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Robberies of ammu nition and war material from the arsenal at Lisbon have been discovered, and the government has been defrauded to the ex tent of fcOO.000 by excise men accepting bribes and enabling large brewers to evade duties. Burglars Entered Costa's Bank here Monday night and stole $100, 0W. They entered the bank by a subter ranean passage which they dug them "ivcs and broke open the safe. Investment Company Enjoined. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 3. The- County Superior Court has issued an order against the Creditable Loan & Securities Company, an investment concern doing a large business throughout the South, ep jolning the further payment of duo by certificate-holders and restraining the company for enforcing any fines or for feitures, pending the further order of the court. The bill alleges that the liabilities of the company to its certificate-holders amount -to- abtfut $700,090, and tbe aseta, as shown by their sworn tax returns, amount to lacs than $i0,GOQ. IN COLLISION WITH A GAR Carriage Overturned and His Guard Killed, MR. ROOSEVELT SLIGHTY HURT Secretary Cortelyou Also Injnred and Driver Seriously Wounded Motorman and Conductor of tke Car Arretted, While driving:, through Pittafleld. Mass., the President's carriage -was run Into by an electric car traveling at high speed. The carriage was demol ished, and the President received aev- eral slight bruises about the face. Will lam Crate, of the Secret Service, was ' thrown under the wheels of the car ' and Instantly killed. Secretary Corlel . you had a bad wound In the back of his head, and tbe driver of the carriage was seriously wounded. Tbe motorman and conductor of the car were arrested. After the accident the President ,contln ued hla Journey to Oyster Bay, stop ping at several places, but delivering no addresses, and asking the people to make no demonstrations. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept 4. The President of the United States escaped a tragic death by only a few feet in a col lision between his carriage and an electric street-car In this city today, while one of his most trusted guards, Secret Service Agent .William Craig, was Instantly killed and David J. Pratt, of Dalton, who was guiding the horses attached to fht i-hlfle. was most seriously injured. President Roosevelt himself was badly shaken up, but received only a slight facial bruise. Secretary Cortelyou. who occuoled a seat directly opposite tne ires Jdent In the carriage, sustained a minor vrminri in thp hack of the head.. and Gov- dent, escaped.' without a scratch. The carriage. was demolished by the. impact of the, rapidly moving car, and the wheel h6fBC on the side nearest the car was killed. The crew and passengers of the car escaped injury. The President and party were driving from this city to Lenox, through South Btreet one ot the principal thoroughfares of Pittsfield. which was lined with cheer Ing people, and the catastrophe happened In Dlaln view of hundreds, whose happi ness at the advent of the Nation's Chief was suddenly turned to grief. Thousands had poured Into the city In the early morning from the country to see and hear the President and his address at the City Park had been loudly cheered. At the conclusion of the exercises, he wished to make a brief call on ex-Sen ator Dawes, whose house In Elm street is but a short distance from the park. The President's carriage. In which he had ridden in from Governor Crane's home at Dalton, was accordingly driven to the Dawes residence, and carriages contain ing a number of other gentlemen in the party followed. President Roosevelt's call was a short one, and then the carriage. returned to tho City Square. After a few minutes delay. tho Journey to Lenox was begun. Mean' while, tho mounted escort of police of ficers and the carriages carrying the newspaper correspondents who have ac companied the President on his tour had started off ahead on the road to Lenox. and were some distance in advance of the President's equipage. Three or four other open carriages fell in line Immedi ately behind the landau In which the President rode with Secretary Cortelyou and Governor Crane. Secret Service Agent Craig, who throughout the New England trip had been almost constantly at the President's elbow, was on the dxiv- er s box beside Coachman Pratt Scene of tke Accident. Out through South street Is a broad highway. The tracks of the Plttsfleld Electric Street Railway are laid in the center of the road, with ample room for teams on each side, and scores of vehlc.es ot every description followed along the road behind the President's Darty. Shortly after he left the park an eleV trie car. which had been filler! -with nnn.lt scngers at that point started toward Lenox -well behind the procession. It was about 1 miles out from the city at the beginning of Howard HIU, and was near ly up to the President's carriage, which was traveling on the west side of the highway. Just at the foot of Howard Hill the road bends a UtUe and teams are compelled to cross the street railway tracks to the east side. The railroad then continues alongside of the street Instead of In the center. Just at this point