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JUDGE PARK * lis Writes the Commit! The Democrat TSRIIES BOLDLY L'PON THE ISSLES -A Vigorous Outline of the Democratic Faith Given by the Democratic? Faith Given by the Democratic Candidate?The Policies That Should Gcvern the Executive Outlined at Length. Judge Parker gave to the presss his letter of acceptance, printed in full below. it is shorter than that of President. Roosevelt, and deals with the questions at issue in the frankest and most strightforward way: There can bo no doubt where the Democratic candidate stands on the issues of imp rialisui.thetarift'.the trusts, the Philippines, or any other of the campaign qie sr.ious. President Roosevelt's defence of his administrative usurpation is riddled by the great jurist. To the Honorable Champ Clark and others. Committee, etc. Gentlemen: In my response to your vonimmee, at me imuiui uuuuianuu proceedings. 1 referred to some matters not mentioned in this letter. I desire that these be considered as incorporated herein, and regret that lack of space prevents specific reference to them all I wish here, however, again to refer to tny views there expressed as to the gold standard, to declare again my unqualified belief in said standard, and to express my appreciation of the action of the Convention in reply to my communication upon that subject. Grave public questions are pressiug for decision. The Democratic party appeals to the people with confidence that :ls poeition on these questions will be accepted and endorsed at the polls. While the issues involved are numerous. some stand forth pre-eminent In the public mind. Among these are,? Tariff Reform. Imperialism. Economical Administration and Honesty in the Public Service. I shall briefly consider these and some others within the necessarily prescribed limits of this letter. IMPERIALISM. While I presented my views at the notification preceedings concerning this vita', issue, the overshadowing importance of this question impels me to refer to ft again. The issue is oftentimes referred to as Constitutionalism vs. ImI* rialism. If we would retain our liberties and icnctitutional rights unimpaired, we cannot permit or tolerate, at any time *>f 4 nw onv niirnnsp thp arrnMtion Of unconstitutional powers by the executive branch ol our government. We should be ever mindful of the words cf Webster. "Liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining Constitutional lestnaints and a just division of politi<al powers." Already the national government has become centralized beyond any point contemplated or imagined by the founders of the Constitution. How tremendously all this has added to the power of the President! It has developed frqm year to year until it almost equals that of many monarchs. While the growth of our country and the magnitude of interstate interests may seem to famish a plausible reason for this centralization of power, yet these same !a< ts afford the most potent reason why the executive should not be permitted tc encroach upon the other depart| ments of the government, and assume legislative, or other powers, not ex1 r?Bly conferred by the Constitution. The magnitude of the country and its diversity of interests and population would enable a determined, ambitious anci able executive, unmindful of constitutional limitations and fired with the Just of power, to go far to usurpation of authority and the aggrandizement of personal power before the situation could be fully appreciated or the people be aroused. The issue of Imperialism which has been thrust upon the country involves a decision whether the law of the land or the rule of individual caprice shall govern. The principle of imperialism u.a/ give rise to brilliant, startling, dashing results, but th# priciple of Democracy holds in check the brilliant Executive and subjects him to the sober, conservative control of the per pie. The people of the United States .-land at the parting of the ways. Shall we follow the footsteps of our fathers a'ong the paths of peace, prosperity and contentment, guided by the ever-living spirit of the Constitution which th<y framed for us, or shall we go along other and untried paths, hitherto shunned by all, following blindly rov ideals, which, though appealing with brilliancy to the imagination and ambition, may prove a will o' the wisp, leading us into difficulties from which ? - -- *n ftvfnVotA nil v. II Uiaj UC UU^Uri.i uiv |v VAvttvu^v selves without lasting injury to our national character and institutions' THE TARIFF AND TRUSTS. Tariff reform is one of the cardinal principles of the Democratic faith, an? the necessity for it was never greater tht.n at the present time. It should be undertaken at once in the interest of aM our people. The Dinglev Tariff is excessive in n.