TERRIBLE FATE OF EXCURSION PARTY
Crowded New York Steamboat Catches on Fire in
Oast RiverLoss of Life Nearly IOOO.
Bodies found
Unidentified dead...
List of Missing
New York, (Special). -
624
3
300
Manic thai
tuddenly swept over the excursion
Steamer General Slocum in the East
river, near its junction with Look Is
land Sound, at 10 A. M. Wednesday,
drove hundreds of the passengers to
leap overboard, while hundreds more
who remained aboard were burned
ta death.
It serins certain that at least ooo
persons, mostly women and children,
met death. The number of deaths
is likely to reach as many as 800.
Four hundred and ninety-eight bodies
liad been recovered at a late hour
and divert were at work taking more
from the hold of the steamer. The
remains of many persons who leaped
Into the river have not yet been found
The fatalities all occtircd in a brief
rare with death over a half-mile
course which Capt. William H. Van
J"chaik, of the boat, made in trying to
beach her on North I'-rother Island.
He succeeded in thir, attempt, but
the fire meanwhile had spread so
rapidly that one of the vessel's decks
had coll.isped, killing many, while the
Iflanies had destroyed others or driven
them to death in the water.
Boat'a Officers Arrested.
The captain has been severelv
criticised for not running the boat
ashore when the flames were dis
covered. With five of his men he was
arrested.
Some of the survivors declare that
the life-preservers were rotten and
proved utterly uselss when the pas
sengers tried to use them.
About 1.200 persons, members of
an excursion party given bv St. Mark's
Kvangclical Lutheran Church, 2.12
Sixth street, on E.W Side of Man
hattan, were on board the General
Slocum. The greater number of
passengers were women and children.
All were on their way to Locust
Grove, a summer resort on Long Is
land Sound.
The dangerous Hell Gate rocks had
been passed in safety and the steam
boat was r ff the east end of Ran
dall's Island when there was a sud
den fire in the forward part f the ves
sel. The overturning of a pot of
freae in the boat's kitchen had caused
f. What seemed an explosion fol
lowed. A cloud of smoke and flames shot
Into the air.
Death In Frightful Panic.
Instantly the women became panic
stricken. Th crew of 23 men were
powerless in the frenzied throng that
rushed toward the stern, pursued by
the flames. The pressure against the
rails was so great that they soon gave
way. Forty or fifty persons were al
most immediately swept overboard.
Captain Van Schaik then headed
the boat for North Brother Island
and the harbor craft began picking
Bp the trail of victims and survivors
who continued dropping in her wake
by fives and tens, some supported by
life preservers, but most of them with
out such aid.
Hundreds fleeing from the flames
Bed to the upper hurricane deck,
which, under the unusual strain, to
gether with the burning of its sup
porting stanchions, collapsed. One
hundred or more were thus precipi
tated to the middle deck, and many
of them were thrown bodily into the
blazing hold.
Few Could Be Saved.
The steamer's whistle was blowing
for assistance, and tugs and other
nearby craft answered the call. Be
fore any of the boats could reach the
burning steamer, however, the frantic
women and children had begun to
jump overboard. The current was
strong and there are many whirlpools
in the channel. The boats that always
bound in the vicin-ty picked many
persons from the water, but these
were only a small number of those
struggling in the swift current.
As the fire increased the struggle to
stain points of vantage at the stern
became frightful. Women and chil
dren crowded against the after rail
until it gave way and hundreds were
pushed off into the river. After this
there was a steady stream of persons
who jumped or were thrown into the
water.
By this time the shrieking whistle
of the Slocum had attracted the at
tention of river craft for a con
siderable distance around, and tugs
and other small boats were rushing to
the assistance of the burning steamer.
Rows Of Heads In Water.
These small boats rescued ail those
in the water whom they could reach,
but many persons struggled and
sank before any help could reach
them. In the wake of the Slocum as
she hurried upstream was a line of
little black spots, marking the heads
and bodies of those who had sought
to escape the roaring furnace in the
ship by throwing themselves over
board. ftw of thoe saved by the small
boats had on life-preservers. At no
time during the progress of the fire
wa there any good opportunity either
to lower the lifeboats or get the life
preservers out from underneath the
seats. This gives an idea of the
rapidity with which the rlainrs swept
the decks.
It was an experience harrowing and
terrible, and that any escaped alive
seems wonderful.
Through all the panic during that
FINASCIAL. I
In New York this week $1,. 138.0001
of dry goods was marketed and ,,, the'
same week last year $1,777,000. j
i-ur live iiumiwh oi iv4 nan clear-
ings in Pittsburg have decreaeJ $2i.S.-
coc.ooo compared with the same tunc ,
in luoj.
J S. McCord & Co. had a private
despatch saying; "W. K. Vanderbilt
is expected home on July 10. The
Pennsylvania K ulroad will then offer
to buy half the Ontario & Western
Railroad Company's stock if the New
York Cential will take the other half."
A generally well-informed banker
say that New YotL Central will offer
to purchase all the Lehigh Navigation
stork at $100 a share, giving in ex
change for it 5 tier cent, bonds. The
Pennsylvania and Vandcrbilts with to
control the whole, anthracite trade as
Ihev now dominate the bituminous.
