i b b c i' . I. I U, v.. 60,000 MEN FALL INSEVEN DAYS' BATTLE The Japanese Still Inflicting Terrible Punishment on the Russians. AWFUL TRAGEDY AN APPEAL FOR PEACE. Kuropalkln. Though Dealt One Of The Most Staggering Blows In The His tory Of War. Attacks On The Right with Ills Terribly Exhausted Army. Hoping To Save Himself from The DIsgarce Of A Rout. War In its most frightful aspect is pictured in the latest reports which coma from the field below Mukden, Manchuria, where the Japanese have dealt Russian pride and power one of the most staggering blows ever administered by an army. Already 8,500 Russian dead have been counted on the field, with Gen eral Nodzu's army still to hear from. Field Marshal Oyama estimates that fcis enemy's total dead will exceed 10,000. It is calculated in Tokio that the Russian killed and wounded so far number fully 40,000 and those of the Japanese 20,000. Marshal Oya ma calls this gigantic struggle "the battle of the Shakhe River." FIERCE BATTLE AT MIDNIGHT. Strurgle Continues oa Monday, the Elfhtb Day of lit Prof-rets. Mukden, Manchuria (By Cable). The battle was renewed and contin ued throughout Sunday night, being especially heavy at midnight. The Russians retain their position long the Shakhe River anJ have made frequent attacks upon the Japa nese, capturing six of the lattcr's guns. The eastern army is helping the western forces. There has been heavy artillery fire 11 day. The fighting is now centered on the plain. The Japanese, who are in enormous forces, have a great advantage in knowing the topography of the coun try. They show a desperate courage. The Japanese have suffered terrible losses, but bear thi-m with perfect equanimity. Their energy seems un bounded, and they continue the ag gressive unceasingly. In some cases it is absolutely im possible to move train loaded with wounded, and the unfortunate soldiers have to be kept here. The whole hos pital staff is displaying the greatest courage and fortitude, working day nd night. Many, after working seem ingly to the limit of human endur ance, heve gone to the front to con tinue their work under fire, replacing those incapacitated on the firing line. Every road converging on Mukden is crowded with vehicles transporting the wounded, who are being sent north bv wagon road, as well as by rail, to Harbin. APPALLINU total op dead. Japanese Couulltif lh Plica ol Russian Corpses. Tokio (Special). There is a strong ppeal for peace in the appalling trag edy which is now under enactment in Manchuria. Both armies have fought ferociously for week and desperate fighting still continues. It is probable that the 'death roll will be largely increased before the final shot is fired. The preliminary reports indicate that about 60.000 men of both sides tare been either killed or wounded, tbt larger portion of tiicm being Rus sian!, since the armies of the two belligerent closed in combat. Before the severe fighting on Octo ber 14 General Oku's army alone re covered and buried 2,000, making the total number of Russians buried by the Japanese, with Nodzu's army still to hear from, 8,550. Applying the usual calculation and making reason able allowance for the fighting of the 14th and 15th, the Russian losses will exceed 40,000. Fragmentary reports of Japanese casualties are coming in. General Oku, up to and including October 14, lost 3,500 men. It is estimated that the total Japanese loss will be fully 0,000. Mowed Down by Kuroki. A report dealing with the Russian loss received from the Japanese field headquarters says: "The losses sustained by the enemy opposing our right army (Kuroki's) far as ascertained are a follows: "Bodies left near liensihu, on the left bank of the Taitse River, 350. "In front of our Bcnsihu detach ment, 1,500. "At Talien, 300. "Near Tumcntsu, 200. "Before the right column. 200. Near Kinuinkok and north of Tu mentsu, 1,200. "Near Chienlao, 300. "North of Panlassan and near Wu tningsu, 150. "Before the left column, near Sha etakou, and northward, 300. "Total, 4.S00. "The number left in other places baa not been counted yet, but it is NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Many arrests are reported t have been made in Venezuela to check the revolutionary movement against Presi dent Castro s administration. The Census Bureau issued a report on the executive civil service of the United States, showing a total of 27'. ,160 persons employed. Secretary Morel, of the Congo Re form Association, had an interview with Secretary Hay ancnt the atroci ties in the Congo. Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer ol the United States, hat submitted his an nual report to Secretary Shaw. Capt. S. W. B. Uicht. judge advo cate general of the Navy, in hit an nual report to the Secretary of the , 'Navy, atkt for aa investigation of the lack of uniformity in the sentences im posed by summary courts-martial. 