The Somerset County star. (Salisbury [i.e. Elk Lick], Pa.) 1891-1929, June 08, 1905, Image 2

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    FEUDAL WARFARE. RESUMES
Free Dinner and Fiddling Contest
Ends in Bloodshed.
MOONSHINE WHISKY AS PRIZES.
Three Persons Are Killed and Seven
Wounded in Hargis-Cockrill
Factional Battle.
In the edge of 5 athitt and Morgan
counties, Kentucky,
fight in which three. were killed and |
seven wounded.
Freedman, Harlan Dykes and Andrew.
Wilson;
shot in the
Davis,
Davis, shot
Alen, shot
the wounded,
will die; Latcher
noi serious; Lee
in thigh, dangerous; John
in facé and arm, serious,
and three men whose names are at
this time unknown, slightly
and at large.
The battle is
battles of the
feud, w Rh,
wacking ¢
side,
shot. in lcg,
the bush-
into the
ing
Yas 1 ad
age,
courts and now into open hand-to-hand |
battle. There was a free dinner and
fiddling contest given by Grant Reed
at his blind tiger, at waici moonshine
whi was given as prizes.
Among the feudists in attenda
was Henry Freedman, the
man,
the arrests of
Cockrill murder,
the Hargises, for
g taken up by the Fay-
grand jury. Trouble was
een him and one of the
rerents iho lived in the
1 Andrew
ette county
started betw
Cockrill adh
neighborho
was an enem
prominent Jlumberman, took sides with
Freedman and soon the two factions
were heavily armed and threatening
to open hostilities. :
JAPS, AID IN RECAPTURE.
Aboard a Prize
Russian Crew.
Russian torpeda boats from Viadi-
vostok captured the Japanese steam-
er Daishen, of 700 tons, off Hokkai-
«do, and placed a prize crew of 13 men
on board; with orders to take the
vessel to port. By mistake the Rus-
sian commander of the Daishen head-
ed for Gensan (Korea) and met a
Japanese transport. The later,
Captives Turn
intended to eapture the vessel, when
the Japanese captives aboard
steamer, on sceing their comrades,
attacked the prize crew,
the vessel, and eventually took
to Gensan. The Russian prize
have been taken captives to
Further accounts of the battle,
the sea of Japan,
sian squadron was enveloped by the
Japanese and pounded for two days
while torpedo craft continued the
work of annihilation at night. Ad-
miral Voelkersam was killed in the
conning tower of his ship. The Rus-
sians probably lost 7,000 men, not
including 4,000 taken prisoners. The
her
crew
in
Japanese lost only three torpedo boat |
16d
destroyers and about 800 men.
was reported that Admiral Rojest-
vensky’s chances of recovery are
slight
TOGO VISITS ROJESTVENSKY
Victor Praises Bravery of His Van- |
quished Foe.
Vice Admiral Togo visited Vice Ad-
miral Rojestvensky at the Naval
hospital at Sasebo Saturday, and ex-
pressed his sympathy for the admiral’s
wounds. He praised the desperate-
ly courageous fight of the Russians
amd expressed the hope that Vice Ad-
miral Rojestvensky would soon be
able to return to Russia. Roiestven-
sky was deeply moved by the ad-
miral’s words and thanked him. He
congratulated Japan on the courage
and patriotism of her sailors, and said
it lessened his regret and the sor-
row of defeat to know the high char-
acter of the victors.
Rear Admiral] Nebogatoff is not like-
ly to sign his parle,
Fire Wicks Theater.
Fire destroyed the Avenue theater
at Pittsburg and wrecked the main
entrance of the
While the flames devoured the top
floor of the building an audience of
1,200 persons was dismissed from the
building without a panic. The loss
will aggregate $110,000, with insur-
ance of about $95,000. The fire raged
violently for two hours and caused a
blockade in Fifth avenue. Several
persons were injured.
200 Drowned.
A great storm, which swept over
Pinetown, the
sugar plantations of Natal caused the
reservair to overflow, resulting in the
drowuing of 200 Hindoo laborers, and
numerous casualties elsewhere.
Bomb Exploded in Palace.
A bomb was exploded in the palace
of the governor general at Barcelona,
Spain, doinz consiaerabie
Ten arrests have been made.
The dea diy use of submarine by the
Japanese was confirmed by the Rus-
sian Admiral Enquist’s officers at Ma-
nila.
Succeed Morten.