Some bu Philadelphia people were
selling both Heading and Pennsyl
vania in all btreet.
New York banks gained in cash $6,.
561.000 the pa it week.
Lake Superior's re-organizers can
tell the alleged organizer of a new
electric concern how easy it is not to
get a few liuljioo dollars.
f infemo, with fire and smoke surround
ing them, the officers and men of the
doomed lioat remained at their posts,
but they were powerless to avert the
catastrophe.
Shore Reached At Last.
The Slocum got within 50 feet of
Island and there stopped in the nal
low water. It was ju-t before she
the northwest point of North Brother
beached that ti e hurricane deck, the
supports of which had burned away,
fell with its load of women an.l chil
dren. adding to -.he panic and horror
of those on the deck below.
Soon afterward parts r.f the second
and third decks also caved in. But
before this hanpened the tug Walter
Tracey had gone alongside the b"rn
ing steamer and been lashed to her.
Manv of the passengers were taken off
by the crew of the Tracey, which re
maiued alongside the steamer until
the tug's pilot housf took fire.- !
The place where the Slocum '
beached was just 1 ff the scarlet fever
ward on North Brother Island. The
patients who had been out on the 1
porches and lawns watching the ap
proach of the burning steamer were
ordered indoors. Physicians on the!
island hastened to the assistance of
those who vVre being brought ashore
through the shallow water. Many
of those who leaped from the Slo
cum were carried away by the cur-1
lent, even after she was beached, and
were drowned.
Pastor's Tale Of Horror.
One of the best narratives of the
disaster was that of Kev. George C.
I-. Haas pastor of the church. Mis
wife, Gertrude, and his daughter,'
Anna, are among the dead. He said:
"The fire started in the kitchen, in -
the forward part of the ship, w hen we
were olt Une Hundred and 1 hirty-1
fourth street T niwlerstaml that cnm. I
fat which boiled over started the blaze
and that the men in the kitchen ran
for their lives. At that time most
of the women and children were
jammed in the rear part of the boat,
where the band was playing Why
the captain did rot point the boat
for the sunken meadows near-by I do
not understand.
"Me kept on. and the fresh wind
from the Sound drove the fire back
through the different decks with I
ightning rapiditv. In three minutes
from the time the fire started all the
decks were ablaze.
"I was in the rear of the boat with
my wife and daughter. Women were
shrieking ond clasping their children
in their arms. Some mothers had as
many as three or four children with
them. Death from fire was to be es
caped only to die in the water.
"When the fire shot up to the top
deck and drove the crowd back the
panic was terrible to witness. The
crush from the forward part of the
boat swept along those in the rear.
The women and children clung to the
railings and stanchions, but could
not keep their holds.
Over The Rail "Like Flies."
"I believe that the first who fell into
the water were pushed over. Women
and children went over the railings
like flies.
"With my wife and daughter I was
swept over the rail. The fire then
looked as if it would get us the next
instant. I got my wile and daughter
out on the rail and then we went over
board. was in such an excited stale
that I don't remember whether we
were pushcJ over or jumped. When
I struck the water I sank, and when
I rose there were scores about me
lighting 10 keep alloat.
"One by one I saw theni sink
around me. I looked around for my
wife and daughter, but could not see
their laces anywhere. They probably
sank as soon as they struck the water.
With a great effort 1 managed to keep
afloat, but my strength was about
gone when a man on a tug picked me
up."
The following telegraphic message
from President Koosevelt has been
received by Pastor llaas:
"Accept my profound sympathy for
yourself, your church and your con
gregation." Quickest Fire He Ever Saw.
Captain Van Schaik said:
"I did the best I could according
to my experience. We had had fires
on the General Slocum before, and
had always been able to handle them.
I had no idea that the fire would get
away from us this tune.
"A fireman came up to me in the
pilot-house and said there were fiames
on the lower deck. I started to go
toward One Hundred and Thirtv-
tourtli street. I was warned off by 1
the captain of a tugboat, who shouted
10 me mai Hie rmat would set tire
to the lumber vards anil oil tanks,
l'.e'ides I knew that the shore there
was lined with rocks, and ihat the
boat would founder with all hands
if I ran ashore there.
"The only place where I could beach
her safely was at North Brother Is
land, and I started there. A fresh
breez was blowing.
"I looked back and saw that the
hurt side of the bo.it was all ablaze.
It was the quickest fire I ever saw.
The tire wa 111 the woodwork under
the forward boilers on the port ide,
as I made it o-it in the excitement.
"Wind Was Tco Strong."
"I hi I.I for North Brothers' Island,
expecting to beai h the Slocum side
way. I had sent some of the crew
below to fight the fire, and thought
thcy-coiild hold it, but the wind was
too strong. Then they began to jump
overboard The rail of one of the
decks gave way and a lot of people
fell into the water.
To Avenge F nlsnd.
c, r. 1..,. , , 4 r-
, ' ' lrr",,1,r-'. " a1.1e).-Gen-
eral J',. hnk- ff, Governor-General of
l-iiilani . was s'ioI :nwl n,ri-..lu.
wounded at II i.'iloek A. M, at the
entrance to the F'uinish Senate at
llclsingfors. The assassin, a lawyer
named Sciiaimianr., a son of Senator
Schaiiiiiann, imiricsiiairly committed
suicide. BobrikvfT wa shot in the
stomach and neck The attack is as
cribed to Finnish patriotism.
