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iWBiba Wakes
Bishop
Pttter Scvcrellto Task
SOME VERY BRILLIANT.ARGUMENTS
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TTie Editor Challenges! t 'Slanderous
New York Bishop vtrf Show
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Hands as to Moral 'ccAdition -oV
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Diocese and' the SokithGeneHy.
' Bishop' Potter of NeV
rk is one o
the pet superstitions oU
Ms',. country .
-tie is; joaxxoz tne gflne
New York
Eunersition. Because N
w York is
big, most of us assume t
t any man
who becomes prominent
lere must be
& very largo and great- roan indeed.
We persistently forgetthm. as yinany
fakirs, humbugs and lightweights rat
tle and swell around In ' large places
In New York as anyV;1erekele in the
world. As for Bishq3Pdtter, he has
said and done as many silly things as
say other old gentieman ye know of.
A recent experience lot his indicates
that his manners are as bad as his
morals in some respects are defective,
. Ids judgment is bad and his arragence
extreme. Some time ago he undertook
to discuss the divorce question in a
New York newspaper. As we recollect.
lie floundered around the subject . a
Booddeal and failed absolutely to
make any definite suggestion or to in
dicate any coherent policy for his
church or legislation. : In the course
of his somewhat flabby and charotic
T-OTTi Q rlrcr .liftwovpp Via cairi that tho nh-
eolute apolition of divorce would not
do. He added: "We have an example
of what would result from such a
ineasure in South Carolina, where the
laws do not recognize it. Prohibiting
; divorce is merely putting concubinage
at a premium. This does not im
press us as a high or a churchman
like view. Certainly concubinage is
iot at a premium anywhere in South
Carolina.
The editor of the Columbia (S. C.)
State wrote Bishop Potter a very re
spectful letter, pointing out to him
that he had done the homes and peo
ple of the State serious injustice, re
ferring him to the bishop and clergy
of his own church in that State for
evidence and asking him to make care-
ful inquiry into the facts and then
-take such steps as equity and justice
may dictate."
In reply the -editor received a most
insolent letter from Bishop Potter, in
directly denying that he had used the
language attributed to him and de
scribing the editor's letter and article
on the subject by Judge Benet, en
closed with it as "equally unwarranted
and impertinent."
The editor of the State replied with
another respectful letter, in a perfect
ly proper and deferential way," taking
oft the bishop's hide. He pointed put
that the offensive paragraph had been
published prominently, that Bijthop
Potter did not seem fit to make , any
denial or correction of an outrageous
and shameful slander against the peo
ple of a' whole State and that his de
nial suggested in his own letter was
as evasive as discourteous. A few days
later Bishop Potter printed in the New
York Globe a brief statement on the
subject, in which he said he had .no
. apology to make to South Carolina
and extended his slander to the people
of the whole South. He is quoted as
, saying:
"He had simply remarked that , in
view of the prevalence of miscegena
tion in the South, the 'pose' of loftly
and superior virtue on the part of its
people, anywhere had in it an element
equally comic and pathetic.
An accusation like "this cannot be
sustained or disproved by statistics or
. affidavits. It can be considered only
in the light of general and o&vious
facts. Virtue is not a things of sections
or of countries. The good are good
'and the bad are bad everywhere and
wherever human nature is, the affec
tions and passions of men and women
stray in forbidden paths. One thing,
however, is certain and plain. That
Is that the moral tone is indefinitely
cleaner and the social standards are
indefinitely higher in South Carolina
than in Bishop Potter s diocese. Cer
tainly a woman divorced from her
husband and married to another man.
inside of twenty-four hours would not
e received in respectable society any
where in the South. Yet a woman who
did that very thing is a leader of New
York's most exalted society. Nobody
knows the. secret annals of vice; but
every observer who has met and
known the people of New York and
-may Southern State knows that in the
South vastly less filth is talked and
written than in New York. The natu
ral and inevitable presumption is that
lives in the South are , very much
cleaner. The women whose conduct
and conversation are so distinctly
loud and bad as to justify definite
criticism is tabooed in every Southern
. State! Bishop Potter cannot say that
that is the case even in the,, highest
and theoretically most exclusive so
ciety of his own community.
