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MOST IMPORTANT EVENT3 OF THE PA8T WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Cemplata R«vi«w of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Glebe—Latest Homs and For sign Items. , THE HAYWOOD TRIAL. The field for argument both for the prosecution and defense of William D. Haywood was limited by Judge Wood, who removed from consideration of the jury all evidence bearing on the alleged conspiracy of mine owners and others against the Western Fed eration of Miners. Immediately fol lowing the announcement of this de cision argument commenced. Judge Hawley, leading counsel for the state, spoke for two hours and fifteen min utes. A day of argument on the admis sion of points of evidence followed the announcement from the defense that they had no further witnesses to offer in behalf of William D. Hay wood. The defense introduced no evidence in surrebuttal. The state in the Haywood trial closed with the evidence of two more witnesses in rebuttal. Another witness for the defense in the Haywood trial, C. W. Aller, for merly ticket agent at Cripple Creek, Col., was accused of perjury and was put under arrest. MISCELLANEOUS. At a meeting held in Oakland the telegraphers’ union voted unanimously' to accept the terms of settlement pro posed by the Western Union and Pos tal Telegraph companies. The teleg raphers will return to work and then both telegraph companies will receive a committee of arbitration to discuss and settle matters affecting the teleg raphers. , After the emperor of Korea had ab dicated a company of Korean troops mutinied, escaped from the barracks and fought with the Japanese. Many were killed and wounded on both sides before the revolt was quelled. William January, alias Charles W. Anderson, for whose pardon a petition containing the signatures of 50.000 persons was presented to President Roosevelt, was released from the fed eral prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The Southern Railway company was fined $30,000, and Thomas J. Green, ticket agent of the company, fined five dollars in the state court at Raleigh, N. C., for selling railroad tickets at a rate in excess of that provided by the recent state law for a uniform rate of two and one-fourth cents a mile in North Carolina. Thomas B. McPherson, of Omaha, was elected president of the National Livestock Exchange association to succeed James C. Swift, of Kansas City, Mo. Adolph Ruegger, former treasurer of Madison county, 111., committed sui cide owing to the intense heat, which prevented him from sleeping. In the United States district court at Cheyenne, Wyo., E. M. Holbrook, a millionaire, E. E. Lonabaugh, a promi nent attorney, and Robert McPhil lamey, a well known business man of Sheridan, were found guilty of con spiracy to defraud the United States government of coal lands in Sheridan county. Said Kalil Haick, the Syrian drago man, who announced that he was go ing to marry Miss Elsie Ellwood, of De Kalb, 111., gave up his plan because of the opposition of Miss Ellwood’s family. It was announced by President Mel len, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company that John F. Stevens, former chief engineer of the Panama canal, had been appoint ed a vice president of the road. Midshipman James F. Cruse, of the battleship Georgia, died at the naval hospital in Chelsea. He is the tenth man to die, as a result of the powder explosion in the after turret of the Georgia. Great damage to property in St. Joseph, Mo., and vicinity was done by a tornado and a terrific rainstorm. Many houses were wrecked, cellars flooded and street railway tracks washed away. Capt. August Azzali, leader of the Mexican band, which organization ac companied the El Paso, Tex., lodge of Elks to Philadelphia, was drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J. Roy L. Reece was elected mayor of Springfield, 111., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mayor Griffiths. It is believed that war is about to break out again in Central America, Salvador and Guatemala being about ready to attack President Zelaya, of Nicaragua. All records for immigration were broken in the fiscal year ending June 30, the total number of aliens who landed in Ameriba being 1,285,349.