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?P ? ? . V * i * VOL. I. NO. 16. ' CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 19Q4. $1 .50 PER YEAR. ?AVE DESTROYED FLEET Asserted trains Hew Up Their War Alps to Sire Thai hm Japs. ABURAL TWTsmS TIE MEWS. C tar's Pwpii MmM Tfcat Nsas ?( tfce Vessels ShU Pal Ids Naafe at Iks Eacay ? Thrss Jf satsi Trsaipsd SaM Is Bars ships? fesstaas Liafcrtaf Near Nlacfcwsai Tokyo, (By Cable). ? Admiral Togo reports that sincc May 6, many ex plosions have been heard in the di rection of Port Arthur. The cause has not been ascertained, but the im pression is that the Russians, despair ing of defending the fortress, are des troying their ships, previous to an evacuation of the port. Frsai Aasthcr Saarce. London, (By Cable). ? The Chefoo correspondent of the Reuter Telegram Company sends an Unofficial report that the Russians have destroyed their fleet at Port Arthur. According to trustworthy informa tion, he adds, the garrison at Port Arthur numbers 20,000 soldiers and 10,000 sailors. It is emphatically de clared in the Russian capital that in ?o case will the Russian ships at Port Arthur f>e allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy. This last statement tends to give Tolor to the reports from Chefoo and the report of Admiral Togo, that is believed the Russians are destroying their Port Arthur fleet. London, (By Cable"). ? It is impos sible to give an accurate list of the effective Russian warships at Port Arthur, but sonic idea of the state of the fleet can be formed from the official report of Viceroy AlexiefT to Emperor Nicholas concerning the en- j gagemcnt of April I j, in which the Petropavlavsk was sunk and the Pobicda was seriously damaged. In tliisr report the viceroy said: "The whole effective squadron at Port Ar thur sailed out. lie then enumerated as the units of the fleet the first class battleships Percsviet. Pobicda, Pol- j tava, Petropavlovsk and Sebastapol;! the armored cruiser Rayan, the first class protected cruisers Askold and Diara. the second class protected i cruiser llovik, two torpedo cruisers and five tirpedo boat destroyers. ' It will therefore be seen that 011 April 14, the day after the destruction of the Pctropovlovsk, the Russians Pyrt? Arthur had available' three bafftesliips, one armored cruiser and three pnotected cruiscrs, whereas on February 1, they had available at j Port Arthur seven- battleships, one armored cruiser, five protected crui sers and one torpedo transport The number of torpedo boats or torpedo boat destroyers ciTvctivc or disabled is not known. Japs Fight Fiercely. Seoul, (By Cable). ? A Russian force, estimated to number 200 men, it attacking Anju, about sixty miles southeast of Wijti, Korea. The small j Japanese garrison of that place is j fighting fiercely. The fighting at An ju commenced j early this morning. The Japanese j garrison has sent a telegram to near- j y posts 011 the Wiju road for rein- ; forcements. Details of the Attack. Tokyo.? -Details of the attack by ' Russian Cossacks at Anju, Korea, ! were just- received here. The Rus- j sian cavalry numbered joo men, and their attack was spirited. . The Jap anese garrison resisted stoutly and succeeded in driving off the enemy. Later, Jananese reinforcements ar rived from I'ing Vang. Indications point to the presence of j a Russian force at Yong Byon, be tween Anju and Unsan, but it proba bly is small. It is evident that these Russian cavalrymen were sent r.outh for th<* , purpose of harassing t lie Japanese | flanks and lines of communication. ; The J apanese report of the fighting j at Anju does not give any losses. The sudden attack*at Anju confirms previous reports of the presence of | Russian scouting parties behind I he | Japanese lines. The small Japanese garrison a! ! Anju indicates that the blow was not j expected. Casnaltlcx of Vain. Antung. (By Cable). ? An official 1 report of the casualties at the battle I at the Ya!u contains a list of ji Jap- i anesc officers killed and _?o wounded. I ? ? 160 men killed and (Mi wounded. On the Russian side men were found dead on the field: wounded are in Japanese hospitals aud i.tK men were taken' prisoners. Most of the RusVr.ns who 1 rendered ot llnniatau, west of Chin I .ien-C|?cng, where the J.ip.iiu?e ! charged the Russian rear guard, were wounded. The Russian soldiers who have since died in the hospital are buried on a j hill top near Antnng. and were fol lowed to the grave by a Japanese ' guard of honor and the staff officers. A Danish l.uthcran missionary, the only foreigner living at Antung, read . the funeral services over the remains. | The captured Russian munition.