JEWS'
NBF PROTEST.
ftwsrfiii Petition Which -Russia
Would Kot Receive.
Secretary Kay Instructs Charge
d'Affaires Riddle, at St. Pe?
tersburg,
o Present the B'Nai B'Rith Petition to
the Russian Minister of Foreign Af?
fairs. Setting Forth the Bar?
barities With Which the
Jews are Still Threat?
ened.
Washington, July 17.-It is stated
the decretary of State that the in?
to created by the question of the
ntation of the Jewish petition to
is closed. The State depart
t today made public the correspon
that has taken place respecting
petition. Its substance already
been forecasted in the press dis?
es. The correspondence consists
of an instruction to Mr. Biddle, Uni
ted States charge d'affaires at St
IlPtetersburg, reciting in detail the peti?
tion and directing him to present the
same to the foreign office, if it were
willing to receive it lt is stated by
3fr. Biddle that the foreign office
v?;?W0ald not receive it under any cir*
|; namstances, and Secretary Hay so
informed the B'Nai B'Rith committee
in a brief telegram.
The official statement of the facts is
ss follows:
The Russian Government has de?
clined to recieve or to consider the
petition in reijjtion to the cond.tion
sf the Jews in &ggsia> signed by several
>$honsand citizens?'and cabled to St
Petersburg by direction of the Presi?
dent.
At-the conference on Tuesday, the j
3?th of July, at Oyster Bay, the Presi?
dent conferred with Messrs. Leo N.
Xevi, Simon Wolf and Oscar S.
Strauss, in regard to the presentation
of the petition and decided to send the
following dispatch to Mr. Riddle, the
American charge d'affaires in St.
Petersburg : '
Department of State, Washing ton,
B. C., July 15, 19G&-To Riddle, St
Petersburg : You are ins tructed to ask
an audience of the minister of foreign
a&?irs and to make to him the follow?
ing comunicar? an :
15'Excellency : The Secretary of State
iastrccts me to inform yon that the
President has received from a large
Trmnber of citzens of the United States
ot all religious affiliations and occupy?
ing the highest positions, in both
^abiic and private life, a respectful
petition, addressed to his Majesty, the
Emperor, relating to the condition
sf-Jews in Russia, and running as fol
lews:
*4 *To His Imperial Majesty, the
^Smperor of Russia : The cruel outrages
"perpetrated at Kishineff during Eas?
ier, of 1903, have excited horror and
-reprobation throughout the world.
Until your Majesty gave special and
personal directions the local authori?
ties failed to maintain or suppress the
^rioting.
** 'The victims were Jews and the
assault was the result of race and reli?
gions prejudice.
'* *The rioters violated the laws of
Russia.
'* 'The local officials were derelict
-In the performance of their duty.
'.' 'The Jews were the victims of in
'aefensible lawlessness. These facts
?re made plain by the official reports
3& and bv the official act following the
riot ,
y* 'Under ordinary conditions the
Awful calamity would be deplored
without undue fear of a recurrence.
Bat such is not the case in the present
Instance. Your petitioners are advised
that millions of Jews-Russian subjects
--dwelling in Southwestern Russia are
-in constant dread of fresh outbreaks.
They feel that bigotry, ignorance and
saperstition, as exmpii?ed by the
sisters, are ever ready to prosecute
them; that the local officials, unless
thereunto specially admonished, can?
not be relied on as strenuous pro
i&?ors of their peace and security ;
that pubilc sentiment of hostility has
been engendered against them and
hangs over them as a continuing
menace.
4 "Even ii: it be conceded that these
fears are to ?some extent exaggerated,
it is unquestionably true that they ex?
ist; that they are not groundless,, and
that they produce effects of great
Importance.
'The westward migration of Rus
Jews, which has proceeded for
r twenty years, ;s being stimulat?
ed by these fears, and already that
movement has become so great as to
overshadow in magnitude the expulsion
of'the Jews from Spain and to rank
with the exodus from Egypt.
*' 'No estimate is possible of the
misery suffered by the hapless Jews,
who feel driven to forsake their native
-land, to sever the most sacred ties
and to wander forth to strange conn
tries. Neither is it possible to es?
timate the misery suffered by those
who are unwilling or unable to leave
theland of their birth ; who must part
from friends and relatives who emi?
grate; who remain in never-ending
terror.
" "Religious pers3cution is more
sinful and more fatuous even than
war. War is sometimes necessary,
.honorable and just, religious persecu?
tion is never defensible.
