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BIG WAVE ENGULFS LINER
Five Steerage Passengers Are Swept
Overboard
AND MANY OTHERS ARE INJURED.
Tho Disaster Cams Unexpectedly, When the
Decka Wtr Filled With Merrymaker A
Big Wava Suddenly Swept Over the Sblp,
Completely Corerlof the Lower Deck end
Rlilog Wnlstblgh on Upper Deck.
New York, (Special). Five lives art
known to have been lost and more than
31 persons injured, one of them fatally,
on the Cunard Line steamer Campania
when a gigantic wave rolled over the
steamer and swept across a deck thick
with steerage passengers.
So sudden was the coming of the dis
aster and so great the confusion which
attended and followed it that even the
officers of the steamer themselves were
unable upon the vessel's arrival here to
estimate the full extent of the tragedy.
John Graham, of Milwaukee, was one
of the passengers washed overboard and
lost. He was traveling in the steerage.
The others who are known to have lost
their lives are Margaret Geary, Mary
Cosgrove, Niels Ekberg and Elizabeth
Grunadotter.
When the Campania reached quaran
tine 10 of the injured passengers were
still in the ship's hospital, some of them
seriously hurt, and a score of others
were nursing minor injuries.
The Campania was plowing along
under full headway last Wednesday aft
ernoon. A heavy quartering sea was
running, but the weather conditions were
far from unpleasant, and the big boat's
decks were crowded with passengers.
The steerage deck was covered with
merrymakers, and there was nothing to
indicate the approaching disaster, when
suddenly the big steamer lurched to port
and scooped up an enormous sea. f he
wave boarded the steamer about mid
ships on the port side, and swept clear
across the steerage deck, completely fill
ing the space between that deck and the
deck above, and carrying everything
with it. The steamer's side was buried
so deep that the passengers on the deck
above the steerage were submerged to
their waists as the immense volume of
water rolled aft and then surged for
ward. All the cabin passengers on the upper
deck succeeded in clinging to supports,
while the waters surged around them,
and were saved, but the unfortunates
on the steerage deck found themselves
utterly helpless. The irresistible rush
of waters, sweeping toward the forward
part of the ship, carried everything be
fore it. Nottings, heavy railings and
other obstructions which had been ar
ranged near the railings to prevent pas
sengers being washed overboard, served
their purpose only in part.
MIKADO AND CZAR SIGN.
Peace Treaty Effective and Wir Formally
Eodef.'
Washington, D. C, (Special). The
Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of
Japan Saturday morning signed their
respective copies of the peace treaty,
thus officially ending the war.
Baron Kosen, the Russian ambassa
dor, called at the State Department and
saw Secretary Root. While he had no
official advices on the subject, informa
tion had reached him to the effect that
the Emperor of Russia had early in
the day affixed his signature to the copy
of the treaty drawn at Portsmouth and
engrossed on vellum at St. Petersburg.
It was not necessary for the Ambas
sador to convey this information official
ly to the State Department, for, accord
ing to the plan arranged the Russian
Foreign Office was to advise the French
government of the act of signature, and
that government in turn was to advise
the Japanese government.
Mr. Takahira appeared at the State
Department with a message stating that
the Emperor of Japan had signed the
treaty at Tokio. A cablegram was im
mediately dispatched to Spencer Eddy,
charge of the American embassy at St.
Petersburg, who was instructed to in
form the Russian Foreign Office that
the Emperor of Japan had performed
his part, and both copies of the treaty
having been duly signed, and each of
the great nations lately engaged in hos
tilities, having been officially informed
of the fact, the Russo-Japanese war
which began February 8, 1904, with the
attack of Togo's fleet upon the Rus
sian ships at Port Arthur terminated
officially October 14.
Little remains to be done to meet the
official requirements. At a later date
probably in the course of a month or
liurt rifjipc f thf r.fitijc -mill t,a
tually exchanged, probably in Washing
ton by the Russian ambassador and the
T . .
Japanese minister or cnarge, lor it is
possible that Minister Takahira will be
fore that occurrence have gone to Japan
on a leave of absence. .There is nothing
for this government to do in the way
of proclamation.
The Aurora, Jcmtchug and the Oleg,
constituting Admiral Enquist's squadron
at Manila, and the Lena, at Mare Is
land, which have been interned for
months, may probably now be released
whenever the Russian government sees
fit to make the request, though, as it is
understood, the ships have been under
going extensive repairs to make them
seaworthy, it may be sometime yet be
fore they are ready to sail.
Inlands la a Quake.
Kingston, Jamaica, (By Cable). An
other earthquake shock was felt at 4.35
o'clock P. M., lasting for nearly a min
ute. It was oppressively hot before the
shock took place.
Jill Tern Far Coatretsasn.
Portland, Ore., (Special). Jhn
Newton Williamson, congressman from
the Second Origan district, convicted of
subordination of perjury in connection
with land frauds in Oregon, was sen
tenced by Judge Hunt in the United
States Court to serve 10 months' impris
onment and to pay a fine of $?oo. He
was also reprimanded by the court for
his failure to set a good example in his
exalted public position. Marion R.
