GAZETTE.
COEVA
WEEKLY,
M:L'JVi.CS8lidiii4 Feb., 1881
COR VAX1L1IS, BENTON COUNTY, OBEGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1903.
VOIi.
NO. 34.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
'"A dieaatrcua hurricane swept the is
land of Martinique.
Oil will be used in the Oregon City
paper mills for fuel instead of wood.
The entire North Atlantic squadron
will jro to Oyster Bay to be reviewed by
the president.
A large amount of counterfeit token
money has been made in Portland and
is Deing passed in California.
The National, building tradea council
has endorsed 'William B. Hearst as its
choice for United States president.
The British immigration commis
sioner favors the passigeof laws similar
to those in force in the Uni ed States
Eighty-four bodies of victims in the
Paris train wreck have been recovered
and the death list is expected to reach
: 100. - , . ; ,
Macedoninaa deny the stories of
-atrocities and hold that Turkey is
spreading them to poison the mind of
Europe.
'A Portland firm has been awarded
the contract of reconstructing the Port
land postofSce. The work is to be fin
ished in 21 months.
: The interstate commerce commission
has received replies from a number of
railroads to charges recently filed al
leging discrimination in rates. They
one and all admit the excessive charges
and ask the commission what it is go
ing to do about it.
. General Miles declares for small
armies lor all nations.
. Supporters of the Irish land bill be
lieve ita passage is now assured.
The finishing touches are being put
on Shamrock III prior to the big races.
Thirty-three more bodies have been
taKen from the Banna, Wyoming
mine.
The Casino gambling house, one of
the most notorious in France, has been
destroyed by fire.
The international typographical un
ion has commenced its 49th annual ses
sion at Washintgon? '
Penny postage rates between Great
.Britain and ' the United States are
, deemed impracticable.
A Kansas woman lost a bustle cn a
train containing $7,500. . Railroad de
tectives found it for her.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
declared a dividend of 2 per cent for
' the six months just ended. !
The textile workers of Philadelphia
have given up their strike. Over 10,
000 have returned to work. : 4 ;
Grain field fires near Bakersfield,
Cal., have destroyed . thousands of
? acres of wheat and pasture.
Three thousand men have gone on a
strike at Cripple Creek, Colo., in order
to stop shipments to smelters lef using
to grant 8-hour days.
The insurrectionary movement in
Macedonia is spreading. r
Cruelty of nobles to their American
wives will" force many to ask lor di
vorces. Chinese of New York have pe-
titioned Secretary flay to save the re
formers. ,. Senator : Morgan says, Foraker and
not Roosevelt, will be the republican
nominee for president.
. Safe crackers blew open a Bafe with-
in two blocks of - the police station at
Portland and secured $150.
The pope gave his blessing to the
world from inside and not from the
balcony as was hoped by many.
Captain Charles J. - Barclay, of the
Puget sound navy yard, is now ranking
officer on the liBt of navy captains.
A' Hattiesburg, Misa., mob chiseled
into the jail, secured the negro who
shot a jailer, and then hanged him.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root did not eulogize Miles because
they felt that he was not deserving of
praise.
A tornado swept the miningfjjdistrict
of Pittsburg, Kan., killing four,
wounding 60 and doing great damage
to property.
.Lieutenant General Miles has re
tired. .
Roosevelt is in favor cf a more elas
tic currency.
Bulgaria will be neutral in the Mace
donia trouble.
Fire at Barcelona, Spain, rendered
3,000 families homeless and destitute.
Mere Russians have been killed by
troops in labor troubles.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, ofCleve
land, Ohio, will be a candidate for gov
ernor.
Foreign consuls will not allow the
delivery of reformers to China for ex
ecution. Cape Colony will not be represented
at the 1904 fair as was originally the
iatention. .......
An insane man has been killed by
officers by mistake in searching for the
Folsom convicts.
TO QUIT CABINET.
Secretary Root Will Resign Before Go
ing to England.
Washington, Aug. 13. For several
months past there have been rumors
afloat that Secretary Root is to retire
from the cabinet, and it is now known
definitely that his resignation will be
tendered before he leaves for Europe to
serve on the AlasKan boundary com
mission. It is understood that the
matter of his successor has been dis
cussed, and while nothing official can
be obtained, it is believed it will be
tendered to Governor Taf t.
