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, THE MORNING NEWS. , J. H. ESTILL. President. ' NUMBER 17.R2(>. RUSSIANS’ SHIPS • STRUCK BY SHOT THEIR ADMIRAL DECLARES TWO MEN WERE WOUNDED ON Hl!* FLAGSHIP. 51* Shot* Fired Darin* the Dogger Bank Affair Say* Admiral Rojest reuky, Hit the Rnulan Veuela. The Aurora the Ship That Foiled the Alleged Attaek ol Two Tor pedo Boats Upon the Russians. NO FEAR OF WAR. Details of the agreement be tween Russia and Great Britain upon a mode of settlement of the questions arising out of the Brit ish trawlers in the North sea by the Russian second Pacific squad ron were supplied by Premier Bal four in a speech delivered before the National Union of Conserva tive clubs at Southampton last night. The ascertainment of the facts for submission to a commission, formed under the rules of The Hague peace conference, will be through the coroner's inquest at Hull, an investigation, by the Brit ish Board of Trade and the exam ination of officers of the Russian ships which fired upon the fisher men. In his speech Mr. Balfour ridi culed the official explanation of Admiral Rojestvensky, but prais ed the spirit in which the Russian Emperor and government had met the crisis. In both Russia and Great Brit ain the prevailing feeling is of re lief that there no longer seems to be danger of war between the nations. London. Oct. 28.—The Daily Chronicle to-morrow will publish an interview had with Admiral Rojestvensky at Vigo to-day, wltich gives a few inter esting statements not yet published. The admiral is quoted as saying that when the vessels of the Russian squad ron found themselves surrounded by the fishing fleet the warships had to stop their engines continually so as not to get their screws entangled in the nests. The warships frequently g*.tve way to the trawlers. Suddenly the cruiser Aurora saw ahead two torpedo boats coming to wards the squadron at full speed. She turned her searchlight on them and then noticed two floating mines close to her. An order to fire oii the torpedo boats was immediately given, with the result that one of them was sunk and the other escaped and was lost sight of among the trawlers. The admiral added there were two men wounded on his flagship. One, a priest, had a hand shot off. Six shots fired during the incident hit the Rus sian vessels. The Aurora was hit and has not yet been repaired. One trawler came within range of a searchlight, and immediately the pro jector was turned skywards at an an gle of 45 degrees, as a signal for the squadron not to fire on that boat. The fire lasted altogether nine minutes. Touching upon the warship which is alleged to have remained behind, the admiral said: “Any English naval officer under stands that it would be impossible for a Russian war vessel to remain behind, considering the presence of hostile tor pedo boats. "The trawlers had their lights out. I need hardly affirm to you my absolute conviction Jn the presence of these tor pedo boats. I am very sorry for what has occurred. 1 did not know of it until I arrived here. I sincerely hope the matter will be settled amicably.” COMMISSION WILL SETTLE THE AFFAIR. Talk Now as Peucenble as It Was Warlike. London, Oct. 28.—A1l danger of war between Russia and Great Britain has been averted, and a settlement of the only point In dispute arising from the firing of the Russian second Pacific squadron on British trawlers Oct. 21 has been referred to an intei ational commission under the Hague convention. Premier Balfour. speaking at a meeting of the National Union of Con servative Clubs at Southhampton to night. broke that silence which hud been so long preserved and had brought the people of the United Kingdom to a condition of almost desperate Irritation and given rise to misconceptions which Mr. Balfour to night himself exposed. The Russian ambassador, said Mr. Balfour, ‘ has authorized a statement to the following effect: The Russian government, on hearing of the North sea incident, at once expressed its pro found regret and also promised most liberal compensation. The government has ordered the detention at Vigo of that part of the fleet which was con cerned in the Incident, in order that the naval authorities may he able to to ascertain what officers were respon sible for it: that those officers and any material witnesses would not proceed on the voyage to the Far East; that Inquiry would be Instituted Into the facts by an international commission f *s provided by The Hague convention. That. Mr. Balfour Interpolated, had nothing to do with arbitration; It was the constitution of an international JSabatmal) IBoftiing commission in order to find out the facts and persons and the guilty would