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: 1 he Morning kort.
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ricGlellan
1
Kentucky Swings Back to Her Old
Place in the Party
GAINS IN BAY STATE
I
"Ohio Considers the Mark
flanna Idea Good
Enough for Her
to Tie To
j Republican Majority in Iowa
j Reduced Pennsylvania Is
j Joined to Idols Rhode
Island Holds on to Her
Democratic Governor- New
Jersey Remains in the
Camp of the-Enemy Ne
braska Claimed by Re
publicansThe Democrats!
Make Almost a Clean
Sweep in Virginia-'-AII One
sided in Mississippi-rProb-able
RlGrmon Victory in
Utah-Colorado Has Gone
Republican
f New Tork, Nov. 3. The elections
throughout the country for an off year
apparently had almost as much inter
f est to the voters as the hottest of pres
t idential years. Electi9ns for governor
I were held in Massachusetts. Rhode Is
j land, Maryland, Ohio and Iowa.
I The indications, based on early and
I most scattering returns, are -that Bates
f (Republican) is re-elected governor ot
I Massachusetts by a reduced plurality
I over Gaston (Democrat), who carried
I the city of Boston by 18.000.
f A dispatch from Providence says that
I Garvin, the present Democratic gov
I ernor,' is re-elected by a reduced ma
I jority over Colt (Republican).
I In Maryland, owing to the size of- the
I ticket the count proceeded very
J slowly, but the latest dispatches from
! Baltimore said that returns thus far
1 favored the election of Warfield (Dem-
ocrat) for governor.
" From Ohio all the reports that came
' in, and they were few, showed that
I Mark Hanna had elected his candidate,
7 Herrick, by about 100,000 majority. Re
T publican State Chairman Dick claims
I the legislature by an immense plu
i rality. .
Colonel George B. McClellan was
i elected mayor of New York by from
E5, 000 to 60,000" plurality. Groat, for
comptroller, whom the fusionists j and
Republicans made such a fight against,
ran ahead ; of McClellan's vote. Low
I carried but one of the five boroughs,
t and that was Richmond; There he got
f over 2,200 vvotes less than he received
5 two years ago. McClellan carried
Brooklyn borough, although it was gen
Jerally believed, on account of the re
volt of McLaughlin, the Democratic
leader, there, Low would get from 25,
4 COO to 40.000 plurality. . -
I Tammany Hall swept the board
clean and elected its ticket from top
to bottom. After McClellan's election,.
J p.as assured, Mayor Low sent him a
I message of congratulations. Tammany
Hall's forces united throughout the
I rity in a general jollification. There
re mutterings heard in many quar-
ters that the . Republican machine is
not sorry at Low's defeat, and it is
I eaid he was knifed unmercifully in
I many districts by those Republicans
who had been shouting the loudest for
him. His defeat, of course,, removes
Low from consideration in the selection
of a Republican candidate for governor
next year. Senator Piatt is not known
to have shed any tears when - it was
I made known that Low was beaten..
J In New York,, the Republicans have
u elected enough assemblymen to insure
I them control of the legislature in both
branches. The legislature will stand:
I Senate, 2D Republicans, 21 Democrats ;
I house, 88 Republicans, 62 Democrats,
f In New Jersey the Republicans elect
$ ed a majority of assemblymen. .
returns from Iowa indicate tljat
GREATER- NEW . YORE
Elected Mayor by a Collossal
Plurality Oyer Low ,
Ifil
Cummins wins by a reduced plurality.
Kentucky gives Beckham and the
Democratic ticket safe majorities.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Nov. 3. John Bates, the Re
publican candidates for governor, was
re-elected to the office by a plurality,
of about 40,000 over Col. Wm. A. Gas
ton, the Democratic nominee. The en
tire Republican state ticket won and
the legislature is heavily Republican,'
although Ihe Democrats made slight
gains in' both branches. The Socialists
lose two of their three members in the
house. John Cary of Haverhill, the
leader of the trio, was beaten by a
Republican. Drew, who was nominated
in Rockland to succeed the late Fred
O'Mac. Cartney, failed of election, but
in Brooklyn, Renden was re-elected.
