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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
NATIONAL GUARBSMEN
 ATTACKED BY REGULARS
ONE OF FORMER KILLED AND
 THREE WOUNDED.
Fight in Streets of Athens, O., Near Where State Encampment Is Being HeId-TrOubIe Growing Out of AI- legged Discrimination of State Provost Guard Against Reguiars-TOwn Un- der Martial Law.
der Martial Law.

Athens, O., Aug. 19.-Regular army soldiers, said to be members of a cav- airy troop of the First brigade at Camp Armitage, near this city, tonight at tackled members of a provost guard composed of members of Co. F, Fifth Ohio National Guard, Cleveland, and one man was killed and three wounded, all being national guardsmen. The reg ulars escaped without any casualties as fas as is known.
 The guardsnan killed was Corporal Charles Clark, whose home is at War ren, where the company is located. He was twenty-one years old and a ma chinist by occupation.
 The wounded are; Watson H. Ohl, struck on head by a rifle; Albert Heald private, shot in left leg; Sergeant Will liab Blessing, struck on left hip.
 The regulars, who used pistols, scat tered for camp and none of them have been apprehended. Fifteen minutes af- ter the shooting General Dick, in com mand of the National Guard, and the regular army officers. had declared the town under martial law and hundreds oi regulars were rushed into the city and are now patrolling the streets to prevent further trouble.
 As gathered from soldiers in camp, il seems that nearly all the provost guards sent to tawn to gather in soldiers who have overstayed their leaves, have beer national guardsmen, and the regulars became possessed of the idea that the provosts were discriminating against them in favor of the guardsmen, ar resting the former and allowing the lat, ter to go free. Regulars assembled il Athens tonight in force and the provost guard from co. D met number of then lin front of the sheriff's residence near the court house.
 The provost guards clubbed theil rifles and then they claim, the regular. commenced to shoot. They returned tn, fire and more than a hundred shots il laIl were fired. The battle ended wher lthe regulars ran for camp after ths killing.
 No further trouble is anticipated a, only regulars are now patrolling tht streets of Athens.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
STRIKE ON aLo THREATENED.
New York Men Declare French of
 Agreement.

New York, Aug 19. More than a thousand conductors and guards of the elevated railroad in Manhattan and the Bronx, which is under lease and is be- ing operated by the Interhorougn Rap i'd Transit Co, met here late to-day and Railway Employees and the offlcials of the Interborough Co. It was declared borough officials entered into an agree ment with the men whereby the ein- ployes of the elevated road were to be given the preference for positions in the subway when the latter is ready for operation Recently, they say, the company disregarded the agreement and began to consider applications for positions II the subway from men not afilated with the elevated road em- ployes.
 A committee of the association con- ferred tonight with members of the lo- cal division of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers and 1t is under stood that at the joint conference it was decided that an ultinatunf will be presented to the Rapid Transit Co. to- morrow notifying the company that un- less some indication is given that the ''L" employees will be given preference for positions in the subway, the pres ent employees of the elevated road mo tormen, guards and conductors will go out on strike in a body.
 The notormen also object to the pro- posed plan of the Interborough Go. to pay subway motormen fifty cents day l less than they receive.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
NO TRACE OF STILLMANS.
Father and Son stnI Missing-search
 for Bodies.

Westbrook, Aug. 1s.-No trace of the bodies of ". c. stilIman and Harry sdlIman, father and son. of Meriden. who are believed to have been drowned off Grove Beach by the overturning of their rowboat last night, had been found up to o'clock this afternoon when sev- eral boat crews which had been rowing Grappling irons were constantly used but the searchers did not believe that the bodies would be found in this way, if the two men were drowned. for the reason that conditions tend to indicate that the Stillman's were drowned at some place quite removed from that sec ton of the shore on which the over turned boat was found stranded.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
PHYSICIAN FALLS EASY
 VICTIM TO BUNCO GAME
DIR. HARTWELL, OF WASHING
 TON, CONN, GIVES UP $5,OOO.

