FOR A FINAL STRUGGLE The Deadlock in the Peace Negotiations. SEVEN ARTICLES ARE SETTLED. Protocols Will Bo Drawn Up Preparatory for tho Great Conical, Which May Be Terminated by t Rupturt or Compromise Should Outildo Inflncncea Bo Effective Prctldeol Roosevelt. May Try to Prevent Fillnre. Portsmouth, N. H. (Special). The substance and present status of the Jap anese terms are as follows : 1. Russia's recognition of Japan's "preponderant inlluencc" in Korea, with her right to preserve order in the civil administration, give military and finan cial advice ti the Emperor of Korea, Japan binding herself to observe the territorial integrity of Korea and (it is believed) the policy of the "open door." Accepted. 2. Mutual obligation to evacuate Man churia. Accepted. ,V Japanese obligations to restore in Manchuria Chinese sovereignty and civil administration. Accepted. 4. Mutual obligation to respect in the future "the territorial integrity and ad ministrative entity" of China in Man churia and to maintain the principle of equal opportunity for the industry and commerce of all nations ( open door ). Accepted. 5. The cession of the Island of Sak halin to Japan. Refused and final con sideration deferred. 6. The surrender to Japan of the Rus sian leases of the Liaotung Peninsula, including Port Arthur, Dalny and the Blonde and Eliott Islands. Accepted. 7. The surrender to China by ar rangement with Japan of the branch of the Chinese Eastern Railroad running south from Harbin to Port Arthur and Niuchwang, together with the retroces sion of all the privileges ordained un der the concession of 1K08. Accepted in principle; final agreement deferred. 8. The limitation of the concession ob tained by Mr. Rothstein and Prince Uhktomsky in 1806 under which the "cutoff" through Northern Manchuria was built to connect the trans-Siberian and the Ussurri Railroads, so as to provide for the retention of the owner ship and operation of the line by the Chinese Eastern, but with provision for the eventual substitution of Chinese im perial police for Russian railroad guards. Accepted. 9. Remuneration for the cost of the war. Refused and action deferred. 10. The surrender of the Russian warships interned in neutral Far East ern waters. Disagreement and action deferred. 11. The limitation of Russia's naval power on Pacific waters. Deferred. 12. The grant to the citizens of Japan of the right to fish in waters of the Rus sian littoral from Vladivostok north to the Behring Sea. Agreed upon. PRESIDENT MAY PREVENT FAILURE. Would Have Support ol Emperor William and French Government. Portsmouth, N. II. (Special). The peace conference adjourned Friday un til Tuesday, ostensibly to give time for the preparation of a protocol setting forth the terms of the agreement and disagreement. According to the Rus sians, the ex changes are at an end and there will be no peace. Put nobody seems to know definitely what Tuesday has in store. In the four days that will elapse before the Rus sian and Japanese envoys reassemble they will communicate wtih their re spective governments, and there will be plenty of trine to receive responses. There can be little doubt that it was to afford this opportunity for consul tation with St. Petersburg and Tokio that the plenipotentiaries agreed to such a long recess. From the very first the belief has been prevalent here that President Roosevelt, to whose initiative the present exchanges are due, would not stand idly by if he were confronted by the knowledge that the plenipotentiaries were to adjourn without having accomplished the rrfb mentous task which brought them to America. It is the understandinging that prevails, namely, that the confer ence will be barren of results if some thing o bring about a contrary condi tion is not done in the meantime. ROOSEVELT'S IDEA. The President' Second Card la Played la the Game. At the invitation of President Roose velt, Russia's chief envoy, M. VV'ittc, sent Baron dc Roseii to Oyster Bay, where, it is understood, the President took that "other step" which, it was an nounced before the peace negotiations began, was in contemplation in the event of a deadlock at Port month. Neither party to the conference would disclose its nature, but a correspondent took hope fro the tact that Iiarou dc Rosen was brusque in his manner when he arrived, but Irfi with "his face wreathed in smiles." Great Britain, France and Germany has acquiesced, it i- understood, in Mr. Roosevelt's latest move, and the Ameri can ambassadors at St. Petersburg and Tokio have been renewing their activity. New Castle, N. H. ( Special). There is apparently but one hope entertained by the peace envoys that the negotia tion between Russia and Japan may be successful, and that hope is furnished by President Roosevelt. Others are more sanguine because they At Least Twelve Were Killed. Allentown, Pa. (Special). Officials of the I.ehigh Portland Cement Com pany stated that 13 workmen are known to have been killed in the cave-in at the company's quarry at Ormrod, and that five were injured. Eleven bodies have been recovered. It is possible that ad ditional quarrymen are buried under the limestone, and if this be the case they may not be recovered (or several weeks. Escape la Nlfht Clolhts. Montieello, N. Y. ( Special). The Ar lington, a large summer boarding hous