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The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
SAN PEDRO MACoRIs.

and any of the lower might, aspire
me present accurate knowledge of
printed past inaccuracies known there
as learning was to them the only good
and led directly to the goods of others
Fof a bachelors degree was the STEP
Plhg-stone to magistracy, and a mag
lsracy meant any amount of material
acquisitions. Once seated in that
chair. man could squeeze the people
at his pleasure. Which is the reason
the people are so poor.
To be a bachelor of ANYTHING but
arts, however. is a thing a Korean
hastens to avoid. 1t is not that he is
by nature amatorially inclined; on the
contrary. He enters matrimony at the
earliest possible moment. but this is
not because he falls in love, or even
TO make an ambitious match, but sim
ply and solely TO be married One
might imagine from this that mar
riages in Korea We're invariably hap
pys and that in yet another manner
Seoul were indeed the Happy Valley
of Rasselas. Unfortunately. ii is only
for his own social position that he takes
the step. Hitherto he has worn his hair
in a braid down his back, and to put
II UP man-fashion he must take to him
self spouse. In short, he becomes a
man only by marriage, and can only
Western world were to adopt this prac-
tice the French might perchance dis
pense with hounties on births, and we
with presidential encomiums.
Social functions in Korea were sole
ly stag dinners. enlivened by singers
and dancers with flower names, and
were appurtenances only of the mag
istrate class. They took place not i'm
the evening, but in the afternoon, and
come back to memory as they stood
forth at the time. stepped in the red
glow of the setting sun. And then
the hustle as the guests departed, the
FREELY lanterns in the courtyard fitting
about. the red and green palanquins
eight bearers apiece, lifted from the
ground as each official entered his
own, the cries of the attendants and
the final sallying forth into the night
Ambition found it's place in political
intrigue. At the slightest pretext one
party rose against the other. and. II
successful, massacred its opponents to
man. The rumors reaching us now
Of risings In Seoul are what may at
any moment be expected Of the land
which values peace and seclusion
above any country on earth.
Last Of an diversions come the cere-
monies "a death. White, not black, ~
the garb % mourning. as near white
% distinction from everyday apparel
VIII permit. u Is the unbleached straw
color Of saekcloth. And u is worn an
uncouaciouahle time. three years for a
faihef tWo Tor "A mother. and for oth-
~ relatives % match n would seem
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
STAY II she Is Needed.

Washington, March 16-The State
Department is willing to give considerd-
tion and probably approval to any
suggestion coming from Minister Con-
ger or United States Consul Miller
at New Chwang, respecting the de-
tention of the United States gunboat
Helena at that place, provided II is
made TO appear that by remaining the
ship can give necessary protection to
American lives and properties there.
a possible fire OF shells from both sides
In the eevnt Of an attack In which
she could take no part would serve no
useful purpose, the State Department,
will make no request 10 have the Navy
Departments instructions TO withdraw
the ship repealed
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
NORTHERN SECURITIES MAGNATES
ARE AWAITING THE COURTS ORDER
Hill Says Outsiders Have Tried to Make a
Mountain Out Of a MoIehlI

New York March ia number of
Northern Securities officials, including
President Hin. Vice President Clough
and Directors George f. Baker and
John S. Kennedy, held a long confer
ence at the companys Office to-day
1t was said that plans to dissolve the
company'and return the railroad stocks
TO the original holders were discussed,
but this could not be confirmed.
An official copy of the Supreme
Courts decision. as rendered on Mon
day, will be received by Northern Sc
curities officials tomorrow.
Lawyers representing the various in
terests in the Northern Securities Com
pany were in conference with Pres
ident Hill and other officials until late
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

