ROOSEVELT'S LETTER Campaign Issues Discussed by the President VERY SEVERE ON HIS OPPONENTS. President Slates Tbil till Administration Has Beta Misrepresented Oulrigfat II Would Be Disastrous. He Arfues, to Abiolon a Single On ot Hit Policies-False Criticism. He Says. Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special). Pres ident Roosevelt's letter accepting the Republican nomination (or the Presi dency was made public here. It is in part as follows: Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. t2, 11)04. Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee: My Dear Sir I accept the nomi nation for the Presidency tendered me by the Republican National Conven tion and cordially approve the plat form adopted by it. In writing this letter there are certain points upon which 1 desire to lay especial stress. It is d : It 1 cult to find out from the ut terances of our opponents what are the real issues upon which they pro pose to wage this campaign. It is not unfair to ray that, having abandoned most of the principles upon which they have insisted during the last eight years, they now seem at a loss both as to what it is that they really be lieve and as to how firmly they shall assert their belief in anything. In fact, it is doubtful if they venture res olutely to press a single issue; as soon as thy raise one they shrink from it and seek to explain it away. Such an attitude is the probably in-, cvitable result of the effort to im provise convictions; for when thus im provised it is natural that they should be held in a tentative manner. The party now in control of the Government is troubled by no such difficulties. We do not have to guess at our own convictions and then cor rect the guess if it seems unpopular. The principles which we profess arc those in which we believe with heart and soul and strength. Men may dif fer from ue, but they cannot accuse tis of shiftiness or insincerity. The policies we have pursued arc those which we trnestly hold as essential to the national welfare and repute. Our actions speak even louder than our works for the faith that is in us. We base our appeal upon what we have done and are doing, upon our record of administration and legisla tion during the last seven years, in which we have had complete control of the Government. We intend in the future to carry on the Govern ment in the same way that we have carried it on in the past. A party whose members are radic ally at variance on most vital is sues and, if united at all, are only united on issues where their attitude threatens widespread disaster to the whole country, cannot be trusted to govern in any matter. No other administration (than the present one) in our history, no other government in the world, has more consistently stood fur the broadest spirit of brotherhood in our common humanity, or has held a more resolute attitude of protest against every wrong that outraged the civilization of the age, at home or abroad. Pension Order No. 7H (directing that any veteran of the Civil War who has reached the age of 62 years should he persumptively entitled to a pension of $6 a month) is justified, not merely on legal grounds, but also on grounds of public morality. The record of the last seven years proves that the party now in power can be trusted to take the additional action necessary to improve and strengthen our monetary system and that our opponents cannot be so trusted. The action of tne Attorney-General In enforcing the Anti-Trust and In terstate Commerce laws, and the ac tion of the last Congress have for the first time opened a chance for the national Government to deal intelligently ami adequately with the questions affecting society because of the accumulation of capi tal in great corporations. When they (the Democrats) speak of protection as robbery, they of course must mean that it is immoral to enact a tariff designed to secure to the American wageworker the benefit of the high standard of living which we desire to see kept up in this coun try. To speak of the tariff in this sense as robbery is on its face false. From time to time schedules must undoubtedly be rearranged and read justed to meet the shifting needs of the country, but this can with safety he done only by those who arc com mitted to the cause of the protective system. At no time in the history of this or any country has there been an era so productive of material benefit alike to workingman and employer as during the seven years that have just passed. The army as it is now is as small as it can possibly be and serve its purpose as an effective nucleus. The expenditures of the nation have been managed in a spirit of economy, as far removed from waste as from niggardliness. The public work of the United States has never been conducted with a higher degree of honesty and effi ciency than at the present time. We have known no party in dealing with offenders. Melba's Auto Kills Maa. Paria (By Cable). Mme. Melba, the distinguished singer, while driving