EVENTS OE THE DAY
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Lett Important but Not Less Inter
citing Happenings from Points
Outittla the 8uie.
A heat prostration Is reported from
New N lllk.
Four ieriii were cremated liy forest
fires near Hunt, Mich,
'I lie program of ilic Balkan confer
rni'r it prnvoMttg many protests.
Hlriix In thr paper milU of the ICul
nwy cause mmt fnttinic at election.-
Rttotevclt l to Uil Kuglaml and
France mi his return from the African
hunt.
Sixty people Mere icscncd nt l-i
Uoqiie, Muh, after spending a night in
burning forests.
Smnkc is mi dense on the Great l.ikrs
frHU forest fire that navigation is al
most ilUHSlhlc.
I'turt fire Iwve attain broken out in
Chippewa county, Michigan anil are
IhleMtenuiK ' the cxlicinc.
The American fleet encountered a ter
rible I) Ihkh off lite uUltd of l.iiiun.
Owr MaH mis lost overboard.
An Ahmisthh aeroplane has Iwen
wrecked hi England ami the inventor
hurt Drmonttralioti of the machine
were being given before army men.
A rolnfril hi to it ha Iwen arrestee!
at OskUnd fur roMting Southern Pa
cific dining cars. Officers watched ami
mw her pK'K ii Imk of supplies winch
liad Iwen thrown friHii the dining car
It)' her confederate.
A Miiii iihiIi of black men hung
another eulored man.
Thaw may rt testify in the bank
ruptcy mn,reditigs Jgaui4 him.
The trial of Charles Morse. w!k
reked a New York hank, Iws lgun
The I'aeifK cruiser fleet has left Hon
olulu fur Magdalcua bay for target prac
tice. Or rat Ilritain, France ami Russia have
KUeil ihi n program for the llalKau
inference.
Bulgaria says she is ready tn give
Turkey a cash consideration for the loss
if territory.
There is much activity on hoard ling
lish war veneU, as the result of the
Balkan troiiUlc.
A Seattle man received Mi.ooo volts
of electricity ami lives. If he recovers,
however, he wilt probably lose his hands
ami feet.
A third balloon, which was taking
IMM in the international races at llcrhn,
Iws fullest into the North sea. The oc
cupants were rescued.
Six men were instantly killed ami XI
others injured by the cxphwum uf a
uosed clurge of il)iiainile near Fort
Collins, Col. They were all Greek and
Mexican laborers.
District Attorney Jerome Is after
New York gamblers.
The Pacific fled has reached Ho
nolulu on Its way home.
Pacific coast business men in Ja
pan arc receiving a warm welcome.
Many Servians in America are pre
paring to go home to fight if neces
sary. The crown prince of Servia threat
ens to attempt an overthrow of King
Peter.
Great Ilritain proposes financial aid
to Turkey in compensation for lost
territory.
Neither of the two great political
parties arc receiving very large miii.',"".""' "i 1 iVCr' iV. . J 11 ri "itf
.algu contributions. In Japan will be completely ft led witf.
1 . receptions and sightseeing trips ar-
Governor Folk, of Missouri, dc
clarcs the United States Is more in
need of reform than is Missouri.
One of the balloons In the Inter
national race at Merlin fell into the
North sea. The occupants were res
cued. Five thousand troops were placed
around the hall of the llritish parlia
ment to prevent women suffragists
from making a demonstration in the
house of commons,
Servians have seized a Hungarian
town.
Roosevelt has refused to go on the
mump.
Ferdinand has entered Sofia as
czar of Bulgaria.
Turkey Is sending cruisers to the
Island of Santos,
Japa
fricudl
inncse massacred a party of
idly Cor cans by mistake for in
surgents.
Castro's health has Improved so
much that he is again able to be out
on the blrccts.
During n quarrel nt Tucson, Ariz.,
between two carpenters, one lilt the
other, breaking his neck,
The French government says the
Dardanelles should be opened while
the Balkan trouble Is being settled,
PIIEY TO CMMULEfl8.
Thousands of Land Stinkers Are Left
Pminllnsi In 8oulh Dakota,
Dallas, S D, Oct. 13. It is cstl
mnted that l.ooo land-seekers who
have come to Dallas mid Gregory
have lost their money at Raining ta
bles and nre "broke " Many more
who have lust all their ready cash
have been forced to telegraph for
money.
