WAITING FOR T0K1Q NOW
Meeting of Peace Eovojj Is Again
Postponed.
ROOSEVELT DOES NOT GIVE IP.
Urn Tfeat HI Persistency Is Canting R-sent-cut
The Respective Suites of Plenipoten
tiaries Take Diacouraglng View ot the Out
look Have Trunks Packed and Accounts
Rendered Preparatory lo Departure,
The gravest crisis in the peace
negotiations has b.-cn reached.
At the request of the Japanese,
who are awaiting a response
from file Mikado to a communi
cation supposed to have em
anated from President Roose
velt, the next meeting has been
postponed until Tuesday after
noon. Mr. Takahira says that as the
conference was brought about
by th; President it would be
well to go cautiously out of cour
tesy to hi:n. He considered the
situation "almost hopeless."
The Russians insist the C'ar
has said his final word, but
whether or not they are bluffing
remains to be seen.
A high Russian authority at
Portsmouth says the President
in hi. communication to the
Russians showed that he con
sidered that Japan's victories
pave her the right to ask in
demnity in fact, if not in name,
and entitled her to Sakhalin.
Portsmouth, N. II. (Special). There
is a persistent report here that Presi
dent Rooscvi.lt has made a new appeal
to the Ivmperor of Japan.
Tikio (By Cable). A specially sum
moned council of the cabinet and elder
tatcsn-.cn is now in sesion discussing
the latest final phases of the peace con
ference at Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, N. H. ( Special). At the
very moment when the peace conference
ivas. it was feared, about to end in fail
ure President Roosevelt has stepped in
to the breach anil caused a postponement
of what was generally regarded as the
final meeting.
The mere fact that, through the Pres
ident's iffirts. the meeting fixed for
Monday will not be held until Tuesday
may not appear to be a very important
development, but it means another 24
hours pained, and every additional day
that the conference lasts affords rea
son for hope of a successful outcome.
It was at the solicitation of the Jap
anese envoys that the arrangement for
the postponement of the next meeting
was made. They were impelled to this
course by a mcssijc from Baron Ka
neko, Japanese financial agent in this
country, who acted in behalf of the Pres
ident, with whom he has had frequent
conferences recently.
The purnosc ot the President in re
questing that there be no session of
the plenipotentiaries until Tuesday has
not been disclosed authoritatively, but
there is reason to believe he expects
the Japanese gnvrnmcnt will send new
instructions to Baron Komura and Mr.
Takahira, which may have some effect
upon the outcome of the negotiations.
Mr. Takahira. according to informa
tion obtained from Russian sources, told
M. Wittc that a response which he and
his colleague, Baron Komura, was ex
pecting to a communication they had
sent to Tokio had not arrived, and it
was desired that additional time be given
for its receipt.
BOTH SIDES REINFORCED.
Front ol the Army In Manchuria Greatly
Ex'ended.
Gunshu Pass, Manchuria (By Ca
ble). Intelligence of the constitutional
grants by the Government has been re
ceived by the army, and general infor
mation relating to Portsmouth affairs
continues to reach lure from 3 to to
days late.
Since the Japanese reconnoitered the
Russian center about 25 or 30 miles on
August 10, which resulted in retaliatory
skirmishing, as well as the checkmating
of a wide movement of considerable
bodies of troops throughout three davs,
nothing important has occurred. Dur
ing the long quiet there have Ijccii rein
forcements lo both sides, giving the thea
tre of war a much-changed appearance.
The front has been greatly extended,
a departure made possible by the use
of the wireless teU graph, and because
of the unexampled size of the armies
the character of the third stacc of the
war. whether if be active hostilities, de
mobilization or the garrisoning of con
tested territory, will be comolicatcd.
The relative positions of the two
armies is comparalilc to that of a year
ago, and the country immediately facing
the Japanese is almost identical with
that which confronted , them at Liao
yang. The acquisition of the railway and
rivers by the Jap-nose at Mukden, to
gether with their FVngwangchcng com
munications, and General K.iwatntira's
new line of commuuieatiou an I defeti.e.
mnniinr from the head of navigation on
the Yalu river across to K a:tian. with
the occupation of the Chatigpaishan
Mountain rerion. makes control ot the
administration of South Manchuria a
complete as that achieved in the nor'h
by similar oririyation, and in the rapid
consolidation of thes,- connections ilie
dcslinv of Ma-uhuria is clearly fixed
regardleis of other influences.
Japanrte Transport Sunk.
Nagasaki (By Cable). The British
ifeamer Hetalon and the Japanese
transport Kinglo collided at 10 o'clock
P. M. in the Inhn-I Sea. The trans
port was sunk and ifV men were drown
ed. Treaty Actora Injured.
Berlin (I!y Cable). The collapse of
the timber work of a terrace 16 feet
almve the stage during a rehearsal at
the Metropole Theatre, while 30 per
formers were 011 the terrace and the
stage was crowded, caused the injury
of 20 persons. Panic-stricken actors
and actresses rushed into the streets in
stage attire. It is (eared that four of
the injured will die, Max Sleiden. fhe
most popular comic singer in Berlin, be
ing among the number. Nearly all of
the others injured are young girls.