While Secretary Root is in London,
he will remain in communication with
the war department, and matters per
taining to general staff and other im
portant affairs will be referred to him
If the sittings of the Alaska commie
sion extend beyond December 1, it is
proDable tnat the secretary's re&igna
tion will he accepted, ana ms succes
sor appointed at that time.
. The president is very loath to part
with Root, for he is one of the most
valuable members of the cabinet
Ihe secretary has been anxious to go
for some time, but he has desired to
put his general Btaff law into operation
before he retired. Ue also wanted the
Philippine insular government on a
firm footing before he relinquished con
trol over the islands.
Secretary Root was called to the cab
inet by President McKinley, who in
sisted upon having a lawyer' of known
aoility to handle the problems growing
out ot the Spanish war. Root sacri
ficed a law practice of more than $i 00,
000 a year in order to accept a place in
the cabinet, and did so largely through
patriotic motives, and also because he
felt he was summoned as a lawyer to
perform a great government service.
CASHIER ROBS BANK.
Flees After Losing $75,000 Gambling
on drain.
' Circleville, O., Aug. 13. -John K.
Brown, cashier of the Union bank at
New Holland, O., is missing, and it
said there is a shortage of nearly $75,
000 in hi i accounts. The bank vaults
were not opened at the usual hour this
morning as Brown had the combina
tion. An expeit from Canton. O.,
opened the safe thin evening in the
presence of the directors, and only $458
in coin was found.
The books show deposits of $150,000
one week ago, and also show $99,000
in loans. v ashier Brown's shortage
will probably be in the neighborhood
of $75,000. The shortage, so far, foots
up $50,542, and an examination of the
books may show heavier losses.
The bank is an incorporated concern,
which, under the Ohio laws, makes
each stockholder liable for double the
amount of hia shares up to the amount
of any shortage that may occur.
The Union bank was established 13
years ago, and has had a prosperous ex
istence. Brown has been cashier since
its existence. The bank has been pay
ing regular dividends since its opening.
It is said Brown has been speculating
in the grain market with bucket shops
at Washington.
POPE'S HEART WEAK.
Doctors Will Insist on His Suspension of
Audiences.
Rome, Aug. 13.; Pope Pius, who
fainted while celebrating- mass this
morning, is suffering from heart weak
ness, agrgavated by fatigue. Although
he was mucfl better this afternoon,' Dr.
Lapponi, who visited him again,
thought it more prudent for his holi
ness not leave his apartment, and not
to go into the garden of the Vatican, as
he desired. The doctor further insist
ed npon a suspension of audiences.
The pontiff seems more docile to the
doctor's wishes than his predecessor,
although he insisted on transacting
some current business.
r. Davenozia, speaking about the
pope, said :
"If they wish our Pius not to suc
cumb, the Vatican authorities . must
change their system. They must not
oblige him to follow the habits of Pope
Leo. The present pontiff needs es
pecially plenty of fresh air. He must
not be shut up in a box in a vitiated
atmosphere."
Strikers Rule With High Hand.
London, Aug. 13. Firms here have
received mail advices from Kieff, Rus
sia, dated last Saturday, which says
that the strikers have completely par
alyzed business, and will not allow
finished machinery to be delivered
from manufactories. The men turned
girls out of dressmaking and other
workshops under threat of death. - The
streets are full of soldiers, according to
these advices, and .' shooting occurs
daily. The, price of . bread has risen
150 per cent and is still going up. The
troops are "working the water works.
Russia Oalns Point In Cores.
London, Aug. 13. The Times corre
spondent states that Corea has granted
the Russian lumber company a 20-year
lease cf 350 acres at Yonghampo, with
the right to purchase,- at reasonable
prices, all the timber float el down the
Yalu by Japanese subjects, thereby con
ferring a practical monopoly of the
lumber in the Yalu valley. Thus Rus
sia, while opposing the opening of
Wiju, herself secures free access to the
Yalu valley.
Fifty Prisoners Mutiny.
