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COLUMBUb. N.C;, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1906.
NO. 8;
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Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS
gappenitss of More or Less Import
ance Tela in Paragraphs ine KjOv
ton Markets.
Charlotte Cotton Market.
These prices represent the prices
,ai,l on wagons: '.
,1 -middling. . . . . . 11-'
: i .n: 11
St niKJuiuig- .. .......
Mi.l.H'm.ii-... . . . ... . ... .... 11
; I middling, tinned. . . . ...... 11
y to iu
THREATS OF REVOLUTION
General Cotton Market.
ialvetMi, steady. . .
y.v Orleans, easy. .
hi!. mn.
av;iMii:iii. steady. ...
uirlest.-u, lUiet. ......
W'ihmiiuR'ii, steady. .
S'.n folk, steady. -
'.altirnove, nominal. .
New. York, quiet . .
iosi uM, jii .e t . . .
iiiutuclplna, steady. .
I,.i!.-i'!i. asy . ... . ...
XumiMii. steady
Meinpius, steady. . . .
St. I'ius, steady. , . .
Ti!ii- ille, firm. . ...
.. 11' 1-8
.: ft i-s
.10 13-1C
...10 7-8
...io n-4
. . 10 3-4
.. 11 1-4
. . 11 3-8
11.20
....11.25
.... 11.45
. 11 1-10
. 11 3-1G
... ..v 11
. .11 1-16
. . . 11 3-8
Daily Robberies Indicate State of
Growing Lawlessness and Anarchy.
Crisis Feared. Great Number of
Jews Horribly Mutilated and Bod
ies Scattered.
St. Petersburg, By Cable. The con
stitution Democrats seem almost
ready to -throw in their lot with the
Revolutionists. The Novo Vremya
says the constitution Democrats
have actually resolved to break with
the Government, within a few days,
but M. Struve, editor of the Osvobo
jdneie informed the Associated Press
that no decision had been taken.
Bakeries continue closed, the strik
ers threatening xto wreck the shops
where attempts are made to bake
bread. The strike of the bakers is to
be followed in a few days by the
butchers strike.
News from the interior shows that
the wave of the strike is spreading,
but is too early to tell whether" this
movemen, which seems more spontan
eous than organized, will precipitate
a .crisis.
The usual number of robberies are
reported, emphasizing the growing
lawlessness and anarchv in the coun
try. The Government sems to fear- a
repetition of the November mutuny
in the Croustadt fortress, where the
sailors, marines, soldiers and work
men are reported to be extremely turbulent.
Sim SIFK FIQ0D8
1 ''Hvv.'"
Lower Parts of South Carolina
and Georgia Suffer!
BOVEfflEE VICTORIOUS
IN REBATE CASES
'A
AUGUSTA MILLS SUSPEND WORK
Meat Packers Found Guilty at
Kansas City.
KILL HliCEIIT
RUSSIANS
Murder Done Under Cloak of
Martial Law.
Augusta Section of Georgia and Low
er South Carolina Suffer Cloud-
bursts. v
ILLEGAL RATES ACCEPTED
Convictions Obtained on False Evl
dence Secured by Torture From
Other Victims.
KENTUCKY WELCOMES .
HER SOUS. HOME
Henry Watterson Leads in Glori
fying Sons of the Soil.
NATIVES GATHER AT LOUISVILLE
Augusta, Ga.,' Special. Reports
from all outlving districts which con
tinue to come in, indicate severe dam
age throughout the entire '; territory
contiguous to Augusta from the heavy
rainfall of the past three days. Prac
tically every railroad .entering Au
gutU; steam and electric, has suffer
ed jr-.Oi-'c or less, and all -traffic is
either considerably' delayed or suffer
ing i'iHuiivenieuce. :
Ali streams are greatly ' swollen
and country as well as railroad
bridges have been affected, several of
the termer having' been washed away.
The rainfall ' Sunday morning
amounted practically to a cloudburst,
'causing an overflow of the canal
which runs through the city in three
levels, at one point washing away pounds on a shipment ot laid to New
ortiou of the bank. lork for export to Germany, when the
Armour, Swift, Morris and Cudahy
Convicted of Getting Concessions j
From the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railway
Kansas City, Mo. -Armour & Co.,.
Swift & Co., Cudahy & Co. and the
Nelson Morris Packing Compauy were
found guilty in the United States Dis
trict Court here of accepting conces
sions from the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy Railroad on export shipments
on packing house products.