* of j war being brought into Antung in clude twenty field pieces, ten ma chine guns, much small arm ammuni tion, twenty transport wagons, two ambulances and band instruments, the latter per/orated with bullets. Most of these things were abandoned in the precipitate flight of the Russian troops. Merer** Still Flfbtlng. Berlin, (By Cable). ? Colonel Lieut wein, governor of German Southwest Africa, In a dispatch dated May to, nays that the Hcrcros arc retiring from their lines at Otjikura and Owi J> kdkorero to the northward, and arc moving with strong forces ir. the di rection of VVaterberg. Colonel Lcut* v/ein says that a skirmish took place May 9 at Outjo and that the Hereros witndrew tOv.*:ird Paredsberg. The Gertnan losses were one dead, one wounded and two missing rows ? SttT fPHL Tte Latest lUpuriii Cialmil krl^M John F. Wallace, general manager ofthe Illinois Central Railroad, has ac cepted the appointment of chief en gineer of the Panama Canal. United States Marshal J. M. Barnes, of Georgia, was removed from office on telegraphic instructions from President Roosevelt. Three Chinese oftirialsl Itave ar rived in Chicago to investigate the steel plants of the United States. A permanent injunction has been granted the Santa Fe Railroad againsr the striking machinists. Mrs. Herman Oelrich has sold the principal part of her San Francisco real estate to a syndicate. The Santa Fe has begun the con struction work on its line to Eureka, in Humboldt county. Cat. H. W. Breckinridge, of Franklin, Pa., was shot by a burglar whom he encountered in his house. Many Japanese are en route from Japan to (his country to become rice farmers in Texas. Conrad Hanehstein and his son comimtted suicide in New York by inhaling gas. Two men were killed in a railroad wreck at Port Chester, N. Y The Xinplate Workers' Association met at Columbus, O. The business section of La Fol lette, Tenn., was burned. Thomas Costello, clerk in the pay master's^ department of the Brooklyn Navy Y'ard, was sentenced to five years in Sing Sing for embezzlement. Floyd, Crawford & Co., a broker age concern of the New York Con solidated Stock Exchange, gave notice to close out the the firm's open trades. Edward A. Gott, a well-known law yer of Detroit, Mich., formerly con nected with the Wabash legal staff here, committed suicide. Ssecretary Shaw personally made the payment to J. P. Morgan & Co. j of the $40,000,000 for the Panama ! Canal. The examination of Ray and Haw ley in the Sully case in New York has been suspended pending an appeal. There was an explosion, followed j by a fire. 011 a New York elevated 1 train and the inotorinan was killed. ! Rev. O. R. Newell was stricken in j the pulpit while praying in his church, ! in Marshalltown, la. j Manager Crolins and four officers of Joliet were indicted and arraigned I for conspiracy. Only five union machinists appeared for work at the Santa Fe shops in Topeka, Kan. Three New York trust companies have abandoned tlu'ir clearinghouse privileges. The annual commencement of the Thelogical Seminary of Princeton was held. Edouard dc Reszke has sued Robert E. Johnston, manager of the Metro politan Opera House, hi New York, 1 and John S. Duss for $20,000 for I breach of contract. The investigations being made by ; the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange arc expected to lead to the ] expulsion of a number of firms. | The Ward Line steamer Santiago brought the captain and crew of the j wrecked American schooner Arthur , McArdie. The handsome home of the Army \ and Navy Club, in Washington, is I soon to be occupied by the Uniyersi- j ty Club. Rescuing parties have been unable | to reach the live miners entombed in the Locust Gap Colliery by a fire. The demand for press seat at the two national conventions is far in ex cess of the accommodations. Because of the restriction* place 1 upon their business 1,5.10 saloons have been forced to close. The annual convention of the In dependent Order of ll'rith Abrahatji was held in New York. Foreign. j The question of domicile of VVil- j liam Lewis Winar.s, formerly of Hal- ? titnore, who died in London in 1X07, 1 leaving a largo fortune, was decided j hy the House t?f Lords in favor of the; family. Earnest Terah llooley, the pro-' moter, was arrested in London on the | charge of conspiracy to defraud, and Henry J. Lawson, another company promoter, was also arrested. Nearly 200 soldiers of the German i forces ill German Southwest Africa r.ro suffering with typhus fever. The Abbe Kesen, a Belgian sena- ! tor, was run over by a motor carl in Brussels and fatally injured. j Dr. Davidson, the archbishop of Canterbury, has not yet decided ; whether he will he able to accept the j invitation to attend the convention of ! the Protestant Kpiscopal Church in the United States next October. The officers of five of the French 1 Lino steamers have quit those vessels in accordance with a decision of the 01 the strike committee <>f the Mer chant Marine at Harvro. '11 the the German Reichstag II err !?.? A attacked the government's ;>o|..