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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
CREDITORS HOLD MEETING.
Trying to Straighten Out Affairs of
 Pettinelil & Go.

Boston, June 2s.-creditors of the Pet tingill & Co. corporation, an advertising agency, which has been adjudicated bankrupt, held their first meeting today in the bankruptcy court. J. w. Lund, representing about 1000 creditors. whose claims amount to about s450 900. was ap- pointed trustee and placed under s100 0OO bond
 The assets as shown by the inventory lncluds cash in the hands of Charles K. Darling. receiver. s3s.000 and book ac- counts amounting to s150.000. The liabilI- ties proved against Pettingill & Co., at the meeting amount to $5Oo000 The meet ing was adjourned until September 15. The Pettingill corporation has claims against the Dr. Green Nervura company for s400, GOO. and the inventory of the com pany shows cash on hand of s24000; good will, s10oo0, and office furniture. drugs. etc, sl0.000.
 Permission was given for selling assets of Green Nervura company. except the book accounts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
Advance Is Resumed.

St. Petersburg,J une 23-The general staff has received the following from Lieutenant General Sakharoff under date of June %;
 At s o'clock on the morning of June 21 the Japanese vanguard resumed it's advance against our supports four miles south of Senuchen. The outposts reti slowly towards Senuchen and furtherN in te direction of Kai Chau.
 At noon a Japanese column consl of nine squadrons of cavalry, batrs4 of artillery and a considerable number of infantry was observed advancing in the direction of Senuchen Other strong cSla( tinins - -tn----s,e;rpv V t,,pear"d 's>-< Anese occupied Senuchen towards IVemng with over division of infantry, bri- gade Of cavalry and thrty-two guns
 According to information received from our scouts and the inhabitants the enemy, over a division strong. Is con centrated southwards of Chapan Pass near Chang Tai T1en and Long Iia Tien.
 Our scouts report that large detaeh- ment of all arms advanced from siu Yen to Khranza on the morning of June 22 Abattallon of the enemy, taking adf vantage of thick fog, tried to surprlse our vanguard near Vandiapudze, on the Siu Yen Hai Cheng road.
 "'rhe movement was discovered m tlme and the Japanese received volleys rom five companies of Russians. The enemy retired with some losses towards siu Yen. One Russian sharpshooter was wounded.
 "The Japanese occupied Vfangtien on the main road to Idao Yang on the even- ing of June 19 with a battalion or in- fantry, and a squadron of cavalry. detachment of the same strength oc- cupled Chandinju, In the valley of the Tsuo river, seven miles north of Feng | Wang Cheng."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
GUPHILL WINS THE
 AMERICAN TROPHY
MOST EXCITING FINISH IN THE HISTORY OF TROPHY SHOOTING IN THE GREAT EVENT AT IN- l
 DlANAPOLIS-RAN SECOND l

Indianapolis. Ind, June 23.-With a thousand enthusiasts crowding about the handicap lines, and in what was prob able the most exciting finish ever witt messed in a gyand American tournament, Richard l.. Guphil of Aitken, Minn., handicapped at 19 yards won the grand American trophy, a silver tea service and $1000 in cash in tn ethird shoot-off of a tie with William Randai or Telluride, Colo, at 96 breaks. brisk wind blow ing across the course today offered the greatest natural handicap, which the guns have had to contend with during the shooting of the previous days, Later in the afternoon the consesianrs began to string out and 1t became evident that Guphill and Randall were the probable winners.
 Guphill finished first with score of 96. Randall then faced the traps. breaking l9 straight targets. and tieing the score. In the first shoot-off at 20 targets the re- suit was a tie at 17 breaks. The second resulted in another tie at IT breaks. In the third the score stood Guphill 19, Ran dal 15.
 Immediately he was lifted to the should CTS of an excited crowd and carried off the field. The score of o6 for the grand American handicap is greater by two than the previous record which was made at Kansas City last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
NY TASHINGTON, June 23-tSpecial.) W "The negro plank Is the only
 honest plank in the platform. It

TAoiiN01ONb June <o'-Aopecidi'' M "The negro plank Is the only honest plank in the platform. It Is infamous," said Chairman Cowherd of the democratic congressional committee tonight. McKinleys noble utterances above southern graves, his openly recog- n7ed policy of white rule for southern states was thought by patriotic men to signal the death of sectlonalism. Roose- velts negro policy joined to Lodges force bill will revive it. The crumpacker resolution discarded by the republicans of the house and senate alike has been sorceo by the President upon his party It will prove the worst mistake among many. Every patriotic citizen anxious for his country's future, wishing to see pre- served the purity of the Anglo-Saxon race, and American institutions is willing that the southern states shall adopt any legal expe olent that will save that fair land from the control of an ignorant and de- based suffrage.
 Heretofore the republican party had a record for boldness. Tt Chicago it estab- lsshed a record for timidity and evasion. The platform is remarkable mainly for #hal it does not say The labor situa- .ioh Is as acute as at cny time in our
 
