~ CAPTURED BY BANDITS
American Citizen and Stepson
Carried Off by Arabs.
DEMANDS MADE FOR RELEASE.
United States Orders Admiral Chad-
wick to Send Warships to
Scene of Trouble.
A message from Tangier, Morocco,
says: An American citizen named
Perdicaris and his stepson, Cromwell
Varley, a British subject, were carried
off by the bandit Fraissouli and his
followers and will doubtless be held
for a heavy ransom. The captives
were staying at Perdicaris’ summer
when the bandits captured them.
Perdicaris is of Greek origin, but is
a naturalized citizen of the United
States. He is very wealthy and has
lived in Tangier for years. He mar-
ried an English woman, whose son is
his companion in capitivity.
Perdicaris was seated at a table with
his family when the house was sud-
denly surrounded by armed Arabs,
followed by Fraissouli, who gave or-
ders to seize Perdicaris and Varley.
At the same time the leader handed
to a domestic a letter for Mohammed
el Torres, the sultan’s representative at
Tangier, notifying that functionary of |
his terms. It is understood that the
Moroccan authorities will accede to all
the demands of the brigands in order
to secure the release of the prisoners.
Fraissouli requires the removal of
the sultan’s troops from his district,
the removal of the governor of Tan-
imprisoned bandits. When these con-
ditions are complied with .Fraissouli
will notify Mohammed el Torres of the
course he, proposes to pursue with the
captives.
Fraissouli, who is already more than
20 hours march from Tangier with his
| miral Nashiha and Captain Nakao.
| She sank in half an hour.
residence, three miles from Tangier, | dred of her 741 men were saved by
TWO JAPANESE SHIPS
SUNK.
Battleship Hatsuse and the Armored
Cruiser Yoshino Go to Bot-
tom Off Port Arthur.
Japan’s navy has suffered a terrible |
reverse. Admiral Togo has informed |
the government that the great 15,000-
ton battleship Hatsuse and the armor-|
ed cruised Yoshino have been sunk off |
Port Arthur. A total of 711 men were |
lost. |
The accident, according to the ad- |
miral’'s report, occurred on the after-|
noon of May 15. At 14 minutes after |
one in the afternoon, while manuever-
ing off Port Arthur, the cruiser Kasa- |
gi rammed the Yoshino, sinking the]
latter in a few minutes. Ninety of her |
crew of 360 men were saved. |
The same morning the Hatsuse,
while cruising off Port Arthur, cover-
ing the landing of the soldiers, struck
a mine 10 knots southeast of the har-|
bor entrance. She signaled for help!
and instantly struck another mine.
Three hun- |
torpedo boats.
After the Hatsuse had been struck |
by Russian mechanical mines, a Rus-|
sian flotilla of 16 torpedo boats and de-
stroyers appeared, but were repulsed
by the Japaness cruisers, which saved
300 of the Hatsuse’s crew, including |
Admiral] Mashiba and Capt. Nakao.
Advices received at the Japanese Le-
gation in Washington from Tokio, con- |
firming the accounts of the sinking of
the cruiser Yoshino and the battleship
Hatsuse, state that after the Hatsuse
had been struck by Russian mechani- |
cal mines at Port Arthur a Russian
flotilla of 16 torpedo boats and destroy- |
ers appeared, but were repulsed by the
Japanese cruisers, which saved 300
of the Hatsuse's crew, including Ad-
Special dispatches from Shanghai]
to the London morning papers report
] | that the Shikishima was sunk, while
gier and the release of a number of |
| ships.
prisoners, has announced that he will |
impose further conditions for their
release. Perdicarus, who is
old, is im ill health.
70 years |
It is afirmed that the British and |
United States governments have be- |
gun negotiatious with Fraissouli and
that they are asking the French gov-
ernment to act for the protection of |
the prisoner.
pect that France will send warships |
here immediately.