-y, declaring that the sympathy >* Me people was with the Japanese The funbral at Budapest of Maurnsj Jokai. the Hungarian novelist, was largely attended, the Emperor being] represented by Count Appoiiyi. The Chilian Cabinet has resigned , owing to the organization of a union j of all sections of Liberals. M. I'lcske, the former Russian j minsitcr of finance, die.l at St. Peters burg. Prince Adelbret, third son of Km peror William of Germany, who is ! traveling on board the German crui ser Hertha, left Tientsin for Peking. An audience between the I'rince and the Emperor of China has been ar ranged tor May '7 Ptaaadal. Bank clearings for April in the United States fell t,t per cent, below April, 190J. Expulsions from the New York Consolidated Exchange are fashion able nowadays. Railroad* are quite generally re ducing their expenditures owing to decreased earnings. The Roading will need this year about 40.000 tons of rails. Its in terest in the Pennsylvania Steel Com pany may enable it t ? buy at a price under the schedule. DID THESE Kill WENTZ? Twt Billihuij Are Accasei tf Mfflmpire's farter. WT1 NtW IN TAZEVQX JAIL. ClrrMMtaallal Eiilwci lull Aatfcarttks. to laaat Warvaats tor ImiuI Wrtffct? (My Oaa MM Wat F Mi to I to Mj-lt Was ? IT Ci>tr aai IM EaterH Fraai tot fftot Pantos Tkrwgfc the Heart Knoxville, Tenn., (Special). ? In the county jail at Tazewell are Silas Ison and Tom Wright, who were served with warrants for the murder of Ed ward L. Wentz, who disappeared near Big Stone Gap. Va., last October and of whom no trace could be" found un til Sunday, when his body was dis covered on a mountain near where his horse was caught after his dis appearance. Ison and Wright are said to be desperate mountain characters.against whom suspicion has been lodged for some time and around whom circum stances now throw strong evidence of guilt. They were being held in jail for Virginia authorities as refugees from justice. The pair first came un der suspicion last week, when there was found at their quarters in the mountains an English riding suit sim ilar to that which Wentz wore and on which there was blood. The two men were known to be enemies of Wentz because of Wentz's hostility to their conducting a "blind tiger ' on the premises of his company. Another circumstance which pointed to their guilt is that since their incar ceration last Wednesday they have bcon carrying on a correspondence with outside parties hinting at some graver trouble thin that for which they were being held at Tazewell and from which they were trying to escape. Daniel B. Wentz. his brother. Jack Wentz. and a party arrived at Big Stone Gap. Va., at 3.30 o'clock P. M. Daniel and Jack Wentz did not go with the coroner's jury to the scene where their brother's dead body lay. but remained at Big Stone Gap to await' news of the investigation. The medical examination of the body of E. I?. Wentz tends to complicate the mystery. The bullet wound found on tlie body might be taken to indicate that he committed suicide. Only one bullet was found in Jhe j body. It was of 32-calibcr and had entered from the front, passing through the fifth rib and the heart and lodged in the muscles of the back near the spine. No other bullets were found, although there were several holes in the clothing th|t had the appearance of having been made by j bullets. The right hftnd' was missing. ! the indications being that some wild , beast had devoured it. Nine teeth ' were missing?one of which was found 1 on the ground near the body. There I were indications of hemorrage in the ] region of the heart, and the back ap- ! peared as though it had been streaked v.ith blood. The revolver] found near the body was a tt2-ca!iber Smith & Wesson and, as heretofore ' reported, three chambers had been ' fired. Killed By Falling iron Bar. St. Louis, (Special). ? A bar of iron fell from the top of the Ferris wheel ! at the World's hair, striking a laborer : on the head and killing him instantly. | Dr. Edwird Lewis responded from the Emergency Hospital in an ambu- | lance and upon arriving found the j laborer -dead and refused to take t|u* body to the hospital, suggesting that I the morgue wagon would be called, j This angered the dead laborer's 100 fellow workmen, who insisted that ' I the body should be taken in the ambu- j ! lance. Dr. Lewis was knocked down.; ! beaten and kicked by the crowd. Father and Son Suicides. I New York, (Special).? Their