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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-11
LOCAL AND susuRRAN.

Five thousand dollars in counterfeit GER
tihcates were found in Marcus Crahan's
room by Inspector Murphy.
Shirley A. Baker. son of the late George
A. Baker. once president of the Cont
mental Bank. committed suicide In Dem
yer Hotel.
Mary Institute graduates received their
diplomas at the Odeon.
Miss Lena Tuchto sued Alvin Taubert
eeid to be her fsnce. for borrowed money.
Svsn J. Manton. clerk OF the Court OF
Criminal Correction. was acquitted OF
grand larceny charge by a Jury in the
Circuit Court yesterday.
Walter 8. Dickey.of Kansas City asks
delegates to.supp6rt, him In his race Tor
National CommftteerlapJ - = 49, -
Commercial travellers from all parts OF
the United States observed T. p. A. Day
at the Worlds Fair yesterday.
President Francis's son resigned from
the Traffic Bureau to become collector.
A messenger boy made a balloon ascen-
sion at the Worlds Fair.
The total admissions to the Fair in May
wore e85 AZ. Of which 64zo2S were paid.
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FAIR GUARDS PAY INCREASED.
Auth orixed Strength Is Raised to 815
Men

There is buoyancy OF step and a
jauntiness OF carriage among the members
OF the Jefferson Guards these days that
has not been exhibited by them since the
halcyon days before the opening of the
Fair. when their principal duty was to
form part Of the landscape OF the Worlds
Fair "l..,t
And the cause Is an order issued yester
day by the comInandant Of the guard
giving notice OF a raise in their monthly
stipend. The order issued yesterday
amends the order of last May 70 to in
crease the pay of guards s. per month
from June ].
No money from their pay Is retained
after that date. making the pay of a
guard $50 a month. to be paid in full after
June l. The IS retained Is not to be repaid
before the expiration of the third month
from May /.
BY orders issued yesterday By President
Francis the authorized ma ximum strength
Of the Jefferson Guard liz increased TO 615
men. The former authorized strength was
600 men.
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New York. June 1o-Arrived: Italia from
Naples.
Copenhagen, June 6-Arrived: Norge
from New York, via Christiansand.,
Hamburg, June 10-Arrtved: Belgravia
from New York. via Plymouth and Cher
bourg. - =,
ChTistansand. June 7-sailed: E,,llIgolav
tor New York Cnot previously.
Southampton. June fo.-sailed Biuecher
tor New York.
Boulogne. juno 1o.-Arrived, June >:
Noordam from New York.
Esw York, June 1o.--Sailed:, Celtic yYor
liverpool. ..s' 81 's'2f
Plymouth. June 1o.--Arrixed: tMoitke
from New York 80. So .-,- ta
Msrsedlles. June 1n--Arftved: Canopic
from Bostop. via Ponta DeIgada and, Glib
raltar for Genoa and Naples.
Liverpool. June 1n-safled: Arabic for
New York via Queenstown.
Rotterdam, June 1o.--Arrived: Noordam
from New York, via Boulogne
Genoa, June 1o.-Arrived: Koenigin
Luiss from New York. via Gibraltar and
Naples.
Queenstown. June 10.-Arriyed: Lucania
from New York. for Liverpool. and pro
ceeded. 4s9-
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SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
PLANNED BY WOMEN.

Two elaborate social functions have been
planned by the Board Of Lady Managers
for next week.
one of these will take the form Of an
afternoon reception and tea to be given
in honor of the p. f. O.'s. college So
ciety, on the afternoon Of the 18th at the
home of the Board of Lady Managers.
The other entertainment will be given
in honor Of the Foreign Commissioners to
the Fair, their wives and friends, ana
Exposition officials, on the afternoon OF
the 18th. The entertainment will take the
form of q musicale and tea
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WIRES Down AND ROADS OUT.
Part of Fhmfly Drowned and other
Climb Trees Over Night.