Carthage, Mo., Aug. 13. Fifty pris
oners in the county jail ' mutinied at
midnight and made a demand for better
food. The fire department was called
ont and turned a stream of water on the
prisoners, who, after turning out the
lights in the corridor, hurled empty
bottles at the firemen and jail officials.
The prisoners jwere finally subdued.
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HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
BIQ PROFITS IN FARUNO.
Willamette Valley Ranchers Will
WeU This Year.
Do
Willamette valley farmers are re
joicing over the prospect for good
profits in almost every thing they
have to sell this year. Nlot only are
prices good, but yields are large and
as a consequence there will be more
money in the valley this year than
there has been for more than a de
cade before.
Wheat at Salem is quoted at 70
cents, with the mills paying a 2-cent
premium. In ordinary years all above
50 cents would be clear profit, but be
cause of the high wages paid to farm
help this season it will take from 52
to 55 cents to pay the cost of produc
tion. The average yield, so far as
can be learned, will be about 20 bush
els to the acre or more. This means
a clear profit of from $3 to $3.50 an
acre on wheat, after allowing for all
labor and expenses. .Oats have turn
ed out better in proportion than,
wheat, and the large yield,, with a
price of about 25 cents per bushel,
will leave a good profit on that crop
The season has been. very favorable
for hay, and yields have been good
The prices quoted at present are from
$7 to $8 a ton in the local market for
loose v hay. Farmers say that about
half of this price is profit. Yields run
from' two to three tons per acre, mak
ing this crop a better paying one than
wheat.
Hops promise a price ranging from
15 cents upward, and it is generally
figured that all above 8 cents is profit,
though growers who hire all. their
work done and give their yards a good
spraying say that the cost of produc
tion is 10 cents a pound. At any
rate." there seems to be an excellent
profit this year.
The prune crop is large, and though
the domestic market has not opened,
has been making sales at its own
price, a 2-cent basis, which price
leaves the grower a "better than fair
margin.
All through the year dairy products
have brought an extraordinary price,
ana even country butter nas round a
ready market at paying figures.
Woolgrowers sold their fleeces this
year at a high price, and sheep have
been in demand all . through the year.
CATTLEMEN REFUSE TO SELL.
Despite Scarcity of Feed They Hold for
Better Figures. . ; ;
Never in the history of the country
around Dale has the cattle market
been as unsettled as its is at the pres
ent time. Prices offered by export
buyers are extremely low, and the
cattle- raisers are refusing to sell.
Crowding on top of this, there is a
scarcity of hay as compared with last
year, and prices are running moun
tain high. Hay is selling in the field
at $10 per ton, which Is $4 "higher
than it was last fall. Cattle-raisers
who have not a sufficient supply are
trying to contract for all they can se
cure, but the farmer will not sell.
Again there are more cattle on the
range this year than last, without suf
ficient feed for them. Notwithstand
ing the discouraging state of affairs
which confront the cattleman, he is
willing to wait for further develop
ments. ' , ' - . .
The export cattle-buyers who have
been in the country have had to go to
other parts because they could not se
cure the cattle here. The buyers
give Portland quotations here at $2.70
per hundred for cows and $3.35. for
steers. The average is $3.75, and
even better prices than that were re
ceived last year. If both the buyer
and the seller continue to hold out, it
is believed that there will be a num
ber of forced sales on the part of the
stockmen, and that they will sell at
a loss to themselves.
No drags to Fight Over.
There is no range war in the Upper
Deschutes valley. On the contrary,
there Is the peace of desolation. - The
range was overstocked and eaten out
and no grass worth making war over
remains. Where neat cattle and
horses once throve by the thousands
there is now none too much feed for
a few hundreds. Twenty years ago
there was no finer grazing region in
the United States. Men who now ride
all day in a cloud of dust tell of the
time when the grass was up to their
knees as they bestrode their horses,
and cattle fairly wallowed in the feed
that covered the 30 miles of present
desert between Bend and Prineville.
Cowlitz Navigation Obstructed. '
During the recent" freshets a sand
bar formed at the mouth of the Cow
litz river which greatly hindered the
operation of the plant belonging to
the. Columbia & Cowlitz River Boom
Company. A dredge will shortly take
the work of clearing the channel in
hand, after which the company will
put in "two new piers and rearrange
the sheer boom. When finished this
boom will be one of the best on the
Columbia river and will be of great
assistance to the loggers
To Have Brand New School House.
