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CASUALTIES OF FOURTH.
Fireworks. Cannon and Toy Pistols
Get in Their Work Above Mason
and Dixon’s Line.
A New Y’ork dispatch says: By the
premature explosion of a shell in
the open breech of a five-inch gun,
while a Fourth of July salute was
being fired o n Governor’s Island, Pri¬
vate Harrington of company H, eighth
infantry, and Sergeant Frank Webb
of the same company and regiment
were probably fatally injured. Both
men were removed to the hospital on
Governor’s Island, and the firing of
the salute was continued, An inqui
ry to determine the cause of the ac
cident will be made at once.
During the ceremony of firing the
national salute of 45 guns at Fort
Warren, Boston harbor, the charge
of the sixteenth round exploded pre
maturely, injuring two privates of the
96th company, coast artillery, one
probably fatally.
One dead man, a boy probably fa¬
tally wounded, two other men shot
and a boy hurt by a cannon cracker
were early contributions of victims
to the Fourth of July celebration In
Chicago. Charles Strelow, 19 years
old, was shot and killed by one of
four unidentified men, all of whom
escaped.
Despite the efforts of many small
hoys and their elders, the Fourth of
July was comparatively quiet in New
York city. Firecrackers popped here
and there, but the day could hardlv
he called normally noisy in the great
metropolis, although there was the
usual number of casualties. In spite
of all regulations and police precau
tions, revolvers were fired, the spent
bullets doing their customary deadly
work.
Altogether five deaths were record¬
ed in the city as a result of the day’s
celebration, and the number of acci¬
dents reaches into the hundreds.
The majority of the day’s accidents
were in the class of burns from fire¬
crackers, toy pistols and miniature
cannon. There were few i!re alarms
in comparison with former years, and
no serious fires.
Fully 190 persons were victims of
the Fourth of July celebration in
Newark, N. J., but no one was fatal¬
ly hurt.
LINEVITCH TRIES HIS LUCK.
Takes the Offensive, But is Easily
Repelled by Japanese.
The following dispatch was receiv¬
ed in Tokio Tuesday from the head¬
quarters of the Japanese army in
Manchuria:
“At 8 o'clock in the morning of
July 1, 600 of the enemy’s cavalry
advanced toward the Pinniu river,
thirteen miles northeast of Kangpin.
We repulsed them. One hundred ana
fifty of the enemy's cavalry and
mounted infantry, with eighteen guns,
simultaneously attacked Shihshiku,
eight miles northeast of the Pinniu
river. The engagement lasted until
dawn of July 2, when the enemy was
repulsed, The enemy's casualties
were over 400. Our losses were
small.”
The following announcment was
made Tuesday from the headquar¬
ters of the ''Japanese army in Ko¬
rea:
“At. dawn of July 2, the enemy's
cavalry, with artillery, approached
Noromke, on the Puvog road, six
miles north of Y’usyong. Our force
engaged and repulsed them north¬
ward, cutting off the enemy’s retreat
and drove the enemy’s infantry at
noon fourteen miles north Yusong.
Our detachment also struck and scat¬
tered the enemy’s cavalry retreating
from Noromke.”
HAY’S BODY LAY IN STATE.
Remains of Noted Diplomat, Soldier
and Journalist at Cleveland.
Guarded by four cavalrymen, one
of whom stood at each side and one
at each end. the casket containing
the body of John Hay lay in solitary
state in the auditorium of the cham¬
ber of commerce at Cleveland, Ohio,
all of Monday and Tuesday and until
9 o’clock Wjedneday morning, when
the funeral occurred.
SWENDEN ALSO GETTING READY
King Oscar Soon to Issue Call for
Mobilization of Army.
The Associated Press at Stockholm
is in a position to state that an or¬
der for the mobilization of the Swed
ish army has been issued and that
the proclamation to this effect will
probably be issued within a week.
The mobilization is intended as a
means of giving added force to apy
proposal for settlement which the
riksdag may make to the Norwe
gian storthing.
EXPLOSION MANGLES FOUR MEN
Boiler of Threshing Machine Engine
Did Deadly Work.
