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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
ANOTHER BATTLE IN
 NEW YORK CHINATOWN
FEUD BETWEEN SECRET SOCIE- TIES BREAKS OUT ANEW IN
 DOYER STREET.

Affair Planned With Oriental Strategy
 and So as to Attract the Police and
 Others from Real Scene of Shooting
 Four Men ShOt-TWO Seriously but
 Not FataIIy-Five Placed Under Ar
 rest-SeveraI Hang Outside Windows
 te Avoid Being Discovered by Police
 New York, Aug. 20.-Another battle
 of warning Chinese secret societies was
 fought in Chinatown tonight. AS a re- suit two men were taken to hospital in a serious but not fatal condition with
 bullet wounds, two more were seriously wounded and five others were locked up till the police nave had time to try straighten out the many tangled ver-
 sions of the affair, The police are in-
 clined to think that the victims are members of the On Leong Tong, who were said to have appeared against the members of the Hip Song Tong society, to which the recent Chinatown theateI murders have been attributed.
 With Oriental strategy the affair to- night was planned to attract the police and others who might be curious away from the scene of the shooting. A few minutes after o'clock several shots were fired, seemingly from a roof on Doyers street. The Chinese quarter was Immediately in an uproar. The police arrived a minute or so later and found the narrow street packed. The | detectives and uniformed men had about reached the doorway of the Do yers street house, when from Pell street came the noise of heavy calibre pistol shots so fast and furious that the sound might have come from a machine gun Making for Pell street, the police soon located the trouble at a house said t be the headquarters of the On Leons TongThere were more than two hun dred Chinamen chattering about the shooting. The police in a little room in the rear of the third floor found tlt victims of the shooting lying in pools of blood. Two were trying to stanct the blood, while half a dozen Chinamer were trying to hide under the chairs and several were hanging out of the window in danger of dropping out O
 the window into Bayard street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
MAYOR DUNNE ARRESTED
CHICAGO,S EXECUTIVE CHARGED
 WITH SPEEDING AUTO.

Stopped by Policeman in the Suburbs
 of Evanston-TaISen With Companion
 and Chauffeur to Police Station
 Latter Pays s1O Fine on Advice of the
 Mayor.
 Chicago, Aug. 2O.-Mayor Edward F. Dunne, of Chicago, was arrested this afternoon in the suburbs of Evanston for violation of the ordinance regulat- ing the speed of automobiles,
 The mayor, in company with John Boylston, was riding through Evanston, when he was stopped by a policeman, who accused the chauffeur of going too fast. All three occupants of the auto mobile were taken to the Evanston po- lice station. The mayor remained out side of the station in the auto, while the other two appeared before the jus tice.
 T don't know anything about the speed of these things,' said the mayor, but don't think we were going very fast. However, we may have been, an6 I guess we will have to pay out fine like anybody else"
 Sykes, the chauffeur, was unable to decide whether he should pay the fine of $10 which was placed against him by the justice, and came out to consult the mayor about it.
 "Go ahead and pay the fine" advised the mayor. It was paid, and the ma chine moved away after Mayor Dunne had solicitously inquired concerning the speed limit in his own city, saying that he did not desire to be arrested again.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
BRIGHTER OUTLOOK IN
 FEVER STRICKEN CITY
BELIEF THAT END OF VISTA TION IS APPROACHING.

For Several Days the Number of New
 Cases Has shown Decline While the
 Number of Deaths Have Been Re-
 nlarkabIy Low-NO Reason for Alarm
 .-Frorty-nve New Cases and Four
 Deaths Yesterday.
 New Orleans, Aug. 2o.-Following is the official report of the situation to 6 p. m. Sunday:
 New cases, 45; deaths to-day, 4; total deaths, 1s6; new foci, II; total foci, sO6; remaining under treatment, SS1.
 For several days the number of new cases has shown 8 decline, while the number of deaths has been remarkably lower, considering the number of cases reported a week ago. The death list indicates that practically every case that develops is now being reported. < When that condition is assured the end of visitation is in sight, and it looks as if that condition is approaching. Comparison of the visitation of 1878 with the present one shows there is 4tlo reason for, alarm in the present ir- stance While the Marine hospital surgeons are indulging in no comments they are much more hopeful than they were two weeks ago, when they took hold of the situation.
 Of the four deaths, one was in the Charity hospital, one in the Emergency hospital and the other down town.
 The infection on Riverside plantation in St. Mary parish has spread among the Italians until there have been sixty one cases all told to date. There have been IS new cases since the last report four days ago. A strict quarantine has been put on the Bayou To Fourche set clement and several refugees coming up the Bayou in Luggers have been turned back. Three Of the six of the cases there died Thursday.
 Dr. Gustane, the health officer at Kenner, reports new cases at Hanson City in Jefferson parish making IA all told in that settlement. One new case developed at Sharpy plantation. Patterson reports ten cases and one 1 death. The death is that of nurse who was sent there by the state board of health on the first appeal for help.
 Surgeon Wasden reports new cases at Mississippi City with only cases under treatment.
 Surgeon Guiteras, who went to Rayne to investigate the second case reported from there to-day that it was not yellow fever. Surgeon White went to Mobile to-day to have conference with the Alabama state health authori- | ties.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
WORLDS OLDEST LEGISLATOR.
Hon. David warIx of Fredericton, N. B., Dead. Aged 1O1 Years.

