V. This man was blown ove'boar.l j
? niiil his body Im? not been recovered.
The bureau of navigation also an
j nounces that the I?. J. Mulligan, men
I tinned in the same dispatch as havintr
j heen killed, and whose name could not
I he found 011 the records, i-* John
I Joseph Mullige.n. landsman, of Provi
I deuce. K. 1. Mis next of kin i? given I
I as James Mulligan, of >00 Chestiv.^ |
? treet. Providence, K. I., his father. 1
Cllll.ORHN WITNESSED TRAQFDV
! ' ' !
Three little Ones Saw Father \ltempi
Mother's Lite.
I I
South lladlcy Palls, Mas*. (Special; >
The *hr"e children of Daria Cape
| ?!iud. a wo.ul chopper, died of poi ? (
I soring, and M?s. Capestand i* ill with |
the same malady. Parts of the bodies |
| of two of the children and the im\\?
j from which it is sn -peeled tho poi.. 01, j
I e inte have been lakci? )<? llr.rvard fori
i
I analysis.
| 'Hie tlire.* children ."Red h, j. and !
| j. who died very suddenly were ,
? buried Friday. There were pre. rut at .
the cemetery Medical Examine:*
lirauch, of Amherst; Chief oi I'1 iiee 1
I Mtiehey. of the I'nl !??. and Maj. lames i
I MeWay, of the state police. They are !
tery retieeii' about their suspicion's, J
| but claim that it is a case of murder j
un ti i? mi uf uk.
The progress made in the irrigatiofl
work of the Government is reviewed
in the publication issued by the Geolo
gical Survey, which points out th?
necessity ot great caution and con*
servatism in the extension of reclama
tion work.
In the report it is sta??d that ol
the irrigation projects favorably re?
ported in IQOJ. which included thos?
on the Truckee river in Nevada, on
the Salt river in Arizona, on the Milk
river in Montana, on Sweetwater river
in Wyoming and on Gunnison rivet
in Colorado, the Nevada and Arizona
projects have been found feasible and
construction on the engineering work
along the Truckcc and Salt rivers has
progressed to a reasonable extent
The Montana project, however, hay
presented unexpected engineering diffi
culties as well as complications re
garding water rights, so that progress
is slow. It has been found necessary
to modify the first plans in order to
achieve early results. The Wyoming
pioject as first outlined has been found
impracticable. A better reservoir site
than that 011 the Sweetwater river,
however, has been found on the North
Platte, so that a large scheme of de-.
velopinent may be worked out there
ii> the future. Great engineering difH
cultics are encountered in the ac
complishment of the Colorado pro
ject. The amount of arid land thereby
reclaimable is less, too, than was
anticipated.
Boloo for the A nay.
General Crozier, chief of the ord
nance department of the army, has
ordered the manufacture at Water*
vliet arsenal of 1 1 5-incli barbette car*
riages, model of 190.1, and 200 can
riages for 2.5-inch life-saving gun#
for the Treasury Department.
Three thousand hospital corpi
knives of new model also have been
ordered manufactured. General Cro*
>.ier has ordered the purchase of 5,ood
bolos. with sheaths, for issue to th<
troops in the Philippines. In tin
future saber scabbards for officeri
will be made of steel, nickcl-plated, in
stead of German silver, and in ordei
to obtain better results in gallery prac
tice an elongated bullet, weighing 10;
grains, - has been adopted in place ol
the round bait.
Classification of Postofflce Clerks.
F. T. Rogers, president of the Na
tional Orginazation of Postoffic*
Clerks, was heard by the House Com
mittee on Poslottices and Post Road;
in favor of the bill of Representative
Wilson, of Illinois, providing for thi
classification of clerks employed ir
postoftice-t of the first and second
?. lass.
Retirement of Letter Carriers.
Senator h'rey introduced a bill pro
viding for the retirement of letter car
riers who have reached the age of 65
years and who have served for 33
years. The bill gives the carriers re
tired pay at 80 per cent, of the sala
ries they were receiving at the time
of retirement.