Four men were killed outright and
seven others so seriously wounded
that at least a portion of them will
die, by the explosion of a threshing
machine engine on the plantation of
Bush Banes near Axton, Henry
county. Virginia. the
The accident occurred far in
country, away from telegraphic and
telephonic communication.
si IN COTTON
-nment Report Again
o price Skyward,
M OF BALE
ondition of Crop Lowest Since
year of 1903—-Figures
Public Are Seventy
Seven per Cent.
Washington special says: The
report of the chief of the
!y of the depart
of statistics
of agriculture shows the aver
oadition of cotton on June 25
been 77, as compared with
je
Hay 25, 1905; 88 on June
in corresponding
,04; 77.1 at the
l90 3 and a ten-year average
iwing is the condition, by
I Texas •• •• -.72
..
[Georgia...... .. -.82
[Alabama...... 83
Mississippi •• M
South Carolina . - - • OO
Arkansas........ OI
Louisiana • • W
..
North Carolina.. .. M
Indian Territory -.79
Tennessee ...... 86
Oklahoma...... 83
Florida........ 87
Missouri . - • • • • 05
Virginia OO
cotton market in New York
ie badly excited immediately
publication of the government
il report, showing the condition
tton to be 77 per cent or lower
even the small crop year of
l report was a great deal worse
[had Impede been expected, general buying, and caused the
of
[jumping up 1 cent a pound with¬
in minutes after the publication
e report. This was the equiva
of $5 a bale.
L the first hour thereafter brok¬
en the short side of the market
it violently excited, and prices
heed at times 10 points between
[s, or fluctuated wildly reached. when The the
[point had been
mg was on an enormous scale,
(the market was in a turmoil for
I than two hours. Not until the
Is had covered their contracts
I the majority of the trading hi¬
lts had protected themselves on
leadjustmeit of the crop situation
the market subside.
[cember Is and January advanced 20
at a time, more than 100 points
11, December selling at 10.60 and
pry 10.65. Thousands of bales
[ Its thrown over by bulls who took
at the prevailing high prices,
this selling quieted the market,
per with the belief that the ad
fce had discounted the existing
liiions.
Vrong Figures to New Orleans.
atton on the New Orleans ex
pe took another hound upward
[he ( reading of the government re
A dense crowd packed the ring
anticipation of the report, ana
fe was a throng in the galleries,
ten in the active positions almost
antly rose 100 points, or a cent
round. Subsequently there was
reaction on profit taking,
minutes before 11 o'clock a tel
aph company transmitted the fig
E > "81.2,” to the local cotton ex
pge, psenting the corrert figures being “77,”
[ the estimate of the cot
crop conditions up to June 25.
[ecretary I local Hester wrote a letter to
manager of the telegraph
PPany intimating that some one in
r k or k had made a criminal effort
manipulate the local market. The
pger immediately telegraphed the
per to New York headquarters of
f com Pany. The company confirmed
erroneous figures about a
lute after they were received, and
manager there says there is no
ibt hut that the figures the New
eana cotton exchange office receiv
were th ose sent from New York.
t orney general IN DOUBT.
stpones Taking Oath of Office Pend¬
kn ing an Investigation.
of the Georgia state house of
* a -s with the exception of
era ^ Jolln Attorney
‘ C. Hart appeared before
uernor ,, Terrell, took the oath of of
« and received their
IDS. new commis
JU( ige Hart stated that he
fe takin would
r g the oath for the
t Uhti! he pres-
5 could investigate more
m '° f ^ e $ aw and determinc
er .
- >r DOt 5s the dut °f the
31 ^ ,0 y
:1a canvass the returns and
the re sult in the ease of the
„ 0rne rn
y general.
NATQr MITCHELL CONVICTED.
However Invokes Mercy of the
Cour t in Verdict.
At Portland, Oregon,
“ lte <$ States Monday night
1 was found Senator John H. Mitch
unev f guilty of accepting
,r practicin 8 before federal
■Partin r7 ! D S i0 Washington.
Wa The
r v 0Ught p ight hours. The
* • *ercy Commended Pf the defendant to
of the court.
