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KUROKI’S ARMY IOST
Rnssians Worried Over Being Unable to
Find What Japanese Are Doing.
PORT ARTHUR HAS PLENTY OF WATER.
Japaoeie Have Only Slopped a Part of the
Supply—Mangled By Russian Ouns—One
ol Port Arthur Fleet Near Shanghai—War
ship Supposed to Be Armored Cruiser Bay
an In Haugcban Bay.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). —Czar
Nicholas returned to St. Petersburg
from the South, and it is reported on
very high authority that the appoint
ment of a commander-in-chief will be
announced shortly. While General
Kuropatkin’s friends still insist that
he will be appointed, members of the
Czar’s entourage express no doubt
that Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie
vitch will be chosen.
The official advices from the front
report that all is quiet along the
whole line of the opposing armies. A
slight Japanese movement has been
observed at Fentiapu, about 16 miles
southeast of Mukden, but there has
been no collision.
The principal cause of alarm at the
War Office is occasioned by the lack
of definite information regarding the
exact whereabouts of Field Marshal
Oyama’s right. The Russian scouts
have lost touch with General Kuro
ki’s main army, which may give in
creasing importance to the flanking
movement west under General Oku,
which hitherto has been regarded as
a feint. It also may contain a big
surprise.
Kuropatkin’s plans are carefully
guarded. While he is disposing his
forces to take advantage of any situa
tion that may offer, the best opinion
is that he will not accept a general en
gagement, but will withdraw to Tie
Pass, where the bulk of his army is
massed.
Che Foo (By Cable).—While it is
true that the regular water supply of
Port Arthur has been stopped by the
Japanese, the fortress has other sup
plies which can be taken only when
the city falls.
The garrison of Port Arthur now
has sufficient food, but the supplies
of tinned meats are nearly exhausted,
and the troops are now slaughtering
30 donkeys daily for fresh meat, which
is worth $1.20 a pound. Eggs cost 2c
cents each.
Chinese who left Port Arthur on
October I, and who were previously
engaged in burying the dead, say the
effect of the Russian’s shells and ma
chine guns is terrific. The slopes of
a high hill <kere littered with man
gled bodies and severed heads and
limbs. In one trench the Chinese
buried 300 Japanese and 200 Russians
Shanghai (By Cable). —A Russian
warship, supposed to be the armored
cruiser Bayan of the Port Arthur
Squadron, is reported to have an
chored off Gutzlaff Island, in Hang
chau Bay. Two tugs have proceeded
thither to bring her to Shanghai.
Porter Caused Wreck.
Charleston, S. C., (Special).—The
Atlantic Coast Line’s Florida Limited
collided with a local passenger train
out of Charleston, five miles from the
city. Fireman Sam Harris, colored,
was killed. A flagman’s hands were
seriously hurt. The passengers were
shaken up, but none injured. The
Florida Limited was closely follow
ed by a local passenger train to Au
gusta. In making up a berth the
porter on thte limited pulled the bell
cord and the train stopped. The
train following crashed into the rear
of the limited, damaging the private
car in which were Superintendent
Denham, of the Atlantic Coast Line,
and his family.
His Cause for Suicide.
Sterling, 111. (Special).—Because he
had too many wives Fred Hethering
ton committed suicide by sending a
bullet into his brain. Fifteen years
ago he married Miss Clara Siles, who
is near death at the Dixon Hospital.
Later he married a girl in the West,
who, it is said, is living, and about
eight months ago he went to Moline,
where he married his third wife. His
first wife in Dixon was the mother of
two children. When she was taken
ill he was notified of her condition.
He brooded over his deeds, and de
cided to kill himself.
Bartholdi Critically IIL
Paris (By Cable). —Frederick Au
guste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the
Statue of Liberty in New York bay, is
critically ill. He has been suffering
for months from tuberculosis, which a
fortnight ago took a turn for the
worse. At M. Bartholdi’s residence
it was said by a member of the house
hold that the sculptor’s condition was
grave. Hopes of his recovery have
practically been abandoned.
Massacred By Kurds.
Paris (By Cable). —The Temps pub
lished a dispatch from Constantinople
saying thatt private information had
been received there to be the effect
that the village of Ramsa, Armenia,
was the scene of a massacre of Arme
nians by Kurds.
