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BRITISH INT[R[STS.
British Embassy at Washington. Complained
About Damage Done to Railway,
Railway Owners Were Anxious That the United
States Should Interfere.
Insurgents Destroyed Foreign Property So Roose-
velt Would Have to Take Action.
New York, Sept. 17. -The Timms to- Cienfuegos. The town of San Domingo,
day says: According to a story which which was attacked on Saturday by the
is being told in financial circles here, rho insurgents, Is on the Cuban Central Rail-
road.
The British Foreign Office communi-
cated with its embassy at Washington,
instructing it to inquire what action Pre-
sident Roosevelt was going to take in
Cuba to protect tho property of foreign-
ers from destruction. The Presidents for
political and other rea:ions, did not wish
to interfere in Cuba, but ho was forced
to take notice of the reasonable request
niado by the British Embassy.
"President Palma said officially that
no damage had been done to property
owned by Americans, which was perfect-
ly safe there. .The British property had
suffered, however, to the extent of some
tliottsands of dollars. The insurgents
knew that the best plan to get the in-
tervention of the United States was to
destroy the property of fereigners rather
than Americans, as they knew that the
respective governments would protest."
A Pittsfield, Mass., despatch to the
Tines says that Cecil Biggins, attache of
the British Embassy, last night express-
ed his belief that Ambassador Durand
had not requested the President to inter-
vene in Cuba because of damage to Brit-
ish properties, Protests, he added, had
been received at the embassy from Eng-
lish interests in Cuba and cable advices
were expected from foreign. offices in
London.
The Ambassador could not bo question -
real cause of the action of President
Roosevelt in regard to Cuba was not the
appeals of American sugar planters near
Cienfuegos, but a complaint made
through the British Embassy at Wash-
ington regarding tho damage clone to the
property of tho Western Railroad, which
is owned by British capitalists aiid the
heads of which are in London.
An interview with a Times reporter, a
prominent financier who arrived from
Cuba yesterday, said: "The management
of the Western Railroad at. Havana ca•
bled to the London office, stating that
culverts had boon. blown up, water re-
servoirs destroyed, and the traffic of tlio
linos totally paralyzed by the insurgents
and that further damage might be ex-
pected if the United States did not take
some action in the matter.
"The Western road runs from Havana
to Ricon, San Cristobal, Pinar del Rio
city, San Luis, and San Juan, a distance
of 125 miles, through the districts now in
revolt against the government. The
.Fompany was supported in its appeal for
-fotection to the Foreign Office in Lon-
don by the directors of the Cuban Cen-
tral Railway, also a British concern,
with head offices in London. This line
runs from Concha to Santa Clara and ed last might.
THE CIVILIZATION OF
CHINESE EMPIRE
GREAT PROGRESS OF THE CELESTIALS.
CELL f
SI
Made More Progress Than Any Other Country
Duringthe Past Five Years.
Shanghai, China, Aug. 4.-A competent
authority on the far cast declares that
the Chinese have made more progress
during the last five years than any oth-
er nation on earth, not excepting Japan.
He admits that China has not made
such advance in iron and coal produc-
tion as has the United States, but he
contends that Chinas has made a wider
nd more profound change in her whole
attitude toward western civilization than
has any other nation.
The latest proof that China's face is
set toward progress is found in the Tui»
perial decree issued hast Sunday promis-
ing a change of laws.
.A morn vital indication of progress is
found in the recent imperial decree mak-
ing some mastery of western learning
a condition of future employment in the
Government service. '.Chis decree docs
not affect existing office holders and
does not apply to office candidates who
bavo already completed the prescribed
course of Confucian learning and have re-
ceived the first and second degrees. Sia
nificence of the decree is found in the
fact that it prescribes the identical idea
for future candidates for office, which
the young Emperor prescribed eight
years ago, and which led to the Boxer
uprising.
A still more striking sign than this
paper decree is found in the fact that
Yuan Spilt Kai, the leading viceroy of
the Empire, has already established
more than five thousand primary and
secondary schools in the Chili province
in order to prepare the young people
of his province for the new government
courses. Ile is attempting to introduce
western learning and indeed the English
language into these schools as rapidly as
possible.
