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;, v.. k-V' "' ..";.' - :- ;..;.:: ::-.v- ,-A....: ,r:,, :., , , ,; v.:.v . ;,'.' - A , i. V f THE WEATHER. Generally fair and continued warm-; er Sunday and Monday; light to south and southwest winds. ..... , r ,., , . . , VOL. LXXXVI-NO. 108 ;Ui- v-: TAFT WAS III GUM ..ti.'.t OF POTS LEADERS V:' :l .C.f -1 . : . ... - - V . . - ... . ' W I m i 1 A : t ? i'..- : V VV11M.1JN-XUJI, Jl . o., V111 . Uirx--,2S411U.. ' - v V . .WHOM "NTnVf "RTCR 1 JT.an J r";":.'rv,'"v .iiiiti,. .,-v.? A: r: j . , ..: n nu l uu uul uu i ni inn in i SLIBH MISHAP n STOP THE STRIKF uwat-wjvop.M.wo hikfs J PRflTFST president Strained Hit An kle on Golf Links anf ; Suffered Severely. ABLE 10 SPEAK- AT BANGOR Pleased Enthusiastic. Crowd With Eu logy on Maine's Great Men. , Guest of Senator Hale at ' Ellsworth Home.' ' ? Ellsworth, Me., July 23. President Taft' is suffering from J - a severely strained right ankle.'; Despite the ex crusiating pain, which was - evidenced by a decided limp and facial grima ces each time he had to climb in of out of an automobile or ' train, the ; Presi dent carried out the rather exacting programme which had been arranged for him today. It included a speech, an automobile riae, and lunchepn In Bangor, a speech and a receptlpn here. Tonight Mr. Taft and the members of hia party are the guests of Senator Hale at his Ellsworth home. , Tomor row afternoon they will again board the yacht Mayflower at Mount Desert ferry and will spend Monday 'and Tuesday cruising in Casco Bay with stops at Islesboro and Rockland. The President hurt his ankle while he was playing golf on the links of the Kobo Valley Club at Bar, Harbor yesterday. He was climbing a steep grassy slope, leading to one of the greens when his right foot turned beneath him. There was some pain at the time, but Mr. Taft thought nothing of it and contin ued his game. This morning, however, when he awoke on the . Mayflower there was considerable Bwelling Sur geon Grayson, of the Mayflower, dress ed the injured ankle and made a tho rough examination. He declared, there was no general sprain,' but a bad strain dsome of the tendons... He advised to President tok rest on board, but At engagements of the day were of suck a character, that he could not rerjwell cancel them Mr. Taft car "TTErtheratcot-lo, last taltpeTetrt , to standing-iory: .halt ; an -houf after- speaking at Hancock Hall here late today to shake hands with several hun dred friends and neighbors of Senator Hale. As a result of his constant go , ing the President's ankle, was worse tonight and he is suffering quite keen ly. There is no" thought, however, that the hurt will be allowed to inter fere with the plans for the remainder of the cruise. : The Maine trip was largely planned by Mrs. Taft, accord ing to a statement in qne of the Presi dent's speeches today and he is anx ious that she, as well as he, shall get the full benefit of it. Mr. Taft had Prof. H. C. Emery; - chairman of the tariff commission,, who has Just return ed from a trip to Germany, as a guest and received from him a preliminary and entirely Informal report of the commission's work Aip to this time.. Prof. Emery will call with Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh at Beverly, soon after the President's return and later in the Summer the entire com mission will meet at the Summer capi tal. Mr. Taft weathered the Bangor trip oraveiy and pleased an . enthusiastic crowd there by an eulogy of the great men the State has produced and the possibilities for agricultural develop ment that yet lie in the soil awaiting me application of modern scientific methods of farmng. . Taft Likea to Mavt. ' I Both at Bangor and here, Mr. Taft commended the political sagacity that has been shown by Maine In the past m selecting good men as Senators and Representatives and thon keenfne them continually in office until their. inniience and power hacame natlon w'de. in his speech here this after noon th? President said that his visit jo Maine had strengthened his belief that it was a good thing 1 to move around among the people. "Anywayi like to do it," he said, "and I know 'hat thf'V like tn aaa ho man ' nrhnm chance has made the titular head of Ine government. They like to see nat manner of man it is who Is sitt ting at Washington and who, I hope, y think is doing the best he can; "UnR a lot of abuse perhaps, but ait(r