" 'The sinfulness and folly which
gave impulse to unnecessary war, re
cerrad their greatest check when your
Majesty in initiative resulted in an in?
ternational Court of Peac.
"'With such an example before it
'the civilized world cherished the hope
that upon the same initiative there
shall be fixed in the early days of the
iwentieth century the enduring prin?
ciple of religious liberty; that by
gracious and convincing expression
your Majeosty will proclaim not only
fer the government of your own sub?
jects, but also for the guidnace of all
civilized men, that no one shall suffer
in person, property, liberty, honor or
life, because of his religious belief;
rifest the humblest subject or citizen
"may worship according to the dictates
of his own conscience, and that gov
ernment, whatever its form or
agencies, must safeguard these rights
and immunities by the exercise of all
its powers.
" 'Far removed from your Majesty's
dominions, living under different con?
ditions and owing allegiance to an?
other Government, your petitioners
yet venture, in the name of civiliza?
tion, to plead for religious liberty and
tolerance ; to plead that he who led
his own people and all others to the
shrine of peace, will add new lastre
to his reign and fame by leading a new
movement that shall commit the
whole world in opposition to re?
ligious persecutions."
"I am instructed to ask whether the
petition will be received by your Ex?
cellency to be submitted to the
gracious consideration of his Majesty.
In that case the petition will be at
once forwarded to St. Petersburg. I
avail myself, etc.
"You will report at the earliest pos?
sible moment your execution of this
i nstruction. H ay. ' '
RUSSIA WOULD NOT RECEIVE
IT.
This was sent on the 15th of July,
and on the same day Mr. Riddle was
informed by the Russain minister of
foreign affairs that, in view of publi?
cations which had appeared in the
newspaper, the Russian Government
wished to notify him that the proposed
petition would not be received under
any circumstances, and that this res?
olution of the Russian Government
was taken independently of any con?
sideration cf the substance of the
terms of. the petition. On the receipt
of this information, the Secretary of
State addressed the following letter to
Messrs. Strauss, Wolf and Levi :
"Sir: lam directed by the Presi?
dent to acquaint you that this depart?
ment is informd by the American em?
bassy in St. Ptersburg that the Im?
perial Government of Russia has de?
emed to recieve or consider the peti?
tion in relation to the condition of the
Jews in Russia, which was addresed
tor his Majesty, the Emperor, by a
large number of citizens of the Uni?
ted States and which this depart?
ment, by direction of the President
and at your request, undertook to
transmit to its high destination. lam,
sir, very respectfully yours.
- "John Hay."
ANOTHER POSTAL SCANDAL
' " T _ JP p ' ? Tr " 9 .
George W. Beavers. Charged
With Accepting a Bribe of
$840.
New York, July 17.-A bench war?
rant was issued by Judge Thomas,
in the United States Circuit Court,
Brooklyn, today for the arrest of
George W. Beavers, formerly chief of
the division of salaries and allowance
in the postoffice department, on an in?
dictment found by the Federal grand
jury, which charges him with accept?
ing a bribe of $840. It is under?
stood that payments to Beavers were
traced back to the purchase by the
Government of the Brandt-Dent Cash
Registering Machine Company. The
postoffice inspectors found that Beavers
had a large account in the Nassau
Trust Company, Brooklyn, and are said
to have discovered that checkR de?
posited there had been given by Ex
Congressman Driggs. The warrant
has not yet been served and it was
rumored that Mr. Beavers could not
be found. It was stated that he would
have until Monday to present himself
and that an arrangement had been
made with his attorneys to enter a plea
for him at that time.
Prophecy and the Next Pope
Most people have heard of the sup?
posed prophetic mottoes applied, in
the eighth century by a mysteri?
ous person once known as the Pseudo
Maiachi, to the future popes. It
chances that the motto which falls to
the successor of Leo XIII will be < r
Ignis ardens-a "burning fire"-and,
as the word Vampa means "flame"
in Italian, ingenious people have, of
course, discovered that Cardinal
Svampa must be the coming Pope.
The lower classes, especially, are quite
sure of it His chances depend on
something better and more trust
worthy, however. Few combine such
political ability with such theological
training. The man is young and '
strong, full of energy and practical
sense, well accustomed to command
through long experience in governing
one of the largest and most difficult
dioceses in Italy, and thoroughly able
to cope with all sorts of difficulties,
great and small, sudden and menac?
ing, or delicately intricate. He pos?
sesses, too, a fine appreciaion ef
modern intellectual and social wants,
a ready intuition, and a strong will.
