WEIGHT THROWN
AT PRESIDENT
Missile Crashes Into His Special
Train.
MR. ROOSEVELT IS NOT INJURE".
A Masoa'a Plumb Bob, Weighed Two and a
Hall Poonds, Thrown by Someone I' ok own
Tbrauf a Car Window, at Which Sat Major
Webb Hayat, Wbota Profile la Duplicate
I RooserelL
Washington (Special). As President
Roosevelt's special train was passing
tjiroiigh North Philadelphia at 7.30 P.
M., en route to Washington some un
known person hurled a mason's plumb
bob through one of the windows of the
combination car Salvius.
The implement was of iron and
weighed about two and one-half pound.
Webb Hayes, of Ohio, son of the late
President Rutherford B. Hayes, was sit
ting in the combination car S.ihius read
ing a newspaper. Several other gentle
men were in the car, and the conversa
tion turned on the striking facial resem
blance between Mr. Hayes and President
Roosevelt. No sooner had this fact been
remarked upon than the crash was heard.
Pieces of glass were thrown in every di
rection, and a heavy missile dropped to
the floor on the far side of the car.
Everybody jumped to his feet, for it
was thought fur a moment that Mr.
Hayes had been hurt, fur the projectile
parsed wi'hin a dozen inch.es or so of
his face. The missile proved to be a
plumb-bob, a conical-shaped piece of lead
The train was running at a great rate
of speed, but had slowed down somewhat
upon entering the city limits. It is con
sidered by the railroad nun who were
on the train as very doubtful whether the
miscreant could have aimed at Mr. Hayes
with design, for the train was running
at least 18 miles an hour. The incident
was especially startling, however, from
the fact of a strong resemblance of Mr.
Hayes to the President. The combina
tion car was running next to the engine,
while the President's car was at the rear
of the train, with several cars filled with
army and navy officials intervening be
tween it and the car where the startling
incident took place.
The weather was heavy and a dense
fog which prevailed rendered it almost
impossible for the engineer to see a train
length ahead of him. Broad Street, in
North Philadelphia, had just been cross
ed and the train was in the vicinity of
Oxford Street when the crash of glass
ford Street when the crash of glass
aroused the occupants of the car.
Doubt was expressed by officials of the
Pennsylvania Railroad who were on the
train whether the missile was intended
to be hurled at the President. They say
that several times recently stones have
been thrown at trains passing through
North Philadelphia, and on one recent oc
casion a man sitting at one of the win
dows of a car was severely cut by brok
en glass when a heavy stone crashed
through it.
No clue to the thrower of the missile
was obtained, although the incident was
reported to the officials of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad at Philadelphia, and the
statement was made that it would be in
vestigated thoroughly. The President
himself knew nothing of the matter until
nearly an hour after it occurred.
The implement thrown at the train
was a most unusual one to be in the
hands of a boy, who might, in a spirit
of deviltry, thrown a stone at a train.
It is of cast iron and weighs about
three pounds. Had it struck Major
Hayes on the head, as it certainly would
if it had passed through the window a
foot lower, he certainly would have been
injured very seriously, if not killed.
The President knew nothing of the in
cident for sometime after it occurred.
He made no comment upon it, passing it
off as the wanton act of some irrespon
sible person. As a measure of precau
tion, the curtains at the windows of sev
eral of the cars were drawn down after
the news of the incident spread among
the passengers on the train.
The Secret Service officers who ac
companied the President took carge of
the missile, and an effort will be made,
through the Secret Service Bureau, to
apprehend the person who threw it.
SEED DEALERS PROTEST.
They Want tba Government's Distribution to
Cease.
Washington (Special). Thirty of the
leading seed dealers of the country have
sent President Roosevelt a petition pro
testing against the free distribution of
seeds by members oi Congress, and urg
ing him to include in his message a para
graph disapproving the pre. em practice
and recommending that only the intent
of the original act authorize:, sed distri
bution be the future policy. This intent,
the petition says, was that- the seeds
should be obtained from remote cor
ners of the earth and be unknown to the
people of this country, and be fur the
purpose of increasing the wealth of the
nation.
The petitioners allege that the pre-ent
practice is a "grievous restraint of trade,"
and that the United States should aboli-.li
the practice as unfair, as a class legis
lation, antagonistically so, against a
branch of commerce unbecoming a gre.it
government.
John Burtlelt Dead.
Cambridge, Mass., ( Special). J. dm
Rartlett, compiler of "Bartlett's Family
Quotations," died at his home, in this
city, aged t5 years. He was born in
Plymouth, Mass., and until hi- retire
ment, some years ago, was a publisher
and author. His other hc-st-known work
was a concordance of Shake-peare.
Ealire Boird ol Health Out.
' Chicago (Specif.!). A dispatch to the
Chronicle from New Orlean; says: "The
Louisiana State Board of Health, Dr.
Edmund Souchon president, resigned in
a body. This action was precipitated
bv,a persistent intimation of Governor
'.lanchard that he wanted an investiga
tion as to how yellow fever got into
lAiiiisiana and who was responsible and
by Ins last action of calling upon the
Grand Jury of Orleans parish to inves
tigate." No Jews Attacked Lately.