be tried and punished adequately. Tk® Russian government undertook that precautions would be taken to guard against a recurrence of such in cidents. Special instructions on this subject would be issued. Preliminary to this court, said Mr. Balfour, there would be the coroner's inquest at Hull over the dead fisher men, a board of trade inquiry and an inquiry by Russian officials at Vigo. The Board of Trade inquiry would be specially constituted by the British government to include representative men. The Russian embassy had been asked to send a representative and give assistance. Apology and compen sation having already been offered, nothing now remains but to determine which account is correct, Rojestven sky's or the trawlers. Mr. Balfour plainly said that Thursday, evening Russia and Great Britain seemed to be on the brink of war and yet gave the frankest praise to the attitude preserved throughout by the Emperor and Russian govern ment. While the Premier was unable to praise the pacific attitude of the gov ernment too highly, he bitterly as sailed Rojestvensky's report, declar ing that it Was an insult to Great Britain as a neutral nation, and ridi culed its probability. The immense audience received Mr. Balfour’s announcement of the- set tlement of the affair with unbounded enthusiasm, which was echoed throughout the kingdom when the evening extras appeared and set sus pense at rest. The day was an eventful one in the metropolis. The population stirred by flaring headlines in the morning news papers seemed convinced that war was inevitable. The cabinet meeting, which was held at noon, served to in crease rather than allay anxiety. Throughout the country there had spread a deep-rooted, though perfect ly erroneous, idea that Great Britain had given Russia a time limit in which to reply and “Charley” Beresford, Eng land's naval idol, was on the spot. Many, indeed, thought it was only a question of hours when he would be demolishing Russian ships. Without the least national desire for war. a great naval excitement had been work ed up. In the streets to-night many expres sions of disappointment might be heard because the crisis had not developed into hostilities. This merely voiced the opinion of the thoughtless which comprised a considerable section of the public. No further difficulties are ex pected . Foreign Minister Lansdowne and Ambassador Benkendorff probably will be able to decide the constitution of the international commission, and its date of sitting. In view of the cir cumstances neither Japan nor Spain is likely to object fo the temporary prolongation of the stay of the section of the second Pacific squadron at Vigo, and the inquiry will be expedited as much as possible. RUSSIA CONFIDENT OF A SETTLEMENT NOW. Does Not Doubt That the Matter Will Be Adjusted. St, Petersburg, Oct. 28, 8:13 p. m.— The North sea incident will be settled by an International commission. This is absolutely assured. The British proposal submitted to Russia was to refer the question to a commission under Articles 9 to 14 of The Hague convention, and a certain number of officers of the Russian squadron competent to give testimony were to be left behind. Russia’s prop osition submitted to Great Britain through Ambassador Benkendorff de clares that the Emperor, being desir ous of shedding the fullest light on the North sea incident, proposes that the whole question be submitted to scrup ulous investigation by an international tribunal. Foreign Minister Lamsdorff, after his audience with the Emperor at Tsarkoe Selo this afternoon, officially informed Ambassador Hardinge of the character of the Russian proposal, no direct reply being given to Great Brit tain's proposition. It is simply a question now of which government will have the honor of of fering a solution, the principle of which both have been decided upon, the out come of this appearing unimportant. The British proposal also provided for the representation of other Powers be sides Russia and Great Britain on the commission. DROVE THE RUSSIANS FROM A HIGH HILL. Hond-to-Hund Fighting Occurred In the Trenches. Gen. Kuroki's Headquarters in the Field, via Fusan, Oet. 28.—The Japa nese gave a stirring exhibition of sharp and determined fighting yesterday. They drove the Russians from a high hill ten miles east of the railroad In Gen. Kuroki’s front, which is impor tant strategically as a post of obser vation, and was the only point south of the Shakhe river which the Russians held. About a regiment of Russians were entrenched there with five ma chine guns. • The Japanese rushed the Russian trenches, shot many Russian# as they were running down the hillside, and captured two machine guns. The Japanese had twenty men killed and eighty wounded. The Russians left thirty dead on the field. There was hand-to-hand fighting when the trenf-hes were taken. The Russians re tired across the river. When the Japanese flag was raised over a tower surmounting the hill the Russian batteries showered shrapnel on it for an hour, but without result. DESPERATE ATTACK UPON PORT ARTHUR. Japanese Tarried Position# o( the Garrison. Toklo, Oct. 28. 