Crib Bars Strang Baby.
PlainnYld, N. J. (Special). Slipping
through the foot bars of his crib, the
baby m of William E. Chevcri was
caught tiy the throat and strangled to
death. The mother entered fhe room and
discovered the infant's plight just as he
was making the last feeble effort to free
himself. Death came before the was
abte to get him oitt. She ran shrieking,
with the body in her arms, to a doctor's
nfiic and swooned when informed med
io:! attention was useless.
THE NEWS IN SHOUT ORDER
Oomestlc.
Edgar Stachelberg, member of a cigar
manufacturing firm of Tampa, Fla., has
been challenged by one of his employes
to ;:.yht a duel because Stachelberg or
dered his employes to cease reading an
archistic literature. The challenge will
lit ignored.
In his annual report lo the War De
partment General Wint, commander of
the Department of the Missouri, recom
mends that married men be barred from
enlistment and that chaplains be prohib
ited from marrving soldiers.
William II. York, aged 77 years, who
was one of Gucrida Morgan's raiders
during the Civil War. i-. in Jefferson
County (Ky.) Jail on the charge of the
mtirdir of his brother, aged ti years.
Mr. Theodore P. Shouts, chairman of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, was a
guest of the President at Oyster Bay,
and discussed with bun matters apper
taining to the great undertaking.
The discovery of od in the heart of
Warren, Pa., has made that town oil
crazy. Wells are being sunk in back
yard's of residents. There has been a
phenomenal rise in land values.
A Brooklyn man has asked that his
wife be committed to an industrial home
because ho is tired of combing her hair
ami sewing buttons on her blouses. She
was committed.
John Moure, a negro. 20 years old,
was taken from jail in Newhcni, N. C.
bv a mob of too armed men and lynched.
He attacked a woman in a country store.
A Philadelphia man became convinced
that he was about to flic, and so predicted
in a letter to a relative. When about
to post the missive he dropped dead.
A 15-year-old choir boy of Philadel
phia has been arrested in Philadelphia on
the charge of burglary. The police say
he has committed over 40 robberies.
Six thousand union carpenters of Bos
ton will receive an increase in wages
under the decision of Judge Ceorge L.
W'eir.worth, to whom as special arbi
trator the employers and unionists sub
mitted the question of a new working
agreement.
The mystery of the loss of trunks and
if other baggage in Western cities is be
lieved to have been solved by the Chi
cago police, who arrested a man and a
woman. A search of their rooms re
vealed evidences of the missing baggage.
Mr. Harry F. Hooper, city register of
Baltimore, was elecjed a vice president
of the American League of Municipali
ties, in sesion in Toledo. The league
will hold its next meeting in Chicago.
The Chicago police believe they have
a clue to the Mizc murder mystery. They
have arrested a man for holding up a
woman. The circumstances and meth
ods employed are similar to those in
the Mize case.
The work of the National Young
Women's Christian Association was out
lined at Lake Geneva by Miss Kmma
Mays, one of the national secretaries of
the association.
Frank Punsh. a Chicago swindler, has
been arrested after being out of the pen
itentiary for only- three weeks. He has
spent over 30 years behind the bars.
The report of the fever situation in
New Orleans was encouraging. There
was a small report of new cases and
only one death during the night.
Benjamin Kunkle and his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Francis Kunkle, were
drowned in Big Beaver Creek, near
Lancaster, Pa.
James Madison Brooks, a salesman
of the Standard Oil Company, commit
ted suicide in New York by shooting.
The value of the estate of the late
Secretary Hay exceeds $.'50,000.
In an address before the National Ir
rigation Congress, now in session at
Portland, Ore.. James J. Hill, presi
dent of the Great Northern Railway,
quoted statistics to show how public
lands of the West are parsing into the
hands of monopolists.
The breaker, office, boiler-house and
engine-house of the Pine Hill Coal Com
pany, at Mincrsvillc, Pa., were burned.
The loss is $150,000; partly insured. Six
hundred men and boys arc thrown out
of employment.
James P. Hennessey was arrested in
New York on the charge of the forgery
of $40,rxxT against the estate of the iate
millionaire lJ. P. Morgan, of which he
was cashier.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that in future it will accept
no freight cars from manufacturers mile-
s they are equipped with airbrakes.
I ciitiga.
Congressman Richard Bartholdt, of
Missouri, pre-ented lo the Interparlia
mentary Congress, at Brussels, the draft
of a model arbitration trc.-.ty for ap
proval. The Chinese Foreign Board at Shang
hai i? a-si.sting Chinese merchants to
dispose of American goods contracted
for before the boycott.'
Sii'.ce the peace negotiations have been
in progress, both the Japanese and Rus--1111
armies in Manchuria have been re
nib Teed.