A very good candidate himself, he is
essentially a man who influences
others, and whose power will be felt
in the coming Conclave.-Marion
Crawford in Everybody's Magazine.
- - m m -inn?"
flew Commander-in-Chief.
Washington, July 17.-The president
has given directions for the prepara?
tion of commissions for the following
promotions in the army :
Maj. Gen. Young, to be lieutenant
general, vice Lieut. Gen. Miles, who
retires Aug. S.
Brig. Gen. Sumner, to be major
general vice Maj. Gen. Davis, to be
retired July 26.
Brig. Gen. Leonard S. Wood to be
major general, vice Gen. Young, to
be promoted.
Pekin, July 17.-The Korean minister
here has urged Prince Ching, head of
the foreign office, to instruct the
Chinese minister at Seoul to authorize
Korea to open Wi ju, Korea, at foreign
trade as a means of mutual defense
against Russian encroachment, but
this action isfregraded as futile. Korea
belives her indepedence will bestrength
ened and prolonged if she is able to
open northern Korea to international
trade.
A Toledo real estate man bought an
old dock at Manhattan, Ohio, about a
year ago, and paid $500 for it, for
which his friends said he was crazy.
Since then he has been selling the oak
and walnut logs of which the wharf
was built, and has so far cleared $20,
000 out of it, with the prospects of
getting as much more.
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Heavy Responsibilities imposed
By Law Upon This Body.
Meeting Held Friday to Consider Small
Pox Situation-Situation Serious
and No Funds to Combat It-An
Appea! to Mil! Men.
Columbia, S. C., July 17, 1903.
The State board of health met yes?
terday and decided to make an appeal
to the presidents of the cotton mills
to exclude from the mills all persons
who have not been vaccinated. There
are only a very few of the mill opera?
tives who have been vaccinated and
the State board of health claims that
nothing can be done without the co?
operation of the mill managers.
The difficulty seems to be that more
is expected of the State board than
they can do. Their appropriation last
year was but $15,000, and there were
fewer cases last year than this, yet they
have but $8,000 this year and have
already exhausted the appropriation
with the year but half gone. The
board may borrow $7,000 with the ap?
proval of the Governor. On account
of what is regarded as a "meagre ap?
propriation" the board has had to
confine its efforts to the rural dis?
tricts. No assistance has been given
to incorporated towns, for they have,
or should have, local boards of health,
and should be able to enforce vacci?
nation and to pay for it
The State board has not been cre?
ated to take care of cases of pestilence,
but to prevent their spreading and tb
take precautionary measures to keep
them from getting a foothold. In
cases of scarlet fever the board is ex?
pected to do nothing but to isolate
the cases, and yet the epidemic of
smallpox finds the board confronted
wi til all kinds of bills which it abso?
lutely declines to pay, bills for provis?
ions, and for fuel, and for other com?
modities. In one county, where the
board had forty-nine cases on its
hands, the bills aggregate over ?700,
while in another county, where there
was a larger number of cases, the
expense was not one-fourth that
amount, for the reason that in the
county last referred to the board was
not asked to do anything but to de?
clare the quarantine, furnish the vac?
cine points and see that the vaccina?
tion was effective. This is all the
board thinks it should do.
In the opinion of the board it is
necessary to seggregate and to isolate
these cases of smallpox and incorporat?
ed communities and cotton mill com?
munities should have some way of do?
ing this, for should there be twenty
cases in as many different parts of
the town there would be twenty cen?
tres from which the germs would be
distriubted instead of having the dis?
ease isolated and confined to one spot
The cotton mill communities are not
incorporated in a number of instances,
but the State board thinks that these
towns should be incorporated and have
regular boards of health. The mills
could help in a great measure if they
would require every applicant for work
to show that he has been vaccinated
successfully. The State board has en?
deavored to enforce compulsory vacci?
nation and has succeeded practically
in a number of counties in the Pee
Dee section and the board, now wants
the mills to help in the up-country.
The law is entirely impracticable,
they declare. It requires the State
board to do too much without giving
them power sufficient to do what is
Bxpected of them. Up to ApriTl this
year there had been 929 cases under
tlie attention of the State board and
over $6,000 of the appropriation was
spent on these cases.
WAS NEBRO A SUICIDE ?