Morton,
Will
1 Paul
Bonaparte
On July
of the navy, w
net and will be
J. Bonaparte of I
of Jerome Bonaparte,
phalia.
tirement of Mr.
£ion of Mr. Bonaparte to sucteed him
was made at the White Houses.
sreceeded by Charles
21ltimore,
king of Wecst-
‘parles Bow tinner and base
Yau player, of Navarre, O., killed him-
self inTthe rear of the Navarre hotel
Vy swallowing carbolic acid.
| Lewis-Clark
| monument
i tain
} Clark,
tnhere was :a feud |
The dead are Henry |
{ Fairbanks,
| visiting governors and other dignitar-
| ies
| of
injured |
J | Lewis
| sione y
one of the first open | oned by
wmous Hargis-Cockrill |
| of
{ President
who swore out the warrants for |
the |
in order to prevent |
Wilson, who |
Harlan Dykes, a |
cn
the |
{ tha
recaptured |
Sasebo. |
state that the Rus-|
| French
| to meet her little brother.
| car struck her and cut off her head.
Grand opera house. |
~ Cleveland, for
i Bethel;
| works,
center of the tea and:
secretary |
iil retire from the cabi- |
grandson |
The announcement of the re-|
Morton and the selec- |
| plant on
PORTLAND EXPOSITION OPENS.
Centennial of Exploration
Northwest by Lewis an Clark.
With the touch of a hand on a
golden telegraph instrument, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, from the White House
Washington, gave the signal which
formally opened, June 1, in Portland,
than 3,0C0 away, the
Centennial exposition, a
to the memories of Cap-
Merriwether Lewis and William
who, 100 years ago, blazed the
world the
of the
nil
11ieS
trai] which opened to the
Oregon country.
No more auspicious day for
| opening could have been desired.
The prelude to the actual opening
ceremonies at the exposition, con-
the
: -t sisted &f the parade, a grand pageant
James Wilson, |
President
party,
of militarism, led by Vice
the congressional
and the exposition officials. This
date, the one hundredth anniversary
the exploration: of the Pacific
by Cantain Merriwether
William Clark, commis-
President Jefferson, was a
legal holiday in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, and each state sent thou-
sands of visitors to the exposition.
The formal welcome to the world
was given by President H. W. Goode,
the exposition company, and brief
were delivered by Vice
Fairbanks, H. A. Taylor,
Jefferson Myers, Speaker Joseph T.
Cannon, H. G. Williams and Senator
Clarke.
Northwest
and
addresses
ROOSEVELT'S SOUTHERN TRIP.
Visit That Section Some
in October. -
President Roosevelt will start on
his trip through the Socuth next
autnmn on the night of the 17th of
Will Time
| October.
Coupled with it was the statement
that the extraordinary session of
Congress, which it is the present in-
tention of. President Rocsevelt to
call, will not begin until after the
November elections.
The President’s trip will consume
about two weeks. He expects to visit
Richmond, Va.; Raleigh and Char-
lotite, N. C.; Atlanta, Ga.: Jackson-
ville and perhaps Tampa, Fla.; Birm-
ingham, Tuskegee, Montgomery and
Mobile, Ala.; New Or:eans, and Little
Rock, Ark. The trip will end at Lit-
tle Rock, and the President and party
will return directly to Washington
{ from that city.
see- |
ing 2 Russian flag from the Daishen, |
TELEGRAPHIC ERIEFS.
in Chicago testified
offered a bribe
strike of the
by a large firm
Labor leaders
they were
$10,900 lo declare a
teamsters employed
in that city.
There was a renewal of riéting at
Lodz.
ing others.
In order to relieve the suspense of
thousands of families Russia has ap-
pealed to France to secure through the
minister at Tokyo the most
complete list of the Russian officers
and men who perished or were saved.
Just as school was dismissed at the
McKinley avenue scnooi, Canton, O.,
Junietta. Frease, aged 5 years, ran
A street
Hundreds of children saw the acci-
dent.
Prof. H. F. Allen of the chair of
Latin language - and literature at
Washington and = Jefferson college,
| has resigned to accept the chair of
I.atin at Princeton university.
John Houck, 22 years old, an TItal-
ian, jumped from a moving trolley
car at Altoona, Pa. and died from
his injuries. %
Robbers looted the Buffalo, Roches- |
ter & Pittsburg railroad station at
Sykesville, Pa.
at. $150.
