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•^ 22\2f^^-SL«5F^™^2r*»» '^ dEsa^^^ j:^^^i^^mismmmmiSEmBs^mmwa^mi^smKies^mmmmgmm 'I t VOL. I. MADRID, N. Y„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1904. NO. 20. .$ HEW WARSHIP IS SENATOR HOAR IS DEAD' ;4 Battleship Connecticut Christened at •j! New York Navy Yard. 30,000 SPECTATORS PRESENT !'.-! m i 4 i' ':\ <Gmsnd-I>au£ht:or of PsoiUdcnt .Idneolii'f! Secretary of (Iio NRVJT W»sM.lio Spon- sor—Kear-Admiral ItKTlcor the Officer in Command — Fourth Ship of Her Knrne to Servo Cnolo Sinn. New York City.—Despite t!ie ugly •rumors of attempts to tamper with Sier cradle, the battleship Connecticut •was successfully launched, gliding •with silken ease down smooth, un- trammelled ways. Fully thirty thou- sand persons iu the shipyard and as many more from outside saw the pon- derous mass of fishing steel sweep -down into the water of the Wallabout Channel, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, at exactly 11.18 a. m. As early as eight o'clock the vast •crowd began to stream into the navy . yard, special details of •murines and yard policemen being stalfoned near •every entrance and along the road- ways leading to the scene. By 10.45 -o'clock, fifteen minutes before the hour set for the launching, the throng nad become fairly settled, and made a spectacle not lightly to be forgotten. Dressed rainbow-wise, the Connecticut, red lead hued from keel to gunwale, •a section of main bridge and a stumpy aft turret alone showing above her hull, lay stern on toward the river, Testing on her ways. On her starboard quarter lay the Kearsarg'e, flying the red pennant of Rear-Adinral Barker, the blue jackets laying, aloft to her signal yards and manning her fighting tops as thick.as swarming bees. Over on the Hancock',\- on the Ken- tucky and the Texas .further thou- sands gazed and waited. Two hun- dred feet away.', from 'the-- Connecti- cut the big Cob Dock showed black -with living humanity, and within the Enclosure was the same dense throng. By the time the patrol fleet of tugs and cutters had cleaned the navy yard waters of ail moving craft it was 10.58 a. m. Then suddenly from the waiting war ships sis bells sounded. Then across the water a bo'sun's whistle began to blow, and the excitement mounted. Then upon the narrow walkway di- rectly under the Connecticut's bow, just where the forefoot rose to the ram Naval Constructor Baxter was seen tojaise^^egaphone. A moment jater 0511 CAVALRY ROUTED Fasses Out After Long Illness ai} ' Worcester, Mass. Wait Senior United Stutoft oenotor Front RtasaocHasott? For HXnny SToars—9up- posod to Have X>eft LUtlo Money. Worcester, Mass. — George Frisble Hoar, senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, died at hlsAome In this city at 1.35 o'clock in the morn- ing. The end followed a period of un- consciousness that had continued for three days, and came so gently that only the attending physicians were aware of the exact moment of death. The attending physicians despaired of the Senator's life six weeks ago, but such was the vitality exhibited by their distinguished patient that even they were surprised, and the public was at times led to cherish a faith in an ultimate recovery. However, all hope was. abandoned after a last unsuccessful attempt to administer medicine and nourishment. Brief lucid intervals were followed by longer durations of unconsciousness, until the venerable statesman sank in- to a state of coma from .-which all ef- forts to rouse him proved futile. Genera! Samsonofr With His Cos- sacks Forced to Retreat, BLOODY HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTS Of the entire representation in the United States Senate it is probable there 13 not one member who is not richer in this world's goods to-day than was the venerable Senator from Mass- achusetts. It is not likely that his estate will be appraised at more than $20,000. During his loug public life he never could afford to own or even rent a house in Washington, D. C, and was one of the few Senators who made his-horneinaboarding house. He never possessed the faculty of accumulating wealth. Ho opposed his own, party vigorously when he thought the party was wrong and ho was right, and in the evening of his days he was an op- ponent of. the most popular policy which that, party ever had advocated. He was a classicist and a scholar, a litterateur and a writer as incisive with his pen as he was in his speech, and his \Autobiography of Seventy Years,\ published when he was seven- ty-eight years old, is a monument to his lucidity of thought, clearness of expression and vigor of utterance. The Senator from Massachusetts was born in Concord, Mass., August 29, 1S26, and received his preliminary education in the old Concord Acad- emy. He was graduated from Har- vard in the class of 1840, and after a law course, was graduated at the Djinq,. Law School, Harvard Ualver- rj clear, pulfedl^ijy.a; »„-•&& .