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The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
EQUAL RIGHTS IN TURKEY
The Porte Finally Comes to Terms
After Long Debate.
The Appearance of Our Fleet at Smyrna
Has Its Expected Effect and VIII
Now Sail For Gibraltar.

Constantinople, Turkey.-After pro-
longed pourparlers and considerable
haggling on the part of the Turks, a
satisfactory solution of the American
school question has been arrived at.
This matter, which is the most import
ant of the American demands, was set
tied by extending to American schools
the same treatment as that accorded to
schools under the protection OF otner
powers. A settlement OF other matters
affecting American interests in TuI-
key, of secondary Importance, has also
been effected, and Minister Leishmal1
has t~elegraphed to Rear-Admiral jew
ell, in command of the United States
squadron sent to Smyrna, instructlng
him to salute the batteries on land and.
depart.
The sitting of the Council of Minis
tiers, at which the settlement was,
agreed on, was a long one, and it was
not until neal it's close that an agree
ment was reached. The delay in the
settlement is believed to have been
caused by the intervention of the pal
ace f~unctionaries, whose policy, in or
der to retain the Sultan's favor, con-
sists in combating the rights and priv
ileges of foreign subjects.
Washington, d. C.-The United
States war vessels now at Smyrna I'M
der command of Rear-Admiral Jewell
are the Cleveland, the Olympia and the
Baltimore. They will leave Smyrna
and will sail for Gibraltar. The ships
comprise what is known as the Amer
lean European Squadron and will con-
tinue their cruise in European waters
for some time.
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TOGO ROUTS RUSS|ANFLEET
Port Arthur Ships Emerge From
Harbor and Engage laps.
BATTLESHlP REPORTED SUNK

After a Long Running Fight the Cars
Vessels Put in at Different Ports
Some Return to Port Arthur-Mika-
dos Armament Suffers Little Damage
Report of Admiral Togo.
Toxic, Japan.-The Navy Department
issued a brief statement of the engage
ment with the Russian Port Arthur
squadron. The statement follows:
According to reports received to date
the enemy's fleet which emerged frsm
Port Arthur was attacked by our feet
south of Yen Tao Tin the Elliot group,
ITO miles northeast of Port Arthur. in
the Korean Gulf.
1.-THE Russian fleet fed during the
night. The cruisers Askold, Novik and
another cruiser, with one torpedo boat
destroyer, ran into Kiao-Chow Bay on
the evening OF August II. One torpedo
destroyer went to Che-Foo, and three
OF the enemy's battleships. n cruiser.
probably the Diana, one hospital ship,
two %gunboats and several torpedo boat
d~estroyers seem to have separately re-
turned to Port Arthur between dawn
and noon of August II.
"Our fleet appears to have sustained
no damage"
Admiral Togo has reported as fol-
lows:
"On August 10 our combined fleet at
tackled the enemy's fleet neal Gugan
Rock. The Russian vessels were
emerging from Port Arthur, trying to
go south. We pursued the enemy to
the eastward. Severe fighting lasted
from l o'clock in the afternoon until
shutdown.
Toward the close the enemy's fire
weakened remarkably. His formation
became confused, and then his ships
scattered. The Russian cruisers AS
kold and Novik and several torpedo
boat destroyers fed to the southwark.
Other of the enemy's ships retreated
separately toward Port Arthur. We
pursued them, and it appears that we
inflicted considerable damage. We
found life buoys and other articles be-
longing to the Russian battleship
C~Zarevitch floating at sea. The Care
witch probably was sunk.
I'VE have received no reports from
the torpedo boats and the torpedo boat
destroyers which were engaged in the
attack on the ships OF the enemy. The
Russian vessels, with the exception of
the Askold, the Novik, the C%zarevitch,
and the cruiser Pallada appear to have
returned to Port Arthur. Our damage
was slight. Our fighting power has net
been impaired"
The casualties in the Japanese Navy
are reported to have numbered ITO.
1t is anticipated that the Japanese
Government will Immediately make
representations to Germany concerning
the Russian warships which have
taken refuge at Tsinchou.
These are anxious hours in Toxic,
but the people are confident that Ad-
miral Togo has inflicted serious dam
age upon the Russian fleet. Accurate
information is awaited anxiously by all
classes, but it is believed that this dis
persal of the Russian wsrships will
further weaken the naval power of
Russia in the Orient.
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JAPAN AGAIN WINS At SEA
Kamimura Meets Vladivostok Fleet
in Korean Strait.
RUSSIAN CRUISER RURlK lSSUNK