DEATH CLAIMS HAY
Secretary of State Passes to
the Great Beyond.
HIS DEMISE WAS SUDDEN
Shortly Before Dissolution Doctors
Had Announced Condition of the
Noted Patient as Highly Sat¬
isfactory and Cheering.
Secretary of State John Hay died
suddenly at his suknmer home in
Newberry, New Hampshire, at 12:25
Saturday morning. The signs imme¬
diately preceding his death were
those of pulmonary embolism. Mr.
Hay’s condition during all of Friday
had been entirely satisfactory.
The bulletin of Secretary iHay’s
death was signed by Charles L.
Scudder, M. D., and Fred T. Mtir
phy, M. D.
Mrs. Hay and Drs. Scudder and
Murphy were at the secretary’s bed¬
side when the end came. The sec¬
retary bade good night to his wife
and to his attending physicians about
10 o’clock Friday night at the close
of one of the best days he has had
since .his illness. The local trouble
was clearing up satisfactorily, accord¬
ing to Dr. Scudder.
The secretary suffered none of the
old pains in his chest, which char¬
acterized his earlier illness. He had
been perfectly comfortable all day
and happy in the anticipation of leav¬
ing his bed for the greater freedom
and comfort of a couch. At 11 o’clock
he was sleeping quietly.
A few minutes after 12 he called
the nurse, who at once summoned
Dr. Scudder.
Both Dr. Scudder and Dr. Murphy
hastened to the bedside. The secre¬
tary was breathing with difficulty and
expired almost immediately after¬
ward, at 12:25.
MUTINEERS SURRENDER.
Capitulate to Black Sea Fleet at
Odessa Without Firing Shot.
A dispajeh dale, from Odessa, under Fri
day's says: Without firing a
gun or making the slightest show of
resistance, the mutineers on the
Kniaz Potemkine hauled down t’ne
red flag and surrendered the battle¬
ship to Vice Admiral Kruger’s squad¬
ron, which arrived at noon. It was
•fa anxious moment for Odessa, as
the squadron of five battleships and
seven torpedo boats, with their crews
at quarters and their decks cleared
for action, steamed within range of
the Kniaz Potemkine, the flagship
flying signals which read: “Yield or
he sunk.”
The display of force was too over¬
whelming for the mutineers, and all
thought of resistance was abandoned.
Admiral Kruger ordered the Ekater¬
ina II to place a crew on board the
Kniaz Potemkine, and the other ves¬
sels of the squadron immediately sail¬
ed away.
The mutineers will be transferred
to the Ekaterina II, which is now
lying alongside the Kniaz Potemkine,
and will be taken to Sebastopol.
The crew of the Potemkine capit¬
ulated unconditionally.
A dispatch to The London Daily
Mail from Odessa, dated early Sat¬
urday morning, asserts that the
Kniaz Potemkine has not surrendered.
The dispatch says:
“It was reported that the Kniaz
Potemkine had surrendered ( uncon¬
ditionally, but it is now confirmed
that she was joined by the battle¬
ship Georgi Pobiedonoset, whose of¬
ficers were made prisoners, Both
vessels are anchored in the roads
and are using searchlights vigorously
as if expecting an attack from the
squadron, which is about fifteen miles
distant. I have information regard¬
ing this second mutiny on absolutely
on reliable authority.”
By order of Postmaster General
Cortelyou rural carriers are granted
a holiday on July 4, service on rural
routes being suspended* for the day.
FLOOD HORROR IN MEXICO.
From One Hundred to a Thousand
People Are Reported Drowned.
Meager advices received in Mexico
City indicate a flood has wrought a
great horror at Guanajuato ,a mining
city, now the important seat of ac¬
tivity for several large American and
British companies.
The .reports indicate a death list of
from 100 to 1,000, the latter estimate
being given in a dispatch received Sy
President Robinson of the Mexican
Central railway. The raging water
carried the dead through every
street.
PIRATE SHIP DISAPPEARS.
Russian Mutineers Sail from Odessa
for Parts Unknown.
A special from Odessa says: The
Kuiaz Potemkine sailed Saturday ap
parently in the direction of the Ron
manian coast, and nothing has been
heard of her.