* Theatrical1 combines ’of United States, London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna are to unite in a syndicate representing a capital of $100,000,000. The Elks selected Dallas, Tex., as the next convention city and elected Johh K. Tener, of Charleroi, Pa.; grand exalted ruler of the order. The Black Hand society blew up a grocery store in East Harlem, N. Y., amid a crowd of 10,000 Italians cele brating a festival. \ The war department has ordered the fifth field artillery, now at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to the Philippines. Herman Bartels, the millionaire brewer, who escaped from a sheriff at Toronto, Ont., as he was about to be taken back to Auburn, N. T., has been recaptured. Frit* Ulrici, a Rochester (N. Y.) salesman, was kilild when a Burling ton train was run Into by a Great Western one near Bethel, ic«»» Two robbers held up a freight train on the St. LrfJuis ft San Francisco line and killed O. J. Brown, a harvest hand, arho was stealing a ride. i Cotton thread is to be doubled in price, it is announced in Now York. Spools that cost five cents will be ten cents* Churchill J. White, a pioneer bank er, of Kansas City, Mo., died at his home there, aged 82 yearn. He form erly was president of the National Bank of Commerce, the leading finan cial concern of that city. In a rear-end collision on the Chi cago ft Northwestern railway at Bellp.Blaise, la.. Engineer WllHam El liott was killed and a fireman was seriously hurt. J. L. Davis and Miss Docla Vebryke were drowned by the capsizing of their, beat on McCullough's lake at Lima, O. The couple were engaged to be married. Captains of the American line steamships have drilled their stew ards into choral bands for the edifl cation of passengers. Other ships employ brass bands and orchestras. Mrs. Lucy S. Noble, Detroit, Mich., arrived in New York after having traveled alone through 35 countries in Europe and Asia. Mrs. Josephine Leslie, who claims .to be a friend of J. Pierpont Morgan, has been committed for trial for fraud in London. The Rech, a St. Petersburg news paper, was confiscated because . It printed an article predicting war be tween Russia and China. Louisville is in the midst of a po litical upheaval as a result of Gov. Beckham’s appointment of the city and county officials and the lid is be ing put down tight. Secretary Rnssell of the telegraph ers' union predicted a general strike of operators. The Chicago operators called a meeting to take vigorous action. Four of the Italians tried for tne murder of the Lamana boy In Louisi ana were found guilty, without capital ipunishment, and mobs began to or ganize at once to lynch them. Several thousand persons were prostrated by heat in Philadelphia during the parade of the Ellcs. W. W. Raipe of Milwaukee, accused of complicity in Colorado land frauds, admitted his guilt and promised to .testify for the state against others. The naval court of inquiry decided the disaster on the battleship Oregon was due to a “flare-back.” Herman Billik, self-admitted faker and mixer of mysterious potions, was found guilty of murdering Mary Vrzal, 20 years old, by arsenical poi soning, and his punishment fixed at death by a jury in Chicago. Announcement was made of the engagement of Frank T. Hamilton, vice president of the Merchants' Na tional bank of Omaha, Neb., to Countess Louisa de Cistue, c>f Grana da, Spain. Gov. Vardanian of Mississippi grant ed an unconditional pardon to Mrs. Angie Birdsong, Monticello, Blayer of Dr. Thomas Butler. An unknown man, who walked with a crutch and a cane, leaped into the rapids above Niagara falls and was carried over the American cataract William A. Paxton, Sr., pioneer and millionaire business man of Omaha, Neb., dropped dead at his home. J. W. Shake, 36 years old, was burned to death by an explosion of gasoline at Carlisle, Ind. William Roberts, aged 45, engineer at the water station at Milan, O., was found dead with a bullet hole in his head. Two hours later George Bitt ner, his bitter enemy, shot and killed himself. James H. Wood, district passenger agent, and O. C. Wilson, ticket agent of the Southern railway at Asheville, N. C„ were found guilty of selling passenger tickets in disregard of the new rate law and each sentenced to 30 days in the chain gang. The *seedhouse of Woods, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. Automobiles are to take the place of the