LATEST NEWS ! BY TELEGRAPH An attractive young woman whe ays she Is a graduate of u Southern Vniverslty was arrested In Chicago, charged with the larceny of jewc-ls from a Philadelphia family who em ployed her as a governess. L. P. Farmer, chairman of the Trunk Line Association, and a promi nent railroad man. died suddenly In New York. His death Is believed to have resulted from apoplexy. .ludge Henry Stnckhrldge, of Bal timore, Md., was elected president general of the Sons of the American Revolution, to succeed Nation A. Mc t'ltary, of Chicago. .fames Bailey, a manufacturer, of Camden, N. J., was killed tu a col lision between an automobile and an electric train at Mays Landing, near Atlantic City. Financial circles of New York hear that Orover Cleveland is seriously 111 with cancer of the Btomach. The casualties In officers and men due to the explosion of the Japanese cruiser are now given as 207. The Pennsvlvanla Railroad Ims re duced Its semiannual dividend from 3 li to 3 per cent. Secretary of War William H. Taft ailed from Charleston. 8. C, for Panama. Anton Bavaria was found guilty of a quadruple murder at Canyon City, Col. Alexandria Shlck. aged It years, of Chicago, traveled 6,000 mlUs on $6. Ray Lamphere. arrested on sus picion of having started the fire which caused the death of Mrs. Delia Gunness and three children and the destructlon of their country home. at Laporte, Ind., was held on a charge of murder in the first degree, j John Budtka, residing near North Judson. Ind., shot and killed him self after recurring letters threaten ing him with various kinds of pun ishment, it being Intimated by neigh bors that he was responsible for the suicide of his wife. Howard Ogilvie, formerly a stu dent at the 1'niversity of Wisconsin, and whose employment and subse quent 'fake" suicide gained him con siderable notoriety, was sentenced to a year in the Chicago House of Cor rection. L. H. Bickford, associate editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean and former ly managing editor of the Denver Times, died at the Presbyterian Hos pital. Chicago, following an opera tion for appendicitis. George C. Hltt was appointed re ceiver for the Indlanpolls Star, Muu cie Star and the Terre Haute Star, known as the Star League of News papers. Fire practically destroyed the plant of the John A. Bunn Chair Company, at St. Anthony Park, a suburb of St. Paul, Minn. The loss Is about $50, 000. Douglass Grant a well-known resl den of Mount Holly. N. Y., was burn ed to death in a fire which destroyed bis residence. David Orr, who helped John Er icsson to build the Monitor, commit ted suicide in New York. The charge that District Attorney Jerome was derelict in prosecuting officials of the life insurance com panies who made campaign contribu tions from the fund of the com panies was taken up In the hearing before Commissioner Hand on charges made against Mr. Jerome to Governor Hughes. Detectives boarded the steamer Campania In New York harbor to question Mrs. Margaret Clary about the sudden death of her husband in Ireland. A coroner's jury rendered a ver dict charging Robert Bnchmau. the religious fanatic, who killed a child at Easton, Pa., with murder. The referee favors the annulment of the marriage between Helen Ma loney and Arthur H. Osborne. Foreign Guatemalan officers are reportPQ to have seized the Honduras consul general, who ia accused of plotting against the government Sir Robert Hart, chief of the Mari time Customs Service of China, left Shanghai for Europe on a year's leave of absence. The Norwegian Cabinet accepted the resignation of Frldtjof Nansen, the Norwegian minister to Great Britain. The Chilian government announc ed a reduction in the budget for the next fiscal year of 22,000,000 peBos. Two men were arreBted in Lisbon on the charge of being involved in the assassination of King Carlos. May Day passed off generally In all the European capitals without serious results. Julian Bakk, millionaire publisher of the Rech. of St. Petersburg, com mitted suicide. King Gustav of Sweden arrived at Tsarkoe Selo and was received by the Czar. King Gustav, of Sweden, arrived it Reveal, Russia, and proceeded to Tsarkoe-Selo to attend the wedding of his son to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. The announcement was made in the German Reichstag that the gov ernment must borrow $250,000,000 during the next four years. Governor Poet, of Porto Rico, tailed on the Philadelphia from San Juan for New York on two months' leave of absence. Capt. Roald Amundsen, the dis coverer of the Northwest Passage, . returned to Christluna from New York. Plague conditions are reported to I be alarming in Venezuela. Plans have been completed for the t tnarrlage ceremony of Prince Wil- helm of Sweden and Grand Duchess .Marie Pavlovna, daughter of Grand , Duke Paul of Russia. President Fallleres visited the , 'spring aalon of the Boclete dea Ar tists Francali, where he privately In spected the pictures. Consul General Kato, the Japunese representative at Mul.den. lias been rebuked by his home government for his controversy with American Con sul General Straight. The engagement was announced in London of Ambussador Keid's daugh ter. Miss Jean Held, to Hon. John Hubert Ward, brother of the Earl of Dudley. Mulai Hafld, the Moroccan pre tender, Is reported to have fled to Tadla, after having been defeated. King Manuel of Portugal attended I (he session of the Cortea and read hla addreaa from the tribune. MANY PEOPLE PERISH IN I HOTEL FIRE Ten Known to Have Lost Their Lives. BODIES BURIED IN THE RUINS. The New Aveline. of Fort Wayne, Is a Mess of Flames Within a Quarter of a Hour After the Fire Was DIs covered -Guests, Caught Unawares, Take Desperate Chances. Fort Wayne, Ind. (Special). Ten known dead, several missing and 13 eriouuly Injured arc the result of a fire that destroyed the New Ave Une, Fort Waynes's principal hotel. Chief of Police Anckenbruck snys he believes that 20 bodies are still In the rulna. The debris cannot bn searched carefully. The hotel register was consumed by the fire and there is no means of determining who Ib missing. The complete destruction of the in terior of the hotel makes tl.e work of recovering bodies a difficult task. A confused heap of charred wood, bricks and twisted girders is piled up between the walls to the second story. Piece by piece this must be removed before the roll of the dead can be completed. Some of the bodies tak en out are mangled and charred be yond recognition. Infantry Company D and Battery B, of the National Guard, are on duty and aiding the tire and police forces to clear away the debris. The fire was discovered at 3.30 o'clock A. M.. In the elevator shaft by Night Clerk Ralph HlpklnB. He rushed to the upper Moors alarming the guests until the flames, which had spread with great rapidity, drove him back. His efforts, however, sav ed many lives. The hotel was erect ed half a century ago and the wood work was dry as tinder. It burned like matchwood and within a few minutes from the time the fire was discovered the whole Interior of the hotel was a mass of flames and the only means of escape left was by the windows. The fire department rescued ninny by means of ladders, but some fren zied by the rush of the flames, leap ed from windows to the street. H. S. Johnson, of Pana, 111., jump ed from the fifth story. His body struck a balcony and bounded far into the street. He was badly crush ed and died a short time later In St. Joseph's Hospital. As the flames increased men and women were seen in the windows of their rooms imploring for help. Some did not wait for the assistance of the firemen and jumped to the street. Those who left their rooms before the flames cut off their retreat were able to make their way to the fire escapes and were saved with com parative ease. Saved Wife Anil Child. There were many thrilling escapes. Claude H. Yarnell, of the Fort Wayne baseball team; his sister, Mrs. John Hendricks, and John Hendricks, of Chicago, manager of the Fort Wayne team, barely escaped with their lives. Varnell lost all his personal belong ings, valued at several thousand dol lars. Hendricks, with his wife ahead of him and his son in his arms, start ed down the fire escape from the fifth floor. At the third floor the fire broke out below them at the turn in the iron stairB. He swung Mrs. Hen dricks over the railing of the third floor platform and she dropped to the platform of the story below, thus avoiding the blaze-swept portion of the fire escape. Then he dropped his son into the arms of his wife, and he followed them in this way to the ground In safety. Other similar ly narrow escapes were numerous. When the fire was at Its height E. M. Matthews, of Columbus, O.. was seen wildly waving his arms at a third-story window. He shrieked for help in vain, and then leaped from the window and went swirling to the pavement below. He was des perately hurt. Many Thrilling Escapes. John P. Strohecher, of New York, after a thrilling escape from death In the flames, reached the ground al most naked. He had no time to gather his apparel, the flames having burst into his room before he was awakened. Scores of men and women reached the ground with nothing on but night clothes. None of the guests had time to save their effects. Dry goods and clothing stores were thrown open to all who needed apparel, and they were supplied without question. A. R. Sallot. of New York, had a singular experience. The flames were in his room when he awoke. He groped his way through the smoke to a window and crawled out on the ledge and hung there precautlously, edging away an inch at