4; 30 p. m.—lt Is re ported that the Japanese opened a des perate general attack on eastern fort* of the Keekwan group, north of Port Arthur, during the morning of Oct. 26 and silenced the Russian batteries. A shell exploded the Russian maga zines. Simultaneously the Japanese at tacked the forts nn Rlhlung mountain Continued on Fifth Pag*. v SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1904. MANY LIVES LOST IN A MINE DISASTER THIRTY TO SIXTY MEN PERISHED IN A TERRIFIC EXPLOS ION IN' COLORADO. Mine Is llnrning anil the Exact Number of Lives Lost Nlny Net cr Be Ascertained—Explosion He sembleil a Volcanic Eruption. Mnny Were Injured by the Fly ing Debris—Story of the Explosion by a Witness. Trinidad, Col., Oct. 28. —From thirty to sixty men lost their lives in a ter rific explosion which occurred at Mine No. 3 of the Rocky Mountain Fuel and Iron Company at Tereio, forty miles west of Trinidad, this afternoon. The exact number of dead may never be known, as the mine is burning, and in all likelihood ithe bodies will be con sumed. A large number of mine officials left here as soon as word of the accident was received. The company doctors were picked up all along the line, as well as all available physicians. F. J. Foreman, a government stock inspector, was at Tercio when the ex plosion occurred. He returned to-night and gave the following account of the affair: “I was standing not more than 300 yards from the mouth of the tunnel When the explosion occurred. "The explosion was preceded by a low, rumbling sound, resembling an earthquake, which made the earth tremble and startled the whole neigh borhood. I looked towards the mine, and out of the mouth of the tunnel came a great volume of smoke and dust, which continued for nearly a minute. Out of two airshafts, eacih of which is seven feet in diameter, tim bers, fully three feet in diameter. were shot into the air and broken into splin ters. it Ilalned Debris. “Rocks were thrown over the camp for a distance of a quarter of a mile. In fact, it rained rocks, broken tim bers and ail kinds of debris for fully a minute, and many people were in jured by being struck with these mis siles. “The explosion, which resembled a volcanic eruption, caused the wildest excitement. Men, women and children rushed to the-mouth of the tunnel and women, whose husbands were in the mine, had to he brought away by min ers to prevent their being killed by deadly fumes coming from the mouth of the tHnnel.” The mine in which the accident oc curred employs eighty men, and it Is believed that at least sixty were in the mine at the time. Assistance Arrived Quickly. News of the explosion brought as sistance from the adjacent, camps, and to-night hundreds of men were trying to enter the mine. Deadly fumes over came the rescuers frequently, but their places immediately were taken by others ready to risk their lives. It, was not thought possible that any one in the mine could escape death. It was impossible to secure the names of the dead and injured to night. Nearly all the miners employ ed are Slavs. The explosion is sup posed to have been caused by dust. But one body has been recovered, that of T. Duran, a driver, who was just entering the tunnel when the explo sion occurred. HOUNDeFtO HIS DEATH. Edgar Allen's Enemies Drove Him to Commit Suicide. Richmond, Va„ Oct. 28.—Edgar Al len, former United States district at torney, a prominent Grand Army man, and who had figured here in Republi can politics since reconstruction days, was found this morning near Union Theological Seminary in Henrico coun ty with a bullet through his head and a pistol clutched In his hand. It is regarded as a clear case of suicide. On the back of a letter found on the body in lead pencil, is written the following: “Give Judge Witt my record during reconstruction. It is In Blckenrodc's book in my little book case, and ask him to write my true history and de fend me from my detainers, of whom W. has been the worst. I hope my false friends will be truer now. 11 commend my only boy to the President, ! who Ignores the'forty years his father has given to the Republican party. | Eddie, Edith, lola, Edgar, Stella and i the little ones will grieve for me, but ! don't blame me, for I have done my best for vou all my life,” The letter, which is a bulky one and which has not been opened, was ad dressed to Edgar Allen, Jr. The dead man was neatly dressed as usual. Re cently the Republicans here had been In a factional fight, Allen leading the “outs” against the "Ins." Edgar Allen was an Englishman by birth and came to Virginia immediate ly after the Civil War. In which he served in the federal army, and was a Republican member of the Underwood constitutional convention. He h*s been very bitter against the official* In Ihe federal building since he was succeeded as district attorney by Judge I L. L>. Lewis. Engelklng Killed. Senley, Tex., net. 28.