Duped by Two Men One of Whom Was
 Attired in the GarB of Clergyman
 Money Given for Worthless Stock
 Strangers Disappear-Hire Carriages
 Which They Leave at Different
 Points.
 Washington, Conn, Aug. 19.-Dr. Hen " Hartwell of this place to-day made known the fact that he was the victim of bunco game as presented yesterday by two good looking and apparently re- spectacle men, one of whom was attired in the garb of clergyman. The clergy man was merely friend of the business man, but between the two they manag- ed to get an even $5,OOO out of the wealthy physician. The police of Dan bury New Milford and other places have been acquainted with the facts but in all probability the men are now in New York as they were seen to board train in Brewsters, just over the state line
 The business man and the supposed Methodist minister have been in this place for the past few days, and yester- day called upon pr. Hartwell and im- mediately started in to talk business. Tn short time Dr. Hartwell had agreed to buy S, 1000 worth of stock, which he later discovered was not worth the paper it was printed on.
 1 Dr. Hartwell went to he New Mil- ford Savings bank and withdrew the necessary collateral and gave the money to the men. After the money was turn ed over the strangers hired carriages of Liverymen Thomas McGrath and E. A. Hui and to-day both liverymen receiv- ed a letter with a Brewsters postmark tellinQg where they could find their horses and carriages Enclosed in each letter was a S10 bill Captain Bradley of the Danbury police went to the places stated by the men and recovered the carriages. One was in Mill Plain and one was in Brewsters. The Methodist lminister' left his horse with a hotel proprietor in Mill Plain saying that he did not need it any more aand that a friend would call for it. He then jump- ed into the wagon of the business man and both drove to Brewsters. where would call and take the team back to Mill Plain to-day.
 It was stated this afternoon at Brew sters that the men boarded the New York Cenral train early last evening and went in the direction of New York,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
TWELVE DELEGATES ELECTED
 TO STATE CONVENTION

All the Elections Were UnanImous--
 Not a Dissenting Voice-Four De1e-
 gates at Large Elected and Two DeIe-
 gates from Each of the Four Sena-
 torlaI Districts--The Delegation an
 UnpIedged One.
 The republican town convention to elect. delegates to the state convention was held in the republican club hall at eight o'clock last evening, and the ses- sion lasted only about twenty minutes. Theodore H. Macdonald, chairman the republican town committee, called 1 the meeting to order and then called for nominations for a chairman for the meeting. Assistant Corporation Coun- cil Jacob B. Ullman nominated A. McC. Nfathewson, and there being no other nominations, Attorney Mathewson was unanimously elected. Alfred Powell was then unanimously elected seereta- ny. After Secretary Powell had called the roll it was found that nearly all the delegates elected at the caucuses Thursday evening, were present. The actual business for which the lconvention was called was next taken up, that of electing four delegates at large and also two delegates from each l of the four senatorial districts, making twelve delegates i'll all to represent New Haven at the state convention which is to be held in Hartford September 18th and 14th.
 There was not a dissenting voice dur ing the entire convention ana every election was unanimous.
 l The delegates at large elected were Theodore Fl. Macdonald, ex-Judge lLynde Harrison, Representative Minott E. Chatffeld and Col. Chas. w. Pickett, From the Eighth senatorial district, A. McC. Mathewson and James J. Kee- lnan. From the Ninth senatorial dis Itrict, Frank J. Rice, president of the Young Mems Republican club, and TriI- Iman Sherman Foote. From the Tenth Isenatorial district, Fire Commissioner John H. Pearce and George F. Nicolari From the Eleventh senatorial district, IColonel Isaac M Ullman and Hon. Frederick A. Betts.
 After the election of the delegates the sEconvention adjourned.
 The delegation is an unpledged one Inc instruction being given them regard. ling their vote for any particular candi. date for governor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
SYMPATHETIC ACTION.
Labor Unions Have Plan to Settle Stock
 Yards Strike.