a time as the flames curled angrily from the window. He was lust about to take chances in a leap of four stories to the asphalt pavement beneath when a hand was thrust down to him from the room of an adjoining building and he was pulled to safety. A Total Wreck. The New Aveline Hotel was a six story building of brick. It atood In the business center of the city. Its erection was begun in 1852. but 1; was not completed aa a four-story building until several years later. In 1895 the building was extensively remodeled and the two top stories were added. The hotel and Its fur nishings were valued at $80,000, June . Ilurr Killed In Georgia. Atlanta, Ga. (Special). Junes Huff, of Porterdale, Ga., was shot and Instantly killed by Jack Pierce, a cotton-will operative, of thiB city, near tne corner of Decatur and North Boulevard. Pierce made his escape. The cause of the shooting la not known, but persons in the vicini ty heard Pierce say to Huff: "Jack don't come any further or I'll kill you." A moment later a shot was beard, and Huff fell. Huff was a painter. Jumped From Auto, May Die. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special).- Mian Gonevieve Eulon, a promiiieni society young woman, was probably fatally Injured while automobtling with Urban Thompaon. nephew of J. N. Camden, who was using the automobile of I be deceased Senator. They were descending a grade on Ju llunu Street, when young Thompson threw on the brake suddenly. This frightened Mlaa Eaton. She jumped out and struck her head on the pave ment and is supposed to have sus tained a fracture of the skuil. SAILORS SMASH II RESTAURANT Overcharges in Santa Barbara Anger Them. Santa Barbara, Cal. (Special). After a tay of five days In thl port the Atlantic fleet of battleships Ball ed for Monterey, the next scheduled stopping place on the long Itinerary. A dance of the flowers In honor of the officers of the fleet, and In which 40 of the young women of Santa Barbara's social circle took part, was the closing feature of the entertain ment here. The dance was given on the Plazn Del Mar, where a large tent had been erected. The visit to Santa Barbara has been replete with social functions In honor of the officers, and the spec tacular floral parade on Monday last eclipsed anything seen on the entire cruise from Hampton Roads. But the stay or the enlisted men here has not been an entirely happy one. No special entertainment was ar ranged for them, and they were al lowed to go their own ways without official attention of any sort. Some of the residents of Santa Barbara, realizing the unintentional slight of the men In uniform, endeav or, d to arrange a barbecue in their honor, but the effort wns not suc cessful, the time Intervening belnlg too short. Admiral Thomas and members of his staff are working under high pressure aboard the flagship, formu lating the plans for the fleet's en trance Into San Francisco. Si Dollars For A Small Meal, An outbreak occurred In the street at night In which several hundred sailors tiirew stones and clubs and partially wrecked a small restaurant at 121 State Street, owned by John Senlch. It was a culmination of numerous small difficulties which have occured during the week the Seat has been here between Bailors and local tradesmen. The bad feel ing has been due principally to a sys tem of overcharge In payments of meals and other purchases with which the sailors have been con fronted. Senlch attempted to charge two of the men $6 for two small pieces of beeksteak. coffee and five eggs, a price which they deemed exorbitant. They demurred to the payment, but were compelled to make a settlement of the bill because they had not In quired the price before ordering. Later they reported the Incident to shore liberty parties, and finally large crowds congregated in front of the place and commenced to throw stones and other missies. Windows and glass fixtures wore smashed, while the proprietor and employes fled. The shore patrol rushed to the scene and soon dispersed the crowd. The sailors have been dissatisfied with the lack of entertainment here. More than 3,000 of them have come ashore each day, but many, after spending a few hours in the town, have either taken the train to Los Angeles or returned to their ships. Overcharging of vnrious klndB has been general and considerable ill feeling has resulted. The local police said that the sail ors did the right thing, and they wouldn't make any arrests. o SNAKE VENOM FOR THAW. Dr. Maker, At Matteawan, Denies Yarn About I.nn r-ln-ad Treat ment. Matteawan, (Special). It having been reported that Harry K. Thaw was to be treated with venom from the lance-head snake, In the hope of Improving his mental condition, Dr. A. T. Baker, who has charge of the young millionaire at the State Hos pital for the Insane, was asked if