--Paul Engel klng, candidate for the Legislature, ha* been shot and almost instantly killed while standing in a barber whop. The shot came from a saloon adjoining. Richard Ward Is said to have been standing in the saloon with a revol ver In hts hand, when It exploded, th* ball passing through two walls into the barber shop, striking Engelking. Both men war* promlnanV (k , BALFOUR RIDICULES ADMIRAL’S CLAIMS. Says Tliey Impugn the National Honor of Englaud. Southampton, England, Oct. 28.—Pre mier Balfour addressed an immense meeting in Artillery Hall to-night. His appearance on the platform was the signal for great cheering, which was again and again renewed. Mr. Balfour said: "If this meeting had been held yes terday evening I would not have dared preface my remarks in a hopeful tone. Everybody felt that if the trawler in cident could be repeated a belligerent fleet was, indeed. pest against which all neutral Powers would be bound to combine. In the story of our fisher men there was much tragedy, but no romance: in the story of the Russian admiral there Is no tragedy, but 1 am driven to the belief that there is much romance. “It is impossible to doubt which is the correct story. I should not have approached it but for the fact that the admiral's story is really an attaek upon our national honor and implies that we are not doing our duty as neutrals. In an island kingdom like Great Britain, the nationality of every craft is known. It is inconceivable that we could be harboring Japanese sailors and warships without Russia, and, indeed, the whole civilized world, knowing ,it. I enter a most emphatic protest against such an allegation.” The Premier said it was incredible that a fishing fleet could be engaged in hostile operation and ridiculed the idea of a torpedo boat attack. The Russian fleet was thirty miles out of Its course, and it was absurd to sup pose that the commander of the al leged torpedo craft would choose a po sition for attacking the Russian fleet In the center of a fishing fleet. The Premier expressed unbelief in the existence of these Japanese ships and said the nearest Japanese warship was 14,000 miles a way. Such a story as that told by the Russian admiral was the purest fancy. The Premier hoped the truth would be made mani fest and clear as noonday when the inquiry which the Russian Emperor welcomed took place. The Russian government had not at any time underrated the gravity of the crisis or failed to do what it eon Id to diminish it. It could not for a. moment be supposed that throughout all the channels of commerce from St. Petersburg to Valadivostok and the narrow ways of commerce, like the English channel and the Red sea, an admiral of another power should be allowed to pass under such circum stances unscathed, unchallenged and unpunished after such a deed as that of the night of Oct. 21. The Russian admiral had a theory of the rights and duties of a belliger ent fleet as against neutrals which would really make tJjA high seas a place of public danger. Suppose, soma dark night, a. liner or transport fell in with the second Pacific fleet at Gibraltar when they had intended to divide, and approached within ‘the nxagle distance, according to the ad miral’s theory, he would be justified In sinking It. The position Is one im possible for neutrals to tolerate. A fleet, animated by that policy would be a fleet which would have to be eliminated out of existence if Civilized commerce was to pursue its way un impeded. He was glad to think that In this view the Russian government agrees and has given orders which will prevent a recurrence of the tragedy that has filled our hearts with sorrow and the hearts of all those who had heard of It. abroad with something ap proaching Indignation. RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF SOME SHARP FIGHTING. Said They Dislodged the .In |ia From the Hill. St. Petersburg, Oct. 28.