Home for Disabled Volunteers.
The House Committee o;s Military
Affairs authorized a favorable report
011 a bill appropriating $<>0,000 to pur
chase a temporary home in the Dis
trict of Columbia for disabled volun
teer soldier*.
Congressional and Departments.
I Senator Dietrich has been exoner
ated from all blame in connection with
postoftice patronage in Nebraska b>
a special committee of the Senate,
which made an investigation.
The House and Senate committees
agreed to the bill allowing the con
tractors of the Baltimore Custom
house $175,000 tor loss sustained in
i the recent tire.
The committee investigating Red
I Cross affairs had an expert examine
the accounts of Miss Clara Barton.
Mrs. McCoinas, the wile of the
Maryland Senator, died at her Wash-.
1 iugton home from Bright's disease.
Senator Proctor introduced a bill to
provide for a "distinguished service
[ list."
The House of Representatives pass
Mi the Philippine Bill.
President Roosevelt has decided to
! appoint James Holland judge of the
recently created eastern district of
Pennsylvania.
The Com pt roller <?:' the Currency
authorized th?- Traders' National B.oik
of Clarksburg, W. Va . to reopen i"r
business.
The Senate Committee on Postof
f.ces and Post Roads w'ill investigate
the workings ??? tin- I 'ostofliee De
partment.
Arthur I.. Orrison, a juror in the
Watson embezzlement trial, was sen
tenced to jail for contempt ot court.
The American Federation of l.abor
ha? arranged its exhibit for the St.
Louis Exposition.
By a decisive vote the Senate put
itself on record against any investi
gation of the Postoftice Department
at this session of Congress.
Senator McComas introduced a bill
to e\icrsd the Coastwise Shipping
l,aw> t > tiie Panama Canal /.one.
Secretary Mo .dy declared himself
< pposed to the proposed bill for tiic
< rcation of a general staff in the Navy.
A resolution was introduced in, the
House to :? k the Secretary of the In
terior if the officials involved in the
laud fraud* were still in the public
service, and if so. why.
The House passed the bill appro
prial.ug $.1,000,000 for river and harbor
ituprov einents
WOMAN AND CIIII.DRfN POISONED.
Pollen Arc llavtog Analysis Maile and Will
Search for Murderer.
Philadelphia. Pi., t Special V ? Fred
erick Scjifc, aged ,t-' years, committed
? nicide after shooting his wife Mary.
Mie will recover. Mr*. Schait'e s.iid
she knew of no reason for her hus
band's crime tmle<"? i*. was hi* ground
less jealousy.
The woman saved her life by her
presence ot mind.- When her husband
i'.i a t. is r -v ?hc threw her arms
.?Ix.'i* littii ;.nd fierce struggle 011
?ue-i S< ii;u ir managed t < ? discharge
tlu- v. ration, a bullet entering his witV*
l>*t;-k. She fed, .v I. thinking hn ha<l
Idled l.e '. hi.* 'urned Aeipon up ?n
himself itvl blew briit.s out.
l i e c mpli- !mv" ?hre.' yottn s child
r? u and the hoofing o-eur.'-d in the
presence <?i the little onov
_ RADIATION FltOW MACMCTS. ?
A Cmri?M ???IhatetlM tf Kstrtjr Wtm?
CMllj D?ttct?J. >
A curious manifestation of nagnetltf
energy has recently been irtfcMi
with a luminescent scteen. such as to*
employed in the study and enmlis*
tiou of the new N-rays. M. C. Oittoar
hax ascertained that effects similar ts
these rays are obtained If a phosphor
escent screen Is placed in a non-nal*
form magnetic Held. Using a scree*
painted in small spots and exploring
the vicinity of a bar magnet, be has
found that the patches nearer tkt
poles were brighter than those at tto>
middle. That tills effect was not doe
to K-rays was proved- l/y inclosing tb*
magnets in u lead box which would
act to cut off this form of radiation.