<ny of its rates, and. as to them at least, unjustly and oppressively burdens the people. It secures to domes1? manufacturers, singly or in combination. the privilege of exacting excessive prices at -home and prices far r Telegraphic Briefs. Thomas H. Tibbies. Vice-Presidential candidate of the People's party, has issued his letter of acceptance. A man who says he is J. E. Reeves, of Baltimore, was arrested at Oyster Biiy. N. Y., while trying to see President Roosevelt, for whom he said he had a message from Heaven. The New York Democratic State Cr nveniion met at Saratoga, effected a temporary organization and then adjc ned until today. ER'S LETTER] ee At Length Accepting ic Nomination i i above the level of sales made regularly ; by them abroad with profit, thus giving : .1 bounty to foreigners at the expense J o- our own people. !t Lvies oppressive , and unjust taxes upon many articles forming, in whole or part, the so-called raw material of many of our manufae- 1 lured products, not only burdening the [ consumer, but also closing to the manufacturer the markets he needs and | seeks abroad. Its unjust taxation bur- j : dens the people generally, forcing them ; i ir> pay excessive pric es for food. fuel. I clothing and other necessaries of life. ! It levies duties on many articles not i | normally imported in any considerable i j amount, which are made extensively at j home, for which the most extreme pro- i teetion would hardly justify protective I taxes, and which in large amounts are | ; exported. Such duties have been and will continue to be a direct incentive to the formation of huge industrial combinations, which, secure from foreign , competetions, are enabled to stifle do- ; mcstic competition and practically to j monopolize the home market. The people aemana reionu ui ing conditions. Since the last Demo cratic administration the cost of living ; 1 ' rss grievously increased. Those having j fixed incomes have suffered keenly; ; those living on wages, if there has i been any increase, know that such in- j c rease has not kept pace with the ad- ; vance in the cost of living, including ! rent and the necessaries of life. Many today are out of work, unable to seI cure any wages at all. To alleviate j these conditions, in so far as is in our power, should be our earnest endeavor. Judge Parker defines the difference between the two parties on the tariff question. The Republican party has I favored the protection idea, while the . Democratic party has always claimed that taxation of all kinds should be purely with a view of raising necessary revenue. TRUST REMEDIES. I pointed out In my earlier response the remedy, which in my judgment, can effectually be applied against monopolies, and the assurance was then given that if existing laws, including both statute and common law, proved inadequate. contrary to my expectations. I favor such further legislation, within constitutional limitations, as will best promote and safeguard the interests of all the people. Whether there is any common law which can be applied and enforced by the Federal courts .cannot be determined by the President, or by a candidate for the Presidency. The determination of this question ' was left by the people in framing the | Constitution, to the Judiciary and not I to the Executive. The Supreme Court of 1 the United States has recently considj ered this question, and. in the case of j the Western Union Telegraph Co. vs. i The Call Publishing Co.. to be found i in the one hundred and eighty-first ! *ha TTnited States Snnreme Court reports, at page 92. it decided j that common law principles could be applied by United States courts in cases involving Interstate Commerce, j in the absence of United States statutes, ' specifically covering the case. Such is ' the law of the land. RECIPROCITY. In my address to the Notification Committee 1 said that tariff reform "is demanded by the best interests of both manufacturer and consumer." With eaual truth it can be said that the benefits of reciprocal trade treaties would ensure to both. That the consumer j would be helped is unquestionable, j j That the manufacturer would receive j great benefit by extending his markets abroad hardly needs demonstration. His productive capacity has outgrown the home market. The very term "Home Market," has changed in its significance. Once, from the manufacturers' point of view, it meant expansion; today the marvellous growth of our manufacturing Industries has far exceeded the consumptive capacity of our domestic markets, and the term "Home Market" implies> contraction, rather than expansion. If we would run our mills to their full capacity, thus giving steady employment to our workmen and securing to them and to the manufacturer the profits accruing from increased production, other markets must be found. Furthermore, when our Manufacturers are dependent on raw materials in whole or part imported, it is vital to the extension of their markets abroad that they secure their i ; materials on the most favorable terms, j Our martyred President, William Mc- ! Kinley, appreciated this situation. He ' pointed out in his last address to the ; ) people that we must make sensible ! j trade arrangements if "we shall extend i the outlets for our increasing surplus." He said, "a system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is | manifestly essential to the continued I and healthful growth of our export trade. * * * The period of exclutiveuess is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and I -aiodnno will nrpvpnf rpnrisals. it ICitUlJ JCIUUWMW n?.? ^/. v - >r . Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not." This argument was made in the interest of our manufacturers, whose products, he urged, "have so multiplied, j that the problem of more markets re- ! j quires our urgent and immediate atten- | I tion." He had come to realize that the i ' so-called "stand pat" policy must give | ; way?that there must be a reduction j I ol duties to enable our manufacturers | Sharps and Flats. Mormon missionaries are to be excluded from Hungary. King Oscar of Sweden receives Aolf Beck, who served five years in an English jail for another man's crime. An attempt wa3 made at Odessa to assassinate Chief of Police Neidgardt. President Roosevelt's special train was delayed 36 minutes in Baltimore by the breaking of a tire on the locomotive, which crippled the machine. to cultivate foreign markets. The last words of this President?who had won the affection of his countrymen?ought to be studied by every man who has any doubt of the necessity 01' a reduction in tariff rates in the interest of the manufacturer. They present with clearness a situation and a proposed remedy that prompted the provision is our platform which declares that. "We iavor liberal trade arrangements with Canada and with peoples of other countries where they can be entered into with benefit to American agriculture, manufactures, min'ng or commerce." The persistent refusal of the Republican majority in the Federal Senate to latify the reciprocity treaties negotiated in pursuance of the policy advocated alike by Mr. Blaine and Mr. McKinley, and expressly santioned in the Dingley act itself, is a discouraging exhibition of bad faith. As already mentioned by me. the exorbitant duty imposed on many an imported a?*ticle by the Dingley Tariff was avowedly intended bv its author not to be per- I manent, but to serve temporarily as a maximum, from which the Federal Government was empowered to offer a reduction, in return for an equivalent | concession on the part of a foreign country. President McKinley undertook honestly to carry out the purpose of the act. A number of reciprocity agreements was negotiated, which, if ratified, would have had the two-fold result of cheapening many imported products for American consumers, and of J ~ nnioroinv frtroiPTi mnrkpts I uptruuifi auu cum.6iu6 to American producers. Not one of j those agreements has met with, the ap- 1 proval of the Republican masters of i the Senate. Indeed they did not even j permit their consideration. In view of j the attitude of the present Eexcutive, no new agreement need be expected i from him. Nor does the Republican j platform contain a favorable reference ! to one of the suspended treaties. The ; reciprocity clauses of the Dingley act i seem destined to remain a monument ; of legislative cozenage and political bad j faith, unless the people take the matter ; in their own hands at the ballot box | and command a reduction of duties in i leturn for reciprocal concessions. INDEPENDENCE FOR THE FILIPI- j NOS. In some quarters it has been assum- I ed that in the discussion of the Philip- 1 pine question in my response, the phrase "self-government." was intended to mean something less than independence. It was not intended that it should be understood to mean, nor do I think as used it does mean less than independence. However, to eliminate all possibility for conjecture, I now state that I am in hearty accord with that plank in our platform that favors doing for the Filipinos what we have already done for the Cubans; and 1 fa1 vor making the promise to them now that we shall take such action as soon ps they are reasonably prepared for it. If independence, such as the Cubans * ??' cryr\ n fo^ tr\ enjoy, cannui ut* iji uucuuj gmmcu l the Filipinos at this time, the promise that it shall come the moment they are I capable of receiving it will tend to | stimulate rather than hinder their de- | velopment. And this should be done not j only in justice to the Filipinos, but to preserve our own rights: for a free people cannot withhold freedom from another pc-ople and themselves remain free. The toleration of tyranny over ethers will soon breed contempt for I freedom and self-government, and ; weaken our power of resistance to in- j sidious usurpation of our constitutional ; rights. AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. The pledge of the platform to secure to our citizens, without distinction of race or creed, whether native born or naturalized, at home and abroad, the equal protection of the laws and the | enjoyment of all the rights and privi- j leges open to them under the covenants of our treaties, as their just due. should ' be made good to them. In the accomp- | iishment of that result it is essential | that a passport issued by the government of thp United States to an American citizen shall be accepted the world over as proof of citizenship. CIVIL SERVICE. The statute relating to Civil Service is the outcome of the efforts of thoughtful, unselfish and public spirited citizens. Operation tinder it has frequently been of such a character as to offend against the spirit of the statute, but the result achieved, even under a partial enforcement .of the law, has been such as to both deserve and command the utterance of the Democratic party that it stands committed to the principal of Civil Service reform and demands its just and impartial enforcement. PANAMA CANAL. As Isthmian canal has long been the hope of our statesmen, and the avowed aim of the two great parties, as their platforms in the past show. The Panama route having been selected, the building of the canal should be pressed to completion with all reasonable expedition. The methods by which the Executive acquired the Panama Canal route and rights are a source of regret to many. To them, the statement that thereby a great public work was assured to the profit of our people is not a sufficient answer to the charge of violation of National good faith. They appreciate that the principles and healthy convictions which in their working out have made us free and great, stand firmly against the argument or suggestion that we shall be blind to the nature of the means employed to promote our welfare. They hold that adherence to principle, whether it works for our good or ill, will have a more beneficent influence on our future destiny than all our material upbuilding, and that we should ever remember that the idea cf doing a wrong to a smaller, weaker nation that we, or even all mankind, may have a resultant good is repugnant to the principles upon which our government was founded. Under the laws of the United States J the duty is imposed on the Executive By Wire and Cable. Judge D. Cady Herrick, who will resign shortly, opened his campaign at Albany. The Democratic campaign textbook was completed and is to be issued shortly. Colorado Democrats completed their State ticket, renominating ex-Congressman J. F. Shafroth among others. Many learned papers were read before the International Congress of Arts and Sciences in St. Louis. I to proceed with due diligence in the | work of constructing the Canal. That [ duty should be promptly performed. AMERICAN SHIPPING, j Our commerce in American bottoms [amounts to but eight per cent, of our 1 total exports and imports. For seventy years prior to ISfiQ. when the Republican party came into power, our merchant marine carried an average of 1 seventy-five per cent, of our foreign [ commerce. By 1S77 it had dwindled to twenty-seven per cent. Now we carry but a contemptibly small fraction of ;cur exports and imports. American shipping in the foreign trade was greater by over one hundred thousand tons in 1810?nearly a honored years ago?than it was last year. In the face of the continuous decline in the record of American shipping during the last forty-three years, the promise of the Republican party to restore it is without encouragement. The record of the Democratic party gives assurance that the task can be more wisely entrusted to it. It is an arduous task to undo the effect of forty years of decadence, and requires the study and investigation of those best fitted by experience to find the remedy,?which surely does not lie in the granting of subsidies, wrung from the pocket of all the taxpayers. INVESTIGATION OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. Recent disclosures, coupled with the 'I nf CAVPrnmcnt #>Y I irtpiti au5iiicuiuuvu vi av, penditures, show a need of an investigation of every department of the government. The Democrats in Congress demanded it. The Republican majority refused the demand. The people can determine by their vote in November whether they wish an honest and thorough investigation. A Democratic Congress and Executive will assure it. ARMY AND NAVY. We are justly proud of the officers and men of our Army and Navy. Both, however, have suffered from the persistent injection of personal and political influence. Promotions and appointments have been frequently based on favoriasm instead of merit Trials and court-martials have been set aside under circumstances indicating political interference. These and other abuses should be corrected. On the subject