THEY MEET AS FRIENDS I THE NEWS IN SHORT ORDER
Impressive Introduction of Peace En
tojs By President Roosevelt.
GIVEN GRAND BUFFET LINCHEON.
Poop and Ceremony Observed, Vit There
Wn Characteristic American Simplicity and
Frankness Elsborate Decoralloaa il Flow
ere, Flii Belof OmIIUd it Not (0 Invite
Oilcan to Either Party.
President Roosevell't Toest
"Gcntlcmrn: 1 propose a
toast to which there will be no
answer and to which I ask you
in silence, standing. 1 drink to
the welfare and prosperity of the
sovereigns and people of the
great nations whose representa
tives have met one another on
this ship. It is my most earnest
hope and prayer, in the interest
of not only these two great pow
ers, but of all mankind, that a
just and lasting peace may
speedily be concluded between
them."
SURRENDER OF SAKHALIN
Oyster Bay, L. I. (Special). History
was made at Oyster Hay. Russians
and Japanese clasped hands and greet
ed one another with all outward evi
dence of cordiality, and for the first
time since nations began to have rela
tions one with another an Executive of
a great power received the envoys of
two belligerent countries on a mission
of peace.
President Roosevelt, on behalf of the
United States and its people, extended
formal greetings to the representatives
of Russia and Japan, introduced the
plenipotentiaries to one another and en
tertained them at an elaborate buffet
luncheon, at which Russians and Japa
nese fraternized as comrades rather than
as enemies.
During the luncheon President Roose
velt proposed a notable toast, in which
he expressed the "earnest hope and
prayer, in the interest not only of these
two great powers, but of all civilized
mankind, that a just and lasting peace
may speedily be concluded between
them."
The occasion was impressive. It was
attended not by pomp and ceremony,
but by a simplicity and frankness char
acteristic of the President and the peo
ple of America.
Due honor was paid the distinguished
guests of the President and of the coun
try, and they were received with all the
dignity to which their exalted rank en
titled them.
The day was ideal. After the sun had
burned away the haze of early morning
the weather was delightful. A brisk
breeze just tipped the waves of Long
Island Sound with silver, tempering at
the same time the heat of the sun's
rays.
The handsome war yacht Mayflower,
one of the most beautiful vessels of the
United States Navy, on which the form
al reception of the Russian and Japa
nese plenipotentiaries took place, swung
easily at anchor just at the entrance of
Oyster Bay from Long Island Sound.
A quarter of a mile away was the dis
patch boat Dolphin, the favorite cruis
ing vessel of several Presidents of the
United States. Two miles out in the
sound the cruiser Galveston was an
chored, in waiting to convoy the ves
sels bearing the envoys to the seat of
the Washington peace conference at
Portsmouth, N'ew 1 lamp-hire.
The Mayflower is in command of
Commander Cameron McR. Win-low,
President Roosevelt's naval aid, who
was detailed to this duty as a special
mark of distinction to the peace com
mission by the President. Before the
arrival of the Pre-ident and the envoys
the cabins of the Mayflower were hand
somely decorated with fluwers. The
luncheon table in the main saloon was
laden with flowers.
The flowrr used principally in the
decorations was the gladiolus a recent
ly created variety known as "American."
It is a superb purple blossom, which at
first glance ghes the observer the im
pression of a rare orchid.
No attempt was made to decorate the
cabins of the vessels with flags, care be
ing exercised in every feature of the
ceremony attendant upon the reception
not in the slightest way to orient! tile
sensibilities of the guests of the occa
sion. In order that no questions of prece
dence should arise, it was determined
that the luncheon -hould he a buffet af
fair. In this way was avoided the ne
cessity of seating the envoys at tabic
with the President.
Secretary Wllioo'f Investigation.
Washington, D. C. ( Special). Secre
tary of Agriculture Wilson admitted
that a rigid investigation is being made
into the condition oi afuirs in the Bu
reau of Animal Industry, a a result
of the admission by Dr. K. P. SJmon.
chief of the bureau, that for six years
prior to he was a silci.t partner
of George E. Howard, now i'e presi
dent of the Georg"- E. Howard Pruning
Company, which has had eoutra'-rs for
printing nr.-at inspection labors.
Chirred Body In Cellar.
Muscatine, Iowa (Special). The
charred body of Carl Brady, an old ti-h-crman,
was found in an abandoned cel
lar on an island in the Mississippi
River. Josephine Colleit and William
Nagle, who were living in Brady's
houseboat, were arre-ted and Nagle de
clared that the woman killed Brady.
Miss Collell and Nagle are paroled State
prisoners, having heen sentenced from
Fairfield. Iowa, for hor-e stealing. Brady
was reputed to have much money on
his pe.".ou, distrusting bank.,.
Confesses Murder ot Her Husbaod.