1 In hit annual report to the Secre tary of War Brigadier General Bur ton, at inspector general of the Army favors the e-establishment of the can teen. . Tie annual report of Brigadier Gen eral. J. F. Weston, commissary gen- ci al of the Army, wat issued. large. The enemy's loss 1a this direc tion must exceed 20.000. Amomr the trophies reported captured are 200 sncus, o ammunition wagons anJ much uncounted munitions. The enemy's ios m the direction of the center and lott armies is under investigation." More Than 10,000 Dead'. A later report says: "According to news from the cen ter army, 150 prisoners were taken October 13. The Russian dead, under investigation on that day, will reach 500. October 15 the enemy's dead totaled l.ooo. One hundred prisoners were taken, together with rifles, can non and wagons. The total Russian dead left in front of the center army are estimated at 2.500." The grand total of the enemy's dead already investigated, the report puts at 8,550, but the Russian losses dur ing the last two days of fierce en gagements October 14 and 15 are not included in this number. More over, there are some undiscovered dead by all of the armies, so that the enemy's dead left on the field will reach a total of more than 10,000. Fighting on Sunday. A telegram received from tlje Man churian headquarters late Sunday re ports that the fighting has ceased on the front of the right and the center armies, but that it continues before the left army. The report is as fol lows: "The front of the right and renter armies has become quiet, but on the front of the left army fierce cannonad ing continues. In the direction of Litajentua the enemy is inactive. Our force under General Yamada captured one gun and two ammunition wagons during the attack -on the heights of Sautaokaiigtszu on the night of Oc tober 15." Dispatches from Field Marshal Oya ma officially designate the entire en gagement since October 10 as the heretofore unnamed "battle of the Shakhe River." Fragmentary reports of the losses of the Japanese forces continue to arrive. The center column of the left army lost 5 officers killod and 20 wounded since October 12. On Octo ber 12 it lost 250 men. The losses in men by this column are under in vestigation. The right column of the left army lost I officer killed and 15 wounded and 500 men killed or wound ed on October 14. The left column of the left army lost 7 officers killed and 20 wounded and 750 men killed or wounded on October 14. TWELVE DEAD IN SHIPWRECK. Llle-Llne Reached the Weotwortb, But Was of No Avail Chatham, Mass. (Special). A small part of the forward section of the hull and a slanting foremast stand as mute reminders of the ocean trag edy enacted here when the three masted schooner Wcstworth, of Moncton, N. B., struck on Chatham bar during a raging northerly gale and all on board perished in the ter rific seas. Of the 12 persons who wre on board the stranded vessel not one reached the shore alive, althougn two bodies were taken from the surf, one of them that of a woman, believed to be the wife of the captain. With her three children she was accompanying her husband on a trip from Hills boro, N. B., to Newark, N. J. Little could be done in an effort to aid the crew of the disabled craft, as the Cape Cod life-savers from two stations were unable to launch their surf boats in the tremendous seas. A shotline was fired to the schooner, which lay not much more than 300 yards from shore. There was one answering pull, and the life-savers thought that they heard a voice above the roar of the surf crying VAI1 right." but beyond this there was no sign of life on board the craft. When the wreckage came ashore it was found that the first line had been made fast to the wheel of the schoon er, and it is believed that a heavy sea swept over the vessel just as the line was fastened, and that all the men on deck were washed overboard. The Wcntworth carried a cargo of plaster rock. On board, so far a known, were the captain, hit wife and three children and a crew of seven men. Victim of His Owa Invention. St. Paul (Special). F. M. Scannon and his wife, of Minneapolis, fell from the third-story of the Germania Life Building to the stone sidewalk here. The woman was killed and Scannon is not expected to live. Doth struck on their heads. Scannon it the in ventor of a fire-escape, and it was during a test of the apparatus that the accident occurred. Brokt All World's Records. San Francisco (Special).- News was brought to this ciy by the gunboat Bennington that Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich's flagship New York, during her target practice last month in Mag dalena Bay, Mexico, broke the world's record for firing 8-inch guns. She made the greatest score, based on time and accuracy, ever made with guns of this caliber cither in the American or any other navy, 1 Trtlaaea Uoder Arrest ' Warrensburg, Ma (Special).