A more striking indication of the
adoption of not only western civilization
but of Christianity is found in the de-
cree just issued by Chang Chili Tung.
ordering Lhe New Testament to be intro -
timed into all the schools of the lluneh
and Hunan Provinces, over which he
rules. Ile thinks this superiority is due
10 the Bale, and in order to make the
Chinese not only equal but superior to
their western competitors lie orders the
New Testament taught aloioksids. the
Confucian classics among the 58,000,000
pronto over whom he rules.
Perhaps the most striking indication
of the Chinese desire for western progress
is found in the recent imperial decree
attempting to establish the Christian
Sabbath. The decree makes the Sabbath
day a legal holiday. linked, the recent
radical decree putting two native Chi-
uesc in charge of the inn erinl Customs
is likely to lead to the retirement of
Sir Robert hart, the ablest English offi-
DEATH OF TREPOEE THE "IRON -FISTED"
Illness Was Caused by Constant Strain Due to
Fear of Death, _Which Wore Him Down.
St, Petersburg, Sept. 15.----('enera►
Dimitri Feodorovicli Trepoff, coral utridkl
of the Imperial Palace, died to-n'ght in
his villa at Peterhof of angina pectoris,
General Trepoff would have been 51
years of age December 15. For several
months he had been suffering from a
heart affection and asthmatic troubles,
and some time ago was forced to aban-
don a large amount of the routine work
included in his duties as commandant of
the palace, but remained in office and
was still in touch with the l:inperor.
General T.repoff'il death was due to nit
NNW causes, but the revolutionists can
at least claim partial responsibility for
his end, as his illness was superinduced
by the constant strain due to perpetual
fear of death which, with laek of exer-
cise and recreation during the last two
years, worn down his originally supcill
constitution. IIe had become so nervous
of hate that recently when a military at-
tache of a continental power was unex-
pectedly ushered intry his room General
Trepoff sprang to his feet anti stood it
an attitude of defenee; but when he ro
cognized the visitor he sank into his
chair all unnerved.
The gravity of his malady was tern;,
sized, but his death came as a great stir
prise. Ito was able to bo up and arotuu
to the very last. General 'I'repoff's deal)
will not havo any immediate influence of
the policy of the Government which, fol
the time being at least, is firmly in Pre
prier Stolypin's hands.
Suc.eeds General Trepoff.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 10. • -Genera
i)edroulin, former Prefect of St. Peters
burg, will succeed the late General Trr•
puff as commandant of the Inlpelin
palace.
chi in Chins, and the demoralization of
the materna Service. In a word, China
i, tu•day where Japan, was thirty years
igo1 and if foreigners respond to one
of the greatest opportunities svidelt ever
ronfrontc4L the western nations and
guide this groping empire into modern
liberty, modern education and modern
inventions, 437,000,000 human beings wilt
emerge into western civilization within a
generation.
CUBAN FIGHT
AT AN END.
j3EFORE SECRETARY'TAFT ARRIVES
IN CUBA.
United Warships in Havana Harbor -
After Consultation With Leading
Men, Government Announces Stop-
page of hostilities Before United
States Intervenes.
Havana, Cuba, Sept, 16. -After a con-
sultation with the leading men who aro
under arrest here charged with conspir-
acy and emissaries of the revolutionists,
the Governempt has announced the in-
definite stoppage of all hostilities on its
part, with the object of staking peace
before Secretary of War Taft arrives or
the United States intervenes.
Three American warships are the most
imposing and interesting objects in Ha-
vana Bay to -day. Their presence unde-
signedly, yet pointedly, is typical of the
fact that it is the intention of the Unit-
ed States to take a hand in Cuban af-
fairs to the extent at least of bringing
order out of the present chaotic con-
dition.
The cruiser Des Moines arrived this
morning, and the auxiliary cruiser Dixie,
with 250 marines on board, and ready at
a moment's notice to land field pieces
and rapid-fire guns, came this evening.
Cormnander, Culver, of the Dos Moines,
and Lieutenant -Commander I•Iolmos, of
the Dixie, reported to Commander Col-
well, of the cruiser Denver, who, being
the senior officer, is in command of the
squadron.
Commander Colwell Busy.
If Commander Colwell's mission here
was in the nature of making a piece no-
gotiation he could hardly be snore busy.