The result of the balloting surprised
even the most sanguine' of the Repub
lican managers, ' none of whom looked
for anything better than 25.000 plural
ity for Bates. The couservativie men
who had been misled' by the hue and
cry made by the Democrats were un
able to see how Gaston could be beaten
by more than 5, OOOy and there were a
great, many Republicans who really
thought the Democratic candidate
would be victorious. In Boston Gaston
had a plurality of about 19,000, carry
ing 19 of the 25 wards, including Bast
Boston, Governor Bates!, home wardj
pn.hMtPr cwn, tn
Even Bochester swung over to the
Democratic5 column, but former Con
gressman Fitzgerald moved out of that
Republican stronghold some time ago
for the express purpose of making it
Democratic, and it appears that he has
succeeded.
Gaston received 47,252 votes In the
entire city and Bates 2S,US8. Iast year
Gaston received 45,666, and Bates 32,
127, so the Democratic candidate made
a net -gain of 3'A per cent, while Gov
ernor Bates suffered a loss of 11H per
cent;
ohio:
Columbus, O., Nov. 3. "Excellent
weather throughout Ohio had every
thing to do with the immense vote
polled today. Myron T. Herrick of
Cleveland, for Governor, will land a.
" majority over Single Taxer Tom John
son of Cleveland of from 00,0G0 to over
100.0CO. The legisiatuie will be Repub
lican. , Franklin county, of which Columbus
is Tthe county seat, with the majority
of country precincts to hear - from,
shows the Johnson followers . stronger
than was believed. In the face of this,
however, the entire county Republican
ticket will be elected."
Hamilton county, the metropolis,
gives Herrick for governor an excep
tionally large vote, the ratio being
about five to one in favor of the full
Republican state ticket. Cuyahoga,
Johnson's home county, up to this time
shows the JohnsonjBryan ticket far
behind.
Ottawa county, which has been a
Democratic stronghold, shows a Re
publican gain in all parts. -
Lucas county, the home of Mayor
Jones, shows the trips of Johnson in
his "red "devil" in the northwestern
part of the state to have been a losing
game.
The legislature will be Republican by
a good majority. Tliis insures Senator
Hanna another six-year - terro in the
United States senate.
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 3. At this hour,
10 p. m., it appears to be only a ques
tion of figures and speculations as to
what the Republican majority in this
county will be. Complete returns have
been received from 140 precincts, of
which Johnson carries only two. It
was a solar plexus blow that the elec
tors of Hamilton county , administered
to Tom Li. Johnson.
At Renublican headquarters where.
everything , is red fire and true blue
enthusiasm, estimates based on -information
from twp-thirds of all the
precincts of the city indicate that the
mayor of the Forest City will receive
less than 15.0000 votes in the city pro
per, . whereas Biglaw; . .who,, led the
ticket last spring, received 17,000. Her
rick's majority in this county is 20,000
to 25,000.
MARYLAND, '
Baltimore, Nov. 3. The result of the
election in this state, up to 11 o'clock
is uncertain. Only four precincts were
turned in. These chow a Democratic
majority; of 34 oyer the last congres-
nional election when the Republicans
carried the city by 31. A very heavy
vote was polled,-' nearly 90 per cent,
of the number registered voting. Re-
ports from the country at this hour
state that they will not be able to send
in their reports until morning. Reports
from Baltimore county state that the
Republicans have made gains in that
territory, but. this has but little sig
(Continued on second page.)
BUCKS MUST GO
! .
I'
Citizens of an Illinois Town -a
Law Unto Themselves
1,
Chicago, Nov. 3. Rage over the "mur
der of Chief of Police George Airie has
led citizens of Morgan Pag-k to bill the
town with posters ordering the ne
groes of th town to leave at once, -i
At a secret meeting last evening it
was decided by men of the town to
clear it of its colored population. De-
cnito Vio affn-rfa rf IVf ci vnr den-rtra Pren.
tiss and his twelve deputies to prevent
any action, posters were recently put
out over t the town. The negroes were
today stricken with terror, the colored
people began to leave town, and sev
eral families went with their belong
ings. I
M BEL BEGHTEL AGAIN
-a-
An Anonymous Letter Says
Her Mother Was the
Murderer .
