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THOUSANDS SLAIN Soldiers Shoot Into Rioters In City of Lodz, Russia. POPULATION RISES AGAINST A H Enraged at the Slaughter o f Socialiat Marchers, People Unite in a Desperate Outbreak. Lodz, Russian Poland, June 24. — Yesterday, “ Black Friday,” in Lodz, surpassed all the horrors of “ Red Sun day” in St. Petersburg. While it is not yet possible to ascertain the exact number of the victims, estimates place the killed and wounded as high as 2 , 000 . The troubles here were initiated by the Social Democrats and Jewish Bund, who determined to avenge their com rades killed in the rioting on Wednes day. Thursday the feast of Corpus Christi passed off quietly, but during the night workmen attacked the patrols. In thiB fighting two officers and seven Cossacks were killed. One of the latter was shot by a girl of 13 years. Friday was a day of terror. The city was given up to bloodshed. Anarchy and fierce Btreet fighting prevailed all day. Barricades were hurriedly con structed in the Jewish quarter at dawn. Men climbed to the roofs of houses, -cutting telephone and telegraph wires to use for entanglements in the streets, while others cut down telegraph poles and used them in strengthening their barricades which already had been con structed and in building others. Early in the day two bombs were thrown from the crowd into the bar racks, killing or wounding 20 soldiers. TIM E OF ITS LIFE Congressional Irrigation Committee is Won by the West. Reno, Nev., June 24.— The congres sional irrigation party has experienced one continuous round of pleasure from the time it left Kansas City on June 1 up to the present moment, and the stack of invitations on hand indicates that the last half of the trip w ill be crowded just as full of enjoyment as the first. Each city visited had en deavored to outdo the other and each rural district has attempted to demon strate that it is the one “ garden spot” o f the country. There have been ban quets galore, not dress affairs, but cor- -dial meetings lacking in formality and pervaded by that spirit of hospitality which characterizes the entire West. The gates of the several cities have been opened wide, the liberties of the party have been unrestrained, and the result has been that everybody has had a bully good time. When the party enters a city, it becomes the city’s guest, and in no instance has a city along the route failed to turn out to do honoj to the visiting lawmakers. The trip is necessarily hurried; little time is allowed for sightseeing. Every thing is sacrificed to the cause of irri gation. FIN ISH ES W ITH TAN N ER. .Prosecution Through with Star Wit ness and Defense Takes Him. A FAIR W ITN E SS. Judge Tanner Hides No Fact Favor ing Senator Mitchell. Portland, June 25.— Senator Mitchell had his day in the trial before Judge De Haven yesterday. The cross-exam ination of ex-Judge A . H . Tanner, who was turned over to the defense late Friday afternoon, was taken in hand by Judge Bennett. During the hours he was bombarded by questions from the attorney several admissions favorable to the senator were brought to the attention of the jury, causing a gleam of satisfaction in the aged sen ator's eyes. There were those present who had anticipated a rough journey for ex-Judge Tanner, but they were doomed to disappointment. Judge Burnett handled the former business partner of his client with a velvety tongue, and only once or twice was caustic with the witness. When ex- Judge Tanner finished his redirect ex amination ex-Senator Thurston moved to have his testimony stricken out. This was denied. Ex-Judge Tanner passed through the ordeal better than his friends antici pated. He was little short of a perfect witness, apparently holding nothing back. His testimony favorable to the defendant was given in tLe same dis tinct and positive manner as that given by him under direct examination. Several times Judge Bennett sought to lead the witness, and once or twice the attorney for the defense made his own ingenious interpretation of some of the answers given under the questioning of Mr. Heney. Each time ex-Judge Tan ner corrected his interrogator, and, once or twice, when Judge Bennett be came overpersistent, the witness be came curt in his denials of having an swered questions in the manner put to him by the attorney for the defense. Mr. Heney announced that he would rest his case on Monday. Ex-Senator Thurston stated after the court was ad journed that he expected that the de fense would be through by Tuesday evening. W hile nothing has been said by counsel for the defense, it is almost assured that Senator Mitchell w ill take the witness stand in his own behalf. FRANCE HAS W AR FEVER. Despite Minister’ s Denials, People Ex pect to Fight Germany. Paris, June 26.