Part of Fhmfly Drowned and Others
Climb Trees Over Night.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Dallas. Tex, June 1o.-A report from
Talihina, /. T., says that place has had
neither telegraph nor railroad communi-
cation with any point for five days be-
cause of cloudburst in the Kiamitia
Valley on June 4, which washed away
miles of railway. leveled fences with the
ground and destroyed crops. There will
be no trains for four or five days to come.
Five children Of Thomas johnson were
swept away by the cloudburst and their
bodies not recovered. Mr.. johnson saved
himself. wife and one child by climbing
and remaining in trees over night There
has been nothing like such water in the
past fifty years.
Deputy Marshal Ben Lock narrowly
escaped death in rescuipg family Of
ten. putting them In trees, where they
stayed for five hours. Hundreds OF live
stock were drowned.
A child was drowned at Bengal.
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To.DAY's NEWS IN BRIEF.
BUSINESS.

Yesterdays bank clearings were 1854,
SO: balances, A.l0S,5sS. Local discount
rates were between ~ and per cent.
Domestic exchange was quoted as fol-
lows; New York. ,4oo premium bid. 5Oc
premium asked. Chicago: 1oc premium bid,
coc premium asked: Cincinnati. Louisville
and New Orleans. 100 discount bid. par
asked.
Wheat closed lower at s4ssc asked July.
81 .07G1 .0SIs No. 2 red. Corn closed lower
at ls94S1tc asked July. fs1sd49c No. 2
mixed Oats closed at epllc nominal July.
<2c No. mixed. -
Spot cotton was nc higher in the local
market
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Models Of cnine.e Bo.t..

Navigation in China Is shown with coll
lection OF models of boats in the Chinese
eecttonsof the Liberal Arts building. These
models number about 15e. and are ar
ranged on. shelves at the west end OF the
section. Every sort Of a craft of native
Chinese manufacture is shown. accurate
In shape, sails and fittings. from small
fishing boats to large barges of State, war
possible the exact material used in the
boats has been usedin the models
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Brigadier General Edmund Rice. Grand
Marshal Of the Worlds Fair, who has
been Ill for nearly month with typhoid
fever, Is now recovered. Yesterday he
visited his office In the Administration
building for q short time. and ie is ex-
pected that he will be able to resume his
duties by next Monday. In his absence
major A. q. Hammond, Assistant Com
mandant of the Jefferson Guards. has
been the Acting Grand Marshal,
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Walls of Manila illuminated.

An artistic illumina lion Is found on the
Fair grounds in the Walled City OF Ma
nila, and the Edueatio building at the
entrance to the Philippine section. Set on
rising ground. Just across the Spanish
bridge the Illumination is seen from many
points It Is a faithful copy of the wall
about the old city of Manila and the
arches of the old Spanish style OF arch
itecture have offered an excellent oppor-
tunity for electrical illumination. The
Educat tion building, Immediately behind
the Walled City, upon entering the Phil
ippine grounds, IS replica of the old
Spanish cathedral within the old city of
Manila
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Matsudaira to Dine Kaneko.

Baron Matsudaira, Vice President of
the Imperial Japanese Commission to the
Worlds Fair. will give dinner to Baron
Keptaro Kaneko, the Japanese statesman
next Monday. The dinner will take place,
in thes West Pavilion on Art Hill, and
President Francis, Director of Exhibits
Skin and several Of the Exposition Of
ficials will be guests.
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SPORTING.

Boston Americans beat the Browns al
Sportsman's Park by a score of z to 1.
The Inaugural Handicap will be run to-
day at the Fair Grounds. and the Jeffer-
son Handicap will be the feature at Union
track.
Winners at Delmsr yesterday were:
Sylvan Belle, Frank Jones. Yellmantown,
Just So. One More and Pourquoi Pas.
Winners at Union yesterday were:
uhieArra- False, Orleans. Tempt. Sailors
Delight and Big Injun.
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GENERAL DOMESTIC.

Miss Adelaide Lear of Monroe City took
first prize in the vocal contest at the
Moberly Saengerfest, winning $50 piano
Mandamus proceedings against the
jackson County Democratic Committee
are dismissed by the Supreme Court.
Cloudbursts cause floods in Indian Ter
rtory and many lives are lost. Kansas
rivers are rising again.
Rose Coshian, actress. wins divorce
maiden name. right to marry again and
faces death in cab accident on same day.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-11

Brewing Co. Sued for $205, ,221.68.
The American Fine Art Company of
Milwaukee. Wis, fled suit in the Circuit
Court yesterday against the German
American Brewing Company of New York
for SOS. 221. SO on a contract alleged to have
been entered into February s. 1901, to do
engraving and make advertising designs.
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Company ID to give Picpic.