Revolutionary movements in the Cau
casus and other -cctiotis of Russia are
increasing, and serious di-mrbances have
occurred.
A Chinese imperial edict declares that
teli phone' and telegraphs throughout the
country are government monopolies.
Japanese war-hips bombarded and de
stroyed two Russian guard stations on
the Amur River.
The Portsmouth correspondent of the
St. Petersburg Slovo cables bis paper
that Iv.nperor William is exerting his
influence with the Czar against Presi
dent Roosevelt's good offices, being dc
!rini!s of seem Russia further exhaust-
I by a continuance of the war.
Genera! Liautey, commanding French
forces in Algeria, is preparing for a
"iovement along the frontier of Morocco
i:i the event of the Sultan refusing the
I reach demands.
Charles R. Flint, of New York, had a
conference with the Czar on industrial
conditions with a view to Americans be
coming interested in industrial projects
in Russia.
Count Lamsdorff, the Russian foreign
minister, denies having made a state
ment in an interview that Russia would
not pay an indemnity under any guise.
The fifth of a new fleet of 25 Japanese
orpedo-boat destioyers was launched in
Kure.
No new cases of Asiatic cholera have
been discovered at Culm, West Prus
sia. The RiHsian troops were repulsed by
revolutionists on the Island of Crete.
A new Anglo-Japanese treaty of alli
ance has been signed.
President Palma, of Cuba, signed the
bill passed by the 1 iouse July 21 and by
the Senate August 16 for the liquidation
of the remaining half of the revolution
ary soldiers' pav.
The semiofficial Paris newspaper, the
Temps, intimates that Russia is losing
ground by her delay in accepting the
peace terms.
Chinese officials in Shanghai are mak
ing only half-hearted efforts to siup the
boycott against American goods.
PRESIDENT TAKES DIYE
Goes Down on a Submarine in the
Sound.
WAS SUBMERGED FOR FIFTY MINUTES.
President Roosevelt Spends Thr Hoars, All
Told, on Board the Plunger and the Sub
marina li Put TbroBh All Her Maneuvers
lor Hll Benefit The Boil Behaved Benutl
lulljr, Tbouf h Heavy Sen Wit On.
Oyster Ray, L. I. (Special). Presi
dent Roosevelt late in the afternoon
made a descent in Long Island Sound
on board the submarine torpedo boat
rituiKcr. He was aboard the vessel
about three hours. At one time the
little boat was submerged (or 50 min
utes, and in that time was put through
all of the submarine exercises of which
she is capable.
The President expressed his delight
at the novel experience, and said that
he was immensely impressed with the
boat and with the manner in which she
was handled. In thus braving the dan
gers of submarine maneouvering the
President has endeared himself to naval
officers and men the world over, and
made Lieut. Charles II. Nelson, com
mander nf the riunger, the proudest
and happiest man in the United States
Navv.
The President's intention not only to
make a personal inspection of the tiny
vessel, likely to prove so deadly in naval
warfare, but to make a submarine de
scent in it was reached after a confer
ence with Lieutenant Nelson. The
Plunger's commander explained to Pres
ident Roosevelt the operations of the
lvoat and assured him that a trip on her
and a descent into the depths of Long
Island Sound would be as devoid of dan
ger as would he a trip on a New York
subway express train.
The President long has desired to
watch the operations of a submarine
torpedo-boat at close range, and before
this would have made a trip in one had
he not been deterred from taking the
risk by advice of his friends and official
associates. Convinced by the logic of
Lieutenant Nelson, he arranged to take
a trip on the Plunger and to sec the
little vessel perform all her wonder
ful maneuvers while he was on board.
The special trial of the boat, with the
President on board, took place between
I and 6 o'clock in Long Island Sound,
just off the entrance to Oyster Bay.
Shortly after 3 o'clock the President
went aboard the Plunger in one of the
launches of the naval yacht Sylph, which
he boarded at the J. West Roosevelt
pier.
As soon as the President had de
scended into the boat the manholes were
closed, and, convoyed by the naval ten
der Apache, the Plunger .started for the
sound. No maneuvers were attempted
until the vessel was well beyond the
entrance to the bay. A stiff northeast
breeze kicked up a heavy sea in' the
sound, but the Plunger behaved beauti
fully. The water where the trial took
place is about 40 feet deep, too shallow,
in the opinion of Lieutenant Nelson and
his experts, to enable the vessel to do
her best work. Soon after the vessel
reached the necessary depth of water
she was directed downward until she
rested on the bottom of the sound. Then
the mechanism of the craft was explain
ed minutely to the President by Lieu
tenant NeKon, so that he afterward ex
perienced no difficulty in understanding
the maneuvers which were performed.
While the President was thus resting
0:1 the bottom of the sound in a sub
marine boat a storm 40 feet above him
was raging unnoticed. The rain de
scended in torrents and the northeaster
whipped the water into big rollers, but
it was as quiet and peaceful where the
President sat as an easy parlor would
be.
