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I I i MUTINY ON BOARD DECK CF A SCHOONER RUNS RED WITH BLOOD. FIVE QF THE CREW ARE KILLED Conspirators Are Caught and Give the Details cf the Commission of the Crime Causes Leading Up to the Trouble. WILMINGTON. N. C Her decks and cabins splotched with blood from ths fearful butchery amidship early Tuesday morning off the North Caro lina coast, the four-masted schooner Harry A. Derwind. of Philadelphia, was towed Into Southpprt Thursday by Wilmington tugs. Aboard weie the prize crew of the New York schooner Blanche H. King, who were wanted as witnesses against the three negroes shackled and brought to the Cape Fear quarantine station on Wednesday charged with mutiny and murder. At the preliminary investigation be fore United States Commisssioners Collier of Wilmington and Pinner of Southport, the men who boarded the Berwind told the story of conditions on the vessel as they found them and the three prisoners were introduced .at their own request. They gave their names as Robert Sawyer, Henry Scott and Arthur Adams, all negroes and under 40 years of age. Sawyer and Adams employed coun sel and both charged that Scott did the killing of the five men. with the exception of Captain Rum ill, who d's appeared before daybreak Tuesday morning in a manner of which they knew nothing. Each said he saw Scott shoot the mate on the lee side of the ship and throw his body over board. Then he killed the engineer and went down the companionway. Vehy soon they heard shots below deck in the galley and a short while there after Scott came up again, bearing the body of the cook, a small white man. in his arms, depositing his bur den over the rail.. They afterward bound Scott and were steering the ves sel as best they could until overhauled by the Blanche II. King. Scott says all the seamen, four negroes formed a conspiracy soon af ter leaving Mobile September 23, feel ing outraged because of short rations. He said that he kiled no one except Cokeley. the seaman found on deck and that he killed him in self-defense. Cokeley, he claimed struck him with a stick and shot at him while he was bound. He attempted no explanation of why he had been bound except that his companions wanted to get rid of him after the trouble. He sair he saw Cokeley shoot the mate and saw Adams kill the engineer. He does not know how the cook was killed, as the shooting was done below the deck. A NATIONAL ARMY OF 250,000 MEN LONDON The Daily Chronicle announces that Arnold Forster, secre tary of state for war, is working out with an army council new scheme to orsanize a "national army," of s. million of men to be composed of militia and suplemcnted by regulars and volunteers available for foreign Service. The project, the paper says, includes the building of barracks throughout the country for the new force with special depots.. TO EXCHANGE WAR PRISONERS. Japs Get 1,866 and Turn Over 64,000 Russians. St Petersb-irg Russia on Saturday agreed to the Japanese proposition to exchange prisoners of war. where jy 1,866 Japanese prisoners in Russia will be delivered at some point on the west ern frontier of Russia, and 64.000 Rus sians will be delivered at the ports of Kobe, Nagasaki and Yokohoma, whence they will he conveyed to Vladivostok in ten Russian transports now interned at Shanghai and Saigon and two or three other ships which are be.ng sent from Odessa. MANILA RAILWAY PAYS WELL Net Profit for Year of 1904 of 15 Per Cent. WASHINGTON According to the Annual report for the year 1904 of the Manila Railway company, owning the line connecting Manila on the south with Degupan on the north, the road paid 15 per cent net profit The total receipts were $1,145,069 and the ex penditures $660,724, leaving a net pro fit of $814,345. The original cost cf the road was $5,363,700. It is stated that by American meth ods of accounting the property would have paid almost 35 per cent on the investment It is thought at the in sular bureau that this showing may have an important influence on bidding next month by American capitalists for the right to construct additional railways in the Philippines. Taft Going to Panama. WASHINGTON Secretary Taft will sail on a naval vessel from New Orleans for Panama about November 1. He goes to look after the canal situation as it now exists in the way of construction and preoarat'on. At the conference with the president, when it was decided to leave the ad ministration of the canal to the secre tary of war. Secretary Taft made it plain that if he was to have the re sponsibility for the canal he would be supreme in its command and there would be no