. 'E. Reynolds, Por mle in Athens, fiayre and Waverly. Aosaems INSURANCE Ponghi, fold aod Revolutionista Hope ta Tia Up Russian Empire. SANARL'S GOVERYOR TORN T0 PIECES - 8. Petersburg Grvepes In Darkness Owing te Electric Light Workers’ Strike—Mutiny In Army and - Navy Spreads. BT. PETERSBURG, Aug. 4 —A gen eral stfTie Las been forwally ordered to begin in $1. Petersburg today, and as a preliminary the men in a doses “establishments iu the Vasil Ostroy and VWHGRAY couartary and In the Mescow gua . beyond the Narva gate, have already gone out. The plan is to extend the strike to Moscow ou Mouday and gradually to extend it throughout the empire until everything. including the raliroads and telegraphs, is at a complete standstill A section of the sireet railroads here, Including the Névaxy Prospect line, has stopped running. The pelice have arresiad half a dos- on mewbers of the Workmen's council St. Petersburg was in darkness last gight. The employ of the electric lighting plants, alwilys the earliest barometric record of political condl- 4 “u A i A AN TNR Rl TT ADMIRAL BIRELEFF. Sous “ceased work iu obedience to the call for a general strike. This call al: ready bas besu obeyed by 2.000 factory hands (m the capital. It is impossible, however, yet to predict the result of this universal political strike. It Is staged definitely that the first step teward a dictatorship will be the nomisation lmwmediately of Grand Duke Nicholas to the chief command of all the troops In Rusals. This would disturbed districts of the empire where martial law has been proclalmed. 4 special court is goimg to Helsing- ®l tors to try mutineers. A thousand men are equfined in Helsingfors and Ska tudden. The total of the casuaities is not yet known, but 00 men are missing. It le impossible to say how .many were wounded. Five officers were killed. A special dispatch from Samara says that the governor of that city was lustantly killed by a bomb thrown by Am assassin, who was subsequently Sasated The governor's head and feet torn off by the explosion. ere la overt dissatisfaction among the Moseow regiment of the guards quartered in ®t. Petersburg. The de- mands formulated by the men are both economic and political. Cossacks were sent to the barracks of the regiment to prevent an eut- break. A Warsaw report says that a por- tion of the troops In the summer camp at Rembleretoff, near hers, mutinied and are In open revolt. . artillerynien have driven their officers out of their quarters. A de tdchment of Cossacks segt to over power fhe mutineers were received with grapeshot. Detalls are lacking, as extraordinary Jrecutions are being taken to prevent facts from being wmadepublic. At Helslugfors an lociplent: mutiny broke eut our beard the Russian cruiser. Bogatyr. It was immediately put down with the arrest of 200 of the sallors on board. The armored cruiser Pamyat Azova, whose crew mulinied of the Estho nias coast and were overpowered Ly the loyalists ou Doard, spoke the steamer Salinea between Helslngfors and Revel. [he mutineers of the Pam- yat Azovs ordered the Balinea to stop and asked for mews from Sveaborg, evidently ‘with the Intention of going there to help the mutineers. But when informed that the mutiny at Sveaborg was over the Pamyat Azova was head: od for Revel, The battleships Slava and Czarevitch were sent from Helsingfors ih pursuit of the Pamiyat Azova. A dispatch Warsaw says that the artillerymen in the summer camp at_Hembertoff bave wutinied. The creW of the Russian Crulser Asa, which was sent to Abo, Finland, mu- tinled, hoisted the red ‘flag and sailed in the direction of Bveaborg. Admiral Bireleff started on this ship to take Sahil of the Baltic fleet at Hel singfors. He Is belleved to be 3 pris. ouer on hix own flagship Premier Btolypin bas gone to Peter bot with the intention of tendering his The report that Emperer Nicholas which AR dpi EXPOSITION ABLAZE. - Priceless Works of ltnlian and Hun- sarian Art In Danger at Milan. MILAN, Italy, Aug. 4—The fire that started in the International exposition did damage couservatively estimated at $800,000. Some estimates place the loss as high as $2.400.000 The sections devoted to the deco rative arts of Italy aud Hungary were totally destroyed. as also was the pa- villon In which were the exhibits of Itallan and Hungurian architecture. Several firemen and carmbineers were injured. The fire was discovered in the Hun- garian section and spread rapidly to the art sections situated in ap ad joining park. For a tiie the British, Swiss, Japa- nes¢ and Netherlands sections were threatened, bug by energetic work the firemen succeeded In saving them. The jewelry and fue aris sections also were threatened, but a large force of’ carabineers cartied the pictures, many of them of almost priceless value, from the gallery of fine arts into the corridors of sections beyond Dangerous sparks fell on the Ger man, Persian, Turkish and Chinese ered to be entirely under control. The city.was thrown Into a state of great excitement and vast crowds collected about the exposition The origin of the fire Is attributed to an electric short circuit. AGED JUDGE ABSAULTED. W. G. Hawkins, an Eminent Jurist, Vietim of Murderous Jootpads, PITTSBURG. Aug. 4-Judge WII liam G. Hawkins, Jr, of the orphans’ court, an eminent jurist of Allegheny county, was the victim of a murdér ous assault by footpads pear bis home in the fashionable east eml, Judge Hawkins, it appears, was tak- ing a customary walk uear his howe previous to retiriug when he was set upon and beaten. His nose was broken, his face badly cut and bruises Were sustained upon his body. He was left unconscious on the street, but later regained his senses and man- aged to make his way to bis home. He bas Bo ludistinet recollection of three men attacking him, but no clue to the entity of the assailants can be ob- tained. Robbery was undoubtedly the motive, as Judge Hawking was re lieved of a gold watch of much value and a sum of money He 1s In a critical condition and causes great anxiety to his family be cause of his advanced years, about seventy. ADMIRAL TRAIN DEAD. Commander of the Asiatic Fleet Ex- pires Suddenly at Chefu, China. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-A Chefu special dispatel says that Rear Adwi ral Charles J. Traln, commander In chief of the United States Asiatic fleet, died at sixteen minutes past 0 in the morning of urnemia, Admiral Train had only been report- ed sick yesterday, and his su death was & matter of great surprise and sorrow In the navy“ department and to his many friends here. Ho was appointed from Massachu- setts in 1801, Cloudburst Near Heading, Pa. READING, Pa, Aug. 4.—-A terrific slondburst struck the borough of Ham: burg, this county, late in the day. A lan foot flood swept through the main portion of the town, leaving In Its wake ruin and devastation. There are washouts in the streets to the depth of ten feet, Alfred J. Romig. who was working in a tinamith shop, was drowned. The shop was swept away. More than fifty dwellings were dam- sged. Many persons escaped drown ing by rusbing to the upper floors of their residences. The total loss will amount to more than $30,000. Thoes Little Girls From Hilslngfors. BOSTON, Aug. 4—Each of thew wearing a tag marked “Portland, Ore., U. 8, A” three littig girls, the eldest not mere than twelve years old, ar rived here unaccompanied on the Cunard ue steamer Iverine, from Hel- singfors, Finland, the present seat of serious revoluilonary disturbances The girls were given over to the rall road officers for their journey across tie continent. “They go to thelr father, Peter Westgurd of Portland, Oregon. Charged With Mis Son's Death. GREAT BABRINGTON, Mass, Aug. 4.—~At the end of the Streub -murder Lhearipg the father of the boy victim was held for the grand jury in the sum of $3000, the charge agalnst him being changed from that of murder to manslaughter. The state's attorney ap well as the defendant's counsel argued in favor of a change in the complaint against Strenb. siesta essen es Oklahoma Robbers Captured. EL RENO, Okla, Aug. 4.~Two high. waymen held up apd robbed Bamuel Bolaud and Miss Corinne Jones of Dal- las, Tex. at a rallroad station near El Reno. The robbers assaulted the wo man. They were captured after a pur: sult in which np valdentiied man was killed. Chief of Signal Service Safls, NEW YORK, Aug. 4 Brigadier General James Allen, chief signal offi- cer of the army, salled today on the St. Louls for Europe, where he will attend the Berlin juternatidgal wire lesa telegraphy conference Oct, 8, 2 COMSTOCK'SARTRAID Bir Caspar Purdon Olarke Asks Who He Is, NO INDECEXCY IN NUDE MODELS English Museum Expert Had Never Heard of Keeper of New York's Morals—JMiss Robinsen Is Released. NEW YORK. Aug. 4. Sir Caspar Par den Clarke, director of the Metropoll- tan Museum of Art, was asked (0 give an opinion in regard to the raid wade by Authony Comstock on the Art Stu- dents’ league, which resulted In the seizure Ma ton of magazines and the arrest oi a Jans Dos warrant of a young woman bookkeeper, He replied: “Really, 1 can't understand it. Is the man serious, or Is it just A joke? Who is this Comstock? 