at White Lake, Sullivan county, was burned with its contents before daylight. The house contained nearly 300 guests, mostly from New York and Brooklyn. They were compelled to rush from the burning building in their night clothes, leaving clothing, money and jewelry be hind. There were many narrow escapes but no terinus injuries. The losses 0 the guests will amount to many thou sands of dollars. cannot conceive how under the circum stances either the pride of Russia or the ambitious of Japan could be per mitted to become a stumbling block in the way of peace which both nations so ardently desire and which all the worh. so strongly demands. If it were not for the phenomenal rec ord of President Roosevelt in accom plishing seemingly impossible tasks the envoys, their assistants and their inti mate friends would be plunged into the depths of despair. They, of course, may be playing a game, each envoy seeking to deceive the other, but in their words, manners and gestures they clearly in dicate they see but one way out of the difficulty that which has been indicated to Tokio and St. Petersburg through Baron Kaneko, of Japan, and Baron Rosen, of Russia, by the President of the I'nited States. It must be admitted, after unceasing efforts to fathom the sentiments of the commissioners of bth nations, that Ba ron Komura and Mr. Takahira are. if anything, a trifle more optimistic than are M. Wittc and Baron Roen. This is probably due to the fact that President Roosevelt s advice, if the effects should be fully reaped in a treaty, will make Japan the gainer and Russia the net loser in the settlement of the more vig orously disputed points. TO FIND A NEW WOOD PAVEMENT. Department ol Afrlculture to Begin Eiperl meats. Washington, D. C. (Special). The forest service of the Department of Ag riculture has taken up the study of woods for special uses, and experiments will be conducted particularly to secure a wood for street pavement which will prove lasting. In recent years engineers have be come convinced that with the right se lection and treatment of material, and with the right method of laying, wood paving can be made successful. Conse quently a revival in wood paving has begun, and many of the largest cities are again trying it. Wood pavement is now made almost exclusively of one or two of the best construction woods, and if it should be come popular the drain upon these woods would be seriously increased. The forest service will direct its experiments to determine if tkere are not among the various cheaper and more abundant species some which by proper treatment can be substituted for the more valua ble kinds now in use. Farm Methods In America. Posen, Prussia (By Cable). Several members of the Royal Settlements Com mission have been ordered to visit the I'nited States for he purpose of study ing Western farm management and con ditions. This commission is engaged in buying lands owned by Poles and set tling Germans on them, so as to in crease German influence in the prov inces of Prussian Poland. A credit to the extent of $25,000,000 was given the commission in lSj6. This was increased to $50,000,000 in 1K08 and $7,500,000 in 1902, and it probably will be still fur ther increased. Tragedy With Two Sequels. Baxley, Ga. (Special). A. J. Chest nut, who a few days ago shot and kill ed United States Marshal Michael As pinwall, and, being pursued by the sher iff and a large number of citizens, was wounded, died Wednesday evening. W m. Smith, a carpenter, of Waycross, who was employed on work on the school building, shot Chestnut with a rifle and since has become insane and is now in the asylum. Viceroy Curtoa Resigns. St. Petersburg (By Cable). A private dispatch received here from Kishinef says that rioting occurred there Satur day evening following the publication f the Emperor's manifesto. The demon strators are described as numbering se eral thousand, but were dispersed bj mounted police. Shots were fired on t'.:r street, but there is no report of any casualties. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. According to Minister Quaseda, of Cuba, the island is enjoying an era of prosperity far exceeding expectations. He expects the island's wealth to be doubled in a few years. According to T. B. Shouts chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, who has just returned to Washington, after a tour of investigation and inspection on the isthmus, the engineers in Pan- ami have formed a comprehensive plan fur the excavation of between 20,000,000 and i-.ooo.ooo cubic yards of dirt. When this plan has been fulfilled others will be made, ami thus the work will be car ried on, step by step, to completion. The forest service of the Department of Agriculture will conduct experiments with a view to finding a lasting wood pavement. In addition to requiring the resigna tion of the clerk originally responsible for the error by which a Canadian wid ow was given a pension for 11 vears instead of I, the commissioner bus re duced in grade three reviewers who passed upon the case. The government will take no notice of the reported utterances of Chinese officials now in this country relative to the Chinese boycott of American goods. The 186 prisoners in the federal jail have been quarantined for 16 days be cause of a case of smallpox. The government