TREATY NOW COMPLETE TTic Evacuation of Manchuria Causes Discussion. JAPANESE TAKING NO CHANCES. Tbey loilst Thai All Ibe Rmslin Forces Along Ike Lino l the Eutera Chinese Railroad That Rcmalot In Ruiela'e Possession Shall B Required I Leave Mancburla al the Ear Ileal Practical Tim. Portsmouth, N. II. (Special). After two long sessions, the second lasting until late at night, the treaty of peace between Russia and Japan was completed in rough form. The work of engrossing on parchment will be entrusted to ex pert penmen from the Department of State in Washington. The air had been full of rumors all flay of differences between the envoys over the articles relating to the division of Sakhalin Island and the evacuation of .Manchuria. Hut those who are in timatcly concerned in the conferences insisted that there was no danger that the negotiations would fail. While the completed treaty will be cabled to St. Petersburg and Tokio, the reports ot both nations indicate that there is no occasion to wait until formal approval comes from the I'ar and tin- .Mikado before the plenipotentiaries may amx ineir signatures. The Japanese admit that they have not had the Mikado's approval of the agreement reached on last Tuesday, but pamly intimate that thas is not necessary to permit Baron Komttra and Mr. Taka Iiira becoming signatories of the conven tion. Mr. Takahira. for Japan, and Mr. Martens and Mr. I'lancon, for Russia, declared that there was no danger of any hitch. The points of difference regarding Sakhalin Island were harmonized. The Russian envoys having agreed that the northern part of the island, which Rus sia will retain, should not be fortified, this having been insisted upon by the Japanese who were required by the terms of the agreement to erect no guns on the southern part of the island, the only remaining feature of the Sak halin article relating to the rights of Russian property holders and residents in the portion of the island which will be come Japan's, were quickly adjusted. The provision forbidding" the Japanese to erect fortifications overlooking I.a Perouse Straits is very explicit and will make it impossible for Sakhalin to be used as a war base for a Japanese fleet or or the matter of that, for a Russian neei. ender the agreement reached the troops of both beligerents are to retire iroin their present position in Man churia immediately upon the proclama tion of the peace treaty, the Russian to Harbin and the Japanese to Mukden. Sub sequently the complete withdrawal from Chinese territory of the troops of both armies will he carried out in accordance with provisions set forth in the treaty. Upon the insistence of Japan, all Rus sian forces along the line of that part of the Eastern Chinese Railroad which will remain in Russia's possession will be required to leave Manchuria at the earliest practicable moment. The treaty as agreed upon will provide the' exact number of railway guards which both Russia and Japan may retain for the purpose of protecting their rolling stock and trackage in Manchuria. Undesirable Iramigraoti. Washington, D. C, (Special). While the increase in immigration to this coun try during the la it six months far ex ceeds that of other years, the rate of in crease of those debarred is still greater. Immigration shows an increase of 14 per cent, over 1903, while there was a 20 per cent, increase anion? those de barred. In all 6729 were not permitted to remain. From statistics of the de partment of commerce and labor it is shown that during July 149 Chinese were admittted, 281 less than in July a vcar ago. In all 76,090 immigrants were' ad mitted. Convicted of Extortion. Pitltsburg, Pa., (Special). Ex-Capt. James Wilson, of the Allegheny police department, was sentenced to pay a tine of $100 and to serve a term of six months in the county workhouse, as the result cjf the convictions in graft cases. His attorneys immediately appealed the ca-e to the Superior Court. This will act as stay of imprisonment until next spring should the appeal be affirmed. . Wilson is the first defendant to be sentenced Nince the Allegheny graft crusade bcKan. He was tried on two charges of extor tion. Water Snake io Hla Mouth. Kansas City, Mo, (Special). David TJrrgocitch sank suddenly from iglit and was drowned while swimming in the Kaw river. When his body was recov ered a watcrsnake, eight inches long, was found m his mouth. It is thought that the snake got in the man's month while lie was swimming and caused him to strangle and drown. Drcgocitch wa VS year, old and a good swimmer. A Prloco Murdered. Tim'., Causia, ( Iiy Cable). It is rc rorrcd tint the town of Sini-ha is in lliinc:. The people have lied to the maintains. Troops are being sent to the scenr. At Manchrani, in the Du-hct district, the property of Prince Muchran ski has been destroped bv dvnainite. 