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Arthur T. "Kemp Sued for Divorce.
NEWPORT, R. I., May 4.— Among .the
p.titions. for divorce .which . will • be
heard at the session of the Sunreme
SEATTLE, Wash., May 4.— Mrs. Ade
laide Lloyd Smith. ,who it is alleged has
been a fugitive from .the local courts. for
more than three months on a charge of
swindling 'the -wife of a wealthy saloon
keeper out of $4200 by the sale of alleged
worthless oil stock, arrived here to-day
In the; custody of a Deputy Sheriff who
went to San Francisco for her two weeks
ago. Upon her arrival here she was taken
to the county jail, but to-night succeeded
in securing bondsmen fb Insure her ap
pearance on -May>12,. at which time -her
oreliminary hearing will take place.
Adelaide Smith in Seattle.
COLON, May 4.-The Herald's corre
spondent at | Port Llmon. Costa Rica, ca-
Kes that a tyrannical state of affairs ex
ists in Guatemala, where a revolution may
break out at any moment, owing to Presi
dent Cabrera's persistency in aiding
Kicaraguan conspirators against Presi
dent Zelaya. -
The steamer City of Para carried recent
ly fifty Nicaraguan revolutionists umlur
General Atanasio Oritz from Guatemala
for Amazcila, Honduras, where President
C'brera's confederate, General .Bonilla, is
now rullngT'with 'the deliberate intention
of starting a war on President Zelaya. j
The Nicaraguan Government is ; well
prepared to meet a rebellion." It is possi
ble that a general conflagration of Central
American republics, fomented by, Presi
dent Cabrera's ambition, m ay follow.
Cnorial Cable to The Call and New York
P Herald. Copyright. 1903. by the New York
Herald PublUhlng Company.
To-day signs of the presence of buried
metal appeared on the surface of tha
wound. Master Electrician Petrie applied
a small electric magnet of his own de
sign and capable of lifting BOO pounds di
rectly over the orifice on the apprentices
face. He then turned on the current and
as* quick as lightning the offending piece
of steel mentioned flew from the l*d'»
wound to the magnet* > £-
VALLEJO, May 4.— An interesting c*s«
of trude but amazingly successful elec
trical surgery was *-ecorded at the Mars
Island navy yard to-day.
A week ago a piece of steel three
eighths of an inch Ions and averaging an
eighth of an inch in thickness flew from
a planing tool and embedded itself deep
ly In the face of a young naval appren
tice, John Gregg. It was thought at tha
. . .
time of the occurrence that his face was
merely cut, as no foreign body could bd
detected among the muscles in the lo
cality of the Injury.
Special Dispatch to Th» Call.
ITALIAN EMBASSADOR
WILL VISIT THIS CITY
Signor Mayor Des Planches Intends
to Make a Tour of the Pa- \^
cine Coast.
" WASHINGTON, May. 4.— Signor Mayor
des Planches, the Italian Embassador,
will leave here in a few.. days' for." a trip
to San Francisco and the Pacific Coast.
SEATTLE, May 4.— The steamer Queen,
one of the principals In Sunday's marine
collision, is In the Moran drydock ¦ and
the big English tramp Robert Adamson,
the other vessel in the mix-up, is still
afloat and in a less hazardous position
than at anv time since they came to
gether with such destructive results. This
afternoon in the United States Court John
Adamson and John Nail, owners of.the
Robert Adamson, filed a suit libeling the
steamer Queen for $113,000 because of the
COllUfott . •
Steamer Queen in Drydock. .
BUFFALO, N, Y., May 4.— By an order
handed down by Justice Kruse in the
Supreme Court to-day Attorney Wallace
Thayer will get $10,000 insurance left by
Arthur R. Pennell. A decision of the
court Bcme time ago gave Thayer $15,000
of insurance -from another company,
The $25,000, It is understood, goes to Mrs.
Burdick. Thayer receives the money as
trustee of a secret charge made by Pen
nell. Opposition to the suit instituted by
J. Frederick Pennell, as administrator
of hi3 brother's estate, was dropped
after the document left in Thayer's
hands had been examined.
PENNELL'S INSURANCE
GOES TO HIS ATTORNEY.
Guatemala's President
Ignores Late Peace
Agreement.
SAGINAW, Mich., Ma-v 4.— As a result
of a head-on collision between Pere Mar
quette passenger trains at Mayville three
persons were ' killed and seven injured,
one of' these probably fatally.
