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:i •V. I c' I !, ill .:••• m. PART 1. PAGES to 6. 1 Hundreds Met Death at Hsing Kiang, China. SURVIVORS ARE STARVING EMPRESS DOWAGER WIRES OF FICIALS TO RENDER AID TOThfE STRICKEN THOUSANDS HOR RIBLE NEWS BROUGHT BY STEAMER TO VICTORIA, fe. C. Victoria, B. C., June 4.—The steamer Shawmut yesterday brought news of a disastrous loss of life following an earthquake at Hsing Kiang. A tele gram received from Peking by Nlshi Shimbun, at Tokio, shortly before the Shawmut sailed, reported that four thousand persons were crushed to death, a vast number of houses de stroyed And many persons left starv ing. The empress dowager has telegraph ed urgent instructions to the local gov ernors to take measures to relieve the distress. STARVES FOR BURIAL. Msn Saved So Carefully That Starva tion Hurried Death. Cincinnati, June 4. Charles Roexse's eagerness to save money for his funeral expenses will cajuse that ftmeral -to be held jnaak-sudnertbau he had anticipated. Roexse was taken from a garret room in the very last stages of con sumption and soon after died at the city hospital. EF ,, 1 ,-ff 77 v n Earthq iAiiAJ 3 REPUBLICAN, ESTABLISHED SEPT. 6, 1878. -a.. tt*,V* GIVEN 5 YEARS DEFAULTING ST. LOUI® TELLER STOLE $3,387. #. Qrotefentf, Capturad' In iweden Enters Plea of Guilty in U. S. Court Was Employed in Na tional Bank. St. Louis, June- 4.—On a plea of guil ty Charles F. Grotefend, defaulting teller of the Washington National bank of St. Louis, was today sentenced to five years Imprisonment'by Judge Tri ber in the United States district court. After embezling 53,387, Grotefend fled t0 Sweden, where he was apprehended. London, June 4—Edna May, the actress, marries Oscar Lewisohn today. They were married before the regis trar. SEAMEN TO GO i i U U U -esi Two Hundred Strikers in Jersey City Attempted -fe Mob Ntfn union Men—Guns, Knives, and Clubs |xedy. Wielded and Many Were Injured* K :rij woi FRENCH STRIKE AMICABLY AD JUSTED WITH UNIONS. Strikers Everywhere Are Expected to Return to Work Within Twenty Four Hours—Navigation Companies Accepts Government's Terms. Paris, June 4.—The seamens' strike Is regarded ,as being virtually ended and the men are everywhere expected to resume work within twenty-four hours. Navigation companies have accepted the government's recommen dations. Mfcv. ARE CHARfiEB & 1 v. *Jr.- DEATH—OPENING GUNS OF REAL TRIAL FIRED. Boise, Idaho, June 4.-—The trial of William D. Haywood, secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, charged with the murder of Frank Steunenberg, former governor of the state of Idaho, commenced ih earn est today when James H. Pawley, leading counsel for the prosecution, made his' opening address to the jury sworn in yesterday. Up to the present the charge against Haywood has been o»e of murder, in that he conspired with the man Or chard. who by his own confession it is alleged, committed the crime. But with this first address to the jury the scope of the case will be revealed at as one of the high officers of a power- the development of the case wili'show plots of much larger dimensions thau those hinted at by the prosecution. They assert, in behalf of their clients, Continued on Page Six. IT® OUT OF BANGER PRESIDENT OF MINE WORKERS LEAVES'HOSPITAL. Aftar Baing III Five Wasks, th# Papu lar Labor Leader Walks to His Home—Shows no Signp a# Ralapae Today, Spring Valley, 111., June 4.—John Mitchell, president of the United Mina Workers of America, after five weeks in n hospital, following an operation, yesterday walked to his homo. He showed no signs of relapse today. State Federation of Csbor, Norfolk, Va., June 4—The fourth annual meeting of the State Federation of Labor meets here today, and a big turnout is promised, .the arrivals al ready exceeding previous meetings. A By Prosecutor in His Opening! Extortion Case to Have Jury Address I Tonight v. DEFENSE ALLt, j(,AT GREAT CAPITALISTS Dfcv/faE TO SEE MINERS' OFFICIALS PUT TO Police York, June 4.