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POLITICS AM) v ANAL.
DISCUSSED AT SAGAMORE,
Messrs. Sherman and Shouts Avion?
the President's Visitors.
[Bj Tm\*w ß|i% to Us* Tribune.]
Oyster Bay. Aug. 13.— President Roosevelt dis
cussed the Congress campaign, Panama Canal
affairs and various subjects of interest with
caller at Sagamore Hill to-day, and also found
time to dispose of his usual amount of official
work. Chairman Sherman of the Republican
Congressional Committee was the principal con
ferred on politics, and Chairman Shonts and Bee
retary Bishop took us subjects pertaining to
the isthmian work. In addition to these guests
vho took luncheon with him. the President en
tertained Henry W. Tafi. brother of the Secre
tary of War, and Etooeri Bridges, of "Scribner's
Sl»tnzine."
man's \ : >ii was principally for
■cussing certain feature? of the
'.■: which will be issued next
"I wished the got the President** final decision
en certain paragraphs," said Mr. Sherman, "and
did .-o. The campaign? Oh. it will come out
all light. We will have a safe Republican ma
jority In the next House. Of that there is not
the slightest doubt. Of course, we do net ex
pecl the overwhelming majority we gained last
election, but ii prill be safe enough, neverthe-
Jess."
Spaaker Cannon, Mr. Sherman and other
I t thr Congressional committee visited
the President several weeks hko terrain topics
lied In the text hook were discussed in
Mr. Sherman paid the President had
<--! the way m which the topics had been
"The book -will be a stand pat document with
•word pictures of the record of the Republican
party and reasons why that party should be
kept in power," he said.
Mr. Sherman spoke appreciatively of the
President's Interest and assistance in the cam
paign. "At th« last election." he said, "we had
President Roosevelt on th« ticket, and no real
Democrat against him. For this reason we car
ried a number of strictly Democratic districts
that we had no more risht to than some one
besides iho President had to Sagamore Hill.
"While we expect to lose some of those districts,
the Republican members who hold them tow are
covfArnx in every Instance of their re-elction."
Mr. onts said he would advertise nt once for
2.5<*» coolies to work on the canal.
"The Impression should not go abroad that we
are going to employ Chinese exclusively," he
fsii. "We intend to pet the benefit of competi
tion in labor, a<= well as everything else, for the
good of the canal. To hire one nationality to
the exclusion of all others would soon result in
furious trouble, for the members of the race so
favored would soon decide that the canal could
rot be built without them. We have tried
Spanish laborers, and find them very valuable.
bo intend to got more of the same kind. The
Negroes we have found to be practically value
less."
Mr. Shonts said the new steam shovels ordered
some tim«> ago were arriving on the isthmus, and
-<.ver< : > being immediately installed. The dirt was
coming out of Cnlebra Cut so rapidly that great
difficulty was being found in disposing of it.
The President's trip to Panama was not dis
< us-srd to-day. Mr. Shon-.s said that conditions
on the isthmus were much Improved, and that
loth S<wretary Taft and himself would go with
the President when he abes his Inspection of
the work In November.
Representative Longworth, who if a member
of the campaign committee, took part in the po
litical discussion, and will visit Republican
headquarters in New York to-morrow.
GOMPEES REPLIES TO SHONTS.
Says Chairman Promised Not to Use Chinese
Labor on Canal.
Washington. Auc. 13-— Bamuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federation of Labor,
Issued a statement to-day, replying to a pub
!i«hM interview with Thodore P. Phonts, chair
man of tiie Isthmian Canal Commission, relative
to the plan to employ <"hinese coolie labor in the
const ruction of the Panama Canal. The state
ment is rui attack on Mr. Shonts's accuracy con
cennng fa^is and his knowledge nf the law,
fcTifl charges him with influencing Congress to
ar,r,i:l the eight-hour principle as applied to
canal work. Mr. fiompers reiterates that Mr.
fihents promised not to u:-c Chinese labor on
th" isthmusJ
Mr. Gompers fharflftpr:z»'s a"= absurd the onten
tirri of Chairman Rhonts tfiat the Chinese exclusion
law is applicable only to teriitniy at that time
mW*et to ti:-'- authority of the United States, and
thut the frmil 7,nr." was acquired subsequent to
that <Jaif-. Then? is no .s«<-h provision, says Mr.
Gcxapers, in tlio law referrf^l to.
In cpnclusionj Mr. Gompers Bays: "Congress vio
lated the eight^hour principle; now Chairman
Ebdnts proposes to viouite die <"■!■! iriPP' exclusion
lw. trpon which fact and principle there is such a
deej>-eeateJ eentiint?nl ;ind conxictlon among the
I*.'i;V- r oar country-'a -
EIAL ESTATE INVESTOR DROWNED.
