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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
\j. XXVI.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA., MAY 13, 1904.
NO. 17.
E NIUCIiWANG
Retreat of the Russian
Force?.
E FORTS ARE DISMANTLED.
coating Western Side of the Llao
sula Iii* Up the Magazine at
Chang Before the Arrival ol the
irp Fighling Precedes Japanese
of That Place.
lang, (By Cable).?There is
??Cation that the Russians
kened to evacuate Niuchwang.
have heen dismantled and all
llery have been placed on board
Jns. All the local transportation has
commandered by the Russian
.oritie^.. There is current here a
pr that Japanese troops are
lt Bay, on the west side of
fug Peninsula, and about bo
t.'t of Port Arthur, but this
Icks confirmation.
fear is held here that if the
leave and the Japanese do
>ncc take possession of Niuch
fthc brigands, who arc now
the river near Yinkow, will
tile place. The foreign resi
are prepared to resist thc bri
ibould they come over. Thc
?li consul has requested that a
oat be sent to Niuchwang.
ie Russians probably will destroy
'gunboat Sivoutcfa before leaving,
rv-sel is at Niuchwang.
Japane.se troops fired on what prob?
ably was the last train out of Port
Arthur as it passed near Port Adams.
They used artillery and small arms
and killed or wounded several Chin?
ese.
It is reported here that Viceroy
Alexieff was slightly wounded prior
to his departure from Port Arthur.
He barely escaped from there before
the Japanese closed the lines of com?
munication.
The Russian general staff have
moved from Liaoyang to Mukden.
Russians here will not talk of the I
situation for fear that they may im
part some information. They do not
consider that their forces here are
sufficient to hold this section of thc
country.* lt is probable that the Rus?
sian troops will withdraw to Harbin.
The Russian civilians at Niuchwang
are leaving hurridly and many na- j
tives are fleeing the city in fear that
they will be subjected to maltreat
nent at the hands of the brigands. ?
The Russians are retreating to?
ward Haichcng, 32 miles east-by-north |
of Niuchwang, and arc evacuating thc
western side of the Liaotuug pen?
insula.
On Thursday and Saturday of last
week the Japanese landed 10,000 men
ai'vKinchau Bay; 10,000 men at Foo
chfcu Bay tnd 7,000 at Pitsewo. They
occupied the towns of Wa-Fung-Ticn
and Pulantien and destroyed several
miles of the railroad.
Heavy firing has been heard in the
direction of Kaichau. where Japanese
troops have been seen recently.
The isolation of Port Arthur is com?
plete. Sixteen Japanese warships pro?
tected the landing of troops at Km
chau Bay, directing a sweeping lire
over the narrow isthmus before the ;
soldiers disembarked. Seventy-five j
Russians, who were wounded in thi:-,
fighting were brought on the last
train to arrive here.
Food is scarce at Mukden; the!
troops there are eating bean cakes.
Key to Llao Valley.
Niuchwang is the key to the Liao
Valley. Kinkow, at the mouth of the
Liao, is the port of Niuchwang, which
is about 30 miles distant up the river.
Kinkow is connected by rail with the
iPort Arthur branch of the Siberian
IRailway.
Evacuation of Niuchwang hy the
Lussians will certainly mean its oc?
cupation by the Japs. Kinkow and
Niuchwang will give thc Japanese an?
other important base and a tighter
rrip on the railroad.
Some idea of distances in the pres
lent theater of operations may be gath?
ered from the following figures: From
[Port Arthur to Niuchwang is 175
I miles; from Port Arthur to Harbin is
650 miles; from Harbin to Vladivos?
tok is 3^0 miles. From Chemulpo
Bay to Pingyang is 150 miles.
BODY OF E. L WENTZ FOUND.
The Young Philadelphia Man Mysteriously
Disappeared Last October.
Richmond, Va., (Special).?A spec?
ial fi om Big Stone Gap, Wise county,
kays:
\ "The body of E. L. Wentz, who so
mysteriously disappeared October 14,
1^03. was found near Kelly View,
within a mile of the place where he
wis last seen alive.
