HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-11-17, Page 7ROOSEVELT THE MAN
BY SWEEPINO MAJORITY.
The Northern States Go Solidly for the Republican
Party and its Principles.
The Southern States Give Majorities in Every
Instance for the Democratic Party.
Roosevelt Declares He Will Not be a Candidate for
the Presidency Again,
For Roosevelt.
"California 44440'0 44‘ Pt 04 Popo 10
*Coloraao 04 4.0 .61.44 OP .. 5
*0010144101.4 .4 PO •40 44 P*44 7
3)elavrara 9999 4 4,4.40. 3
Illlnois .... nen „en 27
Indiana, 40 f4 .0 41. op .. ..444 15
Iowa
kan004 444. POkt ..40 op 999 a 9 10
f Maine r • o r too • • 14 • • 4,•.
Massachusetts ., • 4, •• • 16
Michigan oe 14
1411naeSOta 4.4 40.4 401 1,440 11
Montana „ „. „,3
11g1560114101 4, so ,sa4 *40: ,ay. 18
Nebrasna ..„„ „ 8
New Hampshire .. 4
New Jersey .. ....' 12
neorth Dakota
Ohio 23
Oregon . ......... .. .4
Pennsylvania, ..„ 34
Rhode Island .. 4
South Dakota .. 4
Vermont „ .... 4
Washington „ .. 5
West Virginia .. 7
Wisconsin ,... 13
Wyoming p. .. oil, 04 04.04 .. 3
roti ...... 1,326
For Parker. •
- /Alabama. ...... 11
• .Arkansas ...............9
Florida .. „ ... 5
Georgia, ...... .... 13 •
Kentucky . „ 13
Louisiana s 9
Mississippi .. 10
North Caroline, 12
South Carolina „ 9
Tennessee 12 •
' Texas .. 18
Virginia .. .. • .. .... 12
1 s Total .. 133
7 — .Doubtful.
aeon
Idaho . ...... 3
Maryland 8 •
Nevada ..... . — 3
Utah .. — 3
Total .. 17
Necessary le elect, 239.
A• GREAT VICTORY.
Roosevelt Elected. by an Overwhelming
• Majority.
- New 'York, Nov. 9, 1 a. m.—Returns up
to this hour show that so far as the elec-
tion of President is concerned, it is may
a matter of the size of the pluralities.
The Republican vote in the Electoral
College will to the unprecedented one
es
of 325 for Roosevlt and Fairbanks to
151 for Parkr and Davis. Not only is
this far in excess oe Mr. McKinley's
vote, 292, in 1900, but Judge Parker's
vote is four less than that given Mr.
Bryan four years ago. It is practically
certain that the Republican party has
carried every state in, the Union out-
side of the so-called "solid South.”
Mr. Roosevelt has a vote apparently
much larger than that given to Wane=
McKinley four years ago. His plurali-
tiesiin almost every itepublican etate
Annexceed those of McKinley, net by lam -
Weds; but by thousands. In, New York
State, for ,instance, he has a plurality of
more than 200,000. Mr. McKinley ho.d
143,551. In Connecticut and New Jer-
sey, which the Democrats were calling
doubtful States only yesterday, Mr.
Roosevelt' pluralities greatly exceed
anything ever given.
The vote in Greater New York was a
disappointment to the Democrats, not
coming anywhere near to that given for
Coler two yenta ago.
The New Yolk Legislature continua
to be Republican by a large majority,
ensuring the election of a United States'
Senator to succeed Senator Chauncey M.
Depew. s "
The so-called. doubtful States of West
Virginia and Indiana, and Montana give
their vote to Roosevelt.
The States ef Maryland and Missouri
which were coneedea to Parker by. both
parties, aro found•in the Republican col-
umn.
The returns from Congressional dis-
tricts indicate further gains. The Re-
publicans will have a larger majority in
the next Congress than they have in the
present one. In, New York State Mr,
• • n
see, • The Democrats made gains In
Texas,
Gov, La Follette Itas been, re-elected
in 'Wisconsin by an estimated plurality
of 20,000. Itooseveltes plurality will prob.
ably be 75,000.
The greatest plurality ever given to
any candidate for office in the 'United
States was given by Pennsylvania to
Roosevelt, the figures being about 350,-
000. In 1896 McKinley had 301,000. Only
one Democrat is surely known to have
been elected to Congress.
Michigan rolled up a pliirality for
Roosevelt of about 126,000, a gain of
20,000 over bleleinley's plurality in 1900,
Roosevelt carried Illinois by 140,090,
an unprecedented, pluraliey. ,Debs re-
ceived about 40,000 vases in Chicago for
President.
