The Wingham Advance, 1905-08-10, Page 7RUSSIAN GARRISON AT
SAKHALIN ISLAND.
ieTokio Sends Particulars of the Pursuit and Cap
ture of the Major Portion of it.
land China bad promised, if the Chinese
were unable to finance the proposed.
;railway through the Yangtse Valley to
the Reastone Basin, in the Province of
Szechuan, to apply first to British and
American capital to build it, Great Bri-
i
tainslie said, was now negotiating with
'France for the joint construction of the
line.
Earl Percy concerning Great Britain'e
In connection with the statment of
;foreign policy, which is the subject of
• considereble satisfaction in the editor-
ials this morning on account of its re-
aseuring view as to the relations of Great
Britain with Germany and Europe gen-
erally, as well as on account of the evi-
dence that Japan's preoccupation in a
great war does not prevent her rapid
commercial growth, it is understood that
negotiations for the renewal of the .An-
gle -Japanese alliance have progressed a
deal further than was indicated by Earl
P'rey's guarded allusion to it. It is be-
lieved, in fact, that little remains to be
done beyond signing the new instrument.
The motive for Earl Percy's reticience
was a desire to avoid Parliamentary dis-
cussion on the subject while peace ne-
gotiations were proceeding, Sir Charles
Dilke, who initiated the discussion,. in.
Greeted that a renewal of tho Anglo -
Japanese alliance would bo warmly sup-
ported by the Liberal party.
It is stated that Japan recently has
given further considerable orders for
khaki cloth in the Bradford district.
The Governor, Seventy Officers and 3,200 :Men
Surrendered to the Japanese.
Japanese Newspapers Condemn Russia's Attitude
Relative to Peace Conference,
Tokio, Aug. s e-Noon.—A report giving details of the final pursuit and
surrender of the majority of the Russian garrison an Sakhalin Island has been
received as follows;
"An independent cavalry column on the afternoon of July 28 attacked
the enemy south of Pelee, and routed him, driving him southward, capturing
two field guns, besides a number of rifles and a quantity of ammunition.
"On July 29 the cavalry, being reinforced, vigorously pursued the enemy
south of Taylan, which is 25 miles south of Rykoff. The enemy halted at
Onol, 25 miles south of Taylan, ant at 5 o'clock on the morning of July eo
sent a letter tinder a flag of truce to the Japanese commanding officer from
Gen. Liapnoff, the Russian Governor, saying that the lack of bandage mater-
ial and medicines and the consequent inability to succor the wounded is m.
pelted him from a sense of humanity to terminate hostilities."
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"Tho commander of the Japanese force
replied, demanding .the delivery of all
war supplies and property of the Rus-
sian Government, the uninjured and the
delivery of all maps, records and papers
relating to the Russian civil and mili-
tary administration and requiring their
delivery in reply at 10 o'clock on the
morning of July 31, otherwise an attack-
ing movement would immediately be
started.
"Colonel Tolivitch, on behalf of Gov-
ernor Liapnuoff, met Colonel Kolzumi.
Japanese chief of staff, on the morning
of July 31, and accepted the proposed'
terms.
"Governor Maple% seventy officers,
and 3,200 men of the Russian garrison
then surrendered.
"The spoils, consisting. of clothing, pa-
pers and. military supplies, are now un-
der investigation."
JAPAN INDIGNANT.
Dces Not Like Russian Attitude en the
Subject of Peace.
A New York report: A Dondon des-
pateh to the Times says:
It is evident that strong indignation
is growing up in Japan in consequence
of Russia's attitude in regard to the
peace conference. The newspapers point
out that Japan's attitude toward the
war has been studiously self-contained
and moderate and that Japan has care-
fully refrained from all vaunting or con-
duct calculated to increase the humilia-
tion of her opponent. Now she ap -
preaches the conference quietly a.nd
courteously without boasting.
Nevertheless it is declared Japan's un-
broken succession of victories constitutes
a fact which cannot be blinked and just-
ly confers on her the right to speak in
the tone of a conqueror and to impose
terms of peace, whereas on the contrary
Russia arrogates that right and behaves
as if she were mistress of the situatian
and. entitled to dictate terms having
only consented to open negotiations as
an act of benevolent tendeney toward
Japan.
Apparently Russia counts upon three
things—the chances of Linevitch% ane -
intervention on the part of the
powers, and Japan's exhaustion. Con-
cerning Lineviteh's prospects Japan says
nothing.
Concerning intervention, she says that
if a, world-wide conflagration is caused
the responsibility will rest with Rusaitt.