nil apparently thriving on It. His Idea of Conservation. " his Bangor speech the President aiil in part: "As 1 cane from Mount Ja;rt this morning and looking out w the window of the car In which I ro. the thought came to me with ref "f,nce to these older Eastern States. J "e (IIH'Htlnn Tnno hAnn ln nJ n a in - '"i your future is. Havo you attain- "u "i the pi prosperity possible here? ., -"..nuiuuuu me cuiei rtKui. ia nnnotu..! Ik. .Ll.l lm tn m ,suit of happiness. It seems of Ii ,,at you aa much as ay PPl s .h . epu,),ic are Interested in that "J'ft which has so many, definitions com, '"any vai"iou8 definitions the n'j nation of our resources. In the of th m ' early m the development a w 1st' everybody wanted to be for m 88 farer and went West that l'"rPse of finding rich soil tie ,,u- grow b,S crops with as lit- niitivation as possible; and the the , , man t,layed the largest part in country. Upment of that Western tak?n t.nW a11 the rIch 80,1 nas Deen in or,i , uuw we are issuing bonds in th. w .put water on the dry 8011 Bo,.;' est at otherwise would not w crops and the thought of many of Situatioa Much Brighter Be- twee Grand Trunk and Its Employes. ASK FOB RAILROAD EXPERTS Minister of Labor Cqnferring With Of ficials of Road Attitude of Presi dent Hayes Parties Interest ed In Controversy. Ottawa, Ont July 23. The possi bility of bringing about the settlement of the Grand Trunk strike by means, of arbitration looks somewhat bright er tonight James Murdock, represent ing the men, wired Mackenzie King. Minister of Labor, ; this evening ex pressing a willingness "to refer exist ing differences to arbitration provid ed ' a boards of arbitrators, mutually acceptable; ' can be secured." .'Minister "King. Is. satisfied that Mr. Murdoch's ; communication is a bona fide offer to arbitrate and tonight h is trying to obtain an, unequivocal re sponse from the Grand Trunk offic ials. President Hayes wired during the day that he had nothing to add to his letter of July 21st, in which he took the position that a board oM arbitration should be composed of "ex pert railroad men." President Hayes was . not aware of ther changed atti tude of the trainmen, however, and Mr. King at once wired him a copy of Mr. Mur dock's telegram, which is as followa: If there ' appears to be reasonable doubt in the minds - of any Darties interested In this controversy sugges tive of the, fact that the same. plan of arbitration that successfully set tled the same auestions on a number of other 'lines,' would be unfair and inconsiderate of the rights of either party to the dispute In-this case, then 4 if l a matter that.5 JMiould .be given consideration V" and ' . arrangements should be. made 't-conserve the-ittti teresta-of the, paFy- who Tights were likely, to suffer! by an.' acceptance of the plan of arbitration used repeated ly heretofore. . .-.',. r We recognize the special obligation to the public and regret . exceedingly the inconvenience and loss to which public and private interests are be ing subjected, and' with' that recogni tion desire toy advise you that we will be willing to 'refer the existing differ ences to arbitration provided a board of arbitrators mutually acceptable can be secured.-? ' ; " '1W would respectfully suggest that If you, on behalf-of the government, should be ' desirous; of taking further action in this matter the parties to the differences should be more closely in touch with; you for personal confer ence, and we await your suggestions in this connection. (Signed) "JAMES MURDOCK. In view of the fact that President Hayes has not taken a stand against arbitration the feeling here is more hopeful that . Minister King's persist ent efforts to place the. whole contro versy before, a board of arbitration will be successful. - J Situation More Favorable. Montreal,: Que.. July 23.-A more fa vorable aspect of the arbitration negc-t tiations conducted by the Department of Labor at Ottawa and the return to work, of the Wabash men were the most encouraging features of the Grand Trunk strike situation- from the viewpoint of the public today. The in- slstance of the men that Messrs. Clark. and Morrissey serve upon any Board of Arbitration that .might, be -suggest-; ed was regarded as an unsurmounta. ble obstacle to further 'negotiations and their change of attitude today m; agreeing to the appointment of arbi-. trators, "mutually . acceptable," .at least offers an entering wedge to the labor department's efforts to place tnp controversy In the hands of arbitral tlon. : - , . . . Prior to the receipt of this encourag ing hews from Ottawathe official, dec laration of the Grand Trunk was inai the strike of its conductors aad train men -no JOlJKBr CAIOIO. v -i-.'