Company D of the First Infantry. Ma
tonal Guards of Missouri. will give a
basket picnic tomorrow at the Horse
Shoe Lake Resort. This picnic. 1t Is un-
derstood. will be made an annual affair
with the company. Friends of the MEM
bers are invited to attend.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-11

Arthur Nevins, 81 years old, a jockey
employed by Thomas Knox, while exer-
cssing q horse at the st. Louis Fair
Grounds. fell on the animal and sustained
fractured skull and a broken leg. He
was conveyed to the Mullanphy Hospital,
where his condition was pronounced seri-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-11
H.sesback EmpIoyes Entertained.

HAgenback EmpIOye6 Entertafn med.
Lorenzo Hagenback OF the Hagenback
Wild Animal Show gave dinner to Carl
Hagenback at the Irish Village last night
on the occasion OF the sixtieth anniversary
OF the birth Of the latter. The guests were
seventy-nve employees Of the Hagenback
show, and they sat down to an elaborate
dinner at midnight. Hagenback's band
played American and German airs.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-11
Heart Trouble Caused Death.

A Coroner's jury yesterday decided that
William w. After. who died in the Turkish
bathrooms of the Planters Hotel. died OF
heart trouble. Mr.. Alter entered the bath
room early in the evening. took a sleeping
potion and left a call for 3 a. m. When
the attendant went to call him he was
dead
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r..m Owner. Go to Convention.

Team Owners Go to Convention.
A large delegation of team owners OF
ST Louis will depart tonight for Phila-.
deiphia to attend the seventh annual con-
yention Of team owners of America. There
will be about 600 delegates at the conven-
ton from all parts Of the United States
and Canada.
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Monument Association to Meet.

ISOLATION will hold its sennianr1uai meeting
Tomorrow at 10 a. m. at LAederkranz
Hall, Thirteenth street and Chouteau
avenue All who are interested In the
movement are requested to be present.
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Kans.. School Teachers Cominx.

Five hundred Northwest Kansas school
teachers will leave Norton, kas., July
for the World's Fair. They will remain
in ST. Louis ten days, and will be en-
The excursion is being arranged by ".
sG. Riste. principal of the Norton High
School. The programme of the Kansas
party includes a ride OH the intramural,
a tour of st. Louis by street car, Visit
to the botanical gardens and steamer
ride on the Mississippi. from Eads bridge
to Jefferson Barracks -
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Use II "for Goodness sake"-SANITOh
TOOTH POWDER. Your dentist recon-
mends it Your druggist sells 1t. Is cents
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FOREIGN

Miss Lena Morton, daughter Of former
Vice President Levi p Morton. dies in
Paris of blood poisoning
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acter at the Fair. and has received the in
dorsement not only of the Irish people OF
the United States, but of the whole world
as Is indicated by letters which the pro-
moters have received.
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Montreal Through sleeper.

Montreal ThrOuRh SIeeper.
On and after June 18th double daily
through sleeping car service through To-
ronto via Illinois Central and Grand
Trunk Railways.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-11

Cares Nervous Headaehe-
Horsford's Acid Phosphate removes the
causes by Quiettng the nerves, promoting
digestion and inducing Testfui sleep.
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Drowned in Crossins creek.

Oklahoma City Ok, June lO.-At Ho-
bart. Ok. Charles Hennessey, a farm
hand, was drowned in crossing Big Elk
Creek. which was out of its bank. 80
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24