He is receiving delegates representing in-
surgents, and even some of the insur-
gents themselves, 'who aro anxious
through him to negotiate peace of some
kind. IIe held consultations with these
emissaries, but declines to do otherwise
than recommend that they go to their
Government. This suggestion bore fruit
this afternoon to the extant that there
was some talk between the emissaries
and Governor Lunes, which may lead to
something more definite. But while
these men are assuring Commander Col-
well that hostilities have been held up
on account of their endeavors to nego-
tiate for peace, the fact is' that fighting
proceeded outside Havana both Friday
evening and this afternoon.
Hover Around Island.
Washington, Sept. 10. -It was an-
nounced at the Navy Department to-
night that the battleships Louisiana,
Virginia and New Jersey have been or-
dered down the Atlantic coast on a
shakedown cruise, and that they have
been directed to keep in touch with the
Goevrnment at Washington by wireless
telegraph, and, if necessary, in the
event of an emergency arising, they will
be sent to Havana. It was also stated
that the cruisers Talcoma and Cleve -
loud have sailed from Norfolk, Va., and
that the cruisers Minneapolis and
Newark will follow them. The Minne-
apolis and Newark carry about 700 men
altogether and the Tacoma 150. Should
all these vessels go to Havana the navy
would be able to land a force of 4,000
men in Cuba by Wednesday or Thursday
if any development should occur render-
ing such action necessary.
Mr. Bryan's Impression,
Roanoke, Va., Sept. 10. -William J.
Bryan to -night gave the first expression
he has made on the present Cuban situ-
ation.
"I am very glad," he said, "that the
Administration recalled the troops land-
ed at Havana. While we should do
all in our power to bring about peace
by offering the good offices of our coun-
try, we have no business interfering
with their local affairs. They must
sotto their disputes among themselves,
but I would be glad if both parties
would be willing to accept mediation
with the idea of bringing about an agree-
ment through the good offices of our
Government."
TRADES CONGRESS TO -DAY.
Astatic Labor Question Will Be Big
Theme of Discussion.
Victoria, B. C., Sept. 16. -The Canad-
ian Trades Congress, which opens its
twenty-second annual convention here to-
morrow, will be called upon to consider
tho most important question touching
labor in British Columbia, that is Asiatic
coolie immigration, specially as regards
the proposed reduction of the $500 head
tax on Chinese, and the recent and grow-
ing influx of Hindus.
The proposed formation of an bide -
pendent political labor party in Canada
will also be considered.
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WILL ALL GO OUT.
STRIKE IN WINNIPEG BUILDING
TRADES TO -DAY.
Bricklayers and Masons Decide to Join
the Other Trades in a Sympathetic
Strike With the Plumbers -Regarded
as Little Short of a Disaster.
'Winnipeg, Sept. 16. -At the final
meeting of the unions interested on Sat-
urday afternoon a general strike of
building trades was definitely decided
upon, and will bo precipitated tomor-
row morning. The bricklayers and ma-
sons have reconsidered their decision not
to strike and will go out in sympathy,
making the tic -up very general. It is
regarded as little short of a disaster at
this time of the year, when so much im-
portant building is in progress. Buiiding
permits to data have reached tine splcn-
tlid total of $10.i178,600, which exceeds
the permits issued for the same period
last year by $630,150.
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HOTEL COLLAPSES.
Four Killed and Many Injured in
Me::ioo.
Chihuahua, 110\1e0, Sept. 10. -in the
talion ie yesterday of the walla of the
Hotel Gomez Parks in this city four
pe1.'ius were killed and many others
were injnt•ed.
The lintel ass.; popular 11111011g:t poorer
alas of travellers. Some of the wounded
mom die.
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Dowie's Farewell Ser-
mon
Chicago, Sept, r7 John Alex.
Dowie yesterday announced a fare -
welt service at Shiloh House for
next Sunday.
Immediately after this service
be will leave for Mexico, if his
physical condition will permit, and
it is not expected, that he will ever
see Zion City again.
In a communication from the old
leader, which was read at the
Tabernacle by Elder Arrington, he
advised his loyal followers to re-
main away from the polis at the
election for a new general overseer
to -morrow,
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SWINDLER AT WORK.