European residents ex- |
Orders were sent from Wedingion|
to Rear Admiral Chadwick which he |
will receive ‘when his command, the
South Atlantic squadron, reaches Ten- |
eriffe, Canary Islands, directing him |
as.soon as he arrives .there to coal |
one of his ships and send it ‘to Tan- |
gier. He has the Brooklyn and At-
lanta and two [Wo ginboals.
THIRTEEN SEAMEN PERISH.
British Coal Steamer Strikes on Rocks |
and Sinks—Only Nine of Crew
Saved.
The British steamer Turret Bay,
laden with coal and bound from Syd-
ney to Montreal, struck on the rocks
the Fuji and the Asama had to be
towed away badly damaged. Presu-|
mably the Russians wrongly identi-
fied the vessels, the Shikishima and
the Hatsuse being practically sister
Vice Admiral Togo has reported as
follows:
“A report from Rear Admiral Dewa
says that the cruisers Kasuga and Yo- |
shino collided during a fog off Port
Arthur May 15. The Yoshino sank;
only $0 of her crew being saved. 1
“On the same day the battleship
| Katsuse struck a Russian mine and
| sank.” |
Giving details of the disaster, Vice |
Admiral Togo says:
“At 14 minutes past 1 in the after-
noon of May 15, in a deep fog of Port |
Arthur, the Kasuga rammed the Yo-
shino, sinking the latter in a few min-|
utes.
“The same morning the Hatsuse,
while cruising off Port Arthur, cover-
| ing the landing of The soldiers, struck
a mine 10 knots southeast of the -har-
bor entrance. She signaled for help
and instantly struck another mine. She
sank in half an hour. Three hundred
of her crew were saved by torpedo
boats.”
According to the reports 651 of the
crews of the two sunken boats were
| lost, 210 on the Yoshino and 441 on
off St. Pauls island and sank. Only |
nine men from a crew of 22
saved. The dead are: J. W. Hayden,
captain; M. A. McCarra, first officer;
G. F. Gray, second officer; W. H. Ad-
ams, chief engineer; H. S. Matthews,
second engineer;
boatswain, together with the steward, |
name unknown, cook, mess room boy,
two firemen, a seaman and a helper.
A dense fog prevailed at the time
and the sea was running mountain
high. The crew attempted to cut the
boats clear, but while thus engaged |
the vessel plunged down, bow first,
carrying every man with her.
teen persons were taken off the wreck-
age by a life saving crew that put out
from the island, but five of them
died before reaching the island.
Big Cattle Ranch.
The purchase of 1,000,000 acres in
Alabama by capitalists of Chicago, to
be used as a cattle ranch, is said to
have been arranged. It is understood
the purchasers are packing house men,
who several months ago made a move
to acquire land. in Baldwin county,
Ala., and in Western Florida.
Japs Greatly Outnumbered.
The reports of the Japanese retreat
to Fengwangcheng are officially con-
firmed.
The Japanese, numbering 20,000
men, came upon 32,000 Russians in a
strong position Monday, 60 miles west
of Fengwangcheng. It being unwise
to risk a battle the Japanese retreated
in good order and with great rapidity.
Other divisions, however, are moving
from the northward, apparently toward
Mukden.
Struck a Gusher.
One of the best oil gushers discov-
southeastern Ohio in many
months was brought in by the ritts-
burg Oil & Gas Company on the
George Wahl farm, three miles north-
west of Woodville, Monroe county. It
began to flow at the rate of 40 barrels
an hour and is expec ted to be a stay-
ing producer of between 400 and 500
barrels a day.
ered in
James Callihan, colored, was con-
victed of murder in the first degree
at Washington, Pa. He was charged
with killing Moss Bay, another color-
ed man, last February. .
THREW HIS MONEY AWAY.
Suicide Made Sure Relatives Would
Get None of His Savings.