., T Lawrence. Mass.. July' 23.-r-The Pa cific Cotton Mills in this city and Do ver, N. H., were shut down today, and will re-open August 1st. The miiis employ 7,000 operatives. . J7 ,; New "Fall line Tailoring onr display Monday. Tuesday . and . Wednesday. Red Cross. the wisest men of the country are be leg turned to the abandoned farms of the East, where modern science in ag riculture show that crops-can be rais ed if only proper attention and rules are followed in the cultivation of, the soil. 4. You have In Maine broad. acres of land that can; be availed of for this purpose. '. - ; .' - ' ',- , Should Remain on Farms. : ; .! ""Farmers today Tire our millionaires and there Is no reason why Maine should riot have farmer millionaires as well as the West Nor do I. see any reason' why the young men .who come put of. your agricultural schools should not stay here on the farms of Maine and raise crops, that will make them comfortable and enable them to send' ihelt children to" colleges and universities and continue their politi cal and moral influence throughout the State and the! NationC:; X 1 i r " r- :SfJ OR. GRIPPEN MAY RE LOCATED Wife Murderer and Typist Believed on Steamer Sardinian Bound to Mon- . "treal French; Communicat ing Within. British. London, July 23. The belief is held by Scotland yard that' Dr. Hawley. H. Crippen and Ethel Leneve are on board the steamship Sardinian which sailed from Havre for Montteal on July 18th. It is .variously stated in the newspa pers. thaUvInspectQrJw,,faUedf)Tj Canada on , the steamer Laurentic .the stehmer Caronia and the steamer Bal tic," but '.'thepolicb'T refuse to divulge which of these. is carrying the inspec tor as a passenger:. According, to a circumstantial story from, Havre.' two .hours before the de parture of the Sardinian, two passen gers, wtp were registered at the Rev. Mr. Robinson and son boarded the ves sel.. 'The former was attired in clerical garb. He . wore spectacles and had a short straggling, -and apparently a naw grown beard, but 'no mustache. - The most noticeable feature was toe man's heavy, projecting eye brows. The new comers engaged a second class cabin. No. suspicion attached to tne couple until the steward notieed that the Rev. Mr. Robinson's eye brow was slightly separated Xrom the, forehead. On fur ther watching the steward was 'assur ed that the'alleged son was a girl. The captain of .the Sardinian sent a wireless description of the two totne French police, giving-it as- his opinion that the couple were rea.ly Dr. Crip pen and the Lenve woman. The r rencn police communicated with the British authorities , , who are of , the opinion that Crippen and his companion, after fleeing from London separated in the South, of : France,' and re-joined each other at Marseilles, traveling together from that place to Havre. Searched Steamer Uranium. , Halifax, N. "S., July 23. Acting on a cablegram , from Scotland Yard, Hali fax detectives searched the Northwest transport , line steamer Uranium be fore -she. 'docked here tonight in the search for Dr. Crippen, but no trace of the "mlssipg dentist or his traveling companionMiss Leneve was found. . TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.. Dr. Noble Doing Good Work Condi- V.l Vtion of Crops, f ''('Speciar Star Correspondence.) Raleigh N.- C, Jtoly 23. Dr. M, C. S..- Noble, of the chair of pedagdgy, Un,iver sity-v! of , North Carolina, wa3 here "today returning from, a teacher's Institute at Wlarrenton which had an auspicious, . closing yesterday when thdte; was i.r picnic appended by the people of all that section. Dr. Noble, Rev. Mr. White and Mr. Trarker Pope were, .'the -speakers. ..": Every public school teacher ,in the county was reg istered for the. institute except a few who were Satisfactorily accounted for. There were a large . number-also from adjoining.' 