— For the first time since the Fashoda incident the French public is in the throes of the war fever. Whether it w ill result in anything seri ous depends on Germany's response to the French note on Morocco, but with out considering the exact status of the diplomatic negotiations a considerable element of the public and press seri ously discuss the possibilities of a re sort to arms. Army circles are partic ularly active, and at the m ilitary clubs the officers are mainly engaged in mak ing comparisons of the forces of France and Germany. W hile the financial leaders scout the idea of war, the spec ulative element has been quick to seize the opportunity to raid French rentes, which showed a fall of 1 franc and 8 centimes within a week. The official view is that the situation, while deli cate, does not present any aspect of danger or a crisis involving a rupture of relations. This is the government view, and naturally presents the most favorable aspect of the controversy. However, the ambassadors of the lead- in » powers express impartial opinions fuly sustaining the view of the govern ment It is pointed out in diplomatic quar ters that the worst aspect of the Mo roccan question does not present a casus belli. An analysis of the contro versy shows that the sultan of Morocco invited the powers to a conference. Germany urges the powers, including France, to accept. Premier Rouvier’s latest note shows the willingness of France to consider a conference, if-Ger many explains her purposes, but, even should France decline to accept these, refusal of the invitation does not con stitute a causee for war. Portland, June 24.— Judge A: H. Tanner, the government’s star witness against Senator Mitchell, in the land fraud cases, now on trial before Judge De Haven, is in the hands of the at torneys for the defense. For 11 hours the former friend and business partner of the senator from Oregon has been on the witness stand. The things to which he has testified, the mass of documentary evidence to which he has sworn as having passer) between him self and Senator Mitchell, has been damaging to a degree to the defendant. Today ex Senator Thurston and Judge Bennett w ill begin their determ ined effort to break down this mass of testimony and especially to draw forth admissions tending to show that the senator had no guilty knowledge when Race Suicide Dying in New York. he received his share of the firm’ s fees New York, June 26.— Births in this in the Kribs transactions. city at the rate of one every five min utes are recorded by the Health depart Wallace Arrives Home. ment for the past week, during which New York, June 24. — Among the period 2,011 were reporter!. It was passengers who arrived today on lioard announced at the department that the the Orizaba from Colon was John F. birth rate of New York has now risen Wallace, chief engineer of the Panama to about 31 per 1,000, and is higher canal. Mr. Wallace comes here to than any other city in the United Five or six years ago, when complete arrangements, which were un States. finished on his departure for the isth there was so much talk about race sui mus. He says that the work is pro cide, the birth rate here was only 26 gressing very satisfactorily. The force per 1,000. Last year the rate was 30 is increasing and settling down to per 1,000. steady labor. The engineer ing com Iowa Farm er* May Lose Land. mittee is preparing plans for the board o f consulting engineers, and this is an Sioux City, la., June 26.— Proceed other reason for his return. ings which may throw open to settle ment 11,000,000 worth of Iowa’ s rich Fearful o f International Trouble*. est land have been starter! in O'Brien Of the New Westminster, B. C., June 24.— county by the government. Owing to international troubles the 322,000 acres in Iowa, included in the sham battle discussed for some time in old land grant to the Sionx City A St. m ilitary circlee to be held on the cam Panl railroad, about 12,000 acres are pus near Olympia, Wash, between the 'still in the hands of those who pur troops of the state of Washington and chased from the railroad. These farm the troops of British Columbia, has ers have been in possession of the land been declared off. The .reason given for the last 15 or 20 years, for the declaration is that a plugged shell could easily be misplaced, and in Throw Out the Miner*. case of an accident international com Lawton, Okla., June 26.— The Inter plications might be the outcome. ior department has instructed the cus todians of the government forest re More Troops T o Be Mobilized. serves in Southwest Oklahoma to pre Moscow, June 24. — The governor of vent further trespassing of miners and Moscow has postponed notices of the mineral proepertors on these lands and forthcoming mobilization of troops, to to eject those now conducting mining exhort the population to becalm The. operation* there. This will affect min ing interests in the Wichita mountain*. mobilization Is expected June 9. JUMPED THE TRACK TANNER A S TR O N G W ITN ESS Tells About Mitchell's Efforts to Have Books Destroyed. Portland, June 23.