Mine Sinks Another.
Tokio (By Cable).—The Navy De
partment reports the destruction of
another Russian steamer used in clear
ing mines at Jhe entrance of Port
Arthur harbor. The steamer struck
a mine September 20 and sank. Navy
officers express the opinion that the
Russians are suffering from a shortage
of small steamers useful in clearing
mines. The reported loss of a Jap
anese gunboat south of Liaotung Pen
insula by striking a mine has not been
officially verified.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Tbe Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
1 Reading.
Domestic.
A prairie fire which for several days
has swept the Rosebud Reservation
and portions of Tripp and Gregory
, counties, S. D., was quenched by a
heavy rain. The loss has been enor
mous.
The Trenton (N. J.) cork life-pre
server manufacturers indicted for con
spiracy against the government" in
spection laws pleaded not guilty and
. were released on bail.
The International Peace Congress
was begun in Boston. The principal
addresses were delivered by Secretary
of State Hay and the Bishop of Here
, ford.
Charles F. Kelly, former speaker of
the St. Louis House of Delegates,
confessed his part in the bribery com
: bine and told of its methods and re
sults.
Funeral services were held in Wor
cester, Mass., over the remains of
Senator Hoar, Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale’
delivering the eulogy.
Two men were killed in a terrific
explosion in the Corning Mill of the
DuPont-De Nemours Co.’s plant, near
Peckville, Pa.
A record run was made by a train
in the new New York Subway on a
special trip from the City Hall to
Harlem.
Fire destroyed the rug factory of
the Fries-Breslin Company, in Cam
den, N. J., entailing a loss of $400,000.
The assignee of the Federal Trust
Company of Cleveland will pay the
depositors of that institution in full.
Thomas Allen, a despondent artist,
. committed suicide in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Emma Freyer committed sui
’ cide in the Allegheny River at Pitts
i burg.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
. gave out a statement showing the
- falsity of the charges that the land
fraud cases had not been diligently
prosecuted. His statements show how
the fraudulent combine has been
broken up and the indictment of the
leaders secured.
Virginia H. Bowles, of Roanoke, Va.,
has entered suit for SIOO,OOO against
, Charles S. Johnson, of New York,
• whom she charges with having de
, ceived her by pretending to be an
. unmarried man.
! According to his confession, Bigler
Johnson, of Macedonia, Pa., offered
his mother and other members of his
1 family $3 each to put his wife out
of the way.
Floods have done an immense
amount of damage in New Mexico.
Half of the town of Watrous was de
stroyed and at least 12 persons were
drowned.
The Oxford Local of the United
: Mineworkers, which was the first to
be organized in the Lackawanna Val
ley, disbanded and surrendered its
charter.
Sheila Keddy died in Detroit fi'om
ptomaine-poisoning, and other mem
bers of the family are reported ,to be
in serious condition.
Three firemen were overcome by
fumes while fighting a fire in the E.
B. Newman Charcoal Company’s fac
tory, in New York.
Charles Fraga, of Mexico City, and
Mrs. Julia Miller were found shot in
St. Louis. The woman was dead and
the man dying.
Meetings of the three tobacco com
panies to arrange details of the pro
posed consolidation were checked by
proceedings to enjoin the combine.
The body of Frances Parkhurst, the
missing student of Lake Forest Col
lege, was found, after a long search,
in Lake Michigan.
The floods have caused washouts
on nearly all the railroads entering
New Mexico and traffic is practically
at a standstill.
Fire in a block in New York occu
pied by meat-packing plants caused a
loss of nearly a quarter of a million
dollars.
The scaffolding on a railroad bridge
near Malone, N. Y., gave way. One
man was killed and four seriously in
, jured.
Dr. Thomas D. Hogg, of Raleigh,
N. C., 81 years of age, allowed a
freight train to run over him.
H. W. Walker, owner of the Acad
emy of Music, in Pittsburg, died in
that city.
Frank Lewandoski, convicted of
wife-murder, was hanged in the jail
-1 yard in Chicago.
Stephen W. Townley died from sun
, stroke in Mobile, Ala.