TThe body, which was lying on the
'ground in plain view, was in a state
Bf preservation sufficient for identi?
fication."
I Young Wents was the son of a
Philadelphia millionaire and was in
charge of his father's mines in Wise
county. Since his disappearance more
khan $50,000 has been offered for news
pf him.
Thc case has attracted a great deal
of attention, and various theories have 1
been advanced from time to time as j
to the cause of the young man's sud?
den and complete disappearance.
Several persons reported having |
seen young Went! after the search for
him began, but in each instance the
reports have proven untrue.
Mr. Wents, the father of the unfor?
tunate man. exhausted every mean;
to locate him and spent thousands of
dollars in the search, to which was
given the entire time of a brother
of the lost man.
Fire Wipes Out Village.
Utica, Mich., (Special).?Seventeen
nisiness places and ten dwellings
fere destroyed in,a fire which wiped
it half of this village. Practically
^thing could be done in the way of
[hting the fire until the arrival of
engine and company of firemen
|>m Detroit, as Utica has scarcely
' fire-fighting apparatus. The fire
-ted in a barn of the Exchange Ho
William Upton, a capitalist, is
kof the heaviest losers by the de
rtiori of property.
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.
Charles S. Reber, formerly a nook
keeper tor McNeely Company, manu?
facturers of kid. in Philadelphia, was
committed to prison in default of $6.
ooo hail, charged with forgeries aggre?
gating $25,000.
Bishop Stephen N. Merrill, of Chi?
cago, senior member of the board of
bishops, presented a petition to the
Methodist General Conference, in Los
Angeles, laking to be retired from ac?
tive service.
Thc executive committee of the
National Civic Federation at a meet?
ing in New York adopted resolutions
eulogizing the late president of the
Federation, Senator Hanna.
Rev. Dr. Emanuel Vogel Gerhart,
president of the Theological Semin?
ary of the Reformed Church of the
United States, died at his home, in
Lancaster, Pa.
Capt John Hallam, ve eran of 12
years' fighting in th? Plack Hawk,
Seminole and Mexican Wars, died in
Oshkosh. Wis. He was 89 years old.
Three more New York brokerage
firms were expelled from the Consol?
idated Stock Exchange for shady
practices.
Homesteaders at Mineral Lake,
Wis., were obliged to dee in tkeir
night garments to escape from the
forest fires.
Secretary Shaw had a conference
with New York financiers and ar?
ranged for the payment of the forty
millions to the Panama Canal Com?
pany through J. P. Morgan & Co.
Two m"n were killed and seven in?
jured by an explosion of gas in thc
No. li Colliery of thc Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at Ply?
mouth, Pa.
Charles Cunningham, the Oregon
sheep kingy, pleaded guilty to the
charge of conspiring to defraud the
United States government of public
lands.
Judge Adams, in thc United States
Circuit Court in New York, ordered
thc deportation of 20 Italians involved
in the naturalization frauds.
A gas explosion demolished the
house of James McDaniel, in Marion,
Ind., injuring fatally Mrs. McDaniel
and her two children.
Five thousand boot and shoe maker,,
were locked out of the six largest
factories in Chicago. The factories
will run as open shops.
Wliliam L. Hartley, white, and.
James Edwards, colored, were exe?
cuted in Pittsburg for murder.
The German and French Buildings
at the World's Fair were dedicated
yesterday.
The United States cruiser Denver
was put in commission.
Plans have been drafted for a re?
organization of thc Red Cross Socie?
ty, which will prohably be accepted by
both sides to the controversy.
Several witnesses testified in the
trial of General Tyner and Harrison
J. Barrett, charged with conspiracy
to defraud the government.
Dr. W. E. Woodend, of W. E.
Woodend & Co., the suspended stock
brokerage firm, was arrested at his
home, in New York.
James C. Cook, known as the oldest
practical printer in thc United States,
died at Milford, Mass., aged &7 years.