is not disposed to accept without protest the action of the Nicarauguan government in canceling the exequatur of Mr. Donaldson, the American consul. The Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists will hold its next convention in Dayton, O. When completed, the new National Museum will be the large-t building in Washington next to the Capitol. The annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission contains inter esting and valuable .statistics. According to the weekly summary of crop conditions throughout the country by the Weather Bureau, the outlook for a large yield of corn is excellent. Other crops are nourishing. The Chinese government is about to establish lanyards and leather manu factories, and the Chmese minister at Berlin has just engaged a German leath ed manufacturer to go to Huchang to superintend the works. This ought lo afford a good opportunity for American manufacturers of tanning and leather working machinery to obtain contracts. D. Quillan, Barrie, Ontario, will re- A,t' UmLH 111 Krm'linn nf .. tii.v is n v... . wa ... ..st,t,,, , TC- enforced concrete arch bridge over the kl J 11: ... I, .viaa tsiver ui oien riouror, uotario; aUo for a bridge with stone abutements atii4 ftel Elllvritrtli'lnrf uith r.n(.....,l concrete floor ut the same place. FALL WITH PLATFORM Accident at Laying of Synagogue Cornerstone. THE VICTIMS SCREAM AND GROAN. Frail Structure Collapses, Carrying Five Hun dred People Down 15 Feet Into the Cellar Nearly All Were Bruised aad Cnl, tut None Seriously Injured Sudden Rush ol Crowd Cause Accident. Pittsburg (Special). More than 500 men, women and children were precipi tated 15 feet into a cellar by the col lapse of a platform during the exercises incident to the laying of the cornerstone of the Beth-David Russian Hebrew Or thodox Synagogue on Miller street, near Washington. Nearly all were cut and bruised, but it is believed none was fa tally hurt. Three rabbis were among those who went down, and although injured, they concluded the ceremony after the panic had subsided. Among the more seriously injured arc Rabbis A. G Ashiusky, S. Graltman and A. Bloom, Nathan Nalhanson, pastor of the congregation, and Policeman Adam Lcftewcski. The platform which broke was about 50 feet square and had been constructed over the foundation walls for the ac commodation of the rabbis, officers of the church and invited guests. Just prior to the ceremonies a brass band, leading 800 Zionists, marched up playing a lively tune, and when the Zion ists were invited to pass over the plat form in order to sign their names to the roll to be placed in the stone a mad rush was made by the thousands of persons who had gathered about to secure the same privilege. The police were over whelmed and in a moment the platform was packed with men, women and chil dren. The frail structure could not with stand the strain and fully 500 persons were carried down. The panic that followed attracted thousands of persons to the spot, and the police had great difficulty in extricating the screaming and groaning victims from the wreckage. When the cellar had been cleared it was found that scores were hurt, their injuries consisting ol bruises and cuts about the head and body. Some of the injuries were due to the panic that fol lowed the crash, many being trampled in the wild rush to escape. Rabbi Ashinsky was one of these. He was trampled by the excited crowd and sustained severe injuries, hut though suffering intensely continued the serv ices after some sort of order had been restored by the army of policemen who were called to the scene from several districts, the report being circulated that hundreds had been killed in the accident. The fact that there were no fatalities is a marvel, as the platform, when it broke, closed up like a jack knife, throw ing the people in a struggling mass into the cellar. Physicians who were called had their hands full attending to the injured and caring for the many women who fainted after being taken from the cellar. INESTIQATINQ RAILROADS. Tho Interstate Commission la Q.ttln Busy. Washington, D. C. (Special). The interstate Commerce Commission, on its own initiative and as a result of com plaints against private car lines, unex pectedly began an investigation of the relations between railroads and refrig erator lines, by which it is charged that the act to regulate interstate commerce is being violated in several specific par ticulars. The complaint set forth by the commission is directed against the Armour car line, the American Refrig erator Transportation Company, the Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch, and the following railroads: St. Louis and San Francisco; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; Central of Georgia; Southern; Atlantic Coast Line; Seaboard Air Line; Pcnn-ylvania; Southern Pacific, and Kansas City Southern. The railroads and refrigerator lines are made respondents in proceedings which require that specific answer to all allegations be made to the Interstate Commerce Commission by September 5. It is charged that by way of rebates or other devices the refrigerator lines are acting for the railroads as authorized agents, and the railroads, acting through the refrigerator lines, are collecting and receiving for the refrigeration of fruit and