Explanations of the working of the
Plunger being completed. Lieutenant
Nelson began to put her through her
Daces. From the hottovti, porpoise div
ing was tried that is, the boat wmild
ascend to the surface of the sound for
several second-, long enough to enable
lier commander to sight any warship
that might be within view, and then
dive attain immediately. After this ma
neuver had been repeated a few times,
the Plunger was sunk down a distance
of 20 feet below the surface and her
engines stopped. Then the engines were
revrsed and the boat ascended to the
surface backward.
Untenant Nelson made his boat per
form the remarkable feat of diving to a
depth of 20 feet and while going at full
sneed at that depth, reversing her course.
The complete turn occupied only one
minute. Subsequently the engines were
stopped and the vessel was submerged
to a depth of 20 feet. There slip was
kept motionless as a demonstration of
her ability to remain in that position for
h'.'iir while awaiting an opportunity to
launch one of her torpedoes at a vessel
of a blockading squadron which might
be passing or repassing a given point.
Burglars Blow Open Sales.
Flcmingtun, N. J. ( Special ). Bur
glars blew the safe in the Three Bridges
P stofiice to atoms early the other morn
ing. Enough nitroglycerine was used
to wreck a dozen safes. The thieves
secured $6 in cash and lictA-Pen 140
and $150 in postage stamps. The bur
glars ilid not disturb the mail matter,
but carried away a bundle of papers ln
lnnging to Postmaster Wood. The
money drawer, containing a small
amount of cash and stamps, was not
forced open. Frank 11. Van Syckle's
meat market was broken into, but noth
ing of value was taken. Surrounding
towns were quickly notified to be on the
lookout for suspicious characters, but
no arrests have been made.
W. C. Ilariioon 1 Suicide.
Charlotte, N. C. ( Special ).W. C.
llardison, of Wadesboro, N. C, identi
fied with various manufacturing; enter
prises, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head, only half an
hour after reaching home from Blowing
Rock, where he had been on account of
his health. He died almost instantly.
The act is attributed to ill health, cou
pled with recent heavy losses occasioned
by the failure of the Independent Cot
ton Oil Company, of Darlington, S. C.
Mr. llardison was owner of one of the
mills controlled by this company.
Huckleberry Pin Eiploded.
Paterson, N. J. ( Special).Mrs. Rob
ert Jamisson, keeper of a boarding
house on the East Side, was scalded
about the hands and faee by the explo
sion of a large huckleberry pie. The pie
had been baked without any airholes in
the top and was placed upon the dinner
table steaming hot. After the boarders
had seated themselves the hoarding mis
frets sunk a knife into the crust, and
the pie burst open with re-port that
could be heard all over the himse. The
juice scattered over the tablel spatter
ing and staining the clone of the
boarders. I
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
Chief Wilkic, of the Secret Service,
in his annual report, tells of the detec
tion and arrest of a number of counter
feiters and the confiscation of their
plates and molds.
Carl Bailey Hurst, son of the late
Methodist Bishop Hurst, has been ap
pointed United States consul at Plauen.
Germany.
It is stated that President Roosevelt
has offered Assistant Secretary of State
Loontis the post of ambassador to
Brazil.
The case of Lieut. George S. Rich
ards, Jr., which was before the War
Department for several months, has been
sent to the President. Richards was ac
quitted of charges of financial irregu
larities by court-martial because of men
tal condition. The retiring hoard reports
his mind as sound.
Thomas E. Waggaman, under indict
ment for embezzlement, gave bond in
the sum of $3,000 for his appearance in
court.
Secretary Bonaparte says that he is
not a candidate for United States Sen
ate to succeed Senator Gorman.
David T. Thompson, who will suc
ceed Ambassador Conger in Mexico, i9
a well-known Nebraska politician.
Postmaster General Cortclyou has the
record of issuing more fraud orders than
any of his predecessors.
Secretary Bonaparte has referred the
report of the Bennington case to the
Judge Advocate General.
Thomas E. Waggaman, late treasurer
of the Catholic University, and whose
financial difficulties have attracted con
siderable attenlion by reason of the
amount involved, was indicted by the
federal grand jury for embezzlement in
connection with his management as trus
tee of an estate.
Through the Department of Com
merce and Lalior, the officers of the Im
migration Bureau have been asked to
state their views regarding the opera
tion of the immigration and Chinese ex
clusion laws, so as to determine what
changes, if any, are desirable.
Edwin H. Conger, ambassador to
Mexico, has resigned. David E. Thomp
son, minister to Brazil, will probably be
his successor.
WANTS TO RACE AIRSHIPS.
Aeronaut Koabensbue lnuei Challeojo to
Another Flyer.
New York (Special). A. Roy Kna
benshue, the Toledo aeronaut, who
aroused all New York by his airship
cruise, practically challenged Leon Ste
vens, of 305 West Forty-seventh street,
to an airship race between the Toledo
II. and the California Arrow for $5,000
a side.
"I am willing to meet him at any
time," said the man who has twice sailed
over this city. "I will race him in any
airship he can get."