Expressions of regret by Governor
Bates and Special Justice Phelps, at
Lee, Mass., that lack of knowledge of
international law had resulted in the
imposition of a fine by Judge Phelps
upon Hugh Gurney, third secretary of
the British Embassy, were forwarded
to the State Department, at Washing
ton.
The year’s record of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign
i Missions shows larger receipts from
; gifts and smaller receipts from legacies
, than in the previous year.
The battleship Connecticut was
1 launched at the New York Navy Yard,
; Miss Alice B. Welles, granddaughter
of Gideon Welles, being the sponsor.
; Trthur D. Wyman and Charles F.
> Wyman died at Cambridge, Mass.,
from injuries received by being run
over by an automoble.
Foreign.
Lieutenant General Kleigels, gov
; ernor general of Kieff, Russia, has
1 been granted leave of absence, and
t there is strong reason to believe that
, this is preliminary to his supersession,
■ as he belongs distinctly to the Von
Plehve regime.
Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter and Miss Nan
nie Leiter, of Chicago, mother and
sister of Lady Curzon, arrived in Eng
-1 land and are now at the bedside of
■ Lady Curzon, whose condition has
1 improved.
z A Somali Mullah is reported to
’ have" attacked and robbed the Oga
- dain tribe, killing 600 tribesmen and
; capturing many camels and sheep.
The Cuban Senate adopted a bill
' appropriating SBOO,OOO for the purpose
* of assisting the immigration of labor
-1 ers from the Spanish Balearic and
Canarv Islands.
TWELVE PEOPLE DROWNED
Flood Destroyed Half of Town of Wat=
rods, N. M.
HEAVY DAMAGE AT IAS VEGAS.
Qnlllnas River Dam Broke Above Laa Vegas—
Railway Track Washed Out and Half a
Dozen Bridges Destroyed—Hundreds Home
less Near Albuquerque—All Trains Handicap
ped—The Rio Grande Back in Channel.
Las Vegas, N. M. (Special).—Half
of Watrous has been destroyed by a
flood and at least twelve persons have
been drowned, including three chil
dren of J. H. Stevens, Felix Villareal,
his wife, two sisters, and a couple of
children, and O.' F. Porter. J. H.
Stevens and his wife escaped. They
are in a critical condition. Many per
sons were rescued (fom trees and
1 housetops.
The greatest damage was around
the junction of Mora and Sapelloire
creeks. A rock crusher, an iron
bridge, and much track at Watrous
were washe'd away.
Terrific Flood at Las Vegas.
The Gallinas River formed a new
channel at Las Vegas. In the Galli
nas Canyon the dams of the Agua
Pura Company broke, bringing a ter
rific flood on the city. The Monte
zuma Hot Springs track went out in
many places. Half a dozen bridges
were destroyed, and the Montezuma
bathhouses were partly carried away.
F.r two blocks in Bridge street every
business house was flooded. Galli
nas Park is under water and the trol
ley line cannot be repaired for two
weeks.
One hundred thousand dollars will
not cover the loss to the town and
the railroad loss is equally great.
Hundreds of Families Homeless.
Albuquerque, N. M. (Special).—Re
ports from the Rio Grande Valley
above and below Albuquerque show
that Valence and Los I.entes were
washed away, and several hundred
families are homeless. The river
swung to the east, cut a new channel,
and poured a torrent through the two
towns. No lives were lost.
In Barela, a suburb of Albuquerque;
fifty houses were destroyed. The dam
age at Los Cordaleo and Atmeda
north of Albuquerque, will amount to
several hundred thousand dollars.
Rio Grande Alters Channel.
San Antonio, Tex. (Special).—From
all indications now at hand from re
cent reports received from the over
flowed country in the Brownsville
section, it appears that there, is a
strong probability that the bed of the
Rio Grande will be shown, when the
waters have receded, to be occupy
ing the bed of the Arroyo Colorado,
which ages ago was its original bed.
Should this prove true the people
of this region of Texas who would
be bereft of the river, would suffer
greatly. The city of Brownsville
would be cut off from the river, the
miles of irrigation ditches and canals
dug would be rendered worthless, and
property values dependent upon the
Rio Grande’s flow would be material
ly cut down.
