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ARG-TJ THE WEATHEH Skowm and probably thaader ntormm tenlicht muA Tnndarf cooler Tandajr. Tpratirf at 7 a. m., 54j at 3:30 p. m,, riS. J. M. SHERIKIC Obaerrer. T HE tUO'RL'D'S JVetv the 'Day- It Happens. VOL. LIV. XO. 137 MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1003. PRICE TWO CENTS. SAW POLICE CHIEF PROBABLY NEW YORK UNIONS BREAK AWAY FROM NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION REINFORCEMENTS AS AID M MAKING PEACE TER1 FATALLY WOUNDED BY ASSASSIN EtQCK BLAND WAR Bomb Thrown Under His Carriage by an An archist. PERPETRATOR ESCAPES Destruction of Station as De coy Internal Troubles Again Prominent. Warsaw, March 27. The man who threw the bomb into the police station at Praga, a suburb, was identified as a locksmith named Stephen Okrjeia, aged 18, a resident of the Novominsk dis trict. One for a Kuae. Warsaw, March 27, 1 a. ni. Baron von Nolken. chief of police of Warsaw, was injure'!, perhaps fatally, by the second of two bombs thrown by two revolutionlstK last evening. The first was hurled into a police station to lure Von Nolken to the spot, and injured six men, wrecking the room in which they wore sitting. The man who threw the explosive Into the police station was captured after he had wounded a policeman and had himself been wounded. He is a Jew. Itaron von Nolken's assailant es caped after killing a detective who wa' pursuing him. First llonib Injuren I'olli-e. The first lxi1ib was used shortly be fore S o'clock. The revolutionist, who! was well dressed, went to the police station at Praga. a large suburb of Warsaw, on the other side of the river Vistula. He was seen to take the ex plosive from beneath his coat and hurl it through the open door of the station. The havoc in the outer room was great. One wall was torn away and whin other, policemen entered they found their six companions amid the shattered furniture. The revolutionist started to run, and in his Might met a policeman and shot him twice in the stomach. The bomb thrower was wounded by his adver sary and was captured by the captain of the station and taken to a hospital. His identity has not yet been discov ered. Ilnron Victim of SwodiI Altaik. A telephone message immediately was sent to Karon von .olkcn at the city hall. Karon von Nolken. accom panied by a police official, took a carriage and started at once for Praga. When they wire passing the castle where the governor gem -nil resides a man standing on the pavement thriw n bomb at the carriage. Karon von Nolken. who was sitting on the sld- nearest the assailant, re ceived the full charge of the bomb, but Ms companion escaped unhurt. The coachman was thrown from the Imix and the carriage was smashed. A girl who was passing the spot when the bomb was thrown was wounded by splinters and had to be taken to the hospital. Karon von Nolken was removed to the city ball, where it was found he had received injuries on the head, neck. arm. and leg. which are believed to be serious. Anllnt Wounded ami t'noKht. Meanwhile the police official accom panyinK Karon von Nolken saw. the bomb thrower fleeing and pursued and caught up with him, but the criminal proved the stronger and tore himself away. Another policeman fired twice aT ter him without result. A half hour later a man was found dead in Sowia street and identitkd as a plain clothes policeman. He had been Killed by the bomb thrower while pursuing him. No tract? has been found of the baron's assailant. Another Chief Hurt. Sebastopol. Crimea. March 27. News of disasters at Yalta greatly excites the local population. According to the latest advices the chief of police of Yalta has been seriously wounded. Three companies of soldiers are being sent there. klpa A tenia I,miHr. St. Petersburg, March 27 Since the proclamation of a state of siege work lias been resumed at Ratoum and ships arc again loading at the quays. t.orky erj- HL Maxim Gorky's lung trouble is in creasing and his friends and doctors declare his transfer from Riga to south Russia is absolutely essential to his recovery. Morr la ( rlmr. Yalta, Crimea, March 27. The situa tion here is becoming worse. The riot ers have destroyed nearly all the ware houses and vodka shops. The police station and a number of shops were set on fire. Troops are guarding the office and treasury buildings and the arrival of reinforcements of soldiers is expect ed momentarily. STARVATION ENDS LIVES III CRIMEA London, March 27. Starvation threatens Armenia, according to a ca blegram from Van, received today by the Turkish Mission Aid society from the local agents of the society. The message reads: "Suffering from pov erty and general food supply in many of the villages nearly exhausted. Death from hunger beginning." START COLLECTION Dominican Government Ready to Enforce Terms of Treaty. Washington, March 27. Minister Dawson has cabled the state depart ment to the