Nearly fio.ooo persons have regis
tered at these two points already and
nearly as many more arc expected be
fore the period of registration closes.
Hundred return as quick as they have
registered, hut thousands have re
mained for the drawing.
(.amblers hac operated their games
without restraint and arc said to have
made remarkable winnings. They run
pell tucll 24 hours a day, with the
games .11 strong at daybreak as when
the sun sets.
To he broke In this -ountry means
something to a man, because he is
without fiicnds, generally, and at
a time when it is not easy to make
new ones Kvery outgoing train car
ries many men who hive lost their
money ami risk their l.vcs riding on
brake beams.
No land opening has ever brought
more people, ami they all come with
money. Those who have the gam
bling spirit stick to the roulette and
faro tables, with the result that scv
eral hundred are living on charity
until they can get out of the country
l6ndon CENTER OF INTEREST.
St. Petersburg Watching Outcome of
Conference in England.
St Petersburg, Oct 13 The cen
ter of interest in the Near Mast crisis
has been transferred to London, and
the Russian foreign office is marking
time in its negotiation with other
powers concerning the convocation
of a congress until the outcome of the
conferences between M. Iswolcky, Sir
Kdward Grey and King F.dward are
known.
Kmperor Nicholas has decided to
leave the letter of Ktuperor Francis
Joseph unanswered until M Iswolsky
returns to St. Petersburg. Count
llerchthnld, the Austrian ambassador.
was closeted with M TcharyknfT, the
acting foreign minister, the entire af
ternoon. At the close of the Inter
view he reiterated the statement that
Austria would refuse to participate in
a congress unless the llnsnia question
was excluded from this program
The question of the recognition of
Unitarian independence has for the
time lieiug dropped out of sight, I nit
Itussia has assured Bulgaria that she
will support her pretentions before
the congress.
The foreign office has received
from a score of cities in Turkey tele
grants protesting against the Austro-Hiingarian-llulgariau
action, which
have been adopted at mass meetings
held under the auspices of the Young
Turks The telegrams are Identical in
text, showing a certain origin
JAPANESE GREETING WARM.
Yokohama Turns Out to Oo Honor
to San Francisco Ouslnes Men.
Yokohama, Oct. 13 Yokohama is
a blaze of color with American and
Japanese (lags flying from every
building, in honor of the delegation
of Pacific Coast business men who
arrived at 7 o'clock on the Japanese
liner Teuyo Martt from San Fran
cisco The visitors were greeted at
the dork by a crowd which numbered
hundreds of representative businr
men of Japan, assembled from the
cities of Tokio, Osaka and Kyoto.
The officially prepared program of
entertainment lor the Americans com
menced ns soon as they stepped
ranged by their Japanese hosts. On
Thursday the Americans wilt he the
guests of Count Kotnura, minister of
foreign affairs, at .1 luncheon in honor
of the visitors.
The Tenyo Marti had nu excellent
trip across the Pacific.
Chicago Alp Very Dirty.
Chicago, Oct. 13. The health de
partment, in a report just issued,
states that the dust and soot in the
atmosphere of Chicago, as shown by
tests just taken, Is three times ns
great ns that in the atmosphere of
London ' Samples of the air taken nt
a height of 40 feet above the street
level at four points of the city were
subjected to analysis. The report
says: "This excess may be partly at
tributed tn the long contjuued drouth.
The dirt hnd not been washed out of
the nlr for some time previous to the
collection of specimens,"
Austria Still Reaching Out.
London, Oct. 13. The Dally Mall's
Belgrade correspondent says that the
fall of the Servian ministry Is immi
nent and that n vonlitlou cabinet will
he formed. He also states that the
Attstrlans nre preparing to seize two
islands in the Drlna river on the
Servo-Bosnian frontier. Humors of
war, he says, have caused a run on
tne ueigraue banks.
I I
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
ISSUES REPORT ON CROPS,
Department of Agriculture Sends Out
Supplemental Bulletin.