—Two hundred striking longshoremen, about twenty non-union men and the police had a pitched battle on pier in Jersey City. Pistols, knives and clubs were freely, used. One man was taken to the hos pital badly wounded. Two others bad ly wounded were spirited- away by friends. SHE USE8 HIS TEETH. Wisconsin Dead Woman Now Wears Husband's Food Crunchers* Janesville, Wis., June 4,—Mrs. Au gust Kramer, a widow and 60, who lives near Fort Atkinson is thrifty. When her husband died two yarn' ago she had his false teeth, which he had used 18 years, removed, saying she would soon be obliged to purchase a set. She came to JajneHville, called on Dr. A. P. Burros and had him remake them to fit her. Aa she left she said she honed the teeth would make her look SO years younger, as fthe was sooh to marry asaln. i liUii WHEN THE TRIAL OPENED TO DAY—HARD FOUGHT BATTLE. San Francisco, June 4.—Eleven jur ors have been secured to try Mayor Schmitz and there is a venireman in the twelfth chair who wiil be exam ined as to His qualifications when the trial is resumed tod-ay. That the twelfth juror will be secured out of the eight veniremen remaining of the panel last drawn, is probable, as both sides have exhausted their peremptory challenges and may now challenge for cause only. South Dakota G. A. R. Huron, S. D., June 4.—The annual A- R- least in part. i South Dakota, convened here today The charges will be that Haywood, for a bo ful labor organisation, having been special amusement attractions. The given authority by the members to use Public gatherings of the G. A. R. will his office and funds of the Western be Federation to promote its interests,) and -those for the Relief Corps in the purely as a labor organization, so used reception room hall of the operahouse. hig office as to become one of the se cret leaders in a gigantic plot to rev olutionize society and by murder and terrorism bring about conditions in this country that threatened the up heaval of air existing forms of gov-' this city today for a three days* ses ernment sion. Fifty per cent of the lodges in Counsel fur the defense claim that A N A I Y E U I A N FARGO, NOBTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNK 'pes Out 4,000 Lives i« SQanz TO TRY FRISCO'S MAYOR ALL PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES EXHAUSTED ANDELEVEN JURY MEN HAD BEEN SELECTED eheampment. Department of three days' session. There will addresses, campflres, music, and held in the Commercial club rooms Son# of Veterans Meet. Bluffton. lnd„ June 4—What is ex pected to be the largest state gather lhg of the Sons of Veterans meets in Htate development of the cas»e will'show cither by steam or surburban lines, and the mpmbers are bringing their friends with them. Some very large and most enthusiastic camps arc only a short distance away. are Jn easy reach of this city, OR RUOLLFELT PRESIDENT WILL NOT ENTER EASTERN UNIVERSITY. Charfee Elliott, ^i*tfse'nt- Head, States That Teddy Will Not Suc ceed Him When He LtNMNM the White Houte in 1909. Boston, •tune 4,—In an interview I'libllshecf toifay, President "Charles iV. Elliott, of Harvard university, stated that President Roosevelt was not thinking of officially joining Harvard at the conclusion of his term of office as president. Recent utterances of the president at Lansing, Mich., before the Harvard association, had been Inter preted in some quarters as meaning that President Roosevelt would be con nected officially with the university when he retire-!- from the presidency. THE UPRISING IS SET FOR JUNE 24 LEADER OF CHINK REVOLUTION ISTS ISSUES APPEAL. Plt^ds WftH Chined F«rtd« t» J»in Movement and Confine Themselves fbr Present to Guerilla Taeftios—An other Outbreak Is Threatened. Amoy. China, June 4.