Concerning Japan's exhausted 'condition,
she says her acts will speedily prove her
ability to continue the war :with greater KEEP AGITATORS OUT.
vigor than ever, and she now compre-
hends that a fresh series of object lessons
is necessary in order to excite Russia to
a truer appreciation of the situation. It
is significant that these utterances are A St. Petersburg cable: Tho Emperor's
unequivocally made by journals which counsellors to -day resumed consulera.
haabitualy avoid an aggreaive tone. All tion of the National Assembly project at
the leading papers assert that there s Peterhof, penetrating deeply into the
little hope of immediate peace while the nature and extent of the representation
military preparations are conspicuously to be granted. The problem of accord -
vigorous. ing a voice in the proposed Assembly to
all classes and interests, without giving
undue weight to the representatives of
the uneducated peasantry, comprising 07
per cent. of the whole population, nor
throwing control of the Assembly into
the hands of the demagogues and agi-
tators, is one of the crucial points of
the whole system, and is cause for the
greatest perplexity, both to those who
drafted the original Boulyguine project
and to the Ministers by whom it is to
be revised.
The sections considered at Tuesday's
session were unimportant in compari-
son with the topics now under consid-
eration, Though no details of the dis-
cussion of Tuesday have appeared in
print, several papers comment of the e,c.
treme importance of the Peterhof con-
ferences, and base on them great expect-
ations of it brighter future for Russia.
The discussion on the question of the
JAPAN FAVORS CONDITIONS, Assembly lasted 'until nearly 7 pan: To-
-- morrow, which is the name day of the
Dowager Empress, is a general holiday,
and all the high functionaries will go
to Peterhof to offer their felicitations.
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JAP ENI7OYS FIRST.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE MEET-
' ING OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
to fight a colonial wet -with alt co.ef-
ficients against them. There is not in
history another example of a similar
disproportion between enemies. Never-
theless, all the foreign officers of the
European armies who followed the war
are unanimous in affirming that the
Russian troops, both soldiers and offi-
cers, fought with truly admirable brav-
ery, but ;they had to withdraw on ac-
count of a combination of eireuinstances
with which their personal valor could
not tontend.
Conditions on the Sea.
On the sea.ethe Russians found. them-
selves constantly in inferior conditions.
The squadron of Rojestvensky was sent
against Japan, not because the Russians
had much confidence in its success,
but
because they could not renounce, from
a military and moral point of view, any
ehance, no :natter how uncertain, of (*-
tabling even a partial victory. Sup-
pose for a moment that the war, instead
of having taken place in Corea or in
Manchuria, had beeen fought at the true
Russian frontiers, then the Japanese
would ,not have been able to face the
Russian forces for more than six
months. However, even as things stand,
•the Japanese have not made such- pro-
gress as is generally believed; in fact,
they would have to advance four times
as much as they have ,done in the last
year and a half to reach Russia proper,
in which ease alone they might consider
themselves in a position of imposing the
conditions of peace. But they are very
far from this, and the more they ad-
vance north the more the respective
conditions of the Russians and, Japanese
will be reversed.
"The great majority of the Russian
people," said M. de Witte, "do not at-
tach to the conflict in the Far East the
importance which is given to it in Eur-
ope and America. It is considered a very
distant colonial war, but the whole Rus-
sian people would rise as a single man
the day in which they should think
that it is no more the question of a co-
lonial war which is not dangerous, but
of ,ft conflict threatening the security of
the country!'
M. do Witte indicated that he is fa-
vorable to pence. However, he feels that
to reach this object, itiis necessary that.
the Japanese should be animated by the
seine feelings; that they should bo con•
vineed that for Russia peace is desir-
able,, but it is not at all indispensable,
anthat consequently she will never ac-
cept any condition which even appar-
ently may offend her amour propre.
Problem Which Faces Czar's Reform
Council.
. NEW JAP BATTLESHIP.
Jap Commander Leaves for Seethed to
Take Charge of •It.
A New York report: 0. Kantimura, the
Japanese commander who in the battle
with Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron
ailed the armored cruiser Tokiwasa, left
..i,
ew York to -day on the steamship Celtic
t take eharge of the new Japanese bat-
tleship Natore now being built in Scot-
land. Lt. -Commander K. -Sato and other
officers accompanied Commander Karni-
nuu'a. The Katori, now at Glasgow, will
not be seedy to pat to sea for nearly a
year, even should the Russian -Japanese
war end hninediately. The Japanese offi-
cers are sent to inspect the battleship's
completion.
Russian Envoy Says Russia is Far From
Being Beaten.