It would be interesting to know
where Bishop Potter got his impres
sions of the morals of the people of
the South and how he would go about
justifying' himself for circulating such
a cruel and injurious charge as that
concubinage and miscegenation are
general in this part of the country.
The truth is that miscegenation in its
legal sense is impossible anywhere in
the South because it is forbidden and
severely punished by law. We do
not hesitate to say that the charge
. that these vices are general or even
widespread in the South is false, and
In making that assertion we will do
better than Bishop. Potter. We will
offer good evidence to convjct him of
falsehood If he is willing to dare the
issue. We will put on the stand the
Protestant Episcopal clergy of the
..whole Strath, from bishops to deacons.
They live among the people and know
them and have ample opportunity for
knowing their life. We may assume
that some of them, at least, are men
who are not afraid to tell the truth
in any circumstances or at any cost.
5or New York, we will take the com
bined evidence of the clergy, the
courts and the newspapers. Like the
editor oZ the State, vro Jvtte Bishop
Potter to tae the evidence, or join
us in takinc it. If it sustains his ac
cusations, we wil1 confess with shame,
but frankly tnat ne is ngnt. it tney
Mnlntllim will 1A he roininTr trt
confess that he has circulated an out-
slander! We do not care whether he
attributes it to ignorance, recklessness
or malice or to a mixture of the
three. If he evades a simple and hon
est tet this, he will stand convict
ed rot having disgraced himself by a
wholesale slander unworthy of a gen
Zffeman and of having brought shame
nuu xujuijr u pun. uis unu v;iiuiv;u, su
far as his jurisdiction extends. Rich-
ond News Leader,
DAMAGE BY SEVERE STORM
Houses Demolished and Unroofed,
Trees Uprooted and Stock Killed
Many Persons Injured, Though No
Fatalities Are Reported Path of the
Storm Three Miles Long Woman
and Child Carried to the Roof of a
Neighboring House.
Mooresville, Special. A terrific rain
and wind storm passed over ihis sec
tion of the county about 3 o'clock Wed
nesday afternoon, and assumed the fe
rocity of a cyclone. Many homes are
totally destroyed, while many others
are left without covering, and other
wise damaged. The clouds came from
the south and west, and as they came
in contact a few miles below town hav
oc began. The path of the storm cov
ered a scope of about 300 yards in
width, and it left destruction in its
wake. The report comes that on E.
C. Deaton's farm at the Reid place,
a barn that had been finished yester
day was blown away. The current
was heading toward town, and the
next place it struck was the home of
Mr. Lee Kistler, the roof of the dwell
ing being blown off, and the chimney
going down through the house. No
one was seriously hurt, and the family
occupied one room at the time. Mr.
James White and Mr. Rod Kistler
were slightly hurt. The barn and out
houses were totally demolished. Next
was the borne of Mr. Sherrill, which
was lifted from the pillars and carried
some distance. Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill
were in the house, and it is rumored
that Mrs. Sherrill's jaw bone, was bro
ken. The roof of the house of Mr.
