iMR. DAVIS ON THE ISSUES
Democratic Yice Presidential Candidate
Accet3 Nomination.
HIS LETTER NOT A LONG ONE.
Expenditures ol (he Government lod Increase
f the Army The Panama Caoat and lm
perlillsm His Opinions on the Tsrltl and
lb Truals Plea (or Local Selfgovernmeut
Fraud lo (he Public Service.
tlkins, W. Va. (Special). Hon.
Henry Gassaway Davis has written
trie following letter accepting the
Democratic nomination for vice presi
dent of the United States:
Jlon. John Sharp Williams, Chairman,
and Other Members of the Com
mittee: Dear Sirs In accordance with cus
tom, and my promise when notified
ty your committee at White Sulphur
Springs, on August 17. of my nomina
tion for the office of vice president,
1 submit the following observations
upon some of the questions now be
fore the country:
The times are propitious for the re
instatement of the Democratic party
in control of the government. The
public mind is being disillusioned of
the pretension of the Republican party,
so long and so arrogantly made, that
the material prosperity of the coun
try depends upon its own ascenency.
Thoughtful and patriotic people are
becoming more and more distrustful
cf the heady and personal clement of
the present administration, and are
more than willing to see it replaced by
ent that better recognizes constitu
tional and other lawful restraints.
They demand that the present waste
ful extravagance in the expenditure
cf the money drawn by taxation from
the industry of the people shall cease,
and that economy and honesty in the
public service shall be again regarded
as virtues in the high places of the
government.
Expenses of Government.
The expenditures per capita of the
government are increasing at an
alarming rate. Whin the present ad
ministration went into power there
yras a large surplus, but, notwithstand
ing the enormous taxation, the rev
enues therefrom are not now ade
quate tb meet the demands made by
reckless appropriations. The revenues
fell short during the last fiscal year
of over $40,000,000. In the first 60
days of this fiscal year the expendi
tures exceeded the receipts by $24,
000,000, and if this rate of excess
hould continue, the deficit for the
present fiscal year would be in the
neighborhood of $140,000,000. This
needless deficit is due to the extrava
gance of the administration, and can
only be met by imposing additional
taxes or selling bonds, thereby in
creasing the interest-bearing debt of
the government. Which course will
the Republicans adopt? The cost of
government during ilic fiscal year was
$7.14 per capita, which means that the
average tax paid in some form or an
other by every family of five persons
toward the support of the national ad
ministration of public affairs was over
$25, which, in the case of wage-earners,
is a considerable percentage of
their entire earnings for the year. No
more money should be taken from the
people by taxation, direct or indirect,
than is necessary for the needs of a
government economically adminis
tered. Power of the Trusts.
It is estimated that there are in
the United States between two and
three hundred combinations of capi
tal and corporate interests, known as
trusts, which have grown up in the
last few years under Republican rule.
Some of them are so conducted as
to be penurious and harmful to the
general interest. With the power they
are able to exert they can lessen com
petition, control prices and regulate to
4liir ntun nli-ntitn .-. ,lwi 1-.... t .
ply and demand. Individual rt'fr rt is
helpless against such strong rivals,
and the natural right of all persons
to barter and trade is unnaturally re
stricted. The effort of these trusts
is to control or monopolize, and these
monopolies, when unrestnincd, seem
to produce conditions which bring
bout strikes and disorders and dis
turb the business affairs of the coun
try. Fraud in the Public Service.
Peculation and fraud in the public
service under the present administra
tion, especially in the Postoftice and
Land Departments, reached such pro
portions that knowledge of the evils
practiced became public property.
Prosecutions naturally followed, but
a thorough and impartial investiga
tion by Congress, proposed and urged
by the Democratic minority, was re
fused by the Republicans at the man
date, it is believed, of the adminis
tration. Congress adjourned earlier
than at any long session for many
years, for the purpose, it is believed,
of preventing further agitation of the
question, and in an effort to curtail
expenses.
With unabated trust in the efficien
cy of the cardinal principles of our
great party, when applied to the prac
tical administration of government, to
realize the blessings of peace and
prosperity for all, and believing that
the people will correct the present
abuses of administration by a change
f party in power, I await with con
fidence the result of their judgment at
the polls. Very truly yours,
H. G. DAVIS.
Leaped From Trala.
Buffalo, N. Y., (Special). Alonzo
J. Wbiteman, who was arretted in St.
Louts on September 25, on a charge
of forgery and was being brought to
tbis city by detectives, jumped from
tbe fast mail some distance east of here
and escaped. The conductor, it is re-
ftorted, refuted to stop the train until
t reached a suburb of this city. The
detectives who had Whitcman in
charge went back to search for their
prisoner.
Murder sad Suicide.
