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• INTENDED TO KILL STOLYPIN.
He Escaped But His Young Daughter Was Seri-
ously Injured by it.
General Min Slain by Girl Who Fired Five Bullets
Into His Back.
The Revolutionary Committee Has Declared for a
Campaign of Terrorism in Russia.
REGARDED AS ACT OF CIVIL WAR
St, Petersburg, Aug. 26. --Among the small minority forming the inde-
pendent, educated public of St. Petersburg there is sincere condolence for M.
Stolypin's affliction. He is recognized, except by his bitter antagonists, as a
dignified, courteous man,
It remains, however, that the most actual impression of the entire tra-
gedy is the sense that the Russians regard it as an act of civil war, There
is a formidable element in educated society which insists on comparing it to
the throwing of a shell into a beleaguered citadel:. They declare that the
Government press has taken for its cry: "Who is not with us is against us,"
and they explain the fearful mercilessness of yesterday's outrage by referring
to the executionary expeditions which visited wholesale punishment along
the railway where Government employees have struck.
M. Demtchinsky, a well -esteemed writer of moderate views, addresses
a letter to M, Stolypin in to -day's Journal Perelom, in which the says that all
citizens feel for the Premier that he suffered in serving the nation's affairs,
but there are only two means of dealing with such calamities. There is force
which, as martial law and executionary expeditions show, has failed. It is
true troops will suppress public disorders of the masses, but they are power-
less against a secret enemy. Thousands of police agents are equally power-
less. The entire body of society is the only force that may struggle with a
secret enemy, and society will co-operate only when it is given the rights
of an ally of the Government by the participation of society in the applica-
tion of honest State laws.
Se. Petersburg, Aug. 20.—Thirty-two
persons are dead and twenty-four
wounded as the result of an attempt
yesterday afternoon to assassinate Pre
mien Stolypin with a bomb while he was
holding a public reception at his aeon -
try rouse on Aptekarsky Island. The
Premier was slightly wounded on the
face end neck by flying timbers.
The legs of the Premier's fifteen -year-
old daughter were broken by the ex-
plosion. Under the influence of opiates
she is sleeping to -night. Among the
dead are: General Zameatin, the Pre-
mier's personal secretary; M. Khovo-
stoff, ex -Governor of the Province of
Penza; Colonel Fcderoff, chief of the
Premier's personal guard; Court Cham-
berlain Davidoff, Court Chamberlain
Voronin and Aide Doubassoff, Prince
Nachaehidze and Prince Scherwacridze,
two delegates from the Caucasian Nobil-
ity, and four women and two child,
ren.
Stolypin's three-year-old son is
seriously though not fatally injured, and
a number of persons who are injured are
prominent in the social and official
world.
Some Conspirators Killed.
Of the four conspirators who engi-
neered the outrage, two were killed with
their victims, while the third, who act-
ed as coachman for the party, and the
fourth, who remained inside the car-
riage in which they drove to the resi-
dence, were badly 'wounded, and are now
in the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress.
There are varying stories as to how
the attempted assassination was car-
' ried out, and as, to the nature of the
explosive used. One report says the
bomb was charged with melinite and
was enclosed in the shell of a water-
melon. Another says the bomb was
enclosed in a large vase. The reports
also differ as to whether it has thrown
after the conspirators had actually gain-
ed. admittance to the hoose or whether
it was, accidentally dropped before
the appointed time. The tremendous
force of the explosion absolutely. blew
out the front of the Premier's residence
and carried away the ceilings above and
the floors beneath and the walls of the
adjoining rooms. People were liter-
ally blown to pieces. Those who were
not killed instantly were horribly mnahn-
ed or lacerated.
The Premier's escape was miraculous,
for only a moment before the explosion
took plaee he had stepped inside his
study at the rear of the salon to speak
with Prince Shakovsky, Although he
was only slightly injured, he is com-
pletely prostrated by the calamity.
Was Carefully Planned.
The four constpirators drove to the re-
sidence in a landau. Three were dress-
ed in the uniform of the gendarmes!. The
fourth wore civilian attire. It was as-
sumed by the troops and police on guard
that the civilian was a 'moor prisoner,
geho by the intercession of some exalted
personage had been allowed to make a
personal appeal to the Minister of the
Interior and had been brought. under cus-
tody for that purpose.
