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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
BLACKMAR CHOSEN
GAR. COMMANDO
Massachusetts Man Unanimously
Elected by Veterans at
Boston.

Boston, Aug 1s.-General w. w
Blackmar of Massachusetts was
elected COMMUNICATIVE Of the
G.. A. r. today by reclamation.
John r. King of Washington, d. G..
former commander of the Department
of Maryland, was chosen senior vice
commander-in-chie George w
Cook past department commander
of Colorado, also was nominated fol-
the office, but Withdrew. The election
of Mr.. King was then made by &C
clamation.
George w. Patton of Chattanooga
Tenn, past commander OF the De-
partment of Tennessee, was elected
junior vice-commander-in-c hief by
reclamation, after MI. Cook had beer
nominated for the office and hac
again withdrawn.
Dr. Warren r. King Of Indiana was
elected surgeon general. Rev. J. H
Bradford Of Washington, D. c., was
chosen haplain-in-chief.
Denver, Col, was unanimously
chosen as the place for holding the
next national encampment.
The first general order of Genera
Blackmar was issued shortly after his
election. 1t announced the following
appoin tments:
TO be adjutant general, Past De.
partment Commander j. q. Gilman o.
Massachusetts; to be quartermastel
general, Charles Burrows of New Jer.
sey.
The order announced that the head
quarters of the commander-in-chi CHIEF
will be at 95 Milk street, Boston.
The resolution regarding the pro
posed fraternal convention Of the blue
and gray survivors Of the union anc
Confederate armies, to be held a
Washington, D. c., in May, 1905, was
laid ION the table.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
SIGNS OF SQUALL
IN VENEZUELA
Action of British in Forwarding
Cruiser Causes Anxiety in
Washington.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service
Washington, Aug. 1S.-The admin
istration is alarmed over the sensa-
tional turn of affairs in Venezuela.
The reports that British subjects EN-
ployed by the New York and Bernu-
dez Asphalt company We're forced, by
government troops. to remain at work
under President Castro's receiver, and
that some of then. were brutallY
treated. coupled with the dispatch Of
British cruiser Tribune to La Guaya,
have given the situation a much more
serious look. There are now grave
doubts whether the policy mapped out
by the president and Secretary Hay,
which involved a postponement of
drastic measures in dealing with Cas-
tro until after election, can be adj
hered to.
It is considered certain that the
commander of the Tribune will take
steps to secure FULL satisfaction. If
Castro does not take UP the question
quickly and properly 1t IS thought the
British captain may land marines and
march them to the asphalt lakes to
arrest and punish the offenders. There
would be no disposition in the state
department to resent such acton, but
it would open UP possibilities which
might force the administration to as
sumo a firm and decided stand toward
Venezuela.
Minister Bowen's full report on the
controversy, which includes copies OF
the contracts between Venezuela and
the asphalt trust, was received by
Secretary Hay yesterday and is being
carefully gone over.
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REOPENS SHIP
TRUST SCANDAL
Continued From First Page.

81, 900, 900, and particularly in the sum OF
s1OO. 900 purporting to have been under
written by the said defendant Mercantile
Trust company, whereas, in truth and IN
fact. as was well known to the said de-
fendants,s and to each of them, by
secret agreement between said defendants,
neither the said sum nor any other sum
was to be collected from or paid by the
said defendant Mercantile Trust company
but said underwriting was intended as a
fraud and lure to induce others to under
write on the faith of the reputation and
standing Of the said Mercantile Trust
company.
The governor furthermore makes
the astounding charge that not even
the original 100000 capital of the
shipbuilding company, before it was
inflated to s70,0O0,000 by the boy
dummy directors furnished by the
Corporation Trust Company of
New Jersey was genuinely paid in but
was simply borrowed from the Trust
Company of the Republic and later
repaid to that institution. The
incorporates are. said by the gov
ernor never to have paid in any part
of the capital subscribed by them,
and the United States Shipbuilding
company is said to have had no fur
| Their cash capital, except sums bor-
! rowed In order to deceive the public.
Governor Odell says he subscribed
to 100000 of the shipbuilding bonds
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
.'DIED A HERO'S DEATH
Rurik's End Disclosed at Last to
Russian Capital.