New England cotton mills may shut
down, curtailment not having met the
situation of overproduction.
New York's offer of $37,000,000 of
city bonds at 3J4 per cent, was over?
subscribed seven times.
Foreign.
The German Reistag adopted a res?
olution asking the government to in?
troduce a bill revising the military
penal code so as to reduce the mini?
mum punishment in cases where
nrivate practices resort to violence
against their superiors. The two con?
servative parties voted in the nega?
tive.
The annual demonstration of the
Primrose League attracted an enor?
mous gathering at Albert Hall, Lon?
don, being the centenary year of the
birth of the late Lord Beaconsfield.
Prof. Maxwell Sommerville, the dis?
tinguished glyptologist, of the Univer?
sity of Pennsylvania, died in Paris of
heart disease.
The German Steamer Kurfuerst,
which went ashore on the coast of
Portugal, is a total wreck.
Foreign Secretary Lansdowne
stated in the British House of Com?
mons that if greater progress was
not made in the solution of the Mace?
donian situation the powers might
be confronted with a grave problem.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra
anl the Princes* Victoria returned to]
London from their tour of Ireland.
Andrew Carnegie presided at the
annual meeting of thc Iron and Steel
Institute in London.
The Venezuelan Congress has con?
ferred dictatorial powers upon Presi?
dent Castro.
The Dutch forces captured thc
Atchincse position at Tjantoe, Java,
after a desperate fight, in which 100
Atchinese were killed. The Dutch
casualties were 7 killed and 5 officers
and 38 men wounded.
J. Pierpont Morgan stated in Paris
that the United States has appointed
the Morgan Company fiscal agents
for the payment in Paris of the $40,
000,000 to the Panama Canal Com?
pany.
It is reported in Vienna that there
were serious anti-Jewish riots in the
Bessarabian town of Bender, and that
the nuib entered houses and threw
women and children out the windows.
Financial.
Since April 7 $18,725,000 has been
exported.
Snow makes a bullish report this
week on the wheat crop.
Details of United States Steel's ab?
sorption of the Clairton Company
were perfected yesterday.
President Ripley has won a victor:
for the Atchison by getting a drastic
injunction against strikers.
Cincinnati has had a spasm of econ?
omy. City Councils reconsidered a
$1,000,000 loan and will borrow only
half that sum.
COAFESSED^ TO FRAUDS
Charles Cur ningham and Associates
Guilty in Land Cases.
ALL ESCAPE A PRISON SENTENCE.
Oregon Sheep king, Who Was Leader ol Con?
spiracy, Must Pay $5,000, While His Tools
I scape for $103 Each-Convictions the Out?
come ol the Trial of Land office Receiver
Thompson- The Benson Case Will Follow.
Portland, Oreg., (Special). ? The
cases of Charles Cunningham, the
Eastern Oregon sheep king; Glen H.
V. Sailing, Shelby Jones, and Dallas
O Hara, cRarged with conspiracy to
defraud the United States government
of public lands, were brought to an
abrupt and unexpected conclusion by
pleas of guilty being made when these
defendants were arraigned in the Uni?
ted States District Court here.
Mark Shackclford was the only one
to plead not guilty, and his trial was
commenced later. Kate James was
discharged for want of probable cause.
Cunningham, as thc ringleader, was
immediately sentenced to pay a fine
of $5,000. The others, being con?
sidered only tools of Cunningham,
were let or? with a fine of $100 in
each case. None of them was sen?
tenced to a term of imprisonment.
These convictions are the direct out?
growth of the trial of Asa Thompson,
received of the La Grande, Oreg., land
office, last fall. During his trial the
defendants in thc present case, who
were witnesses in thc Thompson case,
made admission on thc stand which
placed Inspector A. R. Greene, of the
Interior Department, in possession of
evidence necessary to convict. A few
weeks subsequent to thc Thompson
trial Cunningham and the others were
arrested.
Interior Department Notified.
The Secretary of thc Interior re?
ceived thc telegram from Portland,
Oreg., regarding the action in the
I land fraud cases.