. Judge Smith McPhersou, of Red Oak.
Iowa, the presiding judge, stated that
sentence would not be assessed until
the case against the Burliugtou Railway;-which
is charged with granting
the concession to the packers, is concluded-
-The
specific case considered, which
.is laeutical witn tne otuers, is tnat
charging Cudahy & Co. with accepting
a rate of twenty-three cents a hundred
Fitter and Son in Jail.
X-i't'crson, Special. Deputy Sheriff
SniiivMH. .of this county has just
iv;H-l:i'i! here with Alex Greer and his
,ii. Martin, 'both -.being, lodged in' jail
at tliis place for the killing, the 11th
ii.-!;uit. of Thonias Greer, another
sin of Alex, ' This homicide is said
t- liave grown out of some difficulty
j.ri'.vivn the father and son in regard
'(, M.iiit' valves which-. had been allow
ed hy m'i of the parties to trespass
t:;r.'.i the lands of the other. It ap
ihv father and the de-
CiM-e.l on threw" some stones- at i?acK
mV.Hr. and afterward got together and
d'r.'.tVd. whereupon the younger son
sii his brother and killed him in
s?:4Mt!v. Deceased was about 30 year?
o, uvA leaves a small family."; His
brother, who did the shooting, is'aid
t be 1.4 vears old. -
Odessa, By Cable. The No vest i of
this city published a dispatch from
its correspondent at Bialystock, say-
Cape Fear Wreck Blown Up.
Wilmington,. Special. The United
.Stale revenue cutter Seminole sue
i i'. led in blowing up the wreck of the
M-'iKH.ner which sunk -off Cape Feai
bar Tuesday morning, establishing
b.M- identity beyond a doubt as the
three-masted Philadelphia schoonei
Jennie Sweeney by a name plate dy
namited from the stern. As an ob
MiiKiion to navigation the Avreck has
been entirely removed except two
sjmrs Jhiatin? hy some wreckage,
"v'licli the cutter will take away to
niMi -row. There are still no 'tidings
of tl m crow ci nd it is feared that al
on board we'ie lost.
4 I personally counted 290 Jewish
corpses, a great number or wmcn
were horribly mutilated. Only six
Christians were killed, and eight
wounded."
Conceal The News.
St. Petersburg, By Cable. No fresh
news was received here from Bialy
stock. It is evident that the authori
ties will not "allow despatches.
sent from tkt? -terror-stricken' to-. a,
.1rTeai i. "regarded as ampteprrar of
he hoVror of the situation.
Probably 200 Murdered.
Bialystock, By Cable. Quiet reigns
throughout this devastated town, t ir
ing was heard at midnight on the out
skirts of Bialystock, near the cme-
tary but no further disorders Jiave
occurred. The total figures ot casual-
ties'are not available but 70 bodies
were buried. This is estimated to be
less than half the total killed. Jewish
estimates say that not. le than 200
were killed. The number of wounded
is enormous.
a considerable port
On the inter-urban trolley line be
tween Augusta and Aiken there has
been considerable damage from wash
outs, and delay to the regular sched
ules.
leaal tariff then on tile with the Inter
state Commerce Commission was thir
ty-five cents.
The case is unusually inrportant in
the list of rebate trials to come up in
Uthis court, for it is the first time that
Two railway wrecks have occurred, ahy concern has been brougnt to trial
,i n -i i -i before a iurv on a cbarse Affecting ex-
one on ine ueorgia nau.oau, e.p,u interitate
and a half miles, lrom the city where I ..
Columbia Contractor Killed Unknown
Negro.
Spartanburg,- Special An unknowr
neyro man 'was killed Saturday atter
ruMMi at East Spartanburg by C. E
Teuue. a" contractor. Late in the at
ternoon Teague and the negro became
involved in a difficulty over 7o cent
vhich the negro claimed was due him
l)u ring' the 'dispute, the negro attempt
ed to draw a pistol, but Teague. be
l - '
ing-the quicker of the two, drew hi
nistol and shot the negro throng
the head, death resulting immediately.
The killing took place on the line oi
the street railway to Clifton some lit
tle distance down the track.
Adjourned Out of Respect.