ed relic from a far past. before mod
ern methods had affected il at all. 1t
is twenty years since I spent the win
ter in Seoul, and lived for those months
In what seemed TO me then, and seems
TO me even more now, like unedited
pages of the Ara bian Nights. l have
not been back since, nor do / think
] should care to go. Rumor and the
public prints have informed me from
time to time of sad progressive changes
that have there, taken place. l prefer
not to see them with my own eyes, for
the old picture was far too quaint and
is already growing too dim with the
lapse Of years to have any new impress
sions not blur it's fading forme.
1t has seemed to me better, therefore,
asked 10 describe Korea, to recall for
the reader what l may of the atmos-
phere of the status ante than to set
forth in detail the present political
status quo. And this decision Is en-
forced by the fact that Korea at pres
ent really plays no part in the great
drama which is being enacted, her
portion being simply that of furnishing
the stage. On the other hand. their
stage setting makes most modern
plays; and what is found so taking
from beyond the footlights may possi-
bly, prove something the same from
across the ocean where the day be-
Gins.
Upon certain morning in Deem
Der, twenty years ago, a procession of
palanquins was passing through, the
squalid suburbs and approaching the
imposing south portal of the capital of
the Hermit land. Snow lay upon the
frozen ground and white-robed fig
ures gave the muddy thoroughfare a
scarcely less snowy look. The palan-
quin bearers warned the curious by
cries TO get out of the way and pushed
such of them as were too slow in NOV
ing unceremoniously to one side Then,
settling doggedly to their work, they
topped the rise leading to the gate,
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MISS HARMED WOULDN'T
PLAY T0A CHEAP HOUSE.

Pittsburg, March ia small-sized
panic at the Alvin Theater to-day re-
suited from the announcement that Vir-
ginia Harmed refused to appear in hel
advertised part. Fully 1000 people
mostly women, had been seated fol
the performance at the usual bar
gain matinee" $50 cents for any seat
in the house, and when the announce
ment was made that Miss Harmed re-
fused to appear before such a cheap
house, grand rush was made for the
boxoffice to get money back. The thea
ter officials were powerless to check
the rush and many women were hurt
but none seriously.
The Alvin people claim Miss Harmed
had agreed to abide by the custom OF
the house and she was advertised ac-
cordingly.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
To Recall the Nuncio.

Paris, March 1.-THE Rome CORE
spondent of the Journale says that the
Pope has decided to recall Monsignor
Lorenzelli, the nuncio at Paris. but
that in order to show that the action
is not connected with the question of
President Loubets visit to Rome, the
decision viii not be announced for a
time
1t is asserted, according to this cor
respondent that the Congregation of
the propaganda has ordered the mis-
sionaries to Japan to secretly give Ja-
pan financial aid in its conflict with
Russia. The French chief of the mis-
SIGN has refused to obey this order on
the ground of patriotism. and because
of his friendship for Russia.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
MAKES PROMISES FOR
CONDUCT OF RUSSIA.

st. Petersburg, March 1S.-The En-
peror to-day, receiving the German at
taches, Lanenstein and Tettau. who
are to leave for the front March 1S,
said, among other things:
Gentlemen. all Europe now realizes
that Russia tried to avoid war and to
obtain peaceful settlement. Many of
the Powers strove also to attain this
end, but Japan forced the war; in
fringing all international law. Gentle
men, you will be able in the Far East
to see how Russia observes human and
correct conduct during war;
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

and at summons from within deposit
ed the chief chair al the portals en-
trance. A man got out of the uncom-
Portable box, stepped to the center of
the gateway, and looked down, among
the first of white men so to do, upon
the strange panorama of Seoul. The
portal, framed in which he saw the
city, was massive stone affair with
ponderous wooden doors sheathed in
iron four inches thick, now swung
back to admit the human tide of day
From it on either hand stretched away
the city wall, topping an encircling
belt of hills in whose hold lay the
city's self. Crenellated battIements
tipped its top and could be made out
as they ran, now up, now down. into
the distance. Through the gate poured
a stream of folk clad as it seemed to
the stranger in their nightclothes, long
flowing white tunics, boat-like boots,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
Felt in washington.

Seattle, Wash, March 1.-Two
earthquake shocks were felt here last
night. A vibration from east to west,
severe enough to rattle dishes, move
chairs and shake up the higher build
ings occurred. In the church of the
Immaculate Conception big congre-
cation was assembled and a small
panic was caused by the earthquake.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
VERDICT FOR SCHELL.

Boston, Mass, March ia Superior
Court jury to-day returned a verdict
in favor of Rev. DR.. e. A. Schell CT
Chicago. formerly general secretary
of the Epworth League, in his suit for
libel against DR.. Charles Parkhurst,
editor, and the Boston Wesleyan Asso-
citation, publishers of lions Herald
The jury fixed damages at $24, 900.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

Shanghai, March 16.-The first regu-
FAR train on the Shan Tung Railroad
arrived at Si-Nan-Fu from Sin-Tao
last night. having covered the dis
lance, 252 miles in fourteen hours The
train was decorated with the Chinese
and German flags and had on board a
number of Germans The station at
SiNan-Fu was brilliantly Illuminated.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
EARTHQUAKE WAS FELT.

