PEACE PLANS MATERIALIZING Japanese Appear to Be More Con:ilia torj in Tteir Attitude. M. WITTE CLAIMS A VICTORY. Official Statement Issued Sbawt That (he Envoys Hit Found tht Demands of lb Japanesse tad I ha Coaatcr Propor tions f tht Rutiliaa Nol locompatlble With a Compromise. Although the Japanese pleni potentiaries wanted to work on Sunday, they followed the exam ple set by the Russians and at tended service lit an Episcopal church. The conference failed to reach an agreement Saturday on the condition providing for the rec ognition of Japan's preponder ating position in Korea. Strong outside influence are at work on both sides, and the plan of having Russia practically satisfy Japan's claim of reim bursement for the cost of the war by purchase of the Japa nese military evacuation of Sak halin continues to be advanced. It is reported that representa tives of the banking-houses of Kuhn, Locb & Co. and Sclig man & Co. will consult with Si. W'ittc and liaron Rosen in re gard to negotiating a Russian loan to pay an indemnity or pur chase the evacuation of Sakha lin. The session of the conference set for Sunday was postponed until Monday. Portsmouth, N. II. ( Special). Actu al peace negotiations between Russia and Japan arc well under way. The pros- THE GENERAL STORES BTJILDINQ, PORTSMOUTH (N H.) NAVY YARD. (Where the Russian and Japanese Peace Commissioners are holding their meetings.) pects for a settlement of the existing differences in the Far East have grown much brighter. Pessimism is disappear ing and hope is gradually taking its place. At noon the hour of the crisis that was to determine the question of peace or war was fixed at 3 o'clock. At night the official announcement was made thai several days will in all probability be consumed by the envoys in the discus sion of the subject under consideration. That topic was the first clause of the Japanese demand. What it is can only be conjectured. The Russian envoys advocated pub licity of deliberations. The Japanese opposed it. Hgnce the present mystery. It is announced that the cession of Sakhalin is not now under considera tion. Inasmuch as several days may be re quired to reach a decision, it is sug gested that the proposed limitation of Russian naval strength in the Pacific is the present bone of contention. ON THE NATION'S DUTY. President Roosevelt Outline's His Conception of It at Chautauqua Assembly. Chautauqua, N. Y. (Special). "Let us give President Roosevelt the Chau tauqua salute at its best." With these words Bishop John H. Vincent closed his brief introduction of the President to the Chautauqua Assembly, and in stantly 10,000 white handkerchiefs flut tered in the air over the heads of the vast audience in the great amphitheatre. It was an inspiring and beautiful sight, and as President Roosevelt stepped for ward smiling, the audience rose as one person and cheered enthusiastically. Some of the striking utterances in President Roosevelt's address were: The Monroe doctrine is not a part of international law. Hut it is the funda mental feature of our entire foreign pol icy so far as the Western Hemisphere is concerned. We have not allowed it to become fossilized, but have adapted our construction of it to meet the grow ing, changing needs of this hemisphere. Fossilizulion, of course, means death, whether to an individual, a government or a doctrine. The effort to prevent all restraint of competition, whether harmful or bene ficial, has been ill-judged: what is need ed is not so much the effort to prevent combinations as a vigilant and effective Sbol Boy With Ride. Philadelphia (Special). Frank Craig, aged 19 years, was shot and killed by Hugh Gahagan, aged 43 years, at Ca hagan's home. The two had spent the night together, and are said to have been drinking heavily. It is believed they quarreled, but Gahagan was unable to give a coherent account of the trag edy. When the police entered the house they found Gahagan standing over Craig's body, holding a rifle. A Duel to Mississippi. Mobile, Ala. (Special). Charles Mc Laurin, a relative of Senator McLajirin, is dead at Fanning Miss., and Ernest Moss, the postmaster, is barely alive as the result of a duel, Had blood existed between the two men over the post master ihip of the fVvn. The duel was fought with a Winchester and a revol ver. The ' men fired several times at each other, each being badly wounded in the abdomen. There it a remarkable evenness in the division of the sexes in Japan. The most gratifying augur in favor of peace is the announcement by M. VVitte's secretary that the Japanese en voys have shown a disposition to treat for peace in a conciliatory attitude, and that they manifest a disposition toward moderation. It was J o'clock P. M. before the en voys left their quarters in the general storehouse building at the navy yard. The Japanese arrived first at the hotel, and immediately repaired to their apart ments, where they made ready for din ner. Mr. Sato, the envoys' spokesman, made the Russian apartments the storm