Bipgs, formerly United States commis
sioner, was given an equal penally.
Guilty ef Bank Robblog.
Charlotte, N. C, (Special). A spe
cial to the Observer from Lancaster, S.
C, nays that the jury in the care of the
stale against Fisher and O'Day, the
Heath Springs bank robbers, brought in
verdict, finding both men guilty.
These are the men over whose extradi
tion there was much wrangling between
North and South Carolina. One of the
men was identified by a detective some
inonths ago as being connected with the
robbery of the McAllen Mills safe, when
C2.000 in cash and $20,000 in stocks were
Xiken.
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC
Mm. Grave Evans, of Pes Moines,
la., fainted upon learning that her hus
band, Ralph W. Evans, had been se
cretly married to Miss Jessica Penn, a
society girl and art student, who had
been his model.
John Frederickson, of South Nor
walk, Conn., is on the hunt for William
Barrett, who ran off with his wife and
$1,300 of his cash. He does not want
his wife, but does want his cash.
Dr. Arthur St. Clair Knudson, a
wealthy New York clubman, was found
nude on top of a freight car at Yonkers.
He had climbed there while suffering
from mental abberation.
Two more convictions have been ob
tained in the Oregon land-fraud case,
the latest culprits being former State
Representative Willard N. Jones and
Ira Wade, a timber locator.
The Southern Pacific Railway has or
dered 140 new locomotives and over
6,000 cars. A perfect block system will
be installed between San Francisco and
Omaha.
Joseph A. Flanely, an inspector of the
New York State Excise Department,
was arrested on the charge of falsely
certifying to permits for a license.
Rev. George Soltan, pastor of the
Sioux City Baptist Church, notified his
congregation that he would resign if
they did not give up Sunday diversions.
A portion of the brain of Thomas
Paine, that had been stolen, was recov
ered in Paine's tomb at New Rochelle,
N. Y.
Five firemen were Injured in a fire
that destroyed a paint and wallpaper es
tablishment in Chicago.
Mrs. Kussel cage has given 575.000
for a new modern school building in Sag
Harbor, L. I.
iwieut. Louis McLanc Hamilton, Four
teenth Infantry, has been reduced .10 files
in rank as the result of a court-martial
held at Vancouver Barracks, when Lieu
tenant McLane was tried on charges of
conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman, and conduct to the prejudice
of good order and military discipline.
District Attorney VV illiam T. Jerome.
of New York, speaking of his independ
ent campaign for re-election, and the
fact that Tammany Hall nominated a
candidate to oppose him, said he will
remain in the fight.
Kev. Dr. I. L. Kunztnan. treasurer of
Home Missions of the Evangelical Lu
theran Church of North America, re
ported to the General Council that dur
ing the past year 600 missions had re
ceived support. '
During a hearing in Chicago the at
torney of former Capt. Oberlin M. Car
ter laid charges of dishonesty against
government officials. He mentioned no
names.
A woman cashier in New York con
fessed that she had embezzled $2,000
and had used the funds to support her
father, mother and invalid sister.
W. E. Brown, president of the failed
First National Bank of Storm Lake,
la., was sentenced to five years in prison
for fraudulent banking.
The "open-shop" policy will cause a
strike of over 1,000 men in the shops
of the National Cash Register Company,
at Dayton, O.
The price $7750,000 as the value of a
telephone franchise for New York was
submitted by an expert to the board
of estimates.
Judge Eason, of Wooster, O., granted
Capt. Elmore F. Taggart a divorce and
the custody of his two sons.
Armitage Mathews, a New York law
yer, committed suicide by leaping from
the window of his apartment to the
courtyard below. He was about to be
tried for looting an estate.
Detectives searched the outgoing
White Star steamer Cymric at Boston
in the vain hope of finding Edward G.
Cunliffe, who stole a package containing
$100,000 from the Adams Express office.
Indictments were returned against
Fred R. Green, cashier of the Frcdonia
National Bank of New York, charging
him with making false entries.
In New York William S. Brown, of
Westfield, N. J., filed in United States
Circuit Court a suit for $10,000 damages
against William C. Muschenheim, pro
prietor of the New Astor Hotel, because
the night clerk refused himself and wife
a room.
FOREIGN
French officials, concerning the revel
ations of Great Britain's offer of naval
and military aid to France if Germany
assumed a belligerent attitude over Mo
rocco, issued a note of denial.
French government officials are be
coming impatient over President Cas
tro s failure to withdraw his offensive
action toward M. Taigny, the French
representative at Caracas.
The Chinese government will intro
duce a bill in the legislative council pro
viding for a loan of $2,000,000 for the
Kow Ion-Canton Railway and other rail
way purpc-cs.
Hie death of Prince Sergius Trou
bctskuy, the foremost Liberal in Russia,
removes a restraining influence over the
Moscow students, and trouble is feared.
It is understood that Gen. Baron Fe
jervary has been appointed Hungarian
premier, but no public announcement
will be made until next week.