Victoria, B. c., March 16.-At S:1S
O'Clock tonight the sharpest shock of
earthquake felt in Victoria for twenty
years shook the city. Clocks were
stopped and invalids screamed with
terror. The seismographic recorder at
the meteorological office cannot be
touched until Saturday. The curator
expects the record will show a spasm
of unusual violence.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
LAND OF TIE MORNING CALM.
Korean People and Their Ways, as
Seen Twenty Years Ago.
Percival Lowell in the Churchman.

PercivaI Lowell in the Churchman.
Korea is at present of interest ex-
trinsically simply as real estate: in
trinsically the real interest in her lies
liz her past. 1t is what she was at the
time Europeans first set their demol-
ishing hands upon the fast crumbling
relics of monuments which can never
be rebuilt that centers the regard of
any one who thinks beyond the pass
ing ruin of to-day
1t was my good fortune. as l look
back upon it now, to have been vouch-
safed. through a curious chain of cir
cumstances, a glimpse of this unchang-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
CENsURING THE GOVERNOR.
Sir Henry CampbelI-Bannerm
VIII Move Vote.

London, March 16.-In the House of
Commons tonight, Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman. the Liberal leader,
gave notice that he would move the
following vote of censure:
THAT this House disapproves the
conduct of His Majesty's government in
advising the crown not to disallow the
ordinance for the Introduction of Chi
nese labor in the Transvaal."
Sir Henry may tomorrow ask that
a day be set for debate on his motion
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
win withdraw Gunboat.

London, March l6.--In the House OF
Commons to-day Earl Percy Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, con-
firmed the statements that the British
station gunboat Espiegle will be Win
drawn from New chwang immediate
~ after the river ls opened, 40 ths
vessels would be in considerable dam
ger hi the event u hostillfiea while
her presence viii 8ffOrd 10 protection
fof either iife OF property
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
viii Sail via Good Hope.

Paris, March 1.-THE Echo de Paris
publishes dispatch from its st. Peters
burg correspondent, which says that
the idea of the Russian Baltic squad
ron going to the Far East by the north
east passage has been given up as too
risky. The fleet will probably start
in July and go by way of the Cape of
Good Homo
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

SOME. OF THE NEWARK's CREW
AT LUNCH ON BEACH AT PAJAR-
ITO. UNITED STATES FLAG ON
DOMINICAN SOIL. SCENES IN SAN
DOMINGO. WHERE THE RECENT
INsURGENT TROUBLES TOOK
PLACE AND AMERICAN INTER-
EsTs WE'RE THREATENED.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

Houston. Tex, March iG.-Fire to-
night burned over large section 81
the BntFou 81 Had iu Hardin county.
The loss ~ about 5000 The properly
destroyed includes 10000 barrels ~ ID
m storage and twenty or more der
Tickt.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
VIII Drop the Case.

Seattle, Wash, March 16.-Attorney
General Stratton says he will drop the
case of the state of Washington
against the Northern Securities Com
pany because of the decision of the
United States Supreme Court in the
merger case.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

"A Berlin newspaper fnds Inst out
n go wars. wagsd between the years
1900 and 1870. ila were begun WITHOUT
me formalitY ~ a declaration Of war.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

things, would rise into the millions;
and how at last a trolley line would
invade the very streets of Seoul.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

neglected cold caused my to and grew
been robust gradually diminished and only
my health suffered misery and torture each month and
after taking Wine of Cardu my spirits and could feel
my strength returning day by day The became
regular and in few months time we'll and strong as
anyone could wish to be. very grateful for the good
Wine of Cardui did to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-07-28
cheney's Change Of Heart.