Canyon City is to have a new and
up-to-date school building that will be
a credit to the town. The school au
thorities are advertising for bids for
its construction. The building will
be two stories high and will have four
class and recitation rooms. Its cost
will be about $3000. .
President Smith Inspecting Farms.
E. L. Smith, of Hood River, presi
dent of the State Board of Horticul
ture, Is in Coos county on a tour of
Inspection. While there Mr. 'Smith
will visit most of the principal farms
in the county. . . .
Planing Mill Burned at Haines.
The Haines Lumber Company's
planing mill, at Haines, . was burned
last week. The loss is $5000. The
plant was owned by James Mitchell,
of Baker City, who carried no insurance.-
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MAY BE FOREST RESERVE.
Commissioner Richards Gives Reasons
for Withholding Large Tract.
Register Dresser, of the Oregon
City land office,, has received from
Commissioner, W; A. Richards, of the
United States land office, a letter re
lative to the, telegram of recent date
withdrawing certain public lands in
that district from settlement. The
letter directs the withdrawal, tem
porarily, of all vacant unappropriated
lands in townships 5 to 13 south, both
inclusive, range 4 ea3t, from settle
ment, entry, . sale or other disposal,
under the public land laws, pending
the determination" as to the advis
ability of including said area within
the Cascade range forest reserve.
Regarding the I rights of settlers
who have already located on lands in
cluded in the specified area, Commis
sioner Richards.-says:
"Neither this temporary withdraw
al, nor the permanent reserve of the
lands which may follow, will affect
any bona fide settlement or claim
properly initiated upon the lands
prior to the date hereof, provided
that the settler or claimants continue
to comply with the law under which
their settlement or claims were ini
tiated, and place their claims duly: on
record -within the prescribed stat
utory period. The withdrawal oper
ates to defeat all settlement claims or
other claims initiated subsequent to
this date, regardless of the date upon
which you receive the telegram"."
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DAILY ATTENDANCE SMALLER.
Though Oregon's School Population Has
Oreatiy Increased. '
Superintendent ' of , Public Instruc
tion X H. Ackerman has just finished
compiling the annual school statis
tics as gathered from the reports re
cently filed in his office by the sever
al county superintendents. As the re
ports for last year covered a period
of 16 months, there is no basis for
comparisons except in a few partic
ulars. ?i
The school census for the year end
ing in June, 1903, ' shows that there
are in the states 143,757 persons be
tween -the ages of 4 and 20 years, At
the same time last year the school
population was 138,466, o that an in
crease of 5291 is shown.
The average daily attendance in all
the public schools-of the state during
the preceding. year has been 64,219,
while for the preceding year .it was
66,779, or a decrease of 2560. A de
crease in the average daily attend
ance at the same time that there is
anincreasein-tiie--seholeppulatioB
is probably due to the scarcity of
labor and the high wages, -which, to
gether, take many. of the older. boys
out of school during the greater part
of the year.
" Protest Against Withdrawals.
A special meeting of the Roseburg
board of trade and citizens generally
has been called to protest against the
withdrawal of any more public lands
from entry in that portion of the
state. Other commercial bodies in
the western part of Oregon will be
invited to co-operate in protesting to
the officials in Washington, D. C, and
to-our senators and representatives
in congress against the further ex
tension of our already immense for
est reserves. Such recently proposed
extensions will work serious hard
ships on many bona fide settlers now
located on some of these lands, ,.
To Clear Coos Bay Channel,
Replying to an earnest . request
submitted by Congressman Hermann,
based upon a petition of the Coos
Bay chamber of commerce. Secretary
of War Root wires that he has appor
tioned $10,000 as an emergency, aid
for removing the recent shoal forma
tion in the Coos, ba yentrance chan
nel, which delays' deep-draft vessels.
As the shoal is constantly enlarging,
commerce there would have material
ly suffered had ft been necessary to
await congressional action.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
IFWheat Walla Walla, 7678c; blue-
stem, 7881c; valley, 7980c.