M. Ossovsky, the assistant chief of
police at Kishinef, was assassinated. He
was said to have been largely respon
sible for the massacre of the Jtws.
The Russian government will lend the
Baku oil men $15,000,000 to cover the
cost of repairing the damage nifiicted
by rioters.
The new Peruvian minister. Dr. Man
uel Alvarez Calderon, formerly minister
of Peru to the United Slates, Cuba and
Mexico, has arrived at Santiago, Chili,
and it is believed that exciting interna
tional questions will be discussed.
The Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Old
enburg, fiancee of Prince Eitel Frederick,
is four years older than the bridegroom
elect. The Prince Victoria Adelheid, eldest
daughter of Duke Frederick of Schles
wig - Holstein - Sonderburg-Gluecksburg,
was married at Gluecksburg, Prussia, to
Priice Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha.
The British squadron was officially
welcomed by the Japanese at Yokohama,
where festivities were held in honor of
the visitotv
Forty arrests were made as the result
of the discovery of secrot printing estab
lishments on the outskirts of St. Peters
burg. The strike of the factory workers is
reported to be spreading in Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Office n engaged
in drawing up the program for the sec
ond peace conference at The Hague.
The Tartar) are reported to have ex
pelled the Russians from a number of
villages in Trans-Caucasia.
Miss Alice Roosevelt passed through
Tokio on her way to Yokohama escort
ed by the master of ceremonies of the
Japanese Imperial household.
fhe strike in Moscow extended to
the large furniture factories. Revolu
tionists are planning a big demonstra
tion for October 12.
At Toledo, O., Gould directors were
elected by Wabash bondholders by vote
01 a.y.oxx. 10 ji.iHO-
SIR HENRY IRVING DEAD
For Maoj Years Leader of the English
Stage.
DIED SHORTLY AFTER A PERFORMANCE
Only n Hoar Before H Wit Strlckeo lbs
Fioous Aclor Wat Playing af a Tbester
la Bradford, Eng. His Rlst sod Success
as One ol Ibt World's Ortatesl Actors
Mis Hamlet tod Other Roles.
London, (By Cable). The English
speaking world has suffered an irrepar
able loss by the sudden death of Sir
Henry Irving, who was universally re
garded as the most representative Eng
lish actor of contemporary times.
Sir Henry died literally in harness.
He was giving a series of farewell per
formances in the English provinces, and
was playing an engagement at Bradford,
appearing in several favorite roles.
Friday night, before an enthusiastic
audience, he portrayed one of his most
characteristically intellectual parts the
title role in his own stage adaptation
of Lord Tennyson's "Becket" with
marked success.
After the performance Sir Henry re
turned to his hotel, reaching his rooms
at 11.30 o'clock, when it was observed
that he was in great pain.
Physicians were immediately sum
moned, but before they could arrive Sir
Henry was seized with an attack of
syncope and expired within a few min
utes, without having uttered a word, in
the presence of Bram Stoker, who had
been his immediate manager for many
years, and a few other intimate friends.
The event caused the greatest pain and
consternation among the members of the
company.
To the last moment of his life Sir
Henry Irving's heart was in the work
to which he had devoted his career: the
raising of the standard of his art. On
Wednesday he was entertained at lunch
eon in the Bradford town hall, at which
the mayor presented him an address
from his admirers.
In replying to the address Sir Henry
spoke of himself as one, the sands of
whose life were fast running out, but no
one then present had the slightest idea
that the end would come so soon. He
proceeded in his reply to eloquently ad
vocate the establishment of theaters by
municipalities, "because," he said, "I
lieve that by this means the standard
of the true drama, as distinguished from
miscellaneous entertainments, would be
successfully upheld."
"Money is spent like water for all
kinds of philanthropic and educational
objects," he continued, "but who among
you ever dreams of endowing the thea
ter? I am sure the time will come when
you will regard the theater as necessary
to a liberal education and be prepared to
consider any reasonable suggestions for
the extension of its legitimate influence.
It may be that in years to come our
countrymen will scarcely undersiand
how in our times so potent an inslru
ment of good or.ill as the stage was left
entirely outside the sphere of public ad
ministration." 1
Sir Henry's last appearances in Lon
don were made last summer, following
his serious illness, when the enthusiasm
at the nightly receptions accorded him
in the historic Drury Lane Theater will
long be remembered. Since then he has
been engaged in touring the provinces
and contemplated another visit to the
tinted states.
COW CAUSES FIVE DEATHS.
Lies Down on Rillroid aod Throws Engine
Off Trick.
Oskaloosa, la., (Special). Five train
men were killed at Seaton, 111., when a
hj-avy double-header freight train, east-
und, on the Iowa Central Railroad
ran into cattle on the track at a soeed
of 20 miles an hour. Both locomotives
'.up 11 freight cars loaded with srain
and 'umber were piled in a heap beside
tb track.
AH the men killed had homes in Oska
loosa except Brilcy. who resided in
Monmouth, III. The engineers lived
serial hours after the wreck occurred.
but the other three men were killed
instantly.