Muscatine, Sept. 12.-Posses
gathered by three special trains and
reinforced by scores of citizens In
the aeighborhood are blindly pur-
suing five men who, shortly after
midnight, stopped a Rock Island
passenger, train on sharp curve at
mile.post No. 23o, near Let's, Ia,
and robbed the express car Of a
sum of money estimated at from
$1o,ooe to $50, 900. Two packs of
bloedhounds are assisting the posse.
There are more than hundred
men in the regularly organized par
ty and twice that many more are
searching separately with more or
less diligence, stimulated by the Of
fer of 81 900 reward offered jointly
by the railroad company and the
United States Express Company,
= The robbers are supposed to have
left the line of the railroad near
Let's, toward which place they
started on the locomotive of the
train which they had robbed. =
The passengers were not molest-
ed. Nine Of the trainmen showed
fight, and no one was hurt. -
The train was one which left Chi.
cago at 6:45 last night. 1t was due
to pass Let's shortly before 1 O..
clock. 4.. ~- :
At 1880 o'clock. as it was pass
ing upon a short curve few miles
east Of Let's, the engineer ,stopped
in answer to a signal.
Five men covered the engineer
| the firemen, the express messepgel
and the conductor with revolvers
uncoupled the engine from the res
of the train, entered the top car ane
blew open the safe. They TOOK th'
contents Of the strong box and raj
to the engine, on which they i'm
mediately started rapidly towar'
Let's.
| The railroad officials said at frs
that nothing of value was take
from the safe. Later today it wa
said that the rebbers obtained be
tween $1o,ooo and $4,000 worth {
booty.
Some of this, it is said, was i
coin, but the g1eater part was i
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24

st. Petersburg. Sept. 21.-Inter-
est is again concentrated upon Port
arthur, owing to the receipt from
foreign sources of news that a gem
eral storming Of the Notifications
there has begun. Il
The kilograms brought to Chefoo
by Prince Radziwiil have not yet
reached the war Office. 1t Is under
stood that these dispatches contain
details of the landing of strong Jap
aness. reinforcements at Dalny,
which would tend to confirm the
belief that it IS the Intention of the
japanese to storm the fortress, and
that the warships will probably
take part in the attack. In thin
event, Rear-Admiral Wiren'ss di-
vision, will doubtless go out and en-
gage the japanese feet.
Public feeling has been aroused
to a high tension by dreadful pic
ture given by Prince Radziville O
the sutferirgs of the Russian army
there. sj15z
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

Plump cheeks, flushed with the soft
glow of health and a pure complexion,
make all women beautiful. Take small
dose of Herbine after each meal; it will
prevent constipation and help digest
what you have eaten. soc. Mrs. William
M. Stroud, Midlothian, Texas, writes,
May 81, 1901. "We have used Herbine
In our family for eight years, and found
it the best medicine we ever used for con-
stpation, bilious fever and malaria. %
Sold by Graham & Wortham.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24
ELECTRIC CAR BLOWN UP-BY
STRIKING BOX OF DY-
MANTLE.
Six Killed Outright and Nineteen
Are Injured-Explesive Fell
From Wagon-Japanese i.
Attack Russians at sg=
Da Pass.

Melrose. Mass, Sept. 321.-An-
outward-b bound electric car contain.
ing 90 persons was blown to pieces
in this city tonight by striking a
50-pound box of dynamite that had
fallen off an express wagon. Six
persons were killed outright, three
more died of their injuries within
an hour and 10, others on the car
were taken to the hospitals suffer
ing from severe injuries. AT least
score of persons in the immediate
vicinity of the explosion were hurt
by flying glass and splinters.
So great was the force of explo-
sion that all but ten feet of the rear
portion of the car was blown into
email pieces, while windows within
a radius of a quarter Of a mile were
shattered. t ~
y The immediate vicinity of the &C.
cident presented a fearful spectacle
when those in fthe neighborhood
reached the scene. The ground
was strewn with legs, arms and
other portions of the bodies of those
4 who had been killed, and. shrieks
and groans came from the writhing
forms of the injured: The car con-
tanned mostly men on their way te
their homes in this city.
For more than three hours there
was the greatest confusion. Thous
ands of people rushed about trying
to find relatives and friends, ane
the hospitals were besieged., Th'
4 police arrested Roy Eenton, drive
Of an express wagon. Fenton, i
YVES learned. was carrying Two so
pound boxes of dynamite on hi
wagon. and did not know until b
reached the express Office that on
of the boxes had dropped off. HI
hurried back in the hope of pickin.
it up, but the electric car reaches
the box first.
The report was heard for man,
miles. Directly opposite the seen
was the Masonic building, ever
window of which was shattered
and through one of the windows
human foot was blown. A score {
, persons within 100 yards of the ca
was knocked down and rendere
deaf by the concussion.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24

Chicago, Sept. 13.-Chairman
Cortelyou refuses to comment on
the Maine election. Harry New
said: "We did not place the same
significance in the Main result as
we did in that of Vermont, and had
prepared to meet falling off in re-
cent pluraities.
The republican managers sent
their chief spellbinders to Maine,
among them Fairbanks, Taft, Moo
dy, Beverage and Wilson.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24