vegetables lower rates from some shippers than they are contemporaneously receiving for similar service rendered to other shippers. This is held to be in violation of sections 2 and 3 of the act to regulate interstate commerce. Another charge is that failure and neg lect to publish at shipping stations and file with the Interstate Commerce Com mission the rates and charges imposed for the refrigeration of fruits and vege tables constitute a violation of section 6 of the Interstate Commerce Act. The commission aihges further that the charges published jointly by the refrig erator liaes and the railroads for the re frigeration of fruits in certain specified territories are unreasonable and unjust and in violation of section I. The ter ritories described are Missouri, Arkan sas, Indian Territory, Texas, California to eastern points, Louisiana and Kan sas, and Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina to New York. The matter has been made the subject of investigation by congressional corn nutters and several laws have been passed giving increased powers to the com mission in an effort to reach alleged combinations said to be prohibitive with shippers leasing by the year large num ber of private cars. Fatal Flro at the Fair. Portland, Ore. (Special). Fire de stroyed the Stateroom Inn, situated one block from the main entrance of the Lewis and Clark Exposition and resulted in the death of two men, whose charred bodies have not been identified. A num ber of the occupants of the place, in cluding four women and two men, wefe injured. They were removed to hos pitals. About ,V) persons were in the building when the fire started. Rlotlai la KlshlnclT London (By Cable). The resignation of Lord Curzon of Kedleston as Viceroy of India and the appointment of the Karl of Minto as his successor was announced at the India Office. According to the correspondence, which is issued in the form of a White Book, it appears that Lord Curzon's resignation was cabled t ilrt othc" on August 12. The corre spondence shows a decided bitter feel intf between Lord Curzon, the India Office and Lord Kitchener, commander-in-chief of the forces in India, over the new plan of army administration in In dia. I THE NEWS IN SHORT ORDER Domestic. Near Clarksvil'e, Tex., two negroes were accused of uttering defamatoiy it marks about a white girl. They were arrested and tried by a committee five white and five colored. They were found guilty and received lashes, admin istered by the colored men. The walls of the Avenue Theater building, in Pittshnrg, which was being wrecked preparatory to the construction of a new building, fell with a crash, carrying down 15 Italian laborers, bury ing a number under the debris. None were killed. According to Rev. Dr. W. A. P. Mar tin, lately president of the Imperial Tun gwan College at Peking, who recently arrived at Victoria, the Chinese are greatly aroused by the Japs' triumphs in the war and are seeking to emulate them. Hundreds of thousands of pounds ot sulphur were burned in New Orleans to rid the city of the fever-infected mos quitoes, and the Marine Hospital Corps now hope to stamp out the disease in a few weeks. Mr. James lfarcn Hyde, former vice president of the Equitable Life Assur ance Society, has sold his country place, on Long Island, to Louis Rossart for $400,000, which is about half of its total cost. President Mitchell is trying to check the weakness in the United Mincwork ers' organization in the anthracite region, the union having lost many members in the Hazlcton and Schuylkill regions. Joe Ullman, proprietor of the Bridge Club in Saratoga, has received a deadly bomb similar to those sent to Jacob H. Schiff and the Guggcnhcims, in New York. A log raft containing 10,000,000 feet of timber will start at an early date from Stella, Wash., to be towed across the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai. The tribes in the Moro provinces of Zamboanga, Philippines, gave Secretary of War Taft and his party a great re ception. A project is on hand in New York ro erect a chimney into the clouds. It will be the Tallest structure ever built. Five Americans and several colonists are reported to have been killed in a fight between them in Mexico. After an inspection trip in the Wcsl, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is con vinced that some of the railroads arc making as obnoxious as possible recent regulations governing live-stock ship ments in order to secure their repeal. Frank Ward, of Pueblo, Col., fo.-ced his daughter to swallow poison, which caused her death. He then took the same drug, which also caused his death. At Plymouth, Mass., Chicago de tectives failed to identify George L. Marsh, suspected of the murder of a chauffeur near Chicago several months ago. R. H. Davidson, a Chicago building contractor, is missing. His friends be lieve that he has been slugged by a la bor gang. Henry U. Davis, of Cleveland, O., was elected president of the fraternal order of Eagles, in session in Denver, Col. Kipson A. Andrews, former treas urer of the Pittsburg Coal Company, is reported to be dying at Youngstown, O. Minooka, a large town bordering on Scranton, Pa., is so good that the whole police force has been dismissed. Three negroes who had murdered women of their own race were hanged in Memphis. On a