A cow was lying on the ties between
the rails. She was hidden from view
by other cattle standing about her. At
the sound of the whistle of fhe ao-
proaching train the standing cattle scam
pered away, but the forward locomotive
struck the lying cow.
The animal w.fs crushed under the
wheels of the pilot truck and rolled
along the ties for loo feet. The ani
mal's blood made the rails slippery, and
pieces of Ixme threw the front locomo
tive from the track. The derailed loco
motive pitched down an embankment,
drawing the second engine into the
ditch, where the two machines piled up,
crushing the engineers and the firemen.
The wreckage caught fire from the
live coals of the engines. The conductor
and rear brakemen, wilh persons who
lived near the wreck, hastily took the
mangled bodies of the trainmen from the
burning debris and saved the rest of
the train from the flames.
Blind Women Perished.
Chicago, (Special). A blind woman
was burned to death in her kitchen while
her deaf mother sat placidly rocking and
mending in an adjoining room, hearing
nothing of the daughter's cries of agony.
The victim was Airs. Frances Harvey,
a widow, 41 years old. The mother is
Mrs. W. Vierer, 81 years old. Mrs.
Harvey had been blind from childhood,
but she knew the house by heart, and
had been accustomed to doing the cook
ing. She had placed the kettle on the gas
stove when the sleeve of her dress be
came ignited.
Six Firemen Injured.
Chicago, (Special. Six firemen were
injured, two probably fatally, in a col
lision lietween a hose cart and an electric
car. The car was running at 20 miles
an hour when it struck the Tear of the
hose cart, knocking the .vehicle 25 feet.
Seventh Victim nf Feud.
Mobile. Ala., (Special). William
Young was killed from ambush while
returning to his home, at Wheelerville,
13 miles west of Mobile. He is the
seventh victim of a feud which has con
tinued for the past 25 years.
A $4,000 Prlt.
Chicago, (Special). Dr. Richard D.
Harlan, at Lake Forest University, an
nounced that the winner of the William
Bross $6,000 prize for the best book on
a religious subject is Rev. James Orr,
D. D., of Chicago College. In accord
ance with the conditions of the will of
William Bross, who died in 1879 and left
a fund for the purpose in memory of
Nathaniel Bross, his father, Dr. Orr will
be required to come to Lake Forest next
year and deliver a course of lectures. In
the contest there were 100 competitors.
It is held every 10 years.
CHOPPED MAN HE KILLED
Gruesome Murder in a Lodging-Bouse
in New York.
FLIMSY STORY BY THE ACCUSED MAN.
Ttll the Police of Hearing Soiiuds ol Cracking
Bones aod the Falling ol Pieces ol Ibe
Carcass, as Human Butcber Proceeds la His
Work Whit Tbey Siw Through the Glass
la tbt Partition Door.
New York, (Special). One of the
most shocking crimes that it has ever de
volved upon the police of this city to
investigate was committed early in the
morning, when a man was shot and
killed in a little room on the top floor
of 149 Third avenue, and his body cut up
by his murderer, who evidently had the
idea that he could in this way hide his
crime.
The murdered man was Tom Corco
ran, who was up to a few weeks ago a
ticket-chopper on the Third Avenue
Railroad. Jacob Frederick Bauer, an
elevator man at the Union Square Hotel,
is the man believed by the police to be
the murderer. He is said to be a de
generate, and it was in his room that the
murder and dismemberment of the body
were perpetrated.
Despite the fact that the evidence
against Bauer is most convincing, the
latter, caught almost red-handed, per
sisted in denying his guilt all day to the
authorities. He told a silly story of three
other men being in his room, and of his
being entirely unaware that it had been
the scene of such a crime until he got
up in the morning and slipped on the
blood on the floor. Bauer was committed
to the Tombs by Coroner Scholer,
charged with murder, after he had again
refused to confess that it was he who
had murdered Corcoran and cut up his
body.
Bauer is a native of Wurtembnrg, Ger
many. He has a low, retreating fore
head and is marked as a degenerate. He
is about 40 years old. stooo-shouldcred
and repufsive in appearance. He has
been in this country 13 years, and for
six years has been employed at the Union
Square Hotel. He performed his duties
there well, and the proprietor of the
hotel was the most astonished man on
earth to hear that he had been charged
with such a crime. The police, however,
were not surprised.
They have run across Bauer before, as
one of the type that hang about Third
avenue. Two months ago he complained
that he" had been held up and robbed.
One of the things he was robbed of was
a gold bracelet, which he wore as an or
nament on his wrist.
Bauer has roomed for two vears in the
little three-story building at 140 Third
avenue. The rooms are let to men by a
Mrs. fcchreiber.
Just where Bauer met Corcoran is not
known. Corcoran, who was 27 years old,
was a well-built man.
SIX MINERS IN A BLAZING PIT.
An Engineer and Another Killed By An
Explosion.
Brownsville, Pa., (Special). At 1.30
o'clock in the afternoon there occurred
at the Clyde Coal Company's mines,
seven miles from this point, a mine fire,
Followed by several explosions. There
were in the mine at the time about 100
men, and all but eight escaped alive.
