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ACTIVE CONFLICT FIRST FIGHT BETWEEN TURKEY AND BULGARIA THE TURKS ASTHE AGQRESSORS Moslems Accused of Attacking Fron tier Post and of Pursuing Refugees Across the Line Measure for Relief of Sufferers SOFIA Bulgaria Serious news has tbcen received here from the frontier of fighting between Turkish and Bul garian troops at Deniir Kania both Bides sustaining losses In official quarters all knowledge of the affair is denied but the circum stantial details given seem to indicate that there is some foundation for the accounts of the conflict According to one report the tTurks attacked the Bulgarian frontier post Another version says the Turks pur sued a number of refugees across the frontier It is asserted that the Turks have frequently attempted to provoke hostilities firing into Bulgarian terri tory and crossing the frontier to steal horses and sheep The war office here is working at high pressure and 24000 recruits will be called three months before the usual time Prince Ferdinand lias sanctioned numerous other measures of a warlike nature All the cavalry with the exception of a single regi ment which is stationed at Sofia has been sent into the frontier districts with a strong force of artillery Vig orous efforts are being made to pre vent bands from crossing into Turkish territory Two hands which were sent back have reached Sofia Dispatches from the frontier receiv ed at the revolutionary headquarters report that the refugees in the moun tains are in a terrible condition through their pursuit by the Turks and cold and hunger Many are dying Measures are being taken here to relieve the worst cases of suffering among the fugitives from the frontier districts Madame Bahmeteff wife of the Russian agent here is taking a prominent part in this charitable work From insurgent sources it is report ed that the Bulgarian villagers of Obiditt and Kremen have been pillag ed and burned Many of their inhabi tants were slaughtered The Bulgar ian quarter of Belitza is in flames Seven hundred refugees from Belitza are reported to have been killed in a Turkish ambuscade near Samakoff province of Kirk Kllisse i AWARDS SATISFY GERMANY Weil Pleased with Amounts Granted Against Venezuela CARACAS Venezuela The Venezuelan-German mixed tribunal has offi cially closed seventy three claims pre sented against the government involv ing a total of 1317817 Two claims amounting to 110250 were withdrawn and one of 558000 for the closing to navigation of the river Catatumbo on the Colombian boundary and the caus ing thereby of losses to German traders was disallowed by the um pire General D M Duffield of De troit Mich The other claims which aggregate 043800 were discussed and recognized and the claimants were awarded 3890S5 According to the protocol the awards are payable In gold The German railroad obtains payment in full of its claim and in ad dition a sum of 800 a day as in demnity for the interruption of traffic during a period of seventeen days The Germans here are much pleased with the awards and compliment Um pire Duffield upon his decision Schwab Disappoints Them BALTIMORE Much disappoint ment was expressed at the failure of Charles M Schwab of Pittsburg to be present at Music hall Sunday after noon when the last meeting in the nature of a reunion of the national hoys brigade was held During the day the visiting delegates to the con vention which closed its business ses sions Saturday visited the various Protestant churches of the city in squads Earthquake at St Louis ST LOUIS Mo A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Carondolet the southern part of the city at 855 pclock Sunday- night The seismic disturbance lasted one minute and caused alarm among the citizens At the same time a slight shock was feit in the western portion of the city No Hope for Entire Recovery BALTIMORE Md The physicians nnd surgeons who have for several weeks been in attendance upon Arch bishop Kain of St Louis a patient at St Agnes sanitarium this city held two consultations Sunday At the close of the last one they reported that while Monsignor Kain was much improved his condition does not war rant the hope that he will entirely re-cover from the ailments he is suffer ing from i - i 1- MANDERSON ON COMMiTTES Appointed with Others to Arrange for Congress of Lawlers ST LOUIS President James Ha german of the American Bar associa tion has announced the appointment of a committee of members of the as sociation to act in co operation with the committee of authorities of the Louisiana Purchase exposition for the convention of the Universsal Con gress of Lawyers and Jurists in St Louis during September 1904 Fifty two members are appointed to consti tute the committees with Jacob Klein St Louis chairman and including Robb of Boise Idaho Adolph Mose3 of Hugh Butler of Denver Ramfnrd A Chicago Clifford L Jackson of Mus kogee I T Emil McLain of Iowa City la Charles Blood Smith of Topeka William W Dixon