intermediary. ST. LOUIS The joint committee of the twenty-five allied organizations working for the proposed bond issue to erect a free bridge over the Missis lippi here met today and adopted a resolution thanking President Roose velt for ordering action on the alleged combination that monopolizes the two oridges and ferry here and exacts an arbitrary rate, and thanking Attorney General Moody for beginning the In vestigation. A second resolution Adopted pledges the organizations to continued effort against the bridge monopoly. CASE OF PACKERS Intimation That Counts of Conspiracy Are Good. CHICAGO The hearing ov argu ments on the demurrers to the indict ment returned by the federal grand jury aginst five of the big packing concerns and seventeen of their em ployes was closed late-Wednesday af ternoon and if Judge Humphrey, be fore whom the arguments were made, retains his present impression of the case one-half of the indictments charg ing the packers with conspiracy In re straint of trade will be sustained and the remaining counts overruled. When it was announced that the case had been closed Judge Humphrey said: "As it now looks to the court the odd numbered counts are sufficient The argument has been so clear that this is my present impression. "I will faithfully read the authori ties cited by either side of the case. When I am ready to render my deci sion in the case I will notify the dis trict attorney and attorney for the de fendants." The edd numbered indictments which may be considered sufficient by the court charge conspiracy among the defendants in restraint of trade. The even numbered counts charge a monopoly. The first count In the in dictment is not to be considered in the decision of Judge Humphrey, as to this count the packers are to plead not guilty and go to trial immediately. Edward Tilden. president of the Chi cago Board of Education and head of the National Packing company and Libby. McNeilll & Libby. has been served with a subpoena to appear as a witness in the trial of the packers, their agents and attorneys, who were indicted on charge of conspiracy to monopolize the meat business. MEAT FAMINE IN GERMANY IS LOOKING SERIOUS BERLIN There is much evidence to show that Germany's meat famine is growing worse. Reports from all parts of the country make mention of the measures that are being taken to abate the famine. At Eisenach a con ference of the municipal authorities in that region decided to establish regular rabbit markets and in the Munich public markets also public rabit stalls have been opened. Since horse flesh has risen in price and dog flesh is no longer obtainable a number of municipalities began buy ing carloads of sea fish at the coast towns and selling them at cost to citizens. This expedient was first adopted at Solingen, but has now spread to various Westphalian cities, to Posen and even to Bavarian towns. MARKEL CONTRACT ANNULLED. Present Arrangement for Feeding Em ployes is Found Sufficient PANAMA The last action of tho Panama canal commission before sail ing from Colon for New York was the annulment of the contract awarded to J . E. Markel of Omaha for feeding and caring for the employes of the canal. The reason for this action is Chief Engineed Stevens, through the deartment of materials and supplies under Messrs. Jackson and Smith, is handling the commissaries successful ly, rendering unnecessary the arrange ment with Mr. Markel. Protests made by the employes against the arrange ment, it is believed also influenced the decision. The contract with Mr. Markel was to run five years, and it was estimated that it would involve . $50,000,000. Hud gins & Dumas, one of the other linns bidding for the contract, pro tested against the award to Mr. Mar kel, alleging favoritism and charging that the latter was enabled through a leak in the office of Chairman Shonts to gain information about the other bidders which aided him in bidding successfully. The protest was for warded to President Roosevelt, who referred it to Chairman Shonts for report, and later decided that the con tract would stand. LUMBER INTERESTS FAVOR RAILROAD LEGISLATION Washington President Roosevelt has received further indorsement of his attiaude toward the enactment of railroad rate legislation from the big lumber interests of the country. Louis Dill, president, and Robert W Higbie, a member of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' association, and George Gardner and Silas Gardner, representing the Central Yellow Pine association of Mississippi, told the president that their associations ap proved heartily of his course in the rate legislation question. Aged