there was any truth In the report. He laughed heartily at what he evi dently regarded as a good joke; then he replied: "There ig absolutely no foundation for the story." He added that there had been no pronounced change In the young man's condition recently, despite rumors of violent outbreaks. I DISASTER TO THE JAPANESE NAVY Magazine Explodes and Sunk. Cruiser is OFFICERS AND CADETS ARE LOST. Many of Those Supposed to Have Gone Down With the Ship Bear Names Prominent in Army and Navy Circles Immediately After the Explosion the Cruiser Sunk. RECENT NAVAL ACCIDENTS. American liner St. Paul and British cruiser Gladiator In col lision. April 16, off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. St. Paul badly damaged, and Gladiator practi cally a wreck. Twenty-eight lives lost. British cruiser Attentive and destroyer Gala and Rlbble In col lision off Kentish Knock, in North Sea, duiirig night maneuvers, April 28. Gala cut In two, and Kibble badly damaged. One life lost. Boiler tube exploded, same date, abroad British battleship Britannia during speed trials. Five men Injured. Two seamen from Germnn bat tleship Elsass killed and six in jured by explosion during prac tice with submarine mines at Kiel, April 29. Japanese Ifaral Disasters, Japanese cruiser Matsuslilmn blown up by explosion in maga zine off Pescadores Islands, April 29. Vessel stink and from 125 to 183 lives lost. The most recent disaster In the Japanese Navy was the explo sion of a projectile, September 9, 1907, on the battleship Kashl ma. in which five men were killed. The most serious catastrophe was the burning of the battle ship Misaskn, September 9, 1905, in Sasebo harbor. Five hundred and ninety-nine officers and men were lost, Tokio (By Cable). Admiral Yos hlmatsu, commander of the training squadron, reports an explosion in the stern magazine of the cruiser Mat sushima at 4.08 o'clock A. M., while anchoring at Mnkang, a harbor on the Pescadores Islands. The Mat stishima immediately sank until only the bridge was visible. Efforts at rescue by boats from the cruisers Ha8hodate and the Itsukusihma con tinued until 9 A. M., resulting in the saving of the lives of 141 men, including some officers. The major ity of the officers were not saved and at the time of the Admiral's report the cadets on board numbered 58 out of a total complement of 300. The sons of Baron Chinda, vice min ister of the Foreign Office, and of Prince Oyama, field marshal, are among the cadets who It Is feared are lost, also Captains Name, Yosh moti and Yashlro. The cause of the explosion is unknown. MORE MISHAPS TO ENGLAND'S WARSHIPS Two Accidents to Vessels of British Navy. Harwich, Eng. (By Cable). The British torpedo-boat destroyer Gala was cut In two and sunk off Kentish Knock, In the North Sea, by the scout Attentive. The torpedo-boat destroyer Ribble also was Involved in the collision, and returned to Sheerness with two compartments full of water. The flotilla was en gageu In ntgnt maneuvers when the accident occurred. Engineer Lieu tenant Frank A. Fletcher, of the Gala, who was in his bunk at the point where the destroyer was struck, went down with the vessel. There was no other loss of life. The accident resembles, in many respects, that which was met by the torpedo-boat destroyer Tiger, which collided with and was sunk by the British cruiser Berwick while en gaged in night maneuvers off the Isle of Wight on April 2. The number of lives lost on that occasion, how ever, wns 36. Portsn.outh. According to a wire lesB telegraph report received here, there has been a boiler explosion on the British battleship Britannia, In which four men had been severely and one slightly Injured. The Brit annia Is expected to come Into Ports mouth this evening. AN UNAVOIDABLE OOXliMION, Verdict In The Case Of The St. Paul And Gladiator. Yarmouth, Eng. (By Cable). The coroner's Inquest over the bodies of the four of the 28 men who were drowned as a result of the collision between the liner St. Paul and the British cruiser Gladlutor was held and a verdict was given saying the men came to their deaths accidently and that nobody is criminally Id. un able for the collision. Captain Lumsden, of the Gladia tor, was the first Important witness. He said he was on the bridge of the Gladiator when he saw the St. Paul approaching about half a mile away. The St. Paul swung to port and Cap tain Lumsden starboarded the helm of the Gladiator to pass the liner. , The captain said he did not hear any blast from the siren of the St. Paul, ' but he observed that she was swing ing to port. It was reported to him, j he said, that the liner had given two I blasts, indicating that she wiib put i ting her helm to starboard. Ho or- dered thut the Gladiator's starboard helm be eased, Intending to pass the liner on the starboard side. Continuing, the