MME. HUMBERT HAS AGAIN TYPNO-
TISED ALL PARIS..
Playing Gigantic Bluff -Tier Renewed
Declaration of Reality of Crawford
Millions Subject of Discussion.
Paris, Sept. 16. -That remarkable woman,
Mme. Humbert, threatens to be as con-
spicuous out of jail as she 'was before she
was imprisoned for the famous swindle.
Not only docs she tails as big as ever, but
Paris listens. She is dogged by journalists
in cabs, columns are devoted to her, and her
renewed declarations o the reality on the
Crawford millions are displayed and dis-
cussed. IIer theatrical methods of gigantic
bluff were resumed immediately on her re-
lease, and aro seriously and minutely report-
ed. Sho went t othe .Continental Hotel and
asked for a particular suit of elegant cham-
bers, but couldn't got it, and took a 20 -franc
room elsewhere with only 11 francs in her
pocket. The morning after hor release ton
Papers each claimed to have the only gen-
uine interview with her, 'which led to tho
observation that sho is now discovering mys-
terious journalists instead of wills. Yes-
terday she declared that sho was going to
London to find the Crawfords.
PRESS A BULWARK OF SANITY.
Sir James Crichton-Browne Pays a Tri-
bute to the Newspaper.
London, Sept. 16. -Sir James Crichton-
Browne, an authority on rnental and nervous
diseases, in an address at Blackpool had
something to say in regard to the position
of modern newspapers in pharmacopoeia. Sir
James appears to believe in the newspapci'
cure against the essentially modern com-
plaint of nerve lassitude, as is apparent from
the following sentences:-
"I
entences:"I say deliberately that the newspaper,
with all Its faults, is ono of the bulwarks
of sanity at the present epoch. It is the
antidote to corroding egotism and gives a
world-wide horizon to the purblind and short-
sighted. It is real and earnest in its tragedy
and comedy, while a novel is only a make-
believe. It suppllees smacks of biography
in the form of gossip. In manfuctures he-
roes by the dozen and it urnlshes an easily
digestible intellectual pabulum. Many a man
has been saved from melancholy and fatuity
by his daily paper. Suppress your news-
papers and you will have to enlarge your
lunatic asylums."
4.4.
BOY KILLED.
FREIGHT TRAIN RAN INTO AN EX-
CURSION TRAIN.
Piqua, Ohio, Sept. 17.-A Pan Handle
freight train ran into a Cincinnati, Ham-
ilton & Dayton excursion train yester-
da,y', killing a boy and injuring several
persons. Both trains were eastbound.
.11 a excursion train was standing on a
siding, the engine partly on the main
Lr tele. The freight struck the Cinein-
lu8ti, Ifamilton & Dayton engine with ter-
rific force, tearing it Loose from the
coaches and carrying it 200 yards across
Olt bridge spanning the Miama slyer.
Lester Eicher, a boy, of Trenton, Ohio,
Jumped from the passenger train and fell
bider the wheels of the freight. The
injured will recover.
SHOCK AT SEA.
VESSEL SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE
UNDER THE PACIFIC.
San Francisco, Sept. 17. -Tho lumber
laden ship Hubert Searles has arrival
from Tacoma and Northern ports. Cap-
tain Piltz, in command, says a severe
disturbance of the water was felt on the
morning of September 14. As near as
could be determined the shock was ex-
perienced at a point in the Pacific in lati-
lude 41 degrees 18 minutes 1100111, long-
itude 1.25 degrees 52 minutes west. So
severe was the disturbance that the car-
go and upper works of the vessel were
shaken. The captain and second officer
re, orded the length of the shock at 22
minutes.
STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK.
London Teamsters Reach an Agreement
With Railways.
London, Ont., Sept. 10. Mr. J. B.
Cameron, of Toronto, arrived here on
Saturday morning and with Mr. Gray,
foreman of the Shedden Company, met
the committee 'of the teamsters in the
afternoon. Ho promised them on lila
own authority the same temps as the
Toronto men had received --that is, $44
per month and shorter hour's, Mr. Cam-
eron asked the men to return to work
lull give the company two weeks to con-
sider this. The men acceded to his re-
quest and returned to work at once. If
the G. T. R. refuse to ratify Mr. Camer-
on's agreement the men go on strike
again in two weeks.
