North Carolina Newspapers

LAST EDITION". ALL THE MARKETS. 3) THE 'RALEIGH EVE VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1906. PRICE 5C. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. NING TIMES PREPARING FOR THE INEVITABLE The Massing of Troops at Moscow Continues FINANCES IN BAD SHAPE Crash Said To lit; Impending In Kussi.i Arrest of Agitators und Suppression of Newspapers Con ( in ucfl Jews Juried for Defend ing Themselves Today's Details. .'(By tin; Associated Vivas.) Moscow, July 25. :Tlio massing .'of troops ia this elly continues. Thu radiating railroad lines are carefully guarded and the whole city is under semi-martial law. " In addition to the regular troops guarding Nicholas Station, thy term inus of the lino connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, a machine gun detachment is on duty there. It in reported, hut not confirmed, that the .workmen's 'council has de cided in favor of a general strike to begin July 2S. Tons of 'thousands of copies of the. Vicche a black hundred paper contain ing the most provocative articles against the Jews and revolutionists are being distributed gratis in tile streets. An article describing how a incc'.ing of "Russian patriots 'received the news of thu .-dissolution of parliament" says the "true sons of the fatherland fell .nil each other's necks and wept tears of-joy." An editorial -in the paper glnrilles the dispersal of the 'lvvolutlonary as sembly of Jews and Jewish sympathiz ers," adding: ''.' "True Russians will now understand that the only object of parliament was the downfall of Russia. Huns of the fatherland rejoice in your victory, but remember that-' the Jewish hydra lias a hundred heads and that many .heads yet remain to be cut off." The article concludes with assurnne -s that a repetition of the revolutionary outbreak of last fall is impossible as Count W'ittc, "count of Sakhalin .protector of the Jews" has fallen the men' .who are now in ..control know how to suppress the Jews revolutionists. and and will and St. Petersburg, July 2 a. Xo word of the military disorders is now per niitcd to ho ; published;,' - Discussing -the financial situation the Rech to day says (lint the quotations of Rus sian securities here and abroad are not a true baroinc.-r. !".-' The .paper says that a financial ( rash is 'impending,' as the govern- iM. nl i i-esoi- he' to On n I wiles old system by .which, lulllions ar used in Berlin and Paris as well as in St. Petersburg to bolster up Rus sian bonds. This is t he only indi rect reference made by the press to the parliamentary: appeal to the country to cut .oft the government's supplies by refusing to pay taxes. in tho provinces the suppression of newspapers and the arrest of agi tators continues unabated. Up to the present time there 'is no evidence of the expected general rising of tho peasantry, but news travels slow in the country. The only sudden growth of disorders among the peasants thus far reported is at Krstroma, 200 miles northeast of Moscow, A recrudescence of the revolution is also reported In tho 3altic prov inces near Deinitrovsk. In Orel province tho peasants on tho crown estates are reported to be in eruption. . Tho refusal of the authorities to send troops to save the estate of Baron Fredericks, aide-de-camp to tho emperor, forty miles from the capital, which was plundered by peasants yesterday, seems to indicate that until tho danger is passed it is the intention ot the war office to keep the troops concentrated in the cities and protect the lines of communica tion between here and Moscow and St. Petersburg and the frontier, so that in the oovnt of serious troubles in the army becoming npparent troops can retire on St. Petersburg where the last stand will be made. Kcniplen Castle In Flames. : Milau, Russia, July 25. Romplcn Castle, situated near Tukum, one of the finest and most ancient in Court land, is in flames. Armed revolutionists are again in possession of tho surrounding coun try. Two colonics of troops are ad vancing respectively from the east and west. Arrested for Defending Themselves. Odessa, July 