Fredericton, N. B., Aug. 2o.-Hon. David WarI, the oldest legislator in the world, died at his home in this city to- day. Mir. Wark was a member of the Canada senate. at Ottawa, a life office. His age was 101 years six months.
 Senator Wark did not attend the ses- sion of the senate. which closed last month. During the past six weeks his wonderful constitution had shown in dications of yielding to nature s laws, and although his mind continued clear, he gradually lost strength. Last week he was obliged to remain in bed, but he did not suffer the slightest pain, and slowly faded away. 1.. .ta.S Y When MT. Wark reached his tooth an niversary of his birth in February, 1904, he was enjoying excellent health, with the exception of a slight deafness. Dur ing that winter he journeyed to Otta- wa. a distance of more than 500 miles and attended the sittings of the senate 1 for several weeks. 5..fS.s
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
CASTRO TO FIGHT YANKEES.
PLACES ORDERS IN EUROPE FOR
 WARSHIPS AND GUNS.

With Ammunition They VIII Cost s2,-
 800, O--venezuela's President En-
 ragged at RooseveIt's Action in Ap-
 pointing a Commission to Investigate
 Affairs in Caracas--WilI Not Let Him
 Land.
 New York, Aug. 2o,-The Tribune to- morrow will say:
 venezuela has placed orders in Flu rope for torpedo boats, guns and ann nunition at the cost of about $2,5Oo,oOO, 9 larger amount than that little South American republic has ever expended at one time for war material.
 ''An American who has just returned from Venezuela is authority for the statement that President Castro recent fly declared that he was going to fight the Yankees, which explains the unusu- ally large orders for ships, arms and ammunition.
 Tt is reported that when the Ven- ezuelan chief executive heard recently |of the appointment, by President Roose- welt, of Judgei William J. Calhoun as special commissioner to investigate cer- tain affairs at Caracas, his anger was great and his language irnmod derate. He announced that he would not permit the emissary of President Roosevelt to lant in Venezuela"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
NEWPORT AUTO ACCIDENT.
Injured Much mproved--FuneraI of
 Young Walsh To-day.

Newport, R. l., Aug. 20.-The persons who were injured yesterday in the au- tomobile accident here had greatly irn- proved tonight. Last night Miss Eve- lyn Walsh, daughter of Thomas F. Walsh if Washington, suffered much pain, but to-day she was much easier. Her injury Is a fracture of thigh bone. Miss Walsh has not been inform ed of the death of her brother, Vinson, the young man who was killed.
 Mrs. James l.. Kernochan of Hemp stead, L. l., Harry Oelrlchs of New York and Herbert Pell, both of New York are much better and the latter was out of doors to-day. Messages and telegrams of condolence have been arriving at the Walsh villa all day The funeral services over the body of Vinson Walsh will be held tomorrow forenoon at Trinity church.
 Rev. Herbert Laurie the rector, will officiate, and the funeral will be strict ly private. The body will be entomb. ed at the Island cemetery, and later will be taken to Washington for fina. interment.
 Dr. Sherman, who was at the hospita yesterday when young Walsh wa: brought in, states that death was due to hemorrhage of the brain, caused bJ a fracture of the skull. The automobile has been raised from the creek in which it fell. Hundreds of people visited the scene of the accident during the day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
. Shipping News.

