FULL ECLIPSE OF THE SUIl RACE SUICIDE INCREASES DYNAMITE PROVES FATAL ALL HONOR TO ROOSEVELT president Delueed With Notes of Congratulation at Oyster Bay. Aeronaut Blown to Pieces While 1500 Feet in the Air. RECOGNITION OF HIS EFFORTS Heads o GoTernmeat, Prelates, Dlgjnl trlw ud Xottd Ktn tb World Orer Unit la PnUftlac OorCMfEunti For Bit Labors In BiluK of Peace BetwMB BomIm Md Japan. Oyster Bay, N. Y. From out of the whirl of excitement and the clouds of j doubt arises a aoytary figure, majestic ;ln Its just pride of accomplishment ilmple In Its pare American democracy. I President Itoosevelt stands to-day In Ihe eyes of the entire world, the most ?otent figure In current history. While the telegraph wires leading Into this little Tillage on the shores of the Sound were humming with con 'gratulatory messages from the mighty wies of the world, the President might have been seen dressed in. khaki and tarrying an axe. striding down the rwooded lope near his summer home. 'A heavy drizzle -was- falling. It was but a few minutes before the axe awakened the echoes. Two hours later, at 9 o'clock In the toorning. Secretary Loeb arrived at Sagamore Hill for his . daily session of executive business with the Presi dent. He carried a handbag filled with congratulations from crowned heads, of Europe, from men occupying exalted places in State and church the world Over, and letters that came from men and women in humbler station. Mr. Loeb found the President half hidden behind a pile of wood. . Thus it ;was that tne man on whom is centred the gaze of the world received the official thanks of the world. 1 "Whistle softly. We are getting into Ihe thin timber, but we are not yet out of the woods." This homely admonition is said to have been used by President Roosevelt in spetlldng of the situation at Ports mouth. Peace was in sight but was not yet an accomplished fact The telegraphic force at the execu tive office was swamped with messages frein those who wished to congratulate the President on the happy outcome of bis efforts for peace. Among them were the following: . Peterhof , Alexandria. 'Accept my congratulations and warm est thanks for having brought the peace negotiations to a successful con clusion owing to your personal ener getic efforts. My ' country will grate fully recognize the great part you have played in the Portsmouth peace confer- lib E. Bala wis Meets With rforribls Death While Giving Demos timUoa mt Greenville.' O. ... Solar Data Obtained From Different - Points the World Oyer. LITTLE SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY ence. NICHOLAS. Marienbad. The President: Let me be one of the first to con gratulate you on the successful Issue of the peace conference, to which you have so greatly contributed. - EDWARD R. I. . .. Neues Palais. President Theodore Roosevelt: Just received cable from America an nouncing agreement of peace confer ence on preliminaries of peace. I am overjoyed; express most sincere con gratulations at the great success due to your untiring efforts. The whole of mankind must unite and will do so in thanking you for the great boon you have given it WILLIAM, I. IL La Begude, Presidence. President Roosevelt: Your Excellency has just rendered io humanity an eminent service for which I felicitate you heartily. The French republic rejoices in the role that her sister America has played in this historic event ' EMILE LOUBET. Ischel", Austria. . On the occasion of the peace just con cluded I wish. Mr. President, to send you my friendliest felicitations on the result of your Intervention. May the world be blessed with many years' con tinuance of peace undisturbed. FRANCIS JOSEPH. Greenville, Ohio. John E. Baldwin, an airship navigator, was blown to atoms here while 154. - feet in the air by the explosion of six sticks of dy namite. His wife and two children were among the 25.000 spectators who witnessed his death. - - Baldwin had been giving daily ex- hlbltions at the county fair here. He would ascend several thousand feet and explode dynamite at Intervals. This time he had gone up 1500 feet and his airship was soaring birdlike. Every eye among the thrilled spectators be low watched him until he. became al most a speck. Suddenly a great cloud of smoke ap peared. It hid the airship from view. the spectators supposed, as the bal loon had vanished. In another moment the sound of the explosion reached the straining ears. The airship