Chicago, Aug. 19. Representative of twenty-five labor unions affiliated with the Chicago Federation of Labor met lat the rooms of the federation tonight to discuss what the leaders call plan |of sympathetic action" which. it is said, will involve every labor unionist in Chicago.
 According to John J. Fitzpatrick, who presided at the meeting, action on this plan was deferred at the request Of President Donnelly of the Butchers un- ion, who was unable to be present at the meeting. MT. Fitzpatrick denied that the proposed move is in the na- tureof a general or symjathetic strike. but claimed that it is the most imports ant step yet proposed and could not fail to result in a settlement of the stockyards strike. None of the leadera would give any hint as to what tho proposed action would be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
TORNADO STRIKES ST. LOUIS
ONE MAN KILLED AND ABOUT
 FIFTY INJURED.

Damage to the Extent of $1OO,oOO
 Caused-Section of the Residence
 Portion of North st. Louis Suffers the
 HIost-Trolley Car Buried Under six
 Telegraph Poles.
 St. Louis, Mo, Aug. 19.--A tornado of small proportions but of extreme fury swept down upon the residence portion of North St. Louis to-day. resulting in the death of one person, John Ellington, injury to probably fifty and damage to property estimated at $100,0O0 Herman Sauerwine, aged ten, was, it is believed, fatally injured.
 A shower had passed over St. Louis early in the day but there had been no rain in North St. Louis. The sky had cleared and the atmosphere had become very murl1y and hot when citizens in In North St. Louis noticed a dark cloud approaching from the southwest. Suddenly, and without the slightest pre- monition, an arm seemed to shoot to the ground like gigantic cable, twisting and turning. The. end touched the ground at Nineteenth and Angelrodt streets and with incredible swiftness and force swept east along Angelrodt for ten blocks then turned north and swept three blocks along Broadway, when it jumped eight blocks northeast to the foot of Brennan street and the river, where considerable property along the river front was destroyed. The tornado then jumped to about the mid dle of the river and encountered a ferry boat, which was turned and tossed about but was not sunk. Leaving the ferry, the tornado once more jumped and struck he Illinois shore near Madi- son, where it demolished several dwell- ings, including the Leiderkranz hall and blew down a portion of the Madison cooper works, killing John Ellington Severe damage was done also to build. ings in Venice and Granite City, which adjoins Madison, and a number of per sons were injured.
 So quickly did the tornado sweep through North St. Louis that the citi- zens could scarcely comprehend what had happened and in the stiffness that followed the wind cries were heard or all sides, as terror-stricken persons rar about the streets. Not a telegraph, tele- phone or trolley pole was left sanding along the streets swep by the storm. A Broadway trolley car containing eleven passengers was suddenly buried under six telegraph poles, which crash ed into the top and wrecked the car The passengers had remarkable escape from injury and only the motorman re- ceived slight bruises.
 l The roof and one-half of the top story | Of Sommers Bros tailoring manufac' turing establishment were blown away Probably the heaviest loss suffered by g single concern was at the Niedringhaus rolling mill. The plant covers two
 squares in extent. The big smokestacl
 was blown down and half the plant was
 demolished entailing estimated damages of $25, ,0oO Six employees were injured ir this plant. a l Not the slightest damage was done al | the Worlds Fair grounds. The exposi- I tion is situated over five miles from th' seat of the toornado and the wind was not felt there. "a. 7.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
[EAYY FIGHTING STILL
 RACES AT PORT ARTHUR
JAPANESE WITHIN STRIKING
 DISTANCE OF LIAoTI FORTS.

ussians Making Their Final Stand
 Report, However, That They Have
 Recapturcd Important Position-Anx- iety in st. Petersburg Now Aeute-
 Instructions if Fort Falls to Wreck warships Beyond Repair.
 Chefoo, Aug. 1s.-9 a. m.-Chinese < ho embarked from Liaoti promontory Ii o'clock yesterday morning report lecontinuanceofheavy fighting. They
 " the Japanese have occupied Pigeon
 Ry and are within striking distance & the Liaoti forts. which, however, are aflI occupied by the Russians.
 According to the Chinese the Rus ans at Port Arthur are making their Enal stand.
 ] Noon. Chinese who have arrived here &om Port Arthur declare that the Jap 4nese position at Palung Chang from H Hhich they poured a heavy fire into Fort Arthur and the inner forts has , een retaken. the Japanese retiring to zhushiyen.
 E The German authorities at Tsingtau save sent a guard of 100 men to point fifteen miles east of that place for the &urpose of frustrating an expected at &npt on the part of the Japanese to Feet a wireless telegraph station.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
PLANS FOR NEW CHALLENGER.
.Iipton visiting Clyde--To Peg Away
 Along old Lines.