The dead:
FIREMAN JOHN ESMOND, Saginaw.
BAGGAGEMAN G US , PLAGER, - Fort
Huron. '''.''*!
MAIL AGENT FRANK P. PECK,
Saginaw. '^ .
Engineer Terrence Kelly c* Saginaw is
probably fatally injured.
Three Persons Are Killed and S«ven
, . Injured, One of .Whom .
Will Die.
PASSENGER TRAINS
MEET IN COLLISION
Novel Electrical Sur
gery Experiment at
Mare Island.
Gil Is President of San Domingo.
WASHINGTON. May '4.— An- undated
telegram from Minister Powell at Port
au Prince reports that the Vasquez gov
ernment has fallen, and that a' new pro
visional government has been created and
has the entire territory under its control,
with General Gil as President.
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico, May 4.—
Three "unknown men who were bathing
In the surf here to-day went out about
Sty feet from the shore and were devoured
by sharks. People on the shore witnessed
the tragedy but could render no assist
»»cce-
MAN-EATING SHARKS
DEVOUR THREE BATHERS
People on Shore Witness the Trag
edy, but Are Unable to Ren
der Assistance.
in Fight Against the Po
lariscope Test.
NEW YORK. May 4.— A loss of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in duties
on sugar :s threatened by a decision
handed down to-day by Judge Townsend
in the United States Circuit Court !n a
test case that has been in the courts
since IS98. If the decision is confirmed by
the higher courts duties paid must be
refunded to Importers.
Thousands of cases where importers of
sugar have protested ag-iinst the duties
imposed by the General Board of Apprais
r.s, alleging the illegality of the polar
1 scope test as ordered by tha Secretary
of the Treasury, are affected by the
decision now rendered against the Gov
ernmJDt. The polariscopc test is used to
determine the precise saccharine
strength of sugar. Henry C. Piatt, As
sistant United States District Attorney,
w ho is an expert in customs problems,
¦w ill appeal from the decision.
CIRCUIT COURT DECIDES
AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
Sugar Importers Win First Victory
STEEL EMBEDDED
IN A BOY'S FACE
LEAPS TO MAGNET
Court which meets 'here* on' Monday
next Is that of Mrs. Belle Neilson Kemp,
sister of Mrs. ' Reginald C. Vanderbllt,
against Arthur T. Kemp of New York.
The .Kemps have been prominent in the
summer colony here for several years,
and their, marriage in St. Patricks
Cathedral by 'Archbishop • Corrigan six
years ago,, was "one of \ the fashionable
events - of Tthe season. The mother asks
for the custody of her four-year-old
daughter. •
The authorities continue to make ar
rests and many Bulgarians disguised as
Turkish officers are being seized. Among
those arrested are professors in the Bul
garian schools, -who are alleged to have
been the head of the revolutionary move
ment.
Edib Pasha, -who < arrived at Salonica
last Saturday to carry out the decree of
martial law, has Issued a proclamation
stating that the Sultan has ordered him
to deal severely with all persons guilty
of outrages.
At Uskub, European Turkey, the police
have seized stores of dynamite in the
houses of £he Bulgarian* residents.
The news that Germany has sent a war-
ITALIAN NAVAL CHIEF WHO
MAY COMMAND IN BALKAN
WATERS.
KIEFF, European Russia, May 4.—
Thousands of poor Jews have fled from
this city because of reports that an anti-
Semitic crusade Is imminent. The richer
Jew's have left their' houses and have
sought refuge in the hotels. In order to
allay the excitement troops are' patrolling
the streets and the walls are placarded
with notifications that assemblages arc
prohibited and that the military will use
their weapons unsparingly in case of ne
cessity. '
JEWISH RESIDENTS FLEE
FROM THE CITY OF KIEFF
Anti-Semitic Crusade Is Reported
Imminent and Armed Guards
Patrol the Streets.