The Pere Marquette teamsters were
infomed this morning that they would
receive $45 per month for a 10 -hour day
and extra pay for overtime. they then
returned to work.
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IT WAS TIER GIRL'S 13ABY.
Peterboro' Grandmother Admits Putting
Child on Step.
Teterboro', Sept, 15. ----The mystery as
to who left the two -days' -old child in a
peach basket in a doorway at 143 Sineoe
street last night was cleared up today
when Mrs. Mary Donnelly, of blilibrook,
grandmother of the infant, gave herself
up to the police. She stated that she
did nut know she was committing a
crime in depositing the infant in the
doorway, lutd promised to take the
baby away to her Home. This she dM
and was allowed to go by the magis-
trate. John Iafavre, a barber, whose
name was written on the slip of paper
lnarry Mrs. Donnelly's daughter, who is
.sixteen years old, and is the mother of
,the child. Lafavro skipped out a few
days ago.
Mrs. Donnelly says she left the infant
tut the door of the shop, where Lela-
vrc was formerly employed, just for
spite.
BADLY HURT.
ST. CATHARINES MAN STRUCK BY
TROLLEY WHILE DRIVING.
(.'atharincs, Sept. 17. -(Special.) ---
1.). 11I. McLean, secretary of the Local
Wench of the Jcnekes Machine Company,
met with a severe accident yesterday
afternoon. Ito was driving along Nia-
gara strait when the main lino trolley
on the N., S. & T. Railway, in charge
of Conductor George Jackson and Motor-
man Wm. Coombs approached. The
motorman as soon as he saw he was in
danger of striking the rig applied the
Makes. The car,. however, could not bo
stopped before it struck the conveyance.
Mr. McLean had his al*e older and a
cenple of ribs fractured. Ile was taken
to his Home and Dr. Jery sunnnoned.
11r. McLean passed a bad night last
night, but this morning was reported as
progressing favorably.
NEWS IN BRIEF
CANADIAN
Mr, 11. J. Bulmer, road superintendent
of the Toronto & York Radial Railway,
died suddenly.
Lady Macdonald, widow of the lata
Canadian Premier, is staying at Tober•
mory, Mull.
The bodies of Francis E. Blackwell and
Charles Palmer, victims of the Azilda
wreck, here, reached Toronto.
The Ex -Deputy Chief of Police W. E.
Stuart, of Toronto, got off a Belt Line
car while in motion, and fell, receiving
severe concussion of the brain.
Tho schooner Julia Larson drifted
away from Goderich harbor on Saturday
night, and two tugs searched for her
all day Sunday in vain.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil B. Smith left To-
ronto this afternoon for a trip to British
Columbia, where they will join the mem-
bers of the Canadian Society of Civil
Engineers on their tour.
The Ontario Gazette has a proclama-
tion declaring Thursday, the lath of Oc-
tober, Thanksgiving Day, and another
declaring that tho Village of Chalky has
been incorporated as a town.
The funeral of Henry Herman, W. B.
and Thomas B. Puddicome, victims of
the railway wreck, took place on Sat-
urday. Memorial services were held yes-
terd,ay in all the churches at New Ilam -
burg.
The completion of the James Bay
Railway to Parry Sound was marked
by a trip yesterday over the road by
Mr. D. D. Mann, First Vice -President,
and party. The trip was made in six
hours, the distance being 150 miles.
Mrs. Agnes Wray, widow, 454 Spence
street, Winnipeg, was run over Saturday
night by an automobile without lanterns
or horn and fatally injured. The mis-
creants in the machine disappeared round
a side street and the police have been
unable to trace them.
Hector Strathy Miller, sixteen years
of age, son of Mr. Kenneth A. Miller,
bookkeeper in the woods and forests
branch of the Ontario Department of
Lands and Mines, was struck by a
street car on College sertte west Toro -
to yesterday afternoon and last night
it was said his life was in danger.
John S. Dewar, for nearly 40 years
city editor of the London Free Press,
died at his home there yesterday. De-
ceased was widely known both through
his newspaper connection and also
through his prominence in Masonic cir-
cles. Mr. Dewar was an ex -chairman of
the London Board of Education.