did not appear again to vision. For a moment the crowd waited ex pectantly, thinking that a view of the aeronaut would be obtained through a rift In the smoke. A second two three and, finally, a minute passed and the supposed smoke did not clear. Then a groan of horror rose from the mul titude. The airship had vanished. Where It bad been but a moment before was only space. Twenty-five thousand pairs of eyes searched In vain over the beav ens for the speck which had been hu man life. A woman's shriek broke the spell. The practiced eye of Baldwin's wife told her of the tragedy in the clouds before the crowd could fully compre hend. With one piercing scream she fell In a dead faint. j Searchers immediately began looking for fragments of the wrecked airship. A half mile away they found pieces of silk cloth, of which the balloon was made, and splinters of the basket-like frame work on which the aeronaut had been perched. Scattered about a tweri- ty-acre field were fragments of Bald win's body. The distance was so great that the crowds had net seen them fall. When they realized what had hap pened forty or more women fainted, while the- faces of the men blanched. The tragedy occurred at the end of the day's program, and the crowd was quickly dismissed from the grounds. Jso one can tell how the accident oe curred. The six sticks of dynamit which Baldwin carried with him mus have exploded simultaneously, as onl; one report was heard. It is supposed that In igniting the fuse connected with the dynamite he set fire to a leak of hydrogen gas from the balloon, the gas forming an explosive mixture with the air, and that this explosion set off the dynamite also. ' I Baldwin was engaged in a demon stration of the possibilities of aerial warfare. For almost twenty years he had been giving.balloon and airship ex hibitions about the country, for the most part at county fairs. He was thirty-seyen years old, and his home 'was at Losantlville. Ind. Host f tli Astronomical Parties A plisbod Their TTork mt Taklmj enrolls and Hiking , Observations Zron PIMM Sm s3m Sfortls of Africa and la Europe Guelma, Algeria. The American as tronomical expedition headed by Rear- Admiral Chester, Superintendent of the United States Naval Oberratory, Suc ceeded In obtaining; a splendid photo graph of the eclipse of the sun. The expedition, also, by means of special apparatus, sketched .the sun's protuber ances. Tripoli. The American, Italian and French expeditions observed the eclipse here In a dear atmosphere. It lasted three minutes and four seconds. The shadow banda were particularly fine. beginning ten minutes before the to tality. Bailey's beads were not seen The corona was evenly developed. Pro fessor Todd, of Amherst College, head of the American expedition, took many photographs. Assouan, Egypt. The eclipse was ob- Proportion c! Children to Adults Steadily Decreasing . Cldrala Prices SzzizI OSdal Oartntatat Eeport Shows Eos StartUsqc tracts-BtaUstlco ta Urur rttM taia. President Roosevelt: Janesville, Wis. PRESIDENT RECEIVES NEWS. Message of Peace Reaches Him at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, X. Y. President Roose velt received his first news of the agreement between the envoys of Rus sia and Japan on terms of peace at 12.50 o'clock in the afternoon. The President was In the library at Sagamore Hill dictating letters having an important bearing on the peace ne gotiations. The telephone rang. Secretary Loeb dropped his pen and stepped up to receive the message, and the next mo ment Mr. Roosevelt knew that the ef forts in which he had set his heart had finally' borne fruit. EARTHQUAKE IN PORTSMOUTH Three Distinct Shocks Drive People in Terror From Houses. Portsmouth, X. n. Three earthquake shocks, which began at 5.40 o clock in the afternoon and followed each other Accent congratulations. your sue- i in rayii uw.n5uu, v'- . ire peace Between t nere. uuuiuj wuuwuu j....?, cessful efforts to secure peace between Russia and Japan reflects credit on the nation. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Secretary Loeb, who will see that all the congratulatory messages are an- awered becan the task1 at once. The earnestuess of endeavor and sin-t ceritv of purpose of the Chief Execu tive in his efforts on behalf of peace are shown in his prayer before the opening of the negotiations when the plenipotentiaries met on the Presi dent's yacht at Oyster Bay. He said: "Gentlemen, I propose a toast to which there will be no answer and which I ask you to drink In silence. standing. I drink to the welfare and prosperirr of the sovereigns and peo ples of the two great nations whose representatives have met one another on this Ship. It IS my most earnest hope and prayer, In the Interest of not only these two great powers but of ail mankind, that a just and lasting peace may speedily be concluded between them." ' . But for his unfailing efforts and re lentless zeal the conference would un doubtedly have failed, and the entire civilized world knows jt dishes were shaken from shelves, and in many cases people rushed in terror from their homes into the street. TO CALL' STATE SEQUOYAH. Indian Territory Committee Selects Name Decides For Prohibition, i Muskogee, I. T. The Statehood Con. stltutiocal Committee agreed on Se quoyah for the name of the Common wealth. - t : It also was decided to make prohibi tion a part of the organic law and to issue bonds for $25.OU,OJ0. DIG PRIZE FOR W2ECKEGS. Government -Ixpositloa Building Sold Por $10,500 Cost $0)0,000. St Lonis, Mo.-The United Stoics Government building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,, erected at a cost of ?0OO,O0O, has been sold to a wreck ing company for $10,00C The stetl trusses la the structure aiose cost $100,000. -"' Washington, D. CThat the propor tion of children under tea years dd to the total poulatlon of the United 8tate has decreased almost cnlnterrnptedly since the early part of the century Is the startling information contained in a report of the Bureau of Census of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Betters In the race ralcld theory have found in the report much in sup port of their belief. The proportion of children under ten year old constitut ed approximately one-third of the pop ulation of the United, States at the beginning of the century, and less than one-fourth at the end. The decrease has been more rapid during the last two decades than In those immediately preceding them. The report! says in part: "The decrease in the corresponding proportion for whites began as early as 1810 and continued uninterruptedly until the end of the century. "Since 1830. when the figures were first obtained, the proportion of the negro children under ten years of age to the total negro population has de creased. There was, however, an In crease from 1800 to 1880. On the other The link Cxtbaac pries Izz stssxr3 C&ahry is 2 Vic per caart CrAmery Western, extra.f SIHCS firsts 53i4 Stat dairy tabs, firsts.... 13Vfi imitation creamery is f Factory, thirds to rU.... IS Q 115 SUte. fall cream, fuciey.., - cauai. ............. .. Part tkimf . good to prune Prt skim, common.. Falltkims..., TUt it 25 21 Q 57 XT S Jersey Fancy . State and Penn. ........ ..4 Weitfrn-Choice ,4 EeiruH-Mxrroir, choice... i S 55 Q SO Medinra. ehoiee 4, 2 22 H 3 SS Pea, choice.... .. .. (1 1 75 Red kidney, choice.. .... 3 10 QS15 White kidney ,3C3 375- Yellow ere A 2 f JUack turtle soap........ 3 70 f 3 7S- Lima, Cal 3 S3 QitS r SUITS AKD TTXLRXT3 TSJCSlf. Apple. Pippin, per bbl.'... 2 00 2 75 Codling, per bbl 2 00 (3 2 50" Huckleberries, per.qt...f... 4 Q li XfuakmelotM, per box.....; 25 I 2S Watermelons, per 100...;. 3 00 (SIS CO" Peaches, per buket ... 30 ' 0 1 25 Peari. Kiefer, per bbl...,, 1 00 2tX Brtlett, per bbl.... .... 2 50 W3 SO Seckel, per bbl.... ..... 3 00 (3 i CO Plyms, per.batket 10 23 LXVX POUX.TBT. Fowls, per lb.... ....... L.i O Sprin; chickcm, per lb.'... Russians' Los3 in Guns and Ammunition on Lnnd. Tbe Russian losses in guns and ammunition in land battles up to and including the rout at Mukden ha ve been compiled as follows by a London military expert. The armament of captured naval vessels, Is not included.' i i I Guns. .. 28 . . . - 78 6 Name of Battle The Yalu. ... ...... Fengwangcheng.... Nanshan Tehlitz Hsihoven .... Tomucheng ,,, 2 Yushulin Yantseling. . . 2' Xiiaojang 8.- The Shaho.....s .. .. ............ 45' Port Arthur. 529 Heikautai J ......... .. Mukden.... .. 66 Rounds of Ammunition. 58,715 i 357 357 1,121 10,030 I 6,920 i 206,735 ! 227,700 1 Rifles. 1,021 51232 958 300' 63 600 3,478 5,478 36,598 " 2.000 62,200 112,692 Rounds of Rifle Am'tion: S35.CK15 181,000 57,233 980 78,000 1,636,730 26.640,000 28,92848 Total .............. 