of pensions the letter is plain. Mr. Parker is favorable to a liberal allowance for disabled veterans, but opposes extravagance in the granting of pensions. FOREIGN RELATIONS. The foreign relations of the government have in late years assumed special importance. Prior to the acquisition *)f the Philippines, we were practically invulnerable against attacks by foreign States. Those tropical possessions, however, seven thousand miles from our shores, liave changed all this and have in effect put us under bonds to keep the peace. The new conditions call for a management of foreign affairs the more circumspect in that the recent American invasion of foreign markets in all parts of the world has excited the serious apprehension of all the great industrial peoples. It is essential, therefore, more than ever, to adhere strictly to the traditional policy of the country as formulated by its first president and never, in my judg ment. wisely ciepanea irum?iu iuvhc friendly relations with all nations while avoiding entangling alliances with any. Such a policy means the cultivation of peace instead of the glorification of war. and the minding of our cwn business in lieu of spectacular intermeddling with the affairs of other hations. It means strict observance of the principles of international law and condemns the doctrine that a great state, by reason of its strength, may rightfully appreciate the sovereignty or territory of a small state on account of its weakness. It means for other American states that we claim no rights and will assume no functions save those of a friend and of an ally and defender as against European aggressions. It means that we repudiate the role of the American continental policeman; that we refuse to act as debt collector for foreign states or their citizens; that we respect the independent sovereignty of each American state and its right to preserve order and otherwise regulate its own internal affairs in its own way; and that any investigation in its affairs by us is limited to the single office of enabling its people to work out their own political and national destiny for themselves free from the coercion of any European state. REFORM IN GOVERNMENTAL EXPENDITURES. Twenty-eight years have passed since the Democratic .party of the State of New York, in convention assembled, recommended to the National Democracy the nomination of Samuel J. Tllden as its candidate for the Pensidency, | and declared it to he "their settled conviction that a return to the constitutional principles, frugal expenses ana administrative purity of the founders j of the Republic is the first and most imnerious dutv of the times,?the com manding issue now before the people ! of the Union." This strong expression was called forth by the national expenditures for the year 1875, which amounted to $274,000,000,?a situation which, in the opinion of a majority of cur people, justified an imperative deJ mand for reform in the administration of public affairs. As the expenditures of the last fiscal year amounted to the enormous total of $582,000,000, it is evident that a thorough investigation of [ the public service and the immediate abandonment of useless and extravagant expenditures are more necessary now than they were then. This astounding increase is out of all proportion to [ the increase of our population, and finds no excuse from whatever aspect we view the situation. The National [Democratic Platform declares that I "large reductions can easily be made in the annual expenditures of the government without impairing the efficiency of any branch of the public service." Can there be any doubt of the The News in Paragraphs. The "determined" men who usually resort to mob law to avenge an offense against the State, know that they are taking the law into their own hands and are doing what they know to be wrong. In so doing they dishonor God. destroy their own idea of self respect and set at naught the dignity of the State. A negro assaulted and probably fatally injured Mrs. Emma Rozzen, near Patton, Pennsylvania. i accuracy of this statement? Between the expenditures of the year 1886, amounting to $242,000,000, and those of the last fiscal year?the seventh after Grover Cleveland ceased to be President?aggregating $582,000,000, there is a difference so great as to excite alarm in the breasts of all thoughtful men. Even excluding the sum of $50,000,000 paid for the Panama Canal rights and to the State of Panama, the expenditures of the last fiscal year exoeeded the sum of $532,000,000, being more than double the expenditures of the government for all purposes during the first year of Mr. Cleveland's administration. The expenses of the first four years succeeding the last Democratic administration amounted to the enormous average of $11,000,000 per year. This large expenditure was due to a considerable extent to the cost of the SpanishAmerican