st. Petersburg, Aug. IS, 1928 PM
This morning for the first time the
newspapers were allowed to print the
fact that the cruiser Rurik had been
sunk. The news was held back until
the government had received official
confirmation from Vladivostok. The
tone of the press comment is summed
up by a line in the Russ: The Ru-
rik died a hero's death. That is the
only consolation we have"
It is learned from official sources
by the Associated Press that the
cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia have
reached Vladivostok after the battle
with Admiral Uriu's squadron off Tsu
island. Both ships were considera-
bly, damaged.
Every officer on the Rossia and
Gromboi was either killed or wound
ed. Rear Admiral lessen narrowly
escaped the fate of Admiral Without
He was standing on the bridge of the
Rossia when it was wrecked by q
she'll The two Russian cruisers were
literally riddled, their guns and en-.
gines being partially dismantled
The escape of the Russian vessels
from Admiral Karhimura's four ar
mored cruisers is regarded as a won
derful piece of luck. It is presumed
| that the pursuers Of the Russian ship:
did not dare to go far north, fearing
that some of the vessels of the Por
Arthur squadron would break thru
the Straits of Korea.
There is no confirmation of the re
port that the cruisers Pallada ant
Diana have reached Vladivostok, ane
| the admiralty had no news this morn
| ing bearing on the whereabouts of the
| other vessels of the late Rear sAdmira
| Withofts squadron.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
GEORGIA WHITES
WAR ON NEGROES
Lynching and Whippings Without
Mercy Follow Burning at
Statesboro.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service,
Savannah, Ca, Aug. 1S.-One lynch
ing in Bulooch county followed Tues
days great upheaval of human pas
Will Cato and Paul Reed, the negroes
convicted Of the murder of Henry
Hodges, his wife and three children.
Seven miles out from Statesboro was
found the body Of an unknown negro
man, riddled with bullets. It was
practically shot to pieces. 1t was at
first reported that this was the body Of
plicated in the crime, according to the
dying confession of Paul Reed, but
parties who knew Bell hurried to the
scene and declare that the body was
not his.
Bell had been released with all the
other prisoners after the burning of
Cato and Reed. This. was done on or
der of Judge Daily, who has never ex-
planned it.
Quiet has been restored in States
boro, but thruout the county all is
chaos. A reign of terror is on. Ne
groes are being whipped without
mercy and often without provocation.
Last night crowd passed the house
of Albert Roberts, an old negro living
near Register. They fired a broadside
into the house, and the old negro
wounded. His 17-year-old son Ray
mond was wounded also. . This has
stirred up the people. They repudiate
this crime and are outspoken in their
resentment and their determination tc
bring the guilty to justice.
A mob caught Handy Bell, gave
him a chance to confess with a rope
about his neck. and when he main
| tanned his innocence stoutly, released
! n m
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New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service
Chicago, Aug. 18.-Dashing for
ward at high speed, a large touring
automobile, with four shrieking oc-
cupants, three men and a woman, shot
thru the open draw of the Rush street
bridge at II o'clock last night and
plunged into the Chicago river turn
ing somersault as it fell. The car
struck the water bottom upward, amid
the excited cries Of fifty persons stand
Ing on the south side OF the bridge,
and sank instantly.
Scarcely had the forms of the oc-
cupants appeared on the surface of
the water before Lewis Mohr, a sailor,
dove in and rescued one of the men,
while the crew of the tug William
Dickinson, which was passing thru the
open bridge, rescued the others.
The victims Of the accident were
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Willens of Mem
phis, Tenn; A. P. Ganong of Clarks-
dals Miss, and r. E. Burroughs, Chi
cago. Mr.. Burroughs was acting as
chauffeur. The auto swung around
the curve from Michigan avenue at
a speed of not less than twenty-five
miles an hour. The bridge had just
begun to swing open and a mail
wagon and five other vehicles were
lined up before the open gap.
Mr.. Burroughs seemed unable to
stop the car, and to avoid collision
with the conveyances before him,
made a circuit around the edge of the
line of vehicles, and in an instant shot
over the brink.
1t is said that the men will recover
but that Mrs. Wellens' condition is
critical.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
BRADFORD TIES
Up MERGER DEAL
Files Writ Forbidding Distribu-
ton of Northern Pacific
Stock.