—The leader the insurgent Chinese forces ha* is-? sued an addiesg exhorting the people to support the movement and to con fine themselves for the present to guer illa tactics. It appears that an attack on the officials at Juan precipitated the outbreak., against the government, the date fixed for the uprising being June I 24. •... Detectives Assassinated in a k Street TWO SOLDIERS WOUNDED PATROL OF POLAND'S INFANTRY CALLED TO SCENE AND OPEN ED FIRE ON CROWD, WOUND- UtQ THIRTEEN PERSONS—THIR* TV PEOPLE ARRESTED. "Lodz, Russian Poland, June 4.—Two detectiVtap were killed and two soldiers and three other persons wounded in a street here today by a bomb thrown at the police officials by the terrorists. A patrol of infantry attracted by the explosion, appeared on the scene soon afterwards and opened fire on the crowd, wounding thirteen persons. 'Thirty arrotdte were made. SPANKED MOTHER-IN-LAW. 'Itiver Captain Handles Her Roughly Lands inJail. Nj»w York, June 4.—Because hlsi mother-in-law, "sassed" him. James Henry Young, the captain of a river barge, spanked her so hard yesterday that he jarred two of her teeth out and now he is a prisoner, charged with assault. The spanking episode, according to Young, followed a heated interview he held with Mrs. Mary A. Lyman, his mother-in-law, who lives a short dis tance from the Young flat. Young, according to his story, re proved his mother-in-law for keeping his wife away from his home at meal times. Mrs. Lyman retorted sharply. Thereupon Young took iter across his knee and spanked her. Mrs. Lyman says Young knocked two of hor teeth out. He insists they Utl out. 4, 1907 ftiiVIJ tMt UOiiiU Cando's Postmaster Short $1,400 Sent His B! wSSSSiyttw if #4* BOTH OVER 70* ELOPE AND WED. Bilsfeoygan. Wis., June 4.— Thomas Taylor, 72, and Mrs. William Brookshlre, 78, pioneers i .u. i Highly Honored Resident of Towner County, for Nine Yeais in U. S. Service, Ends Life in Romantic Manner—In spector's Disclosures Drove Victim to Tragic End. Cando, N. D„ June 4.—-A. F. Hill, who has been postmaster here for the past nine years, was found dead in the work room of the office this morning at an early hour. When found he was sitting in a chair at the desk with a revolver in his hand and a gullet hole In his head, showing that he had committed suicide. On examination it developed that he had shot himself with a revol ver 6f large caliber and the bullet had passed clear through his head, as the bullet was found on the floor. The body was removed from the office and taken to the undertak Inf rooms of C. H. Olson and is being prepared for interment. An inspector has been here for several days checking up the office and a shortage had been reported of about $1,400. This is supposed to have been the cause of the deed. At this writing the inspector Is check ing the office for the bondsmen, who will turn the management over to 4 Elmer T. Judd, pending a settlement. It is expected that the office will be opened for business in a day or so. Mr. Hill leaves a wife and one son. Mrs. Hill is a daughter of P. H.*% Forrest, who was the landlord of the Hotel Dakota for so many years. Mr. Hill has a father living at Lakota and one sister, Mrs. Roscoe Kent of Grand Forks, who has been notified and will arrive here this even in«- v of ,ta'do, this county, eloped to a neighboring village and inurrled Sunday morning. of tirere 0 ... Spartanburg's Election. Spartan hlng June 4—A coord ing to the directions of the city council today is the day of the primary in this city for the election of a mayor and a board of aldermen. So far Mayor Flood is the only candidate in the field for that office. There is an abund ance of aspirants for the board of ald ermen. AD TER JUNE 12, DATE SET FOR HEARING OF INJUNCTION. St. Paul,,June 4.