Washington, D. C. (Special) In a tel
egram' from Mr. Eddy, charge d'affaires
at St. Petersburg, the Slate Department
is informed that no Jews in St. Peters
burg or Moscow hive been injured dur
ing the last disturbances. Mr. Eddy
adds that the assaults on the second
secretary of the embassy at St. Peters
burg was not serious, I hat all proper
n;doj;ics have been made and extra
police stationed in the district where Ihe
r.iki Unt took place. .
THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMKKTIO
President Edmond Souchon and the
entire Louisiana State Board of Health,
with the exception of Dr. Stephens, ten
dered their resignations to Governor
Blanchard, and in a report declared that
no attempt was made to suppress the
facts as to yellow fever in New Orleans
when convinced of its existence.
Park Benjamin, the naval expert, sug
gests the elimination of class privileges
as the means of stopping .such fights as
the one that has given rise to the court
martial of Meriwether.
Mrs. George W. Feldhouse, of Swiss
vale, near Pittsburg, horsewhipped Prof.
R. S. Cottan in the presence of his class
for alleged injustice to her son.
Albert Hill, a butcher of Marcus Hook,
Pa., publicly horsewhipped KsV. Richard
M. Doherty, rector of St. Martin's Epis
copal Church.
Mrs. William Moore, of Lexington.
Ky., a woman of 42 with 10 children,
married a young man, and her household
is in revolt.
Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, who is to be
executed in Vermont for the murder of
her husband, said farewell to her moth
er. George A. Jones, of Philadelphia, hav
ing been deserted by his wife, made two
attempts at suicide in Philadelphia.
Florence Ryan, 20 years old, of Syra
cuse. N. Y., awoke after having been
asleep for eight months.
Creditors of the Monarch Automobile
Company of Aurora, 111., filled a petition
in the United States Court asking for the
appointment of a receiver. The assets
ut the company are estimated at $io:.
000, and the liabilities are stated in the
petition to exceed that amount.
It is rumored that J. l'ierpout Morgan
may sell the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
I 'avion Railroad to Eugene Zimmerman,
from whom Morgan acquired the road.
Capt. John B. Munscy and v. ite, the
engineer and the cook were drowned by
ihe foundering of the sea barge Dcla
wanna, off the Massachusetts coast.
The government has entered suit
against the Southern Pacific Railroad to
collect penalties for alleged violation of
power-brake regulations.
Ex-President Cleveland, Governor Hig
gins and Jacob 11. Schiff made addresses
at the celebration of the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Jews
in New York. A letter was read from
President Roosevelt.
The state insurance commissioner of
Pennsylvania is considering the question
of making an investigation of the com
panies doing business in that state, with
a view to prevent the practice of giving
rebates.
An old confederate flag captured by the
Eighth Illinois Cavalry from the Thir
teenth Virginia Cavalry was returned in
Chicago to Harry Lee, representing Gov
ernor Montague.
Robbers wrecked the safe of the
Citizens' National Bank at Owl, In
dian Territory, and escaped with over
$3,000. The bank is owned by Beard
Bros., of Shawnee, Okla.
Jewish relief contributions sent to the
national committee in New Y'ork now
aggregate $0,70, Ijo, and arc expected to
soon reach the million mark.
Capt. Alga P. Berry, U. S. A., recent
ly convicted of conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman, committed sui
cide in Vancouver, Wash.
-Edward S. Kingsland had a prelimin
ary hearing in New York on the charge
of abducting Genevieve Horton, of Su
gar Run, Pa.
Mrs. Henrietta Hume, a native 0? .
napolis, Md., died at Cohrnbi.-.. ;,10iJ at
the age of 100 years.
A Santa Fe train was ditched near Las
Vegas, N. M.. and the engineer was
scalded to death.
Two persons were killed and several
injured by a railroad train near Lang
borne, Pa.
The warehouse oi the Standard Oil
Company at Kansas City was destroyed
by fire.
Trouble is now brewing between Ven
ezuela and the Netherlands government.
A fire in Pittsburg caused damage
amounting to $150,000.
IOHEIGS
Newspaper communication with St. Pe
tersburg and Odessa has been re-established
by means of couriers from those
cities to frontier stations, but the Rus
sian telegraph and postal employes con
tinue on strike.
A guard for the United States Em
bassy at St. Petersburg, supposed to be
from the cruiser Minneapolis, at Grave
send, England, passed through Berlin.
Many American sailors arc destitute
in Antwerp. They shipped on foreign
vessuis in American ports and were dis
charged on their arrival in Europe.
There has been bloody fighting at
KiefT, Russia, between mutineers and
Cossacks, in which scores of people have
been killed and wounded.
Reforms in the next estimates for the
British Navy will show a redaction of
$7,500,000 beyond the reductions of $17,
500.000 made last spring.
A number of Russians were severely
wounded in a house in Geneva, Switzer
land, while they were preparing bomb-.
The Social Democrats of Dresden held
large meetings to protest against the elec
toral law oi Saxony.