John Brownfield, Who Caused
Georgetown Riots, May Not
Have Killed Himself
Charleston, July 16.-It is a ques?
tion now whether John Brownfield,
the negro who caused the riot in
Georgetown, which necessitated the
presence of Charleston troops two
years ago, and who was awaiting exe?
cution for the murder of the deputy
sheriff, really committed suicide, as
was recently alleged.
The stomach and viscera of tiie ne?
gro was sent to Dr. Frank L. Parker,
Jr., of this city, for analysis, and the
following report to the Georgetown
authorities would indicate that there
will have to be further evidence to de?
monstrate the suicide theory :
Mr. J. Harleston Read, County Super?
visor, Georgetown County, George?
town, S. C. :
Dear Sir : The stomach and viscera
of John Brownfield, submitted to me
for analysis June 25, 1903, contain no
traces of any of the poisons most com?
monly used by criminals and suicides,
namely, arsenic, phosphorus, prepara?
tions of copper, mineral acids, strych?
nine, opiates, mercurial preparations,
antimoniacal preparations, cyanides,
preparations of iron, carbolic acid,
chloroform, and there is nothing to
indicate the presence of other poisons
in the viscera sent me.
If yon want the investigation con?
tinued, it will be necessary for you
to furnish the liver, spleen, brain
and spinal marrow. This will incur
considerable additional expense, and
the chances of positivo results are
doubtful. Respectfully,
Francis L. Parker, Jr.
Negroes Not Wanted.
Asheville, X. C., July 18.-Fifty ne?
groes in the employ of the Southern
Bell Telephone company, engaged in
building the long distance line through
the Doggett "section of Madison coun?
ty, west of this place, were driven out
of that section yesterday by the moun?
taineers.
A delegation of heavily armed citi?
zens visited the cam]) of negroes and
commanded that they leave the coun?
try The negroes did not want a second
con.mand, but began a retreat down
the mountain at once when a volley
of 50 or more shots were fired to im?
press the unwritten law of the moun?
taineers that the negro is not desired
as even a temporary resident.
Politics in Stock Market.
New York, July 16.-Even profes?
sional raiders in Wall street have been
surprised at the persistence with which
Rockefeller brokers have recently bea?
ten down the prices of stock. J. P.
Morgan and other optimists have tried
in vain to support the list, but the
power of Standard Oil millions was ir?
resistible.
The Rockefeller holdings , of New
York Central and Pennsylvania have
been increased largely on the present
decline. But so confident are the
Standard Oil operators of getting their
stocks back cheaper that they are hurl?
ing them on the market in great blocks
to frighten weaker holders.
In some quarters,- it is insisted that
the bear campaign has as its object the
business of impressing the country
with the necessity of additional cur?
rency legislation. It is urged that
some measure like the Aldrich bill,
formulated by the Senator related by
marriage to the Rockefeller family, will
restore stocks to the prices that were
current in the wild days of two years
ago. It is also stated that the far
sighted and powerful men are prepar?
ing to have Mr. Shaw come to the re?
lief of the market before the. summer
is over by calling bonds at a fancy
price. This view is held by persons
in authority in Washington.
The World's Cotton Supply.
New Orleans, July* 17.-Secretary
Hester's statement of the world's visi?
ble supply of cotton, issued today,
wssho the total visible to be 1,908,876
bales, against 2,061,599 last week and
2,062,14 last year. Of this the total of
American cotton is 965,876 bales
against 1,042,599 last week and 1,302,
143 last year, and of all other kinds,
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc.,
943,000 bales, against 1,019, 00 last
week and 760,000 last year.
Of the world's visible supply of cot- j
ton there is now afloat and held in
Great Britain and Continental Europe
1,057,000 bales against 1,216,000 last
year; in Egypt 23,000 bales, against
63,000 last year ; in India 577,000 bales,
against 433,000 last year, and in the
United States 252,000 bales, against
350,000 last year.
Lynching Near Batesburg.
Batesburg, July 17.-At the coroner's
inquest yesterday the jury rendered
a verdict that Will Hall came to
his death by a gunshot wound in the
hands of Geo. Edwards. Yesterday
it was told your correspondent, by a
person whom he took to be responsi?
ble, that a mob had killed two negroes
-Dennis Head and Jesse Butler-but
today it was learned that only one,
Dennis Head, was killed.