Bud Phillips was carried away. The
small houses of Mrs. Walls, near the
lower mill, was blown down. The
storm then struck Frank Beatty's
house, on Cloaninger's Heights. This
house was wrecked. It was occupied
by three persons a mother and two
cniiaren. une giri crawled beneath a
bed and escaped 'unhurt, while the
mother and another child were found
on top of the roof some distance frOm
the spot where the house had been,
Next was a cabin occupied by John
Knox, where the roof anr everything
in the house was blown away, includ
ing a f small child about 4 years old,
who was found three hundred yards
from the house unhurt. All the cabins
in this section were unroofed and
blown down. The next and most seri
ous Iqss of property ,was at the home
or Mr. j. ri. uioaninger. His big two-
story house was unroofed and every
thing in the upstairs, of the building
broken to pieces. The ell was torn
from the big house, and all his dining
room and kitchen furniture was bro
ken. A crib, barn, blacksmith shop,
buggy shed, smoke-house and grainery
and one tenement house were Com
pletely demolished. The barn of Mrs
Crawford Johnston was blown off the
pillars. The home of Mr. Mack Brown
is a total wreck, having been blown
from the pillars and moved about six
feet from the original site. This is a
six-room house and was in the old
picnic grounds east of town. The
barn of Mr. Julius Kennerly was blown
down and a horse was, killed. Trees
were uprooted and carried a great way
and pieces of timber were carried off,
Derives $1,000,000 From Convicts
Jacksonville, Fla., Special. The or
ganization of the bi-ennial session of
the Florida Legislature at Tallahassee
was completed at noon by the ratifica
tion of the caucus nominees: Park
Trammel, of Polk county, as President
of the Senate, and Albert Gilchrist;
as Speaker of the House. Governor
Broward's message treated largely of
routine matters, but also recommend--
ed the passage of a uniform text-book
law. It also discussed the question
of the leasing of convicts. Under the
present term of the lease the State
will derive about one million dollars
from this source during the four years
of the life of the contract. The ses
sion of the Legislature, by law, is
limited to sixty days.
Killed Wife and Parents.
Batesville, Ark., Special John Dow,
a negro, went to Sulphur Rock to see
his wife, who was at her father's
home, and because she refused to re
turn with him, he drew a pistol and
shot her dead. Then he shot and
killed his wife's mother and another
negress. His father-in-law secured a
shot gun and shot Dow, but not fa
tally, the latter being able to return
the fire, killing his father-in-law.
Obstacle to Peace.
St. Petersburg, By Cable. The Jap
anese insistence apon indemnity, rath
er than indisposition to include peace
at this time, late miormauon mai-
cates, wrecked the recent attemp to
w .
tha Tiro TTM Tl cr TinwerS lTlfO TlfVSTO-
Ullllg W1W ' '
tiations. Another effort on different
lines to bring Russia and Japan to
gether is believed to be under way, the
movers now being French and English
financial interests.
No Indictments.
Richmond. Va., Special Col. Henry
Hutchings, of the First Texas Regi
ment, and five of his officers, appear
ed before the Federal grand jury here
Wednesday to testify in the matter of
charges that there had been irregu
larities in the pay-roll of the regiment
named during the Manassas maneou
vres. Two grand juries have now
passed on. the 'matter without indict
ment of any one. The first jury was
at Alexandria, and the second here,
the Richmond body finding no true
bills.
APPOMATTOX AGAIN
Tar Heels and Virginians Hold a Loye
Feast on Field of Battle
CAROLINA MEMORIAL UNVEILED
Three Thousand Persons, Over Three
Hundred of Them From North Caro
lina, Attend the Exercises Upon the
Old Battlefield of Appomattox Court
House Governor Montague En
thusiastically Welcomes the Tar
Heel Visitors.
Lynchburg, Va., Special. Theccle-
bration of the Appomattox anniversary
and the dedication of North Carolina's
memorial to her gallant sons, who cut
so great a figure there, was in every
respect admirable, in conception and
in execution. Genial as was the
weather with all its spring softrpess
it was not more genial than
the welcome given by - gion-
cus old Virginia to our Governor
and the veterans and the guests, from
the Old North State. Nothing marred
the symmetry of the affair, and it
was a love feast of Virginians, and
North Carolinians. Governor Glenn
and Governor Montague met here in
the morning and at once established
the entente rordiale and every one
of the visitors and visited followed
this example. Governor Montague
made a charming impression on the
North Carolinians, and as for Governor
Glenn every Virginian who met him
sings his praise. All the speeches of
the day were struck upon a high and
clear note, full of devotion to both
States, and yet above all a deio and
enduring loyalty to their country.