Warrier Dead. NEW YORK Col. William T. Clark of Washington, D. C, died aged 74 years. He was a member of congress from Galveston, Texas, from 1869 to 1873. He was the last surviving adju tant and chief of staff of General Grant's Army of the Tennessee. Hill Buys Chicago Terminal. CHICAGO Burlington passenger trains soon will begin to arrive and depart from the Grand Central pas ger station, according to the Record Herald. Financial control of the Chi cago Terminal Transfer Railroad com pany has been secured by James J. Hill and bis allies for the benefit of the Burlington, which for a long time has found the Union station too great ly crowded to give it sufficient room for its trains. The change in stations will be made as soon as the affairs of the terminal company are adjusted. Hearst is Named. NEW YORK William Randolph Hearst was nominated for mayor of New York at a convention of the Municipal Ownership league and al lied organizations held in Carnegie hall. WASHINGTON Monday's state ment of treasury balances in the gen eral fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve, shows: Available cash balance, $137,866,041; gold coin and buh.on, $67,624,631; gold certificates, $51,038,410; total, 1256,529,082. WAVE RED FLAGS FIRST BIG DEMONSTRATION UN DER TARIFF RULE. TROUBLE COMES FROM FUNERAL Crowd Esc9v'ng Troubetsky's Body to Station Charged by the Police and Gendarmes No Disturbance in In dustrial Quarters. ST. PETERSBURG. For the first time since the advent of M. Tropoff as head of the government of St. Pet ersburg, demonstrations on a large scale took place here Sunday, the oc casion being the removal of the body of Prince Troubetsky to Moscow. Students, workmen and spetators gathered -by thousands in the streets, and demonstrators with red flags paraded boldly through the Nevsky prospect, the city's main avenue. Ihe crowds and the proces sions were several times charged and dispersed by mounted police, but for tunately with no grave consequences. The" most grave injuries are those sus tained by two men who were slashed with sabres. Firearms were not em ployed by the gendarmes or military and thought the first collision was pro voked by a shot from the crowd and a few cases of stoning occurred, the crowd manifested no inclination to re sist the police and troops. The students are exasperated over the attacks by the police and the ar rest of several members of a coalition committee chosen by a student meet ing September 6 and a renewal of the disorders is not improbable. The serious feature of the situation is that a strike of printers was de clared on political grounds, which is to last for a period of three days, but it may be continued longer in case of repressive measures or ar rests. A few of the leading daily news papers hope to be able to issue a single sheet giving telegraphic news, but the others will suspend publica tion entirely. The employes of sev eral factories are ready to follow the lead of the printers and the authori ties are fully alive to the dangci that the strike may become general. There were no disturbances in the industrial quarters of the city. Large forces of troops were held in readi ness in the court yards of the bar racks and in the squares in various parts of the city to deal with any dis order. From the Nevsky prospect a band of students and workmen car rying red flags and chanting revolu tionary songs marched across the river and began an open air meeting in the square in front of the university. While the speeches were in prosress the police again charged and dis persed the crowds. In the m?lee a workman and a student received sabre cuts. The crowd took refuge In the university buildings, and the meeting was continued there without being dis turbed by the police. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MADE BY MANIPULATORS NEW YORK the profits of the al leged conspirators in the operations based on the recent leak in the govern ment cotton reports are placed at ap proximately $200,000, according to an indictment presented in court today on the arraignment before United States Commissioner Ridgeway of Frederick A. Peckham and Moses Haas. Accord ing to charges made in this indictment Edwin S. Holmes, jr., associate statis tician of the Department of Agricul ture, received $25,071. The indictment which was found by a grand jury in Washington on Octo ber 3, is against Edwin S. Holmes, jr., and L. C. Van Riper, as well as against Haas and Peckham, and charges all four collectively with having con spired to defraud by procuring advance information from Holmes concerning the government's cotton crop report. GOVERNMENT HELPS