The captain of
Izumrud telegraphed the
the Russian cruiser
Czar that
after running on a reef and running |
The |
captain of the destroyer Bravi had to
out of coal, he blew up his ship.
burn his woodwork in order to make
Vladivostok.
OHIO SOCIALIST TICKET
Isaac C. Owen of Cleveland, Nominat-
ed for Governcr.
‘The Socialists of Ohio met at
Columbus and named a complete State
ticket headed by Isaac. C. Owen, of
Governor. The re-
mainder of the ticket follows: Lisuten-
ant Governor, W. C. Sundrup, Tole-
do; Attorney General, J. C. Madden,
Continental; Treasurer, J. H. Sims,
judge Supreme court, H. J.
Portsmouth; board of public
George Stack, Lorain.
The resolutions adopted state that
the Anti-Saloon league is a failure,
that more rigid laws should
work in factories and
should have better hours and better
pay.
Ziegler,
Prepares to Invade Sakhalin.
According to dispatches from Shang-
hai, the Japanese are preparing an
: i expedition for the island of Sakhalin,
amage. |
and have threatened to send a fieet
| to Shanghai to compel the observance
| of neutrality with regard to the Rus-
sian vessels there. This threat, the
| dispat ches say, has induced the Rus-
| sian consul to consent that the vessels
be interned.
BIG STEEL PLANT.
Combine Buying Options for Site in
Canada.
The United States Steel Corpora-
tion is buying options on property
the erection of a $10,000,000 steel
the Canadian shore of the
river just below Sandwich,
for
Detroit
Ontario.
J Bessemer pig iron furnace will
esablisncs on the Detroit side of
river.
of |
{ possible to see
A crowd of people stoned de-|
tac S ssacks and the latter |...
tz hments of cos ac s and e latter | ships under my
fired, killing two persons and wound-
The loss is estimated |
| trust ranging
{ beef barons to salaried department
| heads and attorneys, will be present-
| ed
control |
that workmen | Pe drawn upon United States Assist
JAP TORPEDO BOATS LOST
Naval Department Publishes the
Report of Admiral.
TOGO SUPPLEMENTS REPORTS.
Admits Loss of Three Destroyers and
of 800 Men—Torpedoes
Did Work.
department
report from
The Japanese navy
gives out the following
Admiral Togo:
“Later reports from the different
divisions of the fleet engaged in the
naval battle of May 27, show as fol-
lows:
“The Russjan battleship Oslabaya
was heavily damaged in the early
part of the fight on Saturday, going
down at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
The first Russian vessel sunk was
the battleship Sissoi Veliky. The
armored cruisers Admiral Nakhimoff
and Vladimir Monomach, after being
in the geenral engagement during
the day time, were still further dam-
aged by torpedoes during attacks by
night, and were eventually complete-
ly disabled. They drifted into the vi-
cinity of Tsu Islands, where they
were discovered on Sunday morning
(May 28) by the auxiliary cruisers
Shilano, Yawata, Tanian and Sado,
which were about to capture
but they all sank.
“The crews of our auxiliary cruis-
ers rescued 915 of the crews of the |
The battle- | the
sunken Russian ships.
ship Navarin was torpedoed four
times after sundown on Saturday
(May 27) and sunk. The survivors
of the Navarin’s crew confirm
story of her destruction. The cruis-
ers Nytaka and Otawa discovered the
Russian cruiser Svietlana at 9 o'clock
on Sunday morning, in the vicinity of
Chappyan bay, and immediately at-
tacked and sank her. The command-
er of the Nytaka reports the fact.
“Later reports show that during
the night of May 27 our torpedo
boats, numbered 34, 353 and 69, were
sunk by the enemy's fire.
Besides the above, there was no
damage worth reporting. No warship
nor destroyer suffered any loss of
fighting or navigating power. We an-
ticipated a heavy loss of life, but find
that our casualties were comparative-
ly slight. They do not exceed 800
ports will be rendered as speedily as
possible, in order to
lies and friends. Nearly
strength of both combatants met
battle, and the area of the
was very wide.
“The first day
the whole
in
proved foggy. and
| even without the smoke and fumes
resulting from the battle, it was im-
five miles. Conse-
uently during the day it was im-
possible to locate or observe all the
command. Moreover,
the fighting having lasted two days
and the ships of my command being
scattered for the purpose of chasing
and attacking the enemy, some hav-
ing received special orders after the
battle, it is impossible to collect and
frame any detailed report covering
the whole battle at the same time.”