1 never heand of him before. And what soclety does he represent?’ The director being told that Mr. Com- stock was paid to look after the morals of New York sald: “1 trust it does not mean that the ib- erty of the art schools shall be taken away. Surely. there i= no indecency im art. All art schools employ models in the nude, and that is all there is to it. A unde figure is not indecent un- less It was made nude for the purpose of offending the morals” “Now that the Art league has been raided.” Sir Purdon was asked, “is not the Metropolitan museum in danger of being raided also?” “Really, I have nothing to spy about that” be replied. “I can’t understand the matter. I have never heard of such a thing. To be sure, we have re- ceived one or two complaints by letter since 1 have been at the head of the museum regarding sone of the node Bgures In olls exhibited here, but the letters were simply ridiculons.” _ “Did you ever hear of any other in- #tanees In England or France or else where where such action was taken?’ “Never iu my life.” sald the director, He then perused the Publishe d story of the mid. “Really 1 can’t understand It." le re- fterated. “I wonder If the man Is se- rious or if he is joking?’ Miss Anna Robinson, the young wo- mau who innocently complied with Mr. Comstock’s request for a copy of the last number of The American Stu dent In Art, the society's magazine, and who was Immediately hustled off to the Fifty third street bastile, has been released in the custody of her counsel. ; An Outrage, Says Coudert. OYSTER BAY, N. Y.. Aug. 4—The action of the towu officials iu tearing down the pler bLelougiug to Frederic R. Coudert at Oyster Bay in assertion of the town's rights to the beach as a highway was declared by Mr. Coudert to be a high hauded outrage. Mr. Cou- dert said he has brought sult agaiust the men who did the work and lutends to hold them personally lable Mr Coudert sald, “There can be no high way on land which ls covered with water twelve hours out of the twenty four, and the highway theory Is the werest fiction” A court order has Been issued forbidding the Jrebullding of the pier Earl Grey In Newfoundland. ST. JOHN'S, N. F., Aug. 4-—Earl Grey, who is visitiug Newfoundland, bas postponed bis departure two days owing to the condiality of his reception and the many delightful functions which have been given apd are still planned In his honor. The earl and Countess Grey ‘xisited the Belle Isle iron mines, which supply the Canadian smelters, and in the evening will at tend the citizens’ ball given In thelr bouor here Mysterious Woman Identified. LOWELL, Mass, Aug. 4—The mys terious woman who appeared at loter vals io different sections of New Eng land last winter, first as a would be suicide and again as a victim of high- way robbery, and who ultimately waa sont to the Lowell alinshouse as an insane person, was identified as Miss Susan Norris, formerly of this city, by a brother who saw a picture of the woman in & local paper. Boston Steek Broker Held. BOSTON, Aug. {Frederick K. Fol- som, 8 stock broker, was arrested charged with the larceny of $1,142 from the brokerage firm of Keveuey & Nellau, members of the Boston Stock Exchange. The charge ls based upon a stuck transaction in which Fol sow Is alleged to have sold the broker age firiu worthless securities Mayor Johnson Net Gallty, CLEVELAND, 0, Awg Mayor Tom L. Johnson was declhirel not gullty of coutempt of court In the case gKrowlug out of his recent action. In tearing up the tracks of the street raliroad company. Director of Public Service Sprinboru was found guilty, $irike Effects Minueapolls, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Aug 4. Seventy-five lithographers employed in four printing honsés in Minneapolis struck In response to the general strike order issued from the national bhead- quarters of their union Bangor Fostoffices Robbed. MALONE, N. Y, Aug, 4—-The post offices at Bangor and North Bangor vere burglarized and a considerable quantity of stamps taken. No clew to the robbers has yet been obtaluel Yellow Pever Death In Cuba, - NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 4A death from Jty ALTA FAROLA AT 0 TO 1. Angler's Capture of Hasdicap ®t Brighten Was Sixth Victory, NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Three favor ites, a third choice and two jong shots divided the money at Brighton Beach The track was