Flour valley, $3.608.85 per bar
rel; hard wheat straights, $3.t03.85;
hard wheat, patents. ' i 4.T0O4.50:
graham, $3.353.75; . whole wheat,
$3.554.00: rye wheat, $4.00. :
Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing,
$21 ; rolled, $212l.50j : -
Oats No. 1 white. tl.OlU : trrair.
$1.05 per cental.
Millstuffs Bran. $23 ner tont mH-
dlings, $27; shorts, 23; chop, I8;
unseed dairy tooa, $ is.
Hay Timothy, - old, $20 , per ton;
new. 114(5) 15 :Fclover. nominal: crain.
$12; cheat, nominal. '. '" i :' '. - .
Butter Fancy creamery, - 2022c
per pound; dairy, nominal; store, 16
i7c. - - ' ' ": l'
Cheese Foil cream, twins,-. 14c;
Young America, 14c; factory prices,
llKc less. :'
Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11
llKc per pound; spring, 16(l7Kc;
hens, 1212Mc; broilers, $23 per
dozen; turkeys, live, ,.10 12c per
pound; dressed, 1415c; ducks, $45
per dozen ; geese, $56.50. ..
, Eggs Oregon ranch, 1920c.
Potatoes Old Bur banks, 7075c
per sack, growers' prices; new pota
toes, Oregon, 8 0$1 per sack; Cali
fornia, 1c per pound. , ;u
, Wheat Sacks In lots of 100, 5Hc
Beef Gross steers, $3.754.25;
dressed, Q7c per pound. .
Veal 8c per pound. . . .
Mutton Gross, $3; dressed, 5
6c; lambs, gross, $3.50; dressed, 7c.
Hogs Gross, $5.505.75 ; dressed,
7c. : 'r. '
Hops 1902 crop, 1516c per pound.
Tallow Prime, per pound, 45c;
No. 2 and grease, 23c.
Wool Valley, 17 18c; EaBterii
Oregon, 1215c; mohair, 3537c.
LIBERTY VERY BRIEF.
Murderers Break Jail at Cbeysnne, Wyo.
. ' Fierce Straggle With Jailor.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 12. Tom
Horn, the condemned murderer of lit
tie Willie Nickell. and Jim McCloud,
in custody for postoffice robbery, es
caped - from the county ' jail at 8 -.40
o'clock this morning after overpowering
Deputy Sheriff Proctor, but were recap
tured after a brief bnt exciting chaee.
The ringing of fire bells brought nun
dreda of armed citizens to the scene
and it looked for a time .as though a
lynching wonld take place, but the ee
capes were hurriedly brought back to
the jail and placed in their cells be J
fore the crowds could form themselves
into a mob. The men did not get but
two blockB away before they were re
taken.
. The plot which led to their escape
was well planned. Horn and McCloud
were the only prisoners confined on
the upper floor of the jail. They -oc
cupied steel cells, so arranged that
communication was ccmoaratively
easy. This morning McCloud com
plained to Deputy Proctor of being ill
and requested some medicine and a
glass of water. Upon5 returning with
the articles asked for, he discovered
that the men had left their cells,
which were not locked, and bSd walked
to the end of the corridor through
which they were allowed to exercise.
When Proctor opened the door to the
corridor, he was pounced upon by the
two men and securely bound with a
cord which they had secured in some
manner. Horn and McCloud demand
ed that he give them his key a and al
though Proctor had them on his person,
he replied that they were locked up in
the safe.
Proctor was then conducted to the
safe and directed to open it. The or
der was obeyed, but on opening the
safe, Proctor snatched from inside a
gun and turned on the man. They
were too quick for him, however, and
Boon bore him down. In the brief
struggle Proctor fired his revolver at
them four times, slightly wounding
McCloud. "
The shooting attracted the attention
of Deputy Snow, who hastened to the'
eene, but was met at the doorway by
McCloud, who had secured possession
of a shotgun in some manner. Snow
retreated and Horn and McCloud es
caped through a J-ear door of the jail,
after binding the arms of Deputy Proc
tor. McCloud secured the only horse
in the sheriff's stable and mounted the
animal and started toward the west.
Horn ran, in the opposite, direction. ..
BUTTE JAIL YAWNS.
Murderers and Highwaymen Escape Eas
ily Get the Drop on the Jailor.