New York, Aug. .20.-Arrived: Steam CTS Oscar IL, Copenhagen, Christiania and Christiansand; Slavonia, Trieste, Fieume and Palermo; Caledonia, Glas- gov and Neville.
 New York, Aug. 20. St teanaer ZeeIands Antwerp and Dover for New York, in communication by wireless telegraph with sfasconset, Mass, at ' o'clock this evening, when vessel was sixty miles east of Nantucket 1ightship; will dock at 1:15 D. m. Monday. Lizard, Aug. 2p.--Passed: Steamer Minneha aha, New York for London Genoa, Aug. 19.-ATrived: Steamer Koenigin Lrlise, New York via Gibraltar and Naples.
 Steamer New York New York via Ply mouth and Gherbourg Movilie, Aug. s0.--Arrived: Steamer Columbia, New York for Glasgow (and proceeded.
 Bremen, Aug. so.--,Arrived: Steamer Bremen, New York via Plymouth and
 Dover, Aug. 20--1o:45 a. Sailed: :: Steamers Finland ,efrom Antwerp), New York; 9 D. m, Furst Bismarck (from IHamburg), New York via, Boulogne London, Aug. 20.--Sailed: Steamer Minneapolis, New York. Queenstown, Aug. 20--10:25 a. m.-- ] Sailed: Steamer Umbria (from Liver- pooll, New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
HUNDREDS INJURED BY
 PLATFORM'S COLLAPSE
ACCIDENT AT EXERCISES OF LAY ING OF SYNAGOGUE
 CORNERSTONE.

Spectators Precipitated Into Cellar of
 New Pittsburg Edifce-Three Rabbis
 Among Those Who Went Down and
 Although Injured They Conclude the
 Ceremony After the Panic Subsidies
 Great Crowd Had Taken Possession
 of Platform to Sign Names to Roll to
 be Placed in the Stone.
 Pittsburg, Aug. 2O.-More than five hundred men, women and children were precipitated fifteen feet into cellar by the collapse of a platform to-day dur ing the exercises incident to the laying of the cornerstone of the Beth David Russian Hebrew Orthodox synagogue on Miller street, near Washington, Nearly all were cut and bruised, but 1t is believed none fatally hurt. Three rabbis were among the number who went down, and although injured, they concluded the ceremony after the panic had subsided. | Among the more seriously injured were Rabbis A. G. Ashinsky, s. Graff- man and A. Bloom, Nathan Nathanson, pastor of the congregation, and Police man Adam Leftewski. The platform which broke had dimen- sions of about fifty feet by 50 feet, and had been built for the rabbis and invit- ed guests. | Just prior to the cornerstone ceremo- nies brass band leading 800 zionists marched up, playing lively tune, and when the Zionists were invited to pass 1 over the platform in order to sign their names to the roll to be placed in the stone mad rush was made by the thousands of people who had gathered about to secure the same privileges. The policemen were overwhelmed and in a moment the platform was packed with men, women and children. The frail structure could not withstand the strain and full 800 persons were carried 1 down.
 The panic that followed attracted thousands of people to the spot, and the police had great difficulty in ex- tricating the screaming and grooming victims from the wreckage.
 When the cellar had been cleared, it was found that scores were hurt, their injuries consisting of bruises and cuts about the head and body Some of the injuries were due to the panic that fol- lowed the crash, many being trampled on in the Wil drush to escape.
 Rabbi Ashinsky was one of those victims. He was trampled upon by the excited crowd, and sustained severe in- juries but though suffering intensely continued the services after order had been restored by the army of policemen who were called to the scene from sev- eral districts, the repotr being circu- lated that hundreds had been killed ir the accident. The fact that there were no fatalities Is marvel, as the plat form when it broke closed up like 8 jack knife, throwing the people In a struggling mass into the cellar.
 Physicians who were called had theii hands full attending the injured. The policemen had an exciting time in hand ling the great crowd. A rumor gain ed credance that several children were buried in the ruins, and frenzied ia thers and mothers insisted on forcing their way into the cellar among the broken timbers. Considerable force hat to be used to prevent another panic be. ing precipitated by the anxious parents and their friends.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
PRESIDENTS LAST EFFORT.
No Intimation of Contents of Propo-
 sition to Envoys.