love , | for each other and the fear that they ' might be separated by death is believ ! ed to have led Conrad llaucnstein, 59 yeats old. and his son. Conrad. Jr., aged years, to take their own lives. The bodies of the two men were found ] in a room in Fast Twenty-fifth street. ] where the-.' had lived together several 1 years. On a table in the room was an envelope, mi the back of which was j written in German: " We are tired 1 of living. We want to die together. ! We never did anybody any harm." Desecration of the Flaf. Denver. Colo. (Special). ? After i.u- j inerotis postponements, the trial of | William I). Haywood, secretary and j treasurer ? f the Western Federation of Miners, on a charge of desecration of the lla< was held in Justice llynes' court. Haywood's defense was that the statute does not apply to pictures or representations of the Hag. but only lo the flax itself. The charge is based on the issuance of a circular hearirtg a picture of a llag and headed "Is Colorado in America?" Justice Hyr.es will give his decision on Thurs day. Saved From Mob. Sirdis. Miss. ( Special -At Bellea- ' tine, a ?niall station southwest of 1 here, Kutt.s Hobo has been shot and 1 killed by .tegro citizens, who were at- ! tempting t . arrest him on a charge of murdering a negro woman. Hi* ! bro'her. Slack Hobo, being arrested ' on the saute charge, was threatened j by 1 tn ??!> of 400 negroes. Sheriff John- ! son. of S*rdis. hurried t > the scene j and removed the negro to Sardis for ; safekeeping The sheriff, with three ! deputies, practically disarmed the en tire mob of negroes. Winter Wheat Estimate. New York, (Special). ? Statistician Broun, of the Produce Exchange, in an estimate based on the Government crop report, places the winter wheat crop at .ffto.Ji 1,000 bushels, as com pared with an indicated yield in April of 443.600, 000 bushels. Last year's! actual croj> yield was j 99,000.000 bush ' els. Experts attribute the poorer prospects to a decrease in the area sown, du'.* to the influence of a hard winter. N UYE WiamnWAFFAflBu May 81U.11 li L The attention of' the state depart ment has been drawn to the possi bility of rioting and looting at Niuch wang in the indefinite interval of time between the expected Russian with drawal arid the Japanese occupation of the port. Secretary Hay had a consultation with the President re specting the advisability of again sending a warship to Niuchwang to safeguard American interests as far as possible to prevent outrages upon other foreigners by brigands. It is believed that an intimation has been convoyed from the British gov ernment to our own government; that the dispatch of a United States ship to Niuchwang might prevent the ap pearance of undue activity on the part of a single power." The United State* gunboat Helena and a British gun boat lay in mud dock at Niuchwang all last winter, and were withdrawn only upon a hint from Russia that their presence obstructed military operations. The navy department has several vessels within two or three days* sail of Niuchwang, the nearest being the Raleigh now at Chemulpo, while the Helena and the Wilmington are at Wenchau, just below Shanghai, and the Cincinnati is on her way from Cliefu to Chemulpo. The navy department has cablcd Admiral Cooper, commander-in-chief of the Astatic Station, to send cruiser and a gunboat to Chefu. This is the nearest neutral port to Port Arthur, but is outside the xone of military operations. The sele<^tion of the ves sel is left to Admiral Cooper. CMef EatlaMraf CaaaL Admiral Walker, president of the Panama Canal Commission, received a telegram from John Kindlay Wal lace. of Chicago, general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad, accept- 1 ing the appointment of chief engineer in charge of the construction of the canal. Mr. Wallace will receive a salary of $>5,000 a year. "Mr. Wallace has been considered for sometime by members of the canal commission for the position of chief engineer," said Admiral Walker. "No one stands higher in his profes sion or is better equipped to take up t lie work mapped out than he, and the commission is to he congratu lated on securing the services of such a inan." Mr. Wallace will take tip his work with the commission on June 1. He will arrive in Washington on or be fore that date, and for the present will have i-is office at the headquarters of the commission in this city. It has not been determined when he will visit the isthmus, all matters of derail being left for a future conference wmt' the commission. In regard to the salarv to be paid Mr. Wallace, Admiral Walker said that when a man undertakes to direct the construction of the Panama Canal project it is necessary for him