—Judge Lochren in the United States court today, con tinued the original suits brought by the ten railroads operating in Min nesota against the state and Attorney General Young to prevent the Board Continued on Page Six. British Washington, June 4.—The secretary of the treasury has received a telegram from Captain Ainsworth of the revenue cutter Rush, stating that he has seiz ed the British scaling schooner Char lotta G. Cox, which was found illegal ly catching seals In fair weather grounds, off Alaska. e The Cox had seventy-seven fur sealskins on board, The department t- yr tr ,• BANKER TRUDGES 186 MILES ON BET. K*ftS**i,,-, ity. Mo., June 4.—.^ Frank H:.gman, president of the first National bank, Salina, Kas., a staned from home May 24 to vvaik to Mtnmn Cltyi 1U mll6f! away, ana did it, on a bet. finished alone Friday night. FORUM, ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1801. iTitnni Judge Lochren Continues Rate Reduction Cases CASE STARTED IN ST. PAUL MINNESOTA RAILWAY COMMIS SION CANNOT ENFORCE NEW COMMODITY RATES UNTIL AF U. St Naval Officer Takes Charge of Schooner Charlotta Cox, Touad Illegally Catching Seals in Alaska—Wash ington Orders Disposition of Prisoners. He ,• 4 Warships Rsturn to Hampton Road*. New York, June 4.—The Austrian crullers Sankt George and Aspern sailed today on their return to Hamp ton Roads to take part In the review of combined fleets of the United States and foreign countries by the president. Soon after they will return to Europ ean waters. a'.5, lift' THIS I S S U E 12 PACE& 1.4 1 i Frisco Strikers in Another Out lireak Today PASSENGERS PANICSTRICKfN i MCALLI8TER LINE CAR RAISED FROM THE TRACKS, BUT NO SERIOUS DAMAGE RESULTED— POLICE SEARCH FOR CRIMINjM. RESPONSIBLE FOR ACT. San Francisco. Jun^ 4 Dynamite was exploded under the first car sent out over the McCaliister street line to day. The forward trucks of the car were raised from the trucks and the passengers were badly frightened but no serious damage was done. has directed the commander of the Rush to deliver the Cox to the British authorities at the nearest point In Brit ish Columbia in acordance with tfew joint regulations of the two govern ments in the case of a selaure. The Rush also reported Japanese sealers in the same vicinity with large number of seal skins on board. Tb« Japanese sealers, however, are not subject to seizure outside of territorial waters. Famous Lottery Men Pleaded Guilty IN I. S. ALABAMA Uilll z? DEFENDANTS APPEARED Ut COURT AND4ENTERED PLEAS GUILTY—LAST GREAT LOTTERY CONCERN IS SMASHEJD BY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT. Mobile, Ala., June 4.—In the U. M' district court for the southern dlstrtet of Alabama, pleas of guilty were yei terday entered to an indictment charg ing conspiracy to the cause of inter state carriage of lottery ad vertteemelMi by the following named persons: William Park house, James Rea, W. Bredow, William Johnson, Lot Graham. Edward Pinace, David Hen nen Morris, Alfred Hennen Morris, Frank Howard, Albert Baldwin, Chap* man Hyams, Paul Conrad, John Dem urest, Walter Demarest. Edward Deni hi est, ail of New Orleans. John Morris Rogers, Jesse ttayiffi. Lester Baylis, Wilimington, Del James Moir, Chicago Harry Hei| derson, W. Henderson, Brooklyn, S^} V: Gen. W. Cabell, Dallas, Tex,: Rob ert Thompson, Mobile: Joseph Shafr* Tom Williams, Henry Plum. Wash* inrfton, D. *.: Herman Brunner. St. L°ul« Oscar Hauger, Hoboken, N. I rank E. Johnson, Hartford: A. & Kaufman, Detroit, Mich.: Harry Schoti* Baltimore: Wallace Masterson, Sa vannah, Ga. i. Judge Toulnrtn imposed lines aggr«' gating $284,000 with these pleas guilty and the surrender of all lottery material of the Honduras National Lottery Co., which as the success# of the old Louisiana State Lottery, passed out of existence, ending a lon§ struggle of the federal authorities. r' i'vf v $. i »r mm 'A