The landeau of the conspirators,
which was poorly equipped and was
similar to that used by the police in
transferring prisoners, canto in front of
a •part of the villa where there is a
great bay window. Here, according to
ono story one of the men threw a bomb
with great force into the chamber kill-
ing every occupant including the poor
petitioners, a few women and children
and some uniformed attendants of the
*Minister.
The bomb pierced into the secona
chamber, where M. Stolypin was stand•
ing talking with M. Koshoff, Governor
of Penza. Koshoff was killed instantly,
but M. Stolypin was only splashed with
ink from a table,
Another story says the Atarty psena-
trated the house and dropped the bomb
inside. The uninjured persons who es-
caped death or wounds are mostly too
dazed and shocked to give a coherent
sto of the oceurrenee.
The Czar bas telegraphed to the Pre-
mier as follows: "1 comet find words
to express my indignation. I hope
with all may heart that the health of
your lion and daughter will soar be re•
adored s tr andlikewr o hrtt of the
other
persons injured."
'Work of Revolntionista.
It is certain that the crime runs eon:-
mitted by the fighting organization of
the Social Revolutionists hi retaliation
for the war wbiclm the Government has
been waging against them. Since M.
Stolypin's accession to the Premiership
e
over 1,000 of their member?: rs have been
rrested, four hundred in St. Petersburg
alone, and many of these have been de-
r'ted. To ootnbat thin orusade, the
fighting organization, which is composed
of a wing, known as Matimists, who be-
lieve in setting up a purely Soeialistic
state upon the ruins of the autocracy,
has deliberately entered upon a duel
with the Government such as that which
characterized the famous fight of the
Nihilists in the late 70's, which ended
in the assassination of Emperor .Alex-
ander II. 'Within a single year, at
that time, a little coterie of Nihilists,
under the dircetion of Jeriaboff, made
twenty-eight attempts against the Em-
peror and high officials, fourteen of
which were successful.
At the head of the present organization
is a prominent revolutionary who is con-
sidered to be an organizer equal if not
superior to Jeriaboff. All the members
of the organization had due notice that
to -day's attempt on the Premier would
be made, and went into hiding.
It has become known that an attempt
upon M. Stolypin was frustrated ten
days ago by the discovery of the be-
ginning of asubterranean passage from
the wall of the Grenadier Church, ad-
joining his residence. The mining of
palaces and residences formerly was a
favorite method of the Nihilists, but has
not been used of recent years.
General Mitt Assassinated.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 20.—General
Min, commander of the Seminovsky
Guard Regiment, who suppressed the
riots at Moscow last December, was as-
sassinated at Peterhof to -night.
General Min was at the railway sta-
tion with his family when he was killed.
The deed was committed by a young
girl, who fired five shots from a revolver
into his back, killing him instantly.
Madam Min seized the assassin by the
hand and held her until the police ar-
rived. After her arrest the girl show-
ed the police a bomb lying in the sta-
tion, telling them to beware.
His Death Expected.
The death sentence had long hung
over the head of General Min, owing
to the disfavor into which he had fallen
because of alleged harsh methods and
cruelties. It was General (then Colonel)
Min who commanded the Seminovsky
Regiment when the people were shot
down near the Teehnological Institute
in Sts Petersburg on October 31, and
who, it was stated, wanted to set the
buildings of the institute on fire and
roast •the students inside. Min was
sent by the Emperor to suppress the
disorders at Saratov after the assassin-
ation of Lieut. -Gen. Sakharoff in De-
eember last, and when the trouble at
that place was quelled was despatched
at the end of December to Moseow to
assist in putting down the uprising
there.
On April 24 a member of the fighting
organization of the revolutionarists, dis-
guised as an officer, who had called at
IGn'e residence several times and re-
quested to see him, excited the suspi-
cions of the attaches of the household
and was arrested. It developed that he
was a revolutionist, and was armed
with a. revolver and dagger.
On July 18 last it was reported that
some of the soldiers of the Seminovsky
Guard. at Kr'asnoye-Solo had served no-
tice on General Min that they intended'
to kill him at the first opportunity for
forcing them to murder 'their fellow -
citizens in the 'Moscow revolt and that
Min, in fear of his life, had fled the
camp.
Policemen Killed and Wounded.
Deakin, Russian Poland, Aug, 26.—A
bomb was thrown at a patrol command-
cd. by Police Captain Jabubik yesterday,
and, exploding, tore two policemen to
pieces and wounded ten persons. Time
Monday last killed a Jew. A detach-
ment of soldiers attracted. to the scene
of the explosion fired indiscriminately
in all directions, killing or wounding
a score of persons.
