NOW STARVING
. AND DESPERATE
Kflss;aa Peasants Lite Wild, Hungry
Animals.
SEVERE BATTLES WITH COSSACKS.
,
Maay Art Kllltd tad Woanded la Fierce At
lacks L'pea Id Military Pilrala la Famlae
atrkkea Provinces Armed With Spadca
aad Pitchforks, a Body al Peesaots Resist
a Sqaadraa al Drafeons.
St. Petersburg (By Cal.lc). The first
paragraph of the proposed agrarian law,
iz, the augmentation of the lands of
the peasants by the expropriation of ail
stat and crown domains and church and
monastery lands, ha been accepted by
the commission of the lower house with
practical unanimity. The commissioners
ha-e now locked horns over the mode
of expropriation and the method of
disposal of private estates, and the end
is not yet in sight.
The determination to expropriate
church lands, which, in distinction to
the great estates owned by the monas
teries, he scattered like the lands of the
common schools in America, in small
tracts throughout the country, -and sup
port the local clergy, will cause compli
cations. Such action would deprive tin
parish priests of the principal part of
their scanty emoluments anil necessitate
an equivalent from some other source.
A correspondent has just completed a
tour of the Provinces of Samara and
Saratov, lie reports that the dntith is
finally broken, hut the rains have come
too late to save the crop and help the
peasants, who are in a pitiable condition.
Their cattle have either lieen sold or are
starving in the fields.
The government relief granaries were
completely emptied during last year's
famine. The present agrarian disorders,
which can be expected to grow worse,
are due largely to the necessity of the
peasants seizing food and forage to pre
cerve their lives and save from starva
tion the remainder of their cattle. These
disorders have reached the highest pitch
in the Province of Voronezh, where the
troops and Cossacks, although in consid
erable force, jire practically helpless and
on the defensive. Many peasants have
been killed or wounded in desperate at
tacks on the military patrols and the
rural guards.
According to a telegram received here
from Tambov peasants on the estate of
Princess Bariatinsky attacked a commis
sary and a posse of rural police. A com
missary and four policemen were wound
ed. In another section of the Province
of Tambov a body of peasants, armed
with pitchforks and spades, resisted a
squadron of dragoons. Because of this
resistance troops fired, killing three
peasants and wounding many others. At
Kedabey, southeast of Tirlts, a hand-to-hand
fight has occurred between Cos
sacks and an armed band of peasants,
with the result that several men were
killed on both sides.
There has been a fatal encounter at
Krassnopolsk, in the Province of Podo
lia, between rich peasants and poor peas
ants. The poor men were incensed be
cause the rich men had sent a telegram
to the lower house protesting against the
proposed distribution of land. In the
fighting one of the wealthy peasants
killed four and seriously wounded sever
al of the poorer men.
In St. Petersburg a thousand workmen
have met and passed a resolution oppos
ing the agrarian program of the Croup
of Toil, in the lower house. They de
clare that fearful consequences would en
sue if this program became effective, and
urge the mem!ers of the group to recog
nize their error and co-operate with the
Social Democrats and the Laboritcs.
Cossacks Blowa Up.
Eerlin, (Special). A dispatch to the
Lokal-Anzciger from Kattowitz, Prus
sian Silesia, says that at 2.15 P. M. 25
Cossacks surrounded a limekiln at Wie
chow, in the Province of Kielce, Rus
sian Poland, on information that it was
being used for the manufacture of
bombs. As the Cossacks were forcing
their way in a terrific explo-ion blew
the kiln to pieces. Eight Cossacks
were killed and five were wounded. It
if not established whether the explosion
was caused by the hombmakers inside
or whether the kiln was exploded from
a distance.
W. B. Ke-oibi D.sd.
Richmond. Va. (Special) V. I!. Ke
nibs, of Boston, who has l en tor some
time at I.awrenceville. Va., for his health
died there of paralysis, superinduced by
wounds received at the battle of !'.!
Caney during the' Spanish - American
War. One slioi passed through his nick.
Mr. Kenihs was Con-ul to l',riti-.h Co
lumbia under President McKinVy, a po-t
he held until the outbreak of hostilities
in icV. when he enlisted a- a soldier.
TrsDiport 1 bonus Fiosicd.
Washington, I). C. Special . The
Navy Department was advised that the
United States Army transport Thomas,
which went ashore at tiuaui, wa- floated
at high water. The dispatch gave no
details. The Thomas, carrying 10 army
oHifiicers, 7g civilians and 4 army nurses
and having on lmard a large quantity of
Philippines gold, went on a reef near
Guam.
Four killed la Collision.
Chattanooga, Tenn., (Special). In a
head-on coliisi.m between two freight
trains on the Western and Atlantic rail
road four lives were lost and lour per
sons slightly injured. The southbound
(rain failed to take the .switch at King's
Bridge and crashed into the jiorthlxiund
train, which wan slowing up on the
main line just opposite the witch. The
'four injured Were but slightly bruised.