Washington, Pa. ( Special). The
mystery surrounding the identity of the
murderer of Josiph Barr, the coal miner
who was found murdered in his home,
ttt Bishop, Pa., was cleared up by the
arrest of his wife. The woman, it i
said, ha confessed that she and her hus
band quarreled and he threatened her
life with a revolver. She ran from the
bouse, and, sec-tiring a hatchet, return
ed and killed him, Barr was found ly
ing in his room with his skull crushed.
It was then believed by the authorities
that burglars ha I murdered him.
Iiibtr Insurance RaUi.
Buffalo (Special). The Manufactur
ers' Club of this city has appointed a
committee to investigate fire insurance
rates. The local board of underwriters
recently announced an advance of Vi
per cent, in the existing rites, notwith
standing the fact that improvements
have been made in the water system in
the downtown district. Negotiation
have been opened with other cities when
similar advance had been announced
with a view of co-operation in an ef
fort to force the insurance companies
to recede from their position.
Domestic,'
The British steamer Barnton, Cap
tain McGregor, from Port UcPaix.
Ilayti, for Chester, Pa., arrived at the
Delaware Breakwater with Ij ot n
crew ill with what is ncheveu to ne
malarial fever. The vessel was remand
ed to Ihe government quarantine sta
tion at Reedy Island, Del., for fumiga
tion and observation.
William W. Russell, newly appointed
American minister to Venezuela, and
ex-Judge VV. J. Calhoun, whom Presi
dent Roosevelt has appointed special
commissioner to Venezuela, sailed trom
New York for Caracas on the Red D
Steamer Philadelphia.
Loretla 11. Phiffcr, aged 20 years, was
found in a dving condition on the steps
of the late Chief of Police Sullivan, a!
North Bergen, N. J. It is stated that
she was taken from her escort by two
men who claimed to be policemen.
Thomas Walton Stanford, of Mel
bourne, brother of the late California
senator, has offered to donate a valua
ble collection of antiques to the Leland
Stanford, Jr., University.
It is stated by growers that the Con
necticut peach crop this year will be
the largest ever harvested.
The United Sulphur, Copper and Iron
Company was incorporated at Trenton,
with a capital of $ t i.ooo.ooo.
Archbishop Chapclle has been stricken
with yellow fever. His condition is not
regarded as serious.
At Portland, O., the United States
jury for the second time was unable to
agree in the case in which Congressman
Williamson and others are charged with
conspiring to suborn penury m conncc
tion with securing public lands ille
gally.
The captain of the French ship As
nieres. from Swansea to New York, re
ported the finding of a dozen capped
fuses among the coal of his ship, lie
believes there was a plot to blow up
the steamer in midoccan.
In the suit for divorce against Mrs,
Grace Culver Taggart in Wooster, O.
testimony seriously reflecting on her
character was given by a Filipino girl
who served ill the Taggart household
in Manila.
Henry W. Manger, who was sentenced
at Oswego, N. Y., to death in the elec
tric chair for murder, has accepted his
sentence and has requested his attor
nevs not to take an anneal.
Mrs. John G. Carlisle, wife of the
former Secretary of the Treasury, died
at Babylon, L. I., where she was spend
ing the summer.
In New York state prisons the tin
plate, cup and saucer have been dis
carded, and for them glaed pottery has
been substituted.
Minister Barratt, while in San Fran
cisco, expressed the opinion that the
Chinese boycott has caused unnecessary
alarm.
Precautionary measures have been
taken in Philadelphia against yellow
fever.
The morning Baltimore and Ohio pas
senger train bound for Johnstown from
Rockwood was wrecked at the ramt
Creek Bridge, in Somerset county, Pa.
A rail broke on the bridge and the tram
plunged down. One woman was fatally
injured and several persons were hurt.
Vice President Fairbanks was the
chief speaker at the commemorative ex
ercises held at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,
upon the fiftieth anniversary of the op
ening of St. Mary's Canal.
Because of the continued absence of
Mayor Belcher, of Patcrson, N. J., the
public officials of that city cannot get
their salaries, which are now due.
W. J. Bryan, Jr., has undergone a
successful operation in a Chicago hos
pital for the removal of an abscess from
his knee.
The Nebraska Grain Dealers' Asso
ciation has been declared to be a trust
and to be in restraint of trade.
The closing session of the Friends'
National Kducational Conference was
held at Richmond, Ind.
At Paducah, Ky., II. H. Loving, a
former banker, shot and killed II. A.
Rose, a lumber man.
The National Lead Company has in
creased its capital stock from $30,000,
000 to $50,000.00.
The Poughkeepsie Bridge will be re
constructed at a cost of $1,300,000.
The question of consolidating the
Congregational, United Brethren and
Methodist Protestant Churches will be
taken up at a conference at Dayton, O.,
in February, 1006.
foreign.
Among the passengers on the Amcri
au Line steamer St. Louis, which sail
ed from Southampton for New York,
were United States Senator William B.
Aiiisnn and Congressman Robert G.
Cousins, of Iowa.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce
at Shanghai, which started the boy
cott of American goods, is. now trying
to -li ) it.