A New York report: In the course of
his voyage across the Atlantic, M. de
Witte, the Russian peace plenipotentiary,
while reticent on the subject of his tube
Sion, expressed certain views to a cor-
respondent who accompanied him. He
raid:
"Almost everywhere in Europe, as well
es Ainerica, not only Russia, her
_1/4erces, her resources and her power of
resistance are not known, but the people
are even mistaken about the true results
of the war. The Russians have had re-
verses, but this does not signify that they
have lost the power which was known
to the Muscovite Empire before the war;
It does not mean that Russia has be-
come a negligible quantity; nor that the
•Tapitnese have acquired by result of the
reeent victories such a supremacy 88 to
make the Russian Empire consider them
a truly reloubtable enemy,"
M. de Witte reeognizes the good quali-
ties of the Japanese military, naval and
Administrative organizations, and does
not believe any other European nation
would have been able to resist Japan as
Russia, has done.
"It must be taken into eonsideration,"
said M. de Witte, "that the Japanese
had been preparing themselves for war
for about; ten years, while Russia was
entirely unprepared, wishing and trust -
BRITAIN AND JAPAN.
LIBERALS WILL WARMLY SUPPORT
AN ALLIANCE RENEWAL.
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Government is Guarded—Earl Percy De-
clines to Forecast Changes, But
Negotiations Said to be in Forward
State,
A London cable: The sessions of the
House of Commons yesterday was taken
up with a discussion of.the foreign pol.
icy, Earl Percy, UndersSecretary for For-
eign Affairs, said that under the present
circumstances it was impossible to llis-
cuss the changes in the Far East, that
might be brought about by the war, or
changes that it might be desirable to
introduce into the Anglo -Japanese
anee when it was thought right to re-
new it, Ile noted with satisfaction that
all agreed upon the desirability of renew-
ing suck an alliance. lTe thought that
the general state of Europe presented
no cause for anxiety.
Reverting to the Par East, he said
-4111g in peace; that the a'apanese Night - that it was true that, while Great 1311 -
in their own neighborhood, under all ,; thin in eommon with other countries
favorable Conditions, while the Russians ' was losing trade in China. Japan's
?had to b sent 0,000 vereta, (0,000 miles) trade in that country was inereasing.
Jrorn their headquarters by a railroad Efforts were being made to obtain fresh
entirely insufficient to their needs, and markets in the interior, he 'continued,
M. De Witte Sees New York—Wili, Be
Introduced to President—Formal
Meeting of Envoys at Oyster Bay.—
Then They Go to Portsmouth.
A New York report: Seeing New York
on the part of the Russian envoys and
arrangements for the formal meeting of
the envoys on Saturday at Oyster Bay
and thei: introduction to .erteli other by
President Roosevelt were to -day's events
in the Japanese -Russian peace conference
arrangements.
M. de Witte, the head of the Russian
Peace Commission, and Mr. Lodnedeke,
the Russian Consul -General to New
York, led the van in the New York sight-
seeing. Accompanied by the Consul -Gen-
eral, AL de Witte made one automobile
tour down town, visiting the Stink Ex-
change and the swarming East Side. That
was in the afternoon. Accompanied by
ane of his suite, the Russian envoy in
the forenoon took another nutomobile
run through Central Park and, along the
Riverside Drive.
Tho Third Assistant Secretary of
State, Mr. Peirce, came, to New York
this morning and went to the Hotel As-
tor. Later he called at the Waldorf-As-
toria, es he dikl at the St. Regis, to see
the respective envoys about the arrange-
ments for Saturday. The programme laid
out is very minute in detail, and will he
followed to the letter. It involved, of
course, the wise question of precedence,
and that seems to have been settled on
the broad, general American principle of
first come, first served. The Japanese
envoys got here over a week ahead of
the Russians. Therefore it is the Japan-
ese who will sail first for Oyster Bay on
Saturday morning, and it is the Japan-
ese who will first board the Mayflower at
Oyster Bay, where formal introductions
are to be nuule.
Programme of Proceedings.
The programme as arranged is that
Baron Komnra and his suite will
board the Chattanooga at the foot of
East 23rd street at 9 o'clock Saturday
morning. As soon as they are on board,
the Chattanooga will head for Oyster
Bay, where the Mayflower will be wait-
ing.
One hour after the Japanese envoys
have sailed, the Galveston bearing M.
de Witte and his suite will sail from
the same place. .Arriving at Oyster Bay,
the Japanese envoys mill wait on their
cruiser until the President's flag is hoist-
ed over the Mayflower. Then. steam
la.unches will take them to the May-
flower, on which vessel the Russian en-
voys will come just one hour later. Then
the introductions by President Roosevelt
will take place, atter which the President
will leave the Mayflower, the Japanese
envoys will go back on board the Clmt-
tanooga, the Russians will return to the
Galveston, and both cruisers will sail for
Portsmouth, where they are due to ar-
rive at 10 o'clock on Monday morning.
After luncheon, the envoys will make
formal calls on the Governor of New
Hampshire, and by Tuesday 3norning-all
the formalities will be over and the decks
cleared for action.