'counties.' Dn Noble" goes Monday, to Bqrgaw, Pender county, af ter spending Sunday at his old home In "Wijmington. ; Commissioner.: of..: Agriculture Gra ham IS back- from -a three weeks' stay at his plantation in Lincoln county and says the corn "crop : in all that section of the State Is exceptionally fine and that-. while the cotton - crop is - some think like two weeks late, It is devel oping -wonderfully , with the "promise of at least an average yield if the frost does .hot make-an early visitation this Falk K Is' said now .that taken" the State 'Over' the? crop - conditions' and prospects are nothing' like as discour aging as tney were tnougnt to be some weeks- aga and . really ; average crops at least -may be expected except where some local .condition n.as..maae inroads i .V, "Tannhauser". March , to be played bytthe,Lumtoa. orchestra tomorrow ; night. -i ' x .... - . ' . . . j:-r PR0H1BITI0M-ISSUE Ttt TEXAS Primary Elections Held Yesterday ' ' Based on This Question Returns Coming Slow nd Outcome Uncertain Bitter Feeling.' Dallas, Tex., July 23. With the vote , polled the largest. In years . and the j count; of. the , lengthy? ticket,' which be-1 gan &iy o'clock progressing slowlythe early returns mdicafe biit' little: of to day's State rimaryrelectfon. Returns, at i0clisiElc.r nothings which might be taken as In dicative of the trend of the vote. : As to .the prohibition 'question the contenders both for an against the sub mission of a proposed . constitutional amendm nt to popular vote an issue decided at the primary, see much to en courage them from the first.returns al though the vote against submission is slightly in the leadr However, it wA be hours before the count can be com plex., and from the mere remote dis tricts, the returns will probably not be received until late tomorrow... . Altnough personal feeling was in tense and factional lines tightly drawn, but one incident of disorder has been reported and that not directly connect ed with te voting. It occurred at Bel- ton, were a negro was burned at the stake last nigh, for the killing of a onstable, who was to have been select ed today. The appearance of a negro driving the hearse bearing the remains of the siain officer was the signal for a demonstration but before . it . had as sumed serious proportions he was re placed by a white man and excitement subsided. At 11 o'clock returns Indicate that the proposition to submit the proposed constitutional amendment was carried. For governor Colquitt is still leading. St. Paul,' Minn., July 23. Returns received tonight from a large number of-the county conventions held all over the State today to select delegates to the State Convention indicate an over whelming sentiment for John Lind, of Minneapolis, former governor! as the candidate for governor. On the issue of county option the party seems hope lessly divided. - - Man t ntirar 'ft I : .Tnlv 95 Tia tn. tkl loss by - forest fires in British Co lumbia is officially estimated'today at 14,000,000. Practically all the fires in the upper country have been 'extin guished.' vv ' - . ; : - OUTLINES. The Madrlz ' consul at Washington has made a protest against the treat ment received at the hands of the State Department, and '.its attitude, toward the titular government- Arbitration will be resorted to. as a last resort to settle the strike between the . Grand Tunk railroad and Its employers President Taft suffered severe pam from' a strained ankle at Bangor Maine. yesterday, but managed , to carry out the exacting programme arranged for the day Following a meeting of the stocknolders of the Fidelity Trust Com pany, 1 at 1 Louisville, Ky yesterday it was announced s; that $l,400,t)00 f had been, stolen. from the company by a former official who is how -in. jail Scotland yard detective believed that Dr. Crippen and his J : typist took 1 a steamer that left France for Montreal -The Texas primaries, In which prohibition, was the principal issue, were held yesterday Nw York mar kets: - Money - on ' call . nominal,- time loans much easier and -"eery active; spot cotton closed' quiet-20 polnta low er, middling uplands ,15-80, tmlddllhg gulf 40sKr, "flour '. duir andimchanged; wheat . spot, easy JCo. 2- red nominal new,Lll elevator ? to arrive- No. 2 . red 1.11 1-4. i.: : o. b, afloat; cdrnispot easy, No. 2, 73 3-4 nominal elevator domestc basis to arrive; oats 'dull, mixed, nom inal ;t rosin firm, turpentine easy. ; -. 