London, Aug. 20.-Sir Thomas Lipton is paying a visit to the Clyde for the purpose, it is believed, of arranging for the design and construction of fourth Shamrock. In a published interview Sir Thomas said that the yacht design CTS seemed to think that the change in the rules of measurement made in New York would give a British boat bet ter chance of lifting the cup, but his own preference winmld be to keep peg ging away on the former lines.
 Tt seems to me- said Sir Thomas, ''that victory scored under exactly the same conditions that governed pre- vious defeats, would be more satisfying than it is to win under new rules, es- pecially alterations of our own sugges- tion. It is matter, however, for which those are responsible who design and sail the boat"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
VIOLATED U. $. LAWs.
Italian Arrested in TOrrlngton Brought
 to This City.


 Torrington. Aug. 19.-Frederick Mac seta was arrested here this morning and taken to New Haven by Deputy United States Marshal William L. Parmelee of Ansonia. Macseta is charged with sell ing cigars upon the boxes of which no revenue stamp had been affixed. A week ago the police raided the place for violation of the license laws and dis covered the cigars. It is said that the cigars were purchased from Bridge port firm and other prosecutions may follow. Macseta paid a fine of s69O2 in the local borough court for keeping in- toxicants with intent to sell. Deputy Collector Margraff of Waterbury was present when the arrest was made.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
ROOT WON'T HAVE TT.
Makes It Plain He Will Not Accept the
 Nomination.

Nominations
 New York, Aug. 19. Elihu Root has made it so plain to republican leaders. both national and state. that he will not accept the republican nomination for governor of New York. that those who are in a position to know are com 'fident that he will not be named for the place. President Roosevelt who at one time entertained hopes that Root would head the state ticket, knows the posi- tion of his former secretary of war, and his closest friends have ceased to be- lieve that MT. Root will be the nominee.
 There was a conference between Chairman Cortelyou of the republican national committee and Chairman Odell oe the state committee to-day, but only the bare statement was ob- tained that general conditions in New York were discussed, although there was surmise that Mir. Roots posi- tion was one of the topics under dis cussion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
Hunting Russian Destroyers.

Chefoo, Aug. 2O.-The steamer Pechili which has just arrived here reports that she met the seven Japanese ter pedo boat destroyers which entered the harbor of Chefoo yesterday, The Jap anese informed the captain of the Pe- chili that they were seeking Russian destroyers and torpedo boats which had escaped from Port Arthur. Heavy firing was heard by the Pechili all last night. The Japanese said that a gen. eral attack along their line at Port Arthur had been planned to occur to- -day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
western Golf Championship.

Chicago, Aug. 19.-After two rounds
 Df match play in the western golf Championship to-day, H. c. Egan, of the Exmoor club, and D. E. Sawyer, of the Wheaton Golf club, are the survi- yors in to-morrow's thirty-six hole
 finals for the title once held by Chan sller Egan and lost in this tourney by his cousin, w. E. Egan. Not since the national championship at Glenview in 1902 has there been such golf or such weather conditions Every match to- day was played in a cold, driving rain
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
RATHBoNE SISTERS ELECT.
Lydia A. Moore Elected National Sue
 preme Chief.

Louisville, Ky, Aug. 19.-The Rath- bone Sisters to-day elected the following officers: Lydia A. Monroe, Riverside Cal, supreme chief: Anna M. Young, Evansville, O., suprme senior; Nellie E. Merriam, Muskogee, I. T., supreme jun for; Mrs. J. T. Cotton, Texas, supreme manager; M. Josie Nelson, Union City
 Ind, mistress of records and core spondence; Mrs. Ocea Bassford, Lancas- ter, Wis, supreme mistress of finance; Mrs. Clara L. Sawyer, Montono, SUI preme protectress; Mrs. Sarah Bereher
 Connecticut, supreme guard.
 The committee appointed to confei with the Pythian sisterhood announced that owing to legal difficulties amalga.
 bation of the two orders was not feas. ible under existing conditions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
WHITE DOES NOT WANT IT.
Former Ambassador Would Not Run for
 New York Goyernorship.