an automobile here, accompanied by her two cousins, the Misses Walker, ran over a man about 84 years old and killed him instantly. The accident oc curred on the ltoulevard Peroire, Mme. Melba being on the way from the Hotel Kitz to Versailles. The chauffeur , was not to blame, as the old man got in the way of the auto mobile while trying to escape being run over by a cab. A Clever Burglary. Tomercy, O. (Special) Two youth ful strangers entered the county treas urer's office, covered Treasurer Chase with revolvers and robbed the safe of $14,000. Thty then locked Chase in the vault and escaped. Mr. Chase was locked ud nearly three hours be fore he was found and released by his wife. A local banker was secured to work the combination as Mr. Chase directed the work from inside the safe. Five thousand dollars in golJ in the bottom of the safe was over looked by the robbers. NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happening a Condensed tor Rapid Reading. Domestic, Forest fires arc raging in the prin cipal timber districts of California. All Knights Templar trains scheduled to leave fur the East via Ogdcn were canceled. Charles Michaels, a New York book keeper, committed suicide to avoid be ing killed by the brother of a stenog rapher with whom he had become en tangled. William F. Mc.Mullen, the opera tor of the "sp"t light" at the Iroquois Theater, in Chicago, at the time of the disaster, has disappeared. Hanker Eiland has returned to his home, in Purtalcs, N. M., with a story of being held lip by Mexican brigands ami held for a ransom. The National Executive Board of the Mine workers advises the men in the Knoxville district to accept the proposcsl reduction. New York police broke by fnrce into the flat of Mrs. Elizabeth Calder, the woman who was driven mad by her husband's death. In a quarrel at Glenwood Springs, Col., Sergeant Boyle shot and killed Private Pearl Allen, of a Fort Robin son cavalry troop. It was officially denied that Judge Parker proposes to go to New York and take personal charge of the cam paign. The steamer Longfellow sank off the Highland Eight, on the Massa chusetts coast. All the crew were saved. The new cruiser Milwaukee was launched from the ways of the Union Iron Works, in San Francisco. Thrilling rescues were made by fire men at a tenement-house lire in New York. Fire attacked the snowsheds in the neighboringhood of Blue Canyon, Cal., destroying, according to the meager reports received about SOO feet of the inclosure. Minister W. W. Russell, the Amer ican minister to Colombia, called to see Acting Secretary of State Loomis with reference to his mission. The British schooner Fraulcin struck on Polhick Rip Shoal, off ths Massachusetts coast, and is a total wreck. The crew was taken off. Forest fires are raging violently on the shores of Spirit Lake, near Coeur d'Alene City and Kathdrum, all in Kootenai county, Idaho. Three persons were injured in Pitts burg, Pa., in a collision between a large racing automobile and a park trap. All will probably die. The voting trust of the Reading Railroad has been dissolved, leaving the affairs of the company in the hands of the shareholders. Mrs. Charles Evans, of Monterey, la., committed suicide because her husband went to the ball game, con trary to her wishes. Investigation of the lynching of the negro Maples was begun by a special grand jury in Ihintsville, Ala. Larkins Johnston, colored, was hanged at Columbiana, Ala., and An drew Burton at Anniston, Ala. A fine of $15,000 was imposed in Boston on the Royal Exchange As surance Company of London. Two robbers looted the safe of County Treasurer Chase, in Pomcroy, O., of $14,000. Three prisoners under indictment for burglary walked out of jail in Glens Falls, N. Y. Jesse Allen, a negro, was legally executed in Oxford, N. C, for feloni ous assault. Thousands of acres of valuable land in California were destroyed by for est fires. The three big tobacco organizations are to be consolidated. Joseph Elsie, an aeronaut, was kill ed while making a balloon ascension and parachute leap at the Douglas County Fair, at Tuscola, 111. While descending his parachute was caught in the top of a tree he fell too feet, breaking his neck. Boatswain Haley, who was recently ordered court-martialed for drunken ness, has been adjudged insane and will be brought to Washington and confined in an a'ylum. Acting Governor Cunningham, of Alabama, and Circuit Judge Speake have taken steps to investigate the lynching of the negro Mables in Ihintsville, Ala. The Treasury Department has be gun to pay prize money to Admiral Dewey and the olticers and men who participated in the naval battle at Manila Bay. A mob of Italians on the East Side. New York tried to lynch a motorman who had run over two children, kill ing one of them. Foreign. The Protestant provincial newspa pers in Germany object to the Crown Prince's betrothed retaining her Cath olic name Cecilia after her marriaue. All the newspapers of St. Peters itirg comment favorably on