Butler, in running, was fired at
many times, but made his escape. It
mihgt be added that the murder of
Hall was committed in Lexington
County, and the killing of Dennis was
in Aiken county, about three miles
from the scene of the murder. It
seems that the mob was infuriated,
and, in tbe language of a Barnwell
lynching some years ago, '1 the reputa?
tion of the community was at stake"
and some negro had to die.
Lynch Law in South America.
Montevideo, July 18.-Helen Olson,
aged 25 years, a pretty daughter of
Tom Olson, was assaulted early this
morning by a man supposed to be a
negro and although alive at noon, she
will die. Early today Miss Olson and
a girl friend stopping with her were
awakened by a man who demanded
their valuables.
He then dragged ^li3s Olson down
stairs, where he struck her on the fore?
head with an axe or hatchet. ?er girl
friend had been ordered to remain in
bed and not move, but on hearing a
noise down stairs she stepped out of a
window to the roof. The intruder fired
a shot at her as he fled. Her screams
aroused the neighborhood and a search
was at once began for the murderer.
There is great excitement and fears are
expressed that the man will be lynched.
Murder in Marlboro.
Gibson, N. C., July 19.-This after?
noon, two miles south of Gibson, in
Marlboro county, South Caroilna, Will
Ransom and Boggon and Picket Tay?
lor became involved in a difficulty
which resulted in Ransom being shot
twice in the ^stomach by Boggon and
severely in the neck and back by Pick?
ett. It is stated that Ransom can?
not live. He was taken home and the
doctor sent for, while the Taylors are
still ?t large.
Justice in Indian Territory.
South McAlester, L T, July 17.
Dora Wright, a negro woman, was
hanged here today for the murder of
Annie Williams, a 7-year-old girl.
She mounted the scaffold without a
tremor; She is the first woman ever
hanged in this section. Her crime
was whipping a 7-year-old girl, Annie
Willams, until she died of her in?
juries. . _____
A Fatal Cyclone.
Mendola, 111., July 17.-Four per?
sons were killed and ten others seri?
ously injured by a tornado which
struck the northern part of the city.
The path of the storm was about
eight miles in length. Everything in
the storm's track was leveled to the
ground.
Walhalla. July 19.-Criss Corbin was
perhaps fr.tally stabbed yesterday
afternoon near Little River church in
rhis county by Fred Alexander, who
escaped to North Carolina, but was
followed hy the sheriff of this county.
Dr. Crawford says that ono lung was
badly cut and that the wounded man
breathes through the wounds. His re?
covery is doubtful.
Nashville, Tenn.. July 19.- W. H.
Jackson, master of Belle Meade farm,
died there today of typhoid fever. Mr.
Jackson was 29 years old and but re?
cently, upen the death of his father,
Gen. W. H. Jackson, had succeeded
to the management of the famous nurs- i
ery for thoroughbred race horses. His
wife and one child survive him.
Louisville, Ky., July 19.-Major Ed?
wards Hughes, Louisville's veteran
fire chief, was run over and killed this
afternoon by a trolley car.
THE BB?ATHlTT GO?NTY FEUDS.
Fears Entertained of a Renewal
of Trouble at Jackson, Ky.,
Wheii the Grand Jury
Meets Today.
Jackson, Ky., July 19.-A renewal
of fend trDubles is brewing here. The
special grand jury called by Circuit
Judge Redwine to investigate the
charge ot attempting to bribe B. J.
Ewen not to testify against Curtis
Jett and Thomas White, in the Mar?
cum murder case, and the charge of
arson for the burning of Ewen's hotel,
after he had testified, convenes here
tomorrow. Judge Redwine!s instruc?
tions are anixously awaited, as it is
reported that the grand jurors will be
asked to go into a sweeping inquiry
concerning the conditions in Breathitt
County, where twenty-seven lives have
been lost since the Hargis-Cardwell
feud started, and where no one has yet
been punished for any of these capital
offences. In the event of a general in?
quisition, it is conceded that persons
highly connected will be involved and
trials for the killing of Dr. Cox and
Town Marshal Cockrill will follow
close on zhe second trial of Jett and
White for the murder of Marcum.
It is feared that trouble may begin
when B. J. Ewen returns here tomor?
row from Lexington to testify against
a well-known citizen for offering him
$5,000 cash if he would not testify
against Jett and White.
In anticipation of the worst, Ewen,
while in Lexington, made his will
and arranged all his affairs. About
$4,500 was raised for him by popular
subscripton after he lost everything
he had in the incendiary fire, and
this he h23 fixed for his family, his
wife and some of his children being
here awaiting his return.