-!. W. Preston, conductor, and J. D. Horton, engineer, of the Missouri Pacific freight train that wat in collision with a pastenger train near this place Mon day, killing 29 persons, were brought to Warrensburg. The prosecuting at torney filed information charging each with manslaughter in the fourth de gree. Information also wat filed against E. Ziegle'r.t one of the brake men of the freight crew, under in dictment for robbery and manslaugh ter. 1 NEWS IN SIIOHT ORDER. The Lalett Htptealnit Condensed for Rapid Readinf. Domestic. President D. R. Francis and Direc tor of Exhibits Frederick J. V. Skiff of the I have been' made grand officers of the urcicr ol the crown ol Italy. Edwin P. Welles, the millionaire treasurer ot the Hraincrd Lumber Company, was found dead in bed in Minneapolis. His death was due to an affection of the heart. The San Domingo government has agreed to pay the award of the arbi trators in the rase nf tli 1n I Irimir,,. Improvement Company, amounting to The threatened ctriL th unln.. machinists in the P was averted by an amicable adjust ment 01 me ainerence prevailing. M. Jusserand, the French ambassa dor, and Mmc. Jusserand and Mmc. Wejanr, the actress, arrived at New T ork trotn Havre. Memorial rxerrisrc rlrnlinr. u'itt, tU life of Senator Hoar were held at all the public schools in Worcester, Mass. Mcrritt L. Joslyn, who was assist ant secretary of the interior under resident Artiiur. is dead, at Wood stock. III. By the will of Mrs. Sarah E. Pol ler, 01 lioston, about 53,000,000 is be queathed to charitable purposes. M. Bcnsinger, president of the Urunswick-Balkc-Collender Company, died at French Lick Springs, Ind. A man named Pailson was drowned, and his companion, John Lynn, had a narrow escape from death when a small boat capsized off the whistling buoy in New York Bay. Pailson and Lynn were of the crew of a Sandy Hook lightship. In an address in St. Louis President I-rancis said that the World's Fair had lost a million dollars by being compelled to close its gates on Sun days. Prince Fushimi, first cousin of the Emperor of Japan, is expected to visit San Franciiico at an early date. Near Piano, Tex., a blind man killed his wife, his mother-in-law and then committed suicide. The American Board of Foreign Missions, in session at Grinnell, la., adjourned. Dr. Livingstone Seaman, who has rCCCntlv Visitor! , Vln tqninn,. hncnll.!. read a paper before the International yoiigrcss ot .Military surgeons, in ses sion in St. Louis, to which he enu merated lesson in h 1:irnrH hu tUm American Army in preventing diseases in case 01 war. A illTV in MnrriElriu'n u"AA a verdict nf timn tr, mr-h. Gertrude Keck, of Allentown, who had suea Kev. J--dgar J. Heliman, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, at Wynd n.oor, for breach of promise. Italian Day was observed at the Worlds Fair and exercises commemo rative of the four hundred and twelfth anniversary of the landing of Colum bus On the Island nf iin tvinr were held. i'irO in an nlrl ctllrtin k1nnrin(r in Augustus St. Gaudens, across the line in Connecticut from Windsor, Vt., de stroyed models, statues and other 1. r... . . wurKs 01 art valued at thousands ot dollars. Eormer flnv W T,,rf.atF fVn appointed United States senator by Governor Bates, of Massachusetts, to succeed the late George F. Hoar. Col. James P. Averill, Jr., vice com mander of the Grand Army of the Re public, died at his home, near Atlanta, Ga. The fj-unhn.it Pa'tnvrt ...aa 1. tinVi mi at the shipyards of the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights, N. Y. Miss Annie May Teiscr, of Paducah, Ky., was the spon sor. Baron 5itrriihi!rtr tit C.m r ,r . bassador, introduced to ihe President Marco Graf von Ballestrom, an offi cer of the German Army, who is mak ing a tour of this country. Albert J. Adams, the former policy kin? nf Nriv Ynrlr was r.l.ac.,1 frnm Sing Sing Prison, after having served 1 -ii iicuny 10 monins ot a one-year-and-nine month sentence. Nellie r.ai-Hnor ..,! r,t..i ur.:t,, - - H.IV. . . 1 U W V 1 ..llglll, of Belleville, III., were sentenced each 10 14 years in the penitentiary tor complicity in the murder of John Dun lap. Ihe raducah and F.vansville packet Bob Dudley sank eight miles abpve Paducall. after ctriLincr a tunb.n wreck. All the passengers were saved. Forclfo. Mr. Griscuiu, the United States min uter .at Tokio, gave a farewell din ner in honor of Lieutenant General rrince l-ushnna. who vails for the United States October 22 to visit the St. Louis Exposition and Washington as the special representative of the .Mikaao. The Italian government is taking serious measures to preserve order at the coming elections. King Gcoree of Saxonv is dead after an illness of about a month. Kepresentatives of German, British. French and Belgian manufacturers, ac cording to a dispatch from Brussels have agreed to form an international association to