the ai- pointment of Prince Peter Sviatopolk- .MirsKy to tne ministry ot the in terior. The proposed visit of Kinir Alfonso of Spain to President Loubct of France has been postponed until spring. An operation for an affection of the glands was performed on Coquelin the elder in- Paris. Russia is reported to be opposed to the proposed annexation of Crete. The Russian Minister of the Inter ior says no reports of extensive anti Jewish disturbances in several of the government of Southwest Russia have been received. The only recent disturbance, it is added, was a small affair at Biela. near Kicff, in which no one was killed. Work on the great Simplon tunnel, in Italy, has been suddenly stopped by the striking of a hot spring (lowing 1,500 gallons a minute. Louis Deibler, who directed the guillotine of Paria for so year, died at Anteil, at the age of 81. Ricrilotti Garibaldi, son of the Ital ian Patriot, in a letter to a Rome newspaper, says that there will soon be presented to the powers a protest hv 70.000 Albanians living in Italy against the alleged action of General dc Giorgis, commander-in-chief of the international gendarmerie in Macedo nia, in favoring Austria against the interests of the Albanians. The keel was laid at Stettin, Ger many, of a new North German Lloyd liner, which is. to be the largest of her class. I ' The strike of the dockworkers at Marseilles is gradually breaking up. RUSSIANS INJIGHT PLACE Reported That 12,000 Are Surrounded By the Japanese. THE LOSSES AT IU0YANG 50,000. Reports of the Evacuation of Liaoyang Wretched Condition of the Russian Soldiers After Their Long Flight From Llaoyaog Through Mud and Mire Thousands of Them Shelterless la the Terrific Rainstorms. While reports received" at St. Peters burg state that the Japanese forces abandoned the attempt to head off General Kuropatkin's army, which ar rived safely at Mukden, the move ments of the three armies of the Mi kado are again veiled in mystery. A German correspondent at Mukden re ports the Russian evacuation of that place progressing. The London Express says Kuropat kin's army is divided into five col umns. The first has reached Tie Pass, 40 miles north of Mukden; the second is between Mukden and the pass; the third is at Mukden, the fourth is holding Kuroki in check by hard fighting, and the fifth, number ing 12,000 men, is nearly surrounded by the Japanese. The Russian troops, after their long marches through mud and mire, are in a deplorable condition. The suf fering of the men along the line of retreat were terrible. Thousands of them have no tents or any kind of shelter. The Russians in their flight . left the task of burying the thousands of dead to the Japanese. Incessant rains have prevented the cremation ot tne corpses. A correspondent with the Russian Army in the retreat from Liaoyang says the combined losses in the bat tles there were v ,000 men. When the Russians left the town the streets were strewn with corpses. The Rus sians admit their positions there were too extended for their army to hold. During five days of the fighting around Liaoyang 12,300 Vounded Rus sians were treated in Red Cross am bulances. The Russian press and public, par ticularly at St. Petersburg, do not conceal their disappointment and dis comfiture over the retreat from Liao yang and the general conditions at the front. Russian papers demand re organization of the army, and inti mate that Viceroy Alexieff is inter fering too much. One St. Petersburg newspaper says "that what is needed is some of the do-or-dic spirit of the Japanese." Gen. Kuropatkin's Army Divided. London (By Cable). The Daily Ex press claims to have trustworthy in formation that the Russian army is divided into five columns. The first has reached Tie Pass, 40 miles north of Mukden, and is preparing to defend that place against the Japanese. The second is midway between Mukden and Tie Tass. The third is at Mukden. The fourth, consisting of 40,000 men, un der General Meyendorff, is holding General Kuroki in check by hard fighting 12 miles south of Mukden. The fifth, of about 12.000 men, is further south, exhausted by incessant fighting, and is surrounded on three sides by the Japanese, its position be ing one of extreme danger, from which it can hardly hope to escape. "Everything now depends," says the paper, "on Sleyendorff's ability to hold Kuroki in check, which so far has been successfully done. Weary Russlana Lay Down In Mud. St. Petersburg (By Cable). It seems to be definitely established that Field Marshal Uyama s tired troops practically abandoned on Wednesday the attempt to head off General Ku ropatkin, and the latter's army has arrived safely at Mukden, after fright ful experiences in floundering through mud and mire over the Mandanan road. Some descriptions of the scenes along the line of retreat are almost incredible. 