to burn his ships behind him, and that $^5,000 is not too high for a man competent for so important a trust. "Whoever undertakes the task gives up his business in this country, for it will require all of his Jime on the isthmus for an indefinite period," said the Admiral. Pardoned for Act of Bravery. On the report of Lieutenant Com- ! mandcr William Braunersreuthcr, of | the prison sliip Sonthcy, stationed at t Portsmouth, N. H., and the recom- j mendation of the commandant of the I navy yard at that point, the navy tie - j part men t has pardoned and restored i t?? duty Henry Sherlock, a seaman.; serving a general court martial sen- j tence. The cause of this action was a brave I act by Sherlock the other day. when : a fellow prisoner, intending to com- j mit suicide, jumped overboard from i the prison ship, and Sherlock, with j out hesitation, jumped after him. The j rescuer had a difficult time, but fin ally succeeded in bringing his man to the bow chains and climbing aboard ' with him. The pardoned man's record as a , prisoner has been excellent, and with | good behavior allowance his sentence j would have expired in next Novcm- i her. Minister From Pimm. Mr. Russell. the American diplomat- I m* representative at Panama, cabled j Secretary Hay that the Panamaian ! .c ?vernmcnt has decided to appoint1 I ) >n Jose Domingo de Obaldia as j minister of Panama to the United States. Mr. Russell added that Senor and wife and child of the master Obaldia was a senator from, the De partment of Panama in the Colom bian Congress which rejected the llay-Herran Treaty; that he was gov ernor of Panama at the time of the j independence movement last Novcm- j her, and is now second vice president j of the Republic. The new minister ] expects to leave Panama for Wash- ' ington on the first steamer in June. The S4?.00t,0?0 Check. The Treasury warrant for $40,000.- i 000 to be delivered to J. P. Morgan | & Co., of New York, on account of 1 the Panama Canal purchase was taken to that city b^- Secretary of the Treas- 1 ury Shaw. Hie Secretary also took ' with him certain bonds which have been deposited with the government ! as security for public moneys which ; are to b^? returned to the hanks sur- , rendering their deposit#. Mr. J. H. Edwards, private secre- I tary to Secretary Shaw, accompanied him to New York. Coflfreitloaal and Departments. Charles H. Robb, former assistant ( attorney general of the Post office De- 1 partment, assumed his duties of as- 1 sistant attorney general of the De- j partment < f Justice. The State Department will not make an official protest to the Russian gov- 1 eminent against the utterances of M. Pasloff relative to t?ie Vicksburw affair. President Roosevelt has decided to' appoint George l\ White United j Sf*"s ""irsiini of ("?<? --gia in place uf 1 J. M. Barnes, removed. BATTLE IN SHIP'S HOLD Stltrs lave fight With Beaij Taraa Mas. A CAM# tF MNES MFESTEt. TkMMli at TvaMu ui Ccsdprtcs? Pthi Ayrea ? Oaly the Snt?itt mt Ik* Salter* Sin Tkca Fmri S?ttoi a mi PrafeaMy Fatal Bites? With Laag Bmm Swan RgM Taraatala*. Philadelphia, (Spccial). ? The Italian bark Anit.? Mcnotti is in port from Buenos Ayres. UnJer her hatches she lias just 1.000 tons of bones. The vessel will discharge at the foot of Tasker street, Delaware River. The voyage was a memorable one, for shortly after leaving Genoa the bark was struck by a violent squall, which carried away her mizzentopmast, be sides doing other damage to the ship. Notable as the trip was, it re mained for the crew to have an ex perience such as they never wish to undergo again, and this, when the hatches were lifted and preparations were made to unload the bones. It was an experience that almost turned the hair of the sailors white. When they went below they discovered a horde of tarantulas, centipedes and nameless bugs were prepared to give battle. The tarantulas and centipedes were thoroughly at home in the great mass of bones. They objected to being disturbed, and when the sailors began the work of unloading, the pests at onfce offered battle. The seamen 'pluckily stood to their guns, to use a lively metaphor. As the crawling enemy advanced to the attack the sailors laid lustily about tliem. They had armed themselves with long, strong bones, and with these they sought to beat off the tarantulas and centipedes. It was a tight against big odds. The foe was too numerous. \ as fast as one tarantula would be killed another woul I take its place. In the battle not a few of the seamen were nipped in the legs, being saved from serious bites by the sea-boots they wore. Those sailors who were in the hold of the bark soon became exhausted in dealing death, and others of the crew took their places. But