effect that the Dominican government has about concluded to install foreign agents in the custom house to collect revenues 4 5 per cent of which are to be applied to the main tenance of the government, the re maining 55 per cent to be placed on deposit subject to disbursement among foreign creditors in future after the tenate has had opportunity to again consider the treaty. This proposition was the subject of a conference at the White House today but it is stated no conclusion has yet been reached. MARINE BATTALION LEAVES ISTHMUS Taken to More Healthful Post Guantanamo, on Cuban Coast. at Washington, March 27. The cruiser Dixie has left Monti Cristi for Colon to take the battalion of marines now stationed on the isthmus to the new naval station at Guantanamo. After the departure of this battalion the to tal strength of the marine battalion left on the isthmus do not number more than 100. This action was taken by the navy department on account of the unhealthy climate that prevails on the isthmus. FREIGHT CARS RUN WILD AND HIT TRAIN Wreck in Tennessee Causes Death of Two Trainmen and Two Negroes. Clarksville, Tinu, Mare!. 27. A string of freight cars running wild on the j. &. N. crashed into a freight train going in the opposite direction near here today. The dead: John Murray, engineer; Pat Fox. fireman; two negroes, names unknown. A stick of wood IS inches long was driven through Fireman Fox's body. FULL HONORS FOR ASPIROZ Mexican Ambassador's Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow. Washington, March 27. In compli ance with a request from the Mexi can government the war department has ordered full military honors to be paid the memory of Senor Aspiroz, the late Mexican ambassador, on the occasion of the obsequies over the re mains in this city tomorrow. HICKEY CONFIRMED BISHOP Pope Acts in Case of Rochester Man at a Secret Consistory. Rome, March 27. The pope held a secret consistory this morning without creating any cardinals, merely precanon- izing bishops. The only American was Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Hickey. who was confirmed as coadjutor bishop of New-York. PROMINENT KENTUCKIANS ARE HELD Judge, Sheriff and Senator Are Accused of Killing of James Cockrill. Lexington, Ky.. March 27. Judge James Hargis, his nephew, Elbert Hargis and Sheriff Ed Callahan of Breathitt county, were today held without bail on charges of complicity in the feud murder of James Cock rill in Jackson three years ago, while Senator Alex Hargis, arrested in the same connection, was released on J13, 000 haiL Cockrill was shot and killed from M'COM S THE CZAR FAREWELL St. Petersburg, March 27. The em peror and empress and dowager em press received the retiring American ambassador, McCormick, in a farewell audience today. The report published abroad that Grand Duke Alexis had fled from Rus sio incognito is untrue. He has not left St. Petersburg. GO TO PHILIPPINES Names of Party of Public Officers Making Trip Are Given Out. LED BY SECRETARY TAFT Will Study the Railroad Problem in the Islands Start July 1. Washington, March 27. The bureau of insular affairs of the war depart ment has given out information rela tive to the trip of the secretary of war and party to the Philippines. Among others in the party are Sec retary Taft, Elihu Root, ex-secretary of war; Senators Allison of Iowa, Stone of Missouri, Speaker Cannon, Representatives Cochran of New York, Cooper of Wisconsin, McKinley, Smith and Foss of Illinois; Grosvenor of Ohio, Hepburn of Iowa, and Col. Ed wards, chief of the bureau of insuiar affairs. Among the ladies will be the following: Miss Roosevelt, Mrs. Stone Mrs. Hepburn and Mrs. Smith. In vrf Ikii te llnllruntl AfTnlrx. They will take passage on the Pa cific mail steamship Manchuria July 1. The steamer will touch at Hono lulu, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki, thence to Manila where the party will remain about ten days. In addition to other questions the determination of railway problems made possible by the Cooper law which was passed at the last congress, will be accomplished. The Iteturn Trip. The party will spend about 20 days visiting points of interest, especially commercial iorta in the southern isl ands, and returning the Pacific mail steamship Korea will touch at Manila and take the party home, stopping at Hongkeng, and probably at the same Japanese ports in reverse order, and sail from Honolulu to fan Francisco, arriving at San Francisco about Octo ber 1. MRS. CHADWICK TRIES TO KEEP FROM COURT Pleads Neuralgia, But Finally Yields to Threats of the Depu ties. Cleveland, Ohio, March 27. Mrs. Chadwiek was not in court at the be ginning of the arguments on the mo tion for a new trial. When the depu ties called at the jail to take Mrs. Chadwiek to the federal building she announced she was suffering with neuralgia and could not be dressed. The government officials insisted and after much