Washington, Oct IS A supple
mental report on crop conditions has
been issued by the department of agri
culture Besides giving the crop fig
ures announced previously, it gives
the following:
Condition per cent aged apples,
1H4; cranberries, f.H.'l; grapes, HSU;
hops, quality, tnefl; peanuts, 83 4;
sorghum, HI 3; sugar beets, 85 4;
sugar cane, HUfi; sweet potatoes, 85 S
'I he preliminary estimate of rye
total production is given as 30.U21.ooo
bushels, against :il,sr,e,uuu for 1U07,
and hay, 07,743,000 tons, against 03,
077.0O0 last year.
The production estimates on a
liatls ol 100 representing a full crop
include: Beans, dry, TJ; cabbage, 7.15;
clover seed, tiOH; hemp, S5 2; hops,
pounds per acre, 1,004 ft; onions, 83.4;
tomatoes H"i wall r melons, 7U7.
The average condition of seventeen
important crops representing nearly
tm ier cent of the value of all farm
crop, weighed according to thrir rel
ative importance, was on October 1
for the United States 77 8, against
70 7 September 1.
Workmen Favor Private Yards.
Washington. Oct 17 A siecial com
miltee representing SOW unemployed
workiiisjttien formerly with the Bethle
hem steel works, is prraring to itit
President Roosevelt next Monday. Tlie
committee will endeavor to convince the
president that the prottcrily of thou-
nam) of workmgmeu would lc assured
if more government contracts went to
private firms than to tin- navy yard
President Roosevelt was apealcd tn yes
terday by Representative J. D. Broad
head to enlarge the vcojie of private
contract fur government construction
work. 011 the plea that many Idle men
would I given work. Ilroadhead ar
ranged for the workmgmen's committee
to see tlte president.
New Cattle Rate.
'ahmgtim. Oct 17. The sweeping
reduction of from i to & cents er too
loumW on range cattle lupment. which
the mtertate commerce cihiiiuusmhi had
ordered on August 27, of this vear, went
into effect tndsy The order was the
mult of an investigation made by the
commission 111 consequence of a protest
of the Texas cattle raisers against the
Misitoiiri, KaiiMs Texas railroad and a
great many other western and south
western road, which had advanced the
rates on range cattle last spring The
order, which went into effect today, ap
plies to Mi railroads 111 the western and
southwestern parts of the country.
Hospital Gets $1,000,000.
New York. Oct 10 It was an
nounced today that James S. Ken
nedy, the New York banker, hid
given si.noo.ooo to the Presbyterian
hospital of this city, of which he is
president The money is to be used
in construction of buildings. Other
gifts made by Mr. Kennedy and pre
viously announced arc $500,000 to Co
lumbia university, $300,000 for a
building of the United Charities and
mn.ooo to the School of Philan
thropy. Mexican Ambassador Resigns.
Mexico City. Oct. 10 The Mexi
can foreign office has confirmed the
tcMgnatiou of P.nriquc C. Creel as
ambassador to the United States.
Seuor Creel for some time put has
held the double position of governor
of the state of Chihuahua and am
bassador at Washington. His suc
cessor in the post at Washington,
which is the highest in the Mexican
diplomatic service, has not yet been
decided upon.
May Kill Li's Biographer.
Pckiu. Oct. 10. Madame Lien.
wife of the biographer of the late
Li Hung Chant;, has been arrested in
.Shanghai on imperial order. The
reason for the action is found In the
fact that Madame Lieu has of late
been making brnvc efforts to clear the
character of a female teacher, who
was beheaded last year charged with
revolutionary activity. Madame Lieu
is .1 Chinese woman of education.
Ronds Improve Service.
Washington. Oct. 13. Franklin
Lane of the interstate commerce com
mission, opened the proceedings of
the annual convention of the National
Association of Railway Commission
ers. He stated that durlnn the nres-
cut year practically nil American mil
roads hail been able tn furnish trans
portation facilities within a reason
able time.
Hands Off, Says sludge.
Davenport. la.. Oct. 10. Judge
Smith McPlicrson, in the United
States court, today gave n final de
cision in the case of the United
Breweries ngntnst the Civic Federa
tion of Davenport- lie declared the
Iowa Honor statute n ounsi criminal
law nml said that the federal court
had no power to Interfere with Its
enforcement by state courti.
GOVERNMENT FIGHT8 DUST.