Between $3,000 and 4,000
was thrown into the Fox river by
joseph Doehm of Green Bay, Wis,
previous to his suicide by hanging. A |
noie written by Doehm states that he
had determined that his relatives as
well as those of his wife who, he
claimed, were trying to get his money,
in cash |
| stream to overflow
sheuld not succeed in their attempt |
and that he had therefore thrown his
money into the river.
| Rico.
| court,
| session of the Ohio Legislature,
Four- |
were |
the Hatsuse. The Yoshino carried a
crew of 300 and the Hatsuse 741.
FIGHTING IN SANTO DOMINGO.
Government Lost 151 in Two Battles.
Officers Fled After Fight. .
Advices" from San Domingo an-|
| nounce severe fighting at Navareto
| May 14.
George Johnson, |
The government troops were
defeated, losing 54 men killed and 67
wounded. Express trains carrying
the wounded arrived at Puerto Plata |
| and Santiago de Los Cabaleros May
15. A convoy with 20,000 cartridges |
from Puerto Plata to President Mora- |
les’ forces, fell into the hands of the
Dominican insurgents.
Dominican government troops, com- |
manded by General Raoul Cabrera and
Dominican revolutionary troops, led
by General Pelico Lasala, met at
Guyacanes, Santo Domingo, midway
| between Santiago de Los Caballeros
and Monte Cristi. In the fighting
which followed the government force
had 30 men killed or wounded and the
revolutionists lost heavily. Five rev-
olutionary generals, including Es-
paillat, sought refuge in the French
and Venezuelan consulates here, and
later embarked on the French steamer
Olinde Rodriguez, bound for Porto
Brannock Law Constitutional.
The Brannock district local option |
law was declared constitutional by the
four judges of the Common Pleas
at Columbus, sitting jointly.
The law was enacted by the recent
and
has been the subject of much conten-
tion. The law in no way conflicts with
| the Beal local option Jaw and in places
| where one is imperative the other may
| loon’s flouring mill at Salin
be effective.
Flour Mill Safe Robbed.
Safecrackers visited Str y & Fa-
lle, drill-
ed the safe and blew it open with ni-
troglycerin. Some of the tools with
which they operated were secured
from a nearby blacksmith shop. There
was about $400 in cash in the safe and
papers worth $600 to $800. Neighbors
aroused by the explosion saw two men |
fleeing from the mill. |
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
The Etna Furnace of the Republic
Iron and Steel Company at New Cas-
tle, Pa., will be banked for an indefi-
nite period. The shutdown is caused
by the stagnant condition of trade. It
affects nearly 200 men.
Diamonds, emeralds and other jewel-
ry amounting to $18,000 were stolen
{ from the residence of John W. Kiser, |
| 8357 Michigan avenue, Chicago.
| the flood.
Patrick Wilson, a Cleveland
Pittsburg railroad engineer, commit
suicide at Steubenville, O., by sho
himself with a revolver.
A cloudburst at the head of the
Cache la Poudre river caused that
banks and
meager reports received here indicate
that great damage has been caused by
its
| two drying rooms of the Lake Shore
| years old; Estella Decker, 15
old; Frank Grant, 21 years old.
Ninety of her crew were saved. . 0 break up-a ‘“growler gang,” were
| family.
| the third robber ry of the house.
{ Charles Murphy,
lin custody, and is believed to be the
EXPLOSION KILLS SEVEN
Terrific Explosion Shatters a Tor-
pedo Factory.
SHOCK FELT FOR MILES.
Potash Is Driven Into the Bodies of 25
Injured and Blood Poisoning
Is Feared.
As a result of an explosion in the
Novelty company’s plant at Findlay,
seven persons are known to be dead;
five are so seriously hurt that recov-
| Petersburg, May 10.
ery is believed to be impossible and |
about 15 others are injured. From re- |
ports of the physicians, 10 of the less |
seriously injured may die as a result!
of blood poisoning from the potash
| that was driven into their bodies.
|
The dead are: Joseph Sherwood, 21 |
Edith Dillon, 17 years old; Dean
Shaw, 18 years old; Mary Snyder, 22 |
years |
The Lake Shore novelty works plant |
covered nearly 10 acreg of ground in
the southwest part of the city and |
employed nearly 200 men, women and
children. Railrcad torpedoes and
Fourth of July explosives were manu- !
factured. Owing to the large rush of |
orders the officials of the plant re- |!
quested the employes to report for
duty Sunday. About 30 complied with
| the request.