Butte, Mont., Aug. 12. Three mur
derers, two under sentence of death, a
stage robber wanted in Wyoming and
two highwaymen, escaped from the
Silver Bow county jail shortly after 6
o'clock this evening, without any diffi -
culty. The men who escaped aie:
L. L. Felker, who escaped once before,
Charles Lenox and James Martin, J.
R. Wocds, alias Joe Rodgers. and Pat
rick Rodgera Frank Oestroff is
wanted in Cheyenne for holding up a
stage coach. The latter and Joe Rod
gers were caught within an hour after
they escaped. Oeetroff waa armed.
Oestroff and Rodgera planned the de
livery. ' ' Oestroff compUined of being
sick and a doctor was called in. When
the jailor opened the corridor, Oestroff
dropped a revolver on Jailor William
Dolan, and then took the keys from
him. Oestroff then, with the aid of
Joe Rodgres, opened the cells of the
prisoners, and the jailor was overpow
ered.- " . ' .
Oestroff kept Dolan at bay while the
other prisoners walked out of the jail.
One of them secured a revolver from
the jailor's office. Lenox and Martin
went one the rear way of the jail, and
the others cooly walked out the main
entrance. Oestroff was run down Dy a
horseman, and was completely ex
hausted when caught.
Senators on a Sandbar.
Tacoma, Wash.; Aug.- 12. When
the steamship St. Paul .left Nome 10
daya ago. United States Senators Nel
son, of Minnesota; Patterson, of Color
rado, and Dillingham, of Vermont,
were stuck on a sandbar in the Yukon
rjver, 200 miles above JVuiato. - These
senators compose part of the senatorial
committee, appointed to . investigate
Alaskan affaire. - After visiting Skag-
way and Juneai, they went to Daweon
and inspected Klondike mines. They
started for the mining camps on the
Lower Yukon on the steamer Van Vleet.
.: . Broad Hint to Powers.
London, Aug. 12. The Times prints
a dispatch from Shanghai, which says
that the anniversary1 of the capture .of
Niu Chwang was celebrated, and that
M. Grossee, the Russian administrator,
issued formal invitations for the inaug
uration of the Russian civil administra
tion building, and that this was inter
preted as equivalent to the declaration
to the representatives of the other pow
ers that they could not claim a footing
of equality or. rights in this port. -.
Meteor's Blaze of Light.
" Chickasha, I. T., Aug. 12., During
a heavy thunder storm , last : night, a
meteor fell here with a blaze of light
and a shower of sparks that lit up the
country for miles around. The aerol
ite struck the earth in the back yard
of Mra. Sarah Sibley. Mrs. . Sibley
was severely stunned. A terrific ex
plosion occurred as the meteor struck
and incandescent fragments few in. all
directions.. The telephone system was
wrecked. ' -v,.-- -..
NINETY ARE LOST
TRAIN WRECK IN PARIS TUNNEL
CAUSES A GREAT PANIC.
Officials Lose Their Wits and Allow Pas
acngers to Die In Flames Firemen
Unable for Hours to Reach the Vic
tim!, Until They Finally Succeed in
. Flooding Burning Mass.
Paris, Aug. 12. An awful catastro
phe occurred last evening on the Met
ropolitan electric railway, which runa
mostly underground, in which 90 per
sona are believed to have lest their
lives. Eighty-two bodies have been
recovered and the search continues.
One of the trains broke down at Menil
montant, which is a poor and populous
section of the city. This train waa
promptly emptied, and the train which
followed was ordered to push it to the
repairing sheds. On the way these two
trains caugnt fire, but the employee
succeeded in escaping. Meanwhile a
crowded train reached Lea Charonnes,
the preceding station, and the officials
seeing smoke pouring out of the tun
nel, gave the alarm. A panic ensued,
the passengers struggling to escape.
Amid the increasing smoke many at
tempted to return along the line toward
.Belleville and were suffocated. The
officials seem to have lost their heads
and are unable to say how many pas
sengers went. out. The firemen for sev
eral boura weie unable to enter the sta
tion or the tunnel, owing to the dense
smoke, which poured out in black
clouds. Meanwhile tens of thousands
of anxious people gathered about the
station. All the police and fire engines
were on the spot and the excitement
was intense.