captlan said the , liner struck the Gladiator Just abaft , of the forward end of the after stoke ! hold. At the time of the Impact he ! ordered his engines to stop and then i go astern. This order was carried out. vvnen across tne at. raui s bows, Captain Lumsden hailed some one on board, saying: "If you will go aBtern and clear me I will go ahead." This the St. Paul did, and the Gladiator was swept rapidly by the wind and the tide to Sconce Point, where she eventually grounded. A DIG LLOYD LINER IN COLLISION The Koln, Baltimore-Bound is Struck Amidships. CHILD DROWNED DURING TRANSFER. During a Fog the Tank Steamer Nicho las II. Ran Into the Knln, Which Carried 800 Second-class and Steer age Passengers Men Fought With Women to Be First. Bremen (By Cable). The North German Lloyd steamer Koln, which left here for Baltimore and Galves ton, was In collision In a thick fos with the Hamburg tank steatnei Emperor Nicholas II. nine miles ofl Norderney. The Emperor Nlcholai If, struck the Koln amidships. The steamer Feldmarschall, 8 flerman East African liner, respond od to signals and took off 802 pas sengers from the Koln. One child was drowned during the transfer. There was a terrible panic on board the Koln when the crash came. Women shrieked In terror and men forgot the weaker sex in desperately striving (o save thelt own lives. In tills confusion many persons were seriously hurt. The officers of the Koln, headed by Captnin Jacobs, stopped the panlt finally by repressive measures, and directed the trnnsfpr to the Feld- ' marschall The Feldmarschall took the Kolt In tow and brought her into Hremer haven, arriving this morning. The Koln carried only second class and steerage passengers. The Emperor Nicholas II. had liei bows stove In and was otherwise seriously damaged. Her hold wnr partly filled with water. Baltimore, Md. A. Schumacher & Co., agents for the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, were ad vised by cable of the collision be tween the Koln and the Emperor Nicholas II. The message to A. Schumacher & Co. made no mention of tfle number of passengers, and It was stated by officials ofjho company that the pas sengers would be transferred to the Frankfurt, which was expected to sail In a few days. The Koln is one of the finest steamers plying to this port. She If a 7,500 ton vessel and carries about 1,800 passengers. She Is 447 feet long and 54 feet bram, with a depth of 42 feet. Her engines are rated 3,200 horsepower and her average apeed ia 13Vfe knots an hour. TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS. KM. 1. 1 li IN Al io CRASH, James Bailey, A .Manufacturer, Of Camden, N. J., Dead. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special). One person was killed and two In jured In a collision between an elec tric train on the Pennsylvania Rail road and an automobile at May's Landing, near here. The dead man Is Joseph Bailey, a well-known man ufacturer, of Camden, N. J. His wife was slightly hurt and the driver of the automobile received Berlous but not fatal injuries. The driver of the automobile was making good time when he came to the railroad crossing at the same in stant that the electric express came along. It Is believed the occupants of the machine did not hear the electric train approaching until too late. FINANCIAL There was a smart rise in both wheat and CoHo. President Thomas Is making an inspection trip over the Lehigh Val ley. American Snuff common Jumped $50 to $200 a share, while the pre ferred rose $7 to $96. One of the largest Philadelphia subscribers for Pennsylvania bonds says that $1,200,000,000 was bid for the $40,000,000, which means the Issue was thirty times oversub scribed. l'nlon Pacific's gross earnings in March fell off $854,786, and the net decreased $205,107. This company's average has exceeded $30,000 for each of the nine months. Steel mills are not expecting large orders at this time from the Penn sylvania notwithstanding Its $40, 000,000 bond sale. A decline of 9 V4 in Westinghouse followed the report that the hank era' reorganization plan had failed. Twenty-five railroads for the third week of April report an average decrease of 18 per cent, in grots arnlngs. The Jump of over four points In Illinois Central shows that It means o keep up with the other Harrlmun inevialties "No merger," says the Bell and Keystone Telephone people apropos if the reports that there would ho consolidation of the two companies. Rock Island's net profits last month decreased $291,290. THE MATS I SH I MA'S RECORD. Admiral Ito's Flagship In Battle Of Yalu River. Washington, D. C. (Special). A dispatch to the naval attache of the Japanese Embassy from Toklo says that those saved Include 3 of ficers, 24 cadets, 7 noncommissioned officers and 141 of the crew. Commander TaniguchI, the naval attache