In. Missouri, whine Breen carried by
37,8311 plurality ever Meleinley, Roose-
velt s triumphant. His plurality will
probablv be 20,00(1 Folk earned the
Democratic Mate ticket to victory.
Iowa gives Robsevelt the immense
plurality of 150,000 to 175,000. •
In Washington State Roosevelt's plu-
rality is estimated at from 30,900 to
40,000. McKinley got only 12,023 in 1900.
The Democrats conceded Kansas to
Itoosevelnity,50,000, and the Republicans
claim a, plurality of 100,001/ -
North and SouthDakota give Roose-
velt 'pluralities of 15,00 to 16,000.
Roosevelt's vote in etrybming shows a
gain over McKinley's plurality.
In Oregon there was a small vote, but
the State is safely Repnblican.
Colorado's vote was close, but late
returns give the State to Roosevelt, and
re-elect Gov. Peabody.
Minnesota goes strongly for noose -
.volt, where the plurality • may reach
Kopp, The, result on the, ntete ticket
was in doubt at a tato hour.
California gives Roosevelt fully. 50,000,
better than she gave McKinley four
years ago. • r
A New Democratic Party.
The result 6f to -day's balloting was
astounding, even to the most sanguine
of the Republican managers. Confident
as they were of success, they were not
prepared for the astonishing figures
which followed the closing of the pets,
bringing into the Republican column
not only all those States they had claim-
ed as safe .for the candidates, but
with ,the possible exception of Mary-
land, every State classed as doubtful.
• Democratic successes are confined to
the solid South, in which Kentucky is
hecluded, and Mi. Parker Itas not carried
a single State which did not give its
vote to Mr..Bryfia four years ago.
Unofficial returns indicate that he has
lost some of those which the Nebraskan
candidate held for his party.
As a dramatic climax to the sensa-
tional majorities given to him, came
President Roosevelt's formal announce-
ment that he would not be a candidate
for re-election. lending the only excite-
ing aspect to an election night oeher-
wise sot one-sided that it was impos-
sible for even the victors to attain
that degree of enthusiasm whieh usu-
ally marks the occasion. Late in the
night tame an announcement from •
Melvin G. Palliser, manager of the
campaign for elevens E. Watson, Pres-
idential candidate of the People's party,
that as a result of the overwhelming
Democratic defeat steps would be
taken -to form a new party.
PARKER AND ROOSEVELT.
Defeated.. Candidate Telegraphs Con-
gratulations to the Victor.
Esopus, N. Y., Nov. 8.—At 8.30 p. m.
Judge Parker sent this telegram to the
President:
"Rosemount, Esopus, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1904.
"The President, Washington, D. C.:
'The people by their votes havo em-
phatically approved your administra-
tion, and 1 congratulate you.
, (Signed) "Alton B. Parker."...
Rossevelt's Reply.
Washington, D. C., elev. 8.—President
Roosevelt's reply to Judge Parker's
telegram was as follews:
Al"ton B. Parker, Rosentount, X. Y.:
"I thank yea for your congratula-
tions.
(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt."
Higgins is elected Governor by whetIIDGE PARKElt WAS CALM.
looks to be a large majority. • —
-1..Alassaehusetts gives Roosevelt about Received Return in Study Smoking With
•se/70,000 plurality. Daugles, the Democrat-
ict candidate for Gove)nor, is elected by Frielsds.
from 12,000 to 0.000 plurality. The Esopus, X. Y., Nov. 8.—Judge Parker
Democrats elect three and perhaps four conceded the election of President
Congressmen. Rockwood Hoar, Repeb- Roosevelt at 8.30 te In., 'when he receiv-
liean, is elected. in the- Third -District, ed a bulletin that the Democratic Na-
which is now •represented by Thayer, tiorial headquarters had already Admit. -
Democrat, ted that every doubtful State lad been
Returns from Rhode Island indicate carried by the Republican National
that Roosevelt has carried the State ticket. He appeared to ne not Vail
and that Gov. Garvin (Dom.) has been
defeated. lieltenley's plurality in the
State in 1900 was 13,072.
New Hampshire's plurality for Roos°.
'vett will equal, if not exteed, the 10,310
given for leceeiriley four years ago.
Increast in all Republican States,
In Connecticut, Roosevelt's plurality is
about 30,000, against 28,558 for nIcKire
ley four years ago. Tho Republicans
elect the five Congressuien and the eh
tire State ticket,and will have an over-
Whelniing majority in the Legislature,
which elects a 'United States Senator to
succeed nen. Hawley,
Maine gives Roosevelt 30,000 or 35.000.