control the steel rail industry. John Redmond and J .J. O'Callahan, secretary of the United Irish League of America, were given an enthusias tic reception at Qiieenstown and Dub lin. The Duke of Connaught, brother of King Edward, while driving in a motor car from Edinburgh, was thrown out and sustained painful injuries. The Gochas. and Hottentots have joined in -the insurrection in German Southwest Africa. The ill health of King George of Saxony again causes anxiety. The Lippe Diet has rejected the government's bill to prolong Count Leopold s regency beyond the death of Prince Alexander, the reigning prince. The Steamship Swanley from Hongkong for South Africa, with 2,260 coolies on board, became disabled, and was compelled to put the coolies ashore mi a small island in the China Sea, with provisions for only 10 days. The Norwegian Storthing wat open ed with a speech from the throne. Elections lor members of the Ital ian Chamber of Deputies will be bit terly contested because of the recent revolutionary movement provoked by socialist! and anarchists. Fanny Moran-Olden, once a great soprano, it now in a hospital near Ber lin incurably insane. There it a very lively campaign in progrest in Italy. The tpeechmaking it to begin on Sunday. Brigadier General Funston sub milted hit report, urging an Increase in the pay of enlisted men to secure a better clatt of soldiers. REPORT OF U. S. TREASURER Transactions of the Treasury During (he Past Year. THE DEMAND FOR SMALL BILLS. Tbt Expenditure of $40,003,000 (or the Pioarnt Cioal and Ibt Loan ol $4,600,000 lo Ibe St Louis Exposition Responsible lor the Recorded Deficiency-Increase lo Number of Banks. Washington, D C. (Special). Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer of the United States, has submitted to Secretary Shaw the annual report on the trans actions of the Treasury during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1004. The net ordinary revenues are shown to have been $340,631740. a decrease of $19764,925, as compared with 1903, and the net ordinary expen ditures $582,402,321, an increase of $"6,303,314. In the receipts the prin cipal falling off was $23,205,017 in cus toms, while iu the disbursements the important increases were $11,423,446 in commerce and labor, $60,788,580 in treasury proper and $20,338,067 for the Navy.- Unusual expenditures were $50,000,000 on account of the Panama Canal and $4,600,000 loaned to the Louisiana Purchase , Exposition Com pany, which latter has now been near ly all repaid. But for thesethe re corded deficiency nf $41770,571 would have been changed to a surplus of $12,- 820.428. The operations affecting the public debt exceeded those of the preceding year and amounted to $600,660,941 in receipts and $638,924,379 in disburse ments. The aggregate receipts for the year were, therefore, $1,240,202,- 600 and the aggregate disbursements $1,221,326701. For the first three months of the current fiscal year the revenues show a falling off of $6,516, 373 and the expenditures an increase of $18,073,539. Cash on Hand. The trust funds held for the re demption of outstanding notes and cer tificates amounted at the end ol the year to $978,084,569, an increase of $85,015700 in 12 months. By Octo ber I there was a further increase ol $1,014,779,969. Ihe redemption of United States notes in gold amounted to $11,081, 168 for the vear, and those of the Treasury notes to $474,126, In consequence of the deficiency in the revenues the cash in the office of the Treasury and the Mint declined during the year from $170,020,562 to $'37,520,264, and by October I to $125,064,888. The available balance, including deposits in national banks and other credits, was $238,686,114 on June 30, 1903, and $151,414,162 on October I, 1904. Exchanges of 4 and ,3 per cent, bonds into 2 per cents were continued up to January 9, 1004, with aggregate conversions of $16,795,100 of the 4s and $5,071,700 of the 3s. The 5 per cent, loan matured February 1, and was reduced by redemption before ma turing by $14712,450, and after ma turity by $3,894750, leaving $777,850. Other changes in the public debt have been unimportant, with the exception of the increase in gold certificates which amounted in 15 months to more than $1 19,000,000. New .Banks Established. The increase in the number of banks during the year was 395, and ol these 262 deposited less than $100,000 each in bonds to secure circulation, and 381 less than $500,000 each. On June 30 a single bank had on deposit $10,- 000,000 in bonds to secure circulation, while 1,820 had less than $25,000. Bonds to secure public moneys were held for 842 institutions in 52 states and territories, including Porto Rico, in amounts varying from $40,000 to $10,000,000 or more. The state and municipal bonds on deposit, which at one time amounted to over $20,000,- 000, have been gradually reduced to less than $3,000,000. Ihe