OIL MEN Russia Will Lend Money to Owners to Make Repairs at Baku. ST. PETERSBURG The govern ment has decided to send the Baku oil men the money necessary to repair the damages caused during the recent rioting there, but has declined their request that the loans be without in terest. The sum necessary is esti mated at from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, on which 5 per cent will be charged. The minister of finance, has sent an urgent telegram to the viceroy of Caucasus urging immediate compli ance with the oil men's request that the troops in the pumping districts be strengthened. One Trooper Kills Another. JUNCTION CITY, KAS Private James A. Keeth, a negro trooper in the Ninth cavalry, shot and killed Private Mauley of the same organization as the result of a quarrel. Keeth has been arrested. He will be tried by the regular federal court instead of by court-mart'al. THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER STARTS FOR AMERICA YOKOHAMA The Pacific Mail Steamship Siberia sailed for San Fran cisco at 3:25 o'clock Saturday after noon, with Miss Alice Roosevelt and her traveling companions and E. H. Harriman. president of the Southern Pacific company, and his party on board. The distinguished Americans were given a great sendofi by the Japanese, the residential and civil of ficers. Hoch Case in Supreme Court. SPRINGFIELD, O. The state filed its brief Friday in the Johann Hoch murder case and it will be submitted to the supreme court by oral arguments and briefs next Monday, the 16th. No decision will be rendered by the court before the December term. The state sets np twenty-four points, the most important of which is that it is not necessary to prove corpus delicti by direct or positive evidence and that it would be most unreasonable to require such evidence. DOMINICAN LANDS ARE SOLD Secretary Taft Completes the Purchase of the Philippine Tracts. WASHINGTON Secretary Taft has approved a settlement arranged by the the Philippine government which com pletes the purchase of the Dominican friar lands in the Philippine islands. Those lands include nearly half of those purchased from the friars and amount to about 200,000 acres. After the contracts were signed it was found that a mistake had occurred by reason of a difference in the Spanish and English versions of the surveys. The Spanish version made the price $200,000 more than the English ver sion. It was also found that the titles to eight different tracts were defective While Secretary Taft was in the Is lands he effected a compromie by which the titles were to be made com plete and the purchae money paid ac cording to the English version while the $200,000 in controversy was to be submitted to arbitration. Since his return the secretary has received a ca ble from Governor Wright saying that the Dominican agents offered to com promise by accepting $50,000. Sec retary Taft today cabled Governor Wright approving the compromise. The total amount to be paid in the Dominicans is $3 050,000. The money will be paid In New York about Oct. 20. KANSAS' FIRM STAND WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON Railroad rate leg islation, and the oil situation with special reference to the middle west ern field, were discussed today by the president and Representative Camp bell of Kansas. Mr. Campbell talked briefly of railroad rates and of the contest between the state of Kansas and the oil combination. He assured the president that the people of Kan sas stood squarely at his back on the question of railroad rate legislation. CAPT. TAGGART WINS OUT Gets Divorce and is Granted Custody of the Children. WOOSTER, O. Judge Eason, who heard the divorce case of Captain El more F. Taggart against his wife, ren dered his decision Friday afternoon. The court grants Captain Taggart the divorce and the custody of the two children, Culver, aged 11, and Charles, aged 7. Although Mrs. Taggart Is de nied possession of the children she will be permitted to see them. Captain Taggart was in court during the read ing of the decision. Mrs. Taggart is ill and was not present. NO PROMISE OF IMMUNITY. Hyde Will Testify to Insurance Matters. NEW YORK Charles E. Hughes, counsel to the legislative insurance inquiry, and Samuel Untermeyer, coun sel to James H. Hyde, had a confer ence in Mr. Hughes' office today. While neither lawyer would discuss the mat ter it is said as a result of the meeting Hyde probably will appear voluntarily as a witness before the investigation committee, although it is likely he will not be summoned in the immediate future. Hughes has gone on record as re fusing to promise Hyde any special