Girl brOpped a Bomb.
Odessa, Aug. 20.—Late Saturday even-
ing a girl dropped a bomb in the Nicho-
las I3oulevard fifty paces from the palate
of Governor•Generat '<anthers. There
was a deafening detonation and a wild
stampede of the promenaders. No one
was injured except the girl. who drop-
ped the bomb, whose band was shatter-
ed. It is supposed the bomb accident-
ally fell from her handl before Sime had
reached the entranee to the palace. She
and another girl and a
university
stu.
dent who was accompanying them were
arrested.
Was Itaulbars Frightened?
Odessa, Aug. 21—Governor-General
liaulbers today for the first time an-
nulled a court-martial's death sentence.
The ease was that of a peasant named
Itymslut, whose
punishment neat for
a
i
oll-
a
rs
ten years
tical offence was committed
at herd labor. It is rumored that I:ant-
bars yesterday received a letter from
the peasants' union threatening him
with immediate death if he confirmed
the sentence.
Will Kill by Hundreds,
St. Petersburg, Aug. 20,—The Central
Committee of t he Social revolutionists
has drawn up a proclamation, which de-
clares that unless the Government fortim-
witll alters its policy such acts as the
attempt on the life of Premier Stolypin
will be pursued to the uttermost, and
Government representatives will be kill-
ed by hundreds. Private advices re-
ceived here from Tiflis are to the effect
that a plot on the life of Count Von
Vorontzeff-Dashkoff, Viceroy of the
Caucasus, has been discovered, and that
many arrests have been made, including
several others,
Czar Gives Up Land.
London, Aug. 25,—A despatch from
St. Petersburg to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company says that 4,000,000 acres
of the Czar's Imperial domains will be
placed at the disposal of the Peasants'
Bank for distribution among the poorest
of the peasants,
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SUICIDE'S BURIAL.
SAD AND DRAMATIC SCENE IN A
BRITISH CHURCHYARD,
The Clergyman Remained Mute—"Law
of England Has Been Kept To -night,"
Was His Reply to a Mourner Who
Reproached Him.
London, Aug. 20. —There was a sad
dramatic scene on Friday night in the
churchyard at Beaconsfield, at the
burial of a suicide, who shot himself
after attempting murder. The jury's
verdict was fele de se, and in accord-
ance with the rules of the Church of
England, the dead man had to be bur-
ied between the hours of 9 and mid-
night. The coffin, closely followed by
the suicide's weeping sister and other
relatives, was brought into the church-
yard by a special entrance. The Mourn-
ers grouped themselves around the
grave by the dim light of a few lan-
terns. Close by stood the clergyman.
For a few moments there was a pause,
the mourners evidently hoping that he
would .offer a prayer, but the clergy-
man, in obedience to the rubrics of the
.prayer book, did not speak, and the cof-
fin was lowered into the grave in tense
silence, which was only broken at last
by the cry of the dead man's sister:
"May God have mercy on his soul—
more mercy than he has had from
man!" Silence fell again, this time to be
broken by a man who advanced to the
clerkymnan and said: "Are you a priest."
"I ani," was the reply.
"Have you not said one prayer over
this man?"
"Not one," the clergyman replied
with evident emotion. "By what right
do you ask?"
"By the threefold right of an Eng-
lishman
nolishman and aChristian professing to
be a member of the Church of Eng-
land," was the answer.
The clerkyman then said: "The law
of England has been kept to -night."
By this time a large crowd had ga-
thered and a noisy scene ensued.
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VALISE FOUND.
SUSPECTED MURDERER COLLINS
BROUGHT TO ST. JOHN, N. B.
Articles of Women's and Men's Clothing
Found in the Valise May Be Used as
Evidence—Prisoner to be Identified
and Taken Back,
St. John, N. B., Aug. 20. 'Thomas
Collins, held on suspicion of the murder
of Mary Ann MacAulay at New Ireland,
Albert county, on Aug. 19, was brought
here late to -day from Charlotte county
by Chief of Police Clark and Detective
Killen. Collins, the police say, told then'
he had been working at Father Mac-
Aulay's and left there because the Tat-
ter's housekeeper, the murdered woman,
was always scolding hint and finding
fault. He says She was alive and well
when he left on Monday morning.