Tin- Gov. rnor of German E.L-t Afri
ca wired the announcement of an up
rising of the natives in the Maturbin
Mountain-.
Detectives raided a coffee-house 'in
Warsaw and captured a number of so
cial democrats, of whom ,50 were or
ganizers. The American pilgrimage left Rome
tor Florence, whence tliey will go to
Switzerland.
The Russian government has decided
to i -sut another internal loan of $too,'
or 10.000.
The hearty greeting extended to Sec
retary Taft in Manila moved him to
tears.
Emperor William, in response to tin
wish of the French government, ha
ordered the return of the bodies of the
I" reiich' soldiers who died while pris
oners on German soil.
Arrangements have been made for the
rectption and entertainment of the I alt
party m tne Philippines.
The Infante Fernando died in Mad
rid. He was two months old, the son
of the late Princess of Aslurias, istcr
of King Alfonso and heir to the Span
ish thrune.
Troops fired on strikers on the Novo
r ,--ick-Vladi-Kavkaz Railway, killing .,0
ind wounding jj.
The boycott on American goods by
Chinese merchant is extending to till
the Japanese ports.
The Sultan of Morocco is now op
posed to an international conference,
winch he fears may eventually result in
the dismemberment of Morocco.
General Linevitch ha announced that
he has determined upon a strong retro
grade campaign,
Baron Van Hengelmuller, the Austro
Ihinganau ambassador, arrived in New
Yrk.
The body of Ignatius Fletzinger was
found floating in the river at New Or
lrani. Attorney General Moody will give his
persona! attention to the investigation
of the Department of Agriculture scan
dal. Major General Wood, in an inter
view, said (that he expected to resume
his duties in the Far East in about a
-11011th. ,
3,200 Russians Capitulate to tbe
' Japanese.
ALL OF THEM WERE MADE PRISONERS.
They Girt Up Seventy Officer and Thirty-two
Hundred Mea, With all Military Supplies
and Papera Oentral Llapaalf Assigns Lack
I Medical Snppllt tor Wouedtd at Ren
too. for Surrendering;.
Tokio (By Cable). A report giving
details of the final pursuit and sur
render of the majority of the Russian
garrison on Sakhalin Island has been
received, as follows:
"An independent cavalry column on
the afternoon of July 28 attacked the
enemy south of Paleo and routed him
southward, capturing two held guns, Be
sides a number of rifles and a quantity
of ammunition.
On July 20 the cavalry, being rein
forced, vigorously pursued the enemy
south of Taylan, which lies 25 miles
south of Rykoff. The enemy halted at
Onol. 25 miles south of Taylan, and at
o'clock on the morning of July 30
sent a letter under a tlag ot truce to
the Japanese commanding officer from
General Liapnoff, the Russian governor,
saying that the lack of bandage mate
rial and medicines and the consequent
inability to succor the wounded com
pelled him from a sense of humanity
to fprmtn.ite hostilities.
"The commander of the Japanese force
replied, demanding the delivery of all
war sunnhes and property ot tne Rus
sian Government, the uninjured and the
delivery of all maps, records and papers
re alms to the Russian civil ana mili
tary administration, and requiring their
delivery in reply at 10 o'clock on the
morning of July 31, otherwise an at
tacking movement would immediately
he started.
"Colonel Tohvitch, on behalf ot Gov
ernor Liapnoff, met Colonel Koizumi,
Japanese chief of staff, on the morning
of July 31 and accepted the proposed
terms.
General Liapnoff, 70 officers and 3,200
men of the Russian garrison then sur
rendered.
"The spoils, consisting of clothing,
papers and military supplies, are now
under investigation. '
Washington ( Special). The Japanese
Legation received the following official
report on the surrender of the Russians
at Hamdasa. Iillv .11 :
"The Sakhalin army reports that an
independent cavalry force attacked and
routed the enemy south of Palem on the
afternoon of July 28, capturing two field
guns, besides ammunition wagons, rifles
and ammunition. On July 29 that force
co-operating with reinforcements gave
hot pursuit to the enemv to the south of
Tauran. At 5 A. M. July 30 the enemy's
parlementaire came to Tauran. with a
message of General Liapnoff, the mili
tary governor, addressed to the com
mander of the army, slating that lack of
dressing materials and medicines and
impossibility of treating the wounded
compelled General Liapnoff, out of senti
ments of humanity, to ask cessation of
hostilities. The commander ot the army
replied that all military stores, all mov
ables and immovables belonging to gov
ernment and all documents concerning
administrative and military matters be
delivered, and that a reply to the above
be sent to Hamdasa by 10 A. M. July
U. On July 31 the Russian delegate,
Colonel Tribiti, came to Hamdasa and.
after a conference with our delegate,
General Koidzumi, accepted our con
ditions in toto. Liapnoff, with about
70 officers and 3..200 men surrendered
nd were taken prisoners.