bench in Fairmount Park, in Philadelphia, the body of a man was found. Presumably from a let'er that was on him the man's name was Joseph A. Thompson, of Pittsburg. The let ter found on him is a complaint against his brother, and claims relationship through., him with the wealthy Thaw family of Pittsburg. At a meeting of the National Railway Association in Deadwnod "Stet" Burr, commissioner from Florida, accused Walker D. Mines, first vice president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, of perjury in his sworn statement of the value of the company's property for taxation, purposes, Adolph Kraus, of Chicago, expressed himself as well satisfied with the result of the conference of leading Jews with M. Witte at Portsmouth regarding the settlement of the rights of Jews in Rus sia. The Chamber of Commerce of Bel lingham, Wash., has passed resolutions protesting against any attempt to modify the tariff on timber. Postmaster General and Mrs. Cortel you were guests of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at Sagamore HilL Six Mexican laborers were killed in a railroad collision near San Francisco, Cal. lorcifa. German socialist newspapers declare the Czar's decree for a national assem bly a joke, but the North German Ga zette says he has placed Russia among the constitutional governments. Advices from Shanghai say the boy cott against American goods is weak ening. Adolphe William Bougereau, the noted painter, died in La Rochelle, France. Hugh Watt, a financier and formerly a member of Parliament, has been ar rested in London on the charge of a; tempting to procure a private detective to assist in the murder of his former wife. The Czar has sent a telegram to Gen eral Linevitch expressing his apprecia tion of his services and directing him to be prepared for all eventualities. Jori, the anarchist, arrested at Botzen, Austria, while planning an attempt on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph, committed suicide in prison. Miss Florence Croker, who was re ported to have eloped with Count Louis Sun Martino, has returned to the home of her father. Richard Croker, in Ire land, unaccompanied by the Count. The relations between Great Britain and Germany have recently hern seri ously strained almost to the point of breaking, and Chancellor von Buelow and Emperor William held a confer ence concerning the matter. . Two sons of Henry Phipps, the Pitts burg millionaire, were arraigned in court at Inverness, Scotland, and re mitted for trial on the charge of shoot ing at salmon fishers. Chinese rebels in the Dutch East In dies are again on the warpath. They attacked a Dutch army post and killed . officers and 22 men. Albert Edelfcldt, the painter, is dead at Copenhagen. Complete returns from the vote in Norway on the question of separation from Sweden show that 3dK,2oo votes were cast for dissolution anil only 184 agamst it. M. Witte will, it it said, toon make in official announcement of a reduction by Russia in the duties on American nachinery. A Russian imperial ukase was issued restoring to the Armenian! their school ;H chrrvh property in the Caucasus The Japanese government is negoti ating with the Kruppt for fresh orders ior armor-plate and guns. CANAL COSTLY TO DATE But All of tbe Appropriation Is Not Spent WHAT CHAIRMAN SHONTS SAYS. Official Statement by tbe Commlitlon Show Inf How Much Money Hat Been Spent Each Month Enough on Hand to Con llnue Work Until January II Deemed Ex pedient to Co So. Panama (By Cable). It is currently reported here that the suspension of en gineering operations on the canal is owing to the exhaustion of the con gressional appropriation, although the reason officially given is that the sus pension is due to the desirability of un dertaking the improvement of sanitary conditions in the zone. A resumption of operations is not expected until Con gress meets. Washington ( Special). One of the first important tasks .-(waiting Mr. Shouts when he assumed the presidency of the Isthmian Canal Commission was the conservation of the balance remain ing of the appropriation of $10,000,000 so as to guard against a stoppage of the work of c.iual building. Calling to his aid several expert accountants, the ex act state of the finances of the com mission was ascertained, and it was found that the work could be steadily prosecuted until Congress at the next regular session should have ample op portunity to provide more funds. There fore, the balance on hand was divided into monthly allotments, which have so far been closely adhered to, save in one case where an unexpected demand arose for additional transportation facilities. Thus the commission has, it believes, avoided the necessity of availing itself of the privilege granted by Congress of issuing bonds to meet expenditures. The commission issued the follow ing statement on this point : "It was officially stated at the Isth mian Canal Commission today that of the appropriation by Congress of $10, 000,000 for the construction of the canal, there was on April 1, 1905, the date on which the present commission took hold, an available balance to the credit of this appropriation of $7,426.5(18. . "During the month of April the ex penditures from this appropriation ag gregated $475,000: during May, $503,000; during June, $659,000; during July, $770,000, for