Trenton, N. j., Aug. 1S.-Judge
Bradford, in the United States circuit
court today, filed the formal decree OF
iniunction in the suit recently decided
BY him. in which Edward H. Harri-
man and Winslow S. Pierce were COM
plainants and the Northern SECURITIES
company and the Northern Paclhc
Railway company We're defendants.
Judge Bradford decided to grant a
preliminary injunction, and today,s
final decree is in consequence Thereon.
The decree restraints the Northern
Securities company from disposlng OF
3T0,270 shares of Northern Paclhc
common stock, transferred to that
company by Hartman and Pierce. IL
further restraints the Northern sc.
curities from disposing OF 47,O9o
Northern Pacific shares received from
the Northern Pacific company
The Oregon Short Line company
filed bond of S2,0O0,0O0 as required
to idemnify for any losses sustained
by the granting of the preliminary in
junction,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
NEGROES FOR
The MINISTRY
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Of
America Preparing to Estab-
lish a College.

: < ~ { 5-.t +
Winona, Mimi, Aug. 18.-An i'm
portant topic to come up this after
noon before the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of North America was that Of
the establishment of a college for the
education of negroes for the ministry.
1t is expected that a decision TO
found such a college will be reached.
The financial report presented by
Professor Burgdorf of st. Louis shows
that for missionary work among the
Freedmen of the south $41,77S.86 has
been received and $37, 767.56 expend-
ed.
paper was presented this morning
by Rev. j. Harders, of Milwaukee, on
Church Communion
All of the officers of the synod were
elected as follows President, Rev.
]. Bading of Milwaukee; vice presi-
dent, Rev. p. Brandt of Pittsburg;
secretary, Professor J. Schaller of
New Ulm; treasurer, Chris johnson Of
Detroit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
PANIC FROM FIRE
IN PALMER HOUSE
Explosion Startles Sleeping Guests
All Escape-Loss Is About
$4,000.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun special service.
Chicago, Aug. 1S.-Driven from
their rooms by the sound of terrific
explosion and followed in their wild
flight by dense clouds Of smoke, nun
dreds of guests living on the upper
floors of the Palmer house fed fol-
safety by stairs and elevators shortly
before o'clock last night.
The kissing Of flames, the screams
of the fleeing guests, many of whom
were aroused from sleep, and the noise
Of falling glass caused dense crowd
to gather around the well-knoWI
hotel making the approach of the fire
department difficult and adding to tbs
confusion and the panic.
Partly dressed women fled shriekins
down the stairs, while others CRIED
wildly down the elevator shaft fol
help. The two elevator cages in thu
threatened part Of the building Were
soon overloaded with masses of fright
ened women and their baggage.
The elevator men stuck to thei1
posts manfully, and worked theil
cages at express speed. The halls O.
the lower floors and the rotunda O
the hotel soon resembled more thu
Storage Of an emigrant ship than {
leading hotel.
TIE damage to the Palmer house i
estimated at $4,000. Thousands 0
yards Of velvet carpets, valuable rug
and flooring We're ruined, and severa
hundred window panes must be re
placed.
No one was seriously injured.
1t is thought the fire started by TIL
explosion of benzine used for carmen
cleaning by the clothing manufactur
ers on the top floor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
NAVAL COLLEGE CLOSED
All of Russia's Naval Officers on Ac-
tive DUTY. i

ST. Petersburg, Aug. Grand
Duke Cyril will accompany Vice Adj
miral Rojestvensky, commander of
the Baltic fleet, to the far east. Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky today an
nounced his flag and staff appoint
ments. Captain Clapier DECIDING is
made chief of staff. The demand for
naval officers is SO pressing that all
the officers detailed for duty at the
naval college have been ordered on
active service and the college has been
closed.
The mobilization of the reserve
troops in five Of the seven districts of
the province of st. Petersburg has
been completed and the mobilization
of those of the Russian capital itself
is expected to be announced in a few
days. Probably 10000 men will be
called to the colors. Many factory
and mill hands will be included, but
the effect industrially will be lessened
because most of the manufactures
were already running on short time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
.SHIVELY HEADS
THE PYTHIANS
Knights Choose Richmond, Ind.
Man for Their Supreme
Chancellor.