BELATED REPORTS.
Japanese Now Admit Losses to Navy
Last Year.
The necessity for secrecy no longer
existing, the Japanese navy depart-
ment confirms the report of the loss
of the Japanese battleship Yashima
off Port Arthur in May, 1904, and an-
nounces other naval losses hereto-
fore withheld. The list is as fol-
| lows:
Battleship Yashima, sunk by a
mine, May 15, 1904, while engaged in
blockading Port Arthur.
The torpedo boat .destroyer Akat-
suki, sunk by a mine, May 17, 1904,
e taking part in the blockade of
Port Arthur.
“The gunboat Oshima, sunk in col-
lision, May 17, 1904, while co-operat-
ing with the army off Liaotung pen-
insula.
The torpedo boat destroyer Haya-
tori, sunk by mine, September, 3,
1904, while taking part in the block-
ade of Port Arthur.
The gunboat Atago, struck a rock
and sank, November 6, 1904, while
taking part in the blockade of Port
Arthur. ;
The protected cruiser Takasago,
sunk by a mine, December 12, 1904,
while taking part in the blockade of
Port Arthur.
Against Beef Trust Barons.
Forty true bills against the beef
from multi-millionaire
to the federal grand jury to be
voted on June 7. Thirty indictments
are already drawn for voting under
the direct recommendation of Attor-
ney General Moody. Ten more will
ant Attorney General Pagin’s return
from Washington.
Equitable Fight Goes On.
Equitable Life Assurance So-
directors held a stormy meet-
ing, at which the Frick committee
report was rejected by a combination
of the Hyde and Alexander forces.
Mr. Hyde made a bitter attack on
several directors, and Messrs. Frick,
Bliss and Harriman resigned from the
board of directors amid dramatic
scenes.
AMERICAN YACHT WINS
The Atlantic Crossss Line
The Lizard, Capturing the
Kaiser’s Cun.
The American three-masted schoon-
er-yacht Atlantic crossed
line at The Lizard, England, May 29,
capturing the erman emperor’s
cup in the i al transatlantic
race. Th is owned by Wil-
son M Bridgeport, Conn.,
and was nd of Capt. Charles
Barr of New Conn.
the at
| gives other
| or disabled.
them, |
| slightly
the |
from
portunity:
{eng
: | observe the loss on both sides in the |
Comrades
rescued the majorify of their crews. |
killed and wounded. The casualty re {2
| list and sink. |
The officers believe that the debut | 4
of the submarine boat as an effective | King
10 | aoent in naval warfare, or perhaps a | shocking
fighting |
reassure fami- |
the winning |
FIGHT COST RUSSIA 22 SHIPS
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, With
Another Officer and Eighty
Men, Taken Prisoner.
The official Japanese report on the
latest details of the great naval bat-
tle in the Korean straits is made in a
cablegram received at Washington by
the Japanese legation from the for-
eign office at Tokio, conveying Ad-
miral Togo’s dispatcies up to May
30th.
The report says that Admiral Ro-
jestvensky and another admiral, and
staff officers were taken prisoners on
the sinking of Rojestvensky’'s flag-
ship, the Kniaz Souvaroff, Saturday
night, south of Urleung island, off
Korean coast.
The total number of vessels lost
to the Russians, according to Admir-
al Togo, now reaches 22, and he adds
that, although the full particulars are
not yet in, none of the Japanese
ships was seriously injured, and the
loss to the first division of the Jap-
anese fleet was over 400. The report
says that the armored cruiser Dmitri
Donskoi ran aground on Urleung is-
land; that the battleships Oslabya, al-
ready admitted by the Russian ad-
miralty, and the Navarin, were sunk;
-that the battleship Sissoi Veliky went
to the bottom Sunday morning; that
the coast defense ship Admiral
Oushakoff was sunk after a vigorous
pursuit, her erew being rescued, and
details as to vessels sunk
The Japanese Admiral Misu was
wounded. The protected
Almaz, which has already ar-
Vladivostok, is referred to in
as “suspected to have
cruiser
rived at
report
sunk.”
According to
officers of the
the Tsu island, and the opposing
fleets immediately closed in. Being
lightly armored the Almaz, as had
been ordered by Admsrai Rojestvensky |
before the battle, separated itself]
the main fleet at the first op-
and headed for Vladivostok
after the commencement of the |
agement, but not too soon to |
soon
Titanic combat.