cen ter for the correspondents by announc ing that Mr. Karastovicz had been dele gated to issue a statement of the day's result. One hour later that official ar rived and issued the following : "The Japanese having received an an swer, the first clause of the Japanese demands was under consideration when the conference adjourned at 7 o'clock, to meet Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock." Mr. Karastovicz expressed with deep regret his inability to make public the condition under discission. He said that the Japanese had entered into the discussion in the best of spirit, that the utmost harmony prevailed, and that the Japanese showed a disposition to treat the subject as persons desiring its satisfactory settlement. M. Wit tc talked interestingly relative to the negotiations now in progress. "The Japanese envoys made no formal answer to the answer submitted by my government," he said. "They suggested that we take tip the demands point by point for discussion. While we had dif ferent ideas, we met their desires. There are twelve Japanese demands. Figuring up on two days' consideration for each, the length of the deliberations give promise of continuing twenty-four days at least. "The subjects under discussion mean either war or peace. We shall do every thing in our power to bring aliont peace. If the war continues, there will be the shedding of the blood of 100.000 more men. Then other countries may become involved." M. Wirte declared that he courted the fullest publicity of the terms and their discussion. He said he had come to the United States with the idea of taking the American people into his confidence, but he had been met with the objection of the Japanese to any such proceedings. He said he wished to deny explicitly and categorically the report that Rus sia had at any of the sessions of the envoys suggested an armistice. There is an impression that the pleni potentiaries have reserved the strongly contested terms of the Japanese until the last, and that those of the most importance, such as Korean protectorate, evacuation of Manchuria, fishing and mining rights in and about Sakhalin and Siberia, transfer of Russian leases on the I.iao-yang peninsula and cession of the Chinese Eastern Railway, are now to be considered and acted upon first. This action in taking the course of the least resistance would indicate a sin cere desire on the part of the envoys of the two belligerent nations to adjust their differences. control of the combinations formed, so as to secure just and equitable dealing on their part alike toward the public generally, toward the smaller competi tors and toward the wageworkers in their employ. Many corporations show themselves honorably desirious to obey the law ; but, unfortunately, some corporations, nnd very wealthy ones at that, exhaust every I effort which can be suggested by the I highest ability, or secured by the most I lavish expenditure of money, to defeat I the purposes of the laws on the statute books. It mii't be understood that under no circumstances will the United States use the Monroe doctrine as a cloak for ter ritorial aggression. It has become our conviction that in some cases, sUch as ,hat 0f a, ,.ast ctr. tain of the beef packers recently in dicted in Chicago, it is impossible to show leniency. Legislation may be more drastic than I would prefer. If so, it must be dis tinctly understood that it will be be cause of the stubborn determination of some of the great combinations in striv ing to prevent the enforcement of the law as it stands by every device, legal and illegal. The great corporations are themselves to blame if by their opposition to what is legal and just they foster the popular feeling which .tells for such drastic ac tion. FINANCIAL When one stock grows heavy it is let alone and another that has been ne glected is taken hold of. It is rumored that several large rail roads are negotiating for freight cars to be delivered next year. The July gross earnings of the Phila delphia Rapid Transit Company in creased $80,000 over July of last year. Many bankers and brokers are of the belief that the advance in Philadelphia Cc trip-any is strictly on its merits. It is reported- that the Guggenheim Exploration Company has exercised its option on the $3,000,000 bond issue of the Utah Copper Company. New York is taking an interest in the Philadelphia market. Considerable Lehigh Valley, United Gas Improve ment and Reading has gone to that city lately. The Reading Railway Company ship ped 91jj6 tons of anthracite during July, a decrease of 5053 tons as com pared with the same period in 1904. Reading seems to have the support of the bankers and the public. It i predicted this stork will sell up to 75. 