TUNNEL UNDER DELAWARE RIVER.
A Great Scheme Advanced In Philadelphia By
Intercity Link Railroad.
Philadelphia, Pa., (Special). A
company which may be of far-reaching
importance has been formed in this
city for the purpose of constructing
a tunnel under the Delaware River,
between Philadelphia and Camden.
It is proposed to operate a steam
railway through the tunnel. Such is
the assertion of Clarence Wolf, of
Wolf Brothers & Co., president of
the Intercity Link Railroad, a new
corporation.
A charter has already been secured
in New Jersey. The company was
incorporated in Camden this after
noon. Mr. Wolf says that the surveys
have been filed and the road marked
in that state. Application was also
made today at Harrisburg for a char
ter in this state. This action seems
necessary because the proposed rail
road in crossing under the river would
cross the boundary line of each state.
The Camden incorporation permits
the construction of the tunnel be
tween that city and the middle of the
Delaware River. For the Pennsyl
vania side a permit will have to be
obtained from councils here, the city
holding riparian rights along the river
front.
Many brokers, together with street
railway men, wondered how the new
corporation proposed to fight the
Pennsylvania, it being generally agreed
that a “fight” is a matter of course
under the circumstances. A few men
are inclined to hazard a guess that the
Pennsylvania, either is on the "inside”
or expected to “buy out” the new
company in the future.
Hostile Nations Make DeaL
St. Petersburg (By Cable). —Japan
and Russia have arranged for a direct
exchange of news regarding prison
ers of war without the intermediary
of the United States and France. Un
der the new arrangement information
regarding Japanese prisoners will be
sent to the Japanese minister at Ber
lin, and news about Russian prison
ers will be forwarded to M. Lessar,
the Russian Minister at Peking.
The Death ol Milt Barlow.
New York (Special).—Milt G. Bar
low, the original "Old Black Joe,”
at the age of 65 years, died of can
cer in the throat at the Home for In
curables, One Hundred and Eighty
third street and Third avenue. Bar
low created the character of “Old
Black Joe” in the early seventies, and
in 1875, in touring with Haverley's
Minstrels, he made this most pathetic
of negro songs known from one end
of the country to the other.
BAR IRON FOR LIFEBELTS.
Metal Used to Bring Them to Standard —
Arrests Made.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—An
alleged conspiracy which has been de
veloped by officials of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor of the
Department of Justice resulted in the
arrest at Camden, N. J., of J. H. Stone,
H. C. Quintard, Charles W. Russ and
James Russ, said to be officers of the
Nonpareil Cork Works.
They were taken into custody by
the United States Marshal for the
district of New Jersey under an in
dictment found on September 29 by
the United States grand jury at Tren
ton charging them under Settion 5440
of Revised Statutes of the United
States with conspiring to defraud the
Government and prejudice the admin
istration of the steamboat inspection
laws by putting upon the market com
pressed cork blocks for use in making
life preservers, each of which blocks
contained in its center a piece of bar
iron about six inches long and weigh
ing eight ounces.
The iron bar, it is said, was in
serted and concealed in the block for
the purpose of increasing the weight
to the legal requirement of six pounJs
of good cork for each life-preserver.
Suspicious of Weight.
Early in August, David Kahnweil
er’s Sons, manufacturers of life-pre
servers in New York, ordered from
the Nonpareil Cork Works at Cam
den, N. J., blocks of compressed corks
for 1,750 life-preservers. Eight of
these blocks are used in each pre
server, and the United States law re
quires that the eight blocks shall con
tain six pounds of cork. When the
cork blocks were delivered-to Kahn
weilers Sons, Mr. Kahnweiler, a mem
ber of the firm, who is an expert in the
handling of bare cork, suspected that
they were underweight. Putting them
on the scales he discovered that eight
of the blocks, which, according to
legal requirements should weigh six
pounds, weighed only five and one
half pounds. This firm, thereupon,
wrote the Nonpareil Cork Works, call
ing its officers’ attention to the under
weight of the cork blocks and inquir
ing whether the blocks could not be
made serviceable weight. The Non
pareil Company replied that it would
adjust the matter by sending some
extra heavy blocks, one of which
could be used in each life-preserver,
thus increasing its weight to the legal
requirements.