No IntimatiOn of Contents of PrOpO-
 sition to Envoys.
 Oyster Bay, Aug. 2O.--No news of de- velopments in the negotiations for peace in the Far East reached Presi- dent Roosevelt to-day. The presidents great effort to bring about successful issue of the peace conference at Ports mouth practically was concluded with his conference yesterday afternoon with Baron DeRosen. The proposition then submitted will have to be passed upon not only by the Russian envoys, but probably by Emperor Nicholas him. self. On the determination reached as to that proposition very likely will de- pend peace or an indefinite continuation of hostilities etween the belligerents,
 It is not expected here that the pres ident will receive further visits from either Russian or Japanese representa- lives prior to the meeting of the con- feres next Tuesday morning. There is ground for the belief that the Japanese plenipotentiaries were cognizant of the details of the presidents final effort to prevent a rupture of the conference, and are prepared, so far as this govern ment is concerned, to carry into effect the proposition he submitted to the Russian envoys. No intimation of the nature of that proposition is given here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
BRIDGEPoRTs NEW DEPOT.
Fine Structure Thrown Open to Public
 Yesterday.

Bridgeport, Aug. 2O.- The S5,0O0,0 900 improvements here by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad were practically completed this morning when the new depot was thrown open for public use. It was five years ago when the improvements were started and an outlay of $3,OOO,OOO was original ly made by the road. This figure was increased as the work continued until the total cost reached the $5,000,000 mark. The new depot is probably the handsomest and most costly between New York and Boston and cost up- wards of $350,000.
 Throngs of people visited the depot to-day. Baron Rosen, who took the 1850 train for Boston this morning, was one of the first persons to pass through the building in it's completed form. The big waiting room on the main floor is only thirty feet short of that in the Grand Central station in New York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
SUNDAY TENNIS PLAYING.
Finals in Gentlemen's Doubles Decided
 at Southampton.

Southampton, L. T., Aug. 2O.-The finals of the gentlemen's doubles in the tennis tournament at Meadow club were played to-day, the match having been a tie when play was called at dark yesterday. Henry Terrence and T. R. Pell won from Frederick c. Anderson and Harry F. Allen in three straight sets, 6-2, 6-S, 6-4
 In the mixed doubles,g serni-fnal round, Miss Alice Kobbe and Harry s. Allen beat Miss Katherine Barney and w A. Larned, 6-S, 6-4, 6-4. In the finals Miss Alice Kobbe and Harry s, Allen beat Mrs. Goodhue Livingston and R. F. Huntington, 6-1, GA.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
ARBITRATION!! l! l! Proposition of President Roosevelt to Avert FaiI-
 ure of Peace Con- ference.
COMMUNICATED TO ROSEN
TRANSMITTED BY IT. TITTE TO
 THE GEAR.

Scope of the Proposition Not Definitely
 Known But it Probably Includes at
 Least the Questions of Indemnity and
 the Cession of SaIxhaIin-Czar Bound
 to Seriously Consider Arbitration, Be-
 ing the Author of The Hague Peace
 Conference-Nations Heretofore Have
 Declined to Arbftrate Questions In-
 voIying Their "HOnor and Dignity,
 Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 20.-The As- gociated Press is able to announce that the feature of the proposition of Presi- aent Roosevelt communicated through Baron Rosen to M. Witte and transmit ted by the latter to Emperor Nicholas was based upon the principle of arbi- tration. Whether the proposal contem- plates arbitration of all the articles upon which the plenipotentiaries have failed to agree or only upon :he ques- tion of indemnity cannot be stated with possitiveness, but it is more than prob able that it relates only to indemnity or to indemnity and the cession of the island of Sakhalin Neither is it posst- ble to say whether the president has yet made similar proposition to Japan. The customary diplomatic pro- ceedings in such a case would be to submit the proposal simultaneously to both countries, but there might be an advantage in securing the adherence Of one before submitting it to the other To Emperor Nicholas, the author of The Hague peace conference, the sug- gestion of arbitration which will neces- Barily immediately command the sym. pathy of the opinion of the world, will be particularly hard to reject. If he agrees Japan, if she has not already done so, would be all the more bound to submit her claim to the decision of an Impartial arbitrator. Acceptance by both sides would involve a great exten- sion of the principle of arbitration as nations have heretofore declined to ar bitrate questions involving their ''honor md dignity" Both MT. Takahira and M. Witte in the earlier stages of the conference absolutely rejected the idea of arbitration and only yesterday both reiterated their disbelief in such so- lution. It was noticed, however, that M Witte's opinion was not expressed as strongly as last week.
 JAPANESE CABINET MEETS.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
KILLED BEFORE WIrE,s EYES.
Tragic Death of ItaIIan at HawleyvilIe
 -Returning from Outing. %