1 nnce EsistotT has been murdered near t.ion. ' A Jod(e Assaulted. Charlotte, N. C, (Special). -A special to the Observer from Durham, . c. saya that M. II. McCown, ex-mayor of Durham, assaulted Judge George V. Ward, of the First Judicial District", knocking him down. The assault was occasioned by the imposition of a two vear sentence on Allen I la, kins, colored. Iiy Judge Ward at the afternoon session r,f the Superior Court for killuid I. C. Day, who was a nephew of McCown. Judge Ward's assailant was immediately numbed lor contempt. Massacre ( Armenians. Tiffin. (By Cable). The town of Sliu Uia ii besieged by Tartars, who are well nd are massacring the Armen ians. Telegraphic communication with S,husha h cut. German insurance companies refuse to lake any riks in the case Alpine rhmUrs unless an expert guide is ope of the party. I lie- o-ntral markets of Paris use more than ri,ra worth of baskets every ear. BALLOONIST BLOWN TO PIECES. Ballooolsl'a Frightful Death High Up Is lh Clouda. Greenville, O., (Special). Prof. A. Baldwin, airship exhibitor, was blown to atoms by the explosion of six sticks of dynamite in his balloon while 1,500 feet in the nir. His wife and two children were in the crowd of 25,000 persons who aw the calamity. Baldwin had been giving daily exhibi tions at the county fair. He would as cend several thousand feet in the air and explode half a dozen sticks of dyna mite at different times. Thursday he had mounted 1. 500 feet in the air and his airship was soaring gracefully. While the crowd was watching him there ap peared in the sky where the airship had been a great cloud of smoke. A few seconds later there came down a great report from the clouds, the smoke ob scured the view and f raiment of the airship began falling. Baldwin had lit erally been blown to bits by the cxplo- ton. His body was picked up over a space of several acres and removed to a morgue. Baldwins wife screamed when she saw the smoke, long before the explo sion, for her practised eve told her of the tragedy which had occurred in the clouds. She fell in a dead faint before the vast crowd had realized what was happening. No one can tell how the accident oc curred. The six sticks of dynamite ex ploded simultaneously, as only one re port was heard. Men's faces blanched and women fainted as the fragments of the ship and the aeronaut s bodv fell. Baldwin was from Losantvillc. Ind., and was 36 years of age. He had been engaged for a long while in giving bal loon and airship exhibitions at county fairs. A VOUNfl FIEND'S CRIME. Saturatea a Companion With Qaaolloe and Seta Him On Fire. Hannibal, Mo. (Special). Charles Christian, 11 years old, son of Lee Christian, was roasted alive in Union street here by another boy named Mc- I.ain, who dashed a can of gasoline over the clothes of young Christian and then applied a lighted match. Christian was playing in the street with several other boys when Mcl.ain walked up swinging a gasoline can. After twice .threatening to roast the Christian boy alive, he finally made his word good. He unscrewed the cap of the can, rushed upon Christian and drenched him from head to foot with gasoline. Before the un fortunate lad could get away he touched a lighted match to his trousers, which were soaked with gasoline. Instantly the boy was enveloped in flames. He fell to the ground screaming in agony and fight ing the fire. Many persons ran to the rescue, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Every stitch of clothing was burned from young Christian's back. The boy will "die. PHOTOGRAPHED FORTS. How a Boiton Phyilclaa Oot Into Trouble In Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica (By Cable). Dr. Franklin Clarke, of Boston, was tried here before the Chief Justice, for a breach of the official secrets act, in tak ing photographs of the fortifications of the Port Royal. The crown prosecutor argued that for eign powers whould pay largely for such photographs, but the evidence against the accused was conflicting and the law yers for the defense urged that there had been no criminal intent. Dr. Clarke be ing animated simply by photographic enthusiasm. The Chief Justice summed un in favor of the prisoner and the jury failed to agree and was discharged. Price of Pine Railed. Beaumont, Texas, (Special). The Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Asso ciation has announced a general ad vance of $1 a thousand feet on pine. Statistical information shows a decrease m stocks during July of 26,000,000 feet and an involuntary curtailment in the same month of 80,000.000 feet among 149 mills. Demand is so bri.sk that most of the mills throughout the territory are working double shifts. Eloped at 96. Austin, Tex. ( Special .i.Kilcr Botts, 96 years of age, came here from his home, near Gonzales, Tex., for the pur pose of marrying Mrs. Elizabeth Mob ley, 74 years of age. He found that members of Mrs. Mobley's family were opposed to the marriage, and the old hut .-pr couple arranged to defeat all op-po-ition by an elopement. They slipped off and went to Lockhart, where they were married. Bubonic Plague Feared. San Jose, Costa Rica ( By Cable). The government is taking strong meas ures to prevent possible contagion from nuiionic piague. and is urging upon the medical authorities the desirability of circulating the bv-t advice among the people. The American steamer Wash ington, and the Itathan steamer La Ve loce, both of which touched at Colon were not allowed to enter Port Limon! W8.246 On Pension Roll. Washington, D. C. ( Special ). The ad vance copies of the annual report of Com missioner of Pensions Vespasian Warn er have-been received from the printer, but on account of the absence from the city ot the Secretary of the Interior will not be given out at present. The report -hows that on June 30, 19115, there were 08,246 pensioners on the rolls. IN THE FIELD OF LABOR. There are about 7.000,000,000 cigars made in the United States annually. A.