25. This city is comparatively quiet today. About seventy Jews have been nrrested on (Continued on Second Page.) WHERE IGNORANCE OF LAW EXCUSETH (P.y the Associated Press.) Washington, July 2D. Miss. Millie Brown and the two American men who were arrested with her on the Isle of Pines for operating a short telegraph line in violation of Cuban laws, will he released from prison and because of their declared igno rance of the Cuban law will not ho prosecuted. A dispatch mulcing this announce ment was received at the state de partment today from Mr. Sleeper, the American charge at Havana. His dispatch states that lis' has. the as surance of the Cuban government that when the cabinet, meets tomor row it will grant full pardon to the three Americans involved. AREEST ORDERED "DEAD OR ALIVE. (Bv the Associated Press.) lirinkley, ..Ivy., July 2."i. Much ex citement prevails hero as the result of an order by Judge 'Gardener of the con nly court summoning' a posse of 300 men to bring in a party of fued ists, dead or alive, from Heaver Creek. As a I'm a I warning to the mountaineers, -.Sheriff: Hays left Iliuchmun today for Beaver Creek, where certain '-members of the Hall and Martin families, under' -indictment 6 nlhe charge of murder, have neon delving I no authorities lor some time. The Halls are at the home of "Dick' Hall, the wounded leader of their faction. W.vatt Martin is "hid ing in 'the mountains with fifty well armed men. Both leaders- are sur rounded by armed mountaineers, and if the sheriff attempts to make any arrests a light is expected. . MISTAKEN FOR BURGLAR Why a Chicago Man Shot His Next Door Neighbor Jlotv. Mr. Woll'steiu's Absent-Mimlrd-ness Dim Into Serious Trou ble Was Trying His Night Key In Lock of Mr. Norton. (Uy tin; Associated Press.) 'Chicago. July '2f.. While 'making a mistake lot -uncommon l" residents of Hat buildings, Joseph Wolfsu-iu wan the victim of 'another mistake last night, lie was. mistaken for a burglar and shot by K. 1), .-'Norton, a member of the board of (rude. r.Vt. Wolfstei'u was not fatally hurt, but the manner of ills shooting was curious. .Mr. Norton and Mr. .Wolfsteiu have Hats in .tin; same building .-at Fifty-fifth place and South Park Avenue, Both nun occupy tiie lirst Hour Huts in 'their respective entrances lo the building which lias two supaiati. fiuorwavs in Fit'ly-lifth sireel. .Mr. Wplstclu's fam ily Is visiting in Cincinnati, it was dark when Mr. WuU'su In. returning from town, absent-mindedly tinned Into what he thought was his doorway on Fil'ty-lit'lli .place, lie produced his key and thrust It into the keyhole uf Hat No. 1. Inside tile Hat Mr. and Mrs. Norton, who belong there. Wire pre paring for bed. Mrs. Norton heard the scraping .of tho key 1 the lock. . Not long ago burglars entered 'the house and Mr. Norton frightened them away by shout ing through tiie door. Mrs. Norton jumped to the conclusion that an attempt was being made to rob the house and called her husband's at tention to the scraping sound. Mr. Norton found his revolver and went to the door. The board of trade man in serted his own key in the lock from the inside and quickly puiled the door partly open, sticking his revolver in the face of Mi Wolf stein, Don't try to run or I'll shoot" com manded Mr. Norton. '-, Mr. Wolfsteifi's mind began to work actively and he concluded .that he him self was being held up by a burglar who was robbing his house. He started tu run. Mr. Norton lired and a bullet entered Wolfstein's left side, in lllctlng a deep flesh wound. '.'When Mr. Norton bent over the prostrate figure of the ticket broker he becamo apprised of his mistake. He was not arrested. ANNA GOULD'S SUIT TO DIVORCE BONI '(By tho Associated Tress.) Paris, July 25. The court has defi nitely decided that the hearing of the suit of Countess Anna do Castel!ano against her husband Count Doni, for divorce shall be heard October 17, or tlctober 24, if the parties are not ready on the first date mentioned. The hear ing of the suits of the count's creditors, in which they are seeking to hold the countess, liable for the obligations