of Butte Mont Charles F Mander3on of Omaha Bay ary T Hainer of Perry Old Bartlett Tripp of Yankton S D P L Wil liams of Salt Lake City George M Foster of Spokane and Charles N Pot ter of Cheyenne KING EXPECTED TO PARDON Conspirators Although Convicted Are Likely to Be Set Free BELGRADE The trial of the army officers charged with conspiracy against the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga was concluded Tues day Captains Kovacovitch and La zarevitch the former being the ring leader were sentenced to two years imprisonment and the loss of their commissions Dr Velikovitch and Capetain Lotki jevitch the former aide-de-camp of King Alexander each received sen tences of a months imprisonment Other officers who took a less promi nent part in the conspiracy were con demned to from three months to a year in prison It is anticipated that King Peter will pardon all the conspirators WESTERN MEN TiOT AFFECTED Packing House Employes East Not in Same Organization DENVER Colo Replying to ru mors that a strike was brewing among the packing house employes of the west in sympathy with a possible strike of Chicago packing house em ployes the representatives in Den ver of the American labor union and the Denver Butchers union gave out a statement denying that the butch ers west of the Missouri river con template going on a strike The butchers west of the Missouri are af filiated with the American labor union while the eastern butchers are affiliated with the American Federa tion of Labor Western butchers have no grievances TURKS WITHDRAW TROOPS Supposed to Be in Compliance with Bulgarias Request BURGAS Bulgaria Dispatches re ceived here from the insurgent chief Gerjikoff who has been conducting operations in the Kirklisz district an nounce that the Turkish troops have been withdrawn from Zabernovo Kar lovo and Gratlaticoco three points on the Turkish frontier It is understood that this move ment was in accordance with the re quest of the Bulgarian government that Turkey withdraw her troops from the frontier as a sign of the sincerity of her pacific declarations The positions vacated by the Turks are now occupied by insurgents BIG BATTLE IS IN PROGRESS Turks and Insurgents in a Desperate Fight LONDON According to a special dispatch from Constantinople an irade of the sultan intimates that the ad vance of 5000000 in the new loan will be spent entirely on war material Another dispatch says that in the neighborhood of Lucovo an the Ser vian frontier 8000 Turks have en gaged five bands of insurgents and desperate fighting is reported The insurgents are employing bombs and the Turks have lost 300 men and sev eral officers The battle continues Lucovo is said to be in flames Wages Cut at Steel Furnaces ALLENTOWN Pa The Empire Steel and Iron company which oper ates six furnaces and the Thomas Iron company which also operates six stacksposted notices of a 10 per cent cut in wages to go into effect October 1 The reduction affects 900 men Czar is Being Carefully Guarded VIENNA A dispatch from Muerz steg Syria says the precantionary measures taken for the safety of the czar were largely entended on Thurs day The special reason for this has not transpired but fresh detachments of gendarmes have been ordered fo the hunting district where all the movements of unauthorized persons are prohibited during the times the czar and Emperor Francis Joseph are hunting TWO TRAINS MET DISASTROUS COLLISION ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CONDUCTOR HARPER IS KILLED Twenty or More Are Injured Dis charged Soldiers Render Aid Many Remarkable Escapes from Death Told by the Passengers BEOWAWE Nev A disastrous head end collision occurred Thursday night on the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific at this station The first section of train No C the Atlan tic express from San Francisco col lided with a freight train One pas senger was killed and twenty injured The dead Allee Harper aged about 34 years Pocatello Idaho a member of the Or der of Railway Conductors and a Knight Templar Relief trains were sent to the scene of the wreck from Winnemucca and Carlin carrying doctors Among the passengers on the train were a doctor and a trained nurse and two discharg ed soldiers The latter liad served in the hospital corps They rendered great service to the injured before the arrival of other medical assist ance The concussion was so great when the trains collided that a passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length Three engines are now locked together Mr Harper was sitting in the rear end of the smoker and was pinned in the wreckage being horribly mangled Death was not instantaneous but near ly two hours were consumed in ex tracting the body Many remarkable escapes from death are told by passengers Tha second section of No 219 the freight train came down the main line at Beowawe to allow another freight to pull out Conductor Dorsey in charge of No 219 saw what the engineer was doing and as