wages, salaries, material, supplies and equipment. "During July there was an unusual expenditure for the purchase of two ships at $650,000 each, not included in the July expenditure above. "During the monh of August, tip to and including the 15th, $250,000 has been expended. This left to the balance of the appropriation on August 15, $2, K'G.U, in addition to which each of the two disbursing officers had in hand $500,000 on that date. "It will be seen from the foregoing than the average expenditure per month, leaving out of consideration the purchase of these two ships, was in the neighbor hood of $650,000, and that at that rate of expenditure the $2,816,713 will last until early in January, which is -according to the schedule fixed by Mr. Shonts on April 1, when he became chairman of the commission." BRITAIN AND QURMANY CLASH. Relations Said lo Be at the Breaking Point. Berlin (By Cable). According to several high officials of the Govern ment, Prince Von Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor, who left Norderney, where he was spending his vacation, for Ber lin, went to the castle of Wilhelm shoehe to see Emperor William. Dr. Von Muehlberg, under secretary of the foroign office, who left Berlin for a vacation of several weeks, was sudden ly recalled to join the Chancellor at Wilhelmshoehe. The reason for these movements is so far only the subject of conjecture, but it is known that the relations between Great Britain and Germany have re cently been on the point of breaking to an extent beyond the knowledge of the public. Precisely what happened hs not been learned, but a serious situation existed indeed, it is understood, it has not yet been dissipated. The British Govern ment appears to hold the conviction that the German Emperor is seeking to form a European combination against Great Britain. Stock ol Silver Bullion. Washington, D. C. ( Special). The suspension of gold and silver coinage at the Philadelphia mint is explained at the Treasury Department by the state ment that the stock of silver bullion is entirely exhausted, and there is no call at present for gold or minor coins. Some time in October it is thought the accumulation of uncurrcnt silver will warrant the resumption for a lime of re coinage of silver dollars into subsidiary coins, as has been proposed. The out look for continued active operations at the Philadelphia mint are not regarded as good. Man't Footprint Id Coal. Pottsville, Pa. (Special). The first human imprint ever found in anthra cite coal was uncovered by Michael Sincavage, a miner at Eagle Hill Col-1-ery, the fossil bcin a man's footprint. Fossils of snakes, ferns, etc., have been plentiful, but this is the first evidence that prehistoric man was in existence in this country during the formation of the coal beds. The imprint, it is estimated, must have been made 10,000 years ago. Big Swindle Charged. Detroit (Special). Archibald Y. Jameson, of Detroit, formerly of Jack son, Mich., is und-r arrest here, charged with attempting to procure under false pretenses $101,250 worth of stocks from Dr. M. L. Emerick, of Hickory Corn ers, Pa.; Isaac B. Tessler, a Northum berland county farmer of Pennsylvania, ind half a dozen other residents of that vicinity and Williamsport, Pa. Gov ernor Warner has received from the Governor of Pennsylvania a request for the extradition of Jameson. Dived Alter Torpedo. Newport, R. I. (Special). Seaman James E. Smith, of the torpedo station here, who jumped into the harbor after a 'orpedo which had slipped overboard during practice, died at the result of his act. Smith made a dive with a rope which he secured at one end of the projectile, but did not come to sur face. Seaman Cunner Charles Thomp son jumped after his comrade and suc ceeded in bringing him ashore. Smith was unconscious, and he died without recovering sensibility. SIDELIGHTS OF NEW YORK Nw York City. N. V. Isaac Ludlow's airship No. 5, torn and bedraggled, is a wreck, but she carried human freight loo feet into the air at the foot of West Seventy-eight street, and her inventor is a happy man, for he declares that it is the first time in his tory that an aeroplane has risen from the ground with a man on board. In all other experiments the inventors leaped from high 'places. In this case the aero plane was attacked by a rope to an au tomobile, which at the proper time start ed full speed ahead, the third attempt being what the inventor called success ful. Thousands of people witnessed the experiment. e? 0 ? After 15 years of separation and the filing of rross suits for divorce, Alois Suss, 404 East Seventy-fifth street, and wife have become reconciled because his physicians have told him that he, at 86 years of age, had only a short while to live. Statutory grounds and cruelty fnrurid in both suits for divorce. Now they have been dismissed, the reason being that Mr. Suss desires his wife to have full rights to a portion of his es tate, .on behalf of their daughter. J& jtf Loaded with returning tourists, the Dctitschland and Baltic have arrived, the Dcutschland with a report of suicide at sea. Off the Banks Lewis Jansen, a deckhand shipped in Hamburg, ap parently jumped overboard while the ship was in a heavy easterly gale, ll was rumored that he had been flogged and committed suicide for shame, but that was denied by the officers. 