of the Japanese Embassy, said that the regular complement of the lost vessel was 355 men and that on her cruise she had about 50 ca dets aboard, making a total of 415. His cablegram he says Indicates that about 175 were saved, which would make the loss of officers and men about 240. Naval officers, who at once looked up the record of the cruiser, drew the conclusion that her loss was not a heavy one to the Japanese Navy. She was of less than 5,000 tons dis placement, and of a type which has not been followed since her construc tion. The peculiarity of the Mat sushima was her armament, which consisted of one 1 2 V4 -inch gun mounted on her poop deck. In ad dition she carried 12 four-Inch guns and a battery of smaller caliber and four abote-water torpedo tubes. She was designed and constructed at La Seyne, France. Her principal his toric record consists of her part in the war between Japan and China, when Bhe was the flagship of Ad miral Do in the battle of the Yalu River. She also participated in the battle of the Sea of Japan. Two sister ships were built, the ItsukiiB hlma, in 1890, and the Hashimate, In 1891. The cruiser bud no armor. She is classed as a protected cruiser, having a protected deck one and a half inches thick. Her speed was 16.7 knots. It is understood here that ti e cruiser was In use as a school ship. $7:1,000 Package (ione. City of Mexico (Special). Advices from Terreon say that when the northbound passenger train o i the Mexican Railroad reached that place it was found that a Wells-largo ox press package containing $73,000 was missing from the express car. There la no clew to the robbery, and so far as known no arrest has been mado. , Bomb Throw er Is Dead. New York (Special). Sellg SUver steln, the anarchist who attempted to throw a bomb into a group of policemen In Union Square several weeks ago, and was Injured in the premature explosion of the bomb, Ib dead. Silverstein's companion was killed by the bomb. Sllversteln, ac cording to the police, confessed that he manufactured the bomb, and In tended to throw it among the police because u policeman had beaten him several days before. Austria Gets Its Man. Trinidad, Colo. (Special). Steve Toth, said to be an anarchist and suspected of complicity In a plot to assassinate Emperor Francis Joseph, was arrested ut Cokedale and taken to Denver to await extradition papers. He had been followed from Austria by an agent of the Austrian govern ment, who caused his arrest. Toth admitted that he was wanted in Aus tria, but denied that he was ever con cerned In a plot to ausasslnatn the Emperor. WASHINGTON Senator Gore Introduced a resolu tion providing for an Investigation by the Senate Committee on Privi leges and Elections of contributions of corporations to elections. President Roosevelt addressed a club of working women from New England and commended their or ganization. Seuator Lodge will go to Chicago in advance to head off any attempt to stampede the Convention. The House has surrendered to the President and will enact desired leg islation. Secretary of War Taft, left Wash ington on his Panama trip, accom panied by Richard Reed Rodgers, general counsel of the Isthmian Ca nal Commission, and Assistant Pri vate Secretary Michler. Fred B. Whitney, formerly an at torney for the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, confessed that he had written the anonymous letters which have figured in the Lilley submarine boat investigation. General Agnus testified before the House committee investigating the Paper Trust, showing how the price wsb arbitrarily raised on him, and he was not allowed to buy where he pleased. Frederick Brown Whitney, an at torney, admitted being the author of the anonymous letters which figured so prominently in the submarine In vestigation. The House committee decided to report favorably a bill providing for the purchase abroad of American embassy legation and consular build ings. President Roosevelt reappointed Secretary Straus one Of the Ameri can members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The majority of the House Com mittee on Banking and Currency showed no disposition to take up the new Vreeland currency bill. Governor Allen Gard was shot by an unfriendly Dato in the Philip pines. Gard Is a native of Maryland. John Norris, representing Hit American Newspaper Publishers' Aa soclatlon, continued hlB testimony against the Paper Trust before th HouBe committee. Bicycle Policeman Morris clalmei Mrs. Nicholas Longworth drove bei automobile at a rate beyond the speed limit in the Capitol grounds. William R. Wheeler, of California acceptel the post of assistant secre taryship of the Department of Com merce and Labor. President Roosevelt is urging 8 larger appropriation to enforce the publicity clause in the rate law. The House ordered a