Two were killed outright, and the re
maining six can hardly be reached alive,
as tney are surrounded by ttames.
The trouble was caused by a broken
electric light wire. The woodwork in
one of the five connecting mines caught
fire, and Engineer Woods, with Robert
Virgin, started into the mine to investi
gate. A series of sharp explosions then
followed, which killed the two explorers.
Their bodies were burned to a crisp
when recovered.
Most of the miners escaped by the
different exits, but the six named were
working in rooms about 1,500 feet from
the entrance and were so located thai
they could not reach a place of safety.
The families of the imprisoned men
stood around the mine entrance, but it
was announced that there was little hope
of getting to the men.
Two rescue parties were formed dur
ing the evening, each party numbering
six men, but they could not get far into
the mine on account of the fire and foul
air. Assistance has been asked from
surrounding mines, and it is thought the
entombed men will be reached by day-
oreaK, mougn mere is little hope of
finding them alive.
Judge Asked to Resign.
Washington, D. C, (Special.) Asso
ciate Justice Tucker of the Territorial
Supreme Court of Arizona has been re
quested to resign. Several months ago
charges were preferred against Justice
Tucker involving his personal conduct
as a member of the Territorial judiciary.
These charges were presented to the
President, and were referred by him to
the Department of Justice for investiga
tion. The request for resignation is based
upon the findings of that investigation.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Gen. A. L. Mills, superintendent of
the Military Academy, in his annual
report pictures very satisfactory condi
tions as to discipline, military bearing
and soldierly conduct of the cadets, and
says that hazing- in any form has shown
no symptom of reappearing.
The President has reappointed Henry
L. West a member of jhe Board of Com
missioners for the District of Columbia.
It is stated that there will be several
important changes in the personnel of
the Philippine Commission.
The arbitrary actions of President
Castro and other phases of the Venezu
elan controversy were considered at the
cabinet meeting,
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt had
as guests at dinner Secretary and Mrs.
Taft and Postmaster General and Mrs.
Cortclyou.
The President has directed the ap
pointment of Col. Henry G. Sharpe to be
chief commissary of subsistence of the
army.
The National Wholesale Lumber Deal
ers' Association has approved the Presi
dent s attitude in railroad rate legislation.
The charge of soliciting and accentinir
campaign contributions has been laid
afcainst United Slates Circuit Judge
Baker, of Indiana, by the Civil Service
Commission.
A deficit, after paying charges, is re
ported in the operations of the Metro
politan street Railway Company. The
deficit for the year ended June. 10 was
$2,706,943.
The dtlegates to the International San
itary Convention went down to the In-
diin Head proving grounds and to Mt.
Vernon on the revenue cutter Winona,
Robert Bacon qualified as first assistant
tecretary of state.
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
Niw Yor frt. N. Y.
Without showing the slighest effect of
the severe ordeal through which he had
gone, Herman Frank, a druggist, 1272
Broadway, appeared at his place of busi
ness, despite the fact that the night be
fore a cyst that had eaten into his brain
and was endangering his life had been
removed by' the most delicate of opera
tions. Frank has a slight scar over his
right eye, and in a glass tube is the un
broken cyst that had so long threatened
his life. The sack was removed without
being punctured by Dr. E. A. Robinson
of 52 West Thirty-eighth street, and the
patient submitted to the entire operation,
lasting more than an hour, without tak
ing an anaesthetic. He even sat before a
mirror so placed that he could see what
was going on, hoping the interest he
would take might help to ally the agony,
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Because his wooden leg made such a
noise that it disturbed the other tenants,
Andrew Gerison, a Union veteran, was
before the Second Criminal Court in Jer
sey City on complaint of his landlord,
Edward Sell, who said he had appealed in
vain to Gerison, who comes home late,
to do less thumping with the wooden leg.
Gerison began to recount to Judge Man
ning in minute detail his part in the Civil
War and could not be repressed. He
was finally led to the clerk's desk and
signed a bond to keep the peace.
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Hiaso Sota, a little 95-pound Japanese
woman, who caused the arrest of J. F.
McCullum, an athlete and sparring part
ner of "Terry" McGovern, after she by
jiu jitsu had thrown him flat twice on
the sidewalk on One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street, proved that the Jap
anese art of self-defense was no idle fad
by demonstrating in the Harlem Court
just how she had floored McCullum.
Miss Sota appeared in court accompa
nied by Koyta Yoshmure, an interpreter.
To satisfy the court, she threw her in
terpreter twice.
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Uncertainty surrounds the identity of
a young woman who died at the Post-
Graduate Hospital, on Second avenue.
According to the brief announcement
made by the hospial authorities, the dead
woman is "Mrs. Francis, of Long
Branch, N. J" But a telegraphic mes
sage received from Long Branch tells
of the sudden death at this hospital of
Miss Edith Van Nate, the promised wife
of Seymour Francis, son of Senator Asa
rrancis, Mayor of Long Branch. Miss
Edith Van Nate, or Mrs. Francis, as the
case may be, was the daughter of Calvin
G. Van Nate, a wealthy coal dealer of
Long Branch. She was 20 years old and
a graduate of the Crattle High School in
the class of 1903.