0P .07 In a squeaking old cart which re sembled the familiar hand-delivery carl of the corner grocery in Harlem, two laborers employed at the Custom-house pushed $1,109,320 in gold and gold cer tificates from the Custom-house up Wall street to the Sub-Treasury. That amount represented the intake of one day's business of the New York Custom-house. The amount taken in Wednesday was up to the highest rec ord ever touched. Usually the amount of money collected at the Custom-house day by day averages between $500,000 and $700,000. About 4 o'clock the day't collections arc deposited at the Sub Treasury, farther up Wall street. j& & Mr. Charles M. Schwab was a passen ger by the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II., wdiich sailed for Bremen Wednes day. Accompanied by several friends Mr. Schwab went over in an automo bile to the North German Lloyd pier in Iloboken at 2 o'clock. He went to his stateroom, and had not again appeared on deck when at 6 o'clock in the morning the vessel sailed. JZ jr Jg It may have been the hot weather, or just the crush. Anyhow, in the excite ment of a rush for a car at the Man hatta'n end of the Brooklyn Bridge, Rev. Emil B. Linde, 334 East One Hundred and Fourteenth street, ran into Edgat M. Howell, 267 Ryerson street, and How ell hit him with his fist. An arrest promptly followed. "If this defendant had smitten you on the cheek instead of the neck, would you be guided by the Scriptural or legal phase of the case?" asked Magistrate Brcen. "The legal," replied the minister, who had no relish for turning the other cheek, and Howell was fined $1, which he paid. NEW THEORY OF WORLD CREATION. Old Nebular Hypothesis la Torn to Pieces. Chicago (Special). La Place's "ring" theory of the nebular hypothesis for the creation of the universe, which has stood service for more than a century in the scientific world, was torn to pieces by Prof. 1 R. Moulton, of the University of Chicago, who believes that he has made the real solution of the evolution of our solar system. Assisted by Prof. Thomas C. Chamberlain, head of the geology department, Professor Moulton has been working for more than four years to disprove the "ring" theory and to set up what he terms the "spiral" theory. The .result of their researches were made known in a lecture on "The Evolution of the Solar System" delivered by Professor Moulton. "The 'ring' theory was brought out by La Place in 1796, and has been ac cepted almost universally up to present time," said Professor Moulton. "The theory which Professor Chamberlain and myself hold is the spiral theory. We be lieve a .second sun a disturbing sun moved down near our sun and csused on our sun enormous tides, thousands of miles high. The tides were similar to the tides of the sea. One tide was at the point nearest the disturbing sun and the other tide was on the opposite side. "The matter shot towards the disturb ing sun. Ordinarily it would have been straight tip, but the disturbing sun moved around in an elliptical sort of orbit. Consequently, all the masses thrown off were in a spiral direction one after an other, which accounts for the orbits of the planets. Tbe swollen masses were attracted to the large nuclei, which made them into planets." FINANCIAL Hard coal is certainly king in ihe stock market. One block of 10,000 shares of Penn sylvania was recorded as changing hands at 145. It was probably a bogus trans action, I,ondoii bought American securities freely during the week. Western farmers are storing their new wheat recently threshed and will wait for higher priccc. "Admirable, most admirable,'" was the way one of the highest authorities on the steel industry in Philadelphia diag nosed the state of trade at thin time. Englishmen marvel at the waste of human life on American railroads. An official report says only one passenger out of 200,000,000 it killed on British railroads. In June tixty-three railroad earned net 8.3 per cent, more than in June of 1904. For the full fiscaj vear the tame roads made a net gain of 0.7 per cent. For the month of July thirty-five rail roads show a gain of 8 per cent, in gross earnings. So the tide keeps moving up ward. The annual report of the British Post office Savings . Bank for last year thowt that the total umount due depositors on December 31 last wat over i 148,000,000. During the year the cash received from depositor was more than 140,000,000, and the repayments nearly i42,ouo,ouo The interest accruing during the yeai wat 13,500,000. FIFTY PEOPLE DROWNED An Excursion Train flunges Through Open Draw. - A HUNDRED OTIIEES WERE INJURED. All ot th Victims, Except Two, Ar Colored Appa ling Accident at Brnc Station, Seven Mile From Porttmouth. Va.. on th Atlnntlt Coast Line Rnilroad-Edward Jollllf, Mann f er of Ihe txcurtioa, Among Killed. Norfolk, Va. (Special). Owing tc Ihe inability of Engineer D. L. Reig to control his airbrakes, an excursion train from Kinston, N. C, biund to this city, plunged through mi open draw over the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River, eight miles from Norfolk, and half a hundred persons, mostly negroes, were drowned. The list of injured, so far as can be ascertained, numbers nearly 100, though most of these arc slightly hurt. Among the victims Ihe only white one? were Edward