Before the departure of both groups
of envoys for Oyster Bay, however,
there is yet one formality to be gone
through with, and that is the presenta-
tion to the President by Baron de Rosen
of M. de Witte. This will occur to -mor-
row afternoon. M. de Witte and Baron
de Rosen will go to Oyster Bay on the
11 o'clock train to -morrow, just as Baron
Nomura and the Japanese Minister, Mr.
Takahira, went ene day last week.
"The British Ambassador has not
called upon Baron Nomura," said Mr.
Sato at the regular afternoon session
with the newspapermen, "and I know
nothing of his plans in that or any
other repeat. Maybe lie is here to SCO
the gain° of cricket."
BAD NEGRO RUNS AMUCK.
Dies Hiniself After Killing Two and
Wounding Many.
Louisville, Ark., Aug. 7.—After killing two
persons, seriously and probably fatally shoot-
ing two others, one il. woman, and less seti-
°ugly shooting two more, Isaac Kinney,
desperate negro, was killed in a river bot-
tom at Docile, six miles south of here, at
noon to -day, after a hot fight with a posse
of citizens.
IIis record for 24 hours is: Yesterday morn-
ing he killed a negro at Stamps; in. the after-
noon he killed E. R. Ferguson, strias agent
of the Louisville & Arkansas Railroad, mem-
ber of a posse, three miles from Stamps;
early this morning seriotisly shot Mrs. Stew-
art, of Greensburg, Texas, and her husband;
at noon to -day he shot Alvil Barham through
tho neck, and shot C. P. Nash, severing a
finger,
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SWEDEN NOT TO BLAME
SHOULD THERE BE TROUBLE WITH
THE NORWEGIANS.
Stockholm, Sweden, Aug, 7,—The ex-
traordinary session of the Riksdag vas
brought to a elose to -day. King Oscar
was not present, but was represented by
the new Premier, Christian Lnndeberg.
In declaring the session closed. the
Speaker of the Lower House said the
situation still contained disquieting ele-
ments. but Sweden would be absolved
from blame if a breach ()centred after
the offer made by the Rikedag. Another
speeial session will be ealled ea soon as
Norway is ready to net on the Swedish
conditions.
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SHOT GUN AND OTHER QUARANTINts
All the accueed entered the witnese CitIMCMTURE
,11)easetrralh:faltoisre charged, were not
box and swore hat they took no part.
Towns in Louisiana Adopt Strict Preventive holding that the evidence wail insuffis BURBANK'S DREAM
The Magistrate dismissed the &uses,
dent to justify committing the prison -
Measures Against Yellow Fever. ers for trial,
New Orleans, Aug. 7.—Extrefe Incas -
tires which some of the country districts
are making to guard themselves from
yellow fever threaten to put a stop to
train service and may bring the Feder.
al Government into the fever situation
in the south. Tho most radical action
thus far taken is that of the Police
Board of Calcassieu, the second largest
parish in the State. It has passed, re-
solutions ordering that all traffic, travel
and intercourse with Caleassiett and
points east, north and west shall cease
at once, and that no one shall be permit-
ted to enter the limits of the parish un.
til further orders,
FARMERS FIGHT
•
In consequence of this resolution the
Southern Pacific has ordered to -day. to
run no more trains through Calcasteu,
which means the abandonment of the
through service. Lafayette parish has
issued orders that only mail and disin-
fected freight shall come into that par-
ish. Tenses parish has quarantined, all
passengers, baggage, household goods,
fruit and felines.
Precautions as radical as these have
been begun in other sections of the
south and there is apparently as great
a panic now prevailing as at any time
during 1897: the bulk of the country lay-
men refusing to put their faith in the
mosquito theory.
WITH LINEMEN.
Clubs, Scythes and Fitchforks are Used in a Battle
With Beli Telephone Men.
North Tonawanda, Aug. 7. ---Farmers
on the Ward Road near the North Tona-
wanda city line, attacked workmen of the
Bell Telephone Company yesterday af-
noon with pithforks, scythes, clubs, etc.,
and drove the workmen away from the
farmers' property in front of which tele.
graph poles were being erected contrary
to the wishes of the owners of the farms.
After the workmen had been driven
away by the angry crowd of a score or
more of farmers, Albert Martin chopped.
down three poles that had been set up
close to their front fences. They would
not have objected if the poles had been
placed near the roadway in the street but
many of the farmers claim that the poles
are in several instances on private pro-
perty.
Foreman Groves, of the Bell Corn.
pany's employees' mune to North Toria-
svanda late yesterday afternoon and said
he would communicate with the Sheriff's
office and demand protection, Groves said
Ito would put the poles up to -day if it
was necessary to guard each workman
with the deputy sheriff.
The Bell Company says the rights
of way to pass close to the farmers'
property were purchased a year ago and
that they can produce the receipts for
the purchase of the rights. The farmers ,
say they will oppose Ione with force
and that they never will permit the poles
to be stuck in their front yards. The
farmers say they never signed away any
rights of way, and insist that that bluff
won't work with them.