I.ord Curon, of Kedicston, former
viceroy of India, and Lady Curzon ar
rived at Dover, England.
At a meeting of the British Cabinet
it is believed that Premier Baliuur col
leagues approved of his decision to re
siuu rather than dissolve Parliament.
Joint Redmond, the Irish Nationalist
bailer, in a speech at Waterford, said
the country was on the eve of an elec
tion. Dr. William Osier presided at a dinutr
oi ihe- American Club at Oxford Univer
sity, England, and Paul Keifcr. of Bal
timore, a holder of a Rhodes scholarship,
was one of the speakers.
Strikers at Georgetown, Deinerara, had
a battle with the police, in which five
of tin- former were killed. The rioters
then attacked the governor's house and
besiged the public buildings.
The Car, in a talk with Lewis Nixon,
of Xiw York, spoke 111 an appreciative
win of the United States, and in speak
ing of its great men linked the names of
Lincoln anil Roosevelt.
Germany has threatened the Equitable
Life Assurance Society with a receiver
ship in the interest of ihe German policy
holder unless it increases its premium
n serves invested in Germany.
A crisis in the Italian Cabinet has
been caused by public dissuiitfaction over
the new Commercial treaty with Spain.
Witte and his council are beginning to
see that the Russian government must
put the whole country under a dictator
ship or proclaim a ready-made constitu
tion. The balance in favor of Japan for ex
penses for maintenance of prisoners in
the war is $.15,000,000.
Officers and passengers of the steamer
Dakota arrived at Seattle tell a story of
the attempt to murder the Japanese peace
delegates and destroy the treaty upon the
arrival of the latter at Yokohama.
PALMA ELECTED
BY LIGHT VOTE
No Excitement Abov. the Cuban
Elections.
THE LIBERALS REFUSE TO VOTE.
Every Nominee of the Moderate Party Elected
The Only Liberals Who Will Have Sean
la the New Coorets Will Be the Holdovers
Only Third ol tha Senate aad a Fifth ol
the House Liberals.
Havana (Special). The political agi
tation which began six months ago with
the national convention of the Liberal
party and which has dwindled since the
withdrawal of Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez,
the presidential candidate named by that
convention, ended Friday in an election
that was so quiet and uninteresting as
to cause scarcely a ripple of excitement.
The vote cast was very light, this be
ing due to the lack of interest in the
wholly one-sided election and the heavy
rains.
The withdrawal of the Liberals from
a'l nominations as a protest against al
leged injustices by the government and
the people in conducting the primaries
left a clear field for the Moderates and
every Moderate nominee was elected,
from President Palma to the provincial
councilors.
The only Liberals who will have seats
in the new congress, which opens in
April, will be the holdovers, and con
sequently only a third of the Senate and
a filth of the House will be composed
of members of that party.
The Senate will have 14 Moderates, I
Liberal-Nationalist, or Numcz follower,
and o Liberals. Included with the latter
however, are 4 so-called independents,
who may or may not vote with the Lib
erals. The House will have U Liberals, 8
Liberal-Nationalists, 41 Moderates and 3
independents of Moderate tendencies.
Goernor Numez, of Havana Province,
who, after he fa'icd to receive the Liber
al nomination for the presidency, joined
the forces of the Palma party in oust
ing the Liberals from the Havana city
and provincial offices, is re-elected. Mod
erate governors and councillors in every
province were elected.
Secretary of the Interior Freyrc An
dradc, who is in constant receipt of tele
graphic reports from all sections of the
island, said that he had received no ad
vices indicating the slightest disorder
anywhere. The polls were open every
where except in a very few small vil
lages, where swollen rivers or muddy
roads prevented voters assembling.
Orders bad been issued to poling in
spectors, he said, that nobody should be
permitted to vote unless he was known
to some of the inspectors. The secretary
justified this order by saying that no
voting place had more than 500 voters,
and it was, therefore, reasonable to re
quire the inspectors to be satisfied that
the applicant to cast a ballot had not
fraudulently registered. Senor Andrade
admitted that a great number of persons
had registered fraudulently, but he
blamed the existing law for this.
The registration, which was beyond the
accredited male population of the island,
amounted to 400.000 but the vote, it is
estimated, will not run much beyond
1 50.000.
The tickets used were large and ap
parently complicated. The candidates
were 18 presidential and .14 senatorial
electors, besides the congressmen and
provincial officers.
SL'LTAN HAS YIELDED.
la Told Id Reply to Definitely Accept Demands
ol Powera By Sunday.
Athens, Greece (By Cable). A Rus
sian torpedo-boat destroyer arrived here.
Her commander in an interview said that
the Turkish Governor of the Island of
Mytilcrte presented Vice-Admiral Rittcr
von Jedina, commander of the interna
tional fleet, an official dispatch from Con
stantinople, in which, it was stated that
the Porte would accept the proposals of
the Powers for the financial control of
Macedonia with modifications.
Admiral von Jedina replied, according
to the Russian officer, that if by Sunday
at midday the Porte had not definitely
accepted the demands the international
fleet would occupy the island of Lemnos
and Imhros.