This information was gratifying to
the Interior Department, where the
I policy has been to vigorously prose?
cute offenders against the land laws.
Secretary Hitchcock has followed the
prosecutions closely, seeing to it that
the department and its employees af?
forded every possible facility to the
law officers.
It is the understanding of the de?
partment that other Oregon land cases
will be brought to trial soon. The
case of Mary Ware and others will
probably be taken up about May 16.
Good progress is also being made
with the hearings before the commis?
sioner in San Francisco in the case
of F. A. Hyde and others, who are
wanted to answer to indictments here.
John A. Benson, wdiose indictment
herc caused a sensation last winter,
ha.s recently returned to New York.
The hearing there for his removal
to this jurisdiction on one of thc in?
dictments pending was concluded re?
cently, resulting iii an order favorable
to the government. It was met with
habeas corpus proceedings, which are
to be heard May iq, before Judge La
combe. The case is said in many par?
ticulars to resemble that of George
W. Beavers, indicted for alleged viola?
tions of the postal laws. As the gov?
ernment has won in its efforts to have
Beavers taken to the jurisdiction
where he has been indicted, the gov?
ernment is not anticipating any serious
difficulty, except in delay, with the
case of Benson._
CASTRO MADE DICTATOR.
Unusual Powers Conferred on the Venezuelan
President.
Caracas, Venezuela (By Cable).?
The Venezuelan Congress, after hav?
ing declared itself a constitutional as?
sembly, conferred on General Castro
full dictatorial powers for a year,
with the title of provisional president.
General Valle was appointed second
vice president.
General Castro was elected Presi?
dent of Venezuela in October, 1901,
after having acted as president for
a year. According to a decision of
Congress, he was to hold office for a
term of six years from Eebruary 20,
1902. It was announced from Ca?
racas, May 2, that the Constitutional
Assembly had approved the new con?
stitution, dividing the republic into
13 states, and giving the president a
term of six years, instead of four.
Dictatorial powers were probably
conferred on General Castro in order
that lie may put the new constitution
in force.
Minister From Panama.
Mr. Russell,thc American diplomat?
ic representative at Panama, cabled
Secretary Hay that the Panamaian
government has decided to appoint
Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia as
minister of Panama to the United
States. Mr. Russell added that Senor
and wife and child of the master
Obaldia was a senator from the De?
partment of Panama in the Colom?
bian Congress which rejected the
Hay-Her ran Treaty; that he was gov?
ernor of Panama at thc time of the
independence movement last Novem?
ber, and is now second vice president
of the Republic. The new minister
expects to leave Panama for Wash?
ington on the first steamer in June.
Tibetans Attacked British Column.
London, (Special). ? The Daily
Mail's Simla correspondent says that
800 Tibetans, coming from the direc?
tion of Shigatse, attacked the British
mission at Gyangtso at dawn on April
5. The Tibetans were repulsed with
heavy loss and fled. The British had
only two Sepoys wounded.
Portland Exposition Raises Money.
Washington. D. C. (Special).?Sat?
isfactory evidence has been presented
to the treasury department by the di?
rectors of the Lewis and Clarke Ex?
position of Portland, Ore., to the ef?
fect that they have complied with the
law and have $600,000 cash, subscrip?
tions and appropriations. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Taylor ac?
cordingly has issued orders for the
preparation of plans for the govern?
ment pvhjbit.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.
We Now Own Panama Canal.
The President has received the fol?
lowing report from the Attorney Gen?
eral on thc Panama Canal transfer:
"Department of Justice, May 4, 1004.
"The President:
"I have the honor to report that I
have made an arransasnent with the
new Panama Canal^^ompany and
Morgan & Co. whereby Morgan & Co.
have been designated agents to make
the transfer of the money due by the J
United States to the canal company. |
"Thc $40,000,000 is to be deposited
with Morgan & Co. at once, upon the
delivery by the canal company to thc
United States of all the property in?
cluded in the purchase. So that the
deposit of $40,000,000 with Morgan &
Co. by the United States is accepted
by the canal company as equivalent
to a payment for the purpose of a
delivery of the property to the United
States.