coaxing and threatening she finally concluded to get dressed and accompanied by two deputies en tered the court room. PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER DIES Clara Hulbert of Chicago Suicides by Turning on Gas. Chicago. March 27. Suicide is be lieved to have caused the death of Clara Hulbert, aged 25, daughter of E. D. Hulbert, professor of divinity at the University of Chicago. She had been in poor health for some time and was found asphyxiated in her room. the court house window at Jackson and Curtis Jett, who has been convict ed and sentenced to death for connec tion with the crime, was on Saturday granted a new trial, while Tom White is under life sentence for complicity in the crime. All Are Pronlarat. All the men arrested are prominent in Kentucky business and politics. James Hargis is stil judge of Breat hitt county. Railroad Man Dies. Fremont, Neb.. March 27. S. C. Ma hanna. for 15 years superintendent of the South Platte lines of the Northwes tern railroad .died here today aged 0. Action Follows Report of statement of Discharged Interborough Em ployes Gompers Roundly Scored. New Y'ork, March 27. At a meeting of the Central Federated union a reso lution has been adopted calling on ev ery union to withdraw from the Civic Federation. It was further resolved to call a mass meeting to agitate against giving private corporations any more franchises for subways. Committer Heported. The adoption of these resolutions followed the reception of reports from a committee sent by the Central Fed eration to confer last week with Pres ident Belmont of the Interborough Rapid Transit company regarding the reemployment of those who lost their jobs as the result of the recent strike. The report showed Belmont declined to make any concessions, saying the TRIAL OF HI ACCUSED III IROQUOIS CASE WILL IT Chicago. March 27. On the ground the prejudice here would prevent a fair trial of Theatre Manager Will J. Davis, Building Commissioner George Williams and Building Inspector Ed ward Eaughlin accused of responsibil- lty for the wnoiesaie loss oi life in the Iroquois fire, they will probably not be tried in VESSELS COLLIDE Parisian and Albano Heavily Lad en With Passengers Crash Near Halifax. BARELY ABLE TO REACH PORT Former Goes to Bottom as Landing is Reached, With Large Hole in Stern. Halifax. N. S., March 27. The trans Atlantic liners Parisian of the Allan line, and Albano. a Hamburg-American boat, both bound in, heavily loaded with passengers, collided off the harbor's en trance Saturday night. Both were ser iously damaged, but reached the docks and landed their passengers safely. The Parisian's stern touched bottom as she reached her wharf, while hard pumping kept the Albano free. Roth steamers were from European ports, the Parisian from Liverpool. Eng land, and the Albano from Hamburg. The Parisian had on board l.oort pas sengers. The Albano carried about S'o passengers, nearly all for Philadel phia, for which port she was to have proceeded after coaling here. Itaee to Dork. The Parisian made a race for life and death for the harbor, covering the 13 miles from the scene of the accident to the dock in 40 minutes. An exam ination of the Parisian showed the en tire aft hold to be filled with water as far forward as the engine room com partment. She rests on a mud bot tom. PROCLAIM UNION Cretans Call Assembly and De clare for Grecian Rule. Canea Island. Crete, March 27. The insurgents have organized a provision al national assembly under the presi dency of M. Pappannakis who has is sued a proclamation to the foreign consuls declaring the people have gathered to proclaim the union of Crete with Greece. He implores the powers not to support the present auto cratic resime. Reinforcements of Cretan endarmes have arrived here. PRETORIA HAS BAD PASSAGE New York, March 27. Three days behind the record time for the passage the Hamburg-American line steamer Pretoria came in today from Hamburg with a story of extremely severe weather on ihe Atlantic. Constant westerly gales and head seas prevailed. One man. a seaman, was blown into the sea during a hurricane. SURGEON GENERAL OF THEG. A. R. DEAD JanesviKe, Wis., March 27. Dr. J. 11. Whiring, surgeon general of the Grand Army of the Republic, is dead. He was the oldest physician in south ern Wisconsin. Failure to Secure Rein road was equipped with all the men needed, and that former employes could only be reemployed when vacan ies occurred. The recognition of any union also was refused. Pandemouiain followed. When delegates representing more than 150,000 workmen heard the re port pandomonium reigned and dele gates arose and shouted at the top of their lungs against Belmont. Attack after attack was made against the Civic Federation while some delegates loudly demanded every labor leader should resign from that body. CiOiupera Denounced. Samuel Gompers, who is vice pres ident of the National Civic Federation, was also denounced. BE HELD III CHICAGO Chicago. State's Attorney Healy intimated today in court he would not oppose a change of venue. Healy. however, sustained a continuance un til tomorrow. He is opposed to fhe cases being sent to Peoria whev Judge Green squashed the former in dictments. The defense is anxious for Peoria to be again selected. WITH LAWMAKERS Anti-Loan Shark Bill One of Those to Come Before the State Senate This Week. CIVIL SERVICE IN THE HOUSE Hope For Charitable Institutions Final Action on Cooke-McCas-krin Contest, Springfield. 