Paris (By Cable). Advices received
by the Foreign Office here indicate that
Turkey is going to yield to the demands
of the Powers for the financial control
of Macedonia.
The international fleet has not been
ordered to leave the island of Mytilcne
for aggressive action elsewhere.
' 600,000 Bits ol atass.
Berlin (By Cable). Adolphus Busch
has bought the two mosaic pictures which
stood in the vestibule of the German
art and industry exhibit at St. Louis and
received a grand prize, with the intention
of donating them to the public museum
of St. Louis. Each mosaic contains 300,
000 fragments of glass, and 26 artists were
occupied for six months in making the
pictures. A Berlin firm made them upon
a commission from Emperor William.
Railroad Man Murdered.
Norfolk, Va., (Special). Henry Gres
ham. an employee of the Norfolk and
Southern Railway, was found murdered
at Mundcn's Point, in Princess Anne
County. An inquest was conducted by
Magistrate Atwood of Princess Anne
Courthouse, and the jury returned the
verdict that Gresham came to his death
from a blow received on the head with a
blunt instrument in the hands of some
person unknown.
Convicted ol Illegal Vollnj.
New York ( Special). Samuel K. El
ler.bogen, the City Marshal who was con
victed of perjury in connection with reg
istry ion frauds in the recent election,
was sentenced to not more than four
year and six months und not less than
two years in State's prison. Three other
men were aUo sent to prison for election
frauds. Albert Farrar and Thomii Mc
Call were each sentenced to the peni
tentiary for one year, and Bartholomew
Wallace was sentenced to Elmira Re
formatory. i-or Jamcalowa txposlllan.
London (By Cable) Harry St. George
Tucker, president of the Jamestown
(Va. ) Exposition Company, had a most
satisfactory interview with the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. Mr. Tucker had
been invited by the Archbishop to discuss
the proposal for the celebration at James
town of the tercentenary of the estab
lishment of the Ainercian branch of the
English Church. The Archbishop sug
gested the formation of an American
committee promising to appoint an
English committee to act in conjunction
with the Americans in arranging the de
tails of the celebration. v
NEW YORK AS SEEN DAY BY DAY.
Niw Yob Oitt, N. T.
The romance of an artist from Japan
who married a beautiful young Brook
lyn woman last summer had a tragic
sequel when Frank Yamaki was found
dead in a wood near Northport, L. I. He
had been missing, since Novemher 6, ami
it was apparent that he had gone to that
lonely place to kill himself .
Yamaki was one of the noble Samurai,
and here on Government business. His
marriage to Miss Belle Pauline Brown,
2f Spencer Place, Brooklyn, followed by
a costly honeymoon tour, with stops at
the St. Regis, the Grand Union Hotel,
Saratoga, and other resorts, led him into
financial plights from which his pride
saw refuge only in death.
After the settlement of peace terms at
Portsmouth he was ordered home, but
refused to go, and an income of $(1400 a
year was cut off, runining him financially.
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patrons of theatres on Fourteenth
Street were given a bad scare just be
fore the close of the Thanksgiving mati
nee, when fire was discovered in the
three-story fc.ctory building at 115 to 121
East Thirtecnlh Street. Dense smoke
penetrated into the theatres and the au
diences were dismissed.
Thanks to the presence of mind of the
managers, several of whom announced
to the audiences from the stages that
there was no danger, panics were
averted
The worst excitement prevailed in The
Fair, a penny-in-the-slot vaudeville show
in Fourteenth Street. This place was
choked with smoke, and a wild scramble
to get to the street ensued.
.
While all bauds who were able were
enjoying the feast at Bellcvue Hospital
a little slip of a girl stood unnoticed in
the big reception-room of the Hospital.
Capt. John Mcliale, the night superin
tendent, saw the weeping girl and in
quired as to her trouble.
"I've come for my mamma's clothes,"
said the little girl, who proved to be
11-ycar-old Marie Barrone of 55 Spring
Street. "My mamma died here, and she
was all I had in the world. Before she
died, mamma told me how sorry she
was because the only thing that would be
left for me was her clothes, and I've come
for them."
She got the clothes, and a fine dinner,
too.
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Charles Dudley Godfrey, son of Char
les H. Godfrey, a millionaire merchant,
611 Fifth Avenue, is dead on his ranch
at San Diego, Cal. Dispatches state that
young Godfrey ended his life by shoot
ing himself in the mouth, but the family
here, while admitting his death, declare
the reports of his suicide a mistake.
Young Godfrey was 37 years old and un
married. Up to two years ago he lived
with his parents, on Fifth Avenue, when
he went West to improve bis health.
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Carrying one more steerage passenger
than she had aboard when she left Eu
rope, the stcmshtp Frederick dcr Grosse
reached her pier at Hoboken. The new
comer was christened Frederick Zim
merman. When the first and second
cabin passengers heard of his arrival
they arranged a concert and collected a
purse of $50, whidh was given to the
mother.