Virginia's daughters, in a most beauti
ful way, manifested their sympathy
with the occasion and what it celebrat
ed. Mrs. Garland Jones and Mcs. K.
B. Hall, both of Raleigh, are the only
ladies who came over with the Gover
nor's party.
They were met here by a notable
assemblage representing Virginia
Daughters of the Confederacy, of
which they are so prominent members
at home. The Virginia Daughters
were made guests onthe Governor's
Pullman and were Mrs: A. F. Ander
son, Mrs. Benjamin Nowling," Miss
Mollie J. Early, a niece of General Ju-
bal Early, Mrs. Herbert Watts, Mrs.
Francis, Miss Lucy Langhorne, Mrs.
James T. Carter, Mrs. Kirkwood Otey,
who i3 the president of the Lynch
burg Ladies' Memorial Association,
Mrs. Arthur L. Powell. Miss Katherine
Horseley, and Mrs. Hettie Bowley.
These ladies are members of both
Kirkwood Otey and Old Dominion
Chapters, United Daughters of the
Confederacy.
It was 12:30 when the band crashed
into "Dixie," and after a burst of
cheering the exercises began, the wait
being rather tiresome and the sunghine
hot amid Mt-treea. Evjery filch of
space within hearing was filled. Chair
man Henry A. London, as master of
ceremonies, announced the opening
prayer by Chaplain James A. Weston,
major of the late Thirty-third Regi
ment, saying that Mr. Weston, forty
years ago, was a faithful soldier in an
earthly war, but ever since has been a
faithful soldier of the cross. Chaplain
Weston's prayer was for blessing and
peace for all parts of our common coun
try, for love of union of these States
and readiness and willingness to devote
our highest energies to the mainten
ance of our union; for blessings upon
every Confederate grave. He said most
touchingly: "We commend to thee, O
God, these survivors of our most wor
thy cause."
Chairman London, in a few admir
ably phrased sentences, referred to the
memorial which marks the closing
scenes of the Confederacy, saying that
the veterans of the Stars and Bars had
endured four years of suffering and
privatians which marked life in that
army, had been brave always, constant
always, self-forgetting and exhibiting
the highest type. of patriotism; that on
this last day they were found in battle
array as if on dress parade and charg
ed as enthusiastically, with the old
rebel yell, as they had dpne when they
fought at Manassas almost four years
hforP. He told nf how flpneral Rrvan
Grimes had with his troops, mainly
North Carolinians, some were Virgin
ians, had a clear road to . Lynchburg,
and so notified Gen. Lee; that Gen.
Lee had to send three mesages to Gen.
Grimes to withdraw before that gallant
soldier did so. Asthe Confederates with
drew the enemy rushed forward, when
Coxe's brigade charged up this hill" and
at this very spot fired the last volley.
There is no disparagement of the brav
ery or the endurance of any Confeder
ate soldier, but with the fortune of war
that North Carolina should be in a po
sition to do things that were done here,
and it has so come about that Grimes
planned the last fight; that last Fed
eral battery was captured on yonder
hilll by Roberts' brigade; that last skir
mish was fought on yonder side of old
Lynchburg road by the Fourteenth and
Twenty-fourth North Carolina Regi
ments, or rather their fragments, nd
the last charge made and the last vol
ley fired by the organized infantry of
Coxe's brigade. North Carolina is proud
of these things, but does not boast of
them, as her sons only did their duty.
Governor . Montague made a splendid
address and was followed by Governor
-i fii on n nrhnca nro ri nrt urge a mootor.
whose oration was a master
piece of impassioned eloquence.