Since his arrival in this city on Friday
night -last Senor. Limantour has sounded
several of Wall street's leading bankers
with. a View to floating the loan, but the
fact that he will sail next week for Eu
rope indicated in the minds of many au
thorities that his mission to New York
has not: been the complete success that
was expected. j. «
The floating of a new loan by the Mexi
can Government is a step in the efforts of
that republic to rehabilitate Its monetary
system. : '
NEW YORK, May 4.— It was learned in
Wall street to-day that the object of the
visit. to this city of Senor Jose y Lim--in
tour, Mexican Minister of Finance, Is to
secure the co-operation of powerful local
bankers toward floating a new Mexican
gold loan.- Propositions have been made
to at least two important banking-houses
ir. Wall street, and while these are under
consideration, it is gaid, Senor Limantour
will in all probability proceed to London,
where he will confer with international
bankers of that city. '
• The amount of the loan Is stated to be
$25,000,000, although It Is understood that
the Mexican Minister carries with him the
indorsement i of the Government in any
effort he may make to secure a sum much
larger. provided that favorable terms are
obtained. . .
Seeking- to Float a Loan for Millions
in New York.
MEXICO NEEDS LARGE _SUM.
mining supplies and machinery.
¦ Representatives of the Guggenhelms
here intimate that the price of sliver may
advance materiall;\
WASHINGTON, May 4.— The Supreme
j Court of the United States to-day decided
j the case of the Oregon and California
[ Railway Company versus the United
| States In a case involving certain lands in
Oregon which were claimed by the rail
road company under patents issued in
1871 under the Oregon donation act. The
j decision was favorable to the company.
j The contention in behalf of the United
| States was that the patent had been is
| sued by mistake, as the land in dispute
i had been located as early as 1S53, but the
court held that as the land had not been
reclaimed, as required by law, the settle
ment of 1S53 was not valid.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA
RAILWAY WINS ITS SUIT
United States Supreme Court Con
firms Its Title to Lands Claimed
by the Government.
DENVER, May 4.— The recent
purchases made by the Gug
genheims in Mexico, together
with the organization of the
American Sme'ters' Steamship
Company and the ' fact that I
the Guggenhelms have a contract with
the Mexican Government for a large j
amount of silver ore yearly, make it
certain that they can now control the |
silver output of Mexico. The. contract j
with the Government was made som? 1
time ago. During the last year the Gug
genheim Exploration Company," which |
owns nearly all of the large silver mines j
in Colorado, has been gaining control of
all the big Mexican mines. John Hays
Hammond, recently engaged as consulting
expert by the Guggenhelms, has been In
Mexico for six weeks looking at certain
properties and it Is said that he has com
pleted a deal by which he will purchase
mines the aggregate value of which is in
the neighborhood of $5,000,000. The most j
valuable group of claims is said to be
the Dolores, but the location of the mines
Is not given out.
Owning nearly all the big silver pro
ducers in Mexico and with a contract with
the Government which calis for several
million dollar's' worth of pilver annually
and which takes practically all the pro
duct of the smaller mines, the Guggen
heims will control the situation. The
passage of the Philippine currency bill in
| Congress has given them a market.
The organization of the American Smelt
ers' Steamship Company is looked upon
in independent mining circles as another
! step on the part of the smelter trust to
i control the'sllver output of Mexico." Thf
I new company's vessels will ply. between
; Vera Cruz and Tampieo and United States
J Atlantic ports and will be used to trans
j port the bullion of the smelters to the
\ Perth Amboy refinery and to, take to
j Mexico coke for use in the smellers and j
ship to Salonica has led the Austrian
newspapers to di3cuss the probability of
European intervention. In both Berlin
and Vienna, however, semi-official state
ments have been issued explaining that
the object of sending the ships of war
Is solely the protection of .foreign sub
jects and that the vessels will be with
drawn as soon as the danger is over.
The Vienna correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says the Turkish Embassador
at Vienna, acting on the Porte' • instruc
tions, has requested the Austro-Hun
garian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count
Goluchowski, to address a final warning
to Bulgaria, and that the Count, while
expressing regret that the Turkish pre
cautions were so inadequate, the out
rages, having- been foretold, has prom
ised to intervene at Sofia.
ROME, May 5.— According to news re
ceived here from Salonica, the arrival
there of an Italian squadron of six ves
sels has contributed to the re-establish
ment of confidence among the foreign res
idents. Further disturbances are not ex
pected. The Italian commander ha3
given instructions for the effective pro
tection of his countrymen in case of
need. He will act in accordance with th«
other powers.
COLORADO SMELTER KIXG WHOSE* SYNDICATE HAS "CORNERED"
THE MEXICAN SILVER OUTPUT, AND THE REPUBLICS PRESI
DENT WHO ASSISTED IN THE 'STUPENDOUS COUP.