 regard to 1t, There is no longer war in the hilippines. Surely the country is entitled al last to know what is to be their future policy as to those islands. the hippine plank does not disclose if ne tafin plank is an open straddle to De used as promise of reduction of autes t' The voters and a pledge of their main'cnahce to the manufacturers.
 Governor Cummns says: ,lt tustihes the Iowa idea. General Grosvenor says: Tt Is stand-pat plank Chairman Payne says It leaves the question open. It was evidently not intended as a plank but a trap.
 The platform says: Our administra- ton of the great departments of the gov ernment has been honest This. in the face of the notorious frauds discovered in the postoffice department; the scandals in the land and Indian bureaus which the secretary of the interior Is concealing with so much difficulty, and the forced adjournment of congress in order to pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
LIFE PRESERVERS
 ALMOST USELESS
INVESTIGATION OF THE SLocUM DISASTER CONTINUES AND SOME STARTLING FACTS ARE
 BROUGHT OUT BY WITNESSES.

New York June 23.-Much of the testi- mony at the inquest today in the General Slocum disaster went to show that the life pfe servers on the steamer were prac- tieally useless. At least half a dozen witt nesses gave their experiences with these life preservers, and how they fell to pieces at critical times. Paul iebenow pas senger on the Socum. who lost six mem- fers of his family in the disaster, de- clared that when the wires by which the l Ifeservers were secured in the racks would not give way, he took hold of the rre St rvers and they crimbled like so many soda crackers
 Captain Van Schaick was brought into the court room on stretcher. He ap- parently was suffering greatly, but ex- pressed willingness to undergo an ex- animation by the coroner He was order ed back to the hospital. however. and his examination postponed until next week.
 The hull of the wrecked Slocnm was raised today and great deal of water was pumped out of the hold A search was made for bodies, but none was re- covered At the next full tide the hulk will be taken further in shore Supervise ing Inspector Rodie of the United States sttdnDOdt inspectors, picked up a number of life preservers on the main deck of the Slocum and tagged them for use in the government investigation. These pre- servers were badly torn and more than half filled with powdered cork
 Twenty-four additional bodies were re- covered today, bringing the number of known dead up to 907 One hundred po- licemen who have been making a can vass of all districts where persons were reported to be missing completed their work tonight. Inspector Schmitberger. who was in charge of the canvass esti- mated the total number of dead, in- cluding the missing. at about 1000. He said that the police in many instances fund at their homes persons who have been officially missing since the day the steamer was burned In one case a man, his wife and two children. whose names had appeared in all the published lists of missing, were found at their home They had not been on the excursion at ali. and the elders were not even aware that they h0d been reported missing. Others anon khe missing were found at hospitals various other places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24

Representative Harry Lee Maynard Of Virginia was in Washington today and called at democratic headquarters He expressed the belief that the republican national platform would cause lhe de- feat of the republican party this fall and result in the election of democratic President and democratic house.
 .'The tariff plank alone ought to over whelmingly defeat MT. Roosevelt said MT. Maynard The plank is an insult to the intelligence of the American peo- pie 1t stands for revision and it stands for stand-pat. The duties may be in- creased or decreased, but the question is, what will the republican party do if con tinued in power? There is one thing cer- tain, every trust in the country knows that the tariff plank means a eontinu- ance of the present excessive duties and no sensible man will doubt for minute that the plank means no tarin legislation by u republicans.
 ''The negro piaa in tsle platform,i ,is an outrage" continued Mir Maynard, and ought to result In every conservative man in the north voting the democratic ticket. The southern states which have disfran- chised the ignorant negro have not broken the law. The United States supreme court testifies to that. The action of the court in all cases which have recently come before it demonstrates that there Is no foundation for the statement that the con- stitution Is being violated No, 1t is simply raising the race issue, an appeal to prejudice and section. l do not believe the conservative people in the doubtful states can be taken in by it. They will rather resent the declaration of the re- publican party that 1t Is going to inter- fere in the working out of difficult prnbIan1 xybfqb fc ca1sTiDo n the best of its ability. The war closed nearly forty years ago. It is a pity that the republican party with all the great questions before the countryside tariff, economy in the governments view and honesty in the government departments could not take one side or the other in it's platform without trying to rake up from the dead past an issue calculated to in- flame the people of a section.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
SHOT WOMAN AND HIMSELF.
The Woman Is Now Dying at Hospital
 In St. Louis.

St. Louis, June 23.-A man supposed to be Nelson P. Benson, aged 5S of 3233 War wick Boulevard Kansas City, today fa- tally wounded Miss Dove, aged 23. and then shot himself behind the ear, dying on the way to the city dispensary from the wound. Miss Dove, a beautiful young woman is dying at the city hospital. where she was taken after the shooting
 Tn. shooting occurred in the Illinois Hotel, 510 Lucas avenue. where the couple had met today by agreement and regis tered MT. and Mrs. Dennis Cummings.
 In Bensons pocket was found a bottle containing a powerful acid. and giving his address a 3233 Warwick boulevard. Kansas City. Mary Doye's last address was 2s44 Franklin avenue. In Benson's s poc,7 ' were also found cards on which were a dozen different addresses in dif- ferent parts of the country where she had stayed and where he had evidently followed her. In Benson's pocket also was q .etter from her telling him to meet her here Thursday morning in the vicin- ity, of the Illinois house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
Construction Train Wrecked.