Allentown, Pa., Nov. 3. Mrs. Catha-
rine Bechtel, mother of Mabel , H.
Bechtel. who was found murdered at
hfe a week ago may be charged
wlth the cnme, if a letter which was
received by the police will furnish a
well-founded clue. The letter' came
from Philadelphia and was toor y
& . - vw..- , a mv j uv. j. xvy W4kj wiiv av-j.
written by a woman who signs her- jDaniels. He went j into the woods action in sending the Nashville to
self "An interested party." ; where Maxwell was at work and shot ! Colon. -
It alleges that the writer" know,s j him down ' witlibW I warning.: j It is re- ' Washington dispatch to the Morning
what she is talking about and says : ported that Daniels had ordered Max- ' Post, some of them sent several
that the murderer of the girl was Mrs.
Bechtel. The letter goes on to say ; that Maxwell had persisted in paying
that the mother and her daughter got 'attention tot the stepdawghter of Dan
into a quarrel about Weisenberg, and iels- This is. alleged to have furnished
that while Mabel was disrobing for the the motive for the shooting. Soon -af-night,
her mother picked up . the ter his arrest Daniels was" brought to
hatchet to frighten her. but in a fit this city and placed in jail for safe
of anger she struck Mabel and killed :eePins- xesie.aay
rr. , u , n,! taken to? Kenansville
iici. xuiii uctaieij uic auiuui wjhi uio-
p6sed of the body and that the other
boys did not. know of the crime until j
the next day, when a family confer-;
ence was held and the disposition of
Vi rs. nine" Ttrrt r er r dr ti T"vrr- 'IV e '
,
letter says that-if Tom had killed the
girl, he would I have confessed before
commuting suiuue. f
Tom, the writer says, preferred to
kill himself rather than have his
mother found out.
JIM GROW CARS
i
"T .
New Ordinance in Houston
Provokes Scenes of Vi
olence New Orleans, Nov. 3. The new ordi
nance in Houston, Tex., compelling
the street car company to provide (sep
arate cars for whites and negroes has
resulted in a riotous demonstration by
the negroes. All the negro ministers
have denounced the separation of the
race. . The anger of the negroes is
turned mainly against those ' of their
race who use the boycotted cars, and
they say the rocks and brickbats they
hurl are aimed ('at those negroes who
defy the boycott, rather than at the
cars -or conductors. Meantime the com
pany has lost nearly all its negro pa
trons. ! I
BOXES ALL FULL
Curious Phase of the Election
in a Kentucky Town .
Cincinnati, Nov. 3. Before ten o'clock
this morning, the election officials of
(jovmgton, K.y.,1 were confronted by a
proportion whi?h is probably without j t S. J. Smith plantation in Bosier
a precedent. At 9.50 long rows of elec- 11 T i
tors stood in front of six of seven poll- 1 parish by a mob of negroes, after a
ing places. There was no voting- be- ! series of bloody crimes in which two
ing done, and the delay insensed -busi- 'other negroes were- killed by him and
ness ' men and others who had sacri-'two severely, if '.not fatally, wounded,
ficed their timef to go . to the polls. Craddock was a cotton picker on the
"There is no legal place to put theSmith plantation and bore a bad, rep
ballots," was tb,e explanation madeT by lutation, having recently been run out
the election "Judges to their fellow men of another town. According to best
who were waiting to vote. "The boxes accounts he first killed Westley Cham
are full, and what extra there are we bers with an axe, attacking him with
have no keys to." , .. -i jout a word of warning,, severing the
The official balloting in the home 'head from the body. Chambers' wife,
town of John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary who saw the crime, fled. With a swing
of the treasury this year resembled of the ax he , severely: -wounded , her.
what i9 known In! bill-posting parts as
a "three-sheet4 po8ter.'f It is fully
one foot wide and three feet long,1 When
folded it loo jd somethin like a sheet
which had come j horne from the laun
dry nicely creased and folded. It did
not take many of these to congest the
legal receptacle for ballots. - Extra
.boxes belonging to the citywere dug
out of the dusty rooms in the -city hall
"basement!, but then no. keys could j be
found to them. That meant a hurried
trip to the hard vrarorstores and shops
of the locksmiths. I Both Democrats
and Republicans complained qf the ' de-
ilay, and many lost their votes because
they would not wait and refused to re
turn to the polling places.