12 KILLED IN COLLISION Passenger and Freight Trains in a Crash. THE ENGINEER'S WATCH WAS SLOW. Wreck Da to a Mlsnaderstaadlaf of Orders or Oliobcdleoc on the Part of tht Eafloeer of the Freljht Vlclltna Mostly Laborers, Who Wert Doilnj In tht Smoktof Car and Wort Hurled Through tht Coach. Cleveland (Special). A fast east bound passenger train on the Nickel Plate road collided with a westbound freight train at Kishman, Ohio, near Vermillion, resulting in the death of 12 persons, while at least 25 others were injured, eight of whom will probably die. The wreck, according to the officials of the company, was caused by a mis understanding of orders or neglect to obey them on the part of the crew of the freight train. The engineer and fireman of the freight train saved themselves by jump ing as soon as they saw the passenger train coming. Aside from the engineer, the men kill ed on the passenger train were all rid ing in the smoking car at the head of the train, and were mostly foreign la borers in the employ of the Standard Oil Company on their way from Fort Seneca, Ohio, to Brookfleld, Ohio, in charge of a foreman. Engineer Poole, of the passenger train, was killed at his post while trying to reach for the airbrake after seeing the headlight of the freight train. His fireman, Haef ner. saved himself by jumping. The high speed of the passenjer train threw its locomotive and first three coaches over on the engine of the freight train, telescoping the smoker and the car following. The forward cars of the freight train were splintered to frag ments. Of the passengers in the smoker none escaped injury. F'ortunately, there was no fire, but the heavy timbers of the wrecked cars pinned down many and prevented them from getting out until assistance arrived. Doctors were hurried to the scene on a special train from Lorain, and the in jured were immediately taken to Lorain and placed in the hospital there. The dead were conveyed to the morgue at Lorain, awaiting identification and dispo sition. When the trains came together almost everybody in the smoker was dozing. The sudden jar hurled them out of their seats into the aisle and threw several persons to the roof and sides of the car, which seemed all at once to crunch in like a paper bag, pinning down each passenger in the position in which he had been caught. The passengers in the second car escaped more easily, as there the violence of the impact was not so severe, although few got off without cuts, bruises, sprains or broken bones. The two rear cars were sleep ers, and they withstood the shock with out suffering serious harm, no passen ger in either of them being injured. The men on the train who escaped in jury worked as well as they could with out tools to save life and limb, and the residents in the sparsely settled vicinity soon arrived to help. The sleepers were used for the accommodation 01 some of the injured, as were seveal houses near the siding. The officials of the Nickle Plate, as soon as they learned of the accident, ordered all possible assistance given and no expense spared in taking care of the injured. President CantfT, of the Nickle Plate, stated that from the information in the hands of the officials the freight train crew had orders to go on the siding at Kishman, and there await the passage of the passenger train. Why this was not done in time to permit the passen ger train to go by, or a flagman sent out, has not et been learned. A rigid investigation is, however, being made by the railway officials. ZIEOLER ARCTIC PARTY RESCUED. Relief Eipcdltloa Cioie la Nick of Tine No New Record Made. Honningsvaag, Norway (By Cable). The Arctic steamer Terra Nova, which went to the relief of the Fiala-Ziegler polar expedition, has rescued Anthony Fiala and all the others connected with the expedition with the exception of one Norwet,.an seaman, who died from natu ral causes. The ship America, which took out the expedition, was crushed in the ice early in the winter 1903-04, and lost with a large part of her coal and provisions. The 37 members of the expedition who returned to safety are all in good health, despite their privations and try ing experiences and their prolonged im prisonment in the Arctic, the expedition having been severed from all communi cation with the outside world since July, 90.1. The expedition reached 83 degrees and 13 minutes north latitude. Beaaloftoa Memorial Association. San Diego, Cal. (Special). At a meeting of the board of control of the Bennington Memorial Association an ad visory board, containing the names of citizens prominent in the. state and na tion, were selected. The names include President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, Ex-Secretary of the Navy Morton, the president of the Y. M. C. A., Miss Helen Gould; Admirals Goodrich and MeCalla, Governor Par dee, Senators Perkins and Flint, of Cali fornia, and the eight congressmen from this state. Notifications of the appoint ment will be sent, and it is hoped that the majority of those named will ac cept. Captured Thret E adits. Tacoma, Wash. (Special). In a run ning fight, during which a number of shots were exchanged, Special Agent William G. dimming, of the Northern Pacific Railway, captured three men who had attempted to hold up an castbouinl Northern Pacific passenger train near Sumner. The men threaier' to shoot Conductor Michael llelfrin., Detective dimming and any other person who might offer resistance, but the train was stopped and Gumming chased and cap tured the men. Mount Whitney's tlcltjbt. San Francisco (Special). The party of United States Geological Survey level men, under Topographer K. A. Farmer, which has been running a line of levels to the summit of Mount Whitney, has completed its work and found the true height of the mountain to be 14,502 feet. While this shows Mount Whitney to be the highest measured mountain in the United States, it makes the true height 20 feet less than the figur- that has generally been accepted and '!j feet less than that indicated by barometrical readings. 