Louisville, KY, Aug. 1S.-The SUI
preme lodge, Knights of Pythias, to-
day took UP the election of officers.
Charles e. Shively of Richmond, Ind,
was elected supreme chancellor, sue
ceeding Tracy r. Bangs of Grand
cellorship went to Charles A. Barnes
Of Jacksonville, Ill. The election pro-
ceeded slowly, and when all officers
had been chosen, the matter of Sc
lecting the next biennial city was
taken up.
The exodus of knights which began
mildly after the parade on Tuesday,
has continued almost steadily since
st. Louis gets the majority of the
visiting members. The prize drills
were continued today in a drizzling
rain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
CENTRAL DAKOTA
WHEAT YIELDS
MACHINE RETURNS ARE BETTER
THAN EXPECTED.
the Aberdeen and Nellette Country
Local Prices for the New Crop
Range from Soc to 96c Bushel.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 1s.-Reports from
the threshing machines in the vicinity of
Aberdeen have comm enced to come in,
and are not SO discouraging as most peo-
pie had been led to believe. W. M. Nit
chell of Mellette, says several farmers
there have threshed and marketed their
wheat which ran from 10 to II bushels
an acre, one farmer getting IA bushels an
acre from his fields. They are selling it
at their local market at prices ranging
from IS to So cents. At James, in this
(Brown) county, farmers report yields OF
from to 10 bushels.
John A. Cavanaugh threshed some OF
what he considers his best wheat and it
went 10 bushels to the acre, testing 50
pounds
B. w. Cole, near the county line be-
tween Brown and Sphinx counties, thresheo
his wheat CROP obtaining a yield of l;
bushels an acre, selling his crop at 81
cents bushel.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
To Meet American Views.

It becomes more and more probable
that Russia will meet the views of
the United States and Great Britain
regarding foodstuffs as contraband Of
war by agreeing that foodstuffs bound
to belligerent's unblockaded ports
and consigned to private firms or in
dividuals, when the ships papers leave
no room for suspicion, be not regarded
as contraband. The government seems
DESTROYS Of adjusting the question Of
the flour on board the Arabia. con-
fiscated by the Vladivostok prize court,
but the decision of the court makes it
difficult to adjust it automatically,
and it is believed that the case will be
appealed to the admiralty court here.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
JAIL LIFE SAID TO Be
KILLING NAN PATTERSON
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service
New York, Aug. 1S.-Henry w. TN
ger, counsel for Nan Patterson,
charged with the murder of Caesar
Young, the bookkeeper, appeared be-
fore Judge Newburger yesterday and
moved that the Indictment against his
client be dismissed or a date set. for
trial. District Attorney Jerome op-
posed the motion on the ground that
the court calendars were too crowded.
Judge Newburger agreed with the dis
trict attorney. Mr.. Unger then asked
Judge Newburger to admit his client
to bail, but the judge said he had no
power to do that.
Miss Patterson's father declared in
court that prison life was slowly kill
ing his daughter.
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tains PERSONS nutrition by enabling one
to eat, retain, digest and assi.lilate the
proper nutritious food. It overcones the
gastric irritability and symptoms of indi-
gestion, and thus the person is saved from
those symptoms Of fever, night-sweats,
headache, etc, which are so common. A
tonic made up largely of alcohol will
shrink the corpuscles of the blood and
make them weaker for resistance.
vThis is to certify that have used Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, think it's
the grandest medicine in the world y writes Mrs
Y. NJ. Young, of Weir, w. Va. III had dyspepsia
in its worst form. I-decided to try your med
icinc. used five bottles, and now I am doing
my own houSework A number of my friends
also are using DR.. Pierce's medicine aud they
recommend it highly. May God bless you in
your grand work"
Dr. Pierce believes that tonic made with
alcohol will shrink the red blood corpuscles
and make the system weak for resistance;
that is why he avoided the use of any alco-
hol or narcotics in his Medical Discovery
which contains the pure extract from roots
and herbs without particle of alcohol.
Accept no substitute for Golden Medical
Discovery" There is nothing ajust as
good for dyspepsia or debility
Biliousness is cured by the use OF Dr.,
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
MUST GET OFF THE TICKET
NATIONAL BANK OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS CANNOT SERVE AS
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
Special to The Journal.