old-fashioned police patrol wagQns in New York. The famous Schihau shipyard at Dantzlg excluded Commander W. L. Howard, the American naval attache at Berlin. P. O. Mulford, former cashier of the defunct American bank at Ma nila, was sentenced to imprisonment for eight years and ten months on conviction of having falsified notes purporting to be part of the assets of the bank. The premier of Korea demanded that the emperor abdicate and go to Tokio to apologize to the emperor for sending a delegation to The Hague. Karl Hau, formerly professor of Roman law in George Washington university,- Washington, D. C., was brought before the bar at Karlsruhe, Germany, on the charge of having murdered his mother-in-law, Frau Mol itor, a wealthy resident of Baden Baden, in that city on November 6 last. The first day’s evidence was decidedly unfavorable to Hau. The grand lodge of Elks authorized the Memphis lodge to prosecute negro Elks of that city, and reprimanded the Newark, N. J„ lodge for electing a man thought to be colored. A severe drought is causing starva tion among people in Jamaica. Thomas Dolton, who shot Calhoun Wallace (colored) during a quarrel over a woman at Gary, Ind., was him self kilted in a fight with a posse of officers' and citizens near Pine station. Before Dolton was killed, however, he wounded four of the posse. Henry Lewis Carter, president of the York Haven Water & Power com pany of York Haven, Pa., died sudden ly from apoplexy in his home in New York. Nine persons were killed and many others injured by the collaiee of a three-story store' building in London. Ont. It was announced in New York that Miss Elsie Ellwood, granddaughter of Isaac Ellwood, of DeKalb, 111., was to marry Said Kalil Haick, a Syrian drag oman. Frank D. Hill, of Minnesota, the newly appointed consul general of the United States at St. Petersburg, has arrived in the Russian capital and entered upon his duties. William Drew, alias W. A. Johnson, oharged with having shot azd killed three white men and one ne jro at a grading camp near Bentcm. 111., last September, was arrested in Denver, CoL Fourteen persons are reported to have been drowned at Marstand, Sweden, by the capsizing of a sail boat. Mrs. Harry Miller of Bucyrus, O., was killed by lightning while stand ing in a church. George Lightcap, an aged and in firm ex-treasurer of Starke county, Indiana, went to work as a day labor er to get money to repay bondsmen who paid a shortage lost by specula tion. The amount . Is f5,633.14. The Pennsylvania State board of pardons has refused to-recommend a pardon for James B. Gentry, the actor, who was convicted of the mur der of Madge Torke, an actress, in Philadelphia in 1396. Bureaus of the war department at Washington are trying to find out what is wrong with the army. Hard work on fortifications and heavy prac tice marches are said to be reasons for the falling off in recruits. Capt. McCrea, of the Georgia, told of the heroic actions of some of the members of the crew when the ex plosion in the turret took place, kill ing nine men and injuring many others. Three men attempted to steal from its grave at Clinton, 111., the body of Mrs. Pet Gandy McGill, first wife of the former bank official who is ac cused of murdering her. Immediately afterward the body was exhumed and the vital organs sent to Chicago to be subjected to poison tests. Andrew John, former president of the Seneca Indian nation, died of cerebral hemorrhage at the Emer gency hospital in Washington. Caid Sir Henry MacLean escaped from the hands of the bandit Raisuli. Andrew Carnegie gave the city of Cleveland, O., |123,000 for library pur noses. A. O. Gholsten, of Fort Smith, Ark., kissed his wife and cut her throat, killing her. Jealousy caused the mur der. Jack Johnson stopped “Bob” Fitz simmons in the second round of the six-round boxing bout before the Washington Sporting club, of Phila delphia. Fitzsimmons did not show a trace of his old prowess. Marietta Dennoro killed Raffaele Darbato in ■Cleveland, O., because he refused to keep his promise to marry her. The big coastwise steamer Alle ghany, one of the crack vessels of the Merchants & Miners Transportation company, caught fire near Savannah, Ga., and was destroyed by the flames. All of her 32 passengers and her crew were saved. Terrific rains»and consequent floods j did great damage