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In the wedding of Miss Grace Bern
heimer and M. Robert Guggenheim, son
of Daniel Guggenheim, were united two
of the wealthiest Jewish families in the
United States perhaps in the world,
barring the Rothschilds. It was at the
home of Miss Bernheimer, 35 West Seventy-second
Street. Three rooms of the
Bernheimer home were given over to a
display of the presents. Two separate
sets of solid gold plate and three sets
of monogramnicd silver practically filled
one room. Cut glass, miscellaneous sil
ver and gold tapestries and all the ac
cessories of a home were in the other
rooms. But it was in a safe in a lower
room that the gifts of great worth were
stowed. Ten detectives watched all the
wedding gifts, but it was near the safe
containing the rubies, diamonds and
pearls that three of them were sta
tioned. J& j& j&
The attempted burglary of the home of
James Stokes, the millionaire philan
thropist, marks the twentieth invasion of
the homes of wealthy New Yorkers
within the past two months. The total
amount of property stolen in that time
from these homes is in excess of $100,000
not a tenth of which has been recovered
by the police, and in only two of the
20 instances cited have the police cap
tured the thieves.
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Jan Kubelik, the Bohemian violinist,
gave his first recital in America this
season at Carnegie Hall. His pro
gramme consisted of concertos by Mo
zart and Wieniawski. He was assisted
by the New York Symphony Orchestra,
under the direction of Walter Damrosch.
Kubclik was given hearty applause, and,
in response, played several encores.
Discord on Ihe Lena.
Honolulu (By Cable). There are
some sensational reports here relative to
revolutionary plans of the sailors of the
Russian auxiliary cruiser L-ena. Men
from the vessel while ashore have made
statements indicating rebellious inten
tions and only 50 are allowed shore leave
at a time. The vessel is coaling and
will probably be ready to leave within
r. few days.
FINANCIAL.
Bankers say the money tide has turned
and that now it has begun to flow from
the interior to the big Eastern centers.
Electric Company of America "rights"
are figured out to be worth i the 100
shares.
Francis E. Bond says a great many
of the important financial people in Nev
York are now bullish.
Wall Street bankers still insist that
powerful Philadelphia interests have
purchased an immense lot of Brool.Iyn
Rapid Transit.
Metropolitan United States Steel and
Union Pacific all made notable gain
during the week. The rest of the mar
ket was weak, especially Brooklyn,
Smelters and Reading, the three bull
stars.
A leading yarn manufacturer of Phil
adelphia says that stocks have been pil
ing up for three weeks. Sales are im
possible, owing to the high price of raw
cotton. Bear speculators in cotton
point to this condition of affairs as dan
gerous. Lehigh Valley has ordered l8,otv ton
of steel rails.
THE DEAD PUT AT
' FIVE THOUSAND
Full Extent of Battle of Sevastopol Is
Not Known.
LIEUT. SCHMIDT TRIED TO ESCAPE.
Batterlea Trained on City Troops, Supposed
ly Loyal, Desert at tha Last Moment and
Tbelr Stronghold la Taken With Bayonets
10 Shlpa Under Mutineers Ara Now Said to
Be Out ol Commission.
Sevastopol, via Warsaw (By Cable).
During the battle between the rebel and
loyal vessels of the Black Sea fleet a
mining ship, which had 200 Whitehead
torpedoes and other explosives on board,
was sunk by her commander, who feared
that she would be struck by a shell.
Some regiments, with artillery, have
arrived here from Odessa and other
places.
Warsaw (By Cable). According to
the few details which have reached War
saw regarding the sea and land battle at
Sevastopol, the rebel licet in the evening
of November -iS opened an attack on
three lojal warships the battleship Ro
lislav, the torpedo-gunboat Captain Sack
en and the armored cruiser Pamyat Az
ov.i. The latter replied briskly, damaging
the rebel torpdo-boat dslroyr Svircpy
and sinking a torpedo boat. The coast
batteries also joined in anil set fire to
the cruiser Otchakoff, commanded by
the rebel leader, Lieutenant Schmidt.
The latter, with his mutinous followers,
trieil to escape in boats, but was captured
by loyal torpedo boats. At the same time
the Bielostok regiment attacked the bar
racks occupied by the mutineers. Fifteen
hundred of these, with ten Maxim guns,
surrendered druing the night. The num
ber of killed and wounded is not known.
St. Petersburg (By Cable) The Navy
Department is closed not only to the
public, but to officers except those of the
General Staff.
No official statement on the subject of
the battleship at Sevastopol has been
issued and the public remains in the dark,
compelled to be content with the countless
rumors which are in circulation. It is
reported from a semi-official source that
although the Otchakoff, the Dnieper and ,;
a transport were set on fire and sunk
during yesterday's battle, all the muti
neers have not yet surrendered. Vice
Admiral Chouknin was in command of
the loyal vessels, some of which, includ
ing the Patcleiinon, took part in the en
gagement. Gen. Baron Meller Gako
melskic, commander of the Seventh Ar
my Corps, with 21,000 infantry and artil
lery, was in chief command ashore.
The newspaper accounts of the details
of the fighting at Sevastopol, which are
based on the reports circulating in the
city, are very conflicting, but they all say
the battle ended at about 5.30 P. M.,
when the ships of the mutineers sur
rendered. The Novosti says that 5,000 men per
ished on both sides. The leaders of the
mutineers, it is added, have already been
executed, two battleships have been
blown up and mines have been laid at
the entrance of the roadstead.