still heavy Angler In winning the handicap, fourth ou the card, at one mile and a furlong, scored his sixth straight vie tory. Augler after being rated behing Batlor Boy to the stretch drew away and won haudily by three quarters of 8 leugth, Bally K. and Thomas Hoy fell soon after the start in the last race J. J Walsh, who rode Thomas Hoy, had his collar hone broken. while Sewell was unhurt. Summaries First Race. Jacquin, first: Novena. second: Helle of Portland, third Second Hace —-Botanist, first: A, second; Fantastic, third Third Race Sonoma Belle, Tyron, second; Little Scout, third. Fourth Race -Angler, first; Sailor Boy, second; Corrigan, third Fifth Race Belle of Pequest first: The Clowu, second; Mollie Donolive, third, Sixth Race —Alta Farols, first: da, second; Kestrel, third. Laura first; Sua- BASEBALL SCORES. Games Played Yesterday In the Na- tional and American Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York— 81. Louls «0 00060100 0-1 New York g 001 & 800 1—%2 Hits, 81. louls ¢, New York. 6 Errors ~8t Louls, I. New York. 3. Batleries— Thompson and Marshall. Ames and Bow erman At Prooklyn— . Pittsburg 390933041401 Broskiyp 09 ¢ 090 § 2 Hits ttshurg, 5 BAG §& Erroos — Pittsburg, 1 frookiyn, ¢ Hatteries Lynch and Gibson: Scanton and Bergen At Boston Cincinnati 0 ¢ 609 810 0-1 ston 0 GO0@o20¢ *3 Hits-Cincinnatl, 7; Boston, 1 Errors— Cinoinnatl, ¢, Boston, I. Batteries Wick. and Livingston, Lindeman and Ned ch! FV auth 0 0G0901 Pongo hia -~0 0 000000090 {its Chicago, 3 Philadelphia. & rore-Chicage, 0. Phliadelphia, 1 Batter- les—Brown and Kling, Lush and Donovan Sesond game 0 ¢ 0-1 w “hica 11020101} biadeighia id Il 0d 00c-0 Hits hi 80, Philadelph in. I. Er- rore—-Chica Ta *hiladelphia, 3 Bat. teries—Reul neh and Moran; Duggleby and Donovan TABLE OF PERC ENTAGES Chie ‘ New fork Pittsburg Philadelphia Cincinnati Brooklyn Bt. Louls Boston a . 8 a & 5 n AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit New York Detroit Hits— New York, §; Detruit New York. 2: Detroft, 4 Batteries Orth and Kielnow, Donovan, "Warner and Schmidt At Chicago— ton Bicago . Hits—Boston Boston, 1; Chicage and Armbruster At Cleveland- hiladeiphia 35 3 levelanad 200132 Hite Philadelphia, 8; Cleveland. rors— Philadelphia, 4, Cleveland, & lat tories Plank and Powers, Hbhoades and Buelow t St Louls- ashington 0 0000O0CCO0CO0GOGCDO Bt. Lauls 0 0000090040 1-1 Hits-Washington, 4; St. Louis. §& Fr. rors— Washington, 1; 8t. Louis, 1. Bat terfes Hughes and Wakefield, Glade and O'Connor TABLE OF Phllgdelpuia New York Cleveland Chicago Detroit & Louls ashington Baston anEszunurS ¢ 1 Hatteries—liarris Walsh and Sullivan von eg 29 93 0 : i. 8, Fr- PERC % NTAGE 8 % > Li & @ 59 "0 Refused to Den the Unitorm. NEW YORK, Aug. 4 Cy Seymour, the center fielder for whose release the New York National League club pald $10,000 recvutly to the Clucinnat! alub and who his beeu playing with the lo cal team for some time, refused to don a uniform here in the game against 8t. Louls at the Polo grounds Sey: wour claims that hi [8s entitled to a share of the money paid by the New York management to Cioclunat! for his releate, aud until this 1s done he says be will not play longer with the New Yorks por with any other club Larned and Behr In Finals. NAHANT, Mass, Aug 4 William A. Larved of Summit, N J, and Karl H. Behr of Yale university will meet today in A deciding tennis match. both having reached the fiuabs lu the Na haut club's annual touruament [on sin gles. The doubles will be Lutween M D. Whitman and W. J. Clothier and © F. Watson nnd F. C. Colston — ———— Two Champions Go Dewan, MANCHESTER, Vt, Aug. 4—The defeat of A. I. White, the last year'd champlon, aud former champlon, F Herreshoff, in the semifiusl round of the Vermout state golf championship at the Ekwanok' club was the feature of the play here, Jim Bosman 4 at Letonia, CINCINNATI, UO, Aug. 4 Favorites won two of the seven events at Lato nla. The steeplechuse bandigap, the feature of the canl, was won by Jin Bozeman, with Ohlo Klug second and Subador thin). The other three start. ers ran out Myopia Polo Team Defeat Dedham. NARRANGANSETT PIER, BR. I, Aug. 4. Myopla defeated the Dedham polo team at the Point Judith Country club 16 a one sided game for the club cups by a score of 14 to 13, goals. The teas played, without a handicap Harvard's Hight at Healey. LONDON, Aug. 4--The Harvard sight cared crew which Is to row Can. bridge university on the Thames Sepi. 8 arrived at Henley. The men enjoyed the (rip over. GETS TWELVE YEARS Ex-Mayor