in curred, by the count, fixed the same days. NEGRO TROOPS WHIP PULAJANES Refractory Filipinos Sustain! ISeavy Losses NO AMERICANS KILLED With tin' lO.vceplion of One Wounded Sergeant (he Toiled States Troops Kscaped l.'iitit-ely I'lili.janes Med With the Black Kcgimcnl in Hot Pursuit. (By the Associated Press.) Manila, Jul.,' 2.".. Advicivt . re ceived here from the island of Levie say - that, a large hand of Pulnjaiies yesterday attacked a column of con stabulary and regulars - commanded by Capla'n (loorgo .11. McMasler, of the 2-!th infantry. The engagement, which tok place ne-.ii' ed in (Mi! Pula janes with the loss of fifty sixty .wounded.. The iiancun, resiili- ' being repulsed men killed and troops and con- slabtiiary .suffered' no losses. Tho Pulajanes lied with the column in pursuit of litem. Later estimates place the. number--of the Pulajanes ih ml and wounded at ir,0. The tight took place in thick un worn! and lasted thirty minutes. The! i-uiajanes. wno are said to have mini- i sc-nt for her, lull! bcrcd five hundred men armed with 1 Ved several guns and bolus, charged the American n rs. Holniaii an-! column t hreo t hues. The latter wasivmis and '-si rue. composed of fifty constabulary com manded by Captain Neville and twenty-six -colored colored soldiers of tiie Twenty-fourth infantry commanded by Captain McMastcr. Since the lighting of yesterday tho column has not struck the Pulajanes again. .''Washington'. July -25.- The follow ing account of the fatal collision be tween tho Philippine constabulary and the Pulajanes in Ley to and the heavy punitive action of tho regular troops .was received tit' the war de partment from General Wood at Ma nila dated today: ".Sudden outbreak Pulajanes oc curred Island of heyte a few days since. Two constabulary detach ments defeated; loss 12 in one in stance, la in another, wit li arms. One constabulary lieutenant killed. On application Governor General for use troops, under president's order July I! '.have directed Iirigadier Gen- oral Jesse M. l.eo commanding . de-i pnrfiueiit; of the Visnyas rush enough j troops to scene of. trouble to smother j outbreak promptly. Telegram from department of tho Visnyas this morn- i ing reports engagements between de- j tiichnient 21th regiment V. S. liil'an-' try and constabulary and Slid 1'iila-j janes. Kueniy's loss 150, our loss one constabulary sergeant wounded, j No occasion anxiety." ASSASSINATION OF RUSSIAN OFFICER! (liy.the Associated Press.) . Warsaw, July 25. Colonel Salama l.off, of the gendarmerie, was stabbed to death here today. Te assassin es caped. .. Salamatoff, who was" assistant to the chief 6f gendarmes of the province or Warsaw, had been active in the repres sive measures, lie Avas walking on Mokotowska street at about noon when he was attacked by two inen who stubbed him several times, and then us the colonel sank down dying, walked quickly away in different directions without the spectators trying to stop tllein. ' NO 1XSAMTV PiiKA I'ltO.M H.VKltV THAW. (Dv the Associated Press.) New York, July 25. Clifford W. Hartridge of counsel for Harry K. Thaw announced today that the qui s tlon of Insanity will not enter into Thaw's defensti. Mr. Hartridge said the public could take it from Harry Thaw that there was no foundation for reports published today thut there would be a civil commission to exam ine into the prisoner's mental condition. Tho lawyer declared that Thaw "Is ad verse to posing as fin insane person and thft any suggestion In that direc tion makes him impatient." CONDITION OF QUEEN WILHELMINA. (By the Associated Press.) The Hague, July 25. Queen Wil helmina passed a good night and her condition this morning is satisfactory. THAW STORY BY A NEW WITNESS Says She Was Sent to Lcn- jllAliBV THAW A MADMAN! .t Least lie Acted Like One in Lon don, Says Jliv-i t'r.i.it Put Kve lyn's Mofiier li Street insane .Jrahw-y -of Other-. Men Other Choice Moim N of (iossip. (By tie New York 1 Press.) The levelling .'an interview a masseuse- "f in. was taken lit district jil in th." Thaw J; World today- 1 i;!i with Hiss Aim. i i : this city whos ( yesterday by an . torney for posril.! c ti According i me World intcr- v.cw r-.'iss I'iif e. who is about r.D it t-i. Talis by Stari- c: !'S for: I Whit !:"'! pon-jo to afi- peals from Mr:: llolman). Kvolyu brought the i.:in New Vor);. Miss tiie World as sn Miss Nesbit .li.