Bulkl Eilraclcd slier 42 Vcars.
Montgomery, Abi., (Special).- Wil
liam Wise, who went into the Con
federate Army win 11 he was 13 years
of age, has just had a bullet taken
from his groin which had been there
since 180; the wound has never
healed. Phiysicians assure him that
it will now close. He curried this
wound all these years and never told
anyone excepting h.s wife.
The National Conference of
Charities and Corrections began in
Portland. Me.
(toil
NEWS IN SHORT TOItER.
The Latest Happenings Condenses (or Rapid
Reidlni.
Domestic
Two robbers entered the home of
Mrs. Barbira Young, an old woman,
at Altooua, l'a., beat her insensible be
cause she would not give them money,
and after obtaining $tK set fire to the
beds ill the several rooms and left.
Mrs. Youiii was rescued by members
of a fire company.
Charles Stimniell, a prisoner in the
Ohio Penitentiary, who had been con
demned to death, received a reprieve
from Governor Merrick three minutes
before the time set for the electrocu
tion. The court dismissed the suit brought
1 in a Chicago court by title of the vie-
titns of the Iroquois disaster against
Maw t F.rlangcr. deciding that ser
vice had to be made personally.
Special inspection of passenger
steamboats plying from Chicago have
been ordered as a result of the Gen
eral Slocum disaster.
The one hundredth and twenty-ninth
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker
Hill was celebrated in Boston and
adjacent towns.
Santos-Dumont i-rrived in New
York with his dirigible airship
"No. 7" to compete for the prize at
the World's Fair.
Massachusetts Prohibitionist nom
inated Mrs. Fannie J. Clary for secre
tary of state.
Charles F. McCoy, a Chicago law
yer, committed suiiide in Jacksonville,
Fla.
A new cotton bug has appeared in
Alabama.
Charles II. Moyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
was released by Federal Judge Thayer
on habeas corpus, is now a prisoner
111 the county jail in Telluride, Col.
Counsel for Mrs. Nan Patterson,
who is under indictment in New York
for the murder of "Caesar" Young,
made a motion for an inspection of
the minutes of the grand jury.
1 en tnousanu lonteacratc veterans
, '.,....... .c.v.i.i ....-
d"sl" feature of the fourteenth an-
nual reunion of the United Confeder
ate Veterans.
Testimony was begun in Boston in
the case of the Western Union Tele
graph Company against the Bell Tele
phone Company for $4,000,000.
A number of papers on pertinent
subjects were read before the Na
tional Conference of Charities and
Corrections, in Portland, Me.
Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, one of the
m-"V Prominent physicians in America,
died in Chicago at the age of 87 years.
1 lie tneatrical managers and pro
prietors of Philadelphia formed art
organization.
William A. Snyder, a former
evangelist, was arrested in Philadel
phia and confessed that he had ob
tained money in Maryland towns and
elsewhere by raising the amount on
postal orders.
Frederick Warren, of Buffalo, lost
$s,oo, the savings of a lifetime, while
playing English faro in New York
upon recommendation of a friend,
whom he attack with a cane.
Warrants have betn issued for 87
miners in the Cripple Creek district
for complicity in the dynamite outrage
at Independence. All are charged
with murder.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee and Dr. Ran- j
dolph H. McKini, of Washington,!
were the principal speakers at the re
union of Confederates in Nashville,
Tenn.
At Brazil, Ind , a Methodist preacher
opened a danre with prayer as a
compromise with the young folks who
participated in the social event. I
Miss Elsie Whelcn and Mr. Hubert
Goelet, of New York, were married
at Wayne, a suburb of Philadelphia, j
Mrs. Martha E. Lunn, aged Or years, I
has been arrested at F-lgin, 111 , on the
charge of forgery.
At Cleveland, (.)., Mrs. L. I). Allen;
shot her husband and then herself. '
She was 20 years old. .
Arrangements for the fourteenth
international convention of the Baptist
Young PtoplcV Union of America,;
f.i- 1 Wi.' i- eel lift?'. ' Jul ft o j
10, are approaching completion. t
Levy T. llanniim, a 'Trenton lawyer, :
who is legal representative in this!
country oi Ion Perdicans, has received
a letter irom him written in his
captivity. 1
James King Clarke, the former hus-!
band of Miss Esther Bartlett, the;
"violet bride,' 'was married in Bryn
Mawr. Pa., to Miss Katherine Wil-i
loughhy. I
Lieut. Nathaniel T. Bowers, F.n- '
gineer C vps, ol Fort Leavenworth, '
was killed near the target range by;
lightning, which struck his rule.
In a free fight at Brands Springs,
Ga , Bert Smith, while shooting at,
someone lse, hit and killed John L. i
Smith, his step-grandfather. !
Kev. 1)'-. Frank Gnnsaulus, formerly ,
of Baltimore.
baccalaureate ser
aid that all men '
11:011 in Chicago,
cnated equal. I
I oreign.