In closing, he told about what hap
pened at Appomattox and what North
Carolinans did there. His impassioned
words and forceful gestures putting
the whole power of that scene on that
awful day forty years ago before his
hearers like a painting on a wall, bold
and vivid in every particular. His eu
logy of that superb soldier, Gen. Bryan
Grimes, was splendid, and his tribute
to the gallant Generals Coxe and Rob
erts brought general applause, as he
turned to, the latter, who sat upon the
sage, the youngest Confederate bri
gadier. He told how General Lee, af
ter Coxe's charge, had asked what
troops those were, and upon being told,
he said: "God bless North Carolina."
The Governor told about the troops
North Carolina furnished in the -war,
and how the State had lost one-third
of all lost during: the war by the C
federacy: of how sixty regiments
Nrth Carolinians had been put into
Virginia. The Governor expressed- his
pleasure that all Virginians here . by
their smiles and words had made North
Carolina welcome and declared that If
they ever came to North Carolina . to
mark the grave of the humblest Vir
ginia veteran buried there, he would
open to them his arms as wide as he
could stretch them and his people
would be with him in such a greeting.
The ode of Professor Stockard was
beautiful and was read with much feel
ing and was highly complimented.
The day was one to be long remem
bered. ;
A Thieving Baggage Master.
Jacksonville, Fla., Special. Gus
Emanuel, baggagemaster of the Florida
East Shore Railroad, who was arrested
two days ago, charged with robbing
the baggage of north-bound trains,
waived examination, and was released
under $2,000 bond. More than a thous
and dollars' worth of jewelry has been
recovered, and it is said that the ef
fects will amount to fully $50,000. It is
believed that Emanuel has been work
ing with an organized gang of thieves,
and several detectives have" been put
nn .thA nftfift
CONDUCTOR WEAVER ARRESTED.
Placed Under $500 Bond on Charge of
Kicking a Negro from His Train,
With Serious Results.
Durham, Special. Conductor Bob
Weaver, of the Southern road, was
brought here by Police Officer Patter
son, of the Greensboro police force.
He was arrested in that town on re
quest of the Durham officers. Imme
diately after reaching here. Weaver
gave bond in the sum of $500 for his
appearance before the mayor. " The
charge against him is that of assault
with intent to kill. Weaver is charg
ed with kicking a nesro by the name
of Samuel Bridges from the top of his
train while in motion.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Speaker Cannon is a great lover of
green corn.
At sixty-eight Grover Cleveland ap
proaches close to the three score and
ten mark.
Among the Americans who recently
left Paris for Moute Carlo is James
Gordon Bennett.
It has been officially arranged that
the Prince and Princess of Wales shall
visit India in November and stay until
March.
The Japanese emperor's yearly ex
pense of living is limited. For this
purpose he draws $3,000,000 from the
national treasury
Joseph Choate, American ambassa
dor to the court of St. James, has now
served longer in that position than
any of his predecessors since the re
tirement thirty-five years ago of Chas.
Francis Adams.
General Nogi and . Genera! Kuroki
are members of the Presbyterian
church, and Field Marshal Ovama's
w-ife is also a meinber in trood standiiwr
of that denomination. Admiral Togo
is a Roman Catholic.
France has a financier at the head
of its new ministry. Mons. Maurice
Rouvier, the new premier, has been
accustomed to say that "So lonir as the
finances of a nation are sound there
is nothing to fear."
Senor Modesto Garces, former Pres
ident of the Slate of Cauca and now
special engineer for the National Gov
ernment of Colombia, is examining
the extensive coal deposits on the Pa
cific slope with a view to asking bids
for their exploitation.
Fifty-six years ago Louis Kossuth
led the Hungarian Assembly to de
clare independence of Austria, and be
came dictator and commander-in-chief
in the unsuccessful war which fol
lowed. A few weeks ago Francis
Kossuth, his son, was summoned to
the Austrian capital by the emperor.
INDIVIDUALITIES.
Dr. William Ashmore; the veteran
missionary to China, is eighty years
old.