RUQ AS A PARACHUTE.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
The President has approved the sen
tence of dismissal from the Army im
posed by a court-martial for First Lieu
tenant Marion B. Wilhoit, Artil'ery
Corps, for duplication of pay accounts!.
He has also directed that Second Lieu
tenant Morris C, Foote, Twenty-eighth
Infantry, be reduced 150 files in rank
on charges of technical embezzlement.
Surgeon General Rixey, of Ihe Navy,
will attain recommend the establishment
of an outdoor hospital at Port Royal,
S. C, for the treatment of tuberculosis
in the Navy.
The oostal authorities announce that
the interruptions in the postal service
in the South because of yellow fever
quarantine are confined to a limited area.
Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, the
hero of the battleship Oregon (luring
the Spanish-American War, will be
placed on the retired list.
The chief of the naval ordnance rec
ommends that every gun in the Navy
have a duplicate, to provide lor an emer
gency.
Virginia pine, which has heretofore
been looked upon as fit only for cord
wood, is being used extensively as wood
pulp.
Captain Edward Lloyd, of the Fif
teenth Reoiment Infantry, has been ap
pointed by the President as professor of
military science and tactics at tne Mary
land Agricultural College.
Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Aericulture. will not take a vacation,
being detained in Washington by the
investigation which he is conducting in
his department.
The Navv Department is developing a
policy by which shore duty is reserved
for enlisted men who nave servea tm
ciently at sea.
The errand iurv engaged in investi
gating the statistical bureau of the Ag
ricultural Department took a recess 1111
til August 15.
W. W. Russell, the new United States
minister to Venezuela, and W. J. Cal
houn, special commissioner to investi
oatr the affairs of American interests in
Venezuela, sailed from New York for
Venezuela.
Fred Shoulder Blade, an Indian
brave, of Montana, has asked for a med
al or reward for saving a soldier's' life
in the Tongue River several years ago,
The Public Health and Marine Hos
nital Service has issued a circular tell
ing how yellow fever can be worked
off.
The negotiations between the United
States and Germany for a reciprocity
treaty are at a standstill.
The cotton crop report issued by the
Agricultural Department gives the con
ditions as 74.0.
A decided improvement in sanitary
conditions on the Isthmus of ' Panama
is reoorted.
P. L. Hutchinson, of New Orleans,
was appointed a member of the new
board of statistics of the Department
of Agriculture.
John Hyde, former chief of statistics
of the Department of Agriculture, will
return to this country.
NITRO PLANT EXPLODES.
THE STATE
Louisiana Captures a
Vessel.
SIRRENDERIITK01T A SHOT.
The Stat of Controversy It on the Boundary
of lb Two Stiles Crw ol Captured Boat
Taken to Jail, tad a Messenger Dispatch
ed to Ooreroor Vardanan to Advlso of
th Situation.
CONFLICT
Mississippi
Saved Life ol a New York Woman Who Fell
Five Floors.
New York (Special). A rug which
formed a parachute saved the life of
Mrs. Kate Getin in a fall from the
fifth floor to a cement-paved yard. Mrs.
Getin's right arm was broken. She fell
out of the back window of a flat at 147
Cherrv street into a deep, narrow area,
crossed by family clotheslines. A wo
man living in the ground lloor tlat
heard a thud on the pavement and saw
he corners of a large parlor rug fold
ing over .Mrs. wenn, who lay in 113
center. 1 he swaying ot tne cioiucsuncs
hove showed that the woman had fall
n from the fifth to the third floor
without striking any obstruction until
she hit a rug which lay spread over two
clotheslines. From that point down
ward the edges and corners of the rug
had flopped against clotheslines suffi
ciently to retard the plunge, which oth
erwise would have proved fatal.
Singular Presence ol Mind Save Employe!
From Death.
Eddyville, N. Y. (Special). The ni
tro-glycerin house of the Nitro-Powder
Company, at Alingo Hollow, near here,
caught fire, and the contents of the
building exploded, totally destroying the
structure.
The men employed in the nitro-gly-cerin
department ran from the building
when the fire started, and all escaped
injury except one man, who was slight
ly hurt.
When the explosion occurred it was
feared that a number of men had been
Rilled, but later all were accounted for.
The fire spread to the dynamite store
house, where several tons of dynamite
arc stored, nd experienced employes,
regardless of danger, formed themselves
into a bucket brigade and fought the
flames there and extingushed them, pre
venting another explosion.
Scores of men threw themselves on
the ground when the fire alarm was
sounded from the mixing house and
were thus saved from injury.
SERUM FOR HAY FEVER ?
New Orleans, La. (Special). The
first cslah in the Louisiana-Mississippi
boundary growing out of the quarantine
war between Louisiana and Mississippi
occurred Friday morning, when the Jip-
sey, of the Mississippi quarantine fleet,
was captured by the Louisiana troops
under Lieutenant Ivy, of the Fern, act
ing under the instructions of Sheriff
Nunez, of St. Bernard. No shots were
fired, but the capture was somewhat
dramatic. The Jipsey was lying at the
Rigolcts, in Louisiana waters, waiting
to intercept Louisiana vessels. When
the rem, in which there was a large
party of naval reserves concealed from
view, came m sight the Jipsey inter-
ceptd her and demanded her destination.