-—~*j r^^ejan the practice oi: his pro- '\^\ft cn-at'a--'nStn reft 6u \tiMf c^airr*!^^:^^^'^^^**- /••I From somewhere a muffled bell began to whir. On the sound men sprang to the keel blocks, bled the sand bags and knocked the blocks away.\ For the fraction of a second the watchers saw the red lead hulk hang, then quiver as if she felt a thrill of life. \She moves!\ the cry ran from mouth to mouth. In less than twenty- four seconds she was in the water, and a new battleship had been added to Uncle Sam's fleet. Those on the stand alone knew that Miss Welles, the sponger, who is the •grand-daughter of President Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, had failed to name the vessel or crash the cham- pagne bottle across her bow. The bottle swung from a decorated lanyard attached to a slender boom. Jnst how it happened that Miss Welles failed at the critical moment to do her part was not made clear. Quartermaster Byrnes stepped into the breach and saved the day. He took the lanyard short and swung the bottle down. It shivered into fragments, and <he frothing champagne streamed down over the steel plates as the vessel -cleared tire t ways and shot out into the channel. After the launching Secretary Morton •with his party attended an informal luncheon at the officers' pavilion, Rear-Admirals Rodgers and Barker making brief speeches. Afterward Secretary Morton, with Colonel- John ,T. MeCook and Miss Ellen Miller Gould, paid a brief visit to the Naval Y. M. C. A. The Connecticut is a sister ship of the Louisiana, and both vessels were authorized by an act of Congress in 1902. The Connecticut was built in a Government yard and under Gov- ornment supervision, while the Louis- iana was built by a private shipbuild- ing firm at Newport News, Va. This Is the fourth United States nav- al vessel to bear tire name of Connec- ticut. The first served in the Revol- utionary War on Lake Champlain. The second was In the little Franco- American naval shindy of 1798-1801. The third served In the Civil War. COLOMBIAN SENATE ANGRY. Opposition to Resumption, of Amicable ;. \Relations With This Country. Bogota, Colombia,—President Reyes is meeting with much opposition In the Colombian Senate to the resump- tion of amicable relations with the United States. Forts Recaptured. Throe supplementary forts at Port Arthur, captured by the Japanese lit the attack which began on September 10, are said to have been abandoned under Russian lire. Another Arctic Expedition. The Dukn of Orleans lias asked per- mission of the Norwegian Government to hire the Fram for an Arctic expedi- tion next year. Noted Philanthropist Dead. Louis Flelscbmnnn, the well-known New York City baker and philanthro- pist, died from paralysis. tlve office he held was in 1851, when ho became a member of the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives. He •went to the State Senate in 1857, and then to the National House of Repre- - sentatives iu the Forty-first Congress, and was re-elected to the three suc- ceeding Congresses. In 1877 the Leg- islature sent him to the United States Senate to succeed George S. Boutwell, and he was re-elected in the succeed- ing terms. TO BUILD A MONO-RAIL ROAD. Between Baltimore and Washington— Speed of 100 Miles an Hour. Baltimore, Md.—Representatives of a New York City syndicate have made a deal , with E. L. Tunis, of Windsor Hills,'the holder of a patent upon a mono-rail system, for the purchase of the patent by the American Mono-rail Company. Among those present at the confer- ence were J. Coleman Drayton, John H. Ostrup, A. Norvale, Henry A, Sey- mour and George L. Upshur, of New York City, and Henry L. Williams, Ruxton Ridgeiy, E. L. Tunis and H. H. Tunis, of Baltimore, Md. The contract has been given for the completion within two months of a five-mile track for testing . purposes from Baltimore .to a point on the Pa- tapsco River. A new car, based on the Tunis model, to be entirely'of steel, Is in process of construction. It Is said for this metho'd' of locomotion that a speed of 100 miles an hour can be maintained with safety. The motive power is electricity. The ultimate object of the company is the construction of a quick line from this city to Washington. CZAR GOBS TO ODESSA. The Czar's General Led » Brilliant Charge, But a Galling I'lre of Machine Gtnns Crippled Hia Forces autl Com- pelled a Withdrawal—Japanese Sharp- shooters Do Good Work. Mukden.