Brooklyn Man Sinks Before the Eyes of His
Wife and Daughter.
Henij-stead. T>->Mtr Tplnnd, Aug. 13 (Special).— ln
■Jght of h;s wife and .■■.-.. Tlfilman,
c Brooklyn, was drowned yesterday evening in the
•urf about two miu-s east of the !>"<np Bench Hotel.
Heilman. in company with his f;imi!y, K. C. Par
k>ss and H: IV. Griffiths, president <>f ih« Nassau
Cottage <Vim:'.'»:iy, of which Mr. Heilman was a
ttO' •k!iol(j< i . w<^r«? having a rf--union on the beach
tf-ar the Point Lookout Life Saving Station, near
*'h*ri_ are many cott.<f?«».s ov/n^d l>y tho company.
-*Jr. lieJlman i* an expert swimmer, and w»s
P?ol»allv »ak<~-n with a cramp and sank before help
tj>uhi p arii him. Heilman .-..- swimming near
■tor*, when he suddenly called for holy and was
■een to sink. After a second he reappeared and
affcin called for help. Several m< n trifd to Bet to
cim. but :sr sank the third time before they were
' 5'5 ' h!tn. The body was found.
«R FAIRBANKS TO ADDRESS NEGROES.
I resident < "harles W.
: : to-day ;■) epeafc
• !he Ohio Ftaie Colored ESduca
■•! ion at Colucbui on
rris of <>hs>, and Booker T.
TO COMPLETE IRRIGATION WORKS.
s? h::,:!on, Aug. 32. —As soon as inventories have
*•*'; Uk«D of the contractors' outfits seized by the
«*tio?i <-;..] Survey at Corbett Tunnel and Bhosbons
•tea, cm litigation projects of Northern Wyoming,
~?*jfcrailon wiU '• given to plans for completing
T^« Breat contracts. "■ be cause of tie failure of
r*"''-* ?pwr at <"orbott Tunnc-J, and Prendegast
•^^•*-' ■ at Shoshone D«m to live up to the
gl" 4 . ct their contracts is bein? investigated and
teiv*^"-'* EOine bearing on the method of carrying
£?.-••* '"■oik!' to completion. It is regarded as
j*jy that the Geological Survey will continue tins
_» t ,'. : T\:tn ir-.t fvjuipromt . .■) supplies seized
tola ] £n e t a "t-w 'contract. More than $1,000,000
l\ norrs r.\v and hours
Increase in Purchasing Power of
Wages Shown,
• Washington, Aug. 13.— The Bureau of Labor to
«lay issued a report of an investigation into wag> %
and hours of labor In 1503 in the principal manu
facturing and mechanical Industries of the United
States. The report gives the average wages and
hours of labor end the number of employes in
identical establishments In 1901 and 1905. While the
figures presented «re not exhaustive for the United
Stales, the report says "it is believed they are
fairly representative of the industries investigated."
Continuing, 'M report says:
The result; of this investigation show that in
1905 the average wages an hour in the principal
manufacturing ami mechanical industries of the
country were 1.6 per cent lusher than in 1904; that
the average hours of labor a week remained the
same as in 1904. and that 6.3 per cent more persons
were employed In the establishments investigated.
As there was no reduction in the average hours of
labor per week, the average weekly earnings an
employe were 1.6 per cent higher than in 1904. As
there was an increase in the number of employes
as well as in tho weekly earnings an employe, there
was a considerable increase in the weekly earnings
of all employes, or, in other words. In the amount
of the weekly payroll. This increase was 8 per cent
in the establishments Investigated.
When the figures of this article relating to wages
and hours of labor and those of the succeeding
article relating to retail prices of food are brought
together, it is seen that the retail prices of food,
due ••»"* being given to the quantity and cost of
the different commodities consumed, were 0.6 per
cent higher in 1905 than in 1904. As the average
wages an hour Increased more than the retail
prices of food, the purchasing power of wages mo
oi eased. In 1906 the purchasing power of both
hourly and weekly wages was 1 per cent higher
than in 1904. or. expressed In other words, an hour's
wages in 1905 would purchase 1 per cent more food
than an hour's wages in 1904.
The averages of wages an hour in 1905 were 18.9
per cent higher than the average for the ten year
period from 1890 to 1£99 inclusive. The number of
employes was 33.6 per cent greater, and the average
hours of labor a wo. k were 4.1 per cent lower,
me average earnings ;i week in 1905 wore 14 per
cent hi her than the average earnings a week
during the ten years from 1890 to 1899. The aggre
gate weekly earnings of all employes- that is. 'th»
total amount of the payrolls-were 52 3 per cent
higher in 1900 than the average during the ten year
period nnmerj.