The captain boarded the hern and was
at once placed under arrest. The crew
then surrendered without firing a shot.
The Jipsey was at once taken pos
session of by Sheriff Nunez and con
veyed to St. Bernard waters, while the
captain and crew were locked up in the
parish jail. Capt. Walter lllunt, ot the
Mississippi flagship Grace, asked permis
sion to go to Mississippi to consult the
authorities there as to what he should
do, and was allowed to depart.
The third Mississippi war vessel,
which was blockading the Chef Mcntenr
entrance into Mississippi Sound, sailed
away on notice from the United States
revenue cutter Winona. It is presumed
from this that the Mississippi quaran
tine authorities have abandoned their
blockade of the Louisiana coast and their
right of search of Louisiana vessels.
The Louisiana forces arc much the
larger, including: six vessels, two of
them the Marie, flagship of Command
er Bostick, and the Majestic being
armed with Colt rapid-fire guns. In ad
dition there are the lorn Nolco and two
steam launches, manned by 150 of the
Louisiana naval reserve. The Missis
sippi fleet consisted of six quarantine
boats, the Grace being the largest. The
Mississippi vessels have for several days
been in Louisiana waters, blockading the
three entrances from Louisiana into Mis
sissippi Sound. The Grace kept watch
at the entrance of Lake Borgne and the
Lake Borgne Canal, the Jipsey at the
Rigolcts Straits and another vessel at
Chef Menteur. All Louisiana vessels
were stopped by the quarantine boats,
which proceeded to demand their port
of destination, the issue between the two
States being practically the right ot
search, which caused the War of 1812.
Eighteen of the Louisiana fisher fleet
are said to have been captured and sent
to the United States Quarantine Sta
tion at Shin Island. It is thought that
the capture of the Jipsey will end the
chance of a serious clash, as Governor
Blauchard has instructed the Louisiana
forces not to enter Mississippi waters,
but to make sure that the Mississippi
vessels cease their depredation in Louisi
ana territory. Whether any demand will
be snade for the return ot the Louisi
ana boats already captured and at Ship
Island has not vet been determined, hut
the demand will probably be made on
the United States Treasury Department,
as these vccts were turned over oy
the Mississippi quarantine officials to the
United States revenue cruiser Winona
and are now under federal control.
SIDELIGHTS OF NEW YORK
Niw Yornt ,'itt. N. Y.
Annie Ilirsh, a pretty artist of 19,
stole from her father's home, 125 East
One Hundred and Tenth street, in her
night dress, ran through One Hundred
and Tenth street to the East River, more
than a mile away, and plunged into the
waters of Ilcll Gate to end her life.
The girl graduated from the Normal
School two years ago, developed into an
artist oj merit, and after a course at
an art school intended using her talents
to make her living.
At school, however, she met a young
artist, wdio is said to be Milton W right.
A live affair began between the two,
and an engagement was the result.
Miss Hirsh's father, Solmon Hirsh
objected to the match. He said that his
daughter was too young to be a wife,
and advised that the young couple wait
for several years.
Miss Hirsh and young Wright had
planned to be married a year ago. The
girl was unusually despondent and at
night a number of her young friends
were asked to a small reception at the
Hirsh home, the parents hoping that the
presence of the guests would make her
more cheerful
When the guests departed Miss Hirsh
went to her room, but later when she
had discarded her evening clothes for
her night dress and the other members
of the household were asleep, she stole
to the street and made for the river.
Martin Carroll, a night watchman
cleaning department, saw a little figure
in white dart past him, and with a pierc
ing shriek dove into Ihe water.
I want to die ! she veiled.
The girl fought with such despera
tion that Carroll could not drag her in
the boat until the water had made her
unconscious. Then he rowed her to the
pier and called for assistance. Before
assistance came Carroll was rolling the
unconscious girl on a barrel.
When Miss Hirsh comes from Har
lem Hospital she will have to face
charge of attempting suicide.
TASK IN CHINA FOR TAFT
t Is Roped That Re Can Arrange a New
Exclusion Treaty.
THE NATIONS ARE WIDE APART NOW.
Draft ol the Treaty Published From Seattle)
ll Merely the Translation Prom Chinese
Papers ol Draft Which Wae Submitted By
China to Thli Government About Seven or
Eight Montbi Ago.
Far Cbsdwlck Creditors.
Cleveland (Special). Creditors of
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick will receive a
total dividend of about 7 mills on the
dollar when the matter is finally settled,
according to Referee in Bankruptcy
Remington. The assets will amount to
Jjs.ooo, it is expected, against which are
claims for attorneys' fees and court
costs amounting to $10,300, leaving about
$14,000 with which to meet $.1,000,000 of
indebtedness.