Miss Mary Thomas, President of
Bryn Mawr College, in an address be
fore the Women's Congress, in Ber
lin, ilt-feiid-.-d university work for wom
en from llie assertion that it over
taxes their physical strength and ren
ders theni unfit for matrimony.
General Bonrikoft, governor general
of I inland, who w is shot by a Finn
at 1 1 el-ingfors, di.d of his wounds,
and the Governor General of War
saw was sficken with par ysis when
informed of Bol rikoff's diath.
Philip Ji'incs Stanr-pe (Liberal),
the youngest son of Karl Stanhope,
was elects (I to the Mouse 0; .."om
inous from the I larborough division
of Leicestershire, defeating C. M. Dix-
on. the Conservative candidate.
'I he French Foreign Oltice announ-.
ccs the fin 1 1 closing of the French loan 1
of ij.500.000 to .Morocco, secured by 1
Morocco'; customs receipts. j
lhe Sullau of Morocco has sent
wont to Uaisuli, the bandit chief,
that all the hitter's demands for the
release of the captives have been com
plied with.
Four hundred Moorish troops of
the worst type wire landed at Tan
I icr, sent by the Sultan for the pro
tection of Europeans. These troops
will endanger lhe cnances for the re
lease of Perdicaris and Varley, wh.i
are held by the bandit K.nsuli.
Seid, who murdered Rev. Ben
jamin Labarte, of the American mis
sion, in North Persia, was brought
to Tabriz for trial.
After a meeting' of the British com
mittee of the International Mercantile
Marine Company, in London, Henry
Wilding said that there could not be
any change in the rate war until the
Cunard Line came to an agreement
with the continental lines.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, of Indian
apolis, in a paper before the Women's
Congreis, in Berlin, said that as a
result of the went progress in
physical training 4 ttw ideal of wom
an is being created.
The American Line announced in
London a cut in steerage rates to
meet the cut made by the other companies.
BLOODY FIGHTMN THEORY
Bull Run to Be Fought Over, But W ith
out Bullets.
THOSE MANEUVERS AT MANASSAS.
Never Before In the Peace History of the
United Ststes Have Such Maneuvers Been
Held as Those Now Belnf Planed Over
25,000 Troops Will Engaged! the Mimic War
fareFight la Perfect Harmon)-.
Washington, 1). C, (Special).
Preparations are being completed
under the direction of Ma-Gcn. Henry
C. Corbin, Commanding the Atlantic
division, for the combined army and
militia maneuvers to be held in Sep
tember near Manassas, Va.
Never before in the peace history
of the United States have snch ma-
, neuvcrs been held as those now being
; planned. Over 25,000 troops will en
gage in the mimic warfare troops
; trom every State 111 the Atlantic divi
sion, which runs from Maine to
Florida east of th; Mississippi river,
except New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Mississippi and pos
sibly ALabasia. There also will be
more than 5,000 regulars, who, with
, the guardsmen, will fight over again
the historic battle of July 21, 1861,
when 31,000 Confederate soldiers
under General Bauregard defeated
about 28,000 Federal troops under
General McDowell. In September,
however, Northern and Southern
soldiers will fight side by side and
against each other, but always in the
most perfect harmony.
Major-General Corbin, now the
second ranking officer in the army,
will command this entire force and
' will establish his headquarters' at
Gainesville, Va., about five miles from
I Manassas. One urmy will be en
camped in Thoroughfare Gap, 10
, miles from Manassas and the other
j near Manassas. Although the prob-
lems to be worked out during the ma
! neuvers have not yet been finally
planned, it is generally understood
I that the conditions which confront the
j commanders of the Federal and C011
i federate forces in 186! will be sim
ulated as far as possible, considering
1 the many improvements that have
' been made in the art of warfare.
A Lee And A Grant To Be There.
Two names famous in Civil War
history will he represented by two
prominent brigadier-generals of the
regular army who have been selected
to command the troops in the Manas
sas manuevers. They are Lee and
Grant. Brig. -Gen. Jesse M. Lee,
United States Army, it is true, is not
closely connected with the famous
Lee family of Virginia, but Brig-Gen.
Frederick D. Grant is a son of the late
Gen. U. S. Grant. The other general
officers of the regular army who will
, participate are Brig. -Gens. Franklin
J. Bell, Theodore J. Wint, Tti.skcr H.
Bliss and Thomas II. Barry. Many
general officers of the militia will also
be present and command brigades and
divisions during the mimic fights.
The War Department has been in
formed that a number of veterans of
the Civil War. whose intere.it in that
memorial conflict never will die. will
be present as spectators in September.
It is expected that hunureJs of old
soldiers who were present at one of the
battles of Bull Kun will come from all
parts of the countrv to see the younger
generation fight the old fights with
modern implements of war. Some of
the ablest military strategists in the
regular army tod;-) will be present
to map out the policy of the opposing
forces, and Lieut. -( en. Adna K. Chaf
fee, himself a veteran of the Civil
War, will be present as an observer.
At Work At Manassas.