Early in the battle an officer of the |
Almaz, while watching Rojestvensky’s
lagship, the battleship Kniaz Sou-
varoff, for a signal,
shudder from stem to stern,
under a blow from a gigantic ham-
mer, and hesitate in her course, while
sides. Then she commenced to |
large mine, caused the disaster to the |
Kniaz Souvaroff. The damage, how-
ever, was so extensive that the flag-
ship soon went down, leaving the
deck officers and many of the crew
struggling in the waves.
One of the Russian torpedo boats, |
the |
ran in and picked up a num-|
either the
Bravi,
ber of the swimmers, one of whom
was recognized through a glass as Ad-
miral Rojestvensky. Under a gruel-
ling attack by the Japanese warships,
aided by torpedo boats, mines and
submarines, the Borodino, Osliabia
and Ural were placed out of action
and followed the flagship.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
“Daily Telegraph” says the com-
pleteness of the Russian defeat was
largely due to a mistaken battle for-
mation. The armored ships were on
the starboard side with cruisers and
gunboats on the port side. The Jap-
anese main force coming from the
northwest attacked the port line first,
and promptly threw it into disorder.
This disorganized the starboard line.
Thus the real action was of very
short duration.
A captured Russian officer describ-
ing the naval battle said the Japan-
ese opened the attack and the Russian
line soon became confused, many ves.
sels. surrendering. Only four of the
vessels of Rojestvensky’s fleet are
known to have reached Vladivostok——
the cruiser Almaz and the torpedo
boat destroyer' Grozny, Bravi and
Terosiahty. The full extent of the
Russian casualties in men and officers
drowned, wounded or captured is not
know. The Japanese losses, as report-
ed from Tokyo, are only about 200
men killed or disabled. Not one of
the big fighting ships of the Japanese
navy was lost. It is now definitely
known that Vice Admiral Rojest-
vensky is captured. He is seriously
wounded, but it is stated from Toyko,
will recover.
supposed to have perished.
The reported sinking of the ecruis-
er Jemtchug has not been confirm-
ed, and the name of the cruiser has
been dropped from the list of destroy-
ed vessels. It is suspected that the
protected cruiser Aurora and the
cruiser Almaz were sunk, but posi-
tive confirmation is, lacking. A dis-
patch from Vladivostok
the Almaz had arrived there in a dam-
aged condition.
Admiral Togo,
31, says:
destroyer Buiny or
telegraphing
“The naval battle fought
from the afternoon of May 27 to May |
28, in the vicinity of Okino island, and |
of Orelung |
extending to the vicinity
island, is called the naval battle of
the Sea of Japan.” Togo also reports
that Vice Admiral Enquist was cap-
tured with Admiral Rojestvensky.
The Russian prisoners, Admiral Togo
says, will exceed 3,000.
The damaged Russian
Aurora, Oleg and Jemtchug, under
command of Vice Admiral Enquist,
arrived at Manila.
Turned State's Evidence.
George E. Lorenz, of Toledo, O.,
who was convicted with August W.
Machen and Samuel and Diller B.
Groff on charges of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government
for the Postoffice department,
William G. Crawford, who is charged
with conspiracy.
Lillian Blauvelt he just
contract to sing in
of six years for
opera for
the sum of $504,000.
Almaz |
the fleet under Rojestvensky met the |
Japanese in the Straits of Korea near |
| persons arrested.
| Palaise d'Orsay
| remained for
saw the flagship |
as if | wounded and he expressed his inten-
| tion of not
waves rose high from her arm-| telegraphed
| quarters without incident.
Admiral Voelkersam is |
‘of the Gunnison
stated that |
May |
in connection |
with contracts for furnishing supplies |
has |
turned State’s evidence in the trial of |
i his reply
| Anglo-Indian admiration
signed a |
a term |
ATTEMPT TO KILL RULERS
Bomb Thrown at the Carriage of
Alfonso and Loubet.
BOTH ESCAPED WITHOUT INJURY
Carriage Was Returning from Opera
in Paris—Three Suspects Have
Been Arrested.
As King Alfonso of Spain, was leav-
ing the opera at Paris in a carriage
with President Loubet, surrounded by
mounted municipal guards, a bomb
was’ hurled at the cortege and the
voung monarch had a narrow escape
from death.