— The session of yesterday morning opened with ex- Judge Tanner upon the stand, where he remained until the evening adjourn ment, and was then not much more than half through with his testimony. At the beginning of his examination, the witness stated that he had made another agreement with Kribs on Feb ruary 13, 1902, in regard to another list of land to be expedited. He also Dashes Into Open Switch at Terrific identified the entry in the books relat ing to the first payment of $500 as a Speed and Take* Fir#— Many cash retainer for the services of the Victim* Fatally Burned. firm. This entry had been changed, however, about the time of the Puter trial to read “ Cash retainer in second Cleveland, O., June 22.— W hile trav lieu list,” instead of “ Cash retainer eling at the rate of 70 mile* an hour, in 8. A. D. Puter list,” as it had form the famous Twentieth Century Limited, erly been. He had done this because he was afraid that harm might come the fastest long-distance train in the from the entries if they happened to be world, ran through an open switch at found. the little town of Mentor, east of Cleve The witness also stated that the re land, at 9:20 o’clock last night, causing ceipts for the month of February had one of the most horrible wrecks in the been divided between himself and history of the Lake Shore road. Mitchell, and demonstrated from the The engine was hurled into the ditch. book how Mitchell had received his A part of the train was crushed on top half of the $500 check. of it, and the wreck was partly burned. The prosecution now began the in The horrors of the wreck were doubled troduction of the correspondence which in the horrors of the fire. had passed between the senator and More than a score of people were Mr. Tanner during all of this time, killed and injured, and the famous which correspondence treated of the train was demolished. Kribs matter and referred to the fees to The train was crowded, practically be received, and contained requests all its accommodations being taken and directions to the senator as to his when it left the city It was behind procedure in Washington in expediting time, and the greatest of speed was the claims, lists of which had been sent being made to make up the lost time. < .to him. One letter told of a promised Late reports gave the number of in fee of $1,000, and related to the fee to jured as 21, and of these 15 are seri be paid the senator for assisting in a ously, if not fatally hurt. Practically Chinese ease. Other letters urged the all the injured were burned and had to senator to take up the Kribs matters be extricated from Ihe blazing wreck personally with Hermann, and hurry age by rescue parties. them through, as the payment of the Traveling at a rate of more than a fees due depended upon the haste with mile a minute, the heavy train was which the patents were issued. hurled to its doom with a momentum Telegrams showing the activity of that was appalling. An instant after the senator at Washington were also the crash of the wreck the boiler of the introduced and read to the jury, which great engine burst with terrific force, related to actions done by the senator scattering fire and steam through the and to the conclusions reached by the wreck in a manner that made escape for department, presumably as a result of the helpless imprisoned passengers im the influence he had brought to bear possible. upon the commissioner. During the day the courtroom was crowded with many members of the SE C O N D DAY O F TH E T R IA L. local bar. Many of them shook hands with Senator Mitchell when court ad Summary o f Arguments o f Attorneys journed both at noon and in the after and Testimony o f Witnesses. noon. A number of the senator’s Portland, June 22.— The second day friends were present and he was con of the Mitchell trial has passed, Fred gratulated on his birthday During the erick A . Krebs, one of the star wit morning session, Judge Webster sat Mayor Williams nesses of the government, has testified near the senator. and has gone, Judge A. 11. Tanner the came in just as Judge Tanner was com other chief prop of the case to be made ing to the most important part of his by the prosecution, is on the stand and testimony. w ill finish his story soon. The com plainant is smothering the jury under C A LL HAS BEEN ISSUED. a mass of documentary evidence and the defense is playing upon its heart strings. Mr. Heney is showing the jury Trans-Mississippi Congress Soon to Gather In Portland. the agreement entered into between Tanner and Mitchell and Kribs by Portland, June 23. — The call has which they were to expedite claims gone out for the Sixteenth Annual held by the latter, is producing checks, Trans-Mississippi congress to take place account books, letters and testimony in in Portland, August 16, 17, 18 and 19. support of his indictment, while Judge The executive committee has sent out Bennett and Senator Thurston, so