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GRIM REAPER
CALLS KRUGER
Hz-Presidentof Transvaal Republic
in South Africa No More.
DIES IN SWITZERLAND
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Oid - , Age . and i c Senile •% t Inanity -L Cause r Of f
Demise--Noted Character That
Won Plaudits of World.
Paul Kruger, former president of the
Transvaal republic, iu South Africa,
died at Ciarens, Switzerland, Thurs
day morning front pneumonia and su
pervening heart weakness.
^\lr. Kruger lost consciousness Mon
day. His daughter and son in law
were with him at the time of nis
death. He had been out only once
since his arrival at Ciarens at the be- |
ginning of last month.
The ex-president’s body was em- \
balmed at once and the remains placed 1
in a vault pending funeral arrange
ments. Application will be made to
ihe British government for authority
io transport the remains to the Trans
vaal. Iu the meantime they will Le
temporarily interred at Ciarens.
Mr. Kruger, who was staying at the
Villa du Roichet, had been gradually
failing for a long time, but he was
able to attend to affairs, read the
newspapers and received visits until
Saturday,
A change for the worse set in on
Sunday. He became unconscious Mon
day and remained so until his death.
On several occasions Mr. Kruger
had expressed a desire to be buried
beside his wife, in his own country. <
The post mortem of the, body show- 1
edp thet Kruger died of senile inaui- I
tion. The s’ate of the ex-president’s
* health had been kept secret.
Stephanas Johannes Paulas Kruger,
ex-president of the South African Re
public, was born in Colesbtirg, Cape
Colony, October 10. 1525. His ances
tor. Jacob Kruger, went from Berlin
iu the Luieh East India Company's
service in 1713. at the time when the
foundations of many of the leading
Boer families were being laid by immi
gration. In 1836 young Pauf shared
with his family the hardships of the
great trek, when the blunders of the
British colonial administration made
enemies of the leading Boers of Cape
Colony and drove them to a self-im
posed exile which resulted in the
founding of a new South African Re
public beyond the Yaal.
In preparation for Lhe struggle with
England which he had long regarded
as inevitable, Kruger had put the
Transvaal into an excellent, defensive
state by the purchase o" large quanti
ties of arms and ammunition.
The events and results of the Boer
war are matters of history.
After the fall of Pretoria (June 5,
1900). President Kruger fled into Por
tuguese territory, and on October 19th
sailed from I.ourenzo Marques for Eu
rope in the hope of securing foreign
aid or intervention. He was received
with enthusiasm in France, but failed
to obtain an audience with the Ger
man emperor and took up his resi
dence in the Netherlands, making his
home in Utrecht and The Hague. His
efforts to secure foreign intervention
failed, but he continued to exhort the
Boers to stand fast to the last.
Causes Sorrow in Paris.
A Paris special says: The death of
the president of the Transvaal, Paul
Kruger, at Ciarens, Switzerland,
arouses widespread regret, owing to
French sympathy for the Boer cause
and personal admiration for the ex
president.
He avoided reference to the Boer
war. but when it was occasionally
mentioned, he showed no resentment
and expressed the belief that Provi
dence ’would eventually render justice
to the Boer cause.
Berlin Eulogizes Kruger.
The evening papers of Berlin, Ger
many, print warm eulogizes of former
Premier Kruger, studiously avoiding
anti-British expressions.
CONSUMPTION RAVAGES IN ILLINOIS.
According to State Health Board Circular
Over Seven Thousand Died in 1903.
In a. circular just received by the
Illiniuois state board of health, at Chi
cago, entitled “The Cause and Pre
vention of Consumption,” it is shown
that in Illinois the disease is respon
sible for more deaths than typhoid fe
ver. scarlet fever, diphtheria, ail
forms of bronchitis, influenza, mea
sles and smallpov combined. Of the
7,000 persons who died from this dis
ease in Illinois in 1903 half of them
were between the ages of 20 and 50,
BSVAN A® PLATFORM.
Document Adapted by the Democrats
Meets Favorale Criticism From
Ex-Leader of the Party.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
VV. J. Bryan Thursday qiade public the
following statement relating to the
lemocratic platform adopted at bt
-The plank on imperialism is posi
live, Strong and satisfactory to the eu
r j re party and !his question becomes
the paramount issue of the campaign.