they could not get rid of their tenacious foes. As fast as one was killed another took its place. Then the fighting sailors clambered out of the hold upon the deck, leaving the taran tulas complete victors. A number of the tarantulas tried to follow the re treating seamen, but they no sooner showed themselves above the hatches than they were easily disposed of. ? After the retreat of the sailors the tarantulas and the centipedes again took refuge in the bones. Then Capt I ain Ferara and his officers held a coun I cil of war. when it was determined I to kill the tarantulas and centipedes j by fumigating the hold. This was ac : cordingly done. The hatches were replaced and the sulphur was allowed to do its work. I.ater the hatches | were removed, when the dead bodies I of the f<"?e were seen in scores on top t of the bone cargo. EXPLORER STANLEY DEAD. He Falls a Victim to Pleuro-Pneumonla ? J Knighted By Queen Victoria. London, ( By Cable). ? Sir Henry j M. Stanley, the noted explorer, died ? of plctiro-pneumonia. lie had been j ill for two weeks. Sir Henry M. Stanley, the eminent j explorer was born near Denbigh. ! Wales, in 1N40, of very htnnble parunt- j age, his real name being John Row- 1 lands. He was plaeed in the St. j Azoph poorhonse, where he received . a good education, lie remained there; until he was I.) years old, and for a ; year or more taught school at Mold, ? in Flintshire.- He subsequently shipp ed as a cabin boy on a vessel at Liver pool bound to New Orleans. In that ' city he was adopted by a merchant ! and assumed the name of Stanley, j which he jifterwards made celebrated. | Mis benefactors died intestate, and 1 he wa< thrown upon hi* own resour- : ees. He enlisted 111 the Confederate service on the breaking out of the ; war, and, being taken prisoner, he j volunteered in theUniled States Navy, ? and becani ?? acting ensign on the iron- | clad Tieonderoga. After the close of , the war he traveled in Turkey and ' Asia Minor as a news paper corres- ! pondent, and in iHM> he revisited ! Wales. II-; gave a dinner to the chil dren in St. Azoph poorhonse. telling them in a speech that whatever sue- ! cess he had attained, or would at- j tain in the future, he owed his eduea- J tion he had received th*Te. In 1H1/) (JiK-en Victoria made Stan- J ley a Knight Grand Commander of the Bath. Someliir.e before thi* he had become a naturalized citizen of Great ! Bratain and wts elected "> Parliament He married Miss Dor>t'.iy Teunant. a prominent society and literary ; woman. Imperiled By His Mafic. Gettysburg. I'a., (Special). George | McCadden. an amateur magician of ' Fairfield, came near losing his life in attempting a tiew trick. He placed ( some gasoline in his nvtiUh and hold- ; iug a lighted match a short distance away, blew out his gasoline breath on j the match, and a line flame was the re- ' suit 1 1 11 1 when his breath was ex- 1 haiistcd and he was compelled t ? ? ! take in a iresh supply, the name \xasj drawn down !iis t ' 1 r? ?at and he was j seriously burned Saved Fifteen Lives. Scranton, Pa.. (Special* -- James j Shay, engineer at the Blue Ridge col- j liery, near I'eeksvilie. did a heroic 1 act the other night. With flames all ' about him and a hose company play- j iug a stream of water 'ii him to keep his clothing from taking tire, he stood j at the lev?- in the fiercely burning 1 engine lioiio' and safely hoisted lit 1 teen men to the surface. A moment j after he '.liugercd out o ! the budding! with hi> face and hands < badlvl blistered, ih: roof of the building fell' in ! tKANVSTANl FALLS, MANY BUT. Tfcrco H? Irti Mti mmi V*m Precipitate* to the OtimI. Norfolk, Va., (Spccial). ? A Krand stand erected in Church street extend ed for the Layton Carnival Company, ^vhich was opposite the fireworks dis play, collapsed at 1 1 o'clock P. M., and precipitated 300 men and women to the ground. A panic ensued. At last reports three men and two Vomcn were seriously injured. A major portion of those who oc cupied the grandtand received injuries more or less painful. It appears miraculous that no one was killed. The regular performance was over and the crowd was waiting to see the spectacle, "The Eruption of Mont Pelee," when the stand gave way. Instantly the crowd became panic stricken, and the screams of the wom en added 10 the excitement. Those of the spectators who were standing rushed to the aid of those who were piled in the wreck of the grandstand, but the excitement was so great that they were powerless for the timje being. A number of cool-headed men succeeded later in restoring order. Physicians were sent for and these attended to the more seriously injured. Those of the spectators who were unhurt left the scene and went