Mob Beats
Negroes
New York, 'ov
3. Suspected ot
having shot Jeremiah Healy.'a white
boy, Arthur Patterson and: i William
Black, negroes, j : were set upon by a
mob of 500 white men today and beaten
?o badly that they had to be taln to
a hospital. The arrival of two police-
men saved them from being killed.
Healy's wound is not dangerous.; i
HAD A BIG GUN
A Brooklyn Tailor Goes to the
White House for Protection
Washington, Nov. 3. Louis Bron
stein, who says he is a tailor and that'
his place of business is at 613 Wythe
avenue, Brooklyn, was arrested hefe
today while trying to secure an inter
view with President RooseVelt. ! He
was armed with a loaded 38 calibre pis
tol. A number ; of loaded cartridges
were found in! hs overcoat pocket
i Bronstein Ws he wants the president
to protect him agairyst a nephew. He
had $15.50 in cash. Bronstein will be
examined tomorrow j as to his sanity.
lAXWEE'S slayer
. i i : ;;,;;:;Vf; ; j liiiFil-ij i;:,
George Daniel to Be Tried for
Murder This Week in
: ! Duplin
Goldsboro, , N.1 ' C., Nov. 3. Special.
T,-, n,,r,Hn ; t., w:
i r -ni j.-1 '
i killed wm Maxwell in the lower part
0 the county on the third of Septem-
K woo..,-, v,
;murder in the.flrstj degree, and the pre4
8idimj! jud ffe :orViered !;a special venire
Gf - one hurfdred 'men, returnable 'l5efpre"
'him Wednesday' mornine- at 9 SO o'clock1
Th rao arm Ho o vorv COrmna fnr.
well to stay away from his .home and
morning he ; was
for trial. 1
A Syrian named William Simona,
' who was, convicted of an assault in
Duplin court yesterday with a knife
and a pistol , on some Jews, went j into
a horse lot this ; morning to I halter a
wild horse ana f was thrown near some
other norgeg and had his! skull crushed
by a kick from one Gf the animals. ; It
:is thought
uve f
, ;
that the Syrian
can not
Ped eif g I ; Jii r j self cf fop
m Cases of Lynching
Judge Boyd's Charge to the
Grand Jury Startles Ashe
ville Lawyers He Also
Refers to the Rights .
of Labor Unions .
Asheville, N. C, Nov. 3. Special.
That ! part of Judge Boyd's charge to
J the .ani jury jn the federal cuort this
morning relating ! to: lynchings ; has
caused considerable stirhere ; in legal
circles. Referring to lynching, : Judge
Boyd said that this crime was a mat
ter for thej state courts; nevertheless
the state and federal authorities could
work together so harmoniously as ef-
A - i L6 u s s i q lia Neg r o Mob
Officiates
New Orleans, Nov. 3. Joseph Crad
do k a negro, was lynched yesterday
R
.11 H :
evolutionary Outtfeea
v Oe the Isthmus
Movement Begun Looking to
the Separation of the Isth
mus Frm Colombia 'All
ii' on Account of the
Panama Canal
'Washington, I Nov. 3, The eipected
has happened in a revolutionary out
break on the Isthmus of Panama,
where, 'according to advices . received
bv this eovernment. a spirit lof un
rest has ere vailed for several months
Tt I is a .brnad statement to make. In
view of the comparatively meagre in
formation in the possession of the state
department, that the oDject of kiis po
litical disturbance is the establish
ment of an independent republic corn
posed of the. present Colombian states
of Panama .and Cauca. bat pil the
Indications point to the conclusion that
those responsible for the movement,
while they would be glad to obtain
control of the entire territory embrac
ed in the present natiorj, would jbe sat
isfied if they succeeded in securing a
division of the country into twb sepa
rate governments.