CZAR UP IN ARMS.
Says Turkey Must Punish
Slayer of
ConsuL
ot. retersDurg, Ang. vz. ine czar
has demanded the exemplary punish
ment not only of the murderer of the
Russian consul at Monastir, who was
killed last week by a Turkish gend
arme, but of all the military and civil
officials in any way responsible for the
crime.
In reporting the occurrence to
the foreign office, the Russian consul at
Constantinople, telegraphed as follows
' The Rsusian consul at Monastir has
fallen the victim of an atrocious crime.
The grand vizier and the Turkish for
eign minister have come to me with ex
pressions of regret in the name of the
sultan. .. Fend Pasha, the grand vizier.
informed me that the : assassin was a
gendarme named Halim, and that he
will be subjected to the severest pun
ishment, and the vali of Monastir will
be removed from his post."
In reply, Count Lamsdorff, the for
eign minister, telegraphed to the am
bassador: ...
"flis majesty has received a telegram
from the sultan epxressing his deep re
gret at the death of the Russian consul
at Monastir. When I showed the tele
gram to the emperor, his majesty gave
ordera that you should not confine
yourself to receiving explanations from
the grand vizier, but should make the
most energetic demands on the Turk
ish government for full satisfaction and
immediate and exemplary punisnment
both of the murderer and of all the
military and civil officials on whom re
sponsibility for the audacious crime'
may fall." .
; ROOT NOT TO RESION.
Secretary War Will Remain in the
j Cabinet.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 12. The attention
of the president tenight was directed
to a circumstantial statement, pub
lished today, that Secretary Root ex
pected soon to retire from the cabinet,
to be succeeded by Governor Taft, of
the Philippines. It can be said that
there ia no denfiite foundation for the
story. The president, since the first
intimation many months ago of Secre
tary Root's possible retirement, has
hoped, and still hopes, that he will re
main in the cabinet for a long time.
He believes that the secretary will re
main through the ccming winter, and
probably a much longer time
Want Prices Raised. v "
- London, Aug. 12, The Daily News
this morning prints a dispatch 'from
Warsaw, dated last Friday, which says
that an American association, said to
contain 37,000 farmers,4 has addressed
itself to the Russian ministers of fi
nance and agriculture, requesting-their
assistance in raising the current - prices
of agricultural produce, particularly
wheat, an. saying that the association
projects a great union between the
wheat growing countries of the world
for the purpose of fixing an annual
minimum Belling price.
. Pope Aging Fast.
-Rome, Aug. 12. Pius X had ' anoth
er fatiguing day, as he received all the
delegations which had come to Rome
to attend the coronation ceremonies.
The pontiff allowed all the members of
the delegation to kiss . his . hand, and
called by name those whom he knw,
just as he had when he met them for
merly when in Venice. Hia old Vene
tian friends agree that the pope looks
ten years older than lie did before his
eieetion.
Japanese Desire Peace.
Tokio, Japan, Aug. 12. A number
of public men, including" Prince Kon
oye, president of the house of peers,
and Counts Itagaki, ex-minister of ' the
interior, and Kama, have formed a
non-partisan association for the par
pose of urging the government to in
vite Russia to terminate the causes of
the present , international complica
tions.- :
FALL IN MASS.
Walk at Baseball Park Gives
Way, Kill.
Ing Four People.
Philadelphia, Aug. 11. Four per
sona are dead, at least 12 are thought
to be fatally injured, and fully; 150
others are hurt, some seriously, as the
result of an accident which occurred
today at the Philadelphia National
league baseball park. A board walk,
which overhung the field bleachers,
fell to the etieet, can-vine 200 leva
tors.