Lawyer Hancock and Mr. Simon Met-
calfe, when returning late on Saturday
night from the G. T. R., station, Conces-
sion street, Woodstock, saw a cloaked
and veiled woman on the track whose ac-
tions excited the suspicion that she was
going to commit suicide by throwing her-
self in front of a moving train. The
woman was in the very act of commit-
ting the rash deed when the men ran
forward to interpose. As soon as she
saw thein coming she fled fast up the
track and disappeared along a dark street.
There is no cluo to her identity.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The United States tug Potomac has
sailed for Newfoundland to prosecute an
inquiry into the fisheries.
Mrs. 1lary hill, of Petoka, Pa., was
injured while stepping out of a pew in
St. Andrew's Church, Toronto.
Lightning yesterday exploded 1110
powder magazine at the forts at Mont-
faucon, France, Sevcri persons were kill -
ad and many injured.
Countess Tolstoi continues gravely ill.
and Professor Inemanoff, surgical ex-
pert of the St. Petersburg University, has
been summoned to Yasnaya Polyana for
a consultation.
A St. Petersburg despatch. to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company says it is
estimated that ten sten a day have been
put to death since the institution of sum-
mary courtmartial by ukase of the Czar
tell day ago.
FOUND*.A.
RIVER.
DUKE OF ABRUZZI'S DISCOVERY IN
INTERIOR OF AFRICA.
New York, Sept. 17.--A special to tin+
Herald from Marseilles says that the
Duke of Abruzzi, who has tu'rived there,
has just magic announcement that one
of the most important scientific results
achieved in his latest explorations in the
interior of Afriett was the discovery of
a river never before dkseribed in any
geography. Ile marked it course, and
neasnred its whin, and flow.
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PASTOR DROPS DEAD.
Newburgh, N. Y., Sept. 17. --The Rev.
William K. Hall, D. D., pastor of the
First Presbyterian 'Chur'eh for thiriy.
four years, dropped dead this morning of
heart disease. Ile was prominent in the
Presbyterian body, having been iiioder-
ator of the New York ,synod in 1878
and in 1903.
During the civil war lit was chaplain
of the 17th Cnnneetieut Volunteers. Dr.
Hall was born in Boston lu. 1934, and is
survived by a widow and t.rree Children.
BY AGENTS OF THE REVOLUTIONISTS.
German Embassy Asks 'That German Subs be
Protected in the Baltic Provinces.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 17. --Nile insecur-
ity of life and property in the Baltic
provinces, which culminated last Satur-
day in the murder of. Herr Hush, a rich
(german manufacturer, and the leader of
the German colony, at Riga, has led the
Gelman Embassy here again to make
energetic representations to the Foreign
Office concerning the adoption of meas.
urea for the 1)1'oteetiotl of German sub-
jects. Bush was killed by agents of the
revolutionary ,organization engaged In
levying tribute. There are five thousand
German subjects living in Riga.
Front Odessa, where the solidi' io, s are
almost as bad as in Use Saltie I'rot'-
inees, the EmbassieS have been 111100m -
ed that guards have been furnished for
the consulates and the residences of tine
various consuls.
The Ministeries of the Interior, Just-
ice and War have sent commissioners to
investigate the recent massacre at iii•
edlce. 'Ilio commissioners have been In-
structed to investigate especially the
charges of unrestrained looting and kill-
ing by soldiers, and to fix the respon-
sibility.
BICYCLIST RUN DOWN AND KILLED
BY AN AUTOMOBILE ON SATURDAY
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Every Effort Was Made to Save the Man's Life
But Without Avail.
Chicago, Sept. 17.-A despatch to Oa
Tribune from Hartland,'Wis., says: As
George Farling, son of the President of
the Milwaukee rand was driving Ida au-
tomobile on Saturday, he collided with
Alfred Overland, a passing bicyclist. The
latter was thrown, picked up unconsci-
ous by Mr. Earling, and was rushed to
a hotel in Mr. Earring's auto. and a phy-
sician summoned. The doctor found the
man's skull fractured at the base of the
brain.