The Cars Squadron Then F1ees in the
Direction of vladivostok Seven Hun
dred Miles ~Away-Two Other Ships
Badly Damaged-The Jap Loss is Re-
ported to Be slight.
Toxic, Japan. In a battle lasting
from 6 O'clock in the morning until 1
O'clock the next afternoon the Russian
~.yladivostok squadron practically was
destroyed by Vice-Admiral Kamimu-
ra's fleet. The fact that nothing was
heard from the warships since 8 o'clock
the following afternoon led to the be-
lief that the Japanese squadron was
pursuing the two cruisers which es-
capped, and that the warships were too
far west in the Sea of Japan to commu-
nicate definitely by wireless with any
of the home stations.
1t is definitely known that the Rus
sian cruiser Rurik was sunk in the sea
fight, and that the Rossia and Gromo-
boi fled northwest, after receiving Sc
rious damage. The first bulletin of the
fight came to Toxic at Z O'clock in the
morning from the protected cruiser Ia
kachihO, which announced that the
Russians had been sighted west of Tsu
Island, at the entrance to the Sea of
Japan. and that Kamimura's squadron
was about to engage them. This tele-
gram was received at the TakeShiki
naval station, and was relayed to To
kiO. An hour later another wireless
telegram announced that the sea fight
had begun. At IL o'clock the Admir-
atty was informed that great loss had
been inflicted on the enemy, and at
noon a dispatch came. announcing that
the Rurik had been sunk just north of
Tsu Island. At 1 o'clock came a bulle-
tin from the Japanese fleet conveying
the news that the Rossia and Gromo-
b9i, badly damaged, were in fight tow
ward V~ladivostok. The final message
was the following from Kamimura at 3
O'clock:
1--WE sighted three Russian cruisers
at $40 a. m. in the Straits of Korea,
and at 6 o'clock engaged them. w
found the Russian vessels were the Ru-
rik, Gromeboi and Rossia. After five
hours of severe fighting the Rurik was
sunk north of Tsu Island. rhe other
two ships, which suffered heavily, are
fleeing northward. Our damages were
slight"
Kamimura's victory undoubtedly de-
stroys the remaining sea power of the
Russians in the Pacific, and now makes
certain q sea attack with little delay
on Vladivostok. 1t is we'll known here
that the guns in the forts at VladivoS-
tok are of old pattern, and not at all
dangerous to ba~ttleships. The Russian
torpedo boat lotilla in the V~ladivostok
harbor is of little value, and previous
to an attack a blockade will be at once
established. 1t is certain that no neu-
trail ships will now enter the harbor,
and the Russian population will have
to obtain its supplies by rail from Rus
sian territory.
There was a great celebration in the
streets of Toxic at night in honor of
Admiral Togo and Admiral Kamimura.
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NEW GARB FORPRlSONERS
New York State Introduces New
Regulation For Convicts
Serving Their First Term in state
Prisons Will No Longer Wear Stripes
Follows Other Reform Measures.

Albany, N. Y.-Following the abo-
lition of the lockstep and the cropped
head in the New York State prisons
has come the doing away with the
stripes on convicts' clothing, and three
thousand suits minus the stripes are
being made. On October 1 all "a"
grade convicts in the three State pris-
ons, those who are serving their first
term, will put on the new dress. The
clothing for each prison is being made
up in it's own shops. The cloth was
woven at Auburn, n. Y, and is of
the same texture and dark gray color
as that now in use, except that the
stripes are missing. 1t costs eighty
cents a yard, and q suit made up costs
$4.02, exclusive of labor OF shop ex-
penses. twenty-five hundred suits
will be required to clothe the "A"
grade men, and five hundred addition
al suits from which to select sizes will
be prepared at first.
The suits are cut i'll q smart semi
military style, with high standing COL
hr, showing a white linen shirt col
lar beneath, and the coats are always
to be worn buttoned. The cap of the
same material is patterned after the
French military KEPT. The same ma
terial in lighter fabric is provided for
summer wear.
The "B" and "C'' grade men, those
having previous convictions, of whom
there are about fifteen hundred, and
the "in~corrigibles," supplied from all
grades and numbering only about a
dozen, will be retained in their present
zebralike dress.
The abolition of stripes is Superin-
tendent Collins latest important amel-
ioration in prison affairs. It has been
adopted because the previous meas
ures have had the most salutary effect
upon discipline. Since the abolition
of the lockstep and cropped head pun
ishments in all prisons have fallen off
forty per cent, and in Sing Sing
prison forty-seven per cent.
The Prison Superintendent of Indus
tries, John P. Powers, an ardent sup
porter of ameliorative reform, reports
that he is obtaining a cheerful days
work, and a vastly improved product,
and that the character of the inmates,
as shown by their behavior, is visi-
bly, improved.
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Steamship Sold to Russian.