Immediately after the wreck fire broke
out, consuming two cars, one of which
wait loaded with rattle.
Sbat Dead an a Trala.
Charlotte, N. C. ( Special) While on
a train between Wilmington and Stcd-
man, returning from an excursion, a man
named Elli.ston,' from Autreyville, X. C,
rose in a crowded coach and, showing
himself heavily armed, announced his in
tention of killing everybody in the car.
A passenger named Bledsoe, of Stcdmau,
fired at Elliston, striking him in the
forehead and killing htm instantly. El
liston held a loaded revolver in each
hand, and between his legs ws a jug
of whiskey! Bledsoe surrendered him
Jf to the authorities.
LATESTXEWS IN'SHOHTORDER
POMEBTIO
Sir Joseph Ward, new premier of
New Zealand, lunched with President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay and conferred
with the president upon the develop
ment of a reciprocity sentiment between
the United States and New Zealand.
Piano plate molders to the number of
t(io and an equal number of helpers
went on a strike at Springfield, O., tying
of the Wickham Piano Plate Company,
the C. S. Kelly Company and the N. H.
Fairbanks Company.
Henry Scott, colored, of Baltimore,
was hanged in Wilmington, N. C, for
the murder of the captain, mate, engineer
and steward of the schooner Harry Bcr
wind. Miss Emma Stephany has been ar
Tcsted, charged with complicity in the
murder of James V. frrizzel, wno was
in the woman's company when shot.
President Roosevelt has pardoned
Judge A. II. Tanner, who was charged
with penury in connection with the fa
mous Mitchell-Tanner agreement.
The Sugar Trust's demurrer to charges
of conspiracy has been upheld' by Judge
licit, of New York, but charges of re
hating stand.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad ami
two officials have been found guilty
of granting rebates to a firm of Chicago
meat packers.
Rev. Dr. L. P. Mercer, originator of
the Parliament of Religions at the
World'.s Fair, is dead.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has issued
a set of rules to prevent favoritism in
handling cars.
Sir Joseph Ward, premier of New
Zealand, who is in New York, says his
country tights the trusts by the govern
ment supplying opposition to monopoly.
Eddie Cjuinn. aged IJ years, has con
fessed that he shot F. L.I '.raves, coach
man of a Wall Street broker, who was
supposed to have been murdered.
Antoncode Ruzzo, an Italian youth of
Mamaroncck, N. Y., shot and killed
Michael Ferrari to avenge an alleged
insult to the boy's mother.
Mrs. William Snyder, of Bluff ton,
Ind., was struck on the top of her head
by an unexploded aerial bomb and sus
tained serious injuries.
Fank A. Vandcrlip, in addressing
the New York State Bankers' Associa
tion, declared for a scientific system of
banknote currency.
The fast mail on the Lake Shore was
wrecked by spreading rails near Glenville,
O., and the passengers .escaped with a
shaking up.
Rev. Frederick Poole, a missionary to
Philadelphia's Chinatown, was shot in
the arm during a factional war among
Chinamen.
Prosecutor William I.. David, of Find
lay, O., filed information against John
D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil
Company.
Mrs. Susan M. Wykoff, widow of
General Wykoff, who fell at San Juan
Hill, died at her home in Easton, Pa.
Frank D. Callahan, head of a real
estate firm in Chicago, accused of em
bezzlement, committed suicide.
E. N. Woodruff, of Chicoga, a passen
ger on the White Star liner Majestic,
committed suicide at sea.
Forty-seven persons were killed and
over 2,000 injured on the Fourth of July.
Wiretappers beat the New York pool
rooms out of $100,000.
The Federation of American Zionists
has prohibited membership in its or
ganization of members of Israel Zang
will's Jewish Territorial Society.
The Concordia Singing Society, of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., won the Kaiser prize
at Newark, the five judges voting their
singing perfect.
A runaway freight car ran down an
incline near Altoona. jumped the track
and plunged into a party of merrymak-
crs, killing 13.
The German steamer Dcutschland beat
the French ship La Provence in crossing
the Atlantic by nearly 11 hours.
An attempt was made to shoot De
tective Robert Pinkcrton while he was
at Sheepshead Bay racetrack.
Alice Funk, aged 22, jumped from a
bridge 300 feet high near Akron, O.,
and was instantly killed.
President Roosevelt was drenched by
rainstorms during his Fourth - of - July
oration at Oyster Bay.
Prof. Henry A. Ward, the naturalist,
was run down by an automobile in Buf
falo and killed.
J-OIIKIGN
The Czar has ordered Grand Duke
Nicholaievitch to stop the "disorders"
among the troops, and has relieved
Prince Vossilchikoff of his command
and dismissed two generals.
Prosecutor General Bnudouin, in the
French Supreme Court, conclude his
argument in the Dreyfus ca.-e, asking
the court to s,.a-h the verdict without
a retrial.
The French liner I. a Proere. which
sailed from New York last Thursday
in a race with the Dcutschlanel, was
lowed into Havre w.th a broken piston
rod.