Officials Trying to Make Roads Suit
able for All Purposes,
Washington. Oct 17 "Dust Pre
vrritivcs." by Prcvost Hubbard, issued a
lliillciiri No 31, United States office of
public roads, is the latest contribution
to literature on road construction and
maintenance Mr Hubbard's nancr has
been prepared to meet the growing de-ibcrgen by an international agreement,
inanil by road engineers for specific in-1 The Norwegian fishermen and
formation on the important subject of. huntsmen were for a long time undis
dust prevention He has made a re- puled masters of Spitzbergen and
search of all literature on the subject, enjoyed unlimited freedom In follow
supplementing this with the results of ing their occupations. Recently, how-
actual experiments nude by the office
of public roads
Interest lias Im-cii recently reawakened
ill the problem of the prevention of dust
ofi country highways, the well-nigh uni
versal use of Die automobile being rc
ijxiuaihlc for the additional study and
experiments. Road engineer arc now
agreed that the automobile, when mov
ing at a high speed, is destructive to
macadam roads, the broad soft tires
lifting the rock dust and scattering it
over adjacent fields.
AWAITS RIGHT MOMENT.
Roosevelt Said to Have Plan to Settle
Balkan Trouble.
Washington, Oct. 13. President
Roosevelt is watching the Balkan sit
uation closely Instructions, it is
said in diplomatic circles, have been
sent to every American diplomatic
agent in the Balkan peninsula, and in
all Kuropc,
10 rciun uauy on ine
progress ot alfairs
When the right moment arrives
President Roosevelt will have a nlan
of arbitration ready to submit to the
powers, declare the friends of the
chief executive.
The visit of Charles S. Francis.
American ambassador at Vienna, who
is at home on a vacation, to President
Kooscvelt recently is taken to mean
that the president will have some
thing to suggest to Rmneror Franz
Josef when the time arrives.
New Stamp Issue.
Washington. Oct. 15 The bureau
of engraving and printing is prepar
ing to issue the new postage stamps,
designs for which have been com
pleted at the suggestion of Postmaster-General
Meyer. The new stamps
arc to be the most simple printed by
the government for years. They will
be of the following denominations:
I, '.'. 3. 4. 5. 0. 8. 10. 15 and 50-cent
and SI. The 1'A and $1 denominations
now in use will not be reprinted.
The printing of the 2-ccnt denom
ination is to be begun at once, and it
is thought they will be ready for dis
tribution some time in November.
I he stamps arc very simple in de
sign. Die lettering is in straight
Uric At tne ton arc the words. "U
S. Postage." and at the bottom the
words, "Two Cents." or according to
tlie denomination, the 1-cent stamps
contain the head of Franklin and all
the others the head of Washington
The heads are all profiles. The col
ors are the reds and blues of early
stamps.
Make Them Go to School.
Washington, Oct. 14. In his an
nual report just made public, Com
missioner of Kducation U. II. Brown
recommends compulsory school at
tendance by the native children of
Alaska. He says: "Experience has
shown that in many sections of
Alaska regularity of attendance in the
public schools for natives cannot be
maintained without a legal penalty
for truancy. The passage of a bill
requiring the attendance of all chil
dren of school age unless mentally
or physically disqualified is desir
able.'' Cross of Honor for King.
Washington. Oct. 14 Victor Em
manuel III, king of Italy, will be
awarded an American ero.v of honor
at a ceremony to be held in this city,
October 15. The board of governors
of the American Cross of Honor as
sociation will convene here on that
date and make the award to the king,
who was elected an honorary mem
ber of the order last February, and
who accepted by letter May 31, lOOfl
12,000 Deaths This Year.
Washington, Oct 13. Approxi
mately 13,000 deaths from cholera in
the Philippines since January 1 of
this year are announced in n detailed
report made to the public health serv
ice by Chief Quarantine Officer Mc
Clintick, nt Manila. The report says
that cases of cholera continue to lie
renortcd in the Philippines, but the
disease shows little tendency toward
spreading.
tn Honor of Bryce.
Washington, Oct. II Ambassador
Brvce has cone to Boston to attend a
banquet to be given in his honor by
the British organizations of that city.
The occasion will be the first ap
pearance of the British ambassador
before the people of New England.