—Couriers arriving early In the morning after a forced ride from General Samsonoff's field headquar- ters, bring information of a sudden re- treat by that general in the face of a strong and rapid movement by Oku's entire army. Instead of advancing with their customary caution, the Japs rushed into action in a way that indi- cated either a sudden, accession of recklessness or extreme confidence in their strength. General Oku attacked Samsonoff's Cossacks .with infantry and-dcagoons, and in less than twenty minutes the entire Russian front at that point was raked by a-severe crossfire from the enemy's batteries. Several Cossack horse batteries were dismantled before they could be swung into action. Two sotnias of cavalry fighting dismounted were thrown on the centre with a loss I of more than thirty-five in killed and I wounded, and in a quarter hour the en- • oniy followed that success by turning back both wings of Samsonoff's divis- ion and weakening his centre with a concentrated rifle and machine gun fire. Samsonoff in person led a cavalry I charge, which, while a desperate rem- j edy, was the only move he could make | to save his. whole division from panic. I He pushed between the broken halves I of his centre at the head of a regiment of cavalry and hurled himself against the Japanese skirmish line. Continu- ous fire from-, the machine guns emp- tied many saddles before the regiment galloped from column to line forma- tion, and one sotuia was almost cut to pieces when completing the oblique swing to its position on the left. The gallant Cossacks rode forward at great speed, however, standing in their stirrup-leathers and firing as . their horses flew over the stretch of plain that separated them from Oku's infan- try and light batteries. Steadily as thay advanced their number was deci- mated by the terrible fire of the ma- chine guns. Japanese sharpshooters picked off the officers. General Sam- sonoff's uniform was riddled with bul- lets and hjsjhorse was killed under .him In the first shock with^tfeg,. batteries. He remounted and led hTs\meri\tTir6ugh the skirmish line against battalions of Infantry in cjose formation constituting the enemy's support. Hand-to-hand fighting between Cos- sacks and gunners followed the sweep over the skirmishers. The enemy's ex- tended formation was scattered and stray soldiers were cut down before they could rally on their companies. More than one gun squad was wiped out by the cavalrymen. The enemy's support, however, moved on the Cos- sacks and poured a heavy rifle fire into the regiment. Several sotnins of Cos- sacks dismounted and fired prone at the advancing infantry. Others destroyed the Japanese guns captured in the first rush and blew up ammunition wagons. General Okiftap- parently was unprepared for such a demonstration, so his reserve did not come up behind the support quickly as it should have done to repel the charge. The Cossacks and the Japanese infan- try in the supporting force were about pqual In numbers. Neither side gained further advantage for almost half an hour, the fighting continuing among and behind the guns. Many were killed and wounded on both sides in that stage of the battle, but no prison- ers were taken. When Samsonoff's division was in full retreat Oku threw against his rear a brigade of infantry, flanked by two regiments of dragoons and several bat- teries of flying artillery. Th'£ Japan- ese riflemen mowed down the Cossack gunners and the enemy's cavalry pur- sued the retreating division. Oku's batteries advanced rapidly, taking po- sition from time to time and directing a destructive fire at the Russian ranks. General Samsonoff saved a few of his guns, but was obliged to aban- don most of them to enable his cavalry to escape annihilation. To Review and Address the Troops Going to the Front. St Petersburg, Russia.—The Czar left here for Odessa, where he is to review and address troops on the eve of their departure for the Far East. He was accompanied by his brother, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandro- vitch. ADMIRAL RECALLED. Bezobrazoff, Second in Command at Vladivostok, Called Home. Paris,/ France.