Two games were scheduled Ininun
Boston and Philadelphia thin ftftprnnntt
and the attraction drew over 10,000 per
sons to the ball park. The anruinnfc
occurred at 5:40 o'clock and Ba indi
rectly due to a Quarrel het.wn
drunken men in the Btreet. The Na
tional league standa are built
and brick, the brick wall extending en
tirely around the grounds. At the top
of the left field Beats, and extending
ixuuj nie granasiand to the bleachers,
there was a walk about three feet wide, '
which overhung the street. It was
this walk that gave way under the
heavy weight. Men who were etand
ing on the walk were attracted by a
disturbanre in the street. They leaned
over the aide of the railing to Bee what
was the trouble, and drew the atten
tion of the other apectators seated on"
the top rows " of the bleachers. Then
occurred what is seen almost every day
at a ball game a rush to bee what the
other spectators were looking at. ,
The walk became overcrowded, and
without a moment's warning 200 feet
of it fell to the sidewalk, 30 feet be
low, carrying all who were on it.
There were probably 3,000 persons sit
ting on the left field bleachers and the
roar made by the, falling timbers cre
ated a panic. Instantly the spectators
rose en masse and made a rush down
thestand and into the playing field.
Men and boys climbed over one another
m their effort to escape' from the
grounds. Notwithstanding what had
occuried, the ball players and others
tried to stop the mad rushj but they
were swept aside in their unsuccessful
efforts, and several persons were badly
hurt in the crush.
OCEAN TAKING ISLANDS.
Tuamotu
uroup Is Destined
to Be Re-
claimed by Waters.
Papete, Tahiti, July 26, via San
Francisco, Aeg. 11. It would seem
that the islands known variously as the
a-ow Archipelago, or. Tuamotu group
are destined, to be reclaimed by the Pa
cific ocean. Last January they were
swept by a flood .composed qf high
wayee from the ocean and lesser ones
from the inclosed lagoons, and in con-'
sequence nearly 600 of the inhabitants
were drowned and property to the val
ue of $500,000 was destroyed. And
now, six months later, fierce galea
from the southwest and southeast have
again caused great surging crests to
sweep over some of the islands.! So
far only four persons are said to . hum
perished, but the fear is great that
when all the islands are heard from,
there may be a distressing list of fatal
ities. .... ,rf;
The steamer Excelsior suffered
damage during the series of gales while
she was on her trip froin Tahiti to the
Marquesas'gronp Three of the Tuam
otu islands were under water to such
an extent that, the inhabitants had f r
climb cocoanut trees for
Houses and Btores. coora and final lv
the . coccntfti'tifeea were destroyed.
while; the&tahfcbitanta had a nloBe naii
REBELS ARE ACTIVE.
Macedonian Uprising Affects More cities
Dynamite Being Freely Used."
Constantinople, Aug. 11. The in
surrectionary movement in Macedonia
appears to be widening. Bands . are
reported to be active in the San jak ot
Usknb and the district of Krushevo,
where the government telegraph offices
Imve been dynamited, while in the dis
trict of Dibra four Bulgarian villages
have risen, provoking a corresponding
rising in tne neighboring Albanian
villages. According to the statements
of the porte, however, the authorities
have succeeded in calming the Alban
ians andftindgcedjthem to return to
their homes. .
King in Fear for His Life. t
' Cologne, Aug. 11. King Peter of
Servia is being openly terrotized by
his eutorage, according to the Belgrade
advices of the Cologne Gazette: Most
of the present court officials who par
ticipated in the -murder of King Alex
ander and Queen Draga appear to have
objected etrongly to the appointment
of Colonel Leischjanin, the Servian at
tache at Constantinople, to the post of
court martial. The official gazette yes
terday contained the appointment, , but
shortly after ita publication all copies
of the gazette were called in.
Urges Brazil to Increase Navy. :
New York, Aug. 11. While discuss
ing naval estimates in the. chamber of
deputies, Thomas Cavalcante has. , ac
cording to a Herald dispatch from Rio
Janeiro, wiied the members of the pos
sibility of foreign aggression and plead
ed that Brazil should place herself in a
position to oppose the attacks , of a
European country. Particular stress
was placed on danger of agrgeesion by
Germany, and the deputy urged that
Brazil build up a navy at once.v ; i 5
Fleet Not Off for China.
. Washington, Aug. 11. The navy de
partment today authorized a denial of
the report that the Eurppen pquadron
is destined to Chinese and Japanese
waters.1 It ia stated that the ciuiee of
the squadron will probably be confined
to: the Mediterranean ttntil December
next,.v.ben. the entire squadron will
sail for the West Indies to take part in
the naval, maneuvers arranged for next
January'.'