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Gastano Costa, a butcher, 40 years old.
was murdered in his shop, on Fourth
avenue, Brooklyn. Costa was alone in
his shop when the murderers entered,
and no witnesses to the killing have been
found. Two men standing near the en
trance to the shop heard shots and saw
four men escape into the street. An
examination of the body showed four
bullet wounds. The murder is believed
by officers to be the work of the "Black
Hand." No arrests have been made.
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The will of Miss Mary Irene Hoyt
shows that she carried to the grave a
family feud that began nearly a quarter
of a century ago. Of her personal es
tate, estimated at more than $1,000,000.
her relatives will get not a penny un
less they break her will. Miss Hovt
died about three weeks ago at her home,
305 West Seventy-second street, leaving
practically all of her large fortune to
Maria Garnick, her companion for
nearly 20 years. Miss Hoyt had the
income from $1,250,000 left in trust for
her by her father, Jesse Hoyt, the bank
er, in 1882. The family feud arose over
the distribution of the banker's estate
of $7,000,000. After all the state courts
had decided against Miss Hoyt, and she
had to accept the terms of her father's
will, she announced that she would
never again have any communication
with her relatives.
Sadie Mirsky was unwillingly the
chief witness in the Manhattan Avenue
Police Court, Brooklyn, against Samuel
Strauss, a young man, whose bride she
had hoped ere this to be. Through her
testimony Strauss was held for exam
ination on a charge of having forged a
check in the' name of Sadie's father,
Mycr Mirsky, for $250, with which the
young people were to have fled to Phil
adelphia to get married.
LUKE WRIGHT RESIQNS.
Administration Sold fo Bo Dissatisfied With
His Governor Generalship.
Washington, D. C, (Special). By
reason of what appears to be dissatis
faction with the situation in the Philip
pines, Luke E. Wright, governor general
of-the Philippine Commission, will retire
about the first of December.
General Wright is expected to arrive
in the United States during that month,
and is entitled to six months' leave of
absence prior to the formal relinquish
ment of his labors as Governor General.
It is understood that he expects to re
turn to Nashville, Tennv, to resume the
practice of law.
President Roosevelt and . Secretary
Taft, it is believed, practically have de
cided upon the successox to General
Wright, but no intimation has been per
mitted to become public as to his ident
ity. It can be stated reasonably definitely
that General Wright's successor will not
be a man now connected with the Com
mission. Die mood Cnso Dropped.
Red Oak, Iowa, (Special). The case
of Thomas Dennison, of Omaha, indicted
for complicity in the robbery of $75,000
worth of diamonds from J. W. Pollock,
a New York diamond salesman, on a
train near Missouri Valley, Iowa, was
dismissed by County Attorney Greenlee,
of Montgomery county. Dennison's case
was to have come up for a second trial
in December, the first trial having re
sulted in a disagreement. The case has
attracted wide attention, having been
once heard in the United States Supreme
Court.
Mosquito Fight Is Ended.
New Orleans, La., (Special), An
announcement by the Marine Hospital
Service that the work of fighting mos
quitoes, in which it has been engaged
since August 8, as well as the fumiga
tion of squares in which a case of fever
appears, will be permanently discontin
ued, is accepted as a declaration by the
Federal forces that the fight here
against yellow fever is about over. The
cases now appearing are so few and so
mild that little difficulty, is experienced
in handling them.
FIVE KILLED IN MUTINY"
Captain Was Among the Victims of
the Plot
COLORED MEN WERE IN CONTROL
Four-msittd Schooner Hnrry A. Berwln, Bonnd
From Mobile, Ala., fo Philadelphia, Seen
of Mutiny Thret Negroes All Thnl Re
mnlned of Crew Cnptured and Tskei lo
Somhporf, N. C.
Southport, N. C, (Special). Captain
Rumilt and four of his crew of the four-'
masted schooner Harry A, Bcrwind were
murdered in a mutiny while the vessel
Was hntltld frnm Mnliil tn Phi1flli-1nhin
The schooner Blanche M. King, Capt.'
. W. laylor, bound from Brunswick,
Ga., to Philadelphia, put in Southport,
bringing in irons three negroes, all that
remained of the crew of the Harry A.
Berwind. The captain, mate, cook and
an engineer, who did hoisting work about
the latter vessel, apparently had been
killed in the mutiny and their bodies
thrown overboard. The body of a fourth
sailor, a negro, was found lying on the
deck, where he too had been killed.
The Harry A. Berwind was bound to
Philadelphia from Mobile, which port the
vessel left September 23 early Wednes
day morning. She was sighted 30 miles
off the Cape Fear bar by Captain Taylor,
whose attention was attracted by the
reckless manner in which the ill-fated
vessel was being steered, her course
threatening to run down his own vessel.
Captain Taylor and crew boarded the
vessel and placed the negroes in irons,
bringing the two vessels off the bar,
when one of them was towed in by Wil
mington tugs.
The Berwind being from a territory
against which this city is quarantined for
yellow fever, the three negroes taken
from her are held at quarantine until ar
rangements can be made for their de
tention by the federal authorities.