"The tariff plank is good, but it was
made so on a close vote in the com
mittee >nd largely against the oppo
sition of Mr. Paraer’s adherents. The
plank which was voted down favored
a wise, conservative and businesslike’
revision, made ‘with due regard to ex
isting conditions.’ The committee
thought that these qualifying words
emasculated the plank and left it so
weak as to give no hope to tariff re
formers.
“The anti-trust plank rs a good one.
It demands the enforcement of the
criminal law against the trusts; it de
mands the abolition of rebates and dis
criminations and it demands the with
drawal of the interstate commerce
privileges from trusts when once con
victed. The plank is Infinitely supe
rior to the republican plank, and, with
a president who desired to destroy
trusts, would be a sufficient plank, but
as this trust plank was also substitut
ed by the full committee, there is rea
son to fear that it may not be in keep
ing with the ideas of the candidate.
"The labor plank is all that could be
desired. It declares against govern
ment by injunction; it favors arbitra
tion and the eight-hour day and de
nounces the methods that have been
resorted to in the Colorado strike, but
as these planks were added in the full
committee, some uncertainty e-xists as
to the candidate’s position,
The platform declares in favor of
,. the reduction . ,. of „ the army. TT Upon this ...
the committee was unanimous. The
sub-committee reported a plank in fa
vor of an increase of the navy, but
this was stricken out in the full com
m j t(ee
"The platform declares in favor of
the enlargement of the scope of the
interstate -commerce commission and
in favor of irrigation.
The general clauses of P ,, the plat- , ,
c form excite no dispute, .. . and , the ,, appeal
against , , the ,, introduction . , , ,, of p, a race ___. is
sue ought . , to . have , weight ... with ... the .. so- c
her. , Thinking ,. , . Americans. . .
“On Die , whole, , . the .. platform , ,p is . good. „,
From a western , standpoint, , . , its great- ,
esi. defect . p is . that ,. , it. . x makes , no men
lion .. ot , the , money question. An . at- .
, tempt . was made , to „ secure a plank , . op
posing ihe , melting ... of .... the silver .. dol- , ,
lar, . opposing . the ,, asset ^ currency and ,
, branen banks, , . and , . pref- ,
expressing a
erence p for the ,, Tr United .. , States . note , (or- .
dmarily known as greenbacks), ? , over
thc ,, . bank note, , but having refused , .. to
put . . gold plank, the committee -an
m a
was not wiling to have any phase of
the money question alluded to.
“While the motion to reaffirm the
Kansas City platform was voted down,
there was a considerable vote in favor
of its reaffirmation, and the Western
members of the committee, together
with a few from the south, stood to
gether and secured enough changes in
the platform to make it a presentable
document, and worthy of the support
of the party.”
HOT SHOT FOR INVESTIGATORS.
Georyia legislative Committee flatly Ac
cused ot Misstatement of Facts.
There was a lively time before the
house committee on appropriations
Thursday afternou, when the trustees
of the state sanitarium appeared to
urge the committee not to cut the
appropriation of $325,000 which has
been given it for the last two years.
The committee had at a former meet
ing cut the appropriation to the sani
tarium io $300,000, but had reconsid
ered this action, and left the matter
open until the trustees could be heard
from.
Judge Thomas E. Lawson, of Eat
onton, vice chairman of the board of
trustees, was first heard and he han
dled without gloves the report of the
legislative investigating committee of
which Toe Hall, of Bibb, was chairman,
and which severely criticised the
methods and system employed in the
conduct of the state sanitarium.
During Judge Lawson’s address Mr.
Hall made reply to some statements of
the speaker and Judge Lawson said
he did not want to be interrupted.
“It is folly .for any man to say that
an institution of his magnitude, with
its ten trustees, has been conducted
for a period of fifty years, without an
intelligent system of bookkeeping.”
Judge Lawson said; “It’s not true, no
matter if one member of the commit
tee said it, no matter if forty members
said it.”
RUSSIANS SLAY
HOSTS OF JAPS
Report Says 30,000 Were Kilted or
Wounded in Night Attack.