With her departure the situation
for the moment has taken a more
favorable turn.
OIL KING GENEROUS
V
Rockefeller Gives Ten Mil¬
lions For Education.
**
ALL SCHOOLS TO SHARE
Announcement of Most Munificent Do¬
nation is Made Public by the
Generai Education
Board.:
Ten million dollars as an endow¬
ment for higher education un the
United States has been given to the
general education board by John D.
Rockefeller. The announcement was
made by Dr. Wallace Buttrick of the
board at a meeting in New York Fri¬
day.
Th.e following letter to the secreta¬
ries and executive offices of the board
from F. E. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller’s
representative, was given out:
“26 Broadway, New York, June 30,
1905.—To Messrs. Wallace, Buttrick
and Starr J. Murphy, Secretary and
Executive Officers, General Education
Boa-rd, Now York—Dear Sirs: I am
authorized by John D. Rockefeller to
say that he will contribute to the
general education board the sum of
$10,000,000 to be paid October 1 next
in cash, or at his option, in income
producing securities at their market
value, the principal to be held in
perpetuity as a foundation for edu¬
cation, the income above expenses
and administration to be distributed
to or used for the benefit of such
institutions of learning at* such times,
in such amounts for such purposes
and under such conditions or em¬
ployed in such other way as the
board may deem best adapted to pro¬
mote a domppehensive system of
higher education in the United States.
Yours very truly, F. T. GATES.
Statement by Board.
With the letter the following state¬
ment is given out:
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with other
gentlemen of this city, was instru¬
mental in forming the general educa¬
tion board in February, 1902. A
very broad and admirable charter was
secured from congress and signed by
President Roosevelt on January 12,
1903.
A gift of $1,000,000 from John D.
Rockefeller was immediately passed
over to the board, especially designat
ed for educational work in the south.
Other funds have been added by oth
e r philanthropists since that time and
the board has confined its work hith
erto mainly to educational work in
the southern states.
The present gift differs from Mr.
Rockefeller’s first gift to the board
in the following places:
The principal sum of the gift of
$1,000,000 made on the organization
of the board could be distributed. The
present gift of $10,000,000 is held as
an endowment, the income only be¬
ing available for distribution.
For Use Everywhere. «
The first gift was designed to be
used exclusively in the southern
states. The present gift is for use
not only in the southern states, but
throughout the United States without
distinction of section.
The first gift could be used for
common schools and secondary educa¬
tion. The second gift is confined to
higher education and is designed spe¬
cially for colleges as distinguished
from the universities, although there
is no prohibition in the letter of gift
against making contributions to uni¬
versities.
Both gifts are alike available for
denominational schools, as well as
for those which are non-sectarian.
In distributing the funds the board
will aim especially to favor those in¬
stitutions which are well located and
which have a local constituency suf¬
ficiently strong and able to insure
permanence and power. No attempt
will be made to resuscitate moribund
schools or to assist institutions which
are so located that they cannot prom¬
ise to be permanently useful.
SOLONS CONDEMN LYNCHING.
Resolution Requests Governor to Fer
ret Out Members of Mob.
The Georgia house of representa¬
tives Friday morning unanimously
passed a resolution by Hon. Boykin
Wright of Richmond county, condemn¬
ing the wholesale lynching at Wat
kinsville, Oconee county.
In addition to scoring the mob for
its work, the resolution earnestly re¬
quests the governor to at once offer
ample rewards for the detection and
arrest of the criminals who partici¬
pated in the murders, as they are
characterized.
I RESORTING TO MARTIAL LAW.
Russian Government Trying Hard to
Quell Bloody Disorders.
A St. Petersburg special of Fri
| {j a y says: Martial law has been pro
claimed in the governments of Sebas
. topol, Nieholaieff and Erivan.
An imperial order confers on the
! viceroy of the Caucasus the rights of
a military commander of the Black
sea fleet in the districts of Sebasto
pol and Nieholaieff.
BEEF PACKERS INDICTED
Federal Grand Jury at Chicago Re¬
turns Eighteen True Bills Charg¬
ing Firms With Conspiracy.