War, which occurred during that period; but the termination of that war brought no relief to the Treasury, for the average annual ex; penses of the government during the | three subsequent years ending June 30, 1904, were about $519,000,000, which is the largest sum hitherto reached, during a like period, since the close of the Civil War. This draft upon the revenue of the i country has had the effect which might i have been anticipated, and now we | have presented the reverse of the situi 4/vVi lorl f/\ tho fomAiic nhaftf 1 ^ i vation, "It is a condition, and not a I theory, which confronts us;" for, although the present incumbent found at the close of the first fiscal year, during which he assumed control of the ad.ruinistration, a surplus of receipts over expenditures of more than $91,000,000, there was an excess of expenditures over receipts at the close of the last fiscal year of $42,000,000, and the official monthly reports made by the Treasury Department show that the expenditures are continuously and rapidly increasing, while the receipts are diminishing. In this connection it is interesting to note the recent administrative order* forbidding government officers from making public any statement of esti-, mates on which future appropriations are to be based. If a man of ordinary intelligence and prudence should find in the operating expenses of his business such a tremendous percentage of increase, would he not promptly set on foot an Inquiry for the cause of the waste, and take immediate measures to stop it, especially when trusted employees have been found dishonest and convicted, and a widespread impression exists that a thorough investigation may discover other cases of malfeasance? When the Chief Executive reported to Congress that, "through frauds, forgeries and perjuries, and by shameless briberies the laws relating to the proper conduct of the public service in general, and to the due administration of the Postoffice Department have been notoriously violated " there was a general popular demand for a rigid, sweeping investigation by Codgress, in addition to that undertaken by the Executive himself. Such an investigation the Republican majority in Congress would not permit, although the minority insisted that the interests of good government demanded it. And the minority was right. The liberality, patriotism and national pride of the people should not be made an excuse for waste of the public funds. Official extravagance is official crime. There is not a sentence in the Republican platform recommending a reduction in the expenditures of the government; not a line suggesting that the i inr rease in the cost of the War De portment from $34,000,000 In 1886 to ? 115,000,000 in 1904, should be Inquired into; and not a paragraph calling for a thorough investigation of those departments of the government in which dishonesty has been recently disclosed, j Reform in expenditures must be had ! in both the Civil, Military and Naval i establishments in order that the national expenditures may be brought to a basis of peace and the government maintained without Recourse to the taxes of war. CONCLUSION. I have put aside a congenial work, to which I had expected to devote my life, in order to assume, as beet I can, t oe responsibilities your convention put upon me. I solicit the cordial co-operation and generous assistance of every man who believes that a chance of measures and of men at this time would be wise, and urge harmony of endeavor as well as vigorous action on the part of all so minded. The issues are joined and the people must render the verdict. Shall economy of administration be demanded or shall extravagance be enranenoa/l 1 | v.uui agcu Shall the wrongdoer be brought to bay by the people, or must justice wait upon political oligarchy? Shall our government stand for equal opportunity or for speeial privilege? Shall it remain a government of law 1 or become one of individual caprice? Shall we cling to the rule of the people. or shall we embrace beneficent despotism ? With calmness and confidence, we await the people's verdict If called to the office of President. I shail consider myself the chief magistrate of all the people and not of any taction, and shall .ever be mindful of the fact that on many questions of national policy there are honest differences of opinion. I believe in the patriotism, good sense and absolute sincerity of all the people. I shall strive to remember that he may serve his Party | best who serves his Country best. If it be the wish of the people that j 1 undertake the duties of the Presi[ dency, I pledge myself, with God'3 help, to devote all my powers ana eueis.v rbe duties of this exalted office. Very truly yours. ALTON B. PARKER. =? ? ? , Minor Events of the Week. The directors on the part of the State for the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad are announced. The only change is that. L. Harvey is made State's proxy instead of J. W. Granger. who succeeds Harvey as director, j Oiner directors aae C. M. Busbee, Raleigh: W. H. Smith, Goldsboro; Jas. A. Bryan, New Beine; \V. H. Bagley. Raleigh; L. G. Daniels, Bayboro; R. W. Taj lor, Mooiehcad City; J. C. Parker. HERRFCK THE MAN > r ,y Nominated For Governor By the New York Democrats 9 f-s ALL NOMINATIONS UNANIMOUS - > State Democratic Leaders Find a W.