Alfred Vincent, a member of the
Federal Council of Switzerland, and vice
president of the Red Cross Conference,
(lied at Geneva.
The Duke of Abruzzi has succeeded
in reaching the summit of Mount Runcti
zon. iK.ooo feet above .sea level.
The engagement is announced of
Bertha Krupp's younger sister, Barbara,
to a poor German state offcial named
Tylo von Wilnioski. who hold a subor
dinate position in the ministry of the
interior.
The woman suffragi-ts who created a
disturbance before Chancellor Asquith's
house in London, went to jail rather
than give bond for their good behavior.
Three thous'and persons attended the
Fourth of July reception given by Am
bassador Reid and the United States
Embassy in London.
It is alleged that tips were given to
drivers of the London and Southwestern
Railway Company to make fast time.
Fire destroyed Queen's Medical Build
ing on the University Grounds, Kings
ton, causing a loss of $75,000.
The revolt of the Russian troops in
the Caucasus continues to spread.
A Fourth of July celebration was held
in Christianii, Norway.
Ambassador Wbitclaw Reid gave a
luncheon at Dorchester House, Iomlon,
in honor of the members of the Public
Ownership Commission of the National
Civic Federation of the United States.
When General Pavloff, the military
procurator, attempted to addnl-s the
Douma be was assailed with cries of
"Assassin !" and "Organizer of Jew ish
massacres!"
Premier Goremykin was summoned to
Peterhof to confer with the Czar upon
the reorganization of the cabinet.
Chinese secret societies are taking ad
vantage of the continued disorders
caused by the dearnesn of vice.
WAS CONVICTED
BECAUSE A JEW
Nca of Dreyfus Counsel Before
Stipreme Court.
ASKS COURT TO QUASH VERDICT.
Before the Chirac of Treasoa Firat Arose
Aali-Stmltitm Reigned Supreme la Whole
al France Ever Act al Dreyfus Retard
ed With Smplcioo Merely Becsuse He Was
aa Israelite.
Paris, (By Cable). Procurator Gen
eral Baudouin in the Supreme Court
concluded bis argument in the Dreyfus
case, formally asking the court to quash
the verdict of the Rennes court-martial
without retrial.
"The peace of the country," the Prose
cutor said, "demands it, anil the whole
world awaits the court's summary dispo
sition of the subject, which will be a
triumph for justice and trmh."
Maitre Mornard, counsel for Dreyfus,
immediately began his closing address.
The advocate gave a new phase to
the proceedings by cutting loose from
historical details and asserted that anti-s-.
initio hatred had been the primary
cans,, of i miscarriage of justice. He
argued that Dreyfus had been con
victed, not as an individual officer, but
because he was a Jew. Even before
the charge of treason first arose anti
srmitisni had resigned supreme not only
in military circle's, but in the whole of
France. The ideal of the superior, offi
cers at that time was to exclude Israel
ites from the higher military grades, the
same as bad been done in Germany.
However, the continuous and unjus
tifiable attempts of leading generals to
prevent Dreyfus from becoming a mem
ber of the army .staff were unsuccessful.
Dreyfus passed brilliant examinations in
the staff college ami entered the minis
try of war. There he found fanatical
anti-scmitism equally rampant. His
brother officers treated him from the be
gining as likely to lie a traitor. Every
act of his was regarded w-ith suspicion
merely because he was an Israelite.
Eventually, when the affair of the
treason occurcd, the resemblance of
handwriting was regarded as sufficient
proof of guilt. In the course both of
the first trial and the revision by the
military judge the witnesses started out
with the fixed idea that, being a Jew,
Dreyfus necessarily was a traitor.
The witnesses did not hesitate to sup
press evidence in his favor and even
committed forgeries in order to estab
lish his guilt. Si. Monard, however, said
he relied upon the present judges to act
without bias and quash the verdict with
out a retrial.
HAD A LUCKY ESCAPE.
Passengers oa a Wrecked Trail Tarawa Into
a Panic
Cleveland, O., (Special). Spreading
rails wrecked train No. 21, a fast mail;
on the Lake Shore Railroad, near the
Glenville Station, at 7 o'clock A. M.,
while it was speeding 60 miles an hour.
James Sullivan, 25 years old, who was
stealing a ride, was fatally hurt. The en
gine left the track fir.st. The coupling of
the coaches and the baggage car parted,
the engine drawing the baggage car bump
ed along the ties for a quarter of a mile.
It struck a frog and was diverted to
another track, where it stopped. En
gineer "Cooney" Myers and Fireman
Springer remained at their posts.
Al! of the coaches, including two mail
and five passengers cars, left the tracks,
but none was overturned. The passen
gers were, however, tossed and thrown
about. Many of them were in a panic.
They threw their baggage through win
dows, and as soon as the cars came to
a stop they followed.
Officials on the scene shortly after the
accident could not explain the spreading
of the rails. There were no switches
where the train left the track.