Montclair, N. J. (Special). Edward
Thompson, a railroad brakeman. shot
and perhaps fatally wounded Edward
Wade at Glen Ridge, and later com
muted suicide by shooting in a patch
of woods some distance away, the
body not being found until today.
Last night Thompson went to Wade's
home, and when Wade opened the
door Thompson fired a shot at him,
the bullet striking him in the neck.
The men bad been friends, and the
(anse of tbe shooting is unknown.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed (or Rapid
Reading.
Domestic
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
gave out a statement showing the
falsity of the charges that the land
fraud cases had not been diligently
prosecuted. 1 1 is statements show how
the fraudu.ent combine has been
broken up and the indictment of the
leaders secured.
Virginia II. Howies, of Roanoke, Va.,
has entered suit for $100,000 against
Charles S. Johnson, of New York,
whom she charges with having de
ceived her by pretending to be an
unmarried man.
According to his confession, Tiigter
Johnson, of Macedonia, Pa., offered
his mother and other members of his
family $,1 each to put his wife out
of the way.
Floods have done an immense
amount of damage in New Mexico.
Halt of the town of Watrous was de
stroyed and at least 12 persons were
drowned.
The Oxford Local of the United
Mincworkcrs, which was the first to
be organized in the Lackawanna Val
ley, disbanded and surrendered its
charter.
Sheila Kcddy died in Detroit from
ptomaine-poisoning, and other mem
bers of the family arc reported to be
in serious condition.
Three firemen were overcome by
fumes while fighting a fire in the E.
B. Newman Charcoal Company's fac
tory, in New York.
Charles Fraga, of Mexico City, and
Mrs. Julia Miller were found shot in
St. Louis. The woman was dead and
the man dying.
Meetings of the three tobacco com
panies to arrange details of the pro
posed consolidation were checked by
proceedings to enjoin the combine.
The body of Frances Parkhurst, the
missing student of Lake Forest Col
lege, was found, after a long search,
in Lake Michigan.
The floods have caused washouts
on nearly all the railroads entering
New Mexico and traffic is practically
at a standstill.
Fire in a block in New York occu
pied by meat-packing plants caused a
loss of nearly a quarter of a million
dollars.
The scaffolding on a railroad bridge
near Malone, N. Y., gave way. One
man was killed and four seriously in
jured. Dr. Thomas D. Hogg, of Raleigh,
N. C, 8t years of age, allowed a
freight train to run over him.
H. VV. Walker, owner of the Acad
emy of Music, in Pittsburg, died in
that city.
Frank Lewandoski, ronvicted of
wife-murder, was hanged in the jail
yard in Chicago.
Stephen W. Townley died from sun
stroke in Mobile, Ala.
Expressions of regret by Governor
Bates and Special Justice Phelps, at
Lee, Mass., that lack of knowledge of
international law had resulted in the
imposition of a fine by Judge Phelps
upon Hugh Ciiirney, third secretary of
the British Embassy, were forwarded
to the State Department, at Washing
ton. The year's record of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions shows larger receipts from
gifts and smaller receipts from legacies
than in the previous year.
The battleship Connecticut was
launched at the New York Navy Yard,
Miss Alice H. Welles, granddaughter
of Gideon Welles, being the sponsor.
Trthur D. Wyman and Charles F.
Wyman died at Cambridge, Mass,
from injuries received by being run
over by an automoble.
H. C. Cash, town marshal of Oliver
Springs, Tcnn., was shot and killed
at that place by William West, a sou
of Dr. T. A. West.
Joseph II. Edwards, while being
taken from Denver to New Orleans to
answer a charge of embezzlement,
tried to commit suicide.
George Frame, tried in Huntsvil'e,
Ala., on the charge of being concern
ed in the lynching of the negro Maples,
was acquitted.
Purity in banking-powder and con
fections was discussed at the Inter
national Pure Food Congress, in St.
Louis.
Thomas W. Williams, a mining con
tractor, of Wilkcsbarre, was accident
ally killed in South Wilkcsbarre
Colliery.
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
in charge of Franz Von Blon, arriv
ed at New York on the steamer Pre
toria. The American liar Association, at
its session in St. Louis, adopted a res
olution approving the steps taken by
the Interparliamentary Union toward
the settlement of controversies be
tween nations.
Foreign.
The case of George Crocker, of
New York, against Professor Doyen,
a French specialist, to recover an al
leged exorbitant fee, is attracting the
interest of members of the Ameri
can colony in Paris against the prac
tice of charging Americans excess
ively.
Investigations of the recent rob
bery of the American mail in transit
between Pans and Havre disclose
careless handling ot the American
mails, which are forwarded in ordi
nary freight cars without guards.
Captain Dreyfus has written a let
ter regretting that ill health prevents
his assisting at the celebrations at
Paris in- honor of the second anni
versary of the death of Zola.