* ts Harmonious Action?Murphy's 1 I Opposition Fatal to Gout and MoCai* ren's to Shepard. Saratoga, S. Y., Special.?Out of * situation which at times seemed almost impossible of an amicable solution, the leaders of the Democrat!? party found a way to unanimous action, and at 3:23 o'clock the State convention adjourned without day, after ^ having nominated unanimously the fol- ?> lowing ticket: For Governor?D. Cady Herriek, of j Albany, at present justice 01 me ouu? Supreme Court. For Leiutenant Governor?Francis Burton Harrison, of New York, now s Representative In Congress from the thirteenth district. Secretary of State?John Wallace^ Jr., of Monroe, now a member of the \ Assembly. For Attorney General?John Cuneen, of Era, the present incumbent. For Comptroller?George Hall, of * St. Lawrence, now mayor of the eltj; V 01 Ogdensburg. For State Engineer and Surveyor? f Thomas H. Stryker, of Rome, 0neld4 oounty. For Chief Judge of the Court of Ap- r-? peals?Edgar M. Cullen, of Kings : | (Democrat), now an Associate Justice of that bench and the Republican nominee. For Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals?Wm. E. Werner, of Monroe (Republcan), now of the beach bg designation of Governor Odell, and the^-^ Republican nominee. Dynamite on Track Kills t. v' jg Melrose, Mass., Special.?A* out- ;"J ward bound electric car containing 32 ^ persons was blown to pieces in thin city Wednesday night by striking a * 50-pound box of dynamite that had fallen ofT an express wagon. Sir ?er- ^ sons were killed outright, three mora ' * died of their injuries within an hoar, and 19 others on the car were taken to the two hospitals suffering from so- '.3 vere injuries. At least a score of pepsons in the immediate vicinity of tho explosion were hurt by flying glass and splinters. u?4 The following dead have been Wen- ^ tilled: Malcom E. McLennan, Melrose | Highlands. E. B. .Haynes, Melrose. Win field Rowe, Saugsa, Mass., metorman. E. A. Stowe, South Boston. Fred D. Marshall, Boston. The unidentified dead were three women and a three-year-old girl. *1 Edward A. Waterhouse, of Melrose, had a foot amputated, and was other* ' wise badly injured. Dr. Perry, of Wakefield, had both legs broken. Mrs. John Conway, of Melrose, haa both legs broken. -Jg George H Andrews, of Melrose, received a compound fracture of the left ,1 leg and his foot was also amputated. All of these are likely to die. ' /J So great was the force of the explosion that all but 10 feet of the rear portion of the car was blown into < small pieces, while windows within ri a radius of a quarter of a mile wem ri shattered. The immediate vicinity of the accident presented a fearful spectacle when those in the neighborhood reached the scene. The ground was . w strew with legs, arms, and other portions of the bodies of those who had . ; been killed, while shrieks and groaaa came from the writhing forms of tne .? Injured. The car contained mostly M men on their way to their homes in this city, the accident taking place snly a mile from Melrose's centre. King Peter Crowned. Belgrade, Serria, By Cable.?Peter Karagorgevltch was crowned King of Servia Wednesday. There were no hoS- ; t-'le demonstrations and no attempt to carry out the numerous threats against the new king's life. In these solemn : ritual of the Greek church and In the elaborate state procession which pre- . 3 ceded and followed the coronation the '| tragedy of Servia's previous ruler , % found no echo. Amid the thunder ef* the saluting guns from the royal palace ahd the garrison King Alexander's murder was at least outwardly forgotten. Sign of a Settlement. Fall River, Mass., Special.?'The first intimation of a settlement of the strike 3 In the cotton mills in this city, whiek 1 began in July 25, came when it becameknown that one of the manufacture had bought a large quantity of rant *3 cotton to be delivered the latter part . ^ of October and that other manufactur- V| ers were trying to place similar orders. It. is the general belief that any settle- j ment of the strike within the next two )r three weeks will be in favor of the ipcrntives. 3 Russians Close to Japanese. Tokio, By Cable.?A telegram revived from military headquarters in : >J fanchuria. says thai portions of the a iussians troops engaged in reconnlsPing i U'JC, niliiv iviwi ***?*& .. ?? _ nir?e. continued in touch with the ? ;iaccse lines along Mukden and ,? 3hu ron's cn September IS. There - 3 28 no flshting. . ,|S