No 6 was about due turned the air on the train breaking it in two The head brakeman went back to chain up while the fireman went to flag the first section of No 6 which was coming It being on a curve the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it was impossible to prevent the crashing together of the powerful engines Both engine crews jumped and both engines Were demolished The dead and injured were taken on the second section of No 6 to Ogden with the exception of Fireman Stone and Grant Byle of San Francisco who were sent to that city THREE DIE IN DEATH CHAIR Brothers Are Electrocuted for Murder of Their Uncle DANNEMORA N Y Without ono unforeseen incident to mar the per fect and dignified execution of the death penalty imposed by the trial court sustained by the court of ap peals and not interfered with by Gov ernor ODell Willis Frederick M and Burton Van Wormer were put to death in fifteen and one half minutes at Clinton prison Thursday for the murder of their uncle Peter A Hal lenbeck at Greendale on Christmas eve 1901 The motive for the mur der was ill feeling growing out of the foreclosure of a mortgage on the Van Wormer home by Hallenbeck The men walked from the doors of their cells in the care of their priest and flanked on either side by prison deputies with calm demeanor but ex treme pallor The entire proceeding from the start of tne first man from his cell to the doctors declaration of the death of the last consumed but fifteen and one half minutes and no untoward m cident marred the execution of the law Available Supply of Grain NEW YORK Special cable and tel egraphic dispatches to Bradstreets this week show the following changes in available supplies as compared with last accounts Wheat United States and Canada east of the Rockies increase 2969 000 bushels Wheat in and for Eu rope increased 4700000 bushels To tal supply increased 7069000 bushels Corn United States and Canada east of the Rockies increased 1212 000 bushels Oats United States and Canada east of the Rockies decrease 593000 bushels Finley Installed as President NEW YORK Dr John Houston Finley who left the faculty of Prince ton to accept the presidency of the College of the City of New York was on Tuesday installed in that office a notable gathering of college presi dents and other men of prominence participating in the installation cere monies Seventy universities and col leges were represented and a number of prominent men present delivered addresses INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION Nearly Twenty Thousand Greater Than August of a Year Ago WASHINGTON D C The bureau of immigration in a statement given out reports a heavy Increase in im migration to the United States during August 1903 compared with August L902 The total number of immi grants was 64977 against 45549 a year ago The statement showa marked increases in the immigration from Austria Hungary Denmark Finland Germany England Italy Russia Scotland and Wales A slight decrease is noted in immigra tion from Asia while Chinese immi gratlon increased slightly There were 810 immigrants debarked ol whom 545 were paupers 146 diseased six convicts seven pojygamists contract laborers and one idiot Out of the total arrivals 48000 were at the port of New York Thd Increase in immigration for the first two months ot the fiscal year is 48 per cent BELIEVES GERMANY SEEKS WAR A Strong Undercurrent Against tha United States CHICAGO 111 In plain English the attitude of the Germans toward us the United States is We like you awfully but weve got to fight you all the same This does not mean trade hammering with tariff regulations It means sooner or later shooting to kill Prof Albion W Small on arriving at the University of Chicago Tuesday after a summers tour through Europe uttered these words and gave as the reason for this German intention of provoking war with the United States Germanys desire for trade expansion in South America and the east The Germans are making extraor dinary efforts to please the Americans and if we want those efforts to con tinue we havent a minute to waste till we have a navy a little stronger than theirs he said POPE PREDICTS HIS FREEDOM Surprise Members of Religious Or ders ROME According to the Tribuna Pius X on receiving the abbott of the celebrated monastery of Monte Cas sini in Campania said We shall soon meet most reverend father at Mont Cassini Then noting the ef fect that his words produced the im pression that his holiness would some day leave the Vatican precincts he added Pray for all things are ob tained by prayer The pope is said to have told the abbott of the Benedictine monastery at Cava Dei Tirenne that he himself would inaugurate the jubilee of the Immaculate Conception TO PROTECT THEIR VISITOR Anarchists of France Under Strict Surveillance PARIS In anticipation of the ap proaching visit of the king of Italy to Paris the French police have institut ed a strict surveillance over the an archists in this country