Prince George of Schaumburg
Lippe, in a protest to the Federal
Council of Germany against the suc
cession of Count Leopold, son of the
late Count Ernest, to the regency of
Lippe-Dettmold, affirms that the en
tire Lippe-Biesterfeld line lost its
right of succession because Modeste
von Unruh, great-grandmother of
Count l-eopold, was not legitimately
descended from the noble family.
M. Jaures and other French social
ist leaders are urging the govern
ment to bring about an early recon
ciliation of France and Germany.
Reuben A. Torrey and C. M. Alex
ander, American evangelists, opened a
mission in Torfey Hall, built for the
purpose, with a capacity of 7,000 peo
ple, at Cardiff, Wales.
Herr Barknieyer, chief of the con
fidential bureau of the Germania Ship,
building Works, at Kiel, has been ar
rested at the instance of the direc
tors of the company for irregularities
in his accounts, .
Cigar manufacturers in Havana re
gard the decision of the United States
Treasury Department in the cigar
stamp case as unjust to Cuban inter-
eats. 1
FIGHTING JSE4R MUKDEN
Japanese Advance Guard Driven Back
Near Ycntal. -
A BIG PROBLEM FOR THE RUSSIANS.
Farther North They Retire the Mors They
Must Depend Upon the Railway, While the
Japa Now L'ccupy the Richest Crop-Orow
log Section of Manchuria Wretched Con
dltiont Existing at Mukden.
The Japanese, after severe fighting,
have driven in the Russian outposts
in the vicinity of Mukden, and the
advance upon General Kuropatkin's
main army is progressing rapidly. A
correspondent with General Kuroki's
army states the conditions at Muk
den arc bad, and that 30,000 rcfu
gees there arc in distress.
A dispatch from Russian sources
at Mukden, however, states that "the
Japanese appear anxious to act on the
defensive, and have fortified a posi
tion northwest of the Ycntai mines.
The Russians estimate the strength of
the Japanese confronting Kuropatkin
at 144,000 infantry, 6,300 cavalry and
638 guns.
General SapharofT reports that a
Japanese advance guard near Ycntai
was driven back. A strong Japanese
force west of the Liao Valley has oc
cupied Siaobeyho, south of Sinimin
tin. The greatest military problem now
confronting the Russians in the trans
portation of supplies to the increas
ing armies. The farther north Gen
eral Kuropatkin retires the more he
must depend upon the railway. Not
only food, clothing and ammunition,
but every horse for the Russiair cav
alry must come over the railway. The
Japanese, on the other hand, are now
in control of the richest crop-hearing
section in Manchuria, of which Liao
yang, their new base, is the market
center. Through trains to the Japa
nese front will soon be running from
Niuchwang and Dalny.
The Russian War Office claims to
have reliable information that the
Japanese losses at Port Arthur since
the siege began have been 45,000 men
killed or wounded, and that the gen
eral assaults September 20 to 26 were
all repulsed.
Strength of the Japanese, Forces.
Mukden (By Cable). A great
change in the situation here has oc
curred. The Japanese now appear
anxious to act on the defensive, and
have fortified a position northwest of
the Yentai Mines.
According to the best estimates ob
tainable, the Japanese army confront
ing General Kuropatkin comprises a
grand total of 180 battalions. Allow
ing 800 men to a battalion, there arc
144.000 infantry. In addition there are
6,300 cavalry and 638 guns. The dis
tribution of the Japanese forces is as
follows:
One division at Bentsiaputze, two di
visions at the Yentai Mines, four di
visions on the railway a little north
of Liaoyang, one division westward
near Hiamcadense and one division at
Sandepu.
Russians- estimate the Japanese
forces at the following strength: Gen
eral Kuroki, with the Guards and the
Second and Twelfth Divisions, a total
of 36 battalions of infantry, Q squa
drons of cavalry, 108 guns and a sepa
rate artillery corps of 108 guns; the
Guards Reserve Brigade, consisting of
8 battalions of infantry, 0 squadrons
of cavalry and 24 guns, and the re
serve brigades of 32 battalions of in
fantry and 36 guns; total of Kuroki's
army, 76 battalions of infai'.try, 18
squadrons of cavalry and 276 guns.
General Oku's army consists of the
Third, Fourth and Sixth Divisions,
or 36 battalions of infantry, 9 squa
drons of cavalry, 108 guns, one sepa
rate cavalry brigade of eight squa
drons, a separate artillery brigade of
108 guns, and reserve brigades com
prising 24 battalions of infantry, Q
squadrons of cavalry and 26 guns;
total strength of Oku's army, 60 battal
ions of infantry, 26 squadrons of cav
alry and 242 guns. General Nodzn
commands the Fifth and Tenth Divis
ions, consisting of 26 battalions of in
fantry, and 6 squardons of cavalry.