semi-annual duty paid into the Treasury on circu lation was $1,928,837, an increase of $220,017 over 1903. BLIND MAN MURDERS TWO. Tbca He Ends His Own Life Wilt a PisloL Piano, Texas. (Special). A triple tragedy occurred about three and one half miles east of Piano, when Will Cochran, a blind man who had been separated from hit wife for about tix weeks, led by his nephew, IS yeart old, called at the house of his mother-in-law, entered the front door and called for hit wile. When she sat down by him he grabbed her, stab bing her to death with a dirk, and then killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. James Skelton, 73 years old. He then walked around the house, stuck his dirk in the ground, and, pulling out a pistol, shot himself, dying instantly. Election Onessltf a Lottery. Washington, D. C. (Special). Coun sel for Christopher D. Marsh, mana ger of the National Contest Company, who was arrested here on a charge of violating the gambling law, secured a postponement of the hearing in the Police Court until next week to per mit the appearance of counsel from New York. The warrent for hit ar rest will be changed so as to charge Marsh with dealing in lottery. The company advertised to distribute $110,000 in prizes to holders of certifi cates making the best guesses on the vote to be cast at the coming elec tion. Miss Keck Awarded $3,000. Norristnwn. Pa. (Special). Miss Blanche Keck, who sued Rev. Edgar J. Heliman for $10,000 damages for breach of promise of marriage, wat awarded $3,000 by the jury. The judge warned the jury, composed entirely of married men, against letting their sympathy influence their verdict. In an hour they had agreed upon the verdict. Rev. Mr. Hcilmart admitted breaking the engagement, but de clared he had ceased to love Mist Keck, The judge told the jury this was not a good excur in law. Deadly Ottollae Afaln. San Francisco, Cal. (Special). Nine children have been seriously burned in the explosion of a gasoline burner which had caught fire in a restaurant and had been thrown out on the tide, walk. All the children who happened to be in the vicinity hurried to the tcene to watch the excitement. There wat a circle of perhaps 20 gathered around the blazing burner, when- it exploded with a report like a' cannon thot. Children fell in all direction! lay tquirniing and moaning on h sidewalk or ran away wringing their bands and shrieking for help. DEATH OF SAXON KING. FalbcHn-Ltw of Eloping Prlncett Pcrttt Awty Loulte Etctpade, Dresden (By Cable). King George of Saxony is dead. Sorrow That Clouded' Hia Life. King George of Saxony was 62 years old, but had reigned only since June, 1902, when he succeeded his brother Albert. His later life was marked by a great sorrow, the elopement of Crown Prin cess Louise with M. Giron, a Belgian tutor of her elder sons. Louise wa-i an Austrian princess and was married to Crown Prince Frederick in Vienna November 12, 4891. European court circles were startled in the middle of December, 1902, by the announcement of her disappear ance from her father's palace at Salz burg on- the night of December 11-ia The Saxon Court at Dresden, which she had left two day previously, an nounced that the flight was the result ot mental derangement, but it soon ap peared that she had eloped by ar rangment with M. Giron, with whom she had carrried on an intrigue foi some months. The Princess for a time refused all overtures from her family made to her at Geneva, where she took up lie-j residence with M. Giron. According to the laws of the Saxon royal house, a special divorce court was appointed at Dresden and a di vorce w.-n granted to the Crown Prince The Emperor of Austria. a head nf the house to which the Prin cess belonged, deprived her of all the rank and privileges she enjoyed as an Austrian archduchess. Meanwhile the Princess and M. Giron departed for Mentonc. France, but the news of the serious illness nf one of the Princess' children, of whom there are five, caused her lo hurry back to Geneva. Her lawyers applied to the Saxon Court for permission for her return to see the child, but this was refused. The Princess later entered a sana torium at Nyon, Switzerland. She was under the especial care of her brother. Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, who at Ihe time nf her departure from Salzburg fled with her, accompanied by a Vienna beauty, Franlein Wilhelmina Aclamovich. the daughter of a commoner, whom he admired. 