Washington, Special. Mr. "Bart lett,
of Georgia announced the death of
his late colleague, stating that he nad
been a member of the House ncuy
eighteen years. He offered tne unal
resolutions which were agreed to and
Speaker Cannon announced the fol
lowing committee to attend the fun
eral : lessrs. Bartlett, Georgia; Bur
ton, Ohio ; Bankhead, Alabama ;
Griggs, Georgia; Sparkman, Florida:
Bishop, Michigan; Brantley, Georgia;
Lawrence, Massachusetts: Adomsan,
Georgia; Hardwick, Georgia; Bell,
Georgia; Lewis, Georgia: Clayton,
Alabama; Davidson, Wisconsin; Bur
gess, Texas.
Tillman's Resolution.
Washington. Special Senator Till
man again called up his resolution
providing for an investigation of the
question of national bank contribu
tions to the political campaigns and
also relative to the recent failure of
the Chicago National Bank. He ad
dressed theTi Senate on this subject.
the engine and two cars of a through
freight train ran into a wash-out,
the third car being derailed. The en
gineer and fireman escaped by jump
ing into water on the roadside more
than waist deep. Incoming and out
going passenger trains ran to that
point and transferred passengers.
Two miles above the city an ex
tra freight train was wrecked, but
no injuries resulted. The track was
undermined and, the engine and sev-
cars derailed. Passenger train?'
1 oumis. roadwejte-JiAl :4elaYl.W--i-'
'The- large m at Clearwater, S
C , by which tve bleachery is operat
ed, was "broken. In the city the low
er weave room of the Sibley Mill
was flooded. .
On the Augusta Southern road, be
tween Augusta and Sandersville, two
large . wash-outs are reported, near
Beall Springs, and one smaller wash
out nearer Augusta.
Richmond factory, on the Lou
isville road, about nine miles from
Augusta, was under water during
the morning, but Saturday night re
ports Ave re that the water had sub
sided. 'Practically all the farmers be
tween Augusta and. Bell Air, on the
Georgia Railroad, report their farms
covered with water and the crops
practically .ruined..-' On the Milledge
ville road and west of the city the
reports are practically the same.
None -of the cotton miUs in Au
gusta, all oi which are operated by
water power, are in condition to run
now, and an order has been issued
by the commissioner of public works
of the city that no attempt must be
made to operate any of them for a
week from this date.
commerce act
Counsel for the defendants contend
ed that, the court lacked jurisdiction
which was overruled by judge McPher-
son. and then that when they signed a
contract covering the twenty-three cent
rate it was legal, and that the Burling
ton later raised its tariff to thirty-five
cents.
Judge
St. Petersburg. Russia. The severity
with which martial law is enforced in
the Baltic provinces is angrily resented
by the Duma. Since January a mili
tary court has been in continuous ses
sion at Riga condemning great num
bers to death on evide&ce extracted by
torture. Most of the victims are ignor-
ant youths.
According to the Dvatzatia vjek (the
Twentieth Century) the court consists
of General Arbousoff and Lieutenant-
Colonels Kerman, Bauman, Wilkovsky
and Dresdoff. The tribunal sits in a
church. Of eight persons recently con
demned to death six proved an slibi
and their innocence was confirmed by
witnesses.
The whole inquiry is based upon a
systematic violation of the law, torture
beingt the chief agent by which veak
minded persons have been brought to
falselv accuse innocent people. The
tortures inflicted include floggings and
the rubbing of salt in to the wounds
and the use of electricity. At the pres
ent time thirty-six persons are being
tried on different counts.
Three witnesses attest the truth of
the following: Four prisoners were be
ing transferred from one prison to an
other under charge of Captain Dav
lovsky and a party of soldiers. On
reaching a deserted spot near Grusen
berg Captain Davlovsky called a halt.
and addressing the prisoners exhorted
them to confess and to plead guilty to
the charge of plundering an office at
Nadeshda. On their refusing he threat
ened to kill them. He then ordered a
man named Jodnis to step aside and
think it over. On the man persisting
that he was innocent and knew nothing
-of the affair he was made to stand up
and was shot on the spot.. The same
fate befell a man named Buskman.
Jt. - . - "" . & A
To Resume Operations.
Salisbury, Special. Under the
management of Mr. G. II. Shaver,, of
this city, the Salisbury Roller Mill,
v.hieii has been. -under rejjaii-s foi
several, weeks, will resume operations,
within a few days. The mill property
b is been greatly improved and, undei
the management of Mr. Shaver, will
in. -ike rapid progress".