Stewart Is Out,
Washington, Oct. 14. President
Roosevelt has approved the report of
the retiring board recommending the
retirement of Colonel William F.
Stewart, the Fort Grant exile, from
the army.
8PITZHERGFN IN DISPUTE.
Conference to Be Called to Settle
Ownership of Land.
Berlin, Oct. 12. An international
conference will be summoned In the
near future to regulate the future of
Spitsbergen, and it Is expected that
delegates will attend from Great Brit
ain, the United States, France, Russia,
Germany, Sweden and Norway. The
Norwegian government, which has
taken the Initiative in proposing the
conference, desires to safeguard the
rights of the Norwegian fishermen
who work alonir the coasts of Soltz
ever, two minim; companies, one
I financed by British and Norwegian
capital ami tlie other financed by
American and Norwegian capital,
have begun operations in Advent Bay
arid both companies have annexed
ftwirrtiritlc aroai rtf tan, I ami linv
prohibited Norwegian fishermen and
huntsmen from trespassing on these
territories. It Is expected that Nor
way will jay claim to the possession
of Spitzbergen by virtue of the prior
rights 01 Norwegian fishermen and
huntsmen, but in this case it is ex
pected that Sweden will raise a coun
ter claim oil the ground that Swedish
scientific expeditions have been
mainly instrumental in opening Spitz
bergen to the outside world.
PUT POACHERS TO DEATH.
Russians Make Short Work of Jap
anese Seat Butchers.
San Francisco, Oct. 12. The United
States gunboat Yorktown, which has
arrived here after a cruise in Alaskan
waters, confirms the news of the sum
mary execution of several Japanese
seal poachers by the Russian authori
ties on the Homandorsky islands.
rfter a speedy trial on charges of
piracy, the men were convicted and
put to death. '
Two Japanese schooners, with their
crews, found sealing withtn the three
mile limit by the revenue cutter Bear,
were taken to Valdez. Following the
custom of previous seasons, it is
thought the men wilt- be allowed to
go free.
Lieutenant-Commander Pollock, of
the Yorktown. which has been doing
police duty around the I'ribtlof islands,
states that the rookeries there are
covered with dead and dying pups.
Their mothers had been killed at sea
and thr young left to perish.
During the season the Yorktown
encountered H Japanese sealers, but
none was within the three-mile limit.
While off Cane St. Ehas the York-
town was in a terrific gale, and was
compelled to heave to for 30 hours.
The gunboat was washed from stem
to stern, and one of her lifeboats
was carried away. This was the same
gale in which the bark Star of Bengal
was wrecked on Coronation island,
with the loss of 111 men.
TRY WIRELESS TELEPHONY.
Apparatus to Connect Admiralty Of
fice With Ships at Sea.
London, Oct. 12. The De Forest
system of wireless telephony is short
ly to be put to the test by the ad
miralty, who will endeavor to com
municate by wireless telephone with
the channel fleet from the admiralty
offices In St. James Park.
The experiments, which may extend
over some weeks, are expected to
demonstrate the possibility of the of
ficials in London keeping in touch
with the warships at sea and also of
the ships . communicating with the
land station.
Wireless telephony over long dis
tances has already been shown to be
possible by the invention of Mr. Poul
seu, the famous Danish inventor. By
means of powerful arc lamps of a spe
cial form continuous etcctrical waves
cm be sent from one place to another
impressed with the effects of speech
in such a way that these impressions
can be reconverted into speech at the
receiving station.
The electrical waves are bent out of
shape so to sneak, by the telephone
connected with the transmitting ap
paratus, and these modified waves are
capable of carrying the impression to
the receiving apparatus.
Not Aggressive, Says Servia.
Budapest, Oct. 12. Servia has re
plied to the Austro-Hungarinn de
mand tfor an explanation ol her pur
pose in summoning the reserves to
the colors by granting that this step
has no aggressive character. Speak
ing nt Saturday's session of the Aus-tro-Huugarian
delegation, Foreign
Minister von Aehrcutlul expressed
the belief that he would be able to
carry through the annexation of Bos
nia and Herzegovina peacefully. He
said that already lie wns negotiating
with some of the powers with the
view of smoothing out difficulties.
Acquits Mob Leader.