INSURED POR $190,000 ENDS HIS LIFE.
Had Lost Both Limbs and Had Business
Liabilities ol $100,000.
Chicago, III., (Special). Frank D.
Callati, a prominent real estate man, shot
himself through the heart in his resi
dence at 1395 Sheridan road, dying im
mediately. At first it -was said that de
spondency over the loss, by accidents,
of both his lower limbs and threatened
blood poisoning instigated his action, but
later it developed that not only had he
liabilities of over $too.cxx, which he was
unable to meet, but that he was threat
ened with the penitentiary on charges
of embezzlement and swindling.
The decedent had life insurance to the
amount of $ijo.xjo. Attorney S. J. Kerr,
Callan's counsel, declared that Mrs. Cal
kin has deposited life insurance policies
to the amount of $iex),ooo with him in
an endeavor to hold off the creditors.
Callnn was heard to declare recently that
his dead partner, J. N. Varty. was re
sponsible for the financial trouble which
overtook him. Varty, he declared, died
leaving the firm $oo,cxo in debt.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
of suicide while temporarily insane.
Filly Hurt By HsIL
Valencia, Spain (By Cable.) A hail
storm killed one child and injured 50
persons. Hailstones as big as oranges
smashed the roofs of houses, causing
the inhabitants to take refuge in the
cellar-). The crops in many districts were
destroyed, and great distress prevails.
Relief is urgently requested.
Old Odd Fellow Killed.
Fnnchtown, X. J., ( Special). Wil
liam T. Shrope, a past patriarch of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the
State of New Jersey, was killed by a
Pennsylvania passenger train here. He
was 75 years old, and had b.-en promi
nent in secret society circles for many
years. He ws seen about the station
before t lie train arrived, and it is said
by some tiial he stepped deliberately in
front of the locomotive.
Ironworkers laslda Falllof Slack.
Cincinnati, O, (Special). Joseph Av
ers and Oscar Underwood, .sheetiron-
workers, fell too feet with a great iron
smokestack at the Front Street Pumping
Station and were probably fatally in
jured. The men were on the inside of
the stack when the big tulie, fenir feet
in diameter, toppled over. When the
stack struck the ground the impact was
so great that the men bounded high in
the air as though ihey had been shot
out of a cannon. Their skulls were
fractured and heith were killed.
BALLOONIST RESCUED AT SEA.
James K. Alices Saved Br Flsblnf
Schooaer.
Boston, (Special). A flcr one of the
most remarkable experiences in the hts
tery of aerial navigation, James K. Allen,
the aeronaut, who made ft balloon ascen
sion at Providence, on the Fourth of
July, was brought to this spot Friday
night on the fishing schooner Francis
V. Svlvia. Alien was picked up at sea
12 miles off Chatham at 7.1 o'clock,
iP'A hours after his departure from Prov
idence. Allen had a narrow escape from death
by drowning, the wind that prevailed
Wednesday having blown his balloon a
long distance from shore. Until news of
bis arrival here became known it bad
been thought that he had met his death,
as it was known tint at the last time
he was sighted on Wednesday evening
he was traveling out to sea.
That Allen is alive is due wholly to
a fortunate shift of the wind. When
he made his ascension at Providence 011
Wednesday, the wind was blowing a
brisk breeze from the southwest. The
aeronaut was carried in his balloon in
a northeasterly direction and passed over
the town of Attleboro. lie bad his
balloon under perfect control at that
time, and while in the vicinity of At
tleboro he descended twice.
From Attleboro the airship traveled
in the direction of Brockton, and the
last seen of the aeronaut by observers
on shore was that he passed over Scitu
ate early in the evening.
At that time the balloon was headed
straight out to sea. When Thursday
dawned without any news being received
from Allen, and it became known that
the last time he was seen w is when he
was on the ocean shore, headed out to
sea, it was then believed that he would
never return.
After Allen passed over Massachusetts
Bav his plight was more perilous.
Here he lost his bearings and could
not realize where he was until he passed
over Prnvinrctown and out to sea. This
was at night. He let out 500 feet of
rope, with a drag anchor, which held
him about too feet above water. Twice
the balloon came down to the surface
of the sea. but Allen climbed into the
network of ropes each time.
At dawn he saw a steamer nearby and
shouted, but she kept on her course. A
little later a tug and barges passed and
the tug answered his hail, but was
unable to keep up with the balloon. At
7.30 in the morning be saw the Sylvia
with two dories out. Men in one of the
dories caught his drag rone and the
other came to her help. The balloon
dragged both along at a lively clip for
a while, but was finally held and Allan
slid down the rope into the boat.
The balloon was recovered undamaged.
During his flight Allen covered a total
distance of about 200 miles, nearly half
of which was over water. The point
where he was picked up is about 77
miles from Providence in a direct line.
LIYeIusIhNGTON AFFAIRS
Secretary Bonaparte has turned over
to the Revenue Cutter Service the gun
boat Bancroft and the Oriole, formerly
the Dale, for the training school at Arun
del Cove.