1 THE NEWS INJHORT ORDER Domestic; In New York Mrs. Rose Schoomke, a former trapeze performer, who was deserted by her husband, tried to hang herself, but the rope broke. Then she drank a liquid in which matches had been soaked. Before the poison became effective she tried to throw herself from a fifth-story window. In a speech nt a Confederate reunion at McGregor, Tex., Senator Bailey de cried the remarks of President Alder man, of the University of Virginia, in belittling modern statesmen of the South. It is stated that the fund necessary to meet the expense in the case of the Ap peal of Johann Hoch, the Chicago "Blue beard," has not been presented to the court. Sam Grice, a former British soldier, who once saved the life of General Rob erts in battle, was sentenced at Salt Lake City to 12 years in orison for bur glary. Edward Droum died under mysterious circumstances at Peoria, 111. He was the son of a former member of the fac ulty of the University of Pennsylvania. Twenty firemen were overcome by an explosion of tanks containing fats in a New York ?oap factory. I hey were rescued by their comrades. At Frederic, Mich., Mrs. Hedrich was arrested on the charge of the murder of her 'two little boys. President Jordon, of the Southern Cotton Association, has demanded the resignation of Vice President Peters of the organization. The Citizens' Union of New York has issued a call for the nomination of Dis trict Attorney Jerome for mayor. President Roosevelt addressed the mineworkers and the Catholic Total Ab stinence Union at Wilkesbarre. General Lyon succeeds General Car nahan as head of the Uniformed Rank of Knights of Pythias. Eijiro Tagasugi, professor of English at the University of Tokio, says Russia must make peace. Capt. Jerome B. Osier, believed to be the oldest resident of Illinois, died at Chicago. Oscar Benson, a policeman, shot and killed his brother-in-law in Chicago. The boilcrmakcrs of the Chicago Great Western shops have struck. The Chicago police will pursue the gamblers who have taken refuge on a floating poolroom on Lake Michigan with' a gunboat. Two locomotives sank into a bottom less pit by the giving away of a sec tion of track at Crawford Junction, N. Y. The fire in the Humble oil field has burned itself out. The loss is estimated at $350,000, with partial insurance. The third attempt to kidnap the young son of Governor Otero, of New Mexico, has been defeated. New records for the Army were es tablished at the tournament in progress at Fort Sheridan. President Harper, of the University of Chicago, will visit John D. Rocke feller, in Cleveland. An interclrtjrch conference or federa tion will be held in New York, Novem ber 15. The applicants for lands on the Uintah Reservation have increased. An assignee has been appointed for the Western Bank at Denver. Mr. J. P. Morgan called at Sagamore Hill and had a conference with the President with reference to the Hankow Railroad in China, which that govern ment wants to buy from Mr. Morgan's nrm. The provincial governors of the Phil ippines, through Governor Wright, ask ed for a number of reforms. The con gressional committee gave a hearing to the sugsir planters. Miss Ethel Delaney was arrested in Louisville, charged with complicity in murdering Cecil Crutchfield near Stan ford, Ky. The second annual encampment and reunion of the Spanish War Veterans will be held at Milwaukee, September 9. It is authoritatively announced in New York that Senator Gorman will not be a candidatte for re-election. Frederick W. Vanderbilt will build another dormitory for the Yale Sheffield Scientific School. Fifteen electric light and gas compa nies in Luzerne county, Fa., have been consolidated. toreito. Parliament was prorogued with a speech trom the throne which compar atively few members of the two houses were present to hear read. The relief steamer Terra Nova arrived at Tromsoe, Norway, with Anthony Fi- ala and the members of the Zeigler polar expedition. It was officially announced that 118 officers and men surrendered at Nioro, Sakhalin Island. The announcement that German mank ers have formed a syndicate to lend $2.