The Place de L’Opera was packed
with a dense crowd as the king and
his escort rode, surrounded by their
guard. On arriving at the corner of
the Rue de Ropan and the Rue de
Rivoli, just before crossing the Seine,
to return to the palace on the Quai
d'Orsay, someone threw a bomb at
the carriage. It exploded just as the
vehicle was passing, about five feet
away, part of the projectile damag-
ing the rear wheel of the carriage
and killing one of the horses of a
guard.
Eight soldiers were
pieces of the missile. In spite of
great excitement among the crowd
the police closed in and the carriage
continued on its way to the Palais
d’Orsay. There it was found that
many other horses of the guards had
been injured.
M. Lepine, prefect of police,
sonally made three arrests,
whom is named Arnould, an employe
at a laboratory. Domiciliary visits
are being made at the lodgings of the
The explokien of
the bomb was a very great one, being
wounded by
per-
one of]
rheard nearly three-quarters of a mile
away.
have thrown
rested.
After they
the
had: returned to
President Loubett
a considerable time with
{ King Alfonso, who requested that he
be informed of the circumstances sur-
rounding the event. He desired to
know whether anybody had been
retiring until completely
reassured on this point. His majesty
his mother informing
her that he had returned to the royal
President
after telling the
he deplored the
and congratulating
escape. Lights
Loubet withdrew
how much
attempt,
him on his happy
| were observed until very late in the
King’s
apartment. The king did not
retire until informed that nobody had
| been mortally injured.
Russians Had 36 Vessels.
It is now believed that four war-
ships, in addition to those aiready re-
ported lost, have been sunk by the
Japanese fleet.
A warrant officer of the Russian
repair ship Kamtchatka, who landed
at Moji, says:
“Our fleet entered the straits
Korea numbering 36 vessels.
Kamtchatka received several shots
and was partly disabled. Finally a
shot struck a vital part and 60 men
entered the boats. When they were
nearly clear a great expiosion oc-
curred and the ship sank. The cap-
tain and seven officers were killed dur-
ing the battle. Two officers were
wounded and two jumped overboard.
Three other officers were drowned.
We could see our battleships to the
northward enveloped by the Japan-
ese. Seemingly they ‘were badly
damaged.” ,
“When the Kniaz Souvaroff
sunk, Admiral Rojestvensky was
transferred to another vessel, but
was captured off Fumi. He is said to
be severely wounded in the arm. Ad-
mirals Nebogatoff and -Voélkersam
also are prisoners.
The ecaptured Russian battleship
Orel arrived at the Maizuru navy
yard at noon May 30. The battleships
Nikolai I. and Admiral Seniavin and
the coast defense ironclad Admiral
Apraxine, reached Sasebo. It is re-
ported that the Orel and Nikolai I,
are slightly damaged.
ol
The
was
FIVE KILLED IN MINE
Pennsylvanian Among the Dead—Twec
Are Seriously Hurt.
At least five men were killed and
two seriously injured by the caving in
reclamation “mine
tunnel at Montrose, Cal. The dead
are: Edward Schuler, Gettysburg,
Pa.; Floyd Woodruff, Montrose; A. B.
Stelle, Oklahoma; Charles Hormhart
and James Cassidy. :
C. Taylor and Fred Groff were pin-
ned under heavy timbers and terribly
injured. They would have been
drowned but for the efforts of their
entombed companions, who improvis-
ed a dam to hold back the water,
which poured into the tunnel for a
time.
Twenty-one were rescued,
ed, but exhausted.
uninjur-
Confesses Fraud.
Louis R. Smith, of North Carolina,
| formerly an employe in the general
| land office, was indicted by the grand
cruisers |
ury of the District of Columbia on a
charge of abstracting and selling 39
land warrants worth about $5,000.
Smith made a confession.
Japanese Aid India’s Sufferers.
The Jiji. Shimpo, a
Tokyo, has sent to
$5,000 for the relief
the recent
pression of sympathy from the
ple of Japan for those in India,
well-beloved ally.” Lord Curzon
gave expression to
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EQUITAELE OFFICERS ARRAIGNED
Investigating Committee De.
mands Their Removal.
The report of the Frick investiga-
tion committee, which was read to
the Equitable Life "Assurance Society
directors by M. E. Ingalls, contains
the following radical declarations:
It practically demands the removal
of President James W. Alexander,
First Vice President James H. Hyde,
and Second Vice President Gage E
Tarbell.