Including reserves. Nodzu's army con
sists of 44 battalions of infantry, 9
squadrons of cavalry and 120 guns.
His Cause for Suicide.
Sterling, 111. (Special). Because he
had too many wives Fred Hethering
ton committed suicide by sending a
bullet into his brain. Fifteen years
ago he married Miss Clara Siles, who
is near death at the Dixon Hospital.
Later he married a girl in the West,
who, it is said, is living, and about
eight months ago he went to NMine,
where he married his third wife. His
first wife in Dixon was the mother of
two children. When she was taken
ill he was notified of her condition,
lie brooded over his deeds, and de
cided to kill himself.
Condolence From President
Worcester, Mass. (Special). Rock
wood Hoar, son of the late Senator
Hoar, received the following message
from President Roosevelt:
"Gen. Rockwood Hoar:
"Accept my most profound sympa
thy. The loss is not yours only, but
of all those who believe in the lofty
standard of purity, integrity and fear
lessness in public life.
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Fifteen Millions Capital.
Hartford, Ct. (Special). The Sier
ra Madre Land Company, of Stam
ford, with a capital of $15,000,000, ap
plied for incorporation' papers at the
oflice of the Secretary of State. This
is the largest corporation ever formed
in this state under the general law,
other companies of very large capi
talization having' been formed under
special acts of the legislature. The
company is empowered to buy and
sell timberlands, deal in lumber, make
paper, own and operate railroads
Dying From Duel Wounds.
Lexington, Ky. (Special). Col. D.
C. Colson, ex-Congressman from the
Eleventh Kentucky district, is dving
at his home in Middlcboro from
wounds received in his noted pistol
duel with Lieut. Ethelbert Scott, in
the Capitol Hotel at Frankfort, in
1000. The wounds in his arm and
shoulder healed and gave him no
trouble other than the inconvenience
of the badly set bones of the arm,
but the wound in his back was never
fully cured and it affected his general
nervous system, which has for months
been gradually giving way. ,
BAR IRON FOR LIFEBELTS.
Metal Used to Bring Them to Standard
Arrests Mads.
Washington, D. C. (Special). An
alleged conspiracy which has been de
veloped by officials of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor of the
Department of Justice resulted, "in the
arrest at Camden, N. J., of J. H. Stone,
H. C. Quintard, Charles W. Russ and
James Russ, said to be officers of the
Nonpareil Cork Works.
They were taken into custody by
the United States Marshal for the
district of New Jersey under an in
dictment found on September 29 by
the United States grand jury at Tren
ton charging them under Section 5440
of Revised Statutes of the United
States with conspiring to defraud the
Government and prejudice the admin
istration of the steamboat inspection
laws by putting upon the market com
pressed cork blocks for use in making
life preservers, each of which blocks
contained in its center a piece of bar
iron about six inches long and weigh
ing eight ounces.
The iron bar, it is said, was in
serted and concealed in the block for
the purpose of increasing the weight
to the legal requirement of six pounds
of good cork for each life-preserver.
Suspicious of Weight.
Early in August, David Kahnwcil
er's Sons, manufacturers of life-preservers
in New York, ordered from
the Nonpareil Cork Works at Cam
den, N. J., blocks of compressed corks
for 1,750 life-preservers. Eight of
these blocks are used in each pre
server, and the United States law re
quires that the eight blocks shall con
tain six pounds of cork. When the
cork blocks were delivered to Kahn
weilcrs Sons, Mr. Kahnweilcr, a mem
ber of the firm, who is an expert in the
handling of bare cork, suspected that
they were underweight. Putting them
on the scales he discovered that eight
of the blocks, which, according to
legal requirements should weigh six
pounds, weighed only five and one
half pounds. This firm, thereupon,
wrote the Nonpareil Cork Works, call
ing its officers' attention to the under
weight of the cork blocks and inquir
ing whether the blocks could not be
made serviceable weight. The Non
pareil Company replied that it would
adjust the matter by sending some
extra heavy blocks, one of which
could be used in each life-preserver,
thus increasing its weight to the legal
requirements.
In due time the blocks arrived. They
were so heavy as to arouse instant sus
picion. Lewis Kahnweilcr, while ex
amining one of them, broke it by ac
cident and found imbedded in its cen
ter an iron bar six inches long, one
inch wide and a quarter of an inch
thick, weighing eight ounces. The
Kahnweilers again wrote the officers
of the Nonpareil Cork Works, de
manding to know what they meant by
putting iron in the cork blocks and
informing them that as Kahnweilcr's j
c... .. . 1.1: 1
onis win- wuiigeu 10 pin iiiuir hhiml-s
on each preserver such a fraud would ;
ruin their business. 1
According to the indictment a let-
tcr was received in reply suggesting
that the Kahnweilers were "foolish to 1
make so much trouble about a small
affair of that kind." j
Further examination of the "extra
heavy blocks" disclosed that each of
them contained an iron bar similar to
that which was found in the first one.