1 i ' i( ROPKE TOOK OVER A MILLION Stolen From the Fidelity Trust Com pany at Louisville, Ky. Announc- . ed by Stockholders Accused. Safe in Prison. - Louisville, Ky., July 23. John ;.W. Barr, president of the Fidelity Trust Company, late this afternoon said .that the entire surplus of the 'company 1,140,000. had been stolenThis ls -eup-posed to represent 'the': -shortage.'; of Asslstan t-reury.Rke;Tmw;ln:all here. " . ; ; . August Rdpke was the assistant" sec retary and general bookkeeper of the Fidelity Trust Company,, perhaps. the soundest financial concern , In : Louis ville and believed to have been the first trust company organized west of Pittsburg. He had been, in the employ of the concern for 18 years and .be.: cause of his splendid work in . bobki and his shrewdness in handling deals for the bank, gained the confidence of the officials. " t . About two weeks ago a shortage of $6,000 was accidentally; discovered by one .of Ropke's assistants and the mat ter reported to his superiors.: This re sulted in Ropke's arrest , arid his in carceration pn the charge of embez zlement. He was sent to jail i,h de fault of $25,000 bail and a firm of Chi cago experts put to work on his books. The shortage . grew daily . until it reached the stupendous " . amount, re ported today at a special meeting of stockholders held late this afternoon. Some of Ropke's property has. been recovered and turned over to the bank. The. Fidelity Trust Company recently issued $1,000,000 stock to make good the loss. Ropke was a' heavy, specula tor. '. . , ... BURNING SHIP AT SEA. ., ,i -' " Wireless Unable to Locate Steamer Momour Last- Nlghtl r ;? . Atlanta, Ga., July' 23. Reports" re ceived here at midnight are that no wireless stations along the South At lantic coast, including Charleston,. Sa vannah, Jacksonville . and Key .West, have received any information regard ing the steamer Momour, of the South ern . Pacific Line, which - is afire'- ojt Cape Canavarel, since, morning, "nor has any report been received from the sister ship Comu3,, which rescued the passengers of the Momour. Unit ed Wireless and Government wireless operators at Key West -are making efforts to reach the vessels., jXast . re ports were that the flames .were under control,, all passengers were saf a and the Momus would be able to make port.- . A A ' . ' Savannah, Ga., July, 23. The opera- tor at the Savannah , station of ;the United Wireless Telegraph " Company today learned . from , .the steamship Alamo that the Momus , was . on - fire. The -Alamo had picked .up . a message from-the Momurto the station, at Ju piter, Fla." The operator: on the"-Ala-mo understood that Momur? had 7been beached , near Cape Canavarel, after the steamship Comus had . taken off the passengers. The Comus was .still standing by the burning Vessel ac cording to the imderstandiflg ; of the operator of the Alamo. ' BUCK STOVE SITUATION, -. End of Fight With Organized Labor is ' -v Announced. - ,.-:.' St. Ix)uiS, July 23 'formal arinouhce ment was made tonight by J. T.' fem pIeton secretary , of the Bucks . Stove and Range Company of the end' ot; tne fight with organized labor..,. The em ployes of the piant are to .be organized. The secretary; however, .did jiot state if the present workmen would-be .re quired to join the union. -.;'..-.- The' announcement in part ..sayst JThe present' management. is: find' aP ways has been friendly to organised labor: We believe labor has alight to organize ' for its protection and i ad- vancement" Claims United States , Has Wr on gly Tr e ated Titular I : Government THE NICARAGUA!! SITUATION Madriz is Seeking Recognition From Uncle Sam Bluefields Now An " Open Port Recent Battles . . ' With Insurgents. I Washington, July 23. Protest against the action of the State De partment of the, United States, In re: fusing to recognize as. binding under International law the trder of Dr. Madriz, provisional president of Nica ragua, declaring Bluefields a closed port and In refusing further to taki seriously Norway's recognition of this, order, was made today by Corryv M: istadden, consul here for : the titulaf government n Nicaragua. - - Reports were received by Mr. Stad: den, from Madriz f, the routing of Cotalopa after, nine hours , of fighting of 900 insurgents and of the capture oi many prisoners. . Mr. Stadden's statement, issued to day . concludes with the observation that 'Mf the State Department will dil igently observe international obliga tions due to a friendly state, the in surrection soon will be suppressed, with due care ; for the preservation of American lives arid property." . The statement in part says: "King Haakon having