Ii declares that every officer add
director of the Equitable Society who
profited in any way as a member of
the “James H. Hyde and Associates”
syndicate must pay back into the
treasury of the society every dollar
he made at the expense of the policy-
holders. It declares that if any of
these guilty officers refuses to refund
this money the Equitable should com-
pel restitution by suits.
Jt declares that the office of Presi-
dent Alexander has been managed
with laxity and negligence and should
be thoroughly reorganized.
It charges that Vice President Tar.
bell has conducted his office with
waste and extravagance and that hig
department should be reorganized.
No charge of dishonesty is. mada
against Mr. Tarbell. |
It declares that the entire businesa
of life insurance should be thorough.
ly reorganized in the interests of itg
beneficiaries, the policyholders.
It finds that waste and extrava.
gance, if not peculation, have ex-
isted in practically every department
of the Equitable Society.
It declares that between $10,000,
000 and $20,000,000 have been deposit:
ed in different institutions for the
personal use of certain officers of the
society.
Frick
GOULDS FIGURE IN FAILURE
Helen and Frank Charges Fisher with
Taking $2,000,000.
Chief among developments from the
failure of the Merchants Trust Com-
pany of New York was the statement
that Miss Helen Gould and her broth-
ler, Frank, has been induced by frau-
dulent practices to invest in the se-
curities of the Virginia ‘Passenger &
Power Company of Richmond, Va. on
the securities of which the trust com-
pany made heavy loans, and that they
have charged George E. Fisher with
taking $2,000,000 to which he was not
entitled. Their charge is in answer
to his suit for a receivership for the
Virginia Passenger & Power Com-
pany, of which he was promoter.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
The supreme court of the United
States upheld the New York fran-
chise tax law.
Frank Martin, of Pittsburg, fell
from an excursion train near Steub-
enville, O., ad was seriously hurt. He
was taken to Gill hospital.
John Morgan, 23 years old, com-
mitted suicide at West Lebanon, O.,
by blowing his head off with a shot-
gun. He was a coal miner.
Increases averaging 8.09 per cent.
are shown by the gross earnings re-
ports of 11 railroads for the third
week of May.
The Prussian diet passed a law for-
bidding owners to shut down mines
unless it could be proved that the
mines had been operated at a loss.
Mrs. George P. Lord of Elgin, who
was one of the richest women in
Illinois, left nearly $2,000,000 to char-
ity.
Fire at Kewana, Ind., destroyed the
H. J. Heinz pickle plant and several
other buildings, includiag the rail-
road station.
Japan takes occasion, through one
of its foreign agents, to announce
that it is not its purpose to carry on a
war of conquest and expansion.”
James Cembolia, 20 years old, an
Italian, was-killed by a Cleveland and
Pittsburg railroad train near Alliance,
0.
.. John Crawford, 66 years old, a
Civil war veteran, was killed ‘by a
Pennsylvania railrcad® train’ near
Gallitzin, Pa.
Joseph Theano, an
years old shot himself
head at Fayette Station,
probably die.
An order for 150 additional locomo-
tives for the Imperial Government
railways of Japan has been received
by a Philadelphia corporation, mak-
ing 250 ordered from the Philadel
phia concern since the first of this
year.
Italian, 60
through the
Pa., and will
Mayor Weaver Wins.
On account of the agitation which
has arisen over the proposed lease
of the Philadelphia gas works to the.
United Gas Improvement Company
for 75 years, Thomas Dolan, presi-
dent of the company, withdrew the
offer his concern had made to pay
$25,000,000 for the franchise. Mr.
Dolan’s action was the outcome of
the organization leaders’ revelation
to him that they could not hold to-
gether enough councilmen to pass
the lease ordinance after it had been
vetoed by Mayor Weaver.
Representative Marsh Dead.
Representative Benjamin F. Marsh,
Republican member of the United
States house of representatives from
the Fourteenth district of Illinois,
died at his home in Warsaw, Ill. He
in |
earthquakes, with an ex-|
peo- |
had served eight terms in congress
J | and had been elected to a ninth term.
' WAS NOT AN AMERICAN VESSEL
Tokio Reports That Sh Ship Sunk
Russian Fieet Was British
Property.
Minister Griscom has cabled
| State department at Washington from
| Tokio, that the ship supposed to be
American, which was sunk off the
coast of Formosa, May 20, by the
Russian fleet, was a British vessel,
according to a report made to.him
| by the Japanese government.
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