The State Department was advised by
American Minister Merry that he was
endeavoring to make arrangements for
an agreement between Guatemala and
Salvador.
The government wishes to model the
proposed for at the mouth of the Chesa
peake Bay after the defenses at Tokio
and mount 14-inch guns.
George V. Winter, a military uniform
expert, of England, says the American
soldier is the best in the world.
Judge Richard K. Campbell, of Vir
ginia, has been selected as head of the
new Burean-of Naturalization.
The armored cruiser Maryland will be
added to the large fleet of American war
ships in Asiatic waters.
Presielent Roosevelt will not preside
at the reception the Commercial' Travel
ers' Anti-Trust League is to tender
William J. Bryan at Madison Square
Garden.
Attorney General L. Wiefley, of the
Philippine government, was appointed
judge of the extra-territorial judicial
district.
The Secretary of the Navy formally
accepted the resignation of Capt. R. F.
Wynne, United States Marine Corps.
More American worships have been
ordered to Dominican waters.
Many bids have !een received for the
Panama Canal bonds.
The President made a recess appoint
ment of the Isthmian Canal Commission,
Chief Engineer Stevens taking the place
of Gen. Oswald II. Ernst.
Secretary Wilson, by direction of the
President, issued an official statement
declaring that the inspecting of beef
products will be thorough.
Secretary Shaw issued a circular in
viting popular bids to the $.10,000,000
Panama Canal loan bewds, which will
be issued at 2 per cent.
Stock gambling and races caused the
downfall of Charles W. McWhorter, as
sistant cashier of the Washington Post
office. The Baltimore and Ohio has planned
to land passengers in the fine Union Sta
tion about the middle of August.
Huntington Wilson took the oath of
office and assumed his duties as third
assistant secretary of state.
The Republic of Colombia has, named
Enrique Cortez as minister to the United
States.
financial" affairs.
Jones, the expert, says the Winter
wheat crop will be 420,000,000 bushels.
Philadelphia's new loan will be at 31i
per cent. New York's last loan was put
out at 4 per cent.
Keystone Telephone has about 21,000
instruments In use and it sets aside 4
a year against each 'phone as a reserve.
United Copper Company directors de
clared the regular quarterly dividend of
per cent, and 'i of I per cent, extra.
In accordance with the amende'd New
York State law, the tax on sales of
stocks in New York is now 3 cents on
each share irrespective of the par value.
A number of New York bankers have
recently sent out word to the effect that
pools in the railroad equipment stocks
should liquidate a good deal of their
holdings. It is said the banks are not
willing to accommodate these pools with
all the money they need on these various
specialties.
American Car 4 Foundry for the year
ending April 30, iio6, earned $5,648,553,
a gain of $1,804,279 over the previous
year. Net surplus after paying the pre
ferred dividend and other fixed charges
was $i,357.66o or about 4'4 per cept. on
the $10000.000 of common stock.
THE MASSACRE HAD
BEEN ' ARRANGED
Report t'pjn.ths Horrible Outrage at
Bialystok.
TROOPS AND THE BLACK HUNDRED.
The Parliamentary Commission Dcclarea That
Ibere t No Religious Hatred al tbe
Jews Among Iba Pescelul Russian Papala
lion, bat Thai the Allalr Waa Provoked
by the Police.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). A point
strongly brought out in the parliamen
tary report on the massacre of Jews at
Bialystok is that there was no religious
hatred of the Jews among the peaceful
Russian population. The fighting was
confined to the police, troops and Black
Hundreds on one sielc and the Jews and
revolutionists on the other. The par
liamentary commission found overwhelm
ing evidence that the outbreak was de
liberately pre; red. After the assassi
nation of Chief of Police Derkachoff
proclamations were scattered broadcast
by the police among the soldiers and
Black Hundreds charging the Jews with
being enemies of the Russian state and
responsible for the revolution and styling
the lewer house the "Jewish Douma."
The commission cites proof on every
band that after rioting had started it
was directed by the police and supported
by troops who lireel only at Jews and
Jewish houses.
The report does not specially place the
blame for the throwing ed the original
bomb into the procession, although it
siys that several revolver sluts were
fired and that a bomb was thrown later
among the Bhu-k Hundreds accompany
ing the procession.
Shernmetiefl", the police officer who
fled from Bialystok to Vilva after the
rioting, has been summoned to St. Pe
tersburg by Interior Minister Stolypin.
The Official Messenger prints the of
ficial account of the massacre, when
seven Christians and 75 J'"w'- according
to official figures, were killed and l-S
Christians and 60 Jews were wounded.
One hundred and sixty-nine Jewish
houses were destroyed. Bialystok is de
scribed as the chief center of the revo
lutionary movement in the western prov
inces. The abolition of martial law
March I was followed by 40 terrorist
crimes against officials, which caused
disorganization of the police, the best
members of the force being renelcred
unfit for service and untrained men be
ing appointed in their places. During
a procession on June 14 explosives were
thrown into it at two or three places.