-'".-!--Mild her mother and were followed K. Thaw. Mr. V, .Wshit (now Mrs. . kbit's mother and :' V'.illlilll back lo I'iVlle is iiuotel by aa( t!i. 1 1 she ka. w ill-, yoiiik; woman .'.if abroad in l!l4 :.i Paris by Harry Idle, sic said, then b-r that be had. r - .laiiimiie.uions from nsked lcr to no to li s -'-: i out : matters. ' in Pari:'-1.. Miss Crane t all three had been fat aparinieiit in ar ie and thai T'nawi i i:ii'i;ial caller upon j When she ariivei said she found 11' living in a bene the Champs Kl. had been th" . Miss Nesbit. "The day bef.i; Miss Crane, "a t'i place," and Mis. . out of the aiK-i-l: acted like a Jiic". nearly (lest II ill ',". 1 t there," said Tlble row" had 'taken .'esbit had been put --nt . by Thaw, who e. Mrs. Nesbit was nt but for the timely f .!. ....!,.. l .,( ii.,in:i'i ii. .wsivi nor writer. w ho had p.'iii' abroad with th" Xes-j I. its, and be. 'ii li ft behind in Loudon, j she -won Id iK'Ver have 'got back to the It'niled Slates. The newspaper woman ; 'aided Mrs.! .Nesbit. wiih her own money,; land suii--e.oa nl!y cabled : Mr. ' White' for funds." i Miss crane said that Mbs Xe--I.il said that Mi begged she w:i. her :( .Vi events,..' distri ssi declared lunatic believe 1 said i h l.ruisi Miss X Thaw. . was pr. tried. in ma i -ks i Mil's I 'i . beat ii Mis.il Cr In r als. he went til remain and said that afraid that Thaw would ki.'t Xcsbit). Till' Succeeding iis'V Crane said, were the mo-t ig slic ever experienced. lie her belief that Thaw was a ml said that ..Miss '-Nesbit also so lit that time. Miss Crane i Mi-s N'-siiit sliovieil lcr .ii her back .and. ai ins .which sl.'-t said were indicted by ::, several occasions when she ie!-.; Miss Crane saul, ' Thaw ;i. e Miss Xcsbit and left the : Ida lingers on : her .throat. ie assi i ted thai sh i 'Thaw j Vesbi: and that is- inlerfei-i-il . 'I' It was Thaw's twice, win n i.iw struck habit w In n ..ul on the Paris boulevards to Stioll .with ''other women. ;. .Miss Crane s,, Miss era id,, to lock Miss Ncslull ami U". in their apartments. Miss oi'i-idercd an upiii-al ' to .the a tit hoi ities 1-ut refrained f. r .that it ..would ruin her Nesbit c - -lr igh' stage e.-n Thav. constantly rav ii w-iioiii Mis- Xe.-bit knew in 'New Cork and ol'ii ii spoke of Stanford White in j a threatening manner, Miss Crane d - ! clared;! Finally Thaw consented t.ij allow .Miss Nesbit to retiii h to New ; York, and they sailed after a violent f scene in London. ! On tin' way across the ocean, s iid Miss Crane.- Miss Nesbit declared her i inleiiliiiii t.f in ingiiig a suit for breach ' of promise , against Thaw and of charging him with assault. When they arrived in New York Whiti'-'s autouni- biie was awaiting them and Miss Nes bit .M isf I 'direct 'to White's-oliiee, which rane said must have been" by nil "it made by Miss Xesbil's A family conference, she de enstied and several days later shit went to the office of A. II. arrang mother eland. Miss Xes! I f u in n ul. statement the lawyer, and mane il concerning Thaw's conduit. Tiie suit. Miss ( rani said, was to have been for -?".0,0"'0. jliss Crane said that St.uiford White aelcd like a gentleman, that Miss Xcs bit had only the kindest words to s ij of liiri and thut he was a kind-hearted man w nom .irs. xioiiinio iiuu nun esled in-her children.. DISCONTENT IN PERSIA ACUTE. (UV the Associated Press.) Teh -ran, Persia, July 25. Politi cal discontent hero is again assum ing an acute phase. The people are loudly demanding the dismissal of tho grand vizier, the return of the mullahs and a codification of the laws. Thu mullahs who recently left tho Great Mosque are now assembled at Kum, a great Bhiah place of pilgrimage. fSSIONSOF HON CLOSED What the Next Hague Con ference SStmiEil Bo CONTRABAND OF WAR I'aiii.iaieulal.v i.iMlit ::s:; : to War ami I'uiosi itccoiiiiiicuds Arms, V'.tnil ions of I ). plosives Pi! i at.' Property Should De illinium On S-a e( Session In fjerlin. 