' For several days, the state
flepart-
ment has been aware that a
polit:
bn the
eal disturbance was impending
isthmus. Its denial -of the report that
the band of seventy armed mn who
landed on the Colombian coast, seventy
miles north of Colon, within a' week
were Nicaraguans, indicates thajt' it had
knowledge of a purely internal! move
ment. There are other things' ! which
show that the state department was
expectirtg trouble. At its instance the
navy department sent the ? (United
States training ship Dixie wi
n lour
Kings-
hundred marines - on board to
ton,.. Jamaica, which is within two
days steaming of Colon, and tjie gun
boat Nashville - was ordered from
Kingston to Colon. j
So well i posted was the stat de-
partment on the prospects of an out-
DreaK tnat yesteraay n seui ,au i"-
i ouirv on the subject to Mr. Malmros,
tne United States consul at Colon. His
answer was received today. He said
; that there was "every evidence of a
revolution,' and. according to hrehabje
informatIon' he slld nothing else The
statement did not surprise the
; ment officials. . In a measure
depart-
it was
pleasing nercs, for It justinea tneir
; months ago, have told of advices re
ceived here from agents of the gov
ernment on the isthmus that there was
,a decided sentiment among the people
in favor of seceding from thej United
States of-Colombia, and that this senti
ment might result in an outbreik if the
Panama canal treaty were rejected by
the Colombian congress. Thatj the re
fusal of the congress to "ratify- the
treaty is responsible for the "evidence
of a revolution" of which Consul Malm
ros informs the state department to
day, officials here do not doubt. Pana
ma, that is, the isthmus proper, is hear
tily in favor of the canal, anil it re
gards the refusal of the government
at Bogota to agree to its construction
by the United States a direct blow at
fectually to deal with this problem no
matter in what section or the country
such crime might occur. JudgqrBoyd's
charge, which is tantamount to a
claim for jurisdiction In lynching cases
for the United States courts, Is some
thing entirely new, and it is said that
he has not heretofore so chargjed. His,
honor, in his charge, cited sections 558
and 559 of the revised statutes as well
as the federal-constitution.
Judge Boyd also referred to strikes
and labor unions and said that they
had the right under the federal consti
tution to organize into unionsj or fed
erations for the purpose of demanding
certain hours or certain wages, but
that when they tried ,to keep another
man from working longer houfs or for
less money they were guilty of a con
spiracy and were indictable in the fed
eral courts. " I
of a
He then attacked Tom Washington,
who came to her assistance,!
cutting
Mercer
his skull in two with the axe
Chambers, a brother of the victim, was
next assaulted and severly cut with the
ae. . i' ; . s
j Craddock fl,ed and was fcatid shortly
after, playing craps with a (gang of
negroes at Taylors ville. Some three
hundred negroes from j the Smith place
gathered around. They demanded that
he surrender to them: and announced
their purpose to burn him, fhe whites
would not 'permit that, and rpon the
negroes promising not to burn Crad
dock nor I mutilate the body, he was
turned over to them -and at once
hangoC. ' , i
LYnching
ishmian interests.! There are ther
reasons, too, which the people of the
isthmus have against the .federal gov
ernment. They claim that the rest of
Colombia has been assisted materially
at the exepense of the isthmus, strin
gent laws having provided for apply
ing isthmian revenues to the benefit
of other, states. ! j J
AH these things have tended to fer
ment the spirit of dissatisfaction on
the isthmus. WHh the rejection of
the canal treaty the boiling over stage
was reached. Naturally, those behind
the present Insurrection movement
hope to gain the assistance of the
United States, which is anything but
kindly disposed at this time toward the
Colombian government. Under ordi
nary circumstances there would: be no
hesitation. In view of the knownj lddi
tation of the president and his advis
ers over the rejection of the cankl
treaty it is better, ; perhaps, in this in
stance, to confess ignorance of what
the government's ; course will be. ;
The treaty between the United States
of America and New Grenada, Which
went into operation nearly slxty yea.rB
ago, provided that the Washington
government should at all times main
tain free traffic on the isthmus. Undei
this treaty the United States has on
several occasions landed marine? en 3
blue jackets on the isthmus during po
litical outbreaks and prevented the in
terruption of' traffic between Colon and
t Panama. That it will do so if present
disturbances - assume that aspect Is a
foregone conclusion. What may result
from the presence of a large body oi
American troops on the isthmus at this
time, with the entire personal, If not
the official, sympathy of the adminis
tration with the ; revolutionists, may
only be conjectured. But it is not an
exaggeration to say that the adminis
tration feels that the rejection of the
canal treaty by the Colombian congress
was a breach of good faith toward the
United States- As every one who has
read history knows, breeches of good
faith have frequently caused war.