This audacious outrage led to an out
burst of indignation on the part of the
whole Christian population. Simultan
eously an attack upon the Jews was be
gun, due t6 a small section of the rural
and urban population. The government
repudiates indignantly the report that the
attack upon the Jews was supported by
the local authorities or the troops.
ROJESTVENSKY COURTS DEATH.
Vice Admiral Ollera Himself Aa a Sacrifice
Plea of Oullly.
Cronstadt (By Cable). In a manly
effort to save the surviving members of
his staff and the other officers who, he
believed, surrendered the gunboat Rcdo
vi on account of their affection for their
wounded commander and their desire
to save his life, Admriral Rojestvensky
pleaded guilty before a court-martial.
In a short speech to the court the Ad
miral declared that he took all he blame
on his own shoulders, and asked that
he alone be punished to the fullest ex
tent of the law, virtually an appeal for
condemnation and denth, which is the
penalty for hauling down the St. An
drew's cross to a hostile vessel.
All the other defendents, including
Captain dc Colongue, chief or Admir
al Rojestvcnsky's staff, and Captain
Baranoff, commandant of the Bedovi,
pleaded not guilty.
The little court room in the marine
headquarters at Cronstadt afforded place
for a small audience, most of whom arc
connected with the navy. Among the
spectators in the first row was the wid
ow of Vice Admiral Makaroff, who lost
his life on board his flagship at Port
Arthur in April, 1903, when the vessel
was sunk by a Japanese mine. All of
the accused officers except Admiral Ro
jestvensky were in uniform. The Ad
miral, who was placed on the retired
list at his own -request, was dressed
as a civilian. The admiral appeared to
have quite recovered from the wounds
he received in the battle of the Sea of
Japan.
After he had entered his plea the
taking of testimony began. Members
of the crew of the Bedovi will be ex
amined to determine who ordered the
surrender, the condition of the vessel
and the incidents of the capture. The
taking of testimony will occupy several
days.
Aa M. P.'S Stranee Letter.
London (By Cable). James Kcir
Hardic, the socialist and independent
labor leader and member of Parliament,
has addressed what is considered to
be a most extraordinary letter to a Zulu
subject in Edinburgh, in which he says
the wholesale massacre of natives now
going on in South Africa under the
pretense of suppressing a rebellion which
does not exist fills one with shame and
horror. "I hope," Mr. Hardier wrote,
"the dav will come speedily when your
race will be able to defend itself against
the barbarities now perpetrated against
it."
Vellaw Fever la Cuba.
New Orleans, La., (Special). Reports
that yellow fever has appeared in Cuba
were made public here by the State
Board of Health. The reports come
from Louisiana health inspectors resi
dent in Cuba, who say that cases of
yellow fever were reported June 17, fo,
26 and 27. On June 30 the inspector
at Havana had a report of a yellow fe
ver outbreak at Nipe on the northeastern
coast of Cuba, where several deaths
were reported. This report, however,
was not confirmed and an inspector
has been sent to investigate.
Fatal Mine Eiploslea.
Blucficlds, W. Va. (Special). Ar a
result of a gas explosion which occur
red at 11 o'clock A. M., in ihe Key
stone Coal and Coke Company's Mine,
at Keystone,' Mine Boss Bud Meadows
and two negro miners (John Jackson
and William Green) were killed out
right, their bodies being torn into frag
ments, and Hilary Hall, a white miner,
sustained a fractured skull and will not
recover. Meadows, with Jackson and
Green, went into an unused entry of the
mine with an exposed lamp lighted, when
the gas explot'ed with terrific ferce.
THE GROWTH IN APPROPRIATIONS.'
Is Oar Government Economic or
Expensive. .
Washington, D. C. (Special). Repre
sentative Tawncy, chairman of the House
Committee on Appropriations, has pre
pared a detailed statement concerning
the appropriations for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, tejoo, made by Con
gress during the session just closed, in
which he claims that the per capita cost
of government in the United States, in
cluding federal and state, is less than
hat in any European country.
Mr. Tawncy enters upon an analysis
to show the various channels into which
the total appropriation of $080,183,301
will be diverted. He begins by deduct
'"K $130,456,415 provided for the sinking
fund, the Panama Canal, etc., showing
that the real appropriation for the con
duct of the government for the fiscal ycat
is $740,7.26,886. To meet this demand
he estimates that the total revenue'
(customs, internal and postal) will bf
$781.57.1.364.
Mr. Tawncy comments as follows on
the volume of the appropriations:
"While the expenditures of our gov
ernment are constantly increasing, and
w. ile the appropriation., made thercfot
by Congress ate in be aggregate very
large jet when we take into considera
tion the marvelous growth of the coun
try, the extent to which the people de
mand that the federal government shall
perforin services that should be paid b
the states, none but the unthinking ot
misguided, who do not stop to considet
the care with which the estimates for
appropriations for the public service arc
scrutinized by the several committees
having jurisdiction of appropriation
bills, ran find any reason 10 criticise
appropriatiems made during this session
of Congress."