According to the Slovo the mutineers
themselves began the attack. After wait
ing until 3 I'. M. for a reply to the de
mands of the mutineers, which included
the convocation of a constituent assem
bly and the immediate realization of the
reforms promised in the imperial mani
festo, Lieutenant Schmidt opened fire on
the city from 10 vessels. Vice-Admiral
Chouknin replied from the loyal war
ships and Gen. Baron Meller Gakomcls
kie from the southern forts and with
the coast artillery. The mutinous sailors
used rifles and machine guns on the en
trenched infantry.
The fight, the Slovo says, lasted for
two and a quarter hours. The mutineers
made a heroic struggle, but the odds were
loo heavy, and when the Otchakaoff, bat
tered to pieces and on fire, sank with the
cruiser Dnieper and a transport. Lieu
tenant Schmidt, who was mortally
wounded, surrendered the mutinous
squadron and mutinous sailors on shore
hauled down their flag to the Brest and
Bielostok regiments.
According to the Russ, however, Ad
miral Chouknin and Generals Gakomcls
kic called on the mutineers to surrender,
whereupon, under the orders of Lieuten
ant Schmidt, the mutinous vessels, which
had replaced the Hag of St. Andrew with
a red flag, responded by hoisting the
battle flag.
When the battle began the batteries on
the north side, which were supposed to
be loyal, instead of firing on the muti
neers, joined the cause with them and
directed their fire on the city and on the
south-side batteries. The Brest regi
ment thcrupon stormed the northern bat
teries with fixed bayonets and the guns
were soon turned on the ships and the
barracks of the mutineers.
The Listok says that the conspiracy
which led to the mutiny went on under
the noses of the officers and that even
Vice-Admiral Birilelf, the Minister of
Marine, who was at Sevastopol a fort
night ago, suspected nothing. The sail
ors waiied until they were assured of the
support ol the troops, most of whom,
however, refused to go over to the mu
tineers when the die was cast.
Boii.d Atlve By Steam.
Lancaster, Pa. (Special). Samuel Tu
mey, l.S years old, was boiled to death by
steam in a small room in the Ashley &
Dailey silk mill, at Columbia. The room
is used for steaming rollers, and when
Tumey tried to tnier it he found the
door jammed through swelling, lie se
cured a sledge and dropped into the room
through a trap in the ceiling. The room
was full of steam at the timeand' be
fore lie could be rescued the flesh had
dropped front his face and hands.
Tlianksitlvlug Pardons.
Raleigh, N. C. .( Special). Gov. Robert
B. Glenn has inaugurated a new depart
ure in North Carolina by granting with
out solicitation pardons to two long
term convicts as Thank -giving Day gift
to them. The two arc negroes who hap
pen to have the be t records John Hop
kins, of Washington County, sentenced
in May, iHoj, to 20 years f jr manslaugh
ter, and injured while a convict, and
Wesley McKay, of Robeson County, sen
tenced in Oct( her, 1HK7, to 30 years for
burning n small building.
Catioa Araln Soara.
New York (Speri.il). New high re
cords for the season were made at the
opening of the cotton market Monday,
with trading sensationally active and ex
.itcd. The movement was caused by a
circular issued by the'fof ner bear leader
on Saturday, to the effect that he had cov
ered his short contracts, and abo by he
big advance by Liverpool, where a small
failure was announced. The fi;-st pries
were 36 to 3$ points higher., with Merch
stlling at ll&. or 11 points above the
previous record.
GAVE OFFENSE TO THE CL3ANS
United States Minister Squiers Ha?
Resigned.
Washington, D. C. (Special) Herbert
O. Squires, United States Minister tc
Cuba, has resigned from the diplomatic
service of the United States under pres
sure. Mr. Edwin V. Morgan, former!
United Stales Minister at Scout, Korea
has been appointed to succeed ' Mr
Squires as Minister to Cuba nnd is now
en route from Korea to his new post.
The formal announcement of these
changes wrj made by Secretary Koot
While no official announcement was madi
that t lie resignation of Mr. Squires wa?
requested by the President, such if
known to be the fact. It is said at tin
State Department, unofficially, that Mr.
Squires has incurred the displeasure ol
the administration by his too great an
xiety to have the Isle of Pines annexed
by the United States and has, on at least
two occasions recently, come out in in
terviews in Cuban newspapers in which
he has placed the United States in a
false position with regard to its policy
on the subject ut annexation of the Isle
of Pino. It is explained at the State
1 department that the United States does
not want the Isle of Pines and is doing
its utmost to prevent its being turned
over to this Government by Cuba. A
treaty between the United Slates and
Cuba is now pending before the Senate
which definitely defines the ownership of
that i-dand by placing it under Cuban
sovereignty. This treaty has not yet been
ratified.