1008, Probably. . ti'.y London, the intirt prolonged tiie Associated Press.) . July 2.".. the conference o ai'lianientary union, afur ; debut" today, adopted th f How ing ilaiioii. irlia inciita The bit y "uiiion, iprcssi . now : the rence assi nibl 'il in London, view that the S'.'c: sin ui U! : ."First P.y ' trea of. war as being munitions of war Secoiie. - i : assi illd ! laetle coiifi !y d":iic contraband .restricted lo arms, and explosives. it and conlirm the jniniiidi' flint, neither a ship carrying : contra baud of war nor other goods aboard such shio not being' contraband I of war. may be- destroyed. j "Third Affirm that even between belligerents private jimpeity should be ' immune at sea! as it is on land." I .'The (onfel-eiice also a.lopicd a ivso !hilioii in favor d' the 'discussion by the Hague conference of means to-cut down the 'intolerable expenditure, on arma- im-iits. .Another resolution provides that each national gro'.ip shall apply to lis own government to grant funds to aid Mature conferences of tile intcrparlia ; meiitary uiiion. The decision as to the time and plat e of the next conference was left in Un hands of the interiiaritioal council. It lis exnected that it will be held, in IVr- ! un in 1:10. s i The conference', then concluded i sessions. ! The delegates, .were-.' ..entertained .luncheon-, ai the 'bouse, of lords. : deputation of tin- visitors w ill lie its Iccivcil by King I.nward at I'.ik big- ham place tomorrow. Kliilt. W ill Address Soldiers. (Special ' to -(lie. F.Vordiiif Tuni s.) i Lexing'on, X. C., July '!". Davul-!i-ou con my ciinfi'deratvv veterans will i hold 'Ihe!:- annual reunion Thursday, i .August.- 2. Preparations and arrangi S 'moats'- have been completed and the occasion .will as usual bo a mcnior j able. ouv. . lion. 'l'ii"o. F, -.Klultz 1kis j linen invited to address the old' sol idiers ii lid has accepted. . The reunion ! is held under the auspices of . 1 he ! local camp of veterans anil the chap jler of t lie l')aughle:'s of tlij Contcd . eraev . i . .' '.v ' -,'.. . EIGHT HOUR LAW AND QQV'MT CONTRACTS (I'.v the Associated 'I'ress.) Washington, July 2".. Il Is s; tiie war depart men',, that, there heCa . but two (omplaials -:iurin last three years ' of violations: id at the 1 -the eight hour law by '..ivcriimc!'', con tractors.. The hist of these eecin red at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, w lu re house - mechanics worked ten hours a day, but . the contractor- complain'-i that- there was a real emergency Mir this as it: was. necessary to rasa tl.e work ami have his mat'-iiais tu liaicl and wrought up before all transporta tion facilities were absorbed by the large movements of troops attending tile Ilia lloe 11 Vers. REVISING STATE TAX STAMPS. (P.y the Associated Press.) .. Xew York. July 2."i, Five . men who were arrested last night Were to day. 'held in $l.l'(ii bail in poiice court for further 'examination in con nection with the washing and resell ing of state tax stamps. It. was stat ed by the police today that. 2, uuo men and boys in the Wall Street dis trict are implicated in some way in stamp, frauds in which the state gov ernment has lost about $2(10,000. The additional warrants were issued today for the arrest, it is said, of two men who have been operating stores for the handling ot the fraudulent stamps. Movements of (he Longworths. (P.y the Associated Press.) Payreath, July 25. Congressman Nicholas Longworth nml . tyrs.. Long worth, after automobile excursions to Karlsbad, Franzcnbad and Marienbad. will return hero for a four days' per formance of the "ring of the Nibelung." B. AND L. ASSO. , DID BIO BUSINESS ' (P.y the Associated Press.) Cincinnati, O., July 25. The fourteenth annual meeting of . the I'nited Slates League' of Local uild ing :inii Loan Associations was called to order I'ld iy. D-.;legali.