Several de tectives have been sent to Marseilles to maintaain a strict watch over the Italian colony there Two suspected anarchists were arrested today at Nice upon information furnished by the Italian government The police at Marseilles today seiz ed some compromising anarchist cor respondence and made four arrests on clues given by the Italian government The two Italians who were arrested at Nice are charged with complicity in the anarchist conspiracy Reported Massacre of Jews VIENNA The Czernowitz the newspaper which first aunounced the Kishineff riots reports that another massacre occurred at the town of nera Kishineff yester day in which 300 Jews and 100 Chris tians were killed This report is not confirmed from any quarter Mohilev Podolsky is a town on the Dneister with a population of 18128 compris ing many Jews Concussion of a Larger Gun SAN FRANCISCO The concussion caused by the discharge of the 12 inch gun on Angel island which was fired by the artillerymen in practice shat tered windows in Sausallto shook houses knocked down plaster and caused much excitement among the people The Presidio was also well shaken The boom of the heavy gun made the general hospital unsafe for a few moments Fighting Companys Head NEW YORK The directors and of ficers of the American Malting com pany have sent out a circular to stock holders asking them to withhold giv ing the president proxies which a few Iays ago he asked for for the purpose of electing a new set of officers at the November meeting The direc tors ask the stockholders to defer giv ing their proxies until they see the annual report of the company soon to be made gatgtaaaiiaatfrrtftWBJaiwagsBtaMrij i ff F or the Individual S796 5 1872 3 1952 xv P T 14 t tl jfCO l A B C A 0 E Jgl A w o e x xNv jQj WHERE OTHERS GIVE UP IS JUST WHERE WE GET OUR J SECOND BREATH J THIS ACCURACY REVIEW EPARTMENT is for co operation in xinformation to reduce mutually expensive mistakes Jt is for median ical commercial and professional people the employer employe and customer and consists of extracts taken by permission from the copy righted letters theleclures notebooks and libraries of Dr pari If Pratt When you secure on any subject an idea personally vseful to you and you wish to give it to him address him in care of The John Crerar Library Marshall Field Building Chicago He 13 hunting the vihole world over for information of every day use to you ald he regrets his inability personally to reply to contributors So far as possible he wishes to have in ttis space the very ideas you would like to find here You are at liberty to send him any suggestion you may care to His Arcade Index libraries were started in 1STJ and naio con- tain unpublished information dating back to 1790 with systematic plans extending to 10J Your short story of some example of forethought de posited in the Arcade Index collection may prove to bs your best monument iTioney Making Independence A few years ago I met a farmer who told me that from his earliest rec ollection he had never worried about how he was to get a living or make money He always felt competent to handle those subjects without any special mental effort There were other subjects over which he worried and no doubt many who worry a great deal about how to get a living are free from trouble when it comes to subjects that wor ried the farmer If a person can be born so that mak ing money or getting a living does not cause any trouble there must be a mechanical path to follow in reaching these desirable conditions One rule for earning money is to find out what you can best do and then seek the right market for your work and study supply and demand and competition Naturalists tell us that in a school of fish those in the fore part are fat while the fish that bring up the rear are always lean This was true in a certain locality on the subject of small fruit Those who began raising berries made nice sums of money from their investments but in a few years when everybody was raising them there was no money in it Commercial sense enables one to anticipate conditions and wants and be among the first to supply those wants I noticed a few months ago a shoe maker selecting a very desirable loca tion one that would grow better with each succeeding year and he illus trated his foresight in looking or the field and securing the place which he did for his shop Selecting a location is one of the main sources of success Just after the war a friend told me that he went West looking for a loca tion He studied two cities and at that time he was unable to see any difference between them but since then one has grown but very little while the other has doubled several times in population From the way in which some men select wisely nine times out of ten there must be signs or principles to go by in this important part of prosper ity It Is Right to Know Why A director in a school said he knew X Y Z etc were vowels but what he wanted to know was why they were We are