11 an not I rim ess louife eloped she would now be Queen. King George was known for his military tastes and considerate treat ment of private soldiers. He war, commander for 30 years of the Twelfth Armv Corns, which is Saxony s con tiugent to the imperial armies. In this position he sternly put down the mis treatment of soldiers by officers and severely punished petty brutalities on the part of subalterns. His secret de cree on the subject of 1891 attracted great attention when the Vorwaerts divulged it. The King played the pi ano, had pood taste and technical fin ish and often gave musical parties at his house, where he and his daughter, Princess Matlulde, played duets. SAFE-BLOWERS CAME IN AUTO. Police on Hunt Bag Four Innocent Meo In Another Machine. Collingswood, N. J. (Special). The four men who have been robbing post- offices in this section turned up here, and, after blo.wing up the safe, got away with $50 in cash and $200 in stamps. They came in an automobile and disappeared presumably in the same way. When the alarm was given it was found that the postoftice safe had been neatly blown open and rifled. . The police from Camden came to aid the local marshall, and together they came upon a wrecked auto with a watcher sitting disconsolately in the mud and rain guarding it. He pro tested that the auto was the property of Stanley Roxford, of Philadelphia but the police were reluctant to be lieve him. They hid the watcher and themselves until three men came along carrying repairing tools. "Burglars' tools!" said the police. and rushed in. J he three men ex postulated profanelv, but in vain. They were allowed to fix up the auto, sTnd then were forced to ride to the Cam den courthouse. There it turned out that the auto really did belong to Rexford and that the watcher and all were genuine Other autos were held up, but the right one wasn't. CHICAGO AHEAD. Will Have Twenty-Two-Story Hotel to Coil $10,000,000. Chicago (Special). Chicago will have the largest, hotel in the world. It will cost $10,000,000, be 22 stories high and dwarf in size and magnifi cence, it is promised, any structure of the kind ever erected. The build ers and owners will be a syndicate of Chicago and t-astern capitalists, head ed by Otto Young. The hotel will occupy property measuring 400 feet in length by 171 feet in depth in Michi gan avenue, two blocks south of the Auditorium. Steel construction will be used in building the new hotel which will be the highest building in. Chicago 111 point of stories, with the exception of the Masonic Temple. FINANCIAL Another drop in corn and wheat. Prilish imports last month fell $11, 800,000 and exports increased $12,000. 000, which made London feel good. Recent developments in Chicago el Alton, Ontario & Western, Lehigh Valley and Reading prove that offi cial denials of "nothing doing" are not nearly so truthful at the stork ticker. The latter pretty generally forecast! along in advance what it coming, despite official announce ments. Ontario & Western' $12,000,000 bond issue, the Republic Steel Com pany's $10,000,000 bond plan and Cana dian Pacific's big allotment arc straws to indicate what will happen if the market improves a little more. Francis Bond wat quoted at saying that 4000 shares of Lehigh Valley were bought and shipped to New York last week. Reading, with the Jersey Centra), which it owns, hat marketed just a third of the total output of anthracite coal this year. Lehigh Valley's share it a sixth. Schwab, who hat jtut returned from a Western trip, declaret that the coun try't prosperity warrants a bullish stock market. New York banks apparently lo.it by the movement of money last week $7,623,000, forecasting a large decrease in the turplut reserve. SCORCHING ARRAIGNMENT The Report Made By the Slocura Corn-mission. THREE REMOVALS ARE ORDERED. After Investigation the Commission Declares That the Steamboat Inspection Service Wtt Deficient; That Ihe Steamer Wat a Veritable Flrttnp and Not Provided With Suitable Fire Apparatus. Washington, D. C. (SpecialsIn vestigation of the steamboat General Slocum disaster, near New York, on June 15, in which 955 lives were lost, by the national commission created for that purpose has been completed, and the report of the commission wat made public Sunday. In connection with the important findings of the commission presented in the report President Roosevelt, to whom the re port was submitted, has wriyen a tetter to Secretary Victor II. Met- calf, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, briefly summarizing the report and directing him to carry into effect the recommcn lations of the commission. He also directs that Robert S. Ro (!ic. supervising inspector of the Sec ond district, Steamboat Inspection Service, and James A. Dumont and Thomas II. Barrett, local inspectors in charge of the port of New York, be discharged from the service, the com mission holding them responsible for the laxity of the steamboat inspection to which the Slocum disaster was di rectly attributable. Echoes of the Disaster. President Roosevelt'a Action. Directs discharge of Supervising In. spector Robert S. Rodie and Local In spectors James A. Dumont and Thos. II. Barrett, who are accused of re sponsibility for laxity. Suggests punitive laws for making and selling defective life-saving appa ratus. Suggests