There were other reasons why the
resignation of Minister Spires was de
sired. He has managed, it is 'it;!, to
make himself very unpopular with the
Cuban Government. Mr. Morgan, who
has been appointed to succeed him, is
a young man in whom the administration
has great confidence. Until made Con
sul at Dalny about a year ago, and later
United States Minister to Korea. Mr
Morgan was private secretary to assis
tant Secretary of State Pierce. lie had
been one of the assistant secretaries at
the embassy at St. Petersburg before
coming to the State Ivparlment.
Mr. Herbert G. Squires, the retiring
Minister to Cuba, was appointed to the
diplomatic service from New York. Hi
was first secretary at the United Stale.'
Legation in Peking, China, where he wa
stationed throughout the Boxer trouble;
of looo. lie was in the legation com
pound throughout the famous Boxci
siege of Kxio and was one of the most
prominent figures in -that remarkable his
torical event. Having a military train
ing, he was practically placed in com
mand of one of the most important fea
tures of the defense, and it was said tc
be owing in no small part to his cnerg
and tactical ability that the legationer.'
successsfully resisted the siege. Mr
Squires was appointed Minister to Oba
May 20, IQ02, and his course while Min
ister has been marked by vigor and can
dor in the treatment of public question?
that has perhaps, had considerable to do
with his retirement from the diplomatic
service.
MAV take slice op china.
Report That Mlkido Will Accept Province ol
Fuklen.
Peking (By Cable -China has ac
cepted some of the Japanese proposals.
There is a rumor that the Japanese will
accept the Province of F ukicn for
China's share of the expenses of the war,
Ftikien is a province of 4fi,3-'0 square
miles, with a population of 23,000,000,
and lies on the coast of China, on the
westerly side of Formosa Strait. On the
other side of the island of, Formosa,
which was part of the Japanese spoils
of war in 1SQ5. 0
London (My Cable). --The correspon
dent of the Morning Post at Shanghai
says China's counter proposals to the
demands of Japan are that Liaotung
peninsula be leased to Japan for the
same period that it was leased to Russia ;
that the zone in which the war took place
be restored to China; that the Japanese
railroad guards be replaced by Chinese,
and that Manchuria be evacuated within
six months,
month?.
Casualties Not Heavy.
Havana, (Special). The first shots
between rural guards and insurrection
ists were exchanged near the centre o)
Havana province. The captain of the
rural guards says his detachment dis
covered a party of 20 insurrectionists
led by Marino Robau and Rafael Cas
tillo, who organized the original band
of Salud. The party, the telegram says
after an exchange of shots fled, some to
ward the mountains and others across
the fields.
Shoplifters Sent to Prison.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special) Six shop
lifters known in many cities of the
country were sentenced to terms in the
penitentiary of from one to three years.
They are known in police circles as
Joseph Cotiley, Emma Marsh, Margaret
Cassaday, William Mackey, Armstrong
and Anna Hurt. Since the arrest of the
sextet goods have been recovered here
and in Chicago to the value of more
than $1,000.
, tend Indian Girl In Cinal.
Grand Marais, Mich. (Special). A.
frail birch bark canoe, containing what
was once the body of an Indian girl,
has come ashore near here. The bones
rested on a rich blanket and on the wrists
were heavy silver bracelets. Indians
buried the body and expressed the be
lief that it was set ndrift in compli
ance with religious riles.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
Speaker Cannon has decided that Rep
resentative Tauney shall succeed Rep
resentative Payne, as floor leader of the
Hon se.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have re
turned to Washington after a visit to
Virginia.
The salaries of 150 employes of the
Pension Office are to be increased.
Justice Pcckham r signed as trustee
of the Mut al Life Insurance Company
of New York'.
The War Department has adopted a
new policy, under which officers of the
commissary department are sent to cook
ing school.
Secretary Root has written a letter to
an Am erican on the Isle of Pines, stating
emphatically that thai island will remain
under the Cuban government. ,
Pierre Paul Demcrs, of New Hamp
shire, at present American consul at Port
Limon, Costa Rica, has been transferred
to Barranquilla, Columbia.
Charles A Sailings was sworn in ai
mblic printer. He appointed Oscar J.
Ricketts foreman of printing.
THE KEYSTONE STATE
Tit Latest Peansytvanla Naws Told la Short
Order,
Thanksgiving day wan observed in the
anthracite districts by a general tes
tation of work. Union services were held
in the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Shamokin. The corner stone laying of
Bethany Church, at Green Ridge, was
observed by a large number of persons,
and opening of the Grant Public School
building was celebrated by Lincoln Post,
No. 140, and the Sons of Veterans pa
rading and presenting to the school a
United States flag.
'On a wager of S25 E. E. Rouch, of
Shamokin. plucked a chicken of its feath
ers in eight seconds, and won the bet.
He issued a challenge to defeat any one
in Northumberland County for from $25
to $too at the same game. He will give
an exhibition Christmas eve of an at
tempt to pluck seven chickens in one
minute.
The report of Mine Inspector Patrick
C. Fenton, of the eleventh anthracite
district, comprising sixteen collieries, em
ploying 11,000 men and boys, shows only
one fatal accident for November. This
is the lowest death list in any month
since Inspector Fenton took office three
years ago.