In due time the blocks arrived. They
were so heavy as to arouse instant sus
picion. Lewis Kahnweiler, while ex
amining one of them, broke it by ac
cident and found imbedded in its cen
ter an iron bar six inches long, one
inch wide and a quarter of an inch
thick, weighing eight ounces. The
Kahnweilers again wrote the officers
of the Nonpareil Cork Works, de
manding to know what they meant by
putting iron in the cork blocks and
informing them that as Kahnweiler’s
Sons were obliged to put their names
on each preserver such a fraud would
ruin their business.
According to the indictment a let
ter was received in reply suggesting
that the Kahnweilers were "foolish to
make so much trouble about a small
affair of that kind.”
Further examination of the “extra
heavy blocks” disclosed that each of
them contained an iron bar similar to
that which was found in the first one.
In all, 261 of the extra heavy blocks
were received by Kahnweiler’s Sons.
Convinced that some action ought to
be taken in the matter, Kahnweiler’s
Sons communicated with Robert S.
Rodie, supervising inspector of the
steamboat inspection service for the
District of New York, and laid before
him all the facts. Inspector Rodie
reported the facts to Acting Secre
tary,of the Department of Commerce
and Labor Lawrence O. Murray. He
was directed by Secretary Murray to
await instructions.
A Wedding Tragedy.
Paris (By Cable). —The bridegroom
and the brides father were gored to
death by a bull during wedding fes
tivities at St. Quentin. After the
breakfast, while the wedding party
were taking a stroll in fields adjoin
ing the house, the bride’s father no
ticed a bull eating his newly gathered
pears. He attempted to drive the ani
mal away, when it turned upon him
and drove its horns through his body,
death being instantaneous. The bride
groom, who rushed to his father-in
law’s assistance, was himself twice
tossed in the air, and had his back
broken.
Paul Ptomaine Poisoning.
Detroit, Mich. (Special).—Six-year
old Sheila Keddy is dead from -pto
maine-poisoning and her father, Wil
bert H. Keddy, and her mother and
brother Teddy are in a serious condi
tion. The entire family of five per
sons was taken sick soon after sup
per, and the little girl died in three
hours. Prompt medical attention
saved the lives of the others.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
The Navy Department published the
report of Naval Constructor Baxter,
showing that despite all precautions
and unusual vigilance some evil-mind
ed person had succeeded on several
occasions in tampering with the new
battleship Connecticut.
The Federation of Labor has com
plained to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, charging that the rail
road companies will not allow them
the reduced rates allowed to.other or
ganizations.
In his annual report Surgeon Gen
eral O’Reilly says the general health
of the Army has improved during the
past year.
Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne returned to his duties as act
ing postmaster general.
The Navy Department has accept
ed the cruiser Des Moines.
MR. DAVIS ON THE ISSUES
Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate
, Accepts Nomination.
; HIS LETTER NOT A LONG ONE.
Expenditures of the Government and Increase
: of the Army—The Panama Canal and Im
perialism—Hls Opinions on the Tariff and
1 the Trusts—Plea for Local Selfgovernment
; —Fraujl In the Public Service.
, Elkins, W. Va. (Special).—Hon.
. Henry Gassaway Davis has written
. the following letter accepting the
r Democratic nomination for vice presi
. dent of the United States:
j Hon. John Sharp Williams, Chairman,
J and Other Members of the Com
■ mittee:
, Dear Sirs—ln accordance with cus
. tom, and my promise when notified
r by your committee at White Sulphur
5 Springs, on August 17, of my nomina
r tion for the office of vice president,
. I submit the following observations
upon some of the questions now be
. fore the country:
r The times'are propitious for the re
t instatement of the Democratic party
; in control of the government. The
public mind is being disillusioned of
the pretension of the Republican party,
so long and so arrogantly made, that
. the material prosperity of the coun
t try depends upon its own ascenency.
Thoughtful and patriotic people are
. becoming more and more distrustful
’ of the heady and personal element of
the present administration, and are
more than willing to see it replaced by
one that better recognizes constitu
' tional and other lawful restraints.