Knabenshue, having twice viewed this
city from aloft while sailing in his air
ship, took a look around on the level
on which ordinary humanity lives, tak
ing his crew through the financial dis
trict, Chinatown ami the East Side, and
then going up to Grant's Tomb.
AMERICANS IN PRISON.
They Are Held In Nicaragua Oar Government
Growing Arxlous.
Washington, D. C. ( Special). The
State Department is growing anxious
over the imprisonment of two Ameri
cans in Nicaragua. The men arc vague
ly known in the State Department as
the Albers b others, and the representa
tives in -JS'U aragua of a Philadelphia
concern. It eas through his efforts to
procure release for the prisoners that
Consul Donaldson, at Managua, in
curred tj displeasure of the govern
ment of Nicaragua, which canceled his
exequatur. The department has cabled
to Minister Merry to make a cable re
port on whether or not the men are
still in jail, and if they had been given
a trial. If they arc in prison direct rep
resentations will probably be made to'
the Nicaraguan government.
Rocketeller the Donor?
Chicago (Special). That the hue and
cry about "tainted money" has driven
John D. Rockefeller to adopt secrecy in
his benefactions is the inference here
from the announcement of President
Harper, of Chicago University, that he
has $6,000,000 in hand for the construc
tion of new buildings, the source of
which he declined to disclose. The an
nouncement following right on the heels
of President Harper's visit to Mr. Rock
efeller's home in Cleveland, leaves little
room for doubt about where the univer
sity's latest windfall has come from.
F red 01 From Ambush.
Tracy, Tenn. (Special). When the
Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company
attempted to open the mines, after a
shut-down of over fourteen months, J.
H. Kust, Uick Henley, John .McGovern,
and another man were shot from am
bush. Rust and Henley are dead, and
McGovern is probably mortally wound
ed. The company had refused to rec
ognize members of miners' union.
Cholera In Manila.
Manila (By Cable). An outbreak of
cholera in Manila has been reported. It
is thought that it is due to green vege
tables from Hongkong. Two soldiers
died at Camp McKinley, which is now
quarantined. In the city several na
tives and one American woman have
died. The surgeons of the board of
health say that the disease is not seri
ous, and that heroic efforts will be made
to place it under "control.
FINANCIAL'
Cambria is lipped for a rise, owing
to t he advance in United States Steel
and Pennsylvania Steel preferred.
In the first week in August" ten rail
roads report a gain of 7 per cent, in
gross earnings. For the month of July
,U railroads made a gain of 8 per cent,
in gross earnings.
Baltimore & Ohio's net earnings in
July increased $169,000. Northern Pa
cific's gross earnings for the same month
increased $400,000.
New York banks lost during the week
$,468,000 cash.
The price of light rails has again
been advanced $1 a ton. This makes
25-pound to 40-pound rails $26 per ton.
So far this year British exports have
increased 8.6 per cent., while' imports
have increased only 1.5 per cent.
Pennsylvania Railroad officials declare
that their company should not be in
cluded in the refrigerator car probe,
started by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
United Slates Steel preferred made
new high record, 105H.
FROM PLACE TO PLACE
Mil
Yellow Fever is Fast Becoming
Scattered.
SEVERAL CASES AT GtXFPORT, MISS.
It Hit Also Reappeared nt Providence Thi
Failure to liolatt the Scourge Hai Sent
Another Panic of Quarantine Through
Louisiana In New Orleans the Situation
Continues to Improve.
New cases..,
Total to date.
Deaths
Total
New foci....
Total
3t
1,743
JJ
,.. 255
12
402
Remaining under treatment. 100
The Board of Health at
Natchez, Miss., announce 6 to
10 cases of yellow fever there.
New Orleans, La. (Special-). The
United States Marine Hospital Service
has agreed to take charge of the fruit
shipments from Port Chalmclte, so as
to meet the objections of Surgeon Gen
eral.Wyman. The fruit cars will not go
through New Orleans. This arrange
ment will permit of handling the fruit
trade through the Mississippi River, re
lieve the congestion at Mobile and the
famine in the West.
' The State Board of Health, having
made an investigation of the health con
ditions at Patterson, has concluded that
the vigorous measures are needed there,
and has placed Dr. C. L. Norton in
charge. The civil authorities will re
port to him and receive orders from
him. So far the efforts to check the
disease in Patterson having produced
no practical results; fortunately the dis
ease is milder there than anywhere else
in the South, the death rate being only
one-half of one per cent. Why this is
so has not been yet learned.
On the other hand, the situation is
bad at Lee, the fishing settlement on
Bayou Lafourche, where there are 2.23
cases. There arc now three doctors
there. The fishing business is com
pletely suspended, and the people are
short of provisions and medicines. These,
however, are being supplied by the au
thorities, and ample provision will be
made for the healthy as well as for
the sick. They are simple fisher folk,
obey all sanitary instructions, and seem
heartily thankful for what is being done
for them. Unfortunately, through their
ignorance and lack of a resident doctor.
they let the disease get firmly se.-Ved in
every house in the settlment before no
tifying the health authorities.