-bcstOi workers have compromised a strike at Cleveland, O., and secured increased wages. Workmen's old-age pensions in Bel gium are paid by the national treasury from the budget. A law making truant officers factory inspectors has been passed by the Wis consin Legislature. Albany, N. Y., has Hi -labor unions, with a membership of 7691. TliiS is a decrease from 1004 of three unions and S 16 members. Philadelphia factories consume annu ally raw materials valued at $226,877, 44t. The value of the total annual out put is $003,406,526. Returns from British firms employ ing J4,5 cotton operatives show an increase in wages of 9.6 per cent, com pared with a year ago. Illinois, with fewer than 900 unions, including Knights of Labor assem blies, in had, January 1, 1904, ijcq unions and 300,000 members. J MANY VICTIMS OF BOMB Exploded Among Holiday Makers at Farcleona. CONE WAS COVERED WITH CEMEN A Panic Ensued and the Air Wai Real With th Sbrlekt and Oroaot ot lb Vic lima, Who Numbered Between 40 and 60, Including ana Woman Killed and Flva Per ona Mortally Wounded. Barcelona, (By Cable). A bomb ex plodcd with terrific force on the Marine Parade, which was thronged with holi day makers. A panic ensued mid the air was rent with the shrieks and groans of the vie tims. Twenty-one persons, including one woman, were killed and five others were mortally wounded. The bomb was conical in shape and was covered with cement. The perpetrator of the outrage is un known. One witness states that a child was seen to deposit a bomb at the foot of a tree. Another version was that the bomb was placed at the foot of tree in the afternoon and that the man who was seen to place it there was in lured by its premature explosion. Alter the explosion Panama hats, par asols and wearing apparel were found strewn about, and here and there were pools ot blond. 1 lie detonation was heard throughout the city and the force of the explosion threw a coachman from the seat of his carnage 50 yards away The bomb was filled with nails and scrap- iron. A workman covered with blood while running away from the scene was pur sued by a mub which believed him to be responsible for the outrage, and being caught was nearly lynched. . I he man was taken to a hospital, where he de nied he had exploded the bomb. MANIAC KILLS HIMSELF. Pitta Shot al Those Who Eicaped From Build lo( He Fired. Lorain, O. (Special). Peter Pitts, the Avon maniac who lias been terrorizing the inhabitants of this county, killed himself when he found that capture was at hand. Sheriff Salisbury and a posse had been following the maniac all night. Pitts started for the home of his grandfather. Leisen. at French Creek Leisen refused to give him shelter, and informed the sheriff. A posse of 100 men scoured the country in Avon township all the morn ing tor Pitts. Pitts was heavily armed. The members of the posse were armed with revolvers and rifles. Pitts was charged with setting fire to two houses. The buildings were de stroyed and the occupants barely escaped with their lives. When they ran out of the buildinir fitts snot at them from a thicket. Since then he was accused of having attempted to wreck the Toledo Limited on the Lake Shore electric railway by piling ties on the track. T. he maniac had also attempted to kill several women and children by shooting. hen he found escape cut off in every direction, ntts tired two shots into his head. OBSERVATION OP ECLIPSE PERFECT. Report From Rear Admiral Chester, of United States Squadron. Washington, D. C, (Special). The following was issued at the Navy De partment : "Rear Admiral C. M. Chester, com manding the special-service squadron, which was formed in June to proceed to Spain and the northern coast of Af rica for the purpose of observing the solar eclipse occurring on August 30, re ports as follows : " 'Observation of eclipse in Spain per fect in every respect.' " London, (By Cable). A telegram from Sir Norman Lockyer, chief of the eclipse party at Palma, Island of Ma jorca, says : "The results were indifferent, owing to unfavorable weather." Prof. Hugh Callendar, of the Royal College of Science. London, reports from Catellon de la Plana, near Valencia, Spain, that the first and last contacts were observed in a clear sky and that good records of the radiation and tem perature were obtained. CoL Mosby Dldo't Kill His Own Cow. Washington, D. C. (Special). Refer ring to a recent publication that "the shot Colonel Mosby recently fired at a publishing house killed his own cow," implying that the shot had injured an imaginary book which it was allegcii he had written and in the sale of which he had an interest, Colonel Mosby says he has not killed his own cow, as he had no cow to