’ They demand that the present waste
- ful extravagance in the expenditure
■ of the money drawn by taxation from
: the industry of the people shall cease,
: and that economy and honesty in the
1 public service shall be again regarded
: as virtues in the high places of the
1 government.
Expenses of Government.
The expenditures per capita of the
' government are increasing at an
alarming rate. When the present ad
ministration went into power there
’ was a large surplus, but, notwithstand
-1 ing the enormous taxation, the rev
’ enues therefrom are not how ade
-1 quate to meet the demands made by
reckless appropriations. The revenues
1 fell short during the last fiscal year
. of over $40,000,000. In the first 60
1 days of this fiscal year the expendi
tures exceeded the receipts by $24,-
000,000, and if this rate of excess
should continue, the deficit for the
present fiscal year would be in the
neighborhood of $140,000,000. This
needless deficit is due to the extrava
gance of the administration, and can
only be met by imposing additional
taxes or selling bonds, thereby in
creasing the interest-bearing debt of
the government. Which course will
the Republicans adopt? The cost of
government during the fiscal year was
$7.14 per capita, which means that the
average tax paid in some form or an
other by every family of five persons
toward the support of the national ad
ministration of public affairs was over
$25, which, in the case of wage-earn
ers, is a considerable percentage of
their entire earnings for the year. No
more money should be taken from the
people by taxation, direct or indirect,
than is necessary for the needs of a
government economically adminis
tered.
Power of the Trusts.
It is estimated that there are in
the United States between two and
three hundred combinations of capi
tal and corporate interests, known as
trusts, which have grown up in the
last few years under Republican rule.
Some of them are so conducted as
to be pernicious and harmful to the
general interest. With the power they
are able to. exert they can lessen com
petition, control prices and regulate to
their own advantage the law of sup
ply and demand. Individual effort is
helpless against such strong rivals,
and the natural right of all persons
to barter and trade is unnaturally re
stricted. The effort of these trusts
is to control or monopolize, and these
monopolies, when unrestrained, seem
to produce conditions which bring
about strikes and disorders and dis
turb the business affairs of the coun
try.
Fraud in the Public Service.
Peculation and fraud in the public
service under the present administra
tion, especially in the Postotfice and-
Land Departments, reached such pro
portions that knowledge of the evils
practiced became public property.
Prosecutions naturally followed, but
a thorough and impartial investiga
tion by Congress, proposed and urged
by the Democratic minority, was re
fused by the Republicans at the man
date, it is believed, of the adminis
tration. Congress adjourned earlier
than at any long session for many
years, for the purpose, it is believed,
of preventing further agitation of the
question, and in an effort to curtail
expenses.
With unabated trust in the efficien
cy of the cardinal principles of our
great party, when applied to the prac
tical administration of government, to
realize the blessings of peace and
prosperity for all, and believing that
the people will correct the present
abuses of administration by a change
of party in power, I await with con
fidence the result of their judgment at
the polls. Very truly yours,
H. G. DAVIS.
Mobile’s Chief of Police Out.
Mobile, Ala. (Special).—Because of
circumstances attending an alleged
shortage in his accounts, as county
tax collector for 1899, John Case has
resigned as chief of police of Mobile.
Cgse’s alleged shortage has been acted
upon by the Governor. Case was
bonded by a Baltimore company. He
says the books were accepted as cor
rect by the state when he settled at
the close of his term as collector.
| MR. HOAR PASSES AWAY.
Venerable Statesman Died at His Home In Wor, !
' cestcr. Mass.
Worcester, Mass. (Special)—United
States Senator George F. Hoar died
’ at 1.49 Friday morning: For months
, he had been ill, and during the last
. three days he had slept most of the
I time. He maintained to the last the
j wonderful fight he had made against
death from the first.
Senator Hoar did not move nor ut
■ ter a sound for hours beore he passed
1 into his eternal sleep.