Col. H. O. II. lleistand, adjntaiit
general of the At.- ntic division, is at
Manassas now c -mpleting the ar
rangements for the maneuvers. More
than 50 square miles of ground, ex
tending from Manassas to Thorough
fare Gap and im luomg all of the
first and second Bull Run battlefields,
has been leased for the maneuvers by
the War Department. The farmers
of the country have entered into the
plan and hve willingly lei the Gov
ernment have the use of 'heir land for
a small rental. Great care will be
laken by the War Department to see
that the trootis lon.luct themselves
properly and that :,o damage shall be
done to properly.
STRUCK DEsD BV LIGHTNING.
Boys Stood Under a Tree to Avoid Shower
and Wtre Killed.
Chester, Pa., (Special). Four boys'
standing under a cherry tree on a j
farm near Felton, three miles from
here, were killed by a stroke of light- 1
ning. The dead are,:
Boss Smith, aged 13 years, of pel-;
ton, son of the owner of the farm, j
Alexander Fullerton, 13 years of i
l-'tlton. j
Williams Davis, 14 years, of Up- !
land. :
Samuel Clark. 15 years, colored, of
Chester. j
About a dozen boys went from Fe'
toii to pick cherries on the Smith1
iariu. Farmer Smith told his son Ross,
who was about to go to Sunday
-chiiid, to order :..ay the hoys, that
he might see at tho cherry trees. On j
the way young Smith met Fullerton. '
Davis and Clark. As they approached .
the cherry trees the dozen boys from :
renon ran away.
A storm was coining up, and the
lour other boys went under one of the
trees. They had been there only a
few- minut.-s when lii.htning struck the
ree. Smith, I'ulli r:on and Davis were
' illed instantly. The colored boy was
-o badly injured that he died on the
w ay to a hospital.
Pacific Ui er Wrecked.
.Melbourne, (Special). -The Penin
sula and Orienta liner Austrailia, in
ward bound, struck on the rocks at
Point Nepean, at the eastern entrance
to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, at 2
o'clock A. M. The bottom of the ves
sel was stove in and it is feared that
she will In- a total loss. The passen
gers and crew were saf- ly landed. The
Australia was bound from London to
Sydney, N. S. W. She was of steel
and 01 3,702 tons net.
Bold Thieves ss Esprcssmen.
Cleveland, O., (Special), I" i v e
thousand yards of silk, valued at $.),
000 was stolen from the wareroom of
Leon Mansell on Lake street. The
robbery was commiltted by men who
used an ordinary express wagon for
the purpose and wa.: seen by a num
ber of persons who live in the neigh
borhood, who thought the transac
tion was s legitimate one. The silk is
brown, changeable and black and is
contained in a number oi large bolts.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Wireless Telegraphy for Weather Burean.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
directed Chief Moore, of the United
States Weather Bureau, to take im
mediate steps to add wireless teleg
raphy to the present equipment of all
vessel-reporting stations, so that, in
addition to reporting all vessels pas
sing within range ol the station, the
craft further out at sea may he re
ported. The tests mai'i by the Weather
Bureau show that with only such
transmitting power as vessels con
.venicntly can carry it will be possible
easily to keep theni in communication
w tnin a range ot 200 miles on snore. 1 j.r, Arthlir , threatening the rear
J his extension of the svstem affects 1 , ,. , , , , ,
both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts "' -,-,"eral Oku, the commander of the
and the gulf line. The service is to Japanese forces investing the Russian
be performed at N inlucket, Block Is- : stronghold, came to au end at Telissu,
land. Cape Henry. Cape l lattera: a ,, tl lht. railroad fifty miles north
Jup"cr, Fla.; Kev V est, Fla.: Port. , ... , , .,
Fade, Galveston. 'S.-.n Diego; Farral-i ,,f k""-hou and twenty-Vc miles
lone Islands, off the Golden Gate; : north of Vafangow, when the Rus
North Head, at tiie mouth of the ' sians were oiitmaneuvered, enveloped
Columbia River; Tatnose. Island, at 1 and sweepingly defeated,
the entrance of the Straights of luan i 1 hey leit more than 500 dead on the
, dc l-uca. anil Port Angeles, about
00 miles in from that entrance.
i It is anticipated by the government
j that vessels of commerce soon will
! find it to their advantage to equip
themselves with wireless apparatus,
, so as ;o be able frequently to com
municate with the coast stations on
their voyages.
Demonstration Id Turkish Waters.
i The American battleship squadron,
: commanded by Reur Admiral Barker,
' has sailed from Lisbon on a visit to
; the ports ot Greece and Austria. It
is reported that, after spending a few
I weeks there, Admiral Barker will be
reinforced by the European Squadron,
I under Rear Admiral Jewell, and this
j formidable fleet will pav a visit to
Turkish waters about the time Mr
j I.eishmann, the American minister,
1 takes up in earnest again his negotia
! tions with the Porte to insure for
i Americans in Turkey the same rights
i as arc enjoyed by citizens of some
.Minister Jackson reports to the
, State Department from Athens under:
datp of June s that since the advent -
1 of 'General Petro'f as premier and !
! foreign minister of Bulgaria relations
.between that countrv and Turkey
have improved materially. Manv Bui-
i garians have been released ' from
I urkish jaiis. and many refugees have
gone t,ack to their homes 111 .Mace
donia. where scIi.-m.1s and churches
have been reopened
Protection of Game.