Election in Staunton.
Staunton, Special At the regular
election 8 members were chosen for
the Board . of 'Aldermen and 14 Com
mon Councilmen. There was no op
position to the" Democratic primary
nnririlinPSS in the Second ward, but in
the Frst ward there were three inde
pendent candidates, who received
small vote and none elected.
Smith McPherson, in his
charge to the jury, explained fully the
law points 'involved, concluding:
. ? "And when the amendatory rates
east of the Mississippi River were filed
with5 the commission August 6, and the
defendant knew of the same, it could
iablMHiwlttgT 1 receive a4esv- oc
concession than that paid l j the gen!
eral public without being gtiilty of re
ceiving an unlawful concession, pro
vided that the same was thus received
by any kind of device as hereinafter re
cited. "This so because the right, privilege
and liberty of contract usually existing
between all persons and corporations
is modified and controlled by that pro
vision of the' Constitution which gives
to Congress the right to regulate com
merce between the States and foreign
nations.
"It is important for you to determine
wrhether the concession of twelve cents
per hundred after August G. from the
rates covered by the schedules then on
file with the commission, was the result
of a device and wheth r done with
guilty intent.
"It must haVe been, before you can
convict, the result of a device pnd with
a guilty intent, because, if the shipper
did not know it was receiving conces
sions and did not have a guilty intent,
no crime would b? committed. As to
device is meant that which is devised
or formed by design; a contrivance; a
project; a scheme o deceive; a strata
gem or an artifice.
The two remaining men. horrified at
the scene enacted before them ana m
order to save their own lives, falsely
denounced a majority of tUxty-six sus
pects now on trial. The details of the
case probably would never nave come
to light but for the fact that the second
man shot. ..although badly wounded,
I ia J.nts and- taken to a hospital,
where ne recovered ana maue a m.c
ment, from which the foregoing details
have been taken.
Captain Davlovsky on being accused
of murder and attempted murder,
stated that he ordered the men to be
shot for attempting to escape.
Great Damage in Lower S. C.
Charleston, S. C, Special. A spe
cial from Florence says that the ex
cessive rains that have fallen for
nearly a week have seriously injured
the crops of cottton, corn and tobac
co. Many, fields are completely un
der water and the sun coming out at
intervals scalds and kills the young
plants. The ' rains have also done
great damage along the streams in
the lower part of the State and doz
ens of bridges are reported washed
away and considerable damage to
railroad tracks.
KUSSIAN REGIMENTS REVOLT.
LONG WORTHS MEET THE KING.
a
Won't Appeal: Wants to Hang.
Jackson, Miss., Special. Aliee
Lewis, a negro murderer, upon whom
the death sentence has been passed
at Branton, refuses to allow his law-
i-yers to take an appeal to the Supreme
Court, saying that he is- convinced
that he was born to be hanged. He
made this statement when sentence
was passed upon him. adding that "it
made no difference."
Edward VII. Guest at Dinner Given
by Ambassador Reid.
London. Seldom has the entertain
ment of visitors from any foreign coun
try attracted the attention of the social,
diplomatic and political world as did
the dinner and reception given by Am
bassador and Mrs. Reid in Dorchester
House for Representative and Mrs.
Nicholas Longwortb. King Edward,
by his presence and attention to Presi
dent Roosevelt's daughter, marked his
esteem for the United States and the
Chief Executive.
At the desire of King Edward Mrs.
Longworth, daughter of President
Roosevelt, occupied the place on his.lef t
hand. Thus she took precedence of all
the duchesses and other ladies present,
including those,of the first rank in Lon
don society. There were forty-two cov
ers. The King sat in the centre on one
side of a long table. He wore ordinary
evening dress, with knee breeches and
a number of orders. Ambassador Reid
faced His Majesty. - .
Outbreak at Poltara, Where Many Officers
Join Mutineer.
St. Petersburg. The Fletzk Regi
ment broke into open mutiny at Polta
va because alleged promises made to
the men in the autumn to ameliorate
their condition were, not fulfilled.
The soldiers, carrying their rifles,
left their barracks and gathered in the
square in the centre of the town. They
greeted the arrival of a detachment of
police with cries or derision and com
menced firing into the air. Their offi
cers sought to pacify them without suc
cess. Later deputations arrived from the
Sevak Regiment and th artillery bri
gade quartered in the town and de
clared their sympathy with the muti
neers. .