Ewen has told Commonwealth At?
torney Byrd and others the name of
the man who offered him the bribe,
and, as it is said that the man has no
means of his own, the bribery in?
vestigation will extend to the one
who was to furnish the money for the
$5,000 bribe offered Ewen. This town
has been kept under martial law by
the provost marshal since Jett and
White ware transferred to the jail at
Lexington a month ago, but many are
apprehensive over the coming week,
although the troops are still here. The
militia has been continuously here for
two'months.
After the killing of Town Marshal
James Cockrill there was no one to
make arrests for over a year until the
soldiers arrived in May. Then City
Judge Cardwell, who had been *a
prisoner in his own house for eighteen
months, resumed holding Court. The
town trustees have just appointed
Joseph Newland a marshal Newland
is considered one of the bravest men in
the mountain districts. During the
past seven years, seven men have held
this position. Four of them were kill?
ed while on duty and two of the other
three were forced to resign. It is
expected that the special grand jury
will complete its work this week, so
that the attorneys, witnesses and oth?
ers can go to Cynthiana, where the
next trial of Jett and White for mur?
dering Miircum will begin on Monday,
July 27.
Indications that the Jury is Mark?
ed in tlie Interest of Feudists.
Jackson, Ky., July 20.-Circuit
Court convened here today in special
session for the investigation of the
burning of the Ewen Hotel and the
attempted bribery of Capt. B. J.
Ewen, principal witness for the pro?
secution in the assassination case of
Curtis Jett and Tom White. Judge
Redwine refused to vacate the bench.
The jury was taken from the regular
jury panel selected by the jury com?
missioners, who are Hargis consti?
tuents, and this is causing dissatis?
faction.
EWEN GUARDED BY SOLDIERS.
Lexington, Ky., July 20.-Owing
to Capt. Ewen's declaration that he
expected *;o be killed when he went to
Jackson today to testify before the
special grand jury, a detail of soldiers
was sent here by Col. Williams to es?
cort him to Jackson. He will leave at
2 o'clock this afternoon for that place,
and remai n in camp there with the
soldiers.
HUG DP $60,000.
But it Was Cotton, Not Gold.
Lucky Find at Pacolet.
Sixty thousand dollars was accident?
ally discovered at Pacolet buried in
the sands along the banks of Pacolet
river recently, but it was cotton and
not gold that constituted this valuable
treasure. A party was prospecting on
the scene of the recent flood disaster
along the river banks not far from the
site of th s warehouse at Pacolet when
a small bit of white cotton was notic?
ed sticked out of the sand. Invesiga
tion followed at once and the white
bit of cotton turned out to be part of
a bale which in turn was one of a lot
of nearly one thousand bales of cotton
which were lying buried beneath the
sands all unknown to the workmen
who had hundreds of times passed over
this veritable mine of wealth in buried
cotton.
The single bale was quickly excavat?
ed from the sands and all 'about it
buried some feet under the surface in
the sand was seen cotton bale after
cotton bale lying well protected and
almost uninjured under the weight of
sand. T;ie scene was seton the arena
of busy life and many workmen were
called upon to aid in getting out the
buried cotton. When every baie was
dug out .ind an inventory taken it was
found that nearly one thousand bales
of cotton valued m round numbers at
about sixty thousand dollars had
been rescued. The incident is one ot*
many, of the kind showing the strange
freaks which the storm and flood
played, concealing goods and cotton
in many instances in such a manner
that they are found with difficulty.
Tlie discovery of the cotton was a source
of great gratification to the mill peo?
ple.-Spartanburg Journal.
St. Petersburg, July 18.-The foreign
office states that the Manchurian ques?
tion has not yet reached a stage justify?
ing a formal statement at this time. It
points out that the pour parlres are
continuing, that the ports to be open?
ed have not been selected nor the de?
tails arranged. Nothing has yet ap?
peared in any Russian paper on either
of these questions.
COLUMBUS.
By Joaquin ?Jiller.
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the gates of Hercules ;
Before him only ashoreless seas.
The good mate said. "Now must we
pray,
Forlo , the very stars are gone ;
Brave Admir'l speak, what shall I
say?"
"Why, say, Sail on, sail on and cn."
The men grew mutinous by day,
The men grew ghastly pale and weak ;
The stout mate washed Iiis swarthy
cheek.
"What shall I say, brave Admir'l,
say,
If we sight naught but seas at dawn?"