It gave McKinley a plarality of 98,500
in 1900,
llooseveins eluralitir irt Vermont will
exceed that given for McKinley four
‘,...V6111 no, 1,111611 was 294729.t
Neer Jereey goes Republican by an in
creased plurality oVer that of 1000..
Delaware's Republitali plurality is
7,000. The Tregialitture is eve-m.1161in
ingly iteptiblieati, and the indications
Are that J. Edward Aailicks lies enougl
votes to bled hitnelelf 'United States
Senate?.
ay1atides in the Republitan column
by a small plerelitv.
The &lid Seet4.
downeast by t o result, although it '3 it, nnirder trial.
Tbe one thing that is hot known yet
knowri that he greatly deplored hes .
overwhelming defeat in les own State.
Ins received the diseouraging news ni is the motive that raised the. murderini
, hand. to fire the fatal shot. As far as en
his study, where he sat smoking with i investigation not
tem neighborn yet concluded he
of his s
been carried, however, the motive le
Judge Barker retired at 11.40 onloek,1
denining to make any statement be- this case, as in some of the others, ap
1 pears to have been wholly trivial an'
•
PRESIDENT ROOSelIVELT.
EVEN INOMEll
DONE TO 0Eilili.
Dreadful Murder Record in
New Orleans.
Five White and Two Colored
Fernald Meet Death.
Prison Full of Murders, but
• Nobody Hanged Yet.
Luke Ferris Mete), killed. Emma
Sine:eon. Juno 7. 1904.
Charles P. Riviere (white), killed Mrs.
Reviere, July 11, 1904.
J. H. Dixon (white), killed Annie
Rhodes, September 26, 1904.
Chris V. Modersolin (White), killed
Pearl Murphy, October he 1904. -
William Kirst (white), chaeged. with
killing Georgiana October 27,
1004.
Henry—Boyce( negro), killed Maria
Stevenson, March 13, 1904. .
even on account of killing persons in
New Orleans alone, John Reilly, who
entered the prison on Saturday, charged
with the murder of John Hylaid, over a
card game ar few nights ago, makes the
tweneieth. Three of these are . sentenced
to earth—Lewis W. Lyons, Sean As -
para and Louis Sejours. 'Their cases
are now pending before the Supreme
Court. Another prisoner is under life
sentence. All the rest, acme of whom
were committed many months ago,
have never boon brought to trial in the
Criminal District Cburt, in which
Chandler C. Luzenberg, the District At-
torney, is the chief prosecuting officer.,
Seven Wemen Killers.
But the appalling features of present
criminal conditions in the city is the
fact that of the number of prisoners
charged with murder in New Orleans.
seven have killed women. rive of the
seven are white men, who are at:eased of
killing white women, some of whom
confessed and gloated over their bloody
work, and the other two are negroes
who made no concealment of their
crime. In each case the killing of the
women was characterized by a wanton.
ness of brutality that • was nothing
short of butchery of the victims. Some
of these atrocious and clearly proven
mimes were committed many months
ago and the perpetrators captured red.
handed, yet none of the prisoners have
been carried further toward an ac-
counting for their deeds than a prelimin
ary , examination. Nona. have been
prosecuted promptly and vigorously
and made to serve an• example to deter
other like criminal natures from adding
Vandyke Johnson (negro), killed Jose- another murder to keep the carnival of
phine' Penny, October 10,- 1904. I blood-letting, going an. The wretches
who did their fearful work confessed it
. New Orleans, Nov. 15.—Five white and they laughed gloatingly as the
and two negro women done to death in hand ef the law laid hold of them, New Orleans Orleans within a year at the hands tinue to exist in idleness in their eells
while the others who seek to escape
of men. The five white women slaugh- their just punishment either plan and
tered within as many months. •This is essay the insanity dodge or gain the
the soul -sickening, unprecedented record benefit ot time to soften the popular
sentiment against tbem.
of blood letting, in which defenceless
and in every case unsuspecting women And here are the hideous stories that
make up the record of the livoa of
have been the victims, as revealed by women taken in New Orleans within the
tee police annals of the city within the last several months by men actuated by
brief time stated. Bucketsful of wom- which there was not a
spark. of mercy for the elnieking victim
exes blood spilled in every quarter of
hurled into eternity with the revolver
the city to satisfy the fiendish anger bullet or the swift knife stroke, and not
of men who scarcely pretend to have a a motive that could find a place in the
motive for snatching the lives of the breast of the kind of manhood that is
gentlest and most defenceless of the either usful or desirable to the State or
human kind. A carnival of crime which society.