—A dispatch to the Petit Pnrisien from HI. Petersburg says that Vice-Admiral Bezobrazoff, second in command under Admiral Slcrydloff of the Russian squadron at Vladivostok, has been recalled. Japan's Sick and Wounded, Unofficial estimates place the number of sick and wounded soldiers in Japan at 45,000. Lafoadio Hoarn Dead. Lafcadio Hearn, a well-known au- thor, died in Tokio, Power House Wrecked. 'A power house ut Alexandria Bny Ivan wrecked by an oxploslou of gaso- lene. ^ Archbishop Makes Plea, The Archbishop of Canterbury made « plea for church unity be-foro upward of 20,000 oeoDl&'ln WiiKljlnfffcnn n (X Approve of Peace Conference. The Institute of International Law, at a session at Edinburgh, Scotland, adopted a resolution expressing ap- proval of President Roosevelt's plan for a conference ut The Hague. Moro Russian Ships, It was reported from Toulon thai Russia had given orders to a French (Inn for the construction of destroyers, and wan negotintlni? Cor the building of four cruisers. TWELVE KILLED IN FLOOD. Half of Watrous, N. M., Washed Away—Damage at Las Vegas. Las Vegas, N. M.—Half of Watrous has been destroyed In a flood In the upper waters,of the Rio Pecos, and at least twelve persons have been drowned. Many persons were rescued from trees and' housetop*. The greatest damage was around the junction of Mora and Sapeiloiro creeks. A rock crusher, an iron bridge and much track at Watrous were washed away. The OalUnas River formed a new channel at Las-Vegas. In the Gailiuas Canyon the dams of the Agua Pnra Company broke, bringing a terrific flood on the city. The Montezuma Hot Springs track wont out in many places. Half a dozen bridges were destroyed and the Montezuma bathhouses were partially carried away. For two blocks in Bridge street every business house was fl'ooded. blES VICTIM TO SCIENCE Peculiar Disease Causal by X-Rays ' Attacks C. M. Daily. Freeholder Commits Suicide. James Denton, a Freeholder, of Pat-, erson, N. J., whoso official acts are^ii- thr investigation, killed himself. Jap Boat Sunk? Tl.-'t'e vrotM i v'.« in Tnklo, Japan, thai: a ,T\i ••'•• :\'il>nnt had boon sunk by n •.'.- •''•\ i\'<>rt Arthur, and that part of ll„. - - \•• had escaped. A junk was Imdly damaged by a mine north of Chefoo. Tried to Wreck Ship. Willi the evident Intention of doing «n injury to the baltlrnhip Connecti- cut some person or persons placed an obstruction on the ways th^ship rested I on lu the New York Navy tfard. ' WHS Xldison's Chief Aid T\or Over Sixteen Years—Botii Arms* Were Amputated Knt Ueath Finally. Claimed Marfyr. New York City.—As a result of con- stant exposure to the X-rays In per- fecting the fluoroseppe, Clarence M. Dally, an electrical, engineer, died at his home, No. 103 CHiuton street, East Orange, N. J. Sevteu years ago Mr. Dally became Thomas A.Edison's chief assistant in the experimental depart- ment of the Edisoii laboratory. West Orange. In pursuing their experi- ments Mr. Daily's.'hands and arms were continually exposed to the Roent- gen rays,'and he constantly handled highly fluorescent materials such as calcium tungstate, • After more than two years n cancer- ous growth appeared on Daily's left wrist, and he had undergone no less than seven surgical operations in the course of which a,S/-tho growth reap- peared again and again both arms were amputated. Throughout his sufferings he maintained his nkental faculties. 'Ilia brain was active u^til a few hours of his death. '< Edison himself felt ill effects from similar exposure. $.ufc he is convinced, and Dally was assured, that the danger from the rays does i);ot exist when they are employed as iij' ordinary medical practice. ; The first indication of the affection in Daily's case, which^has intensely inter- ested the medical profession, was when his hands became •.inflamed, then de- nuded, as if he had been severely scalded. In February, 1902, more than 150 pieces of skin, i&ikeu from his legs, were grafted on his hands. But new skin did not spread from the minute islands thus implanted; the operation was unsuccessful; it seemed that the vitality of Ids hands was lost. After both hands had been ampu- tated Mr. Dally gained greater courage. With the healing of his wounds he ap- peared to be recovering and sought to continue his work, Artificial hands were provided, but within a week he succumbed. The mysterious disease had affected his system. From that time ho lost strength. Greater compli- cations followed, and finally his physi- cians saw plainly he could not live. Mr. Dally was thirty-nine years old. Me enlisted in the United Stales Navy when ha was eighteen, and became chief gunner on the Enterprise. He had been connected with Edison for six;teen years. A t|idow and two son? survive him. Ji CONNECTICUT ELECTIONS. Results in the Towns Show Little Change Over Lust Year. Hartford, Conn.