"Owing to thc fact that a part of
this money is due to the liquidator ol
the old company under an arbitration
authorized and subsequently confirmed
by the French courts, all parties en?
titled to the money agreed that Mor?
gan & Co. would bind themselves to
make the distribution of the funds
that delivery of the property need not
await actual payment.
"Morgan & Co. will make the dis?
tribution rs follows
"The will place 20,000,000 france?
in the Bank of France to the credit
of Jean Pierre Gautron, the liquidator
of the old Panama Canal Company
This represents the value of the Pana?
ma Railroad shares, the title to which
was not to pass fi the new company
until the completion of the canal un?
less 20,000,000 frances were paid there?
for to the liquidator of the old com?
pany. Five million frances will be
paid into the Bank of France to the
credit of the new Panama Canal Com?
pany, which, under the award of the
arbitrators, is due to the new company
to reimburse it for the 5.000,000
frances paid in April, 1000, for the
extension of the concession. Of the I
remainder of the $40,000,000 40 per
cent, thereof is to be paid into the
Bank of France to the credit of the
new company and 60 per cent, to the
credit of the liquidator of the old
company, as provided by the decree
of the French courts confirming the
award of the arbitrators.
"As this arrangement was made
for the accommodation of the French
parties, all expenses incident thereto |
are borne by them and the United
States is protected from all costs
whatever.
"Stated concisely, the arrangement
is that the French interest accept our
deposit with Morgan & Co. as equiva?
lent to payment for all purposes of
delivery of the property."
"The new Panama Canal Company
in liquidation has given a mandate or
power of attorney to Renaudin, their
representative upon the isthmus, with
complete instructions concerning the
delivery of the property. This de?
partment has cabled similarly to
Major Brooke, who was designated
by the Honorable -Secretary of War
for that purpose to act for the gov?
ernment in accepting delivery.
"The canal company has likewise
placed at the disposition of the Uni?
ted States the personnel of its organi?
zation upon the isthmus for the pur?
pose of temporary service in the pre?
servation of the works and property
pending thc preparations by the canal
commission to undertake active opera?
tions.
"I have notified the commission of
the situation, and nothing now remains
to be done except to take possession
of thc property and direct the deposit
of the consideration with Morgan &
Co., in accordance with the terms of
the contract."
In connection with these payments
it is said :it the Treasury Department
that Morgan & Co. will be designated
as disbursing agents of the govern?
ment and following the invariable rule
in such sases they will be required
to deposit $40,000,600 in bonds as se?
curity to thc government. The pay?
ment will be madt as soon as the
bonds have been received, which
probably will be in a day or two.
Consular Appointments.
The following consular appoint?
ments were made by the President:
William F. Wright, Pennsylvania,
consul general at Munich; James H
Worman, now at Munich to be con?
sul at Three Rivers, Canada; Leo
Bergholz, now at Three Rivers, to bc
consul at Dawson City.
L. A. Dent, recently appointed con?
sul at Dawson City, has tendered his
resignation and it has been accepted
Mr. Wright is a resident of Phila?
delphia and was for some years pri?
vate secretary t? Senator Quay.
Dr. Merran to Return.
Through Mr. Andrews, the Colom?
bian consul general in New York. Jhe
State Department has learned that
Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge,
who formally withdrew from Wash?
ington about two months ago, will
soon return to this city in thc same
capacity, indicating a complete res?
toration of friendly relations between
the United States and Colombia.
Secretary ol New Commission.
Mr. Winthrop L. Marvin, of Bos?
ton, has been appointed secretary of
the Merchant Marine Commission, ap?
pointed at the last session of Con?
gress. Mr. Marvin is a newspaper
man, and is considered to be espe?
cially adapted to the work.
Congressional and Departments.
Maryland G. A. R. men are in?
dignant at Corporal Tanner, now
register of wills in the District of
Columbia, for removing Col. John R.