is seldom paralleled. in criminal history, The Killing of Emma Simpson.
and which from the fact that so many
women are made the victims causes On June 17 of this year Luke Ferris,
general amazement. a young newspaper carrier, who bed
And still the slaughter of women goes fallen to a low manner of life, shot and
on unchecked, for sfresh in the public killed Emma Simpson, better known as
Stella, Dupre, who had been his min
mind is the wanton murder of Georgic=
Mahner, the yd'ung girl stenographer, trees, in the house of Ida Bernstein at
who was shot to death almost on the 120 Merited street. Ferris bad. been
threshold of her home at No. 1320 Jena living with the woman at 410 Howard
street, last Thursday night under eir- street. On the m,orning of the killing be
cumsta,nces which furnish almost eon. salted for her at the Bernstein womann
elusive evidence that her slayer was house. She was not there. They lead
-seen separated for several days, and
William Keret, a young musician in the
Crescent Theatre orchestra, who is now Ferris learned that the woman bad
in the Parish prison charged with the 'seen in the red-light district all night.
crime and awaiting trial. There is tee called again for leer later and found
scarce a doubt of his guilt in the mind her at 410 Howard street, where they
of those who are familiar with the evi- iad been living. They went into the
donee that has been worked up against *ant yard. There wee a quarrel. Fen
him. The fact that he was known te is had been drinking. There were four
be visiting the girl, who fancied that he :hots from a 44-ealihre revolver. The
loved her, within four months of the aomaaa after running a few seeps, fell
firing of the shots the finding of a of.
vith two bullets through her body and
satchel in the garden of the convent lied. Penis surrendered to Deputy
near the scene, which was fully identi- Sheriff Winslow Phillips the same morn -
fled as his by. a postal money order re- 'ng at Gravier and Howard streets, and
eeipt it contained, the discovery telling lie deputy took the Involver frons him
plainly that the satchel wars thrown tnd turned lent- over en the polite.
there by some one in flight; the ideate .After the shorting Ferris professed to
fication of a hat as Kersies property. .ee so crazed with jealousy that he did
which was found within 200 feet of the toe know what ho had done and claimed
scene of the murder and in the directiot -nee ho did not recall the (Lethal stet of
in which the murderer was seen to flee ;hooting the woman, but practically
rind the rick of a hatless elan on a *onfessed to it in les statement. Be -
street ear from the locality Wilde the ides, the evidence against him given by
Murder occurred to the neighborhood lemons oa the scene of the murder, was
-where Kirst 'boarded—ell this goes to !onclusive of his guile.
metre a eine against him -Which would kills Wife in Fit of Anger,
seem. sufficient in itself to convict e Just a week before this killing Chas.
num, if the strongest sort of eireurre Reviere, in a fit of anger, took it into
stantial evidence counts for ` anything in
de head that le wanted to remove his
vile from earth. Ile bad been living
with his enyear-old wife et 1,016 Gen.
illy avenue. Ile was a rag peddler,
;lion had many (pares, and site had
eft him about three weeks before and
:one to live with Mrs. Alphonse Larry -
sin at St. Ann and Johnson streets. In
tie neernieg 'of June 7 Iteviere saw
us wife intuiting from meaket. Ilo
'ollowed her into the kiteeen, sat Shim
tnd then bonen telkines Ile reeked bet
'Ay she had mild his furniture end
vatted to know if the would return 6.11a
het with him. She told him, 'she would
rot as he bad treated her brutally and
tarvetl her. 'At this Ile drew les revel-
er alid began firing. She was hit. Wee
n the left breast and once in the back,
he woman ran tereaming through a
•Pilt40111 end into the dining room,
.'hero she fell. She was taken to the
lineal, where she died en July 11, a
title ova a month after receiving her
eetinde.
W1101 he had done his work with the
;Inman, Reviere remained hi the knell.
et tine waited for the pollen with the
listen lying on the floor at his feet, To
he police he declared that, be bail shot
Tie evoluttn, was glad he heel done it
nil hoped she Would die.
The Mean Murder,
ten the afternoon of September
yond that indicated by his telegram to
President Roosevelt.