The North German-Lloyd steamer
Lain has been sold to a private Rus
sian firm.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19

The birth, so greatly wished for, oc-
CURED, net in the great palace at Pet
erhof, but in the Alexandra villa, n
of a group Of four small palaces in a
secluded corner of the Peterhof Park.
In one of these buildings the Empress
had been living for weeks. The othel
three are occupied by members of the
imperial family, including the EN-
press mother, the Cars two sisters,
the Grand Duchesses Xenia and C'ga:
his brother, Grand Duke Michael, and
other relatives.
The event was attended with all the
ceremonial ordained by imperial ira
dition. In accordance with the Rus
sian law there were present, besides
the Emperor, Baron Fredericks, the
master of the ceremonies, and Prince
Dolgoruky, the grand marshal of the
court. Dr.. Rott, the Emperor's family
physician, and DR.. Hiruch, the sur
geon, were in attendance.
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American Consulate Robbed.
The American Consulate in Paris,
France, was robbed by burglars.
Sporting Brevities.

George e. Smith, "Pittsburg Phil"
has been reinstated by the stewards of
the Jockey Club.
Fire troubles and broken springs de-
layed many of the automobiles in the
tour to st. Louis.
Myopia won the polo championship
by defeating Bryn Mawr in the final
game Of the tournament for the Astor
Cup.
Holcombe Ward beat Beals G.
Wright three sets to one in the final of
the lawn tennis singles at Longwood,
Mass.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has purchased
the high speed steam yacht Adroit.
Ravenswood Boat Club members won
the lions share of the prizes at the
Long Island regatta.
The Philadelphia National League
Club has purchased the release of Sec
ond Baseman Donahue from the st.
Louis Club.
The American yacht Ingomar won
another prize at the Cowes regatta. de-
feating six yachts, including Emperor
Williams Meteor.
James E. Keene's Delhi won the
Great Republic Stakes of $4,000. and
the same owners Sysonby won the
Saratoga Special at Saratoga.
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The National Game.

The Utica Club has released Pitcher
Harvey Bailey.
Says the veteran Tim Murnane: st
takes brains to play baseball, but lone
to nag an umpire"
The -ight-handed pitche- in the
American League are having all the
best of their left-hanGed brethren.
The stars of the college baseball
world have practically all been cleaned
by the professional reapef. Lynch and
Clarkson, the greatest pitchers. have
been captured by Pittsburg and New
York.
First Baseman Massey has been re-
leased by Toronto.
The Memphis Club has traded Out.
fielder Cannon to Birmingham for Out
fielder Lynch.
Let it be said in all fairness that
there is no manager in the profession
who is getting so much out of his ma
terial as Manager McGraw, of the New
York Nationals.
Matty Mcintyre is developing into
one of the most valuable players in the
American League. He can bunt as
well As hit it out, can run bases like a
house afre, and is second to no out
felder.
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Worlds Fair JOttings.

Nearly 100000 are offered in prizes
in the live stock competition.
An old rocking chair, which was
used for many years by Daniel Web
ster, is on exhibit in the Vermont
Building.
Two caribou, or water buffalo. are
exhibited in the Visayan village. on the
Philippine Reservation. In the islands
they are used as beasts of burden.
The United States Government has
the most complete and comprehensive
weed exhibit at st. Louis ever at
tempted at a worlds fair.
A feature of the musical program
are the 'massed band concerts.
A gold brick pyramid seven feet
high and three by six feet square ut
the base, has been installed in the
Alaskan building, as an exhibit.
A six-foot model of the private car
used by King Edward VII. of England
is a part of the Northwestern Railroad
exhibit in the Palace of Transporta-
ton.
Tho New Zealand exhibit in the Pal
ace of Forestry. Fish and Game in
cludes many features of interest to
Americans and daily attracts large
crowds of Visitors.
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News of the ToiJere

Danville, ILL.,, carpenters have Sc
cured a new working agreement.
Railroad Tel~egraphers' Union has
lately initiated 1877 new members.
Present indications seem to point to
the employment of the Southern negro
on the Panama Canal work.
The union label will now appear on
all advertising issued by the Buffalo.
N. Y, office of the Grand Trunk.
Carriage and wagon workers at To.
ronto. Canada, have decided TO ask
their employers for a nine-hour work
day.
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany has renewed it's agreement with
the union machinists of the entire sys-
TEN.
At a meeting held in Dusseldorf. the
Union of German Iron and Steel Max
ers resolved to form an employers
union.
Team drivers affiliated with the In
ternational Brotherhood of Transfers
in Massachusetts have formed q dis.
trict or State Council.
A committee has been appointed Inv
the National Civic Federation to draft
a plan of joint agreement between
unions and employers.
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HIS DEATH SAVES OTHERS.
Engineer Stays by Throttle and Keeps
Cars on Track.