Crown Attorney Smith declares that' reat liortkv. Iturist's Newes
the Crown will not drop the matter, but
will investigate further in an attempt
to discover the real perpetrators.
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ARRESTED ACCOMPLICE.
Montreal Sequel to Stony of Capture
New York.
The
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Montreal, Aug. 7.—A seqeel to t
arrest yesterday et NM York,
.b'rederiele W. Story, an ex -clerk of ti
Dominion Express Company here, char
ed with stealing some $5.000 from th
contpany, was the arrest this morning
Lewis Jewell, a clerk with the Camila
Express Company, by Chief Detectis
Carpenter, as an accomplice. Both th
prisoners are mere youths, Story bei
only 22 years old and Jewell a yonn
[fellow of about 20. Story had only bee
j employed by the Dominion Express C
la few months when it is alleged lie stol
in April, about $5,000 in cheques an
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Aim in Life,
Trle T11.0,1.
Children are More Responsive Than
in Plants to Environments,
he
vf Would ifoilow Dr. Ram* in His
Humane Efforts.
at St,Louis Aug, 7.—Luther Burbank,
of ,
n tno famous California horticulturist, tle-
e dares that the great object and aim
e of his life is to apply to the training
g of children. those scientific ideas which
„I he has so successfully employed in
as working transformation In plant life.
e, The Rev. Dr, James W. Lee, pastor
ti of St. John's, Southern Methodist
cash. The company missed the mane,
but could not place the guilty part
!They kept the matter quiet and put
in the hands of Pinkerton detective
' who ate becttik i n& atever sine
ispjonnraiuarotea to storra
the culprit, and pointed
closely. almittei
ed for several months, It is state
by the detectives that on July 0, he sw
denly left for New York, where he wa
speedily found by Pinkerton men. Las
'night he was arrested, and is now hel
!for extradition.
The New York police officials sa
that when arrested Story admitted hi
guilt but denied that lie had any ite
complices. However, the local detec
lives thought otherwise. Chief Carpen
ter was yesterday instructed from Nei
York of the capture of Story, and thi
morning ordered Jewell's arrest as al
alleged accomplice in the robbery. Tit
latter will be brought up for prelimin
ary hearing to -morrow.,
Church, lute returned from a trip to
It Santa Rosa, Cal., whither he went for
s, an interview with Mr. Burbank, He
e, said to Mr. Burbank that be had refer-
red to his work inan address at Port -
d land, Oregon, and had expressed the wish
1- that he might introduce into the method
s of rearing children some of the scientific
t ideas that he was applying every day
d to the improvement of pisnts. Dr. Lee
says that Mr, Burbank replied: "That
y is the great object and airn of my life."
s Continuing, Mr. Burbank declared that
plants, weeds and trees were responsive
- to a few influences in their environment,
.but that children were infinitely more
✓ responsive, and. the failure to recognise
s the spiritual elements in the environing
conditions of children had been the fatal
e lack in dealing with them.
- Dr. Lee asked Mr. Burbank if he was
familiar with the works of Thomas J.
Barnardo, of London, who has educated
some 00,000 waif children in the ninety-
three homes which he bas founded in
• various parts of England, with the re-
sult that only 2 per cent. of them have
turned out bad. Mr. Burbank replied
r_ that he had studied. Barnardo's meth:Ala
_ of rearing children and that the latter
e was doing in the realm of human life
e what he (Burbank) was doing in the
realm of plant life.
"Bernardo:' he continued, "bas de-
- monstrated that infinitely more can
be done with children than with weeds
r and plants. Whenever human beings
e recognize these realities in the realms
Y of human life and begin to apply Beim.
tifie principles to the training of chid -
ren, then humanity will enter upon a
_
new stage of existence."
Mr. Burbank said that in his opinion
every person should be physically, mor-
ally and, spiritually perfect, and could
be if the same attention were paid to
- his or her training that he was giving
, to weeds. He declared that, just as he
t had wrought seeming miracles with
- plants by bringing them into contact
s with those elements of their environ-
s menu to whicii•they readily responded,
those who have the care of children
should seek to do for them and to train
d them by bringing their natures into re-
• lation with all the elementa of their
, environment to which they are poten-
- tially responsiver.
BRITISH Fars VISIT TO !BALTIC SEA
Will Mark the Beginning of More Cordial
RelationsBetween Britain and Germany.