Paris, Sept. 21:-A dispatch to
he Temps from Mukden dated yes
terday says: -.
Russians executed reconnais-
sances Monday, which developed
that the main army of the Japanese
is about % miles southeast, unde,
General Kuroki. with two divisions
Yentai.
"The Japanese.junks turned back
after succeeding in getting up the
Liao river almost to Sinmintin.
IA great battle is expected along
the Hun river"
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24

Berlin, Sept. 21.-A dispatch
from Mukden, September 81, to the
Lokal Bnzeiger says:
"The Japanese on Tuesday at.
tackled Da Pass, so miles southeast
of Mukden, with what result is not
"The Red Cross institutions here
are making ready for general en-.
gagements." r--i -
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tire regiment. This statement has
been absolutely confirmed, and in
dicates the moGumental proportions
Of the task which the Japanese have
set for themselves in attempting to
capture the fortress, which Is com-
posed OF many forts equAy strong,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24
Fitzsimmons.

The full-blooded Clydesdale stallion
reg. No. 11o1s can be found at Vidito
Bros. stables Corvallis Oregon, on each
day of the week. Terms $12 to insure
i've colt.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-24
Shanghai. Sept. 21.-A Chinese

Shanghai, Sept. 21.-A Chinese
who left Port Arthur last Monday
reports that, owing to the incessant
bombardment of the harbor by the
japanese, the Russian fleet there is
determined to break out this week
and endeavor to reach Tsinsau, the
German port OF the Shantung Pc.
ninsula. --.
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urrencY and easily carried.

CuIIouCy Auu odsliy t'.aTIi6Us
There was no way in which the
trainmen could pursue the robbers
orgetword ahead ofthem BY thetime
conductor could walk 10 the near
est telegraph office the robbers had
at least an hours start.
Theengineer and firemen ,ot the
train furnished pretty accurate de-
scription of three of the men.
The robbery was committed at
place known as Whiskey Hollow,
about four miles out of Muscatine,
atsthe end of a sharp curve, and
exactly where a similar hold up
was engineered two years ago by
the Chicago barn bandits
A fnsillades of shots was fred
along the side of the train to pre-
vent interference by the passens
gers. The messenger of the ex-
fpress car was compelled toiopen the
door. The car safe was dynamited
and the contents taken, after which
the train crew was compelled to
return to the passenger coaches, the
engine was cut off and the robbers
mounting it, ran it west through
/ Let's aud to within two miles of
Columbus Junction, where the en-
gine was left standing on tte'track.
The manner. ia whish7 ~ robbers
handled the engine, t1slr Knowledge
of the fact that Let's Vas closed
station at night, and the selection
| of a point contiguous to Columbus
Junction to abandon the engine,
convinces. the officers that the rob-
bers or:some Of them are experience
ed railroad men. -:
/. Portland, Me-, Sept. ii3.-Re-
turns from the little, towns in the
back woods today and a careful re-
vision OF, last nights figures place
/ the republican plurality in yester-
days state election at about 27 900.
Returns from 450 cities, towns
and plantations out of 522 give
William T. Cobb, rep nominee for
governor. 1884, and Cyrus W.
Davis, democrat, 5o,o17s The same
places In 1900 gave HILL; republi.
can, 72,54l, and Lord, democrat
:. 80, ia. The republican gain ovel
1880 is now estimated at per cent
/ and the democratic gain at "a pei
tcent.
Next years senate probably will
, stand 81 republics MS and 4 demo
. Gratis, as against % republicans ano
: 1 democrat 10 the last Legislature
It is estimated that the House will
consist of 121 republicans and 81
, democrats. The late House stood
, 131 republicans and 20 democrats
, The heaviest democratic gainI
were in Cumberland county, wher'
! the party reelected Pennell as sher
f if, senator and county commits
r sioners.
Cyrus W. Davis, the democratic
nominee for governor. said:
"I am very we'll satisfied with th'
democratic gains in the cities anl
8 towns where we were able to appea
! before the people and discuss tn
4 issues. Looking at the result from
: a national standpoint, ] do not sc
r how the republican party can pos
sibly derive any comfort from th
t returns."