Subsequently the Fletzk Regiment,
headed by its b?.nd, marchoc. through
the to-vn lu the direction of the bar
racks. As it approached the building
the non-commissioned officers fired
their rifles into the air, and many om
cers came out and joined in the demon
stration. ....
The mutineers were in high spirits
over the fact that neither the Cossacks
nor police dared to face them.
The men of the Moscow Infantry
Regiment are also showing signs of dis
content and are refusing to do sentry
duty. They aave demanded measures
to ameliorate their condition.
4 HIGH SCHOOL BOYS DROWNED.
Go
Nine Persons Killed.
Liverpool. By Cable. Nine men
ere instantly killed and about for
ty wounded as the reult of a terrific
Explosion on the British steamer Ha
veiford, of the International Naviga
ti'ui Company. The vessel, which ii
commanded by Captain Nielsen, ar
rived here Friday from Philadel
phia. The explosion blew off the
.hatches, rent the decks and hurled
dead and wounded men in all direc
tions; Several bodies were dismem
Wed and the deck resembled . the
floor of a charnel house.
Drought and Flood Divide Northern
China.
Pekin, By Cable. While the north
ern portion of the province of Chi
Li is suffering the most severe drought
since 1900, the southern extremity is
experiencing serious floods, caused by
heavy rains. -The Hankow-Pekin
railroad for 3.0 miles, and several
smaller structures of the line below
Shentinfu, have been destroyed and
traffic has been suspended since Fri
day. s Some weeks will be required o
repair the line.
50 of 200 Have Typhoid Fever.
Waynesboro, Ga Special. Anoth
er death is reported from Green's Cut
form typhoid fever. There are fif
ty cases of this fever in the place
of 'about 200 population and there
have been seven, deaths in a week.
The people are becoming panic-stricken.
The ladies of this city have rais
ed $150 andv pledged another $150
to secure the services of four train
ed nurses. 'The church. will Be used
as a hospital and the Waynesboro
doctors have consented to take turns
in attending the sufferers.
PATRICK GETS ANOTHER STAY.
Justice Day Grants a Writ of Error
Case to Be Heard in October.
Canton, Ohio. United States Su
preme Court Justice William R. Day
c-rnnted to ex-Senator William Lind
say of Kentucky, and A. C. Shenstone,
of New York City, on behalf of their
r.nOT1r Albert T. Patrick, of New York,
who was convicted of and sentenced
to death ,for the murder of William
Marsh Rice a writ of error and stay
rf vraentinn.
Tiiis wives the counsel for Patrick
nririiejre of carrying the case be
fore the United States Supreme Court
in OfToher.
Justice Day's decision again aeiays
the carrying out of 'the death sentence
on Patrick, who is now in the death
house at Sing Sing. It makes the fifth
pos tponement for Patrick
Memhprs of Graduating Class
Down With Boat While on an Outing.
TSnniror. Me. Bv the capsizing of a
sailboat at Hymes' Pond, nine miles
from Brewer, four members of the
graduating class of the Brewer High
School were drownea.
They are Norman uemQK, seven-
ten, son of s. s. JtierncK, oi swum
Brewer; Winfield Brown, seveoieeu,
son of Edwin Brown, or crewer, xa:
inont Pr-rker, eighteen, son of Mrs. F.
a Ttnrrell. of Brewer; Lawrence
.liken, nineteen, son of George Aiken,
of North Brewer.
The boat r.nd students sank three
nn.irtera of a mile from the shore,
Thirteen nunils. boys and girls, were
in the party, all but the four boys be
ing on the beach.
Unveiling of Statu of Author of "My
Old Kentucky Homo" Feature
of the Occasion--Speeches by r
Distinguished Visitors.
' 'Louisville, Ky. Kentucky welcomed
back to their native soil 1 many thou
sands of sons and daughters Invited ,
from their homes elsewhere to a week
of festival and reunion. More than
ten thousand persons gathered at the .
armory, which was beautifully decor
ated with flowers, plants, flags, bunt
ing, streamers and electric lights. Be
fore the speaking bands played South
ern airs, concluding with "My Old
Kentucky Home," which was received
with thunders of applause.
Governor Beckham and Mayor Barth
welcomed the visitors for State and
city, while "Marse" Henry Watterson.
delivered the chief address of greeting.
The famous journalist and orator
struck a chord responsive to his elo
quence. There was also an address
k by David R. Francis, a Kentuckiau and In
former Governor of Missouri. .