Rouzer, of Frederick, from the office
of deputy register.
The trial of former Assistant Attor?
ney General Tyner and his assistant,
Harrison Barrett, was continued be?
fore Judge Pritchard.
The Navy Department has declined
to grant a third trial for the cruiser
Denver, which was delivered to the
(government. /
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PORT ARTHUR BESIEGED
The Japanese Cat Off All Russian
Communication.
THEIR SECOND ARMY IS LANDED,
Now Occupy Railroad Which Connects Pori
Arthur *vith the Russian Military Base,
Having; seized lt at Points About Forty Mile*
From the Port? About 30,000 Japanese
Landed and more to follow.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable).?Jap?
anese troops swarming across the
narrow neck of the Liaotung Peninsu?
la, the railroad and telegraph com?
munications cut, and Port Arthur, thc
Russian Gibraltar,, isolated and left tc
its own resources. All this the Rus?
sians seem to accept with great
stoicism
Vice Admiral Skrydloff, who is er
route to Port Arthur to take command
of the naval forces in the Far Fast
will be unable to reach his destina
tion.
Viceroy Alexieff and the Grand
Duke Boris, who left Port Artluit
Friday, just got away in time. Tlu
Viceroy lias joined General Kuropat
kin near Mukden.
At the Russian War Office it is
stated that no strong opposition was
made to the Japanese landing at Pit
sewo, on the east coast of the Liao
tung Peninsula, about 40 miles from
Port Arthur. Pitsewo is a suburb ol
Kinchau.
It is supposed that there was a
sharp engagement at the railroad be-,
fore the japanese succeeded in cutting
off communication and seizing the
railroad, which runs from Port Arthut
to Mukden and Harbin, the Russian
military base in Manchuria. The seiz?
ure of thc railroad is a most importaul
gain for thc Japanese. According tc
official" information, thc landing ol
troops from 60 transports began sim?
ultaneously at Pitsewo and Cape
Terminal.
Not much seems to bc known ol
another reported successful landing
of the Japanese at Port Adams, which
is situated on an arm of Society Bay,
on the west coast of the peninsula,
directly opposite and about 20 miles
from Pitsewo. Thc railroad also pas?
ses close to Port Adams.
It is understood that 60 transports
disembarked two divisions of Japanese
troops, part of that mysterious scc
or?d army concerning the whereabouts
of which there has been so much
speculation. Ten thousand men were
landed in the evening and some 20,000
more next morning.
Vice Admiral Togo has undoubtedly
scaled the harbor of Port Arthur,
and the seige of the great Russian
fortress both by land and sea forces
has practically begun.
The Russian military authorities
seem reconciled to the cutting off of
their stronghold, but they are con?
vinced that the fortress is impregnable
against attack fy land or sea.' Though
the enemy may invest the place, the
authorities here do not believe the
| Japanese will undertake to storm the
position. It is believed that thc
greater nnmrjer of the troops have
i been withdrawn and that Lieutenant
I General Stoesscl's forces, including
! the garrjson of Port Arthur, number?
aboht lo.ooo men. Some estimate?
| place them at only 5,000. Further
I operations on thc peninsula on a large
j scale are dependent upon the develop?
ment of the campaign on the main
I land.
It is understood that the landing at
1 Pitsewo was preceeded by a bom?
bardment of the shore and was cf
fected under the guns of Japanese
warships, but it was practically unop?
posed by the Russians.
The Ministry of War received the
following telegram from Major Gen?
eral Pflug, chief of the military staff:
"According to the information I
have received, seven of the enemy's
transports, and afterwards about 40
appeared opposite PJttsewo on the
evening of May 4.
"On the morning of May 5, the
Japanese-began to land at Pitsewo and
on the coast near Cape Terminal
(about 15 miles southwest of Pitsewo)
under cover of artillery fire.
"At this moment about 60 trans?
ports were observed bearing down up?
on the whole front and our posts re?
tired from the shore.
"All papers in the postoffice at Pit?
sewo were removed tnd the Rt |>sian
inhabitants abandoned the town.