—The town elections held all over the State showed little material change from the elections of a. year or two years ago. What few •.litforeuces there are from last year's •Poiilts are in. favor of the Republicans, with one or two exceptions. Not more than fifteen towns in the State changed their politics. The li- cense question and personal popularity had much to do with the results, as was shown in New Britain where Mayor Bassett, Democrat, was elected selectman by 500 majority, although the rest of the ticket was .Republican. CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED. Four Men and an Elephant Injured and a Lion Badly Frightened. Wilkesb.irre, Pa.—Four circus men and an elephant wore injured, a lion badly frightened, eight cars of meat thrown over the embankment ami two jircus cars wrecked in a collision be- tween a spccjal train of the John H. Sparks tent show and a fast freight >u the Pennsylvania Railroad, at ,Nai:- ticoko. The circus train was trying to roach a siding at Nanti.coke, where it wa.-i to appear, when the fast freight 3ashcd into it. RAID RUSSIAN CONSPIRATORS. Police Charge Eight Persons With Is- suing Seditious Pamphlets. St. Petersburg, Russia. — Eight per- sons are being tried here In camera on the charge of forming a secret society, maintaining a secret press and issuing seditious pamphlets. A Jewess, a god sixty years, in whose bouse the press WIIK found, is charged with not .divulging Jts presence. One of the accused has confessed. Columbia's Annual Report. President Butlor's annual report said lhat Columbia University needs 1)12,000,- 1)00 for buildings, and that great in- terest had been shown in the School jf Journalism. Floor Collapses, Injuring Many. At u corner stoue laying at Adams, MUXN., a floor with 150 persons coi- laphcl. Many, including Bishop Bea- rer, of Springfield, Muss., were hurt. Iliwsian Empress at Copenhagen. The Russian Empress' DoWager ar- rived at Copenhagen. : Qtieoi.i Alexan- dra was among those who met her at the station. Navy Report Given Out. Th n Navy Df>part!uontgave out Roiu 1 - Admiral Rodgcru' report on tin* at- tempts to wreck the battleship Con- iT.'olicUt. Tiny Welcomes Peace Congress. Secretary Hay welcomed the p-.'iic- coilgi'OMH delegates at Boston, Muss,, on behalf of the CJovernuioiit, Hoar is Burled. The nation, Stale and homo oily paid tribute to Senator Hoar, whoso .fwewW was held at Worcostor, Mass, Barley. The market In the West was quiet, with a slow trade and prices were tin* changed. F Third Secretary Gurnev's Plea of Immunity Was Disregarded. LOCAL JUSTICE APOLOGIZES 2T'ty Spee^lins: His A-utomohile Through , the Stvoels of T.ee, HTas»., Member ol llxe British Kinbaitey Was Arrested and Fined hy Justice Phelpfi—<flis Re- call Is Possible. Lenox, Mass.—Hugh Gnrney, Third Secretary to Sir Mortimer Durand. ths British Ambassador, who has been spending the summer here, was fined for contempt of court and for violating the speed law relating to automobiles, by Special Justice H. C. Thelps, in the Leo District Court. Mr. Gurney was charged with running an automobile through the streets of Stockbridge at a greater speed than ten miles an hour. Mr. Guruey, when arraigned in court, positively refused to plead, ..holding that as he was the Third^Secret^ry to. his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador he could not bo arrested or held for the of- fense charged. Special Justice Phelps said ho did not recognize \international law\ in his court, and informed the de- fendant that he must enter a plea. Despite this statement Mr. Gurney continued in his refusal. Then a fine of $25 was imposed for contempt of court, and another fine of $25 for vio- lation of a town ordinance. Mr. Gurney did not have iu his pos- session sufficient money to pay the flue and was paroled in the charge of the officer, Deputy Sheriff Noble, of Stock- bridge, who had made the arrest. The officer accompanied Mr. Gurney . tc Lenox, where\ the money was secured.'' Mr. Gurndy-vimmediately notified the State Department, in Washington, oi the act of the Massachusetts courts, and the President was notified. Justice Phelps said that he found nothing in the Massachusetts common law which exempted any one from breaking the laws of the State, and hs acted accordingly. Boston, Mass.