The retail price of the principal articles of food,
weight according to family consumption of the
various articles, was 12.4 per cent higher in 19.
than * wI VL^ he average price for the ten years from
IKW to '899. compared with the average for the
game ten year period, the purchasing power of an
hours wages in 1905 whs 5.88 per cent greater and
pf a week's wages 1.4 per cent greater, the increase
in purchasing power of weekly wages being Jess
than the increase in purchasing power of hourly
wages because of the reduction of the hours of
labor during the period.
The average wages an hour in 1905 were 21 5 per
cent higher than 1894. the year of lowest wages
during the period covered, and weekly earnings
were 16.6 per cent higher. The purchasing power
or an hour's wages was greater In 1906 than in sm
other year covered by this investigation, being 7.7
per cent greater than in 1R94. the year of lowest
wages, and 1.3 per cent greater than in 1596. the
year of lowest retail prices. The purchasing
power of a week's wages in 19A5 was 3.5 per cent
greater than in 189< ' but ' 2 7 per cent less than in
1 596.
In making the Inquiry the labor bureau attempted
to cover only those industries In which the wages
paid in the United Suites in one year were Ji0.000,
(VK» or over. The figures presented were obtained
in nil eases by special agents of the bureau through
personal visits to the establishments represented.
NEW DISTRICTS UPHELD.
Decision of Justice Howard Con
firms Rcapportionmcnt Act.
Albany. Aug. 13.— Justice Howard, of the Supreme
Court, to-day upheld the constitutionality of the
act of the last Legislature the Sen
ate and Assembly districts of the state. The deci
sion is rendered on the applications of George E.
Payne and Harry E. Per).-.-, of Queens County, and
Walter Pendleton, of Richmond County, for a writ
Of mandamus requiring the Secretary of State to
fend out election notices under the reapportionment
of 1594. The applicants held that the reapportion
ment act of 1906 was unconstitutional because the
constitution of Queens and Richmond counties as
one Senate district gives that district a population
117.000 in excess of the ratio. Another point raised
was that the combining of the two counties did not
create a district of contiguous territory.
In his opinion Justice Howard says. In part:
That the Legislature violated the requirement in
Imaw* 2«J^ equality of inhabitant? might be de
rmtable had it not already been settle,] and deter
mined by the Court of Appeals In this state
t»rkA r f a «ni t ",i l ', (1 apportionment which is being at
tacked, only tins one instance, the Queens-Rich*
fll^l district, has been pointed out as gross and
fl««ram, wbeaeas in the case of the people ex rel
t arter agrt. Rioe. reported In IK New York page
473. .Judge Gray in his opinion, on page 512, says:
» „«?" T 1 "? Of three "stances of departure from
SvirK iOfiioal apportionment is not enough to
fionar^quirement^ 46 Vi ° lation ° the co " stitu -
Kv.-ry presumption is in favor of the constitu
ss i-,c° f St f- tUte ,- and if th « r e ls «"v doubt
resolved i CI fSlltlIt"f SlltlIt "; nallty th * luestton should be
coMctitm^ tf vo . , of lhe eta *ute. for to doubt its
constitutionality is to favor the statute
In u.e < arter case if was said: •'Before courts
wi.l doom ft their duty to declare an art of the
I^isOamr* voul as in violation of some provision
wli , tr°r SJfl;"S Jf1 ;"- a case nnist '* presented In
which there can be no reasonable doubt."
"»ving In mind his rule and the fact that no
■ n it - I ? J^vantHKe is charged to have been gained,
..:, it be said that the Legislature, confronted as
it was by the many difficult and intricate problems
which presented themselves and which no ,"n
could solve perfectly, violated the letter and spirit
of the constitution? ] think not
The result which ur,,y follow from a construction
of the constitution is always a potent factor to
'■• ■;■' "Jdered - '! hat tn< * grrantlng of this order
wpud produce endless confusion cannot be doubted
It seems to me that the discretion necessarily
vested In the Legislature by the expression "as
nearly as may be"; that the examples set before
jt. not only by ail previous legislatures and eon
lAr- v?J { t tH n n ,V""! ! - '"" by the Constitution it
self; that the judicial sanction of. the last legisla
tive apportionment^ by the highest court in the
state. all warranted the Legislature In creating the
law which is now attacked.
When he learned of the court's 4 order. E. B
Whitney Issued the following statement:
An appeal will be taken as soon as the order Is
entered. The Constitution require: the Appellate
Division to convene- promptly to hear the appeal
We have telegraphed the judges of that court ask
ing when the case can he heard It is important
that the court convene immediately, because If the
decision is reversed the Senatorial and Assembly
primaries and conventions will have to be held
, ■-. ,r<i!!ii! to the old districts instead of the new
ones, unless a new apportionment can be made at
an extra session of the Legislature.
Mr. Whitney communicated with Eugene I* Rich
ards, who has taken similar action for some clients
In Queens, and learned from him that he is also
making preparation for an appeal.