In all, 261 of the extra heavy blocks
were received by Kahnweilcr's Sons.
Convinced that some action ought to
be taken in the matter. Kahnweilcr's
Sons communicated with Robert S.
Rodie. supervising inspector of the
steamboat inspection service for the
District of New York, and laid before
him all the ficts. Insnector Rodie
reported the facts to Acting Secre
tary of the Department of Commerce
and Labor Lawrence O. Murray. He
was directed bv Secretary Murray to
await instructions.
A Wedding Tragedy.
Paris (By Cable). The bridegroom
and the brides father were gored to
death by a bull during wedding fes
tivities at St. Quentin. After the
breakfast, while the wedding party
were taking a stroll in fields adjoin
ing the house, the bride's father no
ticed a bull eating his newly gathered
pears. He attempted to drive the ani
mal away, when it turned upon him
and drove its horns through his body,
death being instantaneous. The bride
groom, who rushed to his father-in-law's
assistance, was himself twice
tossed in the air, and had his back
broken.
Fatal Ptomaine Poisoning,
Detroit, Mich. (Special). Six-year:
old Sheila Keddy is dead from pto-;
maine-poisoning and her father, Wil
bert H. Keddy. and her mother m.d
brother Teddy are in a serious condi
tion. The entire family of five per
sons was taken sick soon after sup
per, and the little girl died in three
hours. Prompt medical attention
saved the lives of the others.
FINANCIAL
A Tennessee court fined Standard
Oil $5000 for violating an anti-trust
law.
J. P. Morgan issued an official no
tice saying he didn't expect to retire
in favor of his son.
Imports of dry goods are running
about even with last year.
The Crucible Steel Company, in its
statement of the sale of the Clairton
Steel Company to the United States
Steel Corporation, puts the total
amount realized as $12,682,951. The
Crucible Company estimates its own
loss on the Clairton investment at
$4,013,417.
The gross earnings from traffic of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany for August were $5,870,353. a de
crease of $119,096 compared with Au
gust, 1903. The expenses were $3,486,.
112, a decrease of $70,514, and the net
earnings from traffic were $2,384,240.
Charles G. Gates, of New York, son
of John W. Gates, and through whom
the latter trades, will open a branch
broker's office in Philadelphia. He
bought a seat on the Philadelphia Ex
change a few days ago. Perhaps there
will be a little skyrocket business
war.
Mrs. Grcenough brought suit against
II. H. Rogers, the Standard Oil di
rector, for $50,000,000, but the case
was dismissed by the Massachusetts
Supreme Court. The woman declared
that Rogers had appropriated a patent
for making kerosene non-explosive,
and she claimed a royalty on all the
oil treated by Rogers
MR. HOAR JESSES AWAY
Venerable Statesman Died at His Home
in Worcester, Mass.
END NEAR FOR MANY DAYS.
First Elected to the United States Senate In
1877, and His Fourth Successlvs Term
Would Havt Expired lo 1907 A Member ol
the B.ecloral Commission of 1876-Prtiident
o! Many Historical Societies.
Worcester, Mass. (Special) United
States Senator George F. Hoar died
at M9 Friday morning. For months
he had been ill, and during the last
three days he had slept most of the
time, He maintained to the last the
wonderful fight he had made against
death from the first.
Senator Hoar did not move nor ut
ter a sound for hours beore he passed
into his eternal sleep.
George Frisbie Hoar was born 78
years ago in Concord, Mass., on Au
gust 29, 1826. He studied during his
early youth at the Concord Academy,
where he prepared for college, and en
tering Harvard in 1843 he graduated
from that college in 1846. He studied
law and graduated at the Dane Law
School, Harvard University, and set
tled in Worcester, Mass.,' where he
practiced his profession. He was
made city solicitor in i860. He was
president of the trustees of the city
library. He was first elected in 1853
a member of the State House of
Representatives and became state sen
ator in 1857. He was first elected to
Congress as a member of the House
of Representatives in the Forty-first
Congress, and was re-elected to the
Forty-second, Forty-third and Forty
fourtli Congresses, but declined a re
nomination to the Forty-fifth Con
gress. In 1877 he was elected to the Unit
ed States Senate to succeed George
S. Butwell and took his scat March 5,
1877. He was re-elected in 1883, 1889,
1895 and I90t. His term would have
expired March 3, 1907, had he lived.