kill. He has not written a book, but is writing one. No pub lisher, he says, has either a vested 01" contingent interest in it. When the book is finished it will go to the highest bid der. Find Seven-Foot Skeletons. Fond du Lac, Wis., (Special). Two skeletons each measuring more than seven feet in length were found in a gravel pit in Forest, near this place. Tl kulls are twice as larae as those of an ordinary adult and the thigh bones are almost six inches longer than those of a six-foot man. It is probable the skele tons, which are thought to he the remains of some prehistoric race, will be sent to Milwaukee for examination. Three Blown to Atoms. Lancaster, Pa., (Special). Three Slave and an Italian were blown to pieces by the premature explosion of a blast near Safe Harbor. Another Slav is missing and is believed to have been blown into the Susquehanna river, and two Slavs and a negro were badly in jured. The men were engaged in loading a blast hole 50 feet deep, and had just placed the dynamite and detonating cap. It is supposed the tamping rod struck this cap. The Nation'! Money. Washington, D. C. (Special). The monthly circulation statement issued by the Comptroller of the Currency shows that at the close of business Friday the total circulation of national banks was $512,220,307, an increase for. the year of $s9,-03,S94 and an increase fr the month of $8,24,072. The circufcition based on United States bonds ajmounted to $478,786,165, an increase for the year of $61,405,865 and an increase for the month of $7,170,394. I THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. DOMKHT1U The committee appointed by the recent constitutional convention of the Five Civilized Tribes to draft a constitution for the proposed new state completed its worn. D. A. Attilo. who tried desperately to make a mash on Miss Helen George in Brooklyn, was beaten by the crowd ana tmcd hy the magistrate. Mrs'. Pauline Bowman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was shot in the face and dis figured by a man who with her husband, mistook her for a burglar. The city health department of Atlanta Ga., announced one case of yellow fever in Atlanta. The second section of the Bar Harbor express crashed into the first section, a number of passengers being scalded by escaping steam. 1 hebes Farthing, cashier of the State Bank at Hatilsladt. Ind., is missitm and his accounts are, apparently, $7,000 short. Tentative arrangements have been made for the President's return to Wash ington from Oyster Bay. Oliver U. Jones, a bank cashier, under indictment tor embezzlement, broke jail at Rushville, Ind. 1 housands of dollars damage was done tobacco crops near Janesville, Wis., by hail and wind. Struck by lightning, the Union Ele vator Company's elevator at Joilet, 111., burned down. Miss Maria D'Amaze. a mysterious recluse, was found dead in her apart ments in St. Louis. 1 wo American soldiers in the Philip pines died from cholera. l'ire destroyed the plant of the Tack- son (Tenn.) Woolen Mills and Pants Factory, entailing a loss of $100,000, par tially covered by insurance. Ihc tannery plant of Henry Ilolhn- ger, at Columbia, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100.- 000; partially insured. The Carnegie Foundation has offered five prizes for the best plans for the building for the permanent peace court at The Hague. I he fifty-sixth convocation of the Uni versity of Chicago was held in Chicago, riamnn uariand delivering the address. A cablegram from Shanghai states that the Chinese government has forbidden the boycott of American goods. Charles Christian was saturated with gasoline and set on fire by a companion in Hannibal, Mo. Almost the entire business section of FlemingsburK, Kv.. was destroyed hv fire. ' ' WAMIINCiTOX Public Printer Palmer has renuested the resignation of Foreman Oscar J. Ricketts and L. C. Hav. Both have de clined to comply with the request. Secretary Bonaparte issued an order convening a court-martial to hear charges against Captain Young and En sign w aae, ot the Bennington. Joseph P. Killcbrcw. of Tennessee, has been appointed by Secretary Wilson as tobacco expert of the Agricultural De partment. Charles A. Monre n nndnffic. 1 s"-ir, confessed appropriating railroad tickets irom letters in the Dead-Letter Office. I he ar Department received the re port of Brigadier General Wint, com manding the Northern IJiv nn. the Board of Consulting Engineers of me ranama Canal discussed v.-inons details of organization. The Board of Engineer Exnerts called to advise the Panama Canal Commis sion upon the relative feasibility of the sea icvei or iock canal, began Us dehb erations in Washington. A naval court of inquiry was appointed to examine into the conduct of the tren- erai siorcKecper s othce at Boston Navy 1 aru. Jesse E. llson, of Indiana, the new assistant secretary of the interior, as sumed the duties of his office. Henry J. Bright, one of the four surviving members ot the jury that tried miicau, is seriously HI. There were 1,026,499 immigrants ar rived in the United States during the year enaca Jjune 30 last. .Mr. D. W. Baker was installed as dis trict attorney and entered upon his du ties. Secretary Taft and bis from Manila for Japan. Dr. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has been exonerated by a report of Solicitor McCabe, of the Department of Agriculture. Ciovemment circu ars are to be nost ed in the postoffices throughout the country. FOREIGN France has sent an ultimatum tn tbp Sultan of Morocco for the payment of indemnity and public apology for the imprisonment of an Algerian citizen. 10m u iirien, the bunco king, is dead. u i-uuic uurriii, anotner notorious American crook, has escaped from Devil's Island, the French penal station. In diplomatic circles in London and Paris the magnanimous action of lanan in the peace agreement is considered to insure the peace of the world. .Now that the war is ended, there are indications that Russian autocracy w ill postpone the establishment of a national assembly tor at least a year. Tu. . e 1 iic ncaiy ui jicace between Japan and Russia has been finally completed in a rough form and will be signed early next weeK. Cholera continues to increase in Ger many and the record to date is 51 cases ana 19 deaths. A second case exists at Hamburg. A neutral zone is being established between the Russian and Japanese armies in Manchuria pending . their mobilization. The town of Shusha, in the Caucasia. was burned and revolutionists have de stroyed the property of Prince Eristoff. turkey has declined to accept the scheme proposed by the powers for the financial control of Macedonia. The Duke of Orlcnas' Greenland nartv has discovered a new land, which they nave named I erre lc Trance. A general strike has hern nrnrhi .11 nevai, Kussia. Ten persons were killed and 20 seri ously injured by an express train leav ing the track and dashing into the plattform of the Wiltham (England) Station of the Grunt Eastern Railway. Several more cases of cholera have appeared in East Prussia. Precautions are being taken to prevent any infected emigrants sailing from Hamburg for New York. Major Count A. von Goetzen, governor of German East Africa, will, it is re ported, succeed Dr. Stuebel as director of the colonial division of the foreign office. Gaud and Toque, the two chief coloni al officials in the French Kongo, have been sentenced to five years' impris onment in connection with charges of brutality. Prof. William Hussey, of the Lick Observatory, cables that the astronom ical expedition executed its eclinse uro ..11 1. .... gram as planned. Hie Swedish Court favors the candi dacy of Prince Charles of Sweden for the Norwegian throne. CZAR TO ROOSEVELT Remarkable Message Giving Him Al Honor. THE CRATITl'DE OF RUSSIA. Friendly Felicitation! From the Emperor of Austria Confratulatlona Continue to Pour io Upon tbe President From All Parta of the World-All Unit In Olvtox Him Credit (or Hla Great Work. Emperor Nicholas: "My coun try will gratefully recognize the great part you have played in the Peace Conference." Emperor Francis Joseph: "Friendliest felicitations. May the world be blessed with many years' continuance of peace un disturbed." Emperor William : "The un stinted expressions of admira 1ion and satisfaction lavished on him from all sides arc in every respect well merited." Oyster Bay, L. I., (Special). Empcr or Nicholas of Russia has recrgincd gratefully the great part which Presi dent Koosevelt played 111 the successful negotiations for peace.' In a cablegram received bv President Roosevelt Emper or Nicholas congratulated andJhankcd the President for his efforts. The cable gram follows : Peterhof. Alexandria. Aug. 31. President Roosevelt : Accept mv congratulations and earnest thanks for having brought the peace ne gotiations to a successful conclusion, ow mg to your personal energetic efforts. My country will gratefully recognize the great part you have played in the Ports mouth peace conference. NICHOLAS. That the Russian Emperor should thank President Roosevelt for his ef forts to insure peace between Russia and Japan was to have been expected, but it is particularly significant that in his cablegram Emperor Nicholas ex tended to President Roosevelt his "earn est thanks for having brought the peace negotiations to a successful conclusion. 1 he dispatch is regarded as one of the most remarkable of its kind ever sent by the head of one nation to that of an other. President Roosevelt received from the Emperor of Japan, warm thanks for his ''disinterested and unremitting efforts in the interest of peace and humanity." 1 he cablegram, which was received from the Emperor personally, follows : Tokio. September .1. 