Knoxville, Tenn. June 29.-A Louis vile and Nashville construction train was wrecked between Saxton and Jel- lico today on the Knoxville division of that road. A caboose carrying a num- Der of members of crew was deralled and rolled over and down an embank- ment. Two negroes were killed out right, and seven men were hurt, some seriously. The white man who figured In the wreck was Irving Chewning both arms broken. residing at Living ston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
FELL FROM A WINDOW.
Commander Kellogg, U. s. N, Meets
 With Trsgical End.

Norfolk. Va, June 23-Commander A. c. Kellogg, U. s. N, fell from a fourth story window in the Monroe hotel in Portsmouth at o'clock to- night to the sidewalk below, sustain ing injuries from which he died an hour and half later at the naval hospital. He had been in bad health for some tIme.
 It is thought Commander Kellogg, during an attack of vertigo. lost his balance and fell from the window rt which he was sitting. His wife and married daughter were with him when be died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
KING EDWARD SAILS.
Royal Yacht Is Escorted By Four cruI.
 sers and Six Torpedo Boats.

London. June 2S-King Edward left Charing Cross station on his way to Kiel at 10 o'clock tonight. His majesty drove to the station unostentatously in a brougham drawn by two horses. There was only small crowd at the station.
 The special train arrived at Port Vic- toria at 10:55.
 The royal yacht Victoria and Albert sailed a few minutes later. escorted by four cruisers and six torpedo boat de- stroyers.
 King Edward is accompanied by Prince Louis of Battenburg the Earl of Sell born, first lord of the admiralty; Wis count Churchill of Wychwood. lord-in- waiting to his majesty, and member of eQuerries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
FAIRBANKS IS NOTIFIED.
Receives Many Congratulations From
 Friends All over the Country.

Chicago. June 2s-senator Fairbanks was at his hotel when he heard of the nomination by exclamation of President Roosevelt and he promptly sent this tele- gram:
 Chicago June g. 1904 'The President Washington, D. C.: '.I am pleased to extend to you my heartiest congratulations upon your nom ination amidst great enthusiasm. (Signed) CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS" Later in the afternoon the senator re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
Abe AtteII Gets Decision.

St. Louis, June 23.-Abe Attell was given the decision at the end of the fifteenth round of his fight with Johnny Reagan of Brooklyn. Immediately after the decision was rendered there was a disturbance in wnich Reagan and two of Attell's seconds mixed things in the center of the ring until s arated by the policey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
PARTY LEAVES WITH
 THE RANSOM FUND
AS THE hESCUERS PASSED THE HOUSE OF MIR. PERDlCARlS HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. MARLEY, BID THE MISSION ooDsPEED.

London, June 24.-The Tangier corres- pondent of the Daily Telegraph describes the departure of the party with the ran- som for the release of Messrs. Perdicarls and yarley early yesterday morning. The party was followed by forty-three pris- oners belonging to Rasuli's tribe who were unshaclled.
 As the party crossed the ruined Ro- man bridge and passed the house of MT. PerdI, aris, which is still guarded by Amtlna an marines, Mrs. Varley daughter of MT. Perdicaris, and wife of his fellow captive, Cromwell Varley, who was ac- cornran;ed by her two daughters, wished the la.sson God speed. On the road to Fcz, adc'tienal armed escort joined the eolnmn ? he sultan is credited with the intentlon ot" panfshing Raislli without waiting Tor request to do so by the two powers concerned in the case of Messrs. Perdcaris and Varley.
 ceived this telegram, dated White House, June 23:
 Permit me to extend to you and the country my heartfelt congratulations on your nomination. l need hardly add how pleased I am personally.
 (Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
 In reply the senator telegraphed:
 T thank you for your cordial congratu- lations. To be named by the convention as your assistant in the great campaign that Is before us is a distinction which 1 deeply appreciate"
 The Indiana delegation marched in a body to the senator's hotel from the Coliseum and gave him a rousing greet ing.
 The Senator and Mrs Fairbanks leave here tomorrow for Indianapolis. where they will be rendered reception tomor- row night.
 Hundreds of telegrams were received by the senator this evening from all parts of the country and by nightfall Fairbanks buttons were everywhere to be seen.
 The Indiana delegation in the house of representatives this evening sent this message to President Roosevelt:
 ''The members of the Indiana delega- ton in the house of representatives con graduate you on the unanimity and en- thusiasm of your nomination. Roosevelt and Fairbanks will receive the electoral vote of Indiana in November"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24
NEGRO PLANK IS THE ONLY
 HONEST ONE IN PLATFORM
It Is Straight Forward if is Infamous Says Chairman Cow herd of the Democratic Commitee-lhe Rest of the
 Republican Document is an Evasion
BY WATTERsoN sTEALEY.
VIII Cause Defeat.

vent any investigation must be taken either as sarcasm or humor."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-24

Senator Beveridge was recognized by the chair for the purpose Of seconding the nomination of MT. Roosevelt for President He was followed by George A.
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