Senator Hoar was an overseer of Har
vard College, 1874-1880; Jcclined re
election, but was re-elected in 1856,
and again for six years in 1900. He
was president of the Association of
the Alumni of Harvard; presided over
the Massachusetts State Republican
Convention of 1871, 1877, 1882 and
1885; was a delegate to the Republi
can National Convention of 1876 at
Cincinnati, and of 1880, 1884 and 1S88
at Chicago, presiding over the con
vention of 1880. He was chairman of
the Massachusetts delegation in 1880,
1884 and 1888. Was one of the man
agers on the part of the House of
Representatives of the Belknap im
peachment trial in 1876; was a mem-
her of tthc Electoral Commission in
1870; was regent of the Smithsonian
Institution in 1880; has been presi
dent, and at the time of his death was
vice president of the American Anti
quarian Society; president of the
American Historical Society; president
board of trustees of Clark University;
1900 made trustee of the Peabody Mu
seum of Archeology. He was also a
trustee of the Leicester Academy,
member of the Massachusetts Histor
ical Society, of the American Histor
ical Society, the Historic-Genealogical
Society, the Virginia Historical So
ciety, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, and also a trustee of the
Peabody Fund. He received the de
gree of LL. D from the following
colleges and universities: William and
Mary, Amherst, Yale. Harvard and
Dartmouth.
Last fall ' Senator Hoar published
his "Recollections of Sixty Years,"
a work that is a distinct contribution
to the history of the United States
in the last half century.
TUNNEL UNDER DELAWARE RIVER.
A Great Scheme Advanced (a Philadelphia By
Intercity Link Railroad.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Special). A
company which may be of far-reaching
importance has been formed in this
city for the purpose of constructing
a funnel under the Delaware River,
between Philadelphia and Camden.
It is proposed to operate a steam
railway through the tunnel. Such is
the assertion of Clarence Wolf, of
Wolf Brothers & Co., president of
the Intercity Link Railroad, a new
corporation.
A charter lias already been secured
in New Jersey. The company was
incorporated in Camden this after
noon. Mr. Wolf says that the surveys
have been filed and the road marked
in that state. Application was also
maf'e today at Harrisburg for a char
ter in this state. This action seems
ne.-essary because the proposed rail
road in crossing under the river would
cross the boundary line of each state.
The Camden incorporation permits
the construction of the tunnel be
tween that city and the middle of the
Delaware River. For the Pennsyl
vania side a permit will have to be
obtained from councils here, the city
holding riparian rights along the river
front.
Many brokers, together with street
railway men, wondered how the new
cotporation proposed to fight the
Pennsylvania, it being generally agreed
that a "fight" is a matter of course
under the circumstances. A few men
are inclined to hazard a guess that the
Pennsylvania, either is on the "inside"
or expected to "buy out" the new
company in the future.
Mobile's Chief of PoHcs Out.
Mobile, Ala. (Special). Because oH
circumstances attending an alleged
shortage in his accounts, as county
tax collector for 1899, John Case has
resigned as chief of police of Mobile.
Case's alleged shortage has been acted
upon by the Governor Case was
bonded by a Baltimore company. He
says the books were accepted as cor
rect by the state when he settled at
the close of his term as collector.
Apartment Building Collapses.
Chicago, (Special). Three men
were probably fatally injured and two
hurt less seriously in the collapse of
an apartment building being erected
for Alderman Thomas Carey. Stand
ing on the roof timbers Architect
David Robertson was talking to the
mason contractor, William Shea, at
the time of the accident. Robertson
escaped with slight injuries. Shea is
not expected to live. The other vic
tims were laborers. The cause of the
accident is believed to have been the
breaking of a steel support holding
up the third floor.
FROST BANE TO CROPS.
Destructive la Northers Section of Country
Favorable to Late Corn.
Washington, D. C, (Special). The
Weather Bureau's weekly summary of
crop conditions is as follows:
Unusually low temperature for the
season was the marked feature of
the week in the northern section of
the country east of the Rocky Moun
tains, heavy killing frosts having oc
curred on the 21st to 23d in New Eng
land portions of the Middle Atlantic
States and Lake region, Minnesota
and the Dakota.!. In the Central val
leys and Southern districts more fa
vorable temperature prevailed.
The rainfall was unequally distrib
uted, being excessive in portions of
the Gulf States and Oklahoma, and
abnormally heavy on the Southern Pa
cific Coast, where much damage re
sulted. Beneficial rains fell in Illi
nois, Indiana, Lower Michigan and
portions of Iowa and Missouri and
i bowers delayed work In Minnesota
and North Dakota, but elsewhere only
light showers or no rain fell, the con
ditions being favorable for gathering
late crops.
In the principal corn-producing
states west of the Mississippi River
late corn has experienced favorable
weather conditions. The crop is gen
erally maturing rapidly, except in
Northern Missouri, with no material
damage from frost. In Iowa a week
of warm and dry weather is required
to mature the greater part of the late
planted; needs 10 days in Missouri;
mostly safe from frost in Kansas, ar.d
the bulk of the crop is beyond injury
from frost in Nebraska. East of the
Mississippi River late corn has ripened
slowly on account of cool weather.