"Why, you shall say at break of day,
Sail on, sail on, sail on and on."
They sailed, they sailed as winds
might blow,
Until at last the blanched mate
said,
"Why, now, not even God would know
Should I and all my men fell dead ;
These very winds forget their way,
For God from these dread seas has
gone;
Now speak, brave Admir'l speak and
say."
He said, "Sail on, sail on and on."
They sailed, they sailed. Then spoke
the mate,
"This mad sea shows its teeth to?
night;
He curls his lip, he lies in wait,
With lifted teeth, as if to bite.
."Brave Admir'l, say but one good
word.
What shall we do when hope is
gone?"
The words leaped as a flaming sword,
"Sail on, sail on, sail on."
RUSSIA'S REASON.
Unwilling to Have Any Country
Interfere in Her Internation?
al Affairs.
St. Petersburg. July 18.-The foreign
office authorizes the Associated Press
correspondent to say that the reason
for its refusal to accept the Kischineff
petition was the unalterable objection
of the Russian government to outside
interference in the internal affairs of
the empire, and that, even had the
petition been acceptable as a diploma
tic document, Russia would have re?
garded the publication of the text be?
fore transmission as unusual. The
foreign office says it is willing to re?
gard the incident as closed and adds
that Russia continues to cherish
American friendship.
The Cotton Market.
New York, July 20.-The cotton
market opened steady at unchanged
prices to a decline of 3 points follow?
ing rather lower English cables than
expected. For a brief interval it
showed some easiness under liquida?
tion "based on the generally favorable
weather. The only feature in the
market was the action of July, which
was bid up from 12.20 to 12.45, only
four sales being made on the way up.
August sold upas high as 12.10, but
eased off slightly toward the finish,
closing at 12.06. The balance of the
list showed little movement and at the
end of the sessions was Within 1 to 5
points of the best for the session. The
market was finally quiet and steady,
net 1 point lower to 20 points higher,
with July showing the greatest gain.
The early selling was encouraged by
the favorable weather and expectations
that the weekly report of the weather
bureau due tomorrow would show a
continued improvement in the crop as
well as by further reports of closing
mills. The list was steadied by the
small movement today.
New York, July 20.-Cotton futures
opened steady at the decline and closed
quiet and steady. Spot cotton closed
quiet, 25 points advance; middling
uplands 12.75; middling gulf 12; sales
4.352 bales.
New Orleans, July 20.-Cotton fu?
tures steady; July 13.05 bid; August
12.78 bid; September 10.45al0.46: Oc?
tober 9.45a9.46 ; November 9.39 a941 :
December 9.37a9.38; January 9.37a
9.38.
The cause of the present reign of
terror in this fair city can be directly
fraced to the visitation of the negro
tor political purposes. Before election
tiime the advertisement is spread up
and down the wires among the shift?
less negroes that they can get money
for their votes at Evansville. The
idle, ignorant and the vicious flock
here; they are colonized in saloons;
they are gathered in beds the night
before election even in the Custom
House, and the temple of justice, de?
bauched with beer and corrupted with
free dollars when they are properly
ready to be used on election day.
Evansville (Ind.,) Couror.
There has of late been made a won?
derful device for the protection of
moving railway trains. This is an ad?
dition to the headlight of the engine
and its rays are thrown vertically from
the locomotive instead of forward
along the track. This light can be
thrown to a great height and cai: be
seen at a point on the track far a
head of the train thongh curves and
hills intervene. Every engine equip?
ped with this will display a pillar of
tire as it advances, which can be seen
far and wide. Thus the danger of col?
lision between trains at night will be
greatly reduced.
Probably the railroads of this coun?
try have done more to preserve the
native wild flowers than any omer
one agency. This may seem strange,
but a trip of a hundred miles in any
direction will convince any skeptic
who will use his eyes while making
the journey. The railroads- have
done this by preserving undisturbed
two rods of virgin sod on either side
of their tracks, where conditions are
now and all ways have been the same
as when the railroads came.
New Orleans, La, July 20.-District
Attorney J. Ward Gurley was assas?
sinated in his office in Canal street
shortly after 10 o'clock today by Clar?
ence H. Lyons, a cotton roller. The
murderer, after shooting the district
attorney, turned the weapon on him?
self and put two bullets in his head.
He will die. A grudge which Lyons
harbored for several years against;
the district attorney is responsible for
the tragedy. .
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