ALEX1EFF WIRES NEWS
St. Petersburg Went Wild With Jubi
lation When Official Dispatch Was
1 Made Known.
^ Petersburg ° was thrown into a
f , 11 a > attei
e >' 1 :)t t, ( " m ' n t. Qes
noon by the news that the Japanese
j had failed in an assault on the fortress
opposite Port Arthur on Sunday night,
having been repulsed with a loss said
to reach 30,(XH).
An official communication recieved
at the Russian Capital from the gen
eral sttif says:
"According to information derived
from Japanese sources and recieved
by Admiral Alexieff's staff, the Japa
nese attacked the Russian position
at Pert Arthur during the night of
! July 10. They repulsed with
were enor
mous losses. It is difficult to calcu
late even approximately the number
ot Japanese casualties which amount
ed, , it . is said, ...... to the immense figure „
j : of 30,000.”
.
The oriema; reportreached St.
tersbnrg Tuesday night in the form of
a newspaper dispatch from Mukden
and was received with Incredulity.
j but at noon * Wednesday ' ’ when Viceroy ’ '
; 1 ARxieff ,, . „ officially . „ telegraphed , . the .,
| to the general staff it created a tre
mendons inapreseion. It was immedi
| ately transmitted to the Official Me*
senger and . a few - m,notes . , afterwards ... .. .
| lhe "'" ,sboys wele rac “s thro "S th i,,e
streets electrifying “ the crowds with
1 ,ng8 ‘
!ie !,ov VVPIe au , v mo lj -' r>0 °'
* ‘
-
f ,e ea f l ‘ to buy f xtra s ' lhe mem *
bers of the general staft „ do , not offer
explanations of what AQiniral Alexieff
“ oills by “ Ja paiiese souroe3 ’ V bllt
I they declare that , the viceroy would
! not have offlcial, y sported such im
pwtant news unless iT had reachcd
him from, sources entirely , worthy of
•
, At the same time they , say
tne , report should , be accepted with . , re
serve. nor.vling ... the receipt . ol „ more <le
„ finite . advices, .
In r support of „ the , report, , , however, ’
they _ ’ point . L out that the date coincides
with the , second , attempt of „ Admiral ,
, logos torpeao boat destroyers .
! to
creep into the harbor. „ It is . true that
, _ logo does , not mention . a , land attack,
but this is not his . province,
The loss ot 30,000 the , besiegers . m
an attack ., . against “ . fortifications . . with
. position, the approaches
guns m sown
witn ... mines, . was considered quite wilh
*
. the , of possibility if the ,, Jap
- m range *
anese, as other ; stormed ,
: on occasions,
the fortifications with their accustom
ed recklessness, and especially if the
mines were exploded under masses of
men.
The general staff already had infor
mation that the besiegers had occu
pied Taku.sham hill, 3 miles northeast
of the harbor, but added that the Jap
anese were unable to hold the posi
tion. If the report of the loss of 30,000
Japanese is confirmed General Nodsu’s
army is in desperate straits, as Gener
! . c,. bt _ „ . V,i .... }} not , fad . 10 t , f* . e ad ,
‘
\an age o sue,, a rium am o o«
it up.
ACCIDENLALTY SWALLOWED FALSE TEETH.
Brooklyn Woman Dies of Strangulation i in
: a Peculiar Manner,
Frightened by the narrow escape of
her young son from being run down
by a heavy truck, Mrs. Mary Murphy,
wife of a Brooklyn, N. Y.. merchant,
has been strangled to death by her
false teeth.
In his hurry to cross the street her
son dashed in front of a team afid
narrowly escaped. His mother at
tempted to scream and fell strangling
before a crowd of people. She died in
a few minutes and the doctors found
the cause in a set of teeth half way j
down her throat. |
WOOD RESIGNS HIS OfFICE.
Alabama Probate Judge Quits His Post
Pending Impeachment Trial,
! Probate Judge J* Calvin Wood, ol
; LoWades county. Ala., against whom
; impeachment proceedings are pending
I in tlie supreme court, resigned Thurs
effective at once. He has been re
nominated for re-election next Nov em
, ‘6 r » hut it is not known whether lie
w *^ relinquish this or not.