100;. The President: I have received with gratification your message of congratulations conveyed through our plenipotentiaries and thank you warmly for it. To your disinterested and unremittting efforts in the interests of peace and humanity I attach the high value which is their due, and assure you of my grateful appreciation of the dis tinguished part you have taken in the establishment of peace based upon prin ciples essential to the permanent welfare and tranquility of the Far East. (Signed) MUTSUHITO. Congratulatory messages by the score yet are pouring in upon the President. The executive offce force is completely swamped, and it will be many days be fore acknowledgment of the receipt of all messages, can be sent out. It will be impossible for President Roosevelt him self to respond to the felicitations of his friends everywhere, but in the course of time the sender of each message will re ceive a response. FROM FRANCIS JOSEPH. Among the messages received was one from the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. It was notably cordial. The text was as follows : Ischi, August 31. ' To the President of the United States of America : On the occasion of the peace just con cluded I wish, Mr. President, to send you my friendliest felicitations on the result of your intervention. May the world be blessed with many years' con tinuance of peace undisturbed. FRANZ JOSEPH. FACTS WORTH REMEMBERINQ. It is estimated that fjoo.ooo worth of diamonds are stolen every year from the South African diamond mines. The British consul at Cadiz, Spain, says that jt will pay to establish steel works in that city, and recommends such an enterprise to capitalists. Among the staff of the royal garages of Italy a semi-military system has been introduced. The director will wear the uniform of an army captain and the chauffers that of the ranks. The Department of Agriculture dur ing the last two years has taken great in terest in promoting gardening work and botanical study among the pupils of the public schools of Washington. A suburban building boom in London has collapsed and thousands of "villas" stand empty in the outer circle of the metropolis. Builders overestimated the effect of new street-car lines. A farmer living near Marseilles who carries off all the melon prizes at the local agricultural shows has discovered that by watering his melons with milk they will grqw to twice their usual size. Blue bricks have been used to face the dam at the Cray Reservoir, Swansea. This is said to be the first instance in England where blue bricks have been used in place of the stone masonry for lacing a nam. Damages have been awarded in a Lon don court to an engineer's fitter named .Manstield, who, as the result of a sud den muscular strain, had smtnincd an affection of the heart which caused it to emit a musical murmur loud enough to be heard some distance. Coacb Turned Over. Washington (Special). The rear coach on a South Carolina and Georgia Railroad train turned over at Reynolds street crossing, Augusta, Ga. F. I. Murphy, police health officer of Au gusta, was killed. The injured are Ceo. Lott, flagman, both legs cut off; J. A. Brown, employee, Augusta yards, back sprained;. M. Kalliskie. passenger, Au gusta, side slightly hurt. The train had just left the Augusta Union Station and was moving about two miles an hour through the city. Wrecked tba Freight. Indianapolis (Special). Confronted with the alternative of wrecking a Lake Erie and Western freight train or al lowing a disastrous collision between the freight and a Chicago and Erie pas senger train, the operator at Kingsland chose the former, and threw a lever which sent the freight into a ditch. lie had given the freight the right of way over a crossing of the two roads before he discovered the passenger was ap proaching the crossing at full speed. The locomotive and one car of ih freight were derailed, but 110 one was njured. NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY. Nbw Yoiik ,'itt. N. Y. A studio love story, in which the hero and heroine are a young sculptor nnd his still younger model, is soon to have a happy ending. On September 10 Jacques Papaian, of 206 West Eighty eight street, whose studio is at 3 East Seventeenth street, will rnarry Irene Agnes MacAlpine, of 324 East Twenty- sixth street, his former t7-ycar-old mod el. Whereby hangs this romance. ' One afternoon about eight months aifo while the sculptor was at work on a group. "The Struggle for Life," for which he had been unable to find a mod el for the central female figure, there came a knock at his studio door, and there entered a tall, fair-haired girl wdio announced herself as Irene MacAlpine, and asked : "Do you need a model?" She really was just the model he needed, and . in three minutes she was successfully posed, -and the statue was growing. For two weeks Miss MacAlpine posed for Papasian daily, and in those two weeks the sculptors interest in his new model increased even more rapidly than the statue. At the end of that time he avowed his love and proposed mar riage. Miss MacAlpine was willing. j j& The most excited janitor in New York city is Adolph Ncurack, of 2II East Fourteenth street, who has just been in formed that he was the brother-in-law of no less a personage than the Russian plenipotentiary, Sergius Witte. Neu rack, whose work as janitor is supple mented by an occasional job of plumb ing, is a native of the little town of Sha vcl, in Russia. He is a son of Baer Neurack, one of the prominent mer chants of the town. Nearly 20 years ago Ncurack left home, and since then he has never seen either of his two un married sisters. Rumors of a famous marriage have come to him, but he did not know any definite facts until he re ceived a letter from a relative, Dr. William