in the Tygarts val- j ley, West Virginia. The North Coast limited, westbound, on the Northern Pacific, was ditched near Garrison, Mont., killing Engineer | Graham, of Butte. Janos Van Cleef, an immigrant from ! Amsterdam, sailed for home immedi ately after his arrival in New York, to get a valuable diamond which he had left in a snuff box. Theobald Chartran, the noted por trait painter, died at Paris. Railway clerks employed on the New Haven railroad voted that the in crease of five and ten cents a day in wages the company offered was not satisfactory. Annual free-fish day in Blooming ton, 111., brought out thousands of per sons to Miller lake, where fishing is allowed once a year. Fourteen persons were injured, seven seriously, in a street car col lision at Lyndora, a suburb of Butler, Pa. Two workmen were fatally burned and four injured by an explosion of a ! 110,000-pound ingot at the Mesta ma chine works, West Homestead, Pa. Prof. Angelo Heilprin, the noted scientist, died at the home of his sis ter, Mrs. Adolph Loveman, in New York city. Seaman Edward F. Walsh, of the battleship Georgia, died in the naval hospital at Chelsea, being the ninth victim of the explosion in the turret of that vessel. Admiral Yamamoto, of Japan, sent bouquets to the injured and wreaths for the funerals of the dead. Gen. Alikhanoff, former governor general of Tiflis, Mme. GliebofT, wife of Gen. Glieboff, and the coachman who was driving their carriage were blown to pieces by bombs thrown at their conveyance in Alexandropol, Russia. Seventy-five boilermakers, the en tire force at the Lake Shore railway shops at Elkhart, Ind., struck because the union’s president, vice president and two members of the grievance committee were laid off. Crazed by the effects of a drunken spree, Marda Broksizinwltch, of Belle ville, 111., shot and fatally wounded Joseph Pilkerton, severely wounded Michael Lepere and shot himself through the heart, when surrounded in a wood by a posse. C. W. Aller, the Haywood witness arrested for perjury, was given a pre liminary hearing, Harry Orchard be ing the principal witness against him. He was released on bail. Returns of deaths from the plague in India show the appalling total of 1.060,067 for the six months ending June 30. Eight officers and men of the bat tleship Georgia were killed and 13 were severly injured by the explosion pf two cases of gunpowder in one of the superimposed turrets while the crew was at target practice in Cape Cod bay. Among the dead was Lieut. Casper Goodrich, son of Rear Admiral Goodrich. Sixteen persons were hurt at Dream land, Coney Island, when coaster cars jumped the track on the “great divide.” Count Leo Tolstoi is in excellent health, instead of being dead, as was reported. It was announced in Berlin that the wedding of Senator Beveridge, of In dian|, and Miss Katherine Eddy, of Chicago, would take place August 7 at the American embassy there. The attorney general’s office in Washington, after investigation, has exonerated Judge Humphrey, of In dian Territory, of charges reflecting on his Integrity. Justice Wright, of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, ad mitted Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, under Indictment on the charge of murder ing ex-Senator Brown, of Utah, to In the sum of $15,600. “COME OFF!" ,#rm-cc£A* Japan has decided to retaliate on Korea for sending its grievances to The Hague conference by* ousting the present Emperor.—Cable Dispatch. KOREAN TROOPS IN REVOLT ESCAPE FROM BARRACKS AND FIGHT WITH JAPANESE. Twenty-Five of Latter Killed and Wounded—Ito Disclaims Re sponsibility for Abdication. Seoul, Korea. — Bloody fighting took place in the streets of Seoul Friday afternoon. It was started by a company of Korean troops who mutinied, escaped from their barracks and their officers, and attacked a po lice station. After firing several vol leys they scattered, continuing a des ultory firing and attacking individual Japanese. They were joined by the populace, who used stones and clubs. Ten wounded have already reached the hospital in the Japanese quarter, where the Japanese are flocking for refuge. The correspondent while on the scene noted seven Japanese and four Koreans dead, and three Jap anese and two Koreans wounded. Gen. Hasegawa is sending dismount ed cavalry to reenforce the police, who are