NEW YORK POSTAL NEEDS.
Mr. Hitchcock to Discuss Them with Post
master Willcox.
FFrotn T!" Tribune Bureau.]
Washington, Aug. 13.— First Assistant Postmaster
General Hitchcock left Washington to-night for
New York, where he will hold a conference with
| Postmaster Willcox to-morrow relative to impor
: tant details in the administration of the New York
; office The recent increase in the force of nostof
lice clerks in New York and Improvements contem
; plated under the appropriations of congress will
result In changes which the First Assistant Post
n,|.ster GeotMl and Mr. Willcox desire to discuss
It Is probable that the conference will have some
relation ° the big postoffice building to he erected
on the Pennsylvania terminal site, now that the ne
■Mlatiorai over this piece 01 ' property have been
set led. With the acquisition of the ground at the
Pennsylvania terminal after terms had been agreed
on between the Postoffice Department and the rail
road company, the next step is the preparation of
the plans for the building to be put up there it
has been decided by the heads of the Postofflce" and
Treasury •Departments that the best method to
obtain a postofflce building on the new grounds
that will be satisfactory in every respect is to have
competitive bids submitted by architects generally
In order to do this a small appropriation by Con
gress will be necessary to Induce the most 'promi
nent architects to compete. A few thousand dol
lars will cover the expense. Mr. Willcox will he
called into consultation on the subject. The officials
of toe Postofflce Department have declared them
selves strongly in favor of the policy of tulldlng
postofflcea throughout the country with utility as
the most important feature to be sought. it i.«
preferred to have a building, in which the business
of sorting the mail can be done with the greatest
dispatch and the greatest saving of labor, rather
than a highly ornamental structure the usefulness
<if which is largely sacrificed to appearances. With
reference to the uptown postofflce this idea will be
carried out but every effort will be made at the
earn* time to make the exterior of the building as
graceful as possible. There Is no likelihood that
the s»h;n <• thought of at one time of building a
huge general postofflce in the centre of the city
will be carried out. '1 he acquisition of the Penn
sylvania property settled that. All possible floor
space will be utilised and the building will be of
only two stories.
The fact thai a postal commission appointed by
Congress at the last session will visit New York I
in ti... fall to study the postal need- of the city is |
likely to have little bearing on the plans for build
Ing Urn Pennsylvania terminal postofflce, as the
ccmmiaßion was appointed under a misunderstand
ing when the negotiations for this property were
bi:U la t:.t? iiir. »
NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY. AUGUST 14. lOOfi.
ICE DEALERS IXDICTEI).
s/:r/:\/7;/,.\ ix nn: m:t.
Bills Against Boston Contractors and
Politicians Also Found.
Roston, Aug. 13. — Thirty secret Indictments,
including tlmse against seventeen ice dealers
nnd six ice companies, which were returned by
the Suffolk County Orand Jury on Saturday last.
Were made public in the Superior Court to-day. In
addition to the ice indictments, four indictments
were returned in connection with the alleged
violation of the building laws in the construction
of the new Normal School building foundation
in the Fenway, and three indictments were
found in the Chelsea aldermanlc •'graft" cases.
The ice dealerr, are charged with having un
lawfully conspired "to regulate, advance and fix
the price of ice for public sale.' 1 and the ice com
panies are charged, as corporations, with con
spiracy.
The dealers indicted are Lewis G. White,
president of the Massachusetts Ice Dealers' As
sociation; Charles W. Hallustram, secretary, and
the following members of iho organization:
I.ouis A. Holt. Marcus Esta brook, James M. Gill.
William H. Barney, J. Edward Kimball. Mar
shal S. OooHdge, Edward A. Davenport, Charles
A. Davis, Reuben W. Hopkins, Frank W. Ho
mana, John H. Rennet, Frank H. Atwood, Jar
vis W. Ferris, John O. Porter and Silas Boyce.
The companies indicted are the Boston, Inde
pendent. Union, FresTi Pond. Cambridge and
Highland Co-operative companies.
The dealers, when arraigned, pleaded not
guilty and were held in bonds of $I,«M>o each.
In Hie Normal School case the indictments are
against the (J. W. Carr Company, of Worcester,
contractors; John B. McAllister, superintendent
of the works and th^ cement foundation of the
building, and Roger Tansey and Nicola Gentiila,
employes of the Carr company. The fhree men
were held in $500 each on the charge of conspir
acy. They will plead to the charges on Thurs
day.
The Carr company is charged with having vio
lated the building laws in various technical
ways relative to th« alleged misuse of material
in connection with the building of the founda
tion of the Normal S.-nnol building. There are
eisht counts in the indictment against (he com
pany.