111.. March 27. As a spe cial order Senator Dixon's anti ' loan shark" bill will be called up in the senate on Wednesday, where it seems to stand an excellent chance of pass age. Sentiment in both houses is in favor of the measure, which the at torney general's office, has pronounced constitutional. It requires the signa ture of a man's wife to an assignment of wages and makes void all contracts tainted with usury. t ivil Service Innh Tltl Week. Dr. Norden's long fight for civil ser vice will culminate in the house this week. House bill No. 2 IS, the real "bogey man" of the anti-civil service element, is close to the top of the cal endar now, and may come tip tomor row. The bill is on second readine Even its most sanguine friends are anything but confident of its passage. House bill No. 21, giving civil ser vice for state charities, is on second reading, but near the bottom of thi list. It may be readied this week, and if the wider scope of bill No. 21S is considered unfavorably fhe civil ser vice forces of the hou.-e will rally to the support of this measure. The Iitirke-Lindly combination bill, includ ing the sanitary district and "every thing in sight" in Cook county, may be considered on Friday. I'lnal Action on Content. Final action on the Cooke-McOas-krin election contest from Rock Island is promised fur Wednesday. McCas krin's chances of retaining his scat appear to be good. Town is Gutted. Carson, Ind.. March 27. Fire which broke out in I'ric Rallrnan's saloon Sat urday afternoon practically destroyed the place. Ixss $2o.tmi. Forty resi dences and 20 business houses were dest royed. AEROPLANE SAILS New Principle of Flight Suc cessfully Applied at San Francisco. San Francisco. Cal., March 27. Prof. John Montgomery' aeroplane sailed, or flew, 3,000 feet abov San Jose Sat urday night for half an hour. Mont gomery's machine can be guided, and it flies with no use of u.otor or gas. John Maloney took the machine up 3.000 fee by a hot air balioon. Then the aeroplane was released, and ifter sailing about landed at Montgomery's works tup. F BOTTOM HE LIVES New ork. March 27. 15'own through a break in a tunnel un.ler Fast river by an explosnm today, and car ried to the surface of the water and shot 20 feet into the air. Richard Cree dun. a laborer, was rescued only slightly hurt. His escape frc-in doath was almost miraculous. Three of his companions were rescued in the tun nel ar.d carried out painfully but not seriously injured. BOY HOME ALONE Frank Ely Rogers Returns to Chicago Home in Rags. HAD BEEN GONE FOUR YEARS Tells Conflicting Stories and Sheds No Light on Whereabouts of Aunt, Miss Florence Ely. Chicago, March 27. Frank Ely Rog crs, the schoolboy who disappeared from Evanston with his aunt. Mis: Florence Ely, on July 1:5, 1'JiU, return ed home yesterday. He came alone and the woman s whereabouts are as much a mystery a ever. Young Rogers could not or would not say. "I left her long ago." he declared. She may be dead, or, like her nephew, she may return as suddenly and unexpectedly as she do parted. Her family is at a loss, but in clines to the former theory. Tell Many ConflletliiK tlorleN. A typical wanderer in appearance. his face aged and hardened, his cloth ing dusty and worn, young Rogers was welcomed by his parents with open arms. To the former "chums" who found him wandering through the streets of Evanston and later to his father and mother the boy told many stories conflicting stories of his wan derings. He did not. however, clear up the mystery which lias enveloped i the strange case for nearly four years. That he will tell more1 in a few days Is the hope and belief of his parent and Miss Ely's brother. Knowledge that she is dead would be welcome af ter the years of uncertainty. Sudden n I-inrtnre. The boy's re turn was as sudden and unexpected has his departure. The Rogers family had made every effort to trace their son ami his aunt, and all had t tided in failure. The police of many cities had worked on the case; every town in the country had received handbills offering rewards for clews, but from that. July day when they fled until 3 o'clock yesterday af ternoon, when Young Rogers hailed a boy friend in the streets of Evanston, they never were heard of definitely. WRECK WAS CAUSED BY AN INSANE MAN Pulled Spikes on Rock Island Road at Homestead, Iowa, to See What Would