—The general staff has received the following dis patch from Gen. Sakharoff, dated to day: "On Oet. 28 the Russian cavalry made a reconnaissance in force in the direction of Kekeouitai. A division commanded by Prinre Tumanoff forced the enemy from the village of Baila osa on the right bank of the Hun river, opposite the village of Kekeout tai. To assume a battle formation a detachment of about 1,500 infantry, with four guns and two squadrons un der Lieut. Yagodin, supported on the flank by another squadron of cavalry, attacked the enemy’s Infantry, who fled to the village of Hallaosa. We had three soldiers killed and two wounded. "On Oct. 26 a reconnoissanee was made on our right flank by several detachments of sharpshooters. After an hour and a half's preparation by fire from mortars and quick-firing guns the detachment advanced at 11 p. m. towards the villages of Tchat lampu and Bezymlanny. The latter was taken by assault by the sharp shooters. the enemy’s forces retiring. Two of our officers were wounded. "A party of Japanese fell Into an ambuscade prepared by our sharp shooters the morning of Oct. 26. The enemy had two men killed and five wounded. "West of Hul Halln a balloon was observed, which came, to earth after several shots had been fired at It by our sharpshooters "The morning of Oct. 27 two of the Cnemy'* batteries bombarded a hight with a temple a mile and a quarter south of the village of Yangsingtun. which was occupied by us as a point of observation. Towards 4 In the afternoon, the Japanese attacked the hill. Our companies stubbornly re sisted and retired on their main posi tion. but afterwards our artillery forc ed the Japanese to evacuate the hill." ROJESTVENSKY MUST REMAIN AT VIGO. St. Petersburg, Oct. 28.—Orders have been telegraphed to Admiral Kojest vensky to det'.iln at Vigo all the war ships, which took pari In the North sea incident. The admiralty author ize* the statement that Admiral Ro jeslvensky has been Instructed to re main at Vtgo pending the inquiry into ■the North sea incident. Russians Still at Vtgo. Vigo. Bpaln, Oct. 28.—Th# Russian warship* here finished coaling to-day, but no preparstlons for their depar ture are visible, it is reported that Admiral Rojestvensky h* received an Important cipher message from 81. Petersburg. PARKER BELIEVES THAT HE CAN WIN IF PEOPLE DO THEIR BEST THEY CAN FI SH THE DFMOC It.YTIC TICKET TO VICTORY. So Declared the Candidate of De mocracy In n Hinging Speech llnde nt His Home—Knox nnd the President llnd n Consultation Oter Ihe Charge That Mighty Con tributions \re Made hy the Trusts, Esopus. N. Y.. Oct. 28.—Judge Parker to-day made his first public prediction as to the outcome of the election. In his speech to delegations composed largely of farmers from Orange and Rockland counties. New York, lie In terpolated the following: "Before taking up the sublect I wish to discuss 1 want to assure you that if we work hard enough, if we each do our part, we can win this fight. I have not felt like saying so until lately, hut we are growing so rapidly that if our people do their best I do believe victory will he ours." Judge Parker said: "No more satisfactory evidence of the widespread public interest in the attempt to win the election by moneys of great corporations and trusts need be looked for than that furnished by the President and his late Attorney General Knox. Knox was bidden to the presence of the President for a consultation. About what? About the iniquity of the large con tribution? Contributions being made by gigantic corporations and trusts? Not at all. But rather to devise means by which the force of the state ment. of this commonly accepted fact could be parried. The outcome was an interview by Senator Knox. Nothing to Do With Question. "Now, this long statement of Sena tor Knox has nothing whatever to do with the question uppermost In the public mind. “Shall the creations of government many or which pursue Illegal methods —control our elections—control them hy moneys belonging to their stock holders— moneys not given In the open, and charged upon the books as mon eys paid for political purposes, but hidden away by false bookkeeping? "This Intorview was Intended to cre ate a cloud of dust behind which he hoped to hide the charge he did not answer, and could not answer. That charge Is that vast sums of money have been contributed for the control of this election in aid of thP adminis tration by corporations and trusts," Judge Parker said trust officials were active in behalf of hi* opponent and continued: That activity may per haps account In no small measure, for the ability of both the Populist and Socialist parties to prosecute expen sive campaigns—campaigns that ap pear to be prosecuted largely In aid of the Republican party. Those Long Cablegrams. "The 'administration also puts out a cablegram from Gov, Wright