Snrincfield. III.. Oct. 13. The iurv
in tlie case of Ernest Humphrey, one
of the alleged mob leaders indicted
for malicious destruction of property
on August IS Inst, has returned a ver
dict of not guilty. This is the third
case growing out of the recent race
riot in which a verdict of not guilty
has been returned.
JOIN IN CONFERENCE
Great Britain Gets In Line With
Oilier Powers.
ACTION WAS A GREAT SURPRISE
Russia Would Rather Keep Straits of
Dardanells Closed Until New
Navy I Completed.
London, Oct. 13. M. Iswolsky, the
Russian foreign minister, has sua
cecded in impressing upon Sir Kd
ward Grey, the British secretary for
foreign affairs, the necessity that not
only should a conference of the pow
ers be held to settle the crisis in the
Near East, but this conference should
take under advisement other ques
tions besides those involved in the
annexation by Austria of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and the declaration of
Bulgarian independence.
This change of front on the part of
Great Britain, which has caused great
surprise, was announced by the for
eign office at the conclusion of a long:
conference between Sir Edward Grey
and M. Iswolsky. after, a meeting of
the cabinet, in which Sir Edward set
forth the position he had taken and
explained the views of the Russian
minister.
It is doubtful whether Russia is
anxious to reopen the Dardanelles for
the present, for, if this is done, it
must be for all nations, and Russia is
not likely to desire that while her
fleet is weak.
The point in her previous stand
Great Britain if continuing to insist
upon, apparently, is that no modifica
tion of a treaty can be permitted
without the consent of all parties to
that treaty, and at her proposal the
powers have instructed their ambas
sadors at Constantinople to affirm
this principle What end can be
served by this is not stated by the
foreign office, but it can hardly be
expected that cither Bulgaria or Austria-Hungary
will consent to restore
the legal stauts in Bulgaria and
Bosnia and Herzegovina
FIGHT WITH MANIAC.
Policemen Tussle With Crazy
Man
on Tall Tower.
New York. Oct. 13. Joseph Krats.
an insane man of Brooklyn, who in
an attempt to throw himself into the
East river Sunday fought desperately
with seven policemen on the dizzy
top of a Williamsburg bridge tower,
yesterday morning gave attendants
and physicians at the Eastern Dis
trict Hospital a furious fight. He
burst the canvas strait-jacket into
which he had been forced and with
maniacal fury assailed nurses and oth
ers in charge.
After a prolonged contest lie was
overpowered and bound. Later he
calmed down and was taken before a
court, charged with attempted suicide.
The magistrate, in committing him
to the observation ward of Kings
County Hospital, praised Policeman
Clarence Smith, who had followed
the crazed man in his climb to the
tower's narrow top and after an aw
ful hand-to-hand conflict, during
which Krats got out a razor, subdued
him and summoned assistance. The
magistrate said:
"Heroes like you deserve special
recognition. You are a brave man."
PLEADS FOR LARGER.NAVY.
Senator Lodge Says Pacific Coast
Must Be Protected.
Boston, Oct 13. Declaring that
Japan was ready to make insulting
demands on the United States, did
she dare, and that the only way to
guard against them was to increase
the American navy. United States
Senator Lodge launched into a strong
and vigorous plea for a bigger and
better navy at a Republican ratifica
tion meeting last night, held under
the auspices of the Republican club
of Massachusetts.
"What we want to look out for Is
our navy," insisted the speaker "We
should protect both the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and it is the policy of
the Republican party to do this."
Nicholas Ready to Fight.
Cettinie. Montenegro. Oct. 13
The Montenegrin National Assembly
opened here yesterday in extraor
dinary session, lhe war tever re
sulting from the annexation by Aus
tria-Hungary of Bosnia and Ilerze
govina has been strengthened by a
bellicose message to parliament from
rrmce Nicholas, who ueciarcu tint
the annexation of these two prov
inces had Inflicted a crying wrong
upon the people of Montenegro, and
that the people were prepared to sac
rifice their last drop of blood unless
the peaceful endeavors now on foot
resulted in righting the grievance.
.All Except Austria Join.
Constantinople, Oct 13. The Ger
man and Italian ambassadors yester
day made the same declaration to the
porte against the infraction of treat
ies without consent of the signatories
as has already been made by the
British, French and Russian ambassa
dors. Austria still holds aloof.