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-
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.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. , '