PENDLETON, Or, July 2s.-Lemuel
w. Cheney, the man who duped his
wife in the courtroom few weeks ago
and persuaded her to withdraw her
action for divorce, after which ne put
all his property out Of her reach, ap-
peared in court again this morning
with a complete change of heart. He
didn't come to fool his wife this time,
but to beg for mercy from her attor-
neys, as they were getting so close to
his property and the law was showing
up mis- action in such a strong light
that he was most willing to effect a
settlement and give his wife her share
of the property. The matter was COM
promised by giving Mrs. Cheney $4,000
and paying all the costs. which reached
nearly $500. The wife was then
granted a divorce and the custody of
two minor children.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-07-28

BERLIN, July 2S.-Witte, president
of the Russian council of ministers,
who is here negotiating a commercial
en- over the Plehve assassination. 1T
is appalling, but not surprising" he
marked Plehve as a victim. Every
Russian minister accepts the risk of
duty. OF course the crime will not
produce any political reforms, but on
the contrary more rigid repression Of
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DISGUSTED WITH LIFE SHE LED.
Astoria Woman Ends 1t All by Jump
ina Into River.

ASTORIA. Or, July 28.-A woman,
who went by the name of Hope Clay
ton and who had been an inmate of a
downtown resort for two or three
wears. committed suicide this morning
by jumping from the wharf at the foot
of Sixth street. TIE woman had often
talked with her associates about killing
herself. as she appeared to feel keenly
the disgrace of the life she was lead
ING. but no serious attention was paid
to her remarks until this morning,
when she suddenly left the house and
fastening to the river plunged in. Two
police officers witnessed the act and
FASTENED to the rescue. but the woman
had disappeared before they could
reach her. When she jumped over
hoard. the woman had on diamonds
that are said to be worth fully $500.
She was 26 years Of age and native
of New York city. The body has not
been recovered.
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England IN the matter of the steamo,
knight Commander.
RUSSIAN Backs Down

LONDON, July 2s.-Premiar pa,eo
announced in the commons todav tnat
the acute stage of the Red sea iro,
dents had passed and that tho pms
sian volunteer vessels will be with
drawn.
Referring to the passage of the OAR
danelles by the Russian vo,u,tear
meet as commercial vessels and their
subsequent Transformation to be,,ig-
Grants the premier said that Great
Britain took the strongest possible ex-
ceptson to this course. The Russian
government, met us in the matter" he
said. Il will not say in general prin-
ciple. but with regard to this particular r
incident. Great Britain earnestly pro-
tested against the sinking of tho
Knight Commander as contrary to the
accepted practice Of nations
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ASSASSIN KILLS PLEVHE
THROWS A DYNAMITE BOMB
Russian Minister the Interior Was Blown TO omHe Had Prosecuted the Jews
Most Cruelty and Is Reported That the Assassin AexRuan
Revoutonsts Are JuhIaat Over the AssassInaisn-..A
Ministers and Governors Marked for Saugh.
ter-Czar Overcome With
Horror and Terror

LONDON, July 2S.-Accounts Of the
assassination of Plehve, minister of
the interior, vary. Reuters ST Peters
burg correspondent says that the min
listers carriage was passing in front
Of the hotel Devarsovic near the ter
minus of the Warsaw railway when
man suddenly rushed out of the res
taurant of the hotel and hurled a
bomb. The minister and coachman
were instantly killed and the carriage
and horses shattered to atoms. Plehve
was terribly mutilated. The bomb
thrower, despite the confusion was
surrounded and arrested.
Another report has it that two per-
sons were arrested and that Plehve
was approaching the station carriage
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FAIL TO REPORT DISEASE.
Ballard Officials Will Arrest Seattle
Physicians for Offense.

BALLARD. July 2S.-Warrants We're
city board of health, for the arrest of
Drs +. j. Meacham and Nj. l.. Adams
of this city, and Drs. G.. B. McCulloch
and William G.. EdmOnds,- of Seattle
charging them with failure to report
the sickness and death of the 5-year-
old son of W. c. Datesman. The child
was taken sick with diphtheria about
ten days ago and these physicians were
in attendance at different times upon
the case The child died yesterday
morning and was buried in the after
noon.
In failing to report the case the ply
sicians violated both city ordinance
and state law. The case was set for
8: 80 this afternoon, but will probably
not be heard until next week.
Samuel Peterson, proprietor of the
Western house, on Leary avenue, was
tried yesterday before Police Magis-
trate Grover, on the charge of failure
to report contagious disease to the
health officer.
About week ago one of the girls
in his employ was taken sick and soon
developed what he supposed was scar
let fever Instead of reporting the
case to the health officer, fearing quar-
antine. he took her in a carriage at
night to a lonely shack on the beach
and left here there alone. Here she
was found by friends next day.
Mr.. Peterson was arrested and at
the trial was found guilty and was
fined.
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HANDLERS
co BACK
Seven Hundred End Sympa-
thetic Strike.
PAekeRS C0UHTIn6 ON VICTORY
A Commission Broker Assaulted bv \
Crazy Native Of Russia-Other
Incidents
PAekERs couN1Ins ON VICTORY