Dr. J. G. Montfort, senior editor of
the Herald and Presbyter, has entered
his ninety-fifth year
Signor Garofalo, the Italian crimin
ologist, reckons that throughout Eu
rope 10,000 persons are annually con
demned for murder.
John Q. Packhard. a rich Californian,
Is having a $75,000 library building
erected for Marysville, Cal., because
he got his start in life there.
Manuel Enriquez, one of the oldest
pioneers of California and the last
survivor of General Fremont's battal
ion in the Mexican war, has just died
at Los Angeles, Cal.
One of the many private pension bills
which passed the House recently pro
vided for increasing the pension of Ed
mund G. Ross from $12 to $30 a month.
He was once a Senator.
Dr. Nicolas Senn, of Chicago, 111., the
noted surgeon, urges general support
of the- White Cross Society, saying
that it is destined to do in time of
peace what the Red Cross Society does
in war.
Captain F. C. March, who arrived In
San Francisco, Cal., recently from
Manchuria, where he was American
military attache with General Kuroki,
brought with him 500 photographs
taken on the field of battle
H. W. Kapp. who has just been ap
pointed general agent of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad lines at Baltimore, Md..
was born in Marietta, Pa., in 1844, be
ginning his railroad career eighteen
years later in a humble position.
Only one man in the city of London
outside the Tower possesses the pass
word which enables him to answer the
. chaHenge of the entries at any time.
It is the Lord Mayor, and the pass
word is given to him by authority of
the King.
Hog Bests Horse in a Fight.
A horse and a hog owned by
Charles A. Young of Enon engaged in
a fierce fight recently. The horse was
so badly injured that it had to be
killed. Springfield Correspondence
.Cincinnati Enquirer.
Admiral Togo Seemingly Getting Into
Close Quarters
VLADIVOSTOK FLEET IS READY i
Three of the Four Powerful Armored
Cruisers Are Seaworthy Again and
Prepared to Act in the Japanese Ad
miral's Rear While He is Facing
Rojestvensky.
St. Petersburg, Special. -There is
reason to believe that Vice Admiral
Rojestvensky 's entrance into the China
Sea has been followed by orders for
the cruisers Gromoboi, Rossia and Bo
gatir, which has been ready for some
time at Vladivostock to put to sea.
Whether it is the intention to send
them south immediately or to hold
them in the vicinity of Vladivostock is
not known. Their appearance outside
the roadstead of Vladivostock would
constitute a potential threat against
Admiral Togo's rear, which will com
pel the retention in, or dispatch a num
ber of heavy fighting ships to Japanese
waters. Thus Admiral Tne-n spsms tn
virtually nlaced between two fires. I
The peace influences in the govern
ment urge this favorable strategic po
sition presents the psychological mo
ment for offering officially the olive
branch to Japan, reasoning that no
matter how confident the Japanese
government may be of Admiral Togo's
victory, it will not overlook the possi
bility of defeat or fail to appreciate the
complete disaster which would follow
the transfer of the mastery of the sea
to Russia. With so much depending up
on the issue, they argue, both countries
have mutual interest in avoiding an ac
tual test, and it is not impossible,
therefore, that a new movement in the
direction of peace may come just as the
world expects to hear the call to quar
ters for the greatest naval battle . of
modern times. Certainly the spirits of
the war party bave been greatly raise.3
by Rojestvensky's success in penetrat
ing to the China Sea; and the prospect
of a naval battle, even with the odds
against Russian victory, which would
change the entire complexion of the
situation, has aroused something like
a flash of enthusiasm in many Russian
breasts.