NO THIRD TERM,
founded upon momentary rage alt beme
defeated in the purpose to eompel i'
hasty marriage or a reconciliation deo
a quarrel. On neither the name of ne,
never or the tame of the :set could the
Roosevelt Announces he Will not Agin victim give evidettee before site died
Accept Nomination, for the mortal wound robbed her of tit
terithee the instant it was given. gen
Washingon, Nov. 8.—President none- it is believed the motive will prove
ti
velt to -night, after the election returns bo no otber than the nee stated.
clearly indicated the result, issued the \Viten he entered the parish prism
following etittement: • Kirst became the nineteenth tntti
'I am deeply 'Sensible of the harior ebarged with 'murder now confiner
done me by the :Werner) people in there, including those who are charge(
thus expressing their confidenee in with the murder of other men. Beeline
what 1 utve doue end bavo Woe te Om there is one everrain, neergare
do. 1 appreciate to the full the solemn Mean eliarged with the murder of lie'
respoenbility this confidence imposes nneemour, Jetties M. Hickey, on Oetobe*
upon me, and 1 shall do all that in my 16, see claiming telfelefeitee as tie
power lies floe to forfeits it. On the 4th rause of the shootieg. Among thee
of March next I shall have served three alleged. murderers is alto Ellie Move,
and a half years, and this half-year who is beieg bold in the 'mien to await
constitutes my nrst term, The wile trial in Le/menthe pariah for the Mut
engem weech tbe Preeident to tier of lee es:ife there some menthe ago
.
Verker tarried the ole eelid Sntelt.• two tame regards the substance aiel George Cooper, ebarged with Mime; ;
at was expeeted, but the Reptiblicers not the form; leder ne ciecielleiencee titan in 'Washington parish, is also con
Made botable genie over four ems will I be a candidate for or accept on. fined there, iohn II. Deane a matter mecliame ot
especially in Virginia end Tennee. other nominatien." Of those placed in the nribeli, how* the Leniseilla 'end Nenheille Railroad,
;•
lit =PI ..1.4141 114/0 sa4 two. 16111/4.160)
WW1 111 the worst 'nage of e. protracted
al/roil...Ile was Ilourlshing revolver on
Robertson street, neer Conti. feeveral
Women had run Irani hint in alarm. He
flnalJy went to the house of Annie
Rhodes, at 320 Robertson etreet, and
terorized two women, who left the
place,. Female' Annie Medea herself
returned ane was standing on the *teen,
when Dixon, who was wild to bee never
been In the house before, Seienl iter,
dragged her into a rear room of the
house, and a shot was bearn It was
thought that lie had been skylarking
with the woman, but when Dixon ceme
out of thelloor end walked hurriedly to
Conti street and turned toward; (Jain
borne, people ruined into the lienee
and Annul the young woman dead on. the
floor with a bullet in her brain, which
bad entered squarely between the eyes.
A sad feature ef thia ease was that
the 'woman had made up her mind to
quit her life of eltaine and was that day
going to return to ber mother, all of her
things being packed and about to be
moved from the house,
Dixon was arrested. at Claiborne and
Conti streets and les revolver taken
from him by the officers. Ile was still
very drunk, and when be appeared.for
preliminary 'hearing, the pine was set
up that be was not responsible for the
act, (Le he was suffering from delirium
tremens, The hearing was had in
Judge Aucoin's Court and. be was ad.
mitted to bail in the sum of 0,000.
Killing of Pearl Murpley.
And then there was Pearl Murphy,
the pretty 14-yearsold, school girl, who
gave up her life at the Brack of A re.
volver in the Imelda of Chris V. Moder
-
seen, who in a jealous rage seized her
in front of her home, No, 011,Dauphine
-street, October 16the only few wee re
ago as she was, sweeping the eidewale,
.ielcl her close to hen eine sent twa bul-
lets into her body, one into the neck
and the"other into her head. Her sis-
tersinlaw saw the whole horrible trag-
edy, and saw her die without uttering
a werd. Modersohn was captured before
he was out of sight of the victimer
body and the smoking pistol, smeared
with blood, was wrenched from his hand.
nfodersohn said ne had wanted to
marry the girl, and her parents wanted
to postpone the marriage. He had bad
many quarrels with her and her fam-
ily and he saki he was insane with jeal-
ousy. This was the reason he gave for
killing a girl who was little more teen
a child. He said she had teased him
and this had made him angry.
nlodersohn, who is 27 years did
not bear a reputaiton for industry and
had also communed. drinking, which
had caused the girl to forbid his call-
ing uron ber.