The bills In the Chelsea case are against Ben
jamin P. Nicholls. secretary of the Chelsea Re
publican City Committee, who is charged with
having made an attempt to brine; Alderman
Thomas E. Ruggles. of Chelsea; charge with re
ceiving a bonus, and Alderman David White, of
Chelsea, charged with "having solicited a bribe.
All three pleaded not guilty, and Nicholls was
held in $2,500, Ruggles in $1,500 and White in
$3,000 bonds.
PERSIA'S PARLIAMENT.
Body To Be Consultative — All
Classes To Have Representation.
Teheran. Aug. 13.— The Shah's rescript to the
Grand Vizier as finally amended on August 10
orders the formation of a national consultative
assembly composed of representatives of all
(lasses, from the princes downward. The as
sembly will advise his majesty on important
state and public affairs and will propose re
forms'. Justice will be administered in accord
ance with the Sacred I^aw. The Grand Vizier
is to draw up the rules of procedure for the as
sembly, and these are to be approved by the
assembly itself. All legislation by the national
assembly will be submitted by the Grand Vi-ier
for the finnl approval of the Shah.
Mushir-ed-Dowioh. the Grand Vizier, father of
the Persian Minister at St. Petersburg, is re
garded as chiefly responsible for the Shahs act,
and is looked upon as an advocate of wide reach
ing reforms, who has heen convinced from his
son's reports of the developments in Russia that
the time has come when the absolutism of the
Shah must end in Persia. Unlike Russia, how
ever, the reform spirit fim was manifested
among the Persian clergy, who formerly were
reactionists
The announcement <>f the grant is being re
ceived with great rejoicing throughout Persia.
St. Peieifsburg. Aug. IS.— Russian officials who
are In touch with affairs in Persia are inclined
to be skeptical as to the genuineness of the re
form movement in Persia. The^e officials inti
mate that as soon ap either party \m firmly In
power it is apt to jettison any and all constitu
tional restrictions on absolute power "The poli
tics of Mahometan countries," said the chief for
the Persian department to-day, "are not matters
of principles, 'but of personal intrigues. Either
side is willing to adopt any battle cry which
promises success." This official added "that no
international politics was involved, in spite- f
•lie fact that one of the factions bad t-o ■ ■
refuge In the British Embassy. From other
sources it is learned that negotiations between
Great Britain and Russia with reference to
Persia are going on amicably.
RIO ( 'ONGRESS A (THE.
Reorganization of Bureau Adapted
— Other Measures.
Rio Janeiro, Aug. IS.— At to-day's session of
the International American Conference the re
port on reorganization of tne Bureau i Ameri
can Republics was unanimously adopted, except
for the Peruvian amendment that '*no maps be
published or authorized by the bureau without
the approval of the bordering countries" which
was sent to committee. The Ecuadorian amend
ment, eliminating the American Secretary of
State as president of the bureau's governing
board, was defeated after a lively discussion
Reports that the bureau's bunding at Washing
ton was assured and recommending thai the
governments here represented appoint com
missions to furnish information to the bureau
were adopted.
The conference adopted a declaration in favor
of the conclusion of ,i convention embodying the
principle that a naturalized citizen in one of the
contracting countries svho renews his residence
in the country of his origin without the inten
tion of returning to the country where he warn
naturalized he considered to have renounced Ins
naturalization In the said country: and the in
tent not to rfturn shall l>e presumed to exist
when the naturalized person resides lor over two
years in the country of his origin. An amend
ment would make the provisions of .such natu
ralization treaty retroactive.
A resolution recommendiuc to the different re
publics the extension for a furthev period of five
years of the treaty of arbitration for pecuniary
claims, agreed upon at the Mexican conference,
was adopted.
Tl).- sub-committee report on the Drago Doc
trine, recommending merely ihat the Hasue Con
ference be requested to decide if the use of force
for th<- collection of public debiu Is admissiible
has been accepted by four of the five committee
men. The fifth member, who, it is rumored, is
an Argentine delegate, awaits Instructions be
fore assenting to the report.
IMPORTANT CANNED GOODS CASE.
English Magistrates Hold Retailer Responsi
ble for Bad Meat.
Brighton, England, Aug. 18.— case involving
the responsibility of retailers of canned foods was
heard here to-day, in which a merchant was
charged with exposing for sale thirty-eight tins
of chicken unfit for human consumption.
in defence it was contended that it was abso
lutely Impossible for the dealer to know the
condition of the food when there was nothing
externally to Indicate that the contents of the
cans were unsound. Nevertheless, the merchant
was fined, the magistrates hoWing him amenable
to the !aw, as he was in possession of the goods.
The catte, which has been appealed, Is considered
to be Important, since, if the Judgment of the
local magistrates Is upheld, trade will be serl
j»>j:ily effected.
BOMBS IX THE CAPITAL
RC.S.SIAX REBELS BI'SY.
Many Cases of Violence Reported
from the Provinces.