Collins was at Musquash on, Wednes-
day last, mid tried to work there, but he
left on it becoming known the St. John
police were heading for that place. He
left a valise behind him there, and in it
has been forum some women's handker-
chiefs and men's underwear of fine qual-
ity. This is looked on as significant in
view of some of Miss MacAulay's cloth-
ing and some of the priest's underwear
being missing. Collins will be taken
back to Albert county.
FUR THIEVES SENTENCED.
Jacob and Simon Gebritski Go to the
' Penitentiary.
Chatham, Aug. 20.—Judge Bell pnn-
poged two stiff sentences to the fur
thieves, Jacob and Simon Gebritski, yes-
terday afternoon, when he sentenced
them to seven and five years respect-
ively. Mrs. Gebritski, wife of Jacob,
fainted after leaving the court room.
On behalf of the younger man, Soli-
citor Brackin argued that as he was only
seventeen years of age, and bec.utse he
supported his :mother and the rest of
the family, and had been implicated in
the affair so far because of ,his father,
he should he extended leniency.
Sinton wept and the father pleaded
aloud for a light sentence, but the judge
was drbdurate. The charges vete bring-
ing stolen goods into Canada, end receiv-
ing stolen property, knowing it to be
stolen,
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CUT HORSE'S LEGS OFF.
A. Brutal Act of Vengeance at Gladstone,
Man.
Gladstone, 'Alan., Aug. 20.—Early yes-
etrday morning some party or parties
entered the barn of 1 . Bowman, veter-
inary surgeon, of this piaee, and chopped
the hind lees off his horse, which stood
in the stall. Dr. Bowman had been
• •eturncd
b train,
,
Mamas llun
called to y
arriving about 8 o'clock. On gain„ to
• 1.
the stable he d]scovrmed the animal, So
completely was the work done that the
deatched parts hung only by the tendons
midway between the hoofs and books.
'Airs. Bowman heara noise; early in
the morning, but there was a storm
1erraging, and she was thou about gonia
he cause,
t
to investigate
1
a far
. slaughtered. So
animal
ryas•
The t
there is no Blue leading to the discovery
of the perpetrator.
FIGHTING AT
PINO GUERRA.
Was it a Government Victory or .De-
feat ?
Rebel Gains in Some (Natters Re-
ported.
Officials of Some Towns Go Over
to Insurgents..
Havana, Mg. 20.--Pino Guerra, with
a force of rebels, attacked Gumless
Pinar del Rio Province, yesterday,
hut was completely defented and re-
tired with many losses, This was pre-
liminary to an attack on the city of
Pinar del Rio,
The rebels were also defeated. at
Caseajal, Santa Clara, Province, and
wear Jarmo, Havana Province. The
rebel force was dispersed and abase
Boned 80 horses to the Government
troops,
President Palma has issued a de-
cree calling the national militia to
arms and appealing to all Cuban patriots
to defend peace and order. The militia
will be organized in each province.
Gen. Montalvo has been appointed
Secretmmy of the Interior,
The rural guards, under command
of Clemente -Gonzalez, had a fight
yesterday afternoon with a force of
rebels under Col. Luseca at Caguajal,
Matanzas Province, on the border of
Santa, Clara Province. An official re-
port says the Government's loss was
seven killed and one wounded.
Insurgents Captured Palmira,
Insurgents entered the town of Pal-
hire, Santa Clara Province, yesetr-
day. They stopped a train from Cien-
fuegos and searched the passengers,
releasing them after they had taken
from them what arils they had. The
police and rural guards offered no re-
sistance.
Ganzalez Goes Over to Rebels,
Capt. Gonzales deserted the Govern-
ment forces at Cienfuegos with 50 men
and joined the insurgents. Col. Pino
Guerra has captured 70,000 cartridges
from the Government forces.
Details of the fight near Guano show
that it ended in a disgraceful rout of
the Government forces. The troops ran
for safety.
Officials Going Over Too.
Havana, Aug. 25.—A despatch receiv-
ed here from Las Cruces, Santa Clara
Province, says the Mayor, the police,
nearly all the councilmen and officials of
the town, together with all the rural
guards stationed there, and 300 citizens,
have joined the insurgents.
Senator Frias, of Cienfuegos, has re-
ceived a telegram reporting a similar
state of affairs at Trinidad.