far, word to governors of states and terri have pleaded the honorable career of tories, mayors of cities, boards of coun their client, have held out the fact that ty commissioners, chambers of com today he is to pass his 70th birthday, merce and trade organizations to ap have entered technical objections to the point tbeir delegates and send them to introduction of the testimony and have take part. And this they w ill surely made one desperate and spectacular at do, for the Trans-Mississipi congress, tempt to block the introduction of being, as its name implies, of peculiar Judge Tanner’s evidence. interest to those states this side of the The prosecution had its first opening Mississippi river, has become an event yesterday and brought out its two most of particular significance. Moreover, important witnesses, upon whose tes there are certain matters of high im timony it w ill, to a great degree, base portance to come before the body. its case. The Pacific trade w ill be the chief The defense had finished cross-exam topic of conference, as the official call ining Mr. Kribs when Mr. Heney points out. Though this has come be called Judge Tanner to the stand, but fore the congress previously, the force Senator Thuiston objected to the testi of it has never been brought out as it mony. He called attention to the jour w ill here on account of the contiguity nal of the court in which was entered of Portland to the Orient. Trade rela Judge Tanner’ s plea of guilty to a tions with the Far East will be exploit charge of perjury. The speaker read ed to the end that the l>est nie'hods section 5392 of the Revised Statutes of may lie adopted to secure the Oriental the United States, providing that no commerce to the trans-Mississippi person guilty of perjury could be used states. as a witness in the Federal court unless The executive committee also points judgment had been Tenderer!. out the increasing demand fora Depart Mr. Heney argued that a plea of ment of Mines and Mining, with its guilty without sentence was subject at head a member of the president’ s cab any time to a reversal. inet. An effort w ill be made to secure Jugde DeHaven held that a judgment action from the national congress to was necessary to bar one convicted of wards the establishment of such a de perjury from testifying, and overruled partment. the objections. Twentieth Century Limited Train Meets Disaster. FOURTEEN DEATHS THE RESULT j C onquest« * • Great j | Americas Desert \ B B ggS S E S I r r i g a t i o n N o w an d H e r e a ft e r . No Irrigation exhibits of prominence were In evidence at the S t Louis World’# Fair as such, yet In everything agricultural they formed a leading part and their withdrawal would have left huge gaps and taken away the best Had the products of the dam and ditch all been labeled “ Grown by Irrigation,” the Irrigation exhibit would have been very large. But few of the hundreds of thousands o f peo ple who viewed with amazement the magnificent fruits and grains from the Western States, far more notable In size, appearance and yield than any thing they ever saw In the E ast were fully able to realize that those prod ucts were raised upon land* which a few years ago were useless deserts, but now made fertile by the art of irrigation. Practical methods of Irri gation were demonstrated at the Gov ernment building by a model of Salt River Valley In Arizona, where a sys tem of ditches and laterals, by which the water is distributed onto the farm* and orchards below, are now under construction in the mountains. Real water was running through theso ditches. This great work of Uncle Sam’s In Arizona is progressing rap idly. A-cement mill, to make the 200,- (XH) barrels of cement needed in the masonry, is completed; a $100,000 mountain road, to convey the dam material from Phoenix Is finished and, most remarkable, the river Itself has been carried through tunnels around the dam site and Is furnishing 1,000 electric horse power with which to build the dam. This is to be used to construct the giant work* and thus the river will build its own dam and form the greatest reservoli In the United States. Of all sizes and classes were the Irrigation pumps exhibited In the farm and Implement department; but more striking tlian these were the wldnmllls. These busy machines rear ed their tall heads above the surround ing buildings and whirred gaily In the breeze, forming a striking exam ple o f man's Ingenuity In harnessing the elements. The highest of these, built by one o f the largest windmill manufacturers, spread Its steel wings 120 feet In the air, and with a moder ate wind pumped 40,000 gallons an hour. The water gushed up like a fine artesian well, enough to Irrigate thor oughly a good-steed farm. The West Is at the beginning of tremendous progress In agriculture. The govern ment has undertaken the work o f na tional reclamation o f the desert and is pushing the work vigorously. Vast engineering works— huge dams and canals— are being constructed In the Western States and Territories, apd as the work proceeds the people will real ize its wisdom and worth, and it will be extended until the former desert places shall become the most fruitful of any In the land. Twenty years lienee. If the government's Irrigation work continues along right lines and is kept free from politics and graft, we may see a West with nearly double Its present population and the splen did products of American Irrigation reaching to all parts o f the world.