-s were pres ent, fiom all parts of the country. Th" reports of the president and see j rotary wi re presented. . Following is an abstract (if the re j'pori fit' Secretary I'ollarius to the it'niled Slabs league of building and III 'a ii assoriations al Cincinnati: . The local building and loan associa i tioas liave during the past year, ill n marked degree, shared 'the- general prosperity of the country and have (lobe the largest business in their his tory. The assets of the associations of i tin- I'liiiid States, low amount to the largest sum and is Milium. un) sliown by the re- Sii:;i.:!!l.2".T. '.which is ever hel, Py. Un in I'.ior' t hail t he assets port i ship i is l.r.l 1 no r 'ho st y ar. The' 'total 'ineailier :iil asso: iatio..s for 100.". inen use of a little oyer year. Mining the last issoei.ilioiis have gained i ihe :.. .I:i7, an for tic lis the t wo 'e nearly been "Th. un. In it' in assets. There has ( .latiniious ciowtli since l:ni. largest gain in assets daring ! lb last year was in liliio where the was tT.UE.r.l!': - Pennsylvania .'w Jersey $:;.-:ni,:ii;i : Massa W. in."::-!: Jlliiu.is .ti.:L'i.t;i;.": l.i... v .Hiii'bli' cllUSell California $I.2M.S3:. Indiana ?l.i'M.112 and Xrbras'.ia .-f.!.ii.M.!'lT. There were but tlu-e states which showed less as sets than the itrccidint; year: . .Missouri fJI'J.IlM: Ti-nnessd. fls7,:i0(i, and Connecticut ?2.2fi.".,5i-i.s. "rJ"liei:i ari' L-.'o associations in Pcansylvauia, (!74 in Ohio. 0'i5 in Illi nois, "r7 in Indiana, ,:v; ju New: Jersey, 217 in New York, in California,' ISO in Massachusetts ami J 115 in Missouri. "The, leceipts in ' l!Mf. were $42.s,2.l,2(tO and the. (Ii.sblirsciii"iiis J42BJ!i.S7:, the excess being alioui J::s, nun, I, mi over the previous 'year. The earnings increased fr..2!il.L,"l and the mortgage loans were ?22,KU.tire in excess o l'.W." MAY PUT MAYOR IN JAIL Tom Johnson Admits He May 08 lie Declares lie Will Not Obey In junction If Courts (.'rant One In t lie Street Kailway War Now On In Cleveland. ! I I'.v llle As: Cleveland, O., uicipal Traction 'ociated Pl'ess.) July .2."i, The Mu Coiupatiy, recently organized to construct and operate a niimli 'i- i:!' street, car lines in this city. on a three cent fare, basis began, a war oa the Cleveland Electric ltail- way Company today by suddenly put ting. a forru. of live hundred-.men at, work tearing up the tracks of the lat ter company in Fulton street. Mayor Johnson, who is credited with being largely interested in the Municipal Traction . Company, ; was pei-Minalh" on the ground, as was also Chief-' of:. Police. Kohlet' '-and a large number of olliccrs. Within a short lim more than a quarler of ti mile t 'rack-' had been torn up. Otiii ials of tiie Cleveland lilectric i tail way Company .said they would apply for. 'an injunction at. -once, M.a or -Jolinson- said, the action was taken because ; ) ho ..Cleveland Ulec tric Kailway.- Company refused or neglei-t:l to 'comply : with a council resolution resiuiring it. to take up its tracks, ia Fulton street and remove iheni to the cast, side of the sti-eot. The !!!,!ui-: intimated that lie would no obey an. iii innction if one were is sued' ami said Ural as a result he might be. in jail before tonight. Siilisciiiently t he:, mayor stated that the tricks were being removed by city eiuploves under the supervision .of. the board i f public si rvice and not by Un Mtinieinal Tiactloh Company, as laid at 'first becii generally believed. Judge. Ford, in Common" id -as court granted an iujumi In city and the' Munich pany fiorn furilu-r aining the al 'Traction Com inici en uce with. tin', tracks "ot the Cleveland Kiel-trie Kailway Company -In Fulton, street. The Injunction was set veil upon. Mayor Johnson personally as he was overseer ing the work of tearing up tile tracks, lie acknowledged the service ' and put the document in his pocket, but told the nu n to proceed .with their-' work, and -ignored the court's- order.'