Elizabeth, n. thames Petit, engi-
neer of a construction train on the
South Shore branch Of the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey, lost his life, but
in doing so saved 200 others from in
jury and perhaps death. The accident
occurred four miles from here.
The South Shore line is a single
track affair and is used chiefly for
transporting laborers and material
from the main line in this city to the
shops at Carteret. The roadbed is of
recent construction, and is supported
by piles driven in the soft marshes.
The train, which consisted of an en-
CINE and three coaches filled with
employees, was making the last trip to
this city when the accident occurred.
Engineer Petit saw the rails spread
some twenty feet ahead of his engine
and applied the brakes. The train was
moving slowly at the time. AS a result
of the engineers faithfulness the three
coaches remained on the tracks, but
the engine bumped along the ties, and
finally rolled over the embankment.
Petit went with it, and he was
crushed under the engine in the marsh.
Fred Mooney, the fireman, escaped
death by jumping. He was painfully
injured, however.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
NeWsy Gleanings.

A conductor who found $500 in his
car at Coney Island, Long Island, was
given twenty-five cents reward by an
old lady.
Joseph Pike, o. New York City. fell
from the fifth floor to the pavement.
breaking every clothes line and escap-
ing the slightest injury.
The Servian Government is having
the Servian coin restamped at the
Vienna mint with the head of King
Peter instead Of that Of King Alexan-
der.
Leading citizens Of Long Branch.
New Jersey, are endeavoring to revive
the faded glories of that erstwhile
fashionable summer resort.
The Automobile Club of America is
preparing to oppose the order of the
ferry companies prohibiting the carry
ing of machines with power on.
The mint at San Francisco. Cal. has.
since January l, received 1885. S66
Japanese yen and recoined them into
$~3S.912.923 for use in the Philippines.
The first electric railway in Peru.
from Lima eight miles to the Pacific
Coast, and another contemplated from
Lima ten miles to the seaport, CalIao.
will have American cara and dynamos.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19

Carrying out a request made on his
death bed by John Lequex, of Hawk
Run, Pa, his relatives engaged a band
to accompany the funeral procession.
Another feature Of the strange re-
quest was that lively airs should be
played. Consequently, when the band
started to play Nearer, My God, to
Thee" jeans brother stopped the
music and ordered it to play a secular
air, and "Bedelia" was one Of the airs
used for his requiem. 1t was an odd
mixture Of grave and gay.-Albany
Journal.
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JUST A"MAelNARY PIC ruRE."
Grandson Put John D. Rockefeller in
Retail Business,

Retail Business.
John D. Rockefeller has 4 little
grandson something over half a doz-
en- years of age of whom he is very
fond. One day recently this young.
ster while visiting at the Rockefeller
country home at Pocantico Hills, New
York, mounted his grandparents knee
and said:
Grandpa, here's a picture of yoN
that l drawed."
"Ah, yes" replied Mr.. Rockefeller,
as he examined it. VERY interesting.
What am I doing?"
Coming home from the village
store"
Eyes, yes; l see. But what's that !
have in my hand?"
That's a gallon oil can. You've
just got it filed with kerosene and
are fetching it home for the lamps,
OF course" the artist continued in
patronizingly explanatory tones, cts
a imaginary picture. '1ain't drawed
from seeing you do it. you know. ]
fought it all up in my own head
New York Times.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19

Mosquitoes are killing cattle on the Gulf
coast.
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Some Sane Advice.

Young men and women, read the
Bible as you would your Shakespeare"
exclaimed DR.. Oliver J. Thatcher to
his class Of juniors of the University Of
Chicago a day or two ago. He ex-
planned that he was not then speaking
from a religious standpoint, and that,
as he knew, it is a lementable fact
that most students do not know any,
thing about the history of the litera-
ture of the Bible. "They shun it and
do not give it fair consideration" he
added.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
Princess Has MANY eodfathers.