After an investigation which has
lasted something over three months
and during which more than one hun¬
dred witnesses were examined, the
federal grand jury at Chicago Satui
day afternoon handed in its report.
Seventeen men prominent in the pack¬
ing industries of the country were in¬
dicted for violation of the Sherman
anti-trust law and four officials of the
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger company,
were indicted for alleged illegal re¬
bating with the railroads. Besides
these individual indictments, bilis
were oted against five large cor¬
porations, Armour & Co., Swift &
Co., Nelson, Morris & Co., Cudahy
Packing company and the Fairbanks
Canning company.
The indictment voted for alleged vl
olation of the anti-trust law were
identical in each instance. The in
dictments contained each eight counts,
which were spread over sixty-three
typewritten pages.
The first and second counts on the
indictments pertained only to beef
sold in i he domestic market. The
ninth and tenth counts relate to beef
sold in foreign trade, The third
count charges a conspiracy in re¬
straint of trade and commerce among
the states and with foreign nations
in fresh, dried, smoked, cured, can¬
ned and pickled meats, and in certain
by-products of the packing industry,
viz.: Sasage casings, sausage contain¬
ers, oleo stock, stearine and oils and
also in butter, eggs and poultry.
This count charges that the trade
which the defendants were carrying
on in the above named commodities
was to be restrained In several ways:
First, competition in the buying of
cattle at the stock yards in different
cities was to be prevented and de¬
stroyed by the defendants, who re¬
quired their purchasing agents to re¬
frain from bidding against each
other.
Second, competition as to the sale
of the above commodities in foreign
and domestic markets was to be pre¬
vented and destroyed by the defend¬
ants fixing non-competitive and un¬
reasonable prices for such commodi¬
ties and requiring their representa¬
tives in the different markets to fix
prices by agreement from day to day
according to what the market would
stand.
Third, the supply of the above com¬
xnodities was to be curtailed and re¬
stricted whenever necessary to main¬
tain the prices so fixed.
Fourth, the United States was di
[ v ided up into territories between the
defendants and each was to keep
its own territory without interference
^y the others.
Fifth, there was a division as to the
volume of trade allowed to each de¬
fendant in a given market; if one
packer sold more than his percent¬
age during a given week he was
obliged to pay an “ante” of so muen
per hundredweight according to the
territory in which the matter occur¬
red, into a pool to cover the excess
of sales, and this fund was divided
among the packers who fell short in
their sales.
As soon as the Indictments had been
handed into court District Attorney
Morrison suggested that each of the
defendants be placed under bonds of
$4,000, and, when the court asked if
bench warrants were to be served, he
was informed by the district attorney
that the legal advisers for all the
men included in the Indictments had
agreed to produce the men on Mon¬
day or as soon as possible after July
4th. Judge Bethea acquiesced in this
arrangement.
STEVENS SUCCEEDS WALLACE.
Chicago Man Now Chief Engineer of.
Canal Commission.
Secretary Taft has appointed John
F. Stevens of Chicago chief engineer
of the Panama canal commission with
residence on the isthmus. Mr. Ste¬
vens succeeds John F. Wallace,whose
resignation was accepted, and his ap¬
pointment takes effect at one®.
APPEAL FOR JUSTICE
Made to Georgia Solons by Man Whc
Suffered False Imprisonment.
Bent with age, penniless and just
out of a hospital after months of ill¬
ness, Charles Franklin, the man who
was sentenced for life to the peni¬
tentiary for murder by a Bibb county
julry, and who served twenty-one
years before his innocence became
known when the real murderer con¬
fessed his guilt, reached Atlanta Fri¬
day to appeal to the legislature for
recompense for his twenty-one yeaxs’
false imprisonment.
GEORGIA CAMPAIGN OPENED,
Hon. Hoke Smith Speaks at Madison
and Roasts the Railroads.
Hoke Smith of Fulton county open- !
ed his campaign for governor of Geor¬
gia at Madison Thursday in a speech
of an hour and thirty minutes, during
the greater part of which he attacked
the railroad corporations of the state
and denounced their methods an well
as the charges for services which they
demand of the public.