In a statement made for the Demo
cratic minority Representative Livingston
makes a comparison of the expenditures
provided for by this Congress $880. 1 83.
301 with the expenditures of l8j8, the
first year of President McKinley's ad
ministration, when the figures were $528,
735.079 a difference of $351,4.18,222.
Commenting on this showing, he says:
"This gro'vth in appropriations sus
tains the conlentiiin that the Republican
party stands for extravagance in public
expenditures in order to use that ex
travagance as a cloak for their more ob
jectionable purpose of maintain a high
protective tariff to favor the trust com
bination of manufacturers of the coun
try. "Much of this ettravagance grows out
of the practice prevailing with the pres
ent administration of appointing commis-
sons to do what Congress ought to do
and what congressmen are elected for
and paid for, thus delegating the powers
constitutionally belonging to Congress to
others, who have no particular relations
with or responsibilities to the public and
dj not render an accounting to the tax
payers of this country."
To afford an idea' of the magnitude of
this year's appropriations, Mr. Livingston
says :
"Our corn crop of i8x, valued at
$828,102,388, could have been paid for
with the total appropriatiems made at
this session and a few millions to spare."
THE NEW STAR IN THE FtAO.
Oklahoma Will Not Be Represented Until a
Year Hence.
Washington (Special). After consul
tation between Quartermaster General
Humphreys and Admiral Cowlcs, chief
of the Equipment Bureau of the Navy !
Department, the two officers who are
charged with the making and issuing
of the national flags to tl Army and
Navy, respectively, it has :cn decided
that the admission into the Union of
States of Oklahoma shall be recorded by
the addition of a star in the blue field
of the flag placed at the lower right-hand
corner. But as several things remain to
be eleine before the new state is actually
admitted, and as the law provides that
the additional star shall only be set in
the field at Ihe beginning of the if"xt
fiscal year after the. state is one in
fact, the Oklahenna star will not be seen
on the national ensign until July i,'ioo7,
and, therefore, the salutes which have
been given arc premature.
DEATH WON THE RACE.
Austrian, la Anxiety lo Retujn lo His Family,
Dropa Dead.
New York (Special). Antonio Yo
vitch arrived here two davs aco from
Los Angeles 011 his way to Austria to
see his wife and children. ' He was
to sail on the French steamer La Lor
raine. When he appeared at the steam
er's gangplank the ship's surgeon, look
ing at the man's cmanciatcd form, shook
his head and remarked :
"You are too sick to sail, my man." '
"Please let me pass," pleader! Yovitch.
"I have come all the way from Los
Angeles that I might sail to see my
family in Austria."
But tile surgeon was obdurate, and
Yovitch, downhearted, turned away. He
walked to a nearby hotel and "seated
himself in the leihby. An hour later Yo- '
vitch fell dead on the floor. A physi
cian said he died of consumption,
Toolbacbe Led lo Death.
Millville, N. J. (Special). Annie
Hess, the four-year-old daughter , of
Thomas Hess, died from blood-poisoning.
For one week the child had suffer
ed excrutiating agony from an uk-crated
tooth,
Frlsea Fire Losses.
'San Francisco (Special). One hund
red and sixty-six settlements that have
been effected by fire insurance companies
indicate that in the business section of
San Francisco more than $100,000,000
will be paid in coin to fire losers on the
face of the adjustments made on losses
that have already come before com
mittees. The average adjusted loss in
the 106 instances mentioned -is $8t,3J5,
the total payments being $14,000,000.
1
Settlea For Rloilag.
Peking (By Cable). Mr. Carnegie,
the. British Charge d'Affaires hire, hat
finally settled the British claims grow
ing out of the anti-forcigu riot at Nan
chang, province of Kiangsi, in Febru
ary of this year. China pays $20,000 in
demnity for the killing of lic child ol
H. C. Kingham, a British missionary,
and $3,500 for the British mission pro
perty destroyed, and agrees to punish
the guilty persons, who arc to be desig
nated by the British Legation, and tc
reward those who protected the missionaries.
TBE KEYSTONE STATE
Tbe Latest Peontjrlraala Ntwa Told la Short
Order.
i .
The State Game Commission held itr
semi-annual meeting for the purpose ol
hearing the report of Secretary Kalhfui
and the transaction of routine business.