A few days after his incarceration
.Modersohn,..in the. parish prison, began
acting queerly ane drew the attention
of the deputies and other prisoners. Bis
behavior suggested an unbalaned mind,
and now he eontinues either (Lethally
verging oin insanity or simulating that
state with remarkable cunning. His hal-
lucination appears to ne that he WS
wires in everything about him and is
continually searching for them in his
clothing. Once he tore a deputy's sleet
to look for a wire inside of it. Many be-
lieve that Modersohn, lenowing the hope-
lessness of any effort to escape convic-
tion for his creme, is merely trying to
cheat justice by feigning insanity.
Murder or. Miss Manner.
And last, but not less wanton among
the cases ofethe killing of white women,
was the foul' murder of Georgiana Male
nen the 18 -year-old stenographer, only
last Thursday, night at 10.30 o'clock at
the gate of her home, in a neighbor -
hood where the young girl lived with
her widowed mother, twa sisters and
two little brothers, and was beloved by
everybody. The story of this crime has
eeen tolds in all its details in the net
f0117 days, William Kirst, young mu-
sician, is in prison charged with sheet-
ing down the young girl, but as the
murderer was not caught on the scene.
it has required. considerable investiga-
tion to accumulate evidence sufficient
to reasonably inaure the conviction of
Kirst as the murderer. All the facts
have been told of how Kirst returned
from Bay St. Louis, where his mother
lives, in the evening, and proeleded to
the Meitner home to call on the girl,
for whose hand in marriage he hell
twice asked 'her mother, who. however,
asked that the event be postponed e
year or. two as the money earned by
this dutiful daughter was one of the
mainstays of the honsehold. It is known
how Christine, the sister, admitted the
supposed lover to the house, summoned
eleorgistna to the parlor and after a
few minutessleft the couple there talk-
ing polities, and went to bed, leaving
them to what she thought would be the
saying of good night between sweet-
hearts. Instead it is known how she
was startled .some moments later by n
nut and the death scream of her young-
er sister. •
STUDENTS FIOHT.
Fierce Fight Between Germans
• and Italians.
New York, Nov. 15.—A quarrel of
broken in a fierce conflict between Ger-
man, and Italian students at the Uni-
versity this morning, the fight arising
from the recent troubles at Inusbruck.
The Germans to -day took the aggressive.
They started singing the Wacht Am
Rhein with uncovered heads, and de-
manded that all the other students re-
2110Ve their hats. The Italians, Slays
and other non -Germans refused to do
so, whereupon the Teutons forcibly
knocked off their opponents' headgear
and tramped their hats and caps in the
dust. The Italians then started a coun-
ter demonsration on the University steps
and sang the national hymn of Italy.
Tho Germans theft attacked the Italians
and drove them from their position.
Sticks and umbrellas were freely used
and many heads were creaked, but no
arrests were made, as the fighting was
confined to the University precincts.
TWO SISTERS DIED TOGETHER.
railed to Pay Rent, They 'Were Dispos-
sessed of .Their Mese.
N'etit York, Nov. 13,—Locked in each
other'; arms on a bare floor of et din
minified flat ea East lilst street, front
wheat they had been dispossessed on
Friday, two sisters, Louise and Valerie
Abel, 44 and 38 years of itg,e, respective-
ly, were found dead to -day. In elm
mouth of each was a rubber tube \tibia
connected with the chandelier. The two
women had failed to pay the rent for
the flat they °coupled ancl on 111(16.:V
were disposseased. At the sante time
their furniture, which they had bought
from an installment comprine, had been
taken from them and they had been
given permission ly the janitor to re
main in the fiat over Sunday.
Told in Brief.
Ihnigavirte. pert Intgo esargo bat
publisbeil some noteboolts of the late
saurus entree Aritong them was this
bumble sketch for a (story: "A nog
swallows a packege ef aynamite, 'meets
a donkey, donkey leeks, bog etplodette
TUNNELS FOR STORIERS
OF PORT ARTHUR.
Main Works of Fortress Will be Captured at the
NextAssault.
Report That Gen. Kuroki WasStruck bY a Shell and
Died on October 4th.
Oritish Public Now Pity Russia and are Sorry for
Her Deplorable Condition.
FIVE. EPOCII-MAKING SIEGES ECLIP$ED BY
POT ARTHUR.
1:871:alistio.WarDuration.
pet—Crimeren 334 days
.
Kars—Russo-Turkish ...... 165 days
Vicksburg—Civil ..., ......... 65 day*
eRichmond—Civil .......... 1 year
Metz—FreneosPrussian ..... . 72 days
Periss4ranco-Prussian nes. .... .133 days
Plevna—Russe-Turkish .....k«...142 days
PORT ARTHUR................8 months
Survivors.