A. little later, A. J. Ending, President
of the Milwaukee road, arrived at the
hotel, and ordered every possible effort
exerted to save the man's life. He or-
dered a special train from Milwaukee
carrying Dr. Horace Manchester Brown
to the stricken man's aid. It was all in
vain, however, for Overland died yester-
day, His body will be sent to his former
Home in Ohio.
STOOD BY AMERICANS IN MANILA BAY.
Death by Pneumonia of Rear -Admiral Sir Edward
Chichester, of British Navy.
Gibraltar, Sept. 17. -Rear Admiral Sir
.Edward Chichester, who commanded the
British squadron at Manila during the
Spanish-American war, died here today
of pneumonia, after an illness of a few
days.
Rear Adiniral Chichester was chief of
the sea -transport service during the
South African war. 1Iis work in trans-
porting a quarter of a million men five
Lhousaud miles to South Africa won hint
the greatest praise.
It was Sir Edward Chichester, who, ac-
cording to report, "stood by" the Ameri-
cans in Manila Bay at the time when
friction between Admiral Dewey and the
German commander teemed likely to lead
to serious consequences.
An account of the affaif, printed in a
London paper, said that "when the Amer-
ican and German fleets were grinning
defiance at each other in parallel lines,
their decks cleared for action, Captain
Chichester stolidly steered the British
squadron between thein, giving indeed an
exhibition of calmness, tact and nautical
good humor that probably saved a battle
which would have resulted in disaster
to the peace of the world."
WANTED TO DIE.
MAN TRIES SUICIDE BY CONVERT-
ING SELF INTO HUMAN TORCH.
Chicago, Sept. 17. -Peter Lehr, a con-
trattor, attempted suicide at Wilmette
to -day by converting himself into an oil -
soaked human torch. IIe is dying at the
,Evanston Hospital.
The deed, precipitated in a moment of
deep despondency, almost cost the Jives
of three women. In attempting to
quench the oil -fed flames, Mrs. Minnie
Andrews, Miss Anna Albert and Miss
Anna Gutman were severely •burned•.
They will recover.
Lehr chose such a fearful method of
putting an end to his life ,becouse lus
mother had forestalled the adoption of
a more humane and less agonizing
means. The mother, fearful of Lehr's
intention, had hidden the man's shotgun
the night before.
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WITTE OPERATED ON.
Berlin, Sept, 17.-A despatch to the
Lokal Anzieger from Homburg say:. that
Count. Witte, ex -Premier of Russia, was
operated upon yesterday for the fifth
time by Professor Spiess. The operation
was a slight one.
Count Witte is being treated at Hom-
burg for polypi of the nose.
PERSIAN COUNCIL
Teheran, Persia, Sept. 17. -According
to an ordinance just published the new
Persian National Council will consist cif
150 members. Teheran will be represent-
ed by 00 members, while the provinces
will send 96. A general election will be
held every two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Pendlington end two
daughters have returned from their va-
cation spent at Atlantic city and Phil-
adelphia.
• St. Thomas Times: James Barry, of
Hamilton, accompanied by his brother,
Arthur, of Dundee, Scotland, has re-
turned home, after visiting Mrs. M.
Smith, 21 Alma street.
Kills Child and Herself.
New York, Sept. 15. -Mrs. Victor An -
Gloms 35 years old, cut the throat -of her
thine -)ear -old daughter, Annie, to -day in
her home in Jersey City. Then, going to
the roof, she jumped to the street, three
stories below. The child is dead and
the mother is dying. The woman was
insane.
COMING HERE.
New York, Sept. 17. -Gov. Sir 1Villiam
Cray Wilson arrived here to -day on the
steamer Yucatan from Nassau, New Pro-
vidence. He is en route to Canada.
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Toronto's profit on land sales since
the first of the year is $60,000.
ATTEMPT TO KILL. COUNT WITTE.
Former Russian Premier Was Attacked at Soden
by Russian Jew.
:Cow York, Sept. 16.---A cable to The Sun from Berlin says: The rapers
here print a report of an attempt to murder Count Witte, the former Ilus-
sian Premier. who is staying at Soden. a health re -int in the Taurus Mountains.
The man who made the attempt at assassination is said. to be a Russian
Jew named Rosenberg. He was arrested just as he was about to carry out
his purpose.
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