WAR MAY INVOLVE
ALL REPUBLICS OF
CENTRAL AMERICA
Attempts at throwing bombs are now
being dealt with summarily. At noon last
Sun-lay a man, disguised as a Turkish
priest," tried to throw a bomb Into the tel
egraph office at Salonica. He was appre
hended and executed on the spot.
Advantage seems to have been taken of
the fact that the Turks had relaxed their
precautions ' and that the garrison was
seriously depleted; amounting to only 400
soldiers. • The . first mine that exploded
cut the principal gas main and plunged
the city into darkness. Then the Otto
man Bank and other buildings were at
tacked with bombs, as already described.
Soldiers were, hurried to the scenes of
disorder. They fired wild volleys, but
many of the attackers were killed or
wounded by the. explosion of their. own
bombs. \
LONDON. May 5.— Except as to the
number killed, which is now said to ex
ceed one hundred, the latest telegrams and
mail advices from Salonica fully confirm
the previous reports of the serious nature
of the outbreak there. • ¦ • ' .
ropean". Turkey. Both sides
suffered considerable less. Ten Turkish
officers are said to have been killed. Am-.
bulances are being hurried to Monastir.
There was another bomb explosion at
Salonica yesterday, but no damage' was
done.
£_ 7; ment' between ;Turkish Itrqpp^
. and a bana of revolutionists
." "' -is 'reported to have taken place
Ah r j n the Monastir district of Eu-
Marcum was a .trustee of the Kentucky
State College and represented the Lex
ington and Eastern Railroad and other
large corporations, and was also United
States Commissioner from- his district. He
.had practiced law in Breathitt County for
fifteen years. He had avoided feuds and
until he took charge of the election cases,
which involved the Hargis faction, had
been a friend of members of both fac
tions. For three months, beginning last
July, he did not leave hia home, and after
four months was always accompanied by
his wife and women friends or carried one
of his children with him for protection.
Some say they saw the assassin run out
of the rear door, and It seems certain
that he made his escape that way dur
ing the confusion. It is generally believed
that the assassin was recognized by sev
eral persons, but no one has thus far had
the courage to name him.
A telegram from County Judge Harri?,
received at S:SO o'clock to-night, stated
that the assassin was still unknown,
after a diligent search, and no arrests had
been made even on suspicion.
FRIENDS FEAR SIMILAR FATE.
Marcum's body lay for ten minutes un
touched. Even his friends feared to ap
proach the place to touch the body. It
was finally picked up by friends, who
took It to a drug store opposite and from
there it was- taken home.
LEXIXGTON, Ky., May 4.— Just after !
he had finished filir.g briefs opening the
contested election case, of Breathitt Coun-J
ty, James Marcum ; was shot and killed j
to-day by an unknown assassin. He fell j
in his tracks at the front entrance of the j
courthouse in Jackson, Ivy., within a few j
yards of where Town/Marshal James:
Cockrell was shot down In July, the as- i
sasslr. being stationed in the courthouse
In each instance. j
Marcum was counsel for the Fusion-;
ist3. who are contesting for the offices j
of 3heriff and other places now held by '{
•Democrats. As a result of his offorts I
and his sympathy with the Cockrell fac- j
lion in the llargls-Cockiell feud he for a |
year had been generally regarded as a j
"marked man." Various plots to assas- j
sinale him have been reported and sworn
to -ii affidavits. For seventy-two days ;
j last year he was af prisoner in his own. j
home, dartng not even to go out <m his !
porch. The bitu-rness of the feud abated
: somewhat, however, and the election !
leases were allowed to/ sleep until Mon-
I day. Despite warnings, Marcum felt safe
in resuming hi? interrupted practice some
time ago and felt secure in filing a mo
tion to reopen cases which ha3 Im
periled his life months ago.
ASSASSIN FIRES TWO SHOTS.
At 8 o'clock this morning Marcum went '
to the courthouse at Jackson and the pa- j
jr>ers S££^*.i £i£j'*' tll&'^*valk"ed._;froin-*tti&''
| cie1rk"> office to the "front <i op r, of i-^he
| courthouse and,' facing .the street, en«
| gcged in conversation with Benjamin
j Ewing, a friend. ' The corridor at his
back was full of men. Ewing was half |
leaning on Marcum's shoulder.- The men'
had been talking about three minutes and ¦
It was 8:30 o'clock when a shot rang oui j
in the rear of the corridor. Marcum stag- j
gered and as he sank to the floor another j
shot was rired. ;
The first bullet entered the back, to the
right of the spinal column, and after
passing through the breast and body
struck the door facing him. The next
shot passed through the top of his head
and was aimed as he reeled. The shots
appeared to come from a doorway cr pos
sibly from behind a door in the corridor,
but as the passage was cleared amid great
confusion no one seemed able to state
accurately where the assassin was lo
cated.