all ditto on some subjects Useless and Useful Books Strong men of slow nature need looks of inspiration but men of ac tive minds and weak bodies need books on physical culture and better nethods A physical giant told me about the great benefit he secured from reading a hook of encouraging chapters A thinker claimed that a book benefited him very much by Caching him to eat better lunches and sespect his stomachs needs Eooks are as helpful and as dangerous as Ten and women or food and drink Jpoks are good companions and help ll guides when properly selected but U read anything may be worse than riding nothing Have you a plan for distinguishing between the useful 2i4 the useless Information for - the Business IWan From now on to what extent musjv the business man make use of printed information The knowledge and ex perience of many men on various sub jects is being gathered Is It neces sary for the business man to know about this and to possess it Many men are devoting their whole time to original researches on single subjects and their reports are pre pared In the form of hooks booklets and editorials for periodicals Must good business men sift these and make use of the best parts of them in order to continue as good business men A short time ago an official of an insurance company stopped me as I was passing him on the street He held up a small cloth bound volume of deep and dry reading Why did he pend his money for it in order to spend his time on it His actions are worthy of consideration because he together with his partner has done with very little money what many men with much money have tried with all their might to do and failed Why did he buy the book He knows how to use men their time their strength their ideas and observations Why can he not use re corded ideas experiences and observa tions He does not use all men only a few dozen are in his employ at pres ent but he has talked with hun dreds and it may he thousands to get that few dozen Is not this necessary After he had shown me his book and I had glanced at some of the mys terious equations in it I began asking him questions and was surprised to hear him say that he had not read a certain work Has he neglected because it has not been properly pi to him He is not a bookish man and would not neglect his busi ness for the pleasure of reading rather would he squeeze books for information to help him work better Is not this what hooks are for Some day I expect to make a special call on him to find out why he does not own that book which I think he should read and if he is able to up set my reasoning it will not be the first time it has been discomfited Can you confess the same The danger point to the pencil point is where you record things which you should remember without recording Is not the blunder with books cen tered in ignoring them or looking up to them in place of getting acquainted with and walking on them Ignor ing or adoring books weakens the worker but tapping books for daily useful hints and facts strengthens the worker Do you think otherwise To know what you do think and what part books have taken in help ing you woul be useful to me Will you drop me a letter or a postal card on the subject A man put thirty thousand dollars into advertising and waited for re turns While he was tottering be tween holding on and falling the re turns began to come in If they had been a few weeks slower he would have been a failure How much right have some successes to glory over some failures There are retail stores in which the trade is watched as the fireman eye3 the steam gauge The cashiers desk is visited often and if sales drop plans are laid to push harder Fine trades have been industriously built up while using poor stationery and no grammar It is better to advertise your busi ness than yourself Value of Ideas In a field I found a team a harness a chain an unpulled stump a boy and failure By adding a thought to the boy which caused the boy to chain a small log to the stump I left a fieJd in which there was a team a harness a chain a log a pulled stump a boy and success While talking with a salesman he told me about a framed poem in a business office One day when near there I copied it and though it mrry be old to you it is given here fcr those who may not have read it as sll of us need occasional encouragement Pluck wins It always wins Though weeks be slow and nights be dark twixt days that come and go still pluck wins its average is sure Ke gains the prize who can the most ea durp who faces issues he who never shirks who waits and watches and who always works The Telephone Voice For a couple of years I have had a desk in a room with a telephone ex change board The voice and face of one of the exchange board operators act as a looking glass to those at the other end of the wire and give me a view of the manners of many peo ple All Say So We learn more from the blunders of others than from those made 37 ourselves - S A 1 f t r i M y - f i fr a