- 500,000 to the Sultan of Morocco has caused resentment in Paris, where it is regarded as a violation of the status quo agreement. The police were busy arresting Jew ish Socialists in Warsaw. Many dis turbances were reported in the surround ing districts. Allen White, an American, was killed at Pclus, in France, by falling from the dirts. Secretary of War Taft and Miss Alice Roosevelt visited the trade schools in Manila. Wu Ting-fang, former Chinese min ister to the United States, and now vice president of the Board of Affairs at Peking, in an interview, says that the Americans are too harsh in their treat ment of Chinese tourists and students. He says his government does not object to our exclusion of coolies. The police authorities have arrested 168 workmen in Lodz, Poland, who were leaders m the last strike. Russians believe that their position has been strengthened by the granting of reforms at home. The effect will be to bring to the support of the govern ment innuential lactors hitherto indif ferent or antagonistic. The Russian force operating cast of Mandarin road advanced August 5 to near village ot lnagon, south ot iaiilu. The Japanese resumed offensive and turned both flanks of Russian force, obliging 11 t retire. King Edward celebrated the anniver sary of his coronation by reviewing the combined French and British fleets, ag gregating about 70 ships, at Portsmouth According to dispatches to Tokio from Sakhalin, the Russians released Siberian convicts prior to Japanese occupation. It is apprehended that they will dis turb ihe peace. There, has been a heavy snowstorm throughout the Inner Ziller Valley, in Austria, and many tourists have been iiiowbound. The Venezuelan government" has placed an order in Genoa, Italy, for six torpedo boats and one torpedo-boat de stroyer. The International Anatomical Con gress in Geneva, Switzerland, accepted in invitation to meet in Boston in J907. FEVER LESS MALIGNANT Yirnlcnfij of Sconrage Now Believed to Be Lessening. THE SITUATION IS WELl IN HAND. Embargoes Have Been Taken. From Prtltht Chaoft Attributed to the Marine Hospital Service and Proclamation ol tht Governor Ail Example la to Bt Madt of Pbytlclasa Who Refuse to Report Ferer Cases. New Orleans (Special). With the death rate remaining lower than in pre vious visitations of yellow fever, the feeling among health officers and the laity continues hopeful. Although the resent visitation has been prevalent long enough to assume a virulent form, the fever is apparently less malignant than it was when it first appeared. Doctors now believe that if the first cases had been taken hold of at once and sub jected to proper treatment the total deaths would have been much fewer. The death rate for some time has been steadily declining, showing the results of efficient scientific treatment. At the beginning it exceeded 25 per cent., but now has dropped to 17 per cent. In 1K7N throughout the epidemic it was about 29 per cent. 1 he heavy death rate at first is be lieved to have been due to the fact that the stricken Italians courted death, either by their refusal to summon doctors or by refusing to follow directions given them. Many cases which have been reported lately, except among Italians, arc mild in character and readily respond to treat ment. However, though the conditions present a favorable aspect, the physi cians realize that two months or more remain during which the disease may have to be combat ted. Dr. White said that while the work of thorough organization of his forces is rapidly crystallizing, he will not be able to make an announcement of the details of his campaign for some days. One of the details of the plan will be, it is said, inspection, not only of every house, but of every room in New Or leans. Dr. White said that he had had ess interference from politicians in New Orleans than he had ever met with be- forc in similar situations. He had talked over the situation with Mayor liehr nian, and the Mayor had assured him that the Marine Hospital force could count on having a free hand in fighting the fever. Three additional surgeons arrived to join the staff of Dr. White, who now has enough surgeons to keep in touch with every section of the city. Dr. Souchon is making up a list of nurses and physicians who are willing to do service outside of New Orleans. Bon Ami, Patterson and other points where there is fever have asked for sci entific help, and the authorities will make every effort to furnish it. FOUGHT INSANE MAN. Llfhlhoust Keeper's Terrible Experience For Seven Days. New York (Special). Stratford Shoals Light, and perhaps the big Long Island Sound steamers which are guided by it, were saved last week through the heroic struggle which the keeper of the light, Merrill Hulse, mac: for seven days against an insane man, marooned alone with the keeper and de termined to extinguish the light. The madman was Hulse's brother keeper, Julius Coster, who went crazy and tried to destroy the light. In at tempts to get at the light Coster wanted to kill Hulse. The story of the lone keeper's defense of the Stratford Shoals was made pub lic when the head keeper, Gilbert L. Ruland, who