1 hey tell how the men lay down in the mud and slept in a drenching rain and without shelter. It is evident that the last deter mined effort of the Japanese to bring Kuropatkin to bay was made on Tues day; but the Russian commander-in-chief faced about, and two corps, with artillery, beat off the Japajcse, while the remainder of the troops continued the march to Mukden. After that the Japanese could only hang on to the flanks and try to shell the retreating columns from the hills. The outposts are still in contact, but they are not even exchanging shots. A late di-patch sent from Mukden describes the horrible plight of the tentless anil shelterless soldiers. The general expectation is that the losses will approximate 20,000, against 30,000 for the Japanese. Told to Slop Raids. St. Peter-burg (By Cable). The foreign office has been informed that the instructions to the Russian gov ernment not to further interfere with neutral shipping has been communi cated to the volunteer fleet steamer Petersburg in South African waters. There is no news of the Smolensk, which is to receive similar instruc tions. 'The instructions sent to the steamers are understood to have been delivered through a Russian and not through a foreign agency, and reached them both, it is stated here, at a known rendezvous off the African coast. Thieves Loot a PsetoHlce. Charlotte, N. C. (Special). Burg lars made a raid on Yadkinville, Yad kin county. They blew open the safe of County Treasurer J. A. Logan in his store and secured between $8,000 ind $10,000. The safe in the postollice was also blown open. Postmaster Mackie reports that over $410 was stolen. The burglars secured tools from a blacksmith shop in-the town. County Treasurer Logan offers a re ward of $2,000 for the capture of the burglars and money. Seven Hundred Japs Art Killed. Chefu, (By Cable). Advices re ceived here state that while a light Japanese column consisting of 700 men, was marching over a mine be tween Long hill and Division hill, near Port Arthur, at midnight Sep tember I, the Russians turned out a searchlight and fired the mine. An awful spectacle followed, limbs and accoutrements being tent flying in all directions. But few could have es caped, but the dead are so dismember, ed that it is impossible to ascertain the exact number. . TRAIN tELl INTO RIVER. Engine and Coaches on Seaboard Air Line Ptungea Through Treatle. Charlotte, N. C. (Special). Shortly after t o'clock A. M. train No. 41 on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad con sisting of an express car, a mail car, two day coaches and a Pullman sleep er, was derailed at a trestle just south of the Catawba river, South Carolina, and it miles southwest of Monroe, N. C, followed by the wreck of' a light engine and caboose, resulting in the death of 4 persons and the injuring of 35 others. J. M. Barr, first vice president and general manager of the road, said that there was evidence of a malicious at tempt to wreck the train, a number of joints having been found discon nected. lie gave the following details: "Train No. 41 was in charge of Con ductor Richard West and Engineer Gaston Mears. The wreck occurred about I o'clock at the trestle just south of Catawba River, South Carolina, and 22 miles southwest of Monroe, N. C. The engine passed over the trestle and went down the embankment, kill ing Colored Fireman Ed Roberts and seriously injuring Engineer Gaston Mears. A light engine and caboose, running as No. 19, in charge of Con ductor Chapman and Engineer E. Y. Barksdale, which train was passed by No. 41 a short distance east of the point where the accident occurred, ran into the damaged trestle and on top of the passenger train, resulting in the death of the engineer of No. 19. the fireman of the passenger train and of Mrs. Black and an unknown lady passenger. Two Pullman em ployes, six railway employes, one mail clerk, one Southern Express Company employe and 23 passengers were in jured." The wrecked train was running about 40 miles an hour when the tres tle, which is about 300 feet long, span ning a meadow near the Catawba river, gave way. The engine and some of the cars passed over, but were drawn backward into the abyss and upon the other cars, and then to add to the disaster a light engine and ca boose ran on top of the train of wreckage before it could be flagged. Gaston Mears, the engineer of the passenger train, escapd with some bruises and a painful scalp wound. How he escaped death is beyond his own or anyone else's comprehension. He said that he was driving at the rate of 40 miles an hour as he crossed the bridge. Just before the engine had swept entirely clear of the struc ture he felt it sinking, but the impetus carried the engine and all the cars ex cept the first-class passenger car and the Pullman over and clear of the yawning gulf, which was left when half the bridge collapsed, but the en gine and cars were swerved from their course to the right, tearing the rail loose from its fastenings and hurling the entire train upside down over an embankment to the meadow, about 30 feet below. ' The accounts of the survivors are terrible. When the tr tin went crash