Great activity in the movement for
; the protection of game in the United
1 States during the las calendar year
1 is announced in a report issued by the
; Department of Agriculture.
The report says ihc volume of legis
lation on the subject excee Is all pre
j vious records. The movement for
the protection of non-game birds
spread to a number of additional
States and an important agreement
lias been made between the Audit-
1 M Ill ,1 ,
on societies and leading wholesale
millinery organizations. There were
numerous importations of exotic spe-
c.es .Nine States and lei. -itorics now
IJiomoii imc saic 01 ail game, 27
the sale of certain species and only
13 have no restrictions on sale. Pro
hibition of the export of game in some
form is in force practically through
out t tie L niteil Mates, several States
. , .
..... vn iu.wiiu.k i,abiy inlucted coiiM.lerable pumsh-
laws- ' . ment.
.. - . . , , . 1 The Japanese commander make!
Gen Corbin Goes to Philippics. ,.,t,ratc. of the Russian losses,
Maj.-Gcn Henry C. Corbin has been but says tiny are probably great,
ordered to command the division of Among the Russian officers cap--he
Hiihppines, succcedin M.j-Gei, ; 7
J. F. Wade, the order to take eHect in ; Tokio. (By Cable). All doubt as
ii.iUr.
General Corbin, at present com-
........is mil-uiMsion 01 me Miantic aim
I'l-parimeni ot tne t.ast, with head-;
quarters at Governor's island, N. Y.
lie will have about a year and a half
of service in the Philippines when
Lieutenant-Genera; Chaffee reaches
the retiring age. h is expected that
Major-General Corbin will then suc
ceed General Chaffee as lieutenant
general.
Citrous Fruits lor Japan.
The Department of Agriculture will
send to the Agricultural Dcparfhient
of Japan a large collection of citrous
fruits indigenous to the United States.
The action is in return for Japan's
courtesy in sending a similar collec
tion to the Chicago Exposition.
Annapolis to Get School.
Annapolis ,and not Indian Head,
Md., will probably be the location of
the school of instruction which the
Bureau of Equipment proposes to es-
lablish for the training of wireless 1
telegraphy operators.
Congressional and Departments.
Rear Admiral Greer is diad, aged
72 years, lie had been on the retired
list since 1X1.15.
.-Ml vessels reporting stations will
I e eqiiippi-.l wilii wireless telegraphic I llV.V'11,rf'oOVfr' 1 1 , , -instrument-.
I Th' hullet. which had pierced the
Members of the Red Cross accented !
the resignations of all oiticers and
elected new ones, including W. K.
Van Rtiypcn, of Washington.
Minister Hardy, in a cable dispatch
;o the Slate Department from .Madrid,
reports that the extradition treaty
was signed Wednesday.
Douimic I. Murphy, recently ap
pointed secretary of the Panama C.i
1 al Commission, assumed the duties
of his ollice.
Attorney General Knox will resign
from the Cabm-t in a few days and
will be succeeded by Mr. Moody, the
present secretary of the navy.
Ambassador Powell Clayton says
the relations of the United States with
Mexico were never more friendly than
now.
Secretary Tail decided that army
officers serving on the Isthmus of
Panama in construction work of the
canal shall receive 50 per cent, ad
ditional f,-y.
The comptroller of the Treasury
has issued a call for the condition
of banks s.1 the close of business Jn
June g.
A boy riding a bicycle ran into
Senator Cockrell, inflicting injuries
that may result seriously.
It is stated in Washington that no
intimation has been received there of
the proposed resignation of Ambas
sador McCormick.
The cruiser Tacoma, at San Fran
cisco has been ordered to proceed
in search of the missing steamer Cone
maugh. Payaacst Is Oovcrmtnl.
St. Louis, Mo., (Special). A check
for $195.05704 was paij to the United
States government by the Louisiana
Purchase Company, this sum being 40
per cent, of the gross gate receipts
from the day of the opening, April 30,
to midnight of June 15.
RELIEF COLUMN ROUTED
Russians Out-Maneuvered, Enveloped
and Sweepingly Defeated.
1000 LOST ON JAP'S TRANSPORTS.
The- Japanese Charge That the Russians
Violated the Jspanese Flag Certain Of
ficers Aver That During the Fighting s Body
ol Russian Soldiers Appeared Carrying a
Japanese Flag- 1000 Men Killed.
Tokyo, (By Cable). The Russian
hope of relieving the pressure oil
1 held and the Japanese captured 30J
prisoners anil 14 iincK-riring rrem
guns. The kussians retreated hastily
to the northward.
'lhe Japanese charge that the Rus
sians violated the Japanese Hag.
Certain officers aver that during; the
fighting a body of Russian soldiers
appeared carrying a Japanese Hag, and
that the Japanese artillery, deceived
by this Mag, censed firing on that
particular body of Russians. Official
dispatches from the Japanese com
manders made specific charges of this
flag violation.
Japanese Lost 1000.
Early estimates of the Japanese
losses at Telissu say that 1000 men
were killed or woended.
The Japanese attacking force was
' "'vu.eil into right am
I bc'" .the advance 1
divided into right and left columns and
began the advance on 1 ursday along
both sides of the ri.ilroad. They en
countered the Russians east of Val'an
dien and drove them back.