now searching for the mu tineers. The military have been or dered out. All traffic has been stopped and the Japanese shops are guarded. The police report that 25 Japanese were killed and wounded in the day’s ri oting. The casualties among the Koreans are unknown. The elaborate ceremony of trans ferring the imperial seal to the crown prince took place Friday forenoon. Some shops werfc closed because of the sympathy of their proprietors with the emperor, and the streets around the palace weaft rilled with people. At the Japanese residency, Marquis Ito and Viscount Hayashi, in answer to an inquiry regarding the effect of the emperor’s action, its importance in effecting a settlement of the whole Japanese-Korean situation, and whether or not it was in accordance with the plans of Japan, said they were not prepared at the present to make a statement. Marquis Ito, however, desired it to be emphatically stated that both be fore and during his audience Thurs day, wffien the emperor and cabinet were weighing the question of abdica tion, he refused any participation. The emperor repeated his declaration that he was not responsible for the sending of the Korean delegation to The Hague and asked Marquis Ito’s opinion of the cabinet’s representa tion regarding abdication. Marquis Ito replied that the matter wholly concerned the emperor of Korea and not himself as the representative of the empire of Japan. Furthermore, Marquis Ito declares, the cabinet’s whole course of action was based on its own initiative. William January Set Free. Fort Leavenworth, Kan.—William January, alias Charles W. Anderson, for whose pardon a petition contain ing the signatures of 50,000 persons was presented to President Roosevelt three months ago, was released from the federal prison here Friday. An derson returned to Kansas City, Mo., where he will engage in business. The case of January resembles that of Vic tor Hugo’s hero, Jean Valjean. New Mayor ror Frisco. San Francisco.—Dr. Edward R. Tay lor. physician and lawyer, dean of the Hastings Law college, and of the Uni versity of California, was elected by the board of supervisors mayor of San Francisco Tuesday night, and, by the open avowal of the bribery graft prose cution, the so-called “reign of the big Btick” same to an end. 8tevens Railway Vice President. New Haven, Conn.—It was an nounced, Friday by President Mellen, of the New York, New Haven ft Hart ford Railroad company that John F. Stevens, former chief engineer of the Panama canal, had been appointed a vice president of the road. McPherson. Succeeds Swift. Kansas.City, Mo.—Thomas B. Mc Pherson, of Omah^, was. elected Fri day president of the National Live stock Exchange association to succeed James C. Swift, of Kansas City. “Flareback” Caused Disaster. Washington.—The naval court of inquiry in the case of the explosion on the Georgia will find that the accident resulted from a "flareback,” meaning that when the breech of the eight-inch gun was thrown open shreds of burning cloth or unconsumed gas was driven into the turret. Want Army Canteen Restored. Washington.—The convention of the Army and Navy union Thursday voted in favor of the restoration of the army canteen. HAYWOOD EVIDENCE EXCLUDED. That Bearing on Alleged Counter Con epiracy Shut Out. Boise, Idaho.—The field for argu ment both for the prosecution and de fense of William D. Haywood has been limited by Judge Wood, who in a decision handed down Friday re moved from consideration of the jury all evidence bearing on the alleged conspiracy of mine owners and others against the Western Federation of Miners. Immediately following the an nouncement of this decision argument commenced. Judge Hawley, leading counsel for the state, spoke for two hours and fifteen minutes. His address after the opening state ment, in which he explained that he had “none of the grace of words that constitute an orator,” was at times eloquently impassioned but withal a plain analysis of the case. He char acterized the case as the *‘most impor tant ever given to a jury in the United States,” and urged the jury to a serious consideration of the respons ibility placed upon it. His denuncia tion of the defendant and his cocon spirators as the “worst band of crim inals that ever infested any section of this country,” was forceful, and his eulogy of ex-Gov. Steunenberg elo quent In the extreme. FOUR GUILTY; NOT TO HANG. Verdict In Lamana Case Causes Threats of Lynching. Hahnville, La.