that action be taken against certain of the Slocum em ployes. Directs that a searching investiga tion be made of every inspection sub division outside of New York. Asks for a special body to thor oughly investigate laws providing for steambot inspection. Commission Says: "In the design of the Slocum ap parently no consideration whatever was given to the question of in flammability. "Fire apparatus not completely test ed and fire buckets empty. Very little assistance given by the crew in fur nishing life-preservers. "Assistant Engineer Brandow and Chief Engineer Conklin praised for courage. "An essential fact of neglect it the utter .failure of the master to fight the fire and aid the passengers. "Pilot Van Wart showed bad judg ment and lack of skill in beaching the vessel. "Thinks Slocum might have been beached earlier." TRIED TO BLOW UP HIS WIFE. Popcorn Vender Has Both of Hit Eyet Blown Out. Buffalo. N. Y. (Special). Henry, Hogancamp, a driver of a popcorn wagon, went to the door of Richard Odell's saloon and asked to see Mar garet Marr, alleged to be his wife. The woman had left him three weeks ago to work as cook in the saloon. Hogancamp asked the woman t0 re turn to him, and when she refused ha dropped a paper-covered parcel. A terrific explosion followed, and a 10 foot section of the sidewalk was blown out into the street. Hogancamp had both eyes blown out, and the woman had the flesh torn off her arms to tht bone. TWO REVOLUTIONS ON ONE ISLAND. Haiti tod San Domingo Aftln Stirred By In lerntl Strife. Cape Haitien, Haiti. (By Cable). The Haitien exilet have gathered near the frontier, preparing to re-enter Haiti and attempt an insurrection against President Nord, in favor of General Firmin, leader of the insur rection of 1902. The Government it very anxious, and it taking energctia measures to meet the situation. The town of Cape Haitien has been pro claimed to be under martial law. The revolution in the Republic of Santo Domingo is extending. Azua de CompoMela (near the south coatt) and all the department of the South have declared in favor of Isidora Jim- Two Boodlert Sentenced. St. Louir, Mo. (Special). Charlet F. Kelly, former speaker of the Lower House of the Municipal Assembly, and Charles A. Gutke, a former member of that body, were sentenced to termt in the penitentiary for connection with the suburban bribery deal. Kelly wat given two yeart for perjury and Gutke five years tor bribery. Pot to Kill a King. Barcelona, Spain (By Cable). Tho' police have arrested three anarchists Magin, Alfonso Gari and Pablo Gari -at Villa Nueva y Celtru. It it alleged that they have confessed to plotting in April last the assassination of King Alfonso, who was in Barcelona in the early part of that month. Killed By Urother-ln-Law. Richmond, Va. (Special). Jamct Boyle, about 30 years old, wat shot and killed by T. it. Moore, bis brother-in-law, aged 32 years, at the home of the latter here. Boyle had been drinking and annoying his relative! for some days. Moore alleges that he feared that Boyle would kill every body in the ' Moore borne when he (Moore) came there, and that after some words the shooting followed. Left Hit Widow $2,000,000. Providence, R. I. (Special). By tht will of her hutband, Henry Grinnell Russell, who died 10 dayt ago, Mrt. Rutsell becomes the richest widow in New England, as tht estate is re puted to be worth at least $30,000,000, The estate will eventually revert to the Goddard and Brown families, and young John Nicholas Brown, "the richett baby in the world," will be on the list ol future heir. 11,1 I, , J oh rs Hollingthead, the English au thor ana journalist, it dead, at the agt of 77- ' r. THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest News of Pennsylvania Told in Short Order. Bnrgest C. H. Pennypacker, in an Interview relative to West Chester'! health conditions, said: "By reason of these continued reports of typhoid fever case here. West Chester hat reason to look after its sanitary ar! rangements, but the town is not so bad in a health point of view as it' pictured. Some of these reports are; entirely sensational and are calculated to do West Chester considerable harm. I do not know what the Board of Health is doing, but I see no neces-j sity for their employing a half dozen! or so sanitary experts. The healthj authorities should be competent to investigate our health matters for' themselves; that is what the board i constituted for, and they should at; tend to their duties. There is much room for sanitary improvements." The course vf lectures to educate Pennsylvania Railroad employees in the care of the injured in emergency cases was begun in Altoona by Dr. H. W. Pownell, chief medical exam iner for the relief department. Dr. Pownell talked to the heads of de partments in the shops on the first aid to the injured, demonstrating the use of the stretcher and the first aid