Wool was charged with purchasing
v °i es an d failure to discharge the du
his office. The impeachment
proceedings will be abated.
PACKERS APE
Refuse to Grant Demands of Striking
Meat Cutters and Merry
War Proceeds.
A Chicago dispatch says: The
which has demoralized the packing
industry throughout the country has
not yet been settled, buL there are
indications that it will soon be end
; ed by the adjustment of the diffi 1
! ties by arbitration.
After a conference which lasted ali
of Thursday afternoon between repre
sentatives of the packers and officers
of the unions, the employers are wait
in § for an answer to a counter pro
posal which they submitted to Michael
D 0nna jy j n re piy to a statement of the
terms on which he would be willing
to make a settlement. Mr. Donnelly
later said that the counter-proposal of
the packers would be rejected, and
j that he would in turn present a coun
i ter,proposal at once.
The hitch iu the negotiations is
over the reinstatement of the strikers,
The union demands that every man
who went on strike shall be gi\;en bis
old position before an agreement to
arbitrate will be considered. The
packers declare that they will retiin
, the they have
men employed since the
strike began, and will take the old men
{ in ions the order in which they file appii
! cat for their former positions,
< While .. the .
peace negotiations .
! L,, were
•
. Thursday, additional
j m progress prep
arations were making by the packers
° r J* !?"? 5,e| »ere f . nemg T1m1 made to hearing m,luce .
I “*» nm *° ha " d,e »»»»«« ,or
Wo^mg ie plants <11 ' e ll,lsy where al1 the day men I’ 1 "" are 1 '!! on »
great, stocks of coal for fear the iail
™ ad m n “* . ht . „ ,, “ , 51011 .
SU B , ly
'
"L ? .... "*£ , by , ... ,
Donnelly n , „ for the strikers which led
to cor . (erence T ,„„. sdav comain ,
: the following demands:
That all employees , who , struck , , snail . ,,
i be employed ;a their old positions with
in three days; that the packers pav the
wages prevailing prior to the strike
pending arbitration; that the arbitra
tion board be composed of one repre
sen Tati re of ihe packers, another of
the strikers, the two to select a third,
These three arbitrators to be practical
packing house men; that the award in
wages lo be made by the arbitrators
shall take effect from the time of the
resumption of work, but that the award
shall not, involve any reduction in
: wages.
; The representative of the packers
• replied to Mr. Donnelly as follows:
“In reply to your note and your ex
planation of what you are willing to
arbitrate, we cannot accept the same.
W e are willing to arbitrage the whole
matter, covering wages and working
conditions of all employees out on
strike, you having the privilege of
bringing before the arbitrators for de
cision any question of wages or condi
tions, or any other grievances you
may think you have; we to have like
privilege and both to abide by the de
cision ( -, f the arbitrators . We will re
tain all now at work and will re-em
ploy ail the men now out as
fast a(? possible( givi preference in
the order of application at the wages
received when going on strike pending
the de ci si0 n of arbitration, *»
The note was signed by Armour fr,
Co., Swift & Co., Nelson Morris & Co.,
Swarzchild & Sulsbzerger National
Packing- 1 aCK *ng rnm™.™,, company, Cudahy Packing „ , -
Company and Libby, McNeil & Libby,
Rioting commenced in the stock
yards Thursday and one man, AlfCmso
Andrulis, was shot in the left shoulder
by the police. He is not fatally injur
ed, however.
YIN-kOW CAPTURED BY JAPS.
Is Port of Nincliwang and Means lhe l Jtj
mate Possession of that Citv.
It was reported in Tokio Thursday
that Yin Kow has been occupied by
the Japs without any resistance upon
the part of the Russian troops. !
Yin Kow, located at the mouth of j
the Liao river, is the port of Niu- !
chwang, and its capture means the fall
of that city.
This move on Ihe part of the Jap
anese has been expected. By it they
gain a new base of supplies.
TO STAMP OLT LAWLESSNESS.
Memphis Citizens in Mass Meeting Roundly l
Score Municipal OTTicials.
Resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed by a largely attended mass meet
ing of citizens of Memphis, Tenn.,
Thursday night which, in substan ce,
demanded that, lawlessness and crime
must be rooted out of Memphis. The
resolutions severely criticise certain
public officials for not enforcing ihe
laws and a committee was named to
visit those officials w r ith a request that
they make a public statement as to
what may be expected of them in the
future.
EIGHTEEN DEAD
ON PICNIC CAR
! Q
and j r Eastern Illinois 0 on Chic
ago Road
i
j VICTIMS BADLY MANGLES
Coach Filled With Pleasure Se til
j Crashes Into Freight and is Ry
J duced to Kindling Wood.
I
i Eighteen people were IV illed and 3
' ty-eighl injured Wednesday nDh> •
coWsiou on the Chicago and Ease, m
Illinois railroad at 'Gienwcod, 1 »,
miles south of Chicago.
j The train collision occurred between a
picnic from Chicago, which was
returning from Momente, Ills., and
freight train, into the rear end
which it dashed at a high rate (j{
speed, A majority of (he victims were
women and girls,
The picnic was the annual outing
of the members of Doremiu. Alter
spending the day on the picnic
grounds at Momence the tram ioaj
started on the return trip, running
as the second section of the regular
j passenger train, which is due iu Chi
j cago at 8:25 p. m.
; When the picnic train reached Chi
eago Heights, 4 miles beyond Glen
! wood, vhere the accident too] p!a li
, , ,t was switched to the regular
' b0 "" d >«**■ ™ »■:
north it was given a cigar track by
operator at Chicago Heights until
should reach (lienwood, four
Tbo __ ,ram . - *“ w
cago Heights, gradually increasej iu
«<«»». a " d When l,a,t Ihe dinaucs w
tween ‘he two stations had oeen cow
| ered, it was plunging along a: the rat
i of 40 miles an hour.
Train Blocked Both TraAs,
j Just half way between Chicag
! Heights and Glenwood there is a shir.
; curve, As the picnic train tor
around this on the southbound tiacn
a freight train was backing from the
southbound to the northbound track,
j it was partly on both tracks and eitheJ nn
train could have passed it in
j direction,
The bend is so sharp that the en
j gineer of the picnic train did not set
the freight until he was almost on i
it was too late to do anything but t
set the brakes, but before they couk
take effect the passenger train smash
| ed into tne freight at full speed.
The locomotives and the bag ■' it
car of the passenger train tod
. through the freight and were piled r.
j in a heap of wreckage on the farthe
side of the switch track.
i The first coach of the picnic trad
* plunged into the wreckage and burie.
itself in a mass of kindling wooS
Nearly all of the passengers in th
first coach were caught beneath th
mass of debris and it was here tha
the loss 01 of life occurred The peopn
; in the rear coaches were hurled froa
flfieir geafs and many of them wefi
bruised, but all of the serious casual
ties occurred in the first car.
The uninjured passengers and tram
men at once hastened to the assist
ance of those who were pinned unae
the wreckage.
The wreck was two miles from aa
habitation and much delay ensued b<
fore - of . the injured . . . who .. „ wsr wen ,
some
held down by heavy timbers couli
be for extricated. them until lifting Nothing machinery could be nasj doj
from Chicago Heights. The first trail
to arrive at the wreck came fH
Chicago Heights and it carried s
physicians.
PROBABILITY CF A MEAT fAMINE.
Strike of Butchers in Great Packing t
cerns Threatens Serious Results- i
As a result of the strike Chicago of i 11 a« ^
cutters inaugurated in Tuesdd
in a number of other^ities
the country is threatened with a® 1 ’
famine.
From New York, Philadelphia
other cities in the east come rei ,of!
that longer (he stock on hand and will already n ot ‘®J 'I
than a week,
advance in prices has begun.
SEEK TO REMOVE MAINE WRECK
The Question of Ownership of Historic
, Hulk at Havana is Raised
R. H. F. Sewell, of New Orkd n
has informed the department th
navy Cl
he has made a (contract with tin’
ban government to raise the wreck 1
the battleship Maine, which h aS lai
in the mud of the harbor of Ha' a ‘
since the explosion on the night
February 15. 1898.
Before froceeding with the wort-,
Sewell desires to 1<>°* u I
says he 20
claim, if any, the United States b
ernment has in the wreck.