London, Aug, 7.—The forthcoming visit • tions, stated definitely that no protests
regarding the visit of the fleet bad been
received. Friendly comment on the pend-
ing cruise from German Baltic ports
creates the belief that it will help along
King Edward's desire for good relations
between Germany and Greet Britain,
and the announcement of Emperor Wil-
liam's support of the candidacy of Prince
Charles of Denmark, for the Norwegian
throne is accepted as an indication that
the German ruler proposes to work in
the same direction. The report is re-
vived. that Emperor William will meet
King Edward during the latter's forth-
coming trip to Marienbad.
of a British fleet to the Baltic Sea, ap-
pears more than likely to mark the be-
ginning of more cordial relations be-
tween Germany and Great Britain, in-
stead of as has been suggested in some
quarters, adding to the friction now ex-
isting. Theaproposed visit was known
to the German Foreign Office months
ego, and suggestions that objections to
it were raised by Germany are unfound-
ed.
Ernest George Pretyman, Secretary to
the Admiralty, to -day in reply to ques-
A MOTOR BOAT WORLD BEATER.
Charles F. Herreshoff Has One That Maks More
Than 35 Miles an Hour.
Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 7.—A trial trip
just made by a motor boat builtfrom
plans of Charles F. Herreshoff, at the
plant of the American & British Manu-
facturing Co. here, is said to have de-
monstrated that the craft is the fastest
ever built. Although Mr. Herreshoff
declined. to give out figures at present,
he said the boat was a world beater and
intimated that she made much better
dine than 35 miles an hour.
"Let it go at that," he said, "for it
would. bo impolitic for me at this time
to give any information. I have wired
my officials in New Jersey and will
give out figures later?'
The boat is said to have engines of
75 horse power. She is about 30 feet
long with less than a five feet beam,
'and sets very low in the water. She is
constructed of aluminum and steel. Much
secrecy has been maintained in her con-
struction.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP SHIP AT SEA.
Dozen Capped Fuses Found on Board a French
Ship in Mid Ocean.
Sna Francisco, Aug. 7.—An attempt
to blow up a ship in mid -ocean has been
reported by Capt. C. Touze, of the French
ship Asnieres, which has arrived here
from Swansea, England, loaded with coal.
He left that port in January last and
six weeks later when far out at sea, a
dozen capped fuses, such as are used by
miners to explode charges of dynamite,
were discovered in the hold of the ship
among the coal. Had one of the fust -2
become ignited by a shock in a part of
the hold where the coal gas had accu-
mulated the ship would undoubtedly
have been blown to atoms. Two or
three of them had exploded, but fortu-
nately at points where there was no gas,
and. consequently no damage was done.
The presence of the fuses among the coal
was discovered only by accident.
TAB ON THE WEDDINGS.
New Regulations Concerning Marriage
Licenses in Ontario.
The following new regulations issued
by the Provincial Registrar are intended
to make the record of marriages as com-
plete as possible, and to obviate any pos-
sibility of fraud in the celebration of
marriages without license, or by the re-
issue of license1
alreasy used. There are
18,000 or 19.000 marriages a year in On-
tario, and it is found that six or eight
hundred of these are not registered by
the clergymen. The return of the li-
censes will tend to atop this.
Steps will be taken to deal with the
practice common et Windsor, 'where 1,600
'Mendes a year are issued to prevent
the perjury which American bridegrooms
undertake in swearing in 15 days' resi-
denee for the purpose of getting a di -
cense. A room is fitted up at the dock
where licenses are issued, and it is Baia
that a clergyman is always in attendance.
There is an idea prevalent in the border
States that th Canadian marriage care-
Mony is more binding than Uncle Sam'.'.
The new regulations are to the follow-
ing ef feet.:
Under former regulations alt lieenses
were held in the possession ef the offi-
ciating -clergyman. fader new regula-
does all licenses are to be .emlorsed on
the back and forwarded to the Registrar -
General, Toronto, by the clergymen; this
does not do away with the registration
of marriagea. All marriages mug hci re-
gistered by official exirds, giving full de-
tails to the Division Registrars of the
municipalities where marriages were per-
formed.
• Fertilely the 'milers of lieenses were
required to send a license card to the
Rivistrar-Clencrel upon the issue of every
license, retaining the affidavit hi hie pos-
session. 13y die new order the issuer is
required to fill out the &Utile in A. pre-
pared form printed on the back of the af-
fidevit, and 'forward it rto the Registrar -
General instead of the license card.
Both the affidavits and licenses are to
be placed en fyle in the Lemetrar-Gener.
al% department, Toronto, for future ref-
erence and eafe.keepmg,
Doplieitte official envelopes are sup-
plied to issuers of itemises, one to be used
in sending the affidavit to the Registrar -
General's department and one to be sent
with each license iseued, for the ese of
the officiating elergyman in mailing the
license to the Registrar -General.
UNLOADED HAY ON SABBATH.
Lord's Day Alliance Fails in Case Against
Eastern Farmer.