—Governor Bates held 'a conference with Assistant United States District Attorney Nash and Jus- tice Phelps, as a result of which an apology made by Justice Phelps has been forwarded to Washington, D. C, and the fine paid by the Third Assist ant Secretary of the British Embassy has been returned to him. At the same time it is understood that the Governor of Massachusetts, while acknowledging the ..violation ol the statute to safeguari^internationa! courtesy, is determlned/to maintain th« dignity of the-feommonwealth. and to this end, accompanying the apologj from Justice Phelps was a suggestiou from the Governor to the United States authorities that the British Govern- ment be requested to recall Mr. Gurnej on the ground that in speeding his au- tomobile faster than local laws permit he failed to comport himself with the dignity befitting his office. Washington, D. C—Secretary Moody was advised by a dispatch from the Unitet States District Attorney at Bos- ton, Mass., that all the papers in the case of Third Secretary Gurney had beejn forw,ardcd by mall. It is not known whether the Massa- chusetts authorities have asked the re- call of the Secretary, but in case Gov- ernor Bates has made any such requesl It will get no further than the State Department, which will act on its pre- rogative in deciding whether there has been a breach of international courtesy or not. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Eleven millions of people have now seen the Fair. An inlaid table made from 1000 hard woods Is exhibited in Nl.araana's pa- v Uion. One hundred varieties of Mexican cactus are growing iu that aouutry'a exhibit. A fine display of redwood furniture Is exhibited in the San Francisco building. A large tapestry made in 1050 is ex- hibited in the Belgian sectlou of the Art Palace. ^ Russia is represented by a kiosk in the Palace of Transportation, where tea is served to visitors, It was built near Moscow. \Pearl culture,\ or the artificial pro- duction of pearls, is illustrated in the Japanese section of the Palace of For- estry. Fish and Game. A table top, composed of over SHOO pieces of steel tnbinc of different shapes and sizes, is exhibited in the Palace of Transportation. A unique exhibit is a locomotive fifteen feet loug made entirely of glass tubes of different sizes. It is a ten- wheeler and is perfect in every detail. A feature of the Egyptian Govern- ment .exhibit is an old chapel from the tomb of Prince Ra-Ka-Pu, which is the only piece of its,kind ever shown'.out- side of Egypt. A portrait of the Crown Prince Mich- ael Aiexandrovitch, brother of the Czar Nicholas It., Emperor of Russia, is a feature of the Russian exhibit. It was executed by the Russian artist, Boldi- reff. A military Y. M. C. A. tent has been installed near the Model Camp for vis- iting military organizations at the Fair. Services are held every Sunday and a library for the use of the soldiers is maintained. eeio \f WASHINGTON. 1 'According- to Mint Director Robert* twenty-one States and Territories, pro-' iueed $73,591,700 worth of gold during; the year 1903, and $29,322,000 worth oC silver, the value of the sliver being; computed at fifty-four cents per fine ounce. Ten thousand persons heard the &rch.bIs.b,op of Canterbury spea-fi; air evensong service in Washington. According to orders given out by the) Department Rear-Admiral I. B. Cogh- lan will assume command of the Navy; Yard and station at New York City, re- lieving Rear Admiral Frederick R'od> gers, who will retire for age. i The President has disapproved of the* findings and sentence in the case- ofif Fred H. Skow, who was alleued to U» | a member of Company M, Twentieth*! Infantry, and who, as such, was trieW by court martial and convicted unders two charges of desertion and of mis- conduct iu joining the enemy, and sen- tenced to death. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The report that Archbishop Cbapellet- would resign as Apostolic Delegate to> Cuba a$d Porto Rico was denied. Porto Rico's 1007 public school* opened with 00,000 pupils enrolled. Itt< the first school year during American- occupation there were 800 schools wltitl 25,000 pupils. SPORTING BREVITIES. HERRICK LEAVES THE BENCH Sits For the Last Time as a Supreme Court Justice—Bids Adieu to the Bar. Albauy, N. Y.—Justice D. Cady Her- rick for the last time sat on the bench as Supreme Court Justice, when he opened the regular trial term here, Just before adjournment he bid' the bar adieu as a Justice. The court room was crowded with members\of the bar of all political faiths, and William P Rudd, who is mentioned as the Repub- lican successor of Justice Horrick, re- sponded in fitting terms. At Justice Herrick's request neither his nor the remarks of Mr. Rudd were reported by members of the press. Justice Herrlck will resign just as soon as he announces decisions in cases pending before him, which will lie in about a week. SLAYS WIFE, KIL'LS HIMSELF. Couple Separated, and the Woman Spurned the Alan. Raleigh, N. 0.