St. Petersburg. Aug. 13. — The police of St.
Petersburg to-day captured a wooden model of
a field gun which had been used for training a
company of revolutionary artillery. The police
also took possession of a factory which was en
gaged in making shells and bomb?, of which
fifty and a quantity of dynamite and pyroxiline
■were seized.
A daring robbery of a railway cashier occurred
here to-day. A well dressed woman approached
the cashier's window, shoved a revolver under
the DOM of the official and took $1,000 in money,
with which she escaped.
Three policemen were murdered in St. Peters
burg, three in Kazan and one waa killed in Mos
cow last night.
Ivanovo- Voznesensk, A us. lit. — A crowd of
youths from a neighboring village to-day at
tacked t ho carriage of the captain of police.
More than fifty shots were fired, the carriage
was riddled and a woman accompanying the
captain was wounded. He escaped without in
jury.
Tchernigoff. Auk. 13.— 'AVhile a number of
revolutionary agitators who had been arrested
at a meeting wore undergoing examination at
the prefecture of the town of Borsenoa, one of
the prisoners drew n revolver, killed the chief of
the rural police, wounded an aid and committed
suicide.
Nijai-Novgorod, Aug. I.l.— Revolutionists to
day boarded a railway train on the Snrmnva
line, killed two sergeants of police and escaped.
Warsaw. Aug. 13.— Trains on the Vistula Rail
road crowded with passengers returning from
excursions on Sunday night were stopped and
surrounded by troops near Warsaw while police
men searched the cars and passengers, arresting
fifty persona.
The chief of the railway workshops here was
shot and killed this morning. The assassin es
caped
Lublin. Aug. 13.— A meeting of revolutionists
which was being held in a forest near h«»re to
day was surrounded by two companies of Cos
sacks and two hundred persons were arrested.
POLITICAL CONDITIONS.
Octobrists and Party of Regenera
tion May Unite.
fit. Petersburg. Aug. 13. — Indications at the
meeting of the Central Committee of the Octo
brist party, which closed to-day, point to the
amalgamation of the Octobrlsts with the new-
Party of Regeneration, and the acceptance of
the programme drawn up by Count Heyden, M.
Guchkoff and others. All the speakers at the
meeting of tho committee expressed, themselves
as in favor of this plan, and a resolution was
adopted to transmit an appeal to the Regenera
tion party in all the provincial local committee
to request a vote on the question of union. It
had been hoped that the Conservative wing of
the Constitutional Democrats would join this
niovemejit.
The government attaches much importance to
the defeat of the Constitutional Democrats in
the zemstvo elections now under way. For
years the provincial zomstvos have been the
centres of the liberal movement, and practically
all the Constitutional Democratic leaders have
been prominent In zemstvo work. M. Kakosh
kene, a leading Constitutional Democrat orator
in the parliament, has be«n defeated by Count
Sheremetieff. the reactionist, and yesterday two
Constitutional Democrats were defeated at Sa
mara. The nohlHty and landed proprietors have
the dominant influence in zemstvo elections, and
the defeat of the Constitutional Democrats prob
ably represents more their hostility to the prin
ciple of tho forced expropriation of land than
enmity toward the purely political parfcof the:
programme. There are strong reasons to be-
Jirve that it Is the intention of th< 1 Btolyptn
ministry to support the candidates of the Re
generation party.
KING EDWARD'S TRIP.
Rumor That He and Kaiser Will
Give Advice to Czar.
London, Aug. 13.— King Edward and Queen
Alexandra returned to London this morning
from Cowes to prepare for his majesty's annual
trip to Marienbad, on which he starts to-anonr v.
morning. The King will cross the Channel In
fho royal yacht Victoria and Albert to Flushing,
„ h special train will convey him to
Friedrichshof, where hi^ majesty will meet Em
peror William on August !.".
Th. re has been endless conjecture on the po
lltical significance of the meeting of the mon
archs. "The Pall Mall Gazette" <;*>s that re
cently an autograph letter from Emperor Nicho
las t" King Edward was broughi by special mes
senger to the Russian Embassy hen-, and de
livered to the Kitig personally by the ambassa
aor. and that at the time personal let
ters from the Russian Empress were received
by relatives In this country. The Russian Em
peror's letter tn the Kins la understood to have
been a request f.-r advice on the situation in
Russia. A reply » s »W to hav<> been sent, and
almost Immediately afterward the meeting be
tween King Edward and Emperor William was
arranged- After the conference ai Friedrichs
hof a joint letter, it is expected, will be sent to
Emperor Nicholas, containing the advice of King
Edward and Emperor William.
Grand Duke Alexis if stayi-.is at Homburg,
and probably will represent tho Russian Emperor
at an->thpr royal conference, which, if necessary.
Will take place.