ing over the embankment every light went oujl and passengers were thrown heads over heels against the sides of the coaches, bleeding and bruised. Some were rendered unconscious for a moment. Mrs. Black, sitting with her husband, gave a short cry, and when he managed to strike a match and find her body he discovered that she was dead, her neck having been broken. She was the only passenger killed or even hurt seriously. RUSSIA READY TO MAKE CONCESSIONS. Answer to United Slatea and Qreat Britain Concerning Contraband. London (By Cable). The prelimi nary representations made by Count Benkendorff, the Russian ambassador, to the Foreign Office indicate that Russia is on the point of making sub stantial concessions to the United States and Great Britain regarding the question of contraband of war, as a result of the submission by For eign Minister Lamsdorff of the re port of the general commission to Emperor Nicholas, together with in formation transmitted by Ambassa dor Benkendorff showing the views of the British government. The Russian Foreign Minister is ex pected to present to the British gov ernment, through Sir Charles Ilard- inge, the British ambassador to Rus sia, Thursday the formal reply of the Russian government. It is under stood in official circles here that Rus sia, while not acknowledging herself at fault for the captures made by her ships in the past, will more specifically describe the conditions under which certain goods, such as foodstuffs and cotton, become, in her view, contra band. The British Foreign Office is satis fied from the representations made to it that such substantial concessions will be made by Russia ar. will lead to an easy settlement of the vexatious question. Boxer Uprising Feared. Bloomington, 111., (Special). Six McLean county missionaries who have been spending their vacations here have received orders to go back to China, as another Boxer uprising is on in the district to which they were assigned. Their headquarters have been burned and their personal pro perty has been stolen or destroyed. FINANCIAL. Bachman is the inside house in Warwick Steel, lie has bought the stock this week. Tube manufacturers reduced the price $5 a ton owing to the cut in steel. There is an estimated short inter est of 1,000,000 shares of United States Steel. No wonder the stock rises. Uncle Sam's August cotton report makes the condition 84.1 compared with a ten-year average of 73.3. "The advance in United States Steel common is a sure sign that the public is in the market," says a well-known financial man. "That' stock can be bought on a $5 margin and it appeals to the popular taste for that as well as other reasons." In the first seven months of this year America exported 350 locomo tives, against only 146 for the same period in 1003. During the first seven months of the year the Pennsylvania Railroad lost at the rate of $6,000,000 net annually. That is just a per cent, on the total capital stock. STRIKE DECLARED OPF Butchers la Chicago Yards Return to Work. BOTH SIDES HAVE LOST BULLIONS. A Labor Struggle Thit Dmoralized the McjI Packing Indusiiy for Two Months Presl dint Donnelly Declarea tbe Men Were lie-feated-M.OJO People Involved fo Strike The Loss In Wages $5,IOO,COO. Chicago, (Special). The strike of the butcher' workmen,, which has de moralized the meat packing industry throughout the country for the last two months, was officially declared off by President Michael J. Donnelly, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' and Butchers' Workmen of America. Mr. Donnelly telegraphed the mem bers of the national executive com mittee asking their consent to an an nouncement of the end of the struggle and having received favorable answers from all, he declared that the strike of the members of his organization would end at midnight. The strike of the members of the affiliated unions at the stockyards, who quit work ill sympathy with the butchers was officially called off at a meeting of the conference board of the Allied Trades. The general body was at first in favor of continuing the strike, but Mr. Donnelly, who was present an nounced that the men were defeated and that in order to save his union from being entirely disrupted he would order his men to return to work no matter what course might be taken by other unions. As the other unions had no grievence of their own, but had gene on strike to aid the butchers, there was nothing left for them but to follow the lead of Mr. Donnelly and they to decided to call off the strike as far as they were concerned. When the packers were notified that it had been decided to end the strike they announced that they would give places as far as possible to the skill ed men, but it was stated at the same time that many of the men would be unable to secure their old places, as in many cases the work was being performed in a satisfactory manner by men who had been secured since the commencement of the strike. It is expected that the majority of the unskilled men