was ashore on a vacation last week, handed in his official report of last week's happenings. The light house is situated on Long Island, mid way between Bridgeport and Port Jef ferson. Hulse had no warning that he was living with an insane man until one day Coster attacked him with a weapon made of a razor lashed to the end of a long pole. The keeper overpowered Coster, and repeatedly afterward, dur ing the first two days of his compan ion's madness, was forced to fight for his own life. Then Coster's mania took a new turn, and one afternoon Hulse found him with a hammer and chisel trying to cut away the walls of the light house. That night the light sud denly stopped revolving, and its keeper ran to the lamp room to find Coster with an ax about to destroy the lenses. He fought his way into the room and saved the light, and from that time on, for fully five days, doing two men's work, the brave keeper was forced both to guard the lenses day and night, and to fight many times for his own life, and finally toward the end of this period another burden was laid on him. As Coster's delirium wore off he became desirous of committing suicide, so that when removed from the light house he bore self-inflicted gashes all over his neck, which only Hulse's faithful watch fulness had kept from becoming fatal. He was taken to a hospital. Burned Him at tht Stake. Sulphur Springs, Texas (Special). A negro charged with assaulting the daughter of a widow near this place was caught and burned at the stake in the courthouse square here. The as sault was committed by the negro early in the morning. When the town was alarmed, about an hour later, a posse of armed horsemen went immediately in pursuit of the assailant. The country was scoured in all directions, and the negro was finally captured. Mint Olficial's Suicide. Philadelphia ( Special ) .Robert S. Huston, who for a number of eurs held the position of chief clerk in the United Slates mint here, committed sui cide some time during the night by hanging in the cellar of his home. Sev eral months ago Mr, Huston suffered a stroke of paralysis, and, although he recovered sufficiently to return to the mint, he did not grow entirely well. He was 48 yiars old. To Probt Life Insurance Companies. New York (Special), Insurance Commissioner R. E. Folk, of Tennessee, announced Miat an interstate examina tion of life insurance companies would commence on October I. The New York Life Insurance Company will be exam ined first. The announcement was made after a conference between the insurance commissioners of Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebrascka, Louisiana and Tennessee, and President John A. Me Call, of the New York Life Insurance Company. SIDELIGHTS OF NEW YORK Nw York ClTT, N. T. Annie O'Shaughncssy, a pretty girl of 20, is a prisoner in the Hudson Street Hospital, charged with having attempt ed suicide. Disappointment in a love af fair is given by Miss O'Shaughnessy as the cause for her act. She told the pet lice that she left her home, at 240 West One Hundred and Twenty-first Street, where she is employed as a servant, de termining to end her troubles in the river. .She went down to Chambers street, where she boarded a North Rivet ferryboat. . She waited until the boat had reached a point about 300 feet from the shore, and then jumped overboard. Michael Nelson was at work on the deck of a steam lighter and saw the girl leap. He jumped into the watet after her and reached her in time. t? With seven cents in his pocket, the remains, he said, of a fortune of half a million dollars, a man with flowing white side whiskers appealed to Commissionct of Charities Henry Sharp at New Ro chelle to be committed to the Westches ter County Almshouse. The old man said he Was J. T. Rape lee, f2 years old. He wore a silk hat, patent leather shoes and frock coat. He was at one time, he said, a New York broker and the head of a house in Wall Street. Commissioner Sharp committed him to the poorhouse as he requested, but sent him to the institution at East View in. a carriage. 0 t "He called me Nan Patterson and 1 slapped his face, Judge," said Louisa hhlers, of Jersey City, to Judge Man tling in Second Criminal Court. "You were justified in doing so," was the Court's comment. "But she called me Mr. Pewee, said Thomas McAdams, whom the girl charged with slandering her. I he dispute was finally ended by dis missing the whole case, but not before Miss Ehlers declared her conviction that Nan Patterson was guiltv "ny?" asked the Court. "Because the papers said so," was the woman's logical reply. & jp Coroner William O'Gorman of the Bronx, who was conspicuous in the investigation of the General Slocum dis aster, had half an hour in the water (jnder circumstances hardly comfortable. In the first place, he weighs 252 pounds. He slipped and fell from his yacht Dada, near Hunter Island, and when he came up started to swim ashore, as he thought. But he mistook the route in the dark, and after half an hour struck his head