—The jury in the Lamana kidnaping and murder trial brought in a verdict Thursday even ing finding Campisciano, Mrs. Campis ciano, Tony Costa and Frank Gendusa guilty, without capital punishment. Absolute silence greeted the fore man’s announcement. The spectators listened quietly while the jury de clared that the verdict was unanimous and then court adjourned. An hour afterward, it ■was reported that prepa rations for a lynching were under way. A physician of local prominence gave out a statement declaring, “that the good people of St. Charles repudi ate the verdict,” and calling it a “prostitution of justice.” DEADLY HEAT IN PITTSBURG. Ten More Persons Succumb—Intense Suffering In Factories. Pittsburg, Pa.—Ten fatalities due to the intense humidity and oppres sive heat wave occurred here Wednes day, making over a score of deaths within 36 hours. The maximum tem perature registered Wednesday by the United States weather bureau was 84 degrees. Street thermometers regis tered from four to six degrees higher. Many persons are prostrated and their condition is serious. The suffer ing in the mills and manufacturing dis tricts is worse than has been experi enced for years. People cannot sleep and throng the streets and parks for a breath of air. Koreans Fight the Japanese. Seoul, Korea.—A company of Korean troops mutined Friday afternoon, es caped from the barracks without their officers and attacked the police station and the main street at the Gs^at Bell. After firing several vol leys' they scattered, continuing a des ultory firing and attacking individual Japanese. All traffic has been stopped and the Japanese shops are guarded. The police report that 25 Japanese were killed and wounded in the day’s rioting. The casualties among the Koreans are unknown. Liability Act la Upheld. New York.—Judge George B. Adams in a decision rendered in the admir alty branch of the United States dis trict court here Thursday declared constitutional the employers’llability act passed by congress June 11. Rifled Malle for Seven Years. Hammond, Ind.—Daniel Hunt, a Hammond mail carrier, was arrested Thursday by Inspector Burr, charged with rifling the mails. Hunt, it is said, admitted he had stolen money from the mails for seven years. Fitzsimmons Easily Whipped. Philadelphia.—Jack Johnson stopped “Bob” Fitzsimmons in the second round of the six-round boxing bout before the Washington Sporting club Wednesday night Fitzsimmons did not show a trace of his old prowess. Many Desert From Battleship. Norfolk, Ya.—During the past fern weeks 10A deserters have been Hated, and advertised from the battleship Minnesota, one of the warships in Hampton Roads. The police were no tified Tuesday of 15 deserters. WIRE STRIKE ENDED MEN ACCEPT COMPROMISE OF FERED BY THE COMPANIES. GO BACK AT OLD WAGES Managers Premise No Advance But Will Receive Committee ef Ar bitratien to Discuss Com plaints. Oakland, Cal.—At a meeting held in Oakland Friday the telegraphers’ union voted unanimously to accept the terms ot settlement proposed by the Western Union and Postal Tele graph companies. According to the terms of com promise, the telegraphers will return to work and then both telegraph com panies will receive a committee of arbitration to discuss and settle mat ters affecting the telegraphers. No Increase Promised. San Francisco. — Superintendent Storer, of the Postal Telegraph com pany, and Manager O'Brien, of the Western Union, declared Friday that their companies had made no agree ment with the operators in regard to an increase in wages. The men will be taken back on precisely the same terms that applied when the strike was called. Statement by Clowry. New York.