Some naval officers express the opin
ion that Rojestvensky having now safe
ly navigated the straits,' instead of
sailing north to meet the Japanese, can
afford to calmly await Vice Admiral
Nebogatoff, with his division of squad
ron, which could arrive there in about
three weeks. '
The Russian Admiralty on Sunday
received a long dispatch form Singa
pore, t at no intimation as to its con
tents' hes been given to the newspa
pers. Th- papers Sunday morning
pnnte'i Singapore dispatches without
cornmeiv.. The Sviat being the only
exception. This paper views the newV
fromStojostvonsky as an .auspieibis
prelude to a decisive battle, "which'
may show that over Rojestvensky still
shines the happy star which helped
him. when a lieutenant, to save the
fragile Vesta in an unequal conflict
with a Turkish battleship." The Sviat
expresses the hope that Rojestvensky
is destined to turn the tables, and that
even in case of defeat, some of his
vessels will be able to break through
and reach the Sea of Japan.
Eight Miners Killed.
Roanoke. Va., Special. A special
from Allisonia, Pulaski county, Va,, to
The Times, says: v "While tamping
powder in a blast Saturday after
noon at the Ar dway limestone quarry,
in this county, about four miles west
of Allisonia, the blast was accidently
discharged. This caused the explosion
of two other blasts that had been set
near by and a fearful accident happen
ed. Eight men were ititantly killed and
two others wounded. The names of
the victims are: Killed John Fort
ner, colored laborer; Walter Milier.
colored laborer; John Harris, colored
laborer; Tobe Sutton colored laborer;
A. Vaugh, colored labbrer; A. O. Wal
ton, white laborer. The injured Tom
Sampson colored laborer; William Dal
ton, white foreman, who was in charge
of the gang of workmen.
Telegraphic Briefs.
The operators in the Central Penn
sylvania bituminous coalfield have
signed the wage scale submitted by the
miners under protest.
Nicholi Zavoisky, the adopted son of
Maxim Gorkey. the Russian novelist
and reformer, is in America and will
make a tour, preaching socialism.
De Witt Smith, president of the
Chesapeake Western Company, was
charged in New York with grand lar
ceny. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was grant
ed a stay of execution by the United i
States Circuit Court of Appeals at
Cincinnati, the decision being announ
ced by Presiding Justice Lurton."
J. G. Phelps Stokes, a millionaire
and son of Anson Phelps Stokes, a
millionaire, will marry Miss Rose H.
Pastor, formerly a staff correspondent
of the Jewish Daily News.
The Congregational ministers, in
their protest against acceptance of the
Rockefeller gift cf $100,000 for mis
sions, are severe on the Standard Oil
magnate.
District Attorney Jerome has receiv
ed the "Nan" Patterson letters that
were taken from J. Morgan Smith and
wife.
It is now said that Vice-President
James Hazen' Hyde, of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, will turn the
tables on President James W., Alexan
der and try to oust him. Messrs. Hyde
, and Alexander gave out letters attack
ing each other.
Thirty-seven bodies have been taken
out of the Leiter mine at Ziegler, 111.
President Roosevelt was cordially
vrelcomed to Louisville, Ky., where he
addressed a large assemblage, and then
proceeded on his trip to the ' Southwest.
DIDN'T PARADE
Thekzar of AH the Russians Takes
No Risks
tde imperial Family lay low
For the First Time the Autocrat of
Al' the Russians Did Not Venture
to Attend the Annual Parade of His
OwRegiment, and Only the Young
er Grand Dukes Emerged From
Their Palaces.
St. Petersburg, By Cable The annual,
parade of the Horse Guards, always,
heretofore one of the most spectacular
military ceremonies, as well as social
functions, of the year, was chiefly no'
able Friday by the absence of Empei .
Nicholas and the imperial family.
Horse Guards is the Emperor s .
regiment, and never before has he fail-'
ed to attend its annual parade. With
the Empress, Dowager Empress and the
entire court, the Emperor remained at
Tsarskoe-Selo.
. The only Grand Dukes who ventured
out of their palaces were Nicholas,
Boris and Alexander Michaeloviteh, the
first named representing the Ear -or.'