There were present President James R
Wordcn, HarrLsburg, and the enfire
commission. A meist encouraging con
dition of affairs regarding the incrcasf
of game in the Slate was presented by
Secretary Kalbfus. He strongly recom
mended that a law be passed making
it a penal soffchse for any unnaturalized
foreign-born resident to own n gun ot
any other kind of firearms. In the
last six months five officers of" the
game commission, in hunting down of
fenders against the game laws, have
been shot at and wounded by foreigners,
and one man was brutally murdered by
Italians in the western part of the State
and his boely thrown into the river,
simply because he prosecuted foreign
violators of the game laws. The de
partment brought from Alabama for
propagating purposes 3347 quail, and
they are all said to be doing finely
Three sites for game preserves have
been selected, one in Clinton County,
a second in Clearfield, and a third in
Franklin, all on forestry laud owned
by the State. It is impossible to get
deer or wild turkeys for propagating
purposes, hut the commission is on the
watch and ready to purchase when op
portunity offers. Dr Kalbfus receim
mends that a law be passed requiring
all resident hunters to take out a li
e'ense. At present only unnaturalized
foreigners arc required to take out a
hunting license. During the half year
there were collected about $1800 in fines,
of which $600 went 10 informers.
Automobilisls and horsemen are man
ifesting considerable interest in the lay
ing of a mile of dttstlcss and water
proof roadw ay on the Darby & Chester
Turnpike, which is being put down by
the trunpikc company as an experiment.
This is the first practical test with the
new dustless roadway in this section
of the country, and its results will be
closely watched. The contractors ara
to lay a mile of the dustless road at
Ridley Park at a cost of $1200, which
is considerably above the price of ma
cadam rock, which is being laid from
Chester to Darby. 1
Notwithstanding that he was warned
to keep away from his wife and family,
from whom he was separated, D. Ejnory
Erb tried to enter their home at Read
ing. He was denied admittance. Erb
then stepped from the porch at the kitch
en door, in the yard, drew a revolver
from his pocket and killed himself. He
was 44 wars old. The family formerly
lived at Harrisburg.
A temporary trestle erected over
deep ravine at Shire Oaks, collapsed,
carrying six men and a carload of dirt
to tbe ground, a distance of forty-five
feet. One man was killed outright and
the others were all dangerously inittrcd.
The men were foreign laborers.
Robert Darrah. of Nescopeck, went
to sleep alongside' the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks at that place and was
struck by a passenger train leising his
right foot and being otherwise severely
injured. His condition is serious.
There was not much celebration of
the glorious Fourth at the home of
Hiram E. Hortiug, near Oxford. Seven
persons members of the family and farm
hands, arc lying at the point of death,
being poisoned, it is believed, by tainted
water. Mr. Honing, with his farm
hands, Ixtwis Humphrey, Spencer Glass,
Claire Achcson and Benjamin Herr,
were in the wheat field, harvesting, when
his young daughter, Maud, brought a
jug of water out for the thirsty men.
Every one of them, including the young
girl drank of it and were taken violently
ill within a short time. Claire Achcson
was much worse than any of the others
and in an effort to reach the house be
came unenscious, falling in the field. The
other men were unable to render him
assistance, and until the attention of
neighbors was attraclcd they remained
lying in the wheat field, becoming worse
every moment. As soon as possible
several physicinnfwere on the scene and
worked desperately for many hours be
fore the unfortunate people were out
of danger. It is supposed that the jug
was responsible for the poisoning. For
many years is was the family vinegar jug
and it is the genefal belief that the in
terior lining was acted on by the acid
and that the water was made poisonous
thereby. While the physicians were
working over the unconscious forms of
the farm bauds Fred Humphry, who
makes his home with the Hortiug fam
ily, who brought in in a very critical
condition with severe cramps caused by
drinking too much ice water. He was
working in tile hot sun, had indulged
very freely in the ice water and was in
great agony until some "relief was afford
ed by the physicians. 'While all seven
are out of danger, they arc very ill and
the neighbors are in possession of the
home attending to their needs.
A fight between Italian laborers em
t.loycd at the Grubb Ore Mines, near
Ironville, resulted in a murder and the
authorities are seaching all over the
county for the assassin, who escaped.
The murderer is Donato Dinlicto and
his victim was Anton Traton. The tw:
men had been quarreling for a week
past and their trouble culminated Wed
nesday. In the fight Dinlicto had his
lower lip bitten off. Wild with rage, he
drew a slillctto and plunged it into
Traton's abdomen. The man was com
pletely disemboweled by the savage
thrust and he died in a few minutes.
Edward Snyder, 83 years old, was
drowned in Black Rock Dam while in
swimming. His death wjis due to a
weak heart. Young Snyder was gradu
ated with higlt honors from the Electrical
Engineering Department of Drexcl In
stitute last month.
Frank Wesley, a well-known younp
man of Reading, was drowned while ci
nociug at Riverside. He was attending
an outing of the Clef Club, a prominent
musical organization. His canoe over
turned and Ihe body was not recovered
until several hours after the accident.
Fifty years ago James Scarlett, ol
District Township, and Sarah D. Tawkes,
now of jjt North Seventh Street, Phila
delphia, were playmates in Robeson
Township, Berks County. Then they
quarreled and Miss Tawkes removed
with her family to Philadelphia. Scarlett
remained near his boyhood home and in
the course "of events was twice married,
both of his wives dying shortly afier
their marriage. Wednesday Scarlett took
out license to marry Mia Tawkes.
The marriage will take place this week.