the up-grade of the hill begins, and but a short distance beyond tbe crossing there is a narrow bridge spanning a "small brook. The trolley car approached the road crossing under a good head of speed, with gong clanging, Just as the driven of the Presidents carriage turned his leaders to ctobs the tracks. On each side of tbe Chief Executive's carriage rode two mounted troopers of the local cavalry company, and the horsemen on the left of the landau had turned onto the track with the trolley car immediately behind them. Alarmed "by the clanging gong, they both turned' Ja their caddies and waved vigorously to the motorman ta stop his car. Almost at the same Instant; Governor Crane,' -who quickly perceived the danger, rose to his feet and Ukewlae motioned to the motorman. Cenld Jfot Stan tke Car. The latter. In great excitement, des perately tried to stop his car, but Jt wu too late. It crashed Into the carriage, and a loud moan went up from the frenzied onlooker? who thronged tbe roadside, ana who but a moment before were cheering the President The horseman managed, to get the frightened animal, out of the way -Just In time, and the car struck the .rear 'wheel of the carriage on the leftw'di' I and plowed thrcuf l&t the front wheel ef the vehicle, which received the full force of the blow. The carriage was upset, and one horso Ml dead on the tracks. They were powerful grays attached to the vehicle, and they started to run, and, dragged by them and pushed by the fdrce of the car, the wrecked carriage was. moved 30 or 40 feet Mr. Craig fell from "his seat Immediate ly In front of the car, and it nassed com pletely over his body. Driver Pratt, In railing, struck the dead horse immediate ly In front of him. and rolled off clear of the car, thus escaping a similar fate. President Roosevelt, Governor Crane and Secretary Cortelyou were thrown together In the bottom of the. carriage'. Almost instantly a score of men jbmped to the heads of the frightened horses and stopped their further progress. Governor Crane was the first to get on his seat. escaping entirely unhurt. He turned Im mediately to the President helped the lat ter to arise, and together they assisted Secretary Cortelyou. The President's Injury. The President's Hp was cut and blood was flowing .from the wound. His cloth h.g was mich disarranged, And he was severely shaken up. Secretary Cortelyou had a severe wound In the back of his head, from which blood was flowing free ly. The President quickly regained his composure, and the three soon after re paired to the residence of Charles R- Stevens, near the Bcene of the accident Mr. Craig's body was found Just behind the car. His" shoulders and chest were crushed and the body frlghtly mangled. Driver Pratt was found unconscious la the road. HI shoulder was dislocated, his ankle sprained and his face badly cut and bruloed. He was Immediately placed in a carriage and taken to the House of Mercy, where he was attended by Drs Flynn and Paddock, who tonight say that He will recover. Craig's body was taken to the residence of Mrs. B. Stevens, ad- Joining the house which .the President had occupied with Governor Crane and Secretary Cortelyou, and later was re moved to undertaking rooms in this city. But a few moments after the collision Drs. Colt, Thomas and Woodruff arrived and attended the President and, his secre tary. Half an hour later the President appeared and' resumed the Journey to Lenox. An anxious crowd surrounded the house, and the President stopped long enough to assure the people that he was ribt Injured In the least, and to express his great grief at the death of Agent Craig. Motorronn and Conductor Arrested. Chief Nicholson, of the Plttsfleld police, and Daniel Ryan, an officer of the New York City Department who Is on his va cation Jn this city, were driving about 100 yards ahead of the President's carriage, and were among the first tri roach his side after the collision. They immedi ately placed under arrest Motorman Euclid Madden and Conductor James Kelly, and they were later taken to headquarters in this city. Governor Crane. In relating his experi ence, said that he heard the gong of the approaching car in ample time, and he immediately arose and warned the motor man to stop. He &ays the man paid no attention to his signal, or those of ths troopers alongside, and the car continued until It struck the carriage with great force. No one on the car seems able to explain how the accident happened. Even the motorman and persons on the front It 1c asserted that Driver Pratt turned to cross tbe track sooner than ordinarily, teams make the turn, but this he was forced to do. because of the fact that hla team of four horses required more room, and that the two troopers on the right of the carriage also needed space to get through. Motorman Madden and Conductor Kelly remained In the station from 10 o'clock this morning, when they were placed un der arrest until 6:20 this evening, when ball was furnished. The charges against them are manslaughter. Ball for the mo torman of J3000 was furnished by ex-Alder- FIRE ON EDITOR Tom Williams and Trux ton Beale -in Scrape, ASSAIL FRED MARRIOTT Take Offense at Article in San Francisco Paper, PUBLISHER IS BADLY WOUNDED