345,000
23,000
77,000
34,000
-270,000
540,000
80,000
120,000
*In these sieges loss a life was. greater than at Port Arthur.
London, Nov. 13.—That the main de.
fences at Port Arthur will be carried
by the Japanese at the next assault
indicated by a belated despatch front
Gen. Nogi's headquarters.
A correspondent declares that the
siege preparations are complete and
have been of the most thorough charac-
ter. The reeky hints have beea tun-
neled with the most (tenuous labor until
the Japanese works extend to within
100 yards of the parapets of the forts.
Through these tunnels the Japanese
can march to the fortifications without
losing a man and. avoiaing the fire
which has exterminated their regi-
rnen6 in nearly ahl the prevines as-
saults.
in the forts now held by the Japan-
ese they have mounted enormous guns
in beds of concrete and masonry. The
front these forts present to the Rue-
siana is even stronger than that wheel
faced the Japanese when they stormed
the positions. The siege and naval
guns aro doing an enormous amount of
execution'tearing great gaps in the
trans of the Russian forts and sweep-
ing the harbor. It is (tweed that two
of the Russian warships . have been ,
sunk, the arsenal and dockyards de-
stroyed, and constant fires started in
the town.
This despatch is dated Nov. 2, and ,
was delayed in transmission. It throws
no light on the recent operations, or on
the rumored request for an armistice
by Gen. Stoessel. In view of the pre-
parations of the Japanese such a plea,
seems reasonable, in spite of the of t -
reiterated declaration of the Russian
commander that he intended to hall
out as long as a man was left.
Supplies for Besieged.
Tsinchoa, Nov. 13. — The British
steamer Thence has been pureltased by
Germans and given a German register,
She is now here loading for Port Ar-
thur.
Lowe shipping Leave; have received
information that the steamers which
recently left here with supplies for
teladivostock have arrived there in
safety. Several eupply ships . have
reeched Port Arthur within the last
fortnight.
IS KUROKI DEAD ?
A Russian Correspondent Says the News
is Confirmed.
Moscow, Nov. 13.—Nemorivitch Dan-
chenko, the well known Russian war
correspondent of the Associated Press,
telegraphing from Mukden under yes-
terday's date, says the reports of the
death of Gen. Kuroki are confirmed.
According to his version, a splinter of
shell struck Gen. Kuroki, tearing out a
portion of his breast and abodmen. He
died Oct. 4 at Liao -Yang and his body
was sent to Japan. .A. rumor is persist-
ently circulated that a kinsman of the
Mikado, Siaosanai, literally "Little
Third Prince," has been appointed to
succeed Gen. Kuroki, but that the ac-
tual command of the army has been
entrusted to Gen. Nodzu, who is re-
viewing, operations.
Repel Night Attack.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 13.—Gen. Sak-
haroff telegraphs under yesterday's 'date
that the Japanese Friday night at-
tacked the Village of Wuchang, about
1% miles south of Chuyanhinclza. The
Japanese assaulted the village on three
sides, but were repulsed. Four Rus-
sians were wounded.
To Repeat Liao -Yang Tactics,
Mukden, Nov. 13.—The Russian scouts
on the night of Nov. 10 again entered
Linchinpu (two miles west of the Shak-
he railroad station), and carried out
five Russian corpses and the body of
one ;Japanese. Nov. 11 passed in abso-
lute quiet on the western flank of the
Russian army, there not being even
any artillery fire.
Reports that the Japanese are trans-
ferring large forces to the right flank
continuo to be repeated. If this proves
to be the case, the teaks made use of
at Liaonnang will be repeated. The
Chinese say that the Japanese ate sim-
ply interchanging various bodies of
troops, tot concentrating in the mat, but
keeping their main forces in reseree in
order to thoroughly reform them and
give thein repose preparatory to the
coming fight. All here ate anxiously
wonaerine whether the Japanese will
soon Ingan te advanee, but the opinion
is expressed that they are still too weak
fnr eaten a (dep.
BRITAIN COOLING OF,
'Better /one of Public Opinion Prevails
Among Britone.
Leedom Nov. 13.-.--A distinct change
for the better has taken place in Erne
lish publie opinion during the lest week.
The *dangerous anger orotund by die -
trust of its own mut the Intssien Gov.
'eminent ltas given /thee to a creditable
calm.
it mein le lend that any great rota
fidene in Runde has (sprung up in Eng-
lish breasts, but, what in more import, -
tint, ennficlense in its own Government
ern teen ertmeed.