JolitTc, manager of the ex cursion, and Edward Forbes, who as sisted him, both of Greenville, N. C. The Merritt Wrecking Organization dispatched an expedition to the scene for the purpose of raising the sunken cars, which lie in about 25 feet of wa ter. Until the cars are raised an ac curate estimate of the number of dead is impracticable. The forward coach crushed on the piling of the draw and was splintered to kindling. Those of the helpless pas sengers in this coach who were not killed before reaching the water were drowned. Those in the rear escaped, bruised and cut by glass and splinters. The car next behind this one was broken lin two on the trestle. Three other cars kept to the track. Their occupants es caped. , The train was made up at Kinston, N. C, and had picked up passengers off for a holiday at every crossing. It wa. due at Norfolk at 1 o'clock, and was running fast to make up for lost time. There was no warning until the fata) crash. In the door of one of the cars was the corpse of a negro man struck down by a timber. There was not a sign of the grcar lo comotive lying submerged in mud and water in the middle of the channel. Many boats were ferrying the injured to the eastern side of the river, where the relief train, with every doctor in Portsmouth who could be reached was waiting. The baggage car was turned into u temporary hospital, while the busy doctors worked to relieve the injured. - Ernest Wolston, of Greenville, one of the survivors was in the car that went overboard, lie says he felt a shock, and the next moment the water was up to his feet. A mad scramble follow ed. Men and women, shrieking and fighting to get to the doors, blocked the aisles and clambered over the seats, smashing windows and ventilators in their efforts to escape. Wolston and his brother were imprisoned when the car was smashed, and crowded through a window, through which they rescued many women and little children. Too much praise cannot be accorded the colored boatmen who went to the rescue of the drowning passengers and saved many lives. The superintendent of the Coast Line rushed aid to the scene of the wreck and took persona) charge of the situation. Superintendent Wooten states that the engineer told him that he didn't see the open draw until he was upon it. His1 fireman leaped before it was reached, and the engineer himself reversed his engine and applied the emergency br,ake and sprang into the water, strik ing his head on the craft passing through the draw. Fifteen physicians were rush ed to the scene on a special, which also carried 40 men of the clerical force at Pinners Point, who acted as nurses. FIVE MORE ALPINE CLIMBERS KILLED. On Boy Falls 900 Feel and Four Student a.0vr Precipice. Vinnsbruck, Austrian Tyrol (By Ca ble). No less than five Alpine fat-ali-tie were recorded. Two tourists from Meran while hunt ing for edelweiss were killed on tho Peuegal. in the Zillerthal Alps. While climbing the Hoofats group a Bavarian lawyer fell and was killed. Four students from Dresden who were ascending the Hohergoell fell down a precipice. One was killed and the others probably were fatally injured. Another youth of 16 was killed on Mount Mythenstock. Me fell 900 feet, and his body was reduced to a pulp. Snow In Haileton. Hazleton, Pa. (Special), Policemen and others who were abroad at that hour say that there was a lively flurry of snow in this city at about 1 o'clock A. M. Following a week of ir.'ensely warm weather, the temperature began to drop during the day, and at midnight it was down to 45 degrees. The policemen say that when they first saw the snow fall they could scarcely believe their eyes, and several of then went even so far as to put out their hands and catch the flakes. They fay that they found that it was the real thing, and tried to collect, enough to make a midsummer snow highball for the Mayor Charged With Kill nf, Hu-kand. Pratt, Kan. (Special). Mrs. Harvey McPherson Null, charged with murder in having, it is alleged, poisoned her hus band, a well-to-do farmer, and II. C. Kcllcy, a farm hand, charged with aiding her in the crime, have been arrested here. Mrs. Null was released on bond. Kelley, who is several years her junior, was unable to furnish bond. Null died August 6 from arsenic poisoning. Mis Roosevelt Undecided. Manila (By Cable). The governor general of Hongkong has invited Sec retary of War Taft and the members of his party 10 attend a banquet. The members of the party have answered that they will stay one day at Hong kong and one night at Canton. Mis Alice Roosevelt .is undecided as to whether she will visit Peking, and It is believed that she is awaiting her father's answer to the invitation ex tended her to visit that place. Advanc In Rates. Chicago (Special). The railroad running east from Chicago agreed to make an advance of 2 cents per 100 pounds on grain and grain products. The new tariff on grain and grain prod ucts to points in central frcigm associa tion territory and on grain for export will become effective September t, while the higher rate on grain products for export will take effect September 30. The new domestic grain rates will be on a basis of 17,4 cents per 100 pound from Chicago to New York, while the), basil on export shipments will be 13! cent. , '
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