Even Grand Duke Vladimir,
mander of the military district. - ; t
present, the explanation being
was detained at the palace on
of sickness. The danger to the impei.
family was regarded as especially great,
at it 'happened that this was the festi
val of the Immaculate Conception, one
of the strictest religous holidays. All
business was . suspended. The entire
population was in the streets and the
fear of an untoward incident, in view
of the activity of the terrorists, in
duced extraordinary precautions. The
police made a number of arrests, but
both military displays, happily, passed
off without disturbances.
Invate Cemeteries.
St. Petersburg, By Cable The efforts,
of the police to smother the political
agitation have led them even to invade
the cemeteries in their search for evi
dence of treason. It has Decome the
practice of students to place on th&
graves of comrades who were active r
who suffered in the cause of freedo,:
wreaths bound with ribbons, on whic;.
political sentiments are inscribed.
The other day a harmless inscription
in J Greek, simply expressive of symr .
pathy, was seized, and on Wednesday
a red ribbon attached to a wreath, al- ,
though upon the grave of a well-known
official, being interpreted by the police
as a Revolutionary emblem, was not
only ciiit off but created so much alarm
that a general order was sent out to
all vendors of mortuary wreaths, pro
hibiting' the sale of red ribbons.
Red Flags auneral.
St. Petiersburg, By Cable The Work,
men of the village of Smolensk made a
demonsth-ation.IFriday, the occasion be
ing the burial f an employe of m. )
Pahl factorlho was killed by
liieia i(&m$XSj2p., Six thousi l
persons assemhd., ei&ly fn the'. mov
ing in a heavy snbwl&rm arid awaited
the funeral procession. There were
red flags everywhere, and a wreath de
posited by Socialists on the coffin was
inscribed: "Died ah innocent victim
in the struggle for victory."
The wreath was seized by the police
and military, which later arrived on
the scene.
Had 6.000 Chinese Bandits.
St. Petersburg, By Cable. Chief of
Staff Karkevitch, in a dispatch to tho
general staff., says:
"Yesterday- our sharpshooters forced
the Japanese cavalry to retire from
Erdaheze and Tsulushui
"One o our detachments, on arriv
ing in the morning of April 4 at the
Santslung, engaged the enemy, who
had e.,000 Chinese bandits with them.
I have npt received a report of the re
sult of the battle."
Russians Resume Retreat.
Tokio, Bs Cable. The main force of
the Russians, which was recently de
feated in the neighborhood of Chin
chiacheng, has deviated towards Shum
iencheng, and a part of it has retired
along -the Fenghua, road. On the even
ing of April 5 no Russians were to be
seen south of Hsinlitun, eight miles
north of Chinchiatun. A small force
of Russians is occupying Talisvo, 26
miles east of Weiyuanpoameri.
490 Entombed by Earthquake.
Lahore, India, By Cable. Four hun
dred and seventy men, of Gurkha Reg
iments, were buried alive as a result
of the earthquake at the hill station
of Dharrmsala, according to the latest -information
from that place. The re
port adds that it is impossible to res
cue the entombed men.
The Kangra valley is believed to
have been devastated and it is re
ported that the town of Kangra was
reduced to ruins with great loss -of
life. No confirmation of the report is
obtainable, as the telegraph station at
Kangra is wrecked.
Turpentine Operators.
Pensacola, Fla,, Special. Turpentine
operators held a meeting Thursday, but
the public was excluded, and no defi
nite information regarding their ac
tions were made public. About the
only thing accomplished, it is stated,
was to complete the capital stock for
a million dollars for the Export Naval
Stores company. About 200 operators
were in attendance
Losses Number 107,000.
Harbin, By Cable Complete returns
received at headquarters give the total
Russian losses in killed, wounded and!
prisoners at the battle of Mukden as
107,000. The wounded are being tak
en away from here over the Siberian!
Railroad as rapidly as possible, in or
der to free the hospitals preparatory to
a renewal of the fighting. By General
Linevitch's order, the bands $lay daily
J1 the Russian positions.
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