- The Dixie, with her four hundred ma
rines, was sent to Guantanamo, Cub-,
ostensibly' to leave the marines to gar
rison the new coaling stations which
the ; United States have acquired at
that place. When she left the United
States it was reported that she had se
cre hurry orders, the purport ; of I which
was not known to" the public. The na
vy department denied the report. The
Dixie went to Guantanamo. She diVf
not land the marines, but took; them
to Kinkston, Jamaica, It was plainly
! hinted today that ; the department's
j reason for sending her thre was that
j Kingston was centrally located for a
short run to the isthmus of Panama
or Santo Domingo, where revolution
ary : disturbances are occurring. No
official explanation is obtainable for
the sending of the Dixie to Kingston,
which is 54G miles from Colon.
A few days ago the navy depart
ment ordered ; the cruiser ! Baltimore
from Norfolk to Puerto Plata, Domin
ican Republic,, to safeguard American
interests. The gunboat Nashville was
then at Kingston; Officials of tie de
partment said that j the reason they
had not ordered the Nashville to
Puerto Plata was that there wasjsome-
thing wrong with her machinery. The
explanation given today of the (Nash
ville's presence at Colon is that reports
indicating a state of political unrest on
the isthmus had made it the pjart of
wisdom to have her show the stars and
stripes there to let malcontents know
that American interests must not be
interfered with. Capain C. B. Humph
rey and Lieutenant E, V. D, Murphy
of the army recently returned to Wash
ington : from a secret mission to Vene
zuela - and the Isthmus of Panama.
They had long interviews with mem
bers of the general staff of thei army
and Secretary of the Navy Moody. The
Post's Washington dispatches said at
the time that thsy had brought bick
news wnicn ine omciais regarded as
too Important to disclose.
- v .
TheOatbrtak AnBniied
Washington, Nov. 3. This cabiegram
was given put at the White: House to
night after j a conference between the
president and Mr. Hay: j
"An uprising took ; place at Panama
tonight. Independence was proclaim
ed. The Colombian army and. naval
officials weye made prisoners. A gov
ernment was to be organized, consist
ing of three consuls land a cabinet. It
was rumorejd at Panama that a similar
uprising was to take! place at Colon." ,
The following semi-official statement
was issued- tonight: - j
"A number of confused and 'conflict
ing dispatches hay been received from'
the Isthmus of x Panama i indicating
rather serious disturbances at both
Panama and Colon. The-navy depart
ment has dispatched several vessels
to these ports with directions' to do ev-
erything possible to keep trans
and maintain order."
t open
Washington, Nov. 3. Dispatches re
ceived tonight by the state department
and the navy department say that a
revolutionary outbreak, having; for . its
object the establishment of the inde
pendence of the state of Panama, was
begun, this evening. ; Independence was
proclaimed and the Colombian; troops
were made prisoners. As ; the result
of a conference at the executive offices
of the president, between f President
Roosevelt and a ! number of state de
partment and navy department offi
cials, the cruiser Atlanta and the
training ehic Dixie were v prdere to
I I i ill ' "
of Panama
Colon and the crulsor Boston to Pan
ama, ! The gunboat Nashville arrive
at Colon yesterday and has landeuT
marines and blue jackets for the pur-,
pose of earning out the treaty pledg
of the United States to prevent Inter
ruption of traffic across the isthmus.