CHICAGO, July 2S.-With the re-
fusal of the packers further to nego-
tiate with the strikers the situation
at the yards this morning resolved IT.
self into a long pull. Assertions are
made by the packers that a stampede
of union men will probably come with
In few days, while DonnelIy claims
that it is impossible profitably to con-
duct the packing enterprises without
the skilled nelp now out to remain un-
til a settlement is reached. There was
no disorder this morning
The imported strike breakers this
morning aggregated 800. Unusually
large crowds fiocked about the en-
frances and despite the orders of the
police against picketing the union men
kept close watch. Meat prices took
another leap this morning of cents.
At noon 700 union livestock handlers
returned to work. They claimed that
good would be obtained by further
idleness. The packers considered it
the first step of the predicted break.
There was excitement in the yards at
noon when a Lithuanian evidently
crazed, attempted to assassinate Geo.
P. Ward, a prominent commission man.
1t is believed he was stirred by Rus
sian affairs. He rushed upon Ward
with a knife but was overpowered be-
fore injury was done. In South Chi
cago when the packers attempted to
deliver meat at branch house a small
riot occurred. the mob attempting to
Overturn the wagons. The police went
to the rescue and made several ar
rests.
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Old Soldier Gets First Prize at Rosebud

CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., July Is
William Mccormick. an old soldier of
Lancaster, Pa, drew the first prize,
worth $4,000 in the great Rosebud
land lottery this morning. An i'm
mense crowd cheered the lucky man.
The second prize went to Rolens
Rugge, of Harrisburg, S. D.: the third
to w. Wesley Brown, of Dakota City,
n. D., and the fourth to M. Dolson. of
Sprague
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Plehve Prosecuted the Jews.

BERLIN, July 2S.-Prominent Jews
here state that Plehve's last admins
tratlVe act was the suppression of four
Hepre" newspapers published at ST.
Petersburg. throwing out 500 Jews
with 1900 dependents. ordering all ex-
pelled from the city and conveyed back
to the pale. A deputation of white
haired Jews knelt before Plehve and
besought mercy vainly. it is said.
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Another Account of ASA assination.
Official Version Of Murder.

ST. PETERSBURG. July 2S.-The
oeioia, version of the assassina ton
saws that Minister Plenve was alone
in his carriage when the bomb was
thrown by the assassin, VINO came from
= hotel. The minister was thrown to
tho navement and 90 persons were in
iured including the assassin. A post
nortem examination revealed no
wounds on Plehve's body itself, but his
lower jaw was broken. His death is
attributed to the shock.
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PARIS, July 2S.--President Loubet
mas telegraphed the czar expressing
eral horror Of France over the crime
Foreign Minister Delcasse called at the
Russian embassy this morning and
had private interview with the Rus
sian ambassador.
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State Department Notified.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The state
department has received dispatches
from the American embassy at ST.
Petersburg informing it of the assas-
slnation with the added comment that
there is no disturbance.
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President Goes to Washington.

OYSTER BAY, July 2S.-The presi-
dent. Mrs. Roosevelt and their three
Washington by a special train. In
Philadelphia the three boys will de-
dent expects to return in the middle of
August.
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Quiet at Omaha.

OMAHA. July 2S.-The strike today
Sheriff Power has sworn in so depu-
ties armed only with clubs. A few
nom union men are being brought in
but no large bodies
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Russian RevoIutionis{e .I,b;I,n+

GENEVA, July 2S.-The Russian
revolutionists here are jubilant. 1t is
asserted that a widespread revolution
ary plot is afoot, the most formidable
since the assassination of Alexander.
The black list includes all the gov
ernors OF provinces and the ministers.