At a late hour in the afternoon the
Russians held a line between Lung
Wang Tiao and Ta Fang Shen. The
" , ,. 1 -r
a,n!,,.,,ie Russians responded. lhe
shelling continued for two hours, and
", w"s ''i" 'l ly the avancc i f
the Japanese l-.ne to a position ex.
' """'"H -"" "'Ki" "
l'!Um- I!;!rkl";!'s P1" .end to the
M"iK- 1 he Japanese dispatched a
column to the westward toward I'u-
.hau for the purpose of covering the
: ,"s!i,"1, w,,, a"a 10 Pro,ec
uicir leu hiiu rear. t
During the night it became apparent
that the Kussians were being rein-
forced and it was decided to make a
general attack in the morning and
force the Russians into a defile back
of Telissu.
When morning came it was dis
covered that the Russians held a
line extending front Ta F'ang Shen to
Cheng Tsu Shan with a force esti
mated at more than two divisions.
Russians Nearly Enveloped,
T-Ua I . . 1 .1 . I
: the KllfsiaMS nea Telissu Bnd
succeeded i.dmirablv. While the main
1 JH.CV l.ISC WU9 IrtllUK IIOIIII
, alon ,he railroad columns were
: sw , le ,ef, and , ,h fj h,
flI)aU Cflllvl.rBeH at noon onth;
main Russian position. The Russians
Japanese force was facing north
in this position were at a dis
advantage, but they held it with de
termination until ,i o'clock in the
afternoon. At this hour they were
routed. The Japanese cavalry con-
uiiuiu I" juiiitc tuc rucniy cinu (iro-
to the sinking of the transnorts Hi-
tachi ' and Sr.do by the Russians has
been removed. Three hundred and
uiet y-seven survivors of the Hitachi
lave arrived at M011 and 11.1 sur
vivors of the Sado have arrived at
Kokura. Details of the destruction
of the two transports and the full ex
tent of the casualties are not obtain
able. It is reported that the trans
ports Hitachi and Sado Carried only
uoo men. If this is true the loss in
lives is pronamy ies man 1000.
BULLET-TORN H'ART SEWED.
Fiftcen-Vcar-Oid Boy's Attempt at Suicide
May Be Defeated.
Chicago, III., (Special). A surgical
operation, mi to have been but once
before successfully paralleled in sur
gical history, is believed to have been
accomplished here, saving the life
ot 15-year-old F.dward Feltz, who at
tempted to commit suicide.
Pl-ltz fired A bullet intn hii hrart
while desiiondent mrr th loss o m.
ployment. With death impending at
every tick of the watch, Dr. Carl
Wagner, of St. Joseph's Hospital,
placed six stitches in the bullet-torn
heart, effectually stopping the hemor
rhage. 'lhe patient's condition is said at
the hospital to warrant belief that
'""f ana. 1""S' t.'irougii the heart
was found in the thoracic cavity and
removed.
- Innocent Man In Prison.
Kansas City, Mo., (Special). Wil
liam Merrill, aged 60 years, surrender
ed himself to the police here, saying
I t- had killed lohn Edwards, a railway
braketnan, at Deer Lodge, Mont., 19
vears ago. A man named Murphy
had been sentenced to life imprison
ment for the crime, and is now serv
ing time in the Montana Penitentiary.
Merrill says he killed Edwards in a
quarrel over money.
The Iroquois Disaster,
Chicago, (Special). According to a
decision given hf re by Judge Brown in
the State Circuit Court, Marie Klaw
and Abraham Erlanger, owners of the
"Mr. Blu-beard" Company, will es
cape penalties which might have fol
lowed their connection with the Iro
quois Theatre fire, last December.
Judge Brown quashed service of a
summons served upon their agents
in a suit brought for damages by
relatives of one of the victims of the
fire.
Government Csse Failed.
New York, 1 Special). U n 1 1 e d
States Commissioner Shields dis
charged from custody Edward F, Mc
Sweeney, former Assistant Commis
sioner of Immigration at this port,
who was charged with the larceny ol
certain papers alleged by the immi
gration officials to be official. In his
very brief opinion. Commissioner
Shields decides the Government failed
to make out ease of even probable
cause and discharged the accused. The
charge 1 against hit Sweeney attracted
considerable attention when made in
MR. EDISONJOT SUSTAINED.
Chaired Falcnt Oifict r.xsminers With In
competency Was About a Bnttcrj,
Washington, D. C (Special). Re.
garbing the v.h:,;v.s of Tli.iina A.
Edison ngrinst twi 1 xr.mricrs in the
Patent Othcc in connection with urn
grant of let.c.a ...il .or a.i electrical
invention bv Jirnesl . Junner. the
Secretary of the Inter. or has apiovcd
an opinion rindereJ by Assis.uul Attorney-Genera
Campbell.
( The opiiuoi hoKis mat nothing is
shown 111 .Mr l-.disou s petition that
involves any lanse lor the exercise oi
supirv..sory authority at tlje hands of
the Secretary, 1111,1 l..r that reason the
Secretary is adv:eu ihat the C ..minus,
sinner ol l'a. ems should be lest to his
own discretion ;n dealing with tlm
matter.