—Louis F. Caralcbael, a carpenter, aged sixty-four years, killed his wife, aged fifty years; seri- ously wounded his twelve-year-old stop-daughter and committed suicide at Kernersvillc, Forsyth County. Carmlchael and his wife separated several weeks ago. He went to her homo near the passenger depot and told her that If she did not consent to live with him again he would kill her before night. Those who talked with Carmlchael a short while before I he crime was committed sny he was sober, and In- sanity Is suggested. Gives $1,000,000 to Public. By the will of Mrs. Sarah Potter, of Boston, Mass., public bequests of over $1,000,000 are provided, Including (5250,000 to the city of New Bedford, where she was born, to buy books for Ihe public library, ^ Collision on Hudson River. After collision between a Jersey Oou- triil ferryboat, the LaUewond, and a railroad float, at Cortlaudt idreel: slip, New York City, passengers Ion pod to the dock of the float and climbed to the pier Grand Dulco Nicholas to C-i-mmantl, The selection of Grand Duke Nicho- las as Russian commander-ln-ohlof is regarded us'piactlcnlly assured. It Is said that the geneml (?taffi will act as a board of military direction, , New York athletes won all the chnm- •pionsh-ips at Montreal. Squadron A defeated the polo team of New Haven at Van Cortlandt Park. NVw York City. The Viugt et Un II. wou the gold challenge cup of the American Power Boat Association. Columbia opened thn local New York football season by defeating Union by the score of 10 to 0. The yacht Ingomar returned from Europe, where it scored in nineteen out of twenty-two races. John Taylor defeated Dr. Strong in a five-heat trotting race at the Columbus Grand Circuit meeting. Mott Haven and iviohawk (New York) athletes entertained hundreds at their regular sports. Oscar George, National Athletic Club, won the ten-mile arn-a&ur. cycle handi- cap at the Vailsbui'g track. . . Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr., wou the Hunters' Cup presented by Ml.-. Clar- ence H. Mackny, at the Mineola Horse Show. Mr, August Belmont has sold his fa- mous yacht, the seventy-footer Min- eola, to Mr. William Ross Proctor, N. X. Y. C. Albert Clement arrived in New York City on the French line steamship Bre- tagne to take part in the Vauderbilt au- tomobile cup race. Paris automobilists are of opinion that the conditions named for the transatlantic motor boat race bar it to automobile launches. Holcombe Ward, the. .Apigr-iean lawn tennis champion. wasi$-e£eated by Rob- ert Lb Roy, of the New York Tennis Club, in a match in singles. •Malcolm McBnrney, of Stockbridge, defeated D. T. Dana, of the home club, six up and five to play in the final for the chief cup in the golf tournament at Lenox. PROMINENT TEOPLE. King Edward VII. goes to church regularly. Dr. Jameson, the Cape of Good Hope Premier, is now in London. Justice Wills, of Great Britain. Is said to contemplate retirement. ' Edward H. Harriman-iwen^to Wall Street as a broker while in hlsHeens. Friends of Lord Curzon predict that he will yet be the Grand Lama of Ti- bet. . Admiral George Dewey recently com- pleted fifty years' active service In the United States Navy. Captain A. S. Rowan, who carried Itho message to Garcia, is soon to wed (Mrs. Josephine Degeayer, of San Francisco. Old Mother Smiles-at-Woe, the oldest member of th» Winnebago tribe, is liv- ing With her people on a reservation in Nebraska. The veteran Norwegian author, Jo- nas Lie, in tends to leave Paris, where .5ie has lived for many years, and abide for the future in Norway, Thomas W. Porter, superintendent of the Indian school at Chemaw, Ore., has been married to a quarter-blood Digger girl, a pupil at the school. Cheng Yow Tong, former secretary of the Chinese Commission to the St. Louis Fail-, has published a volume of poems relnlliig, in the mail), to the United Stales. Mffr. Guifll, ApostoJe Delegate to the .Philippines, whose death at Manila at the age of fifty-two has been noted, was supposed to be one of the Cardin- als reserved \in petto\ by Plus X. Undoubtedly (ho oldest living poet is Colun Wallace, who lives at Oughter- ard, .Ireland. He was born In 1780, and consequently Is 108 years old. A new collection of his poems has just been