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CHARGE BLACKMAIL
Chicago Labor Unions Used
by Unscrupulous Men.
SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT
The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago
Returns Thirty-Nine Indictments
Against Labor Leaders and
Business Firms.
A Chicago dispatch says: The Cook
county grand jury, which for a month
has been investigating the causes and
conditions of the present teamsters’
strike, returned its report Saturday
night, and with it forty-nine indict¬
ments against men connected in va¬
rious ways with recent labor troubles
in Chicago. The following are the
indicted:
George C. Prussing, president of the
Illinois Brick company; Charles Hank,
president of the Brick, Stone and Ter¬
ra Cotta Workers’ Union; John Gray,
general purchasing agent and distrib¬
uting agent of the Illinois Brick Com¬
pany.
These four indictments are based
on charges of conspiracy to injure
the business of independent brick
concerns, whose interests lie in di¬
rections opposed to that of the Illi¬
nois Brick company, the so-called
“brick trust.’
A number of officers of independent
brick companies testified that money
had been spent for expenses in con¬
nection with calling strikes against
their plants.
The following were indicted for
conspiracy to injure the business of
Montgomery Ward & Co.:
Cornelius P. Shea, president Inter¬
national Brotherhood of Teamsters,
two counts; Jeremiah McCarty, busi¬
ness agent of the Truck Drivers’ Un
ian; John Smyth, president Coal
Teamsters’ Union; George F. Holden,
business agent of the Packing House
Teamsters’ Union; M. F. Kelly, ex¬
business agent of the Market and
Grocery Teamsters’ Union; W. J.
Kelly, secretary of the Coal Team*
sters’ Union; James B. Barry, busi¬
ness agent Express Wagon Drivers’
Union; Hugh McGee, president Truck
Drivers’ Union; Harry Lapp, presi¬
dent of Baggage and Parcel Delivery
Drivers’ Union; Steven Sumner, busi¬
ness agent of the Milk Wagon Drivers 1
Union; Joseph W. Young, business
agent of tre Baggage and Parcel Da
livery Drivers’ Union; W. J. Gibbons,
president Teamsters’ Joint Council;
Albert Young, ex-president of the In¬
ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters.
In addition to the indictments against
the above, true bills charging intent
to commit bodily injury and assault
with intent to kill were returned
against thirty-two members of the
teamsters’ union and sympathizers
with that organization, who have at
different times participated in the
rioting incident to the teamsters’
strike. The jury also submitted a
long and scathing report dealing with
the labor conditions in Chicago. Fol¬
lowing are extracts from the report:
“That the city of Chicago for years
past has been ibfested with moral
lepers who have preyed upon its finan¬
cial and social strength is known to
most informed citizens. That reputa¬
ble business men and reputable citi¬
zens employed in all fields of labor
have been subjects of blackmail, and
the greed of these vampires is also
a well known fact.
“The present grand jury has had
laid before it facts and conditions
so convincing and positive along these
lines that it feels in duty bound to
report to the court and public the
situation as it has been given them
by witnesses, some of whom at least
were brazen enough to flaunt not
only flagrant acts of the moral turpi¬
tude of others in the faces of this
body, but who, with an air of-great
gless, told of their own debauches
and criminal acts and methods.”
CHINA WILL STOP BOYCOTT.
Agreement Reached to Amicably Ad¬
just Serious Situation.
The Chinese government has taken
steps to stop the anti-American agv
tation and boycott against American
goods. Minister Rockhill at Pekin
cabled the state department at Wash¬
ington Saturday that after repeated
and urgent representations from the
American legation orders have been
issued from the Chinese foreign of¬
fice to all viceroys and governors in
the empire to cease anti-American
agitation and attempted boycott
against American goods.
NO DECISION REACHED.
Executive Committee of Cotton Asso¬
ciation Discusses Warehouse Plans.
After discussions which consumed
almost wholly the two sessions held
in Memphis, the executive commit¬
tee of the Southern Cotton Associa¬
tion adjourned without having deeio
ed upon any definite plan regarding
the proposed system cf bonded ware¬
houses for storing the stable.