Congressman Fatmetino Guerra, who
goes under the nicks
e ams of Pino Guer-
ra, and. the sten under him, still con-
stitute the strongest group in the revo-
lutionary movement against the Gov-
ernment, but neither Guerra nor the
Government forces sunt out against him
seem yet to be ready to engage in a de-
cisive fight for the mastery.
Shipload of Arms.
Now York, Aug. 25.—'Arms and am-
munition for the Cuban Government
were shipped from this city to -day for
Havana on board the Ward line steam-
ship Mexico. The steamer ]las stowed
away in her hold 15,000 Remington re-
peating rifles, 800,000 rounds of tunnnuni-
tion and six Gatlin rapid fire guns for
the use of President Palna'a. forces.
The steamer Kansas, clinch will sail
next Thursday, will carry 3,000,000
rounds of ammunition and 5,000 item-
ingtons for the Cuban Government.
The Associated Pres is informed
that the Government has deckled to is-
sue to -morrow an amnesty of thirty
days, under .which those persons now
bearing arms who return peaceably to,
their Biomes will be pardoned..
"WHERE IS BOGGS ?"
ANSWERS TO BE SENT TO NIAGARA
FALLS, ONT.
Many People Swindled by a Stranger,
Who Pretended to be Acting foh a
Building Concern—Bought Land and
Made Building Contracts.
Niagara Falls, Aug. 20.—"Where is
Boggs!" is the question of the hour in
this city. The police and many citizens
are asking, and no one can answer.
Two weeks ago a stranger arrived in
the city, registered at the Savoy Hotel
as "W. C. Boggs," and amnmmounced, that
he was the representative of the Bos, -sea
& Lainring Construction Company, and
had come here to establish a branch
of their business. "Boggs" rented desk
room in the law office of D. B. White,
appointed, Mr. White solicitor for the
company, used full page ads. in daily
papers, had a horse and carriage to
drive clients to visit building sites,
bought several lots, made contracts
with different people to build them
houses on his wonderful cheap plan, and
actually started excavations and got
lumber on the site.
Then bills began to conte in to Mr.
White for debts contracted by Boggs, end
Mr. White found that Boggs had been
trading on his name all over the city.
When cornered Boggs exhibited bank
books showing large deposits in Ameri-
can banks. Telegrams elicited that the
books were fakes. Boggs then confessed
that he was working without proper
financial backing. Mr. White instntued
proceedings.
Meanwhile 'Mimes E. Emery, a liv-
ery stable keeper, found that Boggs
would nob pay a bill of sixteen dollars
for hire of horses and carriage and dam-
age done to thein while in his charge. He
invoked pollee aid. Brown foresaw this
and was taken violently ill. The phy-
sieian who attended him said his heart
was very weak. .Arrest was therefore
postponed. This was on • Thursday. At
1 o'clock on Friday morning Boggs left
the hotel by a back entrance, took a
train for the States, and has not been
Been or heard of since.
'The lumber merchant from wheal he
had bought nmaterin] for houses sent
wagons and got time luunber back to his
own yard. Boggs made his profits from
the deposits paid down by those for
whom ho was stobuild houses
when they
Y
signed the cuntraets. The amount was
usually $''.i. The only bill are paid was
that of the hotel.
The other people who dealt with 'him
ire all losers. Most of the victims are
hard-working men, who saw a ebamtee to
. secure homes for themselves through his
heap monthly v " m
talnett
p
ran. lust
how mtretr money Ames serure<i is un-
certain. Estimates range from $75 to
$400.
COLLINS CAPTURED.
WILL BE CHARGED WITH MURDER
OF MISS MACAULAY,
The Fugitive Recognized on the Road by
the Driver of a Lady Tourist Party
Near $t. George, N. B.—His Arrest
Quickly Follows,
A St. John, N. 13., de patch: Thomas
Collins, the man suspected of the mur-
der of Miss Mary Ann MacAulay on
Sunday night last in the home of her
cousin, Father MacAulay, at New Ire-
land, Albert county, was captured at 5
o'clock this afternoon lit the woods
twelve miles from int. George, N. I3.,
while making for the American border,
Ile admits that he had been ,at Father
MacAulay's house, but he does nob ad-
mit the lnurder, He spoke little, chief-
ly confining himself to the remark that
he was tired and foot sore,
Collins is the man named by the
Coroner's jury at Albert as the one they
suspected of the murder of Mies Mac-
Aulay, Trace of the suspect was lost
near St. George late last night, but
early this afternoon T. A. Sullivan of
Bonny Liver, driving a party of lady
tourist, met him on the road near
there. Turning over his charge to an
assistant, as .soon as he could Sullivan
returned in pursuit of Collins and gath-
ered together a band of four or five
men.