immunity or privileges as a witness and it is understood that when he ap pears to testify he will stand on the same footing as others. PLANS FOR ENTERTAINING PRESIDENT AT LITTLE ROGK LITTLE ROCK. ARK. Plans for the reception and entertainment of Presi dent Roosevelt in Little Rock on Octo ber 25 were mapped out today and a reception committee appointed, com posed of twenty-two men, headed by Senators Berry and Clarke and Gener al Powell Clayton, former ambassador of the United State to Mexico. The appointees are notified that they are expected to remain with the president while he is in the city from 9 a.m. to 9 p. m. The president will be escorted first to Fort Logan H. Root, which he will inspect. Then he will go to the city park to address the people. LOW RATES TO PACIFIC COAST One Way Price, Second' Clas3, Every .Spring and Fall. CHICAGO, 111. Officials of the Un ion Pacific, Southern Pacific and Ore gon Short Line, at a conference here Friday, agreed that hereafter the regu lar one-way second clas3 passenger rate between Chicago and all Pacific coast points shall be $33 for four months of every year, spring and fall. According to today's agreement the rate will be effective every year from September 1 to October 31 and from February 1 to April 7. The rates from St. Louis and New Orleans will be cut to $25 and $30 respectively and similar low rates will apply from all western points. Sugar from Hawaii. MAZATLAN, Mexico Representa tives of the American Hawaiian Hawaiian Steamship company, who stopped at this port on their way from San Francisco to Salina Cruz, say the company expects to ship at least 300 000 tons of Hawaiian sugar annually across the Mexican isthmus under the contract recently entered into with the National railroad of Tehuantepec, pending the completion of the Pana ma canal. Two new steamers are be ing built for the company at Califor nia yards. Get One-Third of Lands Surveyed. IKAZATLAN, Mexico The Sinaloa Land company, which was organized in Los Angeles to survey the public lands of Sinaloa under a government concession, has nearly completed its work. The public lands of the state amount to about 10,000,000 acres, and according to the terms of the conces sion the company will receive one third of the land. surveyed. The com pany plans to bring over thousands of Japanese and settle them in this state. Colonists will also be secured from Germany and Holland. WAS NEAR CRISIS FRANCE AND GERMANY NARROW LY AVERTED WAR. THE OFFER OF GREAT BRITAIN Lansdowtw Agrees to Support France in Case of Hostilities Emperor Wil liam Decides on a Counter Move, With Italy to Execute It. PARIS The French government continues silent concerning the alleged relations of Great Britain's offer of naval and military aid to France if Ger many assumed a belligerent atttitude over Morocco. In the meantime the newspapers add new phases to the dis closures. The Figaro gives a detailed version even more sensational than the previous alleged disclosures of the Matin. It says that the previous re port of Great Britain offering to mobi lize its navy and land British forces in Germany is not correct, but that the actual occurrence was as follows: ; "Before the Moroccan crisis became acute the British government -madei three distinct overtures to learn If France was disposed to conclude a; treaty of defensive alliance. France declined to consider the question. Later, when the Moroccan crisis became' acute Paul Cambon, the French am bassador to Great Britain, reopened the question and obtained verbal as surances from Secretary Lansdowne of Great Britin's effective concourse in the event of a conflagration. M. Cam bon was thereupon able to announce to M. Delcasse (who was then foreign minister) that if a casus foederis (case coming within a treaty) was de sired, Great Britain would reiterate its assurance in writing. The German ambassador in London Count Worff-Mettcrnich, learned of these assurances and informed Berlin. Emperor William decided on a counter move and made Italy the medium of its execution. He informed Italy that any treaty whereby Great Britain gave France military support relative to Morocco would constitute a casus belli. The Figaro asserts that this amounted to an indirect ultimatum and that the Italian government communi cated the situation to M. Barrere, the French ambassador to Italy, who in-' formed Paris June 4. Immediately thereafter M. Delcasse resigned (June 6) as a result of a violent scene in a cabinet council. During this council M. Delcasse is alleged to have said: "I have a formal assurance of Great Britain's support." A YOUNG MAN SUICIDES RATHER THAN FACE