Dr. Kranss has been placed in cnarge
at Lake Providence, where the recur
rence of the fever, after having once
been crushed out, has caused much dis
appointment. It is restricted to the ne
groes, only one white person being sick,
whereas of old the negroes were believed
to be immune.
The discovery of yellow fever at Gulf-
port. Miss,, was, it now appears, made
at New Orleans, just as that at Missis
sippi City was discovered by the Ala
bama health authorities.
Burial ot Paul Jones.
Washington, D. C. (Special). April
24, iyo6, has been definitely fixed by
Secretary Bonaparte as the date for the
exercises at Annapolis in connection
with the interment of the body of John
Paul ones. This is the anniversary of
the great Admiral's capture of the
Drake. After a consultation with Ad
miral Sands, Superintendent of the Na
val Academy, Mr. Bonaparte was con
vinced that the condition of the yard,
because of the building in progress there,
would not be such this fall as to permit
of the programme of the burial being
carried out satisfactorily.
Leprosy Cured.
Manila (By Cable). What appears
to be a well-authenticated instance of
the cure of leprosy has been found here.
A few weeks ago a patient who had been
afflicted with leprosy, and who had been
under treatment for that disease, died
of liver complaint. After the patient's
death every part of the body was sub
jected to a searching microscopic ex
amination by bacteriologists, hut not the
slightest trace of leprosy could b; found.
Dr. H. B. Wilkinson, the physician who
treated the patient for leprosy, is a grad
uate of the University of Virginia, class
of 1894.
Army ol Fourteen Million.
Clifton, Mass. Special). The first
business session of the central commit
tee of the International Sunday School
Association was held here. Marion
Lawrence, of Toledo, Ohio, ctneral sec
retary of the Association, presented bis
annual report, showing 154.593 Sunday
Schools, with 1,522.473 teachers and a
total membership of 14,108,30; in the
international field.
Shoots Hll Wife and Self.
Pittsburg ( Special). Alexander Stern
er, a millwright, living in McClurg
street. South Side, shot his wife through
the head and then, placing the revolver
to his rijiht temple, sent a bullet into
his brain. Sterner died instantly, but
his wife will recover. The shooting, it
is said, was caused by insane jealousy
due to drink.
F.f hi to Death at Plcoic
Meridian, Miss. (Special). At'a pic
nic in Union Springs Frank and Man-on
Chisholm, cousins, engaged in a quar
rel, in which FranK was stabbed in the
neck and fatally wounded. As be fell
he drew a pistol, and, firing twice, in
stantly killed his cousin, Mauson Chis
holm. women Cat Fanciers.
Albany, N. Y. (Special). Women cat
fanciers living in various parts of the
country incorporated the Lock lfaven
Cat Club, for the purpose of cultivating
an interest in the ownership of thor
oughbred cats, to find homes and care
for vagrant cats and to give private and
public feline exhibitions. Fhe head
quarters of the club is in Rochester,
and the directors include women resid
ing in that city and in Chicago, Chat
ham, N. Y. ; Dorchester, Mass.; Ro
meo, Mich.; Pittsburg, Pa.; Ithaca, N.
Y., and New York city.
Martin Wins la Primaries.
Richmond, Va. (Special). Senator
Thomas S. Martin was nominated . to
succeed himself as United States Sena
tor at Tuesday's primary by a majority
yet to be ascertained, but which will,
no doubt, be considerable, as he seems
to have carried practically all the coun
ties and cities in the state, defeating
Gov. A. J. Montague, who put up the
gamest kind of a fight. Congressman
Claude A. Swanson is the nominee for
the governship, winning over Lieutenant
Governor Joseph E. Willard and State
Senator William Hodges Mann.
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY
New YotiK L'itt. N. T.
Sleuth "Tim" Donahue of the cus
toms service noticed a second-cabin pas
senger of the North German Lloyd
steamship Kronprinz Wilhclm with sev
eral unnatural proturberanccs under his
coat, waistcoat and trousers. He bumped
against the man, incidentally felt the
bulges and found them very solid. He
showed the passenger, who is Moritz
Mordell, a jeweler of Boston, his badge
and invited him into a room on the pier.
There the proturberauces were reduced
without surgical help. They contained
18 packages of unset stones, mostly dia
monds; three packages of loose stones
of less value: 12 pairs of cuff buttons,
a pair of earrings, four settings for ear
rings, 70 settings for gold rings, 15 gold
chains and other jewelry. The value of
the lot will be estimated by appraisers.
Donahue said it might be worth several
thousand dollars.
A huge man-eating shark was brought
ashore at Coseoh, N. Y., by Judge Geo.
h. Brush. It was necessary to tow the
6-h in behind a catboat. The shark
weighed 400 pounds, measured 9 feet in
length, was 20 inches thick, and was 4
feet in circumference as it lay on the
shore. It had a double set of teeth and
was ferocious in appearance.