A Cornwall report An interesting ease
touching upon the ooservance of the
Lord's Day came up before Police ably-
istrate Davis yesterday, when a fanner
named G. Bronson was charged with
loading and hauling hay ani building a
fence on Sunday. 11. Smith who de.
fended Bronson, held that ihe Lord's
Day Act of the old Consolidated Stat-
utes of Upper Canada did not specifical-
ly prohibit farmers from labor on the
Lord's Day, and that the Privy Council
had (lochtred to be ultra tires thi' 0111.
endments of the Ontario Legislature,
one of which added the farmers to the
prohibited classes,
The magistrate said that in view of
this decision there would be no use in
hearing evidence.
3. C. Milligan, who appeared for the
Lord's Day Alliance, mingled that the
Privy Council's decisions Mood unre-
iteidea ,and therefore withdrew the
charge.
Mr. Bronson claims that he unloaded
one wagon to make room on the barn
floor for nnother load, which, iffanding
outside, might have been damaged had
the weather ehanged. He also mended
a broken gate.
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THE WHITE -CAPPING CASE.
Men Charged With the Offence Are All
Acquitted.
A Cluttlutoi sport: The preliminary
hearing in the 1)nlmnge white-eapping
✓ ase came ot nn abrupt conclusion this
efternoon. Those charged were Ewart
Gibson, 'Wm. ,T. Martin, "Wm. Mills. ()s-
e ar Lounshury, Wm. Curtie, 3. Mellon -
alt and Constable Tremblay. County
afagistritte Houston heard the ease.
rown Attorney Smith prosecuted, and
Mr. 0. Ts Lewis IlefeRtled the prisonere.
Thilinnge testified that he eoula positive-
ly recognize none of his alleged assailants
exeept, tlibson, The evidenee showed
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INTRIGUING AGAINST WITTE.
Enemies Stirring Up War Sentiment i
His Absence.
London, Aug, 7.—The St. ePtersburg co
respondent of the Times states that a per
sonal friend of M. do Witte says that d
Witte is determined to conclude peace. 1.1
will find a way of reconciling Japan's de
mands with the exigencies of Russian pros
On the other band, it is learned that eve
since de Witte'a departure his enemies hay
been intriguing fiercely and successfull
against hint, and have succeeded in re-estah
lishing war sentiment at Peterhof,
It is not a mere coincidence that the meet
ing between the Czar and Emperor William
and the Grand Council of Peterhof occurred
in M. de Witte's absence, without his previ-
ous knowledge or advice.
It Is also noteworthy tnat the organic stet
Utes of the national duma, if decided upon
will be promulgated while Russia's greates
statesman is out of the country. The ex
planation must be sought in M. de Witte'
efforts to introduce, or at least to prepar
for a cortstitution, which a vast majority
even of Liberal statesmen, oppose.
Indeed, only two members of the Gran
Council share M. de Witte's views, and nelth
er of them is willing to wield his influenc
against the majority. One is Count Solsky
and the other is Gov. -Gen. Trenoff. The lat
ter's conversion was quite recent, but it is
an undisputed fact, and it is bound, sown
or later, to have starteling consequences.
MONEY ORDER FRAUDS.
Heavy Punishment for Those Who Com
mit Offences.
Ottawa, Aug. 7.—The Canadian an
United States Postoffice Departments
seem to be determined to put an end to
frauds in connection with the money
order business by vigorously prosecut-
ing guilty parties. In a case at Van-
couver the prisoner was sentenced to
ten years' penal servitude for forgery
of his mother-in-law's name to two
money orders. The Canadian depart-
ment has just caused the extradition of
two persons from Seattle, Washington,
and they are now before the courts at
Vancouver for raising money orders
from small to large amounts. At To-
ronto the other day a man was convict-
ed of stealing a money order and obtain-
ing the cash therefor through a forged.
signature. He was sentenced to nine
months' imprisonment. In a recent case
brought to the attention of the United
States department by the Canadian of-
ficials the criminal was followed for sev-
eral months through the Michigan lum-
ber woods, and finally arrested, brougbt
to trial, convicted, and heavily sentenc-
ed. Other cases will shortly be placed
before the courts.
THE FALL FAIRS.