Word was sent to St. George to Detec-
tive Killen of St. John, who was work-
ing in that direction. Killen and Mar-
shall McAdam of St, George quielcly
drove over and Collins was captured
without resistance. A shot was fired
in the air and when he heard it he fell
to the ground. He will be brought to
St. John to -morrow.
FIGHTING FOR
FAiR ELECTION.
Insurgents Ready to Accept Result
of Such.
Roosevelt May be Asked to Send
Commission.
New York, Aug, 27.—The following
cable despatch from Havana is printed
here today: The increased reticence
of the Government justifies alarm as to
the situation. Senator Morna Campos,
Murqueti, Liberal, who has joined the'
revolutionists, says in an interview in
the Telegrafo, that be has no doubt that
the rebel chiefs have fully formed a plan
which they will gradually work out. He
says that honest elections must be grant-
ed by the Government. The rebels are
fighting for a cause and not for one
pian. They are willing to accept any
president who is legally elected, even
Estrada Palma. The Senator is willing
to add his name to the list of 200 Cu-
ban business men in New York who pur-
pose to ask President Roosevelt to send
a commission to see that an honest elec-
tion is held and the man elected seated.
He does not desire American interven-
tion, because if the Americana come, God
knows where the movement would. end.
He believes that the rebels will lay down
their arms if President Roosevelt agrees
to send a non-partisan commission to in-
vestigate the elections which the Liberals
allege were fraudulent.
An independent Senator commenting
on the above statement, says the appoint-
ment of such a commission by President
Roosevelt is impossible as it would wound
Cuban independence, The parties must
settle the matter between themselves.
The sending of American troops here
would be no solution of the trouble. Pino
Guerra ]las stated his grievances and
now the Government should make its
reply.
A DOUBLE MURDER
Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. 27.-- •
John Harr and Mrs. Flora Hughes
were shot to death last night, and
the woman's husband, Jarrett O.
Hughes, is in jail, charged with the
crime. He denies knowing any-
thing about the shooting. The
streets were filled with people on
their way to church. Harr and
Mrs. Hughes were walking to-
gether dawn Third street. Just as
they got under a street lamp at
Jefferson street a man rushed out
from a foundry yard, walked be-
tween them and fired five revolver
shots, Harr dropped dead and Mrs.
Hughes died at the city hospital.
Hughes and his wife have been
separated for some time.
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A TORONTO GAME
TO PREVENT PUBLICATION OF
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Toronto, Aug. 27.7-(Special.)—Sonne of
the members of the legal fraternity are
displaying an eagerness to muzzle the
daily press so far ns the publication of
ex -parte proceedings at Osgoode Hall is
concerned. There is a movement now
on foot amongst them, it was learned
this morning, to have time Ontario Law
Society appear before the High Court
judges to ask them to issue orders to
prohibit the daily papers from publish-
ing writs, affidavits, etc„ before cases
for which these papers are made out
come before the court for trial. It is
expected the Toronto press at least will
offer a vigorous fight to this scheme.
which is compared to an act of a close
corporation.
A MATCH TRUST.
special to the
Chicago, Aug.
21.—A
Ch c
g
Tribune from San Franciscosay •
Japan
has entered into a compact with the Dia-
mond Match Company to forst an in-
ternational trust in matches on two con-
tinents. An English mnateh eoncern
dominated by 'Bryant 8, May will be
taken into the eonnbination. Negotia-
tions for the formation of the trust
have been
in p
rog
ress since the Reaso
-
Jrtpane5dwar. They were started by
Russell Hawkins, of New York, who was
sent to Japan a year ago,
PINAR DEL RIO BAS
NOT YET
The Cuban Insurgents' .Delay in Striking Lead* to
Hopeful Views.
Governxnent is Keeping Back What it Calls "False
News" From the Public..
Alleged Government Plots to Secure Assassina-
tion of Insurgent Leaders.
Ilavana, Aug. 27. —News from the
somewhat uncertain shifting "front" is
meagre early to -day due in a measure
to the Government's determination that
false reports from insurgent sources shall
not be generally circulated.
The expected battle in the vieinity of
1 inar del Rio is yet to be fougbt. Fail-
ure of the government forces to take the
offensive against the insurgent leader
Guerra and the latter's hesitancy in
striking the promised blow encourage
the hope that peace may be secured
without great bloodshed.