to their homes. Of the five injured it is not believed any will die. Some of the spectators who were in the stand at the time it collapsed stated that the stand was poorly braced ani the great weigHt caused it to collapse. The following are known to have been hurt: Mrs. William \V. Jones; back injured. Mrs. A: J. Whitehurst; both legs fractured. Miss P. C. Crotis; ribs broken. VV. M. Vellines: right hand crushed. United States sailors who were in attendance as spectators did heroic work in getting the injured out of the wreck The Ferris wheel was in operation at the time of the coliapse, and the women passengers became hysterical. Their escort s per vented them from leaping out of the cars. At midnight the injured had all been removed and the grounds were closed. CASTRO MADE DICTATOR. llaosaal Power* Conferred on the Venezuelan President. Caracas. Venezuela (By Cable). ? The Venezuelan Congress, after hav ing declared itself a constitutional as sembly. conferred 011 General Castro full dictatorial powers for a year, with the title of provisional president. General Valle was appointed second vice president. General Castro was clcctcd Presi dent of Venezuela in Ofctobcr, 1901, after having acted as president for a year. According to a decision of Congress, he was to hold office for a term of six years from February 20, i?>o^. It was announced from Ca racas, May j, that the Constitutional Assembly had approved the new con stitution, dividing the republic into 13 states, and giving the president a term of six years, instead of four. Dictatorial powers were probably conferred on General Castro in order that be may put the new constitution in force. ENTOMBED IN A BURNING BUILDING. One is a Rescued Hhe Went Too Par Into the Workings. Shamokin, I'a. (Special). ? Five min ers arc entombed and believed to be dead as a result of a fierce fire which is burning in the Locust Gap colliery <>f the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. They are: John Boglan. Michael Roglan, Mich ael Shannon, John Debo, Win. Mas- | saskie. The fire started last night in the slope, and Massaskic. Shannon and the Boglans were cut off from escape before they were warned. Rescuing parties were at once set to work, and up to tonight their efforts to bring out the men have been un successful Debo. notwithstanding the protests of others, went far into the workings and has not been heard from sine.', and it i- believed that he has succumbed to smoke and g.<s. Celebration Kills Twenty-One. Tokyo. < I?y Cable ).- -During the popular demonstration in honor of the victories achieved bv t h?* Japanese forces t\vent\-one person* were killed and forty injured. The killed and in jured are mostly boys, who were caught against a closed gate at an an ule in the old palace walls by the throng and crushed or drowned in an old moat. Klshenef Trials Ended. Kishen-f, ( My Cable). ? The trial of six men charged with an attempt t" murder two Jews during the April disturbances has been concluded. One of the ir.'Vt was sent' need to five years' pen.d servitude and the others were acquitted. FACTS WORTH REMEMBERINQ. (Egyptian cotton is used only for highpneed goods. About one third of the weight of in eg.j i-. s ?! i?l utit ritneiit . The Sandwich Islander's alphabet has only twelve letters. Cuba grows nearly oiu-t'nird of the world's sit cane India's c >tton crop last year was about $.t/;oj. >00 per annum. Canada i.' an Indian word, meaning "collection of huts." The to.il trade of Abyssinia is 3.874, bales of 400 pounds each. In San Juan. Forto Rico, there are five families for every two dwellings. One in sixte?n of the inhabitants of the United States has a direct in terest in the pension disbursements. The bloodiest battle ever fought with gunpowder was that .?t Borodi no. in which s.'.ooo I{ ? *. .?ians and 32, 000 Frenchmen were killed. The net earning* p.T mile of the .jt.ooo mil !a of railways in European Russia are ju.?t ha!:' as much as those of Ainfriciin road.. Consumption i* fv.'r times a, fre quent in r?.r.iilie ? re ;eiv.:ij 111 >re than it.* 00 PUBLIC APPEAL ISSUES leotgatiM ?f.tke SmMj <f Im* ri<{e the tmUy. U DENOMINATIONS ACAINST MVMK& Etfacatteaal Mntfltai luifiratti to Mm ' by Efforts to Sccarc Stat* Uwi ??4tltaately.fUatUprf.aa Taial to Nattoaal CmiIKbMm m S^ect Stato -c* Sfcawlaj Prevalcace sf Divorce Philadelphia, I?a.. (Special).? Thf inter-clihrcli conference on marriage and divorce. a body representing offi. cially fourteen leading denomination* has issued, through it* secretary. Rev William II. Robert ?, D. D.. an appeal to the iHtblie, calling attention to sev* eral aspects of ilio divorce question. 