of the Philippine Commission, in reply to some quotations made by me in a speech delivered on Oet. 15. The words quoted were the careful utterances of a. man who has spent four months In the Philippines studying the conditions there. He is vouched for by Charles Francis Adams, Cu.rl Kchurz, Edwin Burritt Smith. Herbert Welsh and Moorfoeld Story. "1 ask you, and through you the American people, to examine Gov. Wright's cablegram in connection wltsh that report and then answer these questions: Do you believe the man thus vouched for by six of the best citizens in this country? Which is likely to be prejudiced? The man having no motive but to learn the truth, or the Governor who may by some measure be responsible for un fortunate conditions? “Is the Governor’s report of such a character as to Justify an expendi ture by the government of several hun dred dollars to cable a, part of my speech to Manila and to receive his re ply by cable? It was not government business. It was political business. If a few hundred dollars may be taken out of the public funds to thus assist the prosecution of a political campaign, why may not the money in the treas ury hr- employed for any purpose that will help the campaign? How do we know but it is? "This is one of the evidences of the growth of imperialism. “The head of the government 'can do no wrong.' “An assault upon his policy Is an assault upon the people, and hence the people's money can be legitimately used for his vindication. Growth of Public Expenditures. “My speech charging administrative extravagances seems also to have cre ated some excitement. And this time the administration puts forward Ho race A. Taylor. He makes a state ment after a call on the President. “Now. you will observe that he no where challenges the figures given by me. They cannot be questioned. 'They show that after taking the (60,000.000 {►aid for the Panama, canal and rights, ■this government spent $160,000,000 more last year than It did seven years ago under a Democratic administration. The deficit for the present fiscal year to Oct. 25 is over $21,000,000, as against $1,141,204 for identically the same pe riod last year. "Returning to Acting Secretary Tay lor's Intervlewg It would seem as If its purpose—lf if had any beyond that of creating a mist—was to deny my assertion that there were ‘administra tive orders forbidding government officers from making publle any state ments upon which future appropria tions are based/ My answer is that the Treasury Department issued this order: " 'Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary. Sept. 7, 1904 " ’The heads of bureaus and chiefs of divisions: “'Gentlemen: It Is requested that no information hearing upon the esti mates of this department for the fis cal year ending June 30. 1906. be made public until the estimates shall have been approved by the honorable Sec retary of the Treasury. " 'By direction of the Secretary. (Signed) "W. H. Hill*. Ohicf clerk.' "I have copies of orders issued to other departments, which 1 took th* precaution to obtain before making public the statement now challenged." Suffered Front Tnrtff. Judge Parker then took up the tariff question, which he discussed at some length from the standpoint of the farmer, saving he has suffered even more, possibly, than the wage earner by excessive tariff duties. Judge Par ker referred to the higher prices under prelection as an assessment on tlte consumer and asked: "Now, do you think the law ought to compel you to continue to pay an as sessment every time you or the mem bers of your family buy an article of clothing or buy anything to use? That is precisely what we have been doing until we have concentrated the wealth and power in this country tn compar atively few hands. There are said to be 453 combinations or trusts In this country. In order to make many of these combinations pay good dividends on the watered stock, the tariff taxes, they say, must be kept up. And these combinations are trying to give success to the Republican party, be cause that party and its President have notified the country that they stand pat, as they call It. on the tar iff, which means that they will not interfere with it." ROOSEVELT REPLIES AGAIN TO TYNER. Either Morally Ohllqultnua or Grossly I nrlllefr lit. Washington, Oet. 28. —By direction of the President, Secretary I,oeh to-day sent to James N. Tyner, former as sistant attorney general for the Post office Department, a letter in reply in Mr. Tyner's letter, dated Oct. 8, and made public last night. The letter says that as the question of Mr. Ty ner's guilt on the criminal charge on which he was tried has been passed upon by a Jury, the President acqui esces in