on a rock near Orchard Beach, and was stunned for a moment. When he recovered his senses' he walked ashore in shallow water. jp & "Motorman, you will stop this car, if you please?" said a mild-mannered and smiling man of about 35 years, as he poked a gun into the face of Considine Watson, crossing the bridge on a Third avenue trolley. "What !" exclaimed the motorman. "Right here," said the smiling gun man, and the motorman stopped. With a polite thank you, the man with the gun stepped off, walked lightly to the railing and jumped under to the river. His body has not been recovered. or & at "Y'ou got just what you deserved," said Magistrate Moss in Essex Market Court to Abram Enzwng, who charged Jennie Katz with stabbing him in the head and legs. "The case is dismissed." Enzwag was formerly an ironer in a clothing establishment at l684 Delancey street, where the girl is employed. Ac cording to her story, he persisted in an noying her and tried to take her arm, when she stabbed him with a pair of shears. Wants Japan's Oood Will. Peking (By Cable). The note ad dressed by China to Japan, Russia, France and America, seeking repre sentation in the peace conference, caused considerable annoyance to the Japanese, and China, it is stated, subsequently conveyed its regrets unofficially. China expressed the hope that Japan would not misconstrue its attitude, which, it was explained, was perfectly friendly. Arcanum Council Will Meet August 30. Boston, Mass. (Special). W. O. Rob son, supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum, announced that the Supreme Council will meet at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on August 30, to consider the develop ments growing out of the establishment of new rates. Forty-two representatives from 'he Grand Councils have signed a request made to Supreme Regent Wig gins that a special session be held. Fe l From tbt Cliffs. Paris (By Cable). Alan White, an American, 18 years old, was killed at Palus, in the Department of Cotes du Nurd. He was caught in the tide while walking 011 the beach, and attempted to climb the cliffs. He reached the sum mit of the cliffs, but lost his hold and fell a hundred feet. Death was instan taneous. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. Dr. Jacob H. Hollander, of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, who re cently returned from , Santo Domingo, has been appointed by the President as special commissioner to visit British and other colonial possessions in the West Indies in connection with his further in quiry into Santo Domingo ' affairs. The Postmaster General has . issued regulations governing the installation and custody of mail chutes in office buildings, hotels and other large struc tures. The formal exercises accompanying the interment of the body of Paul Jones at Annapolis will not be held until next spring. The Postoffice Department has de cided that hereafter letter-boxes on rural delivery routes shall be numbered. An alarming increase in typhoid fevet is reported by the health officials. Advices to the State Deparement say that the Chinese Chamber of Commerce is powerless to stop boycott on Ameri can goods. Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark was retired from active service. The remains of Gen, Roy Stone were buried at Arlington. hi a report to the Bureau of Manu facturers Special Agent Hutchinson de clares that a ship subsidy would aid trade with South American countries. The Postolliee Department officials ire investigating the complaints of Mary land farmers in regard to rural mail boxes they have been buying. George 11. McCabe, solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, has been placed at the head of the investigation jf the Bureau of Animal Industry. In a signed statement Willis L. Moore denies that there is any graft in the Weather Bureau. A BIG STORE WRECKED Many Persons Are Killed By tbe Falling Walls. FORTY PERSONS ARE MISSING. Thert Wtrt Over four Hundred In tht Build Inn Of These Over One Hundred Art Known to Bt Mort or Less Seriously In hired Fivt Bodies Havt Thus Far Been Taken from tht Wreck. Albany, N. Y. (Special). Death and destruction followed the collapse of the central section of the five-story building, occupied by the department store of thci John 0. Myers Company, on North Pearl street, shortly before 0 o'clock in the morning. Of "the 400 employes om the payroll, three-quarters of whom are , women and young girls and cash boys, nearly a hundred were temporarily or permanently buried in the debris. It was next to impossible to get any where near a correct list of the dead nnd missing. The offices and books of the corporation were carried down in the wreckage, including the list of em ployes. Of the 400 employes on the payroll 50 were on a vacation and of the remainder the names of 250 were se cured. Of- this 250 40 were missing or unaccounted for. Of the other hun dred 50 were cash boys, of whom there is no list, and so were men and women clerks, whose names could