"According to Chinese reports, by
the evening of May 5 about 10,000 ol
the enemy's troops had landed and
taken up quarters in the Chinese vil?
lages near the point of debarkation."
DOWNPALL OF NOTEDlTALIAN.
A Former Prominent Cabinet Minister Quilty
of Theft.
Rome (By Cable).?There was a
great sensation in the Chamber of
Deputies at the conclusion of the par?
liamentary inquiry into the adminis?
tration of Signor Nasi, former minis?
ter of public instruction. The in?
quiry proved Nasi guilty of the misap?
propriation of large sums of money,
the falsification of documents, the sup?
pression of evidence and continuous
peculation.
The law courts presented to the
chamber a demand that they be al?
lowed to proceed against Nasi and
arrest him. but under die rules of the
chamber the discussion of this de?
mand was postponed.
Meanwhile the news that Na^i had
been dedared guilty of the charges
against him spread, and the former
minister, believing alt to be lost, fled.
Nasi was a strong politician, and it
was believed he was destined to be?
come premier. The result of the
parliamentary inquiry into his conduct
has caused great excitement.
Alexander McKenzie, a professional
beggar ot New York City, has invented
a device tor the protection ot the third
rail. The lutevormigu Company hat
offered a pr' - or ^Juo.OOU foe a suc?
cessful 'r' "
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DEATH BENEATH AlTOMOBIU.
Chicago Mao Drowned in Ditch While His
Fiancee Witnessed Tragedy.
Chicago, III. (Special).?While his
financee and another young woman
vainly tried to lift the heavy vehicle,
H. S. Ringi, of Chicago Heights, was
crushed to death in the mire of a
ditch beneath his overturned automo?
bile.
The accident occurred in the North
Chicago road, nearly a mile from the
village of Chicago Heights. The oc?
cupants of the automobile besides
Mr. Ringi were Mi^s Florence Born^
holdt, his fiancee, and Miss Elizabeth
Canedy.
On approaching the village Mr
Ringi attempted to turn out to pas?
a farmer's wagon. The heavy ma?
chine swerved into a ditch at the road?
side, and the occupants were throwr
from their seats.
Miss Bornholdt was severely in?
jured by striking the further bank oi
the ditch, aud was made unconscious.
Miss Canedy was thrown into the
water and escaped uninjured.
When Miss Bornholdt regained con?
sciousness the young women begar
a search for their companion, and saw
him struggling in the water and move
beneath the overturned machine.
PERU WILL RESIST.
Foreign Minister Pardo States Position of Hi*
CotrnaC^-mOm?? -
Lima, Peru, (By Cable).?Regard?
ing the existing troubles between Bra?
zil and Peru, Foreign Minister Pirdc
states that his government was [<re
paring to resist the "unjust aggres?
sion" of Brazil.
lt was, Senor Pardo asserted, a
political whim of Baron Rio Branco.
Brazil's foreign minister, to annex
the territories of Alto-Jurua and Alto
Purus, inventing as a basis for such
action stories of Peruvian invasions:
and Brazil, Minister Pardo said, had
now sent ttoops to occupy thc coveted
regions.
Thc truth, said Senor Pardo, is that
Peru has never moved from points
she has occupied for many years, .anc
in proof of this he aserted that when
Brazil opposed the formation of the
Acre syndicate her foreign office urged
as tiie principal argument against the
concession the rights of Peru to the
very same territory."
"Yet a few months later," concluded
Minister Pardo, "Baron Rio Brancc
forgot Brazil's words and decided to
occupy this territory, which had pre?
viously been declared to bc Peruvian
?but is verv rich in caoutchouc."
Dr. Morton, of the Post Graduate
Hospital, New Yoik Guy, disi-ovmnl
a new x-ray law lending io aid surgi?
cal diagnosis.
The hweuish National Alts Associa?
tion of Illinois una ;i."M'tl lor un au?
thoritative decision as io wuo designed
tue hist monitor.
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