In Illinois a part of the crop is
safe in the southern portion and the
bulk will be beyond danger by Octo
ber 10; in Indiana much is in danger
from frost, and in Ohio, while it is
practically safe in the South, the
staple requires one to two weeks more
in the north. Frosts caused some in
jury to corn in the northeastern part
of the last-named state and consider
able damage in New England, the
northern portion of the Middle Atlan
tic States, the Upper Lake region and
Upper Mississippi Valley.
The harvest of spring wheat is com
pleted. Threshing is well advanced in
the northern portion of the spring
wheat region, although delayed by
rain in Minnesota and North Dakota,
and the crop is nearly all stored in
Washington.
Cotton opened rapidly in all sec
tions, prematurely in Georgia and Mis
sissippi, and picking is being pushed,
but was delayed somewhat by rains
in Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma and
Texas, and a scarcity of pickers is re
ported from localities in Central and
Eastern districts. Reports indicate
that a very light top crop may be ex
pected. The salient features of state
ments from the principal cotton-producing
states are summarized as fol
lows: Georgia, bulk of crop gathered and
marketed in central and southern sec
tions; Alabama, continues to rust and
shed, but these adverse conditions are
not so general as previously reported;
Mississippi, open cotton injured in
east by heavy rains, and boll weevils
are causing damage in Southwest Lou
isiana, worms and caterpillars dam
aging, boll weevils locally numerous
in one parish and spreading in an
other, crop deteriorated; Arkansas,
very little shedding, but crop made
only slight improvement; Texas, lit
tle injury to staple by showers, and
the crop too far advanced for further
dainagejby boll weevils.
A BRIDE'S FATAL FALL
Was Hanging Lace Curtains When She Lost
Her Balance.
Philadelphia, (Special). Married to
James Landis, secretary of Theodore
Voorhces, first vice president of the
Reading Railroad, three weeks ago,
and with their honeymoon just con
cluded, Mrs. Mary Landis, aged 36,
fell from the third-story back room of
her new home here and, ctriking the
fence in the yard below, was instantly
killed.
Mrs. Landis had been arranging
the furniture in her new home. She
was hanging lace curtains in the third
story back room when she lost her
balance and head foremost she went,
tumbling through the air and landing
upon the fence which acted as a divid
ing line between neighboring yards.
Mr. Landis had been visiting the
home of his sister, and when the news
was broken to him he collapsed. He
had to be half carried to his home.
Murdered By Moors.
Tangier, Morocco (By Cable). The
Governor of Arzila, who was the
father-in-law of the former War Min
ister, El Menehhi, has been murdered
at Arzila by people 0 the surround
ing tribes. The murder was com
mitted out of revenge for the action
of the Governor in imprisoning mem-bcrs-
of the tribes. The murderers
released the prisoners at Arzila and
killed many of the townspeople.'
NATIONAL, CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
A petition asking the President to
intervene in behalf of the natives1 of
the Congo Free State was presented
to President Roosevelt.
The Navy Department has accept
ed the cruiser Des Moines.
The State Department has refused
to recognize the independence of the
"Free State of -Connani," which is re
garded as belonging to Brazil.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided the tobacco stamp case, hold
ing that the importers can put theit
stamp on the box, but reduced the
size and required it to be placed on
a less conspicous part of the box.
A cablegram has been sent to Con
sul General Goodnow, at Shanghai
directing him to return to the United
States and answer charges preferred
against him.
The State Department is investi
gating the circumstances of the ar
rest of Hugh Gurney, third secretary
of the British Embassy, who wn
fined at Lee, Mass., for speeding hi
automobile.
Simon Wolf, of Washington, presi
dent of the B'nai E'rith, says that if
the promises of the new Russian Min
ister of the Interior can be carried out
it seems that a better day is about to
dawn for the Russian government and
its subjects, especially the Jews.
John R. Wise has been appointed
assistant superintendent of the Indian
School, at Carlisle. Pa. j
GETS TWO APOLOGIES
Mr. Guernej Hears From Gov. Bates
j and Judge Phelps.
THE INCIDENT MAY NOT BE OVER.
Maasacbuaelts Executive Suggests That Third
Secretary of British Embassy Be Recalled
He Also (lives Full Explanation of the
British Official's Violation of lb; Law and
Behavior In Court.
Boston, Mass. (Special). Letters
of apology from Governor Bates, for
the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and from Judge H. C- Phelps, of the
District Court of Lee, are on their re
spective ways to Washington and
Lee. Judge Phelps has done his part
by sending a dignified apology -to
Hugh Guemey, third secretary of the
British Embassy, whom he fined Mon
Jay for violating the automnbile speed
.aw and for contempt of court. The
total fines of 550 have been remitted.