The talk was long and earnest. It can
on!y be guessed at from the known posi
tion of Lodge. He is a close friend of
the President and desires that this post
office scandal be cleared up before it be
comes a political question in Congress.
He believed months ago that the Post
master General should take ho!d of the
scandal and *>nd it by discharging the
men who were responsible for it. He ad
vised the use of the knife rather than
the whitewash brush. The President
agreed with him and ordered an Investi
«ation. Lodge has had several talks with
the Postmaster General since that offi
cial returned from the West Indies. He
has recommended prompt and heroic
treatment of the postal scandal. If he
did not again urge the removal or sus*
pension of Machen to-day he failed to do
what he has done before.
TVAEHIVJTON. May 4.— Senator Lodge
ar,d cx-Rfpres. nlative Loud had a long ,
interview with Postmaster General Payne
to-day. Lodge said he discussed politics
with the Postmaster General. Loud said
he m-as not surprised at the developmontf
In "l* r>ostcffiec investigation.
1/iud was in favor of Heroic action. As
<:, airman of the Ponoffice Committee of
the I;<?uf>» for years Loud had knowledge j
of extra v.icance in the department and j
the irregularities which attended this ex- :
: r f-.va(tance. He said to-day his only sur- \
prise was that the investigation had not
«ome sooner.
"'It was something that had. to come." •
«sij Loud. "The department has been '
excessively lavish :nd extravagant. If j
you will take the trouble to run back
over the Congressional Record you will ]
stf that I have stated these things on
the floor of the Hou«e many time?. But
«e were prosperous and It tvas practical
ly impossible for the committee to* scale
riow n the extravagant estimates furnished
by the department officials.
REORGANIZATION IS NEEDED.
•'The Investisatlon should be made
rigid -.'.no complete, now- that it has be
gun. Bristow is entirely competent to
carry it out with hi? force of inspectors,
but he should not bo. fmbanaEFtd or ham
pered In any* way. The Postmaster Gen
eral should get to th<? bottom of the busf
nrse ar.d reorganize ihe department. It
y«;e«is it." ---—-.— ¦ *
Senator Lodse was not in the best of |
bampr; neither vae ihe Postmaster Gen
eral. The Senator Is said to be very im
patient over the way the Investigation is
dragging along, with Machen still Tun
ning his division and threatening to "get
fven" with those who/called for the in
vestigation. The Senator would not ad
mit it. but there is a rumor that he ad
vised the Postmaster General to suspend
Machen at once and end the farce of
investigating an official who has full con
t!<->] over ail the evidence obtainable.
Lodge is said to have warned Payne
against treating a suspicion of using
whitewash. It would jot deceive the peo
;>!«». he said. The scandals had been too
much talked about and too widely pub
lished to be explained away. Whitewash
would not end the matter. It would only
*end the whole question to Congress on
the complaint that the department could
no: be trusted to investigate itself.
NO WHITEWASH, SAYS LODGE.
FperOJ Pisretch to The Call.
Cowardly Crime Outgrowth
of Hargis-Cockrell
Vendetta.
fied Wi'h Progress of
the Inquiry.
Administration Is Dissatis-
Murderer Fires From
the Corridor of a
Courthouse.
Californ&n and Senator
Lodge Call on
Payne.
Says Investigation
Has Long Been
Needed.
Leading Kentucky
Attorneys As-.
sassinated. -,
Guggcnheims Now Control Practically All
of the Large Mexican Mines and White
Metal's Price Mqy Continue to Advance
Edib Pasha's Arrival at Salonica to Carry Out Sultan's Decree of
Martial Law Is Followed by Seizure of Many Bulgarians and
Execution of One Bomb-Thrower at the Scene of Mis Capture
LOUD FLAYS
POSTOFICE
DEPARTMENT
FEUD ADDS
A NAME TO
DEATH LIST
HEAVY PURCHASES
BY SILVER TRUST
TEN TURKISH OFFICERS FALL
IN FIGHT WITH MACEDONIANS
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