775 High Russian officers killed during the war: Admiral MakarotT, Ad miral Witsoeft, Admiral Voelkersam, Admiral Molas, Commander Steph- anoff, General Count Kellar, General Kondratchenko, General Smolenskl, General Realinkin, General Tserpitoff. . i r Several officers of high rank, Including Admiral Rojestvensky, Ad miral Nebogatoff,1 Admiral TJkhtomsky and ; Generals Hock and r Pflug, from Port Arthur, are held as prisoners of war. Roosters, per lb turkeys, per lb.. ...,..., Ducks, per pair 45 (Jeee, per pair. ....... :.T. 100 PigccM , per pair . . . DRESSED POCXTBT. 13 13 o 13 served here by the British, American and Russian expeditions In perfect weather. The corona was of moderate size on account of the Jiaze. Tbe to tality of the eclipse lasted two minutes and twenty-four seconds. The American expedition, headed by Professor Hussey, of Lick Observatory, carried out its complete" program. It obtained eight plates with a forty foot lens, eight plates which were ex posed for the intramercurial planet, with a composite battery of four tele scopes, and one plate of the general coronal spectrum. London, Eng. The solar eclipse was not visible in London, owing to cloudy weather. Efforts were made to take observations from high altitudes by means of balloons. The eclipse was distinctly seen from points in the north west of Ireland. The umbra at the greatest made the sun appear like a crescent moon. Paris, France. The eclipse of the sun was observed here uuder the most favorable conditions. Dispatches from Burgos, Spain, re port that excellent results were ob tained by all the scientific expeditions. Military balloons took part in the ob servations there. " St. John's, N. F. All stations along this coast report satisfactory observa tions of the eclipse of the sun, but lack of telegraphic communication with Labrador makes it impossible to learn If equally favorable results marked the efforts of the scientific parties there. .New York City. Cloudiness made It Impossible to catch any satisfactory glimpse of the sun in or near this city at the time of the solar eclipse. Many rteople arose at an inconveniently early hour and sought posts on housetops, bridses or elevations in the streets which commanded the eastern horizon, but without avail. CASUALTIKS: EXPENSES AM) LOSSES OF THE WAR. f Lenjrth of war, days... SGI Total Russian casualties 210,000 To talJ a pane casualties 163.000 Cost of war to Japaja..f I,123.iM.00O Cost to Raia lAUOWJOOO .Taiwan tear loan w Koia's war loan KusU os in hip.. .Japan's loss in thips... Russian, war ships snk or captured .......... Japan's his re?U hi. His land battle woa by the J paces Chief Twtral victories of' Japan.... " Length of Tort Arthur firjre, days .... J nines r&ACAltie at Tort Arthur.-.. Hr.ijn cxMiikies a! Port Arthur.. e70X,0O 150.009,000 ,07),W 3 15 5 15,500 hand, there was a rapid decrease from 1880 to 1000. "The proportion of white children under - five; years of age to the total population decreased steadily, except from 1850 to 1860, the number of such children being . in 1900 about three fifths of what it was in 1S30. The de Crease during the last decade of the eentury was insignificant. "The corresponding proportion for negroes was at its height in 1850 and 1880 and except for 1870 was least in 1890 1 : 1 "The decades of great Immigration and the-Ciyil War showed the greatest ratio of decrease in the proportion of children, i j 'The decades Immediately following those of great immigration showed a reduction injthe rate of decrease, nrob. ably because of the high birth rate among the j Immigrants. The reduction in the proportion of children to total population dnrjng the century suggests, but does not prove, that the birth rate was lower. The Increase in the proportion of Turkeys, per lb.. 13 Chickns, Pbila., per lb.... IS Fowls, per lb.... .L.i 11 Pnrinor duck a. I. 1.. Dr lb. t3quabr, per dozen 1 SO 2 50 - nops. '.v State. 1904, choice.... 22 Medium to prime. 19 Pacific Cotit, 1901. choice. , 21 Old odd.... ...i-.t HAT AXD STEATT. Ilav, prime, per 100 lb.... Nvo. 1, per 100 lb 75 No. 2, per 100 lb. : 70 Qover mixed, per 1001b, 60 straw, long rye.1 .. 70 TZGETABLS8. Potatoes. L. I., per bbl.... 1 50 Jersey, per bbl .. bweets, per basket...; .. 50 Turnips, per bbl......;.. 1 00 Tomatoes, per box 20 Kgg plant, per box 25 Squash, per bbl.. .... 40 Peas, per baz.... .....1... 50 Veppers, per box ; . . 20 lettuce, per basket....... 