The explosion cccurred shortly be-
fore the employes assembled for duty.
At least 20 persons were on their way
to the factory at the time.
Human forms were strewn consid-
erable distances apart on the factory
site. The remains of the Sherwood
brothers were found in drying room |
No. 2, mangled and almost unrecogniz-
able. Their clothing was blown from
their bodies, save a stocking on the
right foot of Jay Sherwood. The body
of Edith Dillon was picked up 200
yards from the factory.
HOBOES ROLL IN WEALTH.
Priceless Gems of the De Peysters
Are Found in “Growler
Gang.”
The sensational results of raids by
the Albany (N. Y.) police upon a re-
sort in South Lansing street, intended
believed to afford a sequel to the re-
cent mysterious raid upon the family
tomb on the old Livingston estate be-!
low Hudscn.. A collection of jewelry
of intrinsic value, running into many
thousands of dollars, and of priceless
value as heirlooms, was found upon
the person of Thomas King, one of the
vagrants, and concealed about the
house.
The arrival of Chief of Police Maloy,
of Tivoli-cn-Hudson, exploded the
tmb robbery theory, but brought to
| light the fact that the family residence
of Genera] Frederic de Peyster, at|
Tivoli, was looted Monday night in the |
absence of the family, and Chief Ma-|
loy identified practically all of the |
booty as belonging to the De Peyster |
From him it was learned that, this is |
Upon
the last occasion, he said, $27,600 |
worth of jewelry was taken. He fully
identified King, who is a wandering
tanner, and William Johnson, of Hud-
son, who is a cripple, .as two of three
men whom he himself saw Monday
night near the De Peyster house.
also of Hudson, is
third man.
The loot recovered includes two or
three hundred articles, most of them |
marked with names, monograms or ini- |
tials of the De Peyster and Livingston
families, which intermarried, or with
those of ancestors, tine mosaic, strung
on a golden chain of finest workman-
ship, was found in an ash heap.
Chief Maloy said it was known that
no jewelry was entombed with beauti-"
ful “Lady Mary” Livingston; that the
only thing with her in the casket was
| a cluster of roses.
Farm Products.
The department of agriculture has
issued a report on “the Nation's farm
surplus,” prepared by George K.
Holmes, chief of the division of for-
eign market. It gives $4,500,000,000 as
a conservative estimate of the value of
the farm products of this country not
fed to live stock in 1903, on the basis
of the census valuation. The value of
the exported farm products of this
country was in 1903, $878,479,451, and
the highest value reached during th
last 11 years was $951,628,331, in 1901,
due chiefly to cotton. The United
States has a long lead over its com-
petitors as a purveyor, of meat and
meat products and live animals, is like- |
wise preeminently conspicuous in the
United Kingdom's imports of cereals
and cotton but is far behind its com-
petitors in dairy produces.
Double Killing.
A double killing occurred Saturday
night at Cardiff, a mining village in
Elk county, Pa., when Frank Paul, a
nt, shot and killed Saverio Pel-
legrino, who a few minutes previously
had slain Paul’s 22-year-old wife. The
shooting of the woman was most wan-
ton, it is claimed.
Tried to Wreck Czar’s Train.
The Paris Petit Journal’s St. Peters- |
burg correspondent reports that an at-
tempt was made to wreck the train|
bearing the emperor on his tour at the
Kremenzug station. The pilot train, |
which preceded that of the emperor, |
was derailed ard there were several
victims of the plot.