4?
"Police! Help! I am on fire!"
These startling words were uttered
by a young woman who was dining in
the little root garden ever the dining
room, extension of the Hotel Navarre.
nt Seventh avenue and Thirty-eighth
street.
She rose in her scat as she screamed
for aid. and it was seen that her corsage
was ablaze, and the other diners rusii
ed toward the exit leading to the one
narrow flight of stairs. The voting wo.
man. left alone, tore away the burning
portion of her waist and joined the
panic-stricken crowd on the stairway.
Two firemen from the station in Thirty
seventh street, with the aid of an ex
tinguisher, managed to pr.t out the burn
ing canvas covering of the roof gar
den. & jl?
The population of New York city will
aggregate nearly four millions, accord
ing to estimates that have been made
from reports of the recent State enu
meration taken here. Computations on
the same basis place the population of
the entire State at 7,800.000. The total
population .of New York city in 1900,
when the last census was taken, was 3,
437.202. and that of the entire State,
7,268,012.
&
Ellen Ilardigan cared little about the
fact that she was arraigned in the Adams
Street Police Court, Brooklyn, on a
charge of disorderly conduct, but she
did object strenuously to the attire she
was compelled to don before being taken
before .Magistrate lighe.
Wljen the matron of the Adams Street
Police Station gave her a clean white
shirt shirtwaist and a black skirt Ellen
rebelled and cried aloud for the suit of
blue trousers and seaman's blouse which
she wore when Police Captain Condon
arrested her as she was skylarking with
a crowd of noisy hoys in the neighbor
hood ot tfuticr and Court streets.
Almost from infancy she has shunned
her sex and everything pertaining there
to. Boys have been her boon compan
ions; baseball, football and craps her
favorite diversions. She has steadfast
ly refused to wear girl's clothing.
Once she whipped a man in a fair
right.
'He got fresh, she said, when telling
of her exploit, "and he got "all that was
coming to htm.
47
The heroism of a little girl of 6, who
grabbed a burning flag from the wall
when it threatened to start a conflagra
tion, saved a congregation of 3000 per
sons Sunday who had packed themselves
into the synagogue Beth Hakncseth Bi
alystok to attend the dedication cere
monies. The flag was hanging over the gal
lery scats, and was half consumed be
fore anyone noticed it, so intent were
all present on the cantor. Then a dozen
eyes saw the curling flame.
Police Captain Joseph McGlynn, in
charge of the reserve?, saw it and sign
ed to the choir to sing. He had started
for the blaring flag, but before he could
reach it Gertrude Roseribauin of 107
East Eighty-eighth street, -had climbed
on a chair and snatched the burning
cloth from the wall.
She burned her hands severely, for
the staff resisted her attempt at first,
but it gave way finally, and she cast the
flag on the floor, where a man stamped
out the fire.
4? X? &
Gunda, the pride of the Bronx Zoo, is
rapidly learning to play the harmonica.
Gunda is an elephant. He takes his mu
sic lessons daily from Keeper Gleason
attd seems to like it. It is vehemently
asserted that he has already mastered
the first few bars of "Tammany," and
he'll have the song from end to end by
election day sure.
To the Pole on Missouri Mule.
Seattle, Wash. (Special). Advices
from Dawson state that a club of 200
Klondikers has been formed to finance
Old equip an expedition to the North
Pole. Sufficient funds have been as
sured to make the expedition a certs in
ty. Eskimo dogs and mountain-climbing
mules are to carry the explorers.
They will strike straight northward
overland. Missouri mules will be used.
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
There arc said to be 100,000 Japa
nese laborers now in the Hawaiian Is
lands. Printers in Troy, N. Y., have obtained
the eight-hour day and an increase in
wages.
The aggregate membership of the Gen
eral Federation of Trade Unions of
Great Britain is 400,250.
Only 50,000 persons employed in the
textile trades of the United States are
organized, while 500,000 are . unorgan
ized. In the United Slates there arc 99 wo
men quarrymen, and 100 women lum
bermen are actively engaged in busi
ness. .
- The new structural building trades al
liance in Boston, Mass., has been offi
cially ofganized, with seven trades affili
ated. The present number of old-age pen
sioners now on the list and receiving
aid from the Belgian government is
something over aoo.ooo.
The Mechanics' Journal is proud of
the fact that government experts -have
discovered the superiority of union labor
in the construction of thips for the
United States Navy.
THREAT JY FRANCE
Morocco Must Release Prisoner or Bo
Invaded.
LIKE THE rEKDICARIS CASE.
French Mlnlater at Fei Instructed to Depart la
Case of Morocco's fton-contpllanca with Dili
malum Military, Instead ol Naval Demon
stration, Prnpnsed as Less Llab to Provokt
International Complications.
Paris (By Cable). As a result of a
special meeting of the Council of Min
isters it was announced that a military
demonstration will be made against Mo
rocco unless the Sultan promptly yields
to the French demands for the release of
fhe French-Algerian citizen, a merchant
named Bouzain. who was unjustifiably
arrested at Glnrh, a Moroccan town on
the Algerian frontier.