will be unable to secure their places again. It was the ques tion of a wage scale for this class of men that brought about the strike, the packers refusing to sign an agree ment with any class other than skill ed workmen. During the strike approximately 53,000 persons have been involved in the struggle, which is estimated tc have cost the men about $5,100,000 in wages, as against an estimate J loss of $7,500,000 to the packers in loss of business and in increased expenses. The greatest number of men idle in Chicago during the strike was 26,600, and the total in the country outside of this city is estimated to be about the same. The original cause of the strike was a demand by the butchers' union that the packers payto the unskilled work men l8'4 cents a-i hour. The packers refused to sign an agreement, but of fered to arbitrate the question. This was accepted, the strikers agreeing to return to work pending the derision of the arbitrators. The men, however, were dissatisfied with the manner in which they were being put to work, and declared that they would not re turn unless all of the men were given their old places in one day. The pack ers declaring that this was impossible, the men went on strike for the second time. The men now return to work under the conditions that existed before the strike. FOUR DEAO IN WRECKS. Two Men Killed In Illinois and Two la Penn sylvania. Tiskilwa, III., (Special). In colli sion of a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad passenger train with several cars of a derailed train near this place two persons were killed and 19 injured. When the passenger train, bound from Chicago to Kansas City, struck the wrecked freight cars the passenger locomotive, the baggage car, smoker and chair . car were derailed. One of the sleeping cars left the rails, but was only slightly damaged. A relief train was immediately made up and all passengers were taken care of as soon as possible. The dead are Expressman Thomas Donaldson and an unidentified man of Danish nationality. The injured include, W. L. Babcock, Washington, D. C, who was pain fully bruised about the body. Altoona. Pa., (Special). A freight wreck occurred at Kittanuing Point about 10:30 P. M., in which two men were killed, four injured and a number of cars wrecked. The killed are En gineer William Boardman and a breaksman, name not given. Batted Ball Kills Boy. Chicago (Special). Wendell 'Mil ler, 12 years old, son of George M. Miller, president of Ruskin University, at Glen Ellyn, 111., was killed by a batted ball while watching a base ball game. Miller was sitting in the grand stand when the ball struck him on the temple. He died in three min utes. Wonaa Leapa From Train. Poughkecpsie, N.Y. (Special). Mrs. H. E. Rcmmers, en route from Dan forth, 111., to Germany with her hus band, jumped from a New York Cen tral express train eight -miles north of this city and was killed. The coro ner says 'the woman committed sui cide, Her husband says she had been acting strangely for several days. The body was brought to this city. Mrs. Renuners was nearly 80 years old. Stole Labor Day Rccclpta. . . Lansdale, Pa. (Special). Six mark ed robbers visited the Lehigh Valley Traction Company! car barn, at Sou derton, a few miles above here, and after beating and gagging four em ployes, blew open a safe and escaped with between $700 and $Hoo, the Labor Day receipts of the company. The men were all armed, and when -the employes of the company attempted to resist they jvere assaulted with blackjacks and then bound and gag ged. There were two safea in the office, but only one of them waa broken open. KILLED IN STREET FIGHT. A Desperate Battle at Green Sboals, Guar River, W. Va. Huntington, W. Va. (Special). A a result of an attempt to collect a long-standing bill by a clerk in a country store at Green Shoals, 20 miles south of here, on the Guaii River, two men were killed. One was fatally injured, another serious in jured and two more men who es caped and have disappeared are sup posed to be injured. The fight may result in another bloody feud being added to those already cxistir.0 111 this part of the country. Two brothers of John Lambert, who engaged in the tight, arc believed to be wounded, but escaped to the moun tains. The fight started over an uttcir.p; of limbert, who was clerk in a country store at Green Shoals, to collect a v: long-standing account against .'.dams. '1 lie men engaged in nil argument over the amount several days ao. Ad-ins was with friends at the time, and, alter heated wjrds, struck Lambert, who was alone. LaniLcrt did not light, but Wednesday, while with Lis two brothers, he came upon Adam.