King Edward will be the guest of Prince and
Princess Frederic Charles of Hesse nt Fried
lichshof for twenty-four hours, leaving there on
the morning of August 16 for Marlenhad, where
ha will stay till September 6, then going to
Dresden or Vienna.
Vienna. Aug. 13. — It is serp.i-offic'ally stated
that King Edward, when be leaves Marienbad,
will be the guest of Emperor Francis Joseph .it
the Sehoenbrunn pa!aee, September 9. and that
lie will sta:t or. his Journey for England the
following day.
JOHN MMACKIN POISONED
Ex-Labor Commmiomer Dies After
Mistaking Medicine.
Livingston Manor, N. V.. Aug 13 John
McMaekJn, ex-Labor Commissioner, accidental!]
poisoned himself this morning and died in two
houra In great agony. He had been spending
the summer here with his family, after an
absence of a year. Arising this morning, lit
went to a medicine closet in the bathroom, from
which he took a bottle supposed to contain
sprudel salts, but which was rilled with oxalic
add crystals, bought the day before to clean his
Panama hat. He mixed up a doss and swallowed
it.
Mr.-. McMackln found her husband a little
later suffering great agony. He did not then
realize what had happened. The Rev P n
Bresliu. a friend of the family, was called He
summoned a physician, who hurried to ilia
Louse, but could do nothing.
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DIS DEBAR OUT OF JAIL.
Seven Years' Term in England Ends
— Her Notorious Career.
London. Aug. 13. — Ann O'Delia Pis Debar,
who\»under the name of Laura Jackson, was sen
tenced on December 20, 1901. to seven years'
penal servitude for connection with the "Theo
cratic Unity." of which her reputed husband.
Theodore Jackson, was the head, has been lib
erated from Aylesbury Prison under ticket of
leave, having obtained the maximum reduction
of sentence by good behavior.
Mme. Pis Debar has been known under many
names in the United States and Great Britain, but
her greatest notoriety was achieved as the perpe
trator of a spiritualisic deception by which Luther
R. Marsh, of New York, was in his old age stripped
of the fortune he had accumulated in the practice
of law and made the laughing stocfc of the coun
try. Though alleging that she was the daughter
of King Louis I of Bavaria and Lola Montez. she
was in fact the daughter of John C. F. Saloman,
once of Washington and later of Kentucky. After
varying fortunes and persecutions by persons who
would have had her confined in an asylum, she mar
ried a Dr. Messant. That was m 1871. i^at.-r she be
came the wife of General Joseph H, Dis Debar
and by him had two children. She travelled about
the country representing herself as the personifica
tion of occult powers and the rerealer of hidden
truths, spiritualistic and other, and in this way.
while living in Washington wire. New York.
she met Luther R. Marsh, an aged lawyer, and
by means of alleged spirit materializations and
spirit painted pictures so infatuated him that he
gave her large sums of money and deeded to her
his house in Madison avenue." About this time
General Di* Debar left the adventuress, who went
to Jive at the Marsh home and also hired aDart
ments. where she officiated as a priestess of spir
itualism -and won greater notoriety.
Suit was brought to prove her an impostor, and
she was charged with conspiring to defraud Marsh.
She was arrested and sent to jail and indicted by
the grand jury. Th« Gerry Society took her chil
dren. Her trial resulted in her conviction, and
she was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. On
tier release from prison she went to Europe, then
returned to this country, and going to the West
got Into more difficulties throtich her representa
tions of spiritualism. Under the name of Yera
P. Ava she fell into the bands of the Chicago
police, who sent her to the penitentiary at Joliet
for two years. Released from that "institution,
she marrie«r William J. Mctl.v.vn. in 1886 In Chi
cago. Mr. McGown. like Mr. Marsh, was a man
of wealth, but this did not deter her from the
practice of fraud. In 1839 she was driven out of
New Orleans with Theodore Jackson, whose wife
she then said she was. They were playing th«»
spirit materialization game there, and it was said
they were running a "fruitarian" colony in Florida.
A year later they turned up in Cape Town South
Africa, where Mme. Dls Debar called herself Hel
ena and Jackson called himself Horos. Occultism
and hypnotic performances were the order there,
and one of her South African dtfpes. a wealthy con
tractor, gave his money to Mmc Dia Debar to
establish a "colony of brotherly love." Tin insti
tution that she ami Jackson were running at that
time was called by them the "College of Occult
Sciences."
Later the pair turned up in London, where they
promoted the Theocratic Unity organization, scan
dals in connect 'on with which led to their arrest in
September, 1801. The trial, which continued at
intervals through three months, developed facts of
such a loathsome character thu several of the
London papers excluded from their columns all re
ports of tee proceedings in court. Jackson as
sumed a defiant attitude toward public sentiment
and the law. and had to be tram by the presid-
Ing judgi that he was Injuring h)s case, whereupon
Mme. l);s Debar fnterjected approvingly: "That's
right. Keep him in order."