Kolman. of Alliance. N. I.. telling him that his sistetr Pauline was the wife of the great Russian Minister. jv jm Attacked by two savage dogs, her clothing half stripped from her body and her flesh lacerated in many places, Mrs. F. Peterson, who lives in Locust street, Corona, Long Island, had a des perate struggle for life on Shell road, near Junction avenue. Mrs. Peterson owes escape from more serious and per haps fatal injuries to the brave efforts of Miss Dixie Havens. The infuriated brutes ripped her dress open from collar to skirt and tore her shirt waist to fragments. She was fight ing desperately when Miss Havens rush ed upon the dogs and pulled them from the prostrate woman. Then both the women had to fight the dogs. Just then a trolley car came along and the motor man jumped into the fray. With his controller handle he hit the great Dane a blow on the head that felled it. Miss Havens escaped unharmed, but Mrs. Peterson was taken home suffering from the shock and numerous lacerations. j & Valentine Klein, who has lived within 15 miles of a railroad all his life, near Jcffersonvillc, Sullivan county, never saw a locomotive and train of cars until Friday. Klein is a farmer, 48 years old. He never has had the time and curiosity to go to Calicoon to see the steam cars. This season has been good, and Klein prospered so much that he decided to take a day off. Arriving at Calicoon, he stationed himself a good distatnee from the tracks and watched for a train. His amazement was great when a fast express passed. Klein had the time of his life watching the trains go by. He went home satisfied with his vacation. J0 B s& Gen. Piet A. Cronje, the Boer, has brought suit in the Supreme Court against Charles W. Wall and against the Clay Amusement Company, which since Wall gave up the Boer War spec tacle at Brighton Beach has been carry ing on that exhibition, for $2,420.06 for services rendered by him in the show. Justice Gicgerich, on the application of Mortimer Fishel, a lawyer of Long Is land City, granted an attachment against the property of the two defendants, which was transmitted by Sheriff Er langer to the Sheriff of Queens county for service. Violence accompanied the beginning of a strike of firemen and laborers in tunnel work at Ninth avenue and Thirty-third street. The men are employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and want an increase in wages. The firemen receive $40 a month and work seven days a week. They want $50, while the laborers want an increase from $1.75 to $2 a day. A general fight began when the men went out, and po lice reserves had to be called to dis perse a crowd engaged in stoning the work trains. J0 4t Jf Taking a quantity of Paris green, Mrs. Florence Caskey, 256 Willis ave nue, left a note for her husband, Adel bert W. Caskey, a lawyer, asking him to follow her so that they might be buried together. She gave no reason for the act, but the note was full of tenderness and repeated declarations that they had been happy together. Dragged by a cow, Otto Betzold, a farmer, of Corona, L. I., is in St. John's Hospital with a broken right leg, a badly cut body and possibly internal in juries. He had sold the cow and was taking her to her new owner when she objected and ran away. He was tan gled in the rope and dragged until it broke under his weight. FINANCIAL So far this year Missouri Pacific's net earnings have increased $17,000. In July the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg's net earnings increased $84, 000. Japanese and Russiaii bonds were weak in London, reflecting (lie unfavor able situation at Portsmouth. A despatch from London said that the Rothschilds put $5,000,000 j5f cash on the market, and thereby caused a drug in money. Pennsylvania Steel preferred moved up to 104 and United States Steel pre ferred sold down to the same figure. In July the United Railroads of San Francisco, largely owned by Eastern capitalists, gained $41,677 'in gross earn ings. For seven months the gain was $221,000, Housman, who is regarded as the leading Morgan broker, was a larse buyer of Southern. The Western Pacific Railway has in creased its capital stock from $50,000, 000 to $75,000,000, Lead has been advanced $5 a ton by American Smelter. BURGLARS TAKE THE SAFE .... mm Amazing Robbery of House on Long Island Sound. CUT WINDOW GLASS TO GET IN. Safe Containing Thousands of Dollars' Worlb f Jewelry s Carried From the Second lory Hallway of Paul Bonner'a Summer Home Yard Wai Full of Doj and iloore of Sleepingroome Were Ajar. Stamford, Ct. (Special). A burglary, unique for the daring and success with which it was carried through, took place at "Nirvana," the summer home of Mr, and Mrs. Paul Bonner, of New York and Stamford. The burglars carried away bodily an 800-pound safe, which held about all of Mrs, Bonner's dia monds, jewels and rare old jewelry, as well as $150 in cash. Mrs. Bonner es timates the value of the stolen jewels at $18,000. She declares that many of the gems have a sentimental value that is incalculable in figures. They include gifts from her late husband, James Joseph Alexander, who was a noted steamship owner, and from his father, who