—Col. Robert C. Clowry, president and general manager of the Western Union Telegraph comnanv. Friday afternoon issued the following: “The differences between the West ern Union Telegraph company and its former employes at San Francisco and Oakland have been settled. The com pany will reemploy all reliable and ef ficient operators who left the service, on their individual applications, and at the salaries paid when they quit work.” For the Postal Company, C. C. Adams, a vice president of the Postal Telegraph & Cable com pany, gave out the following: "The striking operators have been notified that the terms upon which they returned would be that they should make individual application for reemployment, and all who were not objectionable to the local manage ment would be reemployed, with the distinct understanding that the same salaries and same conditions existing prior to their walkqut should govern their reemployment, and upon prom ise to give good and faithful service, and discontinue all agitation and in terference with the company’s busi ness.” ’ RUSSIAN GENERAL BLOWN UP. Alikhanoff, “Wild Beast" of the Cau casus, Is Assassinated. Alexandropol, Russia.—Gen. Alik hanoff, former governor general of Tiflis, Mme. Glieboff, wife of Gen. Glie boff, and the coachman who was driving their carriage were blown to pieces by bomba*thrown at their con veyance at 2:30 a. m. Tuesday. A son of Gen. Alikhanoff and a daughter of Gen. Glieboff sustained serious injuries. The party was re turning to the residence of Gen. Alik hanoff from his club. The bombs were hurled in Beboutoff street. Gen. Alikhanoff was nicknamed “The Wild Beast” by the Caucasian members of the lower house of parlia ment, who often referred to his cruel ty in the Kutais district*, where he led a number of punitive expeditions to stamp out disorders. His rigorous methods to this end brought down upon him the enmity of the revolu tionists. TURNS STATE’S EVIDENCE. W. W. Raipe Admits Conspiracy to Obtain Lands by Fraud. Denver, Col.—W. W. Raipe, a min ing man of Milwaukee, who was ar rested in a federal grand jury indict ment charging him and five others in connection with the Federal Coal Mining company with alleged fraudu lent acquisition of Routt county (Col.) coal lands, has given a signed state ment to United States District Attor ney Cranston in which he goes into details of the whole conspiracy to de fraud the government. Raipe was taken before United States Commissioner Hinsdale Thurs day and released on his own recogniz ance after agreeing to appear at the trial as a witness for the govern ment Miracle in the Vatican. Rome.—A member of the pope's household says that Pope Pius hesi tated somewhat before he took the grave step of ordering the publication of the syllabus with regard to the so called modernism in the faith, but that all his doubts were removed by a miraculous apparition of the Blessed Virgin, which extended its hand in a gesture of benediction and encourage ment over his head and that the pontiff thereupon rose from his knees and signed the decree. Predicta War and la Punished. St. Petersburg.—The newspaper Rech has been confiscated for print ing an article from its war correspond ent predicting war between Russia and China. He added that China would soon be as strong as Japan. - \ Midshipman Cruse Is Dead. Boston. — Midshipman James F. Cruse, of the battleship Georgia, died Friday at the naval hospital in Chel sea. He is the tenth man to die, as a result of the powder explosion in the after turret of the Georgia. Big Lake Steamer Launched. Lorain, O.—The steamer William M. Mills, one of the largest on the lakes, was launched here Wednesday. The boat is 605% feet long. It was built for the Western Transit company, of North Tonawanda, N. Y. British Admiral Falls Dead. Niagara Falls, On*.—Admiral John Pearsa McLtpir, tBtired, of the British navy, dropped dead on the. veranda of the Clifton hotel Wednesday. The adnftM jrws staying at the hotel with his Wife ahd niece. ..U ' BRAVERY ON THE GEORGIA CAPT. M’CREA TELLS INCIDENTS OF THE AWFUL DISASTER. Courage of Rescuers Wljo Plunged Unhesitatingly Into the Turret How One Man Died. Boston. — Capt Henry McCrea, of the Georgia, seated in his cabin Wednesday, told about the explo sion on the battleship Monday that caused the death of nine men and the injury of 12 others. Said the captain: “I was on the bridge making the run for the practice. I was taking observations of each shot. I saw we were beating the records of the other ships of the fleet. On the bridge I could hear the command from the after turret. So I knew when the next shot was coming. “I heard the shout ‘Fire,’ but there was no shot, and then I saw men running aft, and quickly the fire hose, that is always laid out in readiness when there is firing going on, was manned. “I rushed to the after bridge near the turret to see what was the mat ter. The water was already