Milwaukee, Aug. 1S.-Three of the
national electors selected in both of
the republican state conventions of
Wisconsin probably will be obliged to
withdraw because of their connection
with national banks. The electors
affected are George Boyer, president
of the Oconto National bank; H. A.
Bright, vice president Of the National
bank at Black River Falls, and M. d.
Keith, a director of the new national
bank recently established at Crandle.
It is intinaated that the La Toilette
state central committee will hold a
meeting soon to nominate new cleo
tors. The anti-La Toilette committee,
it is said, will await the action of the
supreme court in the state ticket suit
before making any move.
Chairman Cortelyou has prepared a
letter, which he is sending to national
committeeman, calling attention to
the fact that national bank directors
cannot serve, and this also will cover
the Wisconsin case.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
UNDER EXPECTATION HERE
Redwood County Yields Below the
Ante Threshing Estimates
Special to The Journal

Special to The Journal
Redwood Falls, Mimi, Aug. 1S.-Two
weeks ago the wheat crop of Redwood
county was estimated at from II to 18
bushels Since the reports from thresh-
ing machines have commenced coming in
conservative estimate has cut the aver
age down to Is bushels OF less. Several
fields which were regarded as sure Is to
20 bushels an acre. and since threshed,
report an average yield of only from 9 to
10. Farmers, threshers, and wheat ex-
perts have never been more puzzled over
the way the wheat is turning out, and in
asmuch as Redwood county's 1904 crop
was regarded as good as any in Mime
sofa, men interested in the general crop
can now better form their opinions. Oats
and barley are turning out good yields
the former at over 60 and the latter at
about SO bushels an acre,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
NORTHERN WARD COUNTY
Call the Crop Short But Look for
Twenty-Five Bushel Yields.
snecial to The Journal

Special to The Journal
Portal, N. D., Aug. 18.-There has been
no rain for six weeks, and this is respon-
sible for the short crop. Some estimators
predict that % bushels Of wheat will be
an average yield for the northern part of
Ward county. Oats will go from 45 to
10 bushels to the acre, and fax about IA.
The corn and barley crops are light. The
few early potatoes marketed nave been Of
an excellent quality and a fair yield.
Harvesting will be general in ten days.
There is plenty of hay here on account
of the vast amount Of wild prairie land
that produces a frst-class quality Of
grass. Rust and blight, SO destructive to
all kinds of small grain thruout the north
west, have done but little damage here.
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Firing Begun Promptly.

Chi-fu, Aug. Is, 1880 p.m.-Rus-
slams and Chinese who left Port Ar
thur last night and arrived here today,
declare that Lieutenant General Stoes-
sci, in command at Port Arthur, re-
fuses to surrender to the japanese
and that the Russians began firing
again at the time set for replying to
the Japanese demand. They confirm
also previous reports that there are
seven Russian ships in Port Arthur
and torpedoboat destroyers. and aver
that the japanese have lost 10000
men before Port Arthur during the
last ten days.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
F0RESEES ANGL0.SAXON
SUPREMACY OF WORLD

Orion, Mich, Aug. 1S.--In an adj
dress before the Michigan Baptist as
sembly yesterday afternoon, Rev. r.
S. Macarthur presented an interpre-
tation of the possible Japanese vic
tory in the present crisis as indicat-
ing an Anglo-SaXon World-supremacy.
In regard to the present war he said:
IF Japan wins, it will mark the
first step toward AngloSaxon SUI
premacy of the world. Japan will
lead China, Britain will lead Japan
and America will lead Britain. The
rest of Europe will follow easily
Look at decadent Portugal, bigoted,
poverty stricken Spain, volcanic
France, Austria Hungary about to
disintegrate, and SO on. Put them all
under the rule Of two Anglo-Saxon
nations and the world will be for civ
ilization, peace and Christianity. The
yellow peril is, then, the golden op.
portunity for the world"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-18
LAST ASSAULT ON
AT PORT ARTHUR
Continued From First Page.

quence of the failure as yet to comply
with the. Japanese demand that the
Russian cruiser Askold and the tor
pedoboat destroyer Grozovoi be dis
armed or quit the port.
Commenting on the foregoing, the
Morning Post says thinks the Jap
anese are not in a mood to stand
much nonsense, and points out that
there are now eighteen foreign men
of-war at Shanghai, eight of which
are American.
IF it comes to a scrinmage," says
the Post, 'it will be the duty Of these
men-of-war to keep the peace and
force the taotai to do his duty. A gen
tie hint from the American admiral
will doubtless have a quieting effect. y