Roseoc Sheridan, a farmer, aged 45,
living at Clifford, was fojind with his
neck broken at the foot of a staircase
in a Carboudale hotel. He had taken
a load of Thanksgiving produce to town
and went to the hotel for the night. It
i . supposed that he lost his bearings in
the dark corridor and fell down the
steps late at night.
Three bun lied and thirty-eight cases
of contagious diseases were reported in
Scranton during the month of Novem
ber. The majority were measles. Only
nine were typhoid fever.
Thomas Hannnn, a fireman on the
Dclaworc & Hudson Railroad, was kill
ed in the Lackawanna yard by falling
under the wheels of a freight car. By
the irony of fate he met his tragic end
just as the train was passing his home.
A freight wreck occurred at Boiling
Springs on the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad. Eighteen .freight cars were
demolished. Seeing their danger, Engi
neer Kautfnian, of Chambcrsburg, and
Fireman Reed, of Williamsport, Md.,
jumped from their locomotives to save
ihcir iives. The accident was due to
failure of the air brakes.
The flour and grist mill owned by
Martin Moore, two miles southeast of
Mount Joy, was destroyed by tire, en
tailing a loss of $10,000.
Orders were issued by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad for the Alloona shops
to work ten hours a day in the future,
instead of nine, which was established
last Spring.
Hugh McQuillen, Pennsylvania agent
at Trenfcld, was run down by a pas
senger' train and instantly killed.
Clement Brawlcy, an Adams express
nnpolye at Crcsson, was killed by a pas
senger train there.
John Barney, a Cambric Furnace em
ploye, in Altoona, was immersed under
a splash of hot metal. He cannot re
cover. Two Austrian who had been arrested
by Constable Stanley, of Hollidaysburg,
for tampering with witnesses at a court
trial, were killed on the railroad at
Cresson.
Enterprise Colliery, near Shamokin, in
which a fire started more than a yeal
ago, and which was officially pronounced
out last week by W. L. Council & Co.,
Scranton, was discovered on fire above
water level Thursday. It may take yean
to extinguish the flames. The fire up
to dale has caused more than $100,000
loss. Veins worth several million dollar!
are imperiled and adjoin rich tracts ol
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron
Company.
Edna Betchtel. Cora Bicel, Mamie
Heine and Anna Kline, the four Read
ing girls who were rescued from a
Bawery gang by the New York police,
arrived home. They were stagestruck
and say they went to New York to get
jobs as chorus girls. T.V-y deny a re
port that tney wereenucco irom nome.
John Hcnderson"was found guilty of
attempting to murder George Clark a
fellow-prisoner in the county jail. The
verdict was rendered less than forty
eight hours after the. commission of the
crime, which is the record in Venango
County. Henderson attacked Clark be
cause he turned State's evidence against
him in a horse-stealing case.
The Berwick Hospital Association has
received a communication from Mrs. Lu
cie C. Hawk, of Philadelphia, offering,
with the aid of other Philadelphia women
to establish and furnish a private room
at the new Berwick hospital to be known
as the Philadelphia Room. They will ac
cept the offer.
George Elkhorne was caught between
two pieces of coal in the Royal Oak
mines, near Shamokin, and squeezed so
frightfully that there is little hope of
saving his life. At the peril of their
own lives several mine workers rescued
him as quickly as possible.
Madcria, Hill & Co., of Philadelpha,
have purchased the stock of the Black
Creek Coal Co. from Stauffer and Rowe,
operators of the Harleigh colliery, and
assumed control December 1. Madeira,
Hill & Co. have also bought Spear Point
from the Diamond Coal Land Compaay,
near the Harleigh, and now control over
1,500,000 tons of unmined coal in this
tract. The Harleigh breaker will be en
larged and other extensive improvements
made to develop the mine. W. J. Thom
as, of Pittston, now in charge of the Pond
Creek operations, has been appointed
superintendent at Harleigh.
William Berger, a Pinegrovc Town
ship farmer, fell from his coal wagon.
The rear wheels passed over his body,
injuring him so badly thaf his Jife is de
spaired of.
The Republican borough conumttec, of
Shamoldn, decided Monday night to hold
primaries for the February election Dec
ember 16, when candidates for a number
of offices, includinff burgess, lax collec
tor and overseer of poor, will be chosen,
A large number of candidates have an
nounced themselves.
Hearing a knock at'her door while up
stairs taking a nap, Mrs. Michael Gray,
an aged resident of Shenandoah, arose to
respond, tripped at the head of the stair
way, and fell headlong flown the slept
to the floor below, sustaining injuries
that may prove fatal.
The Home Gas Company, of Clarion,
succeeded in getting coiilrol of the output
of its new gas well, which was drilled in
late Friday afternoon. The pressure of
the new gasser was so strong that il
was impossible' for the employees of the
company to make immediate connections.
The well is located on the Peter Rapp
farm, in Knox Township, about three
tniles from Clarion. '
An attempt was made to enter the
home of Samuel Dcwaes, at Bramcotc,
a Pott stow n suburb, but the intruders
were frightened off by Mr. Dewees'
voting daughter.