packages. Engineers, conductors, fire men, flagmen and hrakemen between Pittsburg and Philadelphia will all be obliged to attend the lecture course at an early date The company is equipping all baggage and cabin cart with stretchers and first aid packaget. Pittsburg is to have a hospital for consumptives. William McConway has offered to give his Herron Hill resi dence for a term of years free for the establishment of a hospital of this character. The physicians of the city have taken no formal action in reference to establishing an institu tion of the character, but it is said that al! arc in favor of it and stand ready to devote their time and energy toward it in any way possible. Superintendent Addison L. Jones, of the West Chester public schools, has been noticed that the schools are en titled to two gold medals for the ex hibit of school work at the St. Louis Exposition. One medal is for the high school and the other for the ele mentary grade. Twenty medals were awarded to the schools of Pennsylva nia. Mrs. Grover Levis, of Doe Run, Chester county, died recently from ty phoid fever. Her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hoopes, are now at the Chester County Hos pital suffering from the same dis ease. The sickness of the trio led to an investigation of the premises, and it was found that the well from which the family obtained drinking water contained several dead rabbits be sides considerable fungus growth. George F. Witmer, aged 44 years, of Lancaster, died at the General Hospital from injuries resulting from a kick sustained in the pit of the ab domen, and a warrant has been is- ' sued for the arrest of Jacob Herr on the charge of murder. Conflicting stories as to how the injuries were in flicted are afloat, but the resident phy sician at the hospital sayj that sev eral hours before he died Witmer ad mitted that he had a fight with Herr over some work and that the litter had kicked him and then run away. Mary Toiny, aged 3 years, died at the Pottsville Hospital from lockjaw, due to stepping on a tack. Council awarded $8000 thirty-year 4 per cent, bonds to Dick & Robin son, of Philadelphia, whose bid va $101.05 1-3- v Misses Mary N. Beari, Anna Hu ber and Gertrude Sweeton were grad uates at the annual commencement of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Leba non. Dr. H. U. Roop, president ol T.ehflnan Vallev Collpae. mad th art. dress. Plummer E. JefTeris, a former mem ber of the State Legislature, has been appointed by the State authorities as an additional appraiser for the State in the estate of the late millionaire botanist, Benjamin Matlack Everhart Mr. JefTeris will act in conjunction with Joseph B. Smith and Albert P. Hall, previously appointd in the tame capacity. Walter Lambouski and his brother, William, though two miles apart, sus tained similar injuries about the same hour, the skulls of both being frac tured. Walter Lambouski, who lives in New Philadelphia, was playing foot ball, and when he fell to the ground a player of great weight stepped on Lambouski's head, fracturing his skull, William Lambouiki, the brother, was two miles away. The Indian Sum mer weather tempted him to go in swimming, and while diving he struck his head against a rock, his skull be- v ing fractured. ... . . . , Thomas S. Johnson's automobile ran into a large pile of dirt in the middle of the roadway at Lewistown, and tha machine was overturned and the occu pants thrown out. The party con sisted of Mr. Johnson, Ray Bryden and the Misses Dallas and Goss. All escaped with a few bruises, but the machine was wrecked. The Cumberland County Women's Christian Temperance Union, at its annual meeting elected these officers: Pretident, Mrt. Annie Lee Fithburn, Carlisle; vice president,.. Mrs.-Lydia Wilson, Newville; secretary, Mist Liz zie Mower, Shippensburg; treasurer, Mrt. Jennie S. Derland, Carlisle. The Young Men's Christian Asso ciation of Carlisle celebrated the forty fifth anniversary, a meeting being held in the Opera House. Judge H. M. Hinckley, of Danville, delivered an address. To avoid destruction to' bridges by freshets, iron and steel fenders will be built about the piers of county bridges in Schuylkill county. Charles A. Gies, aged 17 years, of Easton, a fireman on a Lehigh Vat lev freight train, wat struck by an overheard bridge at Hokendauqua and killed. - j Twenty aged men, whose ages aver- 1 aged over 7$ yeart, occupied front rafl In thm VfrthnHist Church at the Sunday services at Stroudtburg. They wera brought to the church in car ritget. 1 Charlet Hogenogler, aged 30 yeart, a hucktter, while standing in the mar ket house at Columbia conversing with friendt, fell to the pavement. When hit friendt picked turn up they found he was dead. Death wat due to heart' dueate. t Edmund Burke, a retired capitalist, of Chicago committed tuicide.
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