Baptists in session at Cleveland de-
cide to raise $50 }) to educate a
tive ministry in forei
{by a
PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR.
Girl Atténded Public Demonstration
and Carried Bomb.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the Breslau “Zeitung” reports that t!
authorities detected and thwarted a
plan to assassifiate the emperor with a
bomb during the spring parade in St.
The emperor al-
ways reviews the parade on horse-
back, taking a position before and
slightly to one side of the pavilion
from which the empress and the grand
duchesses view the pageant. The mu-
nicipality erects a grandstand, tickets
to which are sold publicly, the names
and addresses of the buyers being
noted.
As persons in the front rows could
easily throw an object to the place
where the emperor stands, the author-
ities naturally reserve the right of
canceling the sales of tickets if the
buyers are not known to be absolutely
trustworthy, and they subject the occ-
cupants of the grandstand to the clos-
est scrutiny.
Just before the emperor arrived on
the parade ground it was noticed that
| years old; Jay Sherwood, 24 years old; | Miss Merezhevsky, daughter of a lead-
ing Russian mind healer and privy
councilor, Prof. Merezhevsky, who oc-
| cupied one of the loges nearest the pa-
villon, was nervous and excited. Risk-
ing a scandal should their suspicions
prove to be unfounded, the authorities
ordered her arrest, which was effected
unobtrusively. A search disclosed a
skillfully constructed bomb concealed
in her clothing. The girl did not deny
her intention of hurling the missile at
the emperor, but refused to give any
cther information.
Miss Merezheyvsky has been an at-
tendant at the courses in the women’s
nuiversity. It is rumored that she
has been hanged, and her aged father
is completely prostrated.
Ammunition Lost.
The Birmingham Post is informed
military authority, who
present in Odessa, that there is great
commotion at Russian headquarters
over the discovery that the various re- |
serves of ammunition kept at Kher-!
son and other nearby places, repre-
senting 50,000,000 rubles, have either
completely disappeared or are
worthless that practically none is
available for use. A private inquiry
into the matter is proceeding.
CURRENT EVENTS.
King Edward will visit Emperor
William during the regatta week at
Kiel, which begins June 22.
Thousands of Norwegians wit-
nessed the unveiling of a monument |
at Fargo, N. D,,
poet, Bjoernstjerne Bjornson.
A cablegram ‘from Genoa
to Russia.
At the Thirty-seventh (N. Y.) die- |
trict Republican congressional con-
vention Congressman E. B. Vreeland
was renominated by acclamation.
A monument to General Rufus Put-
centennial celebration of the town of
Sutton, Mass.
At Helena, Mont., the safe in the
office of the Billings Brewing Com-
Papers, money |
pany was dynamited.
and diamonds valued at $7,500 were
taken, and the watchman was shot
and seriously wounded.
Congressman John A. T. Hull was
renominated for the ninth time by the |
Republicans of the Seventh Iowa dis- |
trict.
President Clowry of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, issued an |
{ horse |
races to all classes of subsyribers in |
order cutting off reports of
the city of New York.
The sudden collapse of a folding
bed was responsible for the death of |
George Barnes, for 25 years a mem- |
ber of the Pittsburg fire department.
Charles Eustice, of Grove City, Pa.,
was Killed by falling under his train.
He was a brakeman on the Bessemer
road and was 25 years old. °°
Alfred C. Clark, of the
(Ind.) National bank, has been arrest-
ed on a charge of being short in his |
accounts.
At Cortez, Col, Mrs. C. W.
and her son, Frank Ingles,
and killed by Marshal Humphreys as |
the result of a feud.
Herman
is at]
SO |
in honor of Norway’s |
states |
that the Hamburg-American line has |
sold the steamer Columbia, 8,000 tons, |
| nam, of Revolutionary war fame, was |
| dedicated in connection with the bi-
Bedford | |
The strike of the miners at North
were shot |
Mrs. Stella Hammond dropped dead |
at St. Paul, Minn., after assisting in a
surgical operation on her sister, Mrs.