Coech Goes Over Precipice.
Cody, Wyo. (Special). Information
has been received here that a drunken
driver with a six-horse coach filled with
tourists drove over a precipice in Yel
lowstone Park, killing three passengers
and injuring seven others. No details
have been ascertained, as no telephone
communication exists with the part of
the park where the accident is said to
have occurred.
For Bennington Memorial,
San Diego, Cal. (Special). Funds
raised by popular subscription to erect
a monument in the military cemetery to
commemorate the victims of the Ben
nington disaster exceed $1,000. The
Government, it is announced, will erect
a monument in memory of the dead sea
men, and in view of this it has been
decided to enlarge Ihe scope of the popu
lar memorial and endeavor to secure
$50,000 to build and equip a clubhouse
for sailors.
German Discovery Said to Be Greet Boon
For Sufltrers.
Cleveland (Special). If the experi
ments now being carried on by several
prominent Cleveland physicians with a
new serum for hay fever arc successful,
hundreds of victims of this disease may
not be forced away frwn their homes
this summer.
The new serum was discovered by a
German physician, and claims are made
that it will prevent victims of hay fever
from serious attacks, and in many in
stances effect an absolute cure. Physi
cians in several well-known Cleveland
hospitals are giving the new scrum a
trial, and they have hopes that a rem
edy has at last been discovered that will
destroy the disease, which has baffled
the doctors of the country for many
years.
flea Aaotbcr Mission.
Washington, D. C. (Special). It is
said at the State Department that if M.
Witte, in addition to his duties as a
peace commissioner, is cnargrj .villi ne
gotiations directly with the fvf 'tm
here in regard to the readjustment of
the tariff relation between the I uili ..
States and Russia, he will probably In- in
touch with the Treasury officials, who
have inspired all the diplomatic ex
changes on this subject from the Amer
ican side.
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
WITTE VISITS OYSTER BAY.
He Runs the Gauntlet ol the Camera
Fiends.
Oyster Bay, L. I. (Special). "He is
a splendid fellow," the President is re
ported to have said of Witte after the
envoy left Sagamore Hill. Ihe Presi
dent was very much pleased with the
broad-shouldered Russian plenipotentiary
whom he entertained at luncheon.
M. Witte's impression of the Presi
dent was equally complimentary. Upon
his return to the St. Regis he said :
"I have conceived the highest opin
ion of Mr. Roosevelt. I was particu
larly struck by his energy and broad
mindedness. I feel it is good for the
United States lo have so distinguished
a man at the head of its executive, and
I fully appreciate the reasons that led
to the choice of him for so responsible
and honorable a post. 1 do not say this
with any desire to flatter the President
or the American people. It is my sin
cere conviction."
Ill the interview between the Presi
dent, Baron Rorn and Mr. Witte the
peace negotiations were discussed on
general lines, and Mr. Witte, it is said,
expressed himself hopeful of being able
to conclude a peace treaty, for which
the President naturally hopes also.
Tight Boots Imperils Lite,
Altoona, Pa. (Special). The wearijig
of a tight boot cost Edward McGuire,
aged 4 years, of Wihnore, his right leg.
A short time ago the boy was presented
with a pair of boots. They became wet
and shrunk, becoming too tight for him.
Recently he put them on to wear them
out. and one of the boots chafed his foot,
causing blood poisoning. ' In order to
save his life amputation 6f the leg was
necessary.
M, Neratoff, of the Russian Foreign
Office, says M. Wiltes credcntja.i arc
ample.
1 Noted Pythian Dead.
Indianapolis (Special). Gen, James
R. Carnahan, major-general of the Uni
formed Rank, Knights of Pythias, died
at his home, in Woodruff Place, after an
illness of two weeks. The immediate
cause of death was stomach trouble and
ura-mic poisoning. He leaves a widow
and three daughters. One of the daugh
ters is Mrs. II. G. Ahbrook, of Cleve
land, Ohio.
Paper Mills Burned.
Kaston, Pa. ( Special ). The Uh'cr-
ville Paper Mills, a short distance I mm
here, were damaged by fire to the extent
of $50,000; partially insured F.aston
firemen saved the plant from total de
struction. Ihe mills are operated by
the Butterick Pattern Company, of New
York.
Captain Kidd's treasure has been un
earthed again. This time Egg Harbor
Lity, N. J., is the place where the pi
rate's hoard has been found. A learned
professor has pointed out the hole where
the treasure chest may have been buried
and dug up.
Ihe attention of the inhabitants of
Egg Harbor City was attracted on Wed
nesday night to a series of mysterious
excavations on the West estate, which
is situated on the F.gg Harbor River.
Lanterns were seen moving about in all
directions, as if a number of persons
were at work. Owing to an old super
stition that the West estate was haunted,
no one dared to investigate the matter
until next day.
hndav a party of explorers found
picks, shovels and other digging tools.