being poured into the turret The boatswain and Midshipman Gravescroat led the way for their men with the hose. I tell you, there was courage! No man knew what had happened and no man knew into what danger he might be rushing. “Probably one little act, or rather one great act, of one of the men, pre vented a far greater disaster. I don’t know his name. He’s dead. He and one other stood by the second gun that had just been loaded. The last powder bag that Ijad been put in was protruding a little from the gun. When he saw the flash, instead of dashing to the ladder to save himself, he crowded home the charge in the gun and with the help of the other men got the gun closed before the flames reached the bag. If the flames had touched that bag there would have been an awful explosion, for the powder was confined in the gun and would not have flashed as the other did, but would have exploded. Not a man in the turret would have been left alive, whatever other damage might have been done. That man gave his life for the others. “I am told President Roosevelt has inquired about a man that gave his life in closing the shutter from the ammunition room to save the ship from blowing up. I would be very wrong to have a story like that go out, because I cannot find that there is any foundation for it, or need for a man to make any attempt to do any thing of the sort. But if the president wants heroism let him look up this brave man w'ho stood by his gun to save the rest.” BODY OF MRS. MAGILL EXHUMED. Grave of Mrs. Magill Opened with Great Secrecy. Clinton, 111.—Dr. Adolph Gehrmann and Dr. W. A. Evans, both of Chicago, Wednesday night directed the exhumation of the body of Mrs. Pet Mggill, wife of the Clinton ex banker, who is now under arrest at San Diego, Cal., charged with her mur der. The internal organs of Magill’s first wife were taken to Chicago in sealed glass jars for chemical analysis. The unearthing of the body was per formed with the greatest secrecy. Earlier in the evening another sen sational incident in this case of many sensations occurred at the grave of the woman who is declared by the prosecution to have been murdered by her husband in order that he might marry his daughter’s chum. Mrs. Mabel Parrett.^said to be an old sweetheart of Fred H. Magill, was found unconscious on the grave of Mrs. Magill. She had taken strychnine, it is alleged, and, despite the efforts of physicians who are working over her the attempt at suicide may be suc cessful. The young woman was some times known under the name of Lil lian Ryan. “Oh, Fred, why did you do this,” the woman murmured when she was revived by the use of powerful anti dotes. Later in the night, when she had partially shaken oft the effect of the poison, she muttered: ‘-‘Fred and Fay caused this.” The woman was taken at once to the dispensary, where Dr. Campbell was called. Later she was taken to the home of her mother. Mrs. J. R. Spainhour. Emperor of Korea to Abdicate. Tokio.—A dispatch from Seoul says that the emperor convened the elder statesmen at one o’clock Friday morn ing. The cabinet ministers waited in an adjoining room while the emperor conferred with the elder statesmen. After a two hours’ conference his majesty finally yielded and made up his mind to abdicate. It was decided to hold the abdication ceremony at 10 o’clock Friday morning. Much unrest prevails about the palace and a mob assaulted the office of the Daily Kokumin. Alleged Lyncher Acquitted. Charlotte, N. C.—The jury of Union county superior court, in the case of John Jones, one ef 20 citizens of An son county charged with lynching John V. Johnson, Friday returned a verdict of not guilty. Leader of Mexican Band Drowns. Atlantic City, N. J.—Capt. August Azzali, leader of the Mexican band, which organization accompanied the El Paso, Tex., lodge of Elks to Phila delphia, was drowned Friday 'evening while bathing. Heat Prostrates Thousands. Philadelphia.—The parade of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Thursday was marked by the prostration from heat of an army of persons, estimated by the police and hospital authorities at 2,500. Vienna Suburbs Destroyed. Vienna.—There was a terrible cloud burst here Thursday/The streets were flooded. It is said that the outlying suburbs of Neuwuldogg and Hernals were destroyed, and that there were many victims.