J. N. Savard.
| vinced
Thieves took $3,500 from the safe |
in St. Elizabeth’s hospital,
while the nuns and nurses were at-
tending daily devotion
Chicago, |
Lewis Oliver, who, in company with |
Frederick Lesarge, stole $3 and two!
hats from a butcher shop, has been
given a life sentence in Marquette
(Mich.) prison by Judge Wiest.
Democrats of the Thirteenth Ohio
district nominated David R. Crissin-
ger, of Marion, for Congress. The del-
egates named for the St. Louis con-
vention are James H. Platt, of Tiffin,
and Frank Donneworth, of Bucyrus.
Contractg aggregating $1,500,000 for
the electrical equipment of the Youngs- |
town and Southern railway, were
awarded at Youngstown. Work will
be commenced on the contract at once
and pushed day and night.
The surviving members of the One
| of a submarine boat and could trace
| the course of the vessel.
| John, aged 18, were struck by a pas-
Hundredth regiment, Pennsylvania vol- |
unteers, known as the
will hold their annual reunion at Wash-
ington this year in August or Septem-
| ber.
Lynched one of Their Race.
Enraged by an attempted criminal
| assault on a child of their own race
a mob of 100 negroes took Robert
Whitehead, a negro, from a deputy
sheriff in Northampton county, N. C.,
near the town of Seaboard, and hang-
ed him to a tree. The officer and pris-
oner were on their way to the coun-
| ty jail at Jackson.
William Gardner was drowned and
two others narrowly escaped the same
fate while attempting to swim across
| the Delaware river off League Island.
Roundheads, |
RUSSIANS SURROUNDED
Japanese Cccupy Newchwang
and Cut Off Retreat.
KUROKI'S ADVANCE CONTINUES.
Russian Arrivals From Port Dalny De-
clare Japanese Battleship and
- Cruiser Were Destroyed.
The St. Petersburg correspcndent of
the Paris “Matin” says that official ad-
vices have been received to the effect
that the Japanese have occupied New-
Chwang. :
Russian refugees who arrived at Che-
foo on a junk from Port Dalny say
that the Japanese bombarded Port Ar-
thur last Monday. Russian officers
who were on Golden Hill declared, ac-
cording to the refugees, that during
the bombardment a Japanese battle-
ship and a cruiser struck mines and
sank.
The warships reported to have been
sunk are the battleship Shikishima
and the armored cruiser Asama. The
story is not believed but the Russians
who brought the news insist that it is
true.
An official report from the second
Japanese army shows that the rail
road north of Port Arthur has been
cut in five places. Between May 5 |
and May 17 the Japanese losses have
been 146 men.
Confirming the intimations that it is |
Gen. Kuropatkin’s purpose to avoid a |
decisive combat with the Japanese at |
the present stage of the war, the state- |
ment was made by the general staff
that the commander-in-chief is making |
preparations to fall back on Mukden |
and then on Harbin. |
While the superior numbers of the |
enemy compel a retirement, it does
| not follow that Gen. Ktiropatkin will
not strike a stinging blow 'should a
strategical mistake be made which |
will enable him to throw a stronger |
army upon one of the advancing col-
| umos of his antagonist. The most
exposed portion of Gen. Kuroki’s com- |
mand Js that which moved directly
northward evidently with the intention
of gaining the road to Mukden, down
which it will march as soon as the
other columns are within supporting
distance.
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
Ticket for State Officers and Delegates
| _ to National Convention.
The Republican state convention at
Columbus nominated the following
| ticket:
For Secretary of state, Lewis C.
Laylin of Huron; for judge of supreme
court, William T. Spear of Trumbull;
for dairy and food commissiner,
| Horace Ankeny of Greene; for member
| of board of public werks, R. B. Craw-
ford of Stark; for clerk of supreme
| court, Lawson Emerson cf Belmont;
delegates-at-large, Myron T. Herrick
George B. Cox,’ Joseph B. Foraker and
Charles Dick; alternate delegates-at-]
large, Warren G. Harding, Charles H.