JURY NEW YORK Rather than face trial on the indictment charging him with fraudulently taking money from the Weissel estate, Armitage Mathews, lawyer and secretary of the county republican committee, committed sui cide today by jumping from a window in his apartment to a stone paved court yard. He struck on his head, fracturing the skull and died in a short time. Mathews, who was a young man, had advanced rapidly, both in the practice of his profession and in politics. He was a friend of former Governor Black and Abraham Gruber and they were loyal to him in bis trouble. SIR HENRY IRVING IS DEAD Distinguished Actor Passes Away Sud denly at Bradford, England. LONDON The English speaking world has suffered an irreparabble loss by the sudden death of Sir Henry Inr ing, who was universally regarded as the most representative English actor of- contemporary times. He died liter illy in harness. He was giving a series of farewell performances in the Eng lish provinces and this week was play ing an engagement at Bradford, ap pearing in several favorite roles. Thursday he presented "King Rene's Daughter" and "The Bells," and seemed to be in excellent health, tak ing the exhausting part of Matthias in the latter play, wih all the vigor of youth. Tonight (Friday) before an enthusiastic audience he portrayed one of his most characteristically intellec tual parts, the title role in his own ?tage adaptation of Lord Tennyson's "Becket" with marked success. After rhe performance Sir Henry returned to the hotel, reaching there at 11:30 when it was observed that he was in great pain. Physicians were immediately -summoned, but before they could ar rive Sir Henry was seized with an at tack of synocope and expired within a few minutes, without having uttered a word. Americans Get a Franchise. MEXICO CITY Messrs. Scully, Perry and Newell, Americans, have icquired for the sum of $2,500,000 a iroup of mining claims situated in the state of Durango. The first payment $1,400,000 has been placed with the national bank at Mexico. Czar Cables President that He Has Signed Document. ST. PETERSBURG The ratifica tion of the treaty of peace is formally mnounced in the official Messenger, which says that its operation began Saturday. The text of the treaty is not given. As a graceful mark of appreciation of the part he took in bringing about the conference at Portsmouth and the resultant peace. President Roosevelt was the first person to be notified by the Russian government that Emperor Nicholas bad ratified the treaty. Cattle Dealers Denounced. PHILADELPHIA The transporta tion of cattle was discussed at Wed nesday's meeting of the American Humane society in annual session. The subject was brought before the conves tion in a paper read by James Brown, president of tb Toledo Humane so ciety. Mh. Brown declared that cat tle dea'ers rarely consider the com fort of the stock during transportation to market and asserted that the ani mals suffered cruelly from neglect. Mrs. Mary P. Lamb of Los Angeles, Cal., was among, the speakers. GREATEST ACTOR OF HIS DAY London Newspapers Comment en liv ing's Death. LONDON The news of the death of Sir Henry Irving was received too late to permit more than brief announce ments in this morning's London news papers. The Daily Telegraph and tho Morning Post, however, print lengthy memorials, speaking of him as tho greatest actor of his period. The Morn ing Post says: "No stronger personality, no more unflagging activity has within living memory adorned the English stage. His death is a national loss and his memory a national possession. Had he gone to the bar he would have reached the bench if into the church he would surely have become a bishop. He chose the stage and was easily the foremost actor of his time. The Times saysr "Henry Irving was a great actor, but his greatness sprung' from a dif ferent source than that of any other actor who can be mentioned. The suc cess of his famous predecessors lay in their power to affect the emotions of the audience through the strength of their own emotions. Irving was not an emotional actor or one who touched the emotions. His greatness lay in his brain and not to the emotions. Whenever there was room for his brain to work he was at home, while any thing approaching the commonplace, the full blooded or the sensational left his peculiar gifts unemployed. EX-SPEAKER HENDERSON CANNOT LAST LONG DUBUQUE. IA. There is very little change in the condition of ex-Speaker David B.. Henderson, although his death may come at any time. Tues day the ex-peaker had an unusually hard day, which left him in a greatly weakened condition. Dr. J. S. Han