It develops from the stories of the
negroes brought in irons by the King
that the mutiny arose as the result of a
quarrel aboard ship early Tuesday morn
ing about the coffee made for breakfast.
The King was signaled by the Berwind,
30 miles east of Frying Pan Lightship,
and in response to a signal Captain Tay
lor sent his mate, engineer and others
on board the Berwind.
The decks of the schooner were crim
son with the blood, giving evidence of a
fierce encounter. The berth of the mate
was spotted with blood, indicating that
he was butchered in bed.
After the boarding party from the
King handcuffing the mutineers on the
ship, one of the negroes complained the
irons were too tight and hurt him. The
bracelet on the negro's arm was loosened,
when the captive whipped out a pistol
and shot one of his own crew. The total
list of killed is four whites and one
negro, the names of none of whom can
be learned. The King left a prize crew
aboard the Berwind.
MARKEL LOSES BIG CONTRACT.
Panama Canal Commission Annuls Agree
ment Panama, (By Cable). The last action
of the Panama Canal Commission before
sailing from Colon for New York was
the annulment of the contract awarded to
J. E. Markel, of Omaha, Neb., for feed
ing and caring for the employes of the
canal. The reason for this action is that
Chief Engineer Stevens, through the de
partment of materials and supplies, under
Messrs. Jackson and Smith, is handling
the commissaries successfully, rendering
unnecessary the arrangement with Mr.
Markel.
Protests made by the employes against
the arrangement, it is believed, also in
fluenced the decision. ,
The contract with Mr. Markel was to
run five years, and it was estimated it
would involve $50,000,000. Hudgins fit
Bumas, one of the other firms bidding
for the contract, protested against the
award to Mr. Markel, alleging favorit
ism and charging that the latter was en
abled, through a leak in the office of
Chairman Shouts, to gain information
about the other bidders, which aided him
in bidding successfully. The protest was
forwarded to President Roosevelt, who
referred it to Chairman Shonts for re
port. The President sustained Mr.
Shouts and decided that the contract
should stand.
Minister Sent lo Jail.
Bristol, Va., (Special). Rev. lames
R. Cox, the Baptist minister who was
arrested at Saltville, Va., on. September
5, when he was in the midst of a revival
meeting there, on a charge of chicken
theft, has just been adjudged guilty in
the Circuit Court at Joncs'horo and sen
tenced to serve 30 days in jail.- Cox is
said to be a brilliant man and highly
connected in Tennessee.
Neck Broken, Walked Mile.
Cincinnati, (Special). After falling
into a Big Four gravel pit near Law
renceburg, Ind., and breaking his neck,
an Italian laborer, assisted by a friend,
walked a mile to his tent, holdinir his
head in his hands the whole distance.
Physicians found that the man's neck
had been fractured at the fifth vertabra.
They declared that the injuries will un
doubtedly prove fatal.
FINANCIAL
Senator Elkins is said to favor the en
trance of the Wabash into Washington.
It was reported that $4,000,000 gold
had been engaged by Americans in Eu
rope for import.
Union Pacific's net earnings in Au
gust increased $467,477 and Southern
Pacific's increased $386,402.
"There is only one side to this market
and that is the bull side," was the es
sence of a private dispatch to De Haven
& Townsend.,
Philadelphia banks have advanced the
interest rate on calJ loans to 5 per cent.
Money has not been above that figure
since the autumn of 1903, when it was
6 per cent.
Gross earning' of the subsidiary com
panies of the Interstate Railways in
creased $3.t237 for the month of Sep
tember and $199,53 for the nine months
of 1905, over the corresponding period
of 1904.
Coxe Brothers, whose coal lands are
said to have been bought by tHe Lehigh
Valley Railroad, produce about 1,500,000
tons of coal annually. That ii about
what the Reading mines in six weeks.
Seventy-one railroads which" have re
ported for August show a gain of al
most 10 per cent, in gross earnings and
a gain of 6 per cent, in net.
Standard Oil shares rose $30 ' this
week, adding $12,000,000 fo the market
value of the stock which J. D. Rocke
feller is supposed to own.
The New York News Bureau publish
ed the following: "We can announce
officially that negotiations for the pur
chase of the coal and railroad proper
ties of Coxc Brothers & Co., by the
Lehigh Valley Company, are under way
and that at the next meeting of the Le
high Valley board the deal will be completed.
liw.ooo Package stolen.
Tbeft Prom Adsms Express Company la'
Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, (Special). The startling
discovery was made that the Adams'
Express Company has been victimized'
to the extent of $100,000, supposedly
through the peculations of an employe.
The following statement of the af
fair was given out for publication :
"At 4.15 P. M. Monday, Octpber O,
a bank of Pittsburg delivered to the
Adams Express Company at its office
it 610 Wood street, Pittsburg, a pack
ge of currency containing $100,000. Of
this amount $80,000 was in $too bills,
?I0.000 in $50 bills and the remaining
jio.ooo in $5, $10 and $20 bills. The
ftoo and $jo bills, issue of the Farmers'
Deposit National Bank of Pittsburg
ind the Bank of Pittsburg, N. A., were
In the main entirely new; some had
been slightly used. The $5, $10 and $20
bills were old currency. The package
:ontaining this large sum of money was
consigned to a bank in Cincinnati, O.