Men Go to Hla House to'Do tke Skoot ingr Neither Will Say Wklok Did the Firing Taken in Custody at Tkcir Club. ' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 3. Fred Mar riott 'publisher othe San Francisco News Letter, was shot at his home three times and seriously wounded tonight by Thomas H. Williams, Jr., president of the Califor nia Jockey Club, and Truxton Beale, cx Unlted States Minister to Persia and Greece, and a well-known clubman of this city. Neither will say who did the shoot ing, but Marriott says it was Williams. The following acocunt of the shooting was given by Marriott before he was put un der anesthetics at the hospital: "An appointment was made by telephone for a meeting this evening by Truxton Beale. At about 9 o'clock, Beale and Wil liams came to the house. I answered the door myself. When reaching out to take their hats, Beale struck me a heavy blow In the face, and made another smash at me with his fist 'Smash him! the 1' cried Williams. I retreated, as the blow on the forehead almost blinded me, I then started upstairs, and Williams be gan shooting." The first shot fired shattered Marriott's left leg below the knee, and he fell to the steps. As he rolled to the bottom of the stairs, two more bullets were shot into him. Ono cut thro.ugh the thigh a few Inches below the hip joint passing clear through the leg. The other struck him In the right hand. Mrs. Marriott hearing the first shot j-jraeiitheadcf-la stairs- h-,tlmeit6' Bee ner nusoana iau ane Eiariea uown to him. Then, it Is alleged, the revolver was turned In her direction and two more shots fired.' One passed within four' inches of her head. Williams said, late tonight: "Yes, Beale and myself did the shooting. but there is nothing to .say. We consid ered it our duty to punish Marriott for the publication of ah article last week re fleeting on tho reputation of a young lady." Beale said that, although the lady's namo was not mentioned, her identity CONTROLS OHIO DEMOCRACY. MAYOR TOX L. JOHNS OIV, "WHO KAS THE CEDAR FOIXT j COSVKXTIOX. man M. J. Madden, his brother, and Pat rick H. Dolan, manager of the Plttsfleld Street Railway Company. Kelly was balled In the sum of; 53609 by Mr. Dolan. "Kelly is 25 years old, single, and has been employed on the road lor three years. Motorman Madden Is 32 years old, and has a wife and five palldren. Madden and Kelly will probably be arraigned In court tomorrow on the charge ot manslaughter. It Is likely that tl ca"e will be continued for a week or more, and In tbe meantime an Inquest will be "arranged. "The defense probably will-preaent no evidence, and the men will probably be held, for the grand Jury. : George and Hugh Craig, of Hoiyqke. Mas., brothers of WIIIUm Craig, the vic tim of the accident, arrived, here tonight, and are in consultation with the authoti tie. It has been decided td ta.ke the body to Chicago, Craig's feaiae, for Interment Xayer'M Raaaae XMaresartl.ed. In -arranglDft the pregrajasta tor the day, Mayor. Xwg'.e-r has rsitated all bust net to o syepenaed Hi this .city during the time tbe President was; here. He alb was so sO plainly Indicated that he felt bound to resent the publication. Neither Williams nor Beale, although admitting the assault would say who did the shooting. After the shooting, they went to the Pacific Union Club, where they were placed under arrest Marriott's wounds, it is thought, will not result fa tally. At a late hour tonight, Williams and Beale were released on 110,000 bonds each. Tke Mexican Central Wreck:. EL PASO, Tex., Sept 3. The latest In formation of the wreck on the Mexican Central, near Hermoslllo, yesterday. Is to the effect that three 'Mexican passengers and- Engineer Kronlg were killed. The train ran Into a wash-out and was ditched. Kroenlg was caught under the loqomotlve and crushed to death. Railway Skeyjaea "Walk Oat. LIVINGSTON", Moat, Sept. 3. As a re sult of a disagreement between the Ma chinists' Union' and Master Mechanic Clarkaqn, tha machinists employed in the Northern Pacific shops walked out this morning. The strike was general among the machinists and the shops of the company have been practically de serted. The strike was brought about through the discharge of Lee Hyatt a machinists who has been employed In the shops for about a year. It Is alleged that Hyatt was dismissed without cause and when the union asked that he be re-in stated. Master Mechanic Clarkson refused to talk with the committee. Hyatt was discharged for studiously neglecting his work and violating shop rules. DEMOCRACY'S HOPE GONE Victory of Johnson Ends Any Idea of Harmony. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wasn- Ington. Sept 3. Tom Johnson's victory In Ohio today Is generally regarded in the Ea8t as destroying tho last hope of har monizing the Democratic party. The vic tory is a personal one for Johnson, but It has National as well as local slgnifi cence. It means that Johnson will be come a Presidential candidate In 1904, and that Bryan will turn over to him his full strength In the East, should he him self not be a candidate. Johnson cannot hope for the support of the Democratic business men of the East, who have fin ally renounced the popullstlc Ideas of Bryanlsm, and will oppose Bryan or any other candidate upholding his doctrines. Should Johnson eventually become the Democratic nominee for President, he would lack the hearty support of the HIU and Gorman followlngs In the East. In Ohio, Johnson's victory will work disaster In th Democratic ranks, and means a Republican victory In the state this Fall. The fact that McLean has been beaten means that the Cincinnati Enquir er will work against the Johnson faction, not openly, but effectually, as It has done In the past The McLean faction prefers a Republican to Johnson and Republican principles to those of Johnson, whom It regards as even worse than Bryan. The result ,1s eminently satisfactory to Re publicans, both because of Its local and Its National effect While It Is recog nized that In a National campaign John son can command support further East than Bryan, yet the dissension his se lection would arouse Is believed to more than offset this Democratic advantage. Roosevelt Knew "Whereof He Spoke. The justification of President Roose velt's action In denouncing the methods of Southern Democratic leaders Is being brought forcibly to public attention. In the judicial election held In Tennessee last week the Democrats rolled up a ma jority of at least 55,000, the largest ma jority ever given for a state ticket in that state. Not many years ago the Republicans carried Tennessee In a state race, when H. Clay Evans was elected Governor. Since then Republicans In other states have enjoyed extraordinary success. Increasing their majorities in many states and gaining control of "West Virginia, formerly Democratic, Anarchist Document. ENEJSLYpRX, Sept, 3. AnaxshUfclltera: lure, lnciuatng Eeveraa auiosrapn letters from Emma Goldman and Johann Moat, together. . with a mysterious Iron chest, have been found in this city besldo the dead body of a woman about 40 years old, and known as Mrs. Freda Schroedcr. The woman was well dressed, and wore a quantity of Jewelry. The chest resisted all attempts that were made to force It with means at hand, and experts will be employed. It was persistently rumored that the woman was a leading anarchist, but her body has not yet been Identified. Packers' Combination -Stopped. BOSTON, Sept 3. The Advertiser ays today: The combination of the big packing-house Interests has been stopped sud denly. Schedules or property wnicn were being made In Boston and elsewhere In New England to be filed at Chicago as a basis for taking over all the Independent concerns were made up In a hurry and were all ready to send on Monday, that being the date when the valuation was to take place; but they did not go in, as word was received from Chicago not to forward them. Gas Tank Collapsed. NEW YORK, Sept 3. A large gas tank located on Wytho avenue, Brooklyn, collapsed today, and It Is feared several men were killed. Tho men were engaged riveting the tank when It collapsed. ONLY OIE BREAK Johnson Controlled the Ohio Convention. HIS PLATFORM ADOPTED And His Boom for President Launched. MINISTER HEADS THE TICKET Rev. Herbert S. Blfceloir, of Cincin nati, Nominated for Secretary of Stated-Kansas City Ilat-( form Indorsed. CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. Politics. Rev. H. S. Blgelow will head the Ohio Demo cratic ticket. Page 1. Tom L. Johnaon controlled tbe Cedar Point Convention. Page 1. Wisconsin Lemocrats nominated David S. Rosa for Governor. Page 2. Ticket nominated by Iowa Democrats. Page 2. Foreign. English papers thankful that the President es caped serious Injury, rage iz. Rioting renewed at Agram, Hungary Page 12. "Violent gales sweep England, Ireland and Wales. Page 12. Domestic. President Roosevelt narrowly escaped death In & collision between hla carriage and a trolley-cnr. Page 1. Tbe Miners' Congress will meet In Portland In 1004. Paze 2. Mlneowners refuse to arbitrate the strike In tho anthracite region, Page 3. Sport. Butte defeats Tacoma, 3 to 1. Page 5. American and National League games. Page 5. Pacific Coaat. Thomas H. . "Williams and ex-United States Minister Truxton Beale shoot editor of San Francisco Kawa Letter. Page 1. Siskiyou Mountain copper mines sold to Mon tana men for $300,000. Page 4. Franklin K. Lane made Democratic nominee for. Governor cf California. Page 4. Republican conventions in Skamania, Skagit and Wahkiakum Counties. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Hot fight among financial giants for control of Reading Railway. Page 13. Wheat and other cereals advance In the East. Page 13. Steamship Indravellt brines a big cargo for Portland merchants. Pago 12. Barkentlne Renfleld nearly 200 days on pass age to Europe. Page 12. British shipyards are unable to And employ ment for their men. Page 12. Steamer Reliance reported .sold. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Double wedding takes place at Carnival. Pass 10. Common Council passes Flegel ordinance to ex pedite business. Page 14. Testimonial sword will be presented to Ad miral Clark, former Captain of the Oregon. Page 11. Mrs. Green has paid customs dues, and Is not liable to arrest. Page 14. Nance O'Nell, and how she got her start. Page 10. Caving bank seriously Injures Cornelius Bam. PareS. Secretary of State Rev. Herbert S Blgelow. of Cincinnati. Supreme Judge Michael Donnelly, ot Napoleon. Food and Dairy Commissioner Philip H. Bruck. of Columbus. Member of State Board of Public "Works Joseph J; Pater, ot Hamilton. CEDAR POINT, O., Sept 3. The Demo cratic State Convention here today was principally the" occasion of booming its presiding officer, Mayor Tom L. Johnson, for the Presidency, and of introducing into Ohio politics Rev. Herbert S. Blgelow.. pas tor of the Vine-Street Congregational Church, at Cincinnati. The former has been conspicuously before the public as Congressman and delegate to National and other conventions, but the latter was not so well known until he was today made the standard-bearer of his party and made a speech of acceptance that was re ceived with unusual enthusiasm. Blgelow Is 33 years old, independent in his creed, and has become prominent as a lecturer as well as a popular preacher. The convention was ln session less than three hours, and had only one ballot, most of tho time being devoted to speeches. It was a Johnson convention throughout The platform. wa3 adopted as It came to him through the. committee- Tho state central and executive committees wero both organized as he suggested, and the state ticket, with a single exception, was nominated by acclamation as slated by tho Johnson men. The only contest for a nomination" In tho convention was for Food Commissioner. Ex-Mayor Bruck, of Columbus, was nomi nated over Senator Kraus. of Cleveland, the neighbor and personal friend of John son. The latter had been told that he was going too far In urging the nomina tion of a personal friend for a minor state office, but, once committed to Kraus, ha stuck to him to the last. During the bal lot tho Bruck faction organized the votes cast for Kraus by proxies after tho dele gates of certain counties had left for home, and Johnson ruled against h!3 friend Kraus, Insisting that no votes could be cast except by delegates present in per son. Bruck got the support of all the Germans and ex-soldiers who were in the convention, and through an excellent or ganization broke the Johnson slate, thus causing the only scene of old-time con tests that there was In the proceedings. Tom Johnson's Speech. The convention assembled In the pavil ion at the Summer resort shortly after 10 o'clock. Mayor Johnson received .an ova tion upon his arrival. Hon. W. J. Frye. chairman of the state central committee, delivered an address dealing with cam paign work In the state. Mayor Johnson was then introduced as temporary chair man, and was received with continued cheers, speaking as follows: "The principles of Democracy, always old. but never obsolete, confront us today, both In local and In National questions One of these National questions relates ta trusts. For this evil our adversaries ad vise publicity as the remedy. Publicity 1 That might protect Investors against fraud, but how could It protect the pub lic against monopoly, which Is the basis of trusts? Men whose Incomes have In creased but little or not at all, but whoso living expenses have Increased enormous ly, why should they declare for publicity? What Is needed is not examination of tne account books of the trusts; It Is tho sweeping of monopolies from the statute books of the people. "The money question Is also National. And let me tell you this Is no dead Issue, as some would have us believe. Dead though It may be in one form, it Is alive In other and more radical forms. So long as Wall street Interests dictate our financial policies, the money question can not die. You know that I have never accepted the doctrine commonly known a$ '16 to 1.' I have worked with those who do accept it because I have believed, as 1 believe yet, that the free silver fight was the first protest oC the American peo ple against monopoly the first great struggle here of the masses against the privileged classes. It was not free silver that frightened the plutocratic! leaders. What they feared was free men. "We have In National politics the vi tal question of self-government Shall wo continue to govern distant colonies from Washington, as distant provinces were governed by Imperial Rome before her fall, and as crown colonies are governed by the British Empire today? That ques tion also is at the bottom a monopoly question. There would be no subject colo nies, If colonies could give no monopoly franchises. "But National questions are not for us to deal with In this state convention. Great as Is Ohio In territory and popula tion and wealth; Important as she Is in the sisterhood of states, influential as her Democracy Ie capable of being in tha counsels of the National party, she Is not great enough, nor important enough, nor Is her Democracy influential enough to warrant this convention in dictating Na tional policies or remodeling National platforms. We have not been elected for that purpose. The function of revising National platforms belongs with conven tions chosen for National purposes. Our function, so far as National questions are concerned, begins and ends with an un mistakable Identification of the Democratic party of Ohio with the Democrats of tho Republic. That can be done In good faith only by acknowledging the authority of (Concluded on Second Page.).