1 he paper is the beginiug of a na tional campaign of education upon th? subject, to be followed by efforts tc secure the enactment of laws in (!u State legislatures, and ultimately, if is thought, of an amendment to the Constitution ?>f the United States. A I* ready action has been taken by the conference looking toward the pre vention of remarriage, by ministers of other communionsv of divorcees whom clergymen of their own faitb have refused to marry. This movement is the first occasion of any sort upon which the representa tives of the great denominations have officially come together. The mem bers of the conference include many ot the moit eminent ecclesiastics and laymen in the churches. The officers are: Chairman, Right Rev. Wm. C. Doane, L). I)., Hishop of Albany, Al bany, N. V.; secretary. Rev. William II. Roberts. D. L)., Philadelphia; treas ury, rrancis I.ynde Stetson, of New York. rh? denominations which sub senbe to tlu? appeal arc: '>rot,cs,.rint I'-pisconal Church in the ignited States. Presbyterian Church in the I nited States of America, Methodist Episcopol Church, Meth odist Episcopal Church South, Re formed Church of America, Reform ed Church in the United States, United Pr-.?>l>yteriaii Clmrcl\, Evange listic Lutheran (.hurcli, the Haptist Church, the Congregational Church, the L'niversalists Churches, the Uni tariau Churches, the Reformed Pres byterian (. hurcli. the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Alliance of (he Reformed C hurdles holding the Presbyterian service. An abstract of the appeal follows: "On hclialt of t lie representatives of the fourteen churches composing the intcrchurch conference, which dur-. ing the past two years has held fre quent meetings, for the consideration of the important subject of marriage and divorce, we have been instructed to issue this first general address and appeal. "It is proposed to issue other ap peals, as occasion may require, in the hope that the iutlueuce of this repre sentative conference may be brought to bear effectively upon the ecclesiasti cal and cirvil courts and legislative bodies for the securing of better con ditions and for the deliverance of the church and the state from ' impend' ing evils. "Before any civil legislation can be enacted which will be operative, and quite a part from the accord which we arc seeking to secure in the mar riage regulations of the {Christian churches, must conic the leavening of the min is of men and women w hich shall lift them toward a recognition of the noblest dignities of life. "First of al! we plead for the culti vation of the grace of purity, for the careful guarding of children within the atmosphere of home by parents, and for the realization of the dignity of our physical nature lifted to such high honor by the incarnation." DOWNFALL OP NOTED ITALIAN. A Former Prominent Cabinet Minister Guilty of Theft. Rome (By Cable).? There was ? great sensation in t tic Chamber of Deputies at the conclusion of the par liamentary inquiry into the adminis tration i?f Signor Nasi, former minis ter ol" public instruction. The in quiry proved Nasi guilty of the misap propriation of large sums of money, the falsification of documents, the sup I pression -it evidence and continuous i peculation. j The law court* presented to the chamber a demand that thev be al lowed to proceed against Nasi and arrest him. but tinder the rules of the chamber the discussion of this de mand was postponed. Meanwhile the news that Nasi bad been dccjjircd guilty of the charge* against bin; spread, and the former minister, believing all to be lost, fled. Nasi war. a strong politician, and it was believed he was destined to be come premier. The- result of the parliamentary inquiry into hi* conduct lias caused great excitement. New IMylnj? Machine. MidJIitown, N. V., (Special).? -Wil liam Koescher, the well known vio linist, who has been working for the last twelve year* on a flying machine, has completed it and will test it in 3 few days. Kocscher. besides being a noted musician. i? a natural mechanic and draughtsman. He studied at a polytechnic school in Berlin. He built the machine himself in a large factory which lie rented in this city. He is averse to notoriety, and it was only by accident that the fact of his having invented the machine was dis covered. A Horrible DeatU. Chicago (Special ).? Making a mis step while walking on the edge of a vast caldron of boiling metal. Hainey Anderson, an employe of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago, clung for life t > the etui. vC-1 ? i I e bis feet burned off. Then, his strength gone, he slipped with a shriek into the seeth ing mas? below. In a few moments his b ?dy v;as liler.illy consumed. One of his f< llow-vv irkpien fainted with horror at the spe.'taclc.