Happen. Dcs Moines, March 27. Rock Island officials investigating the cause of the wreck of fhe Rocky Mountain limited passenger train n-ar Homestead, Iowa, Tuesday, last, hav secured a confes sion through Sheriff Dietrich from an Insane man, Eric Kutzleven, of Smith Amana, that he pulled the spikes and rails loose for the purpose of gratify ing his curiosity as to whst would hap pen. Various circrmstanct s also pointed to Kutzleven as the man who ditched the train, which with its pas sengers, narrowly scaped complete destruction. Kutz!ecn has posed for some time at South Amana as a tier man nobleman. IN THE UPPER AIR The machine, the Santa Clara, looks like a huge bird. The frame is of spruce timber, tough and supple, and the eight wings are of fortified canvas. Look I.Ike Illrd. In each wing la an upward curve construct d with the sam'- concavity found in the wing of a bird. The operator Kits on a saddle and works the wings partly with his hands and feet. Wind Dora ot lliader. Soaring at hix v.iiU-x an hour the LW ROM aeroplane could be tropin d and turn- rious landslide occurred here yestc-r-e l within a 10 foot rpace. A contrary day. Of a squadron of soldiern which wind niakei little difference In the went to the rescue of citizens eight tpetd. J were killed and R injured. New Russian Army Not Expected to be Used in War. WOULD AVOID BATTLE Orders to Pacific Squadron frtay Have Fallen in Japs' Hands. St. Petersburg. March 2 Five army corps the First, Seconu. Fif teenth. Eighteenth, and Nineteenth 250,000 men in all will be mobilized and dispatched to the far east These orders, it is believed, are on ly a prelude to peace negotiations. However, the troops, it is stated, will be dispatched to Manchuria at all costs, even if only to strengthen the hand of diplomacy when the peace ne gotiations begin. llax h'rn for Service. According to trustworthy private advices hardly more than R'o.noO men in l.inevitch's army are now capable of serving against the Japanese, and even these are mostly hunger strick en and depressed. No serious appre hensions are entertained that they can be surrounded on their way to Harbin, because, even if the Japanese have turned both Russian Hanks, t he opera tion has been effected by forces too exiguous to produce important results. An army is not necessarily in danger when its flanks have been strategically encircled, and that is the operatloti which the Japanese vanguard cannot execute as long as (Kama, with his main forces, remain at Tieling. I-'rnr n lint tie. There is no fear that Nogi will hast en to Tsitsihar. What prudent mill try men fear Is that IJnevitch may try issues with the enemy on the line from Changchun to Klrin, and in this case the results might be disastrous, but if he retires to Harbin nothing disagree able need be apprehended for a consid erable time. Order I. out. Paris. March 27. The authorities here are seriously concerned about the mysterious disappearance of two of ficial dispatch bags containing orders to the French squadron in the Indian ocean. I tie hags, wlncli were lorwaru- ed to the captains of two French war ships and which are said to have con tained orders relative to the move ments of the Russian second Pacific squadron disappeared between Port Said and Jibutil. Fears are entertained that the bags may have reached those interested In learning the plans of the Russian sec ond squadron. Help Itet olut lonlot The police are exercising extensive surveillance over Russian refugees in Paris owing to reports they are organ izing to assist the revolutionary move ment in Russia. The French foreign office renews its assurances that noth ing has been undertaken here relative to peace negot iot ions. The Venezuelan status is unaltered. Iteleuiaed I'rlxincrn. Washington, March 27. The Japan ese legation has received the following from Tokio: "Of the Russian non-combat antH which fell into our hands at the battle of Mukden, the following were releas ed In front of our advanced guard: Forty-seven men ranking as officers. ZZU men ranking a.s non-commissioned officers, nine nurses, two priests, and four merchants attached to the army released at their desire. In CheffKi or Shanghai; 2:5 men ranking as officer, 23 nurses, 2:S men a.s noncommission ed officers." BEEF HEARING RESUMED New Counsel in Investigation That May Last Three Months. Chicago, March 27. Investigation of the "bef trust" was resumed to day by the federal grand Jury. The Jury will have for additional advisors from now on District Attorney liaxtc-r of Omaha and Asfcistant District At torney Godman, of Chicago. It ia Bald the inquiry is likely to last two months longer. Held For Slaying American. Naples. March 27. The court at CaHf-ra has held for trial the tervant of the late Miss Catherine McCready of New York and the servant' father on the charge of murdering Miss Mc Cready. Soldiers Killed in Landslip. Sernlin, Hungary, March 27. A e- I