"This package was received and re
ceipted for by Edward George Cunliffe,
who was then acting in the place of the
regular money clerk, who was ill.
"Cunliffe left the office at the usual
time in the evening, and in the morn
ing, when he failed to report for duty,
a hurried examination was made of his
department and it was learned that
about $!,ooo of funds intrusted to his
care were missing. General Agent
Hiner, of the Adams Express Company,
immediately called in detectives and
placed the matter in their luids. Latet
developments brought to light the fact
that in addition to $1,000 missing the
bank package containing the $100,000
had not been received at the money for
warding office at Union Station, this
city.
"Inquiries made at his residence, 314
Lucerne street, West End, Pittsburg,
showed that Cunliffe arrived home at
the customary time, and after changing
his clothes bade his family good-by,
raying to his wife that he was going
out for the evening, and nothing fur
ther has been heard from him.
"Cunliffe has been employed by the
Adams Express Company since March
1, 1904. Previous to that time he was
employed in the Pittsburg service of the
American Express Company, the Elec
tric Express Company and the United
States Express Company of Hartford,
Conn., and bore a good reputation. He
was methodical, accurate and an excel
lent clerk.
Mrs. Cunliffe, wife of the missing
man, was visited by the detectives. She
readily answered all questions concern
ing her husband. She said that he came
home at the usual time. After eating
his supper he prepared his toilet, and
upon leaving the house he bade her
good-by. as he was in the habit of do
ing. She then asked the detectives if
anything had happened to him, and
when told that her husband was not
working at the. Adams Express office
ind that a large sum of money was
missing she went into hysterics, and is
in a serious condition. The detectives
learned nothing of importance at the
lome.
The authorities are of the opinion
ihat Cunliffe left the city immediately
ifter bidding his wife good-by.
1904 CROP A BIG ONE.
Exports ol Cotton of Last Year's Yield Valued
at $404,209,291.
Washington, D. C, (Special). The
Census Bureau issued a bulletin show
ing the production and distribution of
the cotton of the United States available
Between September I, 1904, and Septem
ocr 1, 1905, to be 14,455,994 bales.
The exportation amounted to 8,834,
$29 bales, the domestic consumption to
1.315,756 and the surplus to 1,365,309.
Of the total 13,693,279 bales were, in
:ludcd in the crop of 1904 and the re
mainder in that of 1905. The surplus
included stocks held in mills, at ports,
it interior towns and on plantations and
In transit on September I last.
Of 'the quantity consumed in the
United States 2,138,829 bales were used
In northern mills and 2,140,151 in south
ern mills.
In addition to the totals given 124,469
bales of foreign cotton were imported
into the United Stares during the year.
The exportation foi '.he year covered
ixceeded that of any previ'ous year by
1,144,452 bales and exceeded the aver
age for the past 10 years by 2,313,948
bales. New Orleans, with a total of
8,463,421 bales, held first rank as an ex-
Sorting point, but was closely pressed
y Galveston, with 2,388,318 bales; Sa
vannah, Ga., with 1,290,989 bales, held
Ihird place.
The value of the total export of raw
cotton was $404,209,93.
RESCUE TWENTY FROM DEATH.
Panic at a Flra In New York Tenement
Building.
Jslew York, (Special). Cut off from,
all escape, 20 persons were rescued from
death in a blazing tenement in Sixth
street by two unknown men and three
policemen, everyone of the panic
stricken tenants being saved before the
arrival of the firemen.
Hearing the alarm that followed the
discovery of a fire in the hallway on the
second floor two laborers at work on
gas main in the street rushed into the
blazing building, and, making their way
lo the upper floor, helped many women
and children to the fire escapes.
They were soon joined by three
policemen, who stationed themselves on
the escape gallarics and passed the oc
cupants down from hand to hand until
just as the fire engine arrived the last
of the tenants was taken out unhurt.
The upper floors of the building were
completely gutted.
A Roadside Mystery,
Haskell, I. T., (Special). The bodies
of Miss Margaret Lindsay, a school
teacher, and Joseph B. Young, a barber,
were found in the road, three miles
north of HaskcJI. There were marks
of violence on the bodies, and a revol
ver was found near the' scene. The
couple were last sien alive on Sunday
ivening, when thcy"drove out of Has
kell in a buggy. The sheriff has found
.10 definite clues upon which to work.
Oaynor and Orson. .
Savannah, Ga., (Special). John F.
Gaynor and B. D. Greene, the men who
fought exf radii ion to the United States
from Canada for so many years, arrived
here at 6 o'clock A. M. Their wives,
who had preceded them to Savannah,
met them at the depot. The prisoners
were at once taken to 'jail by United
States Marshal White, who had gone to
Montreal for them, accompanied by
Deputy Doyle. The prisoners seemedj
in good spirits.