not be learned. Robert M. Chalmers, one of the mem bers of the firm, was cut out of the wreckage, but luckily was not serious ly injured. It was estimated that there were at least 25 more bodies buried in the ruins, but this was pure guess-work, though considered conservative. The employes who were figuring up the missing at 8 o'clock said that 75 employes were unaccounted for, but this number grew gradually less as the night advanced. The building is in the center of the block on Pearl street, and runs through to James street, and is 64 feet wide and 200 feet deep. Alterations have been going on for the past two months, and under the central section of the building excavation was going on in order to construct a subcellar 12 feet deep. 1 The main support of this central sec tion on the basement floor were steel girders resting on a pillar in the center jf the building, which was continued on ip to the roof. In the morning work men cut through the floor on each side of this pillar for the purpose of shoring it up from the excavation below. This work, however, was delayed too long, for, while the work was progressing and: without warning, the pillar which rested' on a stone foundation standing on a clay bottom, slipped, and in less time than it takes to tell it, all four floors of ihe central section of the building buckled downward in the center, to be followed a few minutes afterward by the roof. i..ere was hardly a moment's warning to he great mass of employes of the impending catastrophe. Those in the danger zone had but a few moments' notice. They were in the basement, where the main pillar to be shored up was located, and while this was going on the counters were noticed to slant. The head of this department at once warned everyone off the floor, and all the clerks under him escaped none too soon. So did the 31 men working for the contractors in that section. It was on the upper floors or main business sections of the building where the employes were taken unawares, and that so many escaped even with slight injuries is nothing short of a miracle. Within three minutes after the first cries of alarm were heard a section of the building from cellar to roof, 64 by 100 feet, had collapsed, and all four floors, heavily laden with goods, and the roof had plunged into the basement. L The scenes wdiich followed were har rowing. Many thought the building nau been blown up by an explosion. Num bers of employes were too stunned by the shock to move. They had to be forced out of the building. Those who ;ept their presence of mind quickly thoked the back fire-escape and the front jntrances. Many found themselves out on the street, not knowing how they ?ot there or why they -were there. Then quickly came a realizing sense of the disaster and death which had followed in the wake of the shock. Within half an hour a corps of 25 physicians was on the scene, and the hospitals promptly dispatched the nec essary nurses and ambulances. Lament Lelt $3,300,000. New York (Special). An estate val ued at $3,300,000 is left by the late Col onel Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of. War under President Cleveland, acsord ing to Mr. Lamont's will, filed for pro bate here. Mrs. Lamont and her Ihree daughters are the beneficiaries. The es-i tate is valued at $3,000,000 in personal property and $300,000 in real property. No Comedy In tbe Pulpit. Chautauqua, N. Y. (Special). Dr. James M. Buckley, chairman of the Epis copacy Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, declared in an ad dress that a clergyman has 110 right to make bis congregation laugh and that to do so is irreverence. "Yet, there are a good many clowns in the pulpit," he concluded. Mill Olrl Inherits Fortune. Utica, N. Y. (Special). By the will of Thomas Fitzgerald, who died recently in Los Angeles, Cal., $200,000 will be divided r.mong two brotlitr and a niece residing in Liiih Falls, N. Y. The niece works in a mill. When told of her good fortune she was asked if she would now resign her position. - Suffocated la a Well Charlotte, N. C. (Special). At Wadesboro George Culbersome and Charles Covington were suffocated in a well in which they were at work. Cul bersome was lowered first. Not hear ing from hm after several moments Covington went down to see what was the matter. 'He was also overcome by the gas. The bodies of the two men were brought to tins surface several hours after death. Two Chlldreo Dio In Fire. Montevideo, Minn. (Special). Fire completely wrecked the interior of a two-story building used as a wagon and machine shop. A ten-year-old daughter of Mrs. Anna Botten and a six-year-old daughter of George Reviere were suflo-l cated by smoke. Mrs. Botten saved her self and baby by jumping from the sec-, ond-story window. She sustained a; sprained ankle. Mrs. George , Reviere I also jumped and was injured. George' Reviere, who was at work in the en- gine room, was cut off by flames and was unable to rescue his family.
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