the jury's finding, but. the evi dence "seems to him overwhelming that you, (Mr. Tyner), were guilty either of moral obliquity In perform ance of duty or of the grossest Inef ficiency.” Secretary I'.oeb's letter says get-rlch quiok concerns were Improperly favor ed In Mr. Tyner’s office, Instancing the Arnold Turf Concern, as to which a committee of the Missouri Senate re ported that if the department at Wash ington had acted promptly and prop erly upon the recommendation of the postofflee inspector, millions of dollars would have been Raved to the people. The letter says the issuance of trs.ud orders which Bn ••ret t, Mr. Tyner's nephew, prevented, lias been resumed by the present attorney for the Post office Department and have in no case been made void bv the courts. The letter refers in the burglary of the Postofflee Department safe by Mrs. Barrett and Mrs. Tvner as a matter necessary to consider when the Presi dent Is requested to rehabilitate Ty ner's character. The letter says It Is not known exactly what documents were tsken from th# safe and assume* they were such as would "gravely In criminate" Tyner and Barrett. The letter describe* st length Ty ner’s effort to provide n. place for his daughter In the postal service, quot ing from letter* written by Tyner to the postmaster a.t Portage. Wts, ask ing that his daughter be retained in the office and promising nn addition to her salary, nt the same time In timating that If the appointment: were not made the salary would go to some other office. The postmaster declined this proposal, saying Ihe salary de manded for Tyner's daughter was pro portionately much larger than other employes receive, and it would be bet ter to have her transferred. Com menting on this transaction, Secretary Loeb's letter savs “Accordingly. Miss Tyner was trans ferred and the position which she held at Portage was forthwith abolished and no appointment to the vacancy male. It. appears clear, therefore, that you were keeping your daughter In the pos tal service simply for the sake of giv ing her the Salary. and that when she did not occupy the position it whs not deemed necessary to fill It at alt; and you actually called attention of the postmaster at Portage to this fact In order to Induce him to retain your daughter, poiujjng out to him that, as 'actually happened, he would lose (he appropriation for the position unless he acted as you desired." The letter refer* to a request made of the postmaster at Ware. Mass., hy Tyner, for the appointment of Cora. Watson as a clerk, of which the let ter says: “It was not a bona fide ap pointment, but one designed Improp erly to get Mis* Watson In the classi fied service.” Mr. Tyner issued a public statement to-night affirming that the President had misstated facts in the letter of to day and expressing the opinion that hts action wtlh regard to his daugh ter's appointment was entirely legal. ONE BURNED TO DEATH. Destruction Wrought hy the Fire on Water Front. New York, Oct. 28.—One man was burned to death and another seriously Injured in the fire at the Bush Terminal Company, South Brooklyn, early to day. The de'ad man Is Patrolman Pat rick Cushing and Fireman John It. Walsh Is in a hospital suffering from scalp wounds, concussion of the brain and contusions of the body. The fire whs discovered on the light er Victory, lying at pier 7. foot of For ty-first street. The vessel was laden with cotton. Before the engine* ar rived the flames had sprea-d to the pier, which was loaded with cotton, and it was entirely destroyed. The pier was 700 feet long and was one of the largest In this vicinity. The flames soon reached the light ers Bend, lowa and another known as No. 206, all laden with cotton, and then Jumped to pier 6, at the foot of Forty-sixth street, and set. fire to the Italian steamer Cttta Dl Palermo, which was damaged to the extent of $30,000. She is owned by George W. Becker & Cos. A number of steamships and smaller ei'.ift were taken out Into the stream and escaped the flames. Fire Commissioner Doyle says the loss Will not exceed $300,000. Will Hnlse Wages. Richmond, Va.. Oct. 28.—The em ployes of the Lynchburg Cotton Mill have been notified that beginning next week, their wages will be restored to the rates in force last February, when by reason of the high price of cotton end the low price of goods, they were reduced 10 per cent. At the time of the wage reduction in February, the rent* on the company's cot tages were reduced 25 pee cent., and this reduction in the employes' living expeneea remains in effect. The number of employes af fected by the wwge restoration is about 100. 