cock, who recently took charge of his case, is of the opinion that death may come at any time and the patient may yet live six months or more. A sud den rush of blood to the head might kill him instantly. Trained nurses are constantly with him, the ex speaker being in such a weak condi tion that he is barely able to move. BOB EVANS MEETS BATTLESHIP English Officer Will Call on the President. NEW YORK Admiral Evans bat tleship squadron left its anchorage in the North river and headed for Hamp ton Roads. Thence the squadron will go to Annapolis, arriving there Octo ber 21, 'where it will meet the British fleet under Prince Louis of Batten burg. While the fleets are lying off An napolis Prince Louis and his officers will go to Washington to 'be received by the president. Escorted by Rear Admiral Bronson's division of four armored cruisers, the British squadron will leave Annapolis on November 8, arriving there the next day, the 9th, the king's birthday. ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES Des Moines Next Year, and Colonel Frost Commander-in-Chief. CHICAGO At today's session of the Army of the Philippines, Colonel S A. Frost of Evanston, 111., was elected commander-inchief, Colonel J. W. Pope of the United States volunteer army was Colonel Frost's opponent for the position. Other officers elected ere: Senior vice commander, Captain H. A. Crow, of Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers; first junior vice commander. Colonel J C. Loper, Fifty-first Iowa volunteers; second junior vice commander, "Lieu tenant E. L. Hamilton, Thirtieth United States volunteers; third junior vice commander. Captain Charles E. Metz, First Minnesota volunteers; fourth junior vice commander, Ser gant George J. Weinheimer, United States volunteer infantry. Des Moines was chosen as the place of the next annual meeting. Fines Two Communes. MHAU, RUSSIA On account of the recent destruction by revolutionaries of a railroad in this district and the failure of the local authorities to pre vent it the governor general has im posed fines of $1,500 on two com munes. HUNGER AND THURST TO SEE OLD GLORY WASHINGTON Orders have been cabled to Rear Admiral Train, com manding the Atlantic squadron, di recting him to detach a ship from his fleet, for cruise in Australian waters some time this fall. There are many Americans in Australia, some of whom have called attention to the fact that the American flag 'lias not appeared in these waters for some time. Ad miral Train has not yet advised the department of bis selection for this duty, but as the mission is entirely friendly the ship sent will not neces sarily be a large one. Bryan Family at Qokohama. TOIO William J. Bryan and hi3 family, who arrived at Yokohama Sat urday will spend two weeks in Japan. They will make a visit of five days to Tokio and Marquis Ito, president of the privy council, and Count Okuma. leader of the progressive party, will invite Mr. Bryan to a dinner. The Japan-American society will invite Mr. Bryan to address its members at the Young Men's hall on October 17. Count Okuma will preside at the function. Mr. Bryan and family are in excellent health. Fears Precipitate Action. FRANKFORT, Ky. Governor Beck ham on Saturday afternoon addressed a letter to Thomas W. Lawson at Bos ton, in which he expressed the belief that his declared purpose to protect policyholders against the officials of the life insurance companies in sin cere, nd declares it to be praisworthy, but declines to act on the committee suggested, thinking that precipitate action while the present investigation is on may impair rtaher than increase the advantage to be gained by policyholders. WILL LIVE IN HISTORY'S PAGES. Highway to the Southwest Bu'lt Only a Century Ago. A hundred years ago the eyes of America were on the southwest. We were on the edge of the war with' Spain over the closing of the Missis sippi, and under orders from Washing ton. Wilkinson, in command of Fort Adams, held solemn conclave with the Indians who owned the east bank of the big river, and by treaty establish ed a sacred postroad through their country. It left Nashville on the old Buffalo trace, crossed the Tennessee at Col bert's ferry below the Mussel shoals, and. striking the hills back of the Big Black, came down to Natchez and on to New Orleans, with a branch to the Walnut hills. The road was more than a military necessity, for so many pirates infested the Mississippi that merchants returning from New Or leans needed a safer route home with their money. After it was opened it became all things to the southwest. Methodism went down that way in the person of Tobias Gibson; later