— Agricultural Epltomlst. D UCH E8S OF M ANCH ESTER. F o r m e r N e w Y ork lleu n tr W hose M a r r ie d L i f e W an U n h a p p y . When, about 1874 Lord Mandevllle, son of Manchester and showed a strong “ a-courtlng go,” the ciety In England and or 1875, the gny o f the then Duke heir to the title, Inclination to butterflies of so in our own "title- More Officials Resign. New York June 23. — Chairman Morton announced that he had accepted today the resignations of several of the employes of the Equitable society, among them that of Charles Francis Williamson, who was secretary to form er Vice President Hyde, with headquar ters at the latter’s residence. It is un derstood that a number of the high sal aried subordinate* will tender their res DOWAGER DUCHESS OF MAHCHESTF.R. ignations and that many dismissals of minor employes here and at all the leading agencies are contemplated in listing," democratic country fluttered the near future. their whlmmerlng, silken wings, looked longingly toward the dural prize and— Senator Arrives With Alaska Gold waited. A fter whispering a pretty Hard Blow to Governor. Seattle, Wash., June 23.— The j sentiment here and snatching a kiss Honolulu, June 22.— A. M. Brown, steamer Senator, first of the Nome fleet from inviting lips there, for his lord- the Republican nominee, was today ! to return to this port, arrived here to ship was Indeed a merry dog, he dis elected sheriff of Oahu county, in which night. She brought $400,000 in gold. covered that better thnn anything else this city is included, by a vote of about II. Knster died en route, from paralys- j he liked to look Into the shy eyes of 2,200 to 1,650, received by the home- is. His home is in Platfsville, Wis. j an American girl. He spent a lot of rule candidate, A. Poepoe, and 830 re Captain Lloyd states that the winter time Just doing that, but he didn't con ceived by W illiam Henry, the persent cleanup will amount to $2,500,000. The sider the time wasted. The girl was incumbent and an independent candi Ohio, Oregon and Victoria are due to a creole named Consuelo Yznnga, date. The closing of the campaign was arrive within 48 hours. Each of them ; daughter of Antonio laga. She had the most bitter in the history of local is said to have a large amount of gold j lived for some time In New York, politics. Governor Carter made an aboard. where her father had large mercantile active fight against Brown. Interests, but she didn’t fit there. Her Puts Ban on Chinese Boycott. dark beauty would have harmonized Did Right to Surrender. Tientsin, June 23.— Viceroy Yuan j well with the sunny, southern atmos London, June 22.— A dispatch to the has prohibited students from holding phere o f her father's I-oulslana planta Exchange Telegraph company from St. meetings in reference to the boycotting tion and his Cuban estate would have Petersburg say* the commission ap of American manufactured goods and made for her still a lovelier setting. pointed to investigate the capitulation has also issued a strong proclamation But Consuelo was one o f the butter of Port Arthur find* that the surrender against merchants interferring with flies and New York Is where human 1 affaira in the hands of the government. butterflies seem happiest, to It was In of the fortress was justifiable. Japanese'Advance Begun. St. Petersburg, June 22.— The public which lias no idea that negotiations for an armistice are no foot, believes that a great battle in Manchuria is now- beginning, and official dispatches from both sides liear out the idea that the Japanese have commenced their main advance, though as yet theie have been no heavy collisions. The Japanese, following the checking of the movement to the west, are now pushing forward in force along the railroad anil the Mandarin and Mainaikia roads, their front now stretching for miles. that d ty that the young heir to fha Manchester dukedom courted her. F>or court her he did, ardently and with apparent sincerity, and when on May 22, 1876, he made her his bride after, figuratively speaking, walking over the heads o f the hundreds of young Amer ican men who were at the feet of the beautiful creole, tbe social world sighed, envied and applauded, for though "all the world loves a lover” the world of pleasure loves best o f all a lover with a title. They went to England and the young w ife waa happy— for a while. Her home wa# a castle, her new friends were of noble blood and she was the w ife of the heir to one o f the proudest titles In the realm. But It wasn’t long before there was a atrauge feeling o f discontent She smiled a* sweetly at ever on her new friends, entertained as lavishly, danced aa gay- ly— but there was a tiny rift within the lute— and It ^rolled the music. She found that the ardent love of her husband had cooled, though he was ■till kind, very good-natured and de sirous that ahe should thoroughly en joy life, If position could give enjoy ment Well, she could stand th at One could not expect one’s husband to be quite Hke a lover. 