The hole where the treasure chest might
have been was close by. No marked
stone or rusty blunderbuss or Spanish
rapier was found that might indicate
that the pirate ever set foot on the
sliorcs of F'gg Harbor or who the dig
gers might be.
The West house is one of the oldest
in New Jersey, and has been unoccupied
for some time. In earlier days it was
used as a meeting place for the Colonial
Dames.
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Fire that at one time threatened havoc
to shipping devastated the greater part
of a block fronting the North River, in
Jersey City, damage to the extent of
$103,000 resulting. The loss was cen
tered in a block bounded by Morris,
Essex and Hudson greets and the river,
which included offices and yards of the
Brown Drydnck Company, the James
Mi-Williams Towing Company, the The
odore Smith, Sons & Co. iron works,
the Bert Mitchell machine shops and
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
The latter concern lost seven of the
cables which carry direct Western wires
and as a result all its through business.
was relayed far up the State, and from
there lo Philadelphia, causing consider
able delay.
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Samuel Bernstein, a master baker of
Roebling street. Brooklyn, is dead, and
Isaac Feder, his assistant, is in a critical
condition, as a result of a mysterious as
sault by a man armed with a pistol, who
entered Bernstein's shop and opened fire
upon the two men.
Before dying Bernstein identified John
Cipriano. 10 years old, as his assailant.
Young Cipriano, who is in custody
charged with the crime, was recently
treated in a Brooklyn hospital for
gunshot wound, the origin of which he
would not explain, saying that he would
settle his score himself as soon as he re
covered.
J&
Charles Rouxel, of evident refine
ment, lately professor of belles-lettres
in the University of Honduras, has fall
en 011 evil days. Penniless and friend
less, Rouxel was sent to the workhouse
for a month by Magistrate Wahle in
the jeffersou Market Police Court.
The Magistrate was loth to pronounce
his sentence, which will be operative
only until Rouxel can hear from his
relatives in France, who, he says, are
influential and well-to-do. . However
Rouxel will have a roof over him. Re
eenlly the parks have been his home.
I INANCIAL
Washington, D. C, (Special). Secre
tary Taft's approaching visit to Shan
ghai is being awaited with much in
terest by all Government officials who
have to do with either the formation
of the new treaty with China or with
the boycott against American goods now
being carried forward in that country.
He is the only member of the Presi
dent's own family who has openly de
clared that the exclusion laws must
be given a more liberal construction.
Negotiations for the new Chinese
treaty are still at a standstill, accord
ing to an authority in the Mate department.
The draft of the treaty puhlished trom
Seattle is merely the translation from
Chinese papers of a draft which was
submitted by China to this uovcrnment
about seven or eight months ago and
rejected by the United States. It con
tains many provisions which arc actu
ally prohibited by the existing exclusion
laws and others which require legisla
tion, which the State Department is not
hopeful of obtaining from Congress at
any near session. Since its rejection
nearly a dozen other drafts have been
presented by either side.
The negotiations seem to have split
upon a vitally important rock of dif
ference. The Chinese Minister desires
the admission of all classes of his
countrymen who are not specifically ex
cluded' by name in the present laws. On
the other hand, the American idea is
that none should be admitted except
those who are specifically denominated
in the laws.
An illustration was given at the State
Department of a student who in the
summer vacation earns money as a wait
er or other employe at a seaside resort.
Under the department's interpretations
of the exclusion acts such a person,
were he a Chinaman, would fall under
the classification of a laborer. Another
objection by this Government is the cer
tification of immigrants by lninese
sources.
The State Department made public
the following official statement, which
concerns capitalists interested in the de-
elopment of Chinese railroads :
"Last September the American Min
ister at Pekine. in reference to the
Canton-Hankow Railway, communicated
to the State Department information
that the Chinese Government had prom
ised that British and American capi
talists should have the preference, if
foreign capital was found to be neces
sary in extending the railway to Chung
king, in the Province of Szcchuan (832
mHes above Hankow).
The State Department is now in re
ceipt of advices that English and French
capitalists have come to an agreement
with a view to joining in the construc
tion of a line to Szechuan. It is under
stood that the British Government pro
poses to approach the Chinese Govern
ment with the object of obtaining a
concession for the construction of the
proposed line, according to the terms
of the agreement above mentioned.
Under the promise made to this
Government by the Chinese Govern
ment American capitalists would have
the right to participate in the enter
prise, and provision for such partici
pation is made in the agreement."
A controversy over coal screening is
threatening to tie up all Michigan
mines.
General farm wages in Arkansas have
fallen from $18 a month to $10 within
fifteen to twenty years.
Street car men are urging the intro
duction of center aisles 011 summer cars
for greater safety of conductors.
One business house in Chicago reports
that the abandonment of the union la
bel for a few months cost them $47,000.
For fifty years the average yearly earn
ings of ihe American farmhand have
been the lowest in the entire national
wage scale.
The three hundred thousand South
ern Italians, Hebrews and Poles ar
riving last year landed with an average
capital of $13 a person.