New York GOvernorship.
 Ithaca, N. Y, Aug. 19.-Former Am- bassador Andrew D. White was inter viewed to-day concerning the report that he had been approached as can
 didate for governor of New York on the republican ticket. He dictated the fol- lowing denial:
 ,'Dr. Andrew D. White, having been ! interviewed this morning regarding the report in the papers connecting his
 name with the candidacy for the gov- Iernorship os this state. said that there lis nothing whatever in the report, and
 that it is, in his opinion, entirely de- lyoid of foundation. E
 "He has never of late years been ap- preached on the subject by any person, but is he were he should simply state that he is entirely and finally out of all political life, save as simple citizen
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
ANXIETY NOV ACUTE.
<. Petersburg Worried over the Heavy |Fighting--Plan to Destroy warships.

. Petersburg Worried Over the Heavy
 Fighting-PIan to Destroy Warships. H St. Petersburg, Aug. 20-2:10 a. m.-
 cute anxiety prevails regarding the
 tuation at Port Arthur on account of <le desperate character of the fighting Exported as taking place there though zzhe war office does not seem to believe $lat the danger of the fall of the fort ssess is so imminent as is generally as- &erted. According to advices received Fly the war office, there is still an ample #lpply of ammunition and provisions #here. While it is realized that the Jap- #nese probably outnumber the defend-
 Is six or seven-fold, the great strength @ the Notifications, it is believed, will No much to make up for the disparity in Plumbers.
 # Upon one point there is absolute una simity here namely, that if the fortress Falls the fleet will not fall into the hands
 the Japanese. On this point the ad-
 liralty's instructions are of the most
 imperative character Vice Admiral
 erince Ouktomsky has been ordered,
 hould the worst come, to sally forth for
 death struggle and there is no ques-
 lon here that these instructions will be
 arried out both in letter and spirit;
 ut if for any reason a final sortie prov
 d to be impossible the admiral Is to
 estroy his ships and to make certain
 nat their Wreckage shall be absolutely
 'reparable.
 In the meantime Vice Admiral Rojest- 4ensky's Baltic squadron, including the
 lew battleship Orel, is standing of Fronstadt with steam up. It is popu- Rrly expected that the squadron will iail at any hour and it is quite true that NJ is ready for almost immediate depart
 re, but regarding the question of sail Ing there is difference of opinion
 mong the naval authorities.
 $ It is held on the one hand that the &nmediate sailing of the squadron
 yould be the best policy, on the theory
 hat should it arrive within two months would find Vice Admiral Togo's fleet @ an infinitely worse condition than if #1e Japanese were allowed the whole Rihter to repair and refit the ships. q The advocates of an immediate sail- Ing hold that the port of Vladivostok is
 of receiving the squadron, even #hould entrance to Port Arthur prove &b be impracticable, letting the Baltic &fessel meet the Japanese in their pres &Int weakened condition, without rely Eng for any certain assistance either on *Tice Admiral Ouktomsky or Vice Ad- &niral Skrydloff
 l Other officials hold that it would be $lnWise to risk sending the Baltic #lquadron to the far east until the situ- gtion at Port Arthur has been cleared slp, and until it is known what condi- lions the squadron would be likely to ! dnd on it's arrival.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-20
2.94 class. Trotting; Purs,
New Jerseys Big Beaeas.

Washington, Aug. 19.-By decision Of Comptroller Tracewell. the state of New Jersey will be a beneficiary to the extent of $7O2.25O. It was shown that the state expended that amount for in- terest on bonds issued by the state in aid Of the United States government during the Civil war It was decided by the auditor having charge of the claim that the amount due was $479,- SSS. Comptroller Tracewell in revising the claim added S222, AIS.