George Frisbie Hoar was born 78
years ago in Concord,' Mass., on Au
gust 29, 1826. He studied during his
, early youth at the Concord Academy,
where lie prepared for college, and en
tering Harvard in 1842 he graduated
from that college in 1846. He studied
I law' and graduated at the Dane Law
. School, Harvard University, and set
tled in Worcester, Mass., where he
practiced his profession. lie was
| made city solicitor in iB6O. He was
president of the trustees of the city
library. He was first elected in 1853
a member of the State House of
Representatives and became state sen
ator in 1857. He was first elected to
• Congress as a member of the House
of Representatives in the Forty-first
Congress, and was re-elected to the
Forty-second, Forty-third and Forty
fourth Congresses, but declined a re
nomination to the Forty-fifth Con
gress.
In 1877 he was elected to the Unit
ed States Senate to succeed George
. S. Butwell and took his seat March 5,
1877. He was re-elected in 1883, 18S9,
1895 and 1901. His term would have
expired March 3, 1907, had he lived.
Senator Hoar was an overseer of Har
vard College, 1874-1880; declined re
election, but was re-elected in 1896,
and again for six years in 1900. He
was president of the Association of
the Alumni of Harvard; presided over
the Massachusetts State Republican
Convention of 1871, 1877, 1882 and
1885; was a delegate to the Republi
can National Convention of 1876 at
Cincinnati, and of 1880, 1884 and 1888
at Chicago, presiding over the con
vention of 1880. He was chairman of
the Massachusetts delegation in 1880,
1884 and 1888. Was one of the man
agers on the part of the House of
Representatives of the Belknap im
peachment trial in 1876; was a mem
ber of tthe Electoral Commission in
1870; was regent of the Smithsonian
Institution in 18S0; has been presi
dent, and at the time of his death was
vice president of the American Anti
quarian Society: president of the
American Historical Society; president
board of trustees of Clark University;
1900 made trustee of the Peabody Mu
seum of Archeology. He was also a
trustee of tihe Leicester Academy,
member of the Massachusetts Histor
ical Society, of the American Histor
ical Society, the Historic-Genealogi
cal Society, the Virginia Historical So
ciety. the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences, and also a trustee of the
Peabody Fund. He received the de
gree of LL. D. from the following
colleges and universities: William and
Mary, Amherst, Yale, Harvard and
Dartmouth.
Last fall Senator Hoar published
his “Recollections of Sixty Years,”
a work that is a distinct contribution
to the history of the United States
in the last half century.
Condolence From President.
Worcester, Mass. (Special).—Rock
wood Hoar, son of the late Senator
Hoar, received the following message
from President Roosevelt:
“Gen. Rockwood Hoar:
"Accept my most profound sympa
thy. The loss is not yours only, but
of all those who believe in the lofty
standard of purity, integrity and fear
lessness in public life.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
A BRIDE’S FATAL FALL.
Was Hanging Lace Curtains Wbcn She Lost
Her Balance.
Philadelphia, (Special).—Married to
James Landis, secretary of Theodore
Voorhees, first vice president of the
Reading Railroad, three weeks ago,
and with their honeymoon just con
cluded, Mrs. Mary Landis, aged 36,
fell from the third-story back room of
her new home here and, striking the
fence in the yard below, was instantly
‘ killed.
Mrs. Landis had been arranging
the furniture in her new home. She
was hanging lace curtains in the third
story back room when she lost her
balance and head foremost she went,
tumbling through the air and landing
upon the fence which acted as a divid
ing line between neighboring yards.
Mr. Landis had been visiting the
home of his sister, and when the news
was broken to him he collapsed. He
had to be half carried to his home.
Murdered By Moors.
Tangier, Morocco (By Cable).—The
Governor of Arzila, who was the
father-in-law of the former War Min
ister, El Menehhi, has been murdered
at Arzila by people of the surround
ing tribes. The murder was com
mitted out of revenge for the action
of the Governor in imprisoning mem
bers of the tribes. The murderers
released the prisoners at Arzila and
killed many of the townspeople.
FINANCIAL.
Anthracite coal output for Septem
ber is estimated at 4,000,000 tons.
A wager of SSOOO to $2500 on Roose
velt’s election is offered by a Phila
delphia broker.
Wabash’s gross earnings in August
increased 17 per cent., mostly on ac
count of the St. Louis Fair traffic.
Northern Securities stock rose 4 per
cent, on rumors of a settlement of
the great fight between Hill and Har
riman.