1 00 Cabbages, per 100 2 50 String beans, per bar..';.., 30 Onions. L. I., per bbl...... 1 50 (a? to 17 TO 13 23 21 22 11 85 72 Si 70 IS R 1 75 1 50 CC 1 75 (a) 1 2S (3 1 25 1 25 $ 1 CO & l no ( W W 1 so (fi 5 00 & r : (S? 2 00' 0. 2 50 0 l 00 50-00 m a no Conn., white, per bbl. ..L 2 00 Jersey, per basket. ..!.. 50 Celery, per dozen bunchei 15 Carrots, per bbl 1 23 Beetf , per 100 bunches. . . . . 75 Cucumbers. er bbl. . . . . i 1 50 Cucumber pickles, per 1000. 2 00 ( 3 25 Lima beans, per basket. ... 50 0 1 00 Corn, per 100 50 fa fO Cauliflower, per bbl. ....... 1 60 ( Z Okra, per basket.... ...... 50 75 cbai. rrc. Flour Winter patents 4 25 Sorintf natenU '...5 00 Wheat. Tfo, 1 N, Dulutb..J (i No. 2 red Corn, No. 2 white 0at, mixed 29 Clipped white 33f? e Lard, city.. WHEAT YIELD AND EXPORTS. ............ LIVE STOCK. Beeveiv city dreed..;... 7 Calves, city lresjied...,1.... 0 Country dre.ed 8 Sheep, per 100 lb j 3 50 t o it. v.. yt- inn ik . . : a 50 .... I w , v.. ....... emiaren among negroes irom .i&mi 10 Uoz. Kv. per loo lb.;.... 5 CO low auu wie -tiec uum xoov iv 1900 suggests a high birth rate during the twenty years following emancipa tion and a rapid fall in the birth rate thereafter.: Tbe : proportion of children under five years of age t women of child bearing age increased from 1S50 to 18G0, but has decreased since then, being in lJXXJ atout three-fourths of what it was in 1SO0. "The decline in the proportion rof children since ISfiO has been toss marked In the South than In the North and West. The proportion in the Xorth and West In 1ST0 was aboutr five sixths, and in 1000 lens than three fourths of that in the South.-. 8 tit (4 5 00 W 8 a 0 PARIS DEEPLY IMPRESSED. President Roosevelt Praised by Pre mier Rouvler and Diplomats. Pari?. France. The news of the suc cessful termination of the conference at Portsmouth produced a profound im- muefAn whan i mrmm jvimmr'tiffArl to the member of the Diplomatic ntf are accoacIaUng large ttockB Corps and tne nsca ociciais or tne iov Strang Reduction In Foreign Shlp--tnents Cialn in Home Consumption. Wafhingtoh. D. CL-Wlth a wheat crop estimated by the Ctovernmeiit at 710.0QO.GOO bushels." compared wlthi 'm2.000.QOO last year, together with bad crop reports from Itus!a and In- -dia. expectation of a reaction from last year abnormally, !or exports mm to hare been reasonably well' founded. Yet wheat expert are still . surprisingly light. Thit week hat been the first in almost two months that has not shown a decrease as compared c reir with the extraordinarily low figures f last year, and even the enrrent gain to very flight. As compared with .the? figures for 1003. the figure bate tuit- formly fallen to a boot one-third. An explanation which at ence gn- ?ets Itself, and which report from the Wet have in ctnt degree robxtaii-. tlated. U that ibe cuUler at primary eminent, who unanimously exprrsd the keenest satisac:on that the heavy strain and anxiety had been removed. President lioosevelt unreltnting; pcr lteney wa geceratiy considered to have be?n the main factor In bringing about tt reulL of wheat In advance; hence the wheat is not going forward to seaboard. Rsr. this theory is far from adequate. Two ether potsiblliUes are that foreJrxi rep- pile of wheat are conch better than - has been generally believed, acd that our home wheat conumption this jeor U to be the largftt oa record. ItCSStJlX WAR PARTY AN till V. Love Causes Tragedy. TTOUam Rarl-our, of Ilnntingtoa. TT. Va shot and kiUcd Etta Denney. Lis tweetheart, and then killed himself. j Cest of Czar's People Kxpected to WeS- St. Peters bar. Kcrsra. The news of the peace rf emeut dk! sot r?aeh here nntii ? o'clori In the evening. It Fpeed-, l!y circulate! by word of trsouih. and was received with antral IccmiuIIty. Not far a moment have- the member of the war party ttflered ttiat icarc wrs & pofslbJe ontc-orc of the. confer ence. Thetr aiti;c:e is one of fcrior exasperation as of people xho have hern tricSed Into a filse pcsltlcn. Cocnterfeltcrs Bad Year. , The ananai report of Chief VfllUcv of the- Secret Kervkre. from Waaulnff- ton, D. C ihowa a total cf S32 armU. of which 41 related to counterfeit w vr currency. to altered obllgatlocf. Zli, to the coatjterfeHis? of coin, and th otheri to vartoc TlcUUtiu of the Fed eral statutes Exct'.Ject Weather For Corn. Exreilent weather for corn is tr port ed br ttlegrarh. The Socthern crc? vrlU be large, and the toUl yield prot- cbly trtll break all rcccrcy, viqx t Am

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