It is hinted in some quarters that the
insurgents do not seriously contemplate
the overthrow of the government and
would be quite satisfied if by making a
Show of force they could frighten or
persuade President Paints to restore cer-
tain deposed liberals to office and make
concessions as to the conduct of future
elections.
Claims and counter claims are frequent
but there is comparatively little actual
fighting.
At the palace little is given out. The
enrollment of volunteers continues horses
are being requisitioned and army nurses
are being sent to the front.
Skirmishes between small bands eon-
tinue.
From the field Col. Asbert ]las sent
the following message to the palace:
"We have taken up arms against the
government because we have reached the
conclusion the law and justice are not
to be established in this country by the
will of the government and beeause the
administration protected by an unscrupu-
ions judiciary, daily commits outrages
upon the conatitution azul despoil our
people of their legitimate rights. It is
our sole desire to establish the supreme
rule of law and restore affairs where
they were before the last eleetion.
"l'i'e do not intend to wage a bloody
war, because we look carefully when it
comes to the point of sacrificing our
brothers, Only when we are attacked by
government forces will we attempt to
defend ourselves, even , then avoiding
bloodshed as far as possible.
A correspondent at Pinar del Rio of
the Havana telegraph, who was arreated
yesterday on orders from the govern-
ment because it is said, he filed a press
despatch containing a statement both
untrue and unjust to the government,
wires his paper as follows:
"In Sabalo I saw Briagdier General
Pino Guerra, Colonels Julian Betancourt,
Brevet and Julian Cruz. Col. Betancourt
told me he had information that the
government had commissioned eight men
to assassinate him and Pino Guerra, but
since they knew who the men were they
proposed to hang them before they got
in their work.
"I intend to leave to -morrow for
Guane, there to witness the fight which
is due to take plaee between the re-
bels and the government forces. Pino
xpects re-inforeements at Bosco die Gal-
afre."
Tpyesvriter Campaign.
Havana, Aug. 27.—President Palma to-
day gave out a statement in which he
says that the insurrection has no ideals
and no programme, and that the cries
which the insurgents raised do not con-
stitute a programme, (deals or justifica-
tion for the movement.
A STORY OF
STOLYPIN'S NERVE,
An Epidemic of Crime Seems
in Russia.
London, Aug. 27. — An interesting
story is told of M. Stolypin, the Rttstiian
Premier, an attempt to kill whom on
Saturday resulted in the death of 32
persons and the maiming of many oth-
ers. When he was Governor of Saratov,
the Superintendent of Polies there avas
being attacked by a snob for carrying
out of orders that aroused their resent-
ment. Stolypin, seeing what was hap-
pening, rushed up between the Superin-
tendent and the angry crowd, exclaim-
ing: "If you want to kill the responsible
official, it is I. The Superintendent as
but doing his duty, executing any order-
Iie had no choice but to earry .them out!
It was I alone who issued them, and
Likely to Prevai
here I am:" The crowd, surprised at
Stolypin's courage, silently slunk away.
The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg
correspondent, connmenting on the out-
rage, says:
No political reforms can heal the pres-
ent moral gangrene which is eating
away the soul of the nation. Political
motives play hardly any part in the epi-
demic of loathsome crimes. The ideas of
right and wrong are wholly perverted.
Bestiality and humanity are now strug-
gling for the upper hand, and the
chances are on the side of bestiality. If
the Constitutional Democrats were in
power to -morrow the epidemic of crime
would continue, for the struggle is not
between this party or that, but between:
rascalclom and mien of law and order.
THE JOSH BILLINGS SPELLING;
VIEWS OF THE EDUCATORS.
What is Said of RooseveIt's Personal Action in
Its Support.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 27. --Amaze-
ment and amusement mixed in about
equal proportions here when it was
learned the President had started in to
reform the spelling of official publica-
tions by means of an executive order.
,rust where the President gets his au-
thority to commit the Government to the
Andrew Carnegie -Brander Matthews
brand of spelling reform is not altogeth-
er clear, There is no doubt the platter
will be brought up in. Congress next win-
ter and protests that are not altogether
humorous will be made against the Pre-
sident's action in introducing new-fangled
ways of spelling by executive fint.