In illustrating the solidarity of Ken
tuckians, Mr.- Watterson said, that af-
ter the Civil War, "when the precept,
'Once a Kentuckian, always a Ken
tuckian,' was met by the answering
voice, 'blood is thicker than water,
and the Goodloes, the Bailards and the
Speeds, the Harlan, the Frys and the ;
Murray s clasped their hands across the
breach and made short shrift of the
work of reconstruction with the Buck
ners, the Prestons and the Dukes.
Thus is it that here at least the per-
plexed grandchild cannot distinguish,
between the grizzled grandfather who
wore the blue and the grizzled grand
father Who wore the gray.
'Kentucky, which gave Abraham
Lincoln to the North and Jefferson Da- ,
vis to the-. South, contributing a very
nearly equal quota of soldiers to each, ,
of the contending armies of that great
conflict in point of fact, as many
fighting men as had ever voted in any : .
rflfz&r, larger ;percentumt or - tne
'population "'than had ever been fur
nished in time of war by any modem
State Kentucky, thus rent by civil
fued was first to know the battle was
ended and to draw together in reunited
brotherhood.
."Kentucky struck the earliest blow:
for freedom, furnished the first mar
tyrs to liberty in Cuba. It was a
Crittenden, 'smiling before a- file of.
Spanish musketry, refusing to be blind
folded or to bend the knee for the fa
tal volley, who uttered the keynote of
his race: 'A Kentuckian always faces
his enemy, and kneels only to hi?
God.' It was another Kentuckian, the
gallant Holman, who, undaunted by
the dread determination, tne cruel
death-by-lot, having drawn a white
bean for himself, brushed his friend
aside and drew another in his stead.
Ah. yes; we have-our honors along
with our heroics, and laugh anon at
.ourselves and. our mishaps and our
jokes, but we are nowise a bloody-,
minded people; the rather, a sentiment
al, hospitable, kindly people, caring
perhaps too much for the picturesque
and too little for consequences.
' "General Grant once said to me:
'You Kentuckians are a clannish set. -
Whilst I was in the White House, if a
. . . A A. 1 V.nMM0L
KentucKian nappenea xo get "
way, or wanted an office, the Kentucky
contingent began to pour in; m case
he was a Republican, the Democrats- ,
said he was a perfect gentleman, in.
case a Democrat the Republicans said
the same thing; can it be that you are
all perfect gentlemen?' With unbiusn-
ing candor I told him tnat we were,
that we fought our battles as we
washed our linen, at home, but that
outside, when trouble came, it was
Kentucky against the universe."
Among the other speakers were for
mer Vice-President Adlai E. Steven
son, ex-Governor James B. McCreary
and T. C. Crittenden.
Miss Louise lee Hardin, of Denver,
who conceived the idea of the "Home
Coming." was escorted to the rostrum,
where Governor Beckham presented a
gold medal to her in behalf of the State.
The Abraham Lincoln Cabin is set
up in a conspicuous site in Central
Park under the constant guard of
detail of militia.
One day was given to the memory of
the man who. although not a native
Kentuckian, has 'perhaps by his gift,
of song done as much to make the
State known among the men as any
who ever lived within its borders Ste
phen C. Foster the author of "My Old
Kentucky Home." The model of his.
statue, to stand in the Capitol,, was un
veiled, and the songs of the composer
were sung by a chorus of 1000 school
children.
FAMINE THREATENS RUSSIA.
Harvests -in the Volga Are a Complete
Failure.
St. Petersburg, Russia. Although
the crop reports from the Western
provinces, including Poland, are good,
the latest reports from the Volga re
gion indicate that Russia will not es
cape a famine. The harvest in that
corner of the empire, especially in
Kazan, threatens to be a complete fail
ure owing to lack of rain. This is
where, the peasant agitation is most
1 acute, v ' .
American's Statue of Harcourt.
A statue of Sir William Vernon Har
court. by Mr. Waldo fetory. an Ameri-.
can sculptor, was unveiled in the lobby
of the British.House of Commons.
John Burns Blames Cairned Meats.
. John Burns in a speech at London,
connected the abnormal infantile mor
tality in England with canned meats
and intemperance among women.
Roosevelt Denies Interference.
Reports that President Roosevelt
had interfered in the political cam
paign in Iowa were denied at the
White House. . . .1