Probably no person in the world had
as many godfathers as did Princess
Irene of Prussia, wife of Prince Hen
ry. When she was born her father re.
uuested the members of the Hessian
regiments forming a portion of his
cavalry brigade to be sponsors for the
baby. When she was christened
about 1000 soldiers stood for her as
crnncnrS
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Typical American Mother.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is famous
for her devotion to her three lovely
children. She walks and drives with
them, superintends the making Of
their clothes, plays and romps with
them and has a goodnight chat with
them before they go to sleep each eve
ming.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
BIG AEROLITE L
1t Makes a Great Light and Shakes
Buildings Twenty Miles Away.

Meadville, PA large aerolite, NOV.
ing in a %northerly direction, struck the
earth somewhere near Concord Station,
t~hirty-five miles east of this city, on
the line of the Erie Railway.
A terrific explosion accompanied the
contact with the earth, followed by a
high wind lasting fifteen seconds.
Erie trainmen from Salamanca to
Union City, eighty miles, saw the great
light, which lasted from five to ten Sec
onds. The explosion shook buildings
in Titusville, twenty miles away.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
NEW HAVEN STRIKERS WIN.
The Long Strike is Ended by Mutual
Agreement.

The Long Strike is Ended by Mutual
Agreement.
New Haven, Conn.-The long strike
of the locomotive boilermakers of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad has been ended by mutual
concessions. It is estimated that the
strike has cost the company at least
$4,000 for steamboats, here and at
Boston to house the non-union men
and for guards.
Unoficially it is learned that the
men will get an increase of from one
and a half to two cents an hour accord
ing to grade, a nine hour day and over
time at the rate of half extra wages,
also actual expenses when sent out of
town.
The non-union men have left town
and the steamboats, will be put in ser
vice.
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Clergyman Dies From Fall.

Falling from the second-story win.
dow of his house, the Rev. Michael
Healey, e~ighty-one years old, sustained
a fractured skull, from which he died,
at Youngstown, Ohio.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
WORLDS FAIR FLYER WRECKED
Defective Rail in Texarkana, Ark,
Costs Lives of Three Men.

0CIcCtIVG hdII III ItAdTAdHd, NIX,
Costs Lives of Three Men.
Texarkana, Ark.-A Cotton Belt pas
senger train, known as the Worlds
Fair Flyer, south-bound, was wrecked
as it was entering the local yards here.
The locomotive raj upon a defective
rail or into an open switch.
Bob White, the engineer, was buried
under the w%reckage and died two
hours later. James Vauch, tho fire.
man, was terribly burned and bruised,
and is not expected to live. A negro
employe of the road who was ill and
on his way to the company's hospital
in Tyler, was badly crushed, and has
since died.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
-Four Burned in Home

Locked in their home during the alb.
sence of their parents, four children
of Charles Pitts, colored, were burned
to death, neal Decatur, Ga.
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Had to Kill Oldest Cat.

The reputed Oldest cat in the world
was killed by its owner, Belford Bon.
ham, of Shiloh, N. J. The cat was
twenty-five years and three months
old. He fell i'll with a cancer of the
nose. however, and had to be put to
death.
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&Rs4Mmqgkrts
Wholesale Prices Quoted in New York
MILK.

The Milk Exchange price for standard
quality is 2Ac. per quart.
RYITrrn
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Governess Commits Suicide

Miss Ethel K. Pardoe, governess in
the household of Thomas A. Edison,
the inventor, worried wei letter threat
ening the abduction of her charges.
killed herself.
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William Brown, alias the Prince OF
Modena, from whom the Countess of
Russell lately secured a divorce, is
making brOoms in the Toronto prison,
to which he was committed last Janu-
airy for defrauding ? hotel keeper.
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MRS. MAVERICK SAILS.
Coming Here on the Vaderland Under
tha Mama of Poca Tnorom

coming Here on the Vaderland Under
the Name of Rose Ingram.
London, England-The Chronicle says
that Mrs. Florence Maybrick left
Rouen and was met in Paris by Percy
Barnard, stepson of DR.. Densmore. of
New York. They then went to Ant
werp.
There S. V. Hayden, a Washington
lawyer, met Mrs. Maybrick. He and
his wife and Mrs. Maybrick embarked
on the steamer Vaderland for New
York, Mrs. Maybrick travelling under
the name of Rose Ingram. Baroness
de Roques, Mrs. Maybrick's mother,
will follow later.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
The Work of Asfronn,ners.

Astronomers are not usually classed
among Woodworking men, yet they
often have to perform tasks requiring
the severest toll and perseverance,
such as observing a plane. or comet for
weeks. registering stars all night, max
ing observations in the most incon-
venient attitudes, perhaps lying fat
on the floor in an ice-cold atmosphere.