"We must first secure uniform pronun-
ciation before We can hope to have a suc-
cessful phonetic system of spelling," said
Professor James Morgan Hart, head of
the English department at Cornell Uni-
versity, when asked this afternoon re-
garchng his opinion of the President's
spelling reform. "For that reason the
proposed new spelling will not be phon-
etic, hut will consist merely in the cut-
ting off of unnecessary letters, ns 'pro-
(.011111'
progam' for 'programme.' No great revo-
lution will follow in any. event. I cannot
say that I dislike the innovation, but the
inen at the head of it are not recognized
leaders and do not eomntand a very ex-
tensive following. They mean well, how-
ever, ami are heart and soul in their
work. I think President Roosevelt was
It bit hasty in adopting the so-called pho-
netic system for his State documents.
'1'lmere is considerable difference of opin-
ion among sehoiars regarding the re-
form, but I think I can safely say that
a large majority are opposed to it."
Professor ('harles Mea.lillan, of Prinee-
ton University, when told of President.
Roosevelt's plan to adopt the phonetic
system of spelling, said:
"Why, that almost takes say breath
away. I can hardly believe it possible.
As far as the practical side is concerned
you know that we American people do
not change our methods very easily. It
usually takes us quite some time to ac-
cept an extreme such as this. For my
part I do. not think it would be of any
value, for when we change our words to
spell them phonetically we lose their ori-
gin.
'i `len we dwe will have too this
begirt over again. Sto 1y the I
n piste
language is complicated enough as it is
now without making it still Worse. I be -
him we should by all means retain the
old methods of spelling, and I wish I
could have a voice in saying what was to
be done, whether we adopt the phonetic
system or not."
1 r •talo rdat
Dr. 'CharlesI. �. ,ret~, tun
fi
editor Uf thee lest rv t
etioner
and sec
of Washington have been in favor of this
movement and, in fact, the whole body
of scientific men have been urging us
to get the President and the Public Print-
es to adopt this spelling."
"I'nm against it," said Superintendent
of Schools E. G. Cooley, of Chicago.
"Whenever I see one of these confounded
words on a page it haunts me four or
five Lines ahead and as many after. It
gives me a pain. Why, the whole idea
reminds me of the fellow who wanted
Conti •ess to appropriate $50,000 for the
improvement of the alimentary canal. It
will take about as long to reform spell-
ing es it would to reform the alimentary
canal. It's all bunk. I know that you
can prove mathematically that by cut-
ting out a few letters you can save 19
seconds in every eight lines, but I guess
I'm a little old-fashioned in my views.
I'm against it"
Shaw's Opinion.
London, Aug. 27.—Among the numer-
ous opinions canvassed by the newspap-
ers of President Roosevelt's order with
regard to a reform in spelling, George
Barnard Shaw says: "There has been
nothing to it since Mehemet reformed
the calendar by making time year consist
of 12 lunar months. It serves us right.
The thing had to be taken in (land some-
how and if we refused to attend to our
own exports we must make the best of
the two energetic amateurs who have
forced our hands."
Two More Converts.
New York, Aug. 27.—The simplified
spelling board to -day announeed that
two distinguished British scholars had
accepted membership to testify edit'
sympathy wkh the new movement to
improve English orthography. One is
I)r T 1 H Murray, tbe senior editor of
the great Oxford dictionary of the Eng-
lish language, of which the assoeiate edi-
tor is Henry Bradley, who joined the
simplified spelling board some weeks ago.
The other is Prof. Joseph Wright, editor
of the English dialect dictionary. In
announcing these elections, Brander Mat-
thews, Chairman of the Board, saki:
"Prof. Swat, the editor of the English
Etv'mologieal dietionary, became a simm-
ber two months ago. The simplified spell•
ing hemi now contains the tditors of the
three English dictionaries, 'Webster, the
Century and the Standard.
y
Pa. --Mrs, Jersey .hire I a. . I
'�l .. 'A
lamitrtm�'t bar -
worth, �an 80,year-old resident of fide
place, awaited tine npproaeh of a fast
passenger train, Half a mile below the
station, eraw'led upon time track, knelt
EIS if in prayer, and them. with her face
away from the Waling, incoming Meomme-
tive, laid her head aerosol the rail, and
her lime wagg
d ate i inkling.
n a n tnkl]n .
Des Wines, -Frost was re rtad in
retary of the Simplifirdiftpt'liing 13osrd, Iowa lowlands to -day for the fltgrt thss
said this afternoon: "The .scientific men this sesstn.