jNot j the fUshtest doubt Is felt here
that the acute cause of the InsurrecV
tion was the action of the Colombian
congress in rejecting the Panama canal
treaty. The people of the isthmus or
almost unanimously in favor, of th,
construction of the canal by the United;
States, and it has been frequently as
serted that if the treaty, were defeated
a Bogota the state of Panama, anI
probably the adjoining state of CaucaJ
would j secede and make terms with?
the; united States for bulldinff
isthmian waterway.
th4
. Thei first news' that there had been
an uprising at Panama came In a tele
gram, received at the state department
shortly before 10 o:clock tonight. Itt
contents were immediately communi
cated to the president, who lost no tlme
In calling a conference - of state and
navy ! department officials. There wa
Secretary Hay. Assistant Secretary;
Loom I s. Acting Secretary of the Navy,
Darling, tind Rear.l Admiral Taylor
chief (of the bureau! of navigation. Itl
did not take the president and thai
other; officials long to determine what
course to pursue. Realizing that the
insurrection was serious, they bedded?
to send warships' tp both Colon and
Panama for the purpose, not only ot
protecting American interests, but ofs v
landmg men to preserve the freedom ot- .
traffic; between Panama and Colon, as
required by the treaty of 1845 between
the United States and New Grenada.'
Instructions to the commanders of th
vessels named were accordingly pre-;
pared. ,(
In i adition to ordcrinff the 'Atlanta,
the Boston and the Dixie to the Isth
mus, J Instructions were telegraphed to
Rear Admiral Glass, commanding the
Pacific ' squadron, now at Acapulco,
Mexico, 1,300 miles from Panama, to
hold this vessels In readiness for ser
vice in "(isthmian waters. i.-
FATAL FALL OF 1
A NAVAL OFFICER
'hi
Lieutenant Beecher of the
Maine Fell Through a
ijj Hatch Forty Feet
Newport, R. I., Nov. 8. The big
battleship Maine came tearing " Into
portlate this evening with her ensign
at half mast. She had on board the
remains ; of Lieutenant Albert M.1
Beecher, who was killed accidentally;
early1 in the afternoon. The Maine was
off Gay Head preparing for target
practice and lieutenant Beecher, the
ordnance officer, was in the foreward;
turrent inspecting the-12-lnch guns.
: While thus engaged, Lieutenant!
Belcher lost his balance and fell head-'
lpnfe down the hatch to the handling?
room, forty fcet below, striking his
head. As soon as the Main arrived'
Vord was sent to lieutenant Beecher'a
brother, j Paymaster Beecher, on board
the ; training ship Monongahela, atl
Portsmouth, and his relatives In!
Dodge, Kas.
! Lieutenant Beecher was the ordnanoe
officer of the ship and was looked upon
4s one of the experts In the service,
having previously to his duty on the
Maine been attached to the bureau oS
ordnance at Washington. He waa un
married. : '
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SUIT FOR MILLIONS
Widow of Cecil Rhodes Wants
Her Share of the Estate
London, Nov. 3. Princess Radalwlll
today issuer a writ demanding) ?7.000,
000 j from! Lord Koseberry, Earl prej
and Messrs. Alfred Belt, Dr. Jameson,'
L. Mitchell and B. A. Hawks ley, trus
tees lof the estate of the late Cecil,
Rhodes,; under an agreement alleged t
have! been made on or about June 30,
1899, between herself and Mr, Rhodes,
This is a sequel to the arrest and Im
prisonment of the princess at Capo,
Town in 1902 on the charge of, forging
Rhodes' signature to bills for several
thousand founds.
The case, which doubtless 'will prov.
sensational, is expected to lead to
many exposures.
The friends of Princess Radzlwllf
Say Ishd possesses documents of higH
political importance, which were sup
pressed during the trial at Cape Town,:
and which will be produced in court
dealing with South African .matters,'
particularly with the Jameson raid,
and thef aVejred complicity of former
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, there
in.! U
Improvements at Biltmdre f
Ashevilie, N. I C, Nov. 3. Special.
Since Mr. Huyler's last visit to Mon
treal, near Black Mountain, reports
have been in circulation that many,
changes will be noticed in Montreal
shortly. It yin said that very consid
erable additions will be made to the "
hotel and a number of new cottages'
will be built and will be equipped' with
all modern con'cnlences,
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