Belcher Bentenced to Hard Labor. WENT TO JAIL AND (CONFESSED, Embezzled $100,000 at Paterson, §. J., From Friends nud a Loan (om- pany, Which Was Forced te Suspend. PATERSON, N. J, Aug + -W. 11 Belcher, who while mayor of this wits absotnded a year ago amd who sur reinlered himself on Mamday Iast, sentenced hy Seolt to Yedrs in the state prison ihe zlement was Judge twelve imprisgnment at Trenton at hard labor clhinrge sgainst him was enibez The courtroom was crowded with his former friends and political associates, soitie of whom liad suffered by his cm of bezzicments. There was no taking Six indictments, each al- leging embezzlement, were read, and the counsel for Belcher entered a plea of guilty to each of them. Belcher's counsel then made a plea to the court for clemency and declared that Bel cher’s surrender and fallure to contest the case were mitigating clrenmstances Justice Scott in his review of the case sald that Belcher's peculations had left some of his victims penniless and that he saw no reason for exer clsing clemency Sentence was then iuposed Belcher disappeared from this city about a year ago, while he was mayor He was alleged to have embezzled from $100,000 to £150.00 from personal friends and frou the Mygehester Build ing and Loan associ which wows forced to suspend business. No trace of the missing wan was discovered by the authorities nutll he appeared at the county fall Monday uvight and volun tarily surrenderad He hind ouly $1710 his possession and declared that he had suffered grea hardships during his absence. He sald that he had traveled abont the country until his fonds ore He found himself penniless "aul after losing the last $200 apd then secured w for $1.25 a day His health broke down, and he peltliel ta seek other employ ment aid reauine Ris wan deriugs He flually found himself York ill and without funds After gly ing himself up he expies wsdl regret and sald be was prepared to suffer the con sequences of Lis embezzlement evilence ition exhinuste | di St retin ark digeing dtohes wa “un ii New Hroncho Makes Wonderful Records. CLEVELAND, © Aug. 4 — Get away day at the Glenville track was a memorable oue the horse world The programme consisted of three avents—the Merchants and Manufac turers’ Consolation, the 2:19 class pac ing and the for all Lut three world's records were shuttered Ly that fleet footed pacer The Bron cho This little daughter of Storm cliffe, who was recently purchased by Messrs. Rochon and Doble of Winn! peg. Man, for $1040, won the three heats of the free for all pace In 244, Sud aud 2.008, thereby breaking the world's record for three consecu tive beats by a quarter of a secoud, the world's record for pacing mares (un a race and the world's record for the fastest third heat in a race free race Big Diamond for Mrs. Root RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. {4 Secre tary of State Root held a reception on the Charleston which was largely at teuded. When President Alves boarded the American cruiser he was saluted by the Brazilian, Argentine man warships in the harbor. In the nae of the nation President Alves presented Mrs. Root with a large and beautiful Brazilian diamond, aud the minister of finance, Senor de Bulhoes, gave her a golden casket luset with a watch. Secretary Root was wade aun honorary member of the Institute of Brazilian lawyers The Brazilian cruiser Barruso and the Argentine cruiser Buenos Ayres will convoy the Charleston to Montevideo aud Ger Coghlan Starts Meat Inquiry. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. For the pur pose of testing the reports regarding the quality of weat served to the eu listed men at the navy yard, Brooklyn Hear Admiral Coghlan commandant has appointed a board of inquiry with Captalu Stanton of the cruiser Colo rado. as senior officer. Admiral Cogh lan There evn a lot of smoke aromid bere and 1 want to find out if it has been caused by the ex ploSon of loaded projectiles or blank cartridges So | have asked a board of luquiry to look inte the matter said has Steamer Hroke Mer Malan Shaft. NEW YORK. Ang 4 While on the way from this city to Redd Bank, NJ the Merchants Seabird broke her main shaft as the steamer was passing Ambrose light in the low er bay. Two hundred passengers, who were ou board, were badly frightened and showed signs of paule, but were quieted by the assurance of Captain Throckmorton , and the officers that there was no danger Last Twe Bodies Recovered. ANGLESEA, N. J. 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