1 he transfer f tiie examiners from
one division to a;. other is recom
mended by Acting Comiuissionei
Moore, of the Patent Ofl.ce.
Mr. Edison charged "incompetence,
neglect of duty i"iil maladministration
of other in connection with the grant
of a l.'nitcd Sta'es patent to Ernest
W. Jimgner. for reversible galvanic
battery No. 7.?S, 1 10, dated Sep:embei
I. 190.?."
In connection v ith the three charges
Mr. Edison complained of the declara.
tion of an iutrfc ri nee between on
of his applications i.nd the parent ap
plication of Jununer. and asserted that
the declaration of this interterence
was improper and assists in showing
that the cxaniineri were incom
petent. He further complained that
it deprived him of the opportunitj
of showing that Jungner's inventior
was inoperative.
The findings of Acting Commis
sioner Moore were that there was ab
solutely no evidence of malfe isance oi
intentional wrongdoing on the pari
of the examiners, and that the second
and third charge., were not sustained
and should be dismissed. As to the
declaration of the interference it was
found that "the examiner, in view- ol
all the circumstances, did hot depart
from custom and acted in accordance
with the diclal'.-s of common sense,
and that Mr. Edison was not de
prived thereby 01 an opportunity ol
making a furthe showing as t.-j what
was contained in tin Jungner appli
cation, but on tii? contrary expressly
given that onpo-tunity and failed to
take advantage '.! il."
As to the first charge, it was found
that the examiners failed to appreciate
the nature of the enlarged description
of the Jungner p; tent, and that they
should have appreciated the effect of
this enlarged description, and the
charge was sustained only as to this
particular. The names of the ex
aminers were not made public.
MASKED MEN HELD UPTRAIN.
Daring Robbery ol an Express Car on North
ern Pscllic Road.
Bar Mouth, Mont., (Special). Two
masked men held up the North Coast
Limited Northern Pacific passenger
train, eastbound, at about a mile and
a half east of this station. After
bringing the train to a stop they dyna
mited the express car, blew open the
safe and secured all its contents. Tfie
amount secured is not known, but it
is believed to be large. After blowing
out the rear lights of the train the two
men disappeared.
The holdup was similar to the one;
which occurred two years ago at
nearly the same spot and in which
lingitiecr O'Neal lost, his life.
The robbers boarded the tender of
the engine at the water tank at Bear
Mouth, and, after having remained
quiet until the train had gone a mile
and a half, they crawled up over the
coal and covered Engineer Wade and
I-'iretnan Reed with their pistols and
told them to throw up their hands,
Engineer Wade was then commanded
to bring his train to a standstill and
ilnmediately complied.
The engineer and fireman were
ordered from their engine and, with
the robbers, went back to the express
car. Before making an effort to gain
an entrance they forced the engineer
to light a cigar. The express niesscn
ger was commanded to open the door,
but refused. The engineer was next
commanded to light a stick of dynas
mite, of which explosive the robbers
had a large quantity, and he placed the
lighted stick against the car doon
The force of the explosion completely
wrecked the door, and the engineer
and fireman were cmpelled to precede
the robbers.
Senstor Quay's WIIL
Beaver, Pa., (Special). The will of
Senator Quay was probated here.
Not ,only does it not disclose the
amount of his estate, but provides that
the executojs shall not file an account
ing. The w'ill says Mrs. Quay is pro
vided for. Matthew Stanley Quay,
the Senator's grandson, is given hi
farm in Chester, Pa. The remainder
of the estate is to be sold and divided
into five equal parts. Four of 1hes
go to his children Miss Susan, Misf
Coral und R. R. Quay and Mrs. Mary
Davidson. The fifth is to be invested
and the revenue given to Major A
G. C. Quay.
"Dixie" Sav. d the Day.
Aniericus, Ga., (Special). A catass
trophe that might have been terrihlt
in its results was narrowly averted
here. The Americus Theatre was
packeJ beyond its capacity. Twelve
hundred people, pr.ncipally ladies and
children, filled the building when an
alarm of fire was given from without,
Hundreds rushed for the single en
trance, which is so feet above the
pavement and reached by a single
wooden stairway. Efforts of police
and the teachers on the stage were
unavailing until the orchestra struck,
up "Dixie." This served to restore
quiet.
Eleven Misers Fined.
Clinton. Tenn., (Special). Eleven
men from Coal Creek mining district
have been tried and convicted here
on the charge of assault and battery,'
They were fined $50 and cost each and)
sentenced to six months imprison-i
ment. The court, however, has agreed,
to suspend the imprisonment, but thei
fine and costs must be paid. These,
cases are the outcome of the bloody,
riot which occurred at the Coal Crcekj
depot one Sunday last February, when,
several men were killed. j
Russian Usees Stste4.
St. Felersburg, (By Cable). The
following official statement of Rus
sian losses in the war has been issued:
Navy Forty-four officers and 920
men killed; IJ officers snd 220 men.
wounded. t ' ,
Army Thirty- s'x officers and oik
men killed; 103 officers and 2,080 men,
wounded.
Taken Prisoners Twenty officers!
and fxjf men,' '
Totals Kflle'l, I.oRo men; wounded'
2,416; prisoners, 716; grand total.
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