recognized President Madriz as the DeJure as well as De Facto of Nicaragua, as all other pow ers, with the exception of the United States,- having . diplomatic relations" with Nicaragua have d6nelt was emi nently proper for' him to recognize the decree closing the port of Bluefields. This action was based upon a formal protest that -vessels-flying' the Norwe gian fligthad, -committed hostile acts toward . a? friendly ; government, there by "Incurring liability" to'seisure:-"3'' "It should (be beneath the dignity of the State Department to quibble over the character of the gunboat Ve nus which was publicly purchased tn the United States for the titular gov ernment of Nicaragua, If she is oper ating unlawfully she may be seized as a pirate. As she has not been seized. it .must be presumed that she is operating entirely within the law, and she should not have been driven away from Bluefields by the American commander ' "All of the official acts of President Madriz, since he assumed office in December have stamped the lie upon the ' evil reports issuing from insur gent sources that he is not sympathet ic towards .the United . States - and American interests in Nicaragua. 'President Madriz, has neither sym pathy for nor affiliation with former President Zelaya. The insurrection was begun to oust Zelaya. In this it has been eminently successful. It has now dwindled to little more than one per cent of the population and if the State Department will diligently ob serve international obligations due to a friendly state, it will soon be sup pressed; with due care for the. preser vation of American lives and pf btrer-' ty." - - -' . Protests against" the murder by the revolutionists of Chichow, a Chinese merchant at tSan Pedro Del Norte, has been made by the Chinese resi dents of- Nicaragua to .the representa tive here of their government Chong Sing, who was -Chlchow's business partner, announced the. murder in a letter to a friend In this country, and has filed an individual protest He says the murder was .committed by Agabito Gonzales, a captain of the revolutionists and that the latter claims all his stores at San Perdo Del Norte, Opens Port of Bluefields. , New Orleans, July 23. Trade be tween American ports and Bluefields, Nicaragua, is to be -resumed as a re: suit of the action of the ' American State Department in the declaring' Bluefields .on open port It was an nounced tonight that the steamers Inv perator . and Dictator would sail to morrow , morning. t The Imperatqv cleared this afternoon for Bluefiefds via Cape Graclas, with a miscella neous cargo. '- ; The Dictator, In ballast, goes direct to Bluefields for a cargo of bananas. Following the1 receipt today of the statement given out ,by:the foreign office ' at Christiana, Norway, local steamship agents received . cable mes sages froiri Norwegian owners agreeing-to permit the sailing to Bluefields of steamers . which havo been tied up here since Norway declared its rec ognitioh of the ad-called . blockade ot the Madriz goverrimejat against the port and principal stronghold of the Nicaragua insurgents . The only ships which have been available for Bluefields, have been of Norwegian register. ' . ' ' It ; was reported , that In the event that no- ships j could be secured the Insurgents would utilize , the convert ed yacht Hornet recently sol.d by the Federal Government to a local ship yard and now" on the way from Nor folk to New Orleans. "This would have served to keep the insurgents in bread and .' meat - and ammunition; but , it would have seriously interf erred with the plans the insurgents are said to have in connection rwith piHlng the Branded Speaker Cannon and Senator . - Aldrich ; As Traitors, i SAYS THEY AIDED RAILROADS Seems to Think Republican Party Was, Formed to ; Make Men' Rich.' ' Urges Fight to Destroy Their ' Political Leadership. 7, Peabody, Kas., July 23 .