Instructions were rent to the French
.Minister at Fez, Strene Taiander, to
make a final demand on the Sultan.
The Minister was informed that if this
demand should be refused the entire per
sonnel of the legation was to depart
from Morocco, and a military movement
would simultaneously btgin along the
Algerian frontier.
It is the intention of military author
ities to occupy a Moroccan border town,
probably Ottdjda, owing to its strategic
command of the route to the Moroccan
capital. However, the officials are con
fident that the Sultan will yield before
the threat of using military force.
The demonstration as planned is some
what similar lo that which Lit American
squadron made at Tangier to compel
the release of Ion Perdicaris, who was
captured by the bandit Raisttli. The
French authorities deemed a naval dem
onstration inexpedient because of possi
ble international complications resulting
from other countries sending warships
to observe fhe demonstration, while a
military movement against Morocco
would be largely a police measure not
involving the general political question
of French authority in Morocco, The
persistent refusal of the Sultnn to yield,
however, might compel the French to
advance farther than a border town.
Germany has thus far approved the
French demands for redress, but fears
are expressed in some quarters that the
Sultan will refuse 10 yield in the hope of
securing the aid of Germany. Practi
cally all the leading powers have ap
proved the determination of the French
Government to adopt a firm course. The
pronoscd course cannot be put into exe
cution before another week, owing to
the time necessary to communicate the
final demands to the Sultan.
HOCH GRANTED MORE DF.LAY.
Supreme Court nf Illinois Will Review Testb
mnny la Case.
Chicago (Special). Johann Hoch, the
man of many wives, convicted of the
murder of one of them and under sen
tence of death, has escaped the gallows
a third time. Me was fo have been
hanged Friday, but a supercedas was
issued Thursday on an order of Justice
Magrudcr, of the Supreme Court.
The Justice said that he had carefully
examined the record presented by 1 loch's
attorneys and his study of it satisfied
him that there was enough doubt to jus
tify a review of the entire case by the
Supreme Court. The case will come up
at the October term of the court at
Springfield, 111. Hoch has been confi
dent that the sentence of hanging would
not be inflicted. He had very little to
say when informed of the action of the
Justice. Jailer Whitman asserted it was
the first time in his experience that a
prisoner has exhibited no concern about
his fate the day previous to execution.
Hoch was smoking a cigar wdien told
of the issuance of the writ. "I am not
guilty of this horrible murder," he said,
"and now I will have an opportunity of
proving myself innocent before the high
est court in the state. I never have felt
that I would go to the gallows. I may
be guilty of other crimes, but never of
that murder." .
Heart on the Right Side.
Los Angeles (Specjal). When Mal
colm Rose, a landscape gardener, was
put on the. operating table at the county
hospital here to. undergo an operation
for the removal of a growth from his
neck, it was discovered by the surgeons
that the patient's, heart, instead of being
in normal position on the left side of
the body, was on the right side, nearly
six inches from its proper place. The
organ in every way, however, appeared
normal. It cvidentJy had been in that
position from birth.
A New Train Hotel Awheel.
Chicago, 111. (Special). The Penn
sylvania Railroad placed on exhibition
at the Union Station one of its newly
equipped fast trains between Chicago
and New York. The train contains all
the latest improvements in the way of
electric lighting, ventilation, cnbrged
and wider bathrooms, barber shop and
everything to afford comfort to the pa
trons of tht road. All the cars are ele
gantly furnished.
May Punish Macho.
Madrid, Spain (By Cable). It is
probable that Macho, the official who is
said to be responsible for the reports
to the effect that physicians who had
examined King Alfonso found traces
of insanity, will be severely punished.
What form his punishment will lake is
not known, but it is. understood it will
be commensurate with the gravity of
the offense.
Scaf.'oldlnf Falls.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). A scaffold
ing about 40 feet high at the American
Radiator Works broke and eight work
men fell to the stone floor in the base
ment. One man died a few minutes
after the accidclit. His name is An
thony Sch'iltz, of Cleveland, O. Oth
ers injured were George Jones, Robert
McGwire and F.dward Warner, August
Heiniston and Patrick Sheehy, all of
Cleveland ; James T. Matterson, of
Unionville, and Ferett McMann, of
Buffalo.
Doctors Denounce Leach.
New Orleans (Special). The com
bined forces of the city, the State and
the Nation have come down on the hope
and aspirations of Dr. Reginald Birklcy
Leach, the expounder of arsenious acid
lo prevent yellow fever. A formal let
ter was issued, signed by Surgeon J. H.
White, U. S. P. 11. and M. 11. S and,
by the president and advisory commit
tee from the Orleans Parish Medical !
Society, telling how patients who had
partaken of the arsenic diet for the sup-i
posed sufficient period to render them'
immune, and giving a record of un-1
founded claims made by Dr. Leach,