published by the Gaelic League of Dublin. For rurei'iiatlorml Auto Race. Preparations are being made In France, :-:ays a special cable dispatch, for next yer.r's lirle.rnaticmal Automo- bile Cup va oe. Peace in TJfur.'uny. It was reported from Montevideo thai: toi'ins of peace had been'(toeopCed by the insurgent forces-in Uruguay, .Tofe-n F. Stairs Dead, John 1>\ Stairs, a well-know^ Cana^ dfan baulsei', vlied at Toronto, DOMESTIC. Heavy rains caused Las Animasr River to overflow its banks and flood* the city of Trinidad, Col. Railroad* were tied up in the territory effected. Thirty-five firemen were overcome bjr smoke and fumes of ammonia at an all- night fire on Fourteenth street. New York City. Joseph Watson, the young negro who- murder&d former Police Commissioner:- Henry '%,borne, of Hartford, Conn.,- was convicted and sentenced to bo- hanged, Annie Kanuer, the fifteen-year-old c daughter of the janitor, risked her Iff©- to crawl through smoke filledhalls audi warn the tenants of 147 Stanton street. New York City, that the building wa». burning. Three Italians Sa a pistol duel at Canal aud Centre' '.reets, New York City, created great excitement, but no- one was hurt as far as known. Archbishop Farley promulgated te- nia pastors the report of the Coramls*- sion on Revision of Church Music, ac- cording to the direction of Pope Piust 3C, which bars women from Catholle choirs. i Justice .IC&ly issued an order au- thorizing the exhuming of the body oS Margat&fe Lynch, who was supposedly, murdered in Long Island some week» ago. i it was learned that President Rosse-*' volt's name was forged to a letter to>- Michael Donnelly, of the Butchers' Union; prosecution of the forger will follow. .'he Eucharistic Cougress, for which! twenty bishops and more than 1000> priests assembled, opened in New York City. Admiral Rivit's flagship, the French' cruiser Duplex, arrived in New Yoalc harbor. Alonzo J. Whiteman, once a promi- nent Minnesota politician, was arrested In St. Louis, ,Mo., for alleged forgery, in Buffalo, N.*Y. The Aldermen's Celebration Commit- tee was informed that the formal open- tng of the New York City subway, would take place on October .27. The Valvprda Smelter, near Pres- cott, Ariz., was destroyed by au ex- plosion. Loss, $175,000. An explosion shook the elevateil structure, in New York City, amd burned two employes badly. It was decided that no skilled work- men over thirty-five are to be employed hereafter in certain departments oC the Carnegie Steel Company plants. Im others the age limit is forty. FOREIGN. Two kings and many princes and high official's attended the funeral- off Niels Finsen at Copenhagen. The Governor of Arzila, Morocco; was murdered by tribesmen out of re- venge for the imprisonment of some-off their fellows, whom they set free-. Prince Mlrsky Insisted on separatingr the Russian police administration: Croni: the Ministry of the Interior. A mall car on a train between: Pa-risi and Havre, France, containing a quan- tify of American mail, was broken.- open and ninety-one out of 100 pouches wot'9- rifled. The probability of the appointment of Grand Duke Nicholas NlebolaievA'tebj as Russian commander-in-chief' awl of a new Minister of Marine wais. flOro- shadowed from St. Petersburg. A protest by Prince George- of Schaumburg-Lippe against the- succes- sion of Count Leopold to the- regency of Lippe-Detmold was made public; It sol;-forth, that the great-s<raiidmoth.eroe the count was not legitimately descend- ed from the noble family. The Japanese are using hand power? t» propel railroad cjirs in the trans- portation of supplies to LiaorYaug,, while waiting for locomotives. Prince Mlrsky has been hoartil'y wel- comed lu St. Petersburg by the- p-utrtta and the press, the latter suRgestltia abolition of tlte censorship among re- forms expected, , i Word has been received f rouv a Doulc- hobor colony near Saskatoon, N. W. T.„ that a large body of Doukhobors had] started on a march for the United States. This time they are- looking for; a warmer climate, The eruption of Mou-mt Vesuvius, which continued with Kt'oat force, be- came more violent thati at any time, since 1872. A belated Mukden tflspatoh said that the Japanese, sontlmu'tl tliolr advancct northward with extreme slowness. A special cable dispatch from Paris* said that the motorcycle race at Dour- dun was amiullod, some person havlu® strewn tacks over the road. CotitluMital steamship lines were re- ported io have decided on ft $10 reduc- tion, In steerage rotes fiflm Huugar® to thy United SWtcs. / U-.. BEST DOCU