Returning from Outing.
 Bridgeport, Aug. 20.--With the head severed from the body and crushed, out of all senlblance of. human shape. the. body of Raffale .Adelizzio of this city. lies in Newtown, while his wife, half demented at the awful sight, mourns with her two children the husband kill ed before their eyes.
 The tragic death occurred at Hawley- vile about TAO o'clock tonight. Adel- iEzio, with his wife and two little ones, one about three years old and the oth- CT about five, left Bridgeport Satur- day to go to Roxbury to spend Sunday with friends, They were on their re- turn to Bridgeport and had reached the Hawleyville station about fifteen min utes before the arrival Of the Sunday evening train which leaves 'Pittsfeld at 4:35 and Is due in Bridgeport at S:2S p. m. The members of the family were sitting on the HawleyvilIe depot plat form, when the train was seen aye preaching the depot. They arose to be in readiness to board it upon it's ar- rival AdeliEzio made some joking re- mark to his wife and started towards the approaching train, Apparently he stubbed his toe against the planking of the platform, for eye witnesses saw him fall forward and pitch headlong upon the track in front of the train. His head was crushed to a shapeless mass.
 The body was later turned over to a Newtown undertaken, and will be brought to this city tomorrow. Adel- izzio was employed at the factory of the Bridgeport Brass company, and be- sides the widow leaves four small chil- l dren, .L
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
RiotIng at KlshfneR.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 2O.-A private dispatch received here from Kishineff says that rioting occurred there satur- day evening following the publication of the emperor's manifesto. The demon- strators are described as numbering several thousand, but were dispersed by mounted police. Shot were fired on one street, but there is no report of any casualties. a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
Drowned While Drunk.

Waterbury, Aug. 2O.-Jeremiah Dowd, aged twenty-eight and single, while i'll and apparently under the influence of liquor fell over the raceway embark ment at the plant of the scoville Man ufacturing company on Dublin street this afternoon and was drowned. His body was recovered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
CHANGES OF PEACE IMPRoVED
Evident Result of Roosevelt Stepping .5 Into the Breach.

Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 20.-The chances of peace have undoubtedly been improved by President Roosevelt's action in stepping into the breach in a last heroic endeavor to induce the war ring countries to compromise their 'ir- reconcilable differences" but the result is still in suspense. The ultimate de- cision of the issue has de facto, if not de jure, passed from the plenipotenti- aries to their principals, from Ports mouth to St. Petersburg, and perhaps in a lesser extent to Tokio. Although there are collateral evidences that pres- sure both by President Roosevelt and neutral powers, including Japan's ally, Great Britain, whose minister, Sir Claude Macdonald, according to ad- vices received here, had a long confer ence this afternoon with MT. Katsura, the Japanese premier, is still being ex- erted at Tokio to induce Japan to mod crate her terms, there is also reason to believe that President Roosevelt was able at his interview with Baron De Rosen to practically communicate to the latter's senior, M. Witte, Japan's irreducible mininum-what she would still yield, but the point beyond which she would not go. The only thing that can be affirmed positively is that if Russia refuses to act upon the sugges- tion OF proposition of President Roose- welt, the peace conference will end in a failure.
 And in the Russian camp little en- 
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
Artist Bouguereau Dead.

Paris, Aug. 2O.-An announcement was received here to-day of the death, at La Rochelle, of Adolphe William Bouguereau, the painter, whose serious illness was made known in a dispatch from La Rochelle Saturday. The news was received with universal regret in the American colony, where M. Bou- guereau was greatly respected. M. Bou- guereau married an American woman, Elizabeth J. Gardiner.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
KOREAN CAMPAIGN.
Japanese Army Advancing Despite the Heavy Rains.

London, Aug 21.-The Daily Tele- graphs Tokio correspondent says that despite the heavy rains, the Japanese have advanced in northern Korea. The Russians abandoned their advance works and were driven back. After crossing the river Tumen the Russians destroyed the bridges, and there is no sign of Russians south of the Tunnen. The Japanese army in Korea already has effected certain conrnunication with Field Marshal Oyafna
 The Daily Telegfaph's Japanese cor respondent at Moji says that General Linevitchs defense works are now conn- piete. His troops number between 4oO,- 900 and 5OO,0oO Trainloads of troops are arriving from Russia and many are being sent to the Turnen.