Grosvenor, John B. Clingerman and H.
T. Eubanks; electors-at-large, Charles
P. Taft, Noah H. Swayne.
JAPANESE KILL HUNDREDS.
Russians Suffer Loss of 2,000 Men
Kiiled or Wounded.
The London Standard’s correspon-
cent at Tientsin cables that while the
| Japanese fleet was covering the land-
| ing of troops near Kai-Chau on Mon-
day a fierce engagement occurred at
Hsin-Yen-Cheng. Two thousand Rus-
sians were Killed or wounded. The
Russians retreated and the Japanese
cccupied both Kaiping and Kai-Chau.
| The Chinese governor at Chen-Chow
has received news, the correspondent
adds, that the Russians have destroy-
ed the railway between Taischichiao
| and Niuchwang.
The correspondent at St. Petersburg
| of the Echo de Paris says: “The Rus-
sian cruiser Bogatyr grounded during
a fog on the rocks near the entrance
to Vladivostok. Her position is crit-
| dcal. The crew was saved.”
Lawrence, O., has been settled, the
operatorg granting a satisfactory in-
| crease in wages.
Japanese Used Submarine.
The Russian admirality is now con-
by reports received from Port
Arthur that Vice Admiral Togo used
submarine boats in his operations. A
letter from Lt. Gen. Stoessel says that
he was standing on Golden Hill when
the Russian’ battleship Petropavlovsk
went down and he saw a submarine
hoat torpedo the battleship. Lit. Schrei-
ber claims he distinctly saw periscope
Officers of
the Russian battleship Pobieda testi-
fied that a submarine boat discharged
a torpedo against their ship and they
fired at the submarine boat, hoping
to sink it, but failed.
Three Killed by Train. |
Lizzie Fortow, aged 24; her sister
Lavina, aged 26, and their brother
senger train at Herkimer, N. Y., and
instantly killed. The girls and their
brother were on their way home from
the house of an acquaintance. They
awaited the passing of a freight train |
and as the last car swept by they
crossed the trcks, unmindful of the ap-
proaching passenger train. |
Robbed of $5,000. |
George Newbatt, a manufacturer
from London, England, stopping at the |
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, en route to |
the World’s Fair, at St. Louis, report-
ed to the hotel management that he |
had been robbed of $5,000 in Bank of
England notes, while he was asleep in |
his room. He attributed the robbery |
to his companion, an American, with
whom he came on the same eamer,
and who had impressed Newbatt as
particularly honest. Newbatt is 60
years old.
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WARSHIPS SENT TO TANGIER.
Government Orders South Atlantic
and European Squadrons for
Perdicaris’ Relief.
United States Consul General Gum-
mere at Tangier, Morocco, telegraphs
confirming the reports that the brigaand
which captured Perdicaris, an Ameri
can citizen, and Cromwell Varley, a
British subject, is the same that cap-
tured Mr. Harris, the London Times
correspondent, last year.
Besides capturing the men members
of the band assaulted the women of
the Perdicaris party. The British and
American representatives at Tangier
are taking energetic measures to ob-
tain the release of the captives and
the Moorish authorities are assisting
them.
The French government does not in-
tend to send a warship to Tangier or
otherwise intervene. The government-
al view is that France is not called on
to do so, as it would raise a direct is-
sue with the Sultan of Morocco con-
cerning the exercise of police powers.
The government's advices are that Mo-
hammed el Torres, the representative
of the Sultan at Tangier, will meet the.
brigands’ demands in order to secure
the prisoners’ release.
Mr. Perdicaris and his stepson have
been carried into the mountains,
where pursuit is almost impossible.
The state department has been advis-
ed to this effect by Mr. Gummere, Uni-
ted States Consul General at Tangier.
He reports that no terms have been
received from the brigand chief.