In the course of her evidence Mme. Dis Debar
asserted that she had an ,'ncome of $14,000 yearly
from the est;;t» of her former husband Genera]
Hiss Debar. While admitting that she h:id served
six months i-i jail in New York for defrauding
Luther R. Marsh, she denied that the had ever
be n known under the rani.- of Vera P. Ava. \t
the conclusion of her evidence she addressed the
jury. Sh<> carefully dissected all the evidence, and
in a powerful peroration said that she did not de
sire any halting, ambiguous : verdict, but an un
equivocal expression of justice.
Mr. Justice Bighnm summed up strongly against
the prisoners. saying it was difficult to conceive
of mure revolting and abominable conduct than
that which had been attributed to them. He added
that he would not be doing his duty unless he pre
vented the male prisoner from practising such
filthy acts under the cloak of religion for some
years to come The jury was absent from the
courtroom only a few minutes and reuirned the
verdict of guilty, whereupon Mr. Justice Kighaia
sentenced Jackson to fifteen years' penal servitude
and his reputed wife to seven years' penal servi
tude. Mme. Dis Debar heard th" sentence smil
ingly, and bowed politely to the justice ts she lert
the courtroom.
RIPTIRE IN NEAR EAST.
Greeks and Bulgarians in Fierce Ac
tion at Ahiolu.
London. Aug. IS.— A dispatch from Vienna to
a London news agency says that the disturb
ances at Ahiolu on August 12 were the result of
an anti-Grecian demonstration, which- the Greeks
sought to break up by rifle shooting. Prolonged
fighting ensued, both sides losing heavily In
killed and wounded. The Bulgarians then set
fire to the town In four places. The Grecian
cloister of St. George was stormed walls a To
Deum was being sung. The situation finally he
came so serious that troops had to be summoned
from Burgas.
The Greeks held a meeting, at which it was
decided to arm themselves with rifles and re
volvers for the defence of their churches and
cloisters, and to blow up the churches rather
than to allow them to fall into the hands of the
Bulgarians Th- dispatch adds that a; Rust
chuk 20.000 Bulgarians tried to storm the Greek
Consulate, but were driven off by troops
A dispatch from Vienna to the same agency
says that the news of the excesses against the
Greeks in Eastern Rumelia causes much excite
ment and Indignation, adding that it la expected
that! Greece will be compelled to break off diplo
matic relations with Bulgaria.
Sofia, Aug. 13.— Advices were received here to-day
from Ahiolu, where the Greeks and Bulgarians haw
■sen, fighting, t,« the effect that a lur*;*- part of
the town had been destroyed by fire. The Greek
Metropolitan, it was added, perished in th.- flames.
Ahi.»lu, or Anchialo*. .la a se«:«>it of Eastern
Rumella.; on the Itlack Sea, forty-eight miles from
Varna. it has 'a population at about five liiuusaad.
Now we trot out some shoe bar*
gains.
1000 pairs.
livery pair straight from our own
shelves; it's just a clean-up of broken
lots of our regular staple styles.
Oxfords and high shoes, russets
and blacks are there, and altogether
even- size and width is included.
About 800 pairs were regular $5
stock; the balance $3.50.
$2.75. '*
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TBYING TO KILL PBINCE FEBDHJAND.
One of Bandits Who Captured Kiss Stone
Hiding Near Villa.
London. Aug. 13.— A dispatch to a news
agency from Vienna to-day says that It Is re
ported that Yanne Sandausky. the Macedonian
leader, who was a member of .the band] which. is.
1901. captured .Miss- Helen M. Stone, the Ameri
can missionary, and held her until ransomed.
had hidden himself in the Bistritza Forest sur
rounding Prince Ferdinand's villa with the ob
ject of killing the prince. The villa is stronjfl A
guarded, and the prince seldom leaves It. "i
PLAN TO OPEN ALL MOCHXRIA
Japanese and Russians Agreed on Ires
Access to Entire Kegion.
St. Petersburg. Aug. I.!.— The Council of Min
isters soon will take up for discussion the memo
randum forbidding Japanese and Russians with
out special permission to enter regions of Man
churia not surrendered by the Chinese Th»
Japanese Minister and the Foreign Minister M.
d Iswoisky, have already had a number of coi
'"*,«•» the sub -i «. and have agreed on ths
advisability of the abrogation of the rule
TO HONOR JOHN BROWN'S BIRTHDAY.
A lame delegation of; Xegro clergymen, prof*,.
sional and business men started yesterday far
Harpers Kerry. where the convention of the Nia
gara Movement meets to-morrow ana In whirl?
Afro-Ani.ricans from thirty states are to n i mirth
Joh°n Brown: ! he **** anniversary of th/binK
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