8o she kept on with her duties as wife and hostess and all commented on her fine mind and gra- eioua bearing. A fter a time there came to her ears rumors of her husband's flirtations and behavior unbecoming a gentleman. She learned, ae time went on, that he belonged to that class o f titled Englishmen who admire and like to make companions o f the queens of the concert hall and the ballet. On hla father's death he became tbe DulA of Manchester March 21, 1890, but still kept on with hts disreputable conduct. He waa associated with the London music hall singer, Bessie Bellwood. anil on one occasion appeared In a po lice court aa a witness against a cab man who charged the singer with as sault. Three children were born to the duke and his American duchess but paternal cares did not weigh heavily on this pleasure-loving Englishman who made domestic happiness an Im possibility. He died in August, 1892, after having lived a life of uselessness and unfaithfulness to the woman who had given the keeping o f her life Into his hands. Through it all, Consuelo Y’ znaga, Duchess of Manchester, never complained to anyone. She gained the sympathy o f a wide circle of friends who realized that her youthful dream of happiness had not been realized. The son o f this Ill-mated couple, who is the present Duke o f Manchester, was born March 3, 1877. He married Miss Helen Zimmerman, daughter o f Eugene Zimmerman, o f Cincinnati. The twin daughters of the dowager duchess died when quite young A t present the dowager duchess lives quietly, but elegantly. In Paris, Berlin and London. Her husband squandered most of the ducal estate and for a time the duchess was not wealthy but through tlie death o f her brother, Fer nando Yznaga, a few years ago, she came Into a fortune o f #1,000,(XK). In the French capital, where she spends most of her time, her social position Is an enviable one and continual court Is paid to her. She is still a superbly beautiful woman, richly gownod and the |>ossessor of many lovely gems. She has the largest diamond necklace of any o f the noble ladies o f England. For long, Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt looked upon it with envy blit Its equal was at last secured for lier. Tbe marriage of Consuelo Yznagn to this English nobleman was one of tbe thousand Instances of International marriages resulting in sorrow and un happiness for tbe wife, but still the strife for title goes on among tbe de votees o f society in the United States and apparently It will continue as long as position It put ahead of real worth. A R e m a r k a b le Cure. The proceedings o f the Itoynl Soci ety were not always taken so seriously as they are now. A hundred and fifty years ago a sailor who hail broken his leg sent to the Itoyal Society an ac count o f the remarkable manner In which he had healed the fracture. His story was that he had dressed it with nothing hut tar and oakum, and was now able to walk well. This remark able story naturally caused some ex citement among the members o f tho society. No one bad previously sus pected tar an.l oHkum of possessing such miraculous healing powers. The society wrote for further particulars, and doubted Indeed whether the leg had tieon really fractured. The truth of tills part o f the story, however, was proved beyond n shadow o f a doubt. Several letters passed between the Itoyal Society and the sailor, who con tinued to nssert solemnly thnt bis broken leg had been treated with tar and oakum, and with nothing else. Tbe society might have remained puz zled for an Indefinite period had not the sailor added In a potscrlpt to hla Inst letter: " I forgot to tell your hon ors that the leg was a wooden one.” A l i O n R - R n l T e r t n g Eye. A teacher In English composition had been giving lessons In the use of th • nrtlve voice. "F o r Instance," said he "Instead of saying a ‘tree might have been seen on the lawn,’ say, ‘a tree rose from the Inwn.’ ” The next day a boy handed In a composition which begun: "E very morning when I look ont o f the window a brick wall falls on my eye.” I'retty Ooort Hcheme. A Somerville man la thinking seri ously of keeping his furnace fire go ing all summer long. He heard hla w ife say the other day tnat It Isn’t any use at all to begin cleaning houso until after the furnace Are had gona out.— Somerville Journal.