The same result wan also obtained
when the screen -was inclosed in %.
vacuum. It was soon fouud that the
magnetic held must not be utiiforae
In order to produce the effect, as eve*
with the strongest holds no increase
in luminescence was obtained where
they were of uniform intensity. Whe?
the lines of force are uot parallel, the
best results are secured. The phe*
nomenon does not appear us yet to be
understood satisfactorily, as there
does uot seem to be any way of ac
counting for the energy which act*
*n the screen that can explain the nec
essity for a lack of uniformity iu the
held.? Harper's Weekly.
WISE WORDS.
Virtue for a wage is tirat cousin te
Vice. ?
A money spendthrift is a moral sui
cide.
The blind child can see Its father*#
love.
Home made yokes are always
heaviest.
I?Vw men cau argue about religion
and keep cool.
One side of on argument is alway*
less than half of it.
A spoiled child is almost as bad a*
one that is too fresh.
The shadows are longest when the
sun of faith is lowest.
The sense of our baseness may be
the ballast of the soul.
Celling the l?est of an argument Isn't
always worth the time.
After buying experience a man sel
dom boasts of his bargain.
You can easily make a man hot by
rubbing him the wrong way.
The physician doesn't always preach,
but he has to have a practice.
Reverence for age is a fair test of the
vigor of youth.? Charles Kingsley.
Fortune isn't a question of gender*
although there is such a thing as tub*
fortune.
The worm ttiat works In the trunk
is always advertised somewhere on the
branches.
If prayer always brought materia!
protlt it would soon be the prey of the
speculator. , ,
There is something to prayer more
than shutting your eyes and opening
your mouth.
Money helps us over some hard \
places, but cannot be depended on to
bring us a contented spirit.
Take thy self-denials gay ly and
cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy
gladness fall on dark things and bright
alike, like the sunshine of the Al
mighty. -.1. F. Clarke.
As a man travels on in the journey of
life, his objects of wonder daily dimin*
Ish. and he is continually tiuding out
some very simple cause for some great
matter or marvel.? Washington Irvla x
Killing m Hippopotami!-.
When tirst the Soudan was opened
up it was thought desirable to Impose
a tax on any one killing a "hippo,**
but experience has shown that the
"hippo" is unworthy of the care tak?
en of him. lie Is most destructive. A
bull hippopotamus will upset a small
boat. The natives have a eurlone
manner of killing a hipjHjpotamus;
they attack him with spears when he
is iu a sleepy condition in the river,
and attached to the spear is a rope
with a huge tloat at the end of it.
This tloat hampers the movements of
the unwieldy animal, and after several
spears have been driven into him he
is easily drawn to the bank and dia
Matched.? I^ondon Globe.
Humorous K?lnikM.
Archbishop Kyan was once called
upon by a priest who said his health
required that he lake a vacation. The
priest's frequent absences from hie
parish were notorious, so the arch*
bishop sahl to him: "My dear Father
Koandso. if you need a change of air
I would suggest that you try the air
of your own parish for a month or
two." At another time the archbishop
rebuked a priest, for wearing a disrep
utable looking silk hat. "But 1 would
not give up that hat for twenty new
one*." said the priest. "It belonged
to my father, who fell in the rising of
*4N." "Ah." was the archbishop's re
tort. "and evidently li? fell on the
hat."
Why M*n Fall*
Trivial Incidents get so engrossing
that life becomes unprepared for the
great Issues. A man gets all absorbed
in his business and Intends Home day,
to enjoy his home; a woman gets en
snared in the burdensome details of
life and loses her peace of mind: and
one day *om? great overwhelming ex
perience of trial or sorrow suddenly
attacks si ic It a life, and the life simply
surrenders to the unforeseen assault,
stric?*n and unprepared, because the
strength which ought to have been
nurtured for the crisis has been ex
hausted in the I tud an I lieu lit skirmished
of daily affairs ? F CealwwUr. D Q.