- in company with George Mead. The tight was renewed upon sight, all tne men being heavily armed. The firing opei.ed m the street and the men were almost enveloped in a cloud of smoke Brumheld rushed between the factions wit!. Ins hands uplifted, unarmed and trying, "S'.op, boys, stop!' Caught between the ero'stire of the two opposing fac-, tions, he dropped to the gro..ud dead. Adams, ,iust before Brumheld came upon the scene, bad been ,shot ti death, four bullets having pierced his body. Mead was lying on the ground with two bullets in his body and fir ing as he lay on his side. After the death of Brumfield the men broke away and ail attempted to escape John Lambert was found ly ing on the mountain side almost, sense less by a deputy sheriff and member of a po.-se and placed under heavy guard. Mead wa., carried into a near by house and is . dying. The twe brothers of John Lambert, who are wounded, escaped to the mountain" and are being hurled by several po.ss There is much talk of lynch ing the Lamberts if they arc cap tured PANAMA IIOt.NDAftV LIN hi. Minister Barrett Will Iry to Avoid Friction Wiib Colombia. Washington, D. C. (Special). The State Department is watching with in terest developments on the Isthmus connected with the establishment of the eastern boundary between Panama and Colombia. It seems that while the geographers have drawn an arbitrary line begin ning at Cape Tibiiron, on the Gulf of Daricn, as a matter of fact, no sur vey ever has been made; and whilj the old treaties spoke of the bound ary as lying on the watershed cross ing the Isthmus at that point, even the existence of that shed never hat been determined There is ample room for controversy between Pan ama and Colomhia as to the exact lo cation of this boundary, and reports reaching Washington that one side or the other had invaded the disputed territory have given rise to some ap prehension of serious friction. This was one of the subjects which Sec retary Hay charged Minister Barrett with the attempt to adjust as far as he could by sound advice based upon such inquiry as he could make. It it more difficult to address the Colom bian government, owing to the partial absence of diplomatic relations with that country, and the officials here feel that if there should be any genu ine friction, both Pa iama and Colom bia would be glad to listen to Ameri can advice. THE TrTOF ISoTTsElcEEPINa. An Important Work Instituted By the Cbkagj Board ol Education. Chicago (Special). Perfect house keepers will be graduated from the Chicago public schools soon, if the aims of the Board of Education are attained. The expectations of the board mem bers are based on a course of study in cooking and sewing, just completed by k. M. Mnitn.. supervisor of the manua' training and household arts depart ment, after a year's work, and which has been given out to the teachers in the different branches. Cooking and physiology will be taught, together by the new system. House sanitation, including the chem istry of housecleaning. also will be taken up. The classes in sewing will, be taught how to patch, to make but tonholes, to sew on buttons, ito darn and to hemstitch. Then they will be given instruction in cutting and mak ing garments. Finally they will be told how to shop, how to select suita ble material and how to calculate the amounts necessary. Million-Dollar Fir. Progreso, Mexico, (Special). Fire wiped out an entire block of business houses occupied by firms engaged in the general ' merchandise business. The loss is estimated at from $1,000, 000 to $1,200,000, with but little in surance. The burned territory con sists of the square two blocks south of the water front and facing one of the principal plazas directly opposite the customhouse. . . Two Killed la a Wreck. Birmingham, Ala., (Special). Two men were filled and another seriously injured in a wreck on the Southern Railroad, between Dogwood and Wil ton, on the Birmingham and Selma division. ' The train was running 30 miles an hour when the engine jump ed the track and struck the crossties, turning completely over, crushing the engineer beneath it. Several other employes on the road are said to have been bruised but not seriously hurt. Wall the Sheriff Played. Sheboygan, Wis., (Special). Four prisoners, one a forger and three bur glars, have sawed their way out of the Sheboygan county jail here while the sheriff was playing with hit twin babes iu an adjoinng office. Succeeds Vaa Pkbv. Sjt. Petersburg (Special). Senator Plafonoff, a member of the council of the empire, has been appointed min ister of the interior and chief of the Russian police,, in succession to the lata M. Plehve. 1 MR. ATCUE UNDER ARREST Must Answer to Chargj of M..rdcr!n; His Wife. f -RMER MAYOR OF CHARLOTTESVILLE Taken Into Custody at the Instance of Com monwealth's Auoru.