practically owned the Pacific Mail Steamship Cohipany and was its head for many years. Many family jewels and heirlooms of the Alexander family were stolen. Much of this belonged to Jerome Alexander, Mrs. Bonner's son, who is soon to attain his majority, and her daughter. Miss Alexander. A sensational feature is given the rob bery by the following note, which was found lying on the floor where the saf? rested, and read thus: "Dear Madam You will be surprised to find your valuables taken, but on find ing this note keep it in secrecy, as we are not to be trilled with. If our free dom is taken your place will be in ruins soon after." The note was written in a scrawling hand on a fine quality of paper, tinted and delicately, perfumed. It was scaled in an envelope to match. There were two crosses below the last sentence. The letter was turned over to Assistant Su perintendent Fields, of the Pinkcrton agency, and is now in possession of De tective Wilcox, who is working up the case with the assistance of Chief Brcn nan and Sergeant Nevins, of Stamford. Nirvana, the home which the burgbrj threaten to lay in reins, is situated on the edge of Long Island Sound, at Cum mings Point. It is a mansion of many wings and complicatetd architecture. It contains silverware, paintings and bric-a-brac worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. A small fortune in silverware lay exposed to view on a table in front of the burglars when they entered the house. In a safe in the billiard-room closet, which they passed without even a look in, was solid silverware of great value. All this leads Mrs. Bonner and members of her household to believe that the burglars entered the house with the sole purpose of getting her jewels, and that they knew exactly where to look for them. Paul Bonner is Mrs. Alexander's sec ond husband. Mr. Bonner is engaged in the leather-belting business in New York. In the house at the time of the burglary were Mrs. Bonner, her son, Miss Duanc, of New York, a friend of the daughter, and Mrs. Bonner's brother-in-law, C. A. Willis, of Staten Is land. There were eight domestics asleep in a distant wing of the house, and a number of men asleep in the outbuild ings. EARTHQUAKE SHAKES TOWN. Serlca of Sbocki Felt Along the Coait Peo ple In Terror. Portsmouth. N. H. (Special). A ser-. ies of earthquake shocks, the most se vere ever experienced in this section, were felt here. Buildings trembled per ceptibly, dishes were shaken from shelves, and in many cases people rush ed in terror from their houses into the street. There were three distinct shocks, and in each instance the tremor was accom panied by a sound like distant explo sion. The first impression was that the powder magazine at the navy yard had exploded, and hundreds of queries along this line were received at the yard. There had been no explosion, however, and the shocks were felt along the en tire New Hampshire coast line. The first shock was felt a little before 5.40 P. M., and the other shocks fol lowed soon after. In the business sec tion of the city the shoppers and store employes rushed out into the streets, be lieving that the buildings were about to collapse. Each of the three shocks continued for several seconds. WRECK ON THE SOUTHERN. Two People Art Killed and Three Ofben Slightly Injured. Augusta. Ga. (Special). City Police man F. J, Murphy, acting as quarantine officer, was killed outright ; Flagman Geo. J. Lott so badly injured that he died at the hospital shortly after, and three others were slightly injured in s wreck of a Soiitthern Railway, passen ger train on its way to Charleston with in the city limits here. After the en gine, baggage car and second-class coach had passed the crossing the rear wheels of the first-class coach, owing, it is alleged, to a defective switch, took a siding and the car was thrown com pletely over. Officer Murphy, who had jumped and was trying to dodge, was mashed be neath the wreck. Flagman Lott's legs were cut nearly off and he died while they were being amputated. The sleep ing car, in the fear of the train, did not leave the track and none of its oc cupants was hurt. The injured were passengers in the overturned coach. Struck By Lightning. Hood River, Ore. (Special). While examining the contents of the record box on the summit of Mount Hood, Prof. M. W Lyon, Mrs. Lyon and Mark Weigant, a guide, were struck by lightning. All three, were prostrated. Mrs. Lyon is still in a critical condi tion, though it i? not believed that her injuries will prove fatal. Prof. Lyon and Weigant arc both recovering. Prof. Lyon is connected with the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. Murdered and Cremated. Seattle, Wash. (Special). Murdered for their money and cremated in the building where they lived, to hide the evidence of the crime, was the fate of Philip H. Boss and his wife, a young couple who have been living near Ker rystown, a small town on the North ern Pacific Railway, near Kanasket, in this county. The charred remains of the young couple were found in the, debris of the building, which had burn- ed to the ground. '
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