Governor Bates has sent to Acting
Secretary of State Adce a dignified
apology on the part of the state, but
coupled with it is a full explanation
f Mr. Guerney's open violation of
;aw and his behavior in court, and in
diplomatic language it is strongly sug
gested that Massachusetts and her
servants, having made the amends
honorable, the same is due from Mr.
Guerncy. It is intimated, but not de
manded, that his recall to England
would be a most desirable thing.
Governor Bates, Lieutenant Govern,
or Guild and Judge Phelps had a
conference at the statchouse, at which
the whole incident was carefully gone
.over. Judge Phelps admitted he had
erred unintentionally and said he was
willing to do whatever was right and
just in the matter, and whatever would
reflect credit on the commonwealth;
but not discredit on himself.
ANNOYANCE FELT IN LONDON.
Mr. duerncy's Claim for Diplomatic Exemption
Stems Trilling to Officials.
London (By Cable). The West
minster Gazette accurately sums up
the official opinion of the incident re
sulting from the fining by Justice
Phelps, of Lee, Mass., of Hugh Gur
ney, third secretary of the British
Embassy at Washington, for violating
the speed law relating to automobiles
and for contempt of court, saying:
"It seems desirable that gentlemen
connected with the legations should
keep on . the safe side of local law
when they use motor cars, but if per
chance they transgress, the simplest,
quietest plan is, perhaps, to waive
their privilege and pay rhe fine.
"No little annoyance is exhibited in
official quarters here at the claim
made by Mr. Gurney for diplomatic
exemption, with the consequent pub
licity, over a trifling affair. It is re
called, however, that when the son.
of Henry White, secretary of the
American Embassy in London, and
Spencer Eddly, in 1899, when he was
ihird secretary of the embassy, were
lummoned here for riding bicycles on
1 footpath, similar exemption was
claimed, and reference was then made
to the statute of 1708, whereby any
British official acting as Judge Phelps
did toward a diplomat became emen
able not only to severe penalties, but
even to flogging."
THE SALVATION ARMY.
It Will Be Divided Into Eastern and Western
Sections.
Chicago (Special). The Salvation
Army, it is stated, will be divided into
two sections, with Western headquar
ters in Chicago and the Eastern offices
in New York. The object, it is said,
is to increase the efficiency of the
two territories by extending opportu
nities for greater concentration in
each. The main headquarters, it is
understood, are to continue in New
York.
The Eastern or New York district
will be much larger, and probably
will be in charge of Commissioner
Eva Booth, who is leaving Canada.
The Western or Chicago district,
which in a measure will be subsidary
to the Eastern, will be placed un
der the direction of Commissioner
Coombs, now in England, but a for
mer commissioner of Canada.
Porter Caused Wreck.
Charleston, S. C (Special). Th
Atlantic Coast 'Line's Florida Limited
collided with a local passenger train
out of Charleston, five miles from the
city. Fireman Sam Harris, colored,
was killed. A flagman's hands were
seriously hurt. The passengers were
shaken up, but none injured. Th
Florida Limited was closely follow
ed by a local passenger train to Au
gusta. In making up a berth the
porter on thte limited pulled the bell
cord and the train stopped. ' The
train following crashed into the rear
of the limited, damaging the private
car in which , were Superintendent
Denham, of the Atlantic Coast Line,
and his family.
Drives losaot By Grief. !
Pc oria, 111. (Special). Driven in
sane through grief at the deafh of Ed
ward Hart man, whom he had acci-i
dentally shot, George Brown, of Chi-'
cago, was picked up in the streets a,
raving maniac. So furious were his1
truggles that it required six officers
to overpower him.
" The Death of Milt Barlow.
Nework (Special) Milt G. Bar-
iOw, the original "Old Black Joe,",
it the age of 65 years, died of can-,
:er in the throat at the Home for In
curables, One Hundred and Eighty
third street and Third avenue. Bar ,
low created the character of "Old
Black Joe" in the early seventies, and
in 1875, in touring with HaverleyV
Minstrels, lie made this most pathetic'
of negro songs known from one
of the country (o the other.
end.
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New Destroyers for Rossis. ' 5
Paris (By Cable). A dispatch to
the Temps from Toulon says:
"The Russian Government lias neW
gotiated for the construction of 11 toH
pedo-boat destroyers, of the latest
model, by a company here. Work wiltf
shortly begin oir lour 01 tnem at ship-l
yards In Normandy, four at Havre'
and tnree ai 11 seyne. Fifteen
months are required for their con
struction. -Other important orders are
expected, the present negotiations Jn-i
eluding four cruisers of (he type of
tbe Bayan." m