-y Frank Oirnicr Atiect Ing Scene a' it s Ketioeoco ben He Was Separated Fr. m His Children The Accused Declares That He Hae Comm.l.cu No Crime. Charlottesville, Va. (Special). Ex Mayor J. Samuel McCuc was arrested at 5:10 P. M. at his residence, on Park street, by Police Ot't'cers D. C Grady and H. N. Eubank. The ar rest was made on a warrant sworn aut by Commonwealth's Attorney Frank Gilmer before Acting Police Justice Archie D. Dabney at 4:50 P. M., who chirgcs Mr. McCue with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Fannie Mc Cuc, at her home on the evening of Sunday, September 4. Immediately upon the issrc of the warrant Officers Grady and. Eubank irove to the McCuc residence, 'and, without ceremony, entered the house ind proceeded directly to the sitting 00m, where they found J. Samuel Mc Cuc, his brothers, Edward McCue and William McCuc, and the children of :he man whose name had been on svery tongue here for three diys. Officer Grady, without preliminary statement other than the usual greet ngs, produced and read the warrant. When the warrant had been read Mr. McCue said: "By the grace of God I will come1 out all right. Do your duty, gentle men." The children had begun crvinsr as they realized the situation, and, turn ing to them, the prisoner, himself weeping, said: "Do not be uneasy; I am not afraid of the consequences if I get a fiir trial. I have committed no crime." The father against whom the awful charge of wife-murder Ind inst been lodged then kissed the children cjoodr by. all weeping at the affecting sepa ration, and then turning to the offi cers signified his willingness to ac company them, and with them and his two brothers left the room. The prisoner, the two brothers and A. D. Taync, a liveryman, then got in a vehicle and drove to the jail, two blocks distant, where the prisoner was locked up. DROWMED FRO VI LAUNCH. Terrible Accident In Darkness On Delaware River. Philadelphia (Special). Looming up like some monster in the darkness, the Delaware river steamer Columbia crashed into the steam launch Cricket, containing 12 men and women, grind ing it to pieces and drowning seven and probably eight of the occupants. All the party in the launch were Philadelphians. The accident occur red just off the line which separates Andalusia from Torresdale. Four of the 12 occupants of the launch are known to have been res sued. It is reported than one other swam ashore. Captain Campbell, of the Colombia, says the accident was unavoidable. A small boat, he says,- came in front of his bow, and in making a sudden sweep to escape this boat he sent his steamer into the launch, which showed no light. Some went down and never were seen again," probably killed by the paddle wheels. Thomas Dunn, an expert swimmer, was hurled with such violence that he was nearly exhausted when he rose. Looking about he saw his wife's head appear. He reached! for her, but she sank before he could clutch her. In desperation Dunn swam about, and when his wife again rose he seized her. After a desperatta, fight for life he clutched a rope thrown from the Columbia, and both Mr. and Mrs. Dunn were hauled aboard. The survivors were picked up by the Co lumbia's boats. OIRL DANDLED H10H IN AIR. Borne Out oi Sight By Balloon, She is Caugbl By a Tree. Derby, Conn., (Special). Expect ing every moment to see her dashed to death, 6,000 persons at the Orange) Fair saw Miss Mabel Kent, a pretty, 19-year-old. Shelton girl, borne out of, sight, clutching a huge ballbon, her) body swaying at full length in tha air. She hung bravely on until, nearly three miles from the point of ascen sion, the balloon descended to the top of a tree, 50 feet high, from which she), was rescued in a semi-unconscious condition. Miss Kent accepted an invitation to accompany the aeronaut on a dare from several girl friends. As the bal loon arose Miss Kent was thrown from her seat on the bar, but caught at it with one hand. The aeronaut, vainly tried to swing his parachute to her aid. Several times she was on the point of letting go, when cheer ing words from Professor Hayden en couraged her to keep up the struggle until the big bag sank in a tree top. Takea From Jail and Lynched. Little Rock, Ark. (Special). A spe cial to the Gazette from Crossett, Ark, states that a negro who attempted to assault two white girls Saturday night, was taking from the jail Sunday and' lynched about three miles from Cros sett. After stringing him up to' ay tree the mob riddled his body with! bullets. The assault on the girls tool place on the Bonham plantation, thirty miles from Crossett. I Fear aa Epldeailc ' St. Petersburg (By Cable). Tha Red Cross officers fear an epidemic of disease, will break out in both, armies,' the torrents of rain which fell' after the 10-day battle at Liaoyangi having compelled the wornout and. hungry troops to sleep without sheW ter in mire by the roadsides. In any1' case, it is believed to be certain tha the hardships endured by the sofdiers will result in a great increase in sick ness. ' ' : ( Baak Robbed al M.MC ' Charlotte, N. C. (Special). The, bank at Murphy, N. C, was robbed) of $4,500. The large vault and aafe within were both blown open and) completely demolished. The robbers, went to blacksmith shop a litlla way from the bank and aecured toolsj With these they made breaches withJ in tha safe and vault large enough to) enable them to inaert dynamite. There) Mfr two nlnairtna . TUa K.nk fully insured against robbery. '
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