5 CENTB A COPY DAILY. IS A YEAR. WEEKLY 2-TIMEB-A-WEEK.iI A YEA SAVANNAH NOW FAIRLY TREATED RAILROAD COMMISSION SAYS IT WILL GIVE THIS CITY SAME RATES AS ATLANTA. llnles (n and From Savannah to B the Same as Given Atlanta In Otr enlnrs ;tf>l nnd 8058—Not to Become Effeetlve Till Litigation Fending tins Been Determined—Would Not Revoke Its Circulars, Bat Yielded to Snvsnnnh's Right. Atlanta, Oct. 28. — The State Railroad Commission, in an extra order made public to-day. concedes Savannah's contention that any reduction of rates made on manufactured articles or other commodities should be made to apply equally Prom Sa.vnnsh at the same time they go Into effect from Atlanta. Savannah has thus won her case be fore the commission, which was so ably presented by the committee of seventeen, headed by Mayor Herman Myers, which appeared before the com mission a couple of week* ago, and made a strong showing in the Forest City's behalf. The commission formulated Its order on Oct. 21. but did not make It public until to-day, because It desired first to confer with Attorney General John C. Hart, who has been In Washington. The Attorney General has approved the legal status of Ihe order. Would Not Revoke Them. In this order the commission refuses the petition of Savannah In so far as il asks (he revocation of circulars 3<H and 302, stating that it considers the reduced rates promulgated In these or ders as Just and reasonable, but It goes on to concede Savannah's conten tions that similarly reduced rates should he made to go into effect from Savannah at the same time that At lantia gets the benefit of them. in explaining the order to-day Com missioner Joseph M. Brown said that It meant reduced rates would be grant ed on manufactured products from Sa vannah to Augusta, Athens, Macon and Columbus and In the reverse directions, on the same basts as those granted from Atlanta and to go Into efTect at the same time. With regard to the syrup rate, hs ■laid that would be made what the ooinmlsdlon considered to he Just and equitable tn all parties concerned. Litigation Holds Them I p. The rates from Savannah will not be made out until after the present litigation in the United States court, which has the matter tied up by In junction, has been disposed of, but they will be made out. and promulgat ed at the same time that the rates from Atlanta are put. Into effect. Similar reductions will also be mads at the same time for other points in the state, known In railroad parlance as pro-rating points. The commission's order In full regard ing the Savannah case Is as follows: "Oct. 21, 1964, In the mstter of hearing the city of Savannah on argument to revoke circular* Nos, 301 and 302. "At the above hearing It was In sisted by the representative* of the city of Savannah: I—That said circu lars be revoked entirely. 3 —That should the commission decline to re voke said circulars that stmtlar rata be given tn Savannah as to Atlanta and to be effective at the same time. After Mature. Consideration. "After a full p.nd patient' hearing and after mature consideration, the commission has reached the conclu sion now, as It did on Sept. 15, 1904, the same being the date of the deci sion tn the matter of the application made by Atlanta Freight Bureau for relief from all alleged discrimina tions against Atlanta, that the rates promulgated by circulars No*. 301 and 802 are Just and reasonable in and of themselves, and the commission reaf-' firms the conclusion then peached and for the reason* that rate* are In and of themselves Just and reasonable de clines th* revocation of circulars No*. 301 and 302 as prayed for by petition ers In the present case. "It is ordered by the commission that similar rates to those promul gated by circulars 301 and 302 be made to apply to and from Savannah. It is further ordered that since the en forcement of the rates promulgated by circulars 301 and 302 has upon appli cation for injunction filed by Central Trust Company of New York vs. J. Pope Brown, et al., In the United States court for the northern district of Georgia been restrained, that this or der be stayed until the rates first promulgated become effective by rea son of the dissolution of the restrain ing order. "By order of the board. J. Pape Brown, chairman; George F. Mont gomery. secretary." NO INDICTMENT OF LYNCHERS II n I Inc li Grand 1 Jury Adjourned Without Returning • Single Bill. Statesboro. Ga.. Oct. 2*.—Notwith standing the charge of Judge Daley to the grand Jury regarding the riot tn which Reed and Cato were burned. The grand jury adjourned to-day without making a singia indictment. Between forty and Any of the best citizens of the county were summon ed. but the evidence furniabed by the state proved insufficient to teem a indictment*