Lorenzo Dow fol lowed him with the camp meeting spirit. Old Hickory marched his army down to Natchez over this route in 1S13 and marched it back again next spring. And from that day till nearly our own it has been the great center of that country's activity. Now the railroads have come, the settlers have moved down into - the valleys and opened up poorer roads in the beds of branches and through swampy low lands. But the Trace is still there upon its ridges, the best road of them ajl. Everybody's Magazine. PARROTS LIVE FOR A CENTURY. Could Talk as Well as a Man if Edu cated When Young. There is no doubt of the fact that the parrot is one of the longest lived of all animals. There is a well-authenticated case of a grown man who used to go to see a remarkable talk ing cockatoo which his grandmother had personally known when she was a little girl. So it is probably no fairy story that the birds sometimes sur vive for a century, inasmuch as actual knowledge of the particular fowl cov ered something like seventy years. In the West Indies and elsewhere in the tropics parrots are commonly al lowed to roam at will about house .gardens and at meal times, when they hear the clatter of plates they will walk into the dining-room, climb on the backs of the chairs and insist up on their share of whatever there is to eat. It seems odd, when one comes to think of it. that birds should be tho only animals that can talk. There aro other speaking birds besides parrots, of course, such as the crow, for exam ple, but parrots are decidedly tho most capable conversationalists. So excellent is the vocal organ with which a parrot is provided that if it only had the requisite brains it could talk almost as well as a man. Doubt less the most intelligent parrots are the best speakers, other things being equal, but, as already suggested, no parrot, however clever, can become a first-rate talker unless its education has been begun early in life. Claims Cure for Appendicitis. Dr. Pond of Liverpool. England, has advanced a new theory with deference to the origin of appendicitis and other disturbances of the digestive organs. He calls attention to the fact that such ailments can often be attributed to antimonial poisoning, and the source of the antimony taken up by man is said to be the rubber rings which are frequently used to close all sorts of bottles. Dr. Pond has established the fact that such rings consist of almost one third their weight of antimony. The antimony is not only dissolved by tho mineral waters containirg alkaiis and organic acids, but these rubber rings, as daily observation shows, soon be come brittle and some of the com pound falls into the contents of the vessels. Dr. Pond claims to have found that a frequently repeated introduction of antimony can become the source of a series of disturbances of the nutritive and digestive system, especially through continued weakening of the muscles of the stomach and intestines. Nothing Wrong. There Is nothing at a!l the matter, my boy. The world goes plugging along In the same old way from day to day. Singing her good old song. Maybe her songs grow old to you. And maybe your hopes grow dim: But there's nothing at all the matter, my boy It's only your foolish whim. There Is nothing at all the matter, my boy You have only lost your hold: Get back to the life and back to th strife. Get back to your work's enfold. There Is work laid out for your hands to do. So stick to your task with vim: There is nothing at all the matter, my boy It's only your foolish whim. There Is nothing at all the matter, my boy Stand by till your task is done: Its the way for a place In the world's mad race v It's the way that the end Is won. There s a place at the top. but the way Don't rail if yur star grows dim; to3!- thC wor,ds a" wrong, my wsi?n,, yr foolish whim. w. . Griffin in Milwaukee Sentinel. His First Visit. "Look here. Halton. why in creation did you-lure me Into buying a ticket for that lawn fete?" "Why. did you pay out much?" "Much Why, they charged me 50 cents for lemonade and 1 for ice cream." "That was exorbitant, "Then I was lured through the maze of mystery.' 'witches' caldron ate. and by the time they finished telling my fortune I didn't have a penny." "That was tough." "O, I could have recovered from that, but it was the sequel. When I reached home dead broke my wife ac cused me of playing poker and hasn't spoken to me since." Chicago News. Girl Writes Verse. Violet Firth, a thirteen-year-old Eng lish girl has written a Tolume of verse which has sold Bore than 3.009 toplas. . f .f l; I Awn wiyg-'" Wg . ?SCr Tf '1 .JJL-J 1 -ft.,: TTfSt 'JjPWpr