--Senator AI bert B. Cummins', of Iowa, in his speech ' Before the Chautauqua here today as serted that Senator Aldrich and Speak- -er Cannon were traitors to their party, . not to the .country; when they, gave ' their "support to 'iue wicersham rail road bill as it came from line Attorney General's office and demanded that It ' $o through Congress. ' .,, i. ; , . ij?ai Dm was a airect repudiation ' of ithej Republican party platform of rl9Qy and it was directly in the interest t oi the railroads and not in the Interest ' of the great .common people of tne country , senator uummlns Bald. , 1 Speaker Cannon and Aldrich and . men of their class seem to think tne Republican party was formed to make men rich. I think It was born to make men free. They think it was born to make men millionaires; I believe it was born to drive misery out of this country. "Senator Aldrich has vigorously op posed all reputation of the railroads by Congress ever since the bill to create the Inter-State Commerce Commission -was introduced In 1887. I was born, and always have been a Republican. but I cannot and will not follow the leadership of a traitor to his party and the people. ..V. Senator Cummins spoke in a big tent where the heat was intense," but he continued his address for two hours to a large. audience: ';'-'', ., "I am a , recruiting 'officer," he said, "for the army thatwill 'destroy, the do litical -leadership, of Speaker; Cannon and Senator Aldrich. ldrlch. I want to enlist . '. a 4 en'inhHf arftiy,'' for -xf t be done in the hptnes... ' f v ! i vj ,.. CLAIMS VICTIMS V s; men and -women best work jpill : RARI.TAN CLAIMS VICTIMS Two Sisters and Their Escort Drowned' in New Jersey Yesterday. New Brunswick, N.' J.;..July 23. The', swirt and treacherous under-current i of the Raritan Bay sucked down two young sisters and their escort to their ' death and utterly exhausted a third young girl of the patty. v-' ' aedead: Anna Hill, 21 years old , Highland ark: Ldith Hia, 19 years.- Highland Park; Gordon Silverthorne 22, Newark, N. J. -. Rescued Helen i White, 20 New Brunswick, came near drowning. . . . . The young people were camping out near here and rowed from shore today for an afternoon . swim. A hundred yards out they dived over board to-' gether. Silverthorne had not gone far when he heard Anna Kill scream for help. - She went down twice before he could: reach her and din ot rise again. Overcome by grief and , exhaustion he was soon splashing wildly. . Meantime Harry Bloodgood put out from shore in anoluer rowboat and. . . succeeded in getting Edith Hill and. , Miss White aboard, but not before Sil-; ;.. verthorrie sank.1 He was unconscious' when hauled into the boat. Physicians r worked faithfully over aa three but- onl Miss; White was revived. Southamboy, N: J.. July 23. Four ; , men here who heard ' of the drowning . ' near ' New Brunswick were speeding ' thither in an automobile this evening , when the steering gear balked arid the v machine plunged oyer a high embank-; ' ment ana overturned. Edward Dugan, a widower, with seven children was! killed outright William Monaghanv r had several ribs broken and sustained, internal injuries and' the other two. men were painfully hurt. . ; ' 25 VICTIMS "OP STORM. , l, , . .. Terrific Cyclone 8wept Over Milan Property Damaged. ; Milan. - July 23. A terrific cyclone " swept over the district northwest of , - Milan today, doing great damage to , -the. towns of Saronno, Ravellasca and .. Lonate Pozzolo. It is estimated that..' . about 25. persons were killed and many . wounded. The victims include several . workmen employed on the railway. Many, houses were unroofed and tel- egraph lines were levelled. Some dwellings were cracked and ; shaken as though they had been -through an earthquake. " "Babv Parade" to be played by the Lumina orchestra tonight ',.- - v.- :' Hornet agaWf - the .Madriz! : gunboat ; Venus.' Consequently, when it became known tonight that the blockade would not ', be observed,' there was : much joy in the local insurgent camp. ' .Madriz Claims a Victory. ' Managua, July ; . 23.i-?:PresIdent Ma-; driz announces a victory by General; Vasquez, occupying Co tnalapa over the insurgents. General .Vagqnez, in com- mand of 200 ' men, was ; attacked by -fou hundred provisionals. During the f4 course ; of the engagement 'General Valdez .with reinforcements " surprise ; the ' provisionals attacking them from -the rear. The battle lasted four hours S and many were killed or wounded on both sides; . General , Valdez suffered nerloua Inlurles.' 7 ;?: . i . i - A i -,! ' j' ''.'Mi i'U-.t'j. ':,T- . r, 1 - .' '" .i t'-H- IT a-1 i i S ( . . j; ."'.,:'' ": '.k 1" I . t - . . - t , t f . - I . T, .. v ii :.". ''i: I. Ii i ''.I. 1 " t !. f . ' ... - f . in. : . .. -'-,..(: i . ' . t - -Zil ' - . . -,'-'''.'f v-" ,v'vt,vi": 1 . 1 -.- -1 I-.- 'ft. :Vr;'-';-l4H 4 ? J A. r 'I; f' .f ; '..ft ;-.. 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