The is venally Atte to tete tone.
&mien speech at the Lottl Internee
banquet, Int 6V611 before that pubbe
opinion had begun to reeognize the Ind -
Isossee.
210,000
e2,000
103,000
181,800
70,000
4n000
70,000
140,000
+++++44-.÷6 I44.41,4444.44+404÷
dent as a ,deplorable blumler, to ,use
Lord. Lenadowne's words, end the peo-
ple were ready to receive his i.itatement.
The Government it! now convinced that
Russia in good faith believed the ex-
traordinary tale which the urged in ter
defenee.
Meantime, while news from Port
Arthur is eagerly awaited, attentiou is
increasingly centred ou the internal con-
ditions of Russia. The effects of the war
are being , severely felt by the poeter
classes. Factory after factory has been
shut down, and the railway system con-
taining more than 1,000,000 tens • of
grain are blocked, and will remain :eis
till spring. The cultivators 'win be de-
prived of the price of their produce un-
til that time. But most inaportesnte of
all is the misery of the reservists who
have been called out for azi unpopular
war, and the consequent dieturbanees.
This has given fresh impetus to the
talk of a revolution.
A Popular Hatred of War.
A St. Petersburgcorespondent dea
inl,
with this subject a letter rer-elYed
to -day, in which be says:
"Russia's mobilization machinery is
moving so slowly that for comnderable
periods it is absolutely at a rte.ndetlli.
As the calls on the reservists extend
farther among the peasantry and. arti-
sans, popular hatred of the war grows,
yet the same resistance of inertia
which has left divisions which should
have been completed in June, searehing
still among the people for half their
numbers, has a significance, which is
that the winter cannot pass without a
revolutionary movement on a vast
scale.
"The inertia which refuses to go to
Manchuria has many ingredients of
an inertia which cannot undertake a
sustained attack on positions nearer
home, The poverty and the disgust with
the Government which' are the motives
for the reiuttal of the masses to regard
the war as a patriotic enterprise, are
not fired by any idea from which could
spring an alternative regime, as in
France a century ago.
"The students who paraded the main
street of St. Petersburg last week, half
of them singing Russian revolutionary
words to the air of the afarseillaise,and
the other half consisting of the relatives
of Government officials, singing the na-
tional hymn, did not display any pas-
sious -which suggested that they might
soon be fighting to a finieh. In seri-
ous movements in the provinces, as when
the Kazan reservists while detraining at
the mobilization platform near Moscow,
fought the conscripts, vodka played it
considerable part. A conscript, when
first called to the army, is from immem-
orial custom allowed a large liberty to
carouse. The reservists who were called
back to the army demanded the samelieense. Their anger at the refusal to
allow the mto do so -would have, been
appeased by the wrecking and elostng
of the drinking shops if the more last-
ing feelings that their war mission was
hateful had not steeled them to fight
against gunshots till heir comrades fell,
killed and wounded around them.
MLN 1-6111(
HEI OWN LIFE
Because She Quarrelled With
Her Husband.
Violeta, Nov 15, —Many heads were
long standing between husband and wife
curly to -day culminated in a violent
scene at theig home on West 87th street,
during which Mrs. Mary Zimmerman
swallowed three ounces of cyanides of
potassium and died almost immediately.
Zimmerman told the police that his
quarrels resulted from attentions shown
to her by a borader.
Yesterday after an unusually bitter
quarrel Zimmerman left the house and
sought solace in drink. Wilms he re-
turned home early to-dity his wife up-
braided Mtn for his conduct and he re-
pliecl that ber own acts had been res
Tensible for all the trouble. Even then
it was not too late, and he would gladly
forgive her, "Yon needn't forgive me,"
said erre. Zimmerman. "There 16 110 rest
-
A071 for it. Tien will ma ell," rinsing
the bottle of cyanide of potassium he
drained it. Ten seconds later she WO
dead.
Mrs. Zeiratermen Was 28 yeas of ago,
her I:mined. 50.
Mayor's Treenoise Bl�wn UP,
Virginin, Minu., Nov. terrific
exploeien oeeurrea in the rear of the 1'6-
eidenee of Mayor Vey, early to -day, and
the handsome Wieling Is a mass or ruins.
No one V:16 inured. Apparently dyinn
mite was played in the rear ef the
house with the intention of killing +be
Manor ns well 66 writing his shrelltress.
For seine time pest the enteor bee been
waging n vigeretie warfere upon the vire
litters of the ealooe tete nttmany
threat's have been made agitinet him.
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