Canadian National Aug. 26 -Sept. 11
- Winchester .... ..Sept. 6-7
Cornwall*. - .. Sept. 8
Central Canada, Ottawa....Sept. 8-16
Western, London ...... Sept. 8-16
Brockville .... .... Sept. 12
Guelph .... ..... Sept. 12-14
Halifax . - . .... Sept. 13-21
Perth .... . SepL 15
Orono ..... ..Sept. 18-19
Prefeott. .. Sept. 19-21
N. York, Newmar-
ket Sept. 19-21
Durham .... Sept. 20-21
Woodstock.... ...... Sept. 20-22
Metcalfe ..... Sept. 21
Lindsay . . . Sept 21-23
Mildmay Sept. 25-26
Richmond ...... Sept. 25-27
Goderich Sept. 26-27
Drumbo SepL 26-27
Ripley .... .... Sept. 26-27
Renfrew .... ..Sept. 26-28
Collingwood .... Sept. 26-29
Wiarton Sept 27-28
W. Elgin, Wallacetown .... Sept. 28-29
Paris .... ..., Sept. 28-29
Wingham . . ... Sept. 28-29
W. Durham, Bowmanville ..Sept. 28-29
Dufferin, Orangeville Sept. 28-29
McDonald's Corners .... Sept 29
Culross, Teeswater ...... Oct. 2-3
Colborne OeL 2-3
Maberly ....Oct. 3
Sault Ste. Marie .... ..Oct. 3-4
Acton ..*. .... ....Oct. 3-4
Durham, Tillsonburg Oct. 3-4
Dorchester Oct. 4
Lucknow ..... Oct. 4-5
Markham............Oct. 4-6
N. Renfrew, Beachburg -Oct. 4-0
S. Waterloo, Galt -Oct. 5-0
Otterville ....Oct. 5-6
S. Norwich, Otterville.... ....Oct. 6-7
Dundee ... ...Oct. 6-7
Rockton World's Fair Oct. 10-11
Becton .Oct. 11
Stayner Oct, 11-12
Markham..... ...Oet. 4-5-6
Norfolk, Siincoe .... ....Oct. 17-19
MONTREAL MAN IN TOILS.
Dominion Express Clerk Charged With
Theft of $4,000s
New York, Aug. 7.—Frelerick AV,
Story, 22 years of ago, ef Montreal,
Quebec, was arrested to -night by private
detectives on a charge of grand larceny.
Ire was taken to police headquarters
and the police of Montroal were notified,
Story was a clerk employed by the Do-
minion Express Company. Between
April 14 and 17 last, it is alleged, he
stole $2,000 in cash and $2,000 in
cheques. Ire left suddenly on July 10, it
is alleged, arriving in New York the
next day.
Etory is said to have been traced
through a woman with whom he was
friendly. The police say he admitted the
theft. exonerating anyone else from
blame.
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MAKE DENMARK NEUTRAL.
German Emperor Still Intriguing for
Power.
London, Aug. 7.—The Paris correspondent
of the Times telegraphs to -night: "The Ger-
man Emperor's visit to Copenhagen is be-
lieved here in official circles to be a pre-
lude to a proposition on the part of Germany
for the neutralization of Denmark in the
event of war.
"This neutralization would, like that of
Belgium, be easily violated by Germany, to
her own profit, should war really break out
either with Franco or Germany, while it
!would seriously hamper the movements of any
other belligerent power.
"As the Danes are a highly pacific people,
it is believed that notwithstanding the im-
portant commercial and dynastic interests
which bind them to England they would ac-
cept neutralization with pleasure."
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LEFT FRIEND IN LAKE.
Young Man Charged With Causing Com-
panion's Death.
Ballston, N. Y., Aug. 7.— Delbert
Graves was brought here to -night from
Gloversville, where he Was arresteeto-
day on a warrant issued by Coroner
Fisher, of Saratoga county, charging
murder in the first degree. He is held
without bail.
On June 17, in the town of .
Edin-
burgh, Graves and a young man named
Everett C. Dorman went fishing to.
genie's Several days afterwards Dor-
man's body was found in the lake. The
coroner investigated the ease, and to-
day's action resulted.
NEED BUTTER IN ENGLAND.
Prices During Hot Season Highest in
Twenty Yeare.
London. Aug. 7. --The Canadian As-
sociated Press understands that there
is it great searcity of butter Iterf., and
that owing to the labor troubles in
Itussie, *where large quantities of
butter await shipment, the stringently
may become ineretteingly setiOlUi.
The abnormal altortage has been
to-
flootod in a rapid advance of values to
it point, never reftehod during the hot
season for over twenty years. A fur -
titer advante under the eiremnstanees is
expected.
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BRITISH ANNUITIES,
They Total $75,000 Yearly More Than
All Pensions.
London, Aug. 7.—According to a Par-
liamentary return issued to -day Great
Britain grants $540,000 in annuities to
the royal family and pensions for Judi-
eial services to the amount of $245,000,
the tote! of OM' is $75,000 more than
the pensions paid for naval, niilitary, po-
litienl and civil services together. The
sum of 005,000 is spent in the mainten-
nee of royal palaces, $510,000 on royal
parks. :Ina $145,000 nn the seeret %eyeless
Broadway Asylum, for eriminal lonaties,
vests $170,000 yearly; the Trish Constalm-
lary, $0,020,000; the British atueruni,
$945,000, and the National Gallery, $82,-
500.