- Quite a large amount of w ork remained ' to lie done when the. injunction was served, '''' BUSINESS MAN FOUND DEAD. Washington. July 25. V. Baldwin Johnson, one of tho leading coal dealers' of his city, was found dead in bed thin morning. Death result ed trom heart taiture. Mr. Jolinson had been ill for some time with asth ma and hav fever. lie loaves a wife and two daughters. ECONOMIC AND : POLITICAL RUIN What Armed Resistance Means to 'Holy Russia' APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE Address Issued Today IJy Three Members of Dissolved Parliament Who Defused to Sign the Vlborg ' Address Jlonday Czar Actd Within His Constitutional Itighis. (By the Associated Press.) St. Petersburg, July 25. Count Hciden, l'rinee Lvoff and H. Stako yich, the three members of parliament who refused to sign the parliamentary, address to the country Issued at Viborg July 23, today issued a separate ad dress, appealing to the people to quietly; submit to the imperial decree dissolv ing parliament and to prepare for tho elections of members to the new parlia ment. ".''' The address points out that the em peror acted within his constitutional rights under the fundamental law and says that the signers of the address in offering this advice uct from the .pro? found conviction that it would be a crime in the midst of the present dang ers to attempt to shake the power ot the sovereign. After lirmly setting forth the vlewa of the signers of the address regarding the solution uf the agrarian and other questions and their dissont from the government, program, which made co operation between parliament and tho ministry Impossible the address says the emperor only exercised his legal prerogative In submitting the issue again to the people, to decide whether the views of parliament actually coin cided with the sentiment of the nation. It then appeals to tho people to prove by their calmness that they are fitted for self-government, at the same time to show the monarch by the represen tatives .whom they consciously elect what they desire and adjure them not to attempt lo use force which would be criminal madness as it surely ' would -provoke severe measures. "The. government," the address adds, "is compelled to maintain the integrity, of the state and the safety of the citi zens at. anv price. Resistance with force not only moans an enormous iiumiier of fruitless sacrifices, but it will also bring holy Russia to final economic and political ruin. THE HARTJE DIVORCE SUIT. (By the Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Pa., July 25. Silas P. Canady, the Washington negro who was on, the stand when the Hartje divorce ease 'adjourned last night,: was not in court when the trial was resumed today, and Prof. Drake, the handwriting expert, Was again called. 'I he w itness practically went over the same ground covered by him yester day "and a gain gave it as his opinion thai "tho Helen Scott letters' submit ted were written by one and th4 same hand. . The hearing of the conspiracy charges '.-, against ; Augustus Hartjt,t John Solshons and Clifford Hooe set lor this afternoon before Alderman King it was announced would be postponed until the close of the df voice case. . The presence of Mrs. Blanche Asheby of Washington, D. C, in the court room indicated that Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje's counsel proposes to put hor on tho stand to refute th story told yesterday by Silas D. Can-' tidy to the effect that she had said that she had been offered $300 to make her. deposition in favor of Mr4. -Hartje and that she had not old the. truth when she said that Clifford Hooe never slept in the.ttartje homo. THIEF'S LIST OF INTENDED VICTDMS. (By the Associated Press.) St. Louis, Mo., July 25. A little memorandum' containing tho names of many prominent and wealthy St;. Louis citizens was found by the police, in the pocket of Louis Suhrhelnrlch , alias "Johann Hoppo" who was ar- rested last night following an at-, tempt to extort a payment of 500 fifrom Mrs. Theresa Bernero, a. wealthy Italian widow, under throat by letter of death and signed "Blaclt Hand." Mrs. Bernero received the threat , cuing letter yesterday, and Jlurqed lt over to the police. li. clpsely resem hies the letter recently received by,, David R. Francis, detpantflns f, ,000 1 tinder threat of death. The police V have begun a rigid investigation. ' f i. ' -