There are now in California ,15,000
Japanese, and on the whole length of
the toast fully 100,000, ihe majority
having arrived in the last five years.
A project to establish homes for in
capacitated trade unionists has been taken
up for consideration by the United As
sociation of Plumbers.
Put Four Builds Into Wife.
Pittsburg, Pa. ( Special). Daniel
Darling is under arrest, charged with
an attempt to murder his wife in Alle
gheny. Darling, who is an engineer,
has been separated from his wife live
times, and only recently returned to her.
Wednesday he procured a revolver and
said he would kill three people his
.vile, her mother and A mail. He suc
ceeded in putting four bullets into hi
wife's body, producing wounds which
will in all likelihood prove fatal.
w7tnanBll Player Hurl.
Newcastle, Pa. (Special). In the first
game of baseball she ever played Mrs,
William Guildoo, of this city, sustained
a fracture of three ribs. The game was
played at the annual outing of the Prim
itive Methodist Church, at Willow Grove,
four miles soulh of here. Teams were
"picked up" with several women oil each
side. When Mrs. Guildoo went to bat
she turned away from the first ball,
which struck her in the side, fracturing
three ribs and knocking her down.
The reorganization of the Diamond
State Steel Company must be consum
mated by January 1. It is understood
that all the large holders have signified
their willingness to accept the new plan,
Illinois Central was higher on the
street report that Union Pacific had se
cured control of it.
There was an 8-point advance in (He
price of Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western. The other coalers were also
higher.
American Linseed acts queer. With
an advance in the manufactured arti
cle ami the corner in the product there
should be a belter response.
It is said that Canadian capitalists
are seeking investments in Mexico and
that a group of Montreal men incor
porated the Mexican Electric Light
Company with a capital of $6,000,000
and will deal in electric light, heat and
power in Mexico.
P. A. B. Wideuer, John G. Johnson
and N. B, Ream have gone together
tor a trip in burope.
Bull news is all tnat can be heard,
The bears have taken to cover.
Henry Trumble, a British trader, was
billed by natives in Ihe New Hebrides.
The telegraphers employed by the
Great Northern Railway 111 its Wil
mar (N. D ), Fergus Falls and Breck
enride (Minn.) divisions went on strike
because' they would not accept the wage
scale ottered by the company.
The Japanese emigration companies
object to sending laborers to work on
the Panama Luna! on account of th
unsanitary conditions.
DRAMATIC SUICIDE OF YOUNG WIPE
Jumped Into Ihe River In the Presence ol
Several Hundred Spectators.
St. Joseph, Mich. (Special). Mrs.
Fred Schneider, the 18-ycar-old wife of
merchant tailor here, committed sui
cide about, midnight by jumping into
the St. Joseph River before the eyes
of several hundred spectators. Mrs.
Schneider sank before any assistance could
reach her, and it ""was two hours before
the body wa recovered with grappling
hooks.. The young woman was the
daughter of N. O. Osborne, of Chicago.
March is. 1004. she cloned with Schnei
der and the couple were married in In
diana. They then came to this city
and lived with Schneider's parents. Do
mestic troubles developed and culmi
nated in the yining wife leaving her hus
band last spring. Mrs. Schneider met
her husband at night in the park, and,
is alleged, after taxing him with
not supporting her, said : "I have no
means of supporting myself 'and I am
going to t'rown myself." She went
straight to the river and carried out
her threat.
Tail Party Leaves Japan.
Nagasaki (By Cable). The steamer
Manchuria, with the Taft party on
board, saih d at 7 o'clock for Manila.
Secretary I aft said: We were wholly
unprepared for the enthusiastic recep
tion which we have had at the hands
of th' Japanese Government and peo
ple. We' feel, of course, that this was
due to the kindly fcelui;? toward the
American Government and people.','
Assessed Value el Kiss.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). Miss Ele
anor J. Omphalitis sued Harvey Cope-
land for $500 damages, alleging that he
had kissed and hugged her against her
will. The young woman is pretty, but
Judge Hammond thought her valuation
of one of her kissess excessive, and or
dered Copcland lo pay $35 damages and
$6.20 costs.
To Fight Cracker Trust.
Detroit, Mich. (Special). The Jour
nal says it is probable that one result
of the convention to be held here next
week by the independent cracker bakers
of the United States and Canada will
be the organization of combination of
independent bakers, more powerful than
the National Biscuit Company. The
convention mecls here August 7( to to,
and 450 delegates from Independent ba
keries in all parts of the United States
and Canada are expected.
SPARKS FROM TIIR WIRHS.
There is a shortage of skilled- mill
worlyrs in Pittsburg.
The North Atlantic Squadron of eight
battleships left the Hudson River for
the Maine coast for target practice.
Practically all suspicion that yellow
fever exists among persons under de
tention in New York has been removed.
In Chicago three young Men were,
sentenced to the penitentiary for long
terms for highway robberies.
The Pittsburg, Shawmut and North-;
crn Railroad Company was placed in
the hands of receivers.