favorable re port on the bill to reimburse deposi tors of the late Freedman's Saving! und Trust Company. President Roosevelt awarded rail road life-saving medals to Frank Lar son, of Fremont, Neb., and Charier Bennett, of Waukeguu, 111. Thomas McCreary, who nearly lust his life from a pistol-shot, wound uc cldentally inflicted by Congressman Berlin, Is said to have been saved from death by a deadly drug which was given htm by Dr. Wyatt Heflln brother of the congressman. The Senate passed the House reso lutton expressing regret over the de vastation of the South by hurricane, and authorizing the Secretary of Wat to use such means no he has to re lieve the distress (ierman Investigators Will Send Dele gates To Washington. I Berlin (By Cable). Charge d'Af I falres Garrett has transmitted to the ! foreign office the Invitation of the j American government to send dele I gates to the International Tubercu- losis Conference, to be held In Wash ington, September 21 to October 10 Df this year. This invitation is sent I in accordance with a resolution of Congress of March 6. j Anticipating this invitation, the j German investigators already have i formed a committee to attend the i congress, of which Prof. Ernst von Leyden is chairman. The German government and the medical societies of Germany will send a numerous ! representation. Accompanying the Invitation the I State Department sends out certain Information regarding the congress, I nrinted in Snanish flnr-mim Tfronnh md English. SEE DANGER IN VISIT OF AMERICAN FIGHTERS But Half of Battleship Meet To Go To China. Peking (By Cable) .Certain Chi nese officials received information that the American fleet of battle ships will not visit Chl-Fu, rs had been expected here. Eight of the battleships, late In October, will call for 24 hours at Amoy. This vlsll will be mode as the vessels are on the way from Japan to Manila. This news is regarded here ai meaning thai the American govern ment has reconsidered Its acceptance of the Invitation extended by Chine for the fleet to visit a Chines? port; In other words, that the visit hat been virtually abandoned. Thlf rourse Is understood In Peking to be a result of representations made bj American officials In China who fee' that the fleet should not come tc a Chinese port. They baBe their con vlctlon on ihe belief that r.nch a vis it would give China a false Imprea slon ns to the attitude and Intention! of Ihe United Stales regarding Man churia. China had planned an extenslvf program for the American visitors, and waB preparing to give them an unprecedented welcome, This deci sion on the pnrt of the American government, coincident with the ar rival at Taku of a Japanese cruiser squadron and the presence In Peking of a number of officers from these vessels, emphasizes the dangers ol the existing political situation, par ticularly in HantUurla. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Navy Department Is anxious that the battleships of the Atlantic fleet shall gel to work at their fall target practice in the Philippines as soon as possible. This is given ns one of the reasons why only one squadron of eight vessels of the fleet Is to stop at Amoy, China. After n stay there of six days the ships will Join Ihe others at Manila. When the Chinese government invited the American government to have the fleet visit a port, of that country Shanghai was suggested because of the fact thai It Is the location of the Chinese nav al base. The naval officials, however, pre ferred Amoy as a stopping place, nud on Intimation to that effect wns sent to the Chinese government through its minister here. The suggested change met with the prompt approv al of the Peking authorities and an Itinerary contemplating a six-day stop of the second squadron at Amoy was accordingly mnde out. II is Is pointed out at the Nevy Depart ment In thiB connect If n that oniy one stop of the fleet was made In Brazil and only one Is to be made In Japan. After The Bucket Shops. Washington, D. C. (Special). Representative Glllett, of Massa chusetts, Introduced a hill seeking to suppress the operations of "bucket shops" throughout the United StateB by prohibiting the sending of tele phone or telegraph messages by such concerns. The offense Is mnde a mis demeanor, punishable by fine and im prisonment to be imposed both upon the operators of the shop and on the telegraph and telephone compan ies carrying their messages. Burglars Carry Off Safe. Newark, N. J. (Special). Burg lars entered the Union Avenue Hotel in Irvington, carried off a safe weigh ing 700 pounds and said to contain 13,000 worth of jewelry and rare colnB. dragged it across lots a dis tance of 600 feet, blew It open with nitroglycerin nnd escaped with the contents. The burglars entered the hotel through a rear door and got away without being detected by any one In the hotel. Chimney Crushes Children. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). While a party of school children were playing in the yard of a public school, near Spring Street, a tall chimney on an adjoining building, was blown over William Plnzol, aged fourteen, wai caught under tho debris and crushed to death. Hugh Doherty, aged six teen, received a fractured skull, and Leroy Hodges, aged fourteen, is In jured Internally. Several other chil dren received minor bruise and cuts 10 Token Brings $ta,175." London (By Cable). A $10 toker issued by the Cincinnati Mining Com pany in 184 9 was sold at auction at Sotheby's and purchased for Ameri ca for $2,175. There Is only out other similar token extant. KILLS IDS SWEETHEART. Polaadcr Maddened By Rejection CM ills Proposal. New York (Special). Enraged be cause his long journey across the seas had ended In the refusal of hit proposal of marriage William Sea kunsky, a young Pol-.nder, shot and killed Annie Korkonwa, a 20-year-old PoliBh girl, in Ihe hall way of a boarding Iioubj in Williamsburg, and before he wa3 overpowered by the police shot .Michael Kirsaui, whc sought to intercept him in his flight Kirsani died later in a hospital. An angered crowd that gave chast to Seakansky made threats of lynch ing when he wns caught, but the of ficers hurried their man to tho po lice station. Assassinated By A Sheik's Order. Cairo, Egypt (By Cable). A Brit ish subject, Scott Moncrelff, deputy Inspector of the Blue Nile Province, together with a native official, hat been assttBslnntorl at the Instance ol a local sheik, who proclaimed him self prophet at Mesalamelh, about 150 miles from Khartoum. A small punitive force, led by the governor of the province, was attacked by a murderous hand of dervisheB. Dur ing the fighting the governor was wounded und two native officers were killed. Mayor Killed In A Row. Fort de France (By Cable). A Berlous and fatal conflict broke out In thiB city between hostile groups of politicians In connection with the present campaign for municipal elec tions. A band of men ted by M. Labat, the vice mayor of Fort de France, engaged in an armed con flict at the city hall with another band, under the leadership of the mayor, M. Severe. The Mayor wat killed Itl I In li ..I,, in.. - , - ...... . .. p, . .-t(-i in in m i I men also lost l heir lives and a nurn- Der ot persons were wounded. Apology From Japanese. Peking (By Cable). The Mukden incident, arising oue of an ussault committed recently by a Japanese postman and other Japanese upor the native servants of tho American consul general, Wlllard D. Straight, Ib regarded as being satisfactorily closed. M. Kmc,, the Japanese con sul general at Mukden, hse written a letter of apoloay and regret to Mr. Straight. The postman has been sentenced to one month's Imprison ment, and his two accomplicea also huve been punished. Senator Charles T. Caldwell. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special). -Senator Charles T. Caldwell, promi nent politician and one of the most noted criminal lawyers of West Vir ginia, died here. He had the repu tat Ion of being the best political stump speaker in the state. Ho serv ed two terms In the State Senate. He was horn 60 years ago la Meigs County, O. Scared To Death By Fire. Great Barrlngton, Mass. (Special). One person died, throe houses and two bsrnes were destroyed, d,olng $25,000 damage, in a fire here. The fire started In a large barn and houses nearby soon caught. Mrs. Thomas Hennehan, living nearby, died from the shock. Philippine Town Burned. Manila (By Cable) . Antlpolo, In the Province of Moreng, was de stroyed by fire. Four hundred houses were burned and hundreds of people aro homeless. The famous shrine was saved. The fire was caus ed by lightning. Antlpolo has 3,500 inhabitants. Last Heal Daughter De.ul Woodbury, Conn. (Special ) .Miss lthoda Augusta Thompson, the last real Daughter of tho American Revo lution, died at her home here fol lowing a paralytic Bhock. Her father was a drummer boy in the Revolu tionary Army. Miss Thompson was horn at Woodstock, N. Y., June 1, 1821, and was tlus youngest of 17 children. She was a member of Mil llcent Porter Chapter, D. A. R., of Waterbury. Stork Exchange Scat, 1170,000, New York (Special). A seat on tho New York Slock Exchange sold for $70,000. This wob an advance of $5,000 over the last previous sale, which Was mude late in March, and represents a gain of $19,000 since last November, when an exchmg" membership was sold for $51,000. The Population of Washington. Washington, D. C. (Special). Ac cording to the police consul just taken, the population ot Washington Is 539,403, an Increase of 9,812 overl last year. Thore are 5141,920 whitcal and 97,483 negroes.
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