LOSES COMMAND.
The General Vyho Met Defeat at the
Yalu Is Relieved of His
Position.
It is announced that Lieutenant
General Zassalitch has been relieved
of the command of the Second Si-
berian army division and that Lieu-
tenant General Count Keller, former
governor of Ekaterinoslav, has been
appointed to succeed him.
Since the battle of the Yalu it has
been predicted .that General Zassa-
litch would not long retain his com-
mand, but there has been no disposi-
tion to act hastily. The emperor’s
advisers could not forget that while -
Zassalitch did not carry out the plan
of operations. which had been pre-
viously determined upon, he had dis-
played a stubborn resistance which
showed to the enemy and to
world that the Russians had not lost
the courageous spirit of past genera-
tions. 5
What will become of Zassalitich,
whether he will remain in the far
east or be assigned to a less Import-
ant region, cannot be learned to-
night, but it is emphatically stated
that there is no intention to disgrace
him, and that if he returns from the
far east it will be on sick leave and at
his own request. It is generally be-
lieved that he will find it convenient
to make such an application.
NAVY WIRELESS.
| System That Escapes Interference of
Other's Messages.
General Greely, chief signal officer,
has received a dispaten from an offi
cer experimenting with wireless teleg-
raphy between Fort Schuyler in New
York harbor and Fort Wright, near
the upper entrance of Long Island
Sound. This officer says he has
“snytonized” his system for a dis-
tance of 97 miles without interference
from any of the systems being used
in the same vicinity.
General Greely has given directions
to have the wireless stations which
have been successfully used on Puget
Sound taken to Nome and St. Mich-
ael, Alaska. The freezing of the sea
in the bay has rendered cable ser-
vice between these points impracti-
cable.
The Rhode Island Launched.
The battleship Rhode Island was
successfully launched at the yards of
the Fore River Ship and Engine Com-"
pany. After the vessel had left the
ways the launching crew experien-
ced an unexpected disaster. The
great craft had attained such headway
that she could not be stopped in
deep water and her anchor failing to
hold, her stern was forced into a
mud bank. A naval inspector, who
was on the scene, expressed the opin-
ion that as the bottom was soft the
ship would not be damaged.
Japs Lost 7,500 Men.
The correspondent of the London
“Daily Mail” at St. Petersburg says
that two of the 450 Russian wounded
who fell into the hands of the Jap-
_anese after the Yalu battle have es-
caped and come into Liao-Yang. They
praise the conduct of the Japanese,
who, they say, treat their prisoners
well, although they feed them very
badly.
The two fugitives also assert that
at the battle of Yalu the Japanese loss
was over 7,500 men. The dead are
nct buried. The trenches are full of
corpses, being merely covered in
with earth. General Ma has adopted a
defiant attitude toward the Russians
and is trying to rouse the Chinese pop-
ulation.
Storms Ruin Banana Crops.
The steamer Anzelm, frcm Puerto
Cortez, brings the news of destruc-
tive storms on the Central American
coast, particularly .the coast of Hon-
duras, entailing the destruction of
500,000 banana trees and a loss of
over $250,000. The worst sufferers
were American fruit growers in Hon-
duras. There will be marked de-
| crease in the exportation of bananas.
Boston Wool Market.
Old wools are quiet. Prices are
substantially unchanged, the range
being about as follows: Ohio and
Pennsylvania XX pnd above, 32@33c;
XxX 20@ 200; No. 1, 21@32c: No. 2, 31
@32c, fine unwas shed, 22@23c; i 34
and Uo -blocod, unwashed